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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

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JER-1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that [were]

in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

JER-1:2 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of

Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

JER-1:3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of

Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of

Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

JER-1:4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

JER-1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest

forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto

the nations.

JER-1:6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I [am] a

child.

JER-1:7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I [am] a child: for thou shalt go

to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

JER-1:8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I [am] with thee to deliver thee,

saith the LORD.

JER-1:9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD

said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

JER-1:10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the

kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to

build, and to plant.

JER-1:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what

seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.

JER-1:12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten

my word to perform it.

JER-1:13 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What

seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof [is] toward

the north.

JER-1:14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break

forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

JER-1:15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north,

saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne

at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof

round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

JER-1:16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their

wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and

worshipped the works of their own hands.

JER-1:17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all

that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee

before them.

JER-1:18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron

pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah,

against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the

people of the land.

JER-1:19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail

against thee; for I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

JER-2:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

JER-2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I

remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when

thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown.

JER-2:3 Israel [was] holiness unto the LORD, [and] the firstfruits of his

increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith

the LORD.

JER-2:4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families

of the house of Israel:

JER-2:5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me,

that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become

vain?

JER-2:6 Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us up out of the

land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts

and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a

land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

JER-2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof

and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made

mine heritage an abomination.

JER-2:8 The priests said not, Where [is] the LORD? and they that handle the

law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets

prophesied by Baal, and walked after [things that] do not profit.

JER-2:9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your

children's children will I plead.

JER-2:10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar,

and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.

JER-2:11 Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my

people have changed their glory for [that which] doth not profit.

JER-2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye

very desolate, saith the LORD.

JER-2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the

fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns,

that can hold no water.

JER-2:14 [Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why is he

spoiled?

JER-2:15 The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they made his

land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

JER-2:16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy

head.

JER-2:17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken

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

JER-2:18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the

waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the

waters of the river?

JER-2:19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall

reprove thee: know therefore and see that [it is] an evil [thing] and bitter,

that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee,

saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

JER-2:20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and

thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every

green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

JER-2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then

art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

JER-2:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, [yet]

thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

JER-2:23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim?

see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: [thou art] a swift

dromedary traversing her ways;

JER-2:24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, [that] snuffeth up the wind at

her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her

will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

JER-2:25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but

thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them

will I go.

JER-2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel

ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their

prophets,

JER-2:27 Saying to a stock, Thou [art] my father; and to a stone, Thou hast

brought me forth: for they have turned [their] back unto me, and not [their]

face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

JER-2:28 But where [are] thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise,

if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for [according to] the

number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.

JER-2:29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against

me, saith the LORD.

JER-2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction:

your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

JER-2:31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness

unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we

will come no more unto thee?

JER-2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her attire? yet my

people have forgotten me days without number.

JER-2:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also

taught the wicked ones thy ways.

JER-2:34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor

innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

JER-2:35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn

from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not

sinned.

JER-2:36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be

ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

JER-2:37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head:

for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in

them.

JER-3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become

another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly

polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again

to me, saith the LORD.

JER-3:2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not

been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the

wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy

wickedness.

JER-3:3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no

latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

JER-3:4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou [art] the

guide of my youth?

JER-3:5 Will he reserve [his anger] for ever? will he keep [it] to the end?

Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.

JER-3:6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou

seen [that] which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high

mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

JER-3:7 And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn thou unto me.

But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw [it].

JER-3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel

committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet

her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

JER-3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she

defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

JER-3:10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned

unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.

JER-3:11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified

herself more than treacherous Judah.

JER-3:12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou

backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; [and] I will not cause mine anger to fall

upon you: for I [am] merciful, saith the LORD, [and] I will not keep [anger]

for ever.

JER-3:13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against

the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every

green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

JER-3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto

you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring

you to Zion:

JER-3:15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall

feed you with knowledge and understanding.

JER-3:16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in

the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of

the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they

remember it; neither shall they visit [it]; neither shall [that] be done any

more.

JER-3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and

all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to

Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their

evil heart.

JER-3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of

Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land

that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.

JER-3:19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a

pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou

shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

JER-3:20 Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have

ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

JER-3:21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping [and] supplications

of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, [and] they have

forgotten the LORD their God.

JER-3:22 Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal your

backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God.

JER-3:23 Truly in vain [is salvation hoped for] from the hills, [and from]

the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God [is] the salvation of

Israel.

JER-3:24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth;

their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

JER-3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have

sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto

this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

JER-4:1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if

thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not

remove.

JER-4:2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in

righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall

they glory.

JER-4:3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up

your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

JER-4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of

your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come

forth like fire, and burn that none can quench [it], because of the evil of

your doings.

JER-4:5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the

trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and

let us go into the defenced cities.

JER-4:6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring

evil from the north, and a great destruction.

JER-4:7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the

Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land

desolate; [and] thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

JER-4:8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce

anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

JER-4:9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, [that] the

heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests

shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

JER-4:10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this

people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth

unto the soul.

JER-4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry

wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people,

not to fan, nor to cleanse,

JER-4:12 [Even] a full wind from those [places] shall come unto me: now also

will I give sentence against them.

JER-4:13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as a

whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are

spoiled.

JER-4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be

saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

JER-4:15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount

Ephraim.

JER-4:16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem,

[that] watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the

cities of Judah.

JER-4:17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she

hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.

JER-4:18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these [things] unto thee; this

[is] thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine

heart.

JER-4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh

a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the

sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

JER-4:20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is

spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, [and] my curtains in a moment.

JER-4:21 How long shall I see the standard, [and] hear the sound of the

trumpet?

JER-4:22 For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are]

sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do

evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

JER-4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and

the heavens, and they [had] no light.

JER-4:24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills

moved lightly.

JER-4:25 I beheld, and, lo, [there was] no man, and all the birds of the

heavens were fled.

JER-4:26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place [was] a wilderness, and all

the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, [and] by his

fierce anger.

JER-4:27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet

will I not make a full end.

JER-4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black:

because I have spoken [it], I have purposed [it], and will not repent, neither

will I turn back from it.

JER-4:29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen;

they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city [shall

be] forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.

JER-4:30 And [when] thou [art] spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou

clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of

gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make

thyself fair; [thy] lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.

JER-4:31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, [and] the anguish

as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of

Zion, [that] bewaileth herself, [that] spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe [is]

me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

JER-5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and

know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be

[any] that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

JER-5:2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.

JER-5:3 O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them,

but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to

receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have

refused to return.

JER-5:4 Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they

know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God.

JER-5:5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they

have known the way of the LORD, [and] the judgment of their God: but these

have altogether broken the yoke, [and] burst the bonds.

JER-5:6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, [and] a wolf of

the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every

one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their

transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.

JER-5:7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and

sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then

committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

JER-5:8 They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his

neighbour's wife.

JER-5:9 Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: and shall not

my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

JER-5:10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take

away her battlements; for they [are] not the LORD'S.

JER-5:11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very

treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

JER-5:12 They have belied the LORD, and said, [It is] not he; neither shall

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

JER-5:13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is] not in them:

thus shall it be done unto them.

JER-5:14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this

word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood,

and it shall devour them.

JER-5:15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel,

saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation

whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

JER-5:16 Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men.

JER-5:17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, [which] thy sons

and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds:

they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy

fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

JER-5:18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full

end with you.

JER-5:19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the

LORD our God all these [things] unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as

ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve

strangers in a land [that is] not yours.

JER-5:20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

JER-5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which

have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

JER-5:22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence,

which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree,

that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can

they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

JER-5:23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are

revolted and gone.

JER-5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God,

that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth

unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

JER-5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and your sins have

withholden good [things] from you.

JER-5:26 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he

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

JER-5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit:

therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

JER-5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the

wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they

prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

JER-5:29 Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: shall not my

soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

JER-5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

JER-5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their

means; and my people love [to have it] so: and what will ye do in the end

thereof?

JER-6:1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst

of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in

Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.

JER-6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate [woman].

JER-6:3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch

[their] tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

JER-6:4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto

us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

JER-6:5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

JER-6:6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a

mount against Jerusalem: this [is] the city to be visited; she [is] wholly

oppression in the midst of her.

JER-6:7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her

wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually [is]

grief and wounds.

JER-6:8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest

I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

JER-6:9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant

of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.

JER-6:10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold,

their ear [is] uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the

LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

JER-6:11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding

in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of

young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the

aged with [him that is] full of days.

JER-6:12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, [with their] fields

and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the

land, saith the LORD.

JER-6:13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one

[is] given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every

one dealeth falsely.

JER-6:14 They have healed also the hurt [of the daughter] of my people

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

JER-6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they

were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall

among them that fall: at the time [that] I visit them they shall be cast down,

saith the LORD.

JER-6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the

old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest

for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].

JER-6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the

trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

JER-6:18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what [is]

among them.

JER-6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, [even]

the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words,

nor to my law, but rejected it.

JER-6:20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet

cane from a far country? your burnt offerings [are] not acceptable, nor your

sacrifices sweet unto me.

JER-6:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks

before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon

them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

JER-6:22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country,

and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

JER-6:23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they [are] cruel, and have no

mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in

array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.

JER-6:24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath

taken hold of us, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail.

JER-6:25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of

the enemy [and] fear [is] on every side.

JER-6:26 O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and wallow

thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter

lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

JER-6:27 I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that

thou mayest know and try their way.

JER-6:28 They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: [they are]

brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters.

JER-6:29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the

founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

JER-6:30 Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath

rejected them.

JER-7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

JER-7:2 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word,

and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all [ye of] Judah, that enter in at these

gates to worship the LORD.

JER-7:3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and

your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

JER-7:4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The

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

JER-7:5 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye

thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

JER-7:6 [If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and

shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your

hurt:

JER-7:7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave

to your fathers, for ever and ever.

JER-7:8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

JER-7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and

burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

JER-7:10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my

name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

JER-7:11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers

in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith the LORD.

JER-7:12 But go ye now unto my place which [was] in Shiloh, where I set my

name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people

Israel.

