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▲1.1 The word of God which came
to Jeremias the [son] of Chelcias, of the priests, who dwelt in
Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
1.2
[accordingly] as the word of God came to him in the days of Josias son
of Amos king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
1.3 And it
was in the days of Joakim, son of Josias king of Juda, until the
eleventh year of Sedekias king of Juda, [even] until the captivity of
Jerusalem in the fifth month.
1.4 And the
word of the Lord came to him, [saying],
1.5 Before
I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth
from the womb, I sanctified thee; I appointed thee a prophet to the
nations.
1.6 And I
said, O Lord, thou that art supreme Lord, behold, I know not [how] to
speak, for I am a child.
1.7 And the
Lord said to me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all to
whomsoever I shall send thee, and according to all [the words] that I
shall command thee, thou shalt speak.
1.8 Be not
afraid before them: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.
1.9 And the
Lord stretched forth his hand to me, and touched my mouth: and the Lord
said to me, Behold, I have put my words into thy mouth.
1.10
Behold, I have appointed thee this day over nations and over kingdoms,
to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to rebuild, and to
plant.
1.11 And
the word of the Lord came to me, saying, What seest thou? And I said, A
rod of an almond tree.
1.12 And
the Lord said to me, Thou hast well seen: for I have watched over my
words to perform them.
1.13 And
the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What seest thou?
And I said, A caldron on the fire; and the face of it is toward the
north.
1.14 And
the Lord said to me, From the north shall flame forth evils upon all
the inhabitants of the land.
1.15 For,
behold, I call together all the kingdoms of the earth from the north,
saith the Lord; and they shall come, and shall set each one his throne
at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls
round about her, and against all the cities of Juda.
1.16 And I
will speak to them in judgment, concerning all their iniquity,
[forasmuch] as they have forsaken me, and sacrificed to strange gods,
and worshipped the works of their own hands.
1.17 And do
thou gird up thy loins, and stand up, and speak all [the words] that I
shall command thee: be not afraid of their face, neither be thou
alarmed before them; for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.
1.18
Behold, I have made thee this day as a strong city, and as a brazen
wall, strong [against] all the kings of Juda, and the princes thereof,
and the people of the land.
1.19 And
they shall fight against thee; but they shall by no means prevail
against thee; because I am with thee, to deliver thee, saith the Lord.
▲2.1 And he said, Thus saith the
Lord,
2.2 I
remember the kindness of thy youth, and the love of thine espousals,
2.3 in
following the Holy One of Israel, saith the Lord, Israel was the holy
[people] to the Lord, [and] the first-fruits of his increase: al that
devoured him shall offend; evils shall come upon them, saith the Lord.
2.4 Hear
the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and every family of the house
of Israel.
2.5 Thus
saith the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in me, that they
have revolted far from me, and gone after vanities, and become vain?
2.6 And
they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of
Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless
land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man dwelt
there?
2.7 And I
brought you to Carmel, that ye should eat the fruits thereof, and the
good thereof; and ye went in, and defiled my land, and made mine
heritage an abomination.
2.8 The
priest said not, Where is the Lord? and they that held by the law knew
me not: the shepherds also sinned against me, and the prophets
prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not.
2.9
Therefore I will yet plead with you, and will plead with your
children's children.
2.10 For go
to the isles of the Chettians, and se; and send to Kedar, and observe
accurately, and see if such things have been done;
2.11 if the
nations will change their gods, though they are not gods: but my people
have changed their glory, [for that] from which they shall not be
profited.
2.12 The
heaven is amazed at this, and is very exceedingly horror-struck, saith
the Lord.
2.13 For my
people has committed two [faults], and evil ones: they have forsaken
me, the fountain of water of life, and hewn out for themselves broken
cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.
2.14 Is
Israel a servant, or a home-born slave? why has he become a spoil?
2.15 The
lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his
land a wilderness: and his cities are broken down, that they should not
be inhabited.
2.16 Also
the children of Memphis and Taphnas have known thee, and mocked thee.
2.17 Has
not thy forsaking me brought these things upon thee? saith the Lord thy
God.
2.18 And
now what hast thou to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the water of
Geon? and what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink
the water of rivers?
2.19 Thine
apostasy shall correct thee, and thy wickedness shall reprove thee:
know then, and see, that thy forsaking me [has been] bitter to thee,
saith the Lord thy God; and I have taken no pleasure in thee, saith the
Lord thy God.
2.20 For of
old thou hast broken thy yoke, and plucked asunder thy bands; and thou
has said, I will not serve thee, but will go upon every high hill, and
under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.
2.21 Yet I
planted thee a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort: how art thou
a strange vine turned to bitterness!
2.22 Though
thou shouldest wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself soap,
[still] thou art stained by thine iniquities before me, saith the Lord.
2.23 How
wilt thou say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? behold
thy ways in the burial-ground, and know what thou hast done: her voice
has howled in the evening:
2.24 she
has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried
along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up [to them], who will
turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary; at [the time of] her
humiliation they shall find her.
2.25
Withdraw thy foot from a rough way, and they throat from thirst: but
she said I will strengthen myself: for she loved strangers, and went
after them.
2.26 As is
the shame of a thief when he is caught, so shall the children of Israel
be ashamed; they, and their kings, and their princes, and their
priests, and their prophets.
2.27 They
said to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou has begotten
me: and they have turned [their] backs to me, and not their faces: yet
in the time of their afflictions they will say, Arise, and save us.
2.28 And
where are thy gods, which thou madest for thyself? will they arise and
save in the time of thine affliction? for according to the number of
thy cities were thy gods, O Juda; and according to the number of the
streets of Jerusalem they sacrificed to Baal.
2.29
Wherefore do ye speak unto me? ye all have been ungodly, and ye all
have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
2.30 In
vain have I smitten your children; ye have not received correction: a
sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet ye feared
not.
2.31 Hear
ye the word of the Lord: thus saith the Lord, Have I been a wilderness
or a dry land to Israel? wherefore has my people said, We will not be
ruled over, and will not come to thee any more?
2.32 Will a
bride forget her ornaments, or a virgin her girdle? but my people has
forgotten me days without number.
2.33 What
fair device wilt thou yet employ in thy ways, so as to seek love? [it
shall] not [be] so; moreover thou has done wickedly in corrupting thy
ways;
2.34 and in
thine hands has been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not
found them in holes, but on every oak.
2.35 Yet
thou saidst, I am innocent: only let his wrath be turned away from me.
Behold, I [will] plead with thee, whereas thou sayest, I have not
sinned.
2.36 For
thou has been so exceedingly contemptuous as to repeat thy ways; but
thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assur.
2.37 For
thou shalt go forth thence also with thine hands upon thine head; for
the Lord has rejected thine hope, and thou shalt not prosper in it.
▲3.1 If a man put away his wife,
and she depart from him, and become another man's, shall she return to
him any more at all? shall not that woman be utterly defiled? ye thou
hast gone a-whoring with many shepherds, and hast returned to me, saith
the Lord.
3.2 Lift up
thine eyes [to look] straight forward, and see where thou hast not been
utterly defiled. Thou hast sat for them by the wayside as a deserted
crow, and hast defiled the land with thy fornications and thy
wickedness.
3.3 And
thou didst retain many shepherds for a stumbling-block to thyself: thou
hadst a whore's face, thou didst become shameless toward all.
3.4 Hast
thou not called me as it were a home, and the father and guide of thy
virgin-time?
3.5 Will
[God's anger] continue for ever, or be preserved to the end? Behold,
thou hast spoken and done these bad things, and hadst power [to do
them].
3.6 And the
Lord said to me in the days of Josias the king, Hast thou seen what
things the house of Israel has done to me? they have gone on every high
mountain, and under every shady tree, and have committed fornication
there.
3.7 And I
said after she had committed all these acts of fornication, Turn again
to me. Yet she returned not. And faithless Juda saw her faithlessness.
3.8 And I
saw that (for all the sins of which she was convicted, wherein the
house of Israel committed adultery, and I put her away, and gave into
her hands a bill of divorcement,) yet faithless Juda feared not, but
went and herself also committed fornication.
3.9 And her
fornication was nothing accounted of; and she committed adultery with
wood and stone.
3.10 And
for all these things faithless Juda turned not to me with all her
heart, but falsely.
3.11 And
the Lord said to me, Israel has justified himself more than faithless
Juda.
3.12 Go and
read these words toward the north, and thou shalt say, Return to me, O
house of Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not set my face against
you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not be angry with
you for ever.
3.13
Nevertheless, know thine iniquity, that thou hast sinned against the
Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to strangers under every
shady tree, but thou didst not hearken to my voice, saith the Lord.
3.14 Turn,
ye children that have revolted, saith the Lord; for I will rule over
you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will
bring you in to Sion:
3.15 and I
will give you shepherds after my heart, and they shall certainly tend
you with knowledge.
3.16 And it
shall come to pass that when ye are multiplied and increased upon the
land, saith the Lord, in those days they shall say no more, The ark of
the covenant of the Holy One of Israel: it shall not come to mind; it
shall not be named; neither shall it be visited; nor shall [this] be
done any more.
3.17 In
those days and at that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the
Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered to it: and they shall not
walk any more after the imaginations of their evil heart.
3.18 In
those days the house of Juda, shall come together to the house of
Israel, and they shall come, together, from the land of the north, and
from all the countries, to the land, which I caused their fathers to
inherit.
3.19 And I
said, So be it, Lord, for [thou saidst] I will set thee among children,
and will give thee a choice land, the inheritance of the Almighty God
of the Gentiles: and I said, Ye shall call me Father; and ye shall not
turn away rom me.
3.20 But as
a wife acts treacherously against her husband, so has the house of
Israel dealt treacherously against me, saith the Lord.
3.21 A
voice from the lips was heard, [even] of weeping and supplication of
the children of Israel: for they have dealt unrighteously in their
ways, they have forgotten God their Holy One.
3.22 Turn,
ye children that are given to turning, and I will heal your bruises.
Behold, we will be thy servants; for thou art the Lord our God.
3.23 Truly
the hills and the strength of the mountains were a lying refuge: but by
the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
3.24 But
shame has consumed the labours of our fathers from our youth; their
sheep and their calves, and their sons and their daughters.
3.25 We
have lain down in our shame, and our disgrace has covered us: because
we and our fathers have sinned before our God, from our youth until
this day; and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.
▲4.1 If Israel will return to
me, saith the Lord, he shall return: and if he will remove his
abominations out of his mouth, and fear before me, and swear,
4.2 The
Lord lives, with truth, in judgment and righteousness, then shall
nations bless by him, and by him they shall praise God in Jerusalem.
4.3 For
thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, Break up fresh ground for yourselves, and sow not among
thorns.
4.4
Circumcise yourselves to your God, and circumcise your hardness of
heart, ye men of Juda, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my wrath go
forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the
evil of your devices.
4.5 Declare
ye in Juda, and let it be heard in Jerusalem: say ye, Sound the trumpet
in the land; cry ye aloud: say ye, Gather yourselves together, and let
us enter into the fortified cities.
4.6 Gather
up [your wares] and flee to Sion: hasten, stay not: for I will bring
evils from the north, an great destruction.
4.7 The
lion is gone up from his lair, he has roused [himself] to the
destruction of the nations, and has gone forth out of his place, to
make the land desolate; and the cities shall be destroyed, so as to be
without inhabitant.
4.8 For
these things gird yourselves with sackcloths, and lament, and howl: for
the anger of the Lord is not turned away from you.
4.9 And it
shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that the heart of the
king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall
be amazed, and the prophets shall wonder.
4.10 And I
said, O sovereign Lord, verily thou hast deceived this people and
Jerusalem, saying, There shall be peace; whereas behold, the sword has
reached even to their soul.
4.11 At
that time they shall say to this people and to Jerusalem, [There is] a
spirit of error in the wilderness: the way of the daughter of my people
is not to purity, nor to holiness.
4.12 [But]
a spirit of full vengeance shall come upon me; and now I declare my
judgments against them.
4.13
Behold, he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a tempest: his
horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are in misery.
4.14
Cleanse thine heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayest be
saved: how long will thy grievous thoughts be within thee?
4.15 For a
voice of one publishing from Dan shall come, and trouble out of mount
Ephraim shall be heard of.
4.16 Remind
ye the nations; behold, they are come: proclaim [it] in Jerusalem, that
bands are approaching from a land afar off, and have uttered their
voice against the cities of Juda.
4.17 As
keepers of a field, they have surrounded her; because thou, saith the
Lord, has neglected me.
4.18 Thy
ways and thy devices have brought these things upon thee; this is thy
wickedness, for [it is] bitter, for it has reached to thy heart.
4.19 I am
pained in my bowels, my bowels, and the sensitive powers of my heart;
my soul is in great commotion, my heart is torn: I will not be silent,
for my soul has heard the sound of a trumpet, the cry of war, and of
distress: it calls on destruction;
4.20 for
all the land is distressed: suddenly [my tabernacle is distressed, my
curtains have been rent asunder.
4.21 How
long shall I see fugitives, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
4.22 For
the princes of my people have not known me, they are foolish and unwise
children: they are wise to do evil, but [how] to do good they have not
known.
4.23 I
looked upon the earth, and, behold, [it was] not; and to the sky, an
there was no light in it.
4.24 I
beheld the mountains, and they trembled, and [I saw] all the hills in
commotion.
4.25 I
looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky were
scared.
4.26 I saw,
and, behold, Carmel was desert, and all the cities were burnt with fire
at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of his fierce anger
they were utterly destroyed.
4.27 Thus
saith the Lord, The whole land shall be desolate; but I will not make a
full end.
4.28 For
these things let the earth mourn, and let the sky be dark above: for I
have spoken, and I will not repent; I have purposed, and I will not
turn back from it.
4.29 The
whole land has recoiled from the noise of the horseman and the bent
bow; they have gone into the caves, and have hidden themselves in the
groves, and have gone up upon the rocks: every city was abandoned, no
man dwelt in them.
4.30 And
what wilt thou do? Though thou clothe thyself with scarlet, and adorn
thyself with golden ornaments; though thou adorn thine eyes with
stibium, thy beauty [will be] in vain: thy lovers have rejected thee,
they seek thy life.
4.31 For I
have heard thy groaning as the voice of a woman in travail, as of her
that brings forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion
shall fail through weakness, and she shall lose the strength of her
hands, [saying], Woe is me! for my soul faints because of the slain.
▲5.1 Run ye about in the streets
of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if ye
can find [one], if there is any one that does judgment, and seeks
faithfulness; and I will pardon them, saith the Lord.
5.2 The
Lord lives, they say; do they not therefore swear falsely?
5.3 O Lord,
thine eyes are upon faithfulness: thou hast scourged them, but they
have not grieved; thou hast consumed them; but they would not receive
correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they
would not return.
5.4 Then I
said, It may be they are poor; for they are weak, for they know not the
way of the Lord, or the judgment of God.
5.5 I will
go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way
of the Lord, and the judgment of God: but, behold, with one consent
they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.
5.6
Therefore has a lion out of the forest smitten them, and a wolf has
destroyed them even to [their] houses, and a leopard has watched
against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for
they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened
themselves in their revoltings.
5.7 In what
[way] shall I forgive thee for these things? Thy sons have forsaken me,
and sworn by them that are no gods: and I fed them to the full, and
they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots' houses.
5.8 They
became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbour's
wife.
5.9 Shall I
not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this.
5.10 Go up
upon her battlements, and break [them] down; but make not a full end:
leave her buttresses: for they are the Lord's.
5.11 For
the house of Israel have indeed dealt treacherously against me, saith
the Lord: the house of Juda also
5.12 have
lied to their Lord, and they have said, These things are not so; no
evils shall come upon us; and we shall not see sword or famine.
5.13 Our
prophets became wind, and the word of the Lord was not in them.
5.14
Therefore thus saith the Lord Almighty, Because ye have spoken this
word, behold, I have made my words in thy mouth fire, and this people
wood, and it shall devour them.
5.15
Behold, I [will] bring upon you a nation from far, O house of Israel,
saith the Lord; a nation the sound of whose language on shall not
understand.
5.16 [They
are] all mighty men:
5.17 and
they shall devour you harvest, and your bread; and shall devour your
sons, and your daughters; and they shall devour your sheep, and your
calves, and devour your vineyards, and your fig-plantations, and your
olive yards: and they shall utterly destroy your strong cities, wherein
ye trusted, with the sword.
5.18 And it
shall come to pass in those days, saith the Lord thy God, that I will
not utterly destroy you.
5.19 And it
shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore has the Lord our God
done all these things to us? that thou shalt say to them, Because ye
served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land
that is not yours.
5.20
Proclaim these things to the house of Jacob, and let them be heard in
the house of Juda.
5.21 Hear
ye now these things, O foolish and senseless people; who have eyes, and
see not; and have ears, and hear not:
5.22 will
ye not be afraid of me? saith the Lord; and will ye not fear before me,
who have set the sand for a bound to the sea, [as] a perpetual
ordinance, and it shall not pass it: yea, it shall rage, but not
prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.
5.23 But
this people has a disobedient and rebellious heart; and they have
turned aside and gone back:
5.24 and
they have not said in their heart, Let us fear now the Lord our God,
who gives us the early and latter rain, according to the season of the
fulfillment of the ordinance of harvest, and has preserved [it] for us.
5.25 Your
transgressions have turned away these things, and your sins have
removed good things from you.
5.26 For
among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to
destroy men, and have caught [them].
5.27 As a
snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of
deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich:
5.28 and
they have transgressed [the rule of] judgment; they have not judged the
cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.
5.29 Shall
I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this?
5.30
Shocking and horrible deeds have been done on the land;
5.31 the
prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped
their hands: and my people has loved [to have it] thus: and what will
ye do for the future.
▲6.1 Strengthen yourselves, ye
children of Benjamin, [to flee] out of the midst of Jerusalem, and
sound an alarm with the trumpet in Thecue, and set up a signal over
Baethacharma: for evil threatens from the north, and a great
destruction is coming.
6.2 And
[thy] pride, O daughter of Sion, shall be taken away.
6.3 The
shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch
[their] tents against her round about, and shall feed [their flocks]
each with his hand.
6.4 Prepare
yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her
at noon. Woe to us! for the day has gone down, for the shadows of the
day fail.
6.5 Rise,
and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.
6.6 For
thus saith the Lord, Hew down her trees, array a numerous force against
Jerusalem. O false city; [there is] all oppression in her.
6.7 As a
cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and
misery shall be heard in her, [as] continually before her.
6.8 Thou
shalt be chastened, O Jerusalem, with pain and the scourge, lest my
soul depart from thee; lest I make thee a desert land, which shall not
be inhabited.
6.9 For
thus saith the Lord, Glean, glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of
Israel: turn back [your hands] as a grape-gatherer to his basket.
6.10 To
whom shall I speak, and testify, that he may hearken? behold, thine
ears are uncircumcised, and they shall not be able to hear: behold, the
word of the Lord is become to them a reproach, they will not at all
desire it.
6.11 And I
allowed my wrath to come to full, yet I kept [it] in, and did not
utterly destroy them: I will pour it out on the children without, and
on the assembly of young men together: for man and woman shall be taken
together, the old man with him that is full of days.
6.12 And
their houses shall be turned to others, [with] their fields and their
wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of
this land, saith the Lord.
6.13 For
from the least of them even to the greatest they have all committed
iniquity; from the priest even to the false prophet they have all
wrought falsely.
6.14 And
they healed the breach of my people [imperfectly], making light [of
it], and saying, Peace, peace, and where is peace?
6.15 They
were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those
who are [truly] ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace:
therefore shall they [utterly] fall when they do fall, and in the time
of visitation shall they perish, said the Lord.
6.16 Thus
saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old
paths of the Lord; and see what is the good way, and walk in it, and ye
shall find purification for your souls. But they said, We will not walk
[in them].
6.17 I have
set watchmen over you, [saying], Hear ye the sound of the trumpet. But
they said, We will not hear [it].
6.18
Therefore have the nations heard, and they that feed their flocks.
6.19 Hear,
O earth: behold, I will bring evils upon this people, [even] the fruit
of their rebellions; for they have not heeded my words, and they have
rejected my law.
6.20
Wherefore do ye bring me frankincense from Saba, and cinnamon from a
land afar off? your whole-burnt-offerings are not acceptable, and your
sacrifices have not been pleasant to me.
6.21
Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I [will] bring weakness upon
this people, and the fathers and sons shall be weak together; the
neighbour and his friend shall perish.
6.22 Thus
saith the Lord, Behold, a people comes from the north, and nations
shall be stirred up from the end of the earth.
6.23 They
shall lay hold on bow and spear; [the people] is fierce, and will have
no mercy; their voice is as the roaring sea; they shall array
themselves for war against thee as fire on horses and chariots, O
daughter of Sion.
6.24 We
have heard the report of them: our hands are weakened: anguish has
seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.
6.25 Go not
forth into the field, and walk not in the ways; for the sword of the
enemy lingers round about.
