Jeremiah 1
1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests
that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: 2 To whom the word of the LORD
came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth
year of his reign. 3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah
king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 5 Before I formed thee in the
belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified
thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. 6 Then said I, Ah, Lord
GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. 7 But the LORD said unto me, Say
not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and
whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. 8 Be not afraid of their faces: for
I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. 9 Then the LORD put forth his
hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my
words in thy mouth. 10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over
the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down,
to build, and to plant. 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. 12 Then
said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to
perform it. 13 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is
toward the north. 14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall
break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. 15 For, lo, I will call all
the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come,
and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of
Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the
cities of Judah. 16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all
their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other
gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. 17 Thou therefore gird up
thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not
dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them. 18 For, behold, I
have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls
against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes
thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. 19
And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for
I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
Jeremiah 2
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Go and
cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the
kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me
in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. 3 Israel was holiness unto the
LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend;
evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD. 4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O
house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: 5 Thus saith the
LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from
me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? 6 Neither said they,
Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us
through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land
of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed
through, and where no man dwelt? 7 And I brought you into a plentiful country,
to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye
defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. 8 The priests said not,
Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also
transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after
things that do not profit. 9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the
LORD, and with your children's children will I plead. 10 For pass over the
isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and
see if there be such a thing. 11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are
yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not
profit. 12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye
very desolate, saith the LORD. 13 For my people have committed two evils; they
have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns,
broken cisterns, that can hold no water. 14 Is Israel a servant? is he a
homeborn slave? why is he spoiled? 15 The young lions roared upon him, and
yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the
LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? 18 And now what hast thou to do in
the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the
way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? 19 Thine own wickedness shall
correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see
that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God,
and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. 20 For of old
time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not
transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou
wanderest, playing the harlot. 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a
right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange
vine unto me? 22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap,
yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD. 23 How canst thou
say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the
valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her
ways; 24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her
pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will
not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her. 25 Withhold thy foot
from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no
hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go. 26 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. 27 Saying to a
stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they
have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their
trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. 28 But where are thy gods that thou
hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy
trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah. 29
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the
LORD. 30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction:
your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. 31 O
generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?
a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more
unto thee? 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my
people have forgotten me days without number. 33 Why trimmest thou thy way to
seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. 34 Also in
thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not
found it by secret search, but upon all these. 35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am
innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee,
because thou sayest, I have not sinned. 36 Why gaddest thou about so much to
change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of
Assyria. 37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head:
for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
Jeremiah 3
1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him,
and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land
be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet
return again to me, saith the LORD. 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places,
and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them,
as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy
whoredoms and with thy wickedness. 3 Therefore the showers have been
withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's
forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed. 4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto
me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth? 5 Will he reserve his anger for
ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things
as thou couldest. 6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king,
Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon
every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the
harlot. 7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me.
But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8 And I saw,
when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put
her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah
feared not, but went and played the harlot also. 9 And it came to pass through
the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed
adultery with stones and with stocks. 10 And yet for all this her treacherous
sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith
the LORD. 11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified
herself more than treacherous Judah. 12 Go and proclaim these words toward the
north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not
cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I
will not keep anger for ever. 13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou
hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the
strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the
LORD. 14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto
you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring
you to Zion: 15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which
shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. 16 And it shall come to pass,
when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD,
they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it
come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it;
neither shall that be done any more. 17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem
the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the
name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the
imagination of their evil heart. 18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk
with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the
north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers. 19
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant
land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call
me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me. 20 Surely as a wife
treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with
me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. 21 A voice was heard upon the high
places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have
perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God. 22 Return, ye
backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee;
for thou art the LORD our God. 23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the
hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the
salvation of Israel. 24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from
our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 We
lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned
against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this
day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah 4
1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto
me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt
thou not remove. 2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in
judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him,
and in him shall they glory. 3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and
Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. 4 Circumcise
yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of
Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn
that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. 5 Declare ye in
Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry,
gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced
cities. 6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring
evil from the north, and a great destruction. 7 The lion is come up from his
thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from
his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste,
without an inhabitant. 8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for
the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. 9 And it shall come to
pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and
the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets
shall wonder. 10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived
this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword
reacheth unto the soul. 11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to
Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter
of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse, 12 Even a full wind from those places
shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them. 13 Behold, he
shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses
are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled. 14 O Jerusalem, wash
thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain
thoughts lodge within thee? 15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth
affliction from mount Ephraim. 16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold,
publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out
their voice against the cities of Judah. 17 As keepers of a field, are they
against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the
LORD. 18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is
thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart. 19
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in
me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of
the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for
the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a
moment. 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the
trumpet? 22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish
children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do
good they have no knowledge. 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without
form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. 24 I beheld the
mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. 25 I
beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities
thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I
not make a full end. 28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above
be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent,
neither will I turn back from it. 29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of
the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the
rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein. 30 And when
thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson,
though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face
with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise
thee, they will seek thy life. 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in
travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the
voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her
hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers
.Jeremiah 5
1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and
see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man,
if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will
pardon it. 2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. 3
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they
have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive
correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to
return. 4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they
know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. 5 I will get me
unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of
the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the
yoke, and burst the bonds. 6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay
them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over
their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because
their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased. 7 How
shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them
that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed
adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. 8 They
were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's
wife. 9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my
soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 10 Go ye up upon her walls, and
destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not
the LORD's. 11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
treacherously against me, saith the LORD. 12 They have belied the LORD, and
said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword
nor famine: 13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them:
thus shall it be done unto them. 14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts,
Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and
this people wood, and it shall devour them. 15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon
you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is
an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither
understandest what they say. 16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are
all mighty men. 17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which
thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine
herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy
fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword. 18 Nevertheless in those
days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you. 19 And it shall come
to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto
us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served
strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not
your's. 20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes,
and see not; which have ears, and hear not: 22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD:
will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of
the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves
thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can
they not pass over it? 23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious
heart; they are revolted and gone. 24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us
now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in
his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. 25 Your
iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good
things from you. 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as
he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full
of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great,
and waxen rich. 28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds
of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they
prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. 29 Shall I not visit for
these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as
this? 30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; 31 The
prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my
people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Jeremiah 6
1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out
of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of
fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great
destruction. 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate
woman. 3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch
their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place. 4
Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for
the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. 5 Arise,
and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces. 6 For thus hath the
LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this
is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her. 7 As a
fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence
and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds. 8 Be thou
instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee
desolate, a land not inhabited. 9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall
throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a
grapegatherer into the baskets. 10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning,
that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot
hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no
delight in it. 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with
holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly
of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the
aged with him that is full of days. 12 And their houses shall be turned unto
others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand
upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. 13 For from the least of them
even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the
prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. 14 They have healed
also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when
there is no peace. 15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they
shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be
cast down, saith the LORD. 16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and
see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye
shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. 17
Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But
they said, We will not hearken. 18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O
congregation, what is among them. 19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil
upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not
hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it. 20 To what purpose
cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country?