JER-7:13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I

spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called

you, but ye answered not;

JER-7:14 Therefore will I do unto [this] house, which is called by my name,

wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers,

as I have done to Shiloh.

JER-7:15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your

brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim.

JER-7:16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor

prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

JER-7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the

streets of Jerusalem?

JER-7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the

women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour

out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

JER-7:19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: [do they] not [provoke]

themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

JER-7:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury

shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the

trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and

shall not be quenched.

JER-7:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt

offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

JER-7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day

that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or

sacrifices:

JER-7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will

be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I

have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

JER-7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the

counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and

not forward.

JER-7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt

unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily

rising up early and sending [them]:

JER-7:26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened

their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

JER-7:27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will

not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer

thee.

JER-7:28 But thou shalt say unto them, This [is] a nation that obeyeth not

the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished,

and is cut off from their mouth.

JER-7:29 Cut off thine hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and take up a

lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the

generation of his wrath.

JER-7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the

LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my

name, to pollute it.

JER-7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which [is] in the

valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the

fire; which I commanded [them] not, neither came it into my heart.

JER-7:32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no

more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of

slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.

JER-7:33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the

heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray [them] away.

JER-7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the

streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice

of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

JER-8:1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the

kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests,

and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

out of their graves:

JER-8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the

host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after

whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have

worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung

upon the face of the earth.

JER-8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them

that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have

driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

JER-8:4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they

fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?

JER-8:5 Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual

backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

JER-8:6 I hearkened and heard, [but] they spake not aright: no man repented

him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his

course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

JER-8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the

turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my

people know not the judgment of the LORD.

JER-8:8 How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us?

Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the scribes [is] in vain.

JER-8:9 The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they

have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?

JER-8:10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, [and] their fields to

them that shall inherit [them]: for every one from the least even unto the

greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every

one dealeth falsely.

JER-8:11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly,

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

JER-8:12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they

were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall

among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down,

saith the LORD.

JER-8:13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: [there shall be] no

grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and

[the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.

JER-8:14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the

defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us

to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned

against the LORD.

JER-8:15 We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of health,

and behold trouble!

JER-8:16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land

trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come,

and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that

dwell therein.

JER-8:17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which

[will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

JER-8:18 [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in

me.

JER-8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of

them that dwell in a far country: [Is] not the LORD in Zion? [is] not her king

in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, [and]

with strange vanities?

JER-8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

JER-8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black;

astonishment hath taken hold on me.

JER-8:22 [Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why

then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

JER-9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that

I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

JER-9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men;

that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they [be] all adulterers,

an assembly of treacherous men.

JER-9:3 And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are

not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil,

and they know not me, saith the LORD.

JER-9:4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any

brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will

walk with slanders.

JER-9:5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the

truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to

commit iniquity.

JER-9:6 Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they

refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

JER-9:7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and

try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

JER-9:8 Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: [one]

speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his

wait.

JER-9:9 Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith the LORD: shall not

my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

JER-9:10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the

habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so

that none can pass through [them]; neither can [men] hear the voice of the

cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

JER-9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, [and] a den of dragons; and I will

make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

JER-9:12 Who [is] the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is he] to

whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the

land perisheth [and] is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth

through?

JER-9:13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set

before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

JER-9:14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after

Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

JER-9:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I

will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall

to drink.

JER-9:16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor

their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have

consumed them.

JER-9:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning

women, that they may come; and send for cunning [women], that they may come:

JER-9:18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes

may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

JER-9:19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we

are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our

dwellings have cast [us] out.

JER-9:20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive

the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her

neighbour lamentation.

JER-9:21 For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered into our

palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the

streets.

JER-9:22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as

dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none

shall gather [them].

JER-9:23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise [man] glory in his wisdom,

neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let not the rich [man] glory

in his riches:

JER-9:24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and

knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and

righteousness, in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.

JER-9:25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all [them

which are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;

JER-9:26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and

all [that are] in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all

[these] nations [are] uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel [are]

uncircumcised in the heart.

JER-10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of

Israel:

JER-10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not

dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

JER-10:3 For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree

out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.

JER-10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails

and with hammers, that it move not.

JER-10:5 They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs

be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do

evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.

JER-10:6 Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou [art]

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

JER-10:7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it

appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the nations, and in all

their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto thee.

JER-10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a

doctrine of vanities.

JER-10:9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from

Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and

purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunning [men].

JER-10:10 But the LORD [is] the true God, he [is] the living God, and an

everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall

not be able to abide his indignation.

JER-10:11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the

heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under

these heavens.

JER-10:12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world

by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

JER-10:13 When he uttereth his voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the

heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he

maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

JER-10:14 Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is

confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and

[there is] no breath in them.

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

visitation they shall perish.

JER-10:16 The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of

all [things]; and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts

[is] his name.

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

JER-10:18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants

of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find [it so].

JER-10:19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this

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

JER-10:20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children

are gone forth of me, and they [are] not: [there is] none to stretch forth my

tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

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

therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

JER-10:22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out

of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, [and] a den of

dragons.

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

in man that walketh to direct his steps.

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

thou bring me to nothing.

JER-10:25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the

families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured

him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

JER-11:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

JER-11:2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah,

and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

JER-11:3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed

[be] the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,

JER-11:4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day [that] I brought them

forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice,

and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people,

and I will be your God:

JER-11:5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to

give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as [it is] this day. Then

answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.

JER-11:6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities

of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this

covenant, and do them.

JER-11:7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day [that] I

brought them up out of the land of Egypt, [even] unto this day, rising early

and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

JER-11:8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in

the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the

words of this covenant, which I commanded [them] to do; but they did [them]

not.

JER-11:9 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of

Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

JER-11:10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which

refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the

house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made

with their fathers.

JER-11:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them,

which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I

will not hearken unto them.

JER-11:12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and

cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them

at all in the time of their trouble.

JER-11:13 For [according to] the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah;

and [according to] the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up

altars to [that] shameful thing, [even] altars to burn incense unto Baal.

JER-11:14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or

prayer for them: for I will not hear [them] in the time that they cry unto me

for their trouble.

JER-11:15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, [seeing] she hath wrought

lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest

evil, then thou rejoicest.

JER-11:16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, [and] of goodly

fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the

branches of it are broken.

JER-11:17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil

against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah,

which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering

incense unto Baal.

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

thou showedst me their doings.

JER-11:19 But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the

slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying],

Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from

the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

JER-11:20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the

reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I

revealed my cause.

JER-11:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy

life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our

hand:

JER-11:22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them:

the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die

by famine:

JER-11:23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon

the men of Anathoth, [even] the year of their visitation.

JER-12:1 Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me

talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked

prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

JER-12:2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea,

they bring forth fruit: thou [art] near in their mouth, and far from their

reins.

JER-12:3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine

heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare

them for the day of slaughter.

JER-12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither,

for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and

the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

JER-12:5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then

how canst thou contend with horses? and [if] in the land of peace, [wherein]

thou trustedst, [they wearied thee], then how wilt thou do in the swelling of

Jordan?

JER-12:6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have

dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee:

believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

JER-12:7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given

the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

JER-12:8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out

against me: therefore have I hated it.

JER-12:9 Mine heritage [is] unto me [as] a speckled bird, the birds round

about [are] against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come

to devour.

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

portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

JER-12:11 They have made it desolate, [and being] desolate it mourneth unto

me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth [it] to heart.

JER-12:12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness:

for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the [one] end of the land even to

the [other] end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.

JER-12:13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put

themselves to pain, [but] shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your

revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

JER-12:14 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch

the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I

will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among

them.

JER-12:15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I

will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man

to his heritage, and every man to his land.

JER-12:16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways

of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people

to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.

JER-12:17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that

nation, saith the LORD.

JER-13:1 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put

it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.

JER-13:2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put [it] on

my loins.

JER-13:3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,

JER-13:4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which [is] upon thy loins, and

arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

JER-13:5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.

JER-13:6 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me,

Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded

thee to hide there.

JER-13:7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the

place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was

profitable for nothing.

JER-13:8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

JER-13:9 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of

Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

JER-13:10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the

imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to

worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

JER-13:11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused

to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah,

saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and

for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.

JER-13:12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD

God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto

thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

JER-13:13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will

fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's

throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of

Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

JER-13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the

sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but

destroy them.

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

JER-13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and

before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for

light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.

JER-13:17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for

[your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because

the LORD's flock is carried away captive.

JER-13:18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down:

for your principalities shall come down, [even] the crown of your glory.

JER-13:19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open

[them]: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly

carried away captive.

JER-13:20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where

[is] the flock [that] was given thee, thy beautiful flock?

JER-13:21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught

them [to be] captains, [and] as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee,

as a woman in travail?

JER-13:22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon

me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, [and] thy

heels made bare.

JER-13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? [then]

may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

JER-13:24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by

the wind of the wilderness.

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

LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

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

may appear.

JER-13:27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of

thy whoredom, [and] thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto

thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when [shall it] once [be]?

JER-14:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

JER-14:2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto

the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

JER-14:3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they

came to the pits, [and] found no water; they returned with their vessels

empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

JER-14:4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the

plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

JER-14:5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook [it], because

there was no grass.

JER-14:6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the

wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because [there was] no grass.

JER-14:7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou [it] for

thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

JER-14:8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why

shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man [that]

turneth aside to tarry for a night?

JER-14:9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man [that]

cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, [art] in the midst of us, and we are called by

thy name; leave us not.

JER-14:10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to

wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept

them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

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

good.

JER-14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer

burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume

them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

JER-14:13 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye

shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you

assured peace in this place.

JER-14:14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name:

I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they

prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and

the deceit of their heart.

JER-14:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy

in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be

in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

JER-14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the

streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have

none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for

I will pour their wickedness upon them.

JER-14:17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run

down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter

of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

JER-14:18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword!

and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea,

both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.

JER-14:19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why

hast thou smitten us, and [there is] no healing for us? we looked for peace,

and [there is] no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

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

fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

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

of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

JER-14:22 Are there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause

rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou he, O LORD our God?

therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these [things].

