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You can also find out about how to make a +donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved. + + +**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** + +**eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** + +*****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!***** + + +Title: The World English Bible (WEB): Jeremiah + +Release Date: June, 2005 [EBook #8251] +[This file was first posted on July 4, 2003] + +Edition: 10 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): JEREMIAH *** + + + + +From www.ebible.org with slight reformatting by Martin Ward. + + + +Book 24 Jeremiah +001:001 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests + who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: +001:002 to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son + of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. +001:003 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, + king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, + the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away + of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. +001:004 Now the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +001:005 Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you + came forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I have appointed + you a prophet to the nations. +001:006 Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, I don't know how to speak; + for I am a child. +001:007 But Yahweh said to me, Don't say, I am a child; for to whoever I + shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, + you shall speak. +001:008 Don't be afraid because of them; for I am with you to + deliver you, says Yahweh. +001:009 Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh + said to me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth: +001:010 behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over + the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy + and to overthrow, to build and to plant. +001:011 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Jeremiah, + what see you? I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. +001:012 Then said Yahweh to me, You have well seen: for I watch + over my word to perform it. +001:013 The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, What see you? + I said, I see a boiling caldron; and the face of it is + from the north. +001:014 Then Yahweh said to me, Out of the north evil shall break + forth on all the inhabitants of the land. +001:015 For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms + of the north, says Yahweh; and they shall come, and they + shall set everyone his throne at the entrance of the gates + of Jerusalem, and against all the walls of it round about, + and against all the cities of Judah. +001:016 I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, + in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense + to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands. +001:017 You therefore gird up your waist, and arise, and speak + to them all that I command you: don't be dismayed at them, + lest I dismay you before them. +001:018 For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, + and an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, + against the kings of Judah, against the princes of it, + against the priests of it, and against the people of the land. +001:019 They shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you: + for I am with you, says Yahweh, to deliver you. +002:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +002:002 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says + Yahweh, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love + of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, + in a land that was not sown. +002:003 Israel [was] holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase: + all who devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come + on them, says Yahweh. +002:004 Hear you the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families + of the house of Israel: +002:005 thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, + that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, + and are become vain? +002:006 Neither said they, Where is Yahweh who brought us up out + of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, + through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of + drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none + passed through, and where no man lived? +002:007 I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit of it and + the goodness of it; but when you entered, you defiled my land, + and made my heritage an abomination. +002:008 The priests didn't say, Where is Yahweh? and those who handle + the law didn't know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, + and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things + that do not profit. +002:009 Therefore I will yet contend with you, says Yahweh, and with + your children's children will I contend. +002:010 For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send + to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been + such a thing. +002:011 Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my + people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. +002:012 Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, + be you very desolate, says Yahweh. +002:013 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, + the spring of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, + broken cisterns, that can hold no water. +002:014 Is Israel a servant? is he a native-born [slave]? why is + he become a prey? +002:015 The young lions have roared on him, and yelled; and they have made + his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant. +002:016 The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown + of your head. +002:017 Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken + Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way? +002:018 Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters + of the Shihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, + to drink the waters of the River? +002:019 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding + shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil + thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, + and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies. +002:020 For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; + and you said, I will not serve; for on every high hill and under + every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute. +002:021 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: + how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a + foreign vine to me? +002:022 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, + yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh. +002:023 How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after + the Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: + [you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways; +002:024 a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind + in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all + those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month + they shall find her. +002:025 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: + but you said, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, + and after them will I go. +002:026 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house + of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, + and their priests, and their prophets; +002:027 who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have + brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, + and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they + will say, Arise, and save us. +002:028 But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, + if they can save you in the time of your trouble: + for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah. +002:029 Why will you contend with me? you all have transgressed + against me, says Yahweh. +002:030 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: + your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. +002:031 Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness + to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, + We are broken loose; we will come no more to you? +002:032 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet + my people have forgotten me days without number. +002:033 How trimmest you your way to seek love! therefore even the wicked + women have you taught your ways. +002:034 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls + of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; + but it is because of all these things. +002:035 Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away + from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, + because you say, I have not sinned. +002:036 Why go you about so much to change your way? you shall be + ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria. +002:037 From there also shall you go forth, with your hands on your head: + for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you + shall not prosper with them. +003:001 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, + and become another man's, will he return to her again? + Won't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played + the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again + to me, says Yahweh. +003:002 Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see; where have + you not been lain with? By the ways have you sat for them, + as an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land + with your prostitution and with your wickedness. +003:003 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has + been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, + you refused to be ashamed. +003:004 Will you not from this time cry to me, My Father, you are + the guide of my youth? +003:005 Will he retain [his anger] forever? will he keep it to the end? + Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have + had your way. +003:006 Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, + Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she + is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, + and there has played the prostitute. +003:007 I said after she had done all these things, She will return to me; + but she didn't return: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. +003:008 I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had + committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill + of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; + but she also went and played the prostitute. +003:009 It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, + that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery + with stones and with stocks. +003:010 Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned + to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says Yahweh. +003:011 Yahweh said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself more + righteous than treacherous Judah. +003:012 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, + Return, you backsliding Israel, says Yahweh; I will not look + in anger on you; for I am merciful, says Yahweh, I will not + keep [anger] forever. +003:013 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed + against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to + the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed + my voice, says Yahweh. +003:014 Return, backsliding children, says Yahweh; for I am a husband to you: + and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, + and I will bring you to Zion: +003:015 and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall + feed you with knowledge and understanding. +003:016 It shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased + in the land, in those days, says Yahweh, they shall say no more, + The ark of the covenant of Yahweh; neither shall it come to mind; + neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; + neither shall it be made any more. +003:017 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Yahweh; + and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name + of Yahweh, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more + after the stubbornness of their evil heart. +003:018 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house + of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land + of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance + to your fathers. +003:019 But I said, How I will put you among the children, and give + you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies + of the nations! and I said, You shall call me My Father, + and shall not turn away from following me. +003:020 Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have + you dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel, says Yahweh. +003:021 A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping [and] + the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have + perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God. +003:022 Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. + Behold, we are come to you; for you are Yahweh our God. +003:023 Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, + the tumult on the mountains: truly in Yahweh our God is + the salvation of Israel. +003:024 But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers + from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons + and their daughters. +003:025 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; + for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, + from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed + the voice of Yahweh our God. +004:001 If you will return, Israel, says Yahweh, if you will return to me, + and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; + then you shall not be removed; +004:002 and you shall swear, As Yahweh lives, in truth, in justice, + and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves + in him, and in him shall they glory. +004:003 For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up + your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns. +004:004 Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins + of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; + lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can + quench it, because of the evil of your doings. +004:005 Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, + Blow you the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, + Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities. +004:006 Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, don't stay; + for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. +004:007 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; + he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your + land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant. +004:008 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; + for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us. +004:009 It shall happen at that day, says Yahweh, that the heart + of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; + and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder. +004:010 Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! surely you have greatly deceived + this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; + whereas the sword reaches to the life. +004:011 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot + wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter + of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse; +004:012 a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter + judgments against them. +004:013 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall + be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. + Woe to us! for we are ruined. +004:014 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. + How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you? +004:015 For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from + the hills of Ephraim: +004:016 make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, + [that] watchers come from a far country, and give out their + voice against the cities of Judah. +004:017 As keepers of a field are they against her round about, + because she has been rebellious against me, says Yahweh. +004:018 Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; + this is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches + to your heart. +004:019 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; + my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; + because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, + the alarm of war. +004:020 Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is + laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains + in a moment. +004:021 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound + of the trumpet? +004:022 For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are + foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are + wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. +004:023 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; + and the heavens, and they had no light. +004:024 I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills + moved back and forth. +004:025 I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds + of the sky were fled. +004:026 I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all + the cities of it were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, + [and] before his fierce anger. +004:027 For thus says Yahweh, The whole land shall be a desolation; + yet will I not make a full end. +004:028 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; + because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have + not repented, neither will I turn back from it. +004:029 Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; + they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: + every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein. +004:030 You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? + Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you + with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, + in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [your] lovers despise you, + they seek your life. +004:031 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, + the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, + the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, + who spreads her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul + faints before the murderers. +005:001 Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, + and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, + if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, + who seeks truth; and I will pardon her. +005:002 Though they say, As Yahweh lives; surely they swear falsely. +005:003 O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, + but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they + have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces + harder than a rock; they have refused to return. +005:004 Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they + don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God: +005:005 I will get me to the great men, and will speak to them; + for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God. + But these with one accord have broken the yoke, + and burst the bonds. +005:006 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf + of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch + against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall + be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, + [and] their backsliding is increased. +005:007 How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn + by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, + they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops + at the prostitutes' houses. +005:008 They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed + after his neighbor's wife. +005:009 Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; and shall + not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? +005:010 Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end: + take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's. +005:011 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt + very treacherously against me, says Yahweh. +005:012 They have denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he; neither shall + evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: +005:013 and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: + thus shall it be done to them. +005:014 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, Because you speak + this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, + and this people wood, and it shall devour them. +005:015 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel, + says Yahweh: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, + a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand + what they say. +005:016 Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men. +005:017 They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, [which] your sons + and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your flocks + and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; + they shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, + with the sword. +005:018 But even in those days, says Yahweh, I will not make a full + end with you. +005:019 It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God + done all these things to us? then shall you say to them, + Like as you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, + so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours. +005:020 Declare you this in the house of Jacob, and publish it + in Judah, saying, +005:021 Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; + who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear: +005:022 Don't you fear me? says Yahweh: won't you tremble at my presence, + who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, + by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though + the waves of it toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; + though they roar, yet they can't pass over it. +005:023 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; + they are revolted and gone. +005:024 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, + who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; + who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest. +005:025 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins + have withheld good from you. +005:026 For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, + as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men. +005:027 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: + therefore they are become great, and grew rich. +005:028 They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds + of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause + of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right + of the needy they don't judge. +005:029 Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my + soul be avenged on such a nation as this? +005:030 A wonderful and horrible thing is happen in the land: +005:031 the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule + by their means; and my people love to have it so: + and what will you do in the end of it? +006:001 Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst + of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up + a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, + and a great destruction. +006:002 The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off. +006:003 Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall + pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed + everyone in his place. +006:004 Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. + Woe to us! for the day declines, for the shadows of the evening + are stretched out. +006:005 Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces. +006:006 For thus has Yahweh of Armies said, Hew you down trees, and cast + up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; + she is wholly oppression in the midst of her. +006:007 As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: + violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually + is sickness and wounds. +006:008 Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; + lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited. +006:009 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, They shall thoroughly glean + the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again your hand + as a grape gatherer into the baskets. +006:010 To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, + their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen: + behold, the word of Yahweh is become to them a reproach; + they have no delight in it. +006:011 Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary + with holding in: pour it out on the children in the street, + and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband + with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is + full of days. +006:012 Their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their + wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants + of the land, says Yahweh. +006:013 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them + everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet + even to the priest everyone deals falsely. +006:014 They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, + saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. +006:015 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, + they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: + therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time + that I visit them they shall be cast down, says Yahweh. +006:016 Thus says Yahweh, Stand you in the ways and see, and ask + for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, + and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said, + We will not walk [therein]. +006:017 I set watchmen over you, [saying], Listen to the sound of the trumpet; + but they said, We will not listen. +006:018 Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, + what is among them. +006:019 Hear, earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, + even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened + to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it. +006:020 To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, + and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings + are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me. +006:021 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks + before this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall + stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish. +006:022 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, a people comes from the north country; + and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost + parts of the earth. +006:023 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; + their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, + everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, + daughter of Zion. +006:024 We have heard the report of it; our hands wax feeble: + anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail. +006:025 Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; + for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side. +006:026 Daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow + yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, + most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly + come on us. +006:027 I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; + that you may know and try their way. +006:028 They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; + they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly. +006:029 The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: + in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are + not plucked away. +006:030 Refuse silver shall men them, because Yahweh has rejected them. +007:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, +007:002 Stand in the gate of Yahweh's house, and proclaim there + this word, and say, Hear the word of Yahweh, all you of Judah, + who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh. +007:003 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Amend your ways + and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. +007:004 Don't you trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, + the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these. +007:005 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; + if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; +007:006 if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, + and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, + neither walk after other gods to your own hurt: +007:007 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land + that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore. +007:008 Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit. +007:009 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, + and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you + have not known, +007:010 and come and stand before me in this house, which is called + by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do + all these abominations? +007:011 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers + in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh. +007:012 But go you now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused + my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it + for the wickedness of my people Israel. +007:013 Now, because you have done all these works, says Yahweh, and I + spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn't hear; + and I called you, but you didn't answer: +007:014 therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, + in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you + and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. +007:015 I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all + your brothers, even the whole seed of Ephraim. +007:016 Therefore don't you pray for this people, neither lift up + a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; + for I will not hear you. +007:017 Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in + the streets of Jerusalem? +007:018 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, + and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen + of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, + that they may provoke me to anger. +007:019 Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh; [do they] not + [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces? +007:020 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my + wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, + and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; + and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. +007:021 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Add your burnt + offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat. +007:022 For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day + that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt + offerings or sacrifices: +007:023 but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, + and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; + and walk you in all the way that I command you, that it may + be well with you. +007:024 But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their + own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, + and went backward, and not forward. +007:025 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt + to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, + daily rising up early and sending them: +007:026 yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made + their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers. +007:027 You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not + listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will + not answer you. +007:028 You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened + to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: + truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. +007:029 Cut off your hair, [Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up + a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected + and forsaken the generation of his wrath. +007:030 For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, + says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house + which is called by my name, to defile it. +007:031 They have built the high places of Topheth, which is + in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons + and their daughters in the fire; which I didn't command, + nor did it come into my mind. +007:032 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall + no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, + but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, + until there be no place [to bury]. +007:033 The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds + of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall + frighten them away. +007:034 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from + the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice + of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; + for the land shall become a waste. +008:001 At that time, says Yahweh, they shall bring out the bones + of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, + and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, + and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves; +008:002 and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, + and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, + and which they have served, and after which they have walked, + and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: + they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be + for dung on the surface of the earth. +008:003 Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue + that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places + where I have driven them, says Yahweh of Armies. +008:004 Moreover you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Shall men fall, + and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return? +008:005 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual + backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. +008:006 I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: + no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I + done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes + headlong in the battle. +008:007 Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; + and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time + of their coming; but my people don't know Yahweh's law. +008:008 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? + But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely. +008:009 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: + behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner + of wisdom is in them? +008:010 Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their + fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from + the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; + from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely. +008:011 They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, + saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. +008:012 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, + they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: + therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time + of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh. +008:013 I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: there shall be no + grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf + shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall + pass away from them. +008:014 Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter + into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; + for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water + of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh. +008:015 We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, + and behold, dismay! +008:016 The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound + of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; + for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; + the city and those who dwell therein. +008:017 For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will + not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh. +008:018 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart + is faint within me. +008:019 Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land + that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? + Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, + and with foreign vanities? +008:020 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. +008:021 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: + I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me. +008:022 Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why + then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered? +009:001 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, + that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter + of my people! +009:002 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; + that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they + are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. +009:003 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; + and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: + for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't + know me, says Yahweh. +009:004 Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust + in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, + and every neighbor will go about with slanders. +009:005 They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak + the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; + they weary themselves to commit iniquity. +009:006 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they + refuse to know me, says Yahweh. +009:007 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will melt them, + and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter + of my people? +009:008 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: + one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, + but in his heart he lays wait for him. +009:009 Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; + shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? +009:010 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, + and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, + because they are burned up, so that none passes through; + neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds + of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone. +009:011 I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I + will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant. +009:012 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] + he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare + it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, + so that none passes through? +009:013 Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set + before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein, +009:014 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, + and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them; +009:015 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I + will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give + them water of gall to drink. +009:016 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor + their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, + until I have consumed them. +009:017 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Consider you, and call for the mourning + women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, + that they may come: +009:018 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, + that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush + out with waters. +009:019 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! + we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, + because they have cast down our dwellings. +009:020 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive + the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, + and everyone her neighbor lamentation. +009:021 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; + to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men + from the streets. +009:022 Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung + on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; + and none shall gather [them]. +009:023 Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, + neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let + the rich man glory in his riches; +009:024 but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, + and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving + kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: + for in these things I delight, says Yahweh. +009:025 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all + those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision: +009:026 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, + and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, who dwell + in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, + and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart. +010:001 Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel! +010:002 Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, + and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations + are dismayed at them. +010:003 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree + out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman + with the axe. +010:004 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails + and with hammers, that it not move. +010:005 They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: + they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid + of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them + to do good." +010:006 There is none like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name + is great in might. +010:007 Who should not fear you, King of the nations? for to you does + it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, + and in all their royal estate, there is none like you. +010:008 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction + of idols! it is but a stock. +010:009 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, + and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands + of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; + they are all the work of skillful men. +010:010 But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, + and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, + and the nations are not able to abide his indignation. +010:011 Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made + the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, + and from under the heavens. +010:012 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world + by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched + out the heavens: +010:013 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, + and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; + he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind + out of his treasuries. +010:014 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; + every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; + for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. +010:015 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their + visitation they shall perish. +010:016 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former + of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: + Yahweh of Armies is his name. +010:017 Gather up your wares out of the land, you who abide in the siege. +010:018 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants + of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they + may feel [it]. +010:019 Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: + but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it. +010:020 My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: + my children are gone forth from me, and they are no more: + there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set + up my curtains. +010:021 For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired + of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their + flocks are scattered. +010:022 The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out + of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, + a dwelling place of jackals. +010:023 Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: + it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. +010:024 Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, + lest you bring me to nothing. +010:025 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, + and on the families that don't call on your name: + for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him + and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation. +011:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, +011:002 Hear you the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, + and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; +011:003 and say you to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Cursed be + the man who doesn't hear the words of this covenant, +011:004 which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them + forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, + Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: + so shall you be my people, and I will be your God; +011:005 that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, + to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. + Then answered I, and said, Amen, Yahweh. +011:006 Yahweh said to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, + and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear you the words + of this covenant, and do them. +011:007 For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I + brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, + rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. +011:008 Yet they didn't obey, nor turn their ear, but walked + everyone in the stubbornness of their evil heart: + therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, + which I commanded them to do, but they didn't do them. +011:009 Yahweh said to me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, + and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +011:010 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, + who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods + to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah + have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers. +011:011 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on them, + which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, + but I will not listen to them. +011:012 Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem + go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense: + but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble. +011:013 For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; + and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have + you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn + incense to Baal. +011:014 Therefore don't you pray for this people, neither lift up cry + nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time + that they cry to me because of their trouble. +011:015 What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked + lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? + when you do evil, then you rejoice. +011:016 Yahweh called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with + goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled + fire on it, and the branches of it are broken. +011:017 For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil + against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and + of the house of Judah, which they have worked for themselves + in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal. +011:018 Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you shown + me their doings. +011:019 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; + and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, + [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it, + and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his + name may be no more remembered. +011:020 But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests + the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; + for to you have I revealed my cause. +011:021 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, + who seek your life, saying, You shall not prophesy in the name + of Yahweh, that you not die by our hand; +011:022 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will punish them: + the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their + daughters shall die by famine; +011:023 and there shall be no remnant to them: for I will bring evil + on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation. +012:001 Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would + I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked + prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously? +012:002 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, + yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, + and far from their heart. +012:003 But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: + pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them + for the day of slaughter. +012:004 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole + country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, + the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, + He shall not see our latter end. +012:005 If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, + then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land + of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride + of the Jordan? +012:006 For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they + have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud + after you: don't believe them, though they speak beautiful + words to you. +012:007 I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; + I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand + of her enemies. +012:008 My heritage is become to me as a lion in the forest: + she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her. +012:009 Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds + of prey against her round about? go you, assemble all the animals + of the field, bring them to devour. +012:010 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden + my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion + a desolate wilderness. +012:011 They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; + the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart. +012:012 Destroyers are come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; + for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land + even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace. +012:013 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; + they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: + and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce + anger of Yahweh. +012:014 Thus says Yahweh against all my evil neighbors, who touch + the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: + behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will + pluck up the house of Judah from among them. +012:015 It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return + and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, + every man to his heritage, and every man to his land. +012:016 It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways + of my people, to swear by my name, As Yahweh lives; + even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall + they be built up in the midst of my people. +012:017 But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, + plucking up and destroying it, says Yahweh. +013:001 Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy you a linen belt, and put + it on your waist, and don't put it in water. +013:002 So I bought a belt according to the word of Yahweh, and put + it on my waist. +013:003 The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, +013:004 Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, + and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft + of the rock. +013:005 So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me. +013:006 It happened after many days, that Yahweh said to me, Arise, + go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I + commanded you to hide there. +013:007 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from + the place where I had hid it; and behold, the belt was marred, + it was profitable for nothing. +013:008 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +013:009 Thus says Yahweh, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, + and the great pride of Jerusalem. +013:010 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in + the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods + to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, + which is profitable for nothing. +013:011 For as the belt cleaves to the waist of a man, so have I caused + to cleave to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house + of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to me for a people, + and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: + but they would not hear. +013:012 Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh, + the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: + and they shall tell you, Do we not certainly know that every + bottle shall be filled with wine? +013:013 Then shall you tell them, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will fill + all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit + on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, + and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. +013:014 I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and + the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, + nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them. +013:015 Hear you, and give ear; don't be proud; for Yahweh has spoken. +013:016 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he cause darkness, + and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, + while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, + and make it gross darkness. +013:017 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret + for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and run down + with tears, because Yahweh's flock is taken captive. +013:018 Say you to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, + sit down; for your headdresses are come down, even the crown + of your glory. +013:019 The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: + Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly + carried away captive. +013:020 Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north: + where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock? +013:021 What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those + whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? shall + not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail? +013:022 If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? + for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, + and your heels suffer violence. +013:023 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? + then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil. +013:024 Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, + by the wind of the wilderness. +013:025 This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Yahweh; + because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. +013:026 Therefore will I also uncover your skirts on your face, + and your shame shall appear. +013:027 I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, + and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, + on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! you will + not be made clean; how long shall it yet be? +014:001 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. +014:002 Judah mourns, and the gates of it languish, they sit in black + on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. +014:003 Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: + they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return + with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, + and cover their heads. +014:004 Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain + has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, + they cover their heads. +014:005 Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], + because there is no grass. +014:006 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air + like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage. +014:007 Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for + your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; + we have sinned against you. +014:008 You hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, + why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring + man who turns aside to stay for a night? +014:009 Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't + save? yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are + called by your name; don't leave us. +014:010 Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; + they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does + not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity, + and visit their sins. +014:011 Yahweh said to me, Don't pray for this people for [their] good. +014:012 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer + burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; + but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, + and by the pestilence. +014:013 Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets tell them, + You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; + but I will give you assured peace in this place. +014:014 Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; + I didn't send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke + I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, + and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart. +014:015 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets + who prophesy in my name, and I didn't send them, + yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: + By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed. +014:016 The people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the + streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; + and they shall have none to bury them--them, their