
The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah

   {1:1} The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that
were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: {1:2} to whom the word of
Jehovah came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in
the thirteenth year of his reign. {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. {1:4} Now the
word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, {1:5} Before I formed thee in the
belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I
sanctified thee; I have appointed thee a prophet unto the nations.
{1:6} Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, I know not how to speak;
for I am a child. {1:7} But Jehovah said unto me, Say not, I am a
child; for to whomsoever I shall send thee thou shalt go, and
whatsoever I shall command thee thou shalt speak. {1:8} Be not afraid
because of them; for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith Jehovah.
{1:9} Then Jehovah put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and
Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth: {1:10}
see, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms,
to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build
and to plant. {1:11} Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree.
{1:12} Then said Jehovah unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I watch over
my word to perform it. {1:13} And the word of Jehovah came unto me the
second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a boiling
caldron; and the face thereof is from the north. {1:14} Then Jehovah
said unto me, Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the
inhabitants of the land. {1:15} For, lo, I will call all the families
of the kingdoms of the north, saith Jehovah; and they shall come, and
they shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the gates of
Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against
all the cities of Judah. {1:16} And I will utter my judgments against
them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and
have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their
own hands. {1:17} Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and
speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at them, lest
I dismay thee before them. {1:18} For, behold, I have made thee this
day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the
whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof,
against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. {1:19}
And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against
thee: for I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to deliver thee.



   {2:1} And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, {2:2} Go, and cry
in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, I remember for
thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals; how thou
wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. {2:3}
Israel [was] holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase:
all that devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come upon them,
saith Jehovah. {2:4} Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, and
all the families of the house of Israel: {2:5} thus saith Jehovah, What
unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far
from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? {2:6}
Neither said they, Where is Jehovah 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 none passed through, and where no man dwelt? {2:7}
And I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit thereof and
the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made
my heritage an abomination. {2:8} The priests said not, Where is
Jehovah? and they that handle the law knew me not: the rulers also
transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and
walked after things that do not profit. {2:9} Wherefore I will yet
contend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children's children will
I contend. {2:10} For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and
send unto Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there hath been
such a thing. {2:11} Hath a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no
gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not
profit. {2:12} Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly
afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah. {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. {2:14} Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born [slave]? why is he
become a prey? {2:15} The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled;
and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without
inhabitant. {2:16} The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have
broken the crown of thy head. {2:17} Hast thou not procured this unto
thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee
by the way? {2:18} And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, to
drink the waters of the Shihor? or what hast thou to do in the way to
Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? {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 a bitter, that thou hast
forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the
Lord, Jehovah of hosts. {2:20} For of old time I have broken thy yoke,
and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every
high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing
the harlot. {2:21} Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right
seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a
foreign vine unto me? {2:22} For though thou wash thee with lye, and
take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the
Lord Jehovah. {2:23} How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not
gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast
done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways; {2:24} a wild
ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in
her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not
weary themselves; in her month they shall find her. {2:25} Withhold thy
foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, It
is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
{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; {2:27} who say 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. {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. {2:29} Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye all have
transgressed against me, saith Jehovah. {2:30} In vain have I smitten
your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath
devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. {2:31} O generation,
see ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a
land of thick darkness? wherefore say my people, We are broken loose;
we will come no more unto thee? {2:32} Can a virgin forget her
ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days
without number. {2:33} How trimmest thou thy way to seek love!
therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways. {2:34} Also
in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor:
thou didst not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these
things. {2:35} Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is
turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee,
because thou sayest, I have not sinned. {2:36} Why gaddest thou about
so much to change thy way? thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou
wast ashamed of Assyria. {2:37} From thence also shalt thou go forth,
with thy hands upon thy head: for Jehovah hath rejected those in whom
thou trustest, and thou shalt not prosper with them.



   {3:1} They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and
become another man's, will he return unto her again? will not that land
be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers;
yet return again to me, saith Jehovah. {3:2} Lift up thine eyes unto
the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the
ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou
hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
{3:3} Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been
no latter rain; yet thou hast a harlot's forehead, thou refusedst to be
ashamed. {3:4} Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father,
thou art the guide of my youth? {3:5} Will he retain [his anger] for
ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast
done evil things, and hast had thy way. {3:6} Moreover Jehovah said
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. {3:7} And
I said after she had done all these things, She will return unto me;
but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. {3:8}
And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had
committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of
divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also
went and played the harlot. {3:9} And it came to pass through the
lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she
committed adultery with stones and with stocks. {3:10} And yet for all
this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her
whole heart, but feignedly, saith Jehovah. {3:11} And Jehovah said unto
me, Backsliding Israel hath showed herself more righteous than
treacherous Judah. {3:12} Go, and proclaim these words toward the
north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah; I will
not look in anger upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah, I will
not keep [anger] for ever. {3:13} Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that
thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy
ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my
voice, saith Jehovah. {3:14} Return, O backsliding children, saith
Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a
city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: {3:15} and I
will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with
knowledge and understanding. {3:16} And it shall come to pass, when ye
are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith Jehovah,
they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah; neither
shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall
they miss it; neither shall it be made any more. {3:17} At that time
they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah; and all the nations
shall be gathered unto it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem:
neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil
heart. {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 gave for an inheritance unto your fathers.
{3:19} But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give
thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations!
and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from
following me. {3:20} Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her
husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel,
saith Jehovah. {3:21} A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the
weeping [and] the supplications of the children of Israel; because they
have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God. {3:22}
Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. Behold,
we are come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah our God. {3:23} Truly in
vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult on the
mountains: truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel. {3:24}
But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our
youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
{3:25} Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us;
for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from
our youth even unto this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of
Jehovah our God.





   {4:1} If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, if thou wilt
return unto me, and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my
sight; then shalt thou not be removed; {4:2} and thou shalt swear, As
Jehovah liveth, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; and the
nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
{4:3} For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,
Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. {4:4} Circumcise
yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye
men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like
fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your
doings. {4:5} Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say,
Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble
yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities. {4:6} Set up a
standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil
from the north, and a great destruction. {4:7} A lion is gone up from
his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone
forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be
laid waste, without inhabitant. {4:8} For this gird you with sackcloth,
lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back
from us. {4:9} And it shall come to pass at that day, saith Jehovah,
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.
{4:10} Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! surely thou hast greatly deceived
this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the
sword reacheth unto the life. {4:11} At that time shall it be said to
this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the
wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to
cleanse; {4:12} a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I
also utter judgments against them. {4:13} Behold, he shall come up as
clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are
swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are ruined. {4:14} O
Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved.
How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee? {4:15} For a
voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth evil from the hills of
Ephraim: {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. {4:17} As keepers of a field are
they against her round about, because she hath been rebellious against
me, saith Jehovah. {4:18} Thy way and thy doings have procured these
things unto thee; this is thy wickedness; for it is bitter, for it
reacheth unto thy heart. {4:19} My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at
my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace;
because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm
of war. {4:20} Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole
land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains
in a moment. {4:21} How long shall I see the standard, and hear the
sound of the trumpet? {4:22} For my people are foolish, they know me
not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they
are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. {4:23} I
beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and
they had no light. {4:24} I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they
trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro. {4:25} I beheld, and, lo,
there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. {4:26} I
beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the
cities thereof were broken down at the presence of Jehovah, [and]
before his fierce anger. {4:27} For thus saith Jehovah, The whole land
shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end. {4:28} For this
shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have
spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I
turn back from it. {4:29} Every city fleeth for the noise of the
horsemen and bowmen; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the
rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein. {4:30}
And thou, when thou art made desolate, what wilt thou do? Though thou
clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments
of gold, though thou enlargest thine eyes with paint, in vain dost thou
make thyself fair; [thy] lovers despise thee, they seek thy life.
{4:31} For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish
as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the
daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands,
[saying], Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.





   {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 doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will
pardon her. {5:2} And though they say, As Jehovah liveth; surely they
swear falsely. {5:3} O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou
hast stricken them, but they were 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. {5:4} Then I said,
Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of
Jehovah, nor the law of their God: {5:5} I will get me unto the great
men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, and
the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke,
and burst the bonds. {5:6} Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall
slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall
watch against their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be
torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their
backslidings are increased. {5:7} How can I pardon thee? thy children
have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed
them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in
troops at the harlots' houses. {5:8} They were as fed horses roaming at
large; every one neighed after his neighbor's wife. {5:9} Shall I not
visit for these things? saith Jehovah; and shall not my soul be avenged
on such a nation as this? {5:10} Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy;
but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not
Jehovah's. {5:11} For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have
dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah. {5:12} They have
denied Jehovah, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon
us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: {5:13} and the prophets
shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done
unto them. {5:14} Wherefore thus saith Jehovah, the 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. {5:15} Lo, I will
bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah: it
is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language
thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say. {5:16} Their
quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. {5:17} And they
shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy
daughters should eat; they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds; they
shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall beat down thy
fortified cities, wherein thou trustest, with the sword. {5:18} But
even in those days, saith Jehovah, I will not make a full end with you.
{5:19} And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore hath
Jehovah our God done all these things unto us? then shalt thou say unto
them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your
land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours. {5:20}
Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
{5:21} Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that
have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear not: {5:22} Fear ye
not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who 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.
{5:23} But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they
are revolted and gone. {5:24} Neither say they in their heart, Let us
now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the
latter, in its season; that preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of
the harvest. {5:25} Your iniquities have turned away these things, and
your sins have withholden good from you. {5:26} For among my people are
found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap,
they catch men. {5:27} As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses
full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich. {5:28}
They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of
wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that
they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. {5:29}
Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this? {5:30} A wonderful and horrible thing
is come to pass in the land: {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?



   {6:1} Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of
Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on
Beth-haccherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great
destruction. {6:2} The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion,
will I cut off. {6:3} 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. {6:4} Prepare ye war against her; arise, and
let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the
shadows of the evening are stretched out. {6:5} Arise, and let us go up
by night, and let us destroy her palaces. {6:6} For thus hath Jehovah
of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound against
Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in
the midst of her. {6:7} As a well casteth forth its waters, so she
casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her;
before me continually is sickness and wounds. {6:8} Be thou instructed,
O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a
desolation, a land not inhabited. {6:9} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts,
They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again
thy hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets. {6:10} To whom shall I
speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is
uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of Jehovah is
become unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. {6:11}
Therefore I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; I am weary with holding
in: pour it out upon the children in the street, 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. {6:12} And their houses
shall be turned unto others, their fields and their wives together; for
I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith
Jehovah. {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. {6:14} They have healed also the
hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no
peace. {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 Jehovah. {6:16} Thus saith Jehovah,
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]. {6:17} And I set watchmen over
you, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We
will not hearken. {6:18} Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O
congregation, what is among them. {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; and as for my law, they have
rejected it. {6:20} To what purpose cometh there to me frankincense
from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt-offerings
are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto me. {6:21}
Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks
before this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble
against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish. {6:22} Thus
saith Jehovah, Behold, a people cometh from the north country; and a
great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
{6:23} They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no
mercy; their voice roareth like the sea, and they ride upon horses,
every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O
daughter of Zion. {6:24} We have heard the report thereof; our hands
wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in
travail. {6:25} Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for
the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side. {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 destroyer shall suddenly come upon us. {6:27} I have made thee
a trier [and] a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try
their way. {6:28} They are all grievous revolters, going about with
slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
{6:29} The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in
vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.
{6:30} Refuse silver shall men call them, because Jehovah hath rejected
them.