your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. 21
Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this
people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the
neighbour and his friend shall perish. 22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people
cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the
sides of the earth. 23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel,
and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses,
set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion. 24 We have heard
the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and
pain, as of a woman in travail. 25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the
way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side. 26 O daughter of my
people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee
mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall
suddenly come upon us. 27 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my
people, that thou mayest know and try their way. 28 They are all grievous
revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all
corrupters. 29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the
founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. 30 Reprobate
silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.إ
Jeremiah 7
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2
Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say,
Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to
worship the LORD. 3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your
ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Trust ye
not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The
temple of the LORD, are these. 5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your
doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; 6 If
ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not
innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: 7
Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your
fathers, for ever and ever. 8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot
profit. 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and
burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10 And come
and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are
delivered to do all these abominations? 11 Is this house, which is called by my
name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith
the LORD. 12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my
name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people
Israel. 13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I
spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called
you, but ye answered not; 14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is
called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and
to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. 15 And I will cast you out of my
sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim. 16
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for
them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee. 17 Seest thou
not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The
children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead
their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink
offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. 19 Do they
provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the
confusion of their own faces? 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon
beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and
it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. 21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. 22
For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought
them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 But
this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and
ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you,
that it may be well unto you. 24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their
ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and
went backward, and not forward. 25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out
of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants
the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: 26 Yet they hearkened not
unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than
their fathers. 27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but
they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will
not answer thee. 28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth
not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is
perished, and is cut off from their mouth. 29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem,
and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath
rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. 30 For the children of Judah
have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in
the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. 31 And they have built the
high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn
their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither
came it into my heart. 32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD,
that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom,
but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no
place. 33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the
heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. 34 Then
will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of
Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate
.Jeremiah 8
1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the
bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the
priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, out of their graves: 2 And they shall spread them before the sun,
and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they
have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and
whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they
shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. 3 And death shall be chosen
rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family,
which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of
hosts. 4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they
fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? 5 Why then is this
people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast
deceit, they refuse to return. 6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not
aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every
one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. 7 Yea, the
stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane
and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the
judgment of the LORD. 8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is
with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. 9
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected
the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them? 10 Therefore will I give
their wives unto others, and thir fields to them that shall inherit them: for
every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from
the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. 11 For they have
healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace;
when there is no peace. 12 Were they ashamed when they had committed
abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:
therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation
they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. 13 I will surely consume them, saith
the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and
the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from
them. 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the
defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us
to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against
the LORD. 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health,
and behold trouble! 16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole
land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are
come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those
that dwell therein. 17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among
you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. 18
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. 19 Behold
the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in
a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they
provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? 20
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. 21 For the hurt
of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken
hold on me. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why
then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Jeremiah 9
1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of
tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my
people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men;
that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an
assembly of treacherous men. 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for
lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed
from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. 4 Take ye heed every
one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will
utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. 5 And they will
deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught
their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. 6 Thine
habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me,
saith the LORD. 7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt
them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? 8 Their
tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to
his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. 9 Shall I not
visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on
such a nation as this? 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and
wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they
are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the
voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they
are gone. 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make
the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. 12 Who is the wise man,
that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath
spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up
like a wilderness, that none passeth through? 13 And the LORD saith, Because
they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my
voice, neither walked therein; 14 But have walked after the imagination of
their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: 15
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed
them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. 16
I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers
have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. 17
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women,
that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: 18 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. 19 For a voice of wailing is heard
out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have
forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. 20 Yet hear the word
of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and
teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. 21 For
death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off
the children from without, and the young men from the streets. 22 Speak, Thus
saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open
field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them. 23
Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the
mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: 24 But
let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that
I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in
the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD. 25 Behold, the days
come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with
the uncircumcised; 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon,
and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness:
for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are
uncircumcised in the heart.
Jeremiah 10
1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house
of Israel: 2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not
dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For
the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest,
the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver
and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne,
because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither
also is it in them to do good. 6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O
LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. 7 Who would not fear
thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all
the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto
thee. 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of
vanities. 9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from
Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and
purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men. 10 But the LORD
is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the
earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his
indignation. 11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the
heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under
these heavens. 12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the
world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. 13
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and
he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh
lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. 14
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the
graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in
them. 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their
visitation they shall perish. 16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he
is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD
of hosts is his name. 17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of
the fortress. 18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the
inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may
find it so. 19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly
this is a grief, and I must bear it. 20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my
cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is
none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. 21 For the
pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall
not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. 22 Behold, the noise of
the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the
cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons. 23 O LORD, I know that the way
of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. 24
O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me
to nothing. 25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon
the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and
devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Jeremiah 11
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying, 2
Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem; 3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant, 4 Which
I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land
of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according
to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God: 5
That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them
a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and
said, So be it, O LORD. 6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words
in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the
words of this covenant, and do them. 7 For I earnestly protested unto your
fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto
this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. 8 Yet they obeyed
not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their
evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant,
which I commanded them to do: but they did them not. 9 And the LORD said unto
me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of
Jerusalem. 10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers,
which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them:
the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made
with their fathers. 11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil
upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry
unto me, I will not hearken unto them. 12 Then shall the cities of Judah and
inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer
incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble. 13
For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according
to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that
shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal. 14 Therefore pray not
thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not
hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble. 15 What hath my
beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and
the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit:
with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches
of it are broken. 17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced
evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of
Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in
offering incense unto Baal. 18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and
I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings. 19 But I was like a lamb or an
ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised
devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and
let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more
remembered. 20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the
reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I
revealed my cause. 21 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth,
that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die
not by our hand: 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will
punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their
daughters shall die by famine: 23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I
will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
Jeremiah 12
1 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet
let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked
prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? 2 Thou hast
planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth
fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins. 3 But thou, O
LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull
them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of
slaughter. 4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field
wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed,
and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end. 5 If thou hast
run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend
with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied
thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? 6 For even thy brethren,
and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea,
they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak
fair words unto thee. 7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage;
I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. 8 Mine
heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me:
therefore have I hated it. 9 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the
birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the
field, come to devour. 10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have
trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate
wilderness. 11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto
me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart. 12 The
spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of
the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the
land: no flesh shall have peace. 13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap
thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall
be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD. 14 Thus
saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance
which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out
of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them. 15 And it
shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have
compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and
every man to his land. 16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently
learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they
taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my
people. 17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that
nation, saith the LORD.إ
Jeremiah 13
1 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen
girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. 2 So I got a girdle
according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins. 3 And the word of
the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, 4 Take the girdle that thou hast
got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in
a hole of the rock. 5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded
me. 6 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise,
go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to
hide there. 7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from
the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was
profitable for nothing. 8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 9
Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the
great pride of Jerusalem. 10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words,
which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to
serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good
for nothing. 11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I
caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of
Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name,
and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear. 12 Therefore thou
shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every
bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not
certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? 13 Then shalt thou
say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of
this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and
the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. 14 And I
will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,
saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken. 16 Give glory
to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble
upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the
shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. 17 But if ye will not hear it, my
soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore,
and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive. 18
Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your
principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. 19 The cities of
the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried
away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive. 20 Lift up
your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that
was given thee, thy beautiful flock? 21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish
thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall
not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail? 22 And if thou say in thine
heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity
are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare. 23 Can the Ethiopian change
his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are
accustomed to do evil. 24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that
passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. 25 This is thy lot, the portion of
thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and
trusted in falsehood. 26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face,
that thy shame may appear. 27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings,
the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the
fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it
once be?
Jeremiah 14
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the
dearth. 2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto
the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 3 And their nobles have sent
their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water;
they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and
covered their heads. 4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in
the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. 5 Yea, the hind
also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass. 6 And the
wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons;
their eyes did fail, because there was no grass. 7 O LORD, though our
iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our
backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. 8 O the hope of Israel, the
saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the
land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night? 9 Why
shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet
thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us
not. 10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander,
they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he
will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. 11 Then said the LORD
unto me, Pray not for this people for their good. 12 When they fast, I will not
hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not
accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by
the pestilence. 13 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them,
Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you
assured peace in this place. 14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets
prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them,
neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination,
and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart. 15 Therefore thus saith
the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not,
yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine
shall those prophets be consumed. 16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall
be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword;
and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor
their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them. 17 Therefore thou
shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day,
and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a
great breach, with a very grievous blow. 18 If I go forth into the field, then
behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them
that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a
land that they know not. 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul
lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we
looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold
trouble! 20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our
fathers: for we have sinned against thee. 21 Do not abhor us, for thy name's
sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant
with us. 22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause
rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God?
therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
Jeremiah 15
1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood
before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my
sight, and let them go forth. 2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto
thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the
LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the
sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the
captivity, to the captivity. 3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith
the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven,
and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. 4 And I will cause them to
be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of
Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. 5 For who shall
have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go
aside to ask how thou doest? 6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art
gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy
thee; I am weary with repenting. 7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates
of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since
they return not from their ways. 8 Their widows are increased to me above the
sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men
a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors
upon the city. 9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the
ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and
confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their
enemies, saith the LORD. 10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man
of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on
usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause
the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of
affliction. 12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? 13 Thy substance
and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy
sins, even in all thy borders. 14 And I will make thee to pass with thine
enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine
anger, which shall burn upon you. 15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and
visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy
longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. 16 Thy words were
found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of
mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. 17 I sat not in
the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for
thou hast filled me with indignation. 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound
incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a
liar, and as waters that fail? 19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou
return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if
thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them
return unto thee; but return not thou unto them. 20 And I will make thee unto
this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they
shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver
thee, saith the LORD. 21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked,
and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
Jeremiah 16
1 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying, 2 Thou
shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this
place. 3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the
daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare
them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land; 4 They shall
die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be
buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be
consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the
fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. 5 For thus saith the LORD,
Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for
I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even
lovingkindness and mercies. 6 Both the great and the small shall die in this
land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut
themselves, nor make themselves bald for them: 7 Neither shall men tear
themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall
men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their
mother. 8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them
to eat and to drink. 9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,
I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the
voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the
voice of the bride. 10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this
people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD
pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is
our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God? 11 Then shalt thou say
unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have
walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and
have forsaken me, and have not kept my law; 12 And ye have done worse than your
fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil
heart, that they may not hearken unto me: 13 Therefore will I cast you out of
this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there
shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour. 14
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be
said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land
of Egypt; 15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from
the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I
will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. 16
Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them;
and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every
mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. 17 For mine
eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their
iniquity hid from mine eyes. 18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and
their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine
inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things. 19 O
LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the
Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely
our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? 21 Therefore,
behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine
hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.
