Jeremiah

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1:4	Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
1:5	“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
1:6	Then I said, “AlasOh, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, Because I am a youth.”
1:8	Do not be afraid of them, For I am with you to deliversave you,” declares the Lord.
1:10	See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, To pluckroot upout and to breaktear down, To destroy and to overthrow, To build and to plant.”
1:11	TheAnd the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “I see a rodbranch of an almond tree.”
1:13	TheAnd the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north.”
1:14	Then the Lord said to me, “Out of the north the evil will breakbe forthunleashed on all the inhabitants of the land.
1:15	For, behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north,” declares the Lord; “and they will come and theyplace, will set each one of them, his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls roundaround, about and against all the cities of Judah.
1:16	And I will pronounce My judgments onagainst them concerning all their wickedness, wherebysince they have forsakenabandoned Me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.
1:17	Now, girdbelt upyour garment around your loinswaist and arise, and speak to them all whichthat I command you. Do not be dismayed before them, or I will dismaymake you dismayed before them.
1:18	Now behold, I have made you today aslike a fortified city and aslike a pillar of iron and as walls of bronze against the whole land, to the kings of Judah, to its princesleaders, to its priests, and to the people of the land.
1:19	TheyAnd they will fight against you, but they will not overcome you, for I am with you to deliversave you,” declares the Lord.
2:1	Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2:2	“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “I remember concerningregarding you the devotion of your youth, TheYour love ofwhen youryou betrothalswere a bride, Your following after Me in the wilderness, Through a land not sown.
2:4	Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
2:5	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “What injustice did your fathers find in Me, That they went far from Me, And walked after emptiness and became empty?
2:6	They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and of pits, Through a land of drought and of deep darkness, Through a land that no one crossed And where no manperson dweltlived?’
2:7	I brought you into the fruitful land To eat its fruit and its good things. But you came and defiled My land, And you made My inheritance you made an abomination.
2:8	The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’ And those who handle the lawLaw did not know Me; The rulers also transgressedrevolted against Me, And the prophets prophesied by Baal And walked after things that didwere notof profitno benefit.
2:9	“Therefore I will yetstill contend with you,” declares the Lord, “And I will contend with your sons’ sons I will contend.
2:10	For cross to the coastlands of Kittim and see, And send to Kedar and observe closely, And see if there has been suchanything alike thing as this!
2:11	Has a nation changed gods, When they were not gods? But My people have changedexchanged their glory For that which doesis notof profitno benefit.
2:12	Be appalled, Oat heavensthis, atyou thisheavens, And shudder, be very desolate,” declares the Lord.
2:13	“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsakenabandoned Me, The fountain of living waters, To hewcarve out for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns That cando not hold no water.
2:14	“Is Israel a slave? Or is he a homebornservant servantborn in the home? Why has he become a preyplunder?
2:16	Also the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes Have shaved the crown of your head.
2:17	Have you not done this to yourself By your forsakingabandoning the Lord your God When He led you in the way?
2:18	But now what are you doing on the road to Egypt, ToExcept to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what are you doing on the road to Assyria, ToExcept to drink the waters of the Euphrates River?
2:19	Your own wickedness will correct you, And your apostasies will reprovepunish you; Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter For you to forsakeabandon the Lord your God, And the dreadfear of Me is not in you,” declares the Lord God of hostsarmies.
2:20	“For long ago I broke your yoke And tore off your bondsrestraints; But you said, ‘I will not serve!’ For on every high hill And under every greenleafy tree You have lain down as a harlotprostitute.
2:21	Yet I planted you as a choice vine, A completely faithful seed. How then have you turned yourself before Me Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?
2:22	Although you wash yourself with lye And use much soap, The stain of your iniquityguilt is before Me,” declares the Lord God.
2:23	“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals’? Look at your way in the valley! Know what you have done! You are a swift young camel entanglingrunning about senselessly on her ways,
2:24	A wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness, That sniffs the wind in her passion. InWho thecan timeturn of her heataway whoin canher turnmating her awayseason? AllNone who seek her will notgrow become weary; In her month they will find her.
2:25	Keep your feet from being unshodbare, And your throat from thirst; But you said, ‘It is hopeless! No! For I have loved strangers, And after them I will walk after them.’
2:26	“AsLike the thiefshame isof shameda thief when he is discovered, So the house of Israel is shamed; They, their kings, their princesleaders, AndTheir their priests, and their prophets,
2:27	Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backbacks to Me, And not their facefaces; But in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise and save us.’!’
2:28	But where are your gods Which you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you In the time of your trouble;! For accordingas tomany as the number of your cities Are your gods, O Judah.
2:29	“Why do you contend with Me? You have all transgressedrevolted against Me,” declares the Lord.
2:30	“In vain I have struck your sons; They accepteddid nonot chasteningaccept discipline. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.
2:31	OYou generation, heedlook to the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, Or a land of thick darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; We will no longer come to You’?
2:32	Can a virgin forget her ornamentsjewelry, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me DaysFor days without number.
2:33	How well you prepare your way To seek love! Therefore even to the wicked women You have taught your ways.
2:35	YetYou you said, ‘I am innocent; Surely His anger is turned away from me.’ Behold, I will enter into judgment with you Because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
2:36	Why do you go around so much Changing your way? Also, you will be put to shame by Egypt, AsJust as you were put to shame by Assyria.
2:37	From this place alsoas well you will go out With your hands on your head; For the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, And you will not prosper with them.”
3:1	God says, “If a husband divorces his wife And she goesleaves from him And belongsbecomes to another man’s wife, Will he still return to her again? WillWould not that land not be completely polluteddefiled? But you are a harlotprostitute with many lovers; Yet you turn to Me,” declares the Lord.
3:2	“LiftRaise up your eyes to the bare heights and see; Where have you not been violated? ByYou the roads you have sat for them by the roads Like an Arab in the desert, And you have polluteddefiled a land With your harlotryprostitution and with your wickedness.
3:3	Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no spring rain. Yet you had a harlotprostitute’s forehead; You refused to be ashamed.
3:5	Will He be angry forever?, WillOr Hekeep beHis indignantanger to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken And have done evil things, And you have had your own way.”
3:6	Then the Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every greenleafy tree, and she wasprostituted aherself harlot there.
3:7	Yet I thought, ‘After she has done all these things she will return to Me’; but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
3:8	And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writcertificate of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and wasprostituted aherself harlot also.
3:9	BecauseAnd because of the lightnessthoughtlessness of her harlotryprostitution, she polluteddefiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
3:11	And the Lord said to me, “Faithless Israel has proved herself to be more righteous than treacherous Judah.
3:12	Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say, ‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord; ‘I will not look uponat you in anger. For I am gracious,’ declares the Lord; ‘I will not be angry forever.
3:13	Only acknowledge your iniquitywrongdoing, That you have transgressedrevolted against the Lord your God, And have scattered your favors to the strangers under every greenleafy tree, And you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares the Lord.
3:14	‘Return, Oyou faithless sons,’ declares the Lord; ‘For I am a master to you, And I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, And I will bring you to Zion.’
3:15	“Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding.
3:16	ItAnd it shall be in those days when you arebecome multipliednumerous and increasedare fruitful in the land,” declares the Lord, “they will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ And it will not come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be made again.
3:17	At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The Throne of the Lord,’ and all the nations will beassemble gatheredat to it, toat Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord; norand they will theyno walklonger anymorefollow after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
3:20	SurelyHowever, as a woman treacherously departsleaves from her lover, So you have dealt treacherously with Me, OHouse house of Israel,” declares the Lord.
3:21	A voice is heard on the bare heights, The weeping, and the supplicationspleading of the sons of Israel;. Because they have perverted their way, They have forgotten the Lord their God.
3:22	“Return, Oyou faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness.” “Behold, we come to You; For You are the Lord our God.
3:23	Surely,Certainly the hills are a deception, ACommotion tumult on the mountains. SurelyCertainly in the Lord our God Is the salvation of Israel.
3:24	“But the shamefulshame thing has consumed the laborproduct of our fathers’ labor since our youth, —their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
4:1	“If you will return, O Israel,” declares the Lord, “Then you should return to Me. And if you will put away your detesteddetestable things from My presence, And will not waver,
4:2	And if you will swear, ‘As the Lord lives,’ In truth, in justice, and in righteousness; Then the nations will bless themselves in Him, And in Him they will gloryboast.”
4:3	For thusthis saysis what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,: “Break up your fallowuncultivated ground, And do not sow among thorns.
4:4	Circumcise yourselves to the Lord And remove the foreskins of your hearthearts, Men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Or else My wrath will gospread forth like fire And burn with noneno one to quench it, Because of the evil of your deeds.”
4:5	Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, “Blow the trumpet in the land; Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves, and let’s us go Into the fortified cities.’
4:6	LiftRaise up a standardflag toward Zion! SeekTake refuge, do not stand still, For I am bringing evil from the north, And great destruction.
4:7	A lion has gone up from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations has set out; He has gone out from his place To make your land a waste. Your cities will be ruins, Without an inhabitant.
4:8	For this, put on sackcloth, LamentMourn and wail; For the fierce anger of the Lord Has not turned backaway from us.”
4:9	“ItAnd it shall come about inon that day,” declares the Lord, “that the heart of the king and the hearthearts of the princesleaders will fail; and the priests will betremble, appalled and the prophets will be astoundedastonished.”
4:10	Then I said, “AhOh, Lord God! Surely You have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace’; whereasyet a sword touches the throat.”
4:11	InAt that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the bare heights in the wilderness, in the direction of the daughter of My people—not to winnow and not to cleanse,
4:12	a wind too strong for this—will come at My command; now I will also pronounce judgments against them..”
4:13	“Behold, he goes up like clouds, And his chariots like the whirlwind; His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!”
4:14	Wash your heart from evil, O Jerusalem, ThatSo that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts Lodge within you?
4:16	“Report it to the nations, now! Proclaim overto Jerusalem, ‘BesiegersEnemies comeare coming from a farremote country, And liftthey raise their voices against the cities of Judah.
4:17	Like watchmen of a field they are against her roundall aboutaround, Because she has rebelled against Me,’ declares the Lord.
4:18	Your ways and your deeds Have brought these things toupon you. This is your evil. How bitter! How it has touched your heart!”
4:19	My soul, my soul! I am in anguish! Oh, my heart! My heart is pounding in me; I cannot bekeep silent, Because, my soul, you have heard, O my soul, The sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war.
4:20	Disaster onupon disaster is proclaimed, For the whole land is devastated; Suddenly my tents are devastated, MyAnd my curtains in an instant.
4:21	How long must I see the standardflag And hear the sound of the trumpet?
4:22	“For My people are foolish, They do not know Me not; They are stupidfoolish children And have no understanding. They are shrewdskillful toat dodoing evil, But tothey do goodnot theyknow how to do not knowgood.”
4:23	I looked onat the earth, and behold, it was a formless and voiddesolate emptiness; And to the heavens, and they had no light.
4:24	I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, And all the hills movedjolted toback and froforth.
4:25	I looked, and behold, there was no manhuman, And all the birds of the heavenssky had fled.
4:27	For thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: “The whole land shall be a desolation, Yet I will not execute a complete destruction.
4:28	For this the earth shallwill mourn, And the heavens above bewill become dark, Because I have spoken, I have purposed, And I willhave not changechanged My mind, nor will I turn from it.”
4:29	At the sound of the horseman and bowmanarcher every city flees; They go into the thickets and climb among the rocks; Every city is forsakenabandoned, And no manone dwellslives in them.
4:30	And you, O desolate one, what will you do? Although you dress in scarlet, Although you decorateadorn yourself with ornamentsjewelry of gold, Although you enlarge your eyes with paintmakeup, In vain you make yourself beautiful. Your lovers despise you; They seek your life.
4:31	For I heard a voice cry as of a woman in labor, The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,. The cryvoice of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, Stretching out her hands, saying, “Ah, woe isto me, for I faint before murderers.”
5:1	“Roam toabout and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, And look now and take notenotice. And seek in her openpublic squares, If you can find a manperson, If there is one who does justice, who seeks truthhonesty, Then I will pardonforgive her.
5:2	And although they say, ‘As the Lord lives,’ SurelyCertainly they swear falsely.”
5:3	O Lord, do not Your eyes not look for truthhonesty? You have smittenstruck them, But they did not weaken; You have consumed them, But they refused to takeaccept correctiondiscipline. They have made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to repent.
5:4	Then I said, “They are only the poor, They are foolish; For they do not know the way of the Lord Or the ordinancejudgment of their God.
5:5	I will go to the great And will speak to them, For they know the way of the Lord And the ordinancejudgment of their God.” But together they too, with one accord, have broken the yoke And burst the bondsrestraints.
5:6	Therefore a lion from the forest will slaykill them, A wolf of the deserts will destroy them, A leopard is watching their cities. Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces, Because their transgressionswrongdoings are many, Their apostasies are numerous.
5:7	“Why should I pardonforgive you? Your sons have forsaken Me And sworn by those who are not gods. When I had fed them to the full, They committed adultery And troopedstayed toat the harlotprostitute’s house.
5:8	They were well-fed lusty horses, Each one neighing afterat his neighbor’s wife.
5:9	Shall I not punish them for these people,”things?” declares the Lord, “And onshall I not avenge Myself On a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself?
5:12	They have lied about the Lord And said, “Not He; Misfortune will not come onupon us, AndNor we will notwe see sword or famine.
5:13	The prophets are as wind, And the word is not in them. ThusSo it will be done to them!”
5:14	Therefore, thusthis saysis what the Lord, the God of hosts,armies says: “Because you have spoken this word, Behold, I am making My words fire in your mouth, fire And this people wood, and it will consume them.
5:15	Behold, I am bringing a nation against you from afarfar away, Oyou house of Israel,” declares the Lord. “It is an enduring nation, It is an ancient nation, A nation whose language you do not know, Nor can you understand what they say.
5:16	Their quiver is like an open grave, All of them are mighty menwarriors.
5:17	They will devour your harvest and your food; They will devour your sons and your daughters; They will devour your flocks and your herds; They will devour your vines and your fig trees; They will demolish with the sword your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.
5:18	“Yet even in those days,” declares the Lord, “I will not make you a complete destruction of you.
5:19	ItAnd it shall come about when they say, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ then you shall say to them, ‘AsJust as you have forsakenabandoned Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’
5:21	‘Now hear this, Oyou foolish and senseless people, Who have eyes but do not see;, Who have ears but do not hear.
5:22	Do you not fear Me?’ declares the Lord. ‘Do you not tremble in My presence? For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, An eternal decreelimit, soand it cannotwill not cross over it. Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannotwill not cross over it.
5:25	Your iniquitieswrongdoings have turned these away, And your sins have withheldkept good away from you.
5:26	For wicked menpeople are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch menpeople.
5:28	They are fat, they are sleek, They also excel in deeds of wickedness; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the orphan, so that they may prosperbe successful; And they do not defend the rights of the poor.
5:29	Shall I not punish them for these peoplethings?’ declares the Lord, ‘Or shall I not avenge Myself On a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself?’
5:31	The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule on their own authority; And My people love it sothis way! But what will you do atwhen the end of itcomes?
6:1	“Flee forto safety, Oyou sons of Benjamin, From the midst of Jerusalem! NowBlow blow a trumpet in Tekoa And raise a warning signal over Beth-haccerem; For evil looks down from the north, AndAlong with a great destruction.
6:2	The comelybeautiful and daintydelicate one, the daughter of Zion, I will cut offdestroy.
6:3	Shepherds and their flocks will come to her, They will pitch their tents around her, They will pasture, each in his place.
6:4	‘Prepare for war against her; Arise, and let’s us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the day declines, For the shadows of the evening lengthen!
6:5	Arise, and let’s us attack by night And destroy her palaces!”!’ ”
6:6	For thusthis saysis what the Lord of hosts,armies says: “Cut down her trees And castpile up aan siegeassault ramp against Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished, In whose midst there is only oppression.
6:7	As a well keeps its waters fresh, So she keeps fresh her wickedness. Violence and destruction are heard in her; Sickness and wounds are everconstantly before Me.
6:8	Be warned, O Jerusalem, Or I shall be alienated from you, And make you a desolation, AAn uninhabited land not inhabited.”
6:9	ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hosts,armies says: “They will thoroughly glean as the vine the remnant of Israel like the vine; Pass your hand over the branches again likeLike a grape gatherer Over the branches.”
6:10	To whom shall I speak and give warning, That they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed And they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the Lord has become afor reproachthem toa themrebuke; They havetake no delight in it.
6:11	But I am full of the wrath of the Lord; I am weary withof holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street And on the gathering of young men together; For both husband and wife shall be taken, The agedold and the very old.
6:13	“For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is greedy for gain, And from the prophet even to the priest Everyone deals falsely.
6:15	Were they ashamed because of the abomination they havehad done? They were not even ashamed at all;, TheyNor did notthey know even know how to blushbe ashamed. Therefore they shallwill fall among those who fall; At the time that I punish them, They shallwill be cast downcollapse,” says the Lord.
6:16	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, Where the good way is, and walk in it; AndThen you will find resta resting place for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
6:18	Therefore hear, Oyou nations, And know, Oyou congregation, what is among them.
6:19	Hear, O earth: behold, I am bringing disaster on this people, The fruit of their plans, Because they have not listened to My words, And as for My lawLaw, they have rejected it also.
6:20	For what purpose does frankincense come to Me from Sheba, And the sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable And your sacrifices are not pleasing to Me.”
6:21	Therefore, thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: “Behold, I am layingplacing stumbling blocks before this people. And they will stumble against them, Fathers and sons together; Neighbor and friend will perish.”
6:22	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Behold, there is a people is coming from the north land, And a great nation will be arousedstirred up from the remote parts of the earth.