JER-15:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me,

[yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my

sight, and let them go forth.

JER-15:2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we

go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as [are] for

death, to death; and such as [are] for the sword, to the sword; and such as

[are] for the famine, to the famine; and such as [are] for the captivity, to

the captivity.

JER-15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword

to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of

the earth, to devour and destroy.

JER-15:4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth,

because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for [that] which he did

in Jerusalem.

JER-15:5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan

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

JER-15:6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward:

therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am

weary with repenting.

JER-15:7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will

bereave [them] of children, I will destroy my people, [since] they return not

from their ways.

JER-15:8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have

brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I

have caused [him] to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

JER-15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost;

her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day: she hath been ashamed and

confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their

enemies, saith the LORD.

JER-15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a

man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men

have lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.

JER-15:11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I

will cause the enemy to entreat thee [well] in the time of evil and in the

time of affliction.

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

JER-15:13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without

price, and [that] for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

JER-15:14 And I will make [thee] to pass with thine enemies into a land

[which] thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, [which] shall

burn upon you.

JER-15:15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of

my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake

I have suffered rebuke.

JER-15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me

the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God

of hosts.

JER-15:17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone

because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

JER-15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth

to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters

[that] fail?

JER-15:19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring

thee again, [and] thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the

precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee;

but return not thou unto them.

JER-15:20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and

they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I

[am] with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

JER-15:21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will

redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

JER-16:1 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,

JER-16:2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or

daughters in this place.

JER-16:3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the

daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare

them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

JER-16:4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented;

neither shall they be buried; [but] they shall be as dung upon the face of the

earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their

carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the

earth.

JER-16:5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning,

neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this

people, saith the LORD, [even] lovingkindness and mercies.

JER-16:6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not

be buried, neither shall [men] lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make

themselves bald for them:

JER-16:7 Neither shall [men] tear [themselves] for them in mourning, to

comfort them for the dead; neither shall [men] give them the cup of

consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

JER-16:8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them

to eat and to drink.

JER-16:9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will

cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of

mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice

of the bride.

JER-16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all

these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced

all this great evil against us? or what [is] our iniquity? or what [is] our

sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

JER-16:11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken

me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them,

and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

JER-16:12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk

every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken

unto me:

JER-16:13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know

not, [neither] ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day

and night; where I will not show you favour.

JER-16:14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no

more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of

the land of Egypt;

JER-16:15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from

the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and

I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

JER-16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they

shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt

them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the

rocks.

JER-16:17 For mine eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are not hid from my

face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

JER-16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double;

because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the

carcases of their detestable and abominable things.

JER-16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of

affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and

shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things]

wherein [there is] no profit.

JER-16:20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they [are] no gods?

JER-16:21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will

cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name

[is] The LORD.

JER-17:1 The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron, [and] with the

point of a diamond: [it is] graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the

horns of your altars;

JER-17:2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the

green trees upon the high hills.

JER-17:3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance [and] all thy

treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high places for sin, throughout all thy

borders.

JER-17:4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I

gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou

knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, [which] shall burn for

ever.

JER-17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and

maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

JER-17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when

good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, [in] a

salt land and not inhabited.

JER-17:7 Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the

LORD is.

JER-17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that]

spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but

her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought,

neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

JER-17:9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked:

who can know it?

JER-17:10 I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to give every

man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings.

JER-17:11 [As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth [them] not; [so]

he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his

days, and at his end shall be a fool.

JER-17:12 A glorious high throne from the beginning [is] the place of our

sanctuary.

JER-17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed,

[and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they

have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

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

saved: for thou [art] my praise.

JER-17:15 Behold, they say unto me, Where [is] the word of the LORD? let it

come now.

JER-17:16 As for me, I have not hastened from [being] a pastor to follow

thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out

of my lips was [right] before thee.

JER-17:17 Be not a terror unto me: thou [art] my hope in the day of evil.

JER-17:18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be

confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them

the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

JER-17:19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the

children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which

they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

JER-17:20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah,

and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these

gates:

JER-17:21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on

the sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of Jerusalem;

JER-17:22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day,

neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your

fathers.

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

neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

JER-17:24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith

the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath

day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

JER-17:25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and

princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses,

they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem:

and this city shall remain for ever.

JER-17:26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places

about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from

the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices,

and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the

house of the LORD.

JER-17:27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and

not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the

sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall

devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

JER-18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

JER-18:2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause

thee to hear my words.

JER-18:3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a

work on the wheels.

JER-18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the

potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to

make [it].

JER-18:5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

JER-18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the

LORD. Behold, as the clay [is] in the potter's hand, so [are] ye in mine hand,

O house of Israel.

JER-18:7 [At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning

a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy [it];

JER-18:8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their

evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

JER-18:9 And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and

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

JER-18:10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will

repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

JER-18:11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the

inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil

against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his

evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

JER-18:12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own

devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

JER-18:13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who

hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

JER-18:14 Will [a man] leave the snow of Lebanon [which cometh] from the rock

of the field? [or] shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place

be forsaken?

JER-18:15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to

vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the ancient

paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;

JER-18:16 To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual hissing; every one

that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

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

show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

JER-18:18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah;

for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor

the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let

us not give heed to any of his words.

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

contend with me.

JER-18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for

my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, [and] to

turn away thy wrath from them.

JER-18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out

their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of

their children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; [let]

their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle.

JER-18:22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop

suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for

my feet.

JER-18:23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay [me]:

forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let

them be overthrown before thee; deal [thus] with them in the time of thine

anger.

JER-19:1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and

[take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

JER-19:2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which [is] by the

entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,

JER-19:3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and

inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;

Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his

ears shall tingle.

JER-19:4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and

have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers

have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood

of innocents;

JER-19:5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons

with fire [for] burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake

[it], neither came [it] into my mind:

JER-19:6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place

shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The

valley of slaughter.

JER-19:7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this

place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by

the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be

meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

JER-19:8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that

passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues

thereof.

JER-19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh

of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in

the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their

lives, shall straiten them.

JER-19:10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go

with thee.

JER-19:11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will

I break this people and this city, as [one] breaketh a potter's vessel, that

cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury [them] in Tophet, till [there

be] no place to bury.

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

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

JER-19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah,

shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose

roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured

out drink offerings unto other gods.

JER-19:14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to

prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house; and said to all the

people,

JER-19:15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will

bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have

pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might

not hear my words.

JER-20:1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who [was] also chief

governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these

things.

JER-20:2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks

that [were] in the high gate of Benjamin, which [was] by the house of the

LORD.

JER-20:3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth

Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not

called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.

JER-20:4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to

thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their

enemies, and thine eyes shall behold [it]: and I will give all Judah into the

hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and

shall slay them with the sword.

JER-20:5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the

labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of

the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall

spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

JER-20:6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into

captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt

be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.

JER-20:7 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger

than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

JER-20:8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because

the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

JER-20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in

his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my

bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not [stay].

JER-20:10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, [say

they], and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting,

[saying], Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him,

and we shall take our revenge on him.

JER-20:11 But the LORD [is] with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my

persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly

ashamed; for they shall not prosper: [their] everlasting confusion shall never

be forgotten.

JER-20:12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, [and] seest the

reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I

opened my cause.

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

soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

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

mother bare me be blessed.

JER-20:15 Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man

child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

JER-20:16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and

repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at

noontide;

JER-20:17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have

been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me].

JER-20:18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow,

that my days should be consumed with shame?

JER-21:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah

sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah

the priest, saying,

JER-21:2 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.

JER-21:3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:

JER-21:4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the

weapons of war that [are] in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king

of Babylon, and [against] the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls,

and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

JER-21:5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and

with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.

JER-21:6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast:

they shall die of a great pestilence.

JER-21:7 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of

Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city

from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of

Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into

the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge

of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

JER-21:8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I

set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

JER-21:9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the

famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the

Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for

a prey.

JER-21:10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for

good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon,

and he shall burn it with fire.

JER-21:11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, [say], Hear ye the

word of the LORD;

JER-21:12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the

morning, and deliver [him that is] spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor,

lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench [it], because of

the evil of your doings.

JER-21:13 Behold, I [am] against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] rock

of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or

who shall enter into our habitations?

JER-21:14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith

the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour

all things round about it.

JER-22:1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and

speak there this word,

JER-22:2 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest

upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in

by these gates:

JER-22:3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and

deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no

violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent

blood in this place.

JER-22:4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the

gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots

and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.

JER-22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the

LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

JER-22:6 For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou [art]

Gilead unto me, [and] the head of Lebanon: [yet] surely I will make thee a

wilderness, [and] cities [which] are not inhabited.

JER-22:7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his

weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast [them] into the

fire.

JER-22:8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every

man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?

JER-22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of

the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

JER-22:10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: [but] weep sore for

him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

JER-22:11 For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of

Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of

this place; He shall not return thither any more:

JER-22:12 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive,

and shall see this land no more.

JER-22:13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his

chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour's service without wages, and

giveth him not for his work;

JER-22:14 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.

JER-22:15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thyself] in cedar? did not

thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, [and] then [it was]

well with him?

JER-22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well [with

him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD.

JER-22:17 But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness,

and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do

[it].

JER-22:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of

Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my brother!

or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah lord! or, Ah his

glory!

JER-22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth

beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

JER-22:20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry

from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.

JER-22:21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; [but] thou saidst, I will not

hear. This [hath been] thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my

voice.

JER-22:22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into

captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy

wickedness.

JER-22:23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how

gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in

travail!

JER-22:24 [As] I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim

king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee

thence;

JER-22:25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and

into the hand [of them] whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of

Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

JER-22:26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into

another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

JER-22:27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they

not return.

JER-22:28 [Is] this man Coniah a despised broken idol? [is he] a vessel

wherein [is] no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and

are cast into a land which they know not?

JER-22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

JER-22:30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man [that]

shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting

upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

JER-23:1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my

pasture! saith the LORD.

