Jubilee2000 - Jeremiah

Chapter 1

1:1  The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that [were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

1:2  To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

1:3  It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

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

1:5  Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the Gentiles.

1:6  Then I said, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I do not know how to speak: for I [am] a child.

1:7  But the LORD said unto me, Do not say, I [am] a child; for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

1:8  Do not be afraid of their faces; for I [am] with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

1:9  Then the LORD put forth his hand and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

1:10  See, I have placed thee in this day over Gentiles and over kingdoms, to root out, and to destroy, and to throw out, and to cast down, to build, and to plant.

1:11  Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.

1:12  Then the LORD said unto me, Thou hast seen well, for I will hasten my word to perform it.

1:13  And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and its face [is] toward the north.

1:14  Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

1:15  For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and each one shall set his seat at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem and near all its walls round about and near all the cities of Judah.

1:16  And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me and have burned incense unto other gods and worshipped the works of their own hands.

1:17  Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and thou shalt arise and speak unto them all that I shall command thee; do not fear them lest I confound thee before them.

1:18  For, behold, I have made thee this day as a defenced city and as an iron pillar and as [a] wall of brass upon all the earth against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

1:19  And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.:

Chapter 2

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

2:2  Go and cry [out] in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD: I remember thee, the mercy of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou didst go after me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown.

2:3  Israel [was] holiness unto the LORD [and] the firstfruits of his increase; all that devour him shall [be found] guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

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

2:5  thus hath the LORD said, What iniquity have your fathers found in me that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain?

2:6  Neither did they say, Where [is] the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through and where no man dwelt?

2:7  And I brought you into a plentiful country to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.

2:8  The priests did not say, Where [is] the LORD? and those that handled the law did not know me; the pastors also rebelled against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after [things that] do not profit.

2:9  Therefore I will yet enter into judgment with you, saith the LORD, and I will plead with your children's children.

2:10  For pass over the isles of Chittim and see; and send unto Kedar and consider diligently and see if there be such a thing.

2:11  Has a nation changed [their] gods? Even though they are not gods. But my people have changed their glory for [that which] does not profit.

2:12  Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this; and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, said the LORD.

2:13  For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters to hew them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

2:14  [Is] Israel a servant? [Is] he a homeborn [slave]? Why has he been [given over] as a prey?

2:15  The young lions roared upon him [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are deserted without inhabitant.

2:16  Even the sons of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

2:17  Could this not have come upon you peradventure because thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

2:18  And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt? to drink the waters of the Nile? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria? to drink the waters of the river [Eufrates]?

2:19  Thine own wickedness shall chastise thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee; know therefore and see how evil and bitter it is, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God and that my fear [is] lacking in thee, saith the Lord GOD of the hosts.

2:20  For of old time I have broken thy yoke [and] burst thy bands; and thou didst say, I will not serve [sin]. With all this, upon every high hill and under every green tree thou dost wander, playing the harlot.

2:21  Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, a seed of Truth, all of her; how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

2:22  For though thou wash thee with nitre and take thee much soap, [yet] thine iniquity is sealed before me, saith the Lord GOD.

2:23  How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? See thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

2:24  a wild ass used to the wilderness that breaths according to the desire of her soul; from her lust, who shall stop her? All those that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

2:25  Withhold thy foot from being unshod and thy throat from thirst; but thou didst say, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.

2:26  As the thief is ashamed when he is taken, so shall the house of Israel be ashamed: they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

2:27  saying to a [piece of] firewood, Thou [art] my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned [their] back unto me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their trouble they say, Arise and deliver us.

2:28  But where [are] thy gods that thou hast made thee? Let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble, for [according to] the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah.

2:29  Why will ye plead with me? Ye have all rebelled against me, saith the LORD.

2:30  I have smitten your children in vain; they have received no correction; your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

2:31  O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? Why do my people say, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

2:32  Shall the virgin, perchance, forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

2:33  Why dost thou trim thy way to seek love? therefore thou hast also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

2:34  Even in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; thou didst not find them in any trespass, but by all these things.

2:35  Yet thou didst say, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee because thou hast said, I did not sin.

2:36  Why dost thou talk so much, changing thy ways? Thou shalt also be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

2:37  Thou shalt also go forth from him with thine hands upon thine head; for the LORD has rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.:

Chapter 3

3:1  They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, shall he return unto her again? Is she not a land that is now completely polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, said the LORD.

3:2  Lift up thine eyes unto the high places and see if there is anywhere thou hast not been ravished. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

3:3  Therefore the rain has been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and thou dost have a whore's forehead, thou dost refuse to be ashamed.

3:4  Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou [art] the guide of my youth?

3:5  Will he reserve [his anger] for ever? will he keep [it] to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done as many evil things as thou could.

3:6  The LORD said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which rebellious Israel has done? She is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.

3:7  And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn thou unto me. But she did not return. And her rebellious sister Judah saw [it].

3:8  And I saw when for all the causes by which rebellious Israel committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her rebellious sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

3:9  And it came to pass through [her judging] her whoredom to be a light [thing] that the land became defiled and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

3:10  And yet for all this her rebellious sister Judah has never turned unto me with her whole heart, but untruthfully, said the LORD.

3:11  And the LORD said unto me, The rebellious Israel has justified her soul in comparison to the treacherous Judah.

3:12  Go and proclaim these words toward the north [wind] and say, Return, thou rebellious Israel, said the LORD [and] I will not cause my anger to fall upon you; for I [am] merciful, said the LORD, [and] I will not keep [anger] for ever.

3:13  Only acknowledge thine iniquity that thou hast rebelled against the LORD thy God and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not heard my voice, said the LORD.

3:14  Turn, O rebellious sons, said the LORD; for I am your Lord, and I will take you one of a city and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

3:15  And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

3:16  And it shall come to pass, when ye are multiplied and increased in the land; in those days, said the LORD, they shall no longer say, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more.

3:17  At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the Gentiles shall congregate unto it in the name of the LORD in Jerusalem; neither shall they walk any more after the hardness of their evil heart.

3:18  In those times they shall go out from the house of Judah unto the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north [wind] to the land which I caused your fathers to inherit.

3:19  But I said, How shall I place thee as sons and give thee the desirable land, the heritage that the hosts of Gentiles desire? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father and shalt not turn away from following me.

3:20  Surely [as] the woman breaks the faith of her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, said the LORD.

3:21  A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping of the supplications of the sons of Israel; for they have perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten the LORD their God.

3:22  Return, ye rebellious sons, [and] I will heal your rebellion. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God.

3:23  Truly the hills are vanity, the multitude of mountains; truly in the LORD our God [is] the salvation of Israel.

3:24  For shame has devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth: their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

3:25  We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not hearkened unto the voice of the LORD our God.:

Chapter 4

4:1  If thou wilt return unto me, O Israel, said the LORD, thou shalt have rest; and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then thou shalt not go [into captivity].

4:2  And thou shalt swear, The LORD lives, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the Gentiles shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

4:3  For thus has the LORD said to every man of Judah and of Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.

4:4  Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem lest my fury come forth like fire and burn [so] that no one can quench [it] because of the evil of your doings.

4:5  Declare ye in Judah and publish in Jerusalem and say, Blow ye the shofar in the land; cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.

4:6  Set up the banner in Zion: come together, do not delay: for I bring evil from the north [wind], and a great destruction.

4:7  The lion is come up from his den, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; [and] thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

4:8  For this, gird yourselves with sackcloth; lament and howl; for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

4:9  And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, [that] the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

4:10  (Then I said, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; when the sword reaches unto the soul).

4:11  At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places of the wilderness came toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse.

4:12  A wind much more violent than these shall come unto me; for now I will also speak judgments against them.

4:13  Behold, he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us, for we are given over to be spoiled!

4:14  O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness that thou may be saved. How long shalt thou entertain the thoughts of thy iniquity within thee?

4:15  For the voice [is heard] from him who brings the news from Dan and from him who causes to hear the affliction from mount Ephraim.

4:16  Say ye of the Gentiles; behold, cause it to be heard upon Jerusalem, Watchmen come from a far country and shall give out their voice upon the cities of Judah.

4:17  As the watchmen of the heritages, they were upon her round about because she has been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.

4:18  Thy way and thy doings have procured these [things] unto thee; this [is] thy wickedness because it is bitter, because it reaches unto thine heart.

4:19  My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the shofar, the alarm of war.

4:20  Destruction upon destruction is cried, for the whole land is destroyed; suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment.

4:21  How long shall I see the banner [and] hear the voice of the shofar?

4:22  For my people [are] foolish; the ignorant sons with no understanding have not known me; they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

4:23  I beheld the earth, and, behold, [it was] without order, and empty; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.

4:24  I beheld the mountains, and, behold, they trembled, and all the hills were destroyed.

4:25  I beheld, and, behold, [there was] no man, and all the birds of the heavens had fled.

4:26  I beheld, and, behold, Carmel was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD [and] by his fierce anger.

4:27  For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet I will not make a full end.

4:28  For this shall the earth be made desolate, and the heavens above be darkened because I spoke; I purposed and did not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

4:29  The whole city fled from the thunder of the horsemen and bowmen; they went into the thickets of the forests and climbed up upon the rocks; every city was forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.

4:30  And thou who art destroyed, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothe thyself with crimson, though thou deck thee with ornaments of gold, though thou paint thy eyes with antimony, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; [thy] lovers will despise thee; they will seek thy life.

4:31  For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, [that] bewails herself, [that] spreads her hands, [saying], Woe [is] me now! for my soul is faint because of the murderers.:

Chapter 5

5:1  Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and find out and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be [any] that execute judgment, that seek the truth; and [I] will pardon the city.

5:2  And if they should say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely.

5:3  O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? Thou hast stricken them, but they did not feel it; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive chastisement; they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

5:4  Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they have become foolish; for they do not know the way of the LORD [nor] the judgment of their God.

5:5  I will go unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, [and] the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke [and] burst the bonds.

5:6  Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, [and] a wolf of the desert shall destroy them and a tiger shall lie in wait over their cities; anyone that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces because their rebellions have been multiplied, [and] their backslidings are increased.

5:7  How shall I pardon thee for this? Thy sons have forsaken me and sworn by [them that are] not gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

5:8  They were [as] fed horses in the morning; each one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

5:9  Shall I not visit for these [things]? said the LORD; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

5:10  Go ye up upon her walls and destroy; but make not a full end; take away her battlements for they [are] not the LORD'S.

5:11  For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have made a firm decision to rebel against me, saith the LORD.

5:12  They have denied the LORD and said, He [is] not; and evil shall not come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine;

5:13  but the prophets shall become like wind, and there is no word in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

5:14  Therefore thus hath the LORD God of the hosts said: Because ye have spoken this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

5:15  Behold, I will bring a nation upon you from afar, O house of Israel, saith the LORD; it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou dost not know, neither dost [thou] understand what they say.

5:16  Their quiver [is] as an open sepulcher; they [are] all mighty men.

5:17  And they shall eat up thine harvest and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds; they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees; and thy fenced cities, in which thou dost trust, they shall bring to nothing with the sword.

5:18  Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.

5:19  And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Why does the LORD our God do all these [things] unto us? Then thou shalt answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land [that is] not yours.

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

5:21  Hear now this, O foolish people and without heart, who have eyes and do not see; who have ears, and do not hear:

5:22  Do ye not fear me? saith the LORD; will ye not tremble at my presence, who placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by an eternal order, which cannot be broken? Storms shall raise themselves up, yet they shall not prevail; their waves shall roar, yet they shall not pass over it.

5:23  But this people have a false and rebellious heart; they turned and went.

5:24  Neither do they say in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God that gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; he shall keep us [with] the appointed weeks of the harvest.

5:25  Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and your sins have withheld good [things] from you.

5:26  For among my people were found wicked [men]: they lay in wait as he that sets snares; they set a trap of perdition to catch men.

5:27  As a cage full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit; thus they became great and rich.

5:28  They are become fat; they shine; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they did not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless; with all this they made themselves prosperous; and they did not judge the cause of the poor.

5:29  Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

5:30  A horrible and ugly thing is committed in the land:

5:31  The prophets prophesied falsely, and the priests bore rule by their hands; and my people love [to have it] so. What will ye do in the end thereof?:

Chapter 6

6:1  O ye sons of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem and blow the shofar in Tekoa and set up as a sign smoke in Bethhaccerem; for evil appears out of the north [wind] and great destruction.

6:2  I shall liken the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate [woman].

6:3  The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch [their] tents against her round about; they shall feed each one his portion.

6:4  Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up towards the south. Woe unto us! for the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

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

6:6  For thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Hew ye down trees and cast a mount against Jerusalem; this [is] the city that all of her is to be visited; [there is] violence in the midst of her.

6:7  As the waters never cease to flow from a fountain, so her wickedness never ceases to flow; injustice and robbery is heard in her; in my presence continually, sickness and wounds.

6:8  Chastise Jerusalem lest peradventure my soul be disjointed from thee, lest peradventure I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

6:9  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine; turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.

6:10  To whom shall I speak, and give warning that they may hear? behold, their ears [are] uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken, behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

6:11  Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I have worked hard to hold myself in from pouring it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for the husband with the wife shall also be taken, the aged with [him that is] full of days.

6:12  And their houses shall be turned unto others, [with their] fields and wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.

6:13  For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them each one [is] given to greed; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely.

6:14  They treat also the destruction [of the daughter] of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.

6:15  Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore, they shall fall among those that shall fall: at the time [that] I visit them they shall fall, saith the LORD.

6:16  Thus hath the LORD said, Stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths, where the good way [is] and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].

6:17  Also I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the shofar. But they said, We will not hearken.

6:18  Therefore hear, ye Gentiles, and know, O congregation of [Gentiles].

6:19  Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, [even] the fruit of their thoughts because they have not hearkened unto my words, and they hated my law.

6:20  To what purpose does this incense come to me from Sheba and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings [are] not according to my will, nor [are] your sacrifices sweet unto me.

6:21  Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

6:22  Thus hath the LORD said, Behold, a people come from the land of the north [wind], and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

6:23  They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they [are] cruel, and they shall have no mercy; their voice shall roar like the sea; and they shall ride upon horses set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.

6:24  We have heard the fame thereof; our hands wax feeble; anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pain as of a woman in travail.

