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1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkijah, of the priests
 that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
1:2 to whom the word of Jehovah came in the days of Josiah the
 son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his
 reign;
1:3 it came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
 king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah
 the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the carrying away of
 Jerusalem captive, in the fifth month.
1:4 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before
 thou camest forth out of the womb I hallowed thee, I appointed
 thee a prophet unto the nations.
1:6 And I said, Alas, Lord Jehovah! behold, I cannot speak; for
 I am a child.
1:7 But Jehovah said unto me, Say not, I am a child; for thou
 shalt go to whomsoever I shall send thee, and whatsoever I
 command thee thou shalt speak.
1:8 Be not afraid of them; for I am with thee to deliver thee,
 saith Jehovah.
1:9 And Jehovah put forth his hand and touched my mouth; and
 Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
1:10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the
 kingdoms, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and
 to overthrow, to build and to plant.
1:11 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what
 seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree.
1:12 And Jehovah said unto me, Thou hast well seen; for I am
 watchful over my word to perform it.
1:13 And the word of Jehovah came to me the second time, saying,
 What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething-pot, and its face
 is from the north.
1:14 And Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north shall evil break
 forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
1:15 For behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms
 of the north, saith Jehovah, and they shall come, and they
 shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of
 Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and
 against all the cities of Judah:
1:16 and I will pronounce my judgments against them for all
 their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have
 burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of
 their own hands.
1:17 Thou, therefore, gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak
 unto them all that I shall command thee: be not dismayed at
 them, lest I cause thee to be dismayed before them.
1:18 And I, behold, I appoint thee this day as a strong city,
 and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land;
 against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its
 priests, and against the people of the land.
1:19 And they shall fight against thee, but they shall not
 prevail against thee: for I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to
 deliver thee.
2:1 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith
 Jehovah: I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the
 love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the
 wilderness, in a land not sown.
2:3 Israel was holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of his
 increase: all that devour him are guilty; evil shall come upon
 them, saith Jehovah.
2:4 Hear the word of Jehovah, house of Jacob, and all the
 families of the house of Israel.
2:5 Thus saith Jehovah: What injustice have your fathers found
 in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after
 vanity, and become vain?
2:6 And they said not, Where is Jehovah, that brought us up out
 of the land of Egypt, that led us in the wilderness, in a land
 of deserts and of pits, in a land of drought and of the shadow
 of death, in a land that no one passeth through, and where no
 man dwelleth?
2:7 And I brought you into a fruitful land, to eat the fruit
 thereof and the good thereof; and ye entered and defiled my
 land, and made my heritage an abomination.
2:8 The priests said not, Where is Jehovah? and they that
 handled the law knew me not; and the shepherds transgressed
 against me; and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked
 after [things that] do not profit.
2:9 Therefore will I yet plead with you, saith Jehovah, and with
 your children's children will I plead.
2:10 For pass over to the isles of Chittim, and see; and send
 unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there have been
 such a thing.
2:11 Hath a nation changed [its] gods? and they are no gods; --
 but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not
 profit.
2:12 Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, and shudder; be amazed
 very much, saith Jehovah.
2:13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken
 me, the fountain of living waters, to hew them out cisterns,
 broken cisterns that hold no water.
2:14 Is Israel a bondman? Is he a home-born [slave]? Why is he
 become a spoil?
2:15 The young lions roared against him, they gave forth their
 voice, and they made his land desolate: his cities are burned,
 without inhabitant.
2:16 Even the children of Noph and Tahapanes have fed on the
 crown of thy head.
2:17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast
 forsaken Jehovah thy God, at the time he was leading thee in
 the way?
2:18 And now, what hast thou to do with the way of Egypt, to
 drink the waters of Shihor? And what hast thou to do with the
 way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
2:19 Thine own wickedness chastiseth thee, and thy backslidings
 reprove thee: know then and see that it is an evil thing and
 bitter that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my
 fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
2:20 For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy
 bands; and thou saidst, I will not serve. For upon every high
 hill, and under every green tree, thou bowest down, playing the
 harlot.
2:21 And I, -- I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right
 seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a
 strange vine unto me?
2:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much
 potash, thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord
 Jehovah.
2:23 How sayest thou, I am not defiled, I have not gone after
 the Baals? See thy way in the valley, acknowledge what thou
 hast done -- a swift dromedary traversing her ways!
2:24 -- a wild ass, used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the
 wind in her desire! In her ardour, who shall turn her away? All
 they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they
 shall find her.
2:25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from
 thirst. But thou saidst, There is no hope; no, for I love
 strangers, and after them will I go.
2:26 As a thief is ashamed when he is found, so shall the house
 of Israel be ashamed -- they, their kings, their princes, and
 their priests, and their prophets --
2:27 saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou
 hast brought me forth; for they have turned the back unto me,
 and not the face; and in the time of their trouble they will
 say, Arise, and save us!
2:28 Where then are thy gods that thou hast made for thyself?
 let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy
 trouble: for as the number of thy cities, are thy gods, O
 Judah.
2:29 Wherefore would ye contend with me? Ye all have
 transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.
2:30 In vain have I smitten your children: they received no
 correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a
 destroying lion.
2:31 O generation, mark ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a
 wilderness unto Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Wherefore
 say my people, We have dominion; we will come no more unto
 thee?
2:32 Doth a virgin forget her ornaments, a bride her attire? But
 my people have forgotten me days without number.
2:33 How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast
 thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness.
2:34 Yea, in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the
 innocent poor, whom thou didst not encounter breaking in, but
 [it is found] upon all these.
2:35 And thou sayest, Indeed I am innocent; his anger will turn
 from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee because
 thou sayest, I have not sinned.
2:36 Why dost thou gad about so much, and change thy way? Thou
 shalt also be brought to shame by Egypt, as thou wast brought
 to shame by Assyria.
2:37 Thou shalt indeed go forth from her with thy hands upon thy
 head; for Jehovah hath rejected those thou confidest in, and
 thou shalt not prosper by them.
3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him,
 and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would
 not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed
 fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.
3:2 Lift up thine eyes unto the heights and see, where hast thou
 not been lain with? In the ways hast thou sat for them, as an
 Arab in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with
 thy fornications and with thy wickedness.
3:3 And the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no
 latter rain; but thou hast a harlot's forehead, thou refusest
 to be ashamed.
3:4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou
 art the guide of my youth?
3:5 Will he keep [his anger] for ever? Will he preserve it
 perpetually? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast done evil
 things, and thou art [so] determined.
3:6 And Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king,
 Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? She hath gone
 up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and
 there hath committed fornication.
3:7 And I said, After she hath done all these [things], she will
 return unto me; but she returned not. And her sister Judah, the
 treacherous, saw [it].