6.26 O
daughter of my people, gird thyself with sackcloth: sprinkle [thyself]
with ashes; make for thyself pitiable lamentation, [as] the mourning
for a beloved [son]: for misery will come suddenly upon you.
6.27 I have
caused thee to be tried among tried nations, and thou shalt know me
when I have tried their way.
6.28 [They
are] all disobedient, walking perversely: [they are] brass and iron;
they are all corrupted.
6.29 The
bellows have failed from the fire, the lead has failed: the silversmith
works at his trade in vain; their wickedness is not consumed.
6.30 Call
ye them reprobate silver, because the Lord has rejected them.
▲7.1 [vide]
7.2 Hear ye
the word of the Lord, all Judea.
7.3 Thus
saith the Lord God of Israel, Correct your ways and your devices, and I
will cause you to dwell in this place.
7.4 Trust
not in yourselves with lying words, for they shall not profit you at
all, saying, It is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.
7.5 For if
ye thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed
execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
7.6 and
oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not
innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your
hurt:
7.7 then
will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land which I gave to
your fathers of old and for ever.
7.8 But
whereas ye have trusted in lying words, whereby ye shall not be
profited;
7.9 and ye
murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn
incense to Baal, and are gone after strange gods whom ye know not,
7.10 so
that it is evil with you; yet have ye come, and stood before me in the
house, whereon my name is called, and ye have said, We have refrained
from doing all these abominations.
7.11 Is my
house, whereon my name is called, a den of robbers in your eyes? And,
behold, I have seen [it], saith the Lord.
7.12 For go
ye to my place with is in Selo, where I caused my name to dwell before,
and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.
7.13 And
now, because ye have done all these deeds, and I spoke to you, but ye
hearkened not to me; and I called you, but ye answered not;
7.14
therefore I also will do to the house whereon my name is called,
wherein ye trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your
fathers, as I did to Selo.
7.15 And I
will cast you out of my sight, as I cast away your brethren, all the
seed of Ephraim.
7.16
Therefore pray not thou for this people, and intercede not for them to
be pitied, yea, pray not, and approach me not for them: for I will not
hearken [unto thee].
7.17 Seest
thou not what they do in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of
Jerusalem?
7.18 Their
children gather wood, and their fathers kindle a fire, and their women
knead dough, to make cakes to the host of heaven; and they have poured
out drink-offerings to strange gods, that they might provoke me to
anger.
7.19 Do
they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not [provoke]
themselves, that their faces may be ashamed?
7.20
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, my anger and wrath shall be
poured out upon this place, and upon the men, and upon the cattle, and
upon every tree of their field, and upon the fruits of the land; and it
shall burn, and not be quenched.
7.21 Thus
saith the Lord, Gather your whole-burnt-offerings with your
meat-offerings, and eat flesh.
7.22 For I
spoke not to your fathers, and commanded them not in the day wherein I
brought them up out of the land of Egypt, concerning
whole-burnt-offerings and sacrifice:
7.23 but I
commanded them this thing, saying, Hear ye my voice, and I will be to
you a God, and ye shall be to me a people: and walk ye in all my ways
which I shall command you, that it may be well with you.
7.24 But
they hearkened not to me, and their ear gave no heed, but they walked
in the imaginations of their evil heart, and went backward, and not
forward;
7.25 from
the day that their fathers went forth out of the land of Egypt, even
until this day. And I sent to you all my servants, the prophets, by day
and early in the morning: yea, I sent [them],
7.26 but
they hearkened not to me, and their ear gave no heed; and they made
their neck harder than their fathers.
7.27
Therefore thou shalt speak this word to them;
7.28 This
is the nation which has not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, nor
received correction: truth has failed from their mouth.
7.29 Cut
off thine hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on thy
lips; for the Lord has reprobated and rejected the generation that does
these things.
7.30 For
the children of Juda have wrought evil before me, saith the Lord; they
have set their abominations in the house on which my name is called, to
defile it.
7.31 And
they have built the altar of Tapheth, which is in the valley of the son
of Ennom, to burn their sons and their daughters with fire; which I did
not command them [to do], neither did I design it in my heart.
7.32
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when they shall no
more say, The altar of Tapheth, and the valley of the son of Ennom,
but, The valley of the slain; and they shall bury in Tapheth, for want
of room.
7.33 And
the dead bodies of this people shall be for food to the birds of the
sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to
drive [them] away.
7.34 And I
will destroy out of the cities of Juda, and the streets of Jerusalem,
the voice of them that make merry, and the voice of them that rejoice,
the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for the whole
land shall become a desolation.
▲8.1 At that time, saith the
Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Juda, 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 out to the sun, and the moon, and to all the
stars, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which
they have served, and after which they have walked, and to which they
have held, and which they have worshipped; they shall not be mourned
for, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be for an example on
the face of the earth,
8.3 because
they chose death rather than life, even to all the remnant that are
left of that family, in every place whither I shall drive them out.
8.4 For
thus saith the Lord, Shall not he that falls arise? or he that turns
away, shall he not turn back again?
8.5
Wherefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting,
and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?
8.6
Hearken, I pray you, and hear: will they not speak thus, There is no
man that repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? the
runner has failed from his course, as a tired horse in his neighing.
8.7 Yea,
the stork in the heaven knows her time, [also] the turtle-dove and wild
swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this my
people knows not the judgments of the Lord.
8.8 How
will ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? In vain
have the scribes used a false pen.
8.9 The
wise men are ashamed, and alarmed, and taken; because they have
rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is there in them?
8.10
Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to [new]
inheritors; and they shall gather their fruits, saith the Lord.
8.11 [vide]
8.12 [vide]
8.13 There
are no grapes on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig-trees, and
the leaves have fallen off.
8.14 Why do
we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the strong
cities, and let us be cast out there: for God has cast us out, and made
us drink water of gall, because we have sinned before him.
8.15 We
assembled for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of
healing, but behold anxiety.
8.16 We
shall hear the neighing o his swift horses out of Dan: the whole land
quaked at the sound of the neighing of his horses; and he shall come,
and devour the land and the fullness of it; the city, and them that
dwell in it.
8.17 For,
behold, I send forth against you deadly serpents, which cannot be
charmed, and they shall bite you
8.18
mortally with the pain of your distressed heart.
8.19
Behold, [there is] a sound of the cry of the daughter of my people from
a land afar off: Is not the Lord in Sion? is there not a king there?
because they have provoked me with their graven [images], and with
strange vanities.
8.20 The
summer is gone, the harvest is past, and we are not saved.
8.21 For
the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my
perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.
8.22 And is
there no balm in Galaad, or is there no physician there? why has not
the healing of the daughter of my people taken place?
▲9.1 Who will give water to my
head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? then would I weep for this my
people day and night, [even] for the slain of the daughter of my people.
9.2 Who
would give me a most distant lodge in the wilderness, that I might
leave my people, and depart from them? for they all commit adultery, an
assembly of treacherous men.
9.3 And
they have bent their tongue like a bow: falsehood and not faithfulness
has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil,
and have not known me, saith the Lord.
9.4 Beware
ye each of his neighbour, and trust ye not in your brethren: for every
one will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.
9.5 Every
one will mock his friend; they will not speak truth: their tongue has
learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased
not, so as to return.
9.6 [There
is] usury upon usury, and deceit upon deceit: they would not know me,
saith the Lord.
9.7
Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will try them with fire, and
prove them; for I will do [thus] because of the wickedness of the
daughter of my people.
9.8 Their
tongue is a wounding arrow; the words of their mouth are deceitful:
[one] speaks peaceably to his neighbour, but in himself retains enmity.
9.9 Shall I
not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be
avenged on such a people as this?
9.10 Take
up a lamentation for the mountains, and a mournful dirge for the paths
of the wilderness, for they are desolate for want of men; they heard
not the sound of life from the birds of the sky, nor the cattle: they
were amazed, they are gone.
9.11 And I
will remove the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and make it a dwelling-place
of dragons; and I will utterly waste the cities of Juda, so that they
shall not be inhabited.
9.12 Who is
the wise man, that he may understand this? and he that has the word of
the mouth of the Lord [addressed] to him, let him tell you wherefore
the land has been destroyed, has been ravaged by fire like a desert, so
that no one passes through it.
9.13 And
the Lord said to me, Because they have forsaken my law, which I set
before them, and have not hearkened to my voice;
9.14 but
went after the lusts of their evil heart, and after the idols which
their fathers taught them [to worship]:
9.15
therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them
with trouble and will cause them to drink water of gall:
9.16 and I
will scatter them among the nations, to them whom neither they nor
their fathers knew; and I will send a sword upon them, until I have
consumed them with it.
9.17 Thus
saith the Lord, Call ye the mourning women, and let them come; and send
to the wise women, and let them utter their voice;
9.18 and
let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down
tears, and your eyelids drop water.
9.19 For a
voice of lamentation has been heard in Sion, How are we become
wretched! we are greatly ashamed, for we have forsaken the land, and
have abandoned our tabernacles!
9.20 Hear
now, ye women, the word of God, and let your ears receive the words of
his mouth, and teach your daughters lamentation, and [every] woman her
neighbour a dirge.
9.21 For
death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land,
to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the streets.
9.22 And
the carcases of the men shall be for an example on the face of the
field of your land, like grass after the mower, and there shall be none
to gather [them].
9.23 Thus
saith the Lord, Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not
the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in
his wealth;
9.24 but
let him that boasts boast in this, the understanding and knowing that I
am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and righteousness, upon
the earth; for in these things is my pleasure, saith the Lord.
9.25
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will visit upon all the
circumcised their uncircumcision;
9.26 on
Egypt, and on Idumea, and on Edom, and on the children of Ammon, and on
the children of Moab, and on every one that shaves his face round
about, [even] them that dwell in the wilderness; for all the Gentiles
are uncircumcised in flesh, and all the house of Israel are
uncircumcised [in] their hearts.
▲10.1 Hear ye the word of the
Lord, which he has spoken to you, O house of Israel.
10.2 Thus
saith the Lord, Learn ye not the ways of the heathen, and be not
alarmed at the signs of the sky; for they are alarmed at them,
[falling] on their faces.
10.3 For
the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the
forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.
10.4 [They
are] beautified with silver and gold, they fix them with hammers and
nails;
10.5 they
will set them up that they may not move;
10.6 it is
wrought silver, they will not walk, it is forged silver
10.7 [vide]
10.8 [vide]
10.9
[brought] from Tharsis, gold will come from Mophaz, and the work of
goldsmiths: [they are] all the works of craftsmen, they will clothe
themselves with blue and scarlet.
10.10 They
must certainly be borne, for they cannot ride [of themselves]. Fear
them not; for they cannot do any evil, and there is no good in them.
10.11 Thus
shall ye say to them, Let the gods which have not made heaven and earth
perish from off the earth, and from under this sky.
10.12 It is
the Lord that made the earth by his strength, who set up the world by
his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the sky,
10.13 and
set abundance of waters in the sky, and brought up clouds from the ends
of the earth; he made lightnings for the rain, and brought forth light
out of his treasures.
10.14 Every
man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of
his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in
them.
10.15 They
are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation
they shall perish.
10.16 Such
is not the portion of Jacob; for he that formed all things, he is his
inheritance; the Lord is his name.
10.17 He
has gathered thy substance from without the lodged in choice [vessels].
10.18 For
thus saith the Lord, Behold, I [will] overthrow the inhabitants of this
land with affliction, that thy plague may be discovered.
10.19 Alas
for thy ruin! thy plague is grievous: and I said, Surely this is thy
wound, and it has overtaken thee.
10.20 Thy
tabernacle is in a ruinous state, it has perished; and all thy curtains
have been torn asunder: my children and my cattle are no more: there is
no more any place for my tabernacle, [nor] place for my curtains.
10.21 For
the shepherds have become foolish, and have not sought the Lord;
therefore the whole pasture has failed, and [the sheep] have been
scattered.
10.22
Behold, there comes a sound of a noise, and a great earthquake from the
land of the north, to make the cities of Juda a desolation, and a
resting-place for ostriches.
10.23 I
know, O Lord, that man's way is not his own; neither shall a man go,
and direct his going.
10.24
Chasten us, O Lord, but with judgment; and not in wrath, lest thou make
us few.
10.25 Pour
out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the
families that have not called upon thy name: for they ave devoured
Jacob, and consumed him, and have made his pasture desolate.
▲11.1 The word that came to
Jeremias from the Lord, saying,
11.2 Hear
ye the words of this covenant, and thou shalt speak to the men of Juda,
and to the dwellers in Jerusalem;
11.3 and
thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Cursed is
the man, who shall not hearken to the words of this covenant,
11.4 which
I commanded your fathers, in the day wherein I brought them up out of
the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Hearken to my
voice, and do all things that I shall command you; so shall ye be to me
a people, and I will be to you a God;
11.5 that I
may confirm mine oath, which I sware to your fathers, to give them a
land flowing [with] milk and honey, as [it is] this day. Then I
answered and said, So be it, O Lord.
11.6 And
the Lord said to me, Read these words in the cities of Juda, and in the
streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and
do them.
11.7 [vide]
11.8 But
they did [them] not.
11.9 And
the Lord said to me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Juda, and
among the dwellers in Jerusalem.
11.10 They
are turned [aside] to the iniquities of their fathers that were of old,
who would not hearken to my words: and, behold, they go after strange
gods, to serve them: and the house of Israel and the house of Juda have
broken my covenant, which I made with their fathers.
11.11
Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I bring evils upon this people,
out of which they shall not be able to come forth; and they shall
presently cry to me, but I will not hearken to them.
11.12 And
the cities of Juda and the dwellers in Jerusalem shall go, and cry to
the gods to whom they burn incense; which shall not deliver them in the
time of their troubles.
11.13 For
according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda; and
according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up
altars to burn incense to Baal.
11.14 And
thou, pray not for this people, and intercede not for them in
supplication an prayer: for I will not hear in the day in which they
call upon me, in the day of their affliction.
11.15 Why
has [my] beloved wrought abomination in my house? will prayers and holy
offerings take away thy wickedness from thee, or shalt thou escape by
these things?
11.16 The
Lord called thy name a fair olive tree, of a goodly shade in
appearance, at the noise of its being lopped, fire was kindled against
it; great is the affliction [coming] upon thee: her branches are become
good for nothing.
11.17 And
the Lord that planted thee has pronounced evils against thee, because
of the iniquity of the house of Israel and the house of Juda,
whatsoever they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger by
burning incense to Baal.
11.18 O
Lord, teach me, and I shall know: then I saw their practices.
11.19 But I
as an innocent lamb led to the slaughter, knew not: against me they
devised an evil device, saying, Come and let us put wood into his
bread, and let us utterly destroy him from off the land of the living,
and let his name not be remembered any more.
11.20 O
Lord, that judgest righteously, trying the reins and hearts, let me see
thy vengeance [taken] upon them, for to thee I have declared my cause.
11.21
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek
my life, that say, Thou shalt not prophesy at all in the name of the
Lord, but if thou dost, thou shalt die by our hands:
11.22
behold, I will visit them: their young men shall die by the sword; and
their sons and their daughters shall die of famine:
11.23 and
there shall be no remnant [left] of them; for I will bring evil upon
the dwellers in Anathoth, in the year of their visitation.
▲12.1 Righteous art thou, O Lord,
that I may make my defence to thee, yea, I will speak to thee [of]
judgments. Why [is it] that the way of ungodly [men] prospers? [that]
all hat deal very treacherously are flourishing?
12.2 Thou
hast planted them, and they have taken root; they have begotten
children, and become fruitful; thou art near to their mouth, and art
from their reins.
12.3 But
thou, Lord, knowest me; thou hast proved my heart before thee; purify
them for the day of their slaughter.
12.4 How
long shall the land mourn, and the grass of the field wither, for the
wickedness of them, that dwell in it? the beasts and birds are utterly
destroyed; because [the people] said, God shall not see our ways.
12.5 Thy
feet run, and they cause thee to faint; how wilt thou prepare [to ride]
upon horses? and thou hast been confident in the land of thy peace? how
wilt thou do in the roaring of Jordan?
12.6 For
even thy brethren and the house of thy father, even these have dealt
treacherously with thee; and they have cried out, they are gathered
together in pursuit of thee; trust not thou in them, though they shall
speak fair [words] to thee.
12.7 I have
forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given my beloved
one into the hands of her enemies.
12.8 My
inheritance has become to me as a lion in a forest; she has uttered her
voice against me; therefore have I hated her.
12.9 Is not
my inheritance to me a hyaena's cave, or a cave round about her? Go ye,
gather together all the wild beasts of the field, and let them come to
devour her.
12.10 Many
shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have defiled my portion,
they have made my desirable portion a trackless wilderness;
12.11 it is
made a complete ruin: for my sake the whole land has been utterly
ruined, because there is none that lays [the matter] to heart.
12.12 The
ravagers are come to every passage in the wilderness: for the sword of
the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other: no flesh
has any peace.
12.13 Sow
wheat, and reap thorns; their portions shall not profit them: be
ashamed of your boasting, because of reproach before the Lord.
12.14 For
thus saith the Lord, concerning all the evil neighbours that touch mine
inheritance, which I have divided to my people Israel; Behold, I [will]
draw them away from their land, and I will cast out Juda from the midst
of them.
12.15 And
it shall come to pass, after I have cast them out, [that] I will
return, and have mercy upon them, and will cause them to dwell every
one in his inheritance, and every one is his land.
12.16 And
it shall be, if they will indeed learn the way of my people, to swear
by my name, [saying], The Lord lives; as they taught my people to swear
by Baal; then shall [that nation] be built in the midst of my people.
12.17 But
if they will not return, then will I cut off that nation with utter
ruin and destruction.
▲13.1 Thus saith the Lord, Go and
procure for thyself a linen girdle, and put it about thy loins, and let
it not be put in water.
13.2 So I
procured the girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it about
my loins.
13.3 And
the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
13.4 Take
the girdle that is upon thy loins, and arise, and go to the Euphrates,
and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
13.5 So I
went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
13.6 And it
came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me, Arise, go to
the Euphrates, and take thence the girdle, which I commanded thee to
hide there.
13.7 So I
went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle out of the
place where I [had] buried it: and, behold, it was rotten, utterly good
for nothing.
13.8 And
the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord,
13.9 Thus
will I mar the pride of Juda, and the pride of Jerusalem;
13.10
[even] this great pride [of the men] that will not hearken to my words,
and have gone after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them:
and they shall be as this girdle, which can be used for nothing.
13.11 For
as a girdle cleaves about the loins of a man, so have I caused to
cleave to myself the house of Israel, and the whole house of Juda; that
they might be to me a famous people, and a praise, and a glory: but
they did not hearken to me.
13.12 And
thou shalt say to this people, Every bottle shall be filled with wine:
and it shall come to pass, if they shall say to thee, Shall we not
certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? that thou
shalt say to them,
13.13 Thus
saith the Lord, Behold, I [will] fill the inhabitants of this land, and
their kings the sons of David that sit upon their throne, and the
priests, and the prophets, and Juda and all the dwellers in Jerusalem,
with strong drink.
13.14 And I
will scatter them a man and his brother, and their fathers and their
sons together: I will not have compassion, saith the Lord, and I will
not spare, neither will I pity [to save them] from destruction.
13.15 Hear
ye, and give ear, and be not proud: for the Lord has spoken.
13.16 Give
glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your
feet stumble on the dark mountains, and ye shall wait for light, and
behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.
13.17 But
if ye will not hearken, your soul shall weep in secret because of
pride, and your eyes shall pour down tears, because the Lord's flock is
sorely bruised.
13.18 Say
ye to the king and the princes, Humble yourselves, and sit down; for
your crown of glory is removed from your head.
13.19 The
cities toward the south were shut, and there was none to open [them]:
Juda is removed [into captivity,] they have suffered a complete removal.
13.20 Lift
up thine eyes, O Jerusalem, and behold them that come from the north;
where is the flock that was given thee, the sheep of thy glory?
13.21 What
wilt thou say when they shall visit thee, for thou didst teach them
lessons for rule against thyself; shall not pangs seize thee as a woman
in travail?
13.22 And
if thou shouldest say in thine heart, Wherefore have these things
happened to me? Because of the abundance of thine iniquity have thy
skirts been discovered, that thine heels might be exposed.
13.23 If
the Ethiopian shall change his skin, or the leopardess her spots, then
shall ye be able to do good, having learnt evil.
13.24 So I
scattered them as sticks carried by the wind into the wilderness.
13.25 Thus
is thy lot, and the reward of your disobedience to me, saith he Lord;
as thou didst forget me, and trust in lies,
13.26 I
also will expose thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall be seen;
13.27 thine
adultery also, and thy neighing, and the looseness of thy fornication:
on the hills and in the fields I have seen thine abominations. Woe to
thee, O Jerusalem, for thou hast not been purified so as to follow me;
how long yet [shall it be]?
▲14.1 AND THE WORD OF THE LORD
CAME TO JEREMIAS CONCERNING THE DROUGHT.
