JER 01:01  The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the

priests that [were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

       JER 01:02  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.

       JER 01:03  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.

       JER 01:04  Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

       JER 01:05  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.

       JER 01:06  Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak:

for I [am] a child.

       JER 01:07  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.

       JER 01:08  Be not afraid of their faces: for I [am] with thee

to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

       JER 01:09  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.

       JER 01:10  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.

       JER 01:11  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.

       JER 01:12  Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for

I will hasten my word to perform it.

       JER 01:13  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.

       JER 01:14  Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil

shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

       JER 01:15  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.

       JER 01:16  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.

       JER 01:17  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.

       JER 01:18  For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced

city, and an iron pillar, and brazen 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.

       JER 01:19  And they shall fight against thee; but they shall

not prevail against thee; for I [am] with thee, saith the LORD,

to deliver thee.

       JER 02:01  Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

       JER 02:02  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.

       JER 02:03  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.

       JER 02:04  Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and

all the families of the house of Israel:

       JER 02:05  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?

       JER 02:06  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?

       JER 02:07  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.

       JER 02:08  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.

       JER 02:09  Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD,

and with your children's children will I plead.

       JER 02:10  For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and

send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be

such a thing.

       JER 02:11  Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet

no gods? but my people have changed their glory for [that which]

doth not profit.

       JER 02:12  Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be

horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

       JER 02:13  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.

       JER 02:14  [Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]?

why is he spoiled?

       JER 02:15  The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and

they made his land waste: his cities are burned without

inhabitant.

       JER 02:16  Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken

the crown of thy head.

       JER 02:17  Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that

thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

       JER 02:18  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?

       JER 02:19  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.

       JER 02:20  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.

       JER 02:21  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?

       JER 02:22  For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee

much soap, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the

Lord GOD.

       JER 02:23  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;

       JER 02:24  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.

       JER 02:25  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.

       JER 02:26  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,

       JER 02:27  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.

       JER 02:28  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.

       JER 02:29  Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have

transgressed against me, saith the LORD.

       JER 02:30  In vain have I smitten your children; they received

no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like

a destroying lion.

       JER 02:31  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?

       JER 02:32  Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her

attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

       JER 02:33  Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore

hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

       JER 02:34  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.

       JER 02:35  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.

       JER 02:36  Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?

thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of

Assyria.

       JER 02:37  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.

       JER 03:01  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.

       JER 03:02  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.

       JER 03:03  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.

       JER 03:04  Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father,

thou [art] the guide of my youth?

       JER 03:05  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.

       JER 03:06  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.

       JER 03:07  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].

       JER 03:08  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.

       JER 03:09  And it came to pass through the lightness of her

whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with

stones and with stocks.

       JER 03:10  And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah

hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly,

saith the LORD.

       JER 03:11  And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel

hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

       JER 03:12  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.

       JER 03:13  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.

       JER 03:14  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:

       JER 03:15  And I will give you pastors according to mine heart,

which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

       JER 03:16  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.

       JER 03:17  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.

       JER 03:18  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.

       JER 03:19  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.

       JER 03:20  Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her

husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of

Israel, saith the LORD.

       JER 03:21  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.

       JER 03:22  Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal

your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou [art] the

LORD our God.

       JER 03:23  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.

       JER 03:24  For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers

from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and

their daughters.

       JER 03:25  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.

       JER 04:01  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.

       JER 04:02  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.

       JER 04:03  For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and

Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

       JER 04:04  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.

       JER 04:05  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.

       JER 04:06  Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not:

for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

       JER 04:07  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.

       JER 04:08  For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl:

for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

       JER 04:09  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.

       JER 04:10  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.

       JER 04:11  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,

       JER 04:12  [Even] a full wind from those [places] shall come

unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.

       JER 04:13  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.

       JER 04:14  O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that

thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge

within thee?

       JER 04:15  For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth

affliction from mount Ephraim.

       JER 04:16  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.

       JER 04:17  As keepers of a field, are they against her round

about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the

LORD.

       JER 04:18  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.

       JER 04:19  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.

       JER 04:20  Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole

land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, [and] my

curtains in a moment.

       JER 04:21  How long shall I see the standard, [and] hear the

sound of the trumpet?

       JER 04:22  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.

       JER 04:23  I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form,

and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.

       JER 04:24  I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and

all the hills moved lightly.

       JER 04:25  I beheld, and, lo, [there was] no man, and all the

birds of the heavens were fled.

       JER 04:26  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.

       JER 04:27  For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be

desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

       JER 04:28  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.

       JER 04:29  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.

       JER 04:30  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.

       JER 04:31  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.

       JER 05:01  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.

       JER 05:02  And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they

swear falsely.