6:25  Do not go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy [and] fear [is] on every side.

6:26  O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth and wallow thyself in ashes; make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

6:27  I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people; thou shalt know and examine their way.

6:28  They [are] all rebellious princes; they walk with deception: [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters.

6:29  The bellows are burned; the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melts in vain; for the wicked are not plucked away.

6:30  Reprobate silver shall [men] call them because the LORD has rejected them.:

Chapter 7

7:1  The word that was sent to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

7:2  Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house and proclaim there this word and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all [ye of] Judah that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.

7:3  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

7:4  Do not trust in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD [are] these.

7:5  For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye thoroughly do right between a man and his neighbour,

7:6  [if] ye do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt,

7:7  then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers for ever and ever.

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

7:9  Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not,

7:10  and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are free to do all these abominations?

7:11  Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], said the LORD.

7:12  But go now unto my place which [was] in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

7:13  And now because ye have done all these works, said the LORD and I spoke well unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye did not hear; and I called you, but ye did not answer;

7:14  therefore I will do unto [this] house, which is called by my name, in which ye trust, and unto this place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

7:15  And I will cast you out of my sight as I have cast out all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim.

7:16  Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

7:17  Dost thou not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

7:18  The sons gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead [their] dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that they may provoke me to anger.

7:19  Shall they provoke me to anger? said the LORD: [do they] not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

7:20  Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, my anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man and upon beast and upon the trees of the field and upon the fruit of the ground, and it shall burn and shall not be quenched.

7:21  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: Add your burnt offerings upon your sacrifices and eat flesh.

7:22  For I did not speak unto your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

7:23  But this thing I commanded them, saying, Hear my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the way that I have commanded you that it may be well unto you.

7:24  But they did not hearken, nor incline their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels in the imagination of their evil heart and went backward, and not forward

7:25  since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day. I have [even] sent unto you all my servants, the prophets, daily rising up early and sending [them];

7:26  yet they did not hearken unto me, nor incline their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

7:27  Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt even call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

7:28  Therefore thou shalt say unto them, This [is] the nation that did not hear the voice of the LORD their God, nor receive chastisement; the faith is lost and was cut off from their mouth.

7:29  Cut off thine hair, O [Jerusalem], and cast [it] away and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD has cast off and forsaken the nation of his wrath.

7:30  For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, said the LORD; they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name to pollute it.

7:31  And they have built the high places of Tophet, which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command [them], neither did it come into my heart.

7:32  Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no longer be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter; for they shall bury in Tophet, for there shall be no [other] place.

7:33  And the carcasses of this people shall be food for the fowls of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there shall be no one to chase [them] away.

7:34  Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.:

Chapter 8

8:1  At that time, said the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of his princes and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;

8:2  and they shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved and whom they have served and after whom they have walked and whom they have sought and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

8:3  And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of those that remain of this evil generation, in all the places where I have driven those that remain, said the LORD of the hosts.

8:4  Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD said: The one who falls, does he never arise? he who turns away, does he never return?

8:5  Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem rebellious with a perpetual rebellion? They hold fast deceit; they refuse to return.

8:6  I hearkened and heard, [but] they did not speak aright: there was no man that repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? each one returned to his course as the horse rushes into the battle.

8:7  Even the stork in the heaven knows her appointed time; and the turtle [dove] and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people did not know the judgment of the LORD.

8:8  How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Behold, certainly in vain did he make the pen; the scribes [were] in vain.

8:9  The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?

8:10  Therefore I will give their wives unto others [and] their fields unto those that shall inherit [them]: for each one from the least even unto the greatest is given to greed; from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely.

8:11  For they have treated the destruction of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace, when [there is] no peace.

8:12  Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among those that should fall: when I visit them, they shall fall, saith the LORD.

8:13  I will surely cut them off completely, said the LORD: [there are] no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fall; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.

8:14  Upon what shall we secure ourselves? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God has put us to silence and given us water of gall to drink because we have sinned against the LORD.

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

8:16  The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan; the whole earth trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those that dwell therein.

8:17  For, behold, I send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, said the LORD.

8:18  Because of my strong sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.

8:19  Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people that comes from a far country: [Is] not the LORD in Zion? [Is] not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images [and] with vanities of a strange [god]?

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

8:21  For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am devastated; I am in darkness; astonishment has taken hold on me.

8:22  [Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? Why then was there no medicine for the daughter of my people?:

Chapter 9

9:1  Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

9:2  Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men that I might leave my people and go from them! for they [are] all adulterers, a congregation of rebels.

9:3  And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies, but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth for they proceed from evil to evil, and they did not recognize me, said the LORD.

9:4  Take heed each one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

9:5  And they will deceive each one his neighbour and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.

9:6  Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

9:7  Therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Behold, I will melt them and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

9:8  Their tongue [is as] a sharp arrow; it speaks deceit: [one] speaks peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth but in heart he lays in wait.

9:9  Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith the LORD; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

9:10  Upon the mountains I will lift up weeping and wailing and lamentation upon the habitations of the wilderness because they are burned up, so that no one can pass through [them]; neither can [men] hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and even the beasts of the earth are fled; they are gone.

9:11  And I will make Jerusalem heaps [and] a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

9:12  Who [is] the wise man that may understand this? and [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken that he may declare for what cause the land perishes [and] is burned up like a wilderness that no one passes through?

9:13  And the LORD said, Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them, and have not heard my voice, neither walked therein,

9:14  but have walked after the imagination of their own heart and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them,

9:15  Therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said: Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood and give them water of gall to drink.

9:16  I will scatter them also among Gentiles whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.

9:17  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Consider ye and call for the mourning women that they may come and send for cunning [women] that they may come,

9:18  and let them make haste and take up a wailing for us that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.

9:19  For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we destroyed! We are greatly confounded. Why have we forsaken the land? Why have our dwellings cast [us] out?

9:20  Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth and teach your daughters wailing and each one her neighbour lamentation.

9:21  For death is come up into our windows [and] is entered into our palaces to cut off the children from without [and] the young men from the streets.

9:22  Speak, Thus hath the LORD said, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field and as the handful after the harvestman, and there shall be none to gather [them].

9:23  Thus hath the LORD said, Let not the wise [man] glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let not the rich [man] glory in his riches;

9:24  but let him that glories glory in this, that he understands me and knows me, that I [am] the LORD who does mercy, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, said the LORD.

9:25  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will visit all [those who are] circumcised with the uncircumcised:

9:26  Egypt and Judah and Edom and the sons of Ammon and Moab and all [that are] in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all the Gentiles [are] uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised in the heart.:

Chapter 10

10:1  Hear ye the word which the LORD has spoken over you, O house of Israel:

10:2  Thus hath the LORD said, Do not learn the way of the Gentiles, and do not fear the signs of heaven, even though the Gentiles fear them.

10:3  For the customs of the peoples [are] vanity: for [one] cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

10:4  They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails, that it not move.

10:5  They compare them to the palm tree, and they do not speak: they must be carried, because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither do they have power to do good.

10:6  Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.

10:7  Who would not fear thee, O King of the Gentiles? for unto thee does it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the Gentiles and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto thee.

10:8  But they shall become altogether carnal and foolish. The stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.

10:9  Silver spread into plates shall be brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, shall the workman work and the hands of the founder: they shall dress them in blue and purple: they [are] all the work of cunning [men].

10:10  But the LORD God [is] the Truth, he himself [is] Living God and Everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the Gentiles shall not be able to abide his indignation.

10:11  Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens or the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.

10:12  He that makes the earth by his power, he that orders the world with his wisdom and extends the heavens with his intelligence:

10:13  at his voice, [there is] given a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes the clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes the lightnings with the rain and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.

10:14  Every man is carnal in [his] knowledge: let every founder be ashamed of his graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no spirit in them.

10:15  They [are] vanity [and] the work of scorn: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

10:16  The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the Former of all [things], and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of the hosts [is] his name.

10:17  Gather up thy wares out of the lands, O inhabitant of the fortress.

10:18  For thus hath the LORD said, Behold, that this time I will throw out the inhabitants of the land with a sling and will afflict them, that they may find [it].

10:19  Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous, but I said, Truly this [is] my sickness, and I must bear it.

10:20  My tent is destroyed, and all my cords [are] broken: my sons were taken from me, and they [are] lost; [there is] no one to stretch forth my tent any more and to set up my curtains.

10:21  For the pastors are become carnal and have not sought the LORD; therefore they did not understand, and all their flocks scattered.

10:22  Behold, the voice of the rumour is come, and a great commotion out of the land of the north [wind] to make the cities of Judah desolate [and] a den of dragons.

10:23  O LORD, I know that man is not the lord of his [own] way: [it is] not in man that walks to order his steps.

10:24  O LORD, chastise me, but with judgment; not with thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing.

10:25  Pour out thy fury upon the Gentiles that do not know thee and upon the nations that do not call on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob and devoured him and consumed him and have destroyed his habitation.:

Chapter 11

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

11:2  Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto every man of Judah and to every inhabitant of Jerusalem;

11:3  and thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD God of Israel said: Cursed [be] the man that does not hear the words of this covenant,

11:4  which I commanded your fathers the day [that] I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying unto them, hear my voice and comply with my words according to all which I command you; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God

11:5  that I may confirm the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, that I would give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as [it is] this day. Then I answered, and said, Amen, O LORD.

11:6  And the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant and do them.

11:7  For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day [that] I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, [even] unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Hear my voice.

11:8  Yet they did not hear, nor did they incline their ear, but walked each one in the imagination of their evil heart; therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded [them] to do; but they did [them] not.

11:9  And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

11:10  They have returned to the iniquities of their first fathers, who refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

11:11  Therefore thus hath the LORD said, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.

11:12  Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense, who shall not be able to save them in the time of their trouble.

11:13  For [according to] the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and [according to] the number of thy streets, O Jerusalem, have ye set up altars of confusion, [even] altars to burn incense unto Baal.

11:14  Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them for I will not hear [them] in the time that they cry unto me in their trouble.

11:15  What [part] has my beloved in my house, [seeing] she has wrought lewdness with many? The holy flesh shall pass from upon thee, for in thy evil thou didst glory.

11:16  The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, beautiful in fruit and in appearance. At the voice of a great word he caused fire to be kindled upon it, and they broke her branches.

11:17  For the LORD of the hosts, that planted thee, has pronounced evil against thee for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.

11:18  And the LORD gave me knowledge [of it], and I experienced [it]: then thou didst show me their doings.

11:19  But I [was] like a ram [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; for I did not understand that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living that his name may no longer be remembered.

11:20  But, O LORD of the hosts, that judges righteously, that tries the kidneys and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them, for unto thee I have uncovered my cause.

11:21  Therefore, thus hath the LORD said regarding the men of Anathoth that seek thy life, saying, Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD that thou not die by our hand;

11:22  therefore, thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Behold, I visit: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:

11:23  and there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, [even] the year of their visitation.:

Chapter 12

12:1  Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, even though I dispute with thee: even so, I will speak judgments with thee; Why does the way of the wicked prosper? All those that completely rebel against thee have peace.

12:2  Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they grow, and they bring forth fruit; thou [art] near in their mouth and far from their kidneys.

12:3  But thou, O LORD, dost know me; thou hast seen me and tried my heart toward thee; pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and mark them for the day of slaughter.

12:4  How long shall the land be desolate, and the grass of all the field wither, for the wickedness of those that dwell therein? The cattle are lacking, and the birds because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

12:5  If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee then how canst thou contend with horses? and [if] in the land of peace, [in which] thou didst trust, [they wearied thee], then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

12:6  For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee, even they have raised their voice after thee, O congregation; do not believe them, when they speak fair words unto thee.

12:7  I have forsaken my house, I have left my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

12:8  My heritage was unto me as a lion in the forest; it cried out against me, therefore I have hated it.

12:9  My heritage [is] unto me [as] a speckled bird; the birds round about [are] against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour her.

12:10  Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard; they have trodden my heritage under foot; they have made my precious heritage a desolate wilderness.

12:11  They have made it desolate; it cries against me, desolate; the whole land was made desolate because there was no man that would see.

12:12  The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the [one] end of the land even to the [other] end of the land; there is no peace for any flesh.

12:13  They have sown bread, but shall reap thorns; they had the heritage, but they did not profit; and they shall be ashamed because of your fruits, by the [fierce] anger of the LORD.

12:14  Thus hath the LORD said against all my evil neighbours that touch the heritage which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

12:15  And it shall come to pass that after I have plucked them out, I will return and have mercy on them, and will cause them to return, each one to his heritage, and each one to his land.

12:16  And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear in my name, [saying], [The] LORD lives; as they taught my people to swear by Baal then they shall be prospered in the midst of my people.

12:17  But if they will not hear, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.:

Chapter 13

13:1  Thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go and buy thee a linen girdle and put it upon thy loins, and thou shalt not put it in water.

13:2  And I bought the girdle according to the word of the LORD and put [it] on my loins.

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

13:4  Take the girdle that thou hast bought, which [is] upon thy loins, and arise; go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

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

13:6  And it came to pass after many days that the LORD said unto me, Arise; go to the Euphrates and take from there the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there.

13:7  Then I went to the Euphrates and dug and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the girdle was rotted, it was good for nothing.

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

13:9  Thus hath the LORD said, After this manner I will cause the pride of Judah to rot and the great pride of Jerusalem.

13:10  This evil people that refuses to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart and went after other gods to serve them and to worship them shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

13:11  For as the girdle cleaves to the loins of a man, so I have caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people and for fame, and for a praise, and for honour; but they did not hear.

13:12  Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word: Thus hath the LORD God of Israel said, Every bottle shall be filled with wine; and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

13:13  Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus hath the LORD said, Behold, I fill all the inhabitants of this land with drunkenness, [even] the kings that sit upon David's throne and the priests and the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

13:14  And I will break them one against another, even the fathers with the sons together, saith the LORD; I will not pity nor spare nor have mercy to not destroy them.

13:15  Hear ye and give ear; do not be proud: for the LORD has spoken.

13:16  Give glory to the LORD your God before he causes darkness and before your feet stumble in mountains of darkness, and while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death [and] makes [it] gross darkness.

13:17  But if ye will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret because of [your] pride; and weeping bitterly, my eyes shall be undone in tears because the LORD'S flock was carried away captive.