6:23	They seize bow and spear; They are cruel and have no mercy; Their voice roars like the sea, And they ride on horses, ArrayedLined up as a man for the battle Against you, O daughter of Zion!”
6:24	We have heard the report of it; Our hands are limp. Anguish has seized us, Pain aslike that of a woman in childbirth.
6:25	Do not go out into the field, And do not walk on the road,; For the enemy has a sword, Terror is on every side.
6:26	ODaughter daughter of my people, put on sackcloth And roll in ashes; Mourn as for an only son, A lamentation most bitter mourning. For suddenly the destroyer Will come uponagainst us.
6:27	“I have made you an assayer and aan testerexaminer among My people, ThatSo that you may know and assayput their way to the test.”
6:28	All of them are stubbornly rebellious, Going about as a talebearer.slanderer; They are bronze and iron;. They are, all of them, are corrupt.
7:2	“Stand inat the gate of the Lord’s house and proclaim there this word, and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah, who enter by these gates to worship the Lord!’ ”
7:3	ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: “Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwelllive in this place.
7:5	For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a manperson and his neighbor,
7:6	if you do not oppress the alienstranger, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walkfollow after other gods to your own ruin,
7:7	then I will let you dwelllive in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
7:9	Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal, and walkfollow after other gods that you have not known,
7:10	then come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are deliveredsaved!’—so that you may do all these abominations?
7:11	Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, evenMyself I, have seen it,” declares the Lord.
7:12	“But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at the firstbeginning, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
7:13	And now, because you have done all these things,” declares the Lord, “and I spoke to you, risingspeaking upagain early and speakingagain, but you did not hearlisten, and I called you but you did not answer,
7:14	therefore, I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, just as I did to Shiloh.
7:15	I will casthurl you out of My sight, just as I have casthurled out all your brothers, all the offspringdescendants of Ephraim.
7:16	“As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercedeplead with Me; for I doam not hearlistening to you.
7:18	The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make sacrificial cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spiteprovoke Me to anger.
7:19	DoAre they spiteprovoking Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves they spiteinstead, to their own shame?”
7:20	Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord God, says: “Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on manhuman and onanimal beastlife, and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”
7:21	ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.
7:22	For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them inon the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.
7:23	But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you willshall walk entirely in all the way which I command you, so that it may bego well withfor you.’
7:24	Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked inby their own counselsadvice and in the stubbornness of their evil hearthearts, and they went backward and not forward.
7:25	Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets, sending them daily, risingagain early and sending themagain.
7:27	“YouSo you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you.
7:28	YouAnd you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God or accept correctiondiscipline; truthtrustworthiness has perished and has been cuteliminated off from their mouth.
7:29	Cut off your hair and castthrow it away, And take up a lamentationsong of mourning on the bare heights; For the Lord has rejected and forsaken The generation of His wrath.’
7:30	For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares the Lord,. “theyThey have setput their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.
7:31	They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valleyValley of the son of HinnomBen-hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, and it did not come into My mind.
7:32	“Therefore, behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be called Topheth, or the valleyValley of the son of HinnomBen-hinnom, but the valleyValley of the Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place.
7:33	The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beastsanimals of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.
7:34	Then I will makeeliminate to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroomgroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a ruinsite of ruins.
8:1	“At that time,” declares the Lord, “they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princesleaders, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves.
8:2	They will spread them out to the sun, the moon, and to all the hostheavenly of heavenlights, which they have loved, and which they have served, and which they have gonefollowed, after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered ornor buried; they will be aslike dung on the face of the ground.
8:3	And death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family, that remains in all the places to which I have driven them,” declares the Lord of hostsarmies.
8:4	“You shall say to them, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Do menpeople fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not repent?
8:5	Why then has this people, Jerusalem, Turned away in continual apostasy? They hold faston to deceit, They refuse to return.
8:6	I have listened and heard, They have spoken what is not right; No manone repented of his wickedness, Saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turned to his own course, Like a horse charging into the battle.
8:7	Even the stork in the sky Knows her seasons; And the turtledove, and the swiftswallow, and the thrushcrane ObserveKeep to the time of their migration; But My people do not know The ordinancejudgment of the Lord.
8:8	“How can you say, ‘We are wise, And the lawLaw of the Lord is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes Has made it into a lie.
8:9	The wise men are put to shame, They are dismayed and caught; Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, AndSo what kind of wisdom do they have?
8:10	Therefore I will give their wives to others, Their fields to new owners; Because from the least even to the greatest Everyone is greedy for gain; From the prophet even to the priest, Everyone practices deceit.
8:11	They healhave healed the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially, Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ But there is no peace.
8:12	Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done? They certainly were not ashamed at all, And they did not know how to blushbe ashamed; Therefore they shallwill fall among those who fall; At the time of their punishment they shallwill be brought downcollapse,” Says the Lord.
8:13	“I will surelycertainly snatch them away,” declares the Lord;. “There will be no grapes on the vine And no figs on the fig tree, And the leaf will wither; And what I have given them will pass away.” ’ ”
8:14	Why are we sitting still? Assemble yourselves, and let’s us go into the fortified cities And let us perish there, BecauseFor the Lord our God has doomed us And given us poisoned water to drink, ForBecause we have sinned against the Lord.
8:16	From Dan there is heard the snorting of his horses; At the sound of the neighing of his stallions The whole land quakes; For they come and devour the land and its fullness, The city and its inhabitants.
8:17	“For behold, I am sending serpents againstamong you, Adders,Vipers for which there is no charm,; And they will bite you,” declares the Lord.
8:18	My sorrow is beyond healing, My heart is faint within me!
8:19	Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not within her?” “Why have they provoked Me with their gravencarved images, with foreign idols?”
8:20	“Harvest is past, summer is endedover, And we are not saved.”
8:21	ForI am broken over the brokenness of the daughter of my people. I am broken; I mourn, dismay has taken hold of me.
9:1	Oh, that my head were waters And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For thethose slain of the daughter of my people!
9:2	Oh that I had in the desert A wayfarerstravelers’ lodging place; ThatSo that I might leave my people And go away from them! For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous menpeople.
9:3	“They bend their tonguetongues like their bowbows; Lies and not truth prevail in the land; For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me,” declares the Lord.
9:4	“Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor, And do not trust any brother; Because every brother dealsutterly craftilybetrays, And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
9:5	Everyone deceives his neighbor And does not speak the truth,. They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves committing iniquitywrongdoing.
9:7	Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord of hosts,armies says: “Behold, I will refine them and assayput them to the test; For what else can I do, because of the daughter of My people?
9:9	Shall I not punish them for these things?” declares the Lord. “Shall I not avenge Myself On a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself?
9:10	“For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, And for the pastures of the wilderness a dirgesong of mourning, Because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, And the lowingsound of the cattlelivestock is not heard; Both the birds of the sky and the beastsanimals have fled; they are gone.
9:11	I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, A haunt of jackals; And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
9:12	Who is the wise manperson thatwho may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruineddestroyed, laid waste like athe desert, so that no one passes through?
9:13	The Lord said, “Because they have forsakenabandoned My lawLaw which I setput before them, and have not obeyed My voice nor walked according to it,
9:14	but have walkedfollowed after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,”
9:15	therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: “beholdBehold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood; and I will give them poisoned water to drink.
9:16	I will also scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them until I have annihilatedput an end to them.”
9:17	ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hosts,armies says: “Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; And send for the wailingskillful women, that they may come!
9:18	LetHave them makehurry haste and take up a wailing for us, ThatSo that our eyes may shed tears, And our eyelids flow with water.
9:19	For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion,: ‘How aredevastated we ruinedare! We are put to great shame, For we have leftabandoned the land, Because they have casttorn down our dwellingshomes.’ ”
9:20	Now hear the word of the Lord, O you women, And let your earears receive the word of His mouth; Teach your daughters wailing, And everyonehave every woman teach her neighbor a dirgesong of mourning.
9:21	For death has come up through our windows; It has entered our palaces To cuteliminate off the children from the streets, The young men from the townpublic squares.
9:22	Speak, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘The corpses of menpeople will fall like dung on the open field, And like the sheaf after the reaper, But no one will gather them.’ ”
9:23	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Let notno a wise man boast of his wisdom, andnor let not the mighty man boast of his might, letnor not a rich man boast of his riches;
9:24	but let himthe one who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindnessmercy, justice, and righteousness on the earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the Lord.
9:26	Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the sons of Ammon, and Moab, and all those inhabiting the desert who cliptrim the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart.”
10:1	Hear the word which the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel.
10:2	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Do not learn the way of the nations, And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens, Although the nations are terrified by them;
10:3	For the customs of the peoples are delusionfutile; BecauseFor it is wood cut from the forest, The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.
10:4	They decorate itthe idol with silver and with gold; They fasten it with nails and with hammers So that it will not totter.
10:5	LikeThey are like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they, And they cannot speak; They must be carried, Because they cannot walk! Do not fear them, For they can do no harm, Nor can they do any good.”
10:6	There is none like You, O Lord; You are great, and greatYour name is Yourgreat name in might.
10:7	Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? IndeedFor it is Your due! For among all the wise men of the nations And in all their kingdoms, There is none like You.
10:8	But they are altogether stupid and foolish; InThe theirinstruction disciplinefrom ofidols delusion—theiris idolnothing isbut wood!
10:9	Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, And gold from Uphaz, The work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith; VioletTheir andclothing purpleis areof theirviolet clothingand purple; They are all the work of skilled menpeople.
10:10	But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. AtThe Hisearth wrathquakes theat earthHis quakeswrath, And the nations cannot endure His indignation.
10:11	Thus This is what you shall say to them,: “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under thethese heavens.”
10:13	When He utters His voice, there is a tumultroar of waters in the heavens, And He causesmakes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain, And brings out the wind from His storehouses.
10:14	Every manperson is stupid, devoid of knowledge; Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols;, For his moltencast metal images are deceitful, And there is no breath in them.
10:15	They are worthless, a work of mockery; InAt the time of their punishment they will perish.
10:16	The portionPortion of Jacob is not like these; For He is the Maker of all is Heeverything, And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance; The Lord of hostsarmies is His name.
10:17	Pick up your bundle from the ground, You who dwelllive under siege!
10:18	For thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: “Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land At this time, And I will cause them distress, ThatSo that they may be found.”
10:19	Woe isto me, because of my injury! My wound is incurable. But I said, “TrulyThis thiscertainly is a sickness, And I must bearendure it.”
10:20	My tent is destroyed, And all my ropes are broken;. My sons have gone from me and are no more. There is no one to stretch out my tent again Or to set up my curtains.
10:21	For the shepherds have become stupid And have not sought the Lord;. Therefore they have not prospered, And all their flock is scattered.
10:22	The sound of a report! Behold, it comesis coming— A great commotionroar outfrom of the land of the north— To make the cities of Judah A desolation, a haunt of jackals.
10:23	I know, O Lord, that a manperson’s way is not in himself, Nor is it in a manperson who walks to direct his steps.
10:24	Correct me, O Lord, but with justice; Not with Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
10:25	Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You, And on the families thatwho do not call upon Your name; For they have devoured Jacob; They have devoured him and consumed him, And have laid waste his habitationsettlement.
11:1	The word whichthat came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
11:3	and say to them, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: “Cursed is the manone who does not heedobey the words of this covenant
11:4	which I commanded your forefathers inon the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, ‘Listen to My voice, and do according to all whichthat I command you; so you shall be My people, and I will be your God,’
11:5	in order to confirm the oath which I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day.” ’ ” Then I saidreplied, “Amen, O Lord.”
11:7	For I solemnly warned your fathers inon the day that I brought them up from the land of Egypt, even to this day, warning them persistently, saying, “Listen to My voice.”
11:8	Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked, each one, in the stubbornness of histheir evil heart, each one of them; therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.’ ”
11:10	They have turned back to the iniquitieswrongdoings of their ancestors who refused to hear My words, and they have gonefollowed after other gods to serve them;. theThe house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.”
11:11	Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: “Behold, I am bringing disaster on them which they will not be able to escape; though they will cry out to Me, yet I will not listen to them.
11:12	Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they surelycertainly will not save them in the time of their disaster.
11:13	For your gods are as many as your cities, O Judah; and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars tofor burnburning incense to Baal.
11:14	“ThereforeSo as for you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not listen when they call to Me because of their disaster.
11:15	What right has My beloved in My house When she has donecarried out many vileevil deedsschemes? Can the sacrificial flesh take away from you your disaster, So that you can rejoice?”
11:16	The Lord callednamed youryou name, “A green olive tree, beautiful in fruit and form”; With the noise of a great tumult He has kindledset fire onto it, And its branches are worthless.
11:17	The Lord of hostsarmies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me by offering up sacrifices to Baal.
11:19	But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; And I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, “Let’s us destroy the tree with its fruit, And let’s us cut him off from the land of the living, ThatSo that his name will no longer be remembered no more.”
11:20	But, O Lord of hostsarmies, who judges righteously, Who triesputs the feelings and the heart to the test, Let me see Your vengeance on them, For to You I have I committed my cause.
11:21	Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord says concerning the menpeople of Anathoth, who seekare seeking your life, saying,: “Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord, so that you willdo not die atby our hand”;
11:22	therefore, thusthis saysis what the Lord of hosts,armies says: “Behold, I am aboutgoing to punish them! The young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters will die by famine;
11:23	and a remnant will not be left to them, forbecause I will bring disaster on the menpeople of Anathoth—the year of their punishment.”
12:1	Righteous are You, O Lord, thatwhen I would plead my case with You; IndeedNevertheless I would discuss matters of justice with You: Why has the way of the wicked prospered? Why are all those who deal in treachery at ease?
12:2	You have planted them, they have also taken root; They grow, they have evenalso produced fruit. You are near to their lips But far from their mind.
12:3	But You know me, O Lord; You see me; And You examine my heart’s attitude toward You. Drag them off like sheep for the slaughter, And set them apart for a day of carnageslaughter!
12:4	How long is the land to mourn, And the vegetation of the countryside to witherdry up? ForDue to the wickedness of those who dwelllive in it, Animals and birds have been snatched away, Because menpeople have said, “He will not see our latterfinal endingend.”
12:5	“If you have run with footmeninfantrymen and they have tired you out, ThenHow how can you compete with horses? If you fall down in a land of peace, How will you do in the thicket ofby the Jordan?
12:6	For even your brothers and the household of your father, Even they have dealt treacherously with you, Even they have criedcalled aloud after you. Do not believe them, althoughthough they may say nice things to you.”
12:7	“I have forsaken My house, I have abandoned My inheritance; I have givenhanded the beloved of My soul IntoOver theto hand of her enemies.
12:9	Is My inheritance like a speckled bird of prey to Me? Are the birds of prey against her on every side? Go, gather all the beastsanimals of the field, Bring them to devour!
12:11	It has been made a desolation,; Desolate, it mourns before Me; The whole land has been made desolate, Because no manone laystakes it to heart.
12:12	On all the bare heights in the wilderness Destroyers have come, For athe sword of the Lord is devouring From one end of the land even to the other; There is no peace for anyone.
12:13	They have sown wheat andbut have reapedharvested thorns, They have strained themselves to no profit. ButSo be ashamed of your harvestproduce Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”
12:14	ThusThis saysis what the Lord says concerning all My wicked neighbors who strikedo atharm to the inheritance with which I have endowed My people Israel,: “Behold, I am aboutgoing to uprootdrive them fromout of their land, and I will uprootdrive the house of Judah out from among them.
12:15	And it will come about that after I have uprooteddriven them out, I will again have compassion on them; and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance and each one to his land.
12:16	Then, if they will really learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ evenjust as they taught My people to swear by Baal, they will be built up in the midst of My people.
12:17	But if they willdo not listen, then I will uprootdrive out that nation, uprootdrive it out and destroy it,” declares the Lord.
13:1	ThusThis is what the Lord said to me,: “Go and buy yourself a linen waistbandundergarment and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.”
13:2	So I bought the waistbandundergarment in accordance with the word of the Lord, and put it around my waist.
13:4	“Take the waistbandundergarment that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.”
13:6	After many days the Lord said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates and take from there the waistbandundergarment which I commanded you to hide there.”
13:7	Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the waistbandundergarment from the place where I had hidden it; and lobehold, the waistbandundergarment was ruined, it was totallycompletely worthlessuseless.
13:9	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘JustTo sothe willsame extent I will destroy the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
13:10	This wicked people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have gonefollowed after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them, let them be just like this waistbandundergarment which is totallycompletely worthlessuseless.
13:11	For as the waistbandundergarment clings to the waist of a man, so I made the wholeentire household of Israel and the wholeentire household of Judah cling to Me,’ declares the Lord, ‘so that they might be forMy Me a people, for renown, for praise, and for glory; but they did not listen.’
13:12	“Therefore you are to speak this word to them,. ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: “Every jug is to be filled with wine.” ’ And when they say to you, ‘Do we not very well know that every jug is to be filled with wine?’
13:13	then say to them, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Behold, I am aboutgoing to fill all the inhabitants of this land—the kings thatwho sit for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem—with drunkenness!
13:14	Then I will dashsmash them against each other, both the fathers and the sons together,” declares the Lord. “I will not showhave pitycompassion nor be sorrytroubled nor havetake compassionpity so as not to destroykeep from destroying them.” ’ ”
13:15	Listen and givepay heedattention, do not be haughty,; For the Lord has spoken.
13:16	Give glory to the Lord your God, Before He brings darkness And before your feet stumble On the duskymountains mountainsin the dark, And while you are hoping for light He makes it into deep darknessgloom, And turns it into gloomthick darkness.
13:17	But if you willdo not listen to it, My soul will sobweep in secret for such pride; And my eyes will bitterlyshed weep And flowstream down with tears, Because the flock of the Lord has been taken captive.