14.2 Judea
has mourned, and her gates are emptied, and are darkened upon the
earth; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
14.3 And
her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the
wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.
14.4 And
the labours of the land failed, because there was no rain: the
husbandmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
14.5 And
hinds calved in the field, and forsook [it], because there was no grass.
14.6 The
wild asses stood by the forests, and snuffed up the wind; their eyes
failed, because there was no grass.
14.7 Our
sins have risen up against us: O Lord, do thou for us for thine own
sake; for our sins are many before thee; for we have sinned against
thee.
14.8 O
Lord, [thou art] the hope of Israel, and deliverest [us] in time of
troubles; why art thou become as a sojourner upon the land, or as one
born in the land, yet turning aside for a resting-place?
14.9 Wilt
thou be as a man asleep, or as a [strong] man that cannot save? yet
thou art among us, O Lord, and thy name is called upon us; forget us
not.
14.10 Thus
saith the Lord to this people, They have loved to wander, and they have
not spared, therefore God has not prospered them; now will he remember
their iniquity.
14.11 And
the Lord said to me, Pray not for this people for [their] good:
14.12 for
though they fast, I will not hear their supplication; and though they
offer whole-burnt-offerings and sacrifices, I will take no pleasure in
them: for I will consume them with sword, and with famine, and with
pestilence.
14.13 And I
said, O [ever] living Lord! behold, their prophets prophesy, and say,
Ye shall not see a sword, nor shall famine be among you; for I will
give truth and peace on the land, and in this place.
14.14 Then
the Lord said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them
not, and I commanded them not, and I spoke not to them: for they
prophesy to you false visions, and divinations, and auguries, and
devices of their own heart.
14.15
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy
lies in my name, and I sent them not, who say, Sword and famine shall
not be upon this land; they shall die by a grievous death, and the
prophets shall be consumed by famine.
14.16 And
the people to whom they prophesy, they also shall be cast out in the
streets of Jerusalem, because of the sword and famine; and there shall
be none to bury them: their wives also, and their sons, and their
daughters [shall die thus]; and I will pour out their wickedness upon
them.
14.17 And
thou shalt speak this word to them; Let your eyes shed tears day and
night, and let them not cease: for the daughter of my people has been
sorely bruised, and her plague is very grievous.
14.18 If I
go forth into the plain, then behold the slain by the sword! and if I
enter into the city, then behold the distress of famine! for priest and
prophet have gone to a land which they knew not.
14.19 Hast
thou utterly rejected Juda? and has thy soul departed from Sion?
wherefore has thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we
waited for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing,
and behold trouble!
14.20 We
know, O Lord, our sins, [and] the iniquities of our fathers: for we
have sinned before thee.
14.21
Refrain for thy name's sake, destroy not the throne of thy glory:
remember, break not thy covenant with us.
14.22 Is
there any one among the idols of the Gentiles that can give rain? and
will the sky yield his fulness [at their bidding]? Art not thou he? we
will even wait on thee, O Lord: for thou hast made all these things.
▲15.1 And the Lord said to me,
Though Moses and Samuel stood before my face, my soul could not be
toward them: dismiss this people, and let them go forth.
15.2 And it
shall be, if they say to thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou
shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord; As many as are for death, to
death; and as many as are for famine, to famine; and as many as are for
the sword, to the sword; and as many as are for captivity, to captivity.
15.3 And I
will punish them with four kinds [of death], saith the Lord, the sword
to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the wild beasts of the earth, and
the birds of the sky to devour and destroy.
15.4 And I
will deliver them up for distress to all the kingdoms of the earth,
because of Manasses son of Ezekias king of Juda, for all that he did in
Jerusalem.
15.5 Who
will spare thee, O Jerusalem? and who will fear for thee? or who will
turn back [to] [ask] for thy welfare?
15.6 Thou
hast turned away from me, saith the Lord, thou wilt go back: therefore
I will stretch out my hand, and will destroy thee, and will no more
spare them.
15.7 And I
will completely scatter them; in the gates of my people they are
bereaved of children: they have destroyed my people because of their
iniquities.
15.8 Their
widows have been multiplied more than the sand of the sea: I have
brought young men against the mother, [even] distress at noon-day: I
have suddenly cast upon her trembling and anxiety.
15.9 She
that bore seven is spent; her soul has fainted under trouble; her sun
is gone down while it is yet noon; she is ashamed and disgraced: I will
give the remnant of them to the sword before their enemies.
15.10 Woe
is me, [my] mother! thou hast born me as some man of strife, and at
variance with the whole earth; I have not helped [others], nor has any
one helped me; my strength has failed among them that curse me.
15.11 Be it
so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood before thee in the time
of their calamities, and in the time of their affliction, for [their]
good against the enemy.
15.12 Will
iron be known? whereas thy strength is a brazen covering.
15.13 Yea,
I will give thy treasures for a spoil as a recompence, because of all
thy sins and [that] in all thy borders.
15.14 And I
will enslave thee to thine enemies round about, in a land which thou
hast not known; for a fire has been kindled out of my wrath; it shall
burn upon you.
15.15 O
Lord, remember me, and visit me, and vindicate me before them that
persecute me; do not bear long with them; know how I have met with
reproach for thy sake, from those who set at nought thy words;
15.16
consume them; and thy word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of
my heart: for thy name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.
15.17 I
have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared
because of thy power: I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness.
15.18 Why
do they that grieve me prevail against me? my wound is severe; whence
shall I be healed? it is indeed become to me as deceitful water, that
has no faithfulness.
15.19
Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou wilt return, then will I restore
thee, and thou shalt stand before my face: and if thou wilt bring forth
the precious from the worthless, thou shalt be as my mouth: and they
shall return to thee; but thou shalt not return to them.
15.20 And I
will make thee to this people as a strong brazen wall; and they shall
fight against thee, but they shall by no means prevail against thee;
15.21 for I
am with thee to save thee, and to deliver thee out of the hand of
wicked [men]; and I will ransom thee out of the hand of pestilent [men].
▲16.1 And thou shalt not take a
wife, saith the Lord God of Israel:
16.2 and
there shall be no son born to thee, nor daughter in this place.
16.3 For
thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters
that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that have
born them, and concerning their fathers that have begotten them in this
land;
16.4 They
shall die of grievous death; they shall not be lamented, nor buried;
they shall be for an example on the face of the earth; and they shall
be for the wild beasts of the land, and for the birds of the sky: they
shall fall by the sword, and shall be consumed with famine.
16.5 Thus
saith the Lord, Enter not into their mourning feast, and go not to
lament, and mourn not for them: for I have removed my peace from this
people.
16.6 They
shall not bewail them, nor make cuttings for them, and they shall not
shave themselves [for them]:
16.7 and
there shall be no bread broken in mourning for them for consolation
over the dead: they shall not give one to drink a cup for consolation
over his father or his mother.
16.8 Thou
shalt not enter into the banquet-house, to sit with them to eat and to
drink.
16.9 For
thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I [will] make to cease out
of this place before your eyes, and in your days, the voice of joy, and
the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of
the bride.
16.10 And
it shall come to pass, when thou shalt report to this people all these
words, and they shall say to thee, Wherefore has the Lord pronounced
against us all these evils? what is our unrighteousness? and what is
our sin which we have sinned before the Lord our God?
16.11 Then
thou shalt say to them, Because your fathers forsook me, saith the
Lord, and went after strange gods and served them, and worshipped them,
and forsook me, and kept not my law;
16.12 (and
ye sinned worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after
the lusts of your own evil heart, so as not to hearken to me);
16.13
therefore I will cast you off from this good land into a land which
neither ye nor your fathers have known; and ye shall serve their other
gods, who shall have no mercy upon you.
16.14
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when they shall no
more say, The Lord lives, that brought up the children of Israel out of
the land of Egypt;
16.15 but,
The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel from the land of the
north, and from all countries whither they were thrust out: and I will
restore tem to their own land, which I gave to their fathers.
16.16
Behold, I [will] send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish
them; and afterward I will send many hunters, and they shall hunt them
upon every mountain, and upon every hill, and out of the holes of the
rocks.
16.17 For
mine eyes are upon all their ways; and their iniquities have not been
hidden from mine eyes.
16.18 And I
will recompense their mischiefs doubly, and their sins, whereby they
have profaned my land with the carcases of their abominations, and with
their iniquities, whereby they have trespassed against mine inheritance.
16.19 O
Lord, thou art my strength, and mine help, and my refuge in days of
evil: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the end of the earth, and
shall say, How vain [were the] idols [which] our fathers procured to
themselves, and there is no help in them.
16.20 Will
a man make gods for himself, whereas these are no gods?
16.21
Therefore, behold, I will at this time manifest my hand to them, and
will make known to them my power; and they shall know that my name is
the Lord.
▲17.1 [vide]
17.2 [vide]
17.3 [vide]
17.4 [vide]
17.5 Cursed
is the man who trusts in man, and will lean his arm of flesh upon him,
while his heart departs from the Lord.
17.6 And he
shall be as the wild tamarisk in the desert: he shall not see when good
comes; but he shall dwell in barren [places], and in the wilderness, in
a salt land which is not inhabited.
17.7 But
blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord
shall be.
17.8 And he
shall be as a thriving tree by the waters, and he shall cast forth his
root toward a moist place: he shall not fear when heat comes, and there
shall be upon him shady branches: he shall not fear in a year of
drought, and he shall not fail to bear fruit.
17.9 The
heart is deep beyond all things, and it is the man, and who can know
him?
17.10 I the
Lord try the hearts, and prove the reins, to give to every one
according to his ways, and according to the fruits of his devices.
17.11 The
partridge utters her voice, she gathers [eggs] which she did not lay;
[so is a man] gaining his wealth unjustly; in the midst of his days
[his riches] shall leave him, and at his latter end he will be a fool.
17.12 An
exalted throne of glory is our sanctuary.
17.13 O
Lord, the hope of Israel, let all that have left thee be ashamed, let
them that have revolted be written on the earth, because they have
forsaken the fountain of life, the Lord.
17.14 Heal
me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved; for
thou art my boast.
17.15
Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come.
17.16 But I
have not been weary of following thee, nor have I desired the day of
man; thou knowest; the [words] that proceed out of my lips are before
thy face.
17.17 Be
not to me a stranger, [but] spare me in the evil day.
17.18 Let
them that persecute me bee ashamed, but let me not be ashamed: let them
be alarmed, but let me not be alarmed: bring upon them the evil day,
crush them with double destruction.
17.19 Thus
saith the Lord; Go and stand in the gates of the children of thy
people, by which the kings of Juda enter, and by which they go out, and
in all the gates of Jerusalem:
17.20 and
thou shalt say to them, Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda,
and all Judea, and all Jerusalem, [all] who go in at these gates:
17.21 thus
saith the Lord; Take heed to your souls, and take up no burdens on the
sabbath-day, and go not forth [through] the gates of Jerusalem;
17.22 and
carry forth no burdens out of your houses on the sabbath-day, and ye
shall do no work: sanctify the sabbath-day, as I commanded your fathers.
17.23 But
they hearkened not, and inclined not their ear, but stiffened their
neck more than their fathers [did], so as not to hear me, and not to
receive correction.
17.24 And
it shall come to pass, if ye will hearken to me, saith the Lord, to
carry in no burdens through the gates of this city on the sabbath-day,
and to sanctify the sabbath-day, so as to do no work [upon it],
17.25 that
there shall enter through the gates of this city kings and princes
sitting on the throne of David, and riding on their chariots and
horses, they, and their princes, the men of Juda, and the dwellers in
Jerusalem: and this city shall be inhabited for ever.
17.26 And
[men] shall come out of the cities of Juda, and from round about
Jerusalem, and out of the land of Benjamin, and out of the plain
country, and from the hill country, and from the south [country],
bringing whole-burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and incense, and manna,
and frankincense, bringing praise to the house of the Lord.
17.27 But
it shall come to pass, if ye will not hearken to me to sanctify the
sabbath-day, to bear no burdens, nor go in [with them by] the gates of
Jerusalem on the sabbath-day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates
thereof, and it shall devour the streets of Jerusalem, and shall not be
quenched.
▲18.1 The word that came from the
Lord to
18.2
Jeremias, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there
thou shalt hear my words.
18.3 So I
went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was making a vessel on
the stones.
18.4 And
the vessel which he was making with his hands fell: so he made it again
another vessel, as it seemed good to him to make [it].
18.5 And
the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
18.6 Shall
I not be able, O house of Israel, to do to you as this potter? behold,
as the clay of the potter are ye in my hands.
18.7 [If] I
shall pronounce a decree upon a nation, or upon a kingdom, to cut them
off, and to destroy [them];
18.8 and
that nation turn from all their sins, then will I repent of the evils
which I purposed to do to them.
18.9 And
[if] I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation and kingdom, to rebuild
and to plant [it];
18.10 and
they do evil before me, so as not to hearken to my voice, then will I
repent of the good which I spoke of, to do it to them.
18.11 And
now say to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
Behold, I prepare evils against you, and devise a device against you:
let every one turn now from his evil way, and amend your practices.
18.12 And
they said, We will quit ourselves like men, for we will pursue our
perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of his evil heart.
18.13
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Enquire now among the nations, who has
heard such very horrible things as the virgin of Israel has done?
18.14 Will
fertilising streams fail [to flow] from a rock, or snow [fail] from
Libanus? will water violently impelled by the wind turn aside?
18.15 For
my people have forgotten me, they have offered incense in vain, and
they fail in their ways, [leaving] the ancient tracks, to enter upon
impassable paths;
18.16 to
make their land a desolation, and a perpetual hissing; all that go
through it shall be amazed, and shall shake their heads.
18.17 I
will scatter them before their enemies like an east wind; I will shew
them the day of their destruction.
18.18 Then
they said, Come, and let us devise a device against Jeremias; 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 wee will hear all his words.
18.19 Hear
me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my pleading.
18.20
Forasmuch as evil is rewarded for good; for they have spoken words
against my soul, and they have hidden the punishment they [meant] for
me; remember that I stood before thy face, to speak good for them, to
turn away thy wrath from them.
18.21
Therefore do thou deliver their sons to famine, and gather them to the
power of the sword: let their women be childless and widows; and let
their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in
war.
18.22 Let
there be a cry in their houses: thou shalt bring upon them robbers
suddenly: for they have formed a plan to take me, and have hidden
snares for me.
18.23 And
thou, Lord, knowest all their deadly counsel against me: account not
their iniquities guiltless, and blot not out their sins from before
thee: let their weakness come before thee; deal with them in the time
of thy wrath.
▲19.1 Then said the Lord to me,
Go and get an earthen bottle, the work of the potter, and thou shalt
bring [some] of the elders of the people, and of the priests;
19.2 and
thou shalt go forth to the burial-place of the sons of their children,
which is at the entrance of the gate of Charsith; and do thou read
there all these words which I shall speak to thee:
19.3 and
thou shalt say to them, Hear ye the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda,
and men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they that enter in
by these gates; thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I [will]
bring evil upon this place, so that the ears of every one that hears it
shall tingle.
19.4
Because they forsook me, and profaned this place, and burnt incense in
it to strange gods, which they and their fathers knew not; and the
kings of Juda have filled this place with innocent blood,
19.5 and
built high places for Baal, to burn their children in the fire, which
things I commanded not, neither did I design [them] in my heart:
19.6
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when this place shall
no more be called, The fall and burial-place of the son of Ennom, but,
The burial-place of slaughter.
19.7 And I
will destroy the counsel of Juda and the counsel of Jerusalem in this
place; and I will cast them down with the sword before their enemies,
and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their
dead bodies for food to the birds of the sky and to the wild beasts of
the earth.
19.8 And I
will bring this city to desolation and [make it] a hissing; every one
that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague.
19.9 And
they shall eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their
daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his neighbour in
the blockade, and in the siege wherewith their enemies shall besiege
them.
19.10 And
thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that go forth with
thee,
19.11 and
thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Thus will I break in pieces this
people, and this city, eve as an earthen vessel is broken in pieces
which cannot be mended again.
19.12 Thus
will I do, saith the Lord, to this place, and to the inhabitants of it,
that this city may be given up, as one that is falling to ruin.
19.13 And
the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda shall be
as a ruinous place, because of their uncleannesses in all the houses,
wherein they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven,
and poured drink-offerings to strange gods.
19.14 And
Jeremias came from [the place] of the Fall, whither the Lord had sent
him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord's house: and
said to all the people, Thus saith the Lord;
19.15
Behold I bring upon this city, and upon all the cities belonging to it,
and upon the villages of it, all the evils which I have spoken against
it, because they have hardened their neck, [that they might not]
hearken to my commands.
▲20.1 Now Paschor the son of
Emmer, the priest, who also had been appointed chief of the house of
the Lord, heard Jeremias prophesying these words.
20.2 And he
smote him, and cast him into the dungeon which was by the gate of the
upper house that was set apart, which was by the house of the Lord.
20.3 And
Paschor brought Jeremias out of the dungeon: and Jeremias said to him,
[The Lord] has not called thy name Paschor, but Exile.
20.4 For
thus saith the Lord, Behold, I [will] give thee up to captivity with
all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and
thine eyes shall see [it]: and I will give thee and all Juda into the
hands of the king of Babylon, and they shall carry them captives, and
cut them in pieces with swords.
20.5 And I
will give all the strength of this city, and all the labours of it, and
all the treasures of the king of Juda, into the hands of his enemies,
and they shall bring them to Babylon.
20.6 And
thou and all the dwellers in thine house shall go into captivity: and
thou shalt die in Babylon, and there thou and all thy friends shall be
buried, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
20.7 Thou
hast deceived me, O Lord, and I have been deceived: thou hast been
strong, and has prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock, I am
continually mocked every day.
20.8 For I
will laugh with my bitter speech, I will call upon rebellion and
misery: for the word of the Lord is become a reproach to me and a
mockery all my days.
20.9 Then I
said, I will by no means name the name of the Lord, and I will no more
at all speak in his name. But it was a burning fire flaming in my
bones, and I am utterly weakened on all sides, and cannot bear [up].
20.10 For I
have heard the reproach of many gathering round, [saying], Conspire ye,
and let us conspire together against him, [even] all his friends: watch
his intentions, if perhaps he shall be deceived, and we shall prevail
against him, and we shall be avenged on him.
20.11 But
the Lord was with me as a mighty man of war: therefore they persecuted
[me], but could not perceive [anything against me]; they were greatly
confounded, for they perceived not their disgrace, which shall never be
forgotten.
20.12 O
Lord, that provest just [deeds], understanding the reins and hearts,
let me see thy vengeance upon them: for to thee I have revealed my
cause.
20.13 Sing
ye to the Lord, sing praise to him: for he has rescued the soul of the
poor from the hand of evil-doers.
20.14
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: the day wherein my mother brought
me forth, let it not be blessed.
20.15
Cursed be the man who brought the glad tidings to my father, saying, A
male child is born to thee.
20.16 Let
that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and
repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation
at noon;
20.17
because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb,
and her womb always great with me.
20.18 Why
is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and
my days are spent in shame?
▲21.1 THE WORD THAT CAME FROM THE
LORD TO JEREMIAS, WHEN KING SEDEKIAS SENT TO HIM PASCHOR THE SON OF
MELCHIAS, AND SOPONIAS SON OF BASAEAS, THE PRIEST, SAYING,
21.2
Enquire of the Lord for us; for the king of Babylon has risen up
against us; if the Lord will do according to all his wonderful works,
and [the king] shall depart from us.
21.3 And
Jeremias said to them, Thus shall ye say to Sedekias king of Juda,
21.4 Thus
saith the Lord; Behold, I [will] turn back the weapons of war wherewith
ye fight against the Chaldeans that have besieged you from outside the
wall, and I will gather them into the midst of this city.
21.5 And I
will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm,
with wrath and great anger.
21.6 And I
will smite all the dwellers in this city, [both] men and cattle, with
grievous pestilence: and they shall die.
21.7 And
after this, thus saith the Lord; I will give Sedekias king of Juda, and
his servants, and the people that is left in this city from the
pestilence, and from the famine, and from the sword, into the hands of
their enemies, that seek their lives: and they shall cut them in pieces
with the edge of the sword: I will not spare them, and I will not have
compassion upon them.
21.8 And
thou shalt say to this people, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I have set
before you the way of life, and the way of death.
21.9 He
that remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by famine: but he
that goes forth to advance to the Chaldeans that have besieged you,
shall live, and his life shall be to him for a spoil, and he shall live.
21.10 For I
have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good: it shall
be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall
consume it with fire.
21.11 O
house of the king of Juda, hear ye the word of the Lord.
21.12 O
house of David, thus saith the Lord; Judge judgment in the morning, and
act rightly, and rescue the spoiled one from the hand of him that
wrongs him, lest mine anger be kindled like fire, and it burn, and
there be none to quench [it].
21.13
Behold, I am against thee that dwellest in the valley of Sor; in the
plain country, [eve against] them that say, Who shall alarm us? or who
shall enter into our habitation?