13:18  Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down [in the dust] because the crown of your glory has come down off your heads.

13:19  The cities of the south were shut up, and no one could open [them]: Judah was carried away captive; all of it, it was completely carried away captive.

13:20  Lift up your eyes, and behold those that come from the north [wind]: where [is] the flock [that] was given thee, the cattle of thy beauty?

13:21  What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? For thou hast taught them [to be] princes [and as] head over thee; shall not sorrows take thee as a woman in travail?

13:22  When thou shalt say in thine heart, Why do these things come upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered [and] thy heels made bare.

13:23  Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Likewise ye also cannot do good, being taught to do evil.

13:24  Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.

13:25  This [shall be] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me said the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

13:26  Therefore I uncovered thy skirts before thy face, and thy shame was manifested.

13:27  I have seen thine adulteries and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom upon the hills; in the same field I saw thine abominations. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean at last? How long then [shall it be]?:

Chapter 14

14:1  The word of the LORD that was given to Jeremiah concerning the famine.

14:2  Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

14:3  And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits [and] found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded and covered their heads.

14:4  Because the ground is chapped, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

14:5  Even the hind calved in the field and forsook [it], because there was no grass.

14:6  And the wild asses stood in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes failed because [there was] no grass.

14:7  O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do it for thy name's sake; for our rebellions have multiplied; we have sinned against thee.

14:8  O the hope of Israel, the Keeper thereof in time of trouble, why should thou be as a stranger in the land and as a wayfaring man [that] turns aside to tarry for a night?

14:9  Why should thou be as a speechless man as a mighty man [that] cannot save? Yet thou, O LORD, [art] in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; do not leave us.

14:10  Thus hath the LORD said unto this people, Thus have they loved to move, nor have they refrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not have them in [his] will; he will now remember their iniquity and visit their sins.

14:11  Then the LORD said unto me, Do not pray for this people for [their] good.

14:12  When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by sword and by famine and by pestilence.

14:13  Then I said, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you true peace in this place.

14:14  Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I did not send them, neither have I commanded them, neither did I speak unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision, divination, vanity, and the deceit of their heart.

14:15  Therefore thus hath the LORD said concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name which I did not send and that say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

14:16  And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have no one to bury them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters; for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

14:17  Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

14:18  If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold those that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest walked around in circles in the land, and they did not know [it].

14:19  Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? Hath thy soul loathed Zion? Why didst thou cause us to be smitten when no healing remains for us? We waited for peace, and [there was] no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

14:20  We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.

14:21  Do not cast [us] away; for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory; remember, do not break thy covenant with us.

14:22  Are there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause it to rain? or can the heavens give rain? [art] not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee, for thou hast made all these [things].:

Chapter 15

15:1  Then the LORD said unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, [yet] my will [would] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.

15:2  And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Where shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus hath the LORD said: Such as [are] for death, to death; and such as [are] for the sword, to the sword; and such as [are] for the famine, to the famine; and such as [are] for the captivity, to the captivity.

15:3  And I will visit over them four kinds [of evil], saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

15:4  And I will give them over to be sifted by all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for [that] which he did in Jerusalem.

15:5  For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who is to come to ask regarding thy peace?

15:6  Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD; thou art gone backward: therefore, I stretched out my hand over thee and cast thee away; I am tired of repenting.

15:7  And I fanned them with a fan unto the gates of the land; I bereaved [them] of children, I wasted my people; they did not turn from their ways.

15:8  Their widows are multiplied unto me more than the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them a destroyer at noonday against the young; I have caused [him] to fall upon her suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

15:9  She that has borne seven languishes; her soul is filled with sorrow; her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day; she has been ashamed and confounded; and the residue of them I will deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

15:10  Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them curses me.

15:11  The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee [well] in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

15:12  Shall iron break the iron from the place of the north [wind] and the bronze?

15:13  Thy riches and thy treasures I will give to the spoil without price, and [that] for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

15:14  And I will make [thee] to serve thine enemies in a land [which] thou dost not know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, [which] shall burn upon you.

15:15  O LORD, thou knowest: remember me and visit me and revenge me of my enemies; do not take me away in the prolongation of thy anger, know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

15:16  Thy words were found, and I ate them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for thy name was called upon me, O LORD God of the hosts.

15:17  I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers, nor did I become puffed up by reason of thy prophecy; I sat alone because thou hast filled me with indignation.

15:18  Why was my pain perpetual and my wound incurable, [which] refuses to be healed? Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar [and as] waters [that] fail?

15:19  Therefore thus hath the LORD said, If thou wilt return, then I will bring thee again, [and] thou shalt stand before me; and if thou wilt take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth; let them return unto thee, but return not thou unto them.

15:20  And I will give thee unto this people as a fenced brazen wall, and they shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee: for I [am] with thee to keep thee and to defend thee, said the LORD.

15:21  And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will ransom thee out of the hand of the strong.:

Chapter 16

16:1  And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

16:2  Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

16:3  For thus hath the LORD said concerning the sons and [concerning] the daughters that would be born in this place and [concerning] their mothers that would bare them and [concerning] their fathers that would beget them in this land

16:4  They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; [but] they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth; and they shall be consumed by the sword and by famine; and their carcasses shall be food for the fowls of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

16:5  For thus hath the LORD said, Do not enter into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor comfort them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, said the LORD, [even] mercy and compassion.

16:6  Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall [men] lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

16:7  neither shall they break [the bread] of mourning for them, to comfort themselves for [their] death; neither shall [men] give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

16:8  In the same manner thou shalt not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

16:9  For thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: Behold, I will cause to cease in this place before your eyes and in your days, every voice of mirth and every voice of gladness, every voice of the bridegroom, and every voice of the bride.

16:10  And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these things, they shall say unto thee, Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what [is] our iniquity? or what [is] our sin which we have committed against the LORD our God?

16:11  Then thou shalt say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods and have served them and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law;

16:12  and ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk each one after the imagination of his evil heart, not hearkening unto me:

16:13  Therefore I will cause you to be cast out of this land into a land that ye do not know, [neither] ye nor your fathers; and there ye shall serve other gods day and night; for I will not grant you mercy.

16:14  Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that it shall no longer be said, The LORD lives, that caused the sons of Israel to come up out of the land of Egypt;

16:15  but, The LORD lives, that caused the sons of Israel to come up out of the land of the north [wind], and from all the lands where he had driven them; and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

16:16  Behold, I send many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after, will I send many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

16:17  For my eyes [are] upon all their ways, which they have not hid from me, neither does their iniquity hide from the presence of my eyes.

16:18  But first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double because they have defiled my land with the carcasses of their abominations, and they have filled my inheritance with abominable things.

16:19  O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the time of the affliction; Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] in which [there is] no profit.

16:20  Shall a man make gods unto himself? But they [shall] not [be] gods.

16:21  Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know this time; I will cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name [is] The LORD.:

Chapter 17

17:1  The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron [and] with the point of a diamond; [it is] graven upon the table of their heart and upon the horns of your altars

17:2  that their sons might remember their altars and their groves, by the green trees and upon the high hills.

17:3  My mountain dweller! In the field are thy riches; all thy treasures I will give to the spoil, because of the sin of thy high places throughout all thy borders.

17:4  And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou dost not know: for ye have kindled a fire in my anger, [which] shall burn for ever.

17:5  Thus hath the LORD said; Cursed [be] the man that trusts in man and makes flesh his arm and whose heart departs from the LORD.

17:6  For he shall be like the heath in the desert and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, [in] a salt land and not inhabited.

17:7  Blessed [is] the man that is steadfast in the LORD and whose trust is the LORD.

17:8  For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, [that] spreads out her roots by the river and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green and shall not be fatigued in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

17:9  The heart [is] deceitful above all [things] and desperately wicked; who shall know it?

17:10  I the LORD search the heart; [I] try the kidneys, even to give each man according to his ways [and] according to the fruit of his doings.

17:11  As the partridge that steals that which she did not hatch, [is] he that gets riches and not with righteousness; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.

17:12  The throne of glory, height from the beginning, [is] the place of our sanctification.

17:13  O hope of Israel! LORD, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed; [and] those that depart from me shall be written in the dust because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

17:14  Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise.

17:15  Behold, they say unto me, Where [is] the word of the LORD? let it come now.

17:16  For I did not take it upon myself to be a pastor following thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou dost know: that which came out of my lips has come forth in thy presence.

17:17  Do not be a terror unto me; thou [art] my hope in the day of evil.

17:18  Let them be confounded that persecute me, but do not let me be confounded; let them be dismayed; but do not let me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil and destroy them with double destruction.

17:19  Thus said the LORD unto me: Go and stand in the gate of the sons of the people by which the kings of Judah come in and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

17:20  and say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

17:21  Thus hath the LORD said: Take heed for your lives, and bring no burden on the sabbath day to bring [it] in by the gates of Jerusalem;

17:22  neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do any work, but sanctify the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers,

17:23  who did not hear, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive correction.

17:24  And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day but sanctify the sabbath day to do no work therein,

17:25  [then] shall there enter in by the gates of this city, the kings and the princes, who sit upon the throne of David, [riding] in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall be inhabited for ever.

17:26  And they shall come from the cities of Judah and from the places about Jerusalem and from the land of Benjamin and from the fields and from the mountain and from the south, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices and presents and incense, and bringing [the] sacrifice of praise unto the house of the LORD.

17:27  But if ye will not hearken unto me to sanctify the sabbath day, and not to bring burdens nor bring it in through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then I will kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.:

Chapter 18

18:1  The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

18:2  Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

18:3  Then I went down to the potter's house; and, behold, he wrought a work upon [a] wheel.

18:4  And the vessel that he made of clay was broken in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make [it].

18:5  Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

18:6  O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay [is] in the potter's hand, so [are] ye in my hand, O house of Israel.

18:7  In an instant I shall speak against Gentiles and against kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy.

18:8  But if these Gentiles shall turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

18:9  And in an instant I shall speak concerning the nation and concerning the kingdom, to build and to plant [it];

18:10  but if it should do evil in my sight, not hearing my voice, then I will repent of the good that I had determined to do unto them.

18:11  Now therefore, speak to every man of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus hath the LORD said: Behold, I ordain evil against you and devise plans against you; return ye now each one from his evil way, and better your ways and your doings.

18:12  And they said, This is useless, for we must walk after our own devices, and we must each one do the imagination of his evil heart.

18:13  Therefore thus hath the LORD said; Ask now among the Gentiles, who has heard such things: the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

18:14  Will anyone leave the snow of the rock of the field that flows from Lebanon? [or] shall they forsake the singular, cold, flowing waters?

18:15  Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not trodden;

18:16  to make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and wag his head.

18:17  I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their perdition.

18:18  Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not consider any of his words.

18:19  Consider me, O LORD, and hear the voice of those that contend with me.

18:20  Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them [and] to turn away thy wrath from them.

18:21  Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine, and pour out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle.

18:22  Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hid snares for my feet.

18:23  Yet, LORD, thou dost know all their counsel against me to slay [me]; do not forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal [thus] with them in the time of thine anger.:

Chapter 19

19:1  Thus hath the LORD said, Go and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests;

19:2  and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry by the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee.

19:3  Therefore thou shalt say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus saith the LORD of the hosts, God of Israel: Behold, I bring evil upon this place, such that whoever hears [of it], his ears shall tingle.

19:4  Because they have forsaken me and have estranged this place; and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

19:5  and have built high places unto Baal, to burn their sons with fire [for] burnt offerings unto this same Baal, which I did not commanded, nor speak, neither did [it] come into my mind.

19:6  Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that this place shall no longer be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of the slaughter.

19:7  And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those that seek their souls and I will give their carcasses to be food for the fowls of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

19:8  And I will make this city desolate and a hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

19:9  And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and each one shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, with which their enemies and those that seek their souls shall straiten them.

19:10  Then thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

19:11  and shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Even so will I break this people and this city as [one] breaks a potter's vessel that cannot be restored again; and they shall bury [them] in Tophet, for there shall be no [other] place to bury.

19:12  Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to its inhabitants and [even] make this city as Tophet:

19:13  And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be as the place of Tophet, defiled, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of the heaven and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.

19:14  Then Jeremiah returned from Tophet, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house and said to all the people,

19:15  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, God of Israel said: Behold, [I] bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have spoken against her because they have hardened their necks that they might not hear my words.:

Chapter 20

20:1  And Pashur [the] priest, the son of Immer, who presided as prince in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah who prophesied these things.

20:2  Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that [were] at the gate of Benjamin on the high [place], which [is] in the house of the LORD.

20:3  And it came to pass on the morrow that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said unto him: The LORD has not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.

20:4  For thus hath the LORD said, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself and to all those that love thee well; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold [it]; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall smite them with the sword.

20:5  Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city and all its labours and all its precious things and all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, who shall spoil them and take them and carry them to Babylon.

20:6  And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity; and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die and shalt be buried there, thou and all those who love thee well, unto whom thou hast prophesied with lies.

20:7  O LORD, thou hast seduced me, and I was seduced; thou wert stronger than I and hast overcome me; I am in derision daily; every one mocks me.

20:8  For since I spoke [out], I raised my voice crying, Violence and destruction; because the word of the LORD has been a reproach unto me and a derision, daily.

20:9  And I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But he was in my heart as a burning fire [and] within my bones; I tried to forbear, and I could not.

20:10  For I heard the murmuring of many, fear on every side, Report, and we will report it. All my friends watched to see if I would stumble. Peradventure he will deceive himself, they said, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

20:11  But the LORD [is] with me as a powerful giant; therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper; they shall have everlasting confusion which shall never be forgotten.

20:12  O LORD of the hosts, who examines that which is just, who seest the kidneys and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee I have opened my cause.

20:13  Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD; for he has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

20:14  Cursed [be] the day in which I was born; do not let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

20:15  Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

20:16  And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew and did not repent; and let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noontide

20:17  because he did not slay me in the womb, and my mother would have been my grave, and her womb perpetual conception.

20:18  Why did I come forth out of the womb? To see labour and sorrow that my days should be consumed with shame?:

Chapter 21

21:1  The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah [the] priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying,

21:2  Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon makes war against us; peradventure the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, and [he] will go up from upon us.