13:19	The cities of the Negev have been locked up, And there is no one to open them; All Judah has been carriedtaken into exile, Wholly carriedtaken into exile.
13:20	“LiftRaise up your eyes and see Those coming from the north. Where is the flock that was given you, Your beautiful sheep?
13:21	What will you say when He appoints over you— And you yourself had taught them— Former companions to be head over you? Will sharp pains not pangs take hold of you Like a woman in childbirth?
13:22	If you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things happened to me?’ Because of the magnitude of your iniquitywrongdoing Your skirts have been removed And your heels have beensuffered exposedviolence.
13:23	Can the Ethiopian change his skin, Or the leopard his spots? Then you alsoas well can do good Who are accustomed to doing evil.
13:26	So I Myself have also stripped your skirts off over your face, ThatSo that your shame maywill be seen.
13:27	As for your adulteries and your lustful neighings, The lewdnessoutrageous sin of your prostitution On the hills in the field, I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
14:1	That which came as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah inregarding regard to the drought:
14:2	“Judah mourns And her gates languish; TheyHer people sit on the ground in mourning garments, And the cry of Jerusalem has ascended.
14:3	Their nobles have sent their servants for water; They have come to the cisterns and found no water. They have returned with their vesselscontainers empty; They have been put to shame and humiliated, And they cover their heads.,
14:4	Because the ground is cracked, For there has been no rain on the land;. The farmers have been put to shame, They have covered their heads.
14:6	The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; They pant for air like jackals, Their eyes fail ForBecause there is no vegetation.
14:7	AlthoughThough our iniquitieswrongdoings testify against us, O Lord, act for the sake of Your name’s sake! TrulyOur our apostasies have indeed been many, We have sinned against You.
14:8	O Hope of Israel, Its Savior in time of distress, Why are You like a stranger in the land, Or like a traveler who has pitched his tent for the night?
14:9	Why are You like a manconfused dismayedperson, Like a mightywarrior man who cannot save? Yet You are in our midst, O Lord, And we are called by Your name; Do not forsakeleave us!”
14:10	ThusThis saysis what the Lord says to this people,: “EvenSo somuch they have loved to wander; they have not keptrestrained their feet in check. Therefore the Lord does not accept them; now He will remember their iniquitywrongdoing and call their sins to account.”
14:11	So the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for thea welfaregood outcome on behalf of this people.
14:12	When they fast, I am not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather, I am going to makeput an end ofto them by the sword, famine, and pestilenceplague.”
14:13	But I said, “AhOh, Lord God!”! I saidBehold, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see thea sword, nor will you have famine; on the contrary, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’ ”
14:14	Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them, nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility, and the deception of their own minds.
14:15	Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord says concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them—yet they keep saying,: ‘There will be no sword or famine in this land’—by sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end!
14:16	TheAnd the people also to whom they are prophesying will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and there will be no one to bury them—neither them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters—for. For I will pour out their own wickedness onupon them.
14:17	You will say this word to them, ‘Let my eyes flowstream down with tears night and day, And let them not cease; For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow, With a sorely infected wound.
14:18	If I go out to the country, Behold,There are those slainkilled withby the sword! Or if I enter the city, Behold,There are diseases offrom famine! For both prophet and priest Have gonewandered rovingaround about in the land that they do not know.’ ”
14:20	We know our wickedness, O Lord, The iniquitywrongdoing of our fathers, for we have sinned against You.
14:21	Do not despise us, for the sake of Your own name’s sake; Do not disgrace the throne of Your glory;. Remember and do not annul Your covenant with us.
14:22	Are there any among the idols of the nations who give rain? Or can the heavens grant showers? Is it not You, O Lord our God? Therefore we hopewait infor You, For You are the one who has done all these things.
15:1	Then the Lord said to me, “Even thoughif Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My heart would not be with this people;. sendSend them away from My presence and lethave them go!
15:2	And it shall be that when they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ then you are to tell them, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord says: “Those destined for death, to death; And those destined for the sword, to the sword; And those destined for famine, to famine; And those destined for captivity, to captivity.” ’
15:3	And I will appoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares the Lord: “the sword to slaykill, the dogs to drag offaway, and the birds of the sky and the beastsanimals of the earth to devour and destroy.
15:4	I will make them an object of horrorterror among all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.
15:5	“Indeed, who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, Or who will mourn for you, Or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
15:8	Their widows will be more numerous before Me Than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man, A destroyer at noondaynoon; I will suddenly bring down on her AnguishShock and dismayhorror.
15:9	She who boregave birth to seven sons pineswithers away; Her breathing is labored. Her sun has set while it was yetstill day; She has been shamed and humiliated. So I will giveturn over their survivors to the sword Before their enemies,” declares the Lord.
15:10	Woe to me, my mother, that you have bornegiven birth to me As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land! I have not lent, nor have menpeople lent money to me, Yet everyone curses me.
15:11	The Lord said, “Surely I will certainly set you free for purposes of good; Surely I will causecertainly make the enemy toplead makewith supplication to you In a time of disaster and a time of distress.
15:13	YourI will give your wealth and your treasures IAs willplunder give for booty without cost, EvenFor for all your sins And within all your borders.
15:14	Then I will causemake your enemies to bring ityour possessions Into a land that you do not know; For a fire has been kindled in My anger, ItAnd it will burn upon you.”
15:15	You who know, O Lord,; Remember me, take notice of me, And take vengeance for me on my persecutors. Do not, in view of Your patience, take me away; Know that for Your sake I endure reproach.
15:16	Your words were found and I ate them, And Your words became for me a joy to me and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O Lord God of hostsarmies.
15:17	I did not sit in thea circle of merrymakers,revelers Norand did I exultcelebrate. Because of Your hand upon me I sat alone, For You filled me with indignation.
15:18	Why has my pain been perpetualendless And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream With water that is unreliable?
15:19	Therefore, thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: “If you return, then I will restore you— BeforeYou Mewill youstand willbefore standMe; And if you extract the precious from the worthless, You will become My spokesman. They, for their part, may turn to you, But as for you, you mustare not to turn to them.
15:20	Then I will make you to this people A fortified wall of bronze; And though they fight against you, They will not prevail over you; For I am with you to save you And deliverrescue you,” declares the Lord.
15:21	“So I will deliverrescue you from the hand of the wicked, And I will redeem you from the grasp of the violent.”
16:1	The word of the Lord also came to me, saying,
16:3	For thusthis saysis what the Lord says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who beargive birth to them, and their fathers who begetfather them in this land:
16:4	“They will die of deadly diseases, they will not be lamentedmourned or buried; they will be aslike dung on the surface of the ground. andAnd comethey towill anperish end by sword and famine, and their carcassesdead bodies will become food for the birds of the sky and for the beastsanimals of the earth.”
16:5	For thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: “Do not enter a house of mourning, or go to lamentmourn or to console them; for I have withdrawn My peace from this people,” declares the Lord, “and My lovingkindnessfavor and compassion.
16:6	Both great menpeople and small will die in this land; they will not be buried, theypeople will not bemourn lamentedfor them, nor will anyone gashmake cuts on himself or shavehave his head shaved for them.
16:7	MenPeople will not break bread in mourning for them, to comfort anyone for the dead, nor give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone’s father or mother.
16:8	Moreover, you shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink.”
16:9	For thusthis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I am going to eliminate from this place, before your eyes and in your time, the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladnessjoy, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride.
16:10	“Now it will happen that, when you tell this people all these words, they will say to you, ‘For what reason has the Lord declared all this great calamitydisaster against us? And what is our iniquitywrongdoing, or what is our sin whichthat we have committed against the Lord our God?’
16:11	Then you are to say to them, ‘It is because your forefathers have forsakenabandoned Me,’ declares the Lord, ‘and have followed other gods, and served them and bowedworshiped down to them; but Me they have forsakenabandoned Me and have not kept My lawLaw.
16:12	You too have done evil, even more than your forefathers; for behold, you are each one walkingof accordingyou tois following the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.
16:13	So I will hurl you outoff of this land intoto the land which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there you will serve other gods day and night, forbecause I will grantshow you no favorcompassion.’
16:15	but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countrieslands where He had banished them.’ For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers.
16:16	“Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will fish for them; and afterwardsafterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.
16:17	For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquitywrongdoing concealed from My eyes.
16:18	I will first doubly repay them double for their iniquitywrongdoing and their sin, because they have polluteddefiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations.”
16:19	O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, And my refuge in the day of distress, To You the nations will come From the ends of the earth and say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood, Futility, and things of no profitbenefit.”
16:20	Can mana person make gods for himself? YetBut they are not gods!
16:21	“Therefore behold, I am going to make them know— This time I will make them know My power and My might; And they shallwill know that My name is the Lord.”
17:1	The sin of Judah is written down with an iron stylus; With a diamond point it is engraved uponon the tablet of their hearthearts And on the horns of their altars,
17:3	OMountain mountain of Mine in the countryside, I will giveturn over your wealth and all your treasures foras bootyplunder, Your high places for sin throughout your borders.
17:5	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind And makes flesh his strength, And whose heart turns away from the Lord.
17:6	For he will be like a bush in the desert, And will not see when prosperity comes, But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, A land of salt withoutthat inhabitantis not inhabited.
17:7	Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose trust is the Lord.
17:8	For he will be like a tree planted by the water, That extends its roots by a stream, And willdoes not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green, And it will not be anxious in a year of drought, Nor cease to yield fruit.
17:10	I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, EvenTo to give to each manperson according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds.
17:11	As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid, So is hea person who makes a fortune, but unjustly; In the midstmiddle of his days it will forsakeabandon him, And in the end he will be a fool.”
17:13	O Lord, the hope of Israel, All who forsakeabandon You will be put to shame. Those who turn away on earth will be written down, Because they have forsaken the fountain of living water, eventhat is the Lord.
17:14	Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; Save me and I will be saved, For You are my praise.
17:16	But as for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd following after You, Nor have I longed for the woefuldisastrous day; You Yourself know that the utterance of my lips Was in Your presence.
17:17	Do not be a terror to me; You are my refuge in thea day of disaster.
17:18	Let those who persecute me be put to shame, but as for me, let me not be put to shame; Let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed. Bring on them a day of disaster, And crush them with twofolddouble destruction!
17:19	ThusThis is what the Lord said to me,: “Go and stand inat the public gate, through which the kings of Judah come in and go out, as well as inat all the gates of Jerusalem;
17:20	and say to them, ‘Listen to the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all inhabitants of Jerusalem who come in through these gates:.
17:21	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Take heedcare for yourselves, and do not carry any load on the sabbathSabbath day or bring anything in through the gates of Jerusalem.
17:22	You shall not bring a load out of your houses on the sabbathSabbath day nor do any work, but keep the sabbathSabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.
17:23	Yet they did not listen or incline their ears, but stiffened their necks inso orderas not to listen or takeaccept correctiondiscipline.
17:24	“But it will come about, if you listengive attentivelyyour attention to Me,” declares the Lord, “to bring no load in through the gates of this city on the sabbathSabbath day, but to keep the sabbathSabbath day holy by doing no work on it,
17:25	then there will come in through the gates of this city kings and princesofficials sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princesofficials, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.
17:26	They will come in from the cities of Judah and from the environsareas ofsurrounding Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country, and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, grain offerings, and incensefrankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving to the house of the Lord.
17:27	But if you do not listen to Me, to keep the sabbathSabbath day holy by not carrying a load and coming in through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbathSabbath day, then I will kindleset a fire into its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem and not bego quenchedout.” ’ ”
18:1	The word whichthat came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
18:3	ThenSo I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something on the wheel.
18:5	Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
18:6	“CanAm I not able, O house of Israel, to deal with you as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
18:7	At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot it, to pulltear it down, or to destroy it;
18:8	if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent concerningof the calamitydisaster that I planned to bring on it.
18:10	if it does evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will thinkrelent better of the good with which I hadsaid promisedthat toI would bless it.
18:11	So now then, speak to the men of Judah and against the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Behold, I am fashioningforming calamitya disaster against you and devising a plan against you. OhNow turn back, each of you from his evil way, and reformcorrect your ways and your deeds.”!” ’
18:12	But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will actpersist accordingin to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’
18:13	“Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘AskJust nowask among the nations, Who ever heard theanything like of this? The virgin of Israel Has done a most appalling thing.
18:14	Does the snow of Lebanon forsakeleave the rock of the open country alone? Or is the cold flowing water from a foreign land ever snatcheddried awayup?
18:15	For My people have forgotten Me, They burn incense to worthless gods. And they have stumbled fromin their ways, FromIn the ancient pathsroads, To walk inon bypathspaths, Not on a highway,
18:17	Like an east wind I will scatter them Before the enemy; I will show them My back and not My face In the day of their calamitydisaster.’ ”
18:18	Then they said, “Come and let’s us devise plans against Jeremiah. SurelyCertainly the lawLaw is not going to be lost toby the priest, nor counseladvice toby the sagewise, nor the divine word toby the prophet! Come, on and let’s us strike at him with our tongue, and let’s uspay give no heedattention to any of his words.”
18:19	DoGive giveYour heedattention to me, O Lord, And listen to what my opponents are saying!
18:20	Should good be repaid with evil? For they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You To speak good onin their behalf, So as to turn away Your wrath away from them.
18:21	Therefore, give their children over to famine And deliverturn them upover to the power of the sword; And let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smittenslaughtered to death, Their young men struck downand killed by the sword in battle.
18:22	May ana outcrycry be heard from their houses, When You suddenly bring raiders upon them; For they have dug a pit to capture me And hidden snares for my feet.
18:23	YetBut You, O Lord, know All their deadly designsschemes against me; Do not forgive their iniquitywrongdoing Or blotwipe out their sin from Your sight. But may they be overthrown before You; Deal with them in the time of Your anger!
19:1	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Go and buy a potter’s earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests.
19:2	Then go out to the valleyValley of Ben-hinnom, which is by the entrance of the potsherdPotsherd gateGate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you,
19:3	and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, Oyou kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem:. thusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold I am aboutgoing to bring a calamitydisaster upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.
19:4	BecauseSince they have forsakenabandoned Me and have made this anplace alienforeign, place and have burned sacrifices in it to other gods, that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and becausesince they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent
19:5	and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I neverdid commandednot orcommand spokenor speak of, nor did it ever enter My mind;
19:6	therefore, behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the valleyValley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the valleyValley of Slaughter.
19:7	And I will makefrustrate void the counselplanning of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will causemake them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will givemake over their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beastsanimals of the earth.
19:8	I will also maketurn this city ainto desolation and an object of horror and hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonishedappalled and hiss because of all its disasters.
19:9	And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh induring the siege and in the distresshardship with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distresstorment them.” ’
19:10	“Then you are to break the jar in the sight of the men who accompany you,
19:11	and say to them, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hosts,armies says: “JustTo sothe willsame extent I will break this people and this city, evenjust as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will bury their dead in Topheth, because there is no other place for burial.
19:13	The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like the place Topheth, because of all the houses on whose rooftops they burned sacrifices to all the heavenly hostlights and poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’ ”
19:14	Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the courtcourtyard of the Lord’s house and said to all the people:,
19:15	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am aboutgoing to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamitydisaster that I have declared against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heedlisten to My words.’ ”
20:1	When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officeroverseer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,
20:3	OnThen on the next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “Pashhur is not the name the Lord has called you, but rather Magor-missabib.
20:4	For thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Behold, I am going to make you a terrorhorror to yourself and to all your friends; and while your eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies. So I will givehand over all Judah over to the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carrytake them away as exiles to Babylon and will slaykill them with the sword.
20:5	I will also give over all the wealth of this city, all its produce and all its costlyvaluable things; —even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will givehand over to the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away, and bring them to Babylon.
20:7	O Lord, You havepersuaded deceived me and I waslet deceivedmyself be persuaded; You have overcome me and prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long; Everyone mocks me.
20:8	For each time I speak, I cry aloud; I proclaim violence and destruction, Because for me the word of the Lord has resulted In reproachtaunting and derision all day long.
20:9	But if I say, “I will not remember Him OrNor speak anymore in His name,” Then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire Shut up in my bones; And I am wearytired of holding it in, And I cannot endure it.
20:10	For I have heard the whispering of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce him; yes, let’s us denounce him!” All my trusted friends, Watching for my fall, say: “Perhaps he will be deceivedpersuaded, so that we may prevail against him And take our revenge on him.”
20:11	But the Lord is with me like a dreadpowerful champion; Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail. They will be utterlyput ashamed,to great shame because they have failed, WithAn an everlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten.
20:12	Yet, O Lord of hostsarmies, You who testtests the righteous, Who seesees the mind and the heart; Let me see Your vengeance on them;, For to You I have setdisclosed forth my cause.
20:13	Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord! For He has deliveredsaved the soul of the needy one From the hand of evildoers.
20:14	Cursed be the day when I was born; LetMay the day not be blessed when my mother boregave birth to me not be blessed!
20:15	Cursed be the man who brought the news To my father, saying, “A baby boy has been born to you!” And made him very happy.
20:16	But letmay that man be like the cities Which the Lord overthrew without relenting, And letmay himhe hear an outcry in the morning And aan shoutalarm offor alarmwar at noon;
20:17	Because he did not kill me before birth, So that my mother would have been my grave, And her womb everforever pregnant.
20:18	Why did I ever come forthout fromof the womb To look onat trouble and sorrow, So that my days have been spent in shame?
21:1	The word whichthat came to Jeremiah from the Lord when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying,
21:2	“Please inquire of the Lord onin our behalf, forbecause Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is warringmaking war against us; perhaps the Lord will deal with us accordingin toaccordance with all His wonderful acts, so that the enemy will withdraw from us.”