3:8 And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding
 Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a
 bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared
 not, but went and committed fornication also.
3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication
 that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones
 and with stocks.
3:10 And even for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not
 returned unto me with her whole heart, but with falsehood,
 saith Jehovah.
3:11 And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath shewn
 herself more just than treacherous Judah.
3:12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say,
 Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah: I will not make
 my face dark upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah; I will
 not keep [anger] for ever.
3:13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast
 transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast turned thy ways
 hither and thither to the strangers under every green tree; and
 ye have not hearkened to my voice, saith Jehovah.
3:14 Return, backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a
 husband unto you, and I will take you, one of a city, and two
 of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
3:15 And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, and
 they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
3:16 And it shall come to pass, when ye are multiplied in the
 land and become fruitful, in those days, saith Jehovah, they
 shall say no more, Ark of the covenant of Jehovah! neither
 shall it come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall
 they visit [it]; neither shall it be done any more.
3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of
 Jehovah; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the
 name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem; and they shall no more walk
 after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house
 of Israel; and they shall come together out of the land of the
 north, to the land which I caused your fathers to inherit.
3:19 And as for me, I said, How shall I put thee among the
 children, and give thee the pleasant land, the goodly
 inheritance of the hosts of the nations? And I said, Thou shalt
 call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from following me.
3:20 Surely [as] a woman treacherously departeth from her
 companion, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of
 Israel, saith Jehovah.
3:21 A voice is heard upon the heights, the weeping
 supplications of the children of Israel; for they have
 perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.
3:22 -- Return, backsliding children; I will heal your
 backslidings. ... Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art
 Jehovah our God.
3:23 Truly in vain [is salvation looked for] from the hills,
 [and] the multitude of mountains; truly in Jehovah our God is
 the salvation of Israel.
3:24 But shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our
 youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their
 daughters.
3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us;
 for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers,
 from our youth even unto this day, and have not hearkened to
 the voice of Jehovah our God.
4:1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, return unto
 me; and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my
 sight, then shalt thou not be a wanderer;
4:2 -- and thou shalt in truth, in justice, and in righteousness
 swear, [As] Jehovah liveth! and the nations shall bless
 themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
4:3 For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:
 Break up for you a fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
4:4 Circumcise yourselves for Jehovah, and take away the
 foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of
 Jerusalem; lest my fury come forth like fire and burn, and
 there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
4:5 Declare ye in Judah, and cause it to be heard in Jerusalem,
 and say, ... and blow the trumpet in the land, cry aloud and
 say, Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced
 cities.
4:6 Set up a banner toward Zion; take to flight, stay not! For I
 am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.
4:7 The lion is come up from his thicket, the destroyer of the
 nations is on his way; he is gone forth from his place, to make
 thy land desolate; thy cities shall be laid waste, without
 inhabitant.
4:8 For this, gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl! for the
 fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned away from us.
4:9 And it shall come to pass in 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 be amazed.
4:10 And I said, Alas, Lord Jehovah! surely thou hast greatly
 deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have
 peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.
4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to
 Jerusalem, A hot wind [cometh] from the heights in the
 wilderness, on the way of the daughter of my people, not for
 fanning, nor for cleansing.
4:12 A wind more vehement than that shall come from me: now will
 I also pronounce judgments against them.
4:13 Behold, he cometh up as clouds, and his chariots are as a
 whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for
 we are destroyed.
4:14 Wash thy heart, Jerusalem, from wickedness, that thou
 mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within
 thee?
4:15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction
 from mount Ephraim.
4:16 Inform the nations; behold, make Jerusalem to hear:
 Besiegers come from a far country, and raise their voice
 against the cities of Judah.
4:17 As keepers of a field are they against her round about; for
 she hath been rebellious against me, saith Jehovah.
4:18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these [things] unto
 thee; this is thy wickedness, yea, it is bitter, yea, it
 reacheth unto thy heart.
4:19 My bowels! my bowels! I am in travail! [Oh,] the walls of
 my heart! My heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my
 peace: for thou hearest, my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the
 clamour of war.
4:20 Destruction upon destruction is proclaimed; for the whole
 land is wasted: suddenly are my tents laid waste, my curtains,
 in a moment.
4:21 How long shall I see the standard, [and] hear the sound of
 the trumpet?
4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are
 sottish children, and they have no intelligence; they are wise
 to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
4:23 I beheld the earth, and lo, it was waste and empty; and the
 heavens, and they had no light.
4:24 I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the
 hills shook violently.
4:25 I beheld, and lo, man was not, and all the fowl of the
 heavens were fled.
4:26 I beheld, and lo, the fruitful land was a wilderness, and
 all the cities thereof were broken down, before Jehovah, before
 his fierce anger.
4:27 For thus saith Jehovah: The whole land shall be a
 desolation; but I will not make a full end.
4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be
 black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will
 not repent, neither will I turn back therefrom.
4:29 At the noise of the horsemen and bowmen, every city fleeth;
 they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every
 city is forsaken and no man dwelleth therein.
4:30 -- And thou, wasted one, what wilt thou do? Though thou
 clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with
 ornaments of gold, though thou rendest thine eyes with paint,
 in vain dost thou make thyself fair: [thy] lovers despise thee,
 they seek thy life.
4:31 For I hear a voice, as of a woman in travail, anguish as of
 her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the
 daughter of Zion: she moaneth, she spreadeth forth her hands,
 [saying], Woe unto me! for my soul faileth because of
 murderers.
5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see
 now, and know, and seek in the broadways thereof, if ye can
 find a man, if there be [any] that doeth justice, that seeketh
 fidelity; and I will pardon it.
5:2 And if they say, [As] Jehovah liveth! surely they swear
 falsely.
5:3 Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten
 them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have
 refused to receive correction: they have made their faces
 harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
5:4 And I said, Surely these are the wretched ones, they are
 foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, the judgment of
 their God.
5:5 I will go unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for
 they know the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God; but
 these have altogether broken the yoke, have burst the bonds.
5:6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf
 of the evenings shall waste them; the leopard lurketh against
 their cities, every one that goeth out thence is torn in
 pieces: for their transgressions are multiplied, their
 backslidings are increased.
5:7 Wherefore should I pardon thee? Thy children have forsaken
 me, and swear by them that are not God. I have satiated them,
 and they have committed adultery, and they troop to the
 harlots' house.
5:8 [As] well fed horses, they roam about, every one neigheth
 after his neighbour's wife.
5:9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah, and shall
 not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
5:10 Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end;
 take away her battlements, for they are not Jehovah's.
5:11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt
 very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah.
5:12 They have denied Jehovah, and say, He is not; and evil
 shall not come upon us, nor shall we see sword nor famine;
5:13 and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in
 them: thus shall it be done unto them.