21:3  And said Jeremiah unto them: Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah

21:4  Thus hath the LORD God of Israel said: Behold, I turn back the weapons of war that [are] in your hands with which ye fight against the king of Babylon and [against] the Chaldeans, which besiege you outside the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

21:5  And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger and in fury and in great wrath.

21:6  And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

21:7  And afterward, thus hath the LORD said, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants and the people and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their souls; and [he] shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not forgive them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

21:8  And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus hath the LORD said: Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

21:9  He that abides in this city shall die by the sword or by the famine or by the pestilence, but he that goes out and falls to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his soul shall be unto him for a spoil.

21:10  For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD; it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

21:11  And to the house of the king of Judah, [say], Hear ye the word of the LORD;

21:12  O house of David, thus hath the LORD said: Execute judgment early and deliver [him that is] oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor lest my fury go forth like fire, and burn [so] that no one can quench [it] because of the evil of your doings.

21:13  Behold, I [am] against thee, O inhabitant of the valley of the rock of the plain (saith the LORD), which say, Who shall come up against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

21:14  I will visit you according to the fruit of your doings, said the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in your forest, and it shall devour all things round about it.:

Chapter 22

22:1  Thus hath the LORD said: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word,

22:2  and say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that doth sit upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants and thy people that enter in by these gates:

22:3  Thus hath the LORD said: Execute judgment and righteousness and deliver the oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor and do not deceive neither steal from the stranger nor from the fatherless nor from the widow neither shed innocent blood in this place.

22:4  For if ye effectively obey this word, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house the kings seated by David upon his throne, riding in chariots and on horses, he and his servants and his people.

22:5  But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, said the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

22:6  For thus hath the LORD said regarding the house of the king of Judah: Thou [art] Gilead unto me [and] the head of Lebanon: [yet] surely I will make thee a wilderness [and] cities [which] are not inhabited.

22:7  And I will appoint destroyers against thee, each one with his weapons, and they shall cut down thy choice cedars and cast [them] into the fire.

22:8  And many Gentiles shall pass by this city, and each man shall say to his neighbour, Why has the LORD done thus unto this great city?

22:9  Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshipped other gods and served them.

22:10  Do not weep for the dead nor bemoan him, [but] weep sore for him that goes away, for he shall return no more nor see his native country.

22:11  For thus hath the LORD said of Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, He who went forth out of this place shall not return there any more;

22:12  but he shall die in the place where they have led him captive and shall see this land no more.

22:13  Woe unto him that builds his house and not in righteousness and his chambers and not in judgment, using his neighbour's service without wages and not giving him [the wages of] his work!

22:14  That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cuts out windows [in] it and covers it with cedar and anoints it with vermilion.

22:15  Shalt thou reign, because thou dost enclose [thyself] in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and righteousness, [and] then [it was] well with him?

22:16  He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well [with him]. Is this not to know me? said the LORD.

22:17  But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness and for to shed innocent blood and for oppression and for violence, to do [it].

22:18  Therefore thus hath the LORD said concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my brother! and Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

22:19  He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

22:20  Go up to Lebanon and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan and cry unto all parts: for all thy lovers are destroyed.

22:21  I spoke unto thee in thy prosperity, [but] thou didst say, I will not hear. This [has been] thy way from thy youth, that thou hast never heard my voice.

22:22  The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity; surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confound thyself because of all thy malice.

22:23  Thou didst inhabit Lebanon, thou didst make thy nest in the cedars. How shalt thou cry out when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

22:24  [As] I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet I would pluck thee from there;

22:25  and I will give thee into the hand of those that seek thy soul and into the hand [of those] whose face thou dost fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

22:26  And I will cast thee out and thy mother that bore thee into another country, where ye were not born, and there ye shall die.

22:27  But to the land unto which they desire to return, they shall not return there.

22:28  [Is] this man Coniah a despised broken idol? [Is he] a vessel in which [there is] no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his generation, and are cast into a land which they know not?

22:29  O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

22:30  Thus hath the LORD said, Write [what shall be] of this man deprived of [a] generation, a man unto whom nothing shall prosper in all the days of his life, for no man of his seed who sits upon the throne of David and rules over Judah shall prosper.:

Chapter 23

23:1  Woe be unto the pastors that waste and scatter the sheep of my pasture! said the LORD.

23:2  Therefore thus hath the LORD God of Israel said unto the pastors that feed my people: Ye have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not visited them; behold, [I]visit upon you the evil of your doings, said the LORD.

23:3  And I will gather the remnant of my sheep out of all the lands where I have driven them and will cause them to return to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

23:4  And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them; and they shall fear no more nor be dismayed neither shall they be lacking, said the LORD.

23:5  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper and shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.

23:6  In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this [shall be] his name by which they shall call him, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

23:7  Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, and they shall no more say, The LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

23:8  but, The LORD lives, who caused the seed of the house of Israel to come up and out of the land of the north [wind], and from all the lands where I had driven them, and they shall dwell in their [own] land.

23:9  My heart is broken within me because of the prophets, all my bones shake; I was like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, before the LORD, and before the words of his holiness.

23:10  For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the oath the land is deserted; the booths of the wilderness are dried up, and their course was evil, and their force [was] not right.

23:11  For both prophet and priest are feigned; even in my house I have found their wickedness, said the LORD.

23:12  Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery [ways] in the darkness; they shall be driven on and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, [even] the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.

23:13  And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal and caused my people Israel to err.

23:14  I have also seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: they committed adultery and walked by lies; they strengthened also the hands of evildoers, that none is converted from his malice; they are all of them unto me as Sodom and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

23:15  Therefore, thus hath the LORD of the hosts said against those prophets: Behold, I will cause them to eat wormwood and make them drink the waters of gall, for from the prophets of Jerusalem is hypocrisy gone forth upon all the land.

23:16  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, [and] not out of the mouth of the LORD.

23:17  They say boldly unto those that stir me to anger, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto anyone that walks after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.

23:18  For who has stood in the secret of the LORD and has seen and heard his word? Who has payed attention to his word and heard [it]?

23:19  Behold, that the whirlwind of the LORD shall go forth with fury, and the whirlwind which is ready shall fall [grievously] upon the head of the wicked.

23:20  The anger of the LORD shall not return until he has executed and until he has performed the thoughts of his heart: in the last of the days ye shall understand it with understanding.

23:21  [I]did not send those prophets, yet they ran; [I] did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

23:22  But if they had stood in my secret, they would also have caused my people to hear my words, and they would have caused them to return from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.

23:23  [Am] I a God of the near [only], said the LORD, and not a God of the far?

23:24  Can any hide himself in hiding places that I shall not see him? said the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? said the LORD.

23:25  I have heard what those prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

23:26  How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies and that prophesy the deceit of their own heart?

23:27  Do they not think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which each one tells his neighbour, so much that their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal?

23:28  The prophet with whom [the] dream came, let him tell [the] dream; and he with whom my word came, let him speak my true word. What [is] the chaff to the wheat? said the LORD.

23:29  [Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer [that] breaks the rock in pieces?

23:30  Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words each one from his neighbour.

23:31  Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that sweeten their tongues and say, He said.

23:32  Behold, I [am] against those that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and did tell them, and caused my people to err by their lies, and by their flattery; yet I did not send them, nor command them; and they did not profit this people at all, said the LORD.

23:33  And when this people or the prophet or the priest shall ask thee, saying, What [is] the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will forsake you, said the LORD.

23:34  And [as for] the prophet and the priest and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will visit upon that man and upon his house.

23:35  Thus shall ye say each one to his neighbour and each one to his brother, What has the LORD answered? and, What has the LORD spoken?

23:36  And never again shall it come to [your] memory to say, The burden of the LORD; for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of the hosts, our God.

23:37  Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What has the LORD answered thee? and, What has the LORD spoken?

23:38  But if ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus hath the LORD said: Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;

23:39  therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will uproot you from my presence and the city that I gave you and your fathers:

23:40  and I will place an everlasting reproach upon you, and eternal shame, which shall never be forgotten.:

Chapter 24

24:1  The LORD showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs [were] set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the princes of Judah with the carpenters and smiths from Jerusalem, and had taken them to Babylon.

24:2  One basket [had] very good figs, [even] like the figs [that are] first ripe: and the other basket [had] very evil figs, which could not be eaten, they were so evil.

24:3  Then the LORD said unto me, What dost thou see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, so evil that they cannot be eaten.

24:4  Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

24:5  Thus hath the LORD God of Israel said: Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for [their] good.

24:6  For I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will return them to this land, and I will build them, and not pull [them] down; and I will plant them, and not pluck [them] up.

24:7  And I will give them a heart that they might know me, that I [am] the LORD; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

24:8  And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil, surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah and his princes and the residue of Jerusalem that remained in this land and that dwell in the land of Egypt:

24:9  And I give them to be removed, for evil unto all the kingdoms of the earth, for infamy, and for reproach and for a proverb, and for a curse unto all the places where I shall drive them.

24:10  And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence upon them until they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.:

Chapter 25

25:1  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, which [is] the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;

25:2  this spoke Jeremiah the prophet unto all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

25:3  From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, which are twenty-three years, the word of the LORD has come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and giving notice; but ye have not hearkened.

25:4  And the LORD has sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending [them]; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear,

25:5  when they said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:

25:6  and do not go after other gods to serve them and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

25:7  Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD, that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

25:8  Therefore thus saith the LORD of the hosts: Because ye have not heard my words,

25:9  behold, I will send and take all the families of the north [wind], saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about and will utterly destroy them and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

25:10  And I will cause them to lose the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

25:11  And this whole land shall be a desolation [and] an astonishment; and these Gentiles shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

25:12  And it shall come to pass when seventy years are accomplished, [that] I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that people their [own] evil, said the LORD and upon the land of the Chaldeans and will make it perpetual desolations.

25:13  And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have spoken against it, with all that is written in this book, prophesied by Jeremiah against all the Gentiles.

25:14  For many Gentiles and great kings shall serve themselves of them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.

25:15  For thus hath the LORD God of Israel said unto me: Take the wine cup of this fury from my hand and cause all the Gentiles, to whom I send thee, to drink of it.

25:16  And they shall drink and be moved and become mad, before the sword that I will send among them.

25:17  Then took I the cup from the LORD'S hand and made all the Gentiles to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me,

25:18  unto Jerusalem and to the cities of Judah and to its kings and to its princes, that I might place them into desolation, into astonishment, and into hissing, and into [a] curse, as this day,

25:19  unto Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his servants and to his princes and to all his people,

25:20  and to all the mingled people and to all the kings of the land of Uz and to all the kings of [the] land of the Philistines and to Ashkelon and [to] Gaza and [to] Ekron and to the remnant of Ashdod,

25:21  to Edom and [to] Moab and to the sons of Ammon,

25:22  and to all the kings of Tyre and to all the kings of Zidon and to all the kings of the isles which are of that side of the sea,

25:23  and to Dedan, and [to] Tema and [to] Buz and to all [that are] in the utmost corners,

25:24  and to all the kings of Arabia and to all the kings of the [mingled] peoples, the Arabia that dwells in the desert,

25:25  and to all the kings of Zimri and to all the kings of Elam and to all the kings of the Medes,

25:26  and to all the kings of the north [wind], those of far and those of near, one with another and to all the kingdoms of the earth, which [are] upon the face of the earth and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

25:27  Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said; Drink and be drunken, and vomit and fall, and ye shall not rise in the presence of the sword which I send among you.

25:28  And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup from thine hand to drink, then thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Ye must certainly drink.

25:29  For, Behold, I begin to bring evil upon the city which is called by my name, and should ye only be absolved? Ye shall not be absolved, for I bring [the] sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, said the LORD of the hosts.

25:30  Therefore, thou shalt prophesy against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high and from the habitation of his holiness he shall utter his voice; in fury he shall roar upon his habitation; he shall sing the song of those that tread [grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.

25:31  The noise came [even] to the ends of the earth; for it is judgment of the LORD with the Gentiles; he is the Judge of all flesh; he will give those [that are] wicked to the sword, said the LORD.

25:32  Thus saith the LORD of the hosts, Behold, the evil goes forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

25:33  And the slain of the LORD shall be in that day from [one] end of the earth even unto the [other] end of the earth; they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be as dung upon the ground.

25:34  Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves [in the dust], ye principals of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like an enticing vessel.

25:35  And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor [for] the principals of the flock to escape.

25:36  [The] voice of the cry of the shepherds and a howling of the principals of the flock [shall be heard]! For the LORD has spoiled their pasture.

25:37  And the quiet pastures shall be cut off by the fierce anger of the LORD.

25:38  He has forsaken his habitation, as the [young] lion; for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor and because of his fierce anger.:

Chapter 26

26:1  In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,

26:2  Thus hath the LORD said: Stand in the court of the LORD'S house and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I commanded thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:

26:3  peradventure they will hearken and turn each man from his evil way, that I may repent of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

26:4  And thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD said: If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

26:5  to hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send unto you, rising up early and sending [them], unto whom ye have not hearkened,

26:6  then I will make this house like Shiloh and will give this city as [a] curse to all the Gentiles of the earth.

26:7  And the priests, the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

26:8  Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded [him] to speak unto all the people that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

26:9  Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

26:10  When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S [house].

26:11  Then the priests and the prophets spoke unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man [is] worthy to die; for he has prophesied against this city as ye have heard with your ears.

26:12  Then Jeremiah spoke unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.

26:13  Therefore now amend your ways and your doings and hear the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD himself will repent of the evil that he has pronounced against you.

26:14  As for me, behold, I [am] in your hands; do with me as seems good and meet unto you.

26:15  But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and upon its inhabitants; for of a truth the LORD has sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

26:16  Then the princes and all the people said unto the priests and to the prophets: This man [is] not worthy to die, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.

26:17  Then certain of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the congregation of the people, saying,

26:18  Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Zion shall be plowed [like] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the temple mount as the high places of a forest.

26:19  Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? Did he not fear the LORD and besought the LORD, and the LORD himself repented of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Shall we commit such great evil against our souls?

26:20  There was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:

26:21  And Jehoiakim the king heard his words and all his mighty men and all the princes, and the king sought to put him to death, but when Urijah understood it, he was afraid and fled and went into Egypt.