   {7:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, {7:2}
Stand in the gate of Jehovah's house, and proclaim there this word, and
say, Hear the word of Jehovah, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these
gates to worship Jehovah. {7:3} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell
in this place. {7:4} Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of
Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these. {7:5}
For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly
execute justice between a man and his neighbor; {7:6} if ye oppress not
the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent
blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
{7:7} then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I
gave to your fathers, from of old even for evermore. {7:8} Behold, ye
trust in lying words, that cannot profit. {7:9} Will ye steal, murder,
and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and
walk after other gods that ye have not known, {7:10} and come and stand
before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are
delivered; that ye may do all these abominations? {7:11} Is this house,
which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes?
Behold, I, even I, have seen it, saith Jehovah. {7:12} But go ye now
unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at
the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people
Israel. {7:13} And now, because ye have done all these works, saith
Jehovah, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye
heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not: {7:14} therefore will
I do unto the 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 did to
Shiloh. {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. {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. {7:17} Seest
thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem? {7:18} The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the
fire, and the women knead the 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. {7:19} Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah;
[do they] not [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own
faces? {7:20} Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, mine anger
and my wrath 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. {7:21} Thus saith
Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your
sacrifices, and eat ye flesh. {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: {7:23} but this thing
I commanded them, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your
God, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the way that I
command you, that it may be well with you. {7:24} But they hearkened
not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and]
in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not
forward. {7:25} Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the
land of Egypt unto this day, I have sent unto you all my servants the
prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: {7:26} yet they
hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck
stiff: they did worse than their fathers. {7:27} And 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. {7:28} And
thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation that hath not hearkened to
the voice of Jehovah their God, nor received instruction: truth is
perished, and is cut off from their mouth. {7:29} Cut off thy hair, [O
Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare
heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his
wrath. {7:30} For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in
my sight, saith Jehovah: they have set their abominations in the house
which is called by my name, to defile it. {7:31} And they have built
the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of
Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I
commanded not, neither came it into my mind. {7:32} Therefore, behold,
the days come, saith Jehovah, that it shall no more be called Topheth,
nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for
they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place [to bury]. {7:33}
And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the
heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them
away. {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 become a waste.



   {8:1} At that time, saith Jehovah, 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; {8:2} and they shall
spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven,
which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they
have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have
worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be
for dung upon the face of the earth. {8:3} And death shall be chosen
rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family,
that remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith Jehovah
of hosts. {8:4} Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah:
Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not
return? {8:5} Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a
perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
{8:6} I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man
repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one
turneth to his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.
{8:7} Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and
the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their
coming; but my people know not the law of Jehovah. {8:8} How do ye say,
We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the false
pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely. {8:9} The wise men are put to
shame, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of
Jehovah; and what manner of wisdom is in them? {8:10} Therefore will I
give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall
possess 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. {8:11} And they have healed the hurt of the daughter
of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
{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 Jehovah. {8:13} I will utterly consume them, saith
Jehovah: 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. {8:14} Why do we sit still? assemble
yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be
silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us
water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah. {8:15}
We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing,
and, behold, dismay! {8:16} The snorting of his horses is heard from
Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land
trembleth; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that
is in it; the city and those that dwell therein. {8:17} For, behold, I
will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and
they shall bite you, saith Jehovah. {8:18} Oh that I could comfort
myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me. {8:19} Behold, the
voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very
far off: is not Jehovah in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they
provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign
vanities? {8:20} The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are
not saved. {8:21} For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt:
I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me. {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?



   {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! {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
are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. {9:3} And they bend
their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown
strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to
evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah. {9:4} Take ye heed every one
of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother
will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
{9:5} And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak
the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary
themselves to commit iniquity. {9:6} Thy habitation is in the midst of
deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah. {9:7}
Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and
try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my
people? {9:8} Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one
speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he
layeth wait for him. {9:9} Shall I not visit them for these things?
saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
{9:10} For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for
the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned
up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the
cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are
gone. {9:11} And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of
jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without
inhabitant. {9:12} Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and
[who is] he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may
declare it? wherefore is the land perished and burned up like a
wilderness, so that none passeth through? {9:13} And Jehovah saith,
Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not
obeyed my voice, neither walked therein, {9:14} but have walked after
the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their
fathers taught them; {9:15} therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the
God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with
wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. {9:16} I will scatter
them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have
known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.
{9:17} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the
mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful women,
that they may come: {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. {9:19} For a voice of wailing is heard out of
Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have
forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings. {9:20}
Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the
word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her
neighbor lamentation. {9:21} For death is come up into our windows, it
is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without,
[and] the young men from the streets. {9:22} Speak, Thus saith Jehovah,
The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as
the handful after the harvestman; and none shall gather [them]. {9:23}
Thus saith Jehovah, 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; {9:24} but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he
hath understanding, and knoweth me, that I am Jehovah who exerciseth
lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these
things I delight, saith Jehovah. {9:25} Behold, the days come, saith
Jehovah, that I will punish all them that are circumcised in [their]
uncircumcision: {9:26} Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of
Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off,
that dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised,
and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.



   {10:1} Hear ye the word which Jehovah speaketh unto you, O house of
Israel: {10:2} thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations,
and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are
dismayed at them. {10:3} For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for
one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the
workman with the axe. {10:4} They deck it with silver and with gold;
they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. {10:5}
They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must
needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they
cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good. {10:6} There is none
like unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in
might. {10:7} Who should not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to
thee doth it appertain; forasmuch as among all the wise men of the
nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like unto thee.
{10:8} But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of
idols! it is but a stock. {10:9} There is silver beaten into plates,
which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the
artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their
clothing; they are all the work of skilful men. {10:10} But Jehovah is
the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his
wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations are not able to abide his
indignation. {10:11} Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have
not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth,
and from under the heavens. {10:12} He hath made the earth by his
power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his
understanding hath he stretched out the heavens: {10:13} when he
uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he
causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh
lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his
treasuries. {10:14} Every man is become brutish [and is] without
knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his
molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. {10:15} They
are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they
shall perish. {10:16} The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is
the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance:
Jehovah of hosts is his name. {10:17} Gather up thy wares out of the
land, O thou that abidest in the siege. {10:18} For thus saith Jehovah,
Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and
will distress them, that they may feel [it]. {10:19} Woe is me because
of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief,
and I must bear it. {10:20} My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are
broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are not: there is
none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. {10:21} For
the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Jehovah:
therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.
{10:22} The voice of tidings, behold, it cometh, and a great commotion
out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a
dwelling-place of jackals. {10:23} O Jehovah, I know that the way of
man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his
steps. {10:24} O Jehovah, correct me, but in measure: not in thine
anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. {10:25} Pour out thy wrath upon
the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on
thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and
consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.



   {11:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, {11:2}
Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah,
and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; {11:3} and say thou unto them,
Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man that heareth
not the words of this covenant, {11:4} which I commanded your fathers
in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of
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;
{11:5} that I may establish the oath which I sware unto your fathers,
to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then
answered I, and said, Amen, O Jehovah. {11:6} And Jehovah 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.
{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. {11:8} Yet they obeyed
not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the stubbornness
of their evil heart: therefore I brought upon them all the words of
this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.
{11:9} And Jehovah said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of
Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {11:10} They are turned
back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my
words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of
Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with
their fathers. {11:11} Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will
bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they
shall cry unto me, but I will not hearken unto them. {11:12} Then shall
the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry unto
the gods unto which they offer incense: but they will not save them at
all in the time of their trouble. {11:13} For according to the number
of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the
streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even
altars to burn incense unto Baal. {11:14} Therefore pray not thou for
this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not
hear them in the time that they cry unto me because of their trouble.
{11:15} What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing she hath wrought
lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou
doest evil, then thou rejoicest. {11:16} Jehovah called thy name, A
green olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great
tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
{11:17} For Jehovah of hosts, who planted thee, hath pronounced evil
against thee, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the
house of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves in provoking me
to anger by offering incense unto Baal. {11:18} And Jehovah gave me
knowledge of it, and I knew it: then thou showedst me their doings.
{11:19} But I was like a gentle lamb that is led 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.
{11:20} But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest
the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them; for unto
thee have I revealed my cause. {11:21} Therefore thus saith Jehovah
concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Thou shalt
not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that thou die not by our hand;
{11:22} therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punish
them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their
daughters shall die by famine; {11:23} and there shall be no remnant
unto them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the
year of their visitation.



   {12:1} Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet
would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the
wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very
treacherously? {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 heart. {12:3} But thou, O Jehovah, knowest
me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like
sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
{12:4} How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole
country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the
beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see
our latter end. {12:5} If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have
wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and though in a
land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the pride of the
Jordan? {12:6} For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even
they have dealt treacherously with thee; even they have cried aloud
after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
{12:7} I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have
given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
{12:8} My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest: she hath
uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her. {12:9} Is my
heritage unto me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey
against her round about? go ye, assemble all the beasts of the field,
bring them to devour. {12:10} Many shepherds have destroyed my
vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my
pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. {12:11} They have made it a
desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made
desolate, because no man layeth it to heart. {12:12} Destroyers are
come upon all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of
Jehovah devoureth from the one end of the land even to the other end of
the land: no flesh hath peace. {12:13} They have sown wheat, and have
reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing:
and ye shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of
Jehovah. {12:14} Thus saith Jehovah against all mine evil neighbors,
that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to
inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will
pluck up the house of Judah from among them. {12:15} And it shall come
to pass, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have
compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his
heritage, and every man to his land. {12:16} And it shall come to pass,
if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my
name, As Jehovah liveth; even as they taught my people to swear by
Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people. {12:17}
But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking
up and destroying it, saith Jehovah.



   {13:1} Thus saith Jehovah unto me, Go, and buy thee a linen girdle,
and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. {13:2} So I bought
a girdle according to the word of Jehovah, and put it upon my loins.
{13:3} And the word of Jehovah came unto me the second time, saying,
{13:4} Take the girdle that thou hast bought, which is upon thy loins,
and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the
rock. {13:5} So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Jehovah
commanded me. {13:6} And it came to pass after many days, that Jehovah
said unto me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the girdle from
thence, which I commanded thee to hide there. {13:7} Then I went to the
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. {13:8} Then the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, {13:9}
Thus saith Jehovah, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah,
and the great pride of Jerusalem. {13:10} This evil people, that refuse
to hear my words, that walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are
gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be
as this girdle, which is profitable for nothing. {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
Jehovah; that they may be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for
a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear. {13:12} Therefore
thou shalt speak unto them this word: Thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto
thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with
wine? {13:13} Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah,
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. {13:14} And I will
dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,
saith Jehovah: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I
should not destroy them. {13:15} Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud;
for Jehovah hath spoken. {13:16} Give glory to Jehovah 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. {13:17} But if ye will not hear it,
my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep
sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is taken
captive. {13:18} Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother, Humble
yourselves, sit down; for your headtires are come down, even the crown
of your glory. {13:19} The cities of the South are shut up, and there
is none to open them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is
wholly carried away captive. {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? {13:21} What wilt thou say, when he shall set over
thee as head those whom thou hast thyself taught to be friends to thee?
shall not sorrows take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail? {13:22}
And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore are these things come upon me?
for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thy
heels suffer violence. {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. {13:24} Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that
passeth away, by the wind of the wilderness. {13:25} This is thy lot,
the portion measured unto thee from me, saith Jehovah; because thou
hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. {13:26} Therefore will I
also uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall appear.
{13:27} I have seen thine abominations, even thine adulteries, and thy
neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, on the hills in the field. Woe
unto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be made clean; how long shall it
yet be?



   {14:1} The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the
drought. {14:2} Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they
sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
{14:3} And their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come
to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels
empty; they are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads.
{14:4} Because of the ground which is cracked, for that no rain hath
been in the land, the plowmen are put to shame, they cover their heads.
{14:5} Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh [her
young], because there is no grass. {14:6} And the wild asses stand on
the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail,
because there is no herbage. {14:7} Though our iniquities testify
against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O Jehovah; for our
backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. {14:8} O thou hope
of Israel, the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble, why shouldest
thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth
aside to tarry for a night? {14:9} Why shouldest thou be as a man
affrighted, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O Jehovah, art
in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
{14:10} Thus saith Jehovah unto this people, Even so have they loved to
wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Jehovah doth not
accept them; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
{14:11} And Jehovah said unto me, Pray not for this people for [their]
good. {14:12} When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they
offer burnt-offering and meal-offering, I will not accept them; but I
will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence. {14:13} Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, the prophets
say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have
famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. {14:14} Then
Jehovah said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I sent
them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake I unto them:
they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of
nought, and the deceit of their own heart. {14:15} Therefore thus saith
Jehovah 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. {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. {14:17} And 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 wound. {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, they that are sick with famine! for both
the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
{14:19} Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion?
why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for
peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold,
dismay! {14:20} We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the
iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee. {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. {14:22} Are there any
among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the
heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we
will wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.