21.14 And I
will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all
things round about it.
▲22.1 Thus saith the Lord; Go
thou, and go down to the house of the king of Juda, and thou shalt
speak there this word,
22.2 and
thou shalt say, Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Juda, that sittest
on the throne of David, thou, and thy house, and thy people, and they
that go in at these gates:
22.3 thus
saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled
out of the hand of him that wrongs him: and oppress not the stranger,
and orphan, and widow, and sin not, and shed no innocent blood in this
place.
22.4 For if
ye will indeed perform this word, then shall there enter in by the
gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, and riding
on chariots and horses, they, and their servants, and their people.
22.5 But if
ye will not perform these words, by myself have I sworn, saith the
Lord, that this house shall be [brought] to desolation.
22.6 For
thus saith the Lord concerning the house of the king of Juda; Thou art
Galaad to me, [and] the head of Libanus: [yet] surely I will make thee
a desert, [even] cities that shall not be inhabited:
22.7 and I
will bring upon thee a destroying man, and his axe: and they shall cut
down thy choice cedars, and cast [them] into the fire.
22.8 And
nations shall pass through this city, and each shall say to his
neighbour, Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?
22.9 And
they shall say Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God,
and worshipped strange gods, and served them.
22.10 Weep
not for the dead, nor lament for him: weep bitterly for him that goes
away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native land.
22.11 For
thus saith the Lord concerning Sellem the son of Josias, who reigns in
the place of Josias his father, who has gone forth out of this place;
He shall not return thither any more:
22.12 but
in that place whither I have carried him captive, there shall he die,
and shall see this land no more.
22.13 He
that builds his house not with justice, and his upper chambers not with
judgment, who works by means of his neighbour for nothing, and will by
no means give him his reward.
22.14 Thou
hast built for thyself a well-proportioned house, airy chambers, fitted
with windows, and wainscoted with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
22.15 Shalt
thou reign, because thou art provoked with thy father Achaz? they shall
not eat, and they shall not drink: it is better for thee to execute
judgment and justice.
22.16 They
understood not, they judged not the cause of the afflicted, nor the
cause of the poor: is not this thy not knowing me? saith the Lord.
22.17
Behold, thine eyes are not good, nor thine heart, but [they go] after
thy covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after
acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.
22.18
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim son of Josias, king of
Juda, even concerning this man; they shall not bewail him, [saying], Ah
brother! neither shall they at all weep for him, [saying], Alas Lord.
22.19 He
shall be buried with the burial of an ass; he shall be dragged roughly
along and cast outside the gate of Jerusalem.
22.20 Go up
to Libanus, and cry; and utter thy voice to Basan, and cry aloud to the
extremity of the sea: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
22.21 I
spoke to thee on [occasion of] thy trespass, but thou saidst, I will
not hearken. This [has been] thy way from thy youth, thou hast not
hearkened to my voice.
22.22 The
wind shall tend all thy shepherds, and thy lovers shall go into
captivity; for then shalt thou be ashamed and disgraced because of all
thy lovers.
22.23 O
thou that dwellest in Libanus, making thy nest in the cedars, thou
shalt groan heavily, when pangs as of a travailing woman are come upon
thee.
22.24 [As]
I live, saith the Lord, though Jechonias son of Joakim king of Juda
were indeed the seal upon my right hand, thence would I pluck thee;
22.25 and I
will deliver thee into the hands of them that seek thy life, before
whom thou art afraid, into the hands of the Chaldeans.
22.26 And I
will cast forth thee, and thy mother that bore thee, into a land where
thou wast not born; and there ye shall die.
22.27 But
they shall by no means return to the land which they long for in their
souls.
22.28
Jechonias is dishonoured as a good-for-nothing vessel; for he is thrown
out and cast forth into a land which he knew not.
22.29 Land,
land, hear the word of the Lord.
22.30 Write
ye this man an outcast: for there shall none of his seed at all grow up
to sit on the throne of David, [or as] a prince yet in Juda.
▲23.1 Woe to the shepherds that
destroy and scatter the sheep of their pasture!
23.2
Therefore thus saith the Lord against them that tend my people; Ye have
scattered my sheep, and driven them out, and ye have not visited them:
behold, I [will] take vengeance upon you according to your evil
practices.
23.3 And I
will gather in the remnant of my people in every land, whither I have
driven them out, and will set them in their pasture; and they shall
increase and be multiplied.
23.4 And I
will raise up shepherds to them, who shall feed them: and they shall
fear no more, nor be alarmed, saith the Lord.
23.5
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will raise up to David a
righteous branch, and a king shall reign and understand, and shall
execute judgment and righteousness on the earth.
23.6 In his
days both Juda shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell securely: and
this is his name, which the Lord shall call him, Josedec among the
prophets.
23.7
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when they shall no
more say, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel out of the
land of Egypt;
23.8 but
The Lord lives, who has gathered the whole seed of Israel from the
north land, and from all the countries whither he [had] driven them
out, and has restored them into their own land.
23.9 My
heart is broken within me; all my bones are shaken: I am become as a
broken-down ma, and as a man overcome with wine, because of the Lord,
and because of the excellence of his glory.
23.10 For
because of these things the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness
are dried up; and their course is become evil, and so [also] their
strength.
23.11 For
priest and prophet are defiled; and I have seen their iniquities in my
house.
23.12
Therefore let their way be to them slippery and dark: and they shall be
tripped up and fall in it: for I will bring evils upon them, in the
year of their visitation.
23.13 And
in the prophets of Samaria I have seen lawless deeds; they prophesied
by Baal, and led my people Israel astray.
23.14 Also
in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen horrible things: as they
committed adultery, and walked in lies, and strengthened the hands of
many, that they should not return each from his evil way: they are all
become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.
23.15
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will feed them with pain, and
give them bitter water to drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem has
defilement gone forth [into] all the land.
23.16 Thus
saith the Lord Almighty, Hearken not to the words of the prophets: for
they frame a vain vision for themselves; they speak from their own
heart, and not from the mouth of the Lord.
23.17 They
say to them that reject the word of the Lord, There shall be peace to
you; and to all that walk after their own lusts, and to everyone that
walks in the error of his heart, they have said, No evil shall come
upon thee.
23.18 For
who has stood in the counsel of the Lord, and seen his word? who has
hearkened, and heard?
23.19
Behold, [there is] an earthquake from the Lord, and anger proceeds to a
convulsion, it shall come violently upon the ungodly.
23.20 And
the Lord's wrath shall return no more, until he have accomplished it,
and until he have established it, according to the purpose of his
heart: at the end of the days they shall understand it.
23.21 I
sent not the prophets, yet they ran: neither spoke I to them, ye they
prophesied.
23.22 But
if they had stood in my counsel, and if they had hearkened to my words,
then would they have turned my people from their evil practices.
23.23 I am
a God nigh at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off.
23.24 Shall
any one hide himself in secret places, and I not see him? Do I not fill
heaven and earth? saith the Lord.
23.25 I
have heard what the prophets say, what they prophesy in my name, saying
falsely, I have seen a night vision.
23.26 How
long shall [these things] be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy
lies, when they prophesy the purposes of their own heart?
23.27 who
devise that [men] may forget my law by their dreams, which they have
told every one to his neighbour, as their fathers forgot my name in
[the worship of] Baal.
23.28 The
prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and [he] in whom is my
word [spoken] to him, let him tell my word truly: what is the chaff to
the corn? so are my words, saith the Lord.
23.29
Behold, are not my words as fire? saith the Lord; and as an axe cutting
the rock?
23.30
Behold, I am therefore against the prophets, saith the Lord God, that
steal my words every one from his neighbour.
23.31
Behold, I am against the prophets that put forth prophecies of mere
words, and slumber their sleep.
23.32
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets that prophesy false
dreams, and have not told them [truly], and have caused my people to
err by their lies, and by their errors; yet I sent them not, and
commanded them not; therefore, they shall not profit this people at all.
23.33 And
if this people, or the priest, or the prophet, should ask, What is the
burden of the Lord? then thou shalt say to them, Ye are the burden, and
I will dash you down, saith the Lord.
23.34 [As
for] the prophet, and the priests, and the people, who shall say, The
burden of the Lord, I will even take vengeance on that man, and on his
house.
23.35 Thus
shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother,
What has the Lord answered? and, what has the Lord said?
23.36 And
do ye name no more the burden of the Lord; for his own word shall be a
man's burden.
23.37 But
wherefore, [say ye], has the Lord our God spoken?
23.38
Therefore thus saith the Lord our God; Because ye have spoken this
word, The burden of the Lord, and I sent to you, saying, ye shall not
say, The burden of the Lord;
23.39
therefore, behold, I [will] seize, and dash down you and the city which
I gave to you and your fathers.
23.40 And I
will bring upon you an everlasting reproach, and everlasting disgrace,
which shall not be forgotten.
▲24.1 The Lord shewed me two
baskets of figs, lying in front of the temple of the Lord, after
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried captive Jechonias son of
Joakim king of Juda, and the princes, and the artificers, and the
prisoners, and the rich men out of Jerusalem, and had brought them to
Babylon.
24.2 The
one basket was [full] of very good figs, as the early figs; and the
other basket was [full] of very bad figs, which could not be eaten, for
their badness.
24.3 And
the Lord said to me, What seest thou, Jeremias? and I said, Figs; the
good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, for
their badness.
24.4 And
the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
24.5 Thus
saith the Lord, the God of Israel; As these good figs, so will I
acknowledge the Jews that have been carried away captive, whom I have
sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good.
24.6 And I
will fix mine eyes upon them for good, and I will restore them into
this land for good: and I will build them up, and not pull them down;
and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
24.7 And I
will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall
be to me a people, and I will be to them a God: for they shall turn to
me with all their heart.
24.8 And as
the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, for their badness; thus saith the
Lord, So will I deliver Sedekias king of Juda, and his nobles, and the
remnant of Jerusalem, them that are left in this land, and he dwellers
in Egypt.
24.9 And I
will cause them to be dispersed into all the kingdoms of the earth, and
they shall be for a reproach, and a proverb, and an [object of] hatred,
and a curse, in every place whither I have driven them out.
24.10 And I
will send against them famine, and pestilence, and the sword, until
they are consumed from off the land which I gave them.
▲25.1 THE WORD THAT CAME TO
JEREMIAS concerning all the people of Juda in the fourth year of
Joakim, son of Josias, king of Juda;
25.2 which
he spoke to all the people of Juda, and to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, saying,
25.3 In the
thirteenth year of Josias, son of Amos, king of Juda, even until this
day for three and twenty years, I have both spoken to you, rising early
and speaking,
25.4 and I
sent to you my servants the prophets, sending them early; (but ye
hearkened not, and listened not with your ears;) saying,
25.5 Turn
ye every one from his evil way, and from your evil practices, and ye
shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers, of old
and for ever.
25.6 Go ye
not after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them, that ye
provoke me not by the works of your hands, to do you hurt.
25.7 But ye
hearkened not to me.
25.8
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Since ye believed not my words,
25.9 behold
I [will] send and take a family from the north, and will bring them
against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all
the nations round about it, and I will make them utterly waste, and
make them a desolation, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.
25.10 And I
will destroy from [among] them the voice of joy, and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the
scent of ointment, and the light of a candle.
25.11 And
all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the
Gentiles seventy years.
25.12 And
when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that
nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation.
25.13 And I
will bring upon that land all my words which I have spoken against it,
[even] all things that are written in this book.
25.14 [vide]
25.15 Thus
said the Lord God of Israel; Take the cup of this unmixed wine from
mine hand, and thou shalt cause all the nations to drink, to whom I
send thee.
25.16 And
they shall drink, and vomit, and be mad, because of the sword which I
send among them.
25.17 So I
took the cup out of the Lord's hand, and caused the nations to whom the
Lord sent me to drink:
25.18
Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings of Juda, and his
princes, to make them a desert place, a desolation, and a hissing;
25.19 and
Pharao king of Egypt, and his servants, and his nobles, and all his
people;
25.20 and
all the mingled [people], and all the kings of the Philistines, and
Ascalon, and Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus,
25.21 and
Idumea, and the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon,
25.22 and
the kings of Tyre, and the kings of Sidon, and the kings in the
[country] beyond the sea,
25.23 and
Daedan, and Thaeman, and Ros, and every one that is shaved round about
the face,
25.24 and
all the mingled [people] lodging in the wilderness,
25.25 and
all the kings of Aelam, and all the kings of the Persians,
25.26 and
all the kings from the north, the far and the near, each one with his
brother, and all the kingdom s which are on the face of the earth.
25.27 And
thou shalt say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty; Drink ye, be ye
drunken; and ye shall vomit, and shall fall, and shall in nowise rise,
because of the sword which I send among you.
25.28 And
it shall come to pass, when they refuse to take the cup out of thine
hand, to drink it, that thou shalt say, Thus said the Lord; Ye shall
surely drink.
25.29 For I
am beginning to afflict the city whereon my name is called, and ye
shall by no means be held guiltless: for I am calling a sword upon all
that dwell upon the earth.
25.30 And
thou shalt prophesy against them these words, and shalt say, The Lord
shall speak from on high, from his sanctuary he will utter his voice;
he will pronounce a declaration on his place; and these shall answer
like men gathering grapes: and destruction is coming on them that dwell
on the earth,
25.31
[even] upon [the extreme] part of the earth; for the Lord [has] a
controversy with the nations, he is pleading with all flesh, and the
ungodly are given to the sword, saith the Lord.
25.32 Thus
said the Lord; Behold, evils are proceeding from nation to nation, and
a great whirlwind goes forth from the end of the earth.
25.33 And
the slain of the Lord shall be in the day of the Lord from [one] end of
the earth even to the [other] end of the earth: they shall not be
buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth.
25.34 Howl,
ye shepherds, and cry; and lament, ye rams of the flock: for your days
have been completed for slaughter, and ye shall fall as the choice rams.
25.35 And
flight shall perish from the shepherds, and safety from the rams of the
flock.
25.36 A
voice of the crying of the shepherds, and a moaning of the sheep and
the rams: for the Lord has destroyed their pastures.
25.37 And
the peaceable abodes that remain shall be destroyed before the
fierceness of my anger.
25.38 He
has forsaken his lair, as a lion: for their land is become desolate
before the great sword.
▲26.1 IN THE BEGINNING OF THE
REIGN OF KING JOAKIM SON OF JOSIAS THERE CAME THIS WORD FROM THE LORD.
26.2 Thus
said the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord's house, and thou shalt
declare to all the Jews, and to all that come to worship in the house
of the Lord, all the words which I commanded thee to speak to them;
abate not one word.
26.3
Peradventure they will hear, and turn every one from his evil way: then
I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of
their evil practices.
26.4 And
thou shalt say, Thus said the Lord; If ye will not hearken to me, to
walk in my statutes which I set before you,
26.5 to
hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you
early in the morning; yea, I sent them, but ye hearkened not to me;
26.6 then
will I make this house as Selo, and I will make [this] city a curse to
all the nations of all the earth.
26.7 And
the priests, and the false prophets, and all the people heard Jeremias
speaking these words in the house of the Lord.
26.8 And it
came to pass, when Jeremias had ceased speaking all that the Lord had
ordered him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the false
prophets and all the people took him, saying,
26.9 Thou
shalt surely die, because thou hast prophesied in the name of the Lord,
saying, This house shall be as Selo, and this city shall be made quite
destitute of inhabitants. And all the people assembled against Jeremias
in the house of the Lord.
26.10 And
the princes of Juda heard this word, and they went up out of the house
of the king to the house of the Lord, and sat in the entrance of the
new gate.
26.11 Then
the priests and the false prophets said to the princes and to all the
people, The judgment of death [is due] to this man; because he has
prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
26.12 Then
Jeremias spoke to the princes, and to all the people, saying, The Lord
sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city, all the
words which ye have heard.
26.13 And
now amend your ways and your works, and hearken to the voice of the
Lord; and the Lord shall cease from the evils which he has pronounced
against you.
26.14 And
behold, I am in your hands; do to me as is expedient, and as it is best
for you.
26.15 But
know for a certainty, that if ye slay me, ye bring innocent blood upon
yourselves, and upon this city, and upon them that dwell in it; for in
truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak in your ears all these words.
26.16 Then
the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the false
prophets; Judgment of death is not [due] to this man; for he has spoken
to us in the name of the Lord our God.
26.17 And
there rose up men of the elders of the land, and said to all the
assembly of the people,
26.18
Michaea the Morathite lived in the days of Ezekias king of Juda, and
said to all the people of Juda, Thus saith the Lord; Sion shall be
ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become a desolation, and the
mountain of the house shall be a thicket of trees.
26.19 Did
Ezekias and all Juda in any way slay him? Was it not that they feared
the Lord, and they made supplication before the Lord, and the Lord
ceased from the evils which he [had] pronounced against them? whereas
we have wrought great evil against our own souls.
26.20 And
there was [another] man prophesying in the name of the Lord, Urias the
son of Samaeas of Cariathiarim; and he prophesied concerning this land
according to all the words of Jeremias.
26.21 And
king Joakim and all the princes heard all his words, and sought to slay
him; and Urias heard [it] and went into Egypt.
26.22 And
the king sent men into Egypt;
26.23 and
they brought him thence, and brought him into the king; and he smote
him with the sword, and cast him into the sepulchre of the children of
his people.
26.24
Nevertheless the hand of Achicam son of Saphan was with Jeremias, to
prevent his being delivered into the hands of the people, or being
killed.
▲27.1 [vide]
27.2 Thus
said the Lord; Make to thyself bonds and yokes, and put [them] about
thy neck,
27.3 and
thou shalt send them to the king of Idumea, and to the king of Moab,
and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and
to the king of Sidon, by the hands of their messengers that come to
meet them at Jerusalem to Sedekias king of Juda.
27.4 And
thou shalt commission them to say to their lords, Thus said the Lord
God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to your lords;
27.5 I have
made the earth by my great power, and with my high arm, and I will give
it to whomsoever it shall seem [good] in mine eyes.
27.6 I gave
the earth to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to serve him, and the wild
beasts of the field to labour for him.
27.7 [vide]
27.8 And
the nation and kingdom, all that shall not put their neck under the
yoke of the king of Babylon, with sword and famine will I visit them,
saith the Lord, until they are consumed by his hand.
27.9 And
hearken ye not to your false prophets, nor to them that divine to you,
nor to them that foretell events by dreams to you, nor to your
auguries, nor your sorcerers, that say, Ye shall by no means work for
the king of Babylon:
27.10 for
they prophesy lies to you, to remove you far from your land.
27.11 But
the nation which shall put its neck under the yoke of the king of
Babylon, and serve him, I will even leave it upon its land, and it
shall serve him, and dwell in it.
27.12 I
spoke also to Sedekias king of Juda according to all these words,
saying, Put your neck into [the yoke], and serve the king of Babylon.
27.13 [vide]
27.14 For
they prophesy unrighteous [words] to you,
27.15 for I
sent them not, saith the Lord; and they prophesy [in] my name unjustly,
that I might destroy you, and ye should perish, and your prophets, who
unrighteously prophesy lies to you.
27.16 I
spoke to you, and to all this people, and to the priests, saying, Thus
said the Lord; Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy
to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Lord's house shall return
from Babylon: for they prophesy to you unrighteous [words].
27.17 I
sent them not.
27.18 If
they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is in them, let them
meet me, for thus has the Lord said.
27.19 And
as for the remaining vessels,
27.20 which
the king of Babylon took not, when he carried Jechonias prisoner out of
Jerusalem,
27.21 [vide]
27.22 they
shall go into Babylon, saith the Lord.
▲28.1 And it came to pass in the
fourth year of Sedekias king of Juda, in the fifth month, [that]
Ananias the false prophet, the son of Azor, from Gabaon, spoke to me in
the house of the Lord, in the sight of the priests and all the people,
saying,
28.2 Thus
saith the Lord; I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
28.3 Yet
two full years, and I will return into this place the vessels of the
house of the Lord,
28.4 and
Jechonias, and the captivity of Juda: for I will break the yoke of the
king of Babylon.
28.5 Then
Jeremias spoke to Ananias in the sight of all the people, and in the
sight of the priests that stood in the house of the Lord,
28.6 and
Jeremias said, May the Lord indeed do thus; may he confirm thy word
which thou dost prophesy, to return the vessels of the house of the
Lord, and all the captivity, out of Babylon to this place.
28.7
Nevertheless hear ye the word of the Lord which I speak in your ears,
and in the ears of all the people.
28.8 The
prophets that were before me and before you of old, also prophesied
over much country, and against great kingdoms, concerning war.
28.9 [As
for] the prophet that has prophesied for peace, when the word has come
[to pass], they shall know the prophet whom the Lord has sent them in
truth.
28.10 Then
Ananias took the yokes from the neck of Jeremias in the sight of all
the people, and broke them to pieces.
28.11 And
Ananias spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus said the
Lord; Thus will I break the yoke of the king of Babylon from the necks
of all the nations. And Jeremias went his way.