21:3	ThenBut Jeremiah said to them, “You shall say to Zedekiah as follows:
21:4	‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I am aboutgoing to turn back the weapons of war whichthat are in your hands, with which you are warringmaking war against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the centermiddle of this city.
21:5	And I Myself will make war against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, evenand in anger, and wrath, and great indignation.
21:6	I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both manthe people and beastthe animals; they will die of a great pestilenceplague.
21:7	Then afterwardsafterward,” declares the Lord, “I will givehand over Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, eventhat is, those who survive in this city from the pestilenceplague, the sword, and the famine, intoover theto hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, andto into the hand of their foesenemies, and intoto the hand of those who seek their lives; and he will strike and kill them down with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them nor have pity nor compassion.” ’
21:8	“You shall also say to this people, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Behold, I setam setting before you the way of life and the way of death.
21:9	HeAnyone who dwellsstays in this city will die by the sword, and by famine, andor by pestilenceplague; but heanyone who goesleaves out and fallsgoes awayover to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live, and he will have his own life as bootyplunder.
21:10	For I have set My face against this city for harm and not for good,” declares the Lord. “It will be givenhanded intoover theto hand of the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire.” ’
21:12	O house of David, thusthis saysis what the Lord says: “Administer justice every morning; And deliversave the person who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor, ThatSo that My wrath maywill not gospread forth like fire And burn, with noneno one to extinguish it, Because of the evil of their deeds.
21:13	“Behold, I am against you, Oyou inhabitant of the valley dweller, OYou rocky plain,” declares the Lord, “You men who say, ‘Who will come down against us? Or who will enter into our habitationsdwellings?’
21:14	But I will punish you according to the results of your deeds,” declares the Lord, “And I will kindle a fire in its forest ThatSo that it may devour all its environssurroundings.” ’ ”
22:1	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak this word,
22:3	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Do justice and righteousness, and deliversave the one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. AlsoAnd do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
22:4	For if you men will indeed perform this thinginstruction, then kings will enter the gates of this house, sitting in David’s place on his throne, riding in chariots and on horses, even the king himself, and his servants, and his people.
22:5	But if you will not obey these words, I swear by Myself,” declares the Lord, “that this house will become a desolationplace of ruins.” ’ ”
22:6	For thusthis saysis what the Lord says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, Like the summit of Lebanon; Yet most assuredly I will make you like a wilderness, LikeCities citiesthat which are not inhabited.
22:8	“Many nations will pass by this city; and they will say to one another, ‘Why has the Lord done thusthis to this great city?’
22:9	Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsookabandoned the covenant of the Lord their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.’ ”
22:10	Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him, But weep continuallydeeply for the one who goes away; For he will never return Or see his native land.
22:11	For thusthis saysis what the Lord insays regardregarding to Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in the place of Josiah his father Josiah, who went forthout from this place,: “He will never return there;
22:12	but in the place where they ledtook him captiveinto exile, there he will die and he will not see this land again.
22:13	“Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness, And his upperupstairs rooms without justice, Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay And does not give him his wages,
22:14	Who says, ‘I will build myself a roomylarge house With spacious upperupstairs rooms, And cut out its windows, Paneling it with cedar and painting it bright red.’
22:15	Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father not eat and drink And do justice and righteousness? Then it was well withfor him.
22:16	He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy;the poor, Then it was well. Is that not that what it means to know Me?” Declares the Lord.
22:17	“But your eyes and your heart Are intent only upon your own dishonest gain, And on shedding innocent blood, And on practicing oppression and extortion.”
22:18	Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord insays regardregarding to Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,: “They will not lamentmourn for him: ‘AlasOh, my brother!’ or, ‘AlasOh, sister!’ They will not lamentmourn for him: ‘AlasOh, for the master!’ or, ‘AlasOh, for his splendor!’
22:20	Go up to Lebanon and cry out, And liftraise up your voice in Bashan; Cry out also from Abarim, For all your lovers have been crushed.
22:21	I spoke to you in your prosperity; But you said, ‘I will not listen!’ This has been your practiceway from your youth, That you have not obeyed My voice.
22:22	The wind will sweep away all your shepherds, And your lovers will go into captivity; Then you will surelycertainly be ashamed and humiliated Because of all your wickedness.
22:23	You who dwelllive in Lebanon, Nested in the cedars, How you will groan when pangssharp pains come uponon you, Pain like a woman in childbirth!
22:24	“As I live,” declares the Lord, “even thoughif Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a signet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull you off;
22:25	and I will givehand you over intoto the hand of those who are seeking your life, yes, intoto thethose hand of those whom you dreadare frightened, eventhat intois, theto hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
22:26	I will hurl you and your mother who boregave birth to you into another country where you were not born, and there you will die.
22:27	But as for the land to which they desirelong to return, they will not return to it.
22:30	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Write this man down as childless, A man who will not prosper in his days; For no man ofamong his descendants will prosper Sitting on the throne of David Or ruling again in Judah.’ ”
23:1	“Woe to the shepherds who are destroyingcausing and scattering the sheep of My pasture to perish and are scattering them!” declares the Lord.
23:2	Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel says concerning the shepherds who are tending My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attendedbeen toconcerned about them; behold, I am aboutgoing to attendcall you to youaccount for the evil of your deeds,” declares the Lord.
23:3	“Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their pasture, and they will be fruitful and multiply.
23:6	In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwelllive securely; And this is His name by which He will be called, ‘The Lord ourOur righteousnessRighteousness.’
23:7	“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when they will no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the sons of Israel up from the land of Egypt,’
23:8	but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel back from the north land and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will live on their own soil.”
23:9	As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, All my bones tremble; I have become like a drunken man, EvenAnd like a man overcome withby wine, Because of the Lord And because of His holy words.
23:10	For the land is full of adulterers; For the land mourns because of the curse. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course also is evil And their might is not right.
23:11	“For both prophet and priest are polluteddefiled; Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.
23:12	“Therefore their way will be like slippery paths to them, They will be driven away into the gloom and fall down in it; For I will bring calamitydisaster upon them, The year of their punishment,” declares the Lord.
23:14	Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: The committing of adultery and walking in falsehooddeceit; And they strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one has turned back from his wickedness. All of them have become to Me like Sodom, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.
23:15	Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies says concerning the prophets,: ‘Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood And make them drink poisonous water, For from the prophets of Jerusalem PollutionUngodliness has gonespread forth into all the land.’ ”
23:16	ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hosts,armies says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are leading you into futility; They speaktell a vision of their own imagination, Not from the mouth of the Lord.
23:17	They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The Lord has said, “You will have peace” ’; And as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, They say, ‘CalamityDisaster will not come uponon you.’
23:18	But who has stood in the council of the Lord, That he should see and hear His word? Who has givenpaid heedattention to His word and listened?
23:24	Can a manperson hide himself in hiding places So that I do not see him?” declares the Lord. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.
23:26	How long? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even these prophets of the deceptiondeceitfulness of their own heart,
23:27	who intend to make My people forget My name by their dreams which they relatereport to one another, just as their fathers forgot My name because of Baal?
23:28	The prophet who has a dream may relatereport his dream, but let him who has My word speak My word in truthtruthfully. What does straw have in common with grain?” declares the Lord.
23:29	“Is not My word not like fire?” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer which shatters a rock?
23:31	Behold, I am against the prophets,” declares the Lord, “who use their tongues and declare, ‘The Lord declares.’!’
23:32	Behold, I am against those who have prophesied false dreams,” declares the Lord, “and relatedreported them and led My people astray by their falsehoodslies and reckless boasting; yet I did not send them ornor command them, nor do they furnishprovide this people the slightest benefit,” declares the Lord.
23:33	“Now when this people or the prophet or a priest asks you, saying, ‘What is the oraclepronouncement of the Lord?’ then you shall say to them, ‘What oraclepronouncement?’ The Lord declares, ‘I will abandon you.’
23:34	Then as for the prophet or the priest or the people who say, ‘The oraclepronouncement of the Lord,’ I will bring punishment upon that manperson and his household.
23:35	ThusThis willis what each one of you will say to his neighbor and to his brother,: ‘What has the Lord answered?’ or, ‘What has the Lord spoken?’
23:36	For you will no longer remember the oraclepronouncement of the Lord, because every manperson’s own word will become the oraclepronouncement, and you have perverted the words of the living God, the Lord of hostsarmies, our God.
23:37	ThusThis is what you will say to that prophet,: ‘What has the Lord answered you?’ and, ‘What has the Lord spoken?’
23:38	ForAnd if you say, ‘The oraclepronouncement of the Lord!’ surelyfor thusthat saysreason the Lord, says this: ‘Because you said this word, “The oraclepronouncement of the Lord!” I have also sent word to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The oraclepronouncement of the Lord!’ ” ’
23:39	Therefore behold, I will surelycertainly forget you and castthrust you away from My presence, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers.
23:40	I will put an everlasting reproachdisgrace on you and an everlasting humiliation which will not be forgotten.”
24:1	After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carriedtaken awayinto captiveexile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and smithsmetalworkers from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me: behold, two baskets of figs setplaced before the temple of the Lord!.
24:3	Then the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs,: the good figs, are very good;, and the bad figsones, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness.”
24:5	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.
24:6	For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them againback to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not pluckuproot them up.
24:7	I will also give them a heart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heartwholeheartedly.
24:8	‘But like the bad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness—,’ indeed, thusthis saysis what the Lord— says, ‘so will I willgive abandonup Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and the ones who dwelllive in the land of Egypt.
24:9	I will make them aan object of terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproachdisgrace and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all the places where I will scatter them.
24:10	And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilenceplague upon them until they are destroyedeliminated from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’ ”
25:2	the word which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
25:5	saying, ‘Turn now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwelllive on the land which the Lord has given to you and your forefathers forever and ever;
25:6	and do not gofollow after other gods to serve them and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, andthen I will do you no harm.’
25:7	Yet you have not listened to Me,” declares the Lord, “in order thatto you might provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.
25:8	“Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord of hosts,armies says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,
25:9	behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations round about; and I will utterlycompletely destroy them and make them aan object of horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolationplace of ruins.
25:10	Moreover, I will takeeliminate from them the voice of joyjubilation and the voice of gladnessjoy, the voice of the bridegroomgroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
25:11	This wholeentire land will be a desolationplace of ruins and aan object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
25:12	‘Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the Lord, ‘for their iniquitywrongdoing, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
25:14	(For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will recompenserepay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)’ ”
25:15	For thusthis is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to me,: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and causegive it to all the nations to whom I send you, to drink from it.
25:16	TheyThen they will drink and staggerloudly vomit and goact madinsanely because of the sword that I willam going to send among them.”
25:17	ThenSo I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and madegave it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me, to drink from it:
25:18	To Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings and its princesofficials, to make them aplaces ruinof ruins, aobjects of horror, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
25:19	To Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princesofficials, and all his people;
25:20	and to all the foreign people, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (eventhat is, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);
25:21	To Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon;
25:22	and to all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea;
25:23	and to Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cuttrim the corners of their hair;
25:24	and to all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign people who dwelllive in the desert;
25:25	and to all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;
25:26	and to all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the earth which are uponon the face of the ground,; and the king of Sheshach shall drink it after them.
25:27	“YouAnd you shall say to them, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: “Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall down, and risedo nonot moreget up, because of the sword which I willam sendsending among you.” ’
25:28	And it will be, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you willshall say to them, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies says: “You shall surelycertainly drink!
25:29	For behold, I am beginning to workinflict calamitydisaster inon this city which is called by My name, andso shallshould you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment;, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares the Lord of hostsarmies.’
25:30	“Therefore you shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them, ‘The Lord will roar from on high And utterraise His voice from His holy habitationdwelling; He will roar mightilyforcefully against His fold. He will shout like those who tread the grapes, Against all the inhabitants of the earth.
25:31	A clamor has come to the end of the earth, Because the Lord has a controversy with the nations. He is entering into judgment with all fleshhumanity; As for the wicked, He has giventurned them over to the sword,’ declares the Lord.”
25:32	ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hosts,armies says: “Behold, evil is going forthout From nation to nation, And a great storm is being stirred up From the remotest parts of the earth.
25:33	“Those slainput to death by the Lord on that day will be from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be lamentedmourned, gathered, or buried; they will be like dung on the face of the ground.
25:34	Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; AndWallow wallow in ashesthe dust, you masters of the flock; For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions have come, And you will fall like a choiceprecious vessel.
25:35	Flight There will perishbe fromno sanctuary for the shepherds, AndNor escape fromfor the masters of the flock.
25:37	And the peaceful foldsgrazing places are madedevastated silent Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
26:2	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Stand in the courtcourtyard of the Lord’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah who have come to worship in the Lord’s house all the words that I have commanded you to speak to them. Do not omit a word!
26:3	Perhaps they will listen and everyone will turn from his evil way, thatand I maywill repentrelent of the calamitydisaster which I am planning to doinflict toon them because of the evil of their deeds.’
26:4	And you willshall say to them, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “If you willdo not listen to Me, to walk in My lawLaw which I have set before you,
26:6	then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”
26:8	WhenYet when Jeremiah finished speaking alleverything that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You must die!
26:9	Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolatein ruins, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered aboutto Jeremiah inat the house of the Lord.
26:10	When the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the house of the Lord and sat inat the entrance of the New Gate of the Lord’s house.
26:11	Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the officials and to all the people, saying, “A death sentence for this man! For he has prophesied against this city, just as you have heard inwith your hearing.”own ears!”
26:13	Now thereforethen, amendreform your ways and your deeds and obey the voice of the Lord your God; and the Lord will changerelent Hisof mind about the misfortunedisaster which He has pronounced against you.
26:15	Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city and on its inhabitants; for truly the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words inso yourthat hearingyou hear them.”
26:16	Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, “No death sentence for this man! For he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”
26:18	“Micah of Moresheth prophesiedused to prophesy in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘ThusThis is what the Lord of hostsarmies has said,: “Zion will be plowed aslike a field, And Jerusalem will become heaps of ruins, And the mountain of the house aslike the high places of a forest.” ’
26:19	Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah actually put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreatplead for the favor of the Lord, and the Lord changedrelented Hisof mind about the misfortunedisaster which He had pronounced against them? But we are committing a great evil against ourselves.”our own lives!”
26:20	Indeed, there was also a man who prophesiedused to prophesy in the name of the Lord, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land words similar to all those of Jeremiah.
26:21	When King Jehoiakim and all his mightywarriors men and all the officials heard his words, then the king sought to put him to death; but Uriah heard about it, and he was afraid, andso he fled and went to Egypt.
26:22	Then King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt: Elnathan the son of Achbor and certain men with him, wentto into Egypt.
26:23	And they brought Uriah from Egypt and led him to King Jehoiakim, who slewkilled him with a sword and castthrew his dead body into the burial place of the common people.
26:24	But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that he was not givenhanded intoover theto hands of the people to put him to death.
27:2	thusthis saysis what the Lord has said to me—“: “Make for yourself bondsrestraints and yokes and put them on your neck,
27:3	and send word to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the sons of Ammon, to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon by the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
27:4	CommandOrder them to go to their masters, saying, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, thussays: “This is what you shall say to your masters,:
27:5	“‘I have made the earth, themankind, men and the beastsanimals which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is pleasing in My sight.
27:6	NowAnd now I have givenhanded all these lands intoover theto hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and I have also given him also the wild animals of the field to serve him.
27:8	“It‘And it will be, that the nation or the kingdom which will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence,”plague,’ declares the Lord, “‘until I have destroyedeliminated it by his hand.
27:9	ButAnd as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers who speaktalk to you, saying, ‘“You will not serve the king of Babylon.’.”
27:10	For they prophesyare prophesying a lie to you in order to remove you far from your land; and I will drive you outaway and you will perish.
27:11	But the nation whichthat will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let remain on its land,”,’ declares the Lord, “‘and they will tillcultivate it and dwelllive in it.”.’ ” ’ ”
27:13	Why willshould you die, you and your people, by the sword, famine, and pestilenceplague, as the Lord has spoken to thatthe nation whichthat will not serve the king of Babylon?
27:14	So do not listen to the words of the prophets who speaktalk to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they prophesyare prophesying a lie to you;
27:15	for I have not sent them,” declares the Lord, “but they prophesyare prophesying falsely in My name, inso order that I maywill drive you outaway and that you maywill perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”
27:16	Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying,: “ThusThis saysis what the Lord says: ‘Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘“Behold, the vessels of the Lord’s house will now shortly be brought againback from Babylon’;”; for they are prophesying a lie to you.
27:17	Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a ruinplace of ruins?
27:18	But if they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is with them, lethave them now entreatplead with the Lord of hostsarmies that the vessels which are left in the house of the Lord, inand the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem maydo not go to Babylon.
27:19	For thusthis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies says concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the kettle stands, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,
27:20	which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carriedled into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.—
27:21	Yes, thusthis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem,:
27:22	‘“They will be carriedbrought to Babylon and they will be there until the day I visit them,’,” declares the Lord. ‘“Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.’.” ’ ”
28:1	Now in the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the prophet the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me inat the house of the Lord in the presencesight of the priests and all the people, saying,
28:2	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
28:3	Within two years I am going to bring back to this place all the vessels of the Lord’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carriedbrought to Babylon.
28:5	Then Jeremiah the prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in the presencesight of the priests and in the presencesight of all the people who were standing inat the house of the Lord,
28:6	and Jeremiah the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the Lord do so; may the Lord confirmfulfill your words which you have prophesied, to bring back the vessels of the Lord’s house and all the exiles, from Babylon to this place.
28:7	Yet hear now this word which I am aboutgoing to speak inso yourthat hearingyou and inall the hearingpeople ofcan allhear the peopleit!