JER-23:2 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that

feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not

visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the

LORD.

JER-23:3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries

whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they

shall be fruitful and increase.

JER-23:4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and

they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith

the LORD.

JER-23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David

a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute

judgment and justice in the earth.

JER-23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and

this [is] his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

JER-23:7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no

more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the

land of Egypt;

JER-23:8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the

house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had

driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.

JER-23:9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones

shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome,

because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.

JER-23:10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the

land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their

course is evil, and their force [is] not right.

JER-23:11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I

found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

JER-23:12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery [ways] in the

darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil

upon them, [even] the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.

JER-23:13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied

in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

JER-23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing:

they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of

evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them

unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

JER-23:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets;

Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall:

for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the

land.

JER-23:16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the

prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of

their own heart, [and] not out of the mouth of the LORD.

JER-23:17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye

shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the

imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.

JER-23:18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived

and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard [it]?

JER-23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a

grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

JER-23:20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and

till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall

consider it perfectly.

JER-23:21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to

them, yet they prophesied.

JER-23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to

hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from

the evil of their doings.

JER-23:23 [Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?

JER-23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?

saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

JER-23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name,

saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

JER-23:26 How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy

lies? yea, [they are] prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

JER-23:27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams

which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my

name for Baal.

JER-23:28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that

hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What [is] the chaff to the

wheat? saith the LORD.

JER-23:29 [Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer

[that] breaketh the rock in pieces?

JER-23:30 Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD,

that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

JER-23:31 Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their

tongues, and say, He saith.

JER-23:32 Behold, I [am] against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the

LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their

lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not

profit this people at all, saith the LORD.

JER-23:33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee,

saying, What [is] the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What

burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.

JER-23:34 And [as for] the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that

shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.

JER-23:35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his

brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken?

JER-23:36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every

man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living

God, of the LORD of hosts our God.

JER-23:37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered

thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?

JER-23:38 But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the

LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto

you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;

JER-23:39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will

forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, [and cast you] out

of my presence:

JER-23:40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual

shame, which shall not be forgotten.

JER-24:1 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.

JER-24:2 One basket [had] very good figs, [even] like the figs [that are]

first ripe: and the other basket [had] very naughty figs, which could not be

eaten, they were so bad.

JER-24:3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said,

Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten,

they are so evil.

JER-24:4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

JER-24:5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so

will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have

sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for [their] good.

JER-24:6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them

again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull [them] down; and I

will plant them, and not pluck [them] up.

JER-24:7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I [am] the LORD: and

they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto

me with their whole heart.

JER-24:8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil;

surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his

princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that

dwell in the land of Egypt:

JER-24:9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the

earth for [their] hurt, [to be] a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse,

in all places whither I shall drive them.

JER-24:10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among

them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to

their fathers.

JER-25:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in

the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that [was] the

first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;

JER-25:2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah,

and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

JER-25:3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah,

even unto this day, that [is] the three and twentieth year, the word of the

LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking;

but ye have not hearkened.

JER-25:4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets,

rising early and sending [them]; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your

ear to hear.

JER-25:5 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from

the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto

you and to your fathers for ever and ever:

JER-25:6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and

provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no

hurt.

JER-25:7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might

provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

JER-25:8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my

words,

JER-25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith

the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring

them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all

these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an

astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

JER-25:10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of

gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound

of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

JER-25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an astonishment;

and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

JER-25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished,

[that] I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for

their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual

desolations.

JER-25:13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have

pronounced against it, [even] all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah

hath prophesied against all the nations.

JER-25:14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them

also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to

the works of their own hands.

JER-25:15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of

this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink

it.

JER-25:16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the

sword that I will send among them.

JER-25:17 Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to

drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:

JER-25:18 [To wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings

thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment,

an hissing, and a curse; as [it is] this day;

JER-25:19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all

his people;

JER-25:20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz,

and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and

Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

JER-25:21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,

JER-25:22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the

kings of the isles which [are] beyond the sea,

JER-25:23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all [that are] in the utmost corners,

JER-25:24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled

people that dwell in the desert,

JER-25:25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the

kings of the Medes,

JER-25:26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and

all the kingdoms of the world, which [are] upon the face of the earth: and the

king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

JER-25:27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts,

the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no

more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

JER-25:28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to

drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall

certainly drink.

JER-25:29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my

name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I

will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of

hosts.

JER-25:30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto

them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy

habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout,

as they that tread [the grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.

JER-25:31 A noise shall come [even] to the ends of the earth; for the LORD

hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will

give them [that are] wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.

JER-25:32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from

nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of

the earth.

JER-25:33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from [one] end of

the earth even unto the [other] end of the earth: they shall not be lamented,

neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.

JER-25:34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves [in the ashes],

ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your

dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.

JER-25:35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of

the flock to escape.

JER-25:36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the

principal of the flock, [shall be heard]: for the LORD hath spoiled their

pasture.

JER-25:37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce

anger of the LORD.

JER-25:38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is

desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce

anger.

JER-26:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of

Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,

JER-26:2 Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD'S house, and

speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'S house,

all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:

JER-26:3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way,

that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of

the evil of their doings.

JER-26:4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not

hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

JER-26:5 To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent

unto you, both rising up early, and sending [them], but ye have not hearkened;

JER-26:6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a

curse to all the nations of the earth.

JER-26:7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah

speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

JER-26:8 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all

that the LORD had commanded [him] to speak unto all the people, that the

priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt

surely die.

JER-26:9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house

shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant?

And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

JER-26:10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up

from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of

the new gate of the LORD'S [house].

JER-26:11 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all

the people, saying, This man [is] worthy to die; for he hath prophesied

against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.

JER-26:12 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people,

saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city

all the words that ye have heard.

JER-26:13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice

of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath

pronounced against you.

JER-26:14 As for me, behold, I [am] in your hand: do with me as seemeth good

and meet unto you.

JER-26:15 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall

surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the

inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak

all these words in your ears.

JER-26:16 Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to

the prophets; This man [is] not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the

name of the LORD our God.

JER-26:17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all

the assembly of the people, saying,

JER-26:18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of

Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of

hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps,

and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

JER-26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death?

did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of

the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great

evil against our souls.

JER-26:20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD,

Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city

and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:

JER-26:21 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the

princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah

heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;

JER-26:22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely], Elnathan the

son of Achbor, and [certain] men with him into Egypt.

JER-26:23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto

Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into

the graves of the common people.

JER-26:24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with

Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him

to death.

JER-27:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of

Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

JER-27:2 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them

upon thy neck,

JER-27:3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to

the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon,

by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of

Judah;

JER-27:4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of

hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;

JER-27:5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that [are] upon the

ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto

whom it seemed meet unto me.

JER-27:6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar

the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him

also to serve him.

JER-27:7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son,

until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings

shall serve themselves of him.

JER-27:8 And it shall come to pass, [that] the nation and kingdom which will

not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put

their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish,

saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence,

until I have consumed them by his hand.

JER-27:9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor

to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak

unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

JER-27:10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land;

and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

JER-27:11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of

Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith

the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

JER-27:12 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these

words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and

serve him and his people, and live.

JER-27:13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine,

and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will

not serve the king of Babylon?

JER-27:14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak

unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a

lie unto you.

JER-27:15 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie

in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the

prophets that prophesy unto you.

JER-27:16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus

saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto

you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD'S house shall now shortly be

brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

JER-27:17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live:

wherefore should this city be laid waste?

JER-27:18 But if they [be] prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with

them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels

which are left in the house of the LORD, and [in] the house of the king of

Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.

JER-27:19 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and

concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of

the vessels that remain in this city,

JER-27:20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away

captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon,

and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;

JER-27:21 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning

the vessels that remain [in] the house of the LORD, and [in] the house of the

king of Judah and of Jerusalem;

JER-27:22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the

day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore

them to this place.

JER-28:1 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of

Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, [and] in the fifth month, [that]

Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which [was] of Gibeon, spake unto me in

the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people,

saying,

JER-28:2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have

broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

JER-28:3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the

vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away

from this place, and carried them to Babylon:

JER-28:4 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim

king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith

the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

JER-28:5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the

presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in

the house of the LORD,

JER-28:6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD

perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of

the LORD'S house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this

place.

JER-28:7 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and

in the ears of all the people;

JER-28:8 The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old

prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war,

and of evil, and of pestilence.

JER-28:9 The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet

shall come to pass, [then] shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath

truly sent him.

JER-28:10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet

Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.

JER-28:11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus

saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of

Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And

the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

JER-28:12 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah [the prophet], after

that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet

Jeremiah, saying,

JER-28:13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken

the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.

JER-28:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a

yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him

the beasts of the field also.

JER-28:15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now,

Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in

a lie.

JER-28:16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off

the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught

rebellion against the LORD.

JER-28:17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

JER-29:1 Now these [are] the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet

sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away

captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom

Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;

JER-29:2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the

princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were

departed from Jerusalem;)

JER-29:3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of

Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king

of Babylon) saying,

JER-29:4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are

carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem

unto Babylon;

JER-29:5 Build ye houses, and dwell [in them]; and plant gardens, and eat the

fruit of them;

JER-29:6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your

sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and

daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

JER-29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be

carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof

shall ye have peace.

JER-29:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your

prophets and your diviners, that [be] in the midst of you, deceive you,

neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

JER-29:9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them,

saith the LORD.

JER-29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished

at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing

you to return to this place.

JER-29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD,

thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

JER-29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I

will hearken unto you.

JER-29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me

with all your heart.

JER-29:14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away

your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the

places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again

into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

JER-29:15 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in

Babylon;

JER-29:16 [Know] that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the

throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, [and] of

your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;

JER-29:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the

sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that

cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

JER-29:18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with

the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the

earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach,

among all the nations whither I have driven them:

JER-29:19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which

I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending

[them]; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.