   {15:1} Then said Jehovah unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood
before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out
of my sight, and let them go forth. {15:2} And it shall come to pass,
when they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt
tell them, Thus saith Jehovah: 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 captivity, to captivity.
{15:3} And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith Jehovah: the
sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heavens, and
the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy. {15:4} And I will
cause them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth,
because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which
he did in Jerusalem. {15:5} For who will have pity upon thee, O
Jerusalem? or who will bemoan thee? or who will turn aside to ask of
thy welfare? {15:6} Thou hast rejected me, saith Jehovah, thou art gone
backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against thee, and
destroyed thee; I am weary with repenting. {15:7} And I have winnowed
them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of
children, I have destroyed my people; they returned not from their
ways. {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
destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall upon
her suddenly. {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 put to shame and confounded: and the residue of them will I
deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith Jehovah. {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 not lent, neither have men lent
to me; [yet] every one of them doth curse me. {15:11} Jehovah said,
Verily I will strengthen thee for good; verily I will cause the enemy
to make supplication unto thee in the time of evil and in the time of
affliction. {15:12} Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and
brass? {15:13} Thy substance and thy treasures will I give for a spoil
without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
{15:14} And I will make [them] to pass with thine enemies into a land
which thou knowest not; for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which
shall burn upon you. {15:15} O Jehovah, thou knowest; remember me, and
visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy
longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach. {15:16}
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words were unto me a
joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O
Jehovah, God of hosts. {15:17} I sat not in the assembly of them that
make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou
hast filled me with indignation. {15:18} Why is my pain perpetual, and
my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be
unto me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail? {15:19} Therefore
thus saith Jehovah, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, that
thou mayest stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious from
the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall return unto thee, but
thou shalt not return unto them. {15:20} And I will make thee unto this
people a fortified brazen wall; and they shall fight against thee, but
they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee to save thee
and to deliver thee, saith Jehovah. {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.



   {16:1} The word of Jehovah came also unto me, saying, {16:2} Thou
shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters,
in this place. {16:3} For thus saith Jehovah 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: {16:4} They shall die grievous deaths: they shall
not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung
upon the face of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword,
and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the
heavens, and for the beasts of the earth. {16:5} For thus saith
Jehovah, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament,
neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people,
saith Jehovah, even lovingkindness and tender mercies. {16:6} Both
great and 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; {16:7} neither shall men break [bread] 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. {16:8} And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit
with them, to eat and to drink. {16:9} For thus saith Jehovah of hosts,
the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place,
before 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.
{16:10} And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all
these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath Jehovah
pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or
what is our sin that we have committed against Jehovah our God? {16:11}
Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me,
saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them,
and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my
law; {16:12} and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold,
ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye
hearken not unto me: {16:13} therefore will I cast you forth out of
this land into the land that ye have not known, neither ye nor your
fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; for I will
show you no favor. {16:14} Therefore, behold, the days come, saith
Jehovah, that it shall no more be said, As Jehovah liveth, that brought
up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; {16:15} but, As
Jehovah liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of
the north, and from all the countries whither he had driven them. And I
will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
{16:16} Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah, and they
shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and
they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out
of the clefts of the rocks. {16:17} For mine eyes are upon all their
ways; they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity
concealed from mine eyes. {16:18} And first I will recompense their
iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with
the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled mine
inheritance with their abominations. {16:19} O Jehovah, my strength,
and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee
shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our
fathers have inherited nought but lies, [even] vanity and things
wherein there is no profit. {16:20} Shall a man make unto himself gods,
which yet are no gods? {16:21} Therefore, behold, I will cause them to
know, this once will I cause them to know my hand and my might; and
they shall know that my name is Jehovah.



   {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 tablet of their heart,
and upon the horns of your altars; {17:2} whilst their children
remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the
high hills. {17:3} O my mountain in the field, I will give thy
substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, [and] thy high places,
because of sin, throughout all thy borders. {17:4} And thou, even of
thyself, shalt discontinue from thy 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. {17:5} Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in
man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.
{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, a salt land and not inhabited. {17:7} Blessed is the man
that trusteth in Jehovah, and whose trust Jehovah is. {17:8} For he
shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots
by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall
be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither
shall cease from yielding fruit. {17:9} The heart is deceitful above
all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? {17:10} I,
Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man
according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings. {17:11} As
the partridge that sitteth on [eggs] which she hath not laid, so is he
that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they
shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool. {17:12} A glorious
throne, [set] on high from the beginning, is the place of our
sanctuary. {17:13} O Jehovah, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee
shall be put to shame. They that depart from me shall be written in the
earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living
waters. {17:14} Heal me, O Jehovah, and I shall be healed; save me, and
I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. {17:15} Behold, they say unto
me, Where is the word of Jehovah? let it come now. {17:16} As for me, I
have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee; neither have I
desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips
was before thy face. {17:17} Be not a terror unto me: thou art my
refuge in the day of evil. {17:18} Let them be put to shame that
persecute me, but let not me be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but
let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy
them with double destruction. {17:19} Thus said Jehovah unto me: Go,
and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings
of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of
Jerusalem; {17:20} and say unto them, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, ye
kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
that enter in by these gates: {17:21} Thus saith Jehovah, Take heed to
yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by
the gates of Jerusalem; {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. {17:23} But they
hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff,
that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction. {17:24}
And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith
Jehovah, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the
sabbath day, but to hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
{17:25} then shall there enter in by 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. {17:26} And they
shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places round about
Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and
from the hill-country, and from the South, bringing burnt-offerings,
and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and frankincense, and bringing
[sacrifices of] thanksgiving, unto the house of Jehovah. {17:27} But if
ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear
a burden and enter 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.



   {18:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, {18:2}
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee
to hear my words. {18:3} Then I went down to the potter's house, and,
behold, he was making a work on the wheels. {18:4} And when the vessel
that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made
it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
{18:5} Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, {18:6} O house of
Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, as
the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.
{18:7} At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
{18:8} if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their
evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. {18:9}
And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a
kingdom, to build and to plant it; {18:10} if they do that which is
evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will repent of
the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. {18:11} Now therefore,
speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a
device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and
amend your ways and your doings. {18:12} But they say, It is in vain;
for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one after
the stubbornness of his evil heart. {18:13} Therefore thus saith
Jehovah: Ask ye now among the nations, who hath heard such things; the
virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. {18:14} Shall the
snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold
waters that flow down from afar be dried up? {18:15} For my people have
forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have
been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in
bypaths, in a way not cast up; {18:16} to make their land an
astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby
shall be astonished, and shake his head. {18:17} I will scatter them as
with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not
the face, in the day of their calamity. {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. {18:19} Give heed to me, O Jehovah, and
hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. {18:20} Shall evil
be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul.
Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away
thy wrath from them. {18:21} Therefore deliver up their children to the
famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their
wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of
death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle. {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. {18:23} Yet, Jehovah, 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 thou with them in the time of thine anger.



   {19:1} Thus said Jehovah, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and
[take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
{19:2} and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by
the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I
shall tell thee; {19:3} and say, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O kings
of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus saith Jehovah of hosts,
the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which
whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. {19:4} Because they have
forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in
it unto other gods, that they knew not, they and their fathers and the
kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
{19:5} and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in
the fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal; which I commanded not, nor
spake it, neither came it into my mind: {19:6} therefore, behold, the
days come, saith Jehovah, that this place shall no more be called
Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of
Slaughter. {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 hand of them that seek their life: and
their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the heavens,
and for the beasts of the earth. {19:8} And I will make this city an
astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be
astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. {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 in the distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek
their life, shall distress them. {19:10} Then shalt thou break the
bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, {19:11} and shalt say
unto them, Thus saith Jehovah 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 in Topheth, till there be no
place to bury. {19:12} Thus will I do unto this place, saith Jehovah,
and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth:
{19:13} and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of
Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even 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. {19:14}
Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, whither Jehovah had sent him to
prophesy; and he stood in the court of Jehovah's house, and said to all
the people: {19:15} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,
Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all its towns all the evil
that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck
stiff, that they may not hear my words.



   {20:1} Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief
officer in the house of Jehovah, heard Jeremiah prophesying these
things. {20:2} Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in
the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the
house of Jehovah. {20:3} And it came to pass on the morrow, that
Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah
unto him, Jehovah hath not called thy name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
{20:4} For thus saith Jehovah, 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 to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. {20:5} Moreover
I will give all the riches of this city, and all the gains thereof, and
all the precious things thereof, yea, all the treasures of the kings of
Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make
them a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. {20:6} And thou,
Pashhur, and all that dwell in thy house shall go into captivity; and
thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and there shalt
thou be buried, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied
falsely. {20:7} O Jehovah, thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded;
thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a
laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me. {20:8} For as often
as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the
word of Jehovah is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the
day. {20:9} And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any
more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot
[contain]. {20:10} For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on
every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar
friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be
persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our
revenge on him. {20:11} But Jehovah is with me as a mighty one [and] a
terrible: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not
prevail; they shall be utterly put to shame, because they have not
dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be
forgotten. {20:12} But, O Jehovah of hosts, that triest the righteous,
that seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance on them;
for unto thee have I revealed my cause. {20:13} Sing unto Jehovah,
praise ye Jehovah; for he hath delivered the soul of the needy from the
hand of evil-doers. {20:14} Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let
not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. {20:15} Cursed be the
man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto
thee; making him very glad. {20:16} And let that man be as the cities
which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in
the morning, and shouting at noontime; {20:17} because he slew me not
from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb
always great. {20:18} Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see
labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?



   {21:1} The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, when king
Zedekiah sent unto him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the
son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying, {21:2} Inquire, I pray thee, of
Jehovah for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against
us: peradventure Jehovah will deal with us according to all his
wondrous works, that he may go up from us. {21:3} Then said Jeremiah
unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: {21:4} Thus saith Jehovah,
the 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 that besiege you, without the walls; and I will
gather them into the midst of this city. {21:5} And I myself will fight
against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in
anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation. {21:6} And I will smite
the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a
great pestilence. {21:7} And afterward, saith Jehovah, I will deliver
Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even 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. {21:8} And unto this people
thou shalt say, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I set before you the way of
life and the way of death. {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 passeth over to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall
live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey. {21:10} For I have set
my face upon this city for evil, and not for good, saith Jehovah: it
shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn
it with fire. {21:11} And touching the house of the king of Judah, hear
ye the word of Jehovah: {21:12} O house of David, thus saith Jehovah,
Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him that is robbed out of
the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn
so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. {21:13}
Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] of the
rock of the plain, saith Jehovah; you that say, Who shall come down
against us? or who shall enter into our habitations? {21:14} And I will
punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; and I
will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round
about her.



   {22:1} Thus said Jehovah: Go down to the house of the king of Judah,
and speak there this word, {22:2} And say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O
king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy
servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates. {22:3} Thus
saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him
that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no
violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed
innocent blood in this place. {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. {22:5} But if ye will not hear these words, I
swear by myself, saith Jehovah, that this house shall become a
desolation. {22:6} For thus saith Jehovah concerning the house of the
king 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. {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. {22:8} And many nations shall pass by this city,
and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath Jehovah
done thus unto this great city? {22:9} Then they shall answer, Because
they forsook the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other
gods, and served them. {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. {22:11} For thus saith Jehovah
touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead
of Josiah his father, [and] who went forth out of this place: He shall
not return thither any more. {22:12} But in the place whither they have
led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no
more. {22:13} Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness,
and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbor's service
without wages, and giveth him not his hire; {22:14} that saith, I will
build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cutteth him out
windows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
{22:15} Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? Did
not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it
was well with him. {22:16} He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah. {22:17} But
thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for
shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do
it. {22:18} Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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! {22:19} He shall be buried with the burial of
an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. {22:20} Go
up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from
Abarim; for all thy lovers are destroyed. {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. {22:22} The
wind shall feed all thy shepherds, and thy lovers shall go into
captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy
wickedness. {22:23} O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in
the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shalt thou be when pangs come upon
thee, the pain as of a woman in travail! {22:24} As I live, saith
Jehovah, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the
signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; {22:25} and I
will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the
hand of them of whom thou art afraid, even into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
{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.
{22:27} But to the land whereunto their soul longeth to return, thither
shall they not return. {22:28} Is this man Coniah a despised broken
vessel? is he a vessel wherein none delighteth? wherefore are they cast
out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not?
{22:29} O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah. {22:30} Thus
saith Jehovah, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not
prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper,
sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.