28:8	The prophets who were before me and before you from ancient times also prophesied against many lands and against great kingdoms, ofregarding war, anddisaster, of calamity and of pestilenceplague.
28:9	TheAs for the prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, then that prophet will be known as one whom the Lord has truly sent.”
28:11	Hananiah spoke in the presencesight of all the people, saying, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Even so will I break within two full years I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations.’ ” Then Jeremiah the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
28:12	TheThen the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
28:13	“Go and speak to Hananiah, saying, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “You have broken the yokes of wood, but in their place you have made instead of them yokes of iron.”
28:14	For thusthis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: “I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, thatto they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they willshall serve him. And I have also given him the beastsanimals of the field.” ’ ”
28:15	Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, “Listen now, Hananiah,: the Lord has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.
28:16	Therefore, thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Behold, I am aboutgoing to remove you from the face of the earth. This year you are going to die, because you havespoke counseledfalsely rebellion against the Lord.’ ”
28:17	So Hananiah the prophet died in the same year, in the seventh month.
29:1	Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders of the exile, the priests, the prophets, and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
29:2	(This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the courthigh officials, the princesleaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smithsmetalworkers had departed from Jerusalem.)
29:3	The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying,
29:4	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon,:
29:6	Take wives and becomefather the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may beargive birth to sons and daughters; and multiplygrow in numbers there and do not decrease.
29:7	Seek the welfareprosperity of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord onin its behalf; for in its welfareprosperity you will havebe welfareyour prosperity.’
29:8	For thusthis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Do not let your prophets who are in your midst andor your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to thetheir interpretations of your dreams which theyyou dream.
29:10	“For thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.
29:11	For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfareprosperity and not for calamitydisaster, to give you a future and a hope.
29:13	YouAnd you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
29:14	I will let Myself be found by you,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.’
29:16	for thusthis saysis what the Lord says concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwelllive in this city, your brothers who did not go with you into exile—
29:17	thusthis saysis what the Lord of hosts,armies says: ‘Behold, I am sending upon them the sword, famine, and pestilence,plague; and I will make them like split-openrotten figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness.
29:18	I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilenceplague; and I will make them aan object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and aan object of horror and a hissing, and a reproachdisgrace among all the nations where I have driven them,
29:20	‘You, therefore, hear the word of the Lord, all you exiles, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
29:21	“Thus‘This saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you falsely in My name,: ‘“Behold, I willam delivergoing themto intohand thethem handover ofto Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will slaykill them before your eyes.
29:22	Because of them a curse will be used by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon, saying, “‘May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,,’
29:23	because they have acted foolishly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and havefalsely spokenspoke words in My name falsely, which I did not command them;. and I am He who knows, and am a witness,” declares the Lord.’ ”
29:24	ToNow you shall speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,
29:25	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to the priest Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
29:26	“The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to be the overseer inof the house of the Lord overfor every madmaninsane person who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and in the iron collar,.
29:27	So now then, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who prophesies to you?,
29:28	Forseeing that he has sent word to us in Babylon, saying, ‘The exile will be long; build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their produce.’’ ”?” ’ ”
29:29	Now Zephaniah the priest read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.
29:30	Then came the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,
29:31	“Send word to all the exiles, saying, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite,: “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, although I did not send him, and he has made you trust in a lie,”
29:32	therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: “Behold, I am aboutgoing to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants; he will not have anyone living among this people, and he will not see the good that I am aboutgoing to do tofor My people,” declares the Lord, “because he has preachedspoken rebellionfalsely against the Lord.” ’ ”
30:1	The word whichthat came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
30:2	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write all the words which I have spoken to you in a book.
30:3	For behold, days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will restore the fortunes of My people Israel and Judah.’ The Lord says, ‘I will also bring them back to the land that I gave to their forefathers, and they shall possesstake possession of it.’ ”
30:4	Now these are the words which the Lord spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah:
30:5	“For thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘I have heard a sound of terror, Of dreadfear, and there is no peace.
30:6	Ask now, and see If a male can give birth. Why do I see every man With his hands on his loinswaist, as a woman in childbirth? And why have all faces turned pale?
30:7	Alas!Woe, for that day is great, There is none like it; And it is the time of Jacob’s distress, ButYet he will be saved from it.
30:8	‘It shall come about on that day,’ declares the Lord of hostsarmies, ‘that I will break his yoke from off their necknecks and will tear offto pieces their bondsrestraints; and strangers will no longer make them their slaves.
30:10	FearAnd do not fear, O Jacob My servant,’ declares the Lord, ‘And do not be dismayed, O Israel; For behold, I willam going to save you from afarfar away, And your offspringdescendants from the land of their captivity. And Jacob will return and will be quietat andpeace, atwithout easeanxiety, And no one will make him afraid.
30:11	For I am with you,’ declares the Lord, ‘to save you; For I will completely destroy completely all the nations where I have scattered you, Only I will not destroy you completely. But I will chastendiscipline you justlyfairly And will by no means leave you unpunished.’
30:12	“For thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Your woundbroken limb is incurableirreparable, And your injurywound is seriousincurable.
30:14	All your lovers have forgotten you, They do not seek you; For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, With the punishment of a cruel one, Because your iniquitywrongdoing is great, And your sins are numerous.
30:15	Why do you cry out over your injury? Your pain is incurable. Because your iniquitywrongdoing is great And your sins are numerous, I have done these things to you.
30:16	Therefore all who devour you will be devoured; And all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity; And those who plunder you will bebecome for plunder, And all who preyplunder upon you I will giveturn forinto preyplunder.
30:18	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob And have compassion on his dwelling placesdwellings; And the city will be rebuilt on its ruinruins, And the palace will stand on its rightful place.
30:19	From them will proceedcome a song of thanksgiving And the voicevoices of those who celebrate; And I will multiply them and they will not be diminisheddecrease; I will also honor them and they will not be insignificant.
30:20	Their children also will be as formerlybefore, And their congregation shallwill be established before Me; And I will punish all their oppressors.
30:21	Their leader shall be one of them, And their ruler shallwill come forthout from their midst; And I will bring him near and he shall approach Me; For who would dare to risk his life to approach Me?’ declares the Lord.
30:23	Behold, the tempest of the Lord! Wrath has gone forth, A sweeping tempest; It will burstwhirl onupon the head of the wicked.
30:24	The fierce anger of the Lord will not turn back Until He has performed and until He has accomplished The intent of His heart;. In the latter days you will understand this.
31:2	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “The people who survived the sword Found grace in the wilderness— Israel, when it went to find its rest.”
31:3	The Lord appeared to him fromlong afarago, saying, “I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore I have drawn you out with lovingkindnesskindness.
31:4	Again I will build you again and you will be rebuilt, OVirgin virgin of Israel! AgainYou you will take up your tambourines again, And go forthout to the dances of the merrymakersrevelers.
31:5	Again you will plant vineyards On the hills of Samaria; The planters will plant And will enjoy themthe fruit.
31:6	For there will be a day when watchmen On the hills of Ephraim call out, ‘Arise, and let’s us go up to Zion, To the Lord our God.’ ”
31:7	For thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: “Sing aloud with gladnessjoy for Jacob, And shoutbe amongjoyful with the chief of the nations; Proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘O Lord, save Your people, The remnant of Israel.’!’
31:8	Behold, I am bringing them from the north country, And I will gather them from the remote parts of the earth, Among them thethose who are blind and thethose lamewho limp, The pregnant woman with child and she who is in labor with child, together; AThey greatwill company,return theyhere willas returna heregreat assembly.
31:9	WithThey weepingwill theycome willwith comeweeping, And by supplicationpleading I will leadbring them; I will makelead them walk by streams of waters, On a straight path inon which they will not stumble; For I am a father to Israel, And Ephraim is My firstborn.”
31:10	Hear the word of the Lord, Oyou nations, And declare it in the coastlands afarfar offaway, And say, “He who scattered Israel will gather him, And He will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.”
31:12	“They will come and shout for joy on the height of Zion, And they will be radiant over the bounty of the Lord— Over the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, And over the young of the flock and the herd;. And their life will be like a watered garden, And they will never languish again.
31:13	Then the virgin will 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 give them joy for their sorrow.
31:14	I will fillrefresh the soul of the priests with abundance, And My people will be satisfied with My goodness,” declares the Lord.
31:15	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, LamentationLamenting and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; She refuses to be comforted for her children, Because they are no more.”
31:16	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Restrain your voice from weeping And your eyes from tears; For your work will be rewarded,” declares the Lord, “And they will return from the land of the enemy.
31:18	I have surelycertainly heard Ephraim grieving, ‘You have chastiseddisciplined me, and I was chastisedcorrected, Like an untrained calf; Bring me back that I may be restored, For You are the Lord my God.
31:19	For after I turned back, I repented; And after I was instructed, I smoteslapped on my thigh; I was ashamed and also humiliated Because I bore the reproachshame of my youth.’
31:20	Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a delightful child? Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him, I certainly still remember him; Therefore My heart yearns for him; I will surelycertainly have mercy on him,” declares the Lord.
31:21	“Set up roadmarks for yourself roadmarks, Place guideposts for yourself guideposts; Direct your mind to the highway, The way by which you went. Return, O virgin of Israel, Return to these your cities.
31:22	How long will you go here and therewaver, OYou faithlessrebellious daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing inon the earth—: A woman will encompassshelter a man.”
31:23	ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: “Once again they will speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities when I restore their fortunes, ‘The Lord bless you, O abodeplace of righteousness, O holy hill!’
31:24	Judah and all its cities will dwelllive together in it, the farmerfarmers and theythose who gotravel about with flocks.
31:25	For I satisfygive plenty of water to the weary ones, and refresh everyone who languishes.”
31:26	At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep washad been pleasant to me.
31:27	“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of manmankind and with the seed of beastanimals.
31:28	AsAnd just as I have watched over them to pluckuproot upthem, totear breakthem down, to overthrowruin, to destroy, and to bring disaster on them, so I will watch over them to build and to plant them,” declares the Lord.
31:29	“In those days they will notno longer say again, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, AndBut it is the children’s teeth arethat sethave onbecome edgeblunt.’
31:30	But everyone will die for his own iniquitywrongdoing; each manperson who eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will bebecome set on edgeblunt.
31:31	“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,
31:32	not like the covenant which I made with their fathers inon the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord.
31:33	“ButFor this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord,: “I will put My law within them and write it on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
31:34	They will not teach again, each manone his neighbor and each manone his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquitywrongdoing, and their sin I will remember no morelonger remember.”
31:35	ThusThis saysis what the Lord says, WhoHe who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar;— The Lord of hostsarmies is His name:
31:36	“If this fixed order departs From before Me,” declares the Lord, “Then the offspringdescendants of Israel also will cease FromTo beingbe a nation before Me forever.”
31:37	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “If the heavens above can be measured And the foundations of the earth searched out below, Then I will also castreject off all the offspringdescendants of Israel For alleverything that they have done,” declares the Lord.
31:39	The measuring line will go out farther straight ahead, to the hill Gareb; then it will turn to Goah.
31:40	And the wholeentire valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the Lord; it will not be pluckeduprooted up or overthrown anymoreever foreveragain.”
32:2	Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shutimprisoned up in the courtcourtyard of the guard, which was inat the house of the king of Judah,
32:3	because Zedekiah king of Judah had shutimprisoned him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy, saying, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Behold, I am aboutgoing to givehand this city intoover theto hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;
32:4	and Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape outfrom of the hand of the Chaldeans, but he will surelycertainly be givenhanded intoover theto hand of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye;.
32:5	andThen he will take Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him,” declares the Lord. “If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed” ’?”
32:8	Then Hanamel my uncle’s son Hanamel came to me in the courtcourtyard of the guard accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord and said to me, ‘Buy my field, please, that is at Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for you have the right of possession and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.
32:9	“So I bought the field which was atin Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle’s son, and I weighed out the silver for him, seventeen shekels of silver.
32:10	And I signed and sealed the deed, and called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
32:12	and I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel my uncle’s son and in the sight of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, beforein the sight of all the Jews who were sitting in the courtcourtyard of the guard.
32:13	And I commanded Baruch in their presencesight, saying,
32:14	‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: “Take these deeds, this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware jar, so that they may last a long time.”
32:15	For thusthis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: “Houses and fields and vineyards will again be boughtpurchased in this land.” ’
32:16	“After Igiving had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, then I prayed to the Lord, saying,
32:17	‘AhOh, Lord God! Behold, You Yourself have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for You,
32:18	who shows lovingkindnessmercy to thousands, but repays the iniquitywrongdoing of fathers into the bosomlaps of their children after them, O great and mighty God. The Lord of hostsarmies is His name;
32:19	great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of menmankind, giving to everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds;
32:20	who has setaccomplished signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day both in Israel and among mankind; and You have made a name for Yourself, as at this day.
32:21	You brought Your 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 You gave them this land, which You swore to their forefathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
32:23	They came in and took possession of it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your lawLaw; they havedid donenot nothingdo ofanything all that You commanded them to do; therefore You have made all this calamitydisaster comehappen uponto them.
32:24	Behold, the siegeassault ramps have reached the city to take it; and the city ishas givenbeen intohanded theover handto of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, the famine, and the pestilenceplague; and what You have spoken has come to pass; and behold, You see it.
32:25	Yet You have said to me, O Lord God, “Buy for yourself the field with money and call in witnesses”—although the city ishas givenbeen intohanded theover handto of the Chaldeans.’ ”
32:28	Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: “Behold, I am aboutgoing to givehand this city intoover theto hand of the Chaldeans and intoto the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it.
32:29	TheAnd the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will enter and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses where people have offered incense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me to anger.
32:30	IndeedFor the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been doing only evil in My sight fromsince their youth; for the sons of Israel have been only provoking Me to anger by the work of their hands,” declares the Lord.
32:31	“Indeed this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My wrath fromsince the day that they built it, even to this day, so that it should be removed from before My facesight,
32:32	because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their leaders, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
32:33	They have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them, teaching again and again, they would not listen andto receiveaccept instructiondiscipline.
32:35	They built the high places of Baal that are in the valleyValley of Ben-hinnom to causemake their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I had not commanded them, nor had it entered My mind that they should do this abomination, to causemislead Judah to sin.
32:36	“Now therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel says the following concerning this city of which you say, ‘It ishas givenbeen intohanded theover handto of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence.’plague’:
32:37	Behold, I willam going to gather them out of all the lands to which I have driven them in My anger, in My wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them back to this place and makehave them dwelllive in safety.
32:39	and I will give them one heart and one way, so that they maywill fear Me always, for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
32:40	I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; and I will put the fear of Me in their hearts, so that they will not turn away from Me.
32:41	I will rejoice over them to do them good and will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.
32:42	For thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Just as I brought all this great disaster on this people, so I am going to bring on them all the good that I am promising them.
32:43	FieldsAnd fields will be boughtpurchased in this land of which you say, “It is a desolation, without man or beastanimal; it ishas givenbeen intohanded theover handto of the Chaldeans.”
32:44	MenPeople will buy fields for money, sign and seal deeds, and call in witnesses in the land of Benjamin, in the environsareas ofsurrounding Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the Negev; for I will restore their fortunes,’ declares the Lord.”
33:1	Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still confined in the courtcourtyard of the guard, saying,
33:2	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord says, He who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establishcreate it, theHe Lordwhose name is Histhe name,Lord:
33:4	For thusthis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel says concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah which arehave brokenbeen torn down to make a defense against the siegeassault ramps and against the sword,:
33:5	‘While they are coming to fight with the Chaldeans and to fill themtheir houses with the corpsesbodies of menpeople whom I have slainstruck down in My anger and in My wrath, and I have hidden My face from this city because of all their wickedness:
33:6	Behold, I willam going to bring to it healthhealing and healinga remedy, and I will heal them; and I will reveal to them an abundance of peace and truth.
33:7	And I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and will rebuild them as they were at first.
33:8	And I will cleanse them from all their iniquitywrongdoing by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardonforgive all their iniquitieswrongdoings by which they have sinned against Me and byrevolted which they have transgressed against Me.
33:9	It will be to Me a name of joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, which will hear of all the good that I do for them, and they will fearbe frightened and tremble because of all the good and all the peace that I make for it.’
33:10	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, “It is a waste, without man and without beastanimal,” that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolatedeserted, without man and without inhabitant and without beastanimal,
33:11	the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroomgroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, “Give thanks to the Lord of hostsarmies, For the Lord is good, For His lovingkindnessmercy is everlasting”;,” andas ofthey those who bring a thankthanksgiving offering into the house of the Lord. For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were at first,’ says the Lord.
33:12	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hosts,armies says: ‘There will again be in this place which is waste, without man or beastanimal, and in all its cities, a habitationpasture offor shepherds who rest their flocks.
33:13	In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the Negev, in the land of Benjamin, in the environsareas ofsurrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who numberscounts them,’ says the Lord.
33:15	In those days and at that time I will causemake a righteous Branch of David to spring forthsprout; and He shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth.
33:16	In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwelllive in safety; and this is the name by which sheit will be called: the Lord is our righteousness.’
33:17	For thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘David shall nevernot lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;
33:18	and the Levitical priests shall nevernot lack a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to prepare sacrifices continually.’ ”
33:19	TheAnd the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,
33:20	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night willdo not beoccur at their appointedproper time,
33:21	then My covenant with David My servant may also be broken, with David My servant so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers.
33:22	As the hostheavenly oflights heaven cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David My servant David and the Levites who ministerserve to Me.’ ”
33:24	“Have you not observed what thisthese people have spokenasserted, saying, ‘The two families which the Lord chose, He has rejected them’? ThusSo they despise My people, as no longer arebeing they as a nation in their sight.