Jeremiah 17
1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with
the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon
the horns of your altars; 2 Whilst their children remember their altars and
their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. 3 O my mountain in the
field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy
high places for sin, throughout all thy borders. 4 And thou, even thyself,
shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee
to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled
a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever. 5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed
be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart
departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and
shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the
wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man that
trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 8 For he shall be as a tree
planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall
not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful
in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. 9 The heart is
deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the
LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his
ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. 11 As the partridge sitteth on
eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall
leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. 12 A
glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. 13 O
LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that
depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the
LORD, the fountain of living waters. 14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed;
save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. 15 Behold, they say unto
me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now. 16 As for me, I have not
hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful
day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee. 17 Be
not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil. 18 Let them be
confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be
dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and
destroy them with double destruction. 19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and
stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah
come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; 20
And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all
Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: 21
Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath
day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; 22 Neither carry forth a burden
out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye
the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. 23 But they obeyed not, neither
inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor
receive instruction. 24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken
unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city
on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein; 25 Then
shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon
the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes,
the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain
for ever. 26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places
about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from
the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices,
and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the
house of the LORD. 27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath
day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on
the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall
devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
Jeremiah 18
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear
my words. 3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a
work on the wheels. 4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the
hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the
potter to make it. 5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 6 O house of
Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the
clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel. 7 At what
instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck
up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; 8 If that nation, against whom I have
pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to
do unto them. 9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; 10 If it do evil in my sight,
that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I
would benefit them. 11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil
against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his
evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. 12 And they said, There is
no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the
imagination of his evil heart. 13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now
among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a
very horrible thing. 14 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from
the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another
place be forsaken? 15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned
incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the
ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up; 16 To make their land
desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be
astonished, and wag his head. 17 I will scatter them as with an east wind
before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of
their calamity. 18 Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against
Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the
wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the
tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. 19 Give heed to me, O
LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. 20 Shall evil be
recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I
stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood
by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children,
and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain
by the sword in battle. 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou
shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me,
and hid snares for my feet. 23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel
against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin
from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in
the time of thine anger.
Jeremiah 19
1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle,
and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; 2
And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the
east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee, 3 And say, Hear
ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus
saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this
place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. 4 Because they have
forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto
other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of
Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents; 5 They have
built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt
offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into
my mind: 6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place
shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The
valley of slaughter. 7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem
in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies,
and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give
to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. 8 And
I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby
shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. 9 And I will
cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and
they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness,
wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break
this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be
made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to
bury. 12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants
thereof, and even make this city as Tophet: 13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and
the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet,
because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all
the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods. 14
Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and
he stood in the court of the LORD's house; and said to all the people, 15 Thus
saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city
and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because
they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
Jeremiah 20
1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief
governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were
in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD. 3 And it came
to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks.
Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but
Magormissabib. 4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to
thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their
enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand
of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall
slay them with the sword. 5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this
city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all
the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies,
which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. 6 And thou,
Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou
shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there,
thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies. 7 O LORD, thou
hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and hast
prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. 8 For since I spake, I
cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a
reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. 9 Then I said, I will not make mention
of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a
burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could
not stay. 10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say
they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying,
Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall
take our revenge on him. 11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one:
therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall
be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion
shall never be forgotten. 12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous,
and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto
thee have I opened my cause. 13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he
hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers. 14 Cursed be
the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be
blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man
child is born unto thee; making him very glad. 16 And let that man be as the
cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in
the morning, and the shouting at noontide; 17 Because he slew me not from the
womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always
great with me. 18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and
sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Jeremiah 21
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king
Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of
Maaseiah the priest, saying, 2 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD
will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from
us. 3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: 4 Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in
your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the
Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into
the midst of this city. 5 And I myself will fight against you with an
outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in
great wrath. 6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and
beast: they shall die of a great pestilence. 7 And afterward, saith the LORD, I
will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such
as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the
famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of
their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall
smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have
pity, nor have mercy. 8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the
LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. 9 He that
abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege
you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey. 10 For I have
set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it
shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with
fire. 11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of
the LORD; 12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the
morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest
my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil
of your doings. 13 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and
rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or
who shall enter into our habitations? 14 But I will punish you according to the
fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest
thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
Jeremiah 22
1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of
Judah, and speak there this word, 2 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king
of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and
thy people that enter in by these gates: 3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye
judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the
oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor
the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. 4 For if ye do this thing
indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon
the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants,
and his people. 5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith
the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation. 6 For thus saith the LORD
unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of
Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not
inhabited. 7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his
weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the
fire. 8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man
to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city? 9
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD
their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. 10 Weep ye not for the
dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall
return no more, nor see his native country. 11 For thus saith the LORD touching
Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his
father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any
more: 12 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and
shall see this land no more. 13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by
unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service
without wages, and giveth him not for his work; 14 That saith, I will build me
a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled
with cedar, and painted with vermilion. 15 Shalt thou reign, because thou
closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and
justice, and then it was well with him? 16 He judged the cause of the poor and
needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD. 17
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to
shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. 18
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister!
they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! 19 He shall
be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of
Jerusalem. 20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and
cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed. 21 I spake unto thee
in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner
from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. 22 The wind shall eat up all
thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be
ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. 23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that
makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon
thee, the pain as of a woman in travail! 24 As I live, saith the LORD, though
Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand,
yet would I pluck thee thence; 25 And I will give thee into the hand of them
that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even
into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the
Chaldeans. 26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into
another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die. 27 But to the
land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return. 28 Is this
man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure?
wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which
they know not? 29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. 30 Thus
saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in
his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of
David, and ruling any more in Judah
.Jeremiah 23
1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep
of my pasture! saith the LORD. 2 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel
against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven
them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of
your doings, saith the LORD. 3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of
all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their
folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. 4 And I will set up shepherds
over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed,
neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD. 5 Behold, the days come, saith
the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall
reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. 6 In
his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his
name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 7 Therefore,
behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD
liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 8
But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of
Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven
them; and they shall dwell in their own land. 9 Mine heart within me is broken
because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like
a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of
his holiness. 10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing
the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and
their course is evil, and their force is not right. 11 For both prophet and
priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the
LORD. 12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the
darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon
them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. 13 And I have seen
folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people
Israel to err. 14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible
thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands
of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness; they are all of them
unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. 15 Therefore thus
saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with
wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of
Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. 16 Thus saith the LORD
of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you:
they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the
mouth of the LORD. 17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath
said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the
imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. 18 For who hath
stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who
hath marked his word, and heard it? 19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone
forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the
head of the wicked. 20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have
executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter
days ye shall consider it perfectly. 21 I have not sent these prophets, yet
they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. 22 But if they had
stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should
have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. 23 Am
I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? 24 Can any hide
himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I
fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. 25 I have heard what the prophets said,
that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. 26 How
long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they
are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; 27 Which think to cause my
people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his
neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. 28 The prophet
that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak
my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. 29 Is not
my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the
rock in pieces? 30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the
LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. 31 Behold, I am against
the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. 32
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do
tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness;
yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this
people at all, saith the LORD. 33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a
priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then
say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD. 34 And as
for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of
the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house. 35 Thus shall ye say every
one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD
answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken? 36 And the burden of the LORD shall
ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have
perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God. 37 Thus
shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath
the LORD spoken? 38 But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus
saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have
sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD; 39 Therefore,
behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the
city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence: 40 And
I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which
shall not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 24
1 The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were
set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the
princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had
brought them to Babylon. 2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs
that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could
not be eaten, they were so bad. 3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou,
Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil,
that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. 4 Again the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying, 5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so
will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have
sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good. 6 For I
will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this
land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and
not pluck them up. 7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the
LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall
return unto me with their whole heart. 8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be
eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah
the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain
in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt: 9 And I will deliver
them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a
reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive
them. 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them,
till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their
fathers.