   {23:1} Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of
my pasture! saith Jehovah. {23:2} Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God
of Israel, against the shepherds 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 Jehovah. {23:3} And
I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries whither
I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they
shall be fruitful and multiply. {23:4} And I will set up shepherds over
them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be
dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, saith Jehovah. {23:5} Behold,
the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteous
Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute
justice and righteousness in the land. {23:6} In his days Judah shall
be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name whereby
he shall be called: Jehovah our righteousness. {23:7} Therefore,
behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that they shall no more say, As
Jehovah liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land
of Egypt; {23:8} but, As Jehovah liveth, who brought up and who led the
seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the
countries whither I had driven them. And they shall dwell in their own
land. {23:9} Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all
my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath
overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of his holy words. {23:10}
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land
mourneth; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course
is evil, and their might is not right; {23:11} for both prophet and
priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness,
saith Jehovah. {23:12} Wherefore their way shall be unto them as
slippery places 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 Jehovah. {23:13} And I have seen folly in the
prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people
Israel to err. {23:14} In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a
horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they
strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his
wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the
inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. {23:15} Therefore thus saith Jehovah
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 ungodliness gone forth into all the land. {23:16} Thus
saith Jehovah of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that
prophesy unto you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their
own heart, and not out of the mouth of Jehovah. {23:17} They say
continually unto them that despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have
peace; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own
heart they say, No evil shall come upon you. {23:18} For who hath stood
in the council of Jehovah, that he should perceive and hear his word?
who hath marked my word, and heard it? {23:19} Behold, the tempest of
Jehovah, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yea, a whirling tempest: it
shall burst upon the head of the wicked. {23:20} The anger of Jehovah
shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed
the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it
perfectly. {23:21} I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spake not
unto them, yet they prophesied. {23:22} But if they had stood in my
council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had
turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
{23:23} Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?
{23:24} Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see
him? saith Jehovah. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith Jehovah.
{23:25} I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in
my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. {23:26} How long shall
this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, even the
prophets of the deceit of their own heart? {23:27} that think to cause
my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man
to his neighbor, as their fathers forgat my name for Baal. {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 straw to the wheat?
saith Jehovah. {23:29} Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah; and
like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? {23:30} Therefore,
behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my words
every one from his neighbor. {23:31} Behold, I am against the prophets,
saith Jehovah, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. {23:32}
Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, saith Jehovah,
and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by
their vain boasting: yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; neither
do they profit this people at all, saith Jehovah. {23:33} And when this
people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is
the burden of Jehovah? then shalt thou say unto them, What burden! I
will cast you off, saith Jehovah. {23:34} And as for the prophet, and
the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of Jehovah, I
will even punish that man and his house. {23:35} Thus shall ye say
every one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, What hath
Jehovah answered? and, What hath Jehovah spoken? {23:36} And the burden
of Jehovah shall ye mention no more: for every man's own word shall be
his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of
Jehovah of hosts our God. {23:37} Thus shalt thou say to the prophet,
What hath Jehovah answered thee? and, What hath Jehovah spoken? {23:38}
But if ye say, The burden of Jehovah; therefore thus saith Jehovah:
Because ye say this word, The burden of Jehovah, and I have sent unto
you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of Jehovah; {23:39}
therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off,
and the city that I gave unto you and to your fathers, away from my
presence: {23:40} and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you,
and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.



   {24:1} Jehovah showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set
before the temple of Jehovah, 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 craftsmen and smiths, from
Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. {24:2} One basket had very
good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had
very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. {24:3} Then
said Jehovah unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the
good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they
are so bad. {24:4} And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, {24:5}
Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I
regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into
the land of the Chaldeans, for good. {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. {24:7} And I will give them a heart to know me, that I
am Jehovah: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for
they shall return unto me with their whole heart. {24:8} And as the bad
figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus saith
Jehovah, So will I give up 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, {24:9} I will even give them up to be
tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a
reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I
shall drive them. {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.



   {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
(the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,) {25:2}
which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to
all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: {25:3} From the thirteenth
year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even unto this day,
these three and twenty years, the word of Jehovah hath come unto me,
and I have spoken unto you, rising up early and speaking; but ye have
not hearkened. {25:4} And Jehovah hath sent unto you all his servants
the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but ye have not
hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear,) {25:5} saying, Return ye now
every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and
dwell in the land that Jehovah hath given unto you and to your fathers,
from of old and even for evermore; {25:6} and go not after other gods
to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with
the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. {25:7} Yet ye have
not hearkened unto me, saith Jehovah; that ye may provoke me to anger
with the work of your hands to your own hurt. {25:8} Therefore thus
saith Jehovah of hosts: Because ye have not heard my words, {25:9}
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith
Jehovah, and [I will send] unto 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 I
will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a
hissing, and perpetual desolations. {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 lamp. {25:11} And this whole land shall be a
desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king
of Babylon seventy years. {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 Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the
Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever. {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. {25:14} For many nations and great kings shall
make bondmen of them, even of them; and I will recompense them
according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
{25:15} For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto me: take this
cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom
I send thee, to drink it. {25:16} And they shall drink, and reel to and
fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
{25:17} Then took I the cup at Jehovah's hand, and made all the nations
to drink, unto whom Jehovah had sent me: {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, a hissing, and a
curse, as it is this day; {25:19} Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his
servants, and his princes, and all his people; {25:20} and all the
mingled people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the
kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the
remnant of Ashdod; {25:21} Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;
{25:22} and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the
kings of the isle which is beyond the sea; {25:23} Dedan, and Tema, and
Buz, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off; {25:24} and
all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that
dwell in the wilderness; {25:25} and all the kings of Zimri, and all
the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes; {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. {25:27} And thou shalt say
unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye,
and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the
sword which I will send among you. {25:28} And it shall be, if they
refuse to take the cup at thy hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto
them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ye shall surely drink. {25:29} For,
lo, I begin to work evil at 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 Jehovah
of hosts. {25:30} Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words,
and say unto them, Jehovah will roar from on high, and utter his voice
from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold; he
will give a shout, as they that tread [the grapes], against all the
inhabitants of the earth. {25:31} A noise shall come even to the end of
the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations; he will
enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give
them to the sword, saith Jehovah. {25:32} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts,
Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest
shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth. {25:33} And
the slain of Jehovah 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 face of the
ground. {25:34} Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes], ye
principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your
dispersions are fully come, and ye shall fall like a goodly vessel.
{25:35} And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal
of the flock to escape. {25:36} A voice of the cry of the shepherds,
and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for Jehovah layeth waste
their pasture. {25:37} And the peaceable folds are brought to silence
because of the fierce anger of Jehovah. {25:38} He hath left his
covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because
of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce
anger.



   {26:1} In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, came this word from Jehovah, saying, {26:2} Thus saith
Jehovah: Stand in the court of Jehovah's house, and speak unto all the
cities of Judah, which come to worship in Jehovah's house, all the
words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word.
{26:3} It may 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. {26:4} And thou shalt say unto
them, Thus saith Jehovah: If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my
law, which I have set before you, {26:5} to hearken to the words of my
servants the prophets, whom I send unto you, even rising up early and
sending them, but ye have not hearkened; {26:6} then will I make this
house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations
of the earth. {26:7} And the priests and the prophets and all the
people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah.
{26:8} And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking
all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that
the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him,
saying, Thou shalt surely die. {26:9} Why hast thou prophesied in the
name of Jehovah, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city
shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered
unto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah. {26:10} And when the princes of
Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house unto the
house of Jehovah; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of
Jehovah's [house]. {26:11} Then spake the priests and the prophets unto
the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death;
for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your
ears. {26:12} Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the
people, saying, Jehovah sent me to prophesy against this house and
against this city all the words that ye have heard. {26:13} Now
therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of
Jehovah your God; and Jehovah will repent him of the evil that he hath
pronounced against you. {26:14} But as for me, behold, I am in your
hand: do with me as is good and right in your eyes. {26:15} Only know
ye for certain that, if ye put me to death, ye will bring innocent
blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants
thereof; for of a truth Jehovah hath sent me unto you to speak all
these words in your ears. {26:16} Then said the princes and all the
people unto the priests and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of
death; for he hath spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God. {26:17}
Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the
assembly of the people, saying, {26:18} Micah the Morashtite prophesied
in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spake to all the people
of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as
a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the
house as the high places of a forest. {26:19} Did Hezekiah king of
Judah and all Judah put him to death? did he not fear Jehovah, and
entreat the favor of Jehovah, and Jehovah repented him of the evil
which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil
against our own souls. {26:20} And there was also a man that prophesied
in the name of Jehovah, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim;
and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to
all the words of 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 Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and
fled, and went into Egypt: {26:22} and Jehoiakim the king sent men into
Egypt, [namely], Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him,
into Egypt; {26:23} and they fetched forth Uriah 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. {26:24} But
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.



   {27:1} In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, came this word unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,
{27:2} Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them
upon thy neck; {27:3} and send them to the king of Edom, and to the
king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king
of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers that
come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah; {27:4} and give them a
charge unto their masters, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God
of Israel, Thus shall ye say unto your masters: {27:5} I have made the
earth, the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by
my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it unto whom it
seemeth right unto me. {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 also have I given him to serve him. {27:7} And all
the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the
time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall
make him their bondman. {27:8} And it shall come to pass, that the
nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the
king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith Jehovah, with the
sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have
consumed them by his hand. {27:9} But as for you, hearken ye not to
your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your
soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak unto you, saying, Ye
shall not serve the king of Babylon: {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. {27:11} But the nation that shall bring
their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that
[nation] will I let remain in their own land, saith Jehovah; and they
shall till it, and dwell therein. {27:12} And I spake 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. {27:13} Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by
the famine, and by the pestilence, as Jehovah hath spoken concerning
the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? {27:14} And 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.
{27:15} For I have not sent them, saith Jehovah, but they prophesy
falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that ye may perish,
ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you. {27:16} Also I spake to
the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hearken
not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying,
Behold, the vessels of Jehovah's house shall now shortly be brought
again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you. {27:17} Hearken
not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should
this city become a desolation? {27:18} But if they be prophets, and if
the word of Jehovah be with them, let them now make intercession to
Jehovah of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of
Jehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go
not to Babylon. {27:19} For thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the
pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and
concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,
{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;
{27:21} yea, thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning
the vessels that are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the house of
the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem: {27:22} They shall be carried to
Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them,
saith Jehovah; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this
place.



   {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, in the fifth
month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon,
spake unto me in the house of Jehovah, in the presence of the priests
and of all the people, saying, {28:2} Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts,
the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of
Babylon. {28:3} Within two full years will I bring again into this
place all the vessels of Jehovah's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon: {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 to Babylon, saith
Jehovah; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. {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 Jehovah, {28:6} even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Jehovah
do so; Jehovah perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring
again the vessels of Jehovah's house, and all them of the captivity,
from Babylon unto this place. {28:7} Nevertheless hear thou now this
word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people:
{28:8} The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old
prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war,
and of evil, and of pestilence. {28:9} The prophet that prophesieth of
peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the
prophet be known, that Jehovah hath truly sent him. {28:10} Then
Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck,
and brake it. {28:11} And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the
people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Even so will I break the yoke of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck
of all the nations. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way. {28:12} Then
the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, after that Hananiah the prophet
had broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
{28:13} Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast
broken the bars of wood; but thou hast made in their stead bars of
iron. {28:14} For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: I
have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they
may served Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him:
and I have given him the beasts of the field also. {28:15} Then said
the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah:
Jehovah hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a
lie. {28:16} Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will send thee
away from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because
thou hast spoken rebellion against Jehovah. {28:17} So Hananiah the
prophet died the same year in the seventh month.



