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{Jeremiah 1:1} The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that [were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
Jeremiah 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.
Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 1:4} Then the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 1:6} Then said
I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I [am] a child.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 1:8} Be not afraid of their faces: for I [am] with
thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 1:12} Then
said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word
to perform it. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 1:14} Then the LORD said unto
me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants
of the land. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 1:18} For, behold, I have made thee this
day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the
whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof,
against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 2:1} Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 2:4} Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob,
and all the families of the house of Israel:
{Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 2:9} Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with
your children's children will I plead. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 2:12} Be astonished, O ye heavens,
at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 2:14} [Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave?] why is he
spoiled? {Jeremiah 2:15} The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they
made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. {Jeremiah 2:16}
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy
head. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 2:22} For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much
sope, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
{Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 2:29} Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have
transgressed against me, saith the LORD. {Jeremiah 2:30} In vain have I smitten
your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath
devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
{Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 2:32} Can a maid forget her
ornaments, [or] a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me
days without number. {Jeremiah 2:33} Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love?
therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 3:1} They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and
become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that
land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many
lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 3:4} Wilt thou not from this time cry unto
me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth? {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. ]{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 3:11} And the LORD said unto me, The
backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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:
{Jeremiah 3:15} And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall
feed you with knowledge and understanding.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 3:22} Return, ye
backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we
come unto thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 3:24} For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our
youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 4:1} If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me:
and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then
shalt thou not remove. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 4:3} For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem,
Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 4:6} Set
up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil
from the north, and a great destruction. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 4:8} For this gird you
with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is
not turned back from us. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 4:12} [Even ]a full wind from those [places
]shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 4:14} O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that
thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within
thee? {Jeremiah 4:15} For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction
from mount Ephraim. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 4:17} As keepers of
a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been
rebellious against me, saith the LORD. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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 trump, the alarm of war. {Jeremiah 4:20} Destruction
upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are
my tents spoiled, [and] my curtains in a moment. {Jeremiah 4:21} How long shall
I see the standard, [and] hear the sound of the trumpet? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 4:23} I beheld the earth, and,
lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no
light. {Jeremiah 4:24} I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all
the hills moved lightly. {Jeremiah 4:25} I beheld, and, lo, [there was] no man,
and all the birds of the heavens were fled. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 4:27} For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate;
yet will I not make a full end. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 5:1} Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see
now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a
man, if there be [any] that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth;
and I will pardon it. {Jeremiah 5:2} And though they say, The LORD liveth;
surely they swear falsely. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 5:8} They were [as] fed horses in the morning:
every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. {Jeremiah 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?
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 5:11}
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
treacherously against me, saith the LORD. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 5:13} And the prophets shall
become wind, and the word [is] not in them: thus shall it be done unto
them. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 5:16} Their quiver
[is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 5:18}
Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end
with you.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 5:20}
Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
{Jeremiah 5:21} Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
{Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 5:23} But this people hath a revolting and a
rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 5:25} Your iniquities have turned away these [things,] and your
sins have withholden good [things] from you. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 5:27} As a cage is full of birds, so [are]
their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen
rich. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 5:29} Shall I not visit for these [things?] saith the LORD:
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
{Jeremiah 5:30} A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
{Jeremiah 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?
{Jeremiah 6:1} O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of
the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a
sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and
great destruction. {Jeremiah 6:2} I have likened the daughter of Zion to a
comely and delicate [woman. ]{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 6:5}
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 6:8} Be
thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I
make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
{Jeremiah 6:9} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the
remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer
into the baskets. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 6:14} They have healed also the hurt [of the
daughter] of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is]
no peace. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 6:17} Also I set watchmen over
you, [saying,] Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We
will not hearken.
{Jeremiah 6:18} Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what
[is] among them. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 6:27}
I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that
thou mayest know and try their way. {Jeremiah 6:28} They [are] all grievous
revolters, walking with slanders: [they are] brass and iron; they [are]
all corrupters. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 6:30} Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD
hath rejected them.
{Jeremiah 7:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, {Jeremiah
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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 7:5} For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings;
if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 7:8} Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. {Jeremiah
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; {Jeremiah 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?
Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 7:17} Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the
streets of Jerusalem? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 7:19} Do they provoke me to anger?
saith the LORD: [do they] not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of
their own faces? {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 7:21} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your
burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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:
]{Jeremiah 7:26} Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but
hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 8:1} At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones
of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of
the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 8:5} Why
[then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual
backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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?