28.12 And
the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, after that Ananias had broken
the yokes off his neck, saying,
28.13 Go
and speak to Ananias, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast broken the
yokes of wood; but I will make instead of them yokes of iron.
28.14 For
thus said the Lord, I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all the
nations, that they may serve the king of Babylon.
28.15 And
Jeremias said to Ananias, The Lord has not sent thee; and thou hast
caused this people to trust in unrighteousness.
28.16
Therefore thus said the Lord: Behold, I [will] cast thee off from the
face of the earth: this year thou shalt die.
28.17 So he
died in the seventh month.
▲29.1 And these are the words of
the book which Jeremias sent from Jerusalem to the elders of the
captivity, and to the priests, and to the false prophets, even an
epistle to Babylon for the captivity, and to all the people;
29.2 (after
the departure of Jechonias the king and the queen, and the eunuchs, and
every freeman, and bondman, and artificer, out of Jerusalem;)
29.3 by the
hand of Eleasan son of Saphan, and Gamarias son of Chelcias, (whom
Sedekias king of Juda sent to the king of Babylon to Babylon) saying,
29.4 Thus
said the Lord God of Israel concerning the captivity which I caused to
be carried away from Jerusalem;
29.5 Build
ye houses, and inhabit [them]; and plant gardens, and eat the fruits
thereof;
29.6 and
take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your
sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and be multiplied, and be
not diminished.
29.7 And
seek the peace of the land into which I have carried you captive, and
ye shall pray to the Lord for the people: for in its peace ye shall
[have] peace.
29.8 For
thus saith the Lord; Let not the false prophets that are among you
persuade you, and let not your diviners persuade you, and hearken not
to your dreams which ye dream.
29.9 For
they prophesy to you unrighteous [words] in my name; and I sent them
not.
29.10 For
thus said the Lord; When seventy years shall be on the point of being
accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you, and will confirm my words to
you, to bring back your people to this place.
29.11 And I
will devise for you a device of peace, and not evil, to bestow upon you
these [good things].
29.12 And
do ye pray to me, and I will hearken to you: and do ye earnestly seek
me, and ye shall find me;
29.13 for
ye shall seek me with your whole heart.
29.14 And I
will appear to you:
29.15
whereas ye said, The Lord has appointed for us prophets in Babylon:
29.16 [vide]
29.17 [vide]
29.18 [vide]
29.19 [vide]
29.20 [vide]
29.21 Thus
saith the Lord concerning Achiab, and concerning Sedekias; Behold, I
[will] deliver them into the hands of the king of Babylon; and he shall
smite them in your sight.
29.22 And
they shall make of them a curse in all the captivity of Juda in
Babylon, saying, The Lord do to thee as he did to Sedekias, and as he
did to Achiab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire;
29.23
because of the iniquity which they wrought in Israel, and [because]
they committed adultery with the wives of their fellow-citizens; and
spoke a word in my name, which I did not command them [to speak], and I
am witness, saith the Lord.
29.24 And
to Samaeas the Aelamite thou shalt say,
29.25 I
sent thee not in my name: and to Sophonias the priest the son of
Maasaeas say thou,
29.26 The
Lord has made thee priest in the place of Jodae the priest, to be ruler
in the house of the Lord over every prophet, and to every madman, and
thou shalt put them in prison, and into the dungeon.
29.27 And
now wherefore have ye reviled together Jeremias of Anathoth, who
prophesied to you?
29.28 Did
he not send for this purpose? for in the course of this month he sent
to you to Babylon, saying, It is far off: build ye houses, and inhabit
[them]; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
29.29 And
Sophonias read the book in the ears of Jeremias.
29.30 Then
the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying,
29.31 Send
to the captivity, saying, Thus saith the Lord concerning Samaeas the
Aelamite, Since Samaeas has prophesied to you, and I sent him not, and
he has made you to trust in iniquity,
29.32
therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will visit Samaeas, and his
family: and there shall not be a man of them in the midst of you to see
the good which I will do to you: they shall not see [it].
▲30.1 THE WORD THAT CAME TO
JEREMIAS FROM THE LORD, SAYING,
30.2 Thus
speaks the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write all the words which I have
spoken to thee in a book.
30.3 For,
behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will bring back the
captivity of my people Israel and Juda, said the Lord: and I will bring
them back to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall be
lords of it.
30.4 AND
THESE ARE THE WORDS WHICH THE LORD SPOKE CONCERNING ISRAEL AND JUDA;
30.5 Thus
said the Lord: Ye shall hear a sound of fear, [there is] fear, and
there is not peace.
30.6
Enquire, and see if a male has born a child? and [ask] concerning the
fear, wherein they shall hold their loins, and [look for] safety: for I
have seen every man, and his hands are on his loins; [their] faces are
turned to paleness.
30.7 For
that day is great, and there is not such [another]; and it is a time of
straitness to Jacob; but he shall be saved out of it.
30.8 In
that day, said the Lord, I will break the yoke off their neck, and will
burst their bonds, and they shall no longer serve strangers:
30.9 but
they shall serve the Lord their God; and I will raise up to them David
their king.
30.10 [vide]
30.11 [vide]
30.12 Thus
saith the Lord; I have brought on [thee] destruction; thy stroke is
painful.
30.13 There
is none to judge thy cause: thou hast been painfully treated for
healing, there is no help for thee.
30.14 All
thy friends have forgotten thee; they shall not ask [about thee] at
all, for I have smitten thee with he stroke of an enemy, [even] severe
correction: thy sins have abounded above all thine iniquity.
30.15 Thy
sins have abounded beyond the multitude of thine iniquities,
[therefore] they have done these things to thee.
30.16
Therefore all that devour thee shall be eaten, and all thine enemies
shall eat all their [own] flesh. And they that spoil thee shall become
a spoil, and I will give up to be plundered all that have plundered
thee.
30.17 For I
will bring about thy healing, I will heal thee of thy grievous wound,
saith the Lord; for thou art called Dispersed: she is your prey, for no
one seeks after her.
30.18 Thus
said the Lord; Behold, I will turn the captivity of Jacob, and will
have pity upon his prisoners; and the city shall be built upon her
hill, and the people shall settle after their manner.
30.19 And
there shall go forth from them singers, [even] the sound of men making
merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not at all be
diminished.
30.20 And
their sons shall go in as before, and their testimonies shall be
established before me, and I will visit them that afflict them.
30.21 And
their mighty ones shall be over them, and their prince shall proceed of
themselves; and I will gather them, and they shall return to me: for
who is this that has set his heart to return to me? saith the Lord.
30.22 [vide]
30.23 For
the wrathful anger of the lord has gone forth, [even] a whirlwind of
anger has gone forth: it shall come upon the ungodly.
30.24 The
fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he shall execute [it],
and until he shall establish the purpose of his heart: in the latter
days ye shall know these things.
▲31.1 At that time, saith the
Lord, I will be a God to the family of Israel, and they shall be to me
a people.
31.2 Thus
saith the Lord, I found him warm in the wilderness with them that were
slain with the sword: go ye and destroy not Israel.
31.3 The
Lord appeared to him from afar, [saying], I have loved thee with an
everlasting love: therefore have I drawn thee in compassion.
31.4 For I
will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou
shalt yet take thy timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that
make merry.
31.5 For ye
have planted vineyards on the mountains of Samaria: plant ye, and
praise.
31.6 For it
is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call,
[saying], Arise ye, and go up to Sion to the Lord your God.
31.7 For
thus saith the Lord to Jacob; Rejoice ye, and exult over the head of
the nations: make proclamation, and praise ye: say, The Lord has
delivered his people, the remnant of Israel.
31.8
Behold, I bring them from the north, and will gather them from the end
of the earth to the feast of the passover: and [the people] shall beget
a great multitude, and they shall return hither.
31.9 They
went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation,
causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and
they shall not err in it: for I am become a father to Israel, and
Ephraim is my first-born.
31.10 Hear
the words of the Lord, ye nations, and proclaim [them] to the islands
afar off; say, He that scattered Israel will also gather him, and keep
him as one that feeds his flock.
31.11 For
the Lord has ransomed Jacob, he has rescued him out of the hand of them
[that were] stronger than he.
31.12 And
they shall come, and shall rejoice in the mount of Sion, and shall come
to the good things of the Lord, [even] to a land of corn, and wine, and
fruits, and cattle, and sheep: and their soul shall be as a fruitful
tree; and they shall hunger no more.
31.13 Then
shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old men
shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make
them merry.
31.14 I
will expand and cheer with wine the soul of the priests the sons of
Levi, and my people shall be satisfied with my good things: thus saith
the Lord.
31.15 A
voice was heard in Rama, of lamentation, and of weeping, and wailing;
Rachel would not cease weeping for her children, because they are not.
31.16 Thus
saith the Lord; Let thy voice cease from weeping, and thine eyes from
thy tears: for their is a reward for thy works; and they shall return
from the land of [thine] enemies.
31.17
[There shall be] an abiding [home] for thy children.
31.18 I
have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, [and saying], Thou hast
chastened me, and I was chastened; I as a calf was not [willingly]
taught: turn thou me, and I shall turn; for thou [art] the Lord my God.
31.19 For
after my captivity I repented; and after I knew, I groaned for the day
of shame, and shewed thee that I bore reproach from my youth.
31.20
Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to me: for because my words
are in him, I will surely remember him: therefore I made haste [to
help] him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.
31.21
Prepare thyself, O Sion; execute vengeance; look to thy ways: return, O
virgin of Israel, by the way by which thou wentest, return mourning to
thy cities.
31.22 How
long, O disgraced daughter, wilt thou turn away? for the Lord has
created safety for a new plantation: men shall go about in safety.
31.23 For
thus saith the Lord; They shall yet speak this word in the land of
Juda, and in the cities thereof, when I shall turn his captivity;
blessed be the Lord on his righteous holy mountain!
31.24 And
there shall be dwellers in the cities of Juda, and in all his land,
together with the husbandman, and [the shepherd] shall go forth with
the flock.
31.25 For I
have saturated every thirsting soul, and filled every hungry soul.
31.26
Therefore I awake, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.
31.27
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will sow the
house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of man, and the
seed of beast.
31.28 And
it shall come to pass, that as I watched over them, to pull down, and
to afflict, so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith
the Lord.
31.29 In
those days they shall certainly not say, The fathers ate a sour grape,
and the children's teeth were set on edge.
31.30 But
every one shall die in his own sin; and the teeth of him that eats the
sour grape shall be set on edge.
31.31
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:
31.32 not
according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day
when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
for they abode not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, saith the
Lord.
31.33 For
this is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after
those days, saith the Lord, I will surely put my laws into their mind,
and write them on their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they
shall be to me a people.
31.34 And
they shall not at all teach every one his [fellow] citizen, and every
one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the
least of them to the greatest of them: for I will be merciful to their
iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.
31.35 Thus
saith the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the moon and the
stars for a light by night, and [makes] a roaring in the sea, so that
the waves thereof roar; the Lord Almighty is his name:
31.36 if
these ordinances cease from before me, saith the Lord, then shall the
family of Israel cease to be a nation before me forever.
31.37
Though the sky should be raised to a [greater] height, saith the Lord,
and though the ground of the earth should be sunk [lower] beneath, yet
I will not cast off the family of Israel, saith the Lord, for all that
they have done.
31.38
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when the city shall be built to
the Lord from the tower of Anameel to the gate of the corner.
31.39 And
the measurement of it shall proceed in front of them as far as the
hills of Gareb, and it shall be compassed with a circular wall of
choice stones.
31.40 And
all the Asaremoth even to Nachal Kedron, as far as the corner of the
horse-gate eastward, shall be holiness to the Lord; and it shall not
fail any more, and shall not be destroyed for ever.
▲32.1 The word that came from the
Lord to Jeremias in the tenth year of king Sedekias, this is the
eighteenth year of king Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon.
32.2 and
the host of the king of Babylon had made a rampart against Jerusalem:
and Jeremias was kept in the court of the prison, which is in the
king's house;
32.3 in
which king Sedekias [had] shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou
prophesy, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I [will] give this city
into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
32.4 and
Sedekias shall by no means be delivered out of the hand of the
Chaldeans, for he shall certainly be given up into the hands of the
king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak to his mouth, and his eyes
shall look upon his eyes;
32.5 and
Sedekias shall go into Babylon, and dwell there?
32.6 AND
THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JEREMIAS, SAYING,
32.7
Behold, Anameel the son of Salom thy father's brother is coming to
thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for thou [hast]
the right to take [it] as a purchase.
32.8 So
Anamel the son of Salom my father's brother came to me into the court
of the prison, and said, Buy thee my field that is in the land of
Benjamin, in Anathoth: for thou [hast] a right to buy it, and thou art
the elder. So I knew that it was the word of the Lord.
32.9 And I
bought the field of Anameel the son of my father's brother, and I
weighed him seventeen shekels of silver.
32.10 And I
wrote [it] in a book, and sealed [it], and took the testimony of
witnesses, and weighed the money in the balance.
32.11 And I
took the book of the purchase that was sealed;
32.12 and I
gave it to Baruch son of Nerias, son of Maasaeas, in the sight of
Anameel my father's brother's son, and in the sight of the men that
stood by and wrote in the book of the purchase, and in the sight of the
Jews that were in the court of the prison.
32.13 And I
charged Baruch in their presence, saying, Thus saith the Lord Almighty;
32.14 Take
this book of the purchase, and the book that has been read; and thou
shalt put it into an earthen vessel, that it may remain many days.
32.15 For
thus saith the Lord; There shall yet be bought fields and houses and
vineyards in this land.
32.16 And I
prayed to the Lord after I had given the book of the purchase to Baruch
the son of Nerias, saying,
32.17 O
[ever] living Lord! thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy
great power, and with thy high and lofty arm: nothing can be hidden
from thee.
32.18
Granting mercy to thousands, and recompensing the sins of the fathers
into the bosoms of their children after them: the great, the strong God;
32.19 the
Lord of great counsel, and mighty in deeds, the great Almighty God, and
Lord of great name: thine eyes are upon the ways of the children of
men, to give to every one according to his way:
32.20 who
hast wrought signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even to this day,
and in Israel, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and thou didst
make for thyself a name, as at this day;
32.21 and
thou didst bring out thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with
signs, and with wonders, with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and
with great sights;
32.22 and
thou gavest them this land, which thou didst swear [to give] to their
fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey;
32.23 and
they went in, and took it; but they hearkened not to thy voice, and
walked not in thine ordinances; they did none of the things which thou
didst command them, and they caused all these calamities to happen to
them.
32.24
Behold, a multitude is come against the city to take it; and the city
is given into the hands of the Chaldeans that fight against it, by the
power of the sword, and the famine: as thou hast spoken, so has it
happened.
32.25 And
thou sayest to me, Buy thee the field for money; and I wrote a book,
and sealed [it], and took the testimony of witnesses: and the city is
given into the hands of the Chaldeans.
32.26 And
the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
32.27 I am
the Lord, the God of all flesh: shall anything be hidden from me!
32.28
Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel; This city shall certainly
be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take
it:
32.29 and
the Chaldeans shall come to war against this city, and they shall burn
this city with fire, and shall burn down the houses wherein they burnt
incense on the roofs thereof to Baal, and poured drink-offerings to
other gods, to provoke me.
32.30 For
the children of Israel and the children of Juda alone did evil in my
sight from their youth.
32.31 For
this city was [obnoxious] to my anger and my wrath, from the day that
they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from my
presence,
32.32
because of all the wickedness of the children of Israel and Juda, which
they wrought to provoke me, they and their kings, and their princes,
and their priests, and their prophets, the men of Juda, and the
dwellers in Jerusalem.
32.33 And
they turned the back to me, and not the face: whereas I taught them
early in the morning, but they hearkened no more to receive
instructions.
32.34 and
they set their pollutions in the house, on which my name was called, by
their uncleannesses.
32.35 And
they built to Baal the altars that are in the valley of the son of
Ennom, to offer their sons and their daughters to king Moloch; which
things I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind that they
should do this abomination, to cause Juda to sin.
32.36 And
now thus has the Lord God of Israel said concerning this city, of which
thou sayest, it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of
Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and banishment.
32.37
Behold, I [will] gather them out of every land, where I have scattered
them in my anger, and my wrath, and great fury; and I will bring them
back into this place, and will cause them to dwell safely:
32.38 and
they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a god.
32.39 And I
will give them another way, and another heart, to fear me continually,
and [that] for good to them and their children after them.
32.40 And I
will make with them an everlasting covenant, which I will by no means
turn away from them, and I will put my fear into their heart, that they
may not depart from me.
32.41 And I
will visit [them] to do them good, and I will plant them in this land
in faithfulness, and with all my heart, and with all [my] soul.
32.42 For
thus saith the Lord; As I have brought upon this people all these great
evils, so will I bring upon them all the good things which I pronounced
upon them.
32.43 And
there shall yet be fields bought in the land, of which thou sayest, it
shall be destitute of man and beast; and they are delivered into the
hands of the Chaldeans.
32.44 And
they shall buy fields for money, and thou shalt write a book, and seal
[it], and shalt take the testimony of witnesses in the land of
Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda, and in
the cities of the mountain, and in the cities of the plain, and in the
cities of the south: for I will turn their captivity.
▲33.1 And the word of the Lord
came to Jeremias the second time, when he was yet bound in the court of
the prison, saying,
33.2 Thus
saith the Lord, who made the earth and formed it, to establish it; the
Lord is his name;
33.3 Cry to
me, and I will answer thee, and I will declare to thee great and mighty
things, which thou knowest not.
33.4 For
thus saith the Lord concerning the houses of this city, and concerning
the houses of the king of Juda, which have been pulled down for mounds
and fortifications,
33.5 to
fight against the Chaldeans, and to fill it with the corpses of men,
whom I smote in mine anger and my wrath, and turned away my face from
them, for all their wickedness:
33.6
Behold, I bring upon her healing and cure, and I will show [myself] to
them, and will heal her, and make both peace and security.
33.7 And I
will turn the captivity of Juda, and the captivity of Israel, and will
build them, even as before.
33.8 And I
will cleanse them from all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned
against me, and will not remember their sins, whereby they have sinned
against me, and revolted from me.
33.9 And it
shall be for joy and praise, and for glory to all the people of the
earth, who shall hear all the good that I will do: and they shall fear
and be provoked for all the good things and for all the peace which I
will bring upon them.
33.10 Thus
saith the Lord; There shall yet be heard in this place, of which ye
say, it is destitute of men and cattle, in the cities of Juda, and in
the streets of Jerusalem, [the places] that have been made desolate for
want of men and cattle,
33.11 the
voice of gladness, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom,
and the voice of the bride, the voice of men saying, Give thanks to the
Lord Almighty: for the Lord is good; for his mercy [endures] fore ever:
and they shall bring gifts into the house of the Lord; for I will turn
all the captivity of that land as before, said the Lord.
33.12 Thus
saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet be in this place, that is
desert for want of man and beast, in all the cities hereof,
resting-places for shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
33.13 In
the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the valley, and in
the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the
[cities] round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda, flocks shall
yet pass under the hand of him that numbers [them], saith the Lord.
33.14 [vide]
33.15 [vide]
33.16 [vide]
33.17 [vide]
33.18 [vide]
33.19 [vide]
33.20 [vide]
33.21 [vide]
33.22 [vide]
33.23 [vide]
33.24 [vide]
33.25 [vide]
33.26 [vide]
▲34.1 The word that came to
Jeremias from the Lord (now Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and all his
army, and all the country of his dominion, were warring against
Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Juda,) saying,
34.2 Thus
has the Lord said; Go to Sedekias king of Juda, and thou shalt say to
him, Thus has the Lord said, This city shall certainly be delivered
into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it, and shall
burn it with fire:
34.3 and
thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt certainly be taken,
and shalt be given into his hands; and thine eyes shall see his eyes,
and thou shalt enter into Babylon.
34.4 But
hear the word of the Lord, O Sedekias king of Juda; Thus saith the Lord,
34.5 Thou
shalt die in peace: and as they wept for thy fathers that reigned
before thee, they shall weep also for thee, [saying], Ah lord! and they
shall lament for thee down to the grave: for I have spoken the word,
said the Lord.
34.6 And
Jeremias spoke to king Sedekias all these words in Jerusalem.
34.7 And
the host of the king of Babylon warred against Jerusalem, and against
the cities of Juda, and against Lachis, and against Azeca: for these
strong cities were left among the cities of Juda.
34.8 The
word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, after king Sedekias had
concluded a covenant with the people, to proclaim a release;
34.9 That
every one should set at liberty his servant, and every one has
handmaid, the Hebrew man and Hebrew woman, that no man of Juda should
be a bondman.
34.10 Then
all the nobles, and all the people who had entered into the covenant,
[engaging] to set free every one his man-servant, and every one his
maid, turned,
34.11 and
gave them over to be men-servants and maid-servants.