wives, + nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their + wickedness on them. +014:017 You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with + tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin + daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, + with a very grievous wound. +014:018 If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with + the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who + are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go + about in the land, and have no knowledge. +014:019 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? + why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? + We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, + and behold, dismay! +014:020 We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity + of our fathers; for we have sinned against you. +014:021 Do not abhor [us], for your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne + of your glory: remember, don't break your covenant with us. +014:022 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can + cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, + Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you + have made all these things. +015:001 Then said Yahweh to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood + before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: + cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. +015:002 It shall happen, when they tell you, Where shall we go + forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Such as + are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, + to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; + and such as are for captivity, to captivity. +015:003 I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yahweh: + the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky, + and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy. +015:004 I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms + of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, + king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. +015:005 For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? or who will bemoan + you? or who will turn aside to ask of your welfare? +015:006 You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you are gone backward: + therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, + and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting. +015:007 I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; + I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; + they didn't return from their ways. +015:008 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; + I have brought on them against the mother of the young men + a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors + to fall on her suddenly. +015:009 She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up the spirit; + her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she has been + disappointed and confounded: and the residue of them will I + deliver to the sword before their enemies, says Yahweh. +015:010 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man + of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! + I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone + of them does curse me. +015:011 Yahweh said, Most certainly I will strengthen you for good; + most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication + to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. +015:012 Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass? +015:013 Your substance and your treasures will I give for a spoil + without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders. +015:014 I will make [them] to pass with your enemies into a land + which you don't know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, + which shall burn on you. +015:015 Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me + of my persecutors; don't take me away in your longsuffering: + know that for your sake I have suffered reproach. +015:016 Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were + to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called + by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies. +015:017 I didn't sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; + I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled + me with indignation. +015:018 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses + to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], + as waters that fail? +015:019 Therefore thus says Yahweh, If you return, then will I bring + you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take + forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: + they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them. +015:020 I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; and they + shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; + for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Yahweh. +015:021 I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will + redeem you out of the hand of the terrible. +016:001 The word of Yahweh came also to me, saying, +016:002 You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, + in this place. +016:003 For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning + the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning + their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers + who became the father of them in this land: +016:004 They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, + neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface + of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, + and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds + of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. +016:005 For thus says Yahweh, Don't enter into the house of mourning, + neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken + away my peace from this people, says Yahweh, even loving + kindness and tender mercies. +016:006 Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not + be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, + nor make themselves bald for them; +016:007 neither shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, + to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup + of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. +016:008 You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, + to eat and to drink. +016:009 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will + cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in + your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, + the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. +016:010 It shall happen, when you shall show this people all these words, + and they shall tell you, Why has Yahweh pronounced all this + great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is + our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God? +016:011 Then shall you tell them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, + says Yahweh, and have walked after other gods, and have + served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, + and have not kept my law; +016:012 and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, + you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, + so that you don't listen to me: +016:013 therefore will I cast you forth out of this land into the land + that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; + and there shall you serve other gods day and night; + for I will show you no favor. +016:014 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall + no more be said, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children + of Israel out of the land of Egypt; +016:015 but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel + from the land of the north, and from all the countries where + he had driven them. I will bring them again into their land + that I gave to their fathers. +016:016 Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Yahweh, and they + shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, + and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, + and out of the clefts of the rocks. +016:017 For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from + my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes. +016:018 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, + because they have polluted my land with the carcasses + of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance + with their abominations. +016:019 Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day + of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends + of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited + nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there + is no profit. +016:020 Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods? +016:021 Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I + cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know + that my name is Yahweh. +017:001 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point + of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, + and on the horns of your altars; +017:002 while their children remember their altars and their Asherim + by the green trees on the high hills. +017:003 My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your + treasures for a spoil, [and] your high places, because of sin, + throughout all your borders. +017:004 You, even of yourself, shall discontinue from your heritage + that I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies + in the land which you don't know: for you have kindled a fire + in my anger which shall burn forever. +017:005 Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, + and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. +017:006 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not + see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places + in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. +017:007 Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is. +017:008 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads + out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, + but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year + of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. +017:009 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is + exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? +017:010 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give + every man according to his ways, according to the fruit + of his doings. +017:011 As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, + so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst + of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall + be a fool. +017:012 A glorious throne, [set] on high from the beginning, + is the place of our sanctuary. +017:013 Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall + be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written + in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring + of living waters. +017:014 Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall + be saved: for you are my praise. +017:015 Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let + it come now. +017:016 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; + neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: + that which came out of my lips was before your face. +017:017 Don't be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil. +017:018 Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me + be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me + be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them + with double destruction. +017:019 Thus said Yahweh to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children + of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in, + and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; +017:020 and tell them, Hear you the word of Yahweh, you kings of Judah, + and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, + that enter in by these gates: +017:021 Thus says Yahweh, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden + on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; +017:022 neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath + day holy, neither do any work: but make the Sabbath day, + as I commanded your fathers. +017:023 But they didn't listen, neither turn their ear, but made + their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might + not receive instruction. +017:024 It shall happen, if you diligently listen to me, says Yahweh, + to bring in no burden through the gates of this city + on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, + to do no work therein; +017:025 then shall there enter in by the gates of this city + kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, + riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, + the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; + and this city shall remain forever. +017:026 They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places + round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from + the lowland, and from the hill country, and from the South, + bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal offerings, + and frankincense, and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving, + to the house of Yahweh. +017:027 But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, + and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem + on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates of it, + and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall + not be quenched. +018:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, +018:002 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause + you to hear my words. +018:003 Then I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was + making a work on the wheels. +018:004 When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand + of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed + good to the potter to make it. +018:005 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +018:006 House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. + Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, + house of Israel. +018:007 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning + a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it; +018:008 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, + I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them. +018:009 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning + a kingdom, to build and to plant it; +018:010 if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey + my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said + I would benefit them. +018:011 Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants + of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame + evil against you, and devise a device against you: + return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways + and your doings. +018:012 But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our + own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness + of his evil heart. +018:013 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask you now among the nations, + who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done + a very horrible thing. +018:014 Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] + shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up? +018:015 For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to + false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, + in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up; +018:016 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; + everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, + and shake his head. +018:017 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; + I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day + of their calamity. +018:018 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; + for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel + from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let + us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed + to any of his words. +018:019 Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who + contend with me. +018:020 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit + for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good + for them, to turn away your wrath from them. +018:021 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give + them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives + become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, + [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle. +018:022 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring + a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, + and hid snares for my feet. +018:023 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; + don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin + from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; + deal you with them in the time of your anger. +019:001 Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, + and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders + of the priests; +019:002 and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by + the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words + that I shall tell you; +019:003 and say, Hear you the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, + and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of Armies, + the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, + which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle. +019:004 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, + and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they + didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; + and have filled this place with the blood of innocents, +019:005 and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons + in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn't command, + nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind: +019:006 therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that this place + shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son + of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter. +019:007 I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; + and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, + and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead + bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, + and for the animals of the earth. +019:008 I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; + everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss + because of all the plagues of it. +019:009 I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and + the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone + the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, + with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, + shall distress them. +019:010 Then shall you break the bottle in the sight of the men + who go with you, +019:011 and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Even so will I + break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, + that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, + until there be no place to bury. +019:012 Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to the inhabitants + of it, even making this city as Topheth: +019:013 and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings + of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, + even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense + to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings + to other gods. +019:014 Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him + to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh's house, + and said to all the people: +019:015 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will + bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have + pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, + that they may not hear my words. +020:001 Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer + in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. +020:002 Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him + in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, + which was in the house of Yahweh. +020:003 It happened on the next day, that Pashhur brought forth + Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah to him, + Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib. +020:004 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will make you a terror + to yourself, and to all your friends; and they shall fall + by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it; + and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, + and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall kill + them with the sword. +020:005 Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all the gains + of it, and all the precious things of it, yes, all the treasures + of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; + and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry + them to Babylon. +020:006 You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; + and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, + and there shall you be buried, you, and all your friends, + to whom you have prophesied falsely. +020:007 Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; + you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become + a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me. +020:008 For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and + destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, + and a derision, all the day. +020:009 If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more + in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning + fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, + and I can't [contain]. +020:010 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. + Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, + those who watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, + and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our + revenge on him. +020:011 But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my + persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; + they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not + dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall + never be forgotten. +020:012 But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees + the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; + for to you have I revealed my cause. +020:013 Sing to Yahweh, praise you Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul + of the needy from the hand of evil-doers. +020:014 Cursed be the day in which I was born: don't let the day + in which my mother bore me be blessed. +020:015 Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A boy + is born to you; making him very glad. +020:016 Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, + and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, + and shouting at noontime; +020:017 because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother + would have been my grave, and her womb always great. +020:018 Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, + that my days should be consumed with shame? +021:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah + sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah + the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying, +021:002 Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king + of Babylon makes war against us: peradventure Yahweh + will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, + that he may go up from us. +021:003 Then said Jeremiah to them, Thus shall you tell Zedekiah: +021:004 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back + the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you + fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans + who besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them + into the midst of this city. +021:005 I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand + and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath, + and in great indignation. +021:006 I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal: + they shall die of a great pestilence. +021:007 Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, + and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this + city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, + into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand + of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life: + and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; + he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy. +021:008 To this people you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set + before you the way of life and the way of death. +021:009 He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, + and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, + and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, + and his life shall be to him for a prey. +021:010 For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good, + says Yahweh: it shall be given into the hand of the king + of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. +021:011 Touching the house of the king of Judah, hear you the word of Yahweh: +021:012 House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, + and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, + lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can + quench it, because of the evil of your doings. +021:013 Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, + [and] of the rock of the plain, says Yahweh; you that say, + Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter + into our habitations? +021:014 I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, + says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it + shall devour all that is round about her. +022:001 Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, + and speak there this word, +022:002 Say, Hear the word of Yahweh, king of Judah, who sits on + the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people + who enter in by these gates. +022:003 Thus says Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness, + and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: + and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, + nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place. +022:004 For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by + the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, + riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, + and his people. +022:005 But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, + says Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation. +022:006 For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king + of Judah: You are Gilead to me, [and] the head of Lebanon; + [yet] surely I will make you a wilderness, [and] cities + which are not inhabited. +022:007 I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; + and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them + into the fire. +022:008 Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man + to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city? +022:009 Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant + of Yahweh their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them. +022:010 Don't you weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep + sore for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, + nor see his native country. +022:011 For thus says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of Josiah, + king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, + [and] who went forth out of this place: He shall not return + there any more. +022:012 But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall + he die, and he shall see this land no more. +022:013 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers + by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, + and doesn't give him his hire; +022:014 who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, + and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, + and painted with vermilion. +022:015 Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? + Didn't your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? + then it was well with him. +022:016 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. + Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh. +022:017 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, + and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, + and for violence, to do it. +022:018 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, + king of Judah: they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my + brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, + [saying] Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! +022:019 He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast + forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. +022:020 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, + and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed. +022:021 I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. + This has been your manner from your youth, that you didn't + obey my voice. +022:022 The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers + shall go into captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed + and confounded for all your wickedness. +022:023 Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, + how greatly to be pitied shall you be when pangs come on you, + the pain as of a woman in travail! +022:024 As I live, says