JER-29:20 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity,

whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:

JER-29:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of

Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in

my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of

Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;

JER-29:22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah

which [are] in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like

Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

JER-29:23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed

adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name,

which I have not commanded them; even I know, and [am] a witness, saith the

LORD.

JER-29:24 [Thus] shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,

JER-29:25 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because

thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that [are] at

Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the

priests, saying,

JER-29:26 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest,

that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man [that is]

mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and

in the stocks.

JER-29:27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth,

which maketh himself a prophet to you?

JER-29:28 For therefore he sent unto us [in] Babylon, saying, This [captivity

is] long: build ye houses, and dwell [in them]; and plant gardens, and eat the

fruit of them.

JER-29:29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah

the prophet.

JER-29:30 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,

JER-29:31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD

concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto

you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:

JER-29:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the

Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people;

neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD;

because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.

JER-30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

JER-30:2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the

words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

JER-30:3 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the

captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them

to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

JER-30:4 And these [are] the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and

concerning Judah.

JER-30:5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of

fear, and not of peace.

JER-30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore

do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all

faces are turned into paleness?

JER-30:7 Alas! for that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: it [is]

even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

JER-30:8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts,

[that] I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and

strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

JER-30:9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom

I will raise up unto them.

JER-30:10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD;

neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy

seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in

rest, and be quiet, and none shall make [him] afraid.

JER-30:11 For I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a

full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a

full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee

altogether unpunished.

JER-30:12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise [is] incurable, [and] thy wound

[is] grievous.

JER-30:13 [There is] none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up:

thou hast no healing medicines.

JER-30:14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have

wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one,

for the multitude of thine iniquity; [because] thy sins were increased.

JER-30:15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow [is] incurable for

the multitude of thine iniquity: [because] thy sins were increased, I have

done these things unto thee.

JER-30:16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all

thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that

spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a

prey.

JER-30:17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy

wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, [saying], This

[is] Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

JER-30:18 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of

Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be

builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner

thereof.

JER-30:19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them

that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will

also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

JER-30:20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation

shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.

JER-30:21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall

proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he

shall approach unto me: for who [is] this that engaged his heart to approach

unto me? saith the LORD.

JER-30:22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

JER-30:23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a

continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.

JER-30:24 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.

JER-31:1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the

families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

JER-31:2 Thus saith the LORD, The people [which were] left of the sword found

grace in the wilderness; [even] Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

JER-31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I have loved

thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn

thee.

JER-31:4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of

Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in

the dances of them that make merry.

JER-31:5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the

planters shall plant, and shall eat [them] as common things.

JER-31:6 For there shall be a day, [that] the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim

shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.

JER-31:7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout

among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save

thy people, the remnant of Israel.

JER-31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them

from the coasts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the

woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company

shall return thither.

JER-31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead

them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way,

wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim [is]

my firstborn.

JER-31:10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare [it] in the

isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep

him, as a shepherd [doth] his flock.

JER-31:11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of

[him that was] stronger than he.

JER-31:12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall

flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for

oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be

as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

JER-31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old

together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and

make them rejoice from their sorrow.

JER-31:14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my

people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.

JER-31:15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, [and]

bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her

children, because they [were] not.

JER-31:16 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes

from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall

come again from the land of the enemy.

JER-31:17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children

shall come again to their own border.

JER-31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast

chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]:

turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.

JER-31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was

instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded,

because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

JER-31:20 [Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since I

spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are

troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

JER-31:21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward

the highway, [even] the way [which] thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of

Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

JER-31:22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the

LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

JER-31:23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall

use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall

bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice,

[and] mountain of holiness.

JER-31:24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities

thereof together, husbandmen, and they [that] go forth with flocks.

JER-31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every

sorrowful soul.

JER-31:26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

JER-31:27 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of

Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of

beast.

JER-31:28 And it shall come to pass, [that] like as I have watched over them,

to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to

afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.

JER-31:29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour

grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

JER-31:30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth

the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

JER-31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new

covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

JER-31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the

day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;

which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the

LORD:

JER-31:33 But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of

Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward

parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be

my people.

JER-31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man

his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least

of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their

iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

JER-31:35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, [and]

the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which

divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name:

JER-31:36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, [then]

the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

JER-31:37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the

foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the

seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

JER-31:38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built

to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.

JER-31:39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the

hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.

JER-31:40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all

the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward

the east, [shall be] holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor

thrown down any more for ever.

JER-32:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of

Zedekiah king of Judah, which [was] the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.

JER-32:2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah

the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which [was] in the king of

Judah's house.

JER-32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost

thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city

into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

JER-32:4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the

Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon,

and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;

JER-32:5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I

visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not

prosper.

JER-32:6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

JER-32:7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto

thee, saying, Buy thee my field that [is] in Anathoth: for the right of

redemption [is] thine to buy [it].

JER-32:8 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison

according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray

thee, that [is] in Anathoth, which [is] in the country of Benjamin: for the

right of inheritance [is] thine, and the redemption [is] thine; buy [it] for

thyself. Then I knew that this [was] the word of the LORD.

JER-32:9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that [was] in

Anathoth, and weighed him the money, [even] seventeen shekels of silver.

JER-32:10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed [it], and took witnesses,

and weighed [him] the money in the balances.

JER-32:11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, [both] that which was

sealed [according] to the law and custom, and that which was open:

JER-32:12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of

Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's [son], and

in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase,

before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.

JER-32:13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,

JER-32:14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these

evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this

evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may

continue many days.

JER-32:15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and

fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.

JER-32:16 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch

the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,

JER-32:17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy

great power and stretched out arm, [and] there is nothing too hard for thee:

JER-32:18 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,

JER-32:19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes [are] open

upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways,

and according to the fruit of his doings:

JER-32:20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, [even] unto

this day, and in Israel, and among [other] men; and hast made thee a name, as

at this day;

JER-32:21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt

with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out

arm, and with great terror;

JER-32:22 And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their

fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

JER-32:23 And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice,

neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst

them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:

JER-32:24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the

city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because

of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast

spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest [it].

JER-32:25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for

money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the

Chaldeans.

JER-32:26 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,

JER-32:27 Behold, I [am] the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing

too hard for me?

JER-32:28 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into

the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of

Babylon, and he shall take it:

JER-32:29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set

fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have

offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to

provoke me to anger.

JER-32:30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done

evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked

me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.

JER-32:31 For this city hath been to me [as] a provocation of mine anger and

of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should

remove it from before my face,

JER-32:32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the

children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their

kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah,

and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

JER-32:33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I

taught them, rising up early and teaching [them], yet they have not hearkened

to receive instruction.

JER-32:34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my

name, to defile it.

JER-32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which [are] in the valley

of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through

[the fire] unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my

mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

JER-32:36 And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,

concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of

the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;

JER-32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have

driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will

bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:

JER-32:38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:

JER-32:39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me

for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

JER-32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not

turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts,

that they shall not depart from me.

JER-32:41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant

them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

JER-32:42 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil

upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised

them.

JER-32:43 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, [It is]

desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

JER-32:44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal

[them], and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about

Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and

in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause

their captivity to return, saith the LORD.

JER-33:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time,

while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

JER-33:2 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to

establish it; the LORD [is] his name;

JER-33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty

things, which thou knowest not.

JER-33:4 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of

this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown

down by the mounts, and by the sword;

JER-33:5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but [it is] to fill them with

the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and

for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.

JER-33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and

will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

JER-33:7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel

to return, and will build them, as at the first.

JER-33:8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have

sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have

sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.

JER-33:9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before

all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto

them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the

prosperity that I procure unto it.

JER-33:10 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place,

which ye say [shall be] desolate without man and without beast, [even] in the

cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without

man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,

JER-33:11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the

bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say,

Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD [is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for

ever: [and] of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of

the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the

first, saith the LORD.

JER-33:12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is

desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall

be an habitation of shepherds causing [their] flocks to lie down.

JER-33:13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in

the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about

Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the

hands of him that telleth [them], saith the LORD.

JER-33:14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that

good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of

Judah.

JER-33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of

righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and

righteousness in the land.

JER-33:16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell

safely: and this [is the name] wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our

righteousness.

JER-33:17 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon

the throne of the house of Israel;

JER-33:18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer

burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice

continually.

JER-33:19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,

JER-33:20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my

covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their

season;

JER-33:21 [Then] may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that

he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the

priests, my ministers.

JER-33:22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the

sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites

that minister unto me.

JER-33:23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

JER-33:24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two

families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they

have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

JER-33:25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant [be] not with day and night,

[and if] I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

JER-33:26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, [so]

that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be] rulers over the seed of

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and

have mercy on them.

JER-34:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar

king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his

dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the

cities thereof, saying,

JER-34:2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah

king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this

city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:

JER-34:3 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be

taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of

the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou

shalt go to Babylon.

JER-34:4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith

the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:

JER-34:5 [But] thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers,

the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn [odours] for thee;

and they will lament thee, [saying], Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word,

saith the LORD.

JER-34:6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king

of Judah in Jerusalem,

JER-34:7 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and

against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against

Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.

JER-34:8 [This is] the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that

the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which [were] at

Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

JER-34:9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his

maidservant, [being] an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should

serve himself of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.

JER-34:10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered

into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every

one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any

more, then they obeyed, and let [them] go.

JER-34:11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the

handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into

subjection for servants and for handmaids.

JER-34:12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD,

saying,

JER-34:13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your

fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of

the house of bondmen, saying,

JER-34:14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an

Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six

years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not

unto me, neither inclined their ear.

JER-34:15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in

proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant

before me in the house which is called by my name:

JER-34:16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his

servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their

pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for

servants and for handmaids.

JER-34:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in

proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour:

behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the

pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the

kingdoms of the earth.

JER-34:18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which

have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me,

when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof.

JER-34:19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs,

and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the

parts of the calf;

JER-34:20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the

hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat

unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.

JER-34:21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the

hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and

into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.

JER-34:22 Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to

this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with

fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

JER-35:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of

Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

JER-35:2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring

them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine

to drink.