Jeremiah 25
1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people
of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that
was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; 2 The which Jeremiah the
prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, saying, 3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of
Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of
the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and
speaking; but ye have not hearkened. 4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his
servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not
hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear. 5 They said, Turn ye again now every
one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land
that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever: 6 And
go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not
to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. 7 Yet ye have
not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with
the works of your hands to your own hurt. 8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Because ye have not heard my words, 9 Behold, I will send and take all
the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of
Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the
inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will
utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and
perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth,
and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the
bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. 11 And this
whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall
serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 And it shall come to pass, when
seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and
that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans,
and will make it perpetual desolations. 13 And I will bring upon that land all
my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this
book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations. 14 For many
nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will
recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their
own hands. 15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup
of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to
drink it. 16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the
sword that I will send among them. 17 Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand,
and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me: 18 To wit,
Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes
thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse;
as it is this day; 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes,
and all his people; 20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the
land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and
Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, 21 Edom, and Moab, and the
children of Ammon, 22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon,
and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea, 23 Dedan, and Tema, and
Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners, 24 And all the kings of Arabia,
and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert, 25 And all
the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the
kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach
shall drink after them. 27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall,
and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. 28 And it
shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt
thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink. 29
For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and
should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call
for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts. 30
Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The
LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he
shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that
tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. 31 A noise shall
come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the
nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the
sword, saith the LORD. 32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go
forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the
coasts of the earth. 33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one
end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be
lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground. 34
Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal
of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are
accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel. 35 And the shepherds
shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape. 36 A voice
of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock,
shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture. 37 And the peaceable
habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD. 38 He hath
forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the
fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
Jeremiah 26
1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying, 2 Thus saith the
LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak unto all the cities of
Judah, which come to worship in the LORD's house, all the words that I command
thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word: 3 If so be they will hearken, and
turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I
purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings. 4 And thou shalt
say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my
law, which I have set before you, 5 To hearken to the words of my servants the
prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye
have not hearkened; 6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make
this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. 7 So the priests and the
prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of
the LORD. 8 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all
that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests
and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die. 9
Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be
like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the
people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD. 10 When the
princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house
unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the
LORD's house. 11 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and
to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied
against this city, as ye have heard with your ears. 12 Then spake Jeremiah unto
all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy
against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard. 13
Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD
your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced
against you. 14 As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth
good and meet unto you. 15 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death,
ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and
upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to
speak all these words in your ears. 16 Then said the princes and all the people
unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he
hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God. 17 Then rose up certain of
the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying, 18
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and
spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall
be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of
the house as the high places of a forest. 19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all
Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD,
and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them?
Thus might we procure great evil against our souls. 20 And there was also a man
that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of
Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according
to all the words of Jeremiah. 21 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his
mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to
death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of
Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt. 23 And they fetched forth Urijah
out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the
sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people. 24
Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they
should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
Jeremiah 27
1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2 Thus
saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, 3
And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of
the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand
of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah; 4 And
command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters; 5 I have made the earth, the
man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my
outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me. 6 And now
have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve
him. 7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until
the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall
serve themselves of him. 8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and
kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and
that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation
will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with
the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand. 9 Therefore hearken not
ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your
enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not
serve the king of Babylon: 10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you
far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish. 11
But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,
and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD;
and they shall till it, and dwell therein. 12 I spake also to Zedekiah king of
Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the
king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live. 13 Why will ye die,
thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the
LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? 14
Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you,
saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto
you. 15 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my
name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the
prophets that prophesy unto you. 16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this
people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets
that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall
now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you. 17
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should
this city be laid waste? 18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of the
LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that
the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the
king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon. 19 For thus saith the LORD
of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the
bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city. 20
Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive
Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all
the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; 21 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and
in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem; 22 They shall be carried to
Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the
LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.
Jeremiah 28
1 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the
reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month,
that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me
in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people,
saying, 2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have
broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. 3 Within two full years will I bring
again into this place all the vessels of the LORD's house, that Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon: 4 And I
will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah,
with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I
will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. 5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said
unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence
of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD, 6 Even the prophet
Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast
prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD's house, and all that is
carried away captive, from Babylon into this place. 7 Nevertheless hear thou
now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people; 8
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against
many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of
pestilence. 9 The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the
prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath
truly sent him. 10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet
Jeremiah's neck, and brake it. 11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the
people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of
two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way. 12 Then the word of the
LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken
the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, 13 Go and tell
Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but
thou shalt make for them yokes of iron. 14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these
nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall
serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also. 15 Then said the
prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath
not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie. 16 Therefore thus
saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this
year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD. 17 So
Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
Jeremiah 29
1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the
prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried
away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people
whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon; 2
(After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of
Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from
Jerusalem;) 3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of
Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon) saying, 4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all
that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from
Jerusalem unto Babylon; 5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant
gardens, and eat the fruit of them; 6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and
daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands,
that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not
diminished. 7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be
carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof
shall ye have peace. 8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let
not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you,
neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. 9 For they
prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD. 10
For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I
will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return
to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the
LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 12 Then
shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken
unto you. 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me
with all your heart. 14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will
turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from
all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you
again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive. 15 Because
ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon; 16 Know that thus
saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all
the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth
with you into captivity; 17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send
upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like
vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. 18 And I will persecute them
with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them
to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an
astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I
have driven them: 19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the
LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and
sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD. 20 Hear ye therefore the
word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to
Babylon: 21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of
Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in
my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes; 22 And of them shall be taken
up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD
make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the
fire; 23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed
adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name,
which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
24 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying, 25 Thus
speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent
letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah
the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying, 26 The LORD
hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be
officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh
himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks. 27
Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh
himself a prophet to you? 28 For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying,
This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens,
and eat the fruit of them. 29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the
ears of Jeremiah the prophet. 30 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah,
saying, 31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD
concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto
you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie: 32 Therefore thus
saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he
shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the
good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught
rebellion against the LORD.
Jeremiah 30
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2
Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I
have spoken unto thee in a book. 3 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that
I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD:
and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and
they shall possess it. 4 And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning
Israel and concerning Judah. 5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice
of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. 6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man
doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his
loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? 7 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. 8 For it shall come to pass in that
day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and
will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: 9
But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will
raise up unto them. 10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the
LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and
thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be
in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. 11 For I am with thee,
saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I
have scattered thee, yet I will not make a full end of thee: but I will correct
thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished. 12 For thus
saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous. 13 There is
none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing
medicines. 14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I
have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel
one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased. 15
Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude
of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things
unto thee. 16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all
thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that
spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a
prey. 17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy
wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is
Zion, whom no man seeketh after. 18 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again
the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the
city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the
manner thereof. 19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of
them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I
will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. 20 Their children also
shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me,
and I will punish all that oppress them. 21 And their nobles shall be of
themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will
cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that
engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD. 22 And ye shall be my
people, and I will be your God. 23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth
forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head
of the wicked. 24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he hath
done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter
days ye shall consider it.
Jeremiah 31
1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all
the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. 2 Thus saith the LORD, The
people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel,
when I went to cause him to rest. 3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me,
saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with
lovingkindness have I drawn thee. 4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be
built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and
shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. 5 Thou shalt yet plant
vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat
them as common things. 6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the
mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our
God. 7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among
the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy
people, the remnant of Israel. 8 Behold, I will bring them from the north
country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind
and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together:
a great company shall return thither. 9 They shall come with weeping, and with
supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of
waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to
Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye
nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered
Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. 11 For the
LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was
stronger than he. 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion,
and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine,
and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul
shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. 13
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together:
for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them
rejoice from their sorrow. 14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with
fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD. 15
Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter
weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her
children, because they were not. 16 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from
weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the
LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. 17 And there is
hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their
own border. 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast
chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn
thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God. 19 Surely after
that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my
thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my
youth. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake
against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are
troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD. 21 Set
thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway,
even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to
these thy cities. 22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter?
for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a
man. 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use
this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring
again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain
of holiness. 24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities
thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks. 25 For I have
satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. 26 Upon
this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. 27 Behold, the days
come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of
Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. 28 And it shall come to
pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down,
and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them,
to build, and to plant, saith the LORD. 29 In those days they shall say no
more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on
edge. 30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth
the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. 31 Behold, the days come, saith
the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the
house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the
LORD: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward
parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be
my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every
man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the
least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive
their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. 35 Thus saith the LORD,
which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of
the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof
roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: 36 If those ordinances depart from before
me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a
nation before me for ever. 37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be
measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also
cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD. 38
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD
from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner. 39 And the measuring
line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass
about to Goath. 40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes,
and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate
toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown
down any more for ever.
