11 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah of the priests
that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Then the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
15 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 .
16 Then said I Ah Lord GOD behold I cannot speak for I am a
child .
17 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 .
18 Be not afraid of their faces for I am with thee to deliver
thee saith the LORD .
19 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 .
110 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 .
111 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 .
112 Then said the LORD unto me Thou hast well seen for I will
hasten my word to perform it .
113 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 .
114 Then the LORD said unto me Out of the north an evil shall
break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land .
115 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 .
116 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 .
117 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 .
118 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 .
119 And they shall fight against thee but they shall not
prevail against thee for I am with thee saith the LORD to
deliver thee .
* 21 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me saying .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Hear ye the word of the LORD O house of Jacob and all the
families of the house of Israel .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Wherefore I will yet plead with you saith the LORD and with
your children's children will I plead .
210 For pass over the isles of Chittim and see and send unto
Kedar and consider diligently and see if there be such a thing .
211 Hath a nation changed their gods which are yet no gods but
my people have changed their glory for that which doth not
profit .
212 Be astonished O ye heavens at this and be horribly afraid
be ye very desolate saith the LORD .
213 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 .
214 Is Israel a servant is he a homeborn slave why is he
spoiled .
215 The young lions roared upon him and yelled and they made
his land waste his cities are burned without inhabitant .
216 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the
crown of thy head .
217 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself in that thou hast
forsaken the LORD thy God when he led thee by the way .
218 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 .
219 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 .
220 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 .
221 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 .
222 For though thou wash thee with nitre and take thee much
soap yet thine iniquity is marked before me saith the Lord GOD .
223 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 .
224 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 .
225 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 .
226 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 .
227 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 .
228 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 .
229 Wherefore will ye plead with me ye all have transgressed
against me saith the LORD .
230 In vain have I smitten your children they received no
correction your own sword hath devoured your prophets like a
destroying lion .
231 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 .
232 Can a maid forget her ornaments or a bride her attire yet
my people have forgotten me days without number .
233 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love therefore hast thou
also taught the wicked ones thy ways .
234 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 .
235 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 .
236 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way thou also
shalt be ashamed of Egypt as thou wast ashamed of Assyria .
237 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 .
* 31 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 .
32 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 .
33 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 .
34 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me My father thou art
the guide of my youth .
35 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 .
36 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 .
37 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 .
38 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 .
39 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom
that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and
with stocks .
310 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not
turned unto me with her whole heart but feignedly saith the LORD
.
311 And the LORD said unto me The backsliding Israel hath
justified herself more than treacherous Judah .
312 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 .
313 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 .
314 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 .
315 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart which
shall feed you with knowledge and understanding .
316 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 .
317 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 .
318 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 .
319 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 .
320 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband
so have ye dealt treacherously with me O house of Israel saith
the LORD .
321 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 .
322 Return ye backsliding children and I will heal your
backslidings Behold we come unto thee for thou art the LORD our
God .
323 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 .
324 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our
youth their flocks and their herds their sons and their
daughters .
325 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 .
* 41 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 .
42 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 .
43 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem
Break up your fallow ground and sow not among thorns .
44 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 .
45 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 .
46 Set up the standard toward Zion retire stay not for I will
bring evil from the north and a great destruction .
47 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 .
48 For this gird you with sackcloth lament and howl for the
fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us .
49 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 .
410 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 .
411 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 .
412 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me now
also will I give sentence against them .
413 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 .
414 O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickedness that thou
mayest be saved How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within
thee .
415 For a voice declareth from Dan and publisheth affliction
from mount Ephraim .
416 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 .
417 As keepers of a field are they against her round about
because she hath been rebellious against me saith the LORD .
418 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 .
419 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 .
420 Destruction upon destruction is cried for the whole land
is spoiled suddenly are my tents spoiled and my curtains in a
moment .
421 How long shall I see the standard and hear the sound of
the trumpet .
422 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 .
423 I beheld the earth and lo it was without form and void and
the heavens and they had no light .
424 I beheld the mountains and lo they trembled and all the
hills moved lightly .
425 I beheld and lo there was no man and all the birds of the
heavens were fled .
426 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 .
427 For thus hath the LORD said The whole land shall be
desolate yet will I not make a full end .
428 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 .
429 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 .
430 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 .
431 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 .
* 51 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 .
52 And though they say The LORD liveth surely they swear
falsely .
53 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 .
54 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 .
55 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 .
56 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 .
57 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 .
58 They were as fed horses in the morning every one neighed
after his neighbour's wife .
59 Shall I not visit for these things saith the LORD and shall
not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this .
510 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 .
511 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt
very treacherously against me saith the LORD .
512 They have belied the LORD and said It is not he neither
shall evil come upon us neither shall we see sword nor famine .
513 And the prophets shall become wind and the word is not in
them thus shall it be done unto them .
514 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 .
515 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 .
516 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre they are all mighty
men .
517 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 .
518 Nevertheless in those days saith the LORD I will not make
a full end with you .
519 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 .
520 Declare this in the house of Jacob and publish it in Judah
saying .
521 Hear now this O foolish people and without understanding
which have eyes and see not which have ears and hear not .
522 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 .
523 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart
they are revolted and gone .
524 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 .
525 Your iniquities have turned away these things and your
sins have withholden good things from you .
526 For among my people are found wicked men they lay wait as
he that setteth snares they set a trap they catch men .
527 As a cage is full of birds so are their houses full of
deceit therefore they are become great and waxen rich .
528 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 .
529 Shall I not visit for these things saith the LORD shall
not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this .
530 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land .
531 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 .
* 61 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 .
62 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and
delicate woman .
63 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 .
64 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 .
65 Arise and let us go by night and let us destroy her palaces
.
66 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 .