33:25	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘If My covenant for day and night standdoes not continue, and I have not established the fixed patterns of heaven and earth I have not established,
33:26	then I would reject the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so as not takingto take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy on them.’ ”
34:1	The word whichthat came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, with all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominioncontrol and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying,
34:2	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him:, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Behold, I am givinghanding this city intoover theto hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.
34:3	YouAnd as for you, you will not escape from his hand, for you will surelyassuredly be capturedcaught and deliveredhanded intoover histo handhim; and you will see the king of Babylon eye to eye, and he will speak with you face to face, and you will go to Babylon.’ ” ’
34:4	Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah king of Judah! ThusThis saysis what the Lord says concerning you,: ‘You will not die by the sword.
34:5	You will die in peace; and as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will burn spices for you; and they will lamentmourn for you, crying, “AlasOh, my lord!” ’ For I have spoken the word,” declares the Lord.
34:7	when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the remaining cities of Judah, that is, Lachish and Azekah, for they alone remained as fortified cities among the cities of Judah.
34:8	The word whichthat came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem, to proclaim release to them:
34:9	that each manperson shouldwas to set free his male servant free and each man his female servant, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman;, so that no one shouldwould keep them, ahis JewJewish hisbrother brotheror sister, in bondage.
34:10	And all the officials and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant that each manperson shouldwas to set free his male servant free and each man his female servant, so that no one shouldwould keep them in bondage any longer in bondage; they obeyed, and set them free.
34:11	But afterward they turned around and took back the male servants and the female servants whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection foras male servants and foras female servants.
34:13	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I made a covenant with your forefathers inon the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, saying,
34:14	“At the end of seven years each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who has been sold to you and has served you for six years, and you shall send him out free from you;.” butBut your forefathers did not obey Me ornor incline their ear to Me.
34:15	Although recently you had turned and done what is right in My sight, each manone proclaiming release to his neighbor, and you had made a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name.
34:16	Yet you turned and profaned My name, and each manperson took back his male servant and each man his female servant whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your male servants and female servants.”.’ ’
34:17	“Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming release, each manone to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I am proclaiming a release to you,’ declares the Lord, ‘to the sword, to the pestilenceplague, and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
34:18	I will give the menpeople who have transgressedviolated My covenant, who have not fulfilled the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts—
34:19	the officials of Judah and the officials of Jerusalem, the courthigh officersofficials and the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf—
34:20	I will givehand them intoover theto hand of their enemies and intoto the hand of those who seek their lifelives. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the beastsanimals of the earth.
34:21	Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials I will givealso intohand theover handto of their enemies and intoto the hand of those who seek their lifelives, and intoto the hand of the army of the king of Babylon which has gonewithdrawn away from you.
34:22	Behold, I am going to give a command,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will bring them back to this city;, and they will 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 whichthat came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
35:3	ThenSo I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons, and all the wholehousehold house of the Rechabites,
35:4	and I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was nearnext to the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the doorkeeper.
35:5	Then I set before the men of the house of the Rechabites pitchers full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, “Drink wine!”
35:7	You shall not build a house, and you shall not sow seed andnor you shall not plant a vineyard, ornor own one; but in tents you shall dwelllive in tents all your days, so that you may live many days in the land where you sojournlive as strangers.’
35:8	WeAnd we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,
35:9	nor to build ourselves houses to dwelllive in; and we do not have a vineyard, ora field, or seed.
35:10	WeBut we have lived only dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and have done according to all that Jonadab our father Jonadab commanded us.
35:11	ButHowever, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, ‘Come, and let’s us go to Jerusalem beforeaway from the army of the Chaldeans and before the army of the Arameans.’ So we have dweltlived in Jerusalem.”
35:13	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Go and say to the menpeople of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, “Will you not receiveaccept instruction by listening to My words?” declares the Lord.
35:14	“The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab have been followed, which he commanded his sons: not to drink wine, are observed. SoAnd they do not drink wine to this day, for they have obeyed their father’s command. But I have spoken to you again and again;, yet you have not listened to Me.
35:15	Also I have sent to you all My servants the prophets, sending them again and again, saying: ‘Turn now every manperson from his evil way and amend your deeds, and do not gofollow after other gods to worship them. Then you will dwelllive in the land which I have given to you and to your forefathers; but you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
35:16	Indeed, the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have observedfollowed the command of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to Me.’ ” ’
35:17	Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord says, the God of hostsarmies, the God of Israel,: ‘Behold, I am bringing on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the disaster that I have pronounced against them; because I spoke to them but they did not listen, and I have called them but they did not answer.’ ”
35:18	Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father, kept all his commands, and done according to all that he commanded you;,
35:19	therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: “Jonadab the son of Rechab shallwill not lack a man to stand before Me always.” ’ ”
36:2	“Take a scroll and write on it all the words which I have spoken to you concerning Israel, and concerning Judah, and concerning all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
36:3	Perhaps the house of Judah will hearlisten to all the calamitydisaster which I plan to bringcarry onout against them, inso order that every manperson will turn from his evil way; then I will forgive their iniquitywrongdoing and their sin.”
36:5	Jeremiah then commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted; I cannot go into the house of the Lord.
36:6	So you go and read from the scroll, which you have written at my dictation, the words of the Lord to the people inat the Lord’s house on a fastday dayof fasting. And also you shall also read them to all the people of Judah who come from their cities.
36:7	Perhaps their supplicationpleading will come before the Lord, and everyone will turn from his evil way,; for great is the anger and the wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.”
36:8	So Baruch the son of Neriah didacted accordingin toaccordance with all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading from the book the words of the Lord in the Lord’s house.
36:10	Then Baruch read to all the people from the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper courtcourtyard, at the entry of the New Gate of the Lord’s house, to all the people.
36:12	he went down to the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber. And behold, all the officials were sitting there—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 other officials.
36:13	And Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read from the book to the people.
36:14	Then all the officials sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, who was the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read to the people and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and wentcame to them.
36:15	TheyAnd they said to him, “Sit down, please, and read it to us.” So Baruch read it to them.
36:16	When they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one to another. andAnd they said to Baruch, “We will surelycertainly report all these words to the king.”
36:17	AndThen they asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us, please, how did you write all these words? Was it at hisJeremiah’s dictation?”
36:18	ThenAnd Baruch said to them, “He dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink on the book.”
36:20	So they wentcame to the king in the courtcourtyard, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe,; and they reported all the words to the king.
36:21	Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it to the king as well as to all the officials who stoodwere standing beside the king.
36:23	WhenAnd when Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all of the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
36:24	Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words weredid not afraidtremble in fear, nor did they rendtear their garments.
36:25	Even though Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah pleadedurged with the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
36:28	“Take again another scroll and write on it all the formerprevious words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned.
36:29	And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will make manmankind and beastanimals todisappear cease from it?’ ”
36:30	Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah,: “He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be castthrown out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.
36:31	I will also punish him, and his descendants, and his servants for their iniquitywrongdoing, and I will bring on them and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the menpeople of Judah all the calamitydisaster that I have declared to them—but they did not listen.” ’ ”
36:32	Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch the son of Neriah, the scribe, and he wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.
37:3	Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and the priest Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “Please pray to the Lord our God onin our behalf.”
37:4	Now Jeremiah was still coming in and going out among the people, for they had not yet put him in the prison.
37:5	Meanwhile, Pharaoh’s army had set out from Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who had been besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them, they liftedwithdrew the siege from Jerusalem.
37:7	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘ThusThis is what you are to say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come out forto yourhelp assistanceyou, is going to return to its own land of Egypt.
37:8	TheThen the Chaldeans will also return and fight against this city, and they will capture it and burn it with fire.” ’
37:9	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surelycertainly go away from us,” for they will not go.
37:11	Now it happened when the army of the Chaldeans had liftedwithdrawn the siege from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh’s army,
37:12	that Jeremiah wentleft out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin in order to take possession of some property there among the people.
37:13	While he was at the Gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah the son of Hananiah was there; and he arrested Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are goingdeserting over to the Chaldeans!”
37:14	But Jeremiah said, “A lie! I am not goingdeserting over to the Chaldeans”; yet he would not listen to him. So Irijah arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.
37:15	Then the officials were angry at Jeremiah and they beat him, and they put him in jailprison in the house of Jonathan the scribe, whichfor they had made it into the prison.
37:17	Now King Zedekiah sent men and took him out; and in his palace the king secretly asked him and said, “Is there a word from the Lord?” And Jeremiah said, “There is!” Then he said, “You will be givenhanded intoover theto hand of the king of Babylon!”
37:18	Moreover, Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “In what way have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?
37:19	WhereAnd thenwhere are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land’?
37:20	But now, please listen, O my lord the king; please let my petitionplea come before you and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, so that I maywill not die there.”
37:21	Then King Zedekiah gave commandmenta command, and they committedplaced Jeremiah toin custody in the courtcourtyard of the guardhouse, and gave him a loaf of bread daily from the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtcourtyard of the guardhouse.
38:1	Now 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 was speaking to all the people, saying,
38:2	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘HeAnyone who stays in this city will die by the sword, and by famine, andor by pestilence,plague; but heanyone who goessurrenders out to the Chaldeans will live and have his own life as bootyplunder, and stay alive.’
38:3	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘This city will certainly be givenhanded intoover theto hand of the army of the king of Babylon and he will capture it.’ ”
38:4	Then the officials said to the king, “NowPlease lethave this man be put to death, inasmuchsince as he is discouraging the men of war who are left in this city and all the people, by speaking such words like these to them; for this man is not seeking the well-being of this people, but rather their harm.”
38:5	SoAnd King Zedekiah said, “Behold, he is in your hands; for the king can do nothing against you.”
38:6	ThenSo they took Jeremiah and castthrew him into the cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the courtcourtyard of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the cistern there was no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.
38:7	But Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, while he was in the king’s palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah intoin the cistern. Now the king was sitting inat the Gate of Benjamin;
38:9	“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have castthrown into the cistern; and he will die right 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 thirty men from here under your authority and bring up Jeremiah the prophet up from the cistern before he dies.”
38:11	So Ebed-melech took the men under his authority and went into the king’s palace to a place beneath the storeroom, and took from there worn-out clothes and worn-out rags, and let them down by ropes into the cistern to Jeremiah.
38:13	So they pulled Jeremiah upout with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern, and Jeremiah stayed in the courtcourtyard of the guardhouse.
38:14	Then King Zedekiah sent word and had Jeremiah the prophet brought to him at the third entrance that is in the house of the Lord; and the king said to Jeremiah, “I am going to ask you something; do not hide anything from me.”
38:15	ThenAnd Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I tell you, will you not certainly put me to death? Besides, if I give you advice, you will not listen to me.”
38:16	But King Zedekiah swore to Jeremiah in secret, saying, “As the Lord lives, who made this life for us, surely I certainly will not put you to death, nor will I givehand you over to the hand of these men who are seeking your life.”
38:17	ThenSo Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord God of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you will indeed gosurrender out to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned with fire, and you and your household will survive.
38:18	But if you willdo not gosurrender out to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city will be givenhanded over to the hand of the Chaldeans; and they will burn it with fire, and you yourself will not escape from their handhands.’ ”
38:19	Then King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I dreadam in fear of the Jews who have gonedeserted over to the Chaldeans, for they may givehand me over intoto theirthem, hand and they will abuse me.”
38:20	But Jeremiah said, “They will not giveturn you over. Please obey the Lord in what I am saying to you, so that it may go well withfor you and you may live.
38:21	But if you keep refusing to go outsurrender, this is the word which the Lord has shown me:
38:22	‘Then beholdBehold, all of the women who have been left in the palace of the king of Judah are going to be brought out to the officers of the king of Babylon; and those women will say, “Your close friends Have misled and overpowered you; While your feet were sunk in the mire, They turned back.”
38:23	They willare also going to bring out all your wives and your sons to the Chaldeans, and you yourself will not escape from their hand, but will be seized by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned with fire.’ ”
38:24	Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no manone know about these words, and you will not die.
38:26	then you are to say to them, ‘I was presenting my petitionplea before the king, not to make me return to the house of Jonathan to die there.’ ”
38:27	Then all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him. So he reported to them in accordance with all these words which the king had commanded; and they ceasedstopped speaking with him, since the conversation had not been overheard.
38:28	So Jeremiah stayed in the courtcourtyard of the guardhouseguard until the day that Jerusalem was captured.
39:1	Now when Jerusalem was captured in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it;
39:4	WhenAnd when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, they fled and wentleft out of the city at night by way of the king’s garden through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.
39:5	But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and they seizedtook him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.
39:6	Then the king of Babylon slewslaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes at Riblah; the king of Babylon also slewslaughtered all the nobles of Judah.
39:7	He then blinded Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fettersshackles of bronze to bring him to Babylon.
39:8	The Chaldeans also burned with fire the king’s palace and the houses of the people with fire, and they broketore down the walls of Jerusalem.
39:9	AsAnd as for the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had gonedeserted over to him and the rest of the people who remained, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard carriedtook them into exile in Babylon.
39:10	But some of the poorest people, who had nothing, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard left behind in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at that time.
39:11	Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave orders aboutregarding Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, saying,
39:12	“Take him and look after him, and do nothingnot do anything harmful to him, but rather deal with him just as he tells you.”
39:13	So Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard sent word, along with Nebushazban the Rab-saris, and Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, and all the leading officers of the king of Babylon;
39:14	they even sent word and took Jeremiah out of the courtcourtyard of the guardhouse and entrusted him to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So he stayed among the people.
39:15	Now the word of the Lord had come to Jeremiah while he was confined in the courtcourtyard of the guardhouse, saying,
39:16	“Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I am aboutgoing to bring My words on this city for disaster and not for prosperity; and they will take place before you on that day.
39:17	But I will deliversave you on that day,” declares the Lord, “and you will not be givenhanded intoover to the handmen of the men whom you dreadare afraid.
39:18	For I will certainlyassuredly rescue you, and you will not fall by the sword; but you will have your own life as bootyplunder, because you have trusted in Me,” declares the Lord.’ ”
40:1	The word whichthat came to Jeremiah from the Lord after Nebuzaradan captain of the bodyguard had released him from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all the exiles of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.
40:2	Now the captain of the bodyguard had taken Jeremiah and said to him, “The Lord your God promised this calamitydisaster against this place;
40:3	and the Lord has brought it on and done just as He promised. Because you people sinned against the Lord and did not listen to His voice, therefore this thing has happened to you.
40:4	But now, behold, I am freeingsetting you free today from the chains whichthat are on your hands. If you would prefer to come with me to Babylon, come along, and I will look after you; but if you would prefer not to come with me to Babylon, neverdo mindnot come. Look, the whole land is before you; go wherever it seems good and right for you to go.”
40:5	As Jeremiah was still not going back, he said, “Go on back then to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people; or else go anywhere it seems right for you to go.” So the captain of the bodyguard gave him a ration and a gift, and let him go.
40:7	Now all the commanders of the forces that were in the field, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam over the land, and that he had put him in charge of the men, women, and children, those of the poorest of the land who had not been exiled to Babylon.
40:8	So they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, along with 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, both they and their men.
40:9	Then Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore to them and to their men, saying, “Do not be afraid of serving the Chaldeans; stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, so that it may go well withfor you.
40:10	Now as for me, behold, I am going to stay atin Mizpah to stand for you before the Chaldeans who come to us; but as for you, gather in wine, and summer fruit, and oil, and put them in your storage vessels, and live in your cities that you have taken over.”
40:11	Likewise, also all the Jews who were in Moab and among the sons of Ammon and in Edom, and who were in all the other countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant for Judah, and that he had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan.
40:12	Then all the Jews returned from all the places to which they had been drivenscattered away and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered in wine and summer fruit in great abundance.
40:13	Now Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were in the field came to Gedaliah at Mizpah,
40:15	Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, “Let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and notno aone man will know! Why should he take your life, so that all the Jews who are gathered to you would be scattered and the remnant of Judah would perish?”
41:1	InNow in the seventh month Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family and one of the chief officers of the king, along with ten men, came to Mizpah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. While they were eating bread together there in Mizpah,
41:2	Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him aroserose up, and struck downand killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword and put to death the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.
41:3	Ishmael also struck downand killed all the Jews who were with him, that is with Gedaliah atin Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.
41:5	that eighty men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria with their beards shaved off, and their clothes torn, and their bodies gashed, having grain offerings and incense in their hands to bring to the house of the Lord.
41:6	Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah wentleft out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went; and as he met them, he said to them, “Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam!”
41:7	Yet it turned out that as soon as they came inside the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men thatwho were with him slaughtered them and castthrew them into the cistern.
41:8	But ten men who were found among them said to Ishmael, “Do not put us to death;, for we have storessupplies of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the field.” So he refrained and did not put them to death along with their companions.
41:9	Now as for the cistern where Ishmael had castthrown all the corpsesbodies of the men whom he had struck downand killed because of Gedaliah, it was the one that King Asa had madeconstructed on account of Baasha, king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slaindead.
41:10	Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people who were in Mizpah, the king’s daughters and all the people who were left in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had put underin the chargecustody of Gedaliah the son of Ahikam;. thus Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and proceeded to cross over to the sons of Ammon.
41:11	But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him heard ofabout all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done.
41:12	So they took all the men and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and they found him by the greatlarge pool that is in Gibeon.
41:13	Now as soon as all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him, they were gladjoyful.
41:15	But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the sons of Ammon.
41:16	Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him took from Mizpah all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had struck downand killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, that is, the men who were soldiers, the women, the children, and the eunuchshigh officials, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.
41:18	because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, since Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had struck downand killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.
42:1	Then all the commanders of the forces, Johanan the son of Kareah, Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people bothfrom the small andto the great approached
42:2	and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our petitionpleading come before you, and pray for us to the Lord your God, that is for all this remnant;—since because we arehave been left butonly a few out of many, just as your own eyes now see us,—
42:3	that the Lord your God maywill tell us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.”
42:4	Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I am going to pray to the Lord your God in accordance with your words; and I will tell you the whole message which the Lord willgives you as an answer you. I will not keepwithhold back a word from you.”
42:6	Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will listen to the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well withfor us when we listen to the voice of the Lord our God.”
42:8	Then he called for Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him, and for all the people bothfrom the small andto the great,
42:9	and said to them, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord says, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petitionplea before Him:
42:10	‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down, and I will plant you and not uproot you; for I will relent concerningof the calamitydisaster that I have inflicted on you.
42:11	Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you are now fearing; do not be afraid of him,’ declares the Lord, ‘for I am with you to save you and deliverrescue you from his hand.
42:14	saying, “No, but we will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, or hear the sound of a trumpet, or hunger for bread, and we will stay there”;
42:15	then in that case listen to the word of the Lord, Oyou remnant of Judah. ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: “If you really set your mindminds to enter Egypt and go in to reside there,
42:16	then the sword, of which you are afraid of, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are anxious, will follow closely after you there in Egypt, and you will die there.
42:17	So all the menpeople who set their mindminds to go to Egypt to reside there will die by the sword, by famine, andor by pestilenceplague; and they will have no survivorsrefugees or refugeessurvivors from the calamitydisaster that I am going to bring on them.” ’ ”
42:18	For thusthis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: “As My anger and wrath have beengushed poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will begush poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation, and a reproachdisgrace; and you will not see this place no moreagain.”
42:19	The Lord has spoken to you, Oyou remnant of Judah, “Do not go intoto Egypt!” You shouldknow clearlyfor understandcertain that today I have testifiedadmonished againstyou youtoday.
42:21	So I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the Lord your God, even in whatever He has sent me to tell you.
42:22	ThereforeAnd now you shouldshall nowknow clearlyfor understandcertain that you will die by the sword, by famine, andor by pestilence,plague in the place where you wishdesire to go to reside.
43:1	But as soon as Jeremiah, whom the Lord their God had sent to them, had finished telling all the people all the words of the Lord their God—that is, all these words—
43:2	Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You are not to enter Egypt to reside there’;
43:3	but Baruch the son of Neriah is inciting you against us in order to givehand us over intoto the hand of the Chaldeans, so they will put us to death or exile us to Babylon.”!”
43:5	ButInstead, Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took the entire remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations to which they had been driven awayscattered, in order to reside in the land of Judah—
43:6	the men, the women, the children, the king’s daughters, and every person thatwhom Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, together with Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah—
43:10	and say to them, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I am going to send men and get My servant Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and I am going to set his throne right over these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his canopy over them.
43:13	He will also shattersmash to pieces the obelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he will burn with fire.” ’ ”
44:2	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: ‘You yourselves have seen all the calamitydisaster that I have brought on Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are in ruins and no one lives in them,
44:3	because of their wickedness which they committed so as to provoke Me to anger by continuing to burn sacrifices and to serve other gods whom they had not known, neither they, you, nor your fathers.
44:4	Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets, again and again, saying, “Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate.”
44:6	Therefore My wrath and My anger weregushed poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so they have become aruins ruin and a desolation as it is this day.
44:7	Now then, thusthis saysis what the Lord God of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: “Why are you doing great harm to yourselves, so as to cuteliminate off from youyourselves man and woman, child and infant, from among Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant,
44:8	provoking Me to anger with the works of your hands, burning sacrifices to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are entering to reside, so that you mightmay be cuteliminated off and become a curse and a reproachdisgrace among all the nations of the earth?
44:9	Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, 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	ButYet they have not become contrite even to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in My lawLaw or My statutes, which I haveplaced set before you and before your fathers.” ’
44:11	“Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am going to set My face against you for woea disaster, even to cuteliminate off all Judah.
44:12	And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have set their mindminds on entering the land of Egypt to reside there, and they will all meet their end in the land of Egypt; they will fall by the sword andor meet their end by famine. BothFrom the small andto the great, they will die by the sword and famine; and they will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation, and a reproachdisgrace.
44:13	And I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, just as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with pestilenceplague.
44:14	So there will be no refugeessurvivor or survivorsrefugee for the remnant of Judah who have entered the land of Egypt to reside there and then to return to the land of Judah, to which they are longing to return andto live; for none will return except a few refugees.’ ”
44:17	But rather we will certainly carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, by burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as we ourselves, our forefathers, our kings, and our princesleaders did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food and were well off and saw no misfortune.
44:18	But since we stopped burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything, and have met our end by the sword and by famine.”
44:19	“And,” said the women, “when we were burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and were pouring out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes in her image, and poured out drink offerings to her?”
44:21	“As for the smoking sacrifices that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your forefathers, your kings and your princesleaders, and the people of the land, did not the Lord not remember them, and did not all of this not come into His mind?
44:22	So the Lord was no longer able to endure it, because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you have committed; thusso your land has become a ruinplace of ruins, an object of horror, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.
44:23	BecauseSince you have burned sacrifices and have sinned against the Lord and not obeyed the voice of the Lord ornor walked in His lawLaw, His statutes, or His testimonies, therefore this calamitydisaster has befallenhappened to you, as it has this day.”
44:24	Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, “Hear the word of the Lord, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt,!
44:25	thusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, as followssays: ‘As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled it with your hands, saying, “We will certainly perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her.” GoBy aheadall andmeans confirmfulfill your vows, and certainlybe sure to perform your vows!’
44:26	NeverthelessIn return, hear the word of the Lord, all Judah who are living in the land of Egypt,: ‘Behold, I have sworn by My great name,’ says the Lord, ‘neverthat shall My name shall never be invoked again by the mouth of anyanyone man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “As the Lord God lives.”
44:27	Behold, I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and all the menpeople of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will meet their end by the sword andor by famine until they are completely gone.
44:28	Those who escape the sword will return outfrom of the land of Egypt to the land of Judah few in number. Then all the remnant of Judah who have gone to the land of Egypt to reside there will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs.
44:29	ThisAnd this will be the sign to you,’ declares the Lord, ‘that I am going to punish you in this place, so that you may know that My words will surelyassuredly stand against you for harm.’
44:30	ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Behold, I am going to givehand over Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt over to the hand of his enemies, to the hand of those who seek his life, just as I gavehanded over Zedekiah king of Judah over to the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and was seeking his life.’ ”
45:1	This is the message which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written down these words in a book at Jeremiah’s dictation, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying:
45:2	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel says to you, O Baruch:
45:3	‘You said, “AhOh, woe isto me! For the Lord has added sorrowgrief to my pain; I am weary with my groaning and have found no rest.” ’
45:4	ThusThis is what you are to say to him,: ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Behold, what I have built I am aboutgoing to tear down, and what I have planted I am aboutgoing to uproot, that is, all the wholepeople of the land.”
45:5	But as for you, are you seeking great things for yourself? Do not seek them; for behold, I am going to bring disaster on all flesh,’ declares the Lord, ‘but I will give your life to you as bootyplunder in all the places where you may go.’ ”
46:2	To Egypt, concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates River at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
46:3	“LineSet up the shieldbuckler and bucklershield, And drawadvance nearto for the battle!
46:4	Harness the horses, And mount the steeds, AndTake take your stand with helmets on! Polish the spears, Put on the scale-coats of armor!
46:5	Why have I seen it? They are terrified, They are drawing backretreating, And their mightywarriors men are defeated And have taken refuge in flight, Without facing back;. Terror is on every side!” Declares the Lord.
46:6	Let not the swift man flee, Nor the mightywarrior man escape;. In the north beside the river Euphrates They have stumbled and fallen.
46:7	Who is this that rises like the Nile, Like the rivers whose waters surge about?
46:8	Egypt rises like the Nile, EvenAnd like the rivers whose waters surge about; And He has said, “I will rise and cover that land; I will surely destroy the city and its inhabitants.”
46:9	Go up, you horses, and drive madlywildly, you chariots, ThatSo that the mightywarriors men may march forward: EthiopiaCush and Put, thatwho handle the shield, And the Lydians, thatwho handle and bend the bow.
46:10	For that day belongs to the Lord God of hostsarmies, A day of vengeance, so as to avenge Himself on His foes; And the sword will devour and be satiatedsatisfied, And drink its fill of their blood; For there will be a slaughter for the Lord God of hostsarmies, In the land of the north byat the river Euphrates.
46:11	Go up to Gilead and obtain balm, OVirgin virgin daughter of Egypt! InYou vain have youused multipliedmany remedies in vain; There is no healing for you.
46:13	This is the message which the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to smitestrike the land of Egypt:
46:15	Why have your mightypowerful ones becomebeen prostratecut down? They do not stand because the Lord has thrust them downaway.
46:16	They have repeatedly stumbled; Indeed, they have fallen, one against another. Then they said, ‘Get up!, Andand let’s us go back To our own people and our native land, Away from the sword of the oppressor.’!’
46:17	They criedshouted there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is nothing but a big noise; He has let the appointed time pass by!’
46:18	As I live,” declares the King, Whose name is the Lord of hostsarmies, “SurelyOne onecertainly shall come who loomsis up like Tabor among the mountains, Or like Carmel by the sea.
46:19	Make your baggage ready for exile, ODaughter daughterliving dwelling in Egypt, For Memphis will become a desolation; It will even be burneddestroyed down and bereftdeprived of inhabitants.
46:21	Also her mercenaries in her midst Are like fattened calves, For even they too have turned backaway and have fled away together; They did not stand their ground. For the day of their calamitydisaster has come upon them, The time of their punishment.
46:23	They have cut down her forest,” declares the Lord; “SurelyCertainly it will no morelonger be found, Even though they are now more numerous than locusts And are without number.
46:24	The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame, GivenTurned over to the power of the people of the north.”
46:25	The Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says,: “Behold, I am going to punish Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt along with her gods and her kings, evenindeed, Pharaoh and those who trust in him.
46:26	I shall givehand them over to the power of those who are seeking their lives, eventhat intois, theto hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and intoto the hand of his officers. AfterwardsAfterward, however, it will be inhabited as in the days of old,” declares the Lord.
46:27	“But as for you, O Jacob My servant, do not fear, Nor be dismayed, O Israel! For, see, I am going to save you from afarfar away, And your descendants from the land of their captivity; And Jacob will return and be undisturbed And secure, with no one making him trembleafraid.
46:28	O Jacob My servant, do not fear,” declares the Lord, “For I am with you. For I will make a fullcomplete enddestruction of all the nations Where I have driven you, Yet I will not make a fullcomplete enddestruction of you; But I will correct you properly And by no means leave you unpunished.”
47:1	ThatThe which came as the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh conquered Gaza.
47:2	ThusThis saysis what the Lord says: “Behold, waters are going to rise from the north And become an overflowing torrent, And overflow the land and alleverything itsthat fullnessis in it, The city and those who live in it; And the menpeople will cry out, And every inhabitant of the land will wail.
47:3	Because of the noise of the galloping hoofs of his stallions, The tumultroar of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels, The fathers have not turned back for their children, Because of the limpnessdebility of their hands,
47:4	OnBecause account of the day that is coming To destroy all the Philistines, To cuteliminate off from Tyre and Sidon Every surviving ally that is left; For the Lord is going to destroy the Philistines, The remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
47:5	Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has been ruineddestroyed. ORemnant remnant of their valley, How long will you gash yourself?
47:6	Ah, sword of the Lord, How long will you not be quiet? Withdraw into your sheath; BeRest at rest and stay still.
47:7	How can it be quiet, When the Lord has given it an order? Against Ashkelon and against the seacoastsea shore— There He has assignedsummoned it.”
48:1	Concerning Moab. ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it has been destroyed; Kiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured; The loftyhigh stronghold has been put to shame and shattered.
48:2	There is no longer praise for Moab no longer; In Heshbon they have devised calamitydisaster against her: ‘Come and let’s us cut her off from being a nation!’ You too, Madmen, will be silenced; The sword will follow after you.
48:5	For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith TheyWith will ascend with continual weeping; For at the descent of Horonaim They have heard the anguished cry of destruction.
48:6	Flee, save your livesyourselves, ThatSo that you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.
48:7	For because of your trust in your own achievements and treasures, EvenYou you yourself will also be captured; And Chemosh will go off into exile Together with his priests and his princesleaders.
48:10	Cursed beis the one who does the Lord’s work negligently, And cursed beis the one who restrains his sword from blood.
48:11	“Moab has been at ease since his youth; He has also been undisturbedpeaceful, like wine on its dregs, And he has not been emptiedpoured from vessel to vessel, Nor has he gone into exile. Therefore he retains his flavor, And his aroma has not changed.
48:12	Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will emptypour out his vessels and shattersmash his jars.
48:13	And Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
48:14	How can you say, ‘We are mighty warriors, And men valiantcompetent for battle’?
48:15	Moab has been destroyed and men have gone up to his cities; His choicest young men have also gone down to the slaughter,” Declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hostsarmies.
48:16	“The disaster of Moab will soon come, And his calamitycatastrophe has swiftlyhurried hastenedquickly.
48:17	Mourn for him, all you who live around him, EvenAnd all of you who know his name; Say, ‘How has the mighty scepter has been broken, A staff of splendor!’
48:18	Come down from your glory And sit on the parched ground, O daughter dwellingliving in Dibon, For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, He has ruined your strongholds.
48:19	Stand by the road and keep watch, OYou inhabitant of Aroer; Ask him who flees and her who escapes And say, ‘What has happened?’
48:21	“Judgment has also come upon the plain, upon Holon, Jahzah, and against Mephaath,
48:22	against Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,
48:23	against Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,
48:24	against Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.
48:25	The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm broken,” declares the Lord.
48:26	“Make him drunk, for he has become arrogant toward the Lord; so Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock.
48:27	Now was Israel not Israel a laughingstock to you? Or was he caught among thieves? For eachwhenever time you speak about him you shake your head in scorn.
48:28	Leave the cities and dwelllive among the cragsrocky cliffs, OYou inhabitants of Moab, And be like a dove that nests Beyond the mouth of the chasm.
48:29	We have heard of the pride of Moab—he is very proud— Of his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance, and his self-exaltation.
48:31	Therefore I will wail for Moab, EvenFor for all of Moab I will I cry out; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
48:33	So gladnessjoy and joyrejoicing are takenremoved away From the fruitful field, evenand from the land of Moab. And I have madeeliminated the wine to cease from the wine presses; No one will tread them with shouting, The shouting will not be shouts of joy.
48:34	From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have raised their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolate.
48:35	And I will makeput an end ofto Moab,” declares the Lord, “the one who offers sacrifice on the high place and the one who burns incense to his gods.
48:36	“Therefore My heart wailsmakes fora Moabsound like flutes for Moab; My heart also wailsmakes a sound like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have lost the abundance it produced.
48:37	For every head is shaved bald, and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands, and sackcloth onaround the loinswaists.
48:38	On all the housetops of Moab and in its streetspublic squares there is lamentationmourning everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable vessel,” declares the Lord.
48:40	For thusthis saysis what the Lord says: “Behold, one will fly swiftly like an eagle And spread out his wings against Moab.
48:41	Kerioth has been captured And the strongholds have been seized, So the hearts of the mightywarriors men of Moab inon that day Will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
48:43	Terror, pit, and snare are coming upon you, OInhabitant inhabitant of Moab,” declares the Lord.
48:44	“The one who flees from the terror Will fall into the pit, And the one who climbs up out of the pit Will be caught in the snare; For I shallwill bring upon her, even upon Moab, The year of their punishment,” declares the Lord.
48:45	“In the shadow of Heshbon The fugitives stand without strength; For a fire has gonespread forthout from Heshbon And a flame from the midst of Sihon, And it has devoured the forehead of Moab And the scalps of the riotousloud revelers.
48:46	Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; For your sons have been taken away captive, And your daughters into captivity.
48:47	Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab In the latter days,” declares the Lord. ThusThis faris the extent of the judgment on Moab.
49:1	Concerning the sons of Ammon. ThusThis saysis what the Lord says: “Does Israel have no sons? Or has he no heirs? Why then has Malcam taken possession of Gad, And his people settled in its cities?
49:2	Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “ThatWhen I will cause aan trumpetalarm blast of war to be heard Against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon; And it will become a desolate heap, And her towns will be set on fire. Then Israel will take possession of his possessors,” Says the Lord.
49:3	“Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed! Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah, GirdPut yourselveson with sackcloth and lamentmourn, And rushmove backabout and forth inside the walls; For Malcam will go into exile Together with his priests and his princesleaders.
49:4	How boastful you areboast about the valleys! Your valley is flowing away, OYou backsliding daughter Who trusts in her treasures, saying, ‘Who willcan come against me?’
49:5	Behold, I am going to bring terror upon you,” Declares the Lord God of hostsarmies, “From all directions around you; And each of you will be driven outaway headlongone after another, With no one to gather the fugitives together.
49:7	Concerning Edom. ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hosts,armies says: “Is there no longer any wisdom in Teman? Has good counseladvice been lost toby the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?
49:8	Flee away, turn back, dwell in the depths, OYou inhabitants of Dedan, For I will bring the disaster of Esau upon him At the time I punish him.
49:9	If grape gathererspickers came to you, Would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, They would destroy only untilwhat theywas hadsufficient enoughfor them.
49:10	But I have stripped Esau bare, I have uncovered his hiding places So that he will not be able to conceal himself; His offspring hashave been destroyed along with his relativesbrothers And his neighbors, and he is no morelonger exists.
49:12	For thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: “Behold, those who were not sentenced to drink the cup will certainly drink it, andso are you the one who will be held completely acquittedblameless? You will not be acquittedheld blameless, but you will certainly drink it.