34.12 And
the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying,
34.13 Thus
saith the Lord; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day wherein
I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,
saying,
34.14 When
six years are accomplished, thou shalt set free thy brother the Hebrew,
who shall be sold to thee: for he shall serve thee six years, and
[then] thou shalt let him go free: but they hearkened not to me, and
inclined not their ear.
34.15 And
this day they turned to do that which was right in my sight, to
proclaim every one the release of his neighbour; and they had concluded
a covenant before me, in the house whereon my name is called.
34.16 But
ye turned and profaned my name, to bring back every one his servant,
and every one his handmaid, whom ye had sent forth free [and] at their
own disposal, to be to you men-servants and maid-servants.
34.17
Therefore thus said the Lord; Ye have not hearkened to me, to proclaim
a release every one to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a release to
you, to the sword, and to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will
give you up to dispersion [among] all the kingdoms of the earth.
34.18 And I
will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, who have not kept
my covenant, which they made before me, the calf which they prepared to
sacrifice with it,
34.19 the
princes of Juda, and the men in power, and the priests, and the people;
34.20 I
will even give them to their enemies, and their carcases shall be food
for the birds of the sky and for the wild beasts of the earth.
34.21 And I
will give Sedekias king of Judea, and their princes, into the hands of
their enemies, and the host of the king of Babylon [shall come upon]
them that run away from them.
34.22
Behold, I [will] give command, saith the Lord, and will bring them back
to this land; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it
with fire, and the cities of Juda; and I will make them desolate
without inhabitants.
▲35.1 THE WORD THAT CAME TO
JEREMIAS from the Lord in the days of Joakim, king of Juda, saying,
35.2 Go to
the house of the Archabin, and thou shalt bring them to the house of
the Lord, into one of the courts, and give them wine to drink.
35.3 So I
brought forth Jechonias the son of Jeremin the son of Chabasin, and his
brethren, and his sons, and all the family of the Archabin;
35.4 and I
brought them into the house of the Lord, into the chamber of the sons
of Joanan, the son of Ananias, the son of Godolias, a man of God, who
dwells near the house of the princes that are over the house of
Maasaeas the son of Selom, who kept the court.
35.5 And I
set before them a jar of wine, and cups, and I said, Drink ye wine.
35.6 But
they said, We will on no account drink wine, for our father Jonadab the
son of Rechab commanded us, saying, Ye shall on no account drink wine,
[neither] ye, nor your sons for ever:
35.7 nor
shall ye at all build houses, nor sow any seed, nor shall ye have a
vineyard: for ye shall dwell in tents all your days; that ye may live
many days upon the land, in which ye sojourn.
35.8 And we
hearkened to the voice of Jonadab our father, so as to drink no wine
all our days, we, and our wives, and our sons, and our daughters;
35.9 and so
as to build no houses to dwell in: and we have had no vineyard, nor
field, nor seed:
35.10 but
we have dwelt in tents, and have hearkened, and done according to all
that Jonadab our father commanded us.
35.11 And
it came to pass, when Nabuchodonosor came up against the land, that we
said we would come in; and wee entered into Jerusalem, for fear of the
host of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the host of the Assyrians: and
we dwelt there.
35.12 And
the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
35.13 Thus
saith the Lord, Go, and say to the men of Juda, and to them that dwell
in Jerusalem, Will ye not receive correction to hearken to my words?
35.14 The
sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the word which he commanded
his children, that they should drink no wine; and they have not drunk
[it]: but I spoke to you early, and ye hearkened not.
35.15 And I
sent to you my servants the prophets, saying, Turn ye every one from
his evil way, and amend your practices, and go not after other gods to
serve them, and ye shall dwell upon the land which I gave to you and to
your fathers: but ye inclined not your ears, and hearkened not.
35.16 But
the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the command of their
father; but this people has not hearkened to me.
35.17
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I [will] bring upon Juda and
upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evils which I pronounced
against them.
35.18
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Since the sons of Jonadab the son of
Rechab have hearkened to the command of their father, to do as their
father commanded them:
35.19 there
shall never be wanting a man of the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab
to stand before my face while the earth remains.
▲36.1 IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF
JOAKIM son of Josias king of Juda, the word of the Lord came to me,
saying,
36.2 Take
thee a roll of a book, and write upon it all the words which I spoke to
thee against Jerusalem, and against Juda, and against all the nations,
from the day when I spoke to thee, from the days of Josias king of
Juda, even to this day.
36.3
Perhaps the house of Juda will hear all the evils which I purpose to do
to them; that they may turn from their evil way; and [so] I will be
merciful to their iniquities and their sins.
36.4 So
Jeremias called Baruch the son of Nerias: and he wrote from the mouth
of Jeremias all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken to him, on a
roll of a book.
36.5 And
Jeremias commanded Baruch, saying, I am in prison; I cannot enter into
the house of the Lord:
36.6 so
thou shalt read in this roll in the ears of the people in the house of
the Lord, on the fast day; and in the ears of all Juda that come out of
their cities, thou shalt read to them.
36.7
Peradventure their supplication will come before the Lord, and they
will turn from their evil way: for great is the wrath and the anger of
the Lord, which he has pronounced against this people.
36.8 And
Baruch did according to all that Jeremias 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 eighth year of king Joakim, in the ninth month, all
the people in Jerusalem, and the house of Juda, proclaimed a fast
before the Lord.
36.10 And
Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremias in the house of the Lord,
in the house of Gamarias son of Saphan the scribe, in the upper court,
in the entrance of the new gate of the house of the Lord, and in the
ears of all the people.
36.11 And
Michaeas the son of Gamarias the son of Saphan heard all the words of
the Lord, out of the book.
36.12 And
he went down to the king's house, into the house of the scribe: and,
behold, there were sitting there all the princes, Elisama the scribe,
and Dalaeas the son of Selemias, and Jonathan the son of Acchobor, and
Gamarias the son of Saphan, and Sedekias the son of Ananias, and all
the princes.
36.13 And
Michaeas reported to them all the words which he had heard Baruch
reading in the ears of the people.
36.14 And
all the princes sent to Baruch son of Nerias Judin the son of
Nathanias, the son of Selemias, the son of Chusi, saying, Take in thine
hand the roll in which thou readest in the ears of the people, and
come. So Baruch took the roll, and went down to them.
36.15 And
they said to him, Read [it] again in our ears. And Baruch read [it].
36.16 And
it came to pass, when they [had] heard all the words, [that] they took
counsel each with his neighbour, and said, Let us by all means tell the
king all these words.
36.17 And
they asked Baruch, saying, Where didst thou write all these words?
36.18 And
Baruch said, Jeremias told me from his [own] mouth all these words, and
I wrote them in a book.
36.19 And
they said to Baruch, Go, and hide, thou and Jeremias; let no man know
where ye [are].
36.20 And
they went in to the king into the court, and ave the roll [to one] to
keep in the house of Elisama; and they told the king all these words.
36.21 And
the king sent Judin to fetch the roll: and he took it out of the house
of Elisama: and Judin read in the ears of the king, and in the ears of
all the princes who stood round the king.
36.22 Now
the king was sitting in the winter house: and [there was] a fire on the
hearth before him.
36.23 And
it came to pass when Judin had read three or four leaves, he cut them
off with a penknife, and cast [them] into the fire that was on the
hearth, until the whole roll was consumed in the fire that was on the
hearth.
36.24 And
the king and his servants that heard all these words sought not [the
Lord], and rent not their garments.
36.25 But
Elnathan and Godolias suggested to the king that he should burn the
roll.
36.26 And
the king commanded Jeremeel the king's son, and Saraeas the son of
Esriel, to take Baruch and Jeremias: but they were hidden.
36.27 Then
the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, after the king had burnt the
roll, [even] all the words which Baruch wrote from the mouth of
Jeremias, saying,
36.28 Again
take thou another roll, and write all the words that were on the roll,
which king Joakim has burnt.
36.29 And
thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast burnt this roll, saying,
Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall
certainly come in, and destroy this land, and man and cattle shall fail
from off it?
36.30
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim king of Juda; He shall
not have [a man] to sit on the throne of David: and his carcass shall
be cast forth in the heat by day, and in the frost by night.
36.31 And I
will visit him, and his family, and his servants: and I will bring upon
him, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the land of Juda,
all the evils which I spoke of to them; and they hearkened not.
36.32 And
Baruch took another roll, and wrote upon it from the mouth of Jeremias
all the words of the book which Joakim had burnt: and there were yet
more words added to it like the former.
▲37.1 And Sedekias the son of
Josias reigned instead of Joakim, whom Nabuchodonosor appointed to
reign over Juda.
37.2 And he
and his servants and the people of the land hearkened not to the words
of the Lord, which he spoke by Jeremias.
37.3 And
king Sedekias sent Joachal son of Selemias and Sophonias the priest son
of Maasaeas to Jeremias, saying, Pray now for us to the Lord.
37.4 Now
Jeremias came and went through the midst of the city: for they [had]
not put him into the house of the prison.
37.5 And
the host of Pharao was come forth out of Egypt; and the Chaldeans heard
the report of them, and they went up from Jerusalem.
37.6 And
the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying,
37.7 Thus
said the Lord; Thus shalt thou say to the king of Juda who sent to
thee, to seek me; Behold, the army of Pharao which is come forth to
help you: they shall return to the land of Egypt:
37.8 and
the Chaldeans themselves shall turn again, and fight against this city,
and take it, and burn it with fire.
37.9 For
thus saith he Lord; Suppose not in your hearts, saying, The Chaldeans
will certainly depart from us: for they shall not depart.
37.10 And
though ye should smite the whole host of the Chaldeans that fight
against you, and there should be left a few wounded [men], these should
rise up each in his place, and burn this city with fire.
37.11 And
it came to pass, when the host of the Chaldeans had gone up from
Jerusalem for fear of the host of Pharao,
37.12 that
Jeremias went forth from Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to
buy thence [a property] in the midst of the people.
37.13 And
he was in the gate of Benjamin, and [there was] there a man with whom
he lodged, Saruia the son of Selemias, the son of Ananias; and he
caught Jeremias, saying, Thou art fleeing to the Chaldeans.
37.14 And
he said, [It is] false; I do not flee to the Chaldeans. But he
hearkened not to him; and Saruia caught Jeremias, and brought him to
the princes.
37.15 And
the princes were very angry with Jeremias, and smote him, and sent him
into the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made this a prison.
37.16 So
Jeremias came into the dungeon, and into the cells, and he remained
there many days.
37.17 Then
Sedekias sent, and called him; and the king asked him secretly, saying,
Is there a word from the Lord? and he said, There is: thou shalt be
delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.
37.18 And
Jeremias said to the king, Wherein have I wronged thee, or thy
servants, or this people, that thou puttest me in prison?
37.19 And
where are your prophets who prophesied to you saying, The king of
Babylon shall not come against this land?
37.20 Now
therefore, my lord the king, let my supplication come before thy face:
and why dost thou send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe? and
let me not on any account die there.
37.21 Then
the king commanded, and they cast him into the prison, and gave him a
loaf a day out of the place where they bake, until the bread failed out
of the city. So Jeremias continued in the court of the prison.
▲38.1 And Saphanias the son of
Nathan, and Godolias the son of Paschor, and Joachal the son of
Semelias, heard the words which Jeremias spoke to the people, saying,
38.2 Thus
saith the Lord; He that remains in this city shall die by the sword,
and by the famine: but he that goes out to the Chaldeans shall live;
and his soul shall be given him for a found treasure, and he shall live.
38.3 For
thus saith the Lord; This city shall certainly be delivered into the
hands of the host of the king of Babylon, and they shall take it.
38.4 And
they said to the king. Let that man, wee pray thee, be slain, for he
weakens the hands of the fighting men that are left in the city, and
the hands of all the people, speaking to them according to these words:
for this man does not prophesy peace to this people, but evil.
38.5 Then
the king said, Behold, he is in your hands. For the king could not
resist them.
38.6 And
they cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the kings son, which was in
the court of the prison; and they let him down into the pit: and there
was no water in the pit, but mire: and he was in the mire.
38.7 And
Abdemelech the Ethiopian heard, (now he was in the king's household,)
that they [had] put Jeremias into the dungeon; and the king was in the
gate of Benjamin:
38.8 and he
went forth to him, and spoke to the king and said,
38.9 Thou
hast done evil in what thou hast done to slay this man with hunger: for
there is no more bread in the city.
38.10 And
the king commanded Abdemelech, saying, Take with thee hence thirty men,
and bring him up out of the dungeon, that he die not.
38.11 So
Abdemelech took the men and went into the underground [part of the]
king's house, and took thence old rags and old ropes, and threw them to
Jeremias into the dungeon.
38.12 And
he said, Put these under the ropes. And Jeremias did so.
38.13 And
they drew him with the ropes, and lifted him out of the dungeon: and
Jeremias remained in the court of the prison.
38.14 Then
the king sent, and called him to himself into the house of Aselisel,
which was in the house of the Lord: and the King said to him, I will
ask thee a question, and I pray thee hide nothing from me.
38.15 And
Jeremias said to the king, If I tell thee, wilt thou not certainly put
me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not at all hearken
to me.
38.16 And
the king swore to him, saying, [As] the Lord lives who gave us this
soul, I will not slay thee, neither will I give thee into the hands of
these men.
38.17 And
Jeremias said to him, Thus saith the Lord; If thou wilt indeed go forth
to the captains of the king of Babylon, thy soul shall live, and this
city shall certainly not be burnt with fire; and thou shalt live, and
thy house.
38.18 But
if thou wilt not go forth this city shall be delivered into the hands
of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt by
no means escape.
38.19 And
the king said to Jeremias, I consider the Jews that have gone over to
the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hands, and they mock me.
38.20 And
Jeremias said, They shall in no wise deliver thee up. Hear the word of
the Lord which I speak to thee; and it shall be better for thee, and
thy soul shall live.
38.21 But
if thou wilt not go forth, this is the word which the Lord has shewn me.
38.22 And,
behold, all the women that are left in the house of the king of Juda
were brought forth to the princes of the king of Babylon; and they
said, The men who were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and will
prevail against thee; and they shall cause thy foot to slide and fail,
they have turned back from thee.
38.23 And
they shall bring forth thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and
thou shalt by no means escape, for thou shalt be taken by the hand of
the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burnt.
38.24 Then
the king said to him, Let no man know [any] of these words, and
certainly thou shalt not die.
38.25 And
if the princes shall hear that I have spoken to thee, and they come to
thee, and say to thee, Tell us, what said the king to thee? hide [it]
not from us, and we will in no wise slay thee, and what said the king
to thee?
38.26 Then
thou shalt say to them, I brought my supplication before the presence
of the king, that he would not send me back into the house of Jonathan,
that I should die there.
38.27 And
all the princes came to Jeremias, and asked him: and he told them
according to all these words, which the king had commanded him. And
they were silent, because the word of the Lord was not heard.
38.28 And
Jeremias remained in the court of the prison, until the time when
Jerusalem was taken.
▲39.1 And it came to pass in the
ninth month of Sedekias king of Juda, [that] Nabuchodonosor king of
Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
39.2 And in
the eleventh year of Sedekias, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of
the month, the city was broken [up].
39.3 And
all the leaders of the king of Babylon went in, and sat in the middle
gate, Marganasar, and Samagoth, and Nabusachar, and Nabusaris,
Nagargas, Naserrabamath, and the rest of the leaders of the king of
Babylon,
39.4 [vide]
39.5 [vide]
39.6 [vide]
39.7 [vide]
39.8 [vide]
39.9 [vide]
39.10 [vide]
39.11 [vide]
39.12 [vide]
39.13 [vide]
39.14 and
they sent, and took Jeremias out of the court of the prison, and gave
him [in charge] to Godolias the son of Achicam, the son of Saphan: and
they brought him out, and he sat in the midst of the people.
39.15 And
the word of the Lord came to Jeremias in the court of the prison,
saying,
39.16 Go
and say to Abdemelech the Ethiopian, Thus said the Lord God of Israel;
Behold, I [will] bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for
good.
39.17 But I
will save thee in that day, and I will by no means deliver thee into
the hands of the men before whom thou art afraid.
39.18 For I
will surely save thee, and thou shalt by no means fall by the sword;
and thou shalt find thy life, because thou didst trust in me, saith the
Lord.
▲40.1 The word that came from the
Lord to Jeremias, after that Nabuzardan the captain of the guard had
let him go out of Rama, when he had taken him in manacles in the midst
of the captivity of Juda, [even] those who were carried to Babylon.
40.2 And
the chief captain of the guard took him, and said to him, The Lord thy
God has pronounced all these evils upon this place:
40.3 and
the Lord has done it; because ye sinned against him, and hearkened not
to his voice.
40.4
Behold, I have loosed thee from the manacles that were upon thine
hands. If it seem good to thee to go with me to Babylon, then will I
set mine eyes upon thee.
40.5 But if
not, depart; return to Godolias the son of Achicam, the son of Saphan,
whom the king of Babylon has appointed governor in the land of Juda,
and dwell with him in the midst of the people in the land of Juda: to
whatsoever places it seems good in thine eyes to go, do thou even go.
And the captain of the guard made him presents, and let him go.
40.6 And he
came to Godolias to Massepha, and dwelt in the midst of his people that
was left in the land.
40.7 And al
the leaders of the host that was in the country, they and their men,
heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Godolias [governor] in the
land, and they committed to him the men and their wives, whom
[Nabuchodonosor had] not removed to Babylon.
40.8 And
there came to Godolias to Massepha Ismael the son of Nathanias, and
Joanan son of Caree, and Saraeas the son of Thanaemeth, and the sons of
Jophe the Netophathite, and Ezonias son of the Mochathite, they and
their men.
40.9 And
Godolias swore to them and to their men, saying, Be not afraid before
the children of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of
Babylon, and it shall be better for you.
40.10 And,
behold, I dwell in your presence at Massepha, to stand before the
Chaldeans who shall come against you: and do ye gather grapes, and
fruits, and oil, and put [them] into your vessels, and dwell in the
cities which ye have obtained possession of.
40.11 And
all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and
those [that were] in Idumea, and those [that were] in all [the rest of]
the country, heard that the king of Babylon [had] granted a remnant to
Juda, and that he had appointed over them Godolias the son of Achicam.
40.12 And
they came to Godolias into the land of Juda, to Massepha, and gathered
grapes, and very much summer fruit, and oil.
40.13 And
Joanan the son of Caree, and all the leaders of the host, who were in
the fields, came to Godolias to Massepha,
40.14 and
said to him, Dost thou indeed know that king Beleissa son of Ammon has
sent Ismael to thee to slay thee? But Godolias believed them not.
40.15 And
Joanan said to Godolias secretly in Massepha, I will go now and smite
Ismael, and let no man know [it]; lest he slay thee, and all the Jews
that are gathered to thee be dispersed, and the remnant of Juda perish.
40.16 But
Godolias said to Joanan, Do not the thing, for thou speakest lies
concerning Ismael.
▲41.1 Now it came to pass in the
seventh month that Ismael the son of Nathanias the son of Eleasa of the
sed royal, came, and ten men with him, to Godolias to Massepha: and
they ate bread there together.
41.2 And
Ismael rose up, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Godolias,
whom the king of Babylon had appointed [governor] over the land,
41.3 and
all the Jews that were with him in Massepha, and all the Chaldeans that
were found there.
41.4 And it
came to pass on the second day after he had smitten Godolias, and no
man knew [of it],
41.5 that
there came men from Sychem, and from Salem, and from Samaria, [even]
eighty men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and
beating their breasts, and [they had] manna and frankincense in their
hands, to bring [them] into the house of the Lord.
41.6 And
Ismael went out to meet them; [and] they went on and wept: and he said
to them, Come in to Godolias.
41.7 And it
came to pass, when they had entered into the midst of the city, [that]
he slew them [and cast them] into a pit.
41.8 But
ten men were found there, and they said to Ismael, Slay us not: for we
have treasures in the field, wheat and barley, honey and oil. So he
passed by, and slew them not in the midst of their brethren.
41.9 Now
the pit into which Ismael cast all whom he smote, is the great pit,
which king Asa had made for fear of Baasa king of Israel: [even] this
Ismael filled with slain men.
41.10 And
Ismael brought back all the people that were left in Massepha, and the
king's daughter, whom the captain of the guard had committed in charge
to Godolias the son of Achicam: and he went away beyond the children of
Ammon.
41.11 And
Joanan the son of Caree, and all the leaders of the host that were with
him, heard of all the evil deeds which Ismael had done.
41.12 And
they brought all their army, and went to fight against him, and found
him near much water in Gabaon.
41.13 And
it came to pass, when all the people that was with Ismael saw Joanan,
and the leaders of the host that was with him,
41.14 that
they returned to Joanan.
41.15 But
Ismael escaped with eight men and went to the children of Ammon.
41.16 And
Joanan, and all the leaders of the host that were with him, took all
the remnant of the people, whom he [had] brought back from Ismael,
mighty men in war, and the women, and the other [property], and the
eunuchs, whom they [had] brought back from Gabaon:
41.17 and
they departed, and dwelt in Gaberoch-amaa, that is by Bethleem, to go
into Egypt, for fear of the Chaldeans:
41.18 for
they were afraid of them, because Ismael had smitten Godolias, whom the
king of Babylon made [governor] in the land.