Jeremiah 32
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth
year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar. 2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and
Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the
king of Judah's house. 3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying,
Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give
this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it; 4 And
Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but
shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak
with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes; 5 And he shall
lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the
LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper. 6 And Jeremiah
said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 7 Behold, Hanameel the son of
Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee saying, Buy thee my field that is in
Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it. 8 So Hanameel mine
uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the
LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which
is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the
redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of
the LORD. 9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in
Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. 10 And I
subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the
money in the balances. 11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that
which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open: 12
And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son
of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of
the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews
that sat in the court of the prison. 13 And I charged Baruch before them,
saying, 14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these
evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this
evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may
continue many days. 15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. 16 Now
when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of
Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying, 17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made
the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is
nothing too hard for thee: 18 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and
recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after
them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name, 19 Great in
counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the
sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the
fruit of his doings: 20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a
name, as at this day; 21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the
land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a
stretched out arm, and with great terror; 22 And hast given them this land,
which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk
and honey; 23 And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy
voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou
commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon
them: 24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the
city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of
the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken
is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it. 25 And thou hast said unto me, O
Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is
given into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 Then came the word of the LORD unto
Jeremiah, saying, 27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any
thing too hard for me? 28 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give
this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, and he shall take it: 29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against
this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses,
upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink
offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger. 30 For the children of
Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their
youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work
of their hands, saith the LORD. 31 For this city hath been to me as a
provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even
unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face, 32 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. 33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I
taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to
receive instruction. 34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is
called by my name, to defile it. 35 And they built the high places of Baal,
which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their
daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not,
neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause
Judah to sin. 36 And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,
concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of
the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; 37
Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in
mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again
unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely: 38 And they shall be my
people, and I will be their God: 39 And I will give them one heart, and one
way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their
children after them: 40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that
I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in
their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. 41 Yea, I will rejoice over
them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my
whole heart and with my whole soul. 42 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have
brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the
good that I have promised them. 43 And fields shall be bought in this land,
whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand
of the Chaldeans. 44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences,
and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about
Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and
in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause
their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 33
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the
second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying, 2
Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish
it; the LORD is his name; 3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee
great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. 4 For thus saith the LORD, the
God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of
the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword; 5
They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead
bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all
whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city. 6 Behold, I will bring it
health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance
of peace and truth. 7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity
of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. 8 And I will cleanse
them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will
pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have
transgressed against me. 9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an
honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that
I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for
all the prosperity that I procure unto it. 10 Thus saith the LORD; Again there
shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and
without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast, 11
The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and
the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of
hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that
shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will
cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD. 12
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without
man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of
shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. 13 In the cities of the mountains,
in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of
Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall
the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.
14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing
which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. 15 In
those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow
up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. 16
In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this
is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness. 17 For
thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the
house of Israel; 18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me
to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice
continually. 19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying, 20 Thus
saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the
night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; 21 Then may
also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son
to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. 22 As
the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so
will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister
unto me. 23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, 24
Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families
which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised
my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. 25 Thus saith the
LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the
ordinances of heaven and earth; 26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and
David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the
seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return,
and have mercy on them.
Jeremiah 34
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the
earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and
against all the cities thereof, saying, 2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of
Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the
LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
he shall burn it with fire: 3 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but
shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold
the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth,
and thou shalt go to Babylon. 4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king
of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword: 5 But
thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings
which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will
lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD. 6
Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in
Jerusalem, 7 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and
against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against
Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah. 8 This is
the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had
made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim
liberty unto them; 9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man
his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should
serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother. 10 Now when all the
princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that
every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free,
that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let
them go. 11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the
handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into
subjection for servants and for handmaids. 12 Therefore the word of the LORD
came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of
Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them
forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying, 14 At the
end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been
sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go
free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their
ear. 15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming
liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the
house which is called by my name: 16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and
caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at
liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be
unto you for servants and for handmaids. 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye
have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother,
and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the
LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you
to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. 18 And I will give the men
that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the
covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and
passed between the parts thereof, 19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of
Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which
passed between the parts of the calf; 20 I will even give them into the hand of
their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead
bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the
earth. 21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand
of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the
hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you. 22 Behold, I
will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they
shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the
cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 35
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the
days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, 2 Go unto the house
of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the
LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink. 3 Then I took
Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all
his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites; 4 And I brought them into the
house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah,
a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the
chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door: 5 And I set
before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and
I said unto them, Drink ye wine. 6 But they said, We will drink no wine: for
Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no
wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever: 7 Neither shall ye build house, nor
sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in
tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers. 8 Thus
have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he
hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor
our daughters; 9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we
vineyard, nor field, nor seed: 10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed,
and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. 11 But it came
to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we
said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans,
and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem. 12 Then came
the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, 13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the
LORD. 14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not
to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their
father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and
speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me. 15 I have sent also unto you all my
servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now
every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods
to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to
your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me. 16 Because
the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their
father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me: 17
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will
bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I
have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have
not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered. 18 And
Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your
father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath
commanded you: 19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Jeremiah 36
1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,
saying, 2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I
have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the
nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto
this day. 3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I
purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that
I may forgive their iniquity and their sin. 4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the
son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the
LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book. 5 And Jeremiah
commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
6 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my
mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house upon
the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that
come out of their cities. 7 It may be they will present their supplication
before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the
anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people. 8 And
Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet
commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house. 9
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all
the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of
Judah unto Jerusalem. 10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in
the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the
scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house,
in the ears of all the people. 11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of
Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD, 12 Then he went
down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes
sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and
Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the
son of Hananiah, and all the princes. 13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all
the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of
Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll
wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son
of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them. 15 And they said unto
him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears. 16
Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both
one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these
words. 17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all
these words at his mouth? 18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these
words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. 19 Then
said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man
know where ye be. 20 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid
up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in
the ears of the king. 21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took
it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the
king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king. 22 Now
the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the
hearth burning before him. 23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read
three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire
that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on
the hearth. 24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the
king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words. 25 Nevertheless
Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he
would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them. 26 But the king commanded
Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah
the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the
LORD hid them. 27 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the
king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of
Jeremiah, saying, 28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the
former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah
hath burned. 29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the
LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein,
saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and
shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? 30 Therefore thus saith the
LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of
David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the
night to the frost. 31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for
their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced
against them; but they hearkened not. 32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and
gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the
mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had
burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
Jeremiah 35
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the
days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, 2 Go unto the house
of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the
LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink. 3 Then I took
Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all
his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites; 4 And I brought them into the
house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah,
a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the
chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door: 5 And I set
before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and
I said unto them, Drink ye wine. 6 But they said, We will drink no wine: for
Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no
wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever: 7 Neither shall ye build house, nor
sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in
tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers. 8 Thus
have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he
hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor
our daughters; 9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we
vineyard, nor field, nor seed: 10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed,
and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. 11 But it came
to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we
said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans,
and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem. 12 Then came
the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, 13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the
LORD. 14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not
to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their
father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and
speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me. 15 I have sent also unto you all my
servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now
every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods
to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to
your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me. 16
Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of
their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto
me: 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil
that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they
have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered. 18 And
Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your
father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath
commanded you: 19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Jeremiah 36
1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,
saying, 2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I
have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the
nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto
this day. 3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I
purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that
I may forgive their iniquity and their sin. 4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the
son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the
LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book. 5 And Jeremiah
commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
6 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my
mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house upon
the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that
come out of their cities. 7 It may be they will present their supplication
before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the
anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people. 8 And
Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet
commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house. 9
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all
the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of
Judah unto Jerusalem. 10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in
the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the
scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house,
in the ears of all the people. 11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of
Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD, 12 Then he went
down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes
sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and
Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the
son of Hananiah, and all the princes. 13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all
the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the
people. 14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son
of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the
roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the
son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them. 15 And they said
unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their
ears. 16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were
afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king
of all these words. 17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst
thou write all these words at his mouth? 18 Then Baruch answered them, He
pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in
the book. 19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and
Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be. 20 And they went in to the king into
the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and
told all the words in the ears of the king. 21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch
the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read
it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood
beside the king. 22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and
there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. 23 And it came to pass, that
when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and
cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed
in the fire that was on the hearth. 24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their
garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the
king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them. 26 But the
king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel,
and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the
prophet: but the LORD hid them. 27 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah,
after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at
the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, 28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it
all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of
Judah hath burned. 29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith
the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein,
saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and
shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? 30 Therefore thus saith the
LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of
David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the
night to the frost. 31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for
their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced
against them; but they hearkened not. 32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and
gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the
mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had
burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
Jeremiah 37
1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of
Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in
the land of Judah. 2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the
land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet
Jeremiah. 3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and
Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray
now unto the LORD our God for us. 4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the
people: for they had not put him into prison. 5 Then Pharaoh's army was come
forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings
of them, they departed from Jerusalem. 6 Then came the word of the LORD unto
the prophet Jeremiah saying, 7 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus
shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me;
Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt
into their own land. 8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against
this city, and take it, and burn it with fire. 9 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive
not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they
shall not depart. 10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans
that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet
should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire. 11 And
it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from
Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, 12 Then Jeremiah went forth out of
Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the
midst of the people. 13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of
the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of
Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the
Chaldeans. 14 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the
Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought
him to the princes. 15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and
smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they
had made that the prison. 16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and
into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; 17 Then Zedekiah
the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house,
and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for,
said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon. 18
Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee,
or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
19 Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of
Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? 20 Therefore hear
now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted
before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the
scribe, lest I die there. 21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should
commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him
daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the
city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
Jeremiah 38
1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of
Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard
the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying, 2 Thus saith
the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for
he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live. 3 Thus saith the LORD, This
city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which
shall take it. 4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let
this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war
that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such
words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the
hurt. 5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king
is not he that can do any thing against you. 6 Then took they Jeremiah, and
cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the
court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon
there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. 7 Now when
Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house,
heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the
gate of Benjamin; 8 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to
the king saying, 9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they
have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he
is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread
in the city. 10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take
from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the
dungeon, before he die. 11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into
the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and
old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. 12
And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts
and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so. 13
So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and
Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. 14 Then Zedekiah the king sent,
and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the
house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing;
hide nothing from me. 15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto
thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt
thou not hearken unto me? 16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah,
saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to
death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the
God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's
princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire;
and thou shalt live, and thine house: 18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the
king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the
Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of
their hand. 19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the
Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand,
and they mock me. 20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I
beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be
well unto thee, and thy soul shall live. 21 But if thou refuse to go forth,
this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me: 22 And, behold, all the women
that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king
of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on,
and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are
turned away back. 23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to
the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken
by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned
with fire. 24 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words,
and thou shalt not die. 25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with
thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou
hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to
death; also what the king said unto thee: 26 Then thou shalt say unto them, I
presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return
to Jonathan's house, to die there. 27 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah,
and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had
commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not
perceived. 28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that
Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
Jeremiah 39
1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth
month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem,
and they besieged it. 2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth
month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up. 3 And all the
princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even
Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with
all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon. 4 And it came to pass,
that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then
they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's
garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the
plain. 5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in
the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave
judgment upon him. 6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in
Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him
to Babylon. 8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the
people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. 9 Then Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the
people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him,
with the rest of the people that remained. 10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of
the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of
Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. 11 Now
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard, saying, 12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him
no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee. 13 So Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer,
Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon's princes; 14 Even they sent, and took
Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt
among the people. 15 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was
shut up in the court of the prison, saying, 16 Go and speak to Ebedmelech the
Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall
be accomplished in that day before thee. 17 But I will deliver thee in that
day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of
whom thou art afraid. 18 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not
fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou
hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 40
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had
taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of
Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon. 2 And the
captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath
pronounced this evil upon this place. 3 Now the LORD hath brought it, and done
according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have
not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you. 4 And now, behold,
I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem
good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto
thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear:
behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for
thee to go, thither go. 5 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back
also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon
hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the
people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain
of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go. 6 Then went
Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among
the people that were left in the land. 7 Now when all the captains of the
forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king
of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had
committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land,
of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon; 8 Then they came to
Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan
the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the
Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men. 9 And
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men,
saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king
of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. 10 As for me, behold, I will dwell
at Mizpah, to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye
wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in
your cities that ye have taken. 11 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab,
and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard
that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over
them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan; 12 Even all the Jews
returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of
Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that
were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, 14 And said unto him, Dost thou
certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not. 15
Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly saying, Let
me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man
shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are
gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish? 16 But
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not
do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.
Jeremiah 41
1 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the
king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah;
and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah. 2 Then arose Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of
Babylon had made governor over the land. 3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that
were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found
there, and the men of war. 4 And it came to pass the second day after he had
slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it, 5 That there came certain from Shechem,
from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven,
and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense
in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD. 6 And Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went:
and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam. 7 And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the
pit, he, and the men that were with him. 8 But ten men were found among them
that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of
wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them
not among their brethren. 9 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead
bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the
king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain. 10 Then Ishmael carried away
captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's
daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael
the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the
Ammonites. 11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah had done, 12 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. 13 Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were with
Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that
were with him, then they were glad. 14 So all the people that Ishmael had
carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan
the son of Kareah. 15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan
with eight men, and went to the Ammonites. 16 Then took Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant
of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from
Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of
war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought
again from Gibeon: 17 And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of
Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt, 18 Because of the
Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah
had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in
the land.
Jeremiah 42
1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son
of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least
even unto the greatest, came near, 2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let,
we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto
the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of
many, as thine eyes do behold us:) 3 That the LORD thy God may shew us the way
wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do. 4 Then Jeremiah the prophet
said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God
according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the
LORD shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back
from you. 5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness
between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD
thy God shall send thee to us. 6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we
will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be
well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God. 7 And it came to pass
after ten days, that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah. 8 Then called he
Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with
him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, 9 And said unto
them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present
your supplication before him; 10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will
I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up:
for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you. 11 Be not afraid of the
king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD:
for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. 12 And I will
shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return
to your own land. 13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither
obey the voice of the LORD your God, 14 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: 15 And now therefore hear
the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to
sojourn there; 16 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared,
shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were
afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die. 17
So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to
sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will
bring upon them. 18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As
mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into
Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a
reproach; and ye shall see this place no more. 19 The LORD hath said concerning
you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have
admonished you this day. 20 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me
unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according
unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do
it. 21 And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the
voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto
you. 22 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to
sojourn.
Jeremiah 43
1 And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of
speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the
LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words, 2 Then spake Azariah
the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men,
saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent
thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there: 3 But Baruch the son of Neriah
setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans,
that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon. 4 So
Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the
people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah. 5 But
Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the
remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been
driven, to dwell in the land of Judah; 6 Even men, and women, and children, and
the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah
the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah. 7 So they came into the land of
Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to
Tahpanhes. 8 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
9 Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln,
which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men
of Judah; 10 And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my
servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he
shall spread his royal pavilion over them. 11 And when he cometh, he shall
smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such
as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.
12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall
burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land
of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from
thence in peace. 13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in
the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn
with fire.Jeremiah 441 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews
which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and
at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying, 2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon
Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a
desolation, and no man dwelleth therein, 3 Because of their wickedness which
they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense,
and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your
fathers. 4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early
and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate. 5 But
they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to
burn no incense unto other gods. 6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured
forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem;
and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day. 7 Therefore now thus saith
the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great
evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling,
out of Judah, to leave you none to remain; 8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath
with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of
Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that
ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? 9 Have
ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of
Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the
wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and
in the streets of Jerusalem? 10 They are not humbled even unto this day,
neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set
before you and before your fathers. 11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut
off all Judah. 12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their
faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be
consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the
sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest,
by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an
astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. 13 For I will punish them that dwell
in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence: 14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which
are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that
they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to
return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape. 15 Then
all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and
all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt
in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, 16 As for the word
that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto
thee. 17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own
mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink
offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our
princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had
we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. 18 But since we left off
to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto
her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the
famine. 19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out
drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out
drink offerings unto her, without our men? 20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the
people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him
that answer, saying, 21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and
in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your
princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came
it not into his mind? 22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the
evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed;
therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without
an inhabitant, as at this day. 23 Because ye have burned incense, and because
ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor
walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this
evil is happened unto you, as at this day. 24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all
the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are
in the land of Egypt: 25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with
your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn
incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye
will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows. 26 Therefore
hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt;
Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no
more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt,
saying, The Lord GOD liveth. 27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and
not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be
consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them. 28 Yet
a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into
the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of
Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or their's.
29 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in
this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for
evil: 30 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt
into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as
I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
his enemy, and that sought his life.
Jeremiah 45
1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the
son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of
Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah,
saying, 2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch: 3 Thou
didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted
in my sighing, and I find no rest. 4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD
saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I
have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land. 5 And seekest thou great
things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all
flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all
places whither thou goest.Jeremiah 461 The word of the LORD which came to
Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles; 2 Against Egypt, against the army of
Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish,
which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah king of Judah. 3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near
to battle. 4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with
your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines. 5 Wherefore have
I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten
down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith
the LORD. 6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall
stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates. 7 Who is this that
cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? 8 Egypt riseth up
like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go
up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants
thereof. 9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men
come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the
Lydians, that handle and bend the bow. 10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD
of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and
the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their
blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the
river Euphrates. 11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of
Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured. 12
The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the
mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.