5:14 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts: Because ye
 speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth
 fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
5:15 Behold, I bring a nation upon you from afar, house of
 Israel, saith Jehovah: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient
 nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither
 understandest thou what they say.
5:16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre; they are all mighty
 men.
5:17 And they shall eat up thy harvest and thy bread, they shall
 eat up thy sons and thy daughters, they shall eat up thy flocks
 and thy herds, they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees;
 they shall destroy with the sword thy strong cities, wherein
 thou trustedst.
5:18 Nevertheless in those days, saith Jehovah, I will not make
 a full end with you.
5:19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore
 hath Jehovah our God done all these things unto us? then shalt
 thou say to them, As ye have forsaken me, and served strange
 gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that
 is not yours.
5:20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in
 Judah, saying,
5:21 Hear now this, O foolish and heartless people, who have
 eyes and see not; who have ears, and hear not.
5:22 Will ye not fear me? saith Jehovah. Will ye not tremble at
 my presence, who have set the sand a bound for the sea by a
 perpetual decree, and it shall not pass it? and its waves toss
 themselves, but they do not prevail; and they roar, yet can
 they not pass over it?
5:23 But this people hath a stubborn and a rebellious heart;
 they have turned aside and are gone.
5:24 And they say not in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah
 our God, that giveth rain, both the early and the latter, in
 its season; who preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of
 harvest.
5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your
 sins have withholden from you what is good.
5:26 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait,
 as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.
5:27 As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of
 deceit: therefore they are become great, and have enriched
 themselves.
5:28 They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds
 of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the
 fatherless, and they prosper; and the right of the needy do
 they not adjudge.
5:29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall
 not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
5:30 An appalling and horrible thing is committed in the land:
5:31 the prophets prophesy falsehood, and the priests rule by
 their means; and my people love [to have it] so. But what will
 ye do in the end thereof?
6:1 Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst
 of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a
 signal in Beth-haccerem; for evil appeareth out of the north,
 and a great destruction.
6:2 The comely and delicate one do I cut off, the daughter of
 Zion.
6:3 Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall
 pitch [their] tents against her round about; they shall feed
 every one in his place.
6:4 Prepare war against her. Arise, and let us go up at noon.
 Woe unto us! for the day hath declined, for the shadows of the
 evening are lengthening.
6:5 Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her
 palaces.
6:6 For thus hath Jehovah of hosts said: Hew ye down trees, and
 cast a mound against Jerusalem. She is the city to be visited;
 she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
6:7 As a well poureth forth her waters, so she poureth forth her
 wickedness: violence and destruction are heard in her; before
 me continually are grief and wounds.
6:8 Be thou instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated
 from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.
6:9 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean
 like a vine the remnant of Israel: turn back thy hand, as a
 grape-gatherer unto the baskets.
6:10 To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear?
 Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken:
 behold, the word of Jehovah is unto them a reproach; they have
 no delight in it.
6:11 And I am full of the fury of Jehovah, I am weary with
 holding in. Pour it out upon the children in the street, and
 upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband
 with the wife shall be taken; the aged with him [that is] full
 of days.
6:12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, [their]
 fields and wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon
 the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah.
6:13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them,
 every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even
 unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely.
6:14 And they have healed the breach of the daughter of my
 people lightly, saying, Peace, peace! when there is no peace.
6:15 Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay,
 they are not at all ashamed, neither know they what it is to
 blush. Therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the
 time that I visit them they shall stumble, saith Jehovah.
6:16 Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for
 the ancient paths, which is the good way, and walk therein, and
 ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not
 walk [therein].
6:17 Also I have set watchmen over you: -- Hearken ye to the
 sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
6:18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O assembly, what is
 among them.
6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people,
 the fruit of their thoughts; for they have not hearkened unto
 my words, and as to my law, they have rejected it.
6:20 To what purpose should there come to me incense from Sheba,
 and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt-offerings are
 not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing unto me.
6:21 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will lay
 stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the
 sons together shall fall over them; the neighbour and his
 friend shall perish.
6:22 Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a people cometh from the north
 country, and a great nation is stirred up from the uttermost
 parts of the earth.
6:23 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no
 mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon
 horses, set in array as a man for the battle, against thee,
 daughter of Zion.
6:24 We have heard the report thereof: our hands are grown
 feeble; anguish hath taken hold of us, pain as of a woman that
 travaileth.
6:25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for
 [there is] the sword of the enemy, terror is on every side.
6:26 Daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and roll
 thyself in ashes: make mourning, [as] for an only son -- bitter
 lamentation; for the spoiler cometh suddenly upon us.
6:27 I have set thee among my people as an assayer, a fortress,
 that thou mayest know and try their way.
6:28 They are all the most rebellious of rebels, going about
 with slander: they are bronze and iron; they are all
 corrupters.
6:29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed by the fire;
 they have melted, and melted in vain; and the bad are not
 plucked away.
6:30 Reprobate silver shall they call them, for Jehovah hath
 rejected them.
7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,
7:2 Stand in the gate of Jehovah's house, and proclaim there
 this word, and say, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, all Judah,
 that enter in at these gates to worship Jehovah.
7:3 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your
 ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this
 place.
7:4 Confide ye not in words of falsehood, saying, Jehovah's
 temple, Jehovah's temple, Jehovah's temple is this.
7:5 But if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye
 really do justice between a man and his neighbour,
7:6 [if] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the
 widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walk
 after other gods to your hurt;
7:7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land
 that I gave to your fathers from of old even for ever.
7:8 Behold, ye confide in words of falsehood that cannot profit.
7:9 What? steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely,
 and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye
 know not ...
7:10 then ye come and stand before me, in this house which is
 called by my name, and say, We are delivered, -- in order to do
 all these abominations!
7:11 Is this house, which is called by my name, a den of robbers
 in your eyes? Even I, behold, I have seen it, saith Jehovah.
7:12 For go now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I
 caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it,
 for the wickedness of my people Israel.
7:13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith
 Jehovah, and I spoke unto you, rising up early and speaking,
 and ye heard not, and I called you, and ye answered not;
7:14 I will even do unto the house which is called by my name,
 wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to
 your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh;
7:15 and I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all
 your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.
7:16 And thou, pray not for this people, neither lift up cry nor
 prayer for them, and make not intercession to me; for I will
 not hear thee.
7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah, and in
 the streets of Jerusalem?
7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire,
 and the women knead dough, to make cakes to the queen of
 heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that
 they may provoke me to anger.
7:19 Is it I whom they provoke to anger? saith Jehovah; is it
 not themselves, to the shame of their own face?
7:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, mine anger
 and my fury shall be poured out upon this place; upon man, and
 upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit
 of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
7:21 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your
 burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.
7:22 For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them
 concerning burnt-offerings and sacrifices, in the day that I
 brought them out of the land of Egypt;
7:23 but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hearken unto my
 voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and
 walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well
 with you.
7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked
 in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and
 went backward and not forward.
7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land
 of Egypt, unto this day, have I sent unto you all my servants
 the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them;
7:26 but they have not hearkened unto me, nor inclined their
 ear; and they have hardened their neck: they have done worse
 than their fathers.
7:27 And thou shalt speak all these words unto them, but they
 will not hearken unto thee; and thou shalt call unto them, but
 they will not answer thee.
7:28 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation which hath
 not hearkened unto the voice of Jehovah their God, nor received
 correction; fidelity is perished, and is cut off from their
 mouth.
7:29 Cut off thy hair, and cast it away, and take up a
 lamentation on the heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and
 forsaken the generation of his wrath.
7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith
 Jehovah; they have set their abominations in the house which is
 called by my name, to defile it.
7:31 And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in
 the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their
 daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither did it
 come up into my mind.
7:32 Therefore, behold, days are coming, saith Jehovah, when it
 shall no more be said, Topheth, and Valley of the son of
 Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter; for they shall bury in
 Topheth, till there be no place.
7:33 And the carcases of this people shall be food for the fowl
 of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall
 scare [them] away.
7:34 And I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and
 from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice
 of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride;
 for the land shall become a waste.
8:1 At that time, saith Jehovah, they shall bring forth the
 bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and
 the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and
 the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;
8:2 and they shall spread them out to the sun and to the moon
 and to all the host of the heavens, which they have loved, and
 which they have served, and after which they have walked, and
 which they have sought, and which they have worshipped: they
 shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung
 upon the face of the ground.
8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the
 residue that remain of this evil family, in all the places
 whither I have driven those that remain, saith Jehovah of
 hosts.
8:4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Do [men]
 fall, and not rise up? Doth one turn away, and not return?
8:5 Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with a
 perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to
 return.
8:6 I hearkened and heard: they speak not what is right; there
 is no man who repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What
 have I done? Every one turneth to his course, like a horse
 rushing into the battle.
8:7 Even a stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, and
 the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time
 of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of
 Jehovah.
8:8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with
 us? Behold, certainly the lying pen of the scribes hath made it
 falsehood.
8:9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken:
 behold, they have rejected Jehovah's word; and what wisdom is
 in them?
8:10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, their fields
 to those that shall possess [them]; for every one, from the
 least even unto the greatest, is given to covetousness; from
 the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely.
8:11 And they have healed the breach of the daughter of my
 people lightly, saying, Peace, peace! when there is no peace.
8:12 Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay,
 they are not at all ashamed, and they know not how to blush.
 Therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of
 their visitation they shall stumble, saith Jehovah.
8:13 I will utterly take them away, saith Jehovah: there are no
 grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree; and the leaf is
 faded: and I will give them up to those that shall pass over
 them.
8:14 Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter
 into the fenced cities, and let us be silent there: for Jehovah
 our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to
 drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.
8:15 Peace is looked for, and there is no good; a time of
 healing, and behold, terror.
8:16 The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: the whole
 land trembleth at the sound of the neighing of his steeds, and
 they come, and devour the land, and all it contains, the city
 and those that dwell therein.
8:17 For behold, I send among you serpents, vipers against which
 there is no charm, and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
8:18 My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me!
8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people,
 from a very far country: Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her
 king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their
 graven images, with foreign vanities?
8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not
 saved.
8:21 -- For the breach of the daughter of my people am I
 crushed; I go mourning; astonishment hath taken hold of me.
8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there?
 Why then is there no dressing applied for the healing of the
 daughter of my people?
9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eye a fountain of
 tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the
 daughter of my people!
9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a traveller's lodging-place,
 that I might leave my people, and go away from them! For they
 are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
9:3 And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood, and not
 for fidelity are they valiant in the land; for they proceed
 from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.
9:4 Take ye heed every one of his friend, and confide not in any
 brother; for every brother only supplanteth, and every friend
 goeth about with slander.
9:5 And they act deceitfully every one with his neighbour, and
 speak not the truth: they teach their tongue to speak
 falsehood, they weary themselves with perverse dealing.
9:6 Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit
 they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.
9:7 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will melt
 them, and try them; for how else could I do for the daughter of
 my people?
9:8 Their tongue is a murderous arrow; it speaketh deceit. [A
 man] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in
 his heart he layeth his ambush.
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 weeping and wailing, and
 for the pastures of the wilderness, a lamentation; for they are
 burnt up, so that none passeth through them; and the voice of
 the cattle is not heard. Both the fowl of the heavens and the
 beasts are fled; they are gone.
9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of
 jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
 without inhabitant.
9:12 Who is a wise man, that he may understand this? and he to
 whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it?
 Why is the land perished, burnt up like a wilderness, so that
 none passeth through?
9:13 And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which
 I set before them, and have not hearkened unto my voice, nor
 walked in it,
9:14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart,
 and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them;
9:15 therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,
 Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them
 water of gall to drink,
9:16 and will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they
 nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after
 them, till I have consumed them.
9:17 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider, and call for the
 mourning women, that they may come, and send for the skilful
 women, that they may come;
9:18 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that
 our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth
 waters.
9:19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we
 spoiled, sorely put to shame! For we have forsaken the land,
 for they have cast down our dwellings.
9:20 Hear then the word of Jehovah, ye women, and let your ear
 receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters
 wailing, and each one her companion lamentation.
9:21 For death is come up through our windows, is entered into
 our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, the young
 men from the broadways.
9:22 Speak, Thus saith Jehovah: Yea, the carcases of men shall
 fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the
 reaper, and there shall be none to gather.
9:23 Thus saith Jehovah: Let not the wise glory in his wisdom,
 neither let the mighty glory in his might; let not the rich
 glory in his riches:
9:24 but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he
 understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] Jehovah, who exercise
 loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth; for
 in these things I delight, saith Jehovah.
9:25 Behold, days are coming, saith Jehovah, when I will visit
 all [them that are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;
9:26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and
 Moab, and all that have the corners [of their beard] 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 the word that Jehovah speaketh unto you, house of
 Israel.
10:2 Thus saith Jehovah: Learn not the way of the nations, and
 be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations
 are dismayed at them.
10:3 For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for [it is] a
 tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands
 of the artizan;
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 as a palm-column of turned work, and they speak
 not; they are carried, for they cannot go. Be not afraid of
 them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do
 good.
10:6 There is none like unto thee, Jehovah; thou art great, and
 thy name is great in might.
10:7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? For to thee
 doth it appertain; for among all the wise men of the nations,
 and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
10:8 But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the
 teaching of vanities is a stock.
10:9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and
 gold from Uphaz, the work of the artizan and of the hands of
 the founder; blue and purple is their clothing: they are all
 the work of skilful [men].
10:10 But Jehovah Elohim is truth; he is the living God, and the
 King of eternity. At his wrath the earth trembleth, and the
 nations cannot abide his indignation.
10:11 Thus shall ye say unto them: The gods that have not made
 the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth,
 and from under the heavens.
10:12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established
 the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by
 his understanding.
10:13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in
 the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the end
 of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth
 forth the wind out of his treasuries.
10:14 Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every
 founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten
 image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
10:15 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their
 visitation they shall perish.
10:16 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for it is he that
 hath formed all [things], and Israel is the rod of his
 inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
10:17 Gather up thy baggage out of the land, O inhabitress of
 the fortress.
10:18 For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will this time sling out
 the inhabitants of the land, and will distress them, that they
 may be found.
10:19 Woe is me, for my wound! My stroke is hard to heal, and I
 had said, Yea, this is [my] grief, and I will bear it.
10:20 My tent is despoiled, and all my cords are broken; my
 children are gone forth from me, and they are not; there is
 none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my
 curtains.
10:21 For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not sought
 Jehovah; therefore have they not acted wisely, and all their
 flock is scattered.
10:22 The voice of a rumour! Behold, it cometh, and a great
 commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah
 a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.
10:23 I know, Jehovah, that the way of man is not his own; it is
 not in a man that walketh to direct his steps.
10:24 Jehovah, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine
 anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
10:25 Pour out thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and
 upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have
 eaten up Jacob, yea, they have eaten him up and consumed him,
 and have laid waste his dwelling-place.
11:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,
11:2 Hear ye the words of this covenant; and speak ye unto the
 men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
11:3 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God
 of Israel: Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this
 covenant
11:4 which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought
 them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace,
 saying, Hearken unto my voice and do them, according to all
 that I command you; so shall ye be my people, and I will be
 your God:
11:5 that I may perform the oath that I have sworn unto your
 fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it
 is this day. And I answered and said, Amen, Jehovah!
11:6 And Jehovah said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the
 cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear
 the words of this covenant, and do them.
11:7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers, in the day
 that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, unto this day,
 rising early and protesting, saying, Hearken unto my voice.
11:8 But they have not hearkened, nor inclined their ear, but
 have walked every one in the stubbornness of their evil heart;
 and I have brought upon them all the words of this covenant,
 which I commanded [them] to do, and they have not done.
11:9 And Jehovah said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the
 men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
11:10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their
 forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they have gone
 after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the
 house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their
 fathers.
11:11 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will bring evil
 upon them, from which they shall not be able to escape; and
 they will cry unto me, and I will not hearken unto them.
11:12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of
 Jerusalem go and cry unto the gods unto whom they have burned
 incense; but they shall not save them at all in the time of
 their trouble.
11:13 For [as] the number of thy cities, are thy gods, O Judah;
 and [as] the number of the streets of Jerusalem, have ye set up
 altars to the Shame, altars to burn incense unto Baal.
11:14 And thou, pray not for this people, neither lift up cry
 nor prayer for them; for I will not hear in the time that they
 cry unto me for their trouble.
11:15 What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing that the
 more part practise their evil devices, and the holy flesh is
 passed from thee? When thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
11:16 Jehovah had called thy name, A green olive-tree, fair, of
 goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled
 fire upon it, and its branches are broken.
11:17 For Jehovah of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced
 evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of
 the house of Judah, which they have done for themselves, to
 provoke me to anger in burning incense unto Baal.
11:18 And Jehovah hath given me knowledge, and I know [it]; then
 thou shewedst me their doings.
11:19 And I was like a tame lamb [that] is led to the slaughter;
 and I knew not that they devised devices against me, [saying,]
 Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut
 him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no
 more remembered.
11:20 But thou, Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who
 triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on
 them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
11:21 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the men of
 Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name
 of Jehovah, that thou die not by our hand,
11:22 -- therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I punish
 them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and
 their daughters shall die by famine;
11:23 and there shall be no remnant of them; for I will bring
 evil upon the men of Anathoth, in the year of their visitation.
12:1 Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet
 will I speak with thee of [thy] judgments. Wherefore doth the
 way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they at ease
 that deal very treacherously?
12:2 Thou hast planted them, they also have taken root: they
 advance, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their
 mouth, but far from their reins.
12:3 But thou, Jehovah, knowest me; thou hast seen me, and
 proved my heart toward thee. Drag them out like sheep for the
 slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of all the
 fields wither? Because of the wickedness of them that dwell
 therein, the beasts and the birds perish; for they say, He will
 not see our end.
12:5 If thou hast run with footmen, and they have wearied thee,
 how wilt thou then contend with horses? And if in a land of
 peace thou thinkest thyself in security, how wilt thou then do
 in the swelling of the Jordan?
12:6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even
 they have dealt treacherously with thee, even they have cried
 aloud after thee. Believe them not, though they speak good
 [words] unto thee.
12:7 I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage, I
 have given the beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
12:8 My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest; it
 hath raised its voice against me: therefore have I hated it.
12:9 My heritage is unto me [as] a speckled bird of prey; the
 birds of prey round about are against her. Go, assemble all the
 beasts of the field, bring them to devour.
12:10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have
 trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant
 portion a desolate wilderness:
12:11 they have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourneth unto
 me: the whole land is made desolate, for no man layeth it to
 heart.
12:12 Spoilers are come upon all heights in the wilderness; for
 the sword of Jehovah devoureth from one end of the land even to
 the [other] end of the land: no flesh hath peace.
12:13 They have sown wheat, and they reap thorns; they have put
 themselves to pain, [and] do not profit. Be ye therefore
 ashamed of your revenues, because of the fierce anger of
 Jehovah.
12:14 Thus saith Jehovah against all mine evil neighbours, that
 touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to
 inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up out of their land, and
 pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
12:15 And it shall come to pass, after I have plucked them up, I
 will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them
 back, each one to his inheritance, and each one to his land.
12:16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn
 the ways of my people, to swear by my name, [As] Jehovah liveth
 -- even as they taught my people to swear by Baal -- they shall
 be built up in the midst of my people.
12:17 And if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and
 destroy that nation, saith Jehovah.
13:1 Thus said Jehovah unto me: Go and buy thee a linen girdle,
 and put it upon thy loins; but dip it not in water.
13:2 And I bought a girdle according to the word of Jehovah, and
 put it upon my loins.
13:3 And the word of Jehovah came unto me the second time,
 saying,
13:4 Take the girdle that thou hast bought, which is upon thy
 loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a
 hole of the rock.
13:5 So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as Jehovah had
 commanded me.
13:6 And it came to pass at the end of many days, that Jehovah
 said unto me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the girdle
 from thence which I commanded thee to hide there.
13:7 And I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the
 girdle from the place where I had hid it; and behold, the
 girdle was spoiled, it was good for nothing.
13:8 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
13:9 Thus saith Jehovah: After this manner will I spoil the
 pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
13:10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in
 the stubbornness of their heart, and go after other gods, to
 serve them and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle
 which is good for nothing.
13:11 For as a girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I
 caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the
 whole house of Judah, saith Jehovah; that they might be unto me
 for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a
 glory: but they would not hear.
13:12 And thou shalt speak unto them this word: Thus saith
 Jehovah, the God of Israel, Every skin shall be filled with
 wine. And they will say unto thee, Do we not very well know
 that every skin shall be filled with wine?
13:13 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold,
 I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings
 that sit for David upon his throne, and the priests and the
 prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with
 drunkenness.
13:14 And I will dash them one against another, both the fathers
 and the sons together, saith Jehovah; I will not pity, nor
 spare, nor have mercy so as not to destroy them.
13:15 Hear ye, and give ear, be not lifted up; for Jehovah hath
 spoken.
13:16 Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness,
 and before your feet stumble upon the mountains of twilight;
 and ye shall look for light, but he will turn it into the
 shadow of death, and make [it] gross darkness.
13:17 And if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret
 places for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run
 down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is gone into
 captivity.
13:18 Say unto the king and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit
 down low; for from your heads shall come down the crown of your
 magnificence.
13:19 The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to
 open [them]; all Judah is carried away captive: it is wholly
 carried away captive.
13:20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the
 north. Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful
 flock?
13:21 What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee, since thou
 thyself hast trained them to be princes in chief over thee?
 Shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
13:22 And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore come these things
 upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts
 uncovered, [and] thy heels have suffered violence.
13:23 Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots?
 [Then] may ye also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
13:24 And I will scatter them as stubble that passeth away by
 the wind of the wilderness.
13:25 This shall be thy lot, thy measured portion from me, saith
 Jehovah; because thou hast forgotten me, and confided in
 falsehood.
13:26 Therefore will I also turn thy skirts over thy face, and
 thy shame shall be seen.
13:27 Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy
 fornication, on the hills, in the fields, -- thine
 abominations, have I seen. Woe unto thee, Jerusalem! Wilt thou
 not be made clean? after how long a time yet?
14:1 The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the
 drought.
14:2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they are
 black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem goeth up.
14:3 And their nobles send their little ones for water: they
 come to the pits, they find no water; they return with their
 vessels empty; they are ashamed, they are confounded, and have
 covered their heads.
14:4 Because the ground is chapt, for there hath been no rain on
 the earth, the ploughmen are ashamed, they cover their heads.
14:5 For the hind also calveth in the field, and forsaketh [its
 young], because there is no grass.
14:6 And the wild asses stand on the heights, they snuff up the
 wind like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no
 herbage.
14:7 Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou
 act for thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many -- we
 have sinned against thee.
14:8 Thou hope of Israel, its Saviour in the time of trouble,
 why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a traveller
 that turneth aside to stay a night?
14:9 Why wilt thou be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that
 cannot save? Yet thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of us, and we
 are called by thy name: leave us not.
14:10 Thus saith Jehovah to this people: Even so have they loved
 to wander, they have not refrained their feet; and Jehovah hath
 no delight in them: now will he remember their iniquity, and
 visit their sins.
14:11 And Jehovah said unto me, Pray not for this people for
 their good.
14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they
 offer up burnt-offering and oblation, I will not accept them:
 for I will consume them by sword, and by famine, and by
 pestilence.
14:13 And I said, Alas, Lord Jehovah! Behold, the prophets say
 unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have
 famine; for I will give you assured peace in this place.
14:14 And Jehovah said unto me, The prophets prophesy falsehood
 in my name; I have not sent them, neither have I commanded
 them, nor spoken unto them: they prophesy unto you a false
 vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit
 of their heart.
14:15 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that
 prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, and who say, Sword
 and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and by famine
 shall those prophets be consumed;
14:16 and the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in
 the streets of Jerusalem, because of the famine and the sword;
 and there shall be none to bury them, them, their wives, and
 their sons, and their daughters; and I will pour their
 wickedness upon them.
14:17 And thou shalt say this word unto them: Let mine eyes run
 down with tears, night and day, and not cease; for the virgin
 daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a
 very grievous blow.
14:18 If I go forth into the field, behold the slain with the
 sword! and if I enter into the city, behold them that pine away
 with famine! For both prophet and priest shall go about into a
 land that they know not.
14:19 -- Hast thou then utterly rejected Judah? Doth thy soul
 loathe Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing
 for us? Peace is looked for, and there is no good, -- and a
 time of healing, and behold terror!
14:20 Jehovah, we acknowledge our wickedness, the iniquity of
 our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.
14:21 For thy name's sake, do not spurn [us], do not disgrace
 the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with
 us.
14:22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can
 cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou HE,
 Jehovah, our God? And we wait upon thee; for thou hast made all
 these things.
15:1 And Jehovah said unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood
 before me, my soul [would] not [turn] toward this people. Send
 [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.
15:2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither
 shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith
 Jehovah: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for
 the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the
 famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.
15:3 For I will visit them with four kinds [of punishments],
 saith Jehovah: the sword to slay, and dogs to tear, and the
 fowl of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and
 to destroy.
15:4 And I will give them over to be driven hither and thither
 amongst all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the
 son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in
 Jerusalem.
15:5 For who shall have pity upon thee, Jerusalem? and who shall
 bemoan thee? and who shall turn aside to ask after thy welfare?
15:6 Thou hast cast me off, saith Jehovah, thou art gone
 backward; and I have stretched out my hand against thee, and
 will destroy thee: I am become weary of repenting.
15:7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I
 will bereave of children [and] destroy my people: they have not
 returned from their ways.
15:8 Their widows are increased to me more than the sand of the
 seas; I have brought upon them, against the mother of the young
 men, a spoiler at noonday; I have caused anguish and terror to
 fall upon her suddenly.
15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth, she hath given up
 the ghost; her sun is gone down while it is yet day; she is put
 to shame and confounded. And the residue of them will I give up
 to the sword before their enemies, saith Jehovah.
15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of
 strife and a man of contention to the whole land! I have not
 lent on usury, nor have they lent to me on usury; [yet] every
 one of them doth curse me.
15:11 Jehovah said, Verily I will set thee free for [thy] good;
 verily I will cause the enemy to meet thee kindly in the time
 of evil and in the time of affliction.
15:12 Will iron break? iron from the north? and bronze?
15:13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil
 without price, and that for all thy sins, and in all thy
 borders;
15:14 and I will make [them] to pass with thine enemies into a
 land that thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine
 anger; it shall burn upon you.
15:15 Jehovah, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and
 avenge me of my persecutors; in thy long-suffering take me not
 away: know that for thy sake I bear reproach.
15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy words
 were unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; for I am called
 by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.
15:17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor exulted: I
 sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with
 indignation.
15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable? It
 refuseth to be healed. Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a
 treacherous [spring], [as] waters that fail?
15:19 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: If thou return, then will I
 bring thee again, thou shalt stand before me; and if thou take
 forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth.
 Let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
15:20 And I will make thee unto this people a strong brazen
 wall; and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not
 prevail against thee: for I am with thee, to save thee and to
 deliver thee, saith Jehovah;
15:21 yea, I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked,
 and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
16:1 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
16:2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, and thou shalt not have
 sons nor daughters in this place.
16:3 For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning
 the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their
 mothers that bear them, and concerning their fathers that beget
 them in this land:
16:4 They shall die of painful deaths; they shall not be
 lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung
 upon the face of the ground, and they shall be consumed by the
 sword, and by famine, and their carcases shall be food for the
 fowl of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.
16:5 For thus saith Jehovah: Enter not into the house of
 wailing, neither go to lament or bemoan them; for I have taken
 away my peace from this people, saith Jehovah, the
 loving-kindness and the tender mercies.
16:6 Both great and small shall die in this land: they shall not
 be buried; and none shall lament for them, or cut themselves,
 nor make themselves bald for them.
16:7 Nor shall they break [bread] for them in mourning, to
 comfort them for the dead; neither shall they give them the cup
 of consolations to drink for their father or for their mother.
16:8 And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting, to sit
 with them, to eat and to drink.
16:9 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold,
 I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes, and
 in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the
 voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt declare unto
 this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee,
 Wherefore hath Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against
 us? and what is our iniquity? and what is our sin which we have
 committed against Jehovah our God?
16:11 then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have
 forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods,
 and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have
 forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
16:12 and you, ye have done still worse than your fathers; and
 there ye are walking every one after the stubbornness of his
 evil heart, not to hearken unto me:
16:13 and I will cast you forth out of this land, into a land
 that ye know not, ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve
 other gods day and night: because I will shew you no favour.
16:14 Therefore, behold, days are coming, saith Jehovah, that it
 shall no more be said, [As] Jehovah liveth, who brought up the
 children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
16:15 but, [As] Jehovah liveth, who brought up the children of
 Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands
 whither he had driven them. For I will bring them again into
 their land, which I gave unto their fathers.
16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah, and
 they shall fish them; and afterwards will I send for many
 hunters, and they shall hunt them, from every mountain, and
 from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
16:17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not
 concealed from my face, neither is their iniquity hidden from
 before mine eyes.
16:18 But first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin
 double, because they have profaned my land with the carcases of
 their detestable things, and with their abominations have they
 filled mine inheritance.
16:19 Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the
 day of distress, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends
 of the earth, and they shall say, Surely our fathers have
 inherited falsehood [and] vanity; and in these things there is
 no profit.
16:20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no-gods?
16:21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I
 will cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall
 know that my name is Jehovah.
17:1 The sin of Judah is written with a style of iron, with the
 point of a diamond, engraven upon the tablet of their heart,
 and upon the horns of your altars;
17:2 whilst their children remember their altars and their
 Asherahs, by the green trees, upon the high hills.
17:3 My mountain in the field, thy substance, all thy treasures
 will I give for a spoil, -- thy high places, because of sin
 throughout thy borders.
17:4 And of thyself thou shalt let go thine inheritance which I
 gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in a
 land that thou knowest not; for ye have kindled a fire in mine
 anger, -- it shall burn for ever.
17:5 Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that confideth in
 man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from
 Jehovah.
17:6 And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not
 see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places
 in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
17:7 Blessed is the man that confideth in Jehovah, and whose
 confidence Jehovah is.
17:8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, and that
 spreadeth out its roots by the stream, and he shall not see
 when heat cometh, but his leaf shall be green; and in the year
 of drought he shall not be careful, neither shall he cease to
 yield fruit.
17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who
 can know it?
17:10 I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give
 each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his
 doings.
17:11 [As] the partridge sitteth on [eggs] it hath not laid,
 [so] is he that getteth riches and not by right: in the midst
 of his days shall he leave them, and at his end shall be a
 fool.
17:12 A throne of glory, [set] on high from the beginning, is
 the place of our sanctuary.
17:13 Thou hope of Israel, Jehovah! all that forsake thee shall
 be ashamed. They that depart from me shall be written in the
 earth; because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of
 living waters.
17:14 Heal me, Jehovah, and I shall be healed; save me, and I
 shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
17:15 Behold, these say unto me, Where is the word of Jehovah?
 let it then come!
17:16 But as for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd
 in following thee, neither have I desired the fatal day, thou
 knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face.
17:17 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my refuge in the day of
 evil.
17:18 Let them be ashamed that persecute me, but let not me be
 ashamed; let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed;
 bring upon them the day of evil, and break them with a double
 breaking.
17:19 Thus hath Jehovah said unto me: Go and stand in the gate
 of the children of the people, by which the kings of Judah come
 in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of
 Jerusalem;
17:20 and say unto them, Hear the word of Jehovah, ye kings of
 Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
 that enter in by these gates;
17:21 thus saith Jehovah: Take heed to your souls, and bear no
 burden on the sabbath day, and bring nothing in through the
 gates of Jerusalem;
17:22 and carry forth no burden out of your houses on the
 sabbath day, neither do any work; but hallow ye the sabbath
 day, as I commanded your fathers,
17:23 but they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but
 hardened their neck, that they might not hear nor receive
 instruction.
17:24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto
 me, saith Jehovah, to bring in no burden through the gates of
 this city on the sabbath day, and to hallow the sabbath day, to
 do no work therein;
17:25 then shall there enter in, through the gates of this city,
 kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in
 chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of
 Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall be
 inhabited for ever.
17:26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the
 places around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and
 from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the
 south, bringing burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and oblations,
 and incense, and bringing thanksgiving unto the house of
 Jehovah.
17:27 But if ye will not hearken unto me, to hallow the sabbath
 day and not to bear a burden and enter in through the gates of
 Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then will I kindle a fire in the
 gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem,
 and it shall not be quenched.
18:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,
18:2 Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will
 cause thee to hear my words.
18:3 And I went down to the potter's house; and behold, he
 wrought a work on the wheels.
18:4 And the vessel that he made was marred, as clay, in the
 hand of the potter; and he made it again another vessel, as
 seemed good to the potter to make.
18:5 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
18:6 House of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith
 Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in
 my hand, house of Israel.
18:7 At the moment that I speak concerning a nation and
 concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to break down, and to
 destroy,
18:8 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from
 their evil, then I will repent of the evil that I thought to do
 unto them.
18:9 And at the moment that I speak concerning a nation and
 concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant,
18:10 if it do evil in my sight, that it hearken not unto my
 voice, then I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would
 benefit them.
18:11 And now, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants
 of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I prepare
 evil against you, and devise a device against you: turn ye then
 every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your
 doings.
18:12 But they say, There is no hope; for we will walk after our
 own devices, and we will each one do [according to] the
 stubbornness of his evil heart.
18:13 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ask ye now among the
 nations, Who hath heard such things? The virgin of Israel hath
 done a very horrible thing.
18:14 Shall the snow of Lebanon cease from the rock of the
 field? Shall the cool flowing waters coming from afar be dried
 up?
18:15 For my people hath forgotten me: they burn incense to
 vanity; and they have caused them to stumble in their ways, the
 ancient paths, to walk in by-paths of a way not cast up;
18:16 to make their land an astonishment, a perpetual hissing:
 every one that passeth by shall be astonished, and shake his
 head.
18:17 As with an east wind will I scatter them before the enemy;
 I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of
 their calamity.
18:18 And they said, Come, and let us devise devices against
 Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel
 from the wise, nor word from the prophet. Come and let us smite
 him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his
 words.
18:19 Jehovah, give heed to me, and listen to the voice of those
 that contend with me.
18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have digged a
 pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good
 for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
18:21 Therefore give up their children to the famine, and
 deliver them over to the power of the sword; and let their
 wives be bereaved of children and be widows; and let their men
 be swept off by death, their young men be smitten by the sword
 in battle.
18:22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt
 bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to
 take me, and have hidden snares for my feet.
18:23 And thou, Jehovah, knowest all their counsel against me to
 slay me. Forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin
 from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee: deal
 with them in the time of thine anger.
19:1 Thus saith Jehovah: Go and buy a potter's earthen flagon,
 and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of
 the priests;
19:2 and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is
 by the entry of the pottery-gate, and proclaim there the words
 that I shall tell thee,
19:3 and say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah, and
 inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God
 of Israel: Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which
 whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle;
19:4 because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this
 place [from me], and have burned incense in it unto other gods,
 whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings
 of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of
 innocents;
19:5 and they have built the high places of Baal, to burn their
 sons in the fire as burnt-offerings unto Baal, which I
 commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it up into my mind:
19:6 therefore behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that this place
 shall no more be called Topheth, nor Valley of the son of
 Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter.
19:7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in
 this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before
 their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their life,
 and their carcases will I give as food to the fowl of the
 heavens and to the beasts of the earth.
19:8 And I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing;
 every one that passeth by shall be astonished and hiss because
 of all the plagues thereof.
19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and
 the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat everyone the
 flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the straitness
 wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall
 straiten them.
19:10 And thou shalt break the flagon in the sight of the men
 that go with thee,
19:11 and shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Even
 so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a
 potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again. And they
 shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.
19:12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith Jehovah, and to the
 inhabitants thereof, and make this city as Topheth.
19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of
 Judah shall be as the place of Topheth, defiled, all the houses
 upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of
 the heavens, and have poured out drink-offerings unto other
 gods.
19:14 And Jeremiah came from Topheth, whither Jehovah had sent
 him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Jehovah's house,
 and said to all the people,
19:15 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I
 will bring upon this city and upon all her cities all the evil
 that I have spoken against it; for they have hardened their
 necks, not to hear my words.
20:1 And Pashur the son of Immer, the priest -- and he was chief
 officer in the house of Jehovah -- heard Jeremiah prophesy
 these things.
20:2 And Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the
 stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in
 the house of Jehovah.
20:3 And it came to pass the next day, that Pashur brought forth
 Jeremiah out of the stocks; and Jeremiah said unto him, Jehovah
 hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.
20:4 For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I make thee a terror to
 thyself, and to all thy friends; and they shall fall by the
 sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall see [it]; and I
 will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
 he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall smite them
 with the sword.
20:5 And, I will give all the wealth of this city, and all its
 gains, and all its precious things, and all the treasures of
 the kings of Judah, will I give into the hand of their enemies;
 and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them
 to Babylon.
20:6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thy house shall go
 into captivity; and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou
 shalt die, and there thou shalt be buried, thou and all thy
 friends to whom thou hast prophesied falsehood.
20:7 Jehovah, thou hast enticed me, and I was enticed; thou hast
 laid hold of me, and hast prevailed; I am become a derision the
 whole day: every one mocketh me.
20:8 For as oft as I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and
 spoil; for the word of Jehovah is become unto me a reproach and
 a derision all the day.
20:9 And I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any
 more in his name: but it was in my heart as a burning fire shut
 up in my bones; and I became wearied with holding in, and I
 could not.
20:10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every
 side: Report, and we will report it. All my familiars are
 watching for my stumbling: Peradventure he will be enticed, and
 we shall prevail against him; and we shall take our revenge on
 him.
20:11 But Jehovah is with me as a mighty terrible one; therefore
 my persecutors shall stumble and shall not prevail; they shall
 be greatly ashamed, for they have not prospered: it shall be an
 everlasting confusion that shall not be forgotten.
20:12 And thou, Jehovah of hosts, who triest the righteous, who
 seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on
 them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
20:13 Sing ye unto Jehovah, praise Jehovah, for he hath
 delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.
20:14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day
 wherein my mother bore me be blessed!
20:15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father,
 saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad!
20:16 And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew,
 and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and a
 shouting at noonday,
20:17 because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my
 mother had been my grave, and her womb always great [with me]!
20:18 Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and
 sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?
21:1 The word that came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, when king
 Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Malchijah, and
 Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,
21:2 Inquire, I pray thee, of Jehovah for us; for Nebuchadrezzar
 the king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that
 Jehovah will deal with us according to all his marvellous
 works, that he may go up from us.
21:3 And Jeremiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
21:4 Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn
 back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which ye
 fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans
 who besiege you, outside the walls, and I will assemble them
 into the midst of this city.
21:5 And I myself will fight against you with a stretched-out
 hand, and with a strong arm, and in anger, and in fury, and in
 great wrath.
21:6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and
 beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
21:7 And afterwards, saith Jehovah, I will give Zedekiah king of
 Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left
 in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the
 famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon,
 and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those
 that seek their life, and he shall smite them with the edge of
 the sword: he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have
 mercy.
21:8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith Jehovah:
 Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
21:9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by
 the famine, and by the pestilence; but he that goeth out, and
 deserteth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and
 his life shall be unto him for a prey.
21:10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not
 for good, saith Jehovah: it shall be given into the hand of the
 king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
21:11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, hear ye the
 word of Jehovah.
21:12 House