67 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 .
68 Be thou instructed O Jerusalem lest my soul depart from
thee lest I make thee desolate a land not inhabited .
69 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 .
610 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 .
611 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 .
612 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 .
613 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 .
614 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my
people slightly saying Peace peace when there is no peace .
615 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 .
616 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 .
617 Also I set watchmen over you saying Hearken to the sound
of the trumpet But they said We will not hearken .
618 Therefore hear ye nations and know O congregation what is
among them .
619 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 .
620 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 .
621 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 .
622 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 .
623 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 .
624 We have heard the fame thereof our hands wax feeble
anguish hath taken hold of us and pain as of a woman in travail .
625 Go not forth into the field nor walk by the way for the
sword of the enemy and fear is on every side .
626 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 .
627 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people
that thou mayest know and try their way .
628 They are all grievous revolters walking with slanders they
are brass and iron they are all corrupters .
629 The bellows are burned the lead is consumed of the fire
the founder melteth in vain for the wicked are not plucked away .
630 Reprobate silver shall men call them because the LORD hath
rejected them .
* 71 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying .
72 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 .
73 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
.
74 Trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the LORD
The temple of the LORD The temple of the LORD are these .
75 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings if ye
thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour .
76 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 .
77 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place in the land
that I gave to your fathers for ever and ever .
78 Behold ye trust in lying words that cannot profit .
79 Will ye steal murder and commit adultery and swear falsely
and burn incense unto Baal and walk after other gods whom ye
know not .
710 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
.
711 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 .
712 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 .
713 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 .
714 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 .
715 And I will cast you out of my sight as I have cast out all
your brethren even the whole seed of Ephraim .
716 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 .
717 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in
the streets of Jerusalem .
718 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 .
719 Do they provoke me to anger saith the LORD do they not
provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces .
720 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 .
721 Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Put your
burnt offerings unto your sacrifices and eat flesh .
722 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 .
723 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 .
724 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 .
725 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 .
726 Yet they hearkened not unto me nor inclined their ear but
hardened their neck they did worse than their fathers .
727 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 .
728 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 .
729 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 .
730 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 .
731 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 .
732 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 .
733 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 .
734 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 .
* 81 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 .
82 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 .
83 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 .
84 Moreover thou shalt say unto them Thus saith the LORD Shall
they fall and not arise shall he turn away and not return .
85 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a
perpetual backsliding they hold fast deceit they refuse to
return .
86 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 .
87 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 .
88 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 .
89 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 .
810 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 .
811 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly saying Peace peace when there is no peace .
812 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 .
813 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 .
814 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 .
815 We looked for peace but no good came and for a time of
health and behold trouble .
816 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 .
817 For behold I will send serpents cockatrices among you
which will not be charmed and they shall bite you saith the LORD
.
818 When I would comfort myself against sorrow my heart is
faint in me .
819 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 .
820 The harvest is past the summer is ended and we are not
saved .
821 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt I am
black astonishment hath taken hold on me .
822 Is there no balm in Gilead is there no physician there why
then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered .
* 91 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 .
92 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 .
93 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 .
94 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 .
95 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 .
96 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit through deceit
they refuse to know me saith the LORD .
97 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 .
98 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 .
99 Shall I not visit them for these things saith the LORD
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this .
910 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 .
911 And I will make Jerusalem heaps and a den of dragons and I
will make the cities of Judah desolate without an inhabitant .
912 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 .
913 And the LORD saith Because they have forsaken my law which
I set before them and have not obeyed my voice neither walked
therein .
914 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart
and after Baalim which their fathers taught them .
915 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 .
916 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 .
917 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 .
918 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 .
919 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 .
920 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 .
921 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 .
922 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 .
923 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 .
924 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 .
925 Behold the days come saith the LORD that I will punish all
them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised .
926 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 .
* 101 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you O house
of Israel .
102 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 .
103 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 .
104 They deck it with silver and with gold they fasten it with
nails and with hammers that it move not .
105 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 .
106 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee O LORD thou art
great and thy name is great in might .
107 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 .
108 But they are altogether brutish and foolish the stock is a
doctrine of vanities .
109 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 .
1010 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 .
1011 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 .
1012 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 .
1013 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 .
1014 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 .
1015 They are vanity and the work of errors in the time of
their visitation they shall perish .
1016 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 .
1017 Gather up thy wares out of the land O inhabitant of the
fortress .
1018 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 .
1019 Woe is me for my hurt my wound is grievous but I said
Truly this is a grief and I must bear it .
1020 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 .
1021 For the pastors are become brutish and have not sought
the LORD therefore they shall not prosper and all their flocks
shall be scattered .
1022 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 .
1023 O LORD I know that the way of man is not in himself it is
not in man that walketh to direct his steps .
1024 O LORD correct me but with judgment not in thine anger
lest thou bring me to nothing .
1025 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 .
* 111 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying .
112 Hear ye the words of this covenant and speak unto the men
of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem .
113 And say thou unto them Thus saith the LORD God of Israel
Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant .
114 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 .
115 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 .
116 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 .
117 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 .
118 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 .
119 And the LORD said unto me A conspiracy is found among the
men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem .
1110 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 .
1111 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 .
1112 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
.
1113 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 .
1114 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 .
1115 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 .
1116 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 .
1117 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 .
1118 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it and I know it
then thou showedst me their doings .
1119 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 .
1120 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 .
1121 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 .
1122 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 .
1123 And there shall be no remnant of them for I will bring
evil upon the men of Anathoth even the year of their visitation .
* 121 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 .
122 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 .
123 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 .
124 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 .
125 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 .
126 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 .
127 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 .
128 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest it crieth
out against me therefore have I hated it .
129 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 .