26:22  And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely], Elnathan the son of Achbor and [certain] men with him into Egypt;

26:23  and they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

26:24  Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.:

Chapter 27

27:1  In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

27:2  Thus hath the LORD said unto me: Make thee bonds and yokes and put them upon thy neck;

27:3  and thou shalt send them to the king of Edom and to the king of Moab and to the king of the Ammonites and to the king of Tyre and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the ambassadors which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;

27:4  and thou shalt command them to say unto their masters, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said; Thus shall ye say unto your masters:

27:5  I have made the earth, the man and the beast that [are] upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom was upright in my eyes.

27:6  And now have [I] given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and even the beasts of the field I have given him that they might serve him.

27:7  And all the Gentiles shall serve him and his son and his son's son, until the time of his own land shall come also; and many nations and great kings shall serve him.

27:8  And it shall come to pass, [that] the people and the kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that people I will visit, saith the LORD, with the sword and with the famine and with the pestilence, until I have finished placing [all of them] under his hand.

27:9  Therefore do not hearken unto your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your sorcerers, nor to your enchanters, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

27:10  For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that [I] should drive you out, and ye should perish.

27:11  But the people that submit their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, said the LORD; and they shall till it and dwell therein.

27:12  I spoke also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Submit your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him and his people and live.

27:13  Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken unto the people that will not serve the king of Babylon?

27:14  Therefore do not hearken unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you.

27:15  For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.

27:16  Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus hath the LORD said: Hearken not unto the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD'S house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you.

27:17  Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon and live: why should this city be laid waste?

27:18  But if they [are] prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, let them pray now unto the LORD of the hosts that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD and [in] the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem, not go to Babylon.

27:19  For thus hath the LORD of the hosts said concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,

27:20  which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;

27:21  yea, thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said concerning the vessels that remained in the house of the LORD and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem;

27:22  they shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until the day that I visit them, said the LORD; and afterwards I will bring them up and restore them to this place.:

Chapter 28

28:1  And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, [and] in the fifth month, [that] Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which [was] of Gibeon, spoke unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

28:2  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel spoken, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

28:3  Within two full years I will bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried them to Babylon:

28:4  and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the LORD; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

28:5  Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD,

28:6  therefore the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD confirm thy words with which thou hast prophesied that the vessels of the LORD'S house and all those that are carried away captive are to be returned from Babylon unto this place.

28:7  Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears and in the ears of all the people,

28:8  The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

28:9  The prophet which prophesied of peace, when the word of the prophet should come to pass, [then] shall the prophet be known, that the LORD has truly sent him.

28:10  Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck and broke it.

28:11  And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus hath the LORD said: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the Gentiles within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

28:12  And after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,

28:13  Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus hath the LORD said: Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make yokes of iron instead.

28:14  For thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said: I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these Gentiles, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him; and I have even given him the beasts of the field.

28:15  Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD has not sent thee; and thou hast made this people to trust in a lie.

28:16  Therefore thus hath the LORD said; Behold, I will send thee away from upon the face of the earth; this year thou shalt die because thou hast spoken rebellion against the LORD.

28:17  So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.:

Chapter 29

29:1  Now these [are] the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests and to the prophets and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;

29:2  (after Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)

29:3  by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,

29:4  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon,

29:5  Build houses and dwell [in them]; and plant gardens and eat the fruit of them;

29:6  take wives and beget sons and daughters; give wives unto your sons and give husbands unto your daughters, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be multiplied there and not diminished.

29:7  And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

29:8  For thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said: Let not your prophets and your diviners that [are] in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye dream.

29:9  For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, said the LORD.

29:10  For thus hath the LORD said, That after seventy years are accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and quicken my good word upon you to cause you to return to this place.

29:11  For I know the thoughts that I think concerning you, said the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you the end that you wait for.

29:12  Then ye shall call upon me, and ye shall walk [in my ways] and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

29:13  And ye shall seek me, and find [me], for ye shall seek me with all your heart.

29:14  And I will be found of you, said the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the Gentiles and from all the places where I have driven you, said the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.

29:15  But ye have said, The LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon;

29:16  [know] that thus hath the LORD said of the king that sits upon the throne of David and of all the people that dwell in this city [and] of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;

29:17  thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence and will make them like the evil figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

29:18  And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will give them over as a reproach to all the kingdoms of the earth, as a curse, and as an astonishment, and a hissing, and an affront, unto all the Gentiles where I have driven them:

29:19  because they did not hearken unto my words, said the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending [them]; but ye did not hear, said the LORD.

29:20  Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have cast out of Jerusalem unto Babylon:

29:21  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said [regarding] Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and [regarding] Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy falsely unto you in my name; Behold, [I] deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;

29:22  and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah who [are] in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

29:23  because they have committed villainy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken a word falsely in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know and [am] a witness, saith the LORD.

29:24  [Thus] shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,

29:25  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel spoken, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that [are] at Jerusalem and to Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah and to all the priests, saying,

29:26  The LORD has made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should preside in the house of the LORD over every man [that is] furious and prophesies, putting him in the prison and in the stocks.

29:27  Now therefore why hast thou not reprehended Jeremiah of Anathoth, for prophesying [falsely] unto you?

29:28  For therefore he sent unto us [in] Babylon, saying, This [captivity is] long: build houses and dwell [in them] and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

29:29  And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.

29:30  Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,

29:31  Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus hath the LORD said [concerning] Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah has prophesied unto you, and I did not send him, and he caused you to trust upon [a] lie;

29:32  therefore thus hath the LORD said; Behold, I visit upon Shemaiah the Nehelamite and upon his generation: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold that good which I do unto my people, said the LORD, because he has spoken rebellion against the LORD.:

Chapter 30

30:1  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

30:2  Thus hath the LORD God of Israel spoken, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

30:3  For, Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will turn the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, said the LORD, and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

30:4  And these [are] the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and [concerning] Judah.

30:5  For thus hath the LORD said; We have heard a voice of trembling, of terror, and not of peace.

30:6  Ask now, and see whether the man doth travail with child? for I have seen that every man has his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail; and all faces have turned pale.

30:7  Alas! for that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

30:8  For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of the hosts, [that] I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no longer place him in servitude,

30:9  but they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

30:10  Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I am he that saves thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall turn, and shall rest, and be quiet, and there shall be no one [left] to scatter [him].

30:11  For I [shall be] with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee; and I shall make a full end in all Gentiles among whom I scattered thee, yet I will not make a full end of thee: but I will chastise thee with judgment and will not cut thee off altogether.

30:12  For thus hath the LORD said, Thy breach [is] incurable, [and] thy sore [is] grievous.

30:13  [There is] no one to judge thy cause unto health; there is no cure, nor [are there] any medicines for thee.

30:14  All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they do not seek thee; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the whip of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; [because] thy sins were increased.

30:15  Why dost thou cry [out] for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the greatness of thine iniquity; [because] thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

30:16  Therefore all those that devour thee shall be devoured; and all those that afflict thee, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and those that trampled upon thee shall be trodden down, and all that prey upon thee I will give for a prey.

30:17  For I will cause healing to come for thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, said the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, [saying], This [is] Zion, whom no man seeks after.

30:18  Thus hath the LORD said; Behold, I will turn the captivity of Jacob's tents and have mercy on his dwelling places and the city shall be built upon her own hill, and the temple according to her judgment shall stand.

30:19  And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of people that [live] in joy: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be decreased; I will multiply them, and they shall not be cut down.

30:20  Their sons shall also be as at first, and their congregation shall be confirmed before me, and I will visit all their oppressors.

30:21  And of him shall be their Rock, and from the midst of him shall their Governor come forth; and I will cause him to come near, and he shall draw near unto me: for who [is] this that softened his heart to approach unto me? said the LORD.

30:22  And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

30:23  Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goes forth with fury, the whirlwind which is preparing itself; it shall remain upon the head of the wicked.

30:24  The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return until he has done [it] and until he has performed the intents of his heart; in the end of the days ye shall understand this.:

Chapter 31

31:1  In that time, said the LORD, [I] will be the God unto all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

31:2  Thus hath the LORD said, The people [which were] left of the sword found grace in the wilderness as [I] went to cause Israel to find rest.

31:3  The LORD has appeared of old unto me, [saying], I have loved thee with an eternal love: therefore, I have put up with thee with mercy.

31:4  Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tambourines and shalt go forth in the chorus of dancers.

31:5  Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant and shall eat [them] as common things.

31:6  For there shall be a day in which the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up into Zion unto the LORD our God.

31:7  For thus hath the LORD said; Rejoice in Jacob with joy, and [give shouts of] joy at the head of the Gentiles; cause [this] to be heard, [give] praise, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.

31:8  Behold, I turn them from the land of the north [wind] and gather them from the coasts of the earth; there shall be blind and lame among them, and women with child and those that travail with child together; a great company shall return there.

31:9  They shall come with weeping, but with mercies I will cause them to return; I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, in which they shall not stumble; for I shall be a father to Israel, and Ephraim [shall be] my firstborn.

31:10  Hear the word of the LORD, O ye Gentiles, and cause it to be known in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him and keep him, as a shepherd [does] his flock.

31:11  For the LORD has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of [him that was] stronger than he.

31:12  Therefore they shall come and do praises in the height of Zion and shall run unto the goodness of the LORD, unto the bread, and unto the wine, and unto the oil, and unto the gain of the flock and of the herd and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

31:13  Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

31:14  And I will satiate the soul of the priest with fatness, and my people shall be filled with my goodness, said the LORD.

31:15  Thus hath the LORD said; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, [and] bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her sons, she refused to be comforted regarding her sons, because they perished.

31:16  Thus hath the LORD said; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

31:17  There is also hope for thine end, saith the LORD, and the sons shall come again to their own border.

31:18  I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], Thou hast afflicted me, and I was chastised as an indomitable bullock: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.

31:19  Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh; I was ashamed, and even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.

31:20  Peradventure is Ephraim a precious son unto me? Peradventure [is he unto me] a delightful child? With all this since I spoke of him, I have remembered him constantly. Therefore my bowels are troubled for him; in tenderness I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

31:21  Establish signs, make thee high markers; consider the highway with great care, [even] the way [which] thou didst come; return, O virgin of Israel, return unto these thy cities.

31:22  How long wilt thou wander, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD will bring forth a new thing upon the earth, A woman shall compass the man.

31:23  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said; Even yet shall they speak this word in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof when I shall turn their captivity: The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice [and] mountain of holiness.

31:24  And Judah shall dwell in her, and also in all her cities, husbandmen, and those [that] go forth with flocks.

31:25  For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have filled every sorrowful soul.

31:26  Upon this I awoke, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

31:27  Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.

31:28  And it shall come to pass, [that] like as I have watched over them, to pluck up and to break down and to throw down and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them, to build and to plant, said the LORD.

31:29  In those days they shall no longer say, The fathers have eaten the sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

31:30  But each one shall die for his own iniquity; every man that eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

31:31  Behold, the days come, said the LORD, in which I will make a new covenant with the house of Jacob and with the house of Judah:

31:32  not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt because they invalidated my covenant although I was a husband unto them, said the LORD;

31:33  But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, said the LORD, I will give my law in their souls and write it in their hearts and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

31:34  And they shall no longer teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD, for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, said the LORD, for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

31:35  Thus hath the LORD said, who gives the sun for light by day, [and] the laws of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who divides the sea and the waves thereof roar; The LORD of the hosts [is] his name;

31:36  If these laws depart from before me, said the LORD, [then] the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

31:37  Thus hath the LORD said: If the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, said the LORD.

31:38  Behold, the days come, said the LORD, and the city shall be built unto the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.

31:39  And the measuring line shall extend before him upon the hill Gareb and shall compass about to Goath.

31:40  And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of [the ashes with] the [burnt] fat, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east [shall be] holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.:

Chapter 32

32:1  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which [was] the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar;

32:2  for then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which [was] in the king of Judah's house.

32:3  For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus hath the LORD said, Behold, I give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it?

32:4  And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;

32:5  and he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, said the LORD; if ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?

32:6  And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

32:7  Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle comes unto thee, saying, Buy my field that [is] in Anathoth, for the right of redemption [is] thine to buy [it].

32:8  So Hanameel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of the LORD and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that [is] in Anathoth, which [is] in the country of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance [is] thine, and the redemption [is] thine; buy [it] for thyself. Then I knew that this [was] the word of the LORD.

32:9  And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that [was] in Anathoth and weighed him the money, [even] seventeen shekels of silver.

32:10  And I subscribed the evidence and sealed [it] and took witnesses and weighed [him] the money in the balances.

32:11  So I took the evidence of the purchase, [both] that which was sealed [according] to the law and custom, and that which was open.

32:12  And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel my uncle's [son] and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase before all the Jews that were in the court of the guard.

32:13  And I charged Baruch before them, saying,

32:14  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel, said: Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both [that] which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel that they may continue many days.

32:15  For thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said: Houses and fields and vineyards shall be bought [and sold] again in this land.

32:16  Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,

32:17  Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, [and] there is nothing hidden from thee;

32:18  that thou dost show mercy in thousands and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their sons after them, the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of the hosts, [is] his name,

32:19  great in counsel and magnificent in works: for thine eyes [are] open upon all the ways of the sons of men to give unto each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings;

32:20  who hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, [even] unto this day, and in Israel, and in the man, and hast made thee a name, as at this day;

32:21  and hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders, and with a strong hand and with a stretched out arm and with great terror;

32:22  and hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

32:23  and they came in and possessed it; but they did not hear thy voice, neither did they walk in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou didst command them to do, therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them.

32:24  Behold the siege engines are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it because of the sword and of the famine and of the pestilence, and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou dost see [it].

32:25  And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy the field for money and take witnesses; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

32:26  Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,

32:27  Behold, I [am] the LORD, the God of all flesh: peradventure shall any thing be covered unto me?

32:28  Therefore thus hath the LORD said; Behold, I give this city into the hand of [the] Chaldeans, and into [the] hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:

32:29  and the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.

32:30  For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have done only evil before me from their youth: for the sons of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, said the LORD.

32:31  For this city has been unto me [as] a provocation of my anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face

32:32  because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and of the sons of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

32:33  And they have turned unto me the back and not the face: when I taught them, rising up early and teaching [them], yet they did not hearken to receive chastisement;

32:34  but they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.