▲42.1 Then came all the leaders
of the host, and Joanan, and Azarias the son of Maasaeas, and all the
people great and small,
42.2 to
Jeremias the prophet, and said to him, Let now our supplication come
before thy face, and pray thou to the Lord thy God for this remnant;
for we are left few out of many, as thine eyes see.
42.3 And
let the Lord thy God declare to us the way wherein we should walk, and
the thing which we should do.
42.4 And
Jeremias said to them, I have heard [you]; behold, I will pray for you
to the Lord our God, according to your words; and it shall come to
pass, [that] whatsoever word the Lord God shall answer, I will declare
[it] to you; I will not hide anything from you.
42.5 And
they said to Jeremias, Let the Lord be between us for a just and
faithful witness, if we do not according to every word which the Lord
shall send to us.
42.6 And
whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil, we will hearken to the
voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well
with us, because we shall hearken to the voice of the Lord our God.
42.7 And it
came to pass after ten days, [that] the word of the Lord came to
Jeremias.
42.8 And he
called Joanan, and the Leaders of the host, and all the people from the
least even to the greatest,
42.9 and he
said to them, Thus saith the Lord;
42.10 If ye
will indeed dwell in this land, I will build you, and will not pull
[you] down, but will plant you, and in no wise pluck you up: for I have
ceased from the calamities which I brought upon you.
42.11 Be
not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid
of him, saith the Lord: for I am with you, to deliver you, and save you
out of their hand.
42.12 And I
will grant you mercy, and pity you, and will restore you to your land.
42.13 But
if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, that we may not hearken to
the voice of the Lord;
42.14 for
wee will go into the land of Egypt, and we shall see no war, and shall
not hear the sound of a trumpet, and we shall not hunger for bread; and
there we will dwell:
42.15 then
hear the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord;
42.16 If ye
set your face toward Egypt, and go in there to dwell; then it shall be,
[that] the sword which ye fear shall find you in the land of Egypt, and
the famine to which ye have regard, shall overtake you, [coming] after
you in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
42.17 And
all the men, and all the strangers who have set their face toward the
land of Egypt to dwell there, shall be consumed by the sword, and by
the famine: and there shall not one of them escape from the evils which
I bring upon them.
42.18 For
thus saith the Lord; As my wrath has dropped upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, so shall my wrath drop upon you, when ye have entered into
Egypt: and ye shall be a desolation, and under the power of others, and
a curse and a reproach: and ye shall no more see this place.
42.19
[These are the words] which the Lord has spoken concerning you the
remnant of Juda; Enter ye not into Egypt: and now know ye for a
certainty,
42.20 that
ye have wrought wickedness in your hearts, when ye sent me, saying,
Pray thou for us to the Lord; and according to all that the Lord shall
speak to thee we will do.
42.21 And
ye have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, with which he sent me
to you.
42.22 Now
therefore ye shall perish by sword and by famine, in the place which ye
desire to go into to dwell there.
▲43.1 And it came to pass, when
Jeremias ceased speaking to the people all the words of the Lord, [for]
wich the Lord had sent him to them, [even] all these words,
43.2 that
Azarias son of Maasaeas spoke, and Joanan, the son of Caree, and all
the men who had spoken to Jeremias, saying, [It is] false: the Lord has
not sent thee to us, saying, Enter not into Egypt to dwell there:
43.3 but
Baruch the son of Nerias sets thee against us, that thou mayest deliver
us into the hands of the Chaldeans, to kill us, and that we should be
carried away captives to Babylon.
43.4 So
Joanan, and all the leaders of the host, and all the people, refused to
hearken to the voice of the Lord, to dwell in the land of Juda.
43.5 And
Joanan, and all the leaders of the host, took all the remnant of Juda,
who had returned to dwell in the land;
43.6 the
mighty men, and the women, and the children that were left, and the
daughters of the king, and the souls which Nabuzardan and left with
Godolias the son of Achicam and Jeremias the prophet, and Baruch the
son of Nerias.
43.7 And
they came into Egypt: for they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord:
and they entered into Taphnas.
43.8 And
the word of the Lord came to Jeremias in Taphnas, saying,
43.9 Take
thee great stones, and hide them in the entrance, at the gate of the
house of Pharao in Taphnas, in the sight of the men of Juda:
43.10 and
thou shalt say, Thus has the Lord said; Behold, I [will] send, and will
bring Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and he shall place his throne
upon these stones which thou hast hidden, and he shall lift up weapons
against them.
43.11 And
he shall enter in, and smite the land of Egypt, [delivering] some for
death to death; and some for captivity to captivity; and some for the
sword to the sword.
43.12 And
he shall kindle a fire in the houses of their gods, and shall burn
them, and shall carry them away captives: and shall search the land of
Egypt, as a shepherd searches his garment; and he shall go forth in
peace.
43.13 And
he shall break to pieces the pillars of Heliopolis that are in On, and
shall burn their houses with fire.
▲44.1 THE WORD THAT CAME TO
JEREMIAS for all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt, and for those
settled in Magdolo and in Taphnas, and in the land of Pathura, saying,
44.2 Thus
has the Lord God of Israel said; Ye have seen all the evils which I
have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon the cities of Juda; and, behold,
they are desolate without inhabitants,
44.3
because of their wickedness, which they have wrought to provoke me,
[by] going to burn incense to other gods, whom ye knew not.
44.4 yet I
sent to you my servants the prophets early in the morning, and I sent,
saying, Do not ye this abominable thing which I hate.
44.5 But
they hearkened not to me, and inclined not their ear to turn from their
wickedness, so as not to burn incense to strange gods.
44.6 So
mine anger and my wrath dropped [upon them], and was kindled in the
gates of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became a
desolation and a waste, as at this day.
44.7 And
now thus has the Lord Almighty said, Wherefore do ye commit [these]
great evils against your souls? to cut off man and woman of you, infant
and suckling from the midst of Juda, to the end that not one of you
should be left;
44.8 by
provoking me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other
gods in the land of Egypt, into which ye entered to dwell there, that
ye might be cut off, and that ye might become a curse and a reproach
among all the nations of the earth?
44.9 Have
ye forgotten the sins of your fathers, and the sins of the kings of
Juda, and the sins of your princes, and the sins of your wives, which
they wrought in the land of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
44.10 And
have not ceased even to this day, and they have not kept to my
ordinances, which I set before their fathers.
44.11
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold I do set my face against [you]
44.12 to
destroy all the remnant that are in Egypt; and they shall fall by the
sword, and by famine, and shall be consumed small and great: and they
shall be for reproach, and for destruction, and for a curse.
44.13 And I
will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have visited
Jerusalem, with sword and with famine:
44.14 and
there shall not one be preserved of the remnant of Juda that sojourn in
the land of Egypt, to return to the land of Juda, to which they hope in
their hearts to return: they shall not return, but only they that
escape.
44.15 Then
all the men that knew that their wives burned incense, and all the
women, a great multitude, and all the people that dwelt in the land of
Egypt, in Pathura, answered Jeremias, saying,
44.16 [As
for] the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we
will not hearken to thee.
44.17 For
we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth,
to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink-offerings to
her, as wee and our fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in
the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and [so] we were
filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.
44.18 But
since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, we have all
been brought low, and have been consumed by sword and by famine.
44.19 And
whereas we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured
drink-offerings to her, did we make cakes to her, and pour
drink-offerings to her, without our husbands?
44.20 Then
Jeremias answered all the people, the mighty men, and the women, and
all the people that returned him [these] words for answer, saying,
44.21 Did
not the Lord remember the incense which ye burned in the cities of
Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, and your
kings, and your princes, and the people of the land? and came it not
into his heart?
44.22 And
the Lord could no longer bear [you], because of the wickedness of your
doings, and because of your abominations which ye wrought; and so your
land became a desolation and a waste, and a curse, as at this day;
44.23
because of your burning incense, and [because] of the things wherein ye
sinned against the Lord: and ye have not hearkened to the voice of the
Lord, and have not walked in his ordinances, and in his law, and in his
testimonies; and so these evils have come upon you.
44.24 And
Jeremias said to the people, and to the women, Hear ye the word of the
Lord.
44.25 Thus
has the Lord God of Israel said; Ye women have spoken with your mouth,
and ye fulfilled [it] with your hands, saying, We will surely perform
our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven,
and to pour drink-offerings to her: full well did ye keep to your vows,
and ye have indeed performed [them].
44.26
Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Jews dwelling in the land
of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the Lord, my
name shall no longer be in the mouth of every Jew to say, The Lord
lives, in all the land of Egypt.
44.27 For I
have watched over them, to hurt them, and not to do them good: and all
the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt shall perish by sword and by
famine, until they are utterly consumed.
44.28 And
they that escape the sword shall return to the land of Juda few in
number, and the remnant of Juda, who have continued in the land [of]
Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word shall stand.
44.29 And
this [shall be] a sign to you, that I will visit you for evil.
44.30 Thus
said the Lord; Behold, I [will] give Uaphres king of Egypt into the
hands of his enemy, and into the hands of one that seeks his life; as I
gave Sedekias king of Juda into the hands of Nabuchodonosor king of
Babylon, his enemy, and who sought his life.
▲45.1 THE WORD WHICH JEREMIAS THE
PROPHET spoke to Baruch son of Nerias, when he wrote these words in the
book from the mouth of Jeremias, in the fourth year of Joakim the son
of Josias king of Juda.
45.2 Thus
has the Lord said to thee, O Baruch.
45.3
Whereas thou hast said, Alas! alas! for the Lord has laid a grievous
trouble upon me; I lay down in groaning, I found no rest;
45.4 say
thou to him, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I pull down those whom I have
built up, and I pluck up those whom I have planted.
45.5 And
wilt thou seek great things for thyself? seek [them] not: for, behold,
I bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but I will give [to thee]
thy life for a spoil in every place whither thou shalt go.
▲46.1 In the beginning of the
reign of king Sedekias, there came this word concerning Aelam.
46.2 FOR
EGYPT, AGAINST THE POWER OF PHARAO NECHAO KING OF EGYPT, who was by the
river Euphrates in Charmis, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon smote
in the fourth year of Joakim king of Juda.
46.3 Take
up arms and spears, and draw nigh to battle;
46.4 and
harness the horses: mount, ye horsemen, and stand ready in your
helmets; advance the spears, and put on your breast-plates.
46.5 Why do
they fear, and turn back? even because their mighty men shall be slain:
they have utterly fled, and being hemmed in they have not rallied,
saith the Lord.
46.6 Let
not the swift flee, and let not the mighty man escape to the north: the
[forces] at Euphrates are become feeble, and they have fallen.
46.7 Who is
this [that] shall come up as a river, and as rivers roll [their] waves?
46.8 The
waters of Egypt shall come up like a river: and he said, I will go up,
and will cover the earth, and will destroy the dwellers in it.
46.9 Mount
ye the horses, prepare the chariots; go forth, ye warriors of the
Ethiopians, and Libyans armed with shields; and mount, ye Lydians, bend
the bow.
46.10 And
that day [shall be] to the Lord our God a day of vengeance, to take
vengeance on his enemies: and the sword of the Lord shall devour, and
be glutted, and be drunken with their blood: for the Lord [has] a
sacrifice from the land of the north at the river Euphrates.
46.11 Go up
to Galaad, and take balm for the virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain hast
thou multiplied thy medicines; there is no help in thee.
46.12 The
nations have heard thy voice, and the land has been filled with thy
cry: for the warriors have fainted fighting one against another, [and]
both are fallen together.
46.13 THE
WORDS WHICH THE LORD SPOKE by Jeremias, concerning the coming of the
king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt.
46.14
Proclaim [it] at Magdol, and declare [it] at Memphis: say ye, Stand up,
and prepare; for the sword has devoured thy yew-tree.
46.15
Wherefore has Apis fled from thee? thy choice calf has not remained;
for the Lord has utterly weakened him.
46.16 And
thy multitude has fainted and fallen; and each one said to his
neighbour, Let us arise, and return into our country to our people,
from the Grecian sword.
46.17 Call
ye the name of Pharao Nechao king of Egypt, Saon esbeie moed.
46.18 [As]
I live, saith the Lord God, he shall come as Itabyrion among the
mountains, and as Carmel that is on the sea.
46.19 O
daughter of Egypt dwelling [at home], prepare thee stuff for removing:
for Memphis shall be utterly desolate, and shall be called Woe, because
there are no inhabitants in it.
46.20 Egypt
is a fair heifer, [but] destruction from the north is come upon her.
46.21 Also
her hired [soldiers] in the midst of her are as fatted calves fed in
her; for they also have turned, and fled with one accord: they stood
not, for the day of destruction was come upon them, and the time of
their retribution.
46.22 Their
voice is as [that] of a hissing serpent, for they go upon the sand;
they shall come upon Egypt with axes, as men that cut wood.
46.23 They
shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, for [their number] cannot at
all be conjectured, for it exceeds the locust in multitude, and they
are innumerable.
46.24 The
daughter of Egypt is confounded; she is delivered into the hands of a
people from the north.
46.25
Behold, I [will] avenge Ammon her son upon Pharao, and upon them that
trust in him.
46.26 [vide]
46.27 But
fear not thou, my servant Jacob, neither be thou alarmed, Israel: for,
behold, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from their captivity;
and Jacob shall return, and be at ease, and sleep, and there shall be
no one to trouble him.
46.28 Fear
not thou, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; for I am with thee: she
[that was] without fear and in luxury, has been delivered up: for I
will make a full end of every nation among whom I have thrust thee
forth; but I will not cause thee to fail: yet will I chastise thee in
the way of judgment, and will not hold thee entirely guiltless.
▲47.1 THUS SAITH THE LORD AGAINST
THE PHILISTINES;
47.2
Behold, waters come up from the north, and shall become a sweeping
torrent, and it shall sweep away the land, and its fulness; the city,
and them that dwell in it: and men shall cry and all that dwell in the
land shall howl,
47.3 at the
sound of his rushing, at [the sound of] his hoofs, and at the rattling
of his chariots, at the noise of his wheels: the fathers turned not to
their children because of the weakness of their hands,
47.4 in the
day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines: and I will utterly
destroy Tyre and Sidon and all the rest of their allies: for the Lord
will destroy the remaining [inhabitants] of the islands.
47.5
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ascalon is cast away, and the remnant of
the Enakim.
47.6 How
long wilt thou smite, O sword of the Lord? how long will it be ere thou
art quiet? return into thy sheath, rest, and be removed.
47.7 How
shall it be quiet, whereas the Lord has given it a commission against
Ascalon, and against the regions on the sea-coast, to awake against the
remaining [countries]!
▲48.1 Thus has the Lord said
concerning MOAB, Woe to Nabau! for it has perished: Cariathaim is
taken: Amath and Agath are put to shame.
48.2 There
is no longer any healing for Moab, [nor] glorying in Esebon: he has
devised evils against her: we have cut her off from [being] a nation,
and she shall be completely still: after thee shall go a sword;
48.3 for
[there is] a voice of [men] crying out of Oronaim, destruction and
great ruin.
48.4 Moab
is ruined, proclaim [it] to Zogora:
48.5 for
Aloth is filled with weeping: one shall go up weeping by the way of
Oronaim; ye have heard a cry of destruction.
48.6 Flee
ye, and save your lives, and ye shall be as a wild ass in the desert.
48.7 Since
thou hast trusted in thy strong-hold, therefore thou shalt be taken:
and Chamos shall go forth into captivity, and his priests, and his
princes together.
48.8 And
destruction shall come upon every city, it shall by no means escape;
the valley also shall perish, and the plain country shall be completely
destroyed, as the Lord has said.
48.9 Set
marks upon Moab, for she shall be touched with a plague-spot, and all
her cities shall become desolate; whence [shall there be] an inhabitant
for her?
48.10
Cursed is the man that does the works of the Lord carelessly, keeping
back his sword from blood.
48.11 Moab
has been at ease from a child, and trusted in his glory; he has not
poured out [his liquor] from vessel to vessel, and has not gone into
banishment, therefore his taste remained in him, and his smell departed
not.
48.12
Therefore, behold, his days come, saith the Lord, when I shall send
upon him bad leaders, and they shall lead him astray, and they shall
utterly break in pieces his possessions, and shall cut his horns
asunder.
48.13 And
Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of
Baethel their hope, having trusted in them.
48.14 How
will ye say, We are strong, and men strong for war?
48.15 Moab
is ruined, [even] his city, and his choice young men have gone down to
slaughter.
48.16 The
day of Moab is near at hand, and his iniquity moves swiftly [to
vengeance].
48.17 Shake
[the head] at him, all ye that are round about him; all [of you] utter
his name; say ye, How is the glorious staff broken to pieces, the rod
of magnificence!
48.18 Come
down from [thy] glory, and sit down in a damp place: Daebon shall be
broken, because Moab is destroyed: there has gone up against thee one
to ravage thy strong-hold.
48.19 Stand
by the way, and look, thou that dwellest in Arer; and ask him that is
fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What has happened?
48.20 Moab
is put to shame, because he is broken: howl and cry; proclaim in Arnon,
that Moab has perished.
48.21 And
judgment is coming against the land of Misor, upon Chelon, and Rephas,
and Mophas,
48.22 and
upon Daebon, and upon Nabau, and upon the house of Daethlathaim,
48.23 and
upon Cariathaim, and upon the house of Gaemol, and upon the house of
Maon,
48.24 and
upon Carioth, and upon Bosor, and upon all the cities of Moab, far and
near.
48.25 The
horn of Moab is broken, and his arm is crushed.
48.26 Make
ye him drunk; for he has magnified himself against the Lord: and Moab
shall clap with his hand, and shall be also himself a laughing-stock.
48.27 For
surely Israel was to thee a laughing-stock, and was found among thy
thefts, because thou didst fight against him.
48.28 The
inhabitants of Moab have left the cities, and dwelt in rocks; they have
become as doves nestling in rocks, at the mouth of a cave.
48.29 And I
have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly heightened his pride
and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted up.
48.30 But I
know his works: is it not enough for him? has he not done thus?
48.31
Therefore howl ye for Moab on all sides; cry out against the shorn men
[in] a gloomy place. I will weep for thee,
48.32 O
vine of Aserema, as with the weeping of Jazer: thy branches are gone
over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer: destruction has come
upon thy fruits, [and] upon thy grape-gatherers.
48.33 Joy
and gladness have been utterly swept off the land of Moab: and [though]
there was wine in thy presses, in the morning they trod it not, neither
in the evening did they raise the cry of joy.
48.34 From
the cry of Esebon even to Aetam their cities uttered their voice, from
Zogor to Oronaim, and their tidings [as] a heifer of three years old,
for the water also of Nebrin shall be dried up.
48.35 And I
will destroy Moab, saith the Lord, as he comes up to the altar, and
burns incense to his gods.
48.36
Therefore the heart of Moab shall sound as pipes, my heart shall sound
as a pipe for the shorn men; forasmuch as what [every] man has gained
has perished from him.
48.37 They
shall all ave their heads shaved in every place, and every beard shall
be shaved; and all hands shall beat [the breasts], and on all loins
shall be sackcloth.
48.38 And
on all the housetops of Moab, and in his streets [shall be mourning]:
for I have broken [him], saith the Lord, as a vessel, which is useless.
48.39 How
has he changed! how has Moab turned [his] back! Moab is put to shame,
and become a laughing-stock, and an object of anger to all that are
round about him.
48.40 For
thus said the Lord;
48.41
Carioth is taken, and the strong-holds have been taken together.
48.42 And
Moab shall perish from being a multitude, because he has magnified
himself against the Lord.
48.43 A
snare, and fear, and the pit, are upon thee, O inhabitant off Moab.
48.44 he
that flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he that comes
up out of the pit shall even be taken in the snare: for I will bring
these things upon Moab in the year of their visitation.
48.45 [vide]
48.46 [vide]
48.47 [vide]
▲49.1 CONCERNING THE SONS OF
AMMON thus saith the Lord, Are there no sons in Israel? or have they no
one to succeed [them]? wherefore has Melchol inherited Galaad, and why
shall their people dwell in their cities?
49.2
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will cause to
be heard in Rabbath a tumult of wars; and they shall become a waste and
ruined place, and her altars shall be burned with fire; then shall
Israel succeed to his dominion.
49.3 Howl,
O Esebon, for Gai has perished; cry, ye daughters of Rabbath, gird
yourselves with sack-clothes, and lament; for Melchol shall go into
banishment, his priests and his princes together.
49.4 Why do
ye exult in the plains of the Enakim, thou haughty daughter, that
trustest in [thy] treasures, that sayest, Who shall come in to me?
49.5
Behold, I [will] bring terror upon thee, saith the Lord, from all the
country round about thee; and ye shall be scattered every one right
before him, and there is none to gather you.