1210 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard they have trodden
my portion under foot they have made my pleasant portion a
desolate wilderness .
1211 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 .
1212 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 .
1213 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
.
1214 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 .
1215 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 .
1216 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 .
1217 But if they will not obey I will utterly pluck up and
destroy that nation saith the LORD .
* 131 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 .
132 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD and
put it on my loins .
133 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time
saying .
134 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 .
135 So I went and hid it by Euphrates as the LORD commanded me
.
136 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 .
137 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 .
138 Then the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
139 Thus saith the LORD After this manner will I mar the pride
of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem .
1310 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 .
1311 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 .
1312 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 .
1313 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 .
1314 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 .
1315 Hear ye and give ear be not proud for the LORD hath
spoken .
1316 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 .
1317 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 .
1318 Say unto the king and to the queen Humble yourselves sit
down for your principalities shall come down even the crown of
your glory .
1319 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 .
1320 Lift up your eyes and behold them that come from the
north where is the flock that was given thee thy beautiful flock
.
1321 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 .
1322 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 .
1323 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his
spots then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil .
1324 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth
away by the wind of the wilderness .
1325 This is thy lot the portion of thy measures from me saith
the LORD because thou hast forgotten me and trusted in falsehood
.
1326 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face that
thy shame may appear .
1327 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 .
* 141 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the
dearth .
142 Judah mourneth and the gates thereof languish they are
black unto the ground and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up .
143 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 .
144 Because the ground is chapt for there was no rain in the
earth the plowmen were ashamed they covered their heads .
145 Yea the hind also calved in the field and forsook it
because there was no grass .
146 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 .
147 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 .
148 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 .
149 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 .
1410 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 .
1411 Then said the LORD unto me Pray not for this people for
their good .
1412 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 .
1413 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 .
1414 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 .
1415 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 .
1416 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 .
1417 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 .
1418 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 .
1419 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 .
1420 We acknowledge O LORD our wickedness and the iniquity of
our fathers for we have sinned against thee .
1421 Do not abhor us for thy name's sake do not disgrace the
throne of thy glory remember break not thy covenant with us .
1422 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 .
* 151 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 .
152 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 .
153 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 .
154 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 .
155 For who shall have pity upon thee O Jerusalem or who shall
bemoan thee or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest .
156 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 .
157 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 .
158 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 .
159 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 .
1510 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 .
1511 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 .
1512 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel .
1513 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil
without price and that for all thy sins even in all thy borders .
1514 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 .
1515 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 .
1516 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 .
1517 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 .
1518 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 .
1519 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 .
1520 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 .
1521 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked and
I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible .
* 161 The word of the LORD came also unto me saying .
162 Thou shalt not take thee a wife neither shalt thou have
sons or daughters in this place .
163 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 .
164 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 .
165 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 .
166 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 .
167 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 .
168 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting to sit
with them to eat and to drink .
169 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 .
1610 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 .
1611 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 .
1612 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 .
1613 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 .
1614 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 .
1615 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 .
616 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 .
1617 For mine eyes are upon all their ways they are not hid
from my face neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes .
1618 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 .
1619 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 .
1620 Shall a man make gods unto himself and they are no gods .
1621 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 .
* 171 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 .
172 Whilst their children remember their altars and their
groves by the green trees upon the high hills .
173 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 .
174 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 .
175 Thus saith the LORD Cursed be the man that trusteth in man
and maketh flesh his arm and whose heart departeth from the LORD
.
176 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 .
177 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD and whose
hope the LORD is .
178 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 .
179 The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately
wicked who can know it .
1710 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 .
1711 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 .
1712 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of
our sanctuary .
1713 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 .
1714 Heal me O LORD and I shall be healed save me and I shall
be saved for thou art my praise .
1715 Behold they say unto me Where is the word of the LORD let
it come now .
1716 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 .
1717 Be not a terror unto me thou art my hope in the day of
evil .
1718 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 .
1719 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 .
1720 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 .
1721 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 .
1722 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 .
1723 But they obeyed not neither inclined their ear but made
their neck stiff that they might not hear nor receive
instruction .
1724 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 .
1725 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 .
1726 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 .
1727 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 .
* 181 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying .
182 Arise and go down to the potter's house and there I will
cause thee to hear my words .
183 Then I went down to the potter's house and behold he
wrought a work on the wheels .
184 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 .
185 Then the word of the LORD came to me saying .
186 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 .
187 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and
concerning a kingdom to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy
it .
188 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 .
189 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and
concerning a kingdom to build and to plant it .
1810 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 .
1811 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 .
1812 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 .
1813 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 .
1814 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 .
1815 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 .
1816 To make their land desolate and a perpetual hissing every
one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and wag his head .
1817 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 .
1818 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 .
1819 Give heed to me O LORD and hearken to the voice of them
that contend with me .
1820 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 .
1821 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 .
1822 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 .
1823 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 .
* 191 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 .
192 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 .
193 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 .
194 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 .
195 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 .
196 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 .
197 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 .
198 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 .
199 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 .
1910 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men
that go with thee .
1911 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 .
1912 Thus will I do unto this place saith the LORD and to the
inhabitants thereof and even make this city as Tophet .
1913 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 .
1914 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 .
1915 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 .
* 201 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 .
202 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 .
203 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 .
204 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 .
205 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 .
206 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 .
207 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 .
208 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 .
209 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 .
2010 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 .
2011 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 .
2012 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 .
2013 Sing unto the LORD praise ye the LORD for he hath
delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers .
2014 Cursed be the day wherein I was born let not the day
wherein my mother bare me be blessed .
2015 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father saying
A man child is born unto thee making him very glad .
2016 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 .
2017 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
.
2018 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and
sorrow that my days should be consumed with shame .