32:35  And they built altars unto Baal, which [are] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through [the fire] unto Molech; which I did not command them, neither did it come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

32:36  And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto this city, of which ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine and by the pestilence;

32:37  behold, I will gather them out of all countries where I have driven them in my anger, in my fury and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:

32:38  and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:

32:39  and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever for the good of them and of their sons after them:

32:40  and I will make an eternal covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good, and I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me.

32:41  And, I will rejoice with them doing them good, and I will plant them in this land with truth, with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

32:42  For thus hath the LORD said; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I speak regarding them.

32:43  And they shall possess inheritance in this land, of which ye say, [It is] desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.

32:44  Men shall buy fields for money and subscribe evidences and seal [them] and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin and in the places about Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah and in the cities of the mountains and in the cities of the valley and in the cities of the south; for I will cause their captivity to turn, saith the LORD.:

Chapter 33

33:1  Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

33:2  Thus hath said the LORD that makes it, the LORD that forms it to establish it; the LORD [is] his name;

33:3  Call unto me, and I will answer thee and show thee great and difficult things, which thou dost not know.

33:4  For thus hath the LORD the God of Israel said concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the siege engines and by the sword

33:5  (because they came to fight with the Chaldeans, to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in my anger and in my fury and because I hid my face from this city due to all her wickedness):

33:6  behold, I will bring her healing and medicine, and I will cure them and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

33:7  And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to turn and will build them, as at the first.

33:8  And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, with which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their sins, with which they have sinned against me and with which they rebelled against me.

33:9  And it shall be unto me a name of joy, of praise and of glory among all the Gentiles of the earth, who shall have heard all the good that I do unto them and they shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I shall do unto them.

33:10  Thus hath the LORD said: Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say is desolate without man and without beast, [even] in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

33:11  the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of those that shall say, Praise the LORD of the hosts; for the LORD [is] good; for his mercy [endures] for ever: [and] of those that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captivity of the land to turn as at the first, said the LORD.

33:12  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, there shall be booths of shepherds who shall cause [the] flocks to lie down.

33:13  In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that counts [them], said the LORD.

33:14  Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will confirm the good Word which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

33:15  In those days and at that time, I will cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.

33:16  In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this [is the name] with which she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.

33:17  For thus hath the LORD said: David shall never lack a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

33:18  neither shall the priests the Levites lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings and to kindle grain offerings and to do sacrifice continually.

33:19  And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,

33:20  Thus hath the LORD said; If ye can break my covenant with the day, and my covenant with the night, such that there should not be day nor night in their season,

33:21  [then] may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites and priests, my ministers.

33:22  As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David my servant and the Levites that minister unto me.

33:23  Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying:

33:24  Dost thou not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should no longer be a nation before them.

33:25  Thus hath the LORD said: If my covenant [remains] not with the day and the night, [and if] I have not appointed the laws of the heaven and the earth,

33:26  then I will cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be] rulers over the seed of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob; for I will cause their captivity to turn, and I will have mercy on them.:

Chapter 34

34:1  The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, (when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the peoples, fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities thereof,)saying,

34:2  Thus hath the LORD God of Israel said: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus hath the LORD said: Behold, I give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:

34:3  and thou shalt not escape out of his hand but shalt surely be taken and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.

34:4  Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus hath the LORD said of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:

34:5  [but] thou shalt die in peace: and according to the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn [odours] for thee; and they will lament thee, [saying], Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, said the LORD.

34:6  Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem

34:7  when the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah, for of the strong cities of Judah these had remained.

34:8  [This is] the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which [were] at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

34:9  that every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, [being] a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should use of his brethren, the Jews, as a slave.

34:10  Now when all the princes and all the people, who had entered into the covenant, heard that each one should let his manservant and each one his maidservant go free, that no one should use them any more as servants, then they listened and let [them] go.

34:11  But afterward they repented and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

34:12  Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

34:13  Thus saith the LORD God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying,

34:14  At the end of seven years each one shall let his Hebrew brother go, who has been sold unto thee; therefore he shall serve thee six years, and thou shalt send him forth free from thee: but your fathers did not hearken unto me, nor incline their ear.

34:15  And ye were now converted and had done right in my sight in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

34:16  but ye turned and polluted my name and caused each man his servant and each man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

34:17  Therefore thus hath the LORD said: Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, each one to his brother and each man to his neighbour; behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, said the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

34:18  And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts thereof,

34:19  the princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;

34:20  I will even give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those that seek their soul; and their dead bodies shall be for food unto the fowls of the heaven and to the beasts of the earth.

34:21  And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those that seek their soul and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.

34:22  Behold, I command, said the LORD and will cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against her and take her and burn her with fire; and I will give the cities of Judah unto desolation until they are without an inhabitant.:

Chapter 35

35:1  The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

35:2  Go unto the house of the Rechabites and speak with them and bring them into the house of the LORD into one of the chambers and give them wine to drink.

35:3  Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;

35:4  and I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which [was] by the chamber of the princes, which [was] above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the vessels:

35:5  and I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine and cups, and I said unto them, Drink wine.

35:6  But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, [neither ye], nor your sons for ever:

35:7  neither shall ye build [a] house, nor sow seed, nor plant [a] vineyard, nor have [any]: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye [are] strangers.

35:8  Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab our father, the son of Rechab, in all that he has charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;

35:9  nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

35:10  But we have dwelt in tents and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

35:11  But it came to pass, nevertheless, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem [from] before the army of the Chaldeans and [from] before of the army of the Syrians: and so we remain in Jerusalem.

35:12  Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,

35:13  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye never receive chastisement hearkening to my words? said the LORD.

35:14  The word of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, was not moved; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye did not hearken unto me.

35:15  I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending [them], saying, Turn ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and ye shall live in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.

35:16  Certainly the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have not moved the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people has not hearkened unto me:

35:17  therefore thus hath the LORD God of the hosts, the God of Israel said; Behold, I bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I spoke unto them, but they did not hear; and I called unto them, but they did not answer.

35:18  And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, God of Israel said; Because ye listened to the commandment of Jonadab your father and kept all his commandments and have done according unto all that he has commanded you:

35:19  therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts, God of Israel said; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not lack a man to stand before me for ever.:

Chapter 36

36:1  And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, [that] this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

36:2  Take thee a roll of a book and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the Gentiles, from the day I [began] to speak unto thee, from the days of Josiah, unto today.

36:3  If peradventure the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may turn each one from his evil way; and I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.

36:4  Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.

36:5  And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:

36:6  therefore go thou, and read from the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the day of fasting: and also in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities. Thou shalt read them

36:7  if peradventure their prayer will fall into the presence of the LORD, and they shall turn each one from his evil way; for great [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.

36:8  And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house.

36:9  And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, [that] they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people of Jerusalem and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.

36:10  Then Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people.

36:11  When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,

36:12  then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber; and, behold, all the princes sat there, [even] Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

36:13  Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

36:14  Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand and came unto them.

36:15  And they said unto him, Sit down now and read it in our ears. So Baruch read [it] in their ears.

36:16  Now it came to pass when they had heard all the words, each one turned to his companion in fear, and they said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.

36:17  And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?

36:18  Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink in the book.

36:19  Then the princes said unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.

36:20  And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe and told all the words in the ears of the king.

36:21  So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read in it in the ears of the king and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.

36:22  Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month, and [there was a fire] on the hearth burning before him.

36:23  And it came to pass, [that] when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast [it] into the fire that [was] on the hearth until all the roll was consumed in the fire that [was] on the hearth.

36:24  Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, [neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

36:25  Nevertheless [when] Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah made intercession to the king that he not burn the roll; he would not hear them.

36:26  But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but the LORD hid them.

36:27  Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after the king burned the roll, the words which Baruch had written at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying:

36:28  Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.

36:29  And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus hath the LORD said: Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land and shall cause to cease from there man and beast?

36:30  Therefore thus hath the LORD said unto Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have no one to sit upon the throne of David; and his body shall be cast out in the day to the heat and in the night to the frost.

36:31  And I will visit upon him and upon his seed and upon his servants, their iniquity; and I will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and upon the men of Judah all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they did not hearken.

36:32  Then Jeremiah took another roll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire, and there were added besides upon them many like words.:

Chapter 37

37:1  And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

37:2  But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land hearkened unto the words of the LORD, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.

37:3  And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.

37:4  (Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.

37:5  And as Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.)

37:6  Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

37:7  Thus hath the LORD, the God of Israel said; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which had come forth to help you, has returned to Egypt into their own land.

37:8  And the Chaldeans shall come again and fight against this city and take it and burn it with fire.

37:9  Thus hath the LORD said; Do not deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans have surely departed from us; for they shall not depart.

37:10  For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you and there remained [but] wounded men among them, [yet] should they rise up each man from his tent and burn this city with fire.

37:11  And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,

37:12  then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin to separate himself there in the midst of the people.

37:13  And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward [was] there, whose name [was] Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

37:14  Then said Jeremiah [It is] false; I do not fall away to the Chaldeans. But he did not hearken to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

37:15  Therefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah and smote him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

37:16  When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

37:17  then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house and said, Is there [any] word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

37:18  Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, In what have I sinned against thee or against thy servants or against this people that ye have put me in prison?

37:19  Where [are] now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you nor against this land?

37:20  Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

37:21  Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the guard and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.:

Chapter 38

38:1  Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,

38:2  Thus hath the LORD said, He that remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, but he that goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey and shall live.

38:3  Thus hath the LORD said, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.

38:4  Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakens the hands of the men of war that remain in this city and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them; for this man does not seek the peace of this people, but the hurt.

38:5  Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he [is] in your hand, for the king can not do [any] thing against you.

38:6  Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire; so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

38:7  Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king [was] then sitting in the gate of Benjamin,

38:8  Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house and spoke to the king, saying,

38:9  My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is, for [there is] no more bread in the city.

38:10  Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from here thirty men with thee and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon before he dies.

38:11  So Ebedmelech took the men with him and went into the house of the king under the treasury and took from there old cast clouts and old rotten rags and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

38:12  And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now [these] old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.

38:13  So they drew up Jeremiah with cords and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

38:14  Then Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that [is] in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a word; hide nothing from me.

38:15  Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare [it] unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken unto me.

38:16  So Zedekiah the king swore secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, [As] the LORD lives, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.

38:17  Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus hath the LORD, the God of the hosts, the God of Israel said: If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:

38:18  but if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.

38:19  And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.

38:20  But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver [thee]. Hear now the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.

38:21  But if thou refuse to go forth, this [is] the word that the LORD hath showed me:

38:22  and, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house [shall be] brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those [women] shall say, Thy friends have deceived thee and have prevailed against thee; thy feet are sunk in the mire, [and] they are turned away back.

38:23  So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans; and thou shalt not escape out of their hand but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon; and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.

38:24  Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.

38:25  But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:

38:26  then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.

38:27  Then all the princes came unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all those words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

38:28  So Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken; and he was [there] when Jerusalem was taken.:

Chapter 39

39:1  In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

39:2  [And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up.

39:3  And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate [even] Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.

39:4  And it came to pass, [that] when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them and all the men of war, then they fled and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate between the two walls; and [the king] went out by the way of the desert.

39:5  But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he sentenced him.

39:6  Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes; also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.

39:7  Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.

39:8  And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

39:9  Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that had come over to him, with the rest of the people that remained.

39:10  But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

39:11  Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,

39:12  Take him, and look well to him and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.

39:13  So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon's princes;

39:14  even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.

39:15  Now the word of the LORD had come unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

39:16  Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be [accomplished] in that day before thee.

39:17  But I will deliver thee in that day, said the LORD, and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou [art] afraid.

39:18  For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee, because thou hast put thy trust in me, said the LORD.:

Chapter 40

40:1  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.

40:2  And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God has pronounced this evil upon this place.

40:3  Now the LORD has brought [it] and done according as he had said; because ye have sinned against the LORD, and did not listen to his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.

40:4  And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which [were] upon thine hand. If it seems good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seems ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land [is] before thee; where it seems good and convenient for thee to go, go there.

40:5  Now while he had [not yet replied] that he would go back, [the captain said], Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah and dwell with him among the people, or go wherever it seems convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward and sent him forth.

40:6  Then Jeremiah came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.

40:7  And all the princes of the army which [were] in the field, [even] they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor over the land and had committed unto him the men and the women and the children and the poor of the land, those that were not carried away captive to Babylon;

40:8  then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

40:9  And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans; dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

40:10  As for me, behold, I dwell in Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us; but ye, gather ye the wine and the bread and the oil and put [them] in your vessels and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.

40:11  Likewise when all the Jews that [were] in Moab and among the Ammonites and in Edom and that [were] in all the lands heard how the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan,

40:12  all these Jews returned out of all places where they were driven and came to the land of Judah, to Gedalias in Mizpah, and gathered wine and much fruit.

40:13  Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah and all the princes of the armies that [were] in the fields came to Gedaliah to Mizpah

40:14  and said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam did not believe them.

40:15  Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, I will go now, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know [it]; why should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered and the remnant in Judah perish?

40:16  But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing, for thou dost speak falsely of Ishmael.:

Chapter 41

41:1  Now it came to pass in the seventh month, [that] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the royal seed, and [some] princes of the king, and ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam in Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah.

41:2  Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword and slew him whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

41:3  Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, [even] with Gedaliah at Mizpah and the Chaldean soldiers that were found there.

41:4  And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, when no one knew of it yet

41:5  that there came certain men of Shechem, of Shiloh, and of Samaria, eighty men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring [them] to the house of the LORD.

41:6  And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.

41:7  And it was [so], when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them [and cast them] into the midst of a pit, he, and the men that [were] with him.

41:8  But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat and of barley and of oil and of honey. So he forbare, and did not slay them among their brethren.

41:9  Now the pit in which Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, [was] the same which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: [and] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with [those that were] slain.

41:10  Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that [were] in Mizpah, [even] the king's daughters and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive and departed to go over to the Ammonites.

41:11  But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the princes of the armies that [were] with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,

41:12  then they took all the men and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and found him by the great waters that [are] in Gibeon.

41:13  Now it came to pass, [that] when all the people which [were] with Ishmael heard Johanan the son of Kareah and all the princes of the armies that [were] with him, then they were glad.

41:14  So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.

41:15  But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to the Ammonites.