   {29:1} Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the
prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders of the
captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the
people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to
Babylon, {29:2} (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen-mother,
and the eunuchs, [and] the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the
craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem,) {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, {29:4} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel, unto all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away
captive from Jerusalem unto Babylon: {29:5} Build ye houses, and dwell
in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them. {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;
and multiply ye there, and be not diminished. {29:7} And seek the peace
of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive, and
pray unto Jehovah for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
{29:8} For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your
prophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you;
neither hearken ye to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. {29:9}
For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them,
saith Jehovah. {29:10} For thus saith Jehovah, After seventy years are
accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word
toward you, in causing you to return to this place. {29:11} For I know
the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace,
and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end. {29:12} And ye
shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will
hearken unto you. {29:13} And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye
shall search for me with all your heart. {29:14} And I will be found of
you, saith Jehovah, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will
gather you from all the nations, and from all the places wither I have
driven you, saith Jehovah; and I will bring you again unto the place
whence I caused you to be carried away captive. {29:15} Because ye have
said, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon; {29:16} thus saith
Jehovah concerning the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and
concerning all the people that dwell in this city, your brethren that
are not gone forth with you into captivity; {29:17} thus saith Jehovah
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 bad. {29:18} And I will pursue after them with the sword,
with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be
tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an
execration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among
all the nations whither I have driven them; {29:19} because they have
not hearkened to my words, saith Jehovah, wherewith I sent unto them my
servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would
not hear, saith Jehovah. {29:20} Hear ye therefore the word of Jehovah,
all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to
Babylon. {29:21} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,
concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of
Maaseiah, who 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; {29:22} and of them shall be taken up
a curse by all the captives of Judah that are in Babylon, saying,
Jehovah make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon
roasted in the fire; {29:23} because they have wrought folly in Israel,
and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have
spoken words in my name falsely, which I commanded them not; and I am
he that knoweth, and am witness, saith Jehovah. {29:24} And concerning
Shemaiah the Nehelamite thou shalt speak, saying, {29:25} Thus speaketh
Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent
letters in thine own name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem,
and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the
priests, saying, {29:26} Jehovah hath made thee priest in the stead of
Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of
Jehovah, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that
thou shouldest put him in the stocks and in shackles. {29:27} Now
therefore, why hast thou not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who maketh
himself a prophet to you, {29:28} forasmuch as he hath sent unto us in
Babylon, saying, [The captivity] is long: build ye houses, and dwell in
them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them? {29:29} And
Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the
prophet. {29:30} Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying,
{29:31} Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith Jehovah
concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because that Shemaiah hath
prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he hath caused you to
trust in a lie; {29:32} therefore thus saith Jehovah, 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 unto my people, saith Jehovah, because he hath spoken rebellion
against Jehovah.



   {30:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, {30:2}
Thus speaketh Jehovah, the God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the
words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. {30:3} For, lo, the days
come, saith Jehovah, that I will turn again the captivity of my people
Israel and Judah, saith Jehovah; and I will cause them to return to the
land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. {30:4}
And these are the words that Jehovah spake concerning Israel and
concerning Judah. {30:5} For thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voice
of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. {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? {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. {30:8} And it shall come to pass in that day, saith
Jehovah of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and
will burst thy bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their
bondman; {30:9} but they shall serve Jehovah their God, and David their
king, whom I will raise up unto them. {30:10} Therefore fear thou not,
O Jacob my servant, saith Jehovah; 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 quiet and at ease, and
none shall make him afraid. {30:11} For I am with thee, saith Jehovah,
to save thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I
have scattered thee, but I will not make a full end of thee; but I will
correct thee in measure, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished.
{30:12} For thus saith Jehovah, Thy hurt is incurable, and thy wound
grievous. {30:13} There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be
bound up: thou hast no healing medicines. {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
greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased. {30:15}
Why criest thou for thy hurt? thy pain is incurable: for the greatness
of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased, I have done these
things unto thee. {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 despoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that
prey upon thee will I give for a prey. {30:17} For I will restore
health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith Jehovah;
because they have called thee an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no
man seeketh after. {30:18} Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will turn
again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his
dwelling-places; and the city shall be builded upon its own hill, and
the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner. {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. {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. {30:21} And their
prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the
midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach
unto me: for who is he that hath had boldness to approach unto me?
saith Jehovah. {30:22} And ye shall be my people, and I will be your
God. {30:23} Behold, the tempest of Jehovah, [even his] wrath, is gone
forth, a sweeping tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the wicked.
{30:24} The fierce anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he have
executed, and till he have performed the intents of his heart: in the
latter days ye shall understand it.



   {31:1} At that time, saith Jehovah, will I be the God of all the
families of Israel, and they shall be my people. {31:2} Thus saith
Jehovah, The people that were left of the sword found favor in the
wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. {31:3}
Jehovah appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I have loved thee with
an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
{31:4} Again will I build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of
Israel: again shalt thou be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go
forth in the dances of them that make merry. {31:5} Again shalt thou
plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall
plant, and shall enjoy [the fruit thereof]. {31:6} For there shall be a
day, that the watchmen upon the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye,
and let us go up to Zion unto Jehovah our God. {31:7} For thus saith
Jehovah, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the
nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Jehovah, save thy people,
the remnant of Israel. {31:8} Behold, I will bring them from the north
country, and gather them from the uttermost parts 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 they return
hither. {31:9} They shall come with weeping; and with supplications
will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a
straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am a father to
Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born. {31:10} Hear the word of Jehovah,
O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say, He that
scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd doth his
flock. {31:11} For Jehovah hath ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from
the hand of him that was stronger than he. {31:12} And they shall come
and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow unto the goodness of
Jehovah, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to 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. {31:13} Then
shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old
together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort
them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. {31:14} And I will
satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be
satisfied with my goodness, saith Jehovah. {31:15} Thus saith Jehovah:
A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel
weeping for her children; she refuseth to be comforted for her
children, because they are not. {31:16} Thus saith Jehovah: Refrain thy
voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for thy work shall be
rewarded, saith Jehovah; and they shall come again from the land of the
enemy. {31:17} And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah; and
[thy] children shall come again to their own border. {31:18} I have
surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], Thou hast chastised me,
and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou
me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God. {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. {31:20} Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a
darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly
remember him still: therefore my heart yearneth for him; I will surely
have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah. {31:21} Set thee up waymarks, make
thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the highway, even the way by
which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these
thy cities. {31:22} How long wilt thou go hither and thither, O thou
backsliding daughter? for Jehovah hath created a new thing in the
earth: a woman shall encompass a man. {31:23} Thus saith Jehovah of
hosts, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech in the
land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their
captivity: Jehovah bless thee, O habitation of righteousness, O
mountain of holiness. {31:24} And Judah and all the cities thereof
shall dwell therein together, the husbandmen, and they that go about
with flocks. {31:25} For I have satiated the weary soul, and every
sorrowful soul have I replenished. {31:26} Upon this I awaked, and
beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. {31:27} Behold, the days come,
saith Jehovah, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of
Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. {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 overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so
will I watch over them to build and to plant, saith Jehovah. {31:29} In
those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children's teeth are set on edge. {31:30} But every one shall
die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grapes, his
teeth shall be set on edge. {31:31} Behold, the days come, saith
Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and
with the house of Judah: {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 a husband unto them, saith Jehovah. {31:33} But this is
the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those
days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in
their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be
my people: {31:34} and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor,
and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all
know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith
Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I
remember no more. {31:35} Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for a
light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a
light by night, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof
roar; Jehovah of hosts is his name: {31:36} If these ordinances depart
from before me, saith Jehovah, then the seed of Israel also shall cease
from being a nation before me for ever. {31:37} Thus saith Jehovah: If
heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched
out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all
that they have done, saith Jehovah. {31:38} Behold, the days come,
saith Jehovah, that the city shall be built to Jehovah from the tower
of Hananel unto the gate of the corner. {31:39} And the measuring line
shall go out further straight onward unto the hill Gareb, and shall
turn about unto Goah. {31:40} And the whole valley of the dead bodies
and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook Kidron, unto the
corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto Jehovah;
it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.



   {32:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the tenth year
of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar. {32:2} Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was
besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court
of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house. {32:3} For
Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou
prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will give this city
into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it; {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; {32:5} and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and
there shall he be until I visit him, saith Jehovah: though ye fight
with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper? {32:6} And Jeremiah said, The
word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, {32:7} Behold, Hanamel 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.
{32:8} So Hanamel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard
according to the word of Jehovah, and said unto me, Buy my field, I
pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the land 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 Jehovah. {32:9} And
I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel mine uncle's son,
and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. {32:10}
And I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and
weighed him the money in the balances. {32:11} So I took the deed of
the purchase, both that which was sealed, [according to] the law and
custom, and that which was open: {32:12} and I delivered the deed of
the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the
presence of Hanamel mine uncle's [son], and in the presence of the
witnesses that subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews
that sat in the court of the guard. {32:13} And I charged Baruch before
them, saying, {32:14} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel:
Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this
deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may
continue many days. {32:15} For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in
this land. {32:16} Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase
unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto Jehovah, saying, {32:17}
Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, thou hast made the heavens and the earth by
thy great power and by thine outstretched arm; there is nothing too
hard for thee, {32:18} who showest lovingkindness unto thousands, and
recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their
children after them; the great, the mighty God, Jehovah of hosts is his
name; {32:19} great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose 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: {32:20} who didst
set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, both in
Israel and among [other] men; and madest thee a name, as at this day;
{32:21} and didst bring forth thy people Israel out of the land of
Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an
outstretched arm, and with great terror; {32:22} and gavest them this
land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land
flowing with milk and honey; {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. {32:24} Behold, the
mounds, 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. {32:25} And thou
hast said unto me, O Lord Jehovah, Buy thee the field for money, and
call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans. {32:26} Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying,
{32:27} Behold, I am Jehovah, the God of all flesh: is there anything
too hard for me? {32:28} Therefore thus saith Jehovah: 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: {32:29} and the
Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set this city
on fire, 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. {32:30} For the children of Israel and
the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight
from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to
anger with the work of their hands, saith Jehovah. {32:31} For this
city hath been to me a provocation of mine anger and of my wrath from
the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it
from before my face, {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.
{32:33} And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: and
though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have
not hearkened to receive instruction. {32:34} But they set their
abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
{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. {32:36} And now therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It is given into the hand
of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence: {32:37} Behold, I will gather them out of all the
countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my wrath,
and in great indignation; and I will bring them again unto this place,
and I will cause them to dwell safely: {32:38} and they shall be my
people, and I will be their God: {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: {32:40} and I will make an everlasting
covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to
do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not
depart from me. {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. {32:42} For thus saith Jehovah: 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. {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. {32:44} Men shall
buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call
witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem,
and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill-country, and
in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I
will cause their captivity to return, saith Jehovah.



   {33:1} Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah the second
time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
{33:2} Thus saith Jehovah that doeth it, Jehovah that formeth it to
establish it; Jehovah is his name: {33:3} Call unto me, and I will
answer thee, and will show thee great things, and difficult, which thou
knowest not. {33:4} For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel,
concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the
kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defence] against the
mounds and against the sword; {33:5} while [men] come to fight with the
Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have
slain in mine anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I
have hid my face from this city: {33:6} Behold, I will bring it health
and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal unto them abundance
of peace and truth. {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. {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 against me, and whereby they have transgressed
against me. {33:9} And [this city] shall be to me for a name of joy,
for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth,
which shall hear all the good that I do unto them, and shall fear and
tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure unto it.
{33:10} Thus saith Jehovah: Yet again there shall be heard in this
place, whereof ye say, It is waste, 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, {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 say, Give thanks to
Jehovah of hosts, for Jehovah is good, for his lovingkindness
[endureth] for ever; [and of them] that bring [sacrifices of]
thanksgiving into the house of Jehovah. For I will cause the captivity
of the land to return as at the first, saith Jehovah. {33:12} Thus
saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet again shall there be in this place, which
is waste, without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof,
a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. {33:13} In
the cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the lowland, 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 again
pass under the hands of him that numbereth them, saith Jehovah. {33:14}
Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will perform that good
word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning
the house of Judah. {33:15} In those days, and at that time, will I
cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall
execute justice and righteousness in the land. {33:16} In those days
shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is
[the name] whereby she shall be called: Jehovah our righteousness.
{33:17} For thus saith Jehovah: David shall never want a man to sit
upon the throne of the house of Israel; {33:18} neither shall the
priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt-offerings, and
to burn meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. {33:19} And
the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, saying, {33:20} Thus saith
Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the
night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
{33:21} then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that
he shall not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites
the priests, my ministers. {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.
{33:23} And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying, {33:24}
Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two
families which Jehovah did choose, he hath cast them off? thus do they
despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
{33:25} Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night [stand]
not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
{33:26} then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my
servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to
return, and will have mercy on them.



   {34:1} The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, when
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms
of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were
fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying:
{34:2} Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah
king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will give
this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it
with fire: {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. {34:4} Yet hear the word
of Jehovah, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus saith Jehovah concerning
thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword; {34:5} thou shalt die in peace;
and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that were before
thee, so shall they make a burning for thee; and they shall lament
thee, [saying], Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, saith Jehovah.
{34:6} Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah
king of Judah in Jerusalem, {34:7} when the king of Babylon's army was
fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that
were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these [alone]
remained of the cities of Judah [as] fortified cities. {34:8} The word
that came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that the king Zedekiah had
made a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim
liberty unto them; {34:9} that every man should let his man-servant,
and every man his maid-servant, that is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go
free; that none should make bondmen of them, [to wit], of a Jew his
brother. {34:10} And all the princes and all the people obeyed, that
had entered into the covenant, that every one should let his
man-servant, and every one his maid-servant, go free, that none should
make bondmen of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go: {34:11}
but afterwards 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. {34:12} Therefore the word of Jehovah
came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, {34:13} Thus saith Jehovah, 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
bondage, saying, {34:14} At the end of seven years ye shall let go
every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that hath been sold unto thee,
and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee:
but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
{34:15} And ye were now turned, and had done that which is right in
mine eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and ye had
made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
{34:16} but ye turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his
servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had let go free at their
pleasure, to return; and ye brought them into subjection, to be unto
you for servants and for handmaids. {34:17} Therefore thus saith
Jehovah: ye have not hearkened unto me, to proclaim liberty, every man
to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim unto
you a liberty, saith Jehovah, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to
the famine; and I will make you to be tossed to and fro among all the
kingdoms of the earth. {34:18} And I will give the men that have
transgressed my covenant, that have not performed the words of the
covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in twain and
passed between the parts thereof; {34:19} the princes of Judah, and the
princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people
of the land, that passed between the parts of the calf; {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 food unto
the birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of the earth. {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, that are gone away from you.
{34:22} Behold, I will command, saith Jehovah, 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
inhabitant.



   {35:1} The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, {35:2} Go unto the
house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the
house of Jehovah, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to
drink. {35:3} Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of
Habazziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of
the Rechabites; {35:4} and I brought them into the house of Jehovah,
into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the 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 threshold.
{35:5} And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls
full of wine, and cups; and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. {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: {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 wherein ye sojourn.
{35:8} And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our
father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we,
our wives, our sons, or our daughters; {35:9} nor to build houses for
us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed: {35:10}
but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all
that Jonadab our father commanded us. {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.
{35:12} Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying, {35:13}
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Go, and say to the men
of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive
instruction to hearken to my words? saith Jehovah. {35:14} The words of
Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink
wine, are performed; and unto this day they drink none, for they obey
their father's commandment: but I have spoken unto you, rising up early
and speaking; and ye have not hearkened unto me. {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. {35:16} Forasmuch as 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; {35:17} therefore thus saith Jehovah, the 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. {35:18} And
Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith Jehovah 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 commanded you; {35:19} therefore thus saith Jehovah of
hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a
man to stand before me for ever.



   {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
Jehovah, saying, {36:2} Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein
all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against
Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee,
from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. {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. {36:4} Then Jeremiah called Baruch the
son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the
words of Jehovah, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
{36:5} And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go
into the house of Jehovah: {36:6} therefore go thou, and read in the
roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of Jehovah in
the ears of the people in Jehovah's house upon the fast-day; and also
thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their
cities. {36:7} It may be they will present their supplication before
Jehovah, and will return every one from his evil way; for great is the
anger and the wrath that Jehovah hath pronounced against this people.
{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 Jehovah in
Jehovah's house. {36:9} Now it came to pass in the fifth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that
all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people that came from the
cities of Judah unto Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Jehovah.
{36:10} Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house
of Jehovah, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe,
in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Jehovah's house, in
the ears of all the people. {36:11} And when Micaiah the son of
Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words
of Jehovah, {36:12} he went down into the king's house, into the
scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes were sitting there, [to
wit], 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. {36:13} Then Micaiah
declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read
the book in the ears of the people. {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 thy 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. {36:15} And they said
unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in
their ears. {36:16} Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the
words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said unto Baruch, We
will surely tell the king of all these words. {36:17} And they asked
Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at
his mouth? {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.
{36:19} Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and
Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye are. {36:20} And they went in to
the king into the court; but they had laid up the roll in the chamber
of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the
king. {36:21} So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll; and he took it
out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the
ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes that stood beside
the king. {36:22} Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the
ninth month: and [there was a fire in] the brazier burning before him.
{36:23} And it came to pass, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves,
that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire
that was in the brazier, until all the roll was consumed in the fire
that was in the brazier. {36:24} And they were not afraid, nor rent
their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard
all these words. {36:25} Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had
made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll; but he
would not hear them. {36:26} And the king commanded Jerahmeel the
king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of
Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Jehovah
hid them. {36:27} Then the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, after that
the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the
mouth of Jeremiah, saying, {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. {36:29} And concerning
Jehoiakim king of Judah thou shalt say, Thus saith Jehovah: 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? {36:30} Therefore thus saith
Jehovah concerning 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. {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. {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.



   {37:1} And Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of
Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made
king in the land of Judah. {37:2} But neither he, nor his servants, nor
the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of Jehovah, which he
spake by the prophet 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 Jehovah our God
for us. {37:4} Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for
they had not put him into prison. {37:5} And Pharaoh's army was come
forth out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans that were besieging
Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they brake up from Jerusalem. {37:6}
Then came the word of Jehovah unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying, {37:7}
Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say to the king of
Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army,
which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own
land. {37:8} And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this
city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire. {37:9} Thus saith
Jehovah, Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely
depart from us; for they shall not depart. {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, yea would they rise up every
man in his tent, and burn this city with fire. {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, {37:12} then Jeremiah went forth out of
Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion
there, in the midst of the people. {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 laid hold on Jeremiah
the prophet, saying, Thou art falling away to the Chaldeans. {37:14}
Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away to the
Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him; so Irijah laid hold on
Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. {37:15} And 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. {37:16} When
Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and
Jeremiah had remained there many days; {37:17} Then Zedekiah the king
sent, and fetched him: and the king asked him secretly in his house,
and said, Is there any word from Jehovah? And Jeremiah said, There is.
He said also, Thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of
Babylon. {37:18} Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, Wherein
have I sinned against thee, or against thy servants, or against this
people, that ye have put me in prison? {37:19} Where now are your
prophets that prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall
not come against you, nor against this land? {37:20} And now hear, I
pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be
presented before thee, that thou cause me not to return to the house of
Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. {37:21} Then Zedekiah the king
commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and
they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until
all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the
court of the guard.



   {38:1} And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of
Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of
Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spake unto all the people,
saying, {38:2} Thus saith Jehovah, He that abideth 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, and his life shall be unto him
for a prey, and he shall live. {38:3} Thus saith Jehovah, This city
shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon,
and he shall take it. {38:4} Then the princes said unto the king, Let
this man, we pray thee, be put to death; forasmuch as 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. {38:5} And Zedekiah the king
said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he that can do
anything against you. {38:6} Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into
the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the
guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there
was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. {38:7} Now when
Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard
that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the
gate of Benjamin,) {38:8} Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's
house, and spake to the king, saying, {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 in the
place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in
the city. {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. {38:11} So Ebed-melech took
the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the
treasury, and took thence rags and worn-out garments, and let them down
by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. {38:12} And Ebed-melech the
Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these rags and worn-out garments
under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so. {38:13} So
they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the
dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. {38:14} Then
Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the
third entry that is in the house of Jehovah: and the king said unto
Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me. {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, thou wilt not
hearken unto me. {38:16} So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto
Jeremiah, saying, As Jehovah 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. {38:17} Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus
saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt 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 thy
house. {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. {38:19} And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am
afraid of the Jews that are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they
deliver me into their hand, and they mock me. {38:20} But Jeremiah
said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of
Jehovah, in that which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well with
thee, and thy soul shall live. {38:21} But if thou refuse to go forth,
this is the word that Jehovah hath showed me: {38:22} 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
familiar friends have set thee on, and have prevailed over thee: [now
that] thy feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back. {38:23}
And 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. {38:24} Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah,
Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die. {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: {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. {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. {38:28} So Jeremiah abode in the
court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.



   {39:1} And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken, (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 besieged it;
{39:2} in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth
day of the month, a breach was made in the city,) {39:3} that all the
princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, [to
wit], Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris,
Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the rest of the princes of the king
of Babylon. {39:4} And it came to pass that, when Zedekiah the king of
Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth
out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the
gate betwixt the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah. {39:5}
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah
in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him
up to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath;
and he gave judgment upon him. {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. {39:7} Moreover he put out Zedekiah's
eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. {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. {39:9} Then Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue
of the people that remained in the city, the deserters also that fell
away to him, and the residue of the people that remained. {39:10} But
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people,
that had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and
fields at the same time. {39:11} Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard, saying, {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. {39:13} So
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban, Rab-saris,
and Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the chief officers of the king of
Babylon; {39:14} they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the
guard, 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.
{39:15} Now the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut
up in the court of the guard, saying, {39:16} Go, and speak to
Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith Jehovah 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 before thee in that day.
{39:17} But I will deliver thee in that day, saith Jehovah; and thou
shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.
{39:18} For I will surely save 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 Jehovah.



   {40:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he
had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem
and Judah, that were carried away captive unto Babylon. {40:2} And the
captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, Jehovah thy God
pronounced this evil upon this place; {40:3} and Jehovah hath brought
it, and done according as he spake: because ye have sinned against
Jehovah, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come
upon you. {40:4} And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains
which are upon thy 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 right unto thee to go, thither
go. {40:5} Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, [said he],
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 right unto thee to go.
So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a present, and let
him go. {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.
{40:7} Now when all the captains of the forces that 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 poorest of the land, of
them that were not carried away captive to Babylon; {40:8} then they
came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, [to wit], 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 the Maacathite, they and their men. {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. {40:10} As for me, behold, I
will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans that shall 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. {40:11}
Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of
Ammon, 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; {40:12} then 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. {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, {40:14} and said unto him, Dost thou know that
Baalis the king of the children of Ammon hath sent Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah to take thy life? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed
them not. {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 take thy life, that all the Jews that are gathered unto thee
should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish? {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.



   {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 [one of]
the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came unto
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread
together in Mizpah. {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. {41:3} Ishmael also slew all
the Jews that were with him, [to wit], with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and
the Chaldeans that were found there, the men of war. {41:4} And it came
to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
{41:5} that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria,
even fourscore men, having their beards shaven and their clothes rent,
and having cut themselves, with meal-offerings and frankincense in
their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah. {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. {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. {41:8} But ten men were found among them that said
unto Ishmael, Slay us not; for we have stores hidden in the field, of
wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew
them not among their brethren. {41:9} Now the pit wherein Ishmael cast
all the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain, by the side of
Gedaliah (the same was that which Asa the king had made for fear of
Baasha king of Israel,) Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with
them that were slain. {41:10} Then Ishmael carried away captive all the
residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters,
and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam;
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to
go over to the children of Ammon. {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, {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.
{41:13} Now it came to pass that, when all the people that were with
Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces that were with him, then they were glad. {41:14} So all the
people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about
and came back, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah. {41:15} But
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and
went to the children of Ammon. {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, [to wit], the men of war, and the women, and the children, and
the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon: {41:17} and they
departed, and dwelt in Geruth Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to go to
enter into Egypt, {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 over the land.



   {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, {42:2} and said unto Jeremiah
the prophet, Let, we pray thee, our supplication be presented before
thee, and pray for us unto Jehovah thy God, even for all this remnant;
for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us: {42:3}
that Jehovah thy God may show us the way wherein we should walk, and
the thing that we should do. {42:4} Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto
them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto Jehovah your God
according to your words; and it shall come to pass that whatsoever
thing Jehovah shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep
nothing back from you. {42:5} Then they said to Jeremiah, Jehovah be a
true and faithful witness amongst us, if we do not according to all the
word wherewith Jehovah thy God shall send thee to us. {42:6} Whether it
be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of Jehovah our
God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey
the voice of Jehovah our God. {42:7} And it came to pass after ten
days, that the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah. {42:8} Then called
he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that
were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,
{42:9} and said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto
whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him: {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. {42:11} Be not afraid of the king
of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith Jehovah:
for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
{42:12} And I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy upon you,
and cause you to return to your own land. {42:13} But if ye say, We
will not dwell in this land; so that ye obey not the voice of Jehovah
your God, {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: {42:15} now therefore hear ye
the word of Jehovah, O remnant of Judah: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts,
the God of Israel, If ye indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and
go to sojourn there; {42:16} then it shall come to pass, that the
sword, which ye fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt;
and the famine, whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you
there in Egypt; and there ye shall die. {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. {42:18} For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: As
mine anger and my wrath hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, so shall my wrath 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.
{42:19} Jehovah hath spoken concerning you, O remnant of Judah, Go ye
not into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified unto you this day.
{42:20} For ye have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for ye
sent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our
God; and according unto all that Jehovah our God shall say, so declare
unto us, and we will do it: {42:21} and I have this day declared it to
you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah your God in anything
for which he hath sent me unto you. {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 to sojourn there.



   {43:1} And it came to pass that, when Jeremiah had made an end of
speaking unto all the people all the words of Jehovah their God,
wherewith Jehovah their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
{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: Jehovah our God hath not sent thee to say, Ye shall not go
into Egypt to sojourn there; {43:3} but Baruch the son of Neriah
setteth thee on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the
Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to
Babylon. {43:4} So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of Jehovah, to
dwell in the land of Judah. {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 the nations whither they had been driven, to
sojourn in the land of Judah; {43:6} the men, and the women, and the
children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the
son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah;
{43:7} and they came into the land of Egypt; for they obeyed not the
voice of Jehovah: and they came unto Tahpanhes. {43:8} Then came the
word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, {43:9} Take great
stones in thy hand, and hide them in mortar in the brickwork, which is
at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men
of Judah; {43:10} and say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah 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. {43:11} And
he shall come, and shall smite the land of Egypt; such as are for death
[shall be given] to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity,
and such as are for the sword to the sword. {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 captive: 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. {43:13} He shall also break the pillars of
Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods
of Egypt shall he burn with fire.



   {44:1} The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews that
dwelt in the land of Egypt, that dwelt at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and
at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying, {44:2} Thus saith
Jehovah 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,
{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, that they knew not, neither they, nor ye, nor your fathers.
{44:4} Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up
early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I
hate. {44:5} But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn
from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. {44:6}
Wherefore my wrath 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 it is this day. {44:7} Therefore now thus saith
Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Wherefore commit ye
[this] great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and
woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you
none remaining; {44:8} in that ye provoke me unto anger with the works
of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt,
whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off, and that ye may
be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? {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 committed in
the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? {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. {44:11} Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut
off all Judah. {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; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall
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. {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; {44:14} so that none of the remnant of Judah, that
are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be
left, to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to
return to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.
{44:15} Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense unto
other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great assembly, even all
the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered
Jeremiah, saying, {44:16} As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us
in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee. {44:17} But we
will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our 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. {44:18} But since we left off burning incense to the queen of
heaven, and pouring out drink-offerings unto her, we have wanted all
things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. {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 husbands? {44:20} Then
Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, even
to all the people that had given him that answer, saying, {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 Jehovah remember them, and came it not into
his mind? {44:22} so that Jehovah could not longer bear, because of the
evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have
committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an
astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
{44:23} Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned
against Jehovah, and have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah, nor walked
in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this
evil is happened unto you, as it is this day. {44:24} Moreover Jeremiah
said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of
Jehovah, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt: {44:25} Thus saith
Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Ye and your wives have
both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it,
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: establish then your vows, and perform your vows. {44:26} Therefore
hear ye the word of Jehovah, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt:
Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith Jehovah, that my name
shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land
of Egypt, saying, As the Lord Jehovah liveth. {44:27} Behold, I 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. {44:28} And they that escape the sword
shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in
number; and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of
Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or
theirs. {44:29} And this shall be the sign unto you, saith Jehovah,
that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words
shall surely stand against you for evil: {44:30} Thus saith Jehovah,
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,
who was his enemy, and sought his life.



   {45:1} The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son
of Neriah, when he wrote these word in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah,
in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
saying, {45:2} Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto thee, O
Baruch: {45:3} Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for Jehovah hath added
sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.
{45:4} Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, that
which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I
will pluck up; and this in the whole land. {45:5} And seekest thou
great things for thyself? seek them not; for, behold, I will bring evil
upon all flesh, saith Jehovah; but thy life will I give unto thee for a
prey in all places whither thou goest.



   {46:1} The word of Jehovah which came to Jeremiah the prophet
concerning the nations. {46:2} Of Egypt: concerning the army of
Pharaoh-neco 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. {46:3} Prepare ye
the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. {46:4} Harness the
horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets;
furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail. {46:5} Wherefore have I
seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty
ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: terror is
on every side, saith Jehovah. {46:6} Let not the swift flee away, nor
the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they
stumbled and fallen. {46:7} Who is this that riseth up like the Nile,
whose waters toss themselves like the rivers? {46:8} Egypt riseth up
like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he
saith, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities
and the inhabitants thereof. {46:9} Go up, ye horses; and rage, ye
chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle
the shield; and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow. {46:10} For
that day is [a day] of the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance,
that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour
and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord,
Jehovah of hosts, hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river
Euphrates. {46:11} Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter
of Egypt: in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no healing for
thee. {46:12} The nations have heard of thy shame, and the earth is
full of thy cry; for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty,
they are fallen both of them together. {46:13} The word that Jehovah
spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
should come and smite the land of Egypt. {46:14} Declare ye in Egypt,
and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say ye,
Stand forth, and prepare thee; for the sword hath devoured round about
thee. {46:15} Why are thy strong ones swept away? they stood not,
because Jehovah did drive them. {46:16} He made many to stumble, yea,
they fell one 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. {46:17} They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise;
he hath let the appointed time pass by. {46:18} As I live, saith the
King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely like Tabor among the
mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come. {46:19} O thou
daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity;
for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without
inhabitant. {46:20} Egypt is a very fair heifer; [but] destruction out
of the north is come, it is come. {46:21} Also her hired men in the
midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned
back, they are fled away together, they did not stand: for the day of
their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation. {46:22}
The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with
an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. {46:23}
They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be
searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
{46:24} The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be
delivered into the hand of the people of the north. {46:25} Jehovah of
hosts, the God of Israel, saith: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and
Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and
them that trust in him: {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 afterwards it
shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith Jehovah. {46:27} But
fear not thou, O Jacob my servant, 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 quiet and at ease, and
none shall make him afraid. {46:28} Fear not thou, O Jacob my servant,
saith Jehovah; 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 I will correct thee in measure, and will in no wise leave
thee unpunished.



   {47:1} The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet
concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. {47:2} Thus
saith Jehovah: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall
become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that
is therein, the city and them that dwell therein; and the men shall
cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. {47:3} At the
noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing
of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers look not
back to their children for feebleness of hands; {47:4} because of the
day that cometh to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre
and Sidon every helper that remaineth: for Jehovah will destroy the
Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor. {47:5} Baldness is
come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nought, the remnant of their
valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? {47:6} O thou sword of Jehovah,
how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy
scabbard; rest, and be still. {47:7} How canst thou be quiet, seeing
Jehovah hath given thee a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the
sea-shore, there hath he appointed it.



   {48:1} Of Moab. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe
unto Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is
taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down. {48:2} The praise of
Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come,
and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt
be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue thee. {48:3} The sound of
a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction! {48:4} Moab is
destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. {48:5} For by
the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at
the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of
destruction. {48:6} Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the
wilderness. {48:7} For, because thou hast trusted in thy works and in
thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth
into captivity, his priests and his princes together. {48:8} And the
destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the
valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Jehovah
hath spoken. {48:9} Give wings unto Moab, that she may fly and get her
away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell
therein. {48:10} Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovah
negligently; and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
{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 remaineth in him, and his
scent is not changed. {48:12} Therefore, behold, the days come, saith
Jehovah, that I will send unto him them that pour off, and they shall
pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles
in pieces. {48:13} And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house
of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence. {48:14} How say ye,
We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war? {48:15} Moab is laid
waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men
are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah
of hosts. {48:16} The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his
affliction hasteth fast. {48:17} All ye that are round about him,
bemoan him, and all ye that know his name; say, How is the strong staff
broken, the beautiful rod! {48:18} O thou daughter that dwellest in
Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer
of Moab is come up against thee, he hath destroyed thy strongholds.
{48:19} O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him
that fleeth, and her that escapeth; say, What hath been done? {48:20}
Moab is put to shame; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell ye it
by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste. {48:21} And judgment is come
upon the plain country, upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath,
{48:22} and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim,
{48:23} and upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon,
{48:24} and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of
the land of Moab, far or near. {48:25} The horn of Moab is cut off, and
his arm is broken, saith Jehovah. {48:26} Make ye him drunken; for he
magnified himself against Jehovah: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit,
and he also shall be in derision. {48:27} For was not Israel a derision
unto thee? was he found among thieves? for as often as thou speakest of
him, thou waggest the head. {48:28} O ye inhabitants of Moab, leave the
cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that maketh her
nest over the mouth of the abyss. {48:29} We have heard of the pride of
Moab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his
arrogancy, and the haughtiness of his heart. {48:30} I know his wrath,
saith Jehovah, that it is nought; his boastings have wrought nothing.
{48:31} Therefore will I wail for Moab; yea, I will cry out for all
Moab: for the men of Kir-heres shall they mourn. {48:32} With more than
the weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah: thy
branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer:
upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage the destroyer is fallen.
{48:33} And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and
from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the
winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no
shouting. {48:34} From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, even unto
Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, to
Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become
desolate. {48:35} Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith
Jehovah, him that offereth in the high place, and him that burneth
incense to his gods. {48:36} Therefore my heart soundeth for Moab like
pipes, and my heart soundeth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres:
therefore the abundance that he hath gotten is perished. {48:37} For
every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are
cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. {48:38} On all the housetops of
Moab and in the streets thereof there is lamentation every where; for I
have broken Moab like a vessel wherein none delighteth, saith Jehovah.
{48:39} How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how hath Moab turned
the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to
all that are round about him. {48:40} For thus saith Jehovah: Behold,
he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.
{48:41} Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart
of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman
in her pangs. {48:42} And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people,
because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah. {48:43} Fear, and
the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith
Jehovah. {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 him, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation,
saith Jehovah. {48:45} They that fled stand without strength under the
shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame
from the midst of Sihon, and hath devoured the corner of Moab, and the
crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. {48:46} Woe unto thee, O
Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken away
captive, and thy daughters into captivity. {48:47} Yet will I bring
back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith Jehovah. Thus far
is the judgment of Moab.



   {49:1} Of the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath Israel no
sons? hath he no heir? why then doth Malcam possess Gad, and his people
well in the cities thereof? {49:2} Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith Jehovah, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against
Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap,
and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess
them that did possess him, saith Jehovah. {49:3} Wail, O Heshbon, for
Ai is laid waste; cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth:
lament, and run to and fro among the fences; for Malcam shall go into
captivity, his priests and his princes together. {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? {49:5} Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord,
Jehovah of hosts, from all that are round about thee; and ye shall be
driven out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather
together the fugitives. {49:6} But afterward I will bring back the
captivity of the children of Ammon, saith Jehovah. {49:7} Of Edom. Thus
saith Jehovah of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished
from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? {49:8} Flee ye, turn back,
dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the
calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I shall visit him. {49:9} If
grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning
grapes? if thieves by night, would they not destroy till they had
enough? {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
destroyed, and his brethren, and his neighbors; and he is not. {49:11}
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy
widows trust in me. {49:12} For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, they to
whom it pertained not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and
art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go
unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink. {49:13} For I have sworn by
myself, saith Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a
reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be
perpetual wastes. {49:14} I have heard tidings from Jehovah, and an
ambassador is sent among the nations, [saying], Gather yourselves
together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle. {49:15} For,
behold, I have made thee small among the nations, and despised among
men. {49:16} As for thy terribleness, the pride of thy heart hath
deceived thee, 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 Jehovah.
{49:17} And Edom shall become an astonishment: every one that passeth
by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
{49:18} As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor
cities thereof, saith Jehovah, no man shall dwell there, neither shall
any son of man sojourn therein. {49:19} Behold, he shall come up like a
lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I
will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him will
I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time?
and who is the shepherd that will stand before me? {49:20} Therefore
hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he hath taken against Edom; and
his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman:
Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock;
surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them. {49:21} The
earth trembleth at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise
whereof is heard in the Red Sea. {49:22} Behold, he shall come up and
fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the
heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a
woman in her pangs. {49:23} Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and
Arpad; for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away: there is
sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. {49:24} Damascus is waxed
feeble, she turneth herself to flee, and trembling hath seized on her:
anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
{49:25} How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
{49:26} Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the
men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah of
hosts. {49:27} And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it
shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad. {49:28} Of Kedar, and of the
kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote. Thus
saith Jehovah: Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of
the east. {49:29} Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they
shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels,
and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Terror on every side!
{49:30} Flee ye, wander far off, dwell in the depths, O ye inhabitants
of Hazor, saith Jehovah; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken
counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you. {49:31}
Arise, get you up unto a nation that is at ease, that dwelleth without
care, saith Jehovah; that have neither gates nor bars, that dwell
alone. {49:32} And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of
their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter unto all winds them that have
the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity
from every side of them, saith Jehovah. {49:33} And Hazor shall be a
dwelling-place of jackals, a desolation for ever: no man shall dwell
there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. {49:34} The word
of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the
beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, {49:35} Thus
saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief
of their might. {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. {49:37} And 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 Jehovah; and I will send the
sword after them, till I have consumed them; {49:38} and I will set my
throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence king and princes, saith
Jehovah. {49:39} But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I
will bring back the captivity of Elam, saith Jehovah.



   {50:1} The word that Jehovah spake concerning Babylon, concerning
the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet. {50:2} Declare ye
among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and
conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is
dismayed; her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed. {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 are fled,
they are gone, both man and beast. {50:4} In those days, and in that
time, saith Jehovah, the children of Israel shall come, they and the
children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and
shall seek Jehovah their God. {50:5} They shall inquire concerning Zion
with their faces thitherward, [saying], Come ye, and join yourselves to
Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten. {50:6}
My people have 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 resting-place. {50:7}
All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We
are not guilty, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the
habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.
{50:8} Flee 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. {50:9} For,
lo, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company 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 an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain. {50:10} And
Chaldea shall be a prey: all that prey upon her shall be satisfied,
saith Jehovah. {50:11} Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye
that plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that
treadeth out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses; {50:12} your
mother shall be utterly put to shame; she that bare you shall be
confounded: behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, a
wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. {50:13} Because of the wrath of
Jehovah she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate:
every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all
her plagues. {50:14} Set yourselves in array against Babylon round
about, all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she
hath sinned against Jehovah. {50:15} Shout against her round about: she
hath submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown
down; for it is the vengeance of Jehovah: take vengeance upon her; as
she hath done, do unto her. {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. {50:17} Israel is a hunted sheep;
the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured
him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his
bones. {50:18} Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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. {50:19} And I will bring Israel
again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his
soul shall be satisfied upon the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
{50:20} In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, 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 leave
as a remnant. {50:21} Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against
it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: slay and utterly destroy
after them, saith Jehovah, and do according to all that I have
commanded thee. {50:22} A sound of battle is in the land, and of great
destruction. {50:23} How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder
and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
{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 Jehovah. {50:25} Jehovah hath opened
his armory, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for
the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a work [to do] in the land of the
Chaldeans. {50:26} Come against her from the utmost border; open her
store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let
nothing of her be left. {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. {50:28} The voice of them that flee and escape out of
the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our
God, the vengeance of his temple. {50:29} Call together the archers
against Babylon, all them that bend the bow; encamp against her 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 Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel. {50:30}
Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of
war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah. {50:31}
Behold, I am against thee, O thou proud one, saith the Lord, Jehovah of
hosts; for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. {50:32}
And the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up;
and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all that
are round about him. {50:33} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The children
of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all
that took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.
{50:34} Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah of hosts is his name: he will
thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and
disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. {50:35} A sword is upon the
Chaldeans, saith Jehovah, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon
her princes, and upon her wise men. {50:36} A sword is upon the
boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is upon her mighty men,
and they shall be dismayed. {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. {50:38} A drought is upon her
waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images,
and they are mad over idols. {50:39} Therefore the wild beasts of the
desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell
therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it
be dwelt in from generation to generation. {50:40} As when God
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith
Jehovah, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man
sojourn therein. {50:41} Behold, a people cometh from the north; and a
great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost
parts of the earth. {50:42} They lay hold on bow and spear; they are
cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they
ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle,
against thee, O daughter of Babylon. {50:43} The king of Babylon hath
heard the tidings of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken
hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail. {50:44} Behold, [the
enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against
the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it;
and whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me?
and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that can stand
before me? {50:45} Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he
hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed
against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away,
[even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their
habitation desolate over them. {50:46} At the noise of the taking of
Babylon the earth trembleth, and the cry is heard among the nations.



   {51:1} Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon,
and against them that dwell in Leb-kamai, a destroying wind. {51:2} And
I will send unto Babylon strangers, that shall winnow her; and they
shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against
her round about. {51:3} Against [him that] bendeth let the archer bend
his bow, and against [him that] lifteth himself up in his coat of mail:
and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. {51:4}
And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust
through in her streets. {51:5} For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah,
of his God, of Jehovah of hosts; though their land is full of guilt
against the Holy One of Israel. {51:6} Flee out of the midst of
Babylon, and save every man his life; be not cut off in her iniquity:
for it is the time of Jehovah's vengeance; he will render unto her a
recompense. {51:7} Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah's hand,
that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine;
therefore the nations are mad. {51:8} Babylon is suddenly fallen and
destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be
healed. {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.
{51:10} Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us
declare in Zion the work of Jehovah our God. {51:11} Make sharp the
arrows; hold firm the shields: Jehovah hath stirred up the spirit of
the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to
destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his
temple. {51:12} Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make
the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Jehovah
hath both purposed and done that which he spake concerning the
inhabitants of Babylon. {51:13} O thou that dwellest upon many waters,
abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy
covetousness. {51:14} Jehovah of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying],
Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the canker-worm; and they
shall lift up a shout against thee. {51:15} He hath made the earth by
his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his
understanding hath he stretched out the heavens: {51:16} when he
uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he
causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh
lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his
treasuries. {51:17} Every man is become brutish [and is] without
knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his image; for his molten
image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. {51:18} They are
vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall
perish. {51:19} The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the
former of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance:
Jehovah of hosts is his name. {51:20} Thou art my battle-axe and
weapons of war: and with thee will I break in pieces the nations; and
with thee will I destroy kingdoms; {51:21} and with thee will I break
in pieces the horse and his rider; {51:22} and with thee will I break
in pieces the chariot and him that rideth therein; and with thee will I
break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces the
old man and the youth; and with thee will I break in pieces the young
man and the virgin; {51:23} and with thee will I break in pieces 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
governors and deputies. {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 Jehovah. {51:25} Behold, I am against thee, O
destroying mountain, saith Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth; and
I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the
rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. {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 Jehovah. {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 Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to
come up as the rough canker-worm. {51:28} Prepare against her the
nations, the kings of the Medes, the governors thereof, and all the
deputies thereof, and all the land of their dominion. {51:29} And the
land trembleth and is in pain; for the purposes of Jehovah against
Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without
inhabitant. {51:30} The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight,
they remain in their strongholds; their might hath failed; they are
become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are
broken. {51:31} One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger
to met another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on
every quarter: {51:32} and the passages are seized, and the reeds they
have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. {51:33} For
thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon
is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little
while, and the time of harvest shall come for her. {51:34}
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed
me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed
me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.
{51:35} The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall
the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be upon the inhabitants of
Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. {51:36} Therefore thus saith Jehovah:
Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will
dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. {51:37} And Babylon shall
become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a
hissing, without inhabitant. {51:38} They shall roar together like
young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps. {51:39} When they are
heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that
they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith
Jehovah. {51:40} I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with he-goats. {51:41} How is Sheshach taken! and the praise
of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the
nations! {51:42} The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with
the multitude of the waves thereof. {51:43} Her cities are become a
desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth,
neither doth any son of man pass thereby. {51:44} And I will execute
judgment upon Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth
that which he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any
more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. {51:45} My people,
go ye out of the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the
fierce anger of Jehovah. {51:46} And let not your heart faint, neither
fear ye for the tidings that shall be heard in the land; for tidings
shall come one year, and after that in another year [shall come]
tidings, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. {51:47}
Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute 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. {51:48} Then the heavens
and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over
Babylon; for the destroyers shall come unto her from the north, saith
Jehovah. {51:49} As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so
at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land. {51:50} Ye that have
escaped the sword, go ye, stand not still; remember Jehovah from afar,
and let Jerusalem come into your mind. {51:51} We are confounded,
because we have heard reproach; confusion hath covered our faces: for
strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Jehovah's house. {51:52}
Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will execute
judgment upon her graven images; and through all her land the wounded
shall groan. {51:53} Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and
though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall
destroyers come unto her, saith Jehovah. {51:54} The sound of a cry
from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
{51:55} For Jehovah layeth Babylon waste, and destroyeth out of her the
great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their
voice is uttered: {51:56} for the destroyer is come upon her, even upon
Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces;
for Jehovah is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite. {51:57}
And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and
her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual
sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
{51:58} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall
be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire;
and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire;
and they shall be weary. {51:59} The word which Jeremiah the prophet
commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went
with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his
reign. Now Seraiah was chief chamberlain. {51:60} And Jeremiah wrote in
a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words
that are written concerning Babylon. {51:61} And Jeremiah said to
Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, then see that thou read all these
words, {51:62} and say, O Jehovah, thou hast spoken concerning this
place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor
beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever. {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 the Euphrates: {51:64} and
thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again
because of the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be
weary. Thus far are the words of 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. {52:2} And he did that
which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim
had done. {52:3} For through the anger of Jehovah did it come to pass
in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence.
And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. {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 encamped against it; and they
built forts against it round about. {52:5} So the city was besieged
unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. {52:6} 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. {52:7} Then a breach was
made in the city, 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 against the city
round about;) and they went toward the Arabah. {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. {52:9} Then
they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to
Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him. {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. {52:11} And he put out
the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and
carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his
death. {52:12} Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month,
which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon,
came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of
Babylon, into Jerusalem: {52:13} and he burned the house of Jehovah,
and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great
house, burned he with fire. {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. {52:15} Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the
residue of the people that were left in the city, and those that fell
away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the
multitude. {52:16} But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the
poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen. {52:17} And the
pillars of brass that were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases and
the brazen sea that were in the house of Jehovah, did the Chaldeans
break in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon. {52:18}
The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and
the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered,
took they away. {52:19} And the cups, and the firepans, and the basins,
and the pots, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the bowls-that
which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver,-
the captain of the guard took away. {52:20} The two pillars, the one
sea, and the twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases, which king
Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah-the brass of all these
vessels was without weight. {52:21} And as for the pillars, the height
of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did
compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
{52:22} And a capital of brass was upon it; and the height of the one
capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capital
round about, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like unto
these, and pomegranates. {52:23} And there were ninety and six
pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the
network round about. {52:24} And the captain of the guard took Seraiah
the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three
keepers of the threshold: {52:25} and out of the city he took an
officer that was set over the men of war; and seven men of them that
saw the king's face, that were found in the city; and the scribe of the
captain 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. {52:26} And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took
them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. {52:27} And
the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the
land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
{52:28} This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in
the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty; {52:29} in
the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from
Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons; {52:30} in the three
and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five
persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred. {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; {52:32} and he spake kindly
to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with
him in Babylon, {52:33} and changed his prison garments. And
[Jehoiachin] did eat bread before him continually all the days of his
life: {52:34} and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance
given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of
his death, all the days of his life.