* 211 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 .
212 Inquire 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 .
213 Then said Jeremiah unto them Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah
.
214 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 .
215 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 .
216 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city both man and
beast they shall die of a great pestilence .
217 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 .
218 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 .
219 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 .
2110 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 .
2111 And touching the house of the king of Judah say Hear ye
the word of the LORD .
2112 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 .
2113 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 .
2114 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 .
* 221 Thus saith the LORD Go down to the house of the king of
Judah and speak there this word .
222 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 .
223 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 .
224 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 .
225 But if ye will not hear these words I swear by myself
saith the LORD that this house shall become a desolation .
226 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 .
227 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 .
228 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 .
229 Then they shall answer Because they have forsaken the
covenant of the LORD their God and worshipped other gods and
served them .
2210 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 .
2211 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 .
2212 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him
captive and shall see this land no more .
2213 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 .
2214 That saith I will build me a wide house and large
chambers and cutteth him out windows and it is ceiled with cedar
and painted with vermilion .
2215 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 .
2216 He judged the cause of the poor and needy then it was
well with him was not this to know me saith the LORD .
2217 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 .
2218 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 .
2219 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass drawn and
cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem .
2220 Go up to Lebanon and cry and lift up thy voice in Bashan
and cry from the passages for all thy lovers are destroyed .
2221 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 .
2222 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 .
2223 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 .
2224 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 .
2225 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 .
2226 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 .
2227 But to the land whereunto they desire to return thither
shall they not return .
2228 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 .
2229 O earth earth earth hear the word of the LORD .
2230 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 .
* 231 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the
sheep of my pasture saith the LORD .
232 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 .
233 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 .
234 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 .
235 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 .
236 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 .
237 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 .
238 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 .
239 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 .
2310 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 .
2311 For both prophet and priest are profane yea in my house
have I found their wickedness saith the LORD .
2312 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 .
2313 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria they
prophesied in Baal and caused my people Israel to err .
2314 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 .
2315 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 .
2316 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 .
2317 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 .
2318 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 .
2319 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 .
2320 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 .
2321 I have not sent these prophets yet they ran I have not
spoken to them yet they prophesied .
2322 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 .
2323 Am I a God at hand saith the LORD and not a God afar off .
2324 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 .
2325 I have heard what the prophets said that prophesy lies in
my name saying I have dreamed I have dreamed .
2326 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 .
2327 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 .
2328 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 .
2329 Is not my word like as a fire saith the LORD and like a
hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces .
2330 Therefore behold I am against the prophets saith the LORD
that steal my words every one from his neighbour .
2331 Behold I am against the prophets saith the LORD that use
their tongues and say He saith .
2332 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 .
2333 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 .
2334 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 .
2335 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 .
2336 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 .
2337 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet What hath the LORD
answered thee and What hath the LORD spoken .
2338 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 .
2339 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 .
2340 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you and a
perpetual shame which shall not be forgotten .
* 241 The LORD showed 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 .
242 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 .
243 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 .
244 Again the word of the LORD came unto me saying .
245 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 .
246 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 .
247 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 .
248 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 .
249 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 .
2410 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 .
* 251 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 .
252 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people
of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying .
253 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 .
254 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 .
255 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 .
256 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 .
257 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 .
258 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts Because ye have not
heard my words .
259 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 .
2510 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 .
2511 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an
astonishment and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon
seventy years .
2512 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 .
2513 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 .
2514 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 .
2515 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 .
2516 And they shall drink and be moved and be mad because of
the sword that I will send among them .
2517 Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand and made all the
nations to drink unto whom the LORD had sent me .
2518 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 .
2519 Pharaoh king of Egypt and his servants and his princes
and all his people .
2520 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 .
2521 Edom and Moab and the children of Ammon .
2522 And all the kings of Tyrus and all the kings of Zidon and
the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea .
2523 Dedan and Tema and Buz and all that are in the utmost
corners .
2524 And all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the
mingled people that dwell in the desert .
2525 And all the kings of Zimri and all the kings of Elam and
all the kings of the Medes .
2526 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 .
2527 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 .
2528 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 .
2529 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 .
2530 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 .
2531 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 .
2532 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 .
2533 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 .
2534 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 .
2535 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee nor the
principal of the flock to escape .
2536 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 .
2537 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the
fierce anger of the LORD .
2538 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 .
* 261 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD saying .
262 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 .
263 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 .
264 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 .
265 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 .
266 Then will I make this house like Shiloh and will make this
city a curse to all the nations of the earth .
267 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard
Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD .
268 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 .
269 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 .
2610 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 .
2611 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 .
2612 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 .
2613 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 .
2614 As for me behold I am in your hand do with me as seemeth
good and meet unto you .
2615 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 .
2616 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 .
2617 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land and spake
to all the assembly of the people saying .
2618 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 .
2619 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 .
2620 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 .
2621 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 .
2622 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt namely
Elnathan the son of Achbor and certain men with him into Egypt .
2623 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 .
2624 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 .
* 271 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD
saying .
272 Thus saith the LORD to me Make thee bonds and yokes and
put them upon thy neck .
273 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 .
274 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 .
275 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 .
276 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 .
277 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 .
278 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 .
279 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 .
2710 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 .
2711 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 .
2712 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 .
2713 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 .
2714 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 .
2715 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 .
2716 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 .
2717 Hearken not unto them serve the king of Babylon and live
wherefore should this city be laid waste .
2718 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 .
2719 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 .
2720 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 .
2721 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 .
2722 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 .
* 281 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 .
282 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts the God of Israel saying I
have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon .
283 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 .
284 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 .
285 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 .
286 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 .
287 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine
ears and in the ears of all the people .
288 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 .
289 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 .
2810 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the
prophet Jeremiah's neck and brake it .
2811 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 .
2812 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 .
2813 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 .
2814 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 .
2815 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 .
2816 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 .
2817 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh
month .
* 291 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 .
292 (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 .
293 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 .
294 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 .
295 Build ye houses and dwell in them and plant gardens and
eat the fruit of them .
296 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 .
297 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 .
298 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 .
299 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name I have not
sent them saith the LORD .
2910 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 .
2911 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 .
2912 Then shall ye call upon me and ye shall go and pray unto
me and I will hearken unto you .
2913 And ye shall seek me and find me when ye shall search for
me with all your heart .
2914 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 .
2915 Because ye have said The LORD hath raised us up prophets
in Babylon .
2916 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 .
2917 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 .
2918 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 .
2919 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 .
2920 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD all ye of the
captivity whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon .
2921 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 .
2922 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 .
2923 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 .
2924 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite
saying .
2925 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 .
2926 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 .
2927 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of
Anathoth which maketh himself a prophet to you .
2928 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 .
2929 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of
Jeremiah the prophet .
2930 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah saying .
2931 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 .
2932 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 .
* 301 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying .
302 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel saying Write thee all
the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book .
303 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 .
304 And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning
Israel and concerning Judah .
305 For thus saith the LORD We have heard a voice of trembling
of fear and not of peace .
306 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 .
307 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
.
308 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 .
309 But they shall serve the LORD their God and David their
king whom I will raise up unto them .
3010 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 .
3011 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
will I not make a full end of thee but I will correct thee in
measure and will not leave thee altogether unpunished .
3012 For thus saith the LORD Thy bruise is incurable and thy
wound is grievous .
3013 There is none to plead thy cause that thou mayest be
bound up thou hast no healing medicines .
3014 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 .
3015 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 .
3016 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 .
3017 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 .
3018 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 .
3019 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 .
3020 Their children also shall be as aforetime and their
congregation shall be established before me and I will punish
all that oppress them .
3021 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 .
3022 And ye shall be my people and I will be your God .
3023 Behold the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury a
continuing whirlwind it shall fall with pain upon the head of
the wicked .
3024 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return until he
have done it and until he have performed the intents of his
heart in the latter days ye shall consider it .
* 311 At the same time saith the LORD will I be the God of all
the families of Israel and they shall be my people .
312 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 .
313 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 .
314 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 .
315 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria
the planters shall plant and shall eat them as common things .
316 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 .
317 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 .
318 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 .
319 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 .
3110 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 .
3111 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from
the hand of him that was stronger than he .
3112 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 .
3113 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 .
3114 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness
and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness saith the LORD
.
3115 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 .
3116 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 .
3117 And there is hope in thine end saith the LORD that thy
children shall come again to their own border .
3118 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 .
3119 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 .
3120 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 .
3121 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 .
3122 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 .
3123 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 .
3124 And there shall dwell in Judah itself and in all the
cities thereof together husbandmen and they that go forth with
flocks .
3125 For I have satiated the weary soul and I have replenished
every sorrowful soul .
3126 Upon this I awaked and beheld and my sleep was sweet unto
me .
3127 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 .
3128 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 .
3129 In those days they shall say no more The fathers have
eaten a sour grape and the children's teeth are set on edge .
3130 But every one shall die for his own iniquity every man
that eateth the sour grape his teeth shall be set on edge .
3131 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 .
3132 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 .
3133 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 .
3134 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 .
3135 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 .
3136 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 .
3137 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 .
3138 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 .
3139 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it
upon the hill Gareb and shall compass about to Goath .
3140 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 .
* 321 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 .
322 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 .
323 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 .
324 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 .
325 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 .
326 And Jeremiah said The word of the LORD came unto me saying
.
327 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 .
328 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 .
329 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 .
3210 And I subscribed the evidence and sealed it and took
witnesses and weighed him the money in the balances .
3211 So I took the evidence of the purchase both that which
was sealed according to the law and custom and that which was
open .
3212 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 .
3213 And I charged Baruch before them saying .
3214 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 .
3215 For thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Houses
and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land .
3216 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase
unto Baruch the son of Neriah I prayed unto the LORD saying .
3217 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 .
3218 Thou showest 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 .
3219 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 .
3220 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 .
3221 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 .
3222 And hast given them this land which thou didst swear to
their fathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey .
3223 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 .
3224 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 .
3225 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 .
3226 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah saying .
3227 Behold I am the LORD the God of all flesh is there any
thing too hard for me .
3228 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 .
3229 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 .
3230 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 .
3231 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 .
3232 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 .
3233 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 .
3234 But they set their abominations in the house which is
called by my name to defile it .
3235 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 .
3236 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 .
3237 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 .
3238 And they shall be my people and I will be their God .
3239 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 .
3240 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 .
3241 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 .
3242 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 .
3243 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 .
3244 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 .
* 331 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 .
332 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof the LORD that formed
it to establish it the LORD is his name .
333 Call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee great
and mighty things which thou knowest not .
334 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 .
335 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 .
336 Behold I will bring it health and cure and I will cure
them and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth .
337 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity
of Israel to return and will build them as at the first .
338 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 .
339 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 .
3310 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 .
3311 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 .
3312 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 .
3313 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 .
3314 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 .
3315 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 .
3316 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 .
3317 For thus saith the LORD David shall never want a man to
sit upon the throne of the house of Israel .
3318 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 .
3319 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah saying .
3320 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 .
3321 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 .
3322 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 .
3323 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah saying .
3324 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 .
3325 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 .
3326 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 .
* 341 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 .
342 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 .
343 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 .
344 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 .
345 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 .
346 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto
Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem .
347 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 .
348 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 .
349 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 .