41:16  Then Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the princes of the armies that [were] with him, took all the remnant of the people which had turned from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom Johanan had caused to turn from Gibeon:

41:17  and they departed and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, that they might go and enter into Egypt

41:18  because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.:

Chapter 42

42:1  Then all the princes of the armies, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,

42:2  and said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, [even] for all this remnant (for we are left [but] a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us)

42:3  that the LORD thy God may show us [the] way in which we walk, and that which we should do.

42:4  Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard [you]; behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, [that] whatever thing the LORD shall answer you, I will declare [it] unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.

42:5  Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.

42:6  Whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil, we will hear the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that, obeying the voice of the LORD our God, it may be well with us.

42:7  And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah.

42:8  Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the princes of the armies which [were] with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

42:9  and said unto them, Thus hath the LORD, the God of Israel said, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him,

42:10  If ye will still abide in this land, then I will build you, and not pull [you] down, and I will plant you, and not pluck [you] up; for I repent of the evil that I have done unto you.

42:11  Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; do not be afraid of him, said the LORD: for I [am] with you to save you and to deliver you from his hand.

42:12  And I will show mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you and cause you to dwell in your [own] land.

42:13  But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, not listening to the voice of the LORD your God,

42:14  saying, No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the shofar, nor have hunger of bread; and there we will dwell:

42:15  and now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: If ye altogether set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;

42:16  then it shall come to pass [that] the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, of which ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

42:17  So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

42:18  For thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: As my anger and my fury have been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my fury be poured forth upon you when ye shall enter into Egypt, and ye shall be an execration and an astonishment and a curse and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

42:19  The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah. Do not go into Egypt; know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

42:20  Why did ye cause your souls to err? For ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do [it].

42:21  And [now] I have this day declared [it] to you, but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any [thing] for which he has sent me unto you.

42:22  Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where ye desire to go [and] to sojourn.:

Chapter 43

43:1  And it came to pass, [that] when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, [even] all these words,

43:2  Then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou dost speak falsely; the LORD our God has not sent thee to say, Do not go into Egypt to sojourn there:

43:3  but Baruch the son of Neriah sets thee on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death and carry us away captives into Babylon.

43:4  So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the princes of the armies and all the people, did not hear the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.

43:5  But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the princes of the armies, took all the remnant of Judah, that had returned from [among] all the Gentiles, where they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;

43:6  men and women and children and the king's daughters, and every soul that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah;

43:7  and they left for the land of Egypt; because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD: thus they came [even] to Tahpanhes.

43:8  Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

43:9  Take great stones in thine hand and cover them with clay in a brickkiln, which [is] at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;

43:10  and say unto them, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid, and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

43:11  And he shall come and smite the land of Egypt [and deliver] such [as are] for death to death; and such [as are] for captivity to captivity; and such [as are] for the sword to the sword.

43:12  And I will put fire to the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he shall go forth from there in peace.

43:13  He shall also break the images of Bethshemesh, that [is] in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.:

Chapter 44

44:1  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwelt in the land of Egypt, which dwelt at Migdol and at Tahpanhes and at Noph and in the country of Pathros, saying,

44:2  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they [are] a desolation, and no man dwells therein,

44:3  because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense [and] to serve other gods, whom they knew not, [neither] they, ye, nor your fathers.

44:4  Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending [them], saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

44:5  But they did not hearken, nor incline their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.

44:6  Therefore my fury and my anger was poured forth and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted [and] desolate, as at this day.

44:7  Therefore now thus hath the LORD, the God of the hosts, the God of Israel said: Why do ye commit [this] great evil against your souls, that ye be cut off, man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah. Why do ye not desire to have a remnant?

44:8  In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, where ye are gone to dwell. Why do ye cut yourselves off that ye might be a curse and a reproach to all the Gentiles of the earth?

44:9  Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which was committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

44:10  They are not broken [even] unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my rights, that I set before you and before your fathers.

44:11  Therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil and to cut off all Judah.

44:12  And I will take the remnant of Judah that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to dwell there, and they shall all be consumed [and] fall in the land of Egypt; they shall [even] be consumed by the sword [and] by the famine; they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be for an oath [and] an astonishment and a curse and a reproach.

44:13  For I will visit those that dwell in the land of Egypt as I visited Jerusalem with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence:

44:14  so that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall escape or remain alive to return into the land of Judah, unto which they have a desire to return to dwell there; for none shall return but some fugitives.

44:15  Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

44:16  [As for] the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.

44:17  But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goes forth out of our own mouth to burn incense unto the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for [then] had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

44:18  But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have lacked all [things] and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

44:19  And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?

44:20  Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people who had given him [that] answer, saying,

44:21  The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them and did it [not] come into his mind?

44:22  So that the LORD could no longer bear because of the evil of your doings, [and] because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation and an astonishment and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

44:23  Because ye have burned incense and because ye have sinned against the LORD and have not listened to the voice of the LORD nor walked in his law nor in his rights, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has come upon you, as at this day.

44:24  Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that [are] in the land of Egypt:

44:25  Thus hath spoken the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel, saying: Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her; ye will surely accomplish your vows and surely perform your vows.

44:26  Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, said the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD lives.

44:27  Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that [are] in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine until there is an end of them.

44:28  Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, so that all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.

44:29  And this [shall be] a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will visit you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:

44:30  thus hath the LORD said: Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those that seek his soul; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his soul.:

Chapter 45

45:1  The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

45:2  Thus hath the LORD, the God of Israel said unto thee, O Baruch:

45:3  Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD has added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I have found no rest.

45:4  Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD said thus: Behold, I destroy those whom I have built up and those whom I have planted I pluck up, even this whole land.

45:5  And dost thou seek great things for thyself? seek [them] not; for, behold, I bring evil upon all flesh, said the LORD: but I will give thee thy life as a spoil [of battle] in all places where thou goest.:

Chapter 46

46:1  The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles.

46:2  To Egypt: against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

46:3  Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

46:4  Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with [your] helmets; furbish the spears, [and] put on the brigandines.

46:5  Why have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down and are fled in haste, and do not look back: [for] fear [was] round about, said the LORD.

46:6  Do not let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they stumbled and fell toward the north by the river Euphrates.

46:7  Who [is] this [that] comes up as a flood, whose waters move as rivers?

46:8  Egypt rises up like a flood, and [his] waters move like rivers; and he said, I will go up [and] will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and its inhabitants.

46:9  Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle [and] bend the bow.

46:10  But this day [shall be] unto the Lord GOD of the hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries; and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiated and made drunk with their blood; for it [shall be a] slaughter unto the Lord GOD of the hosts in the north country [by] the river Euphrates.

46:11  Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; [for] there is no cure for thee.

46:12  The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry has filled the land; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, [and] they are both fallen together.

46:13  The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come [and] smite the land of Egypt.

46:14  Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.

46:15  Why is thy fortress swept away? It could not stand because the LORD pushed it [over].

46:16  He multiplied the fallen; yea, one fell upon another; and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people and to the land of our nativity, away from the overcoming sword.

46:17  They cried there: Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he allowed the appointed time to pass [by].

46:18  [As] I live, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of the hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, [so] shall he come.

46:19  O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall be a pasture and shall be made desolate without an inhabitant.

46:20  Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction comes; it comes out of the north.

46:21  Also her soldiers [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also turned back, [and] all fled away without stopping: because the day of their calamity was come upon them [and] the time of their visitation.

46:22  Her voice shall go forth like a serpent; for they shall march with an army and come against her with axes as hewers of wood.

46:23  They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, for they cannot be counted because they are more than the locusts; they [are] innumerable.

46:24  The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

46:25  The LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel, said: Behold, I will visit the multitude of Alexandria, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] those that trust in him.

46:26  And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their soul and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterward it shall be inhabited, [as] in the days of old, saith the LORD.

46:27  But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return and be in rest and be prospered, and no one shall make [him] afraid.

46:28  Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I [am] with thee; for I will make a full end of all the Gentiles where I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but I will chastise thee with judgment; and I will not completely cut thee off.:

Chapter 47

47:1  The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Palestinians, before Pharaoh smote Gaza.

47:2  Thus hath the LORD said: Behold, waters rise up out of the north and shall be an overflowing flood and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the cities and those that dwell therein; then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

47:3  At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong [horses], at the rushing of his chariots, [and at] the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to [their] children for feebleness of hands;

47:4  because of the day that comes to destroy all the Palestinians, [and] to cut off from Tyre and Zidon every helper that remains: for the LORD will destroy the Palestinians, the remnant of the island of Caphtor.

47:5  Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off [with] the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

47:6  O thou sword of the LORD, how long [will it be] ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.

47:7  How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD has given it a charge against Ashkelon and against the sea shore? there has he appointed it.:

Chapter 48

48:1  Against Moab thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said; Woe unto Nebo! for it is destroyed; it is confounded; Kiriathaim is taken; Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

48:2  Moab shall no longer be praised; they have devised evil against Heshbon, saying, Come, and let us cut it off from [being] a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.

48:3  A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.

48:4  Moab is destroyed; they have caused the cry of her little ones to be heard.

48:5  For in the ascending [road] of Luhith he that weeps shall go up weeping; for in the descending [road] of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

48:6  Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

48:7  For because thou hast trusted in thy works; in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken; and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity [with] his priests and his princes together.

48:8  And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed as the LORD has spoken.

48:9  Give wings unto Moab that he may flee and get away, for his cities shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.

48:10  Cursed [be] he that does the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed [be] he that keeps back his sword from blood.

48:11  Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity; therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

48:12  Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will send unto him captors that shall take him captive and shall empty his vessels and break his wineskins.

48:13  And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

48:14  How do ye say, We [are] mighty and strong men for the war?

48:15  Moab is spoiled, and his cities destroyed, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, said the King whose name [is] the LORD of the hosts.

48:16  The calamity of Moab [is] near to come, and his affliction hastens fast.

48:17  All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken: the beautiful rod!

48:18  Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from [thy] glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab has come against thee [and] has dissipated thy strong holds.

48:19  O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch; ask her that flees and her that escapes [and] say, What has happened?

48:20  Moab is confounded, for it is broken down; howl and cry; tell it in Arnon that Moab is spoiled,

48:21  and judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,

48:22  and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,

48:23  and upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,

48:24  and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, those that are far and those that are near.

48:25  The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, said the LORD.

48:26  Make him drunken, for he magnified [himself] against the LORD; Moab shall also wallow in his vomit, and be in derision.

48:27  For was not Israel a derision unto thee, as if he were found among thieves? for since thou hast spoken of him, thou hast slipped.

48:28  O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities and dwell in the rock and be like the dove [that] makes her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.

48:29  We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness and his arrogancy and his pride and the haughtiness of his heart.

48:30  I know his wrath, saith the LORD, but it shall have no effect; his lies shall not be to his advantage.

48:31  Therefore I will weep over Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; [my heart] shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.

48:32  O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer; thy shoots are gone over the sea; they reach [even] to the sea of Jazer; the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.

48:33  And joy and gladness shall be taken from the plentiful field and from the land of Moab; and I shall cause wine to cease from the winepresses; no one shall tread with song; [their song shall be] no song.

48:34  The cry, from Heshbon [even] unto Elealeh, [and even] unto Jahaz, they have uttered their voice; from Zoar [even] unto Horonaim, [as] a heifer of three years old; for the waters of Nimrim shall also be destroyed.

48:35  Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that offers upon [an] altar and him that burns incense to his gods.

48:36  Therefore my heart shall sound like flutes for Moab, and my heart shall sound like flutes for the men of Kirheres because the riches [that] he has gotten are perished.

48:37  For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard shaved: upon all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon all the loins sackcloth.

48:38  [There shall be] lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab and in the streets thereof; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which there [is] no pleasure, said the LORD.

48:39  They shall howl, [saying], How is it broken down! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all those about him.

48:40  For thus hath the LORD said: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle and shall spread his wings over Moab.

48:41  The cities are taken, and the strong holds are taken, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

48:42  And Moab shall be destroyed from [being] a people because he has magnified [himself] against the LORD.

48:43  Fear and the pit and the snare [shall be] upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, said the LORD.

48:44  He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare; for I will bring upon him, [even] upon Moab, the year of their visitation, said the LORD.

48:45  Those that fled from the force stood under the shadow of Heshbon; because fire came forth out of Heshbon and a flame from the midst of Sihon and burned the corner of Moab and the crown of the head of the rebellious sons.

48:46  Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh have perished; for thy sons are taken prisoners into captivity, and thy daughters [are] captives.

48:47  Yet I will turn again the captivity of Moab in the last of the times, said the LORD. Thus far [is] the judgment of Moab.:

Chapter 49

49:1  Concerning the Ammonites, thus hath the LORD said: Does Israel have no sons? does he have no heir? why [then] does their king inherit Gad and his people dwell in his cities?

49:2  Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be [made] a desolate heap, and her cities shall be burned with fire; then shall Israel be heir unto those that were his heirs, said the LORD.

49:3  Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled; cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird yourselves with sackcloth; lament and run to and fro by the hedges, for their king shall go into captivity, [and] his priests and his princes together.

49:4  Why gloriest thou in the valleys? Thy valley has slipped, O backsliding daughter that trusted in her treasures, she that saith, Who shall come against me?

49:5  Behold, I bring fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of the hosts, from all sides; and ye shall be driven out each man right forth in the direction he is facing; and no one shall gather up him that wanders.

49:6  And afterward I will turn again the captivity of the sons of Ammon, said the LORD.

49:7  Concerning Edom, thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Is there no more wisdom in Teman? Has the counsel of the wise perished? Is their wisdom corrupted?

49:8  Flee, turn back, hide in the deeps to remain, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, at the time [that] I have to visit him.

49:9  If grapegatherers came against thee, would they not leave [some] gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, they will take what they have need of.

49:10  But I will make Esau bare, I will uncover his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself; his seed shall be destroyed, and his brethren and his neighbours and he shall no longer be.

49:11  Leave thy fatherless children; I will raise them; and thy widows shall trust in me.

49:12  For thus hath the LORD said: Behold, those who were not condemned to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and shalt thou be absolved of everything? Thou shalt not be absolved, but thou shalt surely drink [of it].

49:13  For I have sworn by myself, said the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.

49:14  I have heard the news, that from the LORD a messenger had been sent unto the Gentiles, [saying], Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.

49:15  For, behold, I have placed thee as small among the Gentiles [and] despised among men.