Yahweh, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim + king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I + pluck you there; +022:025 and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, + and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into + the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand + of the Chaldeans. +022:026 I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, + into another country, where you were not born; and there + shall you die. +022:027 But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, + there shall they not return. +022:028 Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel + in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, + and are cast into the land which they don't know? +022:029 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh. +022:030 Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man + who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man + of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, + and ruling in Judah. +023:001 Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my + pasture! says Yahweh. +023:002 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the + shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, + and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will + visit on you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh. +023:003 I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries + where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; + and they shall be fruitful and multiply. +023:004 I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; + and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall + any be lacking, says Yahweh. +023:005 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will raise to David + a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, + and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. +023:006 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; + and this is his name by which he shall be called: + Yahweh our righteousness. +023:007 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that they shall + no more say, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children + of Israel out of the land of Egypt; +023:008 but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed + of the house of Israel out of the north country, + and from all the countries where I had driven them. + They shall dwell in their own land. +023:009 Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, + all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man + whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of + his holy words. +023:010 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing + the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. + Their course is evil, and their might is not right; +023:011 for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house + have I found their wickedness, says Yahweh. +023:012 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places + in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; + for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their + visitation, says Yahweh. +023:013 I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied + by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. +023:014 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: + they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands + of evil-doers, so that none does return from his wickedness: + they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants + of it as Gomorrah. +023:015 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the prophets: + Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink + the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is + ungodliness gone forth into all the land. +023:016 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Don't listen to the words of + the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; + they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of + the mouth of Yahweh. +023:017 They say continually to those who despise me, Yahweh has said, + You shall have peace; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness + of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on you. +023:018 For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should + perceive and hear his word? who has marked my word, + and heard it? +023:019 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yes, + a whirling storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked. +023:020 The anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, + and until he have performed the intents of his heart: + in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly. +023:021 I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn't speak to them, + yet they prophesied. +023:022 But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people + to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, + and from the evil of their doings. +023:023 Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off? +023:024 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see + him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh. +023:025 I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies + in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. +023:026 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, + even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart? +023:027 who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams + which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers + forgot my name for Baal. +023:028 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; + and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. + What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh. +023:029 Isn't my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer + that breaks the rock in pieces? +023:030 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, + who steal my words everyone from his neighbor. +023:031 Behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who use + their tongues, and say, He says. +023:032 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, + and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, + and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, + nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people + at all, says Yahweh. +023:033 When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, + saying, What is the burden of Yahweh? then shall you tell them, + What burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh. +023:034 As for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, + The burden of Yahweh, I will even punish that man and his house. +023:035 Thus shall you say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to + his brother, What has Yahweh answered? and, What has Yahweh spoken? +023:036 The burden of Yahweh shall you mention no more: for every + man's own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted + the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies our God. +023:037 Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has Yahweh answered + you? and, What has Yahweh spoken? +023:038 But if you say, The burden of Yahweh; therefore thus + says Yahweh: Because you say this word, The burden of Yahweh, + and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, + The burden of Yahweh; +023:039 therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast + you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, + away from my presence: +023:040 and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a + perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten. +024:001 Yahweh shown me, and behold, two baskets of figs set before + the temple of Yahweh, after that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon + had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, + king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen + and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. +024:002 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; + and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, + they were so bad. +024:003 Then said Yahweh to me, What see you, Jeremiah? I said, Figs; + the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can't + be eaten, they are so bad. +024:004 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +024:005 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, + so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent + out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good. +024:006 For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again + to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; + and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. +024:007 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: + and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; + for they shall return to me with their whole heart. +024:008 As the bad figs, which can't be eaten, they are so bad, + surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king + of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, + who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt, +024:009 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among + all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach + and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I + shall drive them. +024:010 I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, + among them, until they be consumed from off the land that I + gave to them and to their fathers. +025:001 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, + in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah + (the same was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), +025:002 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, + and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: +025:003 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, + king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, + the word of Yahweh has come to me, and I have spoken to you, + rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened. +025:004 Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, + rising up early and sending them, (but you have not listened, + nor inclined your ear to hear), +025:005 saying, Return you now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil + of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given + to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forevermore; +025:006 and don't go after other gods to serve them or worship them, + and don't provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; + and I will do you no harm. +025:007 Yet you have not listened to me, says Yahweh; that you may provoke + me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt. +025:008 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies: Because you have not + heard my words, +025:009 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, + says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadnezzar the king + of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, + and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations + round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them + an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. +025:010 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice + of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice + of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light + of the lamp. +025:011 This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; + and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. +025:012 It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, + that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, + says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; + and I will make it desolate forever. +025:013 I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced + against it, even all that is written in this book, + which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. +025:014 For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them, + even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, + and according to the work of their hands. +025:015 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me: take this cup + of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, + to whom I send you, to drink it. +025:016 They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, + because of the sword that I will send among them. +025:017 Then took I the cup at Yahweh's hand, and made all the nations + to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me: +025:018 [to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings + of it, and the princes of it, to make them a desolation, + an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; +025:019 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, + and all his people; +025:020 and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, + and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, + and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; +025:021 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon; +025:022 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, + and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea; +025:023 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners [of + their hair] cut off; +025:024 and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed + people who dwell in the wilderness; +025:025 and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, + and all the kings of the Medes; +025:026 and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; + and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface + of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. +025:027 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God + of Israel: Drink you, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, + and rise no more, because of the sword which I will + send among you. +025:028 It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand + to drink, then shall you tell them, Thus says Yahweh + of Armies: You shall surely drink. +025:029 For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is + called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? + You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword + on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies. +025:030 Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and tell them, + Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his + holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold; + he will give a shout, as those who tread [the grapes], + against all the inhabitants of the earth. +025:031 A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh + has a controversy with the nations; he will enter into + judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give + them to the sword, says Yahweh. +025:032 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, evil shall go forth + from nation to nation, and a great storm shall be raised up + from the uttermost parts of the earth. +025:033 The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end + of the earth even to the other end of the earth: + they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; + they shall be dung on the surface of the ground. +025:034 Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes], + you principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter + and of your dispersions are fully come, and you shall fall + like a goodly vessel. +025:035 The shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal + of the flock to escape. +025:036 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the + principal of the flock! for Yahweh lays waste their pasture. +025:037 The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce + anger of Yahweh. +025:038 He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an + astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], + and because of his fierce anger. +026:001 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, + king of Judah, came this word from Yahweh, saying, +026:002 Thus says Yahweh: Stand in the court of Yahweh's house, + and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship + in Yahweh's house, all the words that I command you to speak + to them; don't diminish a word. +026:003 It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; + that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them + because of the evil of their doings. +026:004 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: If you will not listen + to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, +026:005 to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, + whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, + but you have not listened; +026:006 then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this + city a curse to all the nations of the earth. +026:007 The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah + speaking these words in the house of Yahweh. +026:008 It happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all + that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, + that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid + hold on him, saying, You shall surely die. +026:009 Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, This house + shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, + without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah + in the house of Yahweh. +026:010 When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up + from the king's house to the house of Yahweh; and they sat + in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's [house]. +026:011 Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes + and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; + for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard + with your ears. +026:012 Then spoke Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people, + saying, Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and + against this city all the words that you have heard. +026:013 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice + of Yahweh your God; and Yahweh will repent him of the evil + that he has pronounced against you. +026:014 But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is + good and right in your eyes. +026:015 Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, + you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, + and on the inhabitants of it; for of a truth Yahweh has sent + me to you to speak all these words in your ears. +026:016 Then said the princes and all the people to the priests + and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; + for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God. +026:017 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke + to all the assembly of the people, saying, +026:018 Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king + of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, + Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Zion shall be plowed as a field, + and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house + as the high places of a forest. +026:019 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? + Didn't he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh + repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? + Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls. +026:020 There was also a man who prophesied in the name + of Yahweh, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; + and he prophesied against this city and against this land + according to all the words of Jeremiah: +026:021 and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, + and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put + him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, + and went into Egypt: +026:022 and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely], Elnathan + the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt; +026:023 and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him + to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, + and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people. +026:024 But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, + that they should not give him into the hand of the people + to put him to death. +027:001 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, + king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, +027:002 Thus says Yahweh to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them + on your neck; +027:003 and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, + and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, + and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers + who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah; +027:004 and give them a charge to their masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh + of Armies, the God of Israel, Thus shall you tell your masters: +027:005 I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface + of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; + and I give it to whom it seems right to me. +027:006 Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar + the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the field + also have I given him to serve him. +027:007 All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, + until the time of his own land come: and then many nations + and great kings shall make him their bondservant. +027:008 It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom which will not + serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will + not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, + that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, + and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have + consumed them by his hand. +027:009 But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to + your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, + nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall + not serve the king of Babylon: +027:010 for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, + and that I should drive you out, and you should perish. +027:011 But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke + of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let + remain in their own land, says Yahweh; and they shall till it, + and dwell therein. +027:012 I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, + saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, + and serve him and his people, and live. +027:013 Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, + and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning + the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? +027:014 Don't listen to the words of the prophets who speak + to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; + for they prophesy a lie to you. +027:015 For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy + falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you + may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you. +027:016 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, + Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the words of your prophets + who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's + house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; + for they prophesy a lie to you. +027:017 Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: + why should this city become a desolation? +027:018 But if they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with them, + let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, + that the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh, + and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, + don't go to Babylon. +027:019 For thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the pillars, + and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning + the residue of the vessels that are left in this city, +027:020 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn't take, + when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, + king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles + of Judah and Jerusalem; +027:021 yes, thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, + concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh, + and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem: +027:022 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, + until the day that I visit them, says Yahweh; then will I + bring them up, and restore them to this place. +028:001 It happened the same year, in the beginning of the reign of + Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, + that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, + spoke to me in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests + and of all the people, saying, +028:002 Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, I have + broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. +028:003 Within two full years will I bring again into this place + all the vessels of Yahweh's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king + of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon: +028:004 and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son + of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, + who went to Babylon, says Yahweh; for I will break the yoke + of the king of Babylon. +028:005 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah + in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all + the people who stood in the house of Yahweh, +028:006 even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Yahweh do so; + Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, + to bring again the vessels of Yahweh's house, and all them + of the captivity, from Babylon to this place. +028:007 Nevertheless hear you now this word that I speak in your ears, + and in the ears of all the people: +028:008 The prophets who have been before me and before you of old + prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, + of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. +028:009 The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet + shall happen, then shall the prophet be known, that Yahweh + has truly sent him. +028:010 Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet + Jeremiah's neck, and broke it. +028:011 Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus + says Yahweh: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar + king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck + of all the nations. The prophet Jeremiah went his way. +028:012 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that Hananiah + the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the + prophet Jeremiah, saying, +028:013 Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh: You have + broken the bars of wood; but you have made in their place + bars of iron. +028:014 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: I have put + a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may + serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: + and I have given him the animals of the field also. +028:015 Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, + Hear now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but you make + this people to trust in a lie. +028:016 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will send you away + from off the surface of the earth: this year you shall die, + because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh. +028:017 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month. +029:001 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah + the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders + of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, + and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away + captive from Jerusalem to Babylon, +029:002 (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen mother, and the eunuchs, + [and] the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, + and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem), +029:003 by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son + of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon + to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), saying, +029:004 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, to all + the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive + from Jerusalem to Babylon: +029:005 Build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, + and eat the fruit of them. +029:006 Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives + for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, + that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply you there, + and don't be diminished. +029:007 Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried + away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in the peace + of it shall you have peace. +029:008 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Don't let + your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, + deceive you; neither listen you to your dreams which you + cause to be dreamed. +029:009 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not + sent them, says Yahweh. +029:010 For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished + for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word + toward you, in causing you to return to this place. +029:011 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, + thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in + your latter end. +029:012 You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, + and I will listen to you. +029:013 You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me + with all your heart. +029:014 I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again + your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, + and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; + and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused + you to be carried away captive. +029:015 Because you have said, Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon; +029:016 thus says Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the throne + of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, + your brothers who haven't gone forth with you into captivity; +029:017 thus says Yahweh of Armies; Behold, I will send on them the sword, + the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, + that can't be eaten, they are so bad. +029:018 I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, + and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back + and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object + of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, + among all the nations where I have driven them; +029:019 because they have not listened to my words, says Yahweh, + with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up + early and sending them; but you would not hear, says Yahweh. +029:020 Hear you therefore the word of Yahweh, all you of the captivity, + whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. +029:021 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab + the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, + who prophesy a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver + them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; + and he shall kill them before your eyes; +029:022 and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah + who are in Babylon, saying, Yahweh make you like Zedekiah + and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire; +029:023 because they have worked folly in Israel, and have committed + adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken + words in my name falsely, which I didn't command them; + and I am he who knows, and am witness, says Yahweh. +029:024 Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying, +029:025 Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, + Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people + who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, + the priest, and to all the priests, saying, +029:026 Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, + that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, + for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, + that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles. +029:027 Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, + who makes himself a prophet to you, +029:028 because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, [The captivity] + is long: build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, + and eat the fruit of them? +029:029 Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of + Jeremiah the prophet. +029:030 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying, +029:031 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says Yahweh + concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has + prophesied to you, and I didn't send him, and he has caused + you to trust in a lie; +029:032 therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah + the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell + among this people, neither shall he see the good that I + will do to my people, says Yahweh, because he has spoken + rebellion against Yahweh. +030:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, +030:002 Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write you all + the words that I have spoken to you in a book. +030:003 For, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again + the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh; + and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave + to their fathers, and they shall possess it. +030:004 These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel + and concerning Judah. +030:005 For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, + of fear, and not of peace. +030:006 Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: + why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman + in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? +030:007 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: + it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved + out of it. +030:008 It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I + will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; + and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant; +030:009 but they shall serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, + whom I will raise up to them. +030:010 Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; + neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you + from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; + and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, + and none shall make him afraid. +030:011 For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make + a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, + but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct + you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished. +030:012 For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, + and your wound grievous. +030:013 There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: + you have no healing medicines. +030:014 All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: + for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the + chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, + because your sins were increased. +030:015 Why cry you for your hurt? your pain is incurable: + for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins + were increased, I have done these things to you. +030:016 Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all + your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; + and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey + on you will I give for a prey. +030:017 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you + of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you + an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after. +030:018 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity + of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places; + and the city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace + shall be inhabited after its own manner. +030:019 Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who + make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; + I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. +030:020 Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation + shall be established before me; and I will punish all + who oppress them. +030:021 Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed + from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, + and he shall approach to me: for who is he who has had boldness + to approach to me? says Yahweh. +030:022 You shall be my people, and I will be your God. +030:023 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, + a sweeping storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked. +030:024 The fierce anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, + and until he have performed the intents of his heart: + in the latter days you shall understand it. +031:001 At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families + of Israel, and they shall be my people. +031:002 Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found + favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause + him to rest. +031:003 Yahweh appeared of old to me, [saying], Yes, I have loved you + with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness + have I drawn you. +031:004 Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: + again shall you be adorned with your tambourines, and shall + go forth in the dances of those who make merry. +031:005 Again shall you plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; + the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy [the fruit of it]. +031:006 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on the hills + of Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion + to Yahweh our God. +031:007 For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout + for the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, + and say, Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel. +031:008 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, + and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, + [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman + with child and her who travails with child together: + a great company shall they return here. +031:009 They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: + I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way + in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, + and Ephraim is my firstborn. +031:010 Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the islands + afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, + and keep him, as shepherd does his flock. +031:011 For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand + of him who was stronger than he. +031:012 They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow + to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, + and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: + and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall + not sorrow any more at all. +031:013 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men + and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, + and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. +031:014 I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my + people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh. +031:015 Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, + and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; + she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they + are no more. +031:016 Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your + eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; + and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. +031:017 There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and [your] + children shall come again to their own border. +031:018 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], + You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf + unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn you me, and I shall be turned; + for you are Yahweh my God. +031:019 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I + was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, + even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. +031:020 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often + as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: + therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy + on him, says Yahweh. +031:021 Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward + the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, + virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities. +031:022 How long will you go here and there, you backsliding + daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: + a woman shall encompass a man. +031:023 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they + use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities of it, + when I shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, + habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness. +031:024 Judah and all the cities of it shall dwell therein together, + the farmers, and those who go about with flocks. +031:025 For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul + have I replenished. +031:026 On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me. +031:027 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house + of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, + and with the seed of animal. +031:028 It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up + and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, + so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says Yahweh. +031:029 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten + sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. +031:030 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats + the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. +031:031 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new + covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: +031:032 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers + in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them + out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, + although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh. +031:033 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house + of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law + in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; + and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: +031:034 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man + his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, + from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: + for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I + remember no more. +031:035 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, + and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light + by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roar; + Yahweh of Armies is his name: +031:036 If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, + then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation + before me forever. +031:037 Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, + and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, + then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all + that they have done, says Yahweh. +031:038 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be built + to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner. +031:039 The measuring line shall go out further straight onward + to the hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah. +031:040 The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, + and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner + of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; + it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever. +032:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth + year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth + year of Nebuchadnezzar. +032:002 Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem; + and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, + which was in the king of Judah's house. +032:003 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do + you prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will + give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, + and he shall take it; +032:004 and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand + of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand + of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, + and his eyes shall see his eyes; +032:005 and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until + I visit him, says Yahweh: though you fight with the Chaldeans, + you shall not prosper? +032:006 Jeremiah said, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, +032:007 Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come + to you, saying, Buy you my field that is in Anathoth; + for the right of redemption is yours to buy it. +032:008 So Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard + according to the word of Yahweh, and said to me, Please buy + my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; + for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption + is yours; buy it for yourself. Then I knew that this was + the word of Yahweh. +032:009 I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, + and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. +032:010 I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, + and weighed him the money in the balances. +032:011 So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, + containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open; +032:012 and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, + the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's son, + and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed + of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court + of the guard. +032:013 I charged Baruch before them, saying, +032:014 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, + this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed + which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they + may continue many days. +032:015 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Houses and + fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land. +032:016 Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch + the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying, +032:017 Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, you have made the heavens and + the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; + there is nothing too hard for you, +032:018 who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity + of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; + the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is his name; +032:019 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on + all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according + to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings: +032:020 who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, + even to this day, both in Israel and among [other] men; + and made you a name, as in this day; +032:021 and brought forth your people Israel out of the land of Egypt + with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, + and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror; +032:022 and gave them this land, which you did swear to their fathers + to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; +032:023 and they came in, and possessed it, but they didn't + obey your voice, neither walked in your law; they have + done nothing of all that you commanded them to do: + therefore you have caused all this evil to come on them. +032:024 Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; + and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who + fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, + and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened; + and behold, you see it. +032:025 You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, Buy you the field for money, + and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand + of the Chaldeans. +032:026 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying, +032:027 Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is there anything + too hard for me? +032:028 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will give this city into + the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar + king of Babylon, and he shall take it: +032:029 and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come + and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, + on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured + out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger. +032:030 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have + done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; + for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger + with the work of their hands, says Yahweh. +032:031 For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of + my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day; + that I should remove it from before my face, +032:032 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children + of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, + their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, + and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +032:033 They have turned to me the back, and not the face: + and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, + yet they have not listened to receive instruction. +032:034 But they set their abominations in the house which is called + by my name, to defile it. +032:035 They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley + of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters + to pass through [the fire] to Molech; which I didn't + command them, neither did it come into my mind, that they + should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. +032:036 Now therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, + concerning this city, about which you say, It is given into + the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, + and by the pestilence: +032:037 Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, + where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in + great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, + and I will cause them to dwell safely: +032:038 and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: +032:039 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they + may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their + children after them: +032:040 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I + will not turn away from following them, to do them good; + and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not + depart from me. +032:041 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant + them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with + my whole soul. +032:042 For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have brought all this great evil + on this people, so will I bring on them all the good that I + have promised them. +032:043 Fields shall be bought in this land, about which you say, + It is desolate, without man or animal; it is given into the hand + of the Chaldeans. +032:044 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, + and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, + and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, + and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities + of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: + for I will cause their captivity to return, says Yahweh. +033:001 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time, + while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying, +033:002 Thus says Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it; + Yahweh is his name: +033:003 Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, + and difficult, which you don't know. +033:004 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses + of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, + which are broken down [to make a defense] against the mounds + and against the sword; +033:005 while [men] come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them + with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger + and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hid + my face from this city: +033:006 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; + and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth. +033:007 I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel + to return, and will build them, as at the first. +033:008 I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they + have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, + by which they have sinned against me, and by which they + have transgressed against me. +033:009 [This city] shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise + and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, + which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall + fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I + procure to it. +033:010 Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, + about which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, + even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, + that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant + and without animal, +033:011 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of + the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those + who say, Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, + for his loving kindness endures forever; [and of them] who + bring [sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. + For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at + the first, says Yahweh. +033:012 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Yet again shall there be in + this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, + and in all the cities of it, a habitation of shepherds causing + their flocks to lie down. +033:013 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, + and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, + and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, + shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who + numbers them, says Yahweh. +033:014 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will perform that + good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel + and concerning the house of Judah. +033:015 In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch + of righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute + justice and righteousness in the land. +033:016 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; + and this is [the name] by which she shall be called: + Yahweh our righteousness. +033:017 For thus says Yahweh: David shall never want a man to sit + on the throne of the house of Israel; +033:018 neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me + to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal offerings, + and to do sacrifice continually. +033:019 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying, +033:020 Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, + and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day + and night in their season; +033:021 then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, + that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; + and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. +033:022 As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand + of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David + my servant, and the Levites who minister to me. +033:023 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying, +033:024 Don't you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two + families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? + thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more + a nation before them. +033:025 Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, + if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; +033:026 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David + my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be + rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: + for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have + mercy on them. +034:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar + king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of + the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, + were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities + of it, saying: +034:002 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah + king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will + give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, + and he shall burn it with fire: +034:003 and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely + be taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes shall see + the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you + mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon. +034:004 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah king of Judah: + thus says Yahweh concerning you, You shall not die by the sword; +034:005 you shall die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, + the former kings who were before you, so shall they make + a burning for you; and they shall lament you, [saying], Ah Lord! + for I have spoken the word, says Yahweh. +034:006 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah + king of Judah in Jerusalem, +034:007 when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem, + and against all the cities of Judah that were left, + against Lachish and against Azekah; for these [alone] remained + of the cities of Judah [as] fortified cities. +034:008 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that the king + Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were + at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them; +034:009 that every man should let his male servant, and every man + his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; + that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit], + of a Jew his brother. +034:010 All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered + into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, + and everyone his female servant, go free, that none should make + bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go: +034:011 but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, + whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into + subjection for servants and for handmaids. +034:012 Therefore the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, +034:013 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: I made a covenant + with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out + of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying, +034:014 At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his + brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has + served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: + but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear. +034:015 You were now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, + in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you + had made a covenant before me in the house which is called + by my name: +034:016 but you turned and profaned my name, and caused every man + his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let + go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them + into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids. +034:017 Therefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to me, + to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every + man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, + says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; + and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all + the kingdoms of the earth. +034:018 I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, + who have not performed the words of the covenant which they + made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed + between the parts of it; +034:019 the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, + and the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed + between the parts of the calf; +034:020 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, + and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their + dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the sky, + and to the animals of the earth. +034:021 Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into + the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek + their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, + who have gone away from you. +034:022 Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, and cause them to return + to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, + and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah + a desolation, without inhabitant. +035:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days + of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, +035:002 Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring + them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the chambers, + and give them wine to drink. +035:003 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, + and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house + of the Rechabites; +035:004 and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the chamber + of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, + which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above + the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper + of the threshold. +035:005 I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls + full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, Drink you wine. +035:006 But they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, + our father, commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine, + neither you, nor your sons, forever: +035:007 neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, + nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents; + that you may live many days in the land in which you sojourn. +035:008 We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, + our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all + our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters; +035:009 nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, + nor field, nor seed: +035:010 but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according + to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. +035:011 But it happened, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up + into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem + for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army + of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem. +035:012 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying, +035:013 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Go, and tell + the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you + not receive instruction to listen to my words? says Yahweh. +035:014 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded + his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day + they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment: + but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; + and you have not listened to me. +035:015 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, + rising up early and sending them, saying, Return you + now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, + and don't go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell + in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: + but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me. +035:016 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed + the commandment of their father which he commanded them, + but this people has not listened to me; +035:017 therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God + of Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants + of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; + because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; + and I have called to them, but they have not answered. +035:018 Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh + of Armies, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the + commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, + and done according to all that he commanded you; +035:019 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Jonadab the + son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me forever. +036:001 It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, + king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, +036:002 Take a scroll of a book, and write therein all the words + that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, + and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, + from the days of Josiah, even to this day. +036:003 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil + which I purpose to do to them; that they may return every + man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity + and their sin. +036:004 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch + wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh, + which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book. +036:005 Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I can't go + into the house of Yahweh: +036:006 therefore go you, and read in the scroll, which you have written + from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people + in Yahweh's house on the fast day; and also you shall read + them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities. +036:007 It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, + and will return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger + and the wrath that Yahweh has pronounced against this people. +036:008 Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah + the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words + of Yahweh in Yahweh's house. +036:009 Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, + king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people + in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities + of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh. +036:010 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house + of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, + the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate + of Yahweh's house, in the ears of all the people. +036:011 When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, + had heard out of the book all the words of Yahweh, +036:012 he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: + and behold, all the princes were sitting there, [to wit], + Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, + and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, + and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. +036:013 Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, + when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. +036:014 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, + the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, + Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears + of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took + the scroll in his hand, and came to them. +036:015 They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. + So Baruch read it in their ears. +036:016 Now it happened, when they had heard all the words, they turned + in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, We will surely + tell the king of all these words. +036:017 They asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write + all these words at his mouth? +036:018 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me + with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. +036:019 Then said the princes to Baruch, Go, hide you, you and Jeremiah; + and let no man know where you are. +036:020 They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid + up the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; + and they told all the words in the ears of the king. +036:021 So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it + out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it + in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes + who stood beside the king. +036:022 Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month: + and [there was a fire in] the brazier burning before him. +036:023 It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, + that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and cast it into + the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was + consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. +036:024 They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, + nor any of his servants who heard all these words. +036:025 Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made + intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; + but he would not hear them. +036:026 The king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son + of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch + the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them. +036:027 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that the king + had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote + at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, +036:028 Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former + words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king + of Judah has burned. +036:029 Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, + Thus says Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying, + Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon + shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause + to cease from there man and animal? +036:030 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king + of Judah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David; + and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, + and in the night to the frost. +036:031 I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; + and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, + and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced + against them, but they didn't listen. +036:032 Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch + the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth + of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king + of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides + to them many like words. +037:001 Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah + the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon + made king in the land of Judah. +037:002 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, + did listen to the words of Yahweh, which he spoke by + the prophet Jeremiah. +037:003 Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah + the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, + saying, Pray now to Yahweh our God for us. +037:004 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they + had not put him into prison. +037:005 Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt; and when the + Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, + they broke up from Jerusalem. +037:006 Then came the word of Yahweh to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, +037:007 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Thus shall you tell + the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: + Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, + shall return to Egypt into their own land. +037:008 The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; + and they shall take it, and burn it with fire. +037:009 Thus says Yahweh, Don't deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans + shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart. +037:010 For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans + who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men + among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent, + and burn this city with fire. +037:011 It happened that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken + up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, +037:012 then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land + of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst + of the people. +037:013 When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard + was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, + the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, + saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans. +037:014 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away to + the Chaldeans. But he didn't listen to him; so Irijah laid + hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. +037:015 The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, + and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; + for they had made that the prison. +037:016 When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, + and Jeremiah had remained there many days; +037:017 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: + and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, + Is there any word from Yahweh? Jeremiah said, There is. + He said also, You shall be delivered into the hand of the + king of Babylon. +037:018 Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned + against you, or against your servants, or against this people, + that you have put me in prison? +037:019 Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king + of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? +037:020 Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication + be presented before you, that you not cause me to return + to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. +037:021 Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah + into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf + of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread + in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court + of the guard. +038:001 Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, + and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah, + heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people, saying, +038:002 Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die + by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; + but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his + life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live. +038:003 Thus says Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into the hand + of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it. +038:004 Then the princes said to the king, Let this man, we pray you, + be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war + who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, + in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek + the welfare of this people, but the hurt. +038:005 Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; + for the king is not he who can do anything against you. +038:006 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of + Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: + and they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there + was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. +038:007 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the + king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon + (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin), +038:008 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke + to the king, saying, +038:009 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they + have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into + the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is, + because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city. +038:010 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, + Take from hence thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah + the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies. +038:011 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house + of the king under the treasury, and took there rags + and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into + the dungeon to Jeremiah. +038:012 Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put now these rags + and worn-out garments under your armholes under the cords. + Jeremiah did so. +038:013 So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up + out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court + of the guard. +038:014 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet + to him into the third entry that is in the house of Yahweh: + and the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask you a thing; + hide nothing from me. +038:015 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare it to you, + will you not surely put me to death? and if I give you counsel, + you will not listen to me. +038:016 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, + As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you + to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men + who seek your life. +038:017 Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God + of Armies, the God of Israel: If you will go forth to the king + of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live, and this + city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live, + and your house. +038:018 But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, + then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, + and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape + out of their hand. +038:019 Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews + who are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me + into their hand, and they mock me. +038:020 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. Obey, I beg you, + the voice of Yahweh, in that which I speak to you: + so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live. +038:021 But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that Yahweh + has shown me: +038:022 behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house + shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, + and those women shall say, Your familiar friends have set you on, + and have prevailed over you: [now that] your feet are sunk + in the mire, they are turned away back. +038:023 They shall bring out all your wives and your children to + the Chaldeans; and you shall not escape out of their hand, + but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: + and you shall cause this city to be burned with fire. +038:024 Then said Zedekiah to Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, + and you shall not die. +038:025 But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they + come to you, and tell you, Declare to us now what you have said + to the king; don't hide it from us, and we will not put you + to death; also what the king said to you: +038:026 then you shall tell them, I presented my supplication before the king, + that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, + to die there. +038:027 Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him; + and he told them according to all these words that the king + had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; + for the matter was not perceived. +038:028 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day + that Jerusalem was taken. +039:001 It happened when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of + Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar + king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, + and besieged it; +039:002 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, + the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city), +039:003 that all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, + and sat in the middle gate, [to wit], Nergal Sharezer, + Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, + with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon. +039:004 It happened that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all + the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth + out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, + through the gate between the two walls; and he went out + toward the Arabah. +039:005 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook + Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, + they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah + in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him. +039:006 Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah + before his eyes: also the king of Babylon killed all + the nobles of Judah. +039:007 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, + to carry him to Babylon. +039:008 The Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, + with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. +039:009 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive + into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, + the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue + of the people who remained. +039:010 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor + of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, + and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. +039:011 Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning + Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying, +039:012 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; + but do to him even as he shall tell you. +039:013 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, + and Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, and all + the chief officers of the king of Babylon; +039:014 they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, + and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, + the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: + so he lived among the people. +039:015 Now the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up + in the court of the guard, saying, +039:016 Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus says + Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring + my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they + shall be accomplished before you in that day. +039:017 But I will deliver you in that day, says Yahweh; and you shall + not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid. +039:018 For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, + but your life shall be for a prey to you; because you have put + your trust in me, says Yahweh. +040:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that + Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, + when he had taken him being bound in chains among all + the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away + captive to Babylon. +040:002 The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, + Yahweh your God pronounced this evil on this place; +040:003 and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke: + because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed + his voice, therefore this thing is come on you. +040:004 Now, behold, I loose you this day from the chains which are + on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me + into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it + seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don't: behold, + all the land is before you; where it seems good and right + to you to go, there go. +040:005 Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, [said he], + to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king + of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, + and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems + right to you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him + food and a present, and let him go. +040:006 Then went Jeremiah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, + and lived with him among the people who were left in the land. +040:007 Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, + even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon + had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, + and had committed to him men, and women, and children, + and of the poorest of the land, of those who were not carried + away captive to Babylon; +040:008 then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, [to wit], Ishmael the son + of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, + and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai + the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, + they and their men. +040:009 Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and + to their men, saying, Don't be afraid to serve the Chaldeans: + dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it + shall be well with you. +040:010 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before + the Chaldeans who shall come to us: but you, gather you wine + and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, + and dwell in your cities that you have taken. +040:011 Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children + of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, + heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, + and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, + the son of Shaphan; +040:012 then all the Jews returned out of all places where they + were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, + to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much. +040:013 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of + the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, +040:014 and said to him, Do you know that Baalis the king of the children + of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life? + But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn't believe them. +040:015 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in + Mizpah secretly, saying, Please let me go, and I will kill + Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: + why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered + to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish? +040:016 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son + of Kareah, You shall not do this thing; for you speak + falsely of Ishmael. +041:001 Now it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son + of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal and [one + of] the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, + came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they + ate bread together in Mizpah. +041:002 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who + were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son + of Shaphan with the sword, and killed him, whom the king + of Babylon had made governor over the land. +041:003 Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with him, [to wit], + with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, + the men of war. +041:004 It happened the second day after he had killed Gedaliah, + and no man knew it, +041:005 that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, + even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, + and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense + in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh. +041:006 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, + weeping all along as he went: and it happened, as he met them, + he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. +041:007 It was so, when they came into the midst of the city, + that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, [and cast them] + into the midst of the pit, he, and the men who were with him. +041:008 But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, Don't kill us; + for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, + and of oil, and of honey. So he stopped, and didn't kill + them among their brothers. +041:009 Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies + of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah + (the same was who which Asa the king had made for fear of + Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled + it with those who were killed. +041:010 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of + the people who were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, + and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan + the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son + of Ahikam; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, + and departed to go over to the children of Ammon. +041:011 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains + of the forces who were with him, heard of all the evil + that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, +041:012 then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael + the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters + that are in Gibeon. +041:013 Now it happened that, when all the people who were with Ishmael + saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces + who were with him, then they were glad. +041:014 So all the people who Ishmael had carried away captive + from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Johanan + the son of Kareah. +041:015 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with + eight men, and went to the children of Ammon. +041:016 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains + of the forces who were with him, all the remnant of the people + whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, + from Mizpah, after that he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, + [to wit], the men of war, and the women, and the children, + and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon: +041:017 and they departed, and lived in Geruth Chimham, which is + by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt, +041:018 because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, + because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah + the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor + over the land. +042:001 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, + and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from + the least even to the greatest, came near, +042:002 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we pray you, our supplication + be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, + even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, + as your eyes do see us: +042:003 that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, + and the thing that we should do. +042:004 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you; + behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; + and it shall happen that whatever thing Yahweh shall answer you, + I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you. +042:005 Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful + witness among us, if we don't do according to all the word + with which Yahweh your God shall send you to us. +042:006 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice + of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well + with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God. +042:007 It happened after ten days, that the word of Yahweh + came to Jeremiah. +042:008 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains + of the forces who were with him, and all the people from + the least even to the greatest, +042:009 and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, + to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him: +042:010 If you will still abide in this land, then will I build you, + and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; + for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you. +042:011 Don't be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; + don't be afraid of him, says Yahweh: for I am with you + to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. +042:012 I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, + and cause you to return to your own land. +042:013 But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you + don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God, +042:014 saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we + shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, + nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: +042:015 now therefore hear you the word of Yahweh, O remnant + of Judah: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, If you + indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there; +042:016 then it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, + shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, + about which you are afraid, shall follow hard after you there + in Egypt; and there you shall die. +042:017 So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go + into Egypt to sojourn there: they shall die by the sword, + by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall + remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them. +042:018 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: As my + anger and my wrath has been poured forth on the inhabitants + of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth on you, + when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an object + of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; + and you shall see this place no more. +042:019 Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, Don't you + go into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified to + you this day. +042:020 For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; + for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, Pray for us to Yahweh + our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God shall say, + so declare to us, and we will do it: +042:021 and I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed + the voice of Yahweh your God in anything for which he has + sent me to you. +042:022 Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, + by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you + desire to go to sojourn there. +043:001 It happened that, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking + to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which + Yahweh their God had sent him to them, even all these words, +043:002 then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, + and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: + Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go + into Egypt to sojourn there; +043:003 but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver us + into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, + and carry us away captive to Babylon. +043:004 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, + and all the people, didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, + to dwell in the land of Judah. +043:005 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, + took all the remnant of Judah, who were returned from + all the nations where they had been driven, to sojourn + in the land of Judah; +043:006 the men, and the women, and the children, and the king's daughters, + and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard + had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; + and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah; +043:007 and they came into the land of Egypt; for they didn't obey + the voice of Yahweh: and they came to Tahpanhes. +043:008 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, +043:009 Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar + in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house + in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; +043:010 and tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God + of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar + the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne + on these stones that I have hidden; and he shall spread his + royal pavilion over them. +043:011 He shall come, and shall strike the land of Egypt; + such as are for death [shall be given] to death, and such as + are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword + to the sword. +043:012 I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; + and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive: + and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, + as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he shall go forth + from there in peace. +043:013 He shall also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh, that is in + the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall + he burn with fire. +044:001 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived + in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, + and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying, +044:002 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: You have seen + all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all + the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation, + and no man dwells therein, +044:003 because of their wickedness which they have committed + to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, + [and] to serve other gods, that they didn't know, neither they, + nor you, nor your fathers. +044:004 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up + early and sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this abominable + thing that I hate. +044:005 But they didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from + their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods. +044:006 Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured forth, and was + kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; + and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day. +044:007 Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God + of Israel: Why commit you [this] great evil against your own souls, + to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, + out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining; +044:008 in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, + burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, + where you are gone to sojourn; that you may be cut off, + and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations + of the earth? +044:009 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, + and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness + of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness + of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah, + and in the streets of Jerusalem? +044:010 They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, + nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before + you and before your fathers. +044:011 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God + of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, + even to cut off all Judah. +044:012 I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces + to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they + shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; + they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; + they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword + and by the famine; and they shall be an object of horror, + [and] an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. +044:013 For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, + as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, + and by the pestilence; +044:014 so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into + the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be left, + to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire + to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such + as shall escape. +044:015 Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to + other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, + even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, + answered Jeremiah, saying, +044:016 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, + we will not listen to you. +044:017 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth + out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, + and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, + we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities + of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we + plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil. +044:018 But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the sky, + and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, + and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. +044:019 When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out + drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, + and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands? +044:020 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, + even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying, +044:021 The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, + and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, + your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, + didn't Yahweh remember them, and didn't it come into his mind? +044:022 so that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil + of your doings, and because of the abominations which you + have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, + and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, + as it is this day. +044:023 Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned + against Yahweh, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, + nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; + therefore this evil is happened to you, as it is this day. +044:024 Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the women, + Hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt: +044:025 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, You and + your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your + hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform + our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen + of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her: + establish then your vows, and perform your vows. +044:026 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who dwell in + the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, + says Yahweh, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth + of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the + Lord Yahweh lives. +044:027 Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; + and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall + be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there + be an end of them. +044:028 Those who escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt + into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant + of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, + shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs. +044:029 This shall be the sign to you, says Yahweh, that I will punish + you in this place, that you may know that my words shall + surely stand against you for evil: +044:030 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king + of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of + those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into + the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, + and sought his life. +045:001 The message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son + of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth + of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, + king of Judah, saying, +045:002 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to you, Baruch: +045:003 You did say, Woe is me now! for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain; + I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest. +045:004 Thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I + have built will I break down, and that which I have planted + I will pluck up; and this in the whole land. +045:005 Seek you great things for yourself? Don't seek them; + for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; + but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places + where you go. +046:001 The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet + concerning the nations. +046:002 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king + of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, + which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth + year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah. +046:003 Prepare you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. +046:004 Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth + with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail. +046:005 Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; + and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, + and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh. +046:006 Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; + in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen. +046:007 Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss + themselves like the rivers? +046:008 Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves + like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover + the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants of it. +046:009 Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men + go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, + who handle and bend the bow. +046:010 For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day + of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: + and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink + its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, + has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. +046:011 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: + in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you. +046:012 The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full + of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, + they are fallen both of them together. +046:013 The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, + how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike + the land of Egypt. +046:014 Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis + and in Tahpanhes: say you, Stand forth, and prepare you; + for the sword has devoured round about you. +046:015 Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't stand, + because Yahweh did drive them. +046:016 He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: + and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, + and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword. +046:017 They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; + he has let the appointed time pass by. +046:018 As I live, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, + surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, + so shall he come. +046:019 You daughter who dwell in Egypt, furnish yourself to go + into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, + and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant. +046:020 Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of + the north is come, it is come. +046:021 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; + for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, + they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come + on them, the time of their visitation. +046:022 The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march + with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters. +046:023 They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it + can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, + and are innumerable. +046:024 The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be + delivered into the hand of the people of the north. +046:025 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will + punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, + and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him: +046:026 and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, + and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into + the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, + as in the days of old, says Yahweh. +046:027 But don't be afraid you, Jacob my servant, neither be + dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, + and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob + shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall + make him afraid. +046:028 Don't be afraid you, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; for I + am with you: for I will make a full end of all the nations + where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, + but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way + leave you unpunished. +047:001 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning + the Philistines, before that Pharaoh struck Gaza. +047:002 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, + and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow + the land and all that is therein, the city and those who + dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants + of the land shall wail. +047:003 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, + at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, + the fathers don't look back to their children for + feebleness of hands; +047:004 because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, + to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains: + for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of + the isle of Caphtor. +047:005 Baldness is come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, + the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself? +047:006 You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you be quiet? + put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still. +047:007 How can you be quiet, seeing Yahweh has given you a charge? + Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has + he appointed it. +048:001 Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe to + Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, + it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down. +048:002 The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised + evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being + a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: + the sword shall pursue you. +048:003 The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction! +048:004 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. +048:005 For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; + for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress + of the cry of destruction. +048:006 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. +048:007 For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, + you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, + his priests and his princes together. +048:008 The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; + the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; + as Yahweh has spoken. +048:009 Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: + and her cities shall become a desolation, without any + to dwell therein. +048:010 Cursed be he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; + and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood. +048:011 Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled + on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, + neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste + remains in him, and his scent is not changed. +048:012 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will send + to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they + shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces. +048:013 Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was + ashamed of Bethel their confidence. +048:014 How say you, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war? +048:015 Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, + and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, + says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies. +048:016 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction + hurries fast. +048:017 All you who are round about him, bemoan him, and all you + who know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, + the beautiful rod! +048:018 You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, + and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab is come up + against you, he has destroyed your strongholds. +048:019 Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: + ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done? +048:020 Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; + tell you it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste. +048:021 Judgment is come on the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahzah, + and on Mephaath, +048:022 and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth Diblathaim, +048:023 and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth Meon, +048:024 and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land + of Moab, far or near. +048:025 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says Yahweh. +048:026 Make you him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh: + and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall + be in derision. +048:027 For wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? + for as often as you speak of him, you wag the head. +048:028 You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; + and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth + of the abyss. +048:029 We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; + his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the + haughtiness of his heart. +048:030 I know his wrath, says Yahweh, that it is nothing; his boastings + have worked nothing. +048:031 Therefore will I wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for all Moab: + for the men of Kir Heres shall they mourn. +048:032 With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, + vine of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea, + they reached even to the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits + and on your vintage the destroyer is fallen. +048:033 Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field + and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease + from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting; + the shouting shall be no shouting. +048:034 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz + have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, + to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also + shall become desolate. +048:035 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says Yahweh, + him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense + to his gods. +048:036 Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my + heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: + therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished. +048:037 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: + on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth. +048:038 On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets of it there is + lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel + in which none delights, says Yahweh. +048:039 How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab + turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision + and a terror to all who are round about him. +048:040 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, + and shall spread out his wings against Moab. +048:041 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart + of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart + of a woman in her pangs. +048:042 Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has + magnified himself against Yahweh. +048:043 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, inhabitant + of Moab, says Yahweh. +048:044 He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; + and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: + for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of + their visitation, says Yahweh. +048:045 Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; + for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from + the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, + and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. +048:046 Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons + are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity. +048:047 Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, + says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab. +049:001 Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel + no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, + and his people well in the cities of it? +049:002 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will cause + an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; + and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall + be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those who did + possess him, says Yahweh. +049:003 Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, + gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth + among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, + his priests and his princes together. +049:004 Why glory you in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding + daughter? who trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall + come to me? +049:005 Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, + from all who are round about you; and you shall be driven + out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather + together the fugitives. +049:006 But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children + of Ammon, says Yahweh. +049:007 Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Is wisdom no more in Teman? + is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? +049:008 Flee you, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; + for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I + shall visit him. +049:009 If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some + gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy + until they had enough? +049:010 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, + and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, + and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more. +049:011 