13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt. 14 Declare ye in
Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye,
Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee. 15
Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive
them. 16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said,
Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity,
from the oppressing sword. 17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but
a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. 18 As I live, saith the King, whose
name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as
Carmel by the sea, so shall he come. 19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt,
furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate
without an inhabitant. 20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction
cometh; it cometh out of the north. 21 Also her hired men are in the midst of
her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together:
they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and
the time of their visitation. 22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for
they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of
wood. 23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be
searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable. 24
The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand
of the people of the north. 25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith;
Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their
gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him: 26 And I
will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the
hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and
afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD. 27 But
fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I
will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity;
and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him
afraid. 28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with
thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee:
but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I
not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Jeremiah 47
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet
against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. 2 Thus saith the LORD;
Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and
shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell
therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall
howl. 3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the
rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall
not look back to their children for feebleness of hands; 4 Because of the day
that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon
every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the
remnant of the country of Caphtor. 5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut
off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? 6 O thou
sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into
thy scabbard, rest, and be still. 7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath
given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he
appointed it.
Jeremiah 48
1 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken:
Misgab is confounded and dismayed. 2 There shall be no more praise of Moab: in
Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from
being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue
thee. 3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great
destruction. 4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be
heard. 5 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in
the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction. 6 Flee,
save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. 7 For because thou
hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and
Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes
together. 8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall
escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the
LORD hath spoken. 9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for
the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein. 10 Cursed
be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that
keepeth back his sword from blood. 11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth,
and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to
vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in
him, and his scent is not changed. 12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith
the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander,
and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles. 13 And Moab shall be
ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their
confidence. 14 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war? 15 Moab is
spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down
to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. 16 The
calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast. 17 All ye
that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the
strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod! 18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit
Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab
shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds. 19 O inhabitant of
Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth,
and say, What is done? 20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and
cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled, 21 And judgment is come upon
the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath, 22 And upon
Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim, 23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon
Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon, 24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon
all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near. 25 The horn of Moab is cut
off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD. 26 Make ye him drunken: for he
magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he
also shall be in derision. 27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he
found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. 28
O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like
the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth. 29 We have
heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his
arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart. 30 I know his
wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.
31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart
shall mourn for the men of Kirheres. 32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee
with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to
the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy
vintage. 33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from
the land of Moab, and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none
shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting. 34 From the cry
of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their
voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the
waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate. 35 Moreover I will cause to cease in
Moab, saith the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth
incense to his gods. 36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes,
and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the
riches that he hath gotten are perished. 37 For every head shall be bald, and
every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins
sackcloth. 38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of
Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein
is no pleasure, saith the LORD. 39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken
down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and
a dismaying to all them about him. 40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall
fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab. 41 Kerioth is taken, and
the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day
shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. 42 And Moab shall be destroyed
from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD. 43 Fear,
and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the
LORD. 44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that
getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon
it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. 45 They that
fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall
come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall
devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. 46
Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are
taken captives, and thy daughters captives. 47 Yet will I bring again the
captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment
of Moab.
Jeremiah 49
1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel
no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people
dwell in his cities? 2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall
be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall
Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD. 3 Howl, O
Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with
sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go
into captivity, and his priests and his princes together. 4 Wherefore gloriest
thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted
in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me? 5 Behold, I will bring a fear
upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and
ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that
wandereth. 6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of
Ammon, saith the LORD. 7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is
wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom
vanished? 8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will
bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him. 9 If
grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if
thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough. 10 But I have made
Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide
himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is
not. 11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy
widows trust in me. 12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was
not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall
altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely
drink of it. 13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall
become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities
thereof shall be perpetual wastes. 14 I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and
an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come
against her, and rise up to the battle. 15 For, lo, I will make thee small
among the heathen, and despised among men. 16 Thy terribleness hath deceived
thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the
rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest
as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD. 17
Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be
astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof. 18 As in the overthrow
of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man
shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it. 19 Behold, he shall
come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the
strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen
man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me
the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me? 20 Therefore hear
the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes,
that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the
flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with
them. 21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise
thereof was heard in the Red sea. 22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the
eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the
mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. 23 Concerning
Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings:
they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. 24
Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on
her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. 25 How is the
city of praise not left, the city of my joy! 26 Therefore her young men shall
fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith
the LORD of hosts. 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it
shall consume the palaces of Benhadad. 28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the
kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith
the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east. 29 Their
tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves
their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry
unto them, Fear is on every side. 30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye
inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath
taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you. 31 Arise,
get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD,
which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone. 32 And their camels shall
be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into
all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity
from all sides thereof, saith the LORD. 33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for
dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son
of man dwell in it. 34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet
against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the
chief of their might. 36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the
four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and
there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come. 37 For I
will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek
their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD;
and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them: 38 And I will
set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes,
saith the LORD. 39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will
bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.Jeremiah 501 The word that
the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by
Jeremiah the prophet. 2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a
standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded,
Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken
in pieces. 3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which
shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove,
they shall depart, both man and beast. 4 In those days, and in that time, saith
the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah
together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God. 5 They
shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let
us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be
forgotten. 6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them
to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from
mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace. 7 All that found them
have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they
have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the
hope of their fathers. 8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out
of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks. 9 For,
lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations
from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her;
from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert
man; none shall return in vain. 10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil
her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD. 11 Because ye were glad, because ye
rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the
heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls; 12 Your mother shall be sore confounded;
she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall
be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. 13 Because of the wrath of the LORD
it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that
goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. 14 Put
yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow,
shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD. 15 Shout
against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen,
her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance
upon her; as she hath done, do unto her. 16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and
him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing
sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to
his own land. 17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away:
first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon hath broken his bones. 18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I
have punished the king of Assyria. 19 And I will bring Israel again to his
habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied
upon mount Ephraim and Gilead. 20 In those days, and in that time, saith the
LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and
the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I
reserve. 21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against
the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD,
and do according to all that I have commanded thee. 22 A sound of battle is in
the land, and of great destruction. 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut
asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! 24 I
have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast
not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against
the LORD. 25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the
weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in
the land of the Chaldeans. 26 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. 27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto
them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. 28 The voice of them
that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the
vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple. 29 Call together
the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round
about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according
to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the
LORD, against the Holy One of Israel. 30 Therefore shall her young men fall in
the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the
LORD. 31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of
hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. 32 And the most
proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a
fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him. 33 Thus saith the
LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed
together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let
them go. 34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall
throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet
the inhabitants of Babylon. 35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD,
and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise
men. 36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her
mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. 37 A sword is upon their horses, and
upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of
her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they
shall be robbed. 38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up:
for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. 39
Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands
shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more
inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith
the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell
therein. 41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and
many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. 42 They shall hold the
bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall
roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array,
like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon. 43 The king of
Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took
hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail. 44 Behold, he shall come up
like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but
I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I
may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and
who is that shepherd that will stand before me? 45 Therefore hear ye the
counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that
he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the
flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with
them. 46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry
is heard among the nations.Jeremiah 511 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will
raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that
rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners,
that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they
shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer
bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and
spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. 4 Thus the slain
shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in
her streets. 5 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the
LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut
off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will
render unto her a recompence. 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's
hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine;
therefore the nations are mad. 8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl
for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. 9 We would have
healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one
into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up
even to the skies. 10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and
let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God. 11 Make bright the arrows;
gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the
Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the
vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. 12 Set up the standard upon
the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the
ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against
the inhabitants of Babylon. 13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant
in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness. 14 The
LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men,
as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee. 15 He hath
made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and
hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding. 16 When he uttereth his
voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the
vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain,
and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. 17 Every man is brutish by
his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten
image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 18 They are vanity, the
work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 19 The
portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and
Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name. 20 Thou
art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the
nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; 21 And with thee will I break
in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the
chariot and his rider; 22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and
with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in
pieces the young man and the maid; 23 I will also break in pieces with thee the
shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and
his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers. 24
And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their
evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD. 25 Behold, I am
against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the
earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the
rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. 26 And they shall not take of thee
a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate
for ever, saith the LORD. 27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet
among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her
the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her;
cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers. 28 Prepare against her
the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the
rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. 29 And the land shall tremble
and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,
to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant. 30 The mighty
men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their
might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces;
her bars are broken. 31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger
to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire,
and the men of war are affrighted. 33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to
thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. 34
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he
hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath
filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out. 35 The violence done
to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my
blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. 36 Therefore thus
saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee;
and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry. 37 And Babylon shall
become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing,
without an inhabitant. 38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell
as lions' whelps. 39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them
drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake,
saith the LORD. 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like
rams with he goats. 41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the
whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the
waves thereof. 43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a
land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby. 44 And
I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that
which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more
unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. 45 My people, go ye out of the
midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the
LORD. 46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be
heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another
year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. 47
Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven
images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain
shall fall in the midst of her. 48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that
is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from
the north, saith the LORD. 49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to
fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth. 50 Ye that have
escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and
let Jerusalem come into your mind. 51 We are confounded, because we have heard
reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the
sanctuaries of the LORD's house. 52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land
the wounded shall groan. 53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and
though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall
spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD. 54 A sound of a cry cometh from
Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans: 55 Because the
LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves
do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered: 56 Because the
spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken,
every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely
requite. 57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains,
and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and
not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. 58 Thus saith the
LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high
gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the
folk in the fire, and they shall be weary. 59 The word which Jeremiah the
prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went
with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign.
And this Seraiah was a quiet prince. 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the
evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written
against Babylon. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon,
and shalt see, and shalt read all these words; 62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD,
thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in
it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever. 63 And it
shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind
a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: 64 And thou shalt say,
Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring
upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 52
1 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 2 And he did that which was evil in
the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 3 For through
the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast
them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in
the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and
all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts
against it round about. 5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of
king Zedekiah. 6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the
famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the
land. 7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went
forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls,
which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round
about:) and they went by the way of the plain. 8 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. 9 Then they took the king, and carried him up
unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave
judgment upon him. 10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before
his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 11 Then he put out
the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him
to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. 12 Now in the
fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which
served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, 13 And burned the house of the
LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses
of the great men, burned he with fire: 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans,
that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem
round about. 15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained
in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and
the rest of the multitude. 16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left
certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen. 17 Also
the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the
brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried
all the brass of them to Babylon. 18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and
the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass
wherewith they ministered, took they away. 19 And the basons, and the firepans,
and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the
cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver,
took the captain of the guard away. 20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve
brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the
house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight. 21 And
concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a
fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four
fingers: it was hollow. 22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height
of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the
chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the
pomegranates were like unto these. 23 And there were ninety and six
pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an
hundred round about. 24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief
priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: 25
He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war;
and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the
city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the
land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the
midst of the city. 26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and
brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 27 And the king of Babylon smote
them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was
carried away captive out of his own land. 28 This is the people whom
Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews
and three and twenty: 29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried
away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: 30 In the
three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the
persons were four thousand and six hundred. 31 And it came to pass in the seven
and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth
month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of
Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of
Judah, and brought him forth out of prison. 32 And spake kindly unto him, and
set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, 33
And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him
all the days of his life. 34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given
him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all
the days of his life.
Jeremiah 50
1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against
the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. 2 Declare ye among the
nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say,
Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols
are confounded, her images are broken in pieces. 3 For out of the north there
cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none
shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall
come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall
go, and seek the LORD their God. 5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their
faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a
perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten. 6 My people hath been lost
sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them
away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have
forgotten their restingplace. 7 All that found them have devoured them: and
their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the
LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers. 8
Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the
Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks. 9 For, lo, I will raise
and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north
country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she
shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall
return in vain. 10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be
satisfied, saith the LORD. 11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye
destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass,
and bellow as bulls; 12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you
shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness,
a dry land, and a desert. 13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be
inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon
shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. 14 Put yourselves in array
against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no
arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD. 15 Shout against her round about:
she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down:
for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done,
do unto her. 16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the
sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn
every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land. 17
Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of
Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath
broken his bones. 18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the
king of Assyria. 19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he
shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim
and Gilead. 20 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of
Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and
they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve. 21 Go up
against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of
Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according
to all that I have commanded thee. 22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of
great destruction. 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and
broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! 24 I have laid a
snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware:
thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. 25
The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his
indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the
Chaldeans. 26 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. 27
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for
their day is come, the time of their visitation. 28 The voice of them that flee
and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the
LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple. 29 Call together the archers against
Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none
thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she
hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the
Holy One of Israel. 30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and
all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD. 31 Behold, I
am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is
come, the time that I will visit thee. 32 And the most proud shall stumble and
fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and
it shall devour all round about him. 33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The
children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all
that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go. 34 Their
Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead
their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of
Babylon. 35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the
inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. 36 A sword
is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and
they shall be dismayed. 37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their
chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and
they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be
robbed. 38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is
the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. 39 Therefore the
wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell
there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for
ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. 40 As God
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD;
so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. 41
Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings
shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. 42 They shall hold the bow and
the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like
the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to
the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon. 43 The king of Babylon hath
heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him,
and pangs as of a woman in travail. 44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion
from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make
them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint
over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that
shepherd that will stand before me? 45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the
LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath
purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall
draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them. 46 At
the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard
among the nations.
Jeremiah 51
1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against
Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against
me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan
her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against
her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and
against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her
young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. 4 Thus the slain shall fall in the
land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets. 5 For
Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts;
though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. 6 Flee out
of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her
iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her
a recompence. 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made
all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the
nations are mad. 8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take
balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. 9 We would have healed Babylon,
but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own
country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the
skies. 10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us
declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God. 11 Make bright the arrows; gather
the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for
his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of
the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. 12 Set up the standard upon the walls of
Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for
the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants
of Babylon. 13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures,
thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness. 14 The LORD of hosts
hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with
caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee. 15 He hath made the
earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath
stretched out the heaven by his understanding. 16 When he uttereth his voice,
there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to
ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth
forth the wind out of his treasures. 17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge;
every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is
falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 18 They are vanity, the work of
errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 19 The portion of
Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the
rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name. 20 Thou art my battle
axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and
with thee will I destroy kingdoms; 21 And with thee will I break in pieces the
horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his
rider; 22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will
I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young
man and the maid; 23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his
flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of
oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers. 24 And I will
render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that
they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD. 25 Behold, I am against
thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth:
and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks,
and will make thee a burnt mountain. 26 And they shall not take of thee a stone
for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever,
saith the LORD. 27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the
nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the
kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause
the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers. 28 Prepare against her the
nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers
thereof, and all the land of his dominion. 29 And the land shall tremble and
sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to
make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant. 30 The mighty men
of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their
might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces;
her bars are broken. 31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger
to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire,
and the men of war are affrighted. 33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to
thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. 34
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he
hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath
filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out. 35 The violence done
to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my
blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. 36 Therefore thus
saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee;
and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry. 37 And Babylon shall
become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing,
without an inhabitant. 38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell
as lions' whelps. 39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make
them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake,
saith the LORD. 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like
rams with he goats. 41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the
whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the
waves thereof. 43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a
land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby. 44 And
I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that
which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more
unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. 45 My people, go ye out of the
midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the
LORD. 46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be
heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another
year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. 47
Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven
images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain
shall fall in the midst of her. 48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that
is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from
the north, saith the LORD. 49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to
fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth. 50 Ye that have
escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and
let Jerusalem come into your mind. 51 We are confounded, because we have heard
reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the
sanctuaries of the LORD's house. 52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land
the wounded shall groan. 53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and
though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall
spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD. 54 A sound of a cry cometh from
Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans: 55 Because the
LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her
waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered: 56 Because
the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken,
every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely
requite. 57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains,
and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and
not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. 58 Thus saith the
LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high
gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the
folk in the fire, and they shall be weary. 59 The word which Jeremiah the
prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went
with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign.
And this Seraiah was a quiet prince. 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the
evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written
against Babylon. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon,
and shalt see, and shalt read all these words; 62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD,
thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in
it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever. 63 And it
shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind
a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: 64 And thou shalt say,
Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring
upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 52
1 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 2 And he did that which was evil in
the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 3 For through
the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast
them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in
the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and
all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts
against it round about. 5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of
king Zedekiah. 6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the
famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the
land. 7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went
forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls,
which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round
about:) and they went by the way of the plain. 8 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. 9 Then they took the king, and carried him up
unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave
judgment upon him. 10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before
his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 11 Then he put out
the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried
him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. 12 Now in the
fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which
served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, 13 And burned the house of the
LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses
of the great men, burned he with fire: 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans,
that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem
round about. 15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained
in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the
rest of the multitude. 16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain
of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen. 17 Also the
pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the
brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried
all the brass of them to Babylon. 18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and
the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass
wherewith they ministered, took they away. 19 And the basons, and the firepans,
and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the
cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver,
took the captain of the guard away. 20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve
brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the
house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight. 21 And
concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a
fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four
fingers: it was hollow. 22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height
of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the
chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the
pomegranates were like unto these. 23 And there were ninety and six
pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an
hundred round about. 24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief
priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: 25
He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war;
and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the
city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the
land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the
midst of the city. 26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and
brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 27 And the king of Babylon smote
them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was
carried away captive out of his own land. 28 This is the people whom
Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews
and three and twenty: 29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried
away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: 30 In the
three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the
persons were four thousand and six hundred. 31 And it came to pass in the seven
and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth
month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of
Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of
Judah, and brought him forth out of prison. 32 And spake kindly unto him, and
set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, 33
And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him
all the days of his life. 34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given
him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all
the days of his life.
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