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 8:11} For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my
people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 8:15} We looked for peace,
but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and behold trouble!
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 8:17} For, behold, I will send serpents,
cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall
bite you, saith the LORD.
{Jeremiah 8:18} [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is]
faint in me. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 8:20} The
harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. {Jeremiah 8:21} For
the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black;
astonishment hath taken hold on me. {Jeremiah 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?
{Jeremiah 9:1} Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of
tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of
my people! {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 9:6} Thine habitation [is] in the
midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
{Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 9:14} But have walked after the imagination of
their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
]{Jeremiah 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:
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 9:25} Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all
[them which are] circumcised with the uncircumcised; {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 10:1} Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of
Israel: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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 axe. {Jeremiah 10:4} They deck it with silver and with gold;
they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 10:6} Forasmuch as
[there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou [art] great, and thy name
is great in might. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 10:8} But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a
doctrine of vanities. {Jeremiah 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. ]{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 10:13} When he uttereth
his voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he
causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh
lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 10:15} They [are] vanity, [and] the work
of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 10:17} Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the
fortress. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 10:24} O LORD,
correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me
to nothing. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 11:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
{Jeremiah 11:2}
Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah,
and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; {Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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:
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 11:9} And the LORD said unto
me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 11:18} And the LORD hath given me knowledge [of it,] and I know
[it:] then thou shewedst me their doings. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 12:1} Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let
me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the
wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very
treacherously? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 12:8} Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out
against me: therefore have I hated it. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 12:10} Many
pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under
foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 12:17} But if they will not obey, I will utterly
pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.
{Jeremiah 13:1} Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle,
and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. {Jeremiah 13:2} So I got a
girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put [it] on my loins.
{Jeremiah 13:3} And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 13:5} So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 13:8}
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {Jeremiah 13:9} Thus saith the
LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great
pride of Jerusalem. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 13:15} Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath
spoken. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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?
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 13:24} Therefore will I scatter them as the
stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 13:26}
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may
appear. {Jeremiah 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?
]{Jeremiah 14:1} The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the
dearth. {Jeremiah 14:2} Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are
black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 14:4}
Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the
plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. {Jeremiah 14:5} Yea, the hind
also calved in the field, and forsook [it,] because there was no grass.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 14:11} Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for
[their] good. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 14:19} Hast thou utterly
rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us,
and [there is] no healing for us? we looked for peace, and [there is]
no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble! {Jeremiah 14:20} We
acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers:
for we have sinned against thee. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
]{Jeremiah 15:1} Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood
before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast
[them] out of my sight, and let them go forth. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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?
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 15:12} Shall iron break
the northern iron and the steel? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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?
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 15:20} And I will
make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight
against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I [am] with
thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 16:1} The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying, {Jeremiah 16:2}
Thou
shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters
in this place. {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 16:8} Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with
them to eat and to drink. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 16:10} And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people
all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD
pronounced all this great evil against us? or what [is] our iniquity?
or what [is] our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
{Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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
shew you favour.
{Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 16:20} Shall a man
make gods unto himself, and they [are] no gods? {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 17:1} The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron, [and] with
the point of a diamond: [it is] graven upon the table of their heart,
and upon the horns of your altars; {Jeremiah 17:2} Whilst their children
remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high
hills. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 17:7} Blessed [is] the
man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 17:9} The heart [is] deceitful above all [things,] and desperately
wicked: who can know it?
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 17:12} A glorious high throne from the beginning [is] the place of
our sanctuary. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 17:14} Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me,
and I shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise.
{Jeremiah 17:15} Behold, they say unto me, Where [is] the word of the LORD?
let it come now. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 17:17} Be not a terror unto me: thou [art] my hope in the day of evil.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 17:23} But they obeyed not, neither
inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not
hear, nor receive instruction. {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 18:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, {Jeremiah
18:2}
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee
to hear my words. {Jeremiah 18:3} Then I went down to the potter's house, and,
behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 18:5} Then
the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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; ]{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 18:9} And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it; ]{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 18:16} To make their land desolate,
[and] a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be
astonished, and wag his head. {Jeremiah 18:17} I will scatter them as with an
east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the
face, in the day of their calamity.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 18:19} Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that
contend with me. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 19:1} Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle,
and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the
priests; {Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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:
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 19:10} Then shalt thou break
the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 19:12} Thus will I do unto this place, saith the
LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and [even] make this city as
Tophet: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 20:1} Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who [was] also chief
governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these
things. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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 Magor-missabib.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
]{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 20:13}
Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul
of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
{Jeremiah 20:14} Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day
wherein my mother bare me be blessed. {Jeremiah 20:15} Cursed [be] the man who
brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee;
making him very glad. {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. ]{Jeremiah 20:18} Wherefore came I forth out of
the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with
shame?
{Jeremiah 21:1} The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king
Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the
son of Maaseiah the priest, saying, {Jeremiah 21:2} Enquire, I pray thee, of the
LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us;
if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous
works, that he may go up from us. {Jeremiah 21:3} Then said Jeremiah unto them,
Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 21:6} And I will smite the
inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great
pestilence. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 21:11} And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye
the word of the LORD; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 22:1} Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of
Judah, and speak there this word, {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 22:5} But if ye will not hear these words, I
swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a
desolation. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 22:9} Then they shall answer, Because
they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped
other gods, and served them.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 22:12} But he shall die in the place whither they have led
him captive, and shall see this land no more.
{Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 22:14} That saith, I will
build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows;
and [it is] cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. ]{Jeremiah 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! {Jeremiah 22:19} He shall
be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the
gates of Jerusalem.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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! {Jeremiah 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;
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 22:27} But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall
they not return. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 22:29}
O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 23:1} Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of
my pasture! saith the LORD. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 23:11} For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have
I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 23:13} And I have seen
folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused
my people Israel to err. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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? ]{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 23:21} I have not sent these prophets, yet they
ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 23:23} [Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD,
and not a God afar off? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 23:25} I have heard what the prophets said,
that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
{Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 23:29} [Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a
hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces? {Jeremiah 23:30} Therefore, behold, I
[am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every
one from his neighbour. {Jeremiah 23:31} Behold, I [am] against the prophets,
saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 23:37} Thus
shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and,
What hath the LORD spoken? {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 23:40} And I
will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame,
which shall not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 24:1 The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 24:4} Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 25:1} The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of
Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah,
that [was] the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; {Jeremiah 25:2} The
which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to
all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 25:8} Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not
heard my words, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 25:11} And this whole land shall be a
desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the
king of Babylon seventy years.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 25:16} And they shall drink, and be moved, and be
mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 25:19} Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and
his princes, and all his people; {Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 25:21} Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon, {Jeremiah
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, {Jeremiah 25:23} Dedan, and Tema, and Buz,
and all [that are] in the utmost corners, {Jeremiah 25:24} And all the kings of
Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the
desert, {Jeremiah 25:25} And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam,
and all the kings of the Medes, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 25:35} And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the
principal of the flock to escape. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 25:37} And the
peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the
LORD. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 26:1} In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying, {Jeremiah 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:
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 26:6} Then will I make this
house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations
of the earth. {Jeremiah 26:7} So the priests and the prophets and all the people
heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. ]{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 26:14} As for me, behold, I [am] in your hand:
do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 26:17} Then rose up
certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the
people, saying, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 26:20} And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the
LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, who prophesied
against this city and against this land according to all the words of
Jeremiah: {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 26:22} And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely,]
Elnathan the son of Achbor, and [certain] men with him into Egypt.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 27:1} In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
{Jeremiah 27:2} Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put
them upon thy neck, {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 27:17} Hearken not unto them; serve the
king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 28:1} And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the
reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, [and] in the fifth
month, [that] Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which [was] of
Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the
priests and of all the people, saying, {Jeremiah 28:2} Thus speaketh the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of
Babylon. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 28:7}
Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in
the ears of all the people; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 28:10} Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet
Jeremiah's neck, and brake it. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 28:17}
So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
{Jeremiah 29:1} Now these [are] the words of the letter that Jeremiah the
prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were
carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to
all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from
Jerusalem to Babylon; {Jeremiah 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;) {Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 29:5} Build ye houses,
and dwell [in them;] and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 29:9} For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent
them, saith the LORD.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 29:12} Then shall
ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken
unto you. {Jeremiah 29:13} And ye shall seek me, and find [me,] when ye shall
search for me with all your heart. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 29:15} Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in
Babylon; {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 29:20} Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the
captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon: {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 29:24} [Thus] shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite,
saying, {Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 29:27} Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of
Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 29:29} And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of
Jeremiah the prophet.
{Jeremiah 29:30} Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
{Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 30:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, {Jeremiah
30:2}
Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words
that I have spoken unto thee in a book. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 30:4} And these [are] the words that the LORD spake concerning
Israel and concerning Judah. {Jeremiah 30:5} For thus saith the LORD; We have
heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 30:9} But they shall serve the LORD their
God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 30:12} For thus saith the
LORD, Thy bruise [is] incurable, [and] thy wound [is] grievous. {Jeremiah 30:13}
[There is] none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou
hast no healing medicines.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 30:22} And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 31:1}
At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all
the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 31:5} Thou shalt yet
plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant,
and shall eat [them] as common things. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 31:11} For the LORD hath
redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of [him that was]
stronger than he. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 31:17} And there is
hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again
to their own border.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 31:24} And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities
thereof together, husbandmen, and they [that] go forth with flocks.
{Jeremiah 31:25} For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished
every sorrowful soul. {Jeremiah 31:26} Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my
sleep was sweet unto me.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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:
{Jeremiah 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:
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 31:39} And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against
it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 32:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth
year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which [was] the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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?
{Jeremiah 32:6} And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
{Jeremiah 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. ]{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 32:10}
And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed [it,] and took witnesses, and
weighed [him] the money in the balances. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 32:13} And I charged Baruch before them, saying, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 32:16} Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto
Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying, {Jeremiah 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:
{Jeremiah 32:18} Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest
the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after
them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, [is] his name,
{Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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. ]{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 32:26} Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
{Jeremiah 32:27} Behold, I [am] the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any
thing too hard for me? {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 32:34} But they set their abominations in the
house, which is called by my name, to defile it. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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:
{Jeremiah 32:38} And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
{Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 33:1} Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second
time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
{Jeremiah 33:2} Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it,
to establish it; the LORD [is] his name; {Jeremiah 33:3} Call unto me, and I
will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou
knowest not. {Jeremiah 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;
{Jeremiah 33:5} They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but [it is] 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 33:17} For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit
upon the throne of the house of Israel; {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 33:19} And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying, {Jeremiah
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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 33:23} Moreover the word of the LORD came to
Jeremiah, saying, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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;
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 34:1} The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms
of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against
Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying, {Jeremiah 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:
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 34:6} Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah
king of Judah in Jerusalem, {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 34:12} Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the
LORD, saying, {Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 34:16} But ye turned and polluted my name, and
caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had
set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into
subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 35:1} The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days
of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 35:9} Nor to build houses
for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
{Jeremiah 35:10} But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according
to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 35:12} Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 36:1} And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son
of Josiah king of Judah, [that] this word came unto Jeremiah from the
LORD, saying, {Jeremiah 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 into this day. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 36:5} And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] shut up; I cannot
go into the house of the LORD: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 36:11} When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had
heard out of the book all the words of the LORD, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 36:15} And
they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch
read [it] in their ears. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 36:17} And
they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these
words at his mouth? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 36:19} Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee,
thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 36:22} Now the king sat in the
winterhouse in the ninth month: and [there was a fire] on the hearth
burning before him. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 36:24} Yet they were not afraid,
nor rent their garments, [neither] the king, nor any of his servants
that heard all these words. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 36:29} And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim
the 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? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 37:1} And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah
the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in
the land of Judah. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 37:4} Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for
they had not put him into prison. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 37:6} Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah,
saying, {Jeremiah 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 enquire of me;
Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return
to Egypt into their own land. {Jeremiah 37:8} And the Chaldeans shall come
again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
{Jeremiah 37:9} Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The
Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 37:16} When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the
cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 38:1} Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of
Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah,
heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 38:7} Now when Ebed-melech 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; {Jeremiah 38:8}
Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king,
saying, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 38:10} Then the king commanded
Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with
thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he
die. {Jeremiah 38:11} So Ebed- melech 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. {Jeremiah 38:12} And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put
now [these] old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under
the cords. And Jeremiah did so. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 38:21} But if thou
refuse to go forth, this [is] the word that the LORD hath shewed me:
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 38:24} Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these
words, and thou shalt not die. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 39:1} In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth
month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against
Jerusalem, and they besieged it. {Jeremiah 39:2} [And] in the eleventh year of
Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city
was broken up. {Jeremiah 39:3} And all the princes of the king of Babylon came
in, and sat in the middle gate, [even] Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo,
Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of
the princes of the king of Babylon.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 39:7} Moreover he put out Zedekiah's
eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 39:9}
Then Nebuzar-adan 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. {Jeremiah 39:10} But Nebuzar-adan 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.
{Jeremiah 39:11} Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning
Jeremiah to Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard, saying, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 39:13} So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the
guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer, Rabmag,
and all the king of Babylon's princes; {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 39:15} Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was
shut up in the court of the prison, saying, {Jeremiah 39:16} Go and speak to
Ebed-melech 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 40:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that
Nebuzar-adan 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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,
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 41:1} Now it came to pass in the seventh month, [that] Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the
princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 41:4} And it came to pass the
second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew [it, ]{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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 Nebuzar-adan 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.
{Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 41:15} But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan
with eight men, and went to the Ammonites. {Jeremiah 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:
{Jeremiah 41:17} And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham,
which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt, {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 42:1} Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of
Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the
least even unto the greatest, came near, {Jeremiah 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:) {Jeremiah 42:3} That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may
walk, and the thing that we may do. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 42:7} And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD
came unto Jeremiah. {Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 42:12} And I will shew
mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to
return to your own land.
{Jeremiah 42:13} But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey
the voice of the LORD your God, {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. ]{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 43:1} And it came to pass, [that] when Jeremiah had made an end of
speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for
which the LORD their God had sent him to them, [even] all these words,
{Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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;
{Jeremiah 43:6} [Even] men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters,
and every person that Nebuzar-adan 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 43:8} Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes,
saying, {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 43:13} He shall break also the images of Beth-shemesh, that
[is] in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians
shall he burn with fire.
{Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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,
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 44:5} But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from
their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 44:16} [As for] the word that thou
hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto
thee. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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?
{Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 44:30} Thus saith the LORD; Behold,
I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies,
and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king
of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy,
and that sought his life.
{Jeremiah 45:1} The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son
of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of
Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
Judah, saying, {Jeremiah 45:2} Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto
thee, O Baruch; {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 46:1} The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet
against the Gentiles; {Jeremiah 46:2} Against Egypt, against the army of
Pharaoh-necho 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. {Jeremiah 46:3} Order ye the
buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. {Jeremiah 46:4} Harness the horses;
and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with [your] helmets; furbish
the spears, [and] put on the brigandines. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 46:7} Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood,
whose waters are moved as the rivers? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 46:15} Why are thy valiant [men]
swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 46:17} They did cry there, Pharaoh king of
Egypt [is but] a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 46:19} O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go
into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an
inhabitant. {Jeremiah 46:20} Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but]
destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 46:24} The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded;
she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
{Jeremiah 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:
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 47:1} The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet
against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 47:5}
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off [with] the remnant of
their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 48:1} Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded [and] taken:
Misgab is confounded and dismayed. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 48:3} A voice of crying [shall
be] from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction. {Jeremiah 48:4} Moab is
destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 48:6}
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 48:10} Cursed [be] he that doeth the work of the LORD
deceitfully, and cursed [be] he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 48:13} And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel
was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
{Jeremiah 48:14} How say ye, We [are] mighty and strong men for the war?
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 48:16} The calamity of Moab [is] near to
come, and his affliction hasteth fast. {Jeremiah 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! {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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?
{Jeremiah 48:20} Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; and
tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled, {Jeremiah 48:21} And judgment is come
upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon
Mephaath, {Jeremiah 48:22} And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon
Beth-diblathaim, {Jeremiah 48:23} And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and
upon Beth-meon,
{Jeremiah 48:24} And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all
the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
{Jeremiah 48:25} The horn of Moab
is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 48:30} I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but
[it shall] not [be] so; his lies shall not so effect [it. ]{Jeremiah 48:31}
Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; [mine
heart] shall mourn for the men of Kir- heres. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 48:36} Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab
like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of
Kir-heres: because the riches [that] he hath gotten are perished.
{Jeremiah 48:37} For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped: upon
all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 48:40} For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an
eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 48:42} And
Moab shall be destroyed from [being] a people, because he hath
magnified [himself] against the LORD. {Jeremiah 48:43} Fear, and the pit, and
the snare, [shall be] upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 48:46} Woe be unto thee,
O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken
captives, and thy daughters captives. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 49:1} Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no
sons? hath he no heir? why [then] doth their king inherit Gad, and his
people dwell in his cities? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 49:6} And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children
of Ammon, saith the LORD.
{Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 49:11} Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them]
alive; and let thy widows trust in me. {Jeremiah 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. ]{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 49:15} For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen,
[and] despised among men. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 49:21} The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry
the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 49:25} How is the city
of praise not left, the city of my joy! {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 49:27} And I will kindle a fire in
the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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, {Jeremiah 49:35} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the
bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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:
{Jeremiah 49:38} And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence
the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
{Jeremiah 49:39} But it shall come to pass in the latter days, [that] I will
bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
{Jeremiah 50:1} The word that the LORD spake against Babylon [and] against
the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 50:10} And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be
satisfied, saith the LORD. {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 50:22} A sound of battle [is] in the land, and of great destruction.
{Jeremiah 50:23} How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!
how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 50:34} Their
Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD of hosts [is] his name: he shall
throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and
disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
{Jeremiah 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. ] {Jeremiah 50:36} A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall dote: a
sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 50:42}
They shall hold the bow and the lance: they [are] cruel, and will not
shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride
upon horses, [every one] put in array, like a man to the battle,
against thee, O daughter of Babylon. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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? {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 50:46} At the noise of the taking of Babylon the
earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
{Jeremiah 51:1} Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon,
and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against
me, a destroying wind; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 51:4} Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the
Chaldeans, and [they that are] thrust through in her streets. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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 recompence.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 51:8} Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her ; take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 51:10} The LORD
hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion
the work of the LORD our God. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 51:13} O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in
treasures, thine end is come, [and] the measure of thy covetousness.
{Jeremiah 51:14} The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying,] Surely I
will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a
shout against thee. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 51:18} They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the
time of their visitation they shall perish. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 51:20} Thou [art] my battle axe [and] weapons of war: for with thee
will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy
kingdoms; {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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; {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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 caterpillers. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 51:30} The mighty
men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in [their]
holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned
her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken. {Jeremiah 51:31} One post shall run to
meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of
Babylon that his city is taken at [one] end, {Jeremiah 51:32} And that the
passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the
men of war are affrighted. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 51:37} And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for
dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
{Jeremiah 51:38} They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions'
whelps. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 51:40} I will bring them down like lambs to
the slaughter, like rams with he goats. {Jeremiah 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! {Jeremiah 51:42} The sea is come up
upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 51:49} As Babylon [hath caused] the
slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the
earth. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 51:54} A
sound of a cry [cometh] from Babylon, and great destruction from the
land of the Chaldeans: {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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
recompences shall surely requite. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 51:61} And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When
thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 52:1} Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. {Jeremiah 52:2} And he did [that
which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that
Jehoiakim had done. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 52:5} So the city
was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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.
{Jeremiah 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
Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, [which] served the king of Babylon,
into Jerusalem, {Jeremiah 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: {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 52:15} Then Nebuzar-adan 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. {Jeremiah 52:16} But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left
[certain] of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
{Jeremiah 52:17} Also the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the LORD,
and the bases, and the brasen sea that [was] in the house of the LORD,
the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 52:19} And the basons, and the firepans,
and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons,
and the cups; [that] which [was] of gold [in] gold, and [that] which
[was] of silver [in] silver, took the captain of the guard away.
{Jeremiah 52:20} The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that [were]
under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD:
the brass of all these vessels was without weight. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 52:23} And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side;
[and] all the pomegranates upon the network [were] an hundred round
about.
{Jeremiah 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:
{Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 52:26} So
Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to
the king of Babylon to Riblah. {Jeremiah 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. {Jeremiah 52:28} This is the
people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year
three thousand Jews and three and twenty: {Jeremiah 52:29} In the eighteenth
year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight
hundred thirty and two persons: {Jeremiah 52:30} In the three and twentieth year
of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar-adan 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.
{Jeremiah 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] Evil-merodach 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, {Jeremiah 52:32}
And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the
kings that [were] with him in Babylon, {Jeremiah 52:33} And changed his prison
garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of
his life. {Jeremiah 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.