49:13	For I have sworn by Myself,” declares the Lord, “that Bozrah will become an object of horror, a reproachdisgrace, a ruinwasteland, and a curse; and all its cities will become perpetualpermanent ruins.”
49:14	I have heard a message from the Lord, And ana envoymessenger is being sent among the nations, saying, “Gather yourselves together and come against her, And rise up for battle!”
49:15	“For behold, I have made you small among the nations, Despised among menpeople.
49:16	As for the terror ofyou youcause, The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, OYou you who live in the clefts of the rock, Who occupy the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as an eagle’s, I will bring you down from there,” declares the Lord.
49:17	“Edom will become an object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrifiedappalled and will hiss at all its wounds.
49:18	Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors,” says the Lord, “no one will live there, nor will aanyone son of manmankind reside in it.
49:19	Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thicketsthicket of the Jordan againstto a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will makechase him run away from it, and whoever is chosen I shallwill appoint over it whoever is chosen. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can stand against Me?”
49:20	Therefore hear the plan of the Lord which He has planned against Edom, and His purposes which He has purposedin mind against the inhabitants of Teman: surely they will certainly drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will certainly make their pasture desolate because of them.
49:22	Behold, He will mount up and swoop like an eagle, and spread out His wings against Bozrah; and the hearts of the mightywarriors men of Edom inon that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
49:23	Concerning Damascus.: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, For they have heard bad news; They are dishearteneddespair. There is anxiety byat the sea, It cannot be calmed.
49:24	Damascus has become helpless; She has turned away to flee, And panic has gripped her; Distress and pangslabor pains have takenseized hold of her Like a woman in childbirth.
49:26	Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets, And all the men of war will beperish silencedon in that day,” declares the Lord of hostsarmies.
49:27	“I will set fire to the wall of Damascus, And it will devour the fortified towerspalace of Ben-hadad.”
49:28	Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated. ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Arise, go up to Kedar And devastate the menpeople of the east.
49:29	They will take away their tents and their flocks; They will carry off for themselves Their tent curtains, all their goods and their camels, And they will call out to one another, ‘TerrorHorror on every side!’
49:30	Run away, flee! Dwell in the depths, OYou inhabitants of Hazor,” declares the Lord; “For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has formed a plan against you And devised a scheme against you.
49:32	Their camels will become plunder, And their many cattlelivestock for bootyspoils, And I will scatter to all the winds those who cut the corners of their hair; And I will bring their disaster from every side,” declares the Lord.
49:33	“Hazor will become a haunt of jackals, A desolation forever; No one will live there, Nor will aanyone son of manmankind reside in it.”
49:34	ThatThe which came as the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying:
49:35	“ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hosts,armies says: ‘Behold, I am going to break the bow of Elam, The finest of their might.
49:37	So I will shatter Elam before their enemies And before those who seek their lives; And I will bring calamitydisaster upon them, Even My fierce anger,’ declares the Lord, ‘And I will send out the sword after them Until I have consumed them.
49:38	Then I will set My throne in Elam, And destroyeliminate outfrom ofthere itthe king and princesofficials,’ Declares the Lord.
50:2	“Declare and proclaim among the nations. Proclaim it and lift up a standard.flag, Do not conceal it. but saySay, ‘Babylon has been captured, Bel has been put to shame, Marduk has been shattered; Her imagesidols have been put to shame, her idolsimages have been shattered.’
50:3	For a nation has come up against her outfrom of the north; it will make her land an object of horror, and there will be no inhabitant in it. BothWhether manpeople andor beastanimals, they have wandered off, they have gone away!
50:4	“In those days and at that time,” declares the Lord, “the sons of Israel will come, both they and the sons of Judah as well; they will go along weeping as they go, and it will be the Lord their God whom they will seek.
50:5	They will ask for the way to Zion, turning their faces in its direction; they will come so that they may join themselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.
50:6	“My people have become lost sheep; Their shepherds have led them astray. They have made them turn aside on the mountains;. They have gone along from mountain to hill, AndThey have forgotten their resting place.
50:7	All who camefound upon them have devoured them; And their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty, InasmuchSince as they have sinned against the Lord who is the habitation of righteousness, EvenThe the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’
50:8	“Wander away from the midst of Babylon And go forthout from the land of the Chaldeans; Be also like male goats at the head of the flock.
50:9	For behold, I am going to arouserouse and bring up against Babylon A hordecontingent of great nations from the land of the north, And they will draw up their battle lines against her; From there she will be taken captive. Their arrows will be like an expert warrior Who does not return empty-handed.
50:10	Chaldea will become plunder; All who plunder her will have enough,” declares the Lord.
50:11	“Because you are glad, because you are jubilant, OYou you who pillage My heritage, Because you skip about like a threshing heifer And neigh like stallions,
50:12	Your mother will be greatly ashamed, She who gave you birth will be humiliated. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, A wilderness, a parcheddry land and a desert.
50:13	Because of the indignationwrath of the Lord she will not be inhabited, But she will be completely desolate; Everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified And will hiss because of all her wounds.
50:14	Draw up your battle lines against Babylon on every side, All of you who bend the bow; Shoot at her, do not bespare sparing with your arrows, For she has sinned against the Lord.
50:15	Raise your battle cry against her on every side! She has given herself up, her pillarstowers have fallen, Her walls have been torn down. For this is the vengeance of the Lord: Take vengeance on her; As she has done to others, so do to her.
50:16	CutEliminate off the sower from Babylon And the one who wields the sickle at the time of harvest; From before the sword of the oppressor TheyEach of them will each turn back to his own people And theyeach of them will each flee to his own land.
50:17	“Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven them away. The first one who devoured him was the king of Assyria, and this last one who has brokengnawed his bones is Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
50:18	Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel says: ‘Behold, I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I punished the king of Assyria.
50:20	In those days and at that time,’ declares the Lord, ‘search will be made for the iniquitywrongdoing of Israel, but there will be none; and for the sins of Judah, but they will not be found; for I will pardonforgive those whom I leave as a remnant.’
50:21	“Against the land of Merathaim, go up against it, And against the inhabitants of Pekod. SlayKill and utterlycompletely destroy them,” declares the Lord, “And do according to alleverything that I have commanded you.
50:24	I set a snaretrap for you and you were also caught, O Babylon, While you yourself were not aware; You have been found and also seized Because you have engaged in conflict with the Lord.”
50:25	The Lord has opened His armory And has brought forthout the weapons of His indignation, For it is a work of the Lord God of hostsarmies In the land of the Chaldeans.
50:26	Come to her from the farthest border; Open up her barns, Pile her up like heaps of grain And utterlycompletely destroy her, Let nothing be left to her.
50:27	Put all her young bulls to the sword; Let them go down to the slaughter! Woe be upon them, for their day has come, The time of their punishment.
50:30	Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, And all her men of war will beperish silencedon in that day,” declares the Lord.
50:31	“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,” Declares the Lord God of hostsarmies, “For your day has come, The time when I will punish you.
50:32	The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set fire to his cities, And it will devour all his environssurroundings.”
50:33	ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hosts,armies says: “The sons of Israel are oppressed, And the sons of Judah as well; And all who took them captive have held them fastfirmly, They have refused to let them go.
50:34	Their Redeemer is strong, the Lord of hostsarmies is His name; He will vigorously plead their case So that He may bring rest to thetheir earthland, But turmoil to the inhabitants of Babylon.
50:35	A sword against the Chaldeans,” declares the Lord, “And against the inhabitants of Babylon And against her officialsleaders and her wise men!
50:36	A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become fools! A sword against her mighty menwarriors, and they will be shattered!
50:37	A sword against their horses, and against their chariots, And against all the foreigners who are in the midst of her, And they will become women! A sword against her treasures, and they will be plundered!
50:38	A drought on her waters, and they will be dried up! For it is a land of idols, And they arego madinsane overat fearsomefrightful idolsimages.
50:39	“Therefore the desert creatures will live there along with the jackals; The ostriches also will live in it,. AndIt it will never again be inhabited OrNor dweltlived in from generation to generation.
50:40	As when God overthrew Sodom And Gomorrah with its neighbors,” declares the Lord, “No manone will live there, Nor will anyanyone son of manmankind reside in it.
50:41	“Behold, a people is coming from the north, And a great nation and many kings Will be arousedroused from the remote parts of the earth.
50:42	They seize their bow and javelin; They are cruel and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea; And they ride on horses, MarshalledDrawn up like a man for the battle Against you, O daughter of Babylon.
50:44	“Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thicket of the Jordan to a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will makechase them run away from it, and whoever is chosen I will appoint over it whoever is chosen. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can stand beforeagainst Me?”
50:45	Therefore hear the plan of the Lord which He has planned against Babylon, and His purposes which He has purposedin mind against the land of the Chaldeans: surely they will certainly drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will certainly make their pasture desolate because of them.
50:46	At the shout, “Babylon has been seizedconquered!” the earth is shakenquakes, and an outcry is heard among the nations.
51:1	ThusThis saysis what the Lord says: “Behold, I am going to arousestir up The spirit of a destroyer against Babylon And against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai The spirit of a destroyer.
51:2	I will dispatchsend foreigners to Babylon so that they may winnow her And may devastate her land; For on every side they will be opposed to her Inon every side On the day of her calamitydisaster.
51:3	Let not him who bends his bow bend it, Nor let him rise up in his scale-coat of armor;. SoDo do not spare her young men; Devote all her army to destruction.
51:4	They will fall down slaindead in the land of the Chaldeans, And pierced through in their streets.”
51:5	For neither Israel nor Judah has been forsaken By his God, the Lord of hostsarmies, Although their land is full of guilt Before the Holy One of Israel.
51:6	Flee from the midst of Babylon, And each of you save his life! Do not beperish destroyed in her punishment, For this is the Lord’s time of vengeance; He is going to renderrepay recompense to her what she deserves.
51:7	Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, Intoxicating all the earth. The nations have drunk of her wine; Therefore the nations are going madinsane.
51:9	We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed; ForsakeAbandon her and let’s us each go to his own country, For her judgment has reached to heaven And towersit uprises to the very skiesclouds.
51:10	The Lord has brought about our vindication; Come and let’s us recount in Zion The work of the Lord our God!
51:11	Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! The Lord has arousedstirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, Because His purposeplan is against Babylon to destroy it; For it is the vengeance of the Lord, vengeance for His temple.
51:12	Lift up a signal flag against the walls of Babylon; Post a strong guard, Station sentries, PlaceSet menup inan ambush! For the Lord has both purposedplanned and performed What He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
51:13	OYou you who dwelllive by many waters, Abundant in treasures, Your end has come, The measure of your end.
51:14	The Lord of hostsarmies has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will certainly fill you with a population like locusts, And they will cry out with shouts of victory over you.”
51:16	When He utters His voice, there is a tumultroar of waters in the heavens, And He causesmakes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth;. He makes lightning for the rain And brings forthout the wind from His storehouses.
51:17	AllEvery mankindperson is stupid, devoid of knowledge; Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, For his moltencast metal images are deceitful, And there is no breath in them.
51:18	They are worthless, a work of mockery; InAt the time of their punishment they will perish.
51:19	The portion of Jacob is not like these; For He is the Maker of all is Heeverything, And of the tribe of His inheritance; The Lord of hostsarmies is His name.
51:22	And with you I shatter man and woman, And with you I shatter the old man and youth, And with you I shatter the young man and virgin,
51:23	And with you I shatter the shepherd and his flock, And with you I shatter the farmer and his team, And with you I shatter governors and prefectsofficials.
51:25	“Behold, I am against you, Omountain destroyingof mountain,destruction WhoThat destroys the whole earth,” declares the Lord, “And I will stretch out My hand against you, And roll you down from the cragsrocky cliffs, And I will make you a burnt out mountain.
51:27	Lift up a signal flag in the land, Blow a trumpet among the nations! Consecrate the nations against her, Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; Appoint aan marshalofficer against her, Bring up the horses like bristly locusts.
51:28	Consecrate the nations against her, The kings of the Medes, Their governors and all their prefectsofficials, And every land ofunder their dominioncontrol.
51:29	So the land quakes and writhes, For the purposesplans of the Lord against Babylon stand, To make the land of Babylon A desolation without inhabitants.
51:30	The mightywarriors men of Babylon have ceased fighting, They stay in the strongholds; Their strength is exhausted, They are becoming like women; Their dwellinghomes places are set on fire, The bars of her gates are broken.
51:32	The fordsriver alsocrossing places have been seized, And they have burned the marshes with fire, And the men of war are terrified.
51:33	For thusthis saysis what the Lord of hostsarmies, the God of Israel says: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor At the time that it is stampedtread firmdown; YetIn injust a little while the time of harvest will come for her.”
51:34	“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, andhe has crushed me, He has set me down like an empty vessel; He has swallowed me like a monster, He has filled his stomach with my delicacies; He has washed me away.
51:36	Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: “Behold, I am going to plead your case And exacttake full vengeance for you; And I will dry up her sea And make her fountain dry.
51:39	When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And make them drunk, so that they may becomerejoice jubilantin triumph, And may sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up,” declares the Lord.
51:41	“How Sheshak has been captured, And the praise of the whole earth has been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
51:42	The sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed withby its tumultuousroaring waves.
51:43	Her cities have become an object of horror, A parcheddry land and a desert, A land in which no manone lives And through which no sonone of manmankind passes.
51:44	I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth; And the nations will no longer stream totoward him. Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!
51:45	“Come forthout from her midst, My people, And each of you save yourselves From the fierce anger of the Lord.
51:46	Now, so that your heart does not grow faint, And you are not afraid at the report that will be heard in the land— For the report will come in one year, And after that another report in another year, And violence will be in the land With ruler against ruler—
51:47	Therefore behold, days are coming When I will punish the idols of Babylon; And her whole land will be put to shame. And all her slain will fall in her midst.
51:48	Then heaven and earth and alleverything that is in them Will shout for joy over Babylon, ForBecause the destroyers will come to her from the north,” Declares the Lord.
51:49	Indeed, Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel, As also for Babylon the slain of all the earth have also fallen for Babylon.
51:50	You who have escaped the sword, DepartGo! Do not stay! Remember the Lord from afarfar away, And let Jerusalem come to your mind.
51:51	We are ashamed because we have heard reproachrebuke; Disgrace has covered our faces, ForBecause aliensstrangers have entered The holy places of the Lord’s house.
51:53	Though Babylon shouldascends ascend to the heavens, And though she shouldfortifies fortify her lofty stronghold, FromDestroyers Me destroyers will come from Me to her,” declares the Lord.
51:55	For the Lord is going to destroy Babylon, And He will make her loud noise vanish from her. And their waves will roar like many waters; The tumultclamor of their voices sounds forth.
51:56	For the destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon, And her mightywarriors men will be captured, Their bows are shattered; For the Lord is a God of recompenseretribution, He will fully repay.
51:57	“I will make her princesleaders and her wise men drunk, Her governors, her prefectsofficials, and her mighty menwarriors, ThatSo that they maywill sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up,” Declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hostsarmies.
51:58	ThusThis saysis what the Lord of hosts,armies says: “The broad wall of Babylon will be completely razeddemolished, And her high gates will be set on fire; So the peoples will toillabor for nothing, And the nations become exhausted only for fire.”
51:59	The messagecommand whichthat Jeremiah the prophet commandedgave Seraiah the son of Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (NowAnd Seraiah was quartermaster.)
51:60	So Jeremiah wrote inon a single scroll all the calamitydisaster which would come uponagainst Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon.
51:61	Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “As soon as you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words aloud,
51:62	and say, ‘You, O Lord, have promised concerning this place to cut it off, so that there will be nothing dwellingliving in it, whether man or beast,animal; but it will be a perpetualpermanent desolation.’
51:63	And as soon as you finish reading this scroll, you willshall tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,
51:64	and say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and not rise again, because of the calamitydisaster that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become exhausted.’ ” ThusTo farthis point are the words of Jeremiah.
52:1	Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
52:2	He did evil in the sight of the Lord, likein allaccordance with everything that Jehoiakim had done.
52:3	For throughbecause of the anger of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, until He castdrove them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelledrevolted against the king of Babylon.
52:4	Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it, and built a siegebulwark wall all around it.
52:7	Then the city was broken intobreached, and all the menwarriors of war fled and wentleft forth from the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.
52:8	But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the desert plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.
52:10	TheAnd the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the princescommanders of Judah in Riblah.
52:11	Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze fettersshackles and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.
52:13	HeAnd he burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.
52:14	So all the entire army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broketore down all the walls around Jerusalem.
52:15	Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carriedtook away into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the artisanscraftsmen.
52:16	But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmenfarmers.
52:17	Now the bronze pillars which belonged to the house of the Lord and the stands and the bronze sea, which were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans brokesmashed into pieces and carried all their bronze to Babylon.
52:18	They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the pans, and all the bronze vessels which were used in temple service.
52:19	The captain of the guard also took away the bowls, the firepans, the basins, the pots, the lampstands, the pans, and the drink offering bowls, whatwhatever was fine gold, and whatwhatever was fine silver.
52:22	NowAlso, a capital of bronze was on top of it; and the height of each capital was five cubits, with networklatticework and pomegranates uponon the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these, including pomegranates.
52:23	There were ninety-six exposed pomegranates; all the pomegranates numbered a hundred on the networklatticework all around.
52:25	He also took from the city one official who was overseer of the men of warwarriors, and seven of the king’s advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men offrom the people of the land who were found ininside the midst of the city.
52:26	Nebuzaradan the captain of the guardbodyguards took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
52:27	Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death atin Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was led away into exile from its land.
52:28	These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carriedtook away into exile: in the seventh year 3,023 Jews;
52:30	in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carriedtook into exile 745 Jewish people; there were 4,600 personspeople in all.
52:34	ForAnd as his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a daily portion for each day, all the days of his life until the day of his death.