JER-35:3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah,

and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;

JER-35:4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of

the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which [was] by the

chamber of the princes, which [was] above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of

Shallum, the keeper of the door:

JER-35:5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full

of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.

JER-35:6 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab

our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, [neither ye], nor

your sons for ever:

JER-35:7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor

have [any]: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many

days in the land where ye [be] strangers.

JER-35:8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our

father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our

wives, our sons, nor our daughters;

JER-35:9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard,

nor field, nor seed:

JER-35:10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to

all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

JER-35:11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up

into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the

army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at

Jerusalem.

JER-35:12 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,

JER-35:13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the

men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction

to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.

JER-35:14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons

not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey

their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising

early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.

JER-35:15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up

early and sending [them], saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way,

and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall

dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have

not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.

JER-35:16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the

commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not

hearkened unto me:

JER-35:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel;

Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all

the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them,

but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not

answered.

JER-35:18 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the

LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of

Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all

that he hath commanded you:

JER-35:19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab

the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.

JER-36:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of

Josiah king of Judah, [that] this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,

saying,

JER-36:2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I

have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the

nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto

this day.

JER-36:3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I

purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way;

that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

JER-36:4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from

the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him,

upon a roll of a book.

JER-36:5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] shut up; I cannot go

into the house of the LORD:

JER-36:6 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written

from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S

house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all

Judah that come out of their cities.

JER-36:7 It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and

will return every one from his evil way: for great [is] the anger and the fury

that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.

JER-36:8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the

prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S

house.

JER-36:9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah

king of Judah, in the ninth month, [that] they proclaimed a fast before the

LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the

cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.

JER-36:10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of

the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the

higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of

all the people.

JER-36:11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard

out of the book all the words of the LORD,

JER-36:12 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber:

and, lo, all the princes sat there, [even] Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah

the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of

Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

JER-36:13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard,

when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

JER-36:14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son

of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the

roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the

son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.

JER-36:15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So

Baruch read [it] in their ears.

JER-36:16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were

afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king

of all these words.

JER-36:17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write

all these words at his mouth?

JER-36:18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me

with his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink in the book.

JER-36:19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and

Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.

JER-36:20 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the

roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears

of the king.

JER-36:21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of

Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and

in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.

JER-36:22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and [there

was a fire] on the hearth burning before him.

JER-36:23 And it came to pass, [that] when Jehudi had read three or four

leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast [it] into the fire that [was] on

the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that [was] on the

hearth.

JER-36:24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, [neither] the

king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

JER-36:25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made

intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not

hear them.

JER-36:26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah

the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe

and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.

JER-36:27 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had

burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah,

saying,

JER-36:28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words

that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.

JER-36:29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD;

Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The

king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to

cease from thence man and beast?

JER-36:30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall

have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out

in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

JER-36:31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their

iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them;

but they hearkened not.

JER-36:32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe,

the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words

of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there

were added besides unto them many like words.

JER-37:1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the

son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of

Judah.

JER-37:2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did

hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.

JER-37:3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and

Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray

now unto the LORD our God for us.

JER-37:4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not

put him into prison.

JER-37:5 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the

Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from

Jerusalem.

JER-37:6 Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

JER-37:7 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.

JER-37:8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and

take it, and burn it with fire.

JER-37:9 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans

shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.

JER-37:10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that

fight against you, and there remained [but] wounded men among them, [yet]

should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

JER-37:11 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken

up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,

JER-37:12 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of

Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.

JER-37:13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward

[was] there, whose name [was] Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of

Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the

Chaldeans.

JER-37:14 Then said Jeremiah, [It is] false; I fall not away to the

Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought

him to the princes.

JER-37:15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and

put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that

the prison.

JER-37:16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins,

and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

JER-37:17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked

him secretly in his house, and said, Is there [any] word from the LORD? And

Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand

of the king of Babylon.

JER-37:18 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended

against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have

put me in prison?

JER-37:19 Where [are] now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying,

The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

JER-37:20 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my

supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to

return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

JER-37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah

into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of

bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent.

Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

JER-38:1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur,

and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the

words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,

JER-38:2 Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the

sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the

Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.

JER-38:3 Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand

of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.

JER-38:4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this

man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that

remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words

unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

JER-38:5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he [is] in your hand: for the

king [is] not [he that] can do [any] thing against you.

JER-38:6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah

the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the prison: and they let down

Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so

Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

JER-38:7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in

the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king

then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;

JER-38:8 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the

king, saying,

JER-38:9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have

done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is

like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for [there is] no more bread

in the city.

JER-38:10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from

hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the

dungeon, before he die.

JER-38:11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the

king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags,

and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

JER-38:12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now [these]

old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And

Jeremiah did so.

JER-38:13 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the

dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

JER-38:14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him

into the third entry that [is] in the house of the LORD: and the king said

unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.

JER-38:15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare [it] unto thee, wilt

thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not

hearken unto me?

JER-38:16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, [As] the

LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither

will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.

JER-38:17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of

hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of

Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned

with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:

JER-38:18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes,

then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall

burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.

JER-38:19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews

that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and

they mock me.

JER-38:20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver [thee]. Obey, I beseech

thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto

thee, and thy soul shall live.

JER-38:21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this [is] the word that the LORD

hath showed me:

JER-38:22 And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's

house [shall be] brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those

[women] shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against

thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, [and] they are turned away back.

JER-38:23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the

Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by

the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned

with fire.

JER-38:24 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words,

and thou shalt not die.

JER-38:25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come

unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the

king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the

king said unto thee:

JER-38:26 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before

the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die

there.

JER-38:27 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told

them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left

off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

JER-38:28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that

Jerusalem was taken: and he was [there] when Jerusalem was taken.

JER-39:1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month,

came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and

they besieged it.

JER-39:2 [And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the

ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up.

JER-39:3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the

middle gate, [even] Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris,

Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of

Babylon.

JER-39:4 And it came to pass, [that] when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw

them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city

by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls:

and he went out the way of the plain.

JER-39:5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in

the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave

judgment upon him.

JER-39:6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before

his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.

JER-39:7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to

carry him to Babylon.

JER-39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the

people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

JER-39:9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into

Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that

fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.

JER-39:10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the

people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and

fields at the same time.

JER-39:11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah

to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,

JER-39:12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him

even as he shall say unto thee.

JER-39:13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban,

Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon's princes;

JER-39:14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison,

and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he

should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.

JER-39:15 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up

in the court of the prison, saying,

JER-39:16 Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the

LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city

for evil, and not for good; and they shall be [accomplished] in that day

before thee.

JER-39:17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt

not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou [art] afraid.

JER-39:18 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the

sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy

trust in me, saith the LORD.

JER-40:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan

the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him

being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem

and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.

JER-40:2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The

LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.

JER-40:3 Now the LORD hath brought [it], and done according as he hath said:

because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice,

therefore this thing is come upon you.

JER-40:4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which [were]

upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come;

and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me

into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land [is] before thee: whither it

seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go.

JER-40:5 Now while he was not yet gone back, [he said], Go back also to

Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath

made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people:

or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the

guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.

JER-40:6 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and

dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.

JER-40:7 Now when all the captains of the forces which [were] in the fields,

[even] they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah

the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and

women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not

carried away captive to Babylon;

JER-40:8 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of

Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of

Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a

Maachathite, they and their men.

JER-40:9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them

and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land,

and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

JER-40:10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the Chaldeans,

which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil,

and put [them] in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.

JER-40:11 Likewise when all the Jews that [were] in Moab, and among the

Ammonites, and in Edom, and that [were] in all the countries, heard that the

king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them

Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;

JER-40:12 Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were

driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered

wine and summer fruits very much.

JER-40:13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the

forces that [were] in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,

JER-40:14 And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of

the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But

Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.

JER-40:15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah

secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of

Nethaniah, and no man shall know [it]: wherefore should he slay thee, that all

the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in

Judah perish?

JER-40:16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah,

Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.

JER-41:1 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, [that] Ishmael the son of

Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king,

even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and

there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.

JER-41:2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were

with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the

sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

JER-41:3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, [even] with

Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, [and] the men of

war.

JER-41:4 And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and

no man knew [it],

JER-41:5 That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria,

[even] fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and

having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring

[them] to the house of the LORD.

JER-41:6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet

them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he

said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.

JER-41:7 And it was [so], when they came into the midst of the city, that

Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, [and cast them] into the midst of the

pit, he, and the men that [were] with him.

JER-41:8 But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us

not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil,

and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.

JER-41:9 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men,

whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, [was] it which Asa the king had made

for fear of Baasha king of Israel: [and] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled

it with [them that were] slain.

JER-41:10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people

that [were] in Mizpah, [even] the king's daughters, and all the people that

remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to

Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away

captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.

JER-41:11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the

forces that [were] with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of

Nethaniah had done,

JER-41:12 Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son

of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that [are] in Gibeon.

JER-41:13 Now it came to pass, [that] when all the people which [were] with

Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that

[were] with him, then they were glad.

JER-41:14 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah

cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.

JER-41:15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight

men, and went to the Ammonites.

JER-41:16 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the

forces that [were] with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had

recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after [that] he had

slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, [even] mighty men of war, and the women, and

the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:

JER-41:17 And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is

by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,

JER-41:18 Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because

Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the

king of Babylon made governor in the land.

JER-42:1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah,

and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto

the greatest, came near,

JER-42:2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our

supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God,

[even] for all this remnant; (for we are left [but] a few of many, as thine

eyes do behold us:)

JER-42:3 That the LORD thy God may show us the way wherein we may walk, and

the thing that we may do.

JER-42:4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard [you];

behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words; and it

shall come to pass, [that] whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you, I will

declare [it] unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.

JER-42:5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness

between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD

thy God shall send thee to us.

JER-42:6 Whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil, we will obey the

voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us,

when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.

JER-42:7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came

unto Jeremiah.

JER-42:8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of

the forces which [were] with him, and all the people from the least even to

the greatest,

JER-42:9 And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto

whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;

JER-42:10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not

pull [you] down, and I will plant you, and not pluck [you] up: for I repent me

of the evil that I have done unto you.

JER-42:11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not

afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I [am] with you to save you, and to deliver

you from his hand.

JER-42:12 And I will show mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you,

and cause you to return to your own land.

JER-42:13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the

voice of the LORD your God,

JER-42:14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall

see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and

there will we dwell:

JER-42:15 And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah;

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces

to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;

JER-42:16 Then it shall come to pass, [that] the sword, which ye feared,

shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were

afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

JER-42:17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into

Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the

pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will

bring upon them.

JER-42:18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger

and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall

my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall

be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye

shall see this place no more.

JER-42:19 The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not

into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

JER-42:20 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD

your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all

that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do [it].

JER-42:21 And [now] I have this day declared [it] to you; but ye have not

obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any [thing] for the which he hath

sent me unto you.

JER-42:22 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the

famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go [and] to

sojourn.

JER-43:1 And it came to pass, [that] when Jeremiah had made an end of

speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which

the LORD their God had sent him to them, [even] all these words,

JER-43:2 Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of

Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely:

the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn

there:

JER-43:3 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to

deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death,

and carry us away captives into Babylon.

JER-43:4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces,

and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of

Judah.

JER-43:5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces,

took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither

they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;

JER-43:6 [Even] men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and

every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah

the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the

son of Neriah.

JER-43:7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice

of the LORD: thus came they [even] to Tahpanhes.

JER-43:8 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

JER-43:9 Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the

brickkiln, which [is] at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the

sight of the men of Judah;

JER-43:10 And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;

Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant,

and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread

his royal pavilion over them.

JER-43:11 And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, [and deliver]

such [as are] for death to death; and such [as are] for captivity to

captivity; and such [as are] for the sword to the sword.

JER-43:12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he

shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with

the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth

from thence in peace.

JER-43:13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that [is] in the

land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with

fire.

JER-44:1 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,

JER-44:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all

the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah;

and, behold, this day they [are] a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,

JER-44:3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me

to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods, whom

they knew not, [neither] they, ye, nor your fathers.

JER-44:4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early

and sending [them], saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

JER-44:5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their

wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.

JER-44:6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled

in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted

[and] desolate, as at this day.

JER-44:7 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of

Israel; Wherefore commit ye [this] great evil against your souls, to cut off

from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to

remain;

JER-44:8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands,

burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to

dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a

reproach among all the nations of the earth?

JER-44:9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness

of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own

wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the

land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

JER-44:10 They are not humbled [even] unto this day, neither have they

feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and

before your fathers.

JER-44:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,

I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.

JER-44:12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to

go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed,

[and] fall in the land of Egypt; they shall [even] be consumed by the sword

[and] by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by

the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, [and] an

astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

JER-44:13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have

punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:

JER-44:14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land

of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return

into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell

there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.

JER-44:15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense

unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all

the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah,

saying,

JER-44:16 [As for] the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the

LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.

JER-44:17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our

own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink

offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our

princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for [then]

had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

JER-44:18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and

to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all [things], and have

been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

JER-44:19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out

drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out

drink offerings unto her, without our men?

JER-44:20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the

women, and to all the people which had given him [that] answer, saying,

JER-44:21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the

streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and

the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it [not] into

his mind?

JER-44:22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your

doings, [and] because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore

is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an

inhabitant, as at this day.

JER-44:23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against

the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law,

nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened

unto you, as at this day.

JER-44:24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women,

Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that [are] in the land of Egypt:

JER-44:25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and

your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand,

saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to

the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely

accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.

JER-44:26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the

land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my

name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land

of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.

JER-44:27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all

the men of Judah that [are] in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the

sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.

JER-44:28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the

land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are

gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall

stand, mine, or theirs.

JER-44:29 And this [shall be] a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will

punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand

against you for evil:

JER-44:30 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of

Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his

life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of

Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.

JER-45:1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of

Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in

the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

JER-45:2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch;

JER-45:3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my

sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

JER-45:4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, [that]

which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will

pluck up, even this whole land.

JER-45:5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek [them] not: for,

behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I

give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

JER-46:1 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the

Gentiles;

JER-46:2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which

was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon

smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

JER-46:3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

JER-46:4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with

[your] helmets; furbish the spears, [and] put on the brigandines.

JER-46:5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back? and

their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back:

[for] fear [was] round about, saith the LORD.

JER-46:6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall

stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.

JER-46:7 Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as

the rivers?

JER-46:8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and [his] waters are moved like the

rivers; and he saith, I will go up, [and] will cover the earth; I will destroy

the city and the inhabitants thereof.

JER-46:9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men

come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the

Lydians, that handle [and] bend the bow.

JER-46:10 For this [is] the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance,

that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it

shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts

hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

JER-46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt:

in vain shalt thou use many medicines; [for] thou shalt not be cured.

JER-46:12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the

land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, [and] they are

fallen both together.

JER-46:13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how

Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come [and] smite the land of Egypt.

JER-46:14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and

in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour

round about thee.

JER-46:15 Why are thy valiant [men] swept away? they stood not, because the

LORD did drive them.

JER-46:16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said,

Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity,

from the oppressing sword.

JER-46:17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he hath

passed the time appointed.

JER-46:18 [As] I live, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts,

Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, [so] shall

he come.

JER-46:19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into

captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

JER-46:20 Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it

cometh out of the north.

JER-46:21 Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks;

for they also are turned back, [and] are fled away together: they did not

stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, [and] the time of

their visitation.

JER-46:22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march

with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

JER-46:23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be

searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.

JER-46:24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered

into the hand of the people of the north.

JER-46:25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish

the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings;

even Pharaoh, and [all] them that trust in him:

JER-46:26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their

lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand

of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old,

saith the LORD.

JER-46:27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O

Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the

land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease,

and none shall make [him] afraid.

JER-46:28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I [am] with

thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven

thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet

will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

JER-47:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the

Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.

JER-47:2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and

shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is

therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and

all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

JER-47:3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong [horses], at

the rushing of his chariots, [and at] the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers

shall not look back to [their] children for feebleness of hands;

JER-47:4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, [and]

to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will

spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.

JER-47:5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off [with] the remnant

of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

JER-47:6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long [will it be] ere thou be quiet?

put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.

JER-47:7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against

Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.

JER-48:1 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe

unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded [and] taken: Misgab is

confounded and dismayed.

JER-48:2 [There shall be] no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have

devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from [being] a nation.

Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.

JER-48:3 A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim, spoiling and great

destruction.

JER-48:4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

JER-48:5 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in

the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

JER-48:6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

JER-48:7 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures,

thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity [with] his

priests and his princes together.

JER-48:8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall

escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the

LORD hath spoken.

JER-48:9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities

thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.

JER-48:10 Cursed [be] he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and

cursed [be] he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

JER-48:11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his

lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone

into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not

changed.

JER-48:12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send

unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his

vessels, and break their bottles.

JER-48:13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was

ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

JER-48:14 How say ye, We [are] mighty and strong men for the war?

JER-48:15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up [out of] her cities, and his chosen

young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name [is] the

LORD of hosts.

JER-48:16 The calamity of Moab [is] near to come, and his affliction hasteth

fast.

JER-48:17 All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his

name, say, How is the strong staff broken, [and] the beautiful rod!

JER-48:18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from [thy] glory,

and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, [and] he

shall destroy thy strong holds.

JER-48:19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that

fleeth, and her that escapeth, [and] say, What is done?

JER-48:20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it

in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,

JER-48:21 And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon

Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,

JER-48:22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,

JER-48:23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,

JER-48:24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the

land of Moab, far or near.

JER-48:25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.

JER-48:26 Make ye him drunken: for he magnified [himself] against the LORD:

Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

JER-48:27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among

thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.

JER-48:28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,

and be like the dove [that] maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.

JER-48:29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his

loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

JER-48:30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but [it shall] not [be] so; his

lies shall not so effect [it].

JER-48:31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab;

[mine heart] shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.

JER-48:32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer:

thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach [even] to the sea of Jazer: the

spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.

JER-48:33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from

the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none

shall tread with shouting; [their] shouting [shall be] no shouting.

JER-48:34 From the cry of Heshbon [even] unto Elealeh, [and even] unto Jahaz,

have they uttered their voice, from Zoar [even] unto Horonaim, [as] an heifer

of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.

JER-48:35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that

offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.

JER-48:36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine

heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches

[that] he hath gotten are perished.

JER-48:37 For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped: upon all

the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

JER-48:38 [There shall be] lamentation generally upon all the housetops of

Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein

[is] no pleasure, saith the LORD.

JER-48:39 They shall howl, [saying], How is it broken down! how hath Moab

turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all

them about him.

JER-48:40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and

shall spread his wings over Moab.

JER-48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the

mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in

her pangs.

JER-48:42 And Moab shall be destroyed from [being] a people, because he hath

magnified [himself] against the LORD.

JER-48:43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [shall be] upon thee, O

inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.

JER-48:44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that

getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon

it, [even] upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.

JER-48:45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the

force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst

of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of

the tumultuous ones.

JER-48:46 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy

sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.

JER-48:47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days,

saith the LORD. Thus far [is] the judgment of Moab.

JER-49:1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons?

hath he no heir? why [then] doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell

in his cities?

JER-49:2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause

an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a

desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel

be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.

JER-49:3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah,

gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their

king shall go into captivity, [and] his priests and his princes together.

JER-49:4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O

backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come

unto me?

JER-49:5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts,

from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right

forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.

JER-49:6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of

Ammon, saith the LORD.

JER-49:7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; [Is] wisdom no more

in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?

JER-49:8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will

bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time [that] I will visit him.

JER-49:9 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave [some] gleaning

grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

JER-49:10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and

he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren,

and his neighbours, and he [is] not.

JER-49:11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and

let thy widows trust in me.

JER-49:12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment [was] not to

drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and [art] thou he [that] shall

altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely

drink [of it].

JER-49:13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall

become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities

thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

JER-49:14 I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto

the heathen, [saying], Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up

to the battle.

JER-49:15 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, [and] despised

among men.

JER-49:16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, [and] the pride of thine

heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height

of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will

bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.

JER-49:17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall

be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

JER-49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour

[cities] thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a

son of man dwell in it.

JER-49:19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan

against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away

from her: and who [is] a chosen [man, that] I may appoint over her? for who

[is] like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd

that will stand before me?

JER-49:20 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against

Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of

Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make

their habitations desolate with them.

JER-49:21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise

thereof was heard in the Red sea.

JER-49:22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings

over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as

the heart of a woman in her pangs.

JER-49:23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have

heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; [there is] sorrow on the sea; it

cannot be quiet.

JER-49:24 Damascus is waxed feeble, [and] turneth herself to flee, and fear

hath seized on [her]: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in

travail.

JER-49:25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

JER-49:26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men

of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.

JER-49:27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall

consume the palaces of Benhadad.

JER-49:28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which

Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go

up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.

JER-49:29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take

to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and

they shall cry unto them, Fear [is] on every side.

JER-49:30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith

the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you,

and hath conceived a purpose against you.

JER-49:31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without

care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, [which] dwell alone.

JER-49:32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their

cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them [that are] in the

utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith

the LORD.

JER-49:33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, [and] a desolation for

ever: there shall no man abide there, nor [any] son of man dwell in it.

JER-49:34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam

in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

JER-49:35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,

the chief of their might.

JER-49:36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of

heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no

nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

JER-49:37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and

before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, [even] my

fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I

have consumed them:

JER-49:38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the

king and the princes, saith the LORD.

JER-49:39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, [that] I will bring

again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.

JER-50:1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon [and] against the land

of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

JER-50:2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard;

publish, [and] conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach

is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in

pieces.

JER-50:3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which

shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove,

they shall depart, both man and beast.

JER-50:4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of

Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping:

they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.

JER-50:5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward,

[saying], Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant

[that] shall not be forgotten.

JER-50:6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to

go astray, they have turned them away [on] the mountains: they have gone from

mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.

JER-50:7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said,

We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of

justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

JER-50:8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of

the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.

JER-50:9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an

assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set

themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows

[shall be] as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

JER-50:10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be

satisfied, saith the LORD.

JER-50:11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine

heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as

bulls;

JER-50:12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be

ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry

land, and a desert.

JER-50:13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it

shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished,

and hiss at all her plagues.

JER-50:14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that

bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the

LORD.

JER-50:15 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her

foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it [is] the vengeance

of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.

JER-50:16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in

the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every

one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

JER-50:17 Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away:

first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king

of Babylon hath broken his bones.

JER-50:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,

I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of

Assyria.

JER-50:19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed

on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and

Gilead.

JER-50:20 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of

Israel shall be sought for, and [there shall be] none; and the sins of Judah,

and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

JER-50:21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, [even] against it, and against

the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the

LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

JER-50:22 A sound of battle [is] in the land, and of great destruction.

JER-50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is

Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

JER-50:24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,

and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast

striven against the LORD.

JER-50:25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the

weapons of his indignation: for this [is] the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in

the land of the Chaldeans.

JER-50:26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast

her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

JER-50:27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto

them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

JER-50:28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon,

to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his

temple.

JER-50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the

bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her

according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for

she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

JER-50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men

of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.

JER-50:31 Behold, I [am] against thee, [O thou] most proud, saith the Lord

GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time [that] I will visit thee.

JER-50:32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him

up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round

about him.

JER-50:33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the

children of Judah [were] oppressed together: and all that took them captives

held them fast; they refused to let them go.

JER-50:34 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.

JER-50:35 A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the

inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise [men].

JER-50:36 A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword [is] upon

her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

JER-50:37 A sword [is] upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon

all the mingled people that [are] in the midst of her; and they shall become

as women: a sword [is] upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

JER-50:38 A drought [is] upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it

[is] the land of graven images, and they are mad upon [their] idols.

JER-50:39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the

islands shall dwell [there], and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be

no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to

generation.

JER-50:40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour [cities]

thereof, saith the LORD; [so] shall no man abide there, neither shall any son

of man dwell therein.

JER-50:41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and

many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

JER-50:42 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.

JER-50:43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands

waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

JER-50:44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan

unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from

her: and who [is] a chosen [man, that] I may appoint over her? for who [is]

like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that

will stand before me?

JER-50:45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken

against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of

the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he

shall make [their] habitation desolate with them.

JER-50:46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the

cry is heard among the nations.

JER-51:1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and

against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a

destroying wind;

JER-51:2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall

empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round

about.

JER-51:3 Against [him that] bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against

[him that] lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young

men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

JER-51:4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [they

that are] thrust through in her streets.

JER-51:5 For Israel [hath] not [been] forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the

LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of

Israel.

JER-51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be

not cut off in her iniquity; for this [is] the time of the LORD'S vengeance;

he will render unto her a recompense.

JER-51:7 Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all

the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations

are mad.

JER-51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm

for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

JER-51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her,

and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto

heaven, and is lifted up [even] to the skies.

JER-51:10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us

declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

JER-51:11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up

the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device [is] against Babylon, to

destroy it; because it [is] the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his

temple.

JER-51:12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch

strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both

devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

JER-51:13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine

end is come, [and] the measure of thy covetousness.

JER-51:14 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.

JER-51:15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world

by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

JER-51:16 When he uttereth [his] voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in

the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth:

he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his

treasures.

JER-51:17 Every man is brutish by [his] knowledge; every founder is

confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and

[there is] no breath in them.

JER-51:18 They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their

visitation they shall perish.

JER-51:19 The portion of Jacob [is] not like them; for he [is] the former of

all things: and [Israel is] the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts [is]

his name.

JER-51:20 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;

JER-51:21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and

with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;

JER-51:22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee

will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the

young man and the maid;

JER-51:23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock;

and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and

with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.

JER-51:24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of

Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the

LORD.

JER-51:25 Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD,

which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee,

and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

JER-51:26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone

for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.

JER-51:27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the

nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the

kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause

the horses to come up as the rough caterpillars.

JER-51:28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the

captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his

dominion.

JER-51:29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the

LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a

desolation without an inhabitant.

JER-51:30 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.

JER-51:31 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,

JER-51:32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned

with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

JER-51:33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter

of Babylon [is] like a threshingfloor, [it is] time to thresh her: yet a

little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

JER-51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath

crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a

dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

JER-51:35 The violence done to me and to my flesh [be] upon Babylon, shall

the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,

shall Jerusalem say.

JER-51:36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and

take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

JER-51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, and

astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

JER-51:38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions'

whelps.

JER-51:39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them

drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake,

saith the LORD.

JER-51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with

he goats.

JER-51:41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth

surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

JER-51:42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude

of the waves thereof.

JER-51:43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land

wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of man pass thereby.

JER-51:44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his

mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together

any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

JER-51:45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man

his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.

JER-51:46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be

heard in the land; a rumour shall both come [one] year, and after that in

[another] year [shall come] a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against

ruler.

JER-51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the

graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her

slain shall fall in the midst of her.

JER-51:48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that [is] therein, shall

sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith

the LORD.

JER-51:49 As Babylon [hath caused] the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon

shall fall the slain of all the earth.

JER-51:50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember

the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

JER-51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath

covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S

house.

JER-51:52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do

judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall

groan.

JER-51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should

fortify the height of her strength, [yet] from me shall spoilers come unto

her, saith the LORD.

JER-51:54 A sound of a cry [cometh] from Babylon, and great destruction from

the land of the Chaldeans:

JER-51:55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the

great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice

is uttered:

JER-51:56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, [even] upon Babylon, and her

mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of

recompenses shall surely requite.

JER-51:57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise [men], her

captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual

sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts.

JER-51:58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be

utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people

shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

JER-51:59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of

Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into

Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And [this] Seraiah [was] a quiet

prince.

JER-51:60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon

Babylon, [even] all these words that are written against Babylon.

JER-51:61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and

shalt see, and shalt read all these words;

JER-51:62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place,

to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that

it shall be desolate for ever.

JER-51:63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book,

[that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

JER-51:64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise

from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far

[are] the words of Jeremiah.

JER-52:1 Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and

he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Hamutal the

daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

JER-52:2 And he did [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD, according

to all that Jehoiakim had done.

JER-52:3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and

Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled

against the king of Babylon.

JER-52:4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth

month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon

came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and

built forts against it round about.

JER-52:5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

JER-52:6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth [day] of the month, the famine

was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

JER-52:7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went

forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls,

which [was] by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans [were] by the city round

about:) and they went by the way of the plain.

JER-52:8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook

Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

JER-52:9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon

to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.

JER-52:10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes:

he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

JER-52:11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound

him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day

of his death.

JER-52:12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, which

[was] the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan,

captain of the guard, [which] served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,

JER-52:13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the

houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great [men], burned he with

fire:

JER-52:14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that [were] with the captain of

the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.

JER-52:15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive

[certain] of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that

remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of

Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

JER-52:16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left [certain] of the poor

of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

JER-52:17 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.

JER-52:18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the

bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered,

took they away.

JER-52:19 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.

JER-52:20 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.

JER-52:21 And [concerning] the pillars, the height of one pillar [was]

eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the

thickness thereof [was] four fingers: [it was] hollow.

JER-52:22 And a chapiter of brass [was] upon it; and the height of one

chapiter [was] five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters

round about, all [of] brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates

[were] like unto these.

JER-52:23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; [and] all the

pomegranates upon the network [were] an hundred round about.

JER-52:24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and

Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:

JER-52:25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the

men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were

found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the

people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were

found in the midst of the city.

JER-52:26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them

to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

JER-52:27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah

in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own

land.

JER-52:28 This [is] the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in

the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:

JER-52:29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive

from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:

JER-52:30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the

captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and

five persons: all the persons [were] four thousand and six hundred.

JER-52:31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the

captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and

twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the

[first] year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and

brought him forth out of prison,

JER-52:32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of

the kings that [were] with him in Babylon,

JER-52:33 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread

before him all the days of his life.

JER-52:34 And [for] his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the

king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days

of his life.