49:16  Thy arrogance has deceived thee, [and] the pride of thine heart, O thou that dost dwell in the clefts of the rock, that dost hold the height of the mountain: though thou should make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from there, said the LORD.

49:17  Also Edom shall be a desolation; every one that goes by it shall be astonished and shall hiss at all its plagues.

49:18  As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour [cities] thereof, said the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.

49:19  Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan to the strong habitation: for I will make rest and make him run from upon her, and he who [is] chosen I shall appoint over her; for who [is] like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will stand before me?

49:20  Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that he has taken against Edom; and his thoughts, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; surely he shall destroy their habitations with them.

49:21  The earth is moved at the noise of their fall; at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.

49:22  Behold, he shall rise up and fly as the eagle and spread his wings over Bozrah; and at that day the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

49:23  Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad, for they have heard bad news; they have melted in waters of feebleness; they cannot be reassured.

49:24  Damascus is waxed feeble [and] turns herself to flee, and fear has seized on [her]; anguish and sorrows have taken her as a woman in travail.

49:25  How did they not forgive the city of praise, the city of my joy!

49:26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, said the LORD of the hosts.

49:27  And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the houses of Benhadad.

49:28  Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote, thus hath the LORD said; Arise ye, go up to Kedar and destroy the men of the east.

49:29  Their tents and their flocks shall they take away; they shall take to themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels; and they shall invoke fear on every side against them.

49:30  Flee, get you far off, dwell in the deeps that [ye] may stand, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, said the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you and has conceived a purpose against you.

49:31  Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation that dwells without care, saith the LORD, which has neither gates nor bars, [which] dwells alone.

49:32  And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter them into all [the] winds, throwing them out unto the utmost corner; and from all their sides I will bring their ruin, said the LORD.

49:33  And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons [and] a desolation for ever: no man shall abide there, nor [any] son of man dwell in it.

49:34  The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet regarding Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

49:35  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Behold, I break the bow of Elam, the foundation of their might.

49:36  And upon Elam I will bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

49:37  For I will cause Elam to fear before their enemies and before those that seek their soul; and I will bring evil upon them, [even] my fierce anger, said the LORD; and I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.

49:38  And I will set my throne in Elam and will destroy from there the king and the princes, said the LORD.

49:39  But it shall come to pass in the last of the days [that] I will turn again the captivity of Elam, said the LORD.:

Chapter 50

50:1  The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon [and] against the land of the Chaldeans by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet.

50:2  Declare ye among the Gentiles, and publish, and set up a banner; publish, [and] do not conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

50:3  For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and no one shall dwell therein: they shall leave, they shall depart, both man and beast.

50:4  In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going and weeping they shall go and seek the LORD their God.

50:5  They shall ask the way to Zion, unto where they shall turn their faces, [saying], Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in an eternal covenant [that] shall never be forgotten.

50:6  My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away [on] the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their restingplace.

50:7  All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

50:8  Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the meek in front of the flocks.

50:9  For, behold, I awake and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country, and from there they shall set themselves in array against her; she shall be taken; their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty expert [one], who shall not return in vain.

50:10  And the land of the Chaldeans shall be for a spoil; all that spoil her shall come forth full, saith the LORD.

50:11  Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced destroying my heritage, because ye filled yourselves as a heifer on grass and neighed like horses;

50:12  your mother was sore confounded; she that bore you was ashamed: see here the latter end of the Gentiles: wilderness, dry land, and desert.

50:13  Because of the wrath of the LORD, [she] shall not be inhabited, but she shall be completely desolate; every one that goes by Babylon shall be astonished and hiss at all her plagues.

50:14  Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about; all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows; for she has sinned against the LORD.

50:15  Shout against her round about; she has given her hand; her foundations are fallen; her walls are thrown down: for it [is] the vengeance of the LORD; take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do unto her.

50:16  Cut off the sower from Babylon and him that handles the sickle in the time of harvest; for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn each one to his people, and they shall flee each one to his own land.

50:17  Israel [has been like] scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away; first the king of Assyria has devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

50:18  Therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said; Behold, I visit the king of Babylon and his land as I have visited the king of Assyria.

50:19  And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

50:20  In those days, and in that time, said the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and [there shall be] none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon those whom I shall have left.

50:21  Go up against the land of Merathaim, [even] against it and against the inhabitants of Pekod; waste and utterly destroy after them, said the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

50:22  A sound of battle [is] in the land and of great destruction.

50:23  How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the Gentiles!

50:24  I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware; thou art found, and also caught because thou hast provoked the LORD.

50:25  The LORD has opened his treasury and has brought forth the vessels of his indignation; for this [is] the work of the Lord GOD of the hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

50:26  Come against her from the ends [of the earth], open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

50:27  Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

50:28  The voice of those that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.

50:29  Call together the archers against Babylon; all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her; for she has become proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

50:30  Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, said the LORD.

50:31  Behold, I [am] against thee, [O thou] proud one, said the Lord GOD of the hosts; for thy day is come, the time [that] I will visit thee.

50:32  And the proud one shall stumble and fall and have no one to raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

50:33  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: The sons of Israel and the sons of Judah [were] oppressed together; and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

50:34  Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD of the hosts [is] his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause that he may give rest to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

50:35  A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, said the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon and upon her princes and upon her wise [men].

50:36  A sword [is] upon the fortune-tellers; and they shall be fools: a sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be broken.

50:37  A sword [is] upon their horses and upon their chariots and upon all the mingled people that [are] in the midst of her; and they shall become as women; a sword [is] upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

50:38  A drought [is] upon her waters; and they shall be dried up; for it [is] the land of graven images, and they are become mad upon [their] idols.

50:39  Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell [there], and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall no longer be inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

50:40  As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour [cities] thereof, saith the LORD; [so] shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

50:41  Behold, a people comes from the north, and a great nation and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

50:42  They shall hold the bow and the lance; they [shall be] cruel and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, [every one] put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

50:43  The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble; anguish took hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

50:44  Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the strong habitation; but I will rest and will make him run from upon her; and he who shall be chosen I will appoint over her. For who [is] like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will stand before me?

50:45  Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD that he has taken against Babylon and his thoughts that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall drag them out, and they shall destroy their habitations with them.

50:46  At the noise of the taking of Babylon, the earth was moved, and the cry was heard among the Gentiles.:

Chapter 51

51:1  Thus hath the LORD said; Behold, I raise up against Babylon and against her inhabitants that rise up against me from the heart, a destroying wind.

51:2  And I will send unto Babylon fanners that shall fan her and shall empty her land; for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

51:3  [I shall say] to the archer that bends his bow and unto him that lifts himself up in his brigandine, Spare ye not her young men; utterly destroy all her host.

51:4  Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans and [those that are] thrust through in her streets.

51:5  For Israel and Judah have not been made widows of their God, of the LORD of the hosts, though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

51:6  Flee out of the midst of Babylon and deliver each one his soul that ye not perish because of her iniquity, for this [is] the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.

51:7  Babylon [has been] a golden cup in the LORD'S hand that made all the earth drunken: the Gentiles have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

51:8  Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed; howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

51:9  We applied [the medicine to] Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go each one into his own land; for her judgment is come unto heaven and is lifted up [even] to the clouds.

51:10  The LORD has brought our righteousness to light; come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

51:11  Make bright the arrows; gather the shields; the LORD has awakened the spirit of the kings of the Medes; for his thought [is] against Babylon to destroy her; for it [is] vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

51:12  Set up the banner upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has deliberated and shall put into effect that which he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

51:13  O thou that dwellest among many waters, rich in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.

51:14  The LORD of the hosts has sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill thee with men as with locusts; and they shall sing the song [of the winepress] against thee.

51:15  He is the one who makes the earth by his power; he upholds the world by his wisdom and extends the heavens by his intelligence;

51:16  he who gives with [his] voice a multitude of waters from heaven, then he causes the clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings with the rain and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.

51:17  Every man has become carnal and is without knowledge; let every founder be ashamed of the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.

51:18  They [are] vanity, the work of errors; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

51:19  The portion of Jacob [is] not like them; for he [is] the Former of all things; and [Israel is] the rod of his inheritance; the LORD of the hosts [is] his name.

51:20  Thou [art] my hammer, O weapons of war: for with thee I will break in pieces the Gentiles, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms;

51:21  and with thee I will break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee I will break in pieces the chariots and their riders;

51:22  with thee also I will break in pieces men and women; and with thee I will break in pieces old and young; and with thee I will break in pieces young men and virgins;

51:23  I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee I will break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee I will break in pieces dukes and princes.

51:24  And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, said the LORD.

51:25  Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain, said the LORD, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon thee and roll thee down from the rocks and will make thee a burnt mountain.

51:26  And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, said the LORD.

51:27  Set ye up a banner in the land, blow the shofar among the Gentiles, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause [the] horses to come up as raised up locusts.

51:28  Prepare the nations against her: the kings of Media, the captains thereof, and all the princes thereof, and all the land of their dominion.

51:29  And the land shall tremble and sorrow for every thought of the LORD is confirmed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

51:30  The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight; they have remained in [their] holds; their might has failed; they became as women: the [enemies] have burned her dwellingplaces; they have broken her bars.

51:31  One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken in all places,

51:32  And the fords were taken, and they have burned the reeds with fire, and the men of war were astounded.

51:33  For thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: The daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshingfloor; [it is] now time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

51:34  Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me up like a dragon; he has filled his belly with my delicates; he has cast me out.

51:35  The violence against me and my flesh [be] upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

51:36  Therefore thus hath the LORD said: Behold, I judge thy cause and shall take thy vengeance; and I will dry up her sea and make her flowing [waters] dry.

51:37  And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

51:38  They shall roar together like lions; they shall roar as lions' whelps.

51:39  In their heat I will place their feasts [before them], and I will make them drunken that they may rejoice and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake, said the LORD.

51:40  I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

51:41  How is Sheshach a prey! and how is she who was the praise of the whole earth taken! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the Gentiles!

51:42  The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

51:43  Her cities were devastated, the land dry and desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither shall [any] son of man pass thereby.

51:44  And I will visit Bel himself in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the Gentiles shall not flow together any more unto him; and the wall of Babylon shall fall.

51:45  Come out of the midst of her, my people, and save each one his life from the fierce anger of the LORD.

51:46  And lest your heart faint, and ye fear because of the news that shall be heard in the land; in one year shall the news come, and after that in the [next] year [shall come] the rumour, and [then shall come] the violence in the land, and the ruler over him who rules.

51:47  Therefore, behold, the days come that I will visit the graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be ashamed, and all her dead shall fall in the midst of her.

51:48  Then the heavens and the earth and all that [is] therein shall sing praises over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come unto her from the north, said the LORD.

51:49  As Babylon [has caused the] dead of Israel to fall, so because of Babylon [the] dead of all the earth fell.

51:50  Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, do not tarry: remember the LORD for many days, and remember Jerusalem.

51:51  We are ashamed, because we have heard the reproach; confusion has covered our faces; for strangers are come against the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.

51:52  Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will visit her graven images; and through all her [land the wounded] unto death shall groan.

51:53  Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strength upon high, [yet] from me shall destroyers come unto her, said the LORD.

51:54  The sound of a cry [comes] from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

51:55  Because the LORD destroys Babylon and takes out of her the many thunders, her waves shall roar; like many waters shall be the sound of their voice:

51:56  because the destroyer is come against her, [even] upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bow is broken: for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely requite.

51:57  And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise [men], her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep an eternal sleep and shall not wake, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of the hosts.

51:58  Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly cast down, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and peoples and nations shall labour in vain in the fire [to save her], and they shall become weary.

51:59  The word which Jeremiah the prophet sent to Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And [this] Seraiah [was] the chief steward of the bedchambers.

51:60  So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, [even] all these words that are written against Babylon.

51:61  And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon and shalt see and shalt read all these things;

51:62  then thou shalt say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that no one shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

51:63  And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, [that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates;

51:64  and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be overcome. Thus far [are] the words of Jeremiah.:

Chapter 52

52:1  Zedekiah [was] twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

52:2  And he did [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

52:3  For because of the anger of the LORD against Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out of his presence, Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

52:4  Therefore it came to pass after nine years of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day of] the month, [that] Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem and pitched camp against it and built forts against it round about.

52:5  So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

52:6  And in the fourth month, in the ninth [day] of the month, the famine prevailed in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

52:7  Then the city was breached, and all the men of war fled and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which [was] by the king's garden, and they went by the way of the desert, even though the Chaldeans [were] by the city round about.

52:8  But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and took Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

52:9  So they took the king and caused him to come up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath where he pronounced the sentence upon him.

52:10  And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

52:11  But he put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains; and the king of Babylon caused him to be taken to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.

52:12  And in the fifth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, which [was] the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, [who] served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem

52:13  and burned the house of the LORD and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burned with fire:

52:14  And all the army of the Chaldeans, that [were] with the captain of the guard, destroyed all the walls of Jerusalem round about.

52:15  Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive [certain] of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and the fugitives that had fled to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

52:16  But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left [certain] of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

52:17  Also the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that [was] in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

52:18  The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, they took away.

52:19  And the basins, and the censers, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; [that] which [was] of gold [in] gold, and [that] which [was] of silver [in] silver, the captain of the guard took away.

52:20  The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen bulls that [were] under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels could not be weighed.

52:21  And [concerning] the pillars, the height of one pillar [was] eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof [was] four fingers: [it was] hollow.

52:22  And a chapiter of brass [was] upon it; and the height of one chapiter [was] five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all [of] brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates [were] like unto these.

52:23  And there were ninety-six pomegranates on a side; [and] all the pomegranates upon the network [were] one hundred round about.

52:24  And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door.

52:25  He also took out of the city a eunuch, who had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of those that were near the king's person, who were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land for war; and sixty men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.

52:26  So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

52:27  And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.

52:28  This [is] the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand and twenty-three Jews:

52:29  In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons:

52:30  In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five persons: all the persons [were] four thousand six hundred.

52:31  And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth [day] of the month, [that] Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the [first] year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him forth out of prison

52:32  and spoke kindly unto him and set his seat above the seat of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon

52:33  and changed his prison garments: and he continually ate bread before him all the days of his life.

52:34  And [for] his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every thing in its day for all the [days] of his life, until the day of his death.: