If created things are seen and handled as gifts of God and as mirrors of His glory, they need not be occasions of idolatry – if our delight in them is always also a delight in their Maker.
John Piper

The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah

The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah

{1:1} The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests thatwere in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: {1:2} to whom the word ofJehovah came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, inthe thirteenth year of his reign. {1:3} It came also in the days ofJehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the end of theeleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto thecarrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. {1:4} Now theword of Jehovah came unto me, saying, {1:5} Before I formed thee in thebelly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb Isanctified thee; I have appointed thee a prophet unto the nations.{1:6} Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, I know not how to speak;for I am a child. {1:7} But Jehovah said unto me, Say not, I am achild; for to whomsoever I shall send thee thou shalt go, andwhatsoever I shall command thee thou shalt speak. {1:8} Be not afraidbecause of them; for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith Jehovah.{1:9} Then Jehovah put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; andJehovah said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth: {1:10}see, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms,to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to buildand to plant. {1:11} Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree.{1:12} Then said Jehovah unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I watch overmy word to perform it. {1:13} And the word of Jehovah came unto me thesecond time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a boilingcaldron; and the face thereof is from the north. {1:14} Then Jehovahsaid unto me, Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all theinhabitants of the land. {1:15} For, lo, I will call all the familiesof the kingdoms of the north, saith Jehovah; and they shall come, andthey shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the gates ofJerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and againstall the cities of Judah. {1:16} And I will utter my judgments againstthem touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, andhave burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of theirown hands. {1:17} Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, andspeak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at them, lestI dismay thee before them. {1:18} For, behold, I have made thee thisday a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against thewhole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof,against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. {1:19}And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail againstthee: for I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to deliver thee.

{2:1} And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, {2:2} Go, and cryin the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, I remember forthee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals; how thouwentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. {2:3}Israel [was] holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase:all that devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come upon them,saith Jehovah. {2:4} Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, andall the families of the house of Israel: {2:5} thus saith Jehovah, Whatunrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are gone farfrom me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? {2:6}Neither said they, Where is Jehovah that brought us up out of the landof Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of desertsand of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death,through a land that none passed through, and where no man dwelt? {2:7}And I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit thereof andthe goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and mademy heritage an abomination. {2:8} The priests said not, Where isJehovah? and they that handle the law knew me not: the rulers alsotransgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, andwalked after things that do not profit. {2:9} Wherefore I will yetcontend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children’s children willI contend. {2:10} For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; andsend unto Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there hath beensuch a thing. {2:11} Hath a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are nogods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth notprofit. {2:12} Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horriblyafraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah. {2:13} For my people havecommitted two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of livingwaters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold nowater. {2:14} Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born [slave]? why is hebecome a prey? {2:15} The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled;and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, withoutinhabitant. {2:16} The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes havebroken the crown of thy head. {2:17} Hast thou not procured this untothyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led theeby the way? {2:18} And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, todrink the waters of the Shihor? or what hast thou to do in the way toAssyria, to drink the waters of the River? {2:19} Thine own wickednessshall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: knowtherefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hastforsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith theLord, Jehovah of hosts. {2:20} For of old time I have broken thy yoke,and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon everyhigh hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playingthe harlot. {2:21} Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a rightseed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of aforeign vine unto me? {2:22} For though thou wash thee with lye, andtake thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith theLord Jehovah. {2:23} How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have notgone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hastdone: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways; {2:24} a wildass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; inher occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will notweary themselves; in her month they shall find her. {2:25} Withhold thyfoot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, Itis in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.{2:26} As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house ofIsrael ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests,and their prophets; {2:27} who say to a stock, Thou art my father; andto a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their backunto me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they willsay, Arise, and save us. {2:28} But where are thy gods that thou hastmade thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thytrouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, OJudah. {2:29} Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye all havetransgressed against me, saith Jehovah. {2:30} In vain have I smittenyour children; they received no correction: your own sword hathdevoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. {2:31} O generation,see ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or aland of thick darkness? wherefore say my people, We are broken loose;we will come no more unto thee? {2:32} Can a virgin forget herornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me dayswithout number. {2:33} How trimmest thou thy way to seek love!therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways. {2:34} Alsoin thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor:thou didst not find them breaking in; but it is because of all thesethings. {2:35} Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger isturned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee,because thou sayest, I have not sinned. {2:36} Why gaddest thou aboutso much to change thy way? thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thouwast ashamed of Assyria. {2:37} From thence also shalt thou go forth,with thy hands upon thy head: for Jehovah hath rejected those in whomthou trustest, and thou shalt not prosper with them.

{3:1} They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, andbecome another man’s, will he return unto her again? will not that landbe greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers;yet return again to me, saith Jehovah. {3:2} Lift up thine eyes untothe bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By theways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thouhast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.{3:3} Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath beenno latter rain; yet thou hast a harlot’s forehead, thou refusedst to beashamed. {3:4} Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father,thou art the guide of my youth? {3:5} Will he retain [his anger] forever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and hastdone evil things, and hast had thy way. {3:6} Moreover Jehovah saidunto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that whichbacksliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountainand under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. {3:7} AndI said after she had done all these things, She will return unto me;but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. {3:8}And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel hadcommitted adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill ofdivorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she alsowent and played the harlot. {3:9} And it came to pass through thelightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and shecommitted adultery with stones and with stocks. {3:10} And yet for allthis her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with herwhole heart, but feignedly, saith Jehovah. {3:11} And Jehovah said untome, Backsliding Israel hath showed herself more righteous thantreacherous Judah. {3:12} Go, and proclaim these words toward thenorth, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah; I willnot look in anger upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah, I willnot keep [anger] for ever. {3:13} Only acknowledge thine iniquity, thatthou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thyways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed myvoice, saith Jehovah. {3:14} Return, O backsliding children, saithJehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of acity, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: {3:15} and Iwill give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you withknowledge and understanding. {3:16} And it shall come to pass, when yeare multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith Jehovah,they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah; neithershall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shallthey miss it; neither shall it be made any more. {3:17} At that timethey shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah; and all the nationsshall be gathered unto it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem:neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evilheart. {3:18} In those days the house of Judah shall walk with thehouse of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of thenorth to the land that I gave for an inheritance unto your fathers.{3:19} But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and givethee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations!and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away fromfollowing me. {3:20} Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from herhusband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel,saith Jehovah. {3:21} A voice is heard upon the bare heights, theweeping [and] the supplications of the children of Israel; because theyhave perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God. {3:22}Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. Behold,we are come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah our God. {3:23} Truly invain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult on themountains: truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel. {3:24}But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from ouryouth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.{3:25} Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us;for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, fromour youth even unto this day; and we have not obeyed the voice ofJehovah our God.

{4:1} If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, if thou wiltreturn unto me, and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of mysight; then shalt thou not be removed; {4:2} and thou shalt swear, AsJehovah liveth, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; and thenations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.{4:3} For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. {4:4} Circumciseyourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, yemen of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth likefire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of yourdoings. {4:5} Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say,Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assembleyourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities. {4:6} Set up astandard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evilfrom the north, and a great destruction. {4:7} A lion is gone up fromhis thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is goneforth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities belaid waste, without inhabitant. {4:8} For this gird you with sackcloth,lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned backfrom us. {4:9} And it shall come to pass at that day, saith Jehovah,that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes;and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.{4:10} Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! surely thou hast greatly deceivedthis people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas thesword reacheth unto the life. {4:11} At that time shall it be said tothis people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in thewilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor tocleanse; {4:12} a full wind from these shall come for me: now will Ialso utter judgments against them. {4:13} Behold, he shall come up asclouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses areswifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are ruined. {4:14} OJerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved.How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee? {4:15} For avoice declareth from Dan, and publisheth evil from the hills ofEphraim: {4:16} make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish againstJerusalem, [that] watchers come from a far country, and give out theirvoice against the cities of Judah. {4:17} As keepers of a field arethey against her round about, because she hath been rebellious againstme, saith Jehovah. {4:18} Thy way and thy doings have procured thesethings unto thee; this is thy wickedness; for it is bitter, for itreacheth unto thy heart. {4:19} My anguish, my anguish! I am pained atmy very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace;because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarmof war. {4:20} Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the wholeland is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtainsin a moment. {4:21} How long shall I see the standard, and hear thesound of the trumpet? {4:22} For my people are foolish, they know menot; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; theyare wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. {4:23} Ibeheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, andthey had no light. {4:24} I beheld the mountains, and, lo, theytrembled, and all the hills moved to and fro. {4:25} I beheld, and, lo,there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. {4:26} Ibeheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all thecities thereof were broken down at the presence of Jehovah, [and]before his fierce anger. {4:27} For thus saith Jehovah, The whole landshall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end. {4:28} For thisshall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I havespoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will Iturn back from it. {4:29} Every city fleeth for the noise of thehorsemen and bowmen; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon therocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein. {4:30}And thou, when thou art made desolate, what wilt thou do? Though thouclothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornamentsof gold, though thou enlargest thine eyes with paint, in vain dost thoumake thyself fair; [thy] lovers despise thee, they seek thy life.{4:31} For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguishas of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of thedaughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands,[saying], Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.

{5:1} Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and seenow, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find aman, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I willpardon her. {5:2} And though they say, As Jehovah liveth; surely theyswear falsely. {5:3} O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thouhast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them,but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their facesharder than a rock; they have refused to return. {5:4} Then I said,Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way ofJehovah, nor the law of their God: {5:5} I will get me unto the greatmen, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, andthe law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke,and burst the bonds. {5:6} Wherefore a lion out of the forest shallslay them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shallwatch against their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall betorn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] theirbackslidings are increased. {5:7} How can I pardon thee? thy childrenhave forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fedthem to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves introops at the harlots’ houses. {5:8} They were as fed horses roaming atlarge; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife. {5:9} Shall I notvisit for these things? saith Jehovah; and shall not my soul be avengedon such a nation as this? {5:10} Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy;but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are notJehovah’s. {5:11} For the house of Israel and the house of Judah havedealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah. {5:12} They havedenied Jehovah, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come uponus; neither shall we see sword nor famine: {5:13} and the prophetsshall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be doneunto them. {5:14} Wherefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts,Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouthfire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. {5:15} Lo, I willbring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah: itis a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose languagethou knowest not, neither understandest what they say. {5:16} Theirquiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. {5:17} And theyshall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thydaughters should eat; they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds; theyshall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall beat down thyfortified cities, wherein thou trustest, with the sword. {5:18} Buteven in those days, saith Jehovah, I will not make a full end with you.{5:19} And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore hathJehovah our God done all these things unto us? then shalt thou say untothem, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in yourland, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours. {5:20}Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,{5:21} Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; thathave eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear not: {5:22} Fear yenot me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who haveplaced the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, thatit cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yetcan they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.{5:23} But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; theyare revolted and gone. {5:24} Neither say they in their heart, Let usnow fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the former and thelatter, in its season; that preserveth unto us the appointed weeks ofthe harvest. {5:25} Your iniquities have turned away these things, andyour sins have withholden good from you. {5:26} For among my people arefound wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap,they catch men. {5:27} As a cage is full of birds, so are their housesfull of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich. {5:28}They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds ofwickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, thatthey may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. {5:29}Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul beavenged on such a nation as this? {5:30} A wonderful and horrible thingis come to pass in the land: {5:31} the prophets prophesy falsely, andthe priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so:and what will ye do in the end thereof?

{6:1} Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst ofJerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal onBeth-haccherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a greatdestruction. {6:2} The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion,will I cut off. {6:3} Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her;they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feedevery one in his place. {6:4} Prepare ye war against her; arise, andlet us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for theshadows of the evening are stretched out. {6:5} Arise, and let us go upby night, and let us destroy her palaces. {6:6} For thus hath Jehovahof hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound againstJerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression inthe midst of her. {6:7} As a well casteth forth its waters, so shecasteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her;before me continually is sickness and wounds. {6:8} Be thou instructed,O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee adesolation, a land not inhabited. {6:9} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts,They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn againthy hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets. {6:10} To whom shall Ispeak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear isuncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of Jehovah isbecome unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. {6:11}Therefore I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; I am weary with holdingin: pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assemblyof young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall betaken, the aged with him that is full of days. {6:12} And their housesshall be turned unto others, their fields and their wives together; forI will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saithJehovah. {6:13} For from the least of them even unto the greatest ofthem every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even untothe priest every one dealeth falsely. {6:14} They have healed also thehurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is nopeace. {6:15} Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: thereforethey shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit themthey shall be cast down, saith Jehovah. {6:16} Thus saith Jehovah,Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is thegood way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: butthey said, We will not walk [therein]. {6:17} And I set watchmen overyou, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, Wewill not hearken. {6:18} Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, Ocongregation, what is among them. {6:19} Hear, O earth: behold, I willbring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, becausethey have not hearkened unto my words; and as for my law, they haverejected it. {6:20} To what purpose cometh there to me frankincensefrom Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt-offeringsare not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto me. {6:21}Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocksbefore this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumbleagainst them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish. {6:22} Thussaith Jehovah, Behold, a people cometh from the north country; and agreat nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.{6:23} They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have nomercy; their voice roareth like the sea, and they ride upon horses,every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, Odaughter of Zion. {6:24} We have heard the report thereof; our handswax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman intravail. {6:25} Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; forthe sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side. {6:26} Odaughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself inashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation;for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us. {6:27} I have made theea trier [and] a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and trytheir way. {6:28} They are all grievous revolters, going about withslanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.{6:29} The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: invain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.{6:30} Refuse silver shall men them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.

{7:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, {7:2}Stand in the gate of Jehovah’s house, and proclaim there this word, andsay, Hear the word of Jehovah, all ye of Judah, that enter in at thesegates to worship Jehovah. {7:3} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God ofIsrael, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwellin this place. {7:4} Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple ofJehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these. {7:5}For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughlyexecute justice between a man and his neighbor; {7:6} if ye oppress notthe sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocentblood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:{7:7} then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that Igave to your fathers, from of old even for evermore. {7:8} Behold, yetrust in lying words, that cannot profit. {7:9} Will ye steal, murder,and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, andwalk after other gods that ye have not known, {7:10} and come and standbefore me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We aredelivered; that ye may do all these abominations? {7:11} Is this house,which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes?Behold, I, even I, have seen it, saith Jehovah. {7:12} But go ye nowunto my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell atthe first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my peopleIsrael. {7:13} And now, because ye have done all these works, saithJehovah, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but yeheard not; and I called you, but ye answered not: {7:14} therefore willI do unto the house which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, andunto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did toShiloh. {7:15} And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast outall your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim. {7:16} Thereforepray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them,neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear thee. {7:17} Seestthou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets ofJerusalem? {7:18} The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle thefire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen ofheaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they mayprovoke me to anger. {7:19} Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah;[do they] not [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their ownfaces? {7:20} Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, mine angerand my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and uponbeast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of theground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. {7:21} Thus saithJehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto yoursacrifices, and eat ye flesh. {7:22} For I spake not unto your fathers,nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land ofEgypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices: {7:23} but this thingI commanded them, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be yourGod, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the way that Icommand you, that it may be well with you. {7:24} But they hearkenednot, nor inclined their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and]in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and notforward. {7:25} Since the day that your fathers came forth out of theland of Egypt unto this day, I have sent unto you all my servants theprophets, daily rising up early and sending them: {7:26} yet theyhearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neckstiff: they did worse than their fathers. {7:27} And thou shalt speakall these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thoushalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. {7:28} Andthou shalt say unto them, This is the nation that hath not hearkened tothe voice of Jehovah their God, nor received instruction: truth isperished, and is cut off from their mouth. {7:29} Cut off thy hair, [OJerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bareheights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of hiswrath. {7:30} For the children of Judah have done that which is evil inmy sight, saith Jehovah: they have set their abominations in the housewhich is called by my name, to defile it. {7:31} And they have builtthe high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son ofHinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which Icommanded not, neither came it into my mind. {7:32} Therefore, behold,the days come, saith Jehovah, that it shall no more be called Topheth,nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: forthey shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place [to bury]. {7:33}And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of theheavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten themaway. {7:34} Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, andfrom the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice ofgladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; forthe land shall become a waste.

{8:1} At that time, saith Jehovah, they shall bring out the bones ofthe kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of thepriests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of theinhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves; {8:2} and they shallspread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven,which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which theyhave walked, and which they have sought, and which they haveworshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall befor dung upon the face of the earth. {8:3} And death shall be chosenrather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family,that remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith Jehovahof hosts. {8:4} Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah:Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and notreturn? {8:5} Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by aperpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.{8:6} I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no manrepenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every oneturneth to his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.{8:7} Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; andthe turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of theircoming; but my people know not the law of Jehovah. {8:8} How do ye say,We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the falsepen of the scribes hath wrought falsely. {8:9} The wise men are put toshame, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word ofJehovah; and what manner of wisdom is in them? {8:10} Therefore will Igive their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shallpossess them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest isgiven to covetousness; from the prophet even unto the priest every onedealeth falsely. {8:11} And they have healed the hurt of the daughterof my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.{8:12} Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, theywere not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall theyfall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shallbe cast down, saith Jehovah. {8:13} I will utterly consume them, saithJehovah: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on thefig-tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have giventhem shall pass away from them. {8:14} Why do we sit still? assembleyourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us besilent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given uswater of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah. {8:15}We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing,and, behold, dismay! {8:16} The snorting of his horses is heard fromDan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole landtrembleth; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all thatis in it; the city and those that dwell therein. {8:17} For, behold, Iwill send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; andthey shall bite you, saith Jehovah. {8:18} Oh that I could comfortmyself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me. {8:19} Behold, thevoice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is veryfar off: is not Jehovah in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have theyprovoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreignvanities? {8:20} The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we arenot saved. {8:21} For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt:I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me. {8:22} Is there no balm inGilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of thedaughter of my people recovered?

{9:1} Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain oftears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter ofmy people! {9:2} Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place ofwayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for theyare all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. {9:3} And they bendtheir tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grownstrong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil toevil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah. {9:4} Take ye heed every oneof his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brotherwill utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.{9:5} And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speakthe truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they wearythemselves to commit iniquity. {9:6} Thy habitation is in the midst ofdeceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah. {9:7}Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, andtry them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of mypeople? {9:8} Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: onespeaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart helayeth wait for him. {9:9} Shall I not visit them for these things?saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?{9:10} For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and forthe pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burnedup, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of thecattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they aregone. {9:11} And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place ofjackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, withoutinhabitant. {9:12} Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and[who is] he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he maydeclare it? wherefore is the land perished and burned up like awilderness, so that none passeth through? {9:13} And Jehovah saith,Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have notobeyed my voice, neither walked therein, {9:14} but have walked afterthe stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which theirfathers taught them; {9:15} therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, theGod of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, withwormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. {9:16} I will scatterthem also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers haveknown; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.{9:17} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for themourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful women,that they may come: {9:18} and let them make haste, and take up awailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelidsgush out with waters. {9:19} For a voice of wailing is heard out ofZion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we haveforsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings. {9:20}Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive theword of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one herneighbor lamentation. {9:21} For death is come up into our windows, itis entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without,[and] the young men from the streets. {9:22} Speak, Thus saith Jehovah,The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and asthe handful after the harvestman; and none shall gather [them]. {9:23}Thus saith Jehovah, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neitherlet the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory inhis riches; {9:24} but let him that glorieth glory in this, that hehath understanding, and knoweth me, that I am Jehovah who exercisethlovingkindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in thesethings I delight, saith Jehovah. {9:25} Behold, the days come, saithJehovah, that I will punish all them that are circumcised in [their]uncircumcision: {9:26} Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children ofAmmon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off,that dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised,and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

{10:1} Hear ye the word which Jehovah speaketh unto you, O house ofIsrael: {10:2} thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations,and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations aredismayed at them. {10:3} For the customs of the peoples are vanity; forone cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of theworkman with the axe. {10:4} They deck it with silver and with gold;they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. {10:5}They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they mustneeds be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for theycannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good. {10:6} There is nonelike unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great inmight. {10:7} Who should not fear thee, O King of the nations? for tothee doth it appertain; forasmuch as among all the wise men of thenations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like unto thee.{10:8} But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction ofidols! it is but a stock. {10:9} There is silver beaten into plates,which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of theartificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for theirclothing; they are all the work of skilful men. {10:10} But Jehovah isthe true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at hiswrath the earth trembleth, and the nations are not able to abide hisindignation. {10:11} Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that havenot made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth,and from under the heavens. {10:12} He hath made the earth by hispower, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by hisunderstanding hath he stretched out the heavens: {10:13} when heuttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and hecauseth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makethlightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of histreasuries. {10:14} Every man is become brutish [and is] withoutknowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for hismolten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. {10:15} Theyare vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation theyshall perish. {10:16} The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he isthe former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance:Jehovah of hosts is his name. {10:17} Gather up thy wares out of theland, O thou that abidest in the siege. {10:18} For thus saith Jehovah,Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, andwill distress them, that they may feel [it]. {10:19} Woe is me becauseof my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief,and I must bear it. {10:20} My tent is destroyed, and all my cords arebroken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are not: there isnone to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. {10:21} Forthe shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Jehovah:therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.{10:22} The voice of tidings, behold, it cometh, and a great commotionout of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, adwelling-place of jackals. {10:23} O Jehovah, I know that the way ofman is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct hissteps. {10:24} O Jehovah, correct me, but in measure: not in thineanger, lest thou bring me to nothing. {10:25} Pour out thy wrath uponthe nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not onthy name: for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him andconsumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

{11:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, {11:2}Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah,and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; {11:3} and say thou unto them,Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man that hearethnot the words of this covenant, {11:4} which I commanded your fathersin the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out ofthe iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to allwhich I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God;{11:5} that I may establish the oath which I sware unto your fathers,to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Thenanswered I, and said, Amen, O Jehovah. {11:6} And Jehovah said unto me,Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets ofJerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.{11:7} For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that Ibrought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, risingearly and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. {11:8} Yet they obeyednot, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the stubbornnessof their evil heart: therefore I brought upon them all the words ofthis covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.{11:9} And Jehovah said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men ofJudah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {11:10} They are turnedback to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear mywords; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house ofIsrael and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made withtheir fathers. {11:11} Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I willbring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and theyshall cry unto me, but I will not hearken unto them. {11:12} Then shallthe cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry untothe gods unto which they offer incense: but they will not save them atall in the time of their trouble. {11:13} For according to the numberof thy cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of thestreets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, evenaltars to burn incense unto Baal. {11:14} Therefore pray not thou forthis people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will nothear them in the time that they cry unto me because of their trouble.{11:15} What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing she hath wroughtlewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thoudoest evil, then thou rejoicest. {11:16} Jehovah called thy name, Agreen olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit: with the noise of a greattumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.{11:17} For Jehovah of hosts, who planted thee, hath pronounced evilagainst thee, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of thehouse of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves in provoking meto anger by offering incense unto Baal. {11:18} And Jehovah gave meknowledge of it, and I knew it: then thou showedst me their doings.{11:19} But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; andI knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let usdestroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off fromthe land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.{11:20} But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triestthe heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them; for untothee have I revealed my cause. {11:21} Therefore thus saith Jehovahconcerning the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Thou shaltnot prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that thou die not by our hand;{11:22} therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punishthem: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and theirdaughters shall die by famine; {11:23} and there shall be no remnantunto them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even theyear of their visitation.

{12:1} Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yetwould I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of thewicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal verytreacherously? {12:2} Thou hast planted them, yea, they have takenroot; they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in theirmouth, and far from their heart. {12:3} But thou, O Jehovah, knowestme; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out likesheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.{12:4} How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the wholecountry wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, thebeasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not seeour latter end. {12:5} If thou hast run with the footmen, and they havewearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and though in aland of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the pride of theJordan? {12:6} For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, eventhey have dealt treacherously with thee; even they have cried aloudafter thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.{12:7} I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I havegiven the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.{12:8} My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest: she hathuttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her. {12:9} Is myheritage unto me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of preyagainst her round about? go ye, assemble all the beasts of the field,bring them to devour. {12:10} Many shepherds have destroyed myvineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made mypleasant portion a desolate wilderness. {12:11} They have made it adesolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is madedesolate, because no man layeth it to heart. {12:12} Destroyers arecome upon all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword ofJehovah devoureth from the one end of the land even to the other end ofthe land: no flesh hath peace. {12:13} They have sown wheat, and havereaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing:and ye shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger ofJehovah. {12:14} Thus saith Jehovah against all mine evil neighbors,that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel toinherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and willpluck up the house of Judah from among them. {12:15} And it shall cometo pass, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and havecompassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to hisheritage, and every man to his land. {12:16} And it shall come to pass,if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by myname, As Jehovah liveth; even as they taught my people to swear byBaal; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people. {12:17}But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, pluckingup and destroying it, saith Jehovah.

{13:1} Thus saith Jehovah unto me, Go, and buy thee a linen girdle,and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. {13:2} So I boughta girdle according to the word of Jehovah, and put it upon my loins.{13:3} And the word of Jehovah came unto me the second time, saying,{13:4} Take the girdle that thou hast bought, which is upon thy loins,and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of therock. {13:5} So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Jehovahcommanded me. {13:6} And it came to pass after many days, that Jehovahsaid unto me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the girdle fromthence, which I commanded thee to hide there. {13:7} Then I went to theEuphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I hadhid it; and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable fornothing. {13:8} Then the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, {13:9}Thus saith Jehovah, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah,and the great pride of Jerusalem. {13:10} This evil people, that refuseto hear my words, that walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and aregone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even beas this girdle, which is profitable for nothing. {13:11} For as thegirdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave untome the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saithJehovah; that they may be unto me for a people, and for a name, and fora praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear. {13:12} Thereforethou shalt speak unto them this word: Thus saith Jehovah, the God ofIsrael, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say untothee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled withwine? {13:13} Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah,Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kingsthat sit upon David’s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, andall the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. {13:14} And I willdash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,saith Jehovah: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that Ishould not destroy them. {13:15} Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud;for Jehovah hath spoken. {13:16} Give glory to Jehovah your God, beforehe cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the darkmountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow ofdeath, and make it gross darkness. {13:17} But if ye will not hear it,my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weepsore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah’s flock is takencaptive. {13:18} Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother, Humbleyourselves, sit down; for your headtires are come down, even the crownof your glory. {13:19} The cities of the South are shut up, and thereis none to open them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it iswholly carried away captive. {13:20} Lift up your eyes, and behold themthat come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thybeautiful flock? {13:21} What wilt thou say, when he shall set overthee as head those whom thou hast thyself taught to be friends to thee?shall not sorrows take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail? {13:22}And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore are these things come upon me?for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thyheels suffer violence. {13:23} Can the Ethiopian change his skin, orthe leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed todo evil. {13:24} Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble thatpasseth away, by the wind of the wilderness. {13:25} This is thy lot,the portion measured unto thee from me, saith Jehovah; because thouhast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. {13:26} Therefore will Ialso uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall appear.{13:27} I have seen thine abominations, even thine adulteries, and thyneighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, on the hills in the field. Woeunto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be made clean; how long shall ityet be?

{14:1} The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning thedrought. {14:2} Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, theysit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.{14:3} And their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they cometo the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vesselsempty; they are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads.{14:4} Because of the ground which is cracked, for that no rain hathbeen in the land, the plowmen are put to shame, they cover their heads.{14:5} Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh [heryoung], because there is no grass. {14:6} And the wild asses stand onthe bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail,because there is no herbage. {14:7} Though our iniquities testifyagainst us, work thou for thy name’s sake, O Jehovah; for ourbackslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. {14:8} O thou hopeof Israel, the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble, why shouldestthou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turnethaside to tarry for a night? {14:9} Why shouldest thou be as a manaffrighted, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O Jehovah, artin the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.{14:10} Thus saith Jehovah unto this people, Even so have they loved towander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Jehovah doth notaccept them; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.{14:11} And Jehovah said unto me, Pray not for this people for [their]good. {14:12} When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when theyoffer burnt-offering and meal-offering, I will not accept them; but Iwill consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by thepestilence. {14:13} Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, the prophetssay unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye havefamine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. {14:14} ThenJehovah said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I sentthem not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake I unto them:they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing ofnought, and the deceit of their own heart. {14:15} Therefore thus saithJehovah concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sentthem not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: Bysword and famine shall those prophets be consumed. {14:16} And thepeople to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets ofJerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have noneto bury them-them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters:for I will pour their wickedness upon them. {14:17} And thou shalt saythis word unto them, Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day,and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is brokenwith a great breach, with a very grievous wound. {14:18} If I go forthinto the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enterinto the city, then, behold, they that are sick with famine! for boththe prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.{14:19} Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion?why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked forpeace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold,dismay! {14:20} We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and theiniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee. {14:21} Donot abhor [us], for thy name’s sake; do not disgrace the throne of thyglory: remember, break not thy covenant with us. {14:22} Are there anyamong the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can theheavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore wewill wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.

{15:1} Then said Jehovah unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stoodbefore me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them outof my sight, and let them go forth. {15:2} And it shall come to pass,when they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalttell them, Thus saith Jehovah: Such as are for death, to death; andsuch as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for thefamine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.{15:3} And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith Jehovah: thesword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heavens, andthe beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy. {15:4} And I willcause them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth,because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that whichhe did in Jerusalem. {15:5} For who will have pity upon thee, OJerusalem? or who will bemoan thee? or who will turn aside to ask ofthy welfare? {15:6} Thou hast rejected me, saith Jehovah, thou art gonebackward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against thee, anddestroyed thee; I am weary with repenting. {15:7} And I have winnowedthem with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] ofchildren, I have destroyed my people; they returned not from theirways. {15:8} Their widows are increased to me above the sand of theseas; I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men adestroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall uponher suddenly. {15:9} She that hath borne seven languisheth; she hathgiven up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she hathbeen put to shame and confounded: and the residue of them will Ideliver to the sword before their enemies, saith Jehovah. {15:10} Woeis me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man ofcontention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lentto me; [yet] every one of them doth curse me. {15:11} Jehovah said,Verily I will strengthen thee for good; verily I will cause the enemyto make supplication unto thee in the time of evil and in the time ofaffliction. {15:12} Can one break iron, even iron from the north, andbrass? {15:13} Thy substance and thy treasures will I give for a spoilwithout price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.{15:14} And I will make [them] to pass with thine enemies into a landwhich thou knowest not; for a fire is kindled in mine anger, whichshall burn upon you. {15:15} O Jehovah, thou knowest; remember me, andvisit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thylongsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach. {15:16}Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words were unto me ajoy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, OJehovah, God of hosts. {15:17} I sat not in the assembly of them thatmake merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thouhast filled me with indignation. {15:18} Why is my pain perpetual, andmy wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed beunto me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail? {15:19} Thereforethus saith Jehovah, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, thatthou mayest stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious fromthe vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall return unto thee, butthou shalt not return unto them. {15:20} And I will make thee unto thispeople a fortified brazen wall; and they shall fight against thee, butthey shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee to save theeand to deliver thee, saith Jehovah. {15:21} And I will deliver thee outof the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand ofthe terrible.

{16:1} The word of Jehovah came also unto me, saying, {16:2} Thoushalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters,in this place. {16:3} For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons andconcerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerningtheir mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begatthem in this land: {16:4} They shall die grievous deaths: they shallnot be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dungupon the face of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword,and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of theheavens, and for the beasts of the earth. {16:5} For thus saithJehovah, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament,neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people,saith Jehovah, even lovingkindness and tender mercies. {16:6} Bothgreat and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried,neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor makethemselves bald for them; {16:7} neither shall men break [bread] forthem in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men givethem the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for theirmother. {16:8} And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sitwith them, to eat and to drink. {16:9} For thus saith Jehovah of hosts,the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place,before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice ofgladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.{16:10} And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people allthese words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath Jehovahpronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? orwhat is our sin that we have committed against Jehovah our God? {16:11}Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me,saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them,and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept mylaw; {16:12} and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold,ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that yehearken not unto me: {16:13} therefore will I cast you forth out ofthis land into the land that ye have not known, neither ye nor yourfathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; for I willshow you no favor. {16:14} Therefore, behold, the days come, saithJehovah, that it shall no more be said, As Jehovah liveth, that broughtup the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; {16:15} but, AsJehovah liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land ofthe north, and from all the countries whither he had driven them. And Iwill bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.{16:16} Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah, and theyshall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, andthey shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and outof the clefts of the rocks. {16:17} For mine eyes are upon all theirways; they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquityconcealed from mine eyes. {16:18} And first I will recompense theiriniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land withthe carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled mineinheritance with their abominations. {16:19} O Jehovah, my strength,and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto theeshall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Ourfathers have inherited nought but lies, [even] vanity and thingswherein there is no profit. {16:20} Shall a man make unto himself gods,which yet are no gods? {16:21} Therefore, behold, I will cause them toknow, this once will I cause them to know my hand and my might; andthey shall know that my name is Jehovah.

{17:1} The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] withthe point of a diamond: it is graven upon the tablet of their heart,and upon the horns of your altars; {17:2} whilst their childrenremember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon thehigh hills. {17:3} O my mountain in the field, I will give thysubstance and all thy treasures for a spoil, [and] thy high places,because of sin, throughout all thy borders. {17:4} And thou, even ofthyself, shalt discontinue from thy heritage that I gave thee; and Iwill cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowestnot: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger which shall burn forever. {17:5} Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth inman, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.{17:6} For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not seewhen good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in thewilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. {17:7} Blessed is the manthat trusteth in Jehovah, and whose trust Jehovah is. {17:8} For heshall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its rootsby the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shallbe green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neithershall cease from yielding fruit. {17:9} The heart is deceitful aboveall things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? {17:10} I,Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every manaccording to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings. {17:11} Asthe partridge that sitteth on [eggs] which she hath not laid, so is hethat getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days theyshall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool. {17:12} A gloriousthrone, [set] on high from the beginning, is the place of oursanctuary. {17:13} O Jehovah, the hope of Israel, all that forsake theeshall be put to shame. They that depart from me shall be written in theearth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of livingwaters. {17:14} Heal me, O Jehovah, and I shall be healed; save me, andI shall be saved: for thou art my praise. {17:15} Behold, they say untome, Where is the word of Jehovah? let it come now. {17:16} As for me, Ihave not hastened from being a shepherd after thee; neither have Idesired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lipswas before thy face. {17:17} Be not a terror unto me: thou art myrefuge in the day of evil. {17:18} Let them be put to shame thatpersecute me, but let not me be put to shame; let them be dismayed, butlet not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and destroythem with double destruction. {17:19} Thus said Jehovah unto me: Go,and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kingsof Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates ofJerusalem; {17:20} and say unto them, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, yekings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,that enter in by these gates: {17:21} Thus saith Jehovah, Take heed toyourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in bythe gates of Jerusalem; {17:22} neither carry forth a burden out ofyour houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work: but hallow yethe sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. {17:23} But theyhearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff,that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction. {17:24}And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saithJehovah, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on thesabbath day, but to hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;{17:25} then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings andprinces sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and onhorses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitantsof Jerusalem; and this city shall remain for ever. {17:26} And theyshall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places round aboutJerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, andfrom the hill-country, and from the South, bringing burnt-offerings,and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and frankincense, and bringing[sacrifices of] thanksgiving, unto the house of Jehovah. {17:27} But ifye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to beara burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day;then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour thepalaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

{18:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, {18:2}Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause theeto hear my words. {18:3} Then I went down to the potter’s house, and,behold, he was making a work on the wheels. {18:4} And when the vesselthat he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he madeit again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.{18:5} Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, {18:6} O house ofIsrael, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, asthe clay in the potter’s hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.{18:7} At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, andconcerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;{18:8} if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from theirevil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. {18:9}And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning akingdom, to build and to plant it; {18:10} if they do that which isevil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will repent ofthe good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. {18:11} Now therefore,speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise adevice against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, andamend your ways and your doings. {18:12} But they say, It is in vain;for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one afterthe stubbornness of his evil heart. {18:13} Therefore thus saithJehovah: Ask ye now among the nations, who hath heard such things; thevirgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. {18:14} Shall thesnow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the coldwaters that flow down from afar be dried up? {18:15} For my people haveforgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they havebeen made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk inbypaths, in a way not cast up; {18:16} to make their land anastonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth therebyshall be astonished, and shake his head. {18:17} I will scatter them aswith an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and notthe face, in the day of their calamity. {18:18} Then said they, Come,and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall notperish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word fromthe prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us notgive heed to any of his words. {18:19} Give heed to me, O Jehovah, andhearken to the voice of them that contend with me. {18:20} Shall evilbe recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul.Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn awaythy wrath from them. {18:21} Therefore deliver up their children to thefamine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let theirwives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain ofdeath, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle. {18:22}Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troopsuddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and hidsnares for my feet. {18:23} Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all theircounsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blotout their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee;deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.

{19:1} Thus said Jehovah, Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and[take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;{19:2} and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is bythe entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that Ishall tell thee; {19:3} and say, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O kingsof Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus saith Jehovah of hosts,the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, whichwhosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. {19:4} Because they haveforsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense init unto other gods, that they knew not, they and their fathers and thekings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,{19:5} and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons inthe fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal; which I commanded not, norspake it, neither came it into my mind: {19:6} therefore, behold, thedays come, saith Jehovah, that this place shall no more be calledTopheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley ofSlaughter. {19:7} And I will make void the counsel of Judah andJerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the swordbefore their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their life: andtheir dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the heavens,and for the beasts of the earth. {19:8} And I will make this city anastonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall beastonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. {19:9} And Iwill cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of theirdaughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in thesiege and in the distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seektheir life, shall distress them. {19:10} Then shalt thou break thebottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, {19:11} and shalt sayunto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Even so will I break thispeople and this city, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, that cannot bemade whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, till there be noplace to bury. {19:12} Thus will I do unto this place, saith Jehovah,and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth:{19:13} and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings ofJudah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even allthe houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the hostof heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings unto other gods. {19:14}Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, whither Jehovah had sent him toprophesy; and he stood in the court of Jehovah’s house, and said to allthe people: {19:15} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all its towns all the evilthat I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neckstiff, that they may not hear my words.

{20:1} Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chiefofficer in the house of Jehovah, heard Jeremiah prophesying thesethings. {20:2} Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him inthe stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in thehouse of Jehovah. {20:3} And it came to pass on the morrow, thatPashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiahunto him, Jehovah hath not called thy name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.{20:4} For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will make thee a terror tothyself, and to all thy friends; and they shall fall by the sword oftheir enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it; and I will give allJudah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry themcaptive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. {20:5} MoreoverI will give all the riches of this city, and all the gains thereof, andall the precious things thereof, yea, all the treasures of the kings ofJudah will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall makethem a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. {20:6} And thou,Pashhur, and all that dwell in thy house shall go into captivity; andthou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and there shaltthou be buried, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesiedfalsely. {20:7} O Jehovah, thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded;thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become alaughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me. {20:8} For as oftenas I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because theword of Jehovah is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all theday. {20:9} And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak anymore in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fireshut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot[contain]. {20:10} For I have heard the defaming of many, terror onevery side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiarfriends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will bepersuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take ourrevenge on him. {20:11} But Jehovah is with me as a mighty one [and] aterrible: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall notprevail; they shall be utterly put to shame, because they have notdealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never beforgotten. {20:12} But, O Jehovah of hosts, that triest the righteous,that seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance on them;for unto thee have I revealed my cause. {20:13} Sing unto Jehovah,praise ye Jehovah; for he hath delivered the soul of the needy from thehand of evil-doers. {20:14} Cursed be the day wherein I was born: letnot the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. {20:15} Cursed be theman who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born untothee; making him very glad. {20:16} And let that man be as the citieswhich Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry inthe morning, and shouting at noontime; {20:17} because he slew me notfrom the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her wombalways great. {20:18} Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to seelabor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

{21:1} The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, when kingZedekiah sent unto him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah theson of Maaseiah, the priest, saying, {21:2} Inquire, I pray thee, ofJehovah for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war againstus: peradventure Jehovah will deal with us according to all hiswondrous works, that he may go up from us. {21:3} Then said Jeremiahunto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: {21:4} Thus saith Jehovah,the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that arein your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, andagainst the Chaldeans that besiege you, without the walls; and I willgather them into the midst of this city. {21:5} And I myself will fightagainst you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even inanger, and in wrath, and in great indignation. {21:6} And I will smitethe inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of agreat pestilence. {21:7} And afterward, saith Jehovah, I will deliverZedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such asare left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from thefamine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into thehand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life:and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not sparethem, neither have pity, nor have mercy. {21:8} And unto this peoplethou shalt say, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I set before you the way oflife and the way of death. {21:9} He that abideth in this city shalldie by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he thatgoeth out, and passeth over to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shalllive, and his life shall be unto him for a prey. {21:10} For I have setmy face upon this city for evil, and not for good, saith Jehovah: itshall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burnit with fire. {21:11} And touching the house of the king of Judah, hearye the word of Jehovah: {21:12} O house of David, thus saith Jehovah,Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him that is robbed out ofthe hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burnso that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. {21:13}Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] of therock of the plain, saith Jehovah; you that say, Who shall come downagainst us? or who shall enter into our habitations? {21:14} And I willpunish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; and Iwill kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is roundabout her.

{22:1} Thus said Jehovah: Go down to the house of the king of Judah,and speak there this word, {22:2} And say, Hear the word of Jehovah, Oking of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thyservants, and thy people that enter in by these gates. {22:3} Thussaith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver himthat is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do noviolence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shedinnocent blood in this place. {22:4} For if ye do this thing indeed,then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting uponthe throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and hisservants, and his people. {22:5} But if ye will not hear these words, Iswear by myself, saith Jehovah, that this house shall become adesolation. {22:6} For thus saith Jehovah concerning the house of theking of Judah: Thou art Gilead unto me, [and] the head of Lebanon;[yet] surely I will make thee a wilderness, [and] cities which are notinhabited. {22:7} And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every onewith his weapons; and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and castthem into the fire. {22:8} And many nations shall pass by this city,and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath Jehovahdone thus unto this great city? {22:9} Then they shall answer, Becausethey forsook the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped othergods, and served them. {22:10} Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoanhim; but weep sore for him that goeth away; for he shall return nomore, nor see his native country. {22:11} For thus saith Jehovahtouching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned insteadof Josiah his father, [and] who went forth out of this place: He shallnot return thither any more. {22:12} But in the place whither they haveled him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land nomore. {22:13} Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness,and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbor’s servicewithout wages, and giveth him not his hire; {22:14} that saith, I willbuild me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cutteth him outwindows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.{22:15} Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? Didnot thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then itwas well with him. {22:16} He judged the cause of the poor and needy;then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah. {22:17} Butthine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and forshedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to doit. {22:18} Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the sonof Josiah, king of Judah: they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ahmy brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, [saying] Ahlord! or, Ah his glory! {22:19} He shall be buried with the burial ofan ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. {22:20} Goup to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry fromAbarim; for all thy lovers are destroyed. {22:21} I spake unto thee inthy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thymanner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. {22:22} Thewind shall feed all thy shepherds, and thy lovers shall go intocaptivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thywickedness. {22:23} O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest inthe cedars, how greatly to be pitied shalt thou be when pangs come uponthee, the pain as of a woman in travail! {22:24} As I live, saithJehovah, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were thesignet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; {22:25} and Iwill give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into thehand of them of whom thou art afraid, even into the hand ofNebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.{22:26} And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, intoanother country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.{22:27} But to the land whereunto their soul longeth to return, thithershall they not return. {22:28} Is this man Coniah a despised brokenvessel? is he a vessel wherein none delighteth? wherefore are they castout, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not?{22:29} O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah. {22:30} Thussaith Jehovah, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall notprosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper,sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.

{23:1} Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep ofmy pasture! saith Jehovah. {23:2} Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the Godof Israel, against the shepherds that feed my people: Ye have scatteredmy flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, Iwill visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith Jehovah. {23:3} AndI will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries whitherI have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and theyshall be fruitful and multiply. {23:4} And I will set up shepherds overthem, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor bedismayed, neither shall any be lacking, saith Jehovah. {23:5} Behold,the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteousBranch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall executejustice and righteousness in the land. {23:6} In his days Judah shallbe saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name wherebyhe shall be called: Jehovah our righteousness. {23:7} Therefore,behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that they shall no more say, AsJehovah liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out of the landof Egypt; {23:8} but, As Jehovah liveth, who brought up and who led theseed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all thecountries whither I had driven them. And they shall dwell in their ownland. {23:9} Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, allmy bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hathovercome, because of Jehovah, and because of his holy words. {23:10}For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the landmourneth; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their courseis evil, and their might is not right; {23:11} for both prophet andpriest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness,saith Jehovah. {23:12} Wherefore their way shall be unto them asslippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and falltherein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of theirvisitation, saith Jehovah. {23:13} And I have seen folly in theprophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my peopleIsrael to err. {23:14} In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen ahorrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and theystrengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from hiswickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and theinhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. {23:15} Therefore thus saith Jehovahof hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them withwormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophetsof Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land. {23:16} Thussaith Jehovah of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets thatprophesy unto you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of theirown heart, and not out of the mouth of Jehovah. {23:17} They saycontinually unto them that despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall havepeace; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his ownheart they say, No evil shall come upon you. {23:18} For who hath stoodin the council of Jehovah, that he should perceive and hear his word?who hath marked my word, and heard it? {23:19} Behold, the tempest ofJehovah, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yea, a whirling tempest: itshall burst upon the head of the wicked. {23:20} The anger of Jehovahshall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performedthe intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand itperfectly. {23:21} I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spake notunto them, yet they prophesied. {23:22} But if they had stood in mycouncil, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and hadturned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.{23:23} Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?{23:24} Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not seehim? saith Jehovah. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith Jehovah.{23:25} I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies inmy name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. {23:26} How long shallthis be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, even theprophets of the deceit of their own heart? {23:27} that think to causemy people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every manto his neighbor, as their fathers forgat my name for Baal. {23:28} Theprophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath myword, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?saith Jehovah. {23:29} Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah; andlike a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? {23:30} Therefore,behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my wordsevery one from his neighbor. {23:31} Behold, I am against the prophets,saith Jehovah, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. {23:32}Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, saith Jehovah,and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and bytheir vain boasting: yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; neitherdo they profit this people at all, saith Jehovah. {23:33} And when thispeople, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What isthe burden of Jehovah? then shalt thou say unto them, What burden! Iwill cast you off, saith Jehovah. {23:34} And as for the prophet, andthe priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of Jehovah, Iwill even punish that man and his house. {23:35} Thus shall ye sayevery one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, What hathJehovah answered? and, What hath Jehovah spoken? {23:36} And the burdenof Jehovah shall ye mention no more: for every man’s own word shall behis burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, ofJehovah of hosts our God. {23:37} Thus shalt thou say to the prophet,What hath Jehovah answered thee? and, What hath Jehovah spoken? {23:38}But if ye say, The burden of Jehovah; therefore thus saith Jehovah:Because ye say this word, The burden of Jehovah, and I have sent untoyou, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of Jehovah; {23:39}therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off,and the city that I gave unto you and to your fathers, away from mypresence: {23:40} and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you,and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

{24:1} Jehovah showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs setbefore the temple of Jehovah, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylonhad carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah,and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, fromJerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. {24:2} One basket had verygood figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket hadvery bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. {24:3} Thensaid Jehovah unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; thegood figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, theyare so bad. {24:4} And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, {24:5}Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will Iregard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place intothe land of the Chaldeans, for good. {24:6} For I will set mine eyesupon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and Iwill build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and notpluck them up. {24:7} And I will give them a heart to know me, that Iam Jehovah: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; forthey shall return unto me with their whole heart. {24:8} And as the badfigs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus saithJehovah, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes,and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them thatdwell in the land of Egypt, {24:9} I will even give them up to betossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be areproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither Ishall drive them. {24:10} And I will send the sword, the famine, andthe pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the landthat I gave unto them and to their fathers.

{25:1} The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people ofJudah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah(the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,) {25:2}which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and toall the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: {25:3} From the thirteenthyear of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even unto this day,these three and twenty years, the word of Jehovah hath come unto me,and I have spoken unto you, rising up early and speaking; but ye havenot hearkened. {25:4} And Jehovah hath sent unto you all his servantsthe prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but ye have nothearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear,) {25:5} saying, Return ye nowevery one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, anddwell in the land that Jehovah hath given unto you and to your fathers,from of old and even for evermore; {25:6} and go not after other godsto serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger withthe work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. {25:7} Yet ye havenot hearkened unto me, saith Jehovah; that ye may provoke me to angerwith the work of your hands to your own hurt. {25:8} Therefore thussaith Jehovah of hosts: Because ye have not heard my words, {25:9}behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saithJehovah, and [I will send] unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, myservant, and will bring them against this land, and against theinhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and Iwill utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and ahissing, and perpetual desolations. {25:10} Moreover I will take fromthem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of thebridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, andthe light of the lamp. {25:11} And this whole land shall be adesolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the kingof Babylon seventy years. {25:12} And it shall come to pass, whenseventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon,and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of theChaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever. {25:13} And I willbring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it,even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesiedagainst all the nations. {25:14} For many nations and great kings shallmake bondmen of them, even of them; and I will recompense themaccording to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.{25:15} For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto me: take thiscup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whomI send thee, to drink it. {25:16} And they shall drink, and reel to andfro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.{25:17} Then took I the cup at Jehovah’s hand, and made all the nationsto drink, unto whom Jehovah had sent me: {25:18} [to wit], Jerusalem,and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princesthereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and acurse, as it is this day; {25:19} Pharaoh king of Egypt, and hisservants, and his princes, and all his people; {25:20} and all themingled people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all thekings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and theremnant of Ashdod; {25:21} Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;{25:22} and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and thekings of the isle which is beyond the sea; {25:23} Dedan, and Tema, andBuz, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off; {25:24} andall the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people thatdwell in the wilderness; {25:25} and all the kings of Zimri, and allthe kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes; {25:26} and all thekings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all thekingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and theking of Sheshach shall drink after them. {25:27} And thou shalt sayunto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye,and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of thesword which I will send among you. {25:28} And it shall be, if theyrefuse to take the cup at thy hand to drink, then shalt thou say untothem, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ye shall surely drink. {25:29} For,lo, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; andshould ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished; for I willcall for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovahof hosts. {25:30} Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words,and say unto them, Jehovah will roar from on high, and utter his voicefrom his holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold; hewill give a shout, as they that tread [the grapes], against all theinhabitants of the earth. {25:31} A noise shall come even to the end ofthe earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations; he willenter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will givethem to the sword, saith Jehovah. {25:32} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts,Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempestshall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth. {25:33} Andthe slain of Jehovah shall be at that day from one end of the eartheven unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented,neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the face of theground. {25:34} Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes], yeprincipal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of yourdispersions are fully come, and ye shall fall like a goodly vessel.{25:35} And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principalof the flock to escape. {25:36} A voice of the cry of the shepherds,and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for Jehovah layeth wastetheir pasture. {25:37} And the peaceable folds are brought to silencebecause of the fierce anger of Jehovah. {25:38} He hath left hiscovert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment becauseof the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierceanger.

{26:1} In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,king of Judah, came this word from Jehovah, saying, {26:2} Thus saithJehovah: Stand in the court of Jehovah’s house, and speak unto all thecities of Judah, which come to worship in Jehovah’s house, all thewords that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word.{26:3} It may be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evilway; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do unto thembecause of the evil of their doings. {26:4} And thou shalt say untothem, Thus saith Jehovah: If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in mylaw, which I have set before you, {26:5} to hearken to the words of myservants the prophets, whom I send unto you, even rising up early andsending them, but ye have not hearkened; {26:6} then will I make thishouse like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nationsof the earth. {26:7} And the priests and the prophets and all thepeople heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah.{26:8} And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speakingall that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, thatthe priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him,saying, Thou shalt surely die. {26:9} Why hast thou prophesied in thename of Jehovah, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this cityshall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gatheredunto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah. {26:10} And when the princes ofJudah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house unto thehouse of Jehovah; and they sat in the entry of the new gate ofJehovah’s [house]. {26:11} Then spake the priests and the prophets untothe princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death;for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with yourears. {26:12} Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all thepeople, saying, Jehovah sent me to prophesy against this house andagainst this city all the words that ye have heard. {26:13} Nowtherefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice ofJehovah your God; and Jehovah will repent him of the evil that he hathpronounced against you. {26:14} But as for me, behold, I am in yourhand: do with me as is good and right in your eyes. {26:15} Only knowye for certain that, if ye put me to death, ye will bring innocentblood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitantsthereof; for of a truth Jehovah hath sent me unto you to speak allthese words in your ears. {26:16} Then said the princes and all thepeople unto the priests and to the prophets: This man is not worthy ofdeath; for he hath spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God. {26:17}Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all theassembly of the people, saying, {26:18} Micah the Morashtite prophesiedin the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spake to all the peopleof Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be plowed asa field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of thehouse as the high places of a forest. {26:19} Did Hezekiah king ofJudah and all Judah put him to death? did he not fear Jehovah, andentreat the favor of Jehovah, and Jehovah repented him of the evilwhich he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evilagainst our own souls. {26:20} And there was also a man that prophesiedin the name of Jehovah, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim;and he prophesied against this city and against this land according toall the words of Jeremiah: {26:21} and when Jehoiakim the king, withall his mighty-men, and all the princes, heard his words, the kingsought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, andfled, and went into Egypt: {26:22} and Jehoiakim the king sent men intoEgypt, [namely], Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him,into Egypt; {26:23} and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, andbrought him unto Jehoiakim the king, who slew him with the sword, andcast his dead body into the graves of the common people. {26:24} Butthe hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that theyshould not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

{27:1} In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,king of Judah, came this word unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,{27:2} Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put themupon thy neck; {27:3} and send them to the king of Edom, and to theking of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the kingof Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers thatcome to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah; {27:4} and give them acharge unto their masters, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the Godof Israel, Thus shall ye say unto your masters: {27:5} I have made theearth, the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, bymy great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it unto whom itseemeth right unto me. {27:6} And now have I given all these lands intothe hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and thebeasts of the field also have I given him to serve him. {27:7} And allthe nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until thetime of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shallmake him their bondman. {27:8} And it shall come to pass, that thenation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzarking of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of theking of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith Jehovah, with thesword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I haveconsumed them by his hand. {27:9} But as for you, hearken ye not toyour prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to yoursoothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak unto you, saying, Yeshall not serve the king of Babylon: {27:10} for they prophesy a lieunto you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive youout, and ye should perish. {27:11} But the nation that shall bringtheir neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that[nation] will I let remain in their own land, saith Jehovah; and theyshall till it, and dwell therein. {27:12} And I spake to Zedekiah kingof Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks underthe yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, andlive. {27:13} Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, bythe famine, and by the pestilence, as Jehovah hath spoken concerningthe nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? {27:14} And hearkennot unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Yeshall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you.{27:15} For I have not sent them, saith Jehovah, but they prophesyfalsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that ye may perish,ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you. {27:16} Also I spake tothe priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hearkennot to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying,Behold, the vessels of Jehovah’s house shall now shortly be broughtagain from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you. {27:17} Hearkennot unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore shouldthis city become a desolation? {27:18} But if they be prophets, and ifthe word of Jehovah be with them, let them now make intercession toJehovah of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house ofJehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, gonot to Babylon. {27:19} For thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning thepillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, andconcerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,{27:20} which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carriedaway captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, fromJerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;{27:21} yea, thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, concerningthe vessels that are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the house ofthe king of Judah, and at Jerusalem: {27:22} They shall be carried toBabylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them,saith Jehovah; then will I bring them up, and restore them to thisplace.

{28:1} And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of thereign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifthmonth, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon,spake unto me in the house of Jehovah, in the presence of the priestsand of all the people, saying, {28:2} Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts,the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king ofBabylon. {28:3} Within two full years will I bring again into thisplace all the vessels of Jehovah’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king ofBabylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon: {28:4} and Iwill bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king ofJudah, with all the captives of Judah, that went to Babylon, saithJehovah; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. {28:5} Thenthe prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence ofthe priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in thehouse of Jehovah, {28:6} even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Jehovahdo so; Jehovah perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bringagain the vessels of Jehovah’s house, and all them of the captivity,from Babylon unto this place. {28:7} Nevertheless hear thou now thisword that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people:{28:8} The prophets that have been before me and before thee of oldprophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war,and of evil, and of pestilence. {28:9} The prophet that prophesieth ofpeace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall theprophet be known, that Jehovah hath truly sent him. {28:10} ThenHananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck,and brake it. {28:11} And Hananiah spake in the presence of all thepeople, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Even so will I break the yoke ofNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the neckof all the nations. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way. {28:12} Thenthe word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, after that Hananiah the prophethad broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,{28:13} Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hastbroken the bars of wood; but thou hast made in their stead bars ofiron. {28:14} For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Ihave put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that theymay served Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him:and I have given him the beasts of the field also. {28:15} Then saidthe prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah:Jehovah hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in alie. {28:16} Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will send theeaway from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, becausethou hast spoken rebellion against Jehovah. {28:17} So Hananiah theprophet died the same year in the seventh month.

{29:1} Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah theprophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders of thecaptivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all thepeople, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem toBabylon, {29:2} (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen-mother,and the eunuchs, [and] the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and thecraftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem,) {29:3} by thehand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah,(whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar kingof Babylon,) saying, {29:4} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God ofIsrael, unto all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried awaycaptive from Jerusalem unto Babylon: {29:5} Build ye houses, and dwellin them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them. {29:6} Take yewives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, andgive your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters;and multiply ye there, and be not diminished. {29:7} And seek the peaceof the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive, andpray unto Jehovah for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.{29:8} For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not yourprophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you;neither hearken ye to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. {29:9}For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them,saith Jehovah. {29:10} For thus saith Jehovah, After seventy years areaccomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good wordtoward you, in causing you to return to this place. {29:11} For I knowthe thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace,and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end. {29:12} And yeshall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I willhearken unto you. {29:13} And ye shall seek me, and find me, when yeshall search for me with all your heart. {29:14} And I will be found ofyou, saith Jehovah, and I will turn again your captivity, and I willgather you from all the nations, and from all the places wither I havedriven you, saith Jehovah; and I will bring you again unto the placewhence I caused you to be carried away captive. {29:15} Because ye havesaid, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon; {29:16} thus saithJehovah concerning the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, andconcerning all the people that dwell in this city, your brethren thatare not gone forth with you into captivity; {29:17} thus saith Jehovahof hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and thepestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten,they are so bad. {29:18} And I will pursue after them with the sword,with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to betossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be anexecration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, amongall the nations whither I have driven them; {29:19} because they havenot hearkened to my words, saith Jehovah, wherewith I sent unto them myservants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye wouldnot hear, saith Jehovah. {29:20} Hear ye therefore the word of Jehovah,all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem toBabylon. {29:21} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son ofMaaseiah, who prophesy a lie unto you in my name: Behold, I willdeliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and heshall slay them before your eyes; {29:22} and of them shall be taken upa curse by all the captives of Judah that are in Babylon, saying,Jehovah make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylonroasted in the fire; {29:23} because they have wrought folly in Israel,and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and havespoken words in my name falsely, which I commanded them not; and I amhe that knoweth, and am witness, saith Jehovah. {29:24} And concerningShemaiah the Nehelamite thou shalt speak, saying, {29:25} Thus speakethJehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sentletters in thine own name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem,and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all thepriests, saying, {29:26} Jehovah hath made thee priest in the stead ofJehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house ofJehovah, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, thatthou shouldest put him in the stocks and in shackles. {29:27} Nowtherefore, why hast thou not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makethhimself a prophet to you, {29:28} forasmuch as he hath sent unto us inBabylon, saying, [The captivity] is long: build ye houses, and dwell inthem; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them? {29:29} AndZephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah theprophet. {29:30} Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying,{29:31} Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith Jehovahconcerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because that Shemaiah hathprophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he hath caused you totrust in a lie; {29:32} therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I willpunish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a manto dwell among this people, neither shall he behold the good that Iwill do unto my people, saith Jehovah, because he hath spoken rebellionagainst Jehovah.

{30:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, {30:2}Thus speaketh Jehovah, the God of Israel, saying, Write thee all thewords that I have spoken unto thee in a book. {30:3} For, lo, the dayscome, saith Jehovah, that I will turn again the captivity of my peopleIsrael and Judah, saith Jehovah; and I will cause them to return to theland that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. {30:4}And these are the words that Jehovah spake concerning Israel andconcerning Judah. {30:5} For thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voiceof trembling, of fear, and not of peace. {30:6} Ask ye now, and seewhether a man doth travail with child: wherefore do I see every manwith his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces areturned into paleness? {30:7} Alas! for that day is great, so that noneis like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall besaved out of it. {30:8} And it shall come to pass in that day, saithJehovah of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, andwill burst thy bonds; and strangers shall no more make him theirbondman; {30:9} but they shall serve Jehovah their God, and David theirking, whom I will raise up unto them. {30:10} Therefore fear thou not,O Jacob my servant, saith Jehovah; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for,lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of theircaptivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, andnone shall make him afraid. {30:11} For I am with thee, saith Jehovah,to save thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither Ihave scattered thee, but I will not make a full end of thee; but I willcorrect thee in measure, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished.{30:12} For thus saith Jehovah, Thy hurt is incurable, and thy woundgrievous. {30:13} There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest bebound up: thou hast no healing medicines. {30:14} All thy lovers haveforgotten thee; they seek thee not: for I have wounded thee with thewound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for thegreatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased. {30:15}Why criest thou for thy hurt? thy pain is incurable: for the greatnessof thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased, I have done thesethings unto thee. {30:16} Therefore all they that devour thee shall bedevoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go intocaptivity; and they that despoil thee shall be a spoil, and all thatprey upon thee will I give for a prey. {30:17} For I will restorehealth unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith Jehovah;because they have called thee an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom noman seeketh after. {30:18} Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will turnagain the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on hisdwelling-places; and the city shall be builded upon its own hill, andthe palace shall be inhabited after its own manner. {30:19} And out ofthem shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry:and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will alsoglorify them, and they shall not be small. {30:20} Their children alsoshall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be establishedbefore me; and I will punish all that oppress them. {30:21} And theirprince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from themidst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approachunto me: for who is he that hath had boldness to approach unto me?saith Jehovah. {30:22} And ye shall be my people, and I will be yourGod. {30:23} Behold, the tempest of Jehovah, [even his] wrath, is goneforth, a sweeping tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the wicked.{30:24} The fierce anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he haveexecuted, and till he have performed the intents of his heart: in thelatter days ye shall understand it.

{31:1} At that time, saith Jehovah, will I be the God of all thefamilies of Israel, and they shall be my people. {31:2} Thus saithJehovah, The people that were left of the sword found favor in thewilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. {31:3}Jehovah appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I have loved thee withan everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.{31:4} Again will I build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin ofIsrael: again shalt thou be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt goforth in the dances of them that make merry. {31:5} Again shalt thouplant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shallplant, and shall enjoy [the fruit thereof]. {31:6} For there shall be aday, that the watchmen upon the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye,and let us go up to Zion unto Jehovah our God. {31:7} For thus saithJehovah, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of thenations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Jehovah, save thy people,the remnant of Israel. {31:8} Behold, I will bring them from the northcountry, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, [and]with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her thattravaileth with child together: a great company shall they returnhither. {31:9} They shall come with weeping; and with supplicationswill I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in astraight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am a father toIsrael, and Ephraim is my first-born. {31:10} Hear the word of Jehovah,O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say, He thatscattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd doth hisflock. {31:11} For Jehovah hath ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him fromthe hand of him that was stronger than he. {31:12} And they shall comeand sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow unto the goodness ofJehovah, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to theyoung of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as awatered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. {31:13} Thenshall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the oldtogether; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfortthem, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. {31:14} And I willsatiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall besatisfied with my goodness, saith Jehovah. {31:15} Thus saith Jehovah:A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachelweeping for her children; she refuseth to be comforted for herchildren, because they are not. {31:16} Thus saith Jehovah: Refrain thyvoice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for thy work shall berewarded, saith Jehovah; and they shall come again from the land of theenemy. {31:17} And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah; and[thy] children shall come again to their own border. {31:18} I havesurely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], Thou hast chastised me,and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thoume, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God. {31:19} Surelyafter that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, Ismote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I didbear the reproach of my youth. {31:20} Is Ephraim my dear son? is he adarling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestlyremember him still: therefore my heart yearneth for him; I will surelyhave mercy upon him, saith Jehovah. {31:21} Set thee up waymarks, makethee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the highway, even the way bywhich thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to thesethy cities. {31:22} How long wilt thou go hither and thither, O thoubacksliding daughter? for Jehovah hath created a new thing in theearth: a woman shall encompass a man. {31:23} Thus saith Jehovah ofhosts, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech in theland of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again theircaptivity: Jehovah bless thee, O habitation of righteousness, Omountain of holiness. {31:24} And Judah and all the cities thereofshall dwell therein together, the husbandmen, and they that go aboutwith flocks. {31:25} For I have satiated the weary soul, and everysorrowful soul have I replenished. {31:26} Upon this I awaked, andbeheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. {31:27} Behold, the days come,saith Jehovah, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house ofJudah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. {31:28} And itshall come to pass that, like as I have watched over them to pluck upand to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, sowill I watch over them to build and to plant, saith Jehovah. {31:29} Inthose days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes,and the children’s teeth are set on edge. {31:30} But every one shalldie for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grapes, histeeth shall be set on edge. {31:31} Behold, the days come, saithJehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, andwith the house of Judah: {31:32} not according to the covenant that Imade with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand tobring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake,although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah. {31:33} But this isthe covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after thosedays, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and intheir heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall bemy people: {31:34} and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor,and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall allknow me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saithJehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will Iremember no more. {31:35} Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for alight by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for alight by night, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereofroar; Jehovah of hosts is his name: {31:36} If these ordinances departfrom before me, saith Jehovah, then the seed of Israel also shall ceasefrom being a nation before me for ever. {31:37} Thus saith Jehovah: Ifheaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searchedout beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for allthat they have done, saith Jehovah. {31:38} Behold, the days come,saith Jehovah, that the city shall be built to Jehovah from the towerof Hananel unto the gate of the corner. {31:39} And the measuring lineshall go out further straight onward unto the hill Gareb, and shallturn about unto Goah. {31:40} And the whole valley of the dead bodiesand of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook Kidron, unto thecorner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto Jehovah;it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

{32:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the tenth yearof Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year ofNebuchadrezzar. {32:2} Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army wasbesieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the courtof the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house. {32:3} ForZedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thouprophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will give this cityinto the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it; {32:4} andZedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of theChaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king ofBabylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shallbehold his eyes; {32:5} and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, andthere shall he be until I visit him, saith Jehovah: though ye fightwith the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper? {32:6} And Jeremiah said, Theword of Jehovah came unto me, saying, {32:7} Behold, Hanamel the son ofShallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my fieldthat is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.{32:8} So Hanamel mine uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guardaccording to the word of Jehovah, and said unto me, Buy my field, Ipray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; forthe right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy itfor thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of Jehovah. {32:9} AndI bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel mine uncle’s son,and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. {32:10}And I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, andweighed him the money in the balances. {32:11} So I took the deed ofthe purchase, both that which was sealed, [according to] the law andcustom, and that which was open: {32:12} and I delivered the deed ofthe purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in thepresence of Hanamel mine uncle’s [son], and in the presence of thewitnesses that subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jewsthat sat in the court of the guard. {32:13} And I charged Baruch beforethem, saying, {32:14} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel:Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and thisdeed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they maycontinue many days. {32:15} For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God ofIsrael: Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought inthis land. {32:16} Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchaseunto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto Jehovah, saying, {32:17}Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, thou hast made the heavens and the earth bythy great power and by thine outstretched arm; there is nothing toohard for thee, {32:18} who showest lovingkindness unto thousands, andrecompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of theirchildren after them; the great, the mighty God, Jehovah of hosts is hisname; {32:19} great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are openupon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according tohis ways, and according to the fruit of his doings: {32:20} who didstset signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, both inIsrael and among [other] men; and madest thee a name, as at this day;{32:21} and didst bring forth thy people Israel out of the land ofEgypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with anoutstretched arm, and with great terror; {32:22} and gavest them thisland, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a landflowing with milk and honey; {32:23} and they came in, and possessedit, but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they havedone nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thouhast caused all this evil to come upon them. {32:24} Behold, themounds, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is giveninto the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it, because of thesword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what thou hastspoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it. {32:25} And thouhast said unto me, O Lord Jehovah, Buy thee the field for money, andcall witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of theChaldeans. {32:26} Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying,{32:27} Behold, I am Jehovah, the God of all flesh: is there anythingtoo hard for me? {32:28} Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I willgive this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand ofNebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it: {32:29} and theChaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set this cityon fire, and burn it, with the houses, upon whose roofs they haveoffered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink-offerings unto othergods, to provoke me to anger. {32:30} For the children of Israel andthe children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sightfrom their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me toanger with the work of their hands, saith Jehovah. {32:31} For thiscity hath been to me a provocation of mine anger and of my wrath fromthe day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove itfrom before my face, {32:32} because of all the evil of the children ofIsrael and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke meto anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and theirprophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.{32:33} And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: andthough I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they havenot hearkened to receive instruction. {32:34} But they set theirabominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.{32:35} And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valleyof the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to passthrough [the fire] unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neithercame it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to causeJudah to sin. {32:36} And now therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God ofIsrael, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It is given into the handof the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by thepestilence: {32:37} Behold, I will gather them out of all thecountries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my wrath,and in great indignation; and I will bring them again unto this place,and I will cause them to dwell safely: {32:38} and they shall be mypeople, and I will be their God: {32:39} and I will give them one heartand one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, andof their children after them: {32:40} and I will make an everlastingcovenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, todo them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may notdepart from me. {32:41} Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good,and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart andwith my whole soul. {32:42} For thus saith Jehovah: Like as I havebrought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon themall the good that I have promised them. {32:43} And fields shall bebought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate, without man orbeast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. {32:44} Men shallbuy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and callwitnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem,and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill-country, andin the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for Iwill cause their captivity to return, saith Jehovah.

{33:1} Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah the secondtime, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,{33:2} Thus saith Jehovah that doeth it, Jehovah that formeth it toestablish it; Jehovah is his name: {33:3} Call unto me, and I willanswer thee, and will show thee great things, and difficult, which thouknowest not. {33:4} For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel,concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of thekings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defence] against themounds and against the sword; {33:5} while [men] come to fight with theChaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I haveslain in mine anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness Ihave hid my face from this city: {33:6} Behold, I will bring it healthand cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal unto them abundanceof peace and truth. {33:7} And I will cause the captivity of Judah andthe captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at thefirst. {33:8} And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, wherebythey have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities,whereby they have sinned against me, and whereby they have transgressedagainst me. {33:9} And [this city] shall be to me for a name of joy,for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth,which shall hear all the good that I do unto them, and shall fear andtremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure unto it.{33:10} Thus saith Jehovah: Yet again there shall be heard in thisplace, whereof ye say, It is waste, without man and without beast, evenin the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that aredesolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast, {33:11}the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroomand the voice of the bride, the voice of them that say, Give thanks toJehovah of hosts, for Jehovah is good, for his lovingkindness[endureth] for ever; [and of them] that bring [sacrifices of]thanksgiving into the house of Jehovah. For I will cause the captivityof the land to return as at the first, saith Jehovah. {33:12} Thussaith Jehovah of hosts: Yet again shall there be in this place, whichis waste, without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof,a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. {33:13} Inthe cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the lowland, and inthe cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the placesabout Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks againpass under the hands of him that numbereth them, saith Jehovah. {33:14}Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will perform that goodword which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerningthe house of Judah. {33:15} In those days, and at that time, will Icause a Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shallexecute justice and righteousness in the land. {33:16} In those daysshall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is[the name] whereby she shall be called: Jehovah our righteousness.{33:17} For thus saith Jehovah: David shall never want a man to situpon the throne of the house of Israel; {33:18} neither shall thepriests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt-offerings, andto burn meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. {33:19} Andthe word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, saying, {33:20} Thus saithJehovah: If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of thenight, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;{33:21} then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, thathe shall not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levitesthe priests, my ministers. {33:22} As the host of heaven cannot benumbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply theseed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.{33:23} And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying, {33:24}Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The twofamilies which Jehovah did choose, he hath cast them off? thus do theydespise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.{33:25} Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night [stand]not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;{33:26} then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David myservant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seedof Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity toreturn, and will have mercy on them.

{34:1} The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, whenNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdomsof the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, werefighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying:{34:2} Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiahking of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will givethis city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn itwith fire: {34:3} and thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shaltsurely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shallbehold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with theemouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon. {34:4} Yet hear the wordof Jehovah, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus saith Jehovah concerningthee, Thou shalt not die by the sword; {34:5} thou shalt die in peace;and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that were beforethee, so shall they make a burning for thee; and they shall lamentthee, [saying], Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, saith Jehovah.{34:6} Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiahking of Judah in Jerusalem, {34:7} when the king of Babylon’s army wasfighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah thatwere left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these [alone]remained of the cities of Judah [as] fortified cities. {34:8} The wordthat came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that the king Zedekiah hadmade a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaimliberty unto them; {34:9} that every man should let his man-servant,and every man his maid-servant, that is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, gofree; that none should make bondmen of them, [to wit], of a Jew hisbrother. {34:10} And all the princes and all the people obeyed, thathad entered into the covenant, that every one should let hisman-servant, and every one his maid-servant, go free, that none shouldmake bondmen of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go: {34:11}but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids,whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjectionfor servants and for handmaids. {34:12} Therefore the word of Jehovahcame to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, {34:13} Thus saith Jehovah, theGod of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that Ibrought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house ofbondage, saying, {34:14} At the end of seven years ye shall let goevery man his brother that is a Hebrew, that hath been sold unto thee,and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee:but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.{34:15} And ye were now turned, and had done that which is right inmine eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and ye hadmade a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:{34:16} but ye turned and profaned my name, and caused every man hisservant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had let go free at theirpleasure, to return; and ye brought them into subjection, to be untoyou for servants and for handmaids. {34:17} Therefore thus saithJehovah: ye have not hearkened unto me, to proclaim liberty, every manto his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim untoyou a liberty, saith Jehovah, to the sword, to the pestilence, and tothe famine; and I will make you to be tossed to and fro among all thekingdoms of the earth. {34:18} And I will give the men that havetransgressed my covenant, that have not performed the words of thecovenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in twain andpassed between the parts thereof; {34:19} the princes of Judah, and theprinces of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the peopleof the land, that passed between the parts of the calf; {34:20} I willeven give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand ofthem that seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food untothe birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of the earth. {34:21} AndZedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand oftheir enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and intothe hand of the king of Babylon’s army, that are gone away from you.{34:22} Behold, I will command, saith Jehovah, and cause them to returnto this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn itwith fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, withoutinhabitant.

{35:1} The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days ofJehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, {35:2} Go unto thehouse of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into thehouse of Jehovah, into one of the chambers, and give them wine todrink. {35:3} Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son ofHabazziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house ofthe Rechabites; {35:4} and I brought them into the house of Jehovah,into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man ofGod, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above thechamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.{35:5} And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowlsfull of wine, and cups; and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. {35:6} Butthey said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, ourfather, commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, noryour sons, for ever: {35:7} neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed,nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days ye shall dwell intents; that ye may live many days in the land wherein ye sojourn.{35:8} And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, ourfather, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we,our wives, our sons, or our daughters; {35:9} nor to build houses forus to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed: {35:10}but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to allthat Jonadab our father commanded us. {35:11} But it came to pass, whenNebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said,Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans,and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem.{35:12} Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying, {35:13}Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Go, and say to the menof Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receiveinstruction to hearken to my words? saith Jehovah. {35:14} The words ofJonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drinkwine, are performed; and unto this day they drink none, for they obeytheir father’s commandment: but I have spoken unto you, rising up earlyand speaking; and ye have not hearkened unto me. {35:15} I have sentalso unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sendingthem, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend yourdoings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwellin the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye havenot inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me. {35:16} Forasmuch as thesons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment oftheir father which he commanded them, but this people hath nothearkened unto me; {35:17} therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God ofhosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon allthe inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronouncedagainst them; because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard;and I have called unto them, but they have not answered. {35:18} AndJeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith Jehovah ofhosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have obeyed the commandment ofJonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according untoall that he commanded you; {35:19} therefore thus saith Jehovah ofhosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want aman to stand before me for ever.

{36:1} And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the sonof Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah fromJehovah, saying, {36:2} Take thee a roll of a book, and write thereinall the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and againstJudah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee,from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. {36:3} It may be that thehouse of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them;that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgivetheir iniquity and their sin. {36:4} Then Jeremiah called Baruch theson of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all thewords of Jehovah, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.{36:5} And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot gointo the house of Jehovah: {36:6} therefore go thou, and read in theroll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of Jehovah inthe ears of the people in Jehovah’s house upon the fast-day; and alsothou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of theircities. {36:7} It may be they will present their supplication beforeJehovah, and will return every one from his evil way; for great is theanger and the wrath that Jehovah hath pronounced against this people.{36:8} And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiahthe prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of Jehovah inJehovah’s house. {36:9} Now it came to pass in the fifth year ofJehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, thatall the people in Jerusalem, and all the people that came from thecities of Judah unto Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Jehovah.{36:10} Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the houseof Jehovah, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe,in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Jehovah’s house, inthe ears of all the people. {36:11} And when Micaiah the son ofGemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the wordsof Jehovah, {36:12} he went down into the king’s house, into thescribe’s chamber: and, lo, all the princes were sitting there, [towit], Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, andElnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, andZedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. {36:13} Then Micaiahdeclared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch readthe book in the ears of the people. {36:14} Therefore all the princessent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son ofCushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thy hand the roll wherein thou hastread in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriahtook the roll in his hand, and came unto them. {36:15} And they saidunto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it intheir ears. {36:16} Now it came to pass, when they had heard all thewords, they turned in fear one toward another, and said unto Baruch, Wewill surely tell the king of all these words. {36:17} And they askedBaruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words athis mouth? {36:18} Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all thesewords unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.{36:19} Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou andJeremiah; and let no man know where ye are. {36:20} And they went in tothe king into the court; but they had laid up the roll in the chamberof Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of theking. {36:21} So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll; and he took itout of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in theears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes that stood besidethe king. {36:22} Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in theninth month: and [there was a fire in] the brazier burning before him.{36:23} And it came to pass, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves,that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the firethat was in the brazier, until all the roll was consumed in the firethat was in the brazier. {36:24} And they were not afraid, nor renttheir garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heardall these words. {36:25} Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah hadmade intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll; but hewould not hear them. {36:26} And the king commanded Jerahmeel theking’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son ofAbdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Jehovahhid them. {36:27} Then the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, after thatthe king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at themouth of Jeremiah, saying, {36:28} Take thee again another roll, andwrite in it all the former words that were in the first roll, whichJehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned. {36:29} And concerningJehoiakim king of Judah thou shalt say, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hastburned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, Theking of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shallcause to cease from thence man and beast? {36:30} Therefore thus saithJehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to situpon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in theday to the heat, and in the night to the frost. {36:31} And I willpunish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I willbring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon themen of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, butthey hearkened not. {36:32} Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gaveit to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from themouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king ofJudah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides unto themmany like words.

{37:1} And Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead ofConiah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon madeking in the land of Judah. {37:2} But neither he, nor his servants, northe people of the land, did hearken unto the words of Jehovah, which hespake by the prophet Jeremiah. {37:3} And Zedekiah the king sentJehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, thepriest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto Jehovah our Godfor us. {37:4} Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; forthey had not put him into prison. {37:5} And Pharaoh’s army was comeforth out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans that were besiegingJerusalem heard tidings of them, they brake up from Jerusalem. {37:6}Then came the word of Jehovah unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying, {37:7}Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say to the king ofJudah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army,which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their ownland. {37:8} And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against thiscity; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire. {37:9} Thus saithJehovah, Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surelydepart from us; for they shall not depart. {37:10} For though ye hadsmitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, andthere remained but wounded men among them, yea would they rise up everyman in his tent, and burn this city with fire. {37:11} And it came topass that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalemfor fear of Pharaoh’s army, {37:12} then Jeremiah went forth out ofJerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portionthere, in the midst of the people. {37:13} And when he was in the gateof Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah,the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiahthe prophet, saying, Thou art falling away to the Chaldeans. {37:14}Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away to theChaldeans. But he hearkened not to him; so Irijah laid hold onJeremiah, and brought him to the princes. {37:15} And the princes werewroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the houseof Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison. {37:16} WhenJeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, andJeremiah had remained there many days; {37:17} Then Zedekiah the kingsent, and fetched him: and the king asked him secretly in his house,and said, Is there any word from Jehovah? And Jeremiah said, There is.He said also, Thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king ofBabylon. {37:18} Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, Whereinhave I sinned against thee, or against thy servants, or against thispeople, that ye have put me in prison? {37:19} Where now are yourprophets that prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shallnot come against you, nor against this land? {37:20} And now hear, Ipray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, bepresented before thee, that thou cause me not to return to the house ofJonathan the scribe, lest I die there. {37:21} Then Zedekiah the kingcommanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; andthey gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, untilall the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in thecourt of the guard.

{38:1} And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son ofPashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son ofMalchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spake unto all the people,saying, {38:2} Thus saith Jehovah, He that abideth in this city shalldie by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he thatgoeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be unto himfor a prey, and he shall live. {38:3} Thus saith Jehovah, This cityshall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon,and he shall take it. {38:4} Then the princes said unto the king, Letthis man, we pray thee, be put to death; forasmuch as he weakeneth thehands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of allthe people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh notthe welfare of this people, but the hurt. {38:5} And Zedekiah the kingsaid, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he that can doanything against you. {38:6} Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him intothe dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of theguard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon therewas no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. {38:7} Now whenEbed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heardthat they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in thegate of Benjamin,) {38:8} Ebed-melech went forth out of the king’shouse, and spake to the king, saying, {38:9} My lord the king, thesemen have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet,whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die in theplace where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread inthe city. {38:10} Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian,saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah theprophet out of the dungeon, before he die. {38:11} So Ebed-melech tookthe men with him, and went into the house of the king under thetreasury, and took thence rags and worn-out garments, and let them downby cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. {38:12} And Ebed-melech theEthiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these rags and worn-out garmentsunder thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so. {38:13} Sothey drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of thedungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. {38:14} ThenZedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into thethird entry that is in the house of Jehovah: and the king said untoJeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me. {38:15} ThenJeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou notsurely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt nothearken unto me. {38:16} So Zedekiah the king sware secretly untoJeremiah, saying, As Jehovah liveth, that made us this soul, I will notput thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these menthat seek thy life. {38:17} Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thussaith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt goforth unto the king of Babylon’s princes, then thy soul shall live, andthis city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thyhouse. {38:18} But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon’sprinces, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans,and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out oftheir hand. {38:19} And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I amafraid of the Jews that are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest theydeliver me into their hand, and they mock me. {38:20} But Jeremiahsaid, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice ofJehovah, in that which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well withthee, and thy soul shall live. {38:21} But if thou refuse to go forth,this is the word that Jehovah hath showed me: {38:22} behold, all thewomen that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forthto the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, Thyfamiliar friends have set thee on, and have prevailed over thee: [nowthat] thy feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back. {38:23}And they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to theChaldeans; and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt betaken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause thiscity to be burned with fire. {38:24} Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah,Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die. {38:25} But ifthe princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee,and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto theking; hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also whatthe king said unto thee: {38:26} then thou shalt say unto them, Ipresented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause meto return to Jonathan’s house, to die there. {38:27} Then came all theprinces unto Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to allthese words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking withhim; for the matter was not perceived. {38:28} So Jeremiah abode in thecourt of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

{39:1} And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninthyear of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzarking of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it;{39:2} in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninthday of the month, a breach was made in the city,) {39:3} that all theprinces of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, [towit], Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris,Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the rest of the princes of the kingof Babylon. {39:4} And it came to pass that, when Zedekiah the king ofJudah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forthout of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through thegate betwixt the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah. {39:5}But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiahin the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought himup to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath;and he gave judgment upon him. {39:6} Then the king of Babylon slew thesons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylonslew all the nobles of Judah. {39:7} Moreover he put out Zedekiah’seyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. {39:8} And theChaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, withfire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. {39:9} Then Nebuzaradanthe captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residueof the people that remained in the city, the deserters also that fellaway to him, and the residue of the people that remained. {39:10} ButNebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people,that had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards andfields at the same time. {39:11} Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylongave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of theguard, saying, {39:12} Take him, and look well to him, and do him noharm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee. {39:13} SoNebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban, Rab-saris,and Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the chief officers of the king ofBabylon; {39:14} they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of theguard, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son ofShaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.{39:15} Now the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, while he was shutup in the court of the guard, saying, {39:16} Go, and speak toEbed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the Godof Israel: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, andnot for good; and they shall be accomplished before thee in that day.{39:17} But I will deliver thee in that day, saith Jehovah; and thoushalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.{39:18} For I will surely save thee, and thou shalt not fall by thesword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee; because thou hastput thy trust in me, saith Jehovah.

{40:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, after thatNebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when hehad taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalemand Judah, that were carried away captive unto Babylon. {40:2} And thecaptain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, Jehovah thy Godpronounced this evil upon this place; {40:3} and Jehovah hath broughtit, and done according as he spake: because ye have sinned againstJehovah, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is comeupon you. {40:4} And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chainswhich are upon thy hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me intoBabylon, come, and I will look well unto thee; but if it seem ill untothee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land isbefore thee; whither it seemeth good and right unto thee to go, thithergo. {40:5} Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, [said he],to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king ofBabylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with himamong the people; or go wheresoever it seemeth right unto thee to go.So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a present, and lethim go. {40:6} Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam toMizpah, and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.{40:7} Now when all the captains of the forces that were in the fields,even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had madeGedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed untohim men, and women, and children, and of the poorest of the land, ofthem that were not carried away captive to Babylon; {40:8} then theycame to Gedaliah to Mizpah, [to wit], Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, andJohanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son ofTanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the sonof the Maacathite, they and their men. {40:9} And Gedaliah the son ofAhikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying,Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the kingof Babylon, and it shall be well with you. {40:10} As for me, behold, Iwill dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans that shall comeunto us: but ye, gather ye wine and summer fruits and oil, and put themin your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken. {40:11}Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children ofAmmon, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that theking of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set overthem Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; {40:12} then allthe Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and cameto the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine andsummer fruits very much. {40:13} Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah,and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came toGedaliah to Mizpah, {40:14} and said unto him, Dost thou know thatBaalis the king of the children of Ammon hath sent Ishmael the son ofNethaniah to take thy life? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believedthem not. {40:15} Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah inMizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slayIshmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: whereforeshould he take thy life, that all the Jews that are gathered unto theeshould be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish? {40:16} ButGedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thoushalt not do this thing; for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.

{41:1} Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael theson of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal and [one of]the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came untoGedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat breadtogether in Mizpah. {41:2} Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, andthe ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikamthe son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king ofBabylon had made governor over the land. {41:3} Ishmael also slew allthe Jews that were with him, [to wit], with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, andthe Chaldeans that were found there, the men of war. {41:4} And it cameto pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,{41:5} that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria,even fourscore men, having their beards shaven and their clothes rent,and having cut themselves, with meal-offerings and frankincense intheir hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah. {41:6} And Ishmaelthe son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping allalong as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said untothem, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. {41:7} And it was so, whenthey came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniahslew them, [and cast them] into the midst of the pit, he, and the menthat were with him. {41:8} But ten men were found among them that saidunto Ishmael, Slay us not; for we have stores hidden in the field, ofwheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slewthem not among their brethren. {41:9} Now the pit wherein Ishmael castall the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain, by the side ofGedaliah (the same was that which Asa the king had made for fear ofBaasha king of Israel,) Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it withthem that were slain. {41:10} Then Ishmael carried away captive all theresidue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king’s daughters,and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan thecaptain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam;Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed togo over to the children of Ammon. {41:11} But when Johanan the son ofKareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, heard ofall the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, {41:12} thenthey took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son ofNethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.{41:13} Now it came to pass that, when all the people that were withIshmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of theforces that were with him, then they were glad. {41:14} So all thepeople that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned aboutand came back, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah. {41:15} ButIshmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, andwent to the children of Ammon. {41:16} Then took Johanan the son ofKareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all theremnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son ofNethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son ofAhikam, [to wit], the men of war, and the women, and the children, andthe eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon: {41:17} and theydeparted, and dwelt in Geruth Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to go toenter into Egypt, {41:18} because of the Chaldeans; for they wereafraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliahthe son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land.

{42:1} Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son ofKareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from theleast even unto the greatest, came near, {42:2} and said unto Jeremiahthe prophet, Let, we pray thee, our supplication be presented beforethee, and pray for us unto Jehovah thy God, even for all this remnant;for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us: {42:3}that Jehovah thy God may show us the way wherein we should walk, andthe thing that we should do. {42:4} Then Jeremiah the prophet said untothem, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto Jehovah your Godaccording to your words; and it shall come to pass that whatsoeverthing Jehovah shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keepnothing back from you. {42:5} Then they said to Jeremiah, Jehovah be atrue and faithful witness amongst us, if we do not according to all theword wherewith Jehovah thy God shall send thee to us. {42:6} Whether itbe good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of Jehovah ourGod, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obeythe voice of Jehovah our God. {42:7} And it came to pass after tendays, that the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah. {42:8} Then calledhe Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces thatwere with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,{42:9} and said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, untowhom ye sent me to present your supplication before him: {42:10} If yewill still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull youdown, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I repent me ofthe evil that I have done unto you. {42:11} Be not afraid of the kingof Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith Jehovah:for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.{42:12} And I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy upon you,and cause you to return to your own land. {42:13} But if ye say, Wewill not dwell in this land; so that ye obey not the voice of Jehovahyour God, {42:14} saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt,where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor havehunger of bread; and there will we dwell: {42:15} now therefore hear yethe word of Jehovah, O remnant of Judah: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts,the God of Israel, If ye indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, andgo to sojourn there; {42:16} then it shall come to pass, that thesword, which ye fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt;and the famine, whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after youthere in Egypt; and there ye shall die. {42:17} So shall it be with allthe men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there: theyshall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and noneof them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring uponthem. {42:18} For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Asmine anger and my wrath hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants ofJerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth upon you, when ye shallenter into Egypt; and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment,and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.{42:19} Jehovah hath spoken concerning you, O remnant of Judah, Go yenot into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified unto you this day.{42:20} For ye have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for yesent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah ourGod; and according unto all that Jehovah our God shall say, so declareunto us, and we will do it: {42:21} and I have this day declared it toyou; but ye have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah your God in anythingfor which he hath sent me unto you. {42:22} Now therefore knowcertainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by thepestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go to sojourn there.

{43:1} And it came to pass that, when Jeremiah had made an end ofspeaking unto all the people all the words of Jehovah their God,wherewith Jehovah their God had sent him to them, even all these words,{43:2} then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son ofKareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakestfalsely: Jehovah our God hath not sent thee to say, Ye shall not gointo Egypt to sojourn there; {43:3} but Baruch the son of Neriahsetteth thee on against us, to deliver us into the hand of theChaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive toBabylon. {43:4} So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains ofthe forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of Jehovah, todwell in the land of Judah. {43:5} But Johanan the son of Kareah, andall the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, thatwere returned from all the nations whither they had been driven, tosojourn in the land of Judah; {43:6} the men, and the women, and thechildren, and the king’s daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradanthe captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, theson of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah;{43:7} and they came into the land of Egypt; for they obeyed not thevoice of Jehovah: and they came unto Tahpanhes. {43:8} Then came theword of Jehovah unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, {43:9} Take greatstones in thy hand, and hide them in mortar in the brickwork, which isat the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the menof Judah; {43:10} and say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, theGod of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king ofBabylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that Ihave hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them. {43:11} Andhe shall come, and shall smite the land of Egypt; such as are for death[shall be given] to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity,and such as are for the sword to the sword. {43:12} And I will kindle afire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, andcarry them away captive: and he shall array himself with the land ofEgypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth fromthence in peace. {43:13} He shall also break the pillars ofBeth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the godsof Egypt shall he burn with fire.

{44:1} The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews thatdwelt in the land of Egypt, that dwelt at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, andat Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying, {44:2} Thus saithJehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Ye have seen all the evil that Ihave brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and,behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,{44:3} because of their wickedness which they have committed to provokeme to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve othergods, that they knew not, neither they, nor ye, nor your fathers.{44:4} Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising upearly and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that Ihate. {44:5} But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turnfrom their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. {44:6}Wherefore my wrath and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled inthe cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they arewasted and desolate, as it is this day. {44:7} Therefore now thus saithJehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Wherefore commit ye[this] great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man andwoman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave younone remaining; {44:8} in that ye provoke me unto anger with the worksof your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt,whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off, and that ye maybe a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? {44:9}Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness ofthe kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your ownwickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they committed inthe land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? {44:10} They arenot humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked inmy law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before yourfathers. {44:11} Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God ofIsrael: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cutoff all Judah. {44:12} And I will take the remnant of Judah, that haveset their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and theyshall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shallbe consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from theleast even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and theyshall be an execration, [and] an astonishment, and a curse, and areproach. {44:13} For I will punish them that dwell in the land ofEgypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, andby the pestilence; {44:14} so that none of the remnant of Judah, thatare gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or beleft, to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire toreturn to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.{44:15} Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense untoother gods, and all the women that stood by, a great assembly, even allthe people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answeredJeremiah, saying, {44:16} As for the word that thou hast spoken unto usin the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee. {44:17} But wewill certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth,to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour outdrink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, ourkings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets ofJerusalem; for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and sawno evil. {44:18} But since we left off burning incense to the queen ofheaven, and pouring out drink-offerings unto her, we have wanted allthings, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. {44:19}And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured outdrink-offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, andpour out drink-offerings unto her, without our husbands? {44:20} ThenJeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, evento all the people that had given him that answer, saying, {44:21} Theincense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets ofJerusalem, ye and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and thepeople of the land, did not Jehovah remember them, and came it not intohis mind? {44:22} so that Jehovah could not longer bear, because of theevil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye havecommitted; therefore is your land become a desolation, and anastonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.{44:23} Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinnedagainst Jehovah, and have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah, nor walkedin his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore thisevil is happened unto you, as it is this day. {44:24} Moreover Jeremiahsaid unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word ofJehovah, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt: {44:25} Thus saithJehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Ye and your wives haveboth spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it,saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burnincense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings untoher: establish then your vows, and perform your vows. {44:26} Thereforehear ye the word of Jehovah, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt:Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith Jehovah, that my nameshall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the landof Egypt, saying, As the Lord Jehovah liveth. {44:27} Behold, I watchover them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah that arein the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine,until there be an end of them. {44:28} And they that escape the swordshall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few innumber; and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land ofEgypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, ortheirs. {44:29} And this shall be the sign unto you, saith Jehovah,that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my wordsshall surely stand against you for evil: {44:30} Thus saith Jehovah,Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of hisenemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gaveZedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,who was his enemy, and sought his life.

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

{46:1} The word of Jehovah which came to Jeremiah the prophetconcerning the nations. {46:2} Of Egypt: concerning the army ofPharaoh-neco king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates inCarchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourthyear of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah. {46:3} Prepare yethe buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. {46:4} Harness thehorses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets;furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail. {46:5} Wherefore have Iseen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mightyones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: terror ison every side, saith Jehovah. {46:6} Let not the swift flee away, northe mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have theystumbled and fallen. {46:7} Who is this that riseth up like the Nile,whose waters toss themselves like the rivers? {46:8} Egypt riseth uplike the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and hesaith, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy citiesand the inhabitants thereof. {46:9} Go up, ye horses; and rage, yechariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handlethe shield; and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow. {46:10} Forthat day is [a day] of the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance,that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devourand be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord,Jehovah of hosts, hath a sacrifice in the north country by the riverEuphrates. {46:11} Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughterof Egypt: in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no healing forthee. {46:12} The nations have heard of thy shame, and the earth isfull of thy cry; for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty,they are fallen both of them together. {46:13} The word that Jehovahspake to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylonshould come and smite the land of Egypt. {46:14} Declare ye in Egypt,and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say ye,Stand forth, and prepare thee; for the sword hath devoured round aboutthee. {46:15} Why are thy strong ones swept away? they stood not,because Jehovah did drive them. {46:16} He made many to stumble, yea,they fell one upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go againto our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressingsword. {46:17} They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise;he hath let the appointed time pass by. {46:18} As I live, saith theKing, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely like Tabor among themountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come. {46:19} O thoudaughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity;for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, withoutinhabitant. {46:20} Egypt is a very fair heifer; [but] destruction outof the north is come, it is come. {46:21} Also her hired men in themidst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turnedback, they are fled away together, they did not stand: for the day oftheir calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation. {46:22}The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march withan army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. {46:23}They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot besearched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.{46:24} The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall bedelivered into the hand of the people of the north. {46:25} Jehovah ofhosts, the God of Israel, saith: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, andPharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, andthem that trust in him: {46:26} and I will deliver them into the handof those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzarking of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards itshall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith Jehovah. {46:27} Butfear not thou, O Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, O Israel: for,lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of theircaptivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, andnone shall make him afraid. {46:28} Fear not thou, O Jacob my servant,saith Jehovah; for I am with thee: for I will make a full end of allthe nations whither I have driven thee; but I will not make a full endof thee, but I will correct thee in measure, and will in no wise leavethee unpunished.

{47:1} The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophetconcerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. {47:2} Thussaith Jehovah: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shallbecome an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all thatis therein, the city and them that dwell therein; and the men shallcry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. {47:3} At thenoise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushingof his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers look notback to their children for feebleness of hands; {47:4} because of theday that cometh to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyreand Sidon every helper that remaineth: for Jehovah will destroy thePhilistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor. {47:5} Baldness iscome upon Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nought, the remnant of theirvalley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? {47:6} O thou sword of Jehovah,how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thyscabbard; rest, and be still. {47:7} How canst thou be quiet, seeingJehovah hath given thee a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against thesea-shore, there hath he appointed it.

{48:1} Of Moab. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Woeunto Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is put to shame, it istaken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down. {48:2} The praise ofMoab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come,and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shaltbe brought to silence: the sword shall pursue thee. {48:3} The sound ofa cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction! {48:4} Moab isdestroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. {48:5} For bythe ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for atthe descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry ofdestruction. {48:6} Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in thewilderness. {48:7} For, because thou hast trusted in thy works and inthy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chemosh shall go forthinto captivity, his priests and his princes together. {48:8} And thedestroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; thevalley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Jehovahhath spoken. {48:9} Give wings unto Moab, that she may fly and get heraway: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwelltherein. {48:10} Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovahnegligently; and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.{48:11} Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled onhis lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hathhe gone into captivity: therefore his taste remaineth in him, and hisscent is not changed. {48:12} Therefore, behold, the days come, saithJehovah, that I will send unto him them that pour off, and they shallpour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottlesin pieces. {48:13} And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the houseof Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence. {48:14} How say ye,We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war? {48:15} Moab is laidwaste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young menare gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is Jehovahof hosts. {48:16} The calamity of Moab is near to come, and hisaffliction hasteth fast. {48:17} All ye that are round about him,bemoan him, and all ye that know his name; say, How is the strong staffbroken, the beautiful rod! {48:18} O thou daughter that dwellest inDibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyerof Moab is come up against thee, he hath destroyed thy strongholds.{48:19} O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask himthat fleeth, and her that escapeth; say, What hath been done? {48:20}Moab is put to shame; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell ye itby the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste. {48:21} And judgment is comeupon the plain country, upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath,{48:22} and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim,{48:23} and upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon,{48:24} and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities ofthe land of Moab, far or near. {48:25} The horn of Moab is cut off, andhis arm is broken, saith Jehovah. {48:26} Make ye him drunken; for hemagnified himself against Jehovah: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit,and he also shall be in derision. {48:27} For was not Israel a derisionunto thee? was he found among thieves? for as often as thou speakest ofhim, thou waggest the head. {48:28} O ye inhabitants of Moab, leave thecities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that maketh hernest over the mouth of the abyss. {48:29} We have heard of the pride ofMoab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and hisarrogancy, and the haughtiness of his heart. {48:30} I know his wrath,saith Jehovah, that it is nought; his boastings have wrought nothing.{48:31} Therefore will I wail for Moab; yea, I will cry out for allMoab: for the men of Kir-heres shall they mourn. {48:32} With more thanthe weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah: thybranches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer:upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage the destroyer is fallen.{48:33} And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field andfrom the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from thewinepresses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be noshouting. {48:34} From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, even untoJahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, toEglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall becomedesolate. {48:35} Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saithJehovah, him that offereth in the high place, and him that burnethincense to his gods. {48:36} Therefore my heart soundeth for Moab likepipes, and my heart soundeth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres:therefore the abundance that he hath gotten is perished. {48:37} Forevery head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands arecuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. {48:38} On all the housetops ofMoab and in the streets thereof there is lamentation every where; for Ihave broken Moab like a vessel wherein none delighteth, saith Jehovah.{48:39} How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how hath Moab turnedthe back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror toall that are round about him. {48:40} For thus saith Jehovah: Behold,he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.{48:41} Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heartof the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a womanin her pangs. {48:42} And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people,because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah. {48:43} Fear, andthe pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saithJehovah. {48:44} He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit;and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: forI will bring upon him, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation,saith Jehovah. {48:45} They that fled stand without strength under theshadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flamefrom the midst of Sihon, and hath devoured the corner of Moab, and thecrown of the head of the tumultuous ones. {48:46} Woe unto thee, OMoab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken awaycaptive, and thy daughters into captivity. {48:47} Yet will I bringback the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith Jehovah. Thus faris the judgment of Moab.

{49:1} Of the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath Israel nosons? hath he no heir? why then doth Malcam possess Gad, and his peoplewell in the cities thereof? {49:2} Therefore, behold, the days come,saith Jehovah, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard againstRabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap,and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possessthem that did possess him, saith Jehovah. {49:3} Wail, O Heshbon, forAi is laid waste; cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth:lament, and run to and fro among the fences; for Malcam shall go intocaptivity, his priests and his princes together. {49:4} Whereforegloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backslidingdaughter? that trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come untome? {49:5} Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord,Jehovah of hosts, from all that are round about thee; and ye shall bedriven out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gathertogether the fugitives. {49:6} But afterward I will bring back thecaptivity of the children of Ammon, saith Jehovah. {49:7} Of Edom. Thussaith Jehovah of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perishedfrom the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? {49:8} Flee ye, turn back,dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring thecalamity of Esau upon him, the time that I shall visit him. {49:9} Ifgrape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaninggrapes? if thieves by night, would they not destroy till they hadenough? {49:10} But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secretplaces, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed isdestroyed, and his brethren, and his neighbors; and he is not. {49:11}Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thywidows trust in me. {49:12} For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, they towhom it pertained not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; andart thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not gounpunished, but thou shalt surely drink. {49:13} For I have sworn bymyself, saith Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, areproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall beperpetual wastes. {49:14} I have heard tidings from Jehovah, and anambassador is sent among the nations, [saying], Gather yourselvestogether, and come against her, and rise up to the battle. {49:15} For,behold, I have made thee small among the nations, and despised amongmen. {49:16} As for thy terribleness, the pride of thy heart hathdeceived thee, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, thatholdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest ashigh as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith Jehovah.{49:17} And Edom shall become an astonishment: every one that passethby it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.{49:18} As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighborcities thereof, saith Jehovah, no man shall dwell there, neither shallany son of man sojourn therein. {49:19} Behold, he shall come up like alion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for Iwill suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him willI appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time?and who is the shepherd that will stand before me? {49:20} Thereforehear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he hath taken against Edom; andhis purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman:Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock;surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them. {49:21} Theearth trembleth at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noisewhereof is heard in the Red Sea. {49:22} Behold, he shall come up andfly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and theheart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of awoman in her pangs. {49:23} Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, andArpad; for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away: there issorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. {49:24} Damascus is waxedfeeble, she turneth herself to flee, and trembling hath seized on her:anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.{49:25} How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?{49:26} Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all themen of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah ofhosts. {49:27} And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and itshall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad. {49:28} Of Kedar, and of thekingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote. Thussaith Jehovah: Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children ofthe east. {49:29} Their tents and their flocks shall they take; theyshall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels,and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Terror on every side!{49:30} Flee ye, wander far off, dwell in the depths, O ye inhabitantsof Hazor, saith Jehovah; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath takencounsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you. {49:31}Arise, get you up unto a nation that is at ease, that dwelleth withoutcare, saith Jehovah; that have neither gates nor bars, that dwellalone. {49:32} And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude oftheir cattle a spoil: and I will scatter unto all winds them that havethe corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamityfrom every side of them, saith Jehovah. {49:33} And Hazor shall be adwelling-place of jackals, a desolation for ever: no man shall dwellthere, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. {49:34} The wordof Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in thebeginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, {49:35} Thussaith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chiefof their might. {49:36} And upon Elam will I bring the four winds fromthe four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all thosewinds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shallnot come. {49:37} And I will cause Elam to be dismayed before theirenemies, and before them that seek their life; and I will bring evilupon them, even my fierce anger, saith Jehovah; and I will send thesword after them, till I have consumed them; {49:38} and I will set mythrone in Elam, and will destroy from thence king and princes, saithJehovah. {49:39} But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that Iwill bring back the captivity of Elam, saith Jehovah.

{50:1} The word that Jehovah spake concerning Babylon, concerningthe land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet. {50:2} Declare yeamong the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, andconceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach isdismayed; her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed. {50:3}For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shallmake her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled,they are gone, both man and beast. {50:4} In those days, and in thattime, saith Jehovah, the children of Israel shall come, they and thechildren of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, andshall seek Jehovah their God. {50:5} They shall inquire concerning Zionwith their faces thitherward, [saying], Come ye, and join yourselves toJehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten. {50:6}My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to goastray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gonefrom mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting-place. {50:7}All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, Weare not guilty, because they have sinned against Jehovah, thehabitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.{50:8} Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the landof the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flocks. {50:9} For,lo, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company ofgreat nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves inarray against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shallbe as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain. {50:10} AndChaldea shall be a prey: all that prey upon her shall be satisfied,saith Jehovah. {50:11} Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O yethat plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer thattreadeth out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses; {50:12} yourmother shall be utterly put to shame; she that bare you shall beconfounded: behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, awilderness, a dry land, and a desert. {50:13} Because of the wrath ofJehovah she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate:every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at allher plagues. {50:14} Set yourselves in array against Babylon roundabout, all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for shehath sinned against Jehovah. {50:15} Shout against her round about: shehath submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are throwndown; for it is the vengeance of Jehovah: take vengeance upon her; asshe hath done, do unto her. {50:16} Cut off the sower from Babylon, andhim that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of theoppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and theyshall flee every one to his own land. {50:17} Israel is a hunted sheep;the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devouredhim; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken hisbones. {50:18} Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God ofIsrael: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as Ihave punished the king of Assyria. {50:19} And I will bring Israelagain to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and hissoul shall be satisfied upon the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.{50:20} In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, the iniquity ofIsrael shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins ofJudah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leaveas a remnant. {50:21} Go up against the land of Merathaim, even againstit, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: slay and utterly destroyafter them, saith Jehovah, and do according to all that I havecommanded thee. {50:22} A sound of battle is in the land, and of greatdestruction. {50:23} How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunderand broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!{50:24} I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, OBabylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught,because thou hast striven against Jehovah. {50:25} Jehovah hath openedhis armory, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation; forthe Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a work [to do] in the land of theChaldeans. {50:26} Come against her from the utmost border; open herstore-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; letnothing of her be left. {50:27} Slay all her bullocks; let them go downto the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time oftheir visitation. {50:28} The voice of them that flee and escape out ofthe land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah ourGod, the vengeance of his temple. {50:29} Call together the archersagainst Babylon, all them that bend the bow; encamp against her roundabout; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work;according to all that she hath done, do unto her; for she hath beenproud against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel. {50:30}Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men ofwar shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah. {50:31}Behold, I am against thee, O thou proud one, saith the Lord, Jehovah ofhosts; for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. {50:32}And the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up;and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all thatare round about him. {50:33} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The childrenof Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and allthat took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.{50:34} Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah of hosts is his name: he willthoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, anddisquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. {50:35} A sword is upon theChaldeans, saith Jehovah, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and uponher princes, and upon her wise men. {50:36} A sword is upon theboasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is upon her mighty men,and they shall be dismayed. {50:37} A sword is upon their horses, andupon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in themidst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon hertreasures, and they shall be robbed. {50:38} A drought is upon herwaters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images,and they are mad over idols. {50:39} Therefore the wild beasts of thedesert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwelltherein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall itbe dwelt in from generation to generation. {50:40} As when Godoverthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saithJehovah, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of mansojourn therein. {50:41} Behold, a people cometh from the north; and agreat nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermostparts of the earth. {50:42} They lay hold on bow and spear; they arecruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and theyride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle,against thee, O daughter of Babylon. {50:43} The king of Babylon hathheard the tidings of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish hath takenhold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail. {50:44} Behold, [theenemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan againstthe strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it;and whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me?and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that can standbefore me? {50:45} Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that hehath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposedagainst the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away,[even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make theirhabitation desolate over them. {50:46} At the noise of the taking ofBabylon the earth trembleth, and the cry is heard among the nations.

{51:1} Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon,and against them that dwell in Leb-kamai, a destroying wind. {51:2} AndI will send unto Babylon strangers, that shall winnow her; and theyshall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be againsther round about. {51:3} Against [him that] bendeth let the archer bendhis bow, and against [him that] lifteth himself up in his coat of mail:and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. {51:4}And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrustthrough in her streets. {51:5} For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah,of his God, of Jehovah of hosts; though their land is full of guiltagainst the Holy One of Israel. {51:6} Flee out of the midst ofBabylon, and save every man his life; be not cut off in her iniquity:for it is the time of Jehovah’s vengeance; he will render unto her arecompense. {51:7} Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah’s hand,that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine;therefore the nations are mad. {51:8} Babylon is suddenly fallen anddestroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may behealed. {51:9} We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed:forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for herjudgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.{51:10} Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let usdeclare in Zion the work of Jehovah our God. {51:11} Make sharp thearrows; hold firm the shields: Jehovah hath stirred up the spirit ofthe kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, todestroy it: for it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of histemple. {51:12} Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, makethe watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Jehovahhath both purposed and done that which he spake concerning theinhabitants of Babylon. {51:13} O thou that dwellest upon many waters,abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thycovetousness. {51:14} Jehovah of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying],Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the canker-worm; and theyshall lift up a shout against thee. {51:15} He hath made the earth byhis power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by hisunderstanding hath he stretched out the heavens: {51:16} when heuttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and hecauseth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makethlightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of histreasuries. {51:17} Every man is become brutish [and is] withoutknowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his image; for his moltenimage is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. {51:18} They arevanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shallperish. {51:19} The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is theformer of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance:Jehovah of hosts is his name. {51:20} Thou art my battle-axe andweapons of war: and with thee will I break in pieces the nations; andwith thee will I destroy kingdoms; {51:21} and with thee will I breakin pieces the horse and his rider; {51:22} and with thee will I breakin pieces the chariot and him that rideth therein; and with thee will Ibreak in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces theold man and the youth; and with thee will I break in pieces the youngman and the virgin; {51:23} and with thee will I break in pieces theshepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces thehusbandman and his yoke [of oxen]; and with thee will I break in piecesgovernors and deputies. {51:24} And I will render unto Babylon and toall the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done inZion in your sight, saith Jehovah. {51:25} Behold, I am against thee, Odestroying mountain, saith Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth; andI will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from therocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. {51:26} And they shall nottake of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; butthou shalt be desolate for ever, saith Jehovah. {51:27} Set ye up astandard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare thenations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat,Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses tocome up as the rough canker-worm. {51:28} Prepare against her thenations, the kings of the Medes, the governors thereof, and all thedeputies thereof, and all the land of their dominion. {51:29} And theland trembleth and is in pain; for the purposes of Jehovah againstBabylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, withoutinhabitant. {51:30} The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight,they remain in their strongholds; their might hath failed; they arebecome as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars arebroken. {51:31} One post shall run to meet another, and one messengerto met another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken onevery quarter: {51:32} and the passages are seized, and the reeds theyhave burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. {51:33} Forthus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylonis like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a littlewhile, and the time of harvest shall come for her. {51:34}Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushedme, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowedme up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.{51:35} The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shallthe inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be upon the inhabitants ofChaldea, shall Jerusalem say. {51:36} Therefore thus saith Jehovah:Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I willdry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. {51:37} And Babylon shallbecome heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and ahissing, without inhabitant. {51:38} They shall roar together likeyoung lions; they shall growl as lions’ whelps. {51:39} When they areheated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, thatthey may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saithJehovah. {51:40} I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,like rams with he-goats. {51:41} How is Sheshach taken! and the praiseof the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among thenations! {51:42} The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered withthe multitude of the waves thereof. {51:43} Her cities are become adesolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth,neither doth any son of man pass thereby. {51:44} And I will executejudgment upon Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouththat which he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow anymore unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. {51:45} My people,go ye out of the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from thefierce anger of Jehovah. {51:46} And let not your heart faint, neitherfear ye for the tidings that shall be heard in the land; for tidingsshall come one year, and after that in another year [shall come]tidings, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. {51:47}Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment upon thegraven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; andall her slain shall fall in the midst of her. {51:48} Then the heavensand the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy overBabylon; for the destroyers shall come unto her from the north, saithJehovah. {51:49} As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, soat Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land. {51:50} Ye that haveescaped the sword, go ye, stand not still; remember Jehovah from afar,and let Jerusalem come into your mind. {51:51} We are confounded,because we have heard reproach; confusion hath covered our faces: forstrangers are come into the sanctuaries of Jehovah’s house. {51:52}Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will executejudgment upon her graven images; and through all her land the woundedshall groan. {51:53} Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, andthough she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shalldestroyers come unto her, saith Jehovah. {51:54} The sound of a cryfrom Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!{51:55} For Jehovah layeth Babylon waste, and destroyeth out of her thegreat voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of theirvoice is uttered: {51:56} for the destroyer is come upon her, even uponBabylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces;for Jehovah is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite. {51:57}And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors andher deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetualsleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.{51:58} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shallbe utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire;and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire;and they shall be weary. {51:59} The word which Jeremiah the prophetcommanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he wentwith Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of hisreign. Now Seraiah was chief chamberlain. {51:60} And Jeremiah wrote ina book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these wordsthat are written concerning Babylon. {51:61} And Jeremiah said toSeraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, then see that thou read all thesewords, {51:62} and say, O Jehovah, thou hast spoken concerning thisplace, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man norbeast, but that it shall be desolate for ever. {51:63} And it shall be,when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind astone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates: {51:64} andthou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise againbecause of the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall beweary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

{52:1} Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign;and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name wasHamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. {52:2} And he did thatwhich was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakimhad done. {52:3} For through the anger of Jehovah did it come to passin Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence.And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. {52:4} And it cameto pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in thetenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, heand all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and theybuilt forts against it round about. {52:5} So the city was besiegedunto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. {52:6} In the fourth month, inthe ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so thatthere was no bread for the people of the land. {52:7} Then a breach wasmade in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out ofthe city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, whichwas by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the cityround about;) and they went toward the Arabah. {52:8} But the army ofthe Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in theplains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. {52:9} Thenthey took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon toRiblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him. {52:10}And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: heslew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. {52:11} And he put outthe eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, andcarried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of hisdeath. {52:12} Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month,which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon,came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king ofBabylon, into Jerusalem: {52:13} and he burned the house of Jehovah,and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every greathouse, burned he with fire. {52:14} And all the army of the Chaldeans,that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls ofJerusalem round about. {52:15} Then Nebuzaradan the captain of theguard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and theresidue of the people that were left in the city, and those that fellaway, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of themultitude. {52:16} But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of thepoorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen. {52:17} And thepillars of brass that were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases andthe brazen sea that were in the house of Jehovah, did the Chaldeansbreak in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon. {52:18}The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, andthe spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered,took they away. {52:19} And the cups, and the firepans, and the basins,and the pots, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the bowls-thatwhich was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver,-the captain of the guard took away. {52:20} The two pillars, the onesea, and the twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases, which kingSolomon had made for the house of Jehovah-the brass of all thesevessels was without weight. {52:21} And as for the pillars, the heightof the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits didcompass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.{52:22} And a capital of brass was upon it; and the height of the onecapital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capitalround about, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like untothese, and pomegranates. {52:23} And there were ninety and sixpomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon thenetwork round about. {52:24} And the captain of the guard took Seraiahthe chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the threekeepers of the threshold: {52:25} and out of the city he took anofficer that was set over the men of war; and seven men of them thatsaw the king’s face, that were found in the city; and the scribe of thecaptain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; andthreescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midstof the city. {52:26} And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard tookthem, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. {52:27} Andthe king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in theland of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.{52:28} This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: inthe seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty; {52:29} inthe eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive fromJerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons; {52:30} in the threeand twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of theguard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and fivepersons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred. {52:31}And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity ofJehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five andtwentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the[first] year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king ofJudah, and brought him forth out of prison; {52:32} and he spake kindlyto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were withhim in Babylon, {52:33} and changed his prison garments. And[Jehoiachin] did eat bread before him continually all the days of hislife: {52:34} and for his allowance, there was a continual allowancegiven him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day ofhis death, all the days of his life.

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