3410 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 .
3411 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 .
3412 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the
LORD saying .
3413 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 .
3414 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 .
3415 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 .
3416 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 .
3417 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 .
3418 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 .
3419 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 .
3420 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 .
3421 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 .
3422 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 .
* 351 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the
days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah saying .
352 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 .
353 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 .
354 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 .
355 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 .
356 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 .
357 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 .
358 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 .
359 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in neither have we
vineyard nor field nor seed .
3510 But we have dwelt in tents and have obeyed and done
according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us .
3511 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 .
3512 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah saying .
3513 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 .
3514 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 .
3515 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 .
3516 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 .
3517 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 .
3518 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 .
3519 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 .
* 361 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 .
362 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 .
363 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 .
364 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 .
365 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch saying I am shut up I cannot
go into the house of the LORD .
366 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 .
367 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 .
368 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 .
369 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 .
3610 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 .
3611 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah the son of Shaphan had
heard out of the book all the words of the LORD .
3612 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 .
3613 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he
had heard when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people .
3614 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 .
3615 And they said unto him Sit down now and read it in our
ears So Baruch read it in their ears .
3616 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 .
3617 And they asked Baruch saying Tell us now How didst thou
write all these words at his mouth .
3618 Then Baruch answered them He pronounced all these words
unto me with his mouth and I wrote them with ink in the book .
3619 Then said the princes unto Baruch Go hide thee thou and
Jeremiah and let no man know where ye be .
3620 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 .
3621 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 .
3622 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month
and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him .
3623 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 .
3624 Yet they were not afraid nor rent their garments neither
the king nor any of his servants that heard all these words .
3625 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 .
3626 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 .
3627 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 .
3628 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 .
3629 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 .
3630 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 .
3631 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 .
3632 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 .
* 371 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 .
372 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 .
373 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 .
374 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people for
they had not put him into prison .
375 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 .
376 Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah
saying .
377 Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel Thus shall ye say to
the king of Judah that sent you unto me to inquire of me Behold
Pharaoh's army which is come forth to help you shall return to
Egypt into their own land .
378 And the Chaldeans shall come again and fight against this
city and take it and burn it with fire .
379 Thus saith the LORD Deceive not yourselves saying The
Chaldeans shall surely depart from us for they shall not depart .
3710 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 .
3711 And it came to pass that when the army of the Chaldeans
was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army .
3712 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the
land of Benjamin to separate himself thence in the midst of the
people .
3713 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 .
3714 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 .
3715 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 .
3716 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon and into the
cabins and Jeremiah had remained there many days .
3717 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 .
3718 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 .
3719 Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you
saying The king of Babylon shall not come against you nor
against this land .
3720 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 .
3721 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 .
* 381 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 .
382 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 .
383 Thus saith the LORD This city shall surely be given into
the hand of the king of Babylon's army which shall take it .
384 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 .
385 Then Zedekiah the king said Behold he is in your hand for
the king is not he that can do any thing against you .
386 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 .
387 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 .
388 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house and spake to
the king saying .
389 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 .
3810 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 .
3811 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 .
3812 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 .
3813 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords and took him up out
of the dungeon and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison .
3814 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 .
3815 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 .
3816 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 .
3817 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 .
3818 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 .
3819 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 .
3820 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 .
3821 But if thou refuse to go forth this is the word that the
LORD hath showed me .
3822 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 .
3823 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 .
3824 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah Let no man know of these
words and thou shalt not die .
3825 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 .
3826 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 .
3827 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 .
3828 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the
day that Jerusalem was taken and he was there when Jerusalem was
taken .
* 391 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 .
392 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah in the fourth month
the ninth day of the month the city was broken up .
393 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 .
394 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 .
395 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 .
396 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 .
397 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him with
chains to carry him to Babylon .
398 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses
of the people with fire and brake down the walls of Jerusalem .
399 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 .
3910 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 .
3911 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning
Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard saying .
3912 Take him and look well to him and do him no harm but do
unto him even as he shall say unto thee .
3913 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent and
Nebushasban Rabsaris and Nergalsharezer Rabmag and all the king
of Babylon's princes .
3914 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 .
3915 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah while he was
shut up in the court of the prison saying .
3916 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 .
3917 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 .
3918 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 .
* 401 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 .
402 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said unto
him The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place .
403 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 .
404 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 .
405 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 .
406 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to
Mizpah and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the
land .
407 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 .
408 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 .
409 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 .
4010 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 .
4011 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 .
4012 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 .
4013 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains
of the forces that were in the fields came to Gedaliah to Mizpah
.
4014 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 .
4015 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 .
4016 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 .
* 411 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 .
412 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 .
413 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 .
414 And it came to pass the second day after he had slain
Gedaliah and no man knew it .
415 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 .
416 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 .
417 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 .
418 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 .
419 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
.
4110 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 .
4111 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 .
4112 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 .
4113 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 .
4114 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive
from Mizpah cast about and returned and went unto Johanan the
son of Kareah .
4115 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan
with eight men and went to the Ammonites .
4116 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 .
4117 And they departed and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham
which is by Bethlehem to go to enter into Egypt .
4118 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 .
* 421 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 .
422 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 .
423 That the LORD thy God may show us the way wherein we may
walk and the thing that we may do .
424 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 .
425 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 .
426 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 .
427 And it came to pass after ten days that the word of the
LORD came unto Jeremiah .
428 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 .
429 And said unto them Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel
unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him .
4210 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 .
4211 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 .
4212 And I will show mercies unto you that he may have mercy
upon you and cause you to return to your own land .
4213 But if ye say We will not dwell in this land neither obey
the voice of the LORD your God .
4214 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 .
4215 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 .
4216 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 .
4217 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 .