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; + and let your widows trust in me. +049:012 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, they to whom it didn't pertain + to drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who + shall altogether go unpunished? you shall not go unpunished, + but you shall surely drink. +049:013 For I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, that Bozrah shall + become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; + and all the cities of it shall be perpetual wastes. +049:014 I have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent + among the nations, [saying], Gather yourselves together, + and come against her, and rise up to the battle. +049:015 For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, + and despised among men. +049:016 As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, + O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height + of the hill: though you should make your nest as high + as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh. +049:017 Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it + shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it. +049:018 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor + cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, + neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. +049:019 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan + against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run + away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: + for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is + the shepherd who will stand before me? +049:020 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken + against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against + the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, + [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make + their habitation desolate over them. +049:021 The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, + the noise which is heard in the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}. +049:022 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread + out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty + men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman + in her pangs. +049:023 Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard + evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; + it can't be quiet. +049:024 Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, + and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have + taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail. +049:025 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy? +049:026 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all + the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, + says Yahweh of Armies. +049:027 I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall + devour the palaces of Ben Hadad. +049:028 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar + king of Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh: Arise you, + go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east. +049:029 Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry + away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, + and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on every side! +049:030 Flee you, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants + of Hazor, says Yahweh; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken + counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you. +049:031 Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells + without care, says Yahweh; that have neither gates nor bars, + that dwell alone. +049:032 Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their + livestock a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who + have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring + their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh. +049:033 Hazor shall be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever: + no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of + man sojourn therein. +049:034 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, + in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, +049:035 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, + the chief of their might. +049:036 On Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters + of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds; + and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam + shall not come. +049:037 I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, + and before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil + on them, even my fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I will send + the sword after them, until I have consumed them; +049:038 and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there + king and princes, says Yahweh. +049:039 But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back + the captivity of Elam, says Yahweh. +050:001 The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land + of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet. +050:002 Declare you among the nations and publish, and set up + a standard; publish, and don't conceal: say, Babylon is taken, + Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images + are disappointed, her idols are dismayed. +050:003 For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, + which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: + they are fled, they are gone, both man and animal. +050:004 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children + of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; + they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek + Yahweh their God. +050:005 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned + toward it, [saying], Come you, and join yourselves to Yahweh + in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten. +050:006 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused + them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; + they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten + their resting place. +050:007 All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, + We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, + the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope + of their fathers. +050:008 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land + of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks. +050:009 For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon + a company of great nations from the north country; and they + shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall + be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; + none shall return in vain. +050:010 Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall + be satisfied, says Yahweh. +050:011 Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder + my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads + out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses; +050:012 your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall + be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, + a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. +050:013 Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, + but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon + shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. +050:014 Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, + all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: + for she has sinned against Yahweh. +050:015 Shout against her round about: she has submitted herself; + her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; + for it is the vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance on her; + as she has done, do to her. +050:016 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle + in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword + they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee + everyone to his own land. +050:017 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: + first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last + Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones. +050:018 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I + will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished + the king of Assyria. +050:019 I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed + on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on + the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. +050:020 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity + of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; + and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: + for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant. +050:021 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against + the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them, + says Yahweh, and do according to all that I have commanded you. +050:022 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. +050:023 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! + how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! +050:024 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, + and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, + because you have striven against Yahweh. +050:025 Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons + of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work + [to do] in the land of the Chaldeans. +050:026 Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses; + cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing + of her be left. +050:027 Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: + woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. +050:028 The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land + of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, + the vengeance of his temple. +050:029 Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend + the bow; encamp against her round about; let none of it escape: + recompense her according to her work; according to all that she + has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, + against the Holy One of Israel. +050:030 Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men + of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh. +050:031 Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh + of Armies; for your day is come, the time that I will visit you. +050:032 The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; + and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour + all who are round about him. +050:033 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the + children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took + them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go. +050:034 Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Armies is his name: + he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest + to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. +050:035 A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants + of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men. +050:036 A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; + a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed. +050:037 A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, + and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; + and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, + and they shall be robbed. +050:038 A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; + for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols. +050:039 Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves + shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: + and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it + be lived in from generation to generation. +050:040 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor + cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, + neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. +050:041 Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation + and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts + of the earth. +050:042 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; + their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, + everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, + daughter of Babylon. +050:043 The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands + wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, [and] pangs + as of a woman in travail. +050:044 Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from + the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: + for I will suddenly make them run away from it; + and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: + for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is + the shepherd who can stand before me? +050:045 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken + against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against + the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, + [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make + their habitation desolate over them. +050:046 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, + and the cry is heard among the nations. +051:001 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, + and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind. +051:002 I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; + and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble + they shall be against her round about. +051:003 Against [him who] bends let the archer bend his bow, + and against [him who] lifts himself up in his coat of mail: + and don't you spare her young men; destroy you utterly + all her army. +051:004 They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, + and thrust through in her streets. +051:005 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh + of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against + the Holy One of Israel. +051:006 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; + don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time + of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense. +051:007 Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made + all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; + therefore the nations are mad. +051:008 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; + take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. +051:009 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: + forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country; + for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even + to the skies. +051:010 Yahweh has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us + declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God. +051:011 Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: + Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; + because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: + for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple. +051:012 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the + watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; + for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke + concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. +051:013 You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end + is come, the measure of your covetousness. +051:014 Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I + will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they + shall lift up a shout against you. +051:015 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world + by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched + out the heavens: +051:016 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, + and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; + he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind + out of his treasuries. +051:017 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; + every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten + image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. +051:018 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their + visitation they shall perish. +051:019 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former + of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance: + Yahweh of Armies is his name. +051:020 You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I + break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms; +051:021 and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; +051:022 and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who + rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; + and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; + and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin; +051:023 and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; + and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his + yoke [of oxen]; and with you will I break in pieces + governors and deputies. +051:024 I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea + all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, + says Yahweh. +051:025 Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh, + which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand + on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you + a burnt mountain. +051:026 They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone + for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh. +051:027 Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among + the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together + against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: + appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up + as the rough canker worm. +051:028 Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, + the governors of it, and all the deputies of it, and all + the land of their dominion. +051:029 The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh + against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon + a desolation, without inhabitant. +051:030 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, + they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; + they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire; + her bars are broken. +051:031 One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger + to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city + is taken on every quarter: +051:032 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned + with fire, and the men of war are frightened. +051:033 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: The daughter + of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it + is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall + come for her. +051:034 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has + crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, + swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; + he has cast me out. +051:035 The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, + shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on + the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. +051:036 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, + and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, + and make her fountain dry. +051:037 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, + an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. +051:038 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl + as lions' cubs. +051:039 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make + them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, + and not wake, says Yahweh. +051:040 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams + with male goats. +051:041 How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! + how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! +051:042 The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude + of the waves of it. +051:043 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, + a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of + man pass thereby. +051:044 I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring + forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; + and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall + of Babylon shall fall. +051:045 My people, go you out of the midst of her, and save yourselves + every man from the fierce anger of Yahweh. +051:046 Don't let your heart faint, neither fear for the news that + shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, + and after that in another year [shall come] news, and violence + in the land, ruler against ruler. +051:047 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment + on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall + be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. +051:048 Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, + shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall + come to her from the north, says Yahweh. +051:049 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon + shall fall the slain of all the land. +051:050 You who have escaped the sword, go you, don't stand still; + remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. +051:051 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has + covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries + of Yahweh's house. +051:052 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will + execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her + land the wounded shall groan. +051:053 Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she + should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall + destroyers come to her, says Yahweh. +051:054 The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction + from the land of the Chaldeans! +051:055 For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her + the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; + the noise of their voice is uttered: +051:056 for the destroyer is come on her, even on Babylon, and her + mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; + for Yahweh is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite. +051:057 I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors + and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep + a perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose name + is Yahweh of Armies. +051:058 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon + shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be + burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, + and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary. +051:059 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son + of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah + the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. + Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster. +051:060 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, + even all these words that are written concerning Babylon. +051:061 Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then see + that you read all these words, +051:062 and say, Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut + it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, + but that it shall be desolate forever. +051:063 It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, + that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst + of the Euphrates: +051:064 and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not + rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; + and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. +052:001 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. +052:002 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to + all that Jehoiakim had done. +052:003 For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem + and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. + Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. +052:004 It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, + in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king + of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, + and encamped against it; and they built forts against + it round about. +052:005 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. +052:006 In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine + was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people + of the land. +052:007 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, + and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate + between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; + (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about;) + and they went toward the Arabah. +052:008 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, + and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his + army was scattered from him. +052:009 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king + of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave + judgment on him. +052:010 The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: + he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. +052:011 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon + bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put + him in prison until the day of his death. +052:012 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, + which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, + king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, + who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem: +052:013 and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; + and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, + burned he with fire. +052:014 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of + the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. +052:015 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive + of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people + who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell + to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude. +052:016 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest + of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers. +052:017 The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, + and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, + did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the brass + of them to Babylon. +052:018 The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, + and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which + they ministered, took they away. +052:019 The cups, and the fire pans, and the basins, and the pots, + and the lampstands, and the spoons, and the bowls-- + that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, + in silver,--the captain of the guard took away. +052:020 The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls + that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made + for the house of Yahweh. The brass of all these vessels + was without weight. +052:021 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was + eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; + and the thickness of it was four fingers: it was hollow. +052:022 A capital of brass was on it; and the height of the one capital + was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital + round about, all of brass: and the second pillar also had + like these, and pomegranates. +052:023 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the + pomegranates were one hundred on the network round about. +052:024 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, + and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers + of the threshold: +052:025 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men + of war; and seven men of those who saw the king's face, + who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain + of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty + men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst + of the city. +052:026 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought + them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. +052:027 The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah + in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive + out of his land. +052:028 This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: + in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews; +052:029 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away + captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons; +052:030 in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan + the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews + seven hundred forty-five persons: all the persons were four + thousand and six hundred. +052:031 It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity + of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, + in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach + king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted up + the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth + out of prison; +052:032 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne + of the kings who were with him in Babylon, +052:033 and changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin] ate bread + before him continually all the days of his life: +052:034 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given + him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day + of his death, all the days of his life. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): JEREMIAH *** + +This file should be named 8251.txt or 8251.zip + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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