49.6 [vide]
49.7
CONCERNING IDUMEA, thus saith the Lord; There is no longer wisdom in
Thaeman, counsel has perished from the wise ones, their wisdom is gone,
49.8 their
place has been deceived. Dig deep for a dwelling, ye that inhabit
Daedam, for he has wrought grievously: I brought trouble upon him in
the time at which I visited him.
49.9 For
grape-gatherers are come, who shall not leave thee a remnant; as
thieves by night, they shall lay their hand upon [thy possessions].
49.10 For I
have stripped Esau, I have uncovered their secret places; they shall
have no power to hide themselves, they have perished [each] by the hand
of his brother, my neighbour, and it is impossible
49.11 for
thy fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows
trust in me.
49.12 For
thus saith the Lord; They who were not appointed to drink the cup have
drunk [it]; and thou shalt by no means be cleared:
49.13 for
by myself I have sworn, saith the Lord, that thou shalt be in the midst
of her an impassable [land], and a reproach, and a curse; and all her
cities shall be desert for ever.
49.14 I
have heard a report from the lord, and he has sent messengers to the
nations, [saying,] Assemble yourselves, and come against her; rise ye
up to war.
49.15 I
have made thee small among the nations, utterly contemptible among men.
49.16 Thine
insolence has risen up against thee, the fierceness of thine heart has
burst the holes of the rocks, it has seized upon the strength of a
lofty hill; for as an eagle he set his nest on high: thence will I
bring thee down.
49.17 And
Idumea shall be a desert: every one that passes by shall hiss at it.
49.18 As
Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha and they that sojourned in her, saith
the Lord Almighty, no man shall dwell there, nor shall any son of man
inhabit there.
49.19
Behold, he shall come up as a lion out of the midst of Jordan to the
place of Aetham: for I will speedily drive them from it, and do ye set
the young men against her: for who is like me? and who will withstand
me? and who [is] this shepherd, who shall confront me?
49.20
Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord which he has framed against
Idumea; and his device, which he has devised against the inhabitants of
Thaeman: surely the least of the sheep shall be swept off; surely their
dwelling shall be made desolate for them.
49.21 For
at the sound of their fall the earth was scared, and the cry of the sea
was not heard.
49.22
Behold, he shall look [upon her] as an eagle, and spread forth [his]
wings over her strongholds; and the heart of the mighty men of Idumea
shall be in that day as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
49.23
CONCERNING DAMASCUS. Emath is brought to shame, and Arphath: for they
have heard an evil report: they are amazed, they are angry, they shall
be utterly unable to rest.
49.24
Damascus is utterly weakened, she is put to flight; trembling has
seized upon her.
49.25 How
has she not left my city, they have loved the village?
49.26
Therefore shall the young men fall in thy streets, and all thy warriors
shall fall, saith the Lord.
49.27 And I
will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the
streets of the son of Ader.
49.28
CONCERNING KEDAR THE QUEEN OF THE PALACE, WHOM NABUCHODONOSOR KING OF
BABYLON SMOTE, thus saith the Lord; Arise ye, and go up to Kedar, and
fill the sons of Kedem.
49.29 They
shall take their tents and their sheep, they shall take for themselves
their garments, and all their baggage and their camels; and summon ye
destruction against them from every side.
49.30 Flee
ye, dig very deep for a dwelling-place, ye that dwell in the palace;
for the king of Babylon has framed a counsel, and devised a device
against you.
49.31 Rise
up, and go up against a nation settled [and] dwelling at ease, who have
no doors, nor bolts, nor bars, [who] dwell alone.
49.32 And
their camels shall be a spoil, and the multitude of their cattle shall
be destroyed: and I will scatter them as chaff with every wind, having
their hair cut about their foreheads, I will bring on their overthrow
from all sides, saith the Lord.
49.33 And
the palace shall be a resting-place for ostriches, ad desolate for
ever: no man shall abide there, and no son of man shall dwell there.
49.34 THE
PROPHECIES OF JEREMIAS AGAINST THE NATIONS OF AELAM.
49.35 Thus
saith the Lord, The bow of Aelam is broken, [even] the chief of their
power.
49.36 And I
will bring upon Aelam the four winds from the four corners of heaven,
and I will disperse them toward all these winds; and there shall be no
nation [to] which they shall not come-- [even] the outcasts of Aelam.
49.37 And I
will put them in fear before their enemies that seek their life; and I
will bring evils upon them according to my great anger; and I will send
forth my sword after them, until I have utterly destroyed them.
49.38 And I
will set my throne in Aelam, and will send forth thence king and rulers.
49.39 But
it shall come to pass at the end of days, that I will turn the
captivity of Aelam, saith the Lord.
▲50.1 THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH
HE SPOKE AGAINST BABYLON.
50.2
Proclaim ye among the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and
suppress [them] not: say ye, Babylon is taken, Belus is confounded; the
fearless, the luxurious Maerodach is delivered up.
50.3 For a
nation has come up against her from the north, he shall utterly ravage
her land, and there shall be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast.
50.4 In
those days, and at that time, the children of Israel shall come, they
and the children of Juda together; they shall proceed, weeping as they
go, seeking the Lord their God.
50.5 They
shall ask the way till [they come to] Sion, for that way shall they set
their face; and they shall come and flee for refuge to the Lord their
God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.
50.6 My
people have been lost sheep: their shepherds thrust them out, they
caused them to wander on the mountains: they went from mountain to
hill, they forgot their resting-place.
50.7 All
that found them consumed them: their enemies said, Let us not leave
them alone, because they have sinned against the Lord: he that gathered
their fathers [had] a pasture of righteousness.
50.8 Flee
ye out of the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans, and
go forth, and be as serpents before sleep.
50.9 For,
behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the
land of the north; and they shall set themselves in array against her:
thence shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not
return empty.
50.10 And
Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied.
50.11
Because ye rejoiced, and boasted, [while] plundering mine heritage;
because ye exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as
bulls.
50.12 Your
mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is
confounded: [she is] the last of the nations, desolate,
50.13 by
reason of the Lord's anger: it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be
all a desolation; and every one that passes through Babylon shall
scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plague.
50.14 Set
yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the
bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,
50.15 and
prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen,
and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take
vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.
50.16
Utterly destroy seed out of Babylon, [and] him that holds a sickle in
time of harvest: for fear of the Grecian sword, they shall return every
one to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
50.17
Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out: the king of
Assyria firsts devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon [has
gnawed] his bones.
50.18
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I [will] take vengeance on the
king of Babylon, and upon his land, as I took vengeance on the king of
Assyria.
50.19 And I
will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and on
mount Ephraim and in Galaad, and his soul shall be satisfied.
50.20 In
those days, and at that time, they shall seek for the iniquity of
Israel, and there shall be none; and for the sins of Juda, and they
shall not be found: for I will be merciful to them that are left
50.21 on
the land, saith the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them
that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, saith the Lord,
and do according to all that I command thee.
50.22 A
sound of war, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans!
50.23 How
is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon
become a desolation among the nations!
50.24 They
shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know it, Babylon, that thou
wilt even be taken captive: thou art found and taken, because thou
didst resist the Lord.
50.25 The
Lord has opened his treasury, and brought forth the weapons of his
anger: for the Lord God [has] a work in the land of the Chaldeans.
50.26 For
her times are come: open ye her storehouses: search her as a cave, and
utterly destroy her: let there be no remnant of her.
50.27 Dry
ye up all her fruits, and let them go down to the slaughter: woe to
them! for their day is come, and the time of their retribution.
50.28 A
voice of men fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, to declare
to Sion the vengeance [that comes] from the Lord our God.
50.29
Summon many against Babylon, [even] every one that bends the bow: camp
against her round about; let no one of her [people] escape: render to
her according to her works; according to all that she has done, do to
her: for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.
50.30
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors
shall be cast down, saith the Lord.
50.31
Behold, I am against thee the haughty one, saith the Lord: for thy day
is come, and the time of thy retribution.
50.32 And
thy pride shall fail, and fall, and there shall be no one to set it up
again: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all
things round about her.
50.33 Thus
saith the Lord; The children of Israel and the children of Juda have
been oppressed: all they that have taken them captive have oppressed
them together; for they would not let them go.
50.34 But
their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name: he will enter
into judgment with his adversaries, that he may destroy the earth;
50.35 and
he will sharpen a sword against the Chaldeans, and against the
inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles and upon her wise men;
50.36 a
sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened: a sword upon their
horses, and upon their chariots:
50.37 a
sword upon their warriors and upon the mixed people in the midst of
her; and they shall be as women: a sword upon the treasures, and they
shall be scattered upon her water,
50.38 and
they shall be ashamed: for it is a land of graven [images]; and in the
islands, where they boasted.
50.39
Therefore shall idols dwell in the islands, and the young of monsters
shall dwell in it: it shall not be inhabited any more for ever.
50.40 As
God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities bordering upon them,
saith the Lord: no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall
sojourn there.
50.41
Behold, a people comes from the north, and a great nation, and many
kings shall be stirred up from the end of the earth; holding bow and
dagger:
50.42 [the
people] is fierce, and will have no mercy: their voices shall sound as
the sea, they shall ride upon horses, prepared for war, like fire,
against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
50.43 The
king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his hands were enfeebled:
anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in travail.
50.44
Behold, he shall come up as a lion from Jordan to Gaethan; for I will
speedily drive them from her, and I will set all the youths against
her: for who is like me? and who will resist me? and who is this
shepherd who will stand before me?
50.45
Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he has taken against
Babylon; and his devices, which he has devised upon the Chaldeans
inhabiting [it]: surely lambs of their flock shall be destroyed: surely
pasture shall be cut off from them.
50.46 or at
the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth shall quake, and a cry
shall be heard among the nations.
▲51.1 Thus saith the Lord;
Behold, I stir up against Babylon, and against the Chaldeans dwelling
therein, a deadly burning wind.
51.2 And I
will send forth against Babylon spoilers, and they shall spoil her, and
shall ravage her land. Woe to Babylon round about [her] in the day of
her affliction.
51.3 Let
the archer bend his bow, and him that has armour put it on: and spare
ye not her young men, but destroy ye all her host.
51.4 And
slain men shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [men] pierced
through shall fall without it.
51.5 For
Israel and Juda have not been forsaken of their God, of the Lord
Almighty; whereas their land was filled with iniquity against the holy
things of Israel.
51.6 Flee
ye out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every one his soul: and be
not overthrown in her iniquity; for it is the time of her retribution
from the Lord; he is rendering to her a recompence.
51.7
Babylon has been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, causing all the earth
to be drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore they were
shaken.
51.8 And
Babylon is fallen suddenly, and is broken to pieces: lament for her;
take balm for her deadly wound, if by any means she may be healed.
51.9 We
tried to heal Babylon, but she was not healed: let us forsake her, and
depart every one to his own country: for her judgment has reached to
the heaven, it has mounted up to the stars.
51.10 The
Lord has brought forth his judgment: come, and let us declare in Sion
the works of the Lord our God.
51.11
Prepare the arrows; fill the quivers: the Lord has stirred up the
spirit of the king of the Medes: for his wrath is against Babylon, to
destroy it utterly; for it is the Lord's vengeance, it is the vengeance
of his people.
51.12 Lift
up a standard on the walls of Babylon, prepare the quivers, rouse the
guards, prepare the weapons: for the Lord has taken [the work] in hand,
and will execute what he has spoken against the inhabitants of Babylon,
51.13
dwelling on many waters, and amidst the abundance of her treasures;
thine end is come verily into thy bowels.
51.14 For
the Lord has sworn by his arm, [saying,] I will fill thee with men as
with locusts; and they that come down shall cry against thee.
51.15 The
Lord made the earth by his power, preparing the world by his wisdom, by
his understanding he stretched out the heaven.
51.16 At
[his] voice he makes a sound of water in the heaven, and brings up
clouds from the extremity of the earth; he makes lightnings for rain,
and brings light out of his treasures.
51.17 Every
man has completely lost understanding; every goldsmith is confounded
because of his graven [images]: for they have cast false [gods], there
is no breath in them.
51.18 They
are vain works, objects of scorn; in the time of their visitation they
shall perish.
51.19 Not
such is Jacob's portion; for he that formed all things, he is his
inheritance; the Lord is his name.
51.20 Thou
scatterest for me the weapons of war: and I will scatter nations by
thee, and will destroy kings by means of thee.
51.21 And
by thee I will scatter the horse and his rider; and by thee I will
scatter chariots and them that ride in them.
51.22 And
by thee I will scatter youth and maid; and by thee I will scatter man
and woman.
51.23 And
by thee I will scatter the shepherd and his flock; and by thee I will
scatter the husbandman and his husbandry; and by thee I will scatter
leaders and the captains.
51.24 And I
will recompense to Babylon and to all the Chaldeans that dwell [there]
all their mischiefs that they have done to Sion before your eyes, saith
the Lord.
51.25
Behold, I am against thee, the ruined mountain, that destroys the whole
earth; and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will roll thee
down upon the rocks, and will make thee as a burnt mountain.
51.26 And
they shall not take from thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for a
foundation: for thou shalt be a desolation for ever, saith the Lord.
51.27 Lit
up a standard in the land, sound the trumpet among the nations,
consecrate the nations against her, raise up kings against her by me,
and [that] for the people of Achanaz; set against her engines of war;
bring up against her horses as a multitude of locusts.
51.28 Bring
up nations against her, [even] the king of the Medes and of the whole
earth, his rulers, and all his captains.
51.29 The
earth has quaked and been troubled, because the purpose of the Lord has
risen up against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, and
uninhabitable.
51.30 The
warrior of Babylon has failed to fight; they shall sit there in the
siege; their power is broken; they are become like women; her
tabernacles have been set on fire; her bars are broken.
51.31 One
shall rush, running to meet [another] runner, and one [shall go] with
tidings to meet [another] with tidings, to bring tidings to the king of
Babylon, that his city is taken.
51.32 At
the end of his passages they were taken, and his cisterns they have
burnt with fire, and his warriors are going forth.
51.33 For
thus saith the Lord, The houses of the king of Babylon shall be
threshed as a floor in the season; yet a little while, and her harvest
shall come.
51.34 He
has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon
me; Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has
he filled his belly with my delicacies.
51.35 My
troubles and my distresses have driven me out into Babylon, shall she
that dwells in Sion say; and my blood [shall be] upon the Chaldeans
dwelling [there], shall Jerusalem say.
51.36
Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will judge thine adversary,
and I will execute vengeance for thee; and I will waste her sea, and
dry up her fountain.
51.37 And
Babylon shall be a desolation, and shall not be inhabited.
51.38 For
they rose up together as lions, and as lions' whelps.
51.39 In
their heat I will give them a draught, and make them drunk, that they
may be stupefied, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and not awake, saith
the Lord.
51.40 And
bring thou them down as lambs to the slaughter, and rams with kids.
51.41 How
has the boast of all the earth been taken and caught in a snare! how
has Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
51.42 The
sea has come up upon Babylon with the sound of its waves, and she is
covered.
51.43 Her
cities are become like a dry and trackless land; not so much as one
[man] shall dwell in it, neither shall a son of man lodge in it.
51.44 And I
will take vengeance on Babylon, and bring forth out of her mouth what
she has swallowed down, and the nations shall no more be gathered to
her:
51.45 [vide]
51.46 [vide]
51.47 [vide]
51.48 [vide]
51.49 and
in Babylon the slain men of all the earth shall fall.
51.50 Go
forth of the land, ye that escape, and stay not; ye that are afar off,
remember the Lord, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51.51 We
are ashamed, because we have heard our reproach; disgrace has covered
our face; aliens are come into our sanctuary, [even] into the house of
the Lord.
51.52
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will take
vengeance upon her graven [images]: and slain men shall fall in all her
land.
51.53 For
though Babylon should go up as the heaven, and though she should
strengthen her walls with her power, from me shall come they that shall
destroy her, saith the Lord.
51.54 A
sound of a cry in Babylon, and great destruction in the land of the
Chaldeans:
51.55 for
the Lord has utterly destroyed Babylon, and cut off from her the great
voice sounding as many waters: he has consigned her voice to
destruction.
51.56 For
distress has come upon Babylon, her warriors are taken, their bows are
useless: for God recompenses them.
51.57 The
Lord recompenses, and will make her leaders and her wise men and her
captains completely drunk, saith the King, the Lord Almighty is his
name.
51.58 Thus
saith the Lord, The wall of Babylon was made broad, but it shall be
completely broken down, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire;
and the peoples shall not labour in vain, nor the nations fail in
[their] rule.
51.59 THE
WORD WHICH THE LORD COMMANDED THE PROPHET JEREMIAS to say to Saraeas
son of Nerias, son of Maasaeas, when he went from Sedekias king of Juda
to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. And Saraeas was over the
bounties.
51.60 And
Jeremias wrote in a book all the evils which should come upon Babylon,
[even] all these words that are written against Babylon.
51.61 And
Jeremias said to Saraeas, When thou art come to Babylon, and shalt see
and read all these words;
51.62 then
thou shalt say, O Lord God, thou hast spoken against this place, to
destroy it, and that there should be none to dwell in it, neither man
nor beast; for it shall be a desolation for ever.
51.63 And
it shall come to pass, when thou shalt cease from reading this book,
that thou shalt bind a stone upon it, and cast it into the midst of
Euphrates;
51.64 and
shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and not rise, because of the evils
which I bring upon it.
▲52.1 It was the twenty-first ear
of Sedekias, when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Amitaal, the daughter of Jeremias,
of Lobena.
52.2 [vide]
52.3 [vide]
52.4 And it
came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the ninth month, on the
tenth day of the month, [that] Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and
all his host, against Jerusalem, and they made a rampart round it, and
built a wall round about it with large stones.
52.5 So the
city was besieged, until the eleventh year of king Sedekias,
52.6 on the
ninth day of the month, and [then] the famine was severe in the city,
and there was no bread for the people of the land.
52.7 And
the city was broken up, and all the men of war went out by night by the
way of the gate, between the wall and the outworks, which were by the
king's garden; and the Chaldeans were by the city round about; and they
went by the way [leading] to the wilderness.
52.8 But
the host of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in
the [country] beyond Jericho; and all his servants were dispersed from
[about] him.
52.9 And
they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Deblatha,
and he judged him.
52.10 And
the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedekias before his eyes; and he
slew all the princes of Juda in Deblatha.
52.11 And
he put out the eyes of Sedekias, and bound him in fetters; and the king
of Babylon brought him to Babylon, and put him into the grinding-house,
until the day when he died.
52.12 And
in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nabuzardan the
captain of the guard, who waited on the king of Babylon, came to
Jerusalem;
52.13 and
he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house; and all the
houses of the city, and every great house he burnt with fire.
52.14 And
the host of the Chaldeans that was with the captain of the guard pulled
down all the wall of Jerusalem round about.
52.15 [vide]
52.16 But
the captain of the guard left the remnant of the people to be
vinedressers and husbandmen.
52.17 And
the Chaldeans broke in pieces the brazen pillars that were in the house
of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of
the Lord, and they took the brass thereof, and carried it away to
Babylon.
52.18 Also
the rim, and the bowls, and the flesh-hooks, and all the brazen
vessels, wherewith they ministered;
52.19 and
the basons, and the snuffers, and the oil-funnels, and the
candlesticks, and the censers, and the cups, the golden, of gold, and
the silver, of silver, the captain of the guard took away.
52.20 And
the two pillars, and the one sea, and the twelve brazen oxen under the
sea, which [things] king Solomon made for the house of the Lord; the
brass of which [articles] was without weight.
52.21 And
as for the pillars, the height of one pillar was thirty-five cubits;
and a line of twelve cubits compassed it round; and the thickness of it
[all] round was four fingers.
52.22 And
[there was] a brazen chapter upon them, and the length was five cubits,
[even] the height of one Chapiter; and [there were] on the chapiter
round about network and pomegranates, all of brass: and correspondingly
the second pillar [had] eight pomegranates to a cubit for the twelve
cubits.
52.23 And
the pomegranates were ninety-six on a side; and all the pomegranates on
the network round about were a hundred.
52.24 And
the captain of the guard took the chief priest, and the second priest,
and those that kept the way;
52.25 and
one eunuch, who was over the men of war, and seven men of renown, who
were in the king's presence that were found in the city; and the scribe
of the forces, who did the part of a scribe to the people of the land;
and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of
the city.
52.26 And
Nabuzardan the captain of the king's guard took them, and brought them
to the king of Babylon to Deblatha.
52.27 And
the king of Babylon smote them in Deblatha, in the land of Aemath.
52.28 [vide]
52.29 [vide]
52.30 [vide]
52.31 And
it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year after that Joakim king of
Juda had been carried away captive, in the twelfth month, on the four
and twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Ulaemadachar king of Babylon,
in the year in which he began to reign, raised the head of Joakim king
of Juda, and shaved him, and brought him out of the house where he was
kept,
52.32 and
spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the kings that were with
him in Babylon,
52.33 and
changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him
all the days that he lived.
52.34 And
his appointed portion was given him continually by the king of Babylon
from day to day, until the day when he died.
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