       JER 05:03  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.

       JER 05:04  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.

       JER 05:05  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.

       JER 05:06  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.

       JER 05:07  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.

       JER 05:08  They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one

neighed after his neighbour's wife.

       JER 05:09  Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD:

 and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

       JER 05:10  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.

       JER 05:11  For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have

dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

       JER 05:12  They have belied the LORD, and said, [It is] not he;

neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor

famine:

       JER 05:13  And the prophets shall become wind, and the word

[is] not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

       JER 05:14  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.

       JER 05:15  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.

       JER 05:16  Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are]

all mighty men.

       JER 05:17  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.

       JER 05:18  Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will

not make a full end with you.

       JER 05:19  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 yours.

       JER 05:20  Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it

in Judah, saying,

       JER 05:21  Hear now this, O foolish people, and without

understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears,

and hear not:

       JER 05:22  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?

       JER 05:23  But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious

heart; they are revolted and gone.

       JER 05:24  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.

       JER 05:25  Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and

your sins have withholden good [things] from you.

       JER 05:26  For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay

wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

       JER 05:27  As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses

full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

       JER 05:28  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.

       JER 05:29  Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD:

 shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

       JER 05:30  A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the

land;

       JER 05:31  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?

       JER 06:01  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.

       JER 06:02  I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and

delicate [woman].

       JER 06:03  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.

       JER 06:04  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.

       JER 06:05  Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy

her palaces.

       JER 06:06  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.

       JER 06:07  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.

       JER 06:08  Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart

from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

       JER 06:09  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly

glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a

grapegatherer into the baskets.

       JER 06:10  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.

       JER 06:11  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.

       JER 06:12  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.

       JER 06:13  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.

       JER 06:14  They have healed also the hurt [of the daughter] of

my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no

peace.

       JER 06:15  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.

       JER 06:16  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].

       JER 06:17  Also I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to

the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

       JER 06:18  Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation,

 what [is] among them.

       JER 06:19  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.

       JER 06:20  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.

       JER 06:21  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.

       JER 06:22  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.

       JER 06:23  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.

       JER 06:24  We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble:

 anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pain, as of a woman in

travail.

       JER 06:25  Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way;

for the sword of the enemy [and] fear [is] on every side.

       JER 06:26  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.

       JER 06:27  I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among

my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

       JER 06:28  They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with

slanders: [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters.

       JER 06:29  The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the

fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not

plucked away.

       JER 06:30  Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the

LORD hath rejected them.

       JER 07:01  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

       JER 07:02  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.

       JER 07:03  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.

       JER 07:04  Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of

the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are]

these.

       JER 07:05  For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings;

 if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his

neighbour;

       JER 07:06  [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:

       JER 07:07  Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the

land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

       JER 07:08  Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

       JER 07:09  Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and

swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other

gods whom ye know not;

       JER 07:10  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?

       JER 07:11  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.

       JER 07:12  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.

       JER 07:13  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;

       JER 07:14  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.

       JER 07:15  And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast

out all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim.

       JER 07:16  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.

       JER 07:17  Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah

and in the streets of Jerusalem?

       JER 07:18  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.

       JER 07:19  Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: [do

they] not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own

faces?

       JER 07:20  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.

       JER 07:21  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put

your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

       JER 07:22  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:

       JER 07:23  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.

       JER 07:24  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.

       JER 07:25  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]:

       JER 07:26  Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their

ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

       JER 07:27  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.

       JER 07:28  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.

       JER 07:29  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.

       JER 07:30  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.

       JER 07:31  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.

       JER 07:32  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.

       JER 07:33  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.

       JER 07:34  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.

       JER 08:01  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:

       JER 08:02  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.

       JER 08:03  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.

       JER 08:04  Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the

LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and

not return?

       JER 08:05  Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back

by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse

to return.

       JER 08:06  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.

       JER 08:07  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.

       JER 08:08  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.

       JER 08:09  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?

       JER 08:10  Therefore will I give their wives unto others, [and]

their fields to them that shall inherit [them]: for every one

from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness,

from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

       JER 08:11  For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my

people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.

       JER 08:12  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.

       JER 08:13  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.

       JER 08:14  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.

       JER 08:15  We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a

time of health, and behold trouble!

       JER 08:16  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.

       JER 08:17  For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices,

among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite

you, saith the LORD.

       JER 08:18  [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my

heart [is] faint in me.

       JER 08:19  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?

       JER 08:20  The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are

not saved.

       JER 08:21  For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt;

I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

       JER 08:22  [Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no

physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of

my people recovered?

       JER 09:01  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!

       JER 09:02  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.

       JER 09:03  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.

       JER 09:04  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.

       JER 09:05  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.

       JER 09:06  Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit;

through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

       JER 09:07  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?

       JER 09:08  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.

       JER 09:09  Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith the

LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

       JER 09:10  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.

       JER 09:11  And I will make Jerusalem heaps, [and] a den of

dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without

an inhabitant.

       JER 09:12  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?

       JER 09:13  And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my

law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice,

neither walked therein;

       JER 09:14  But have walked after the imagination of their own

heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

       JER 09:15  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.

       JER 09:16  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.

       JER 09:17  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:

       JER 09:18  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.

       JER 09:19  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.

       JER 09:20  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.

       JER 09:21  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.

       JER 09:22  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].

       JER 09:23  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:

       JER 09:24  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.

       JER 09:25  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will

punish all [them which are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;

       JER 09:26  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.

       JER 10:01  Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O

house of Israel:

       JER 10:02  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.

       JER 10:03  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 ax.

       JER 10:04  They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten

it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

       JER 10:05  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.

       JER 10:06  Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD;

thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.

       JER 10:07  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.

       JER 10:08  But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the

stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.

       JER 10:09  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].

       JER 10:10  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.

       JER 10:11  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.

       JER 10:12  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.

       JER 10:13  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.

       JER 10:14  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.

       JER 10:15  They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the

time of their visitation they shall perish.

       JER 10:16  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.

       JER 10:17  Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of

the fortress.

       JER 10:18  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].

       JER 10:19  Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I

said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it.

       JER 10:20  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.

       JER 10:21  For the pastors are become brutish, and have not

sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their

flocks shall be scattered.

       JER 10:22  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.

       JER 10:23  O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in

himself: [it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

       JER 10:24  O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine

anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

       JER 10:25  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.

       JER 11:01  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

       JER 11:02  Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto

the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

       JER 11:03  And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of

Israel; Cursed [be] the man that obeyeth not the words of this

covenant,

       JER 11:04  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:

       JER 11:05  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.

       JER 11:06  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.

       JER 11:07  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.

       JER 11:08  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.

       JER 11:09  And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found

among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

       JER 11:10  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.

       JER 11:11  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.

       JER 11:12  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.

       JER 11:13  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.

       JER 11:14  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.

       JER 11:15  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.

       JER 11:16  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.

       JER 11:17  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.

       JER 11:18  And the LORD hath given me knowledge [of it], and I

know [it]: then thou showedst me their doings.

       JER 11:19  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.

       JER 11:20  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.

       JER 11:21  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:

       JER 11:22  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:

       JER 11:23  And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will

bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, [even] the year of their

visitation.

       JER 12:01  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?

       JER 12:02  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.

       JER 12:03  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.

       JER 12:04  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.

       JER 12:05  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?

       JER 12:06  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.

       JER 12:07  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.

       JER 12:08  Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it

crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

       JER 12:09  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.

       JER 12:10  Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have

trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant

portion a desolate wilderness.

       JER 12:11  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.

       JER 12:12  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.

       JER 12:13  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.

       JER 12:14  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.

       JER 12:15  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.

       JER 12:16  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.

       JER 12:17  But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up

and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.

       JER 13:01  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.

       JER 13:02  So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD,

and put [it] on my loins.

       JER 13:03  And the word of the LORD came unto me the second

time, saying,

       JER 13:04  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.

       JER 13:05  So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD

commanded me.

       JER 13:06  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.

       JER 13:07  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.

       JER 13:08  Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

       JER 13:09  Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar

the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

       JER 13:10  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.

       JER 13:11  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.

       JER 13:12  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?

       JER 13:13  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.

       JER 13:14  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.

       JER 13:15  Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD

hath spoken.

       JER 13:16  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.

       JER 13:17  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.

       JER 13:18  Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble

yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down,

[even] the crown of your glory.

       JER 13:19  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.

       JER 13:20  Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from

the north: where [is] the flock [that] was given thee, thy

beautiful flock?

       JER 13:21  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?

       JER 13:22  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.

       JER 13:23  Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard

his spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do

evil.

       JER 13:24  Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that

passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

       JER 13:25  This [is] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from

me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted

in falsehood.

       JER 13:26  Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face,

that thy shame may appear.

       JER 13:27  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]?

       JER 14:01  The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah

concerning the dearth.

       JER 14:02  Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they

are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

       JER 14:03  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.

       JER 14:04  Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain

in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

       JER 14:05  Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook

[it], because there was no grass.

       JER 14:06  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.

       JER 14:07  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.

       JER 14:08  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?

       JER 14:09  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.

       JER 14:10  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.

       JER 14:11  Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people

for [their] good.

       JER 14:12  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.

       JER 14:13  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.

       JER 14:14  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.

       JER 14:15  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.

       JER 14:16  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.

       JER 14:17  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.

       JER 14:18  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.

       JER 14:19  Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul

loathed 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!

       JER 14:20  We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the

iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

       JER 14:21  Do not abhor [us], for thy name's sake, do not

disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy

covenant with us.

       JER 14:22  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].

       JER 15:01  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.

       JER 15:02  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.

       JER 15:03  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.

       JER 15:04  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.

       JER 15:05  For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or

who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou

doest?

       JER 15:06  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.

       JER 15:07  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.

       JER 15:08  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.

       JER 15:09  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.

       JER 15:10  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.

       JER 15:11  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.

       JER 15:12  Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

       JER 15:13  Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the

spoil without price, and [that] for all thy sins, even in all

thy borders.

       JER 15:14  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.

       JER 15:15  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.

       JER 15:16  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.

       JER 15:17  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.

       JER 15:18  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?

       JER 15:19  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.

       JER 15:20  And I will make thee unto this people a fenced

brazen 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.

       JER 15:21  And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the

wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

       JER 16:01  The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,

       JER 16:02  Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou

have sons or daughters in this place.

       JER 16:03  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;

       JER 16:04  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.

       JER 16:05  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.

       JER 16:06  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:

       JER 16:07  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.

       JER 16:08  Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting,

to sit with them to eat and to drink.

       JER 16:09  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.

       JER 16:10  And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show 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?

       JER 16:11  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;

       JER 16:12  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:

       JER 16:13  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 show

you favour.

       JER 16:14  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;

       JER 16:15  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.

       JER 16:16  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.

       JER 16:17  For mine eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are

not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine

eyes.

       JER 16:18  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.

       JER 16:19  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.

       JER 16:20  Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they [are]

no gods?

       JER 16:21  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.

       JER 17:01  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;

       JER 17:02  Whilst their children remember their altars and

their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

       JER 17:03  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.

       JER 17:04  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.

       JER 17:05  Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that

trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart

departeth from the LORD.

       JER 17:06  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.

       JER 17:07  Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and

whose hope the LORD is.

       JER 17:08  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.

       JER 17:09  The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and

desperately wicked: who can know it?

       JER 17:10  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.

       JER 17:11  [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.

       JER 17:12  A glorious high throne from the beginning [is] the

place of our sanctuary.

       JER 17:13  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.

       JER 17:14  Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and

I shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise.

       JER 17:15  Behold, they say unto me, Where [is] the word of the

LORD? let it come now.

       JER 17:16  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.

       JER 17:17  Be not a terror unto me: thou [art] my hope in the

day of evil.

       JER 17:18  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.

       JER 17:19  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;

       JER 17:20  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:

       JER 17:21  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;

       JER 17:22  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.

       JER 17:23  But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but

made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive

instruction.

       JER 17:24  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;

       JER 17:25  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.

       JER 17:26  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.

       JER 17:27  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.

       JER 18:01  The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD,

saying,

       JER 18:02  Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there

I will cause thee to hear my words.

       JER 18:03  Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold,

he wrought a work on the wheels.

       JER 18:04  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].

       JER 18:05  Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

       JER 18:06  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.

       JER 18:07  [At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation,

and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to

destroy [it];

       JER 18:08  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.

       JER 18:09  And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a

nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it];

       JER 18:10  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.

       JER 18:11  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.

       JER 18:12  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.

       JER 18:13  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.

       JER 18:14  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?

       JER 18:15  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;

       JER 18:16  To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual

hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and

wag his head.

       JER 18:17  I will scatter them as with an east wind before the

enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day

of their calamity.

       JER 18:18  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.

       JER 18:19  Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of

them that contend with me.

       JER 18:20  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.

       JER 18:21  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.

       JER 18:22  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.

       JER 18:23  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.

       JER 19:01  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;

       JER 19:02  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,

       JER 19:03  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.

       JER 19:04  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;

       JER 19:05  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:

       JER 19:06  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.

       JER 19:07  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.

       JER 19:08  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.

       JER 19:09  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.

       JER 19:10  Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the

men that go with thee.

       JER 19:11  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.

       JER 19:12  Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and

to the inhabitants thereof, and [even] make this city as Tophet:

       JER 19:13  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.

       JER 19:14  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,

       JER 19:15  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.

       JER 20:01  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.

       JER 20:02  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.

       JER 20:03  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.

       JER 20:04  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.

       JER 20:05  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.

       JER 20:06  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.

       JER 20:07  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.

       JER 20:08  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.

       JER 20:09  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].

       JER 20:10  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.

       JER 20:11  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.

       JER 20:12  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.

       JER 20:13  Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath

delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

       JER 20:14  Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the

day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.