4218 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 .
4219 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 .
4220 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 .
4221 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 .
4222 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 .
* 431 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 .
432 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 .
433 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 .
434 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 .
435 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 .
436 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 .
437 So they came into the land of Egypt for they obeyed not
the voice of the LORD thus came they even to Tahpanhes .
438 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes
saying .
439 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 .
4310 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 .
4311 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 .
4312 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 .
4313 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 .
* 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 .
442 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 .
443 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 .
444 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 .
445 But they hearkened not nor inclined their ear to turn from
their wickedness to burn no incense unto other gods .
446 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 .
447 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 .
448 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 .
449 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 .
4410 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 .
4411 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 .
4412 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 .
4413 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 .
4414 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 .
4415 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 .
4416 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name
of the LORD we will not hearken unto thee .
4417 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 .
4418 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
.
4419 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 .
4420 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 .
4421 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 .
4422 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 .
4423 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 .
4424 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 .
4425 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 .
4426 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 .
4427 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 .
4428 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 theirs .
4429 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 .
4430 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 .
* 451 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 .
452 Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel unto thee O Baruch .
453 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 .
454 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 .
455 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 .
* 461 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet
against the Gentiles .
462 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 .
463 Order ye the buckler and shield and draw near to battle .
464 Harness the horses and get up ye horsemen and stand forth
with your helmets furbish the spears and put on the brigandines .
465 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 .
466 Let not the swift flee away nor the mighty man escape they
shall stumble and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates .
467 Who is this that cometh up as a flood whose waters are
moved as the rivers .
468 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 .
469 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 .
4610 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 .
4611 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 .
4612 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 .
4613 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet how
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of
Egypt .
4614 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 .
4615 Why are thy valiant men swept away they stood not because
the LORD did drive them .
4616 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 .
4617 They did cry there Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise
he hath passed the time appointed .
4618 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 .
4619 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt furnish thyself to go
into captivity for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an
inhabitant .
4620 Egypt is like a very fair heifer but destruction cometh
it cometh out of the north .
4621 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 .
4622 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 .
4623 They shall cut down her forest saith the LORD though it
cannot be searched because they are more than the grasshoppers
and are innumerable .
4624 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded she shall be
delivered into the hand of the people of the north .
4625 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 .
4626 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 .
4627 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 .
4628 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 .
* 471 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet
against the Philistines before that Pharaoh smote Gaza .
472 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 .
473 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 .
474 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 .
475 Baldness is come upon Gaza Ashkelon is cut off with the
remnant of their valley how long wilt thou cut thyself .
476 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 .
477 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 .
* 481 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 .
482 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 .
483 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim spoiling and
great destruction .
484 Moab is destroyed her little ones have caused a cry to be
heard .
485 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 .
486 Flee save your lives and be like the heath in the
wilderness .
487 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 .
488 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 .
489 Give wings unto Moab that it may flee and get away for the
cities thereof shall be desolate without any to dwell therein .
4810 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully
and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood .
4811 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 .
4812 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 .
4813 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh as the house of
Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence .
4814 How say ye We are mighty and strong men for the war .
4815 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 .
4816 The calamity of Moab is near to come and his affliction
hasteth fast .
4817 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 .
4818 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 .
4819 O inhabitant of Aroer stand by the way and espy ask him
that fleeth and her that escapeth and say What is done .
4820 Moab is confounded for it is broken down howl and cry
tell ye it in Arnon that Moab is spoiled .
4821 And judgment is come upon the plain country upon Holon
and upon Jahazah and upon Mephaath .
4822 And upon Dibon and upon Nebo and upon Bethdiblathaim .
4823 And upon Kiriathaim and upon Bethgamul and upon Bethmeon .
4824 And upon Kerioth and upon Bozrah and upon all the cities
of the land of Moab far or near .
4825 The horn of Moab is cut off and his arm is broken saith
the LORD .
4826 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 .
4827 For was not Israel a derision unto thee was he found
among thieves for since thou spakest of him thou skippedst for
joy .
4828 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 .
4829 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 .
4830 I know his wrath saith the LORD but it shall not be so
his lies shall not so effect it .
4831 Therefore will I howl for Moab and I will cry out for all
Moab mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres .
4832 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 .
4833 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 .
4834 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 .
4835 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 .
4836 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 .
4837 For every head shall be bald and every beard clipped upon
all the hands shall be cuttings and upon the loins sackcloth .
4838 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 .
4839 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 .
4840 For thus saith the LORD Behold he shall fly as an eagle
and shall spread his wings over Moab .
4841 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 .
4842 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people because
he hath magnified himself against the LORD .
4843 Fear and the pit and the snare shall be upon thee O
inhabitant of Moab saith the LORD .
4844 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 .
4845 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 .
4846 Woe be unto thee O Moab the people of Chemosh perisheth
for thy sons are taken captives and thy daughters captives .
4847 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the
latter days saith the LORD Thus far is the judgment of Moab .
* 491 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 .
492 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 .
493 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 .
494 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys thy flowing valley
O backsliding daughter that trusted in her treasures saying Who
shall come unto me .
495 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 .
496 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the
children of Ammon saith the LORD .
497 Concerning Edom thus saith the LORD of hosts Is wisdom no
more in Teman is counsel perished from the prudent is their
wisdom vanished .
498 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 .
499 If grapegatherers come to thee would they not leave some
gleaning grapes if thieves by night they will destroy till they
have enough .
4910 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 .
4911 Leave thy fatherless children I will preserve them alive
and let thy widows trust in me .
4912 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 .
4913 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 .
4914 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 .
4915 For lo I will make thee small among the heathen and
despised among men .
4916 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 .
4917 Also Edom shall be a desolation every one that goeth by
it shall be astonished and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof
.
4918 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 .
4919 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 .
4920 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 .
4921 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall at the cry
the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea .
4922 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 .
4923 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 .
4924 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 .
4925 How is the city of praise not left the city of my joy .
4926 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 .
4927 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus and it
shall consume the palaces of Benhadad .
4928 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 .
4929 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 .
4930 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 .
4931 Arise get you up unto the wealthy nation that dwelleth
without care saith the LORD which have neither gates nor bars
which dwell alone .
4932 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 .
4933 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 .
4934 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 .
4935 Thus saith the LORD of hosts Behold I will break the bow
of Elam the chief of their might .
4936 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 .
4937 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 .
4938 And I will set my throne in Elam and will destroy from
thence the king and the princes saith the LORD .
4939 But it shall come to pass in the latter days that I will
bring again the captivity of Elam saith the LORD .
* 501 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against
the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet .
502 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 .
503 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 .
504 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 .
505 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 .
506 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 .
507 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 .
508 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 .
509 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 .
5010 And Chaldea shall be a spoil all that spoil her shall be
satisfied saith the LORD .
5011 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 .
5012 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 .
5013 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 .
5014 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 .
5015 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 .
5016 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 .
5017 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 .
5018 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 .
5019 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 .
5020 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 .
5021 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 .
5022 A sound of battle is in the land and of great destruction
.
5023 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and
broken how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations .
5024 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 .
5025 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 .
5026 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 .
5027 Slay all her bullocks let them go down to the slaughter
woe unto them for their day is come the time of their visitation
.
5028 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 .
5029 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 .
5030 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 .
5031 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
.
5032 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 .
5033 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 .
5034 Their Redeemer is strong the LORD of hosts is his name he
shall thoroughly plead their cause that he may give rest to the
land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon .
5035 A sword is upon the Chaldeans saith the LORD and upon the
inhabitants of Babylon and upon her princes and upon her wise
men .
5036 A sword is upon the liars and they shall dote a sword is
upon her mighty men and they shall be dismayed .
5037 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 .
5038 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 .
5039 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 .
5040 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 .
5041 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 .
5042 They shall hold the bow and the lance they are cruel and
will not show 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 .
5043 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 .
5044 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 .
5045 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 .
5046 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved
and the cry is heard among the nations .
* 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 .
512 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 .
513 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 .
514 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans and
they that are thrust through in her streets .
515 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 .
516 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 recompense .
517 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 .
518 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed howl for her take
balm for her pain if so be she may be healed .
519 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
.
5110 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness come and
let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God .
5111 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 .
5112 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 .
5113 O thou that dwellest upon many waters abundant in
treasures thine end is come and the measure of thy covetousness .
5114 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself saying Surely I
will fill thee with men as with caterpillars and they shall lift
up a shout against thee .
5115 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 .
5116 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 .
5117 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 .
5118 They are vanity the work of errors in the time of their
visitation they shall perish .
5119 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 .
5120 Thou art my battle ax and weapons of war for with thee
will I break in pieces the nations and with thee will I destroy
kingdoms .
5121 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 .
5122 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 .
5123 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 .
5124 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 .
5125 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 .
5126 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 .
5127 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
caterpillars .
5128 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 .
5129 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 .
5130 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne 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
.
5131 One post shall run to meet another and one messenger to
meet another to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken
at one end .
5132 And that the passages are stopped and the reeds they have
burned with fire and the men of war are affrighted .
5133 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 .
5134 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 .
5135 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 .
5136 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 .
5137 And Babylon shall become heaps a dwellingplace for
dragons and astonishment and an hissing without an inhabitant .
5138 They shall roar together like lions they shall yell as
lions' whelps .
5139 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 .
5140 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter like
rams with he goats .
5141 How is Sheshach taken and how is the praise of the whole
earth surprised how is Babylon become an astonishment among the
nations .
5142 The sea is come up upon Babylon she is covered with the
multitude of the waves thereof .
5143 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 .
5144 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 .
5145 My people go ye out of the midst of her and deliver ye
every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD .
5146 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 .
5147 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 .
5148 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 .
5149 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall so at
Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth .
5150 Ye that have escaped the sword go away stand not still
remember the LORD afar off and let Jerusalem come into your mind
.
5151 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 .
5152 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 .
5153 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 .
5154 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon and great
destruction from the land of the Chaldeans .
5155 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 .
5156 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 recompenses shall surely requite .
5157 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 .
5158 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 .
5159 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 .
5160 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come
upon Babylon even all these words that are written against
Babylon .
5161 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah When thou comest to Babylon
and shalt see and shalt read all these words .
5162 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 .
5163 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 .
5164 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 .
* 521 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 .
522 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD
according to all that Jehoiakim had done .
523 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 .
524 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 .
525 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
Zedekiah .
526 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 .
527 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 .
528 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 .
529 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 .
5210 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before
his eyes he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah .
5211 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 .
5212 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 .
5213 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 .
5214 And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the
captain of the guard brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round
about .
5215 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 .
5216 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of
the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen .
5217 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the
LORD and the bases and the brazen sea that was in the house of
the LORD the Chaldeans brake and carried all the brass of them
to Babylon .
5218 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 .
5219 And the basins 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 .
5220 The two pillars one sea and twelve brazen 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 .
5221 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 .
5222 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 .
5223 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side and
all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round
about .
5224 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief
priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of
the door .
5225 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 .
5226 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and
brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah .
5227 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 .
5228 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away
captive in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and
twenty .
5229 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away
captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons .
5230 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 .
5231 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 .
5232 And spake kindly unto him and set his throne above the
throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon .
5233 And changed his prison garments and he did continually
eat bread before him all the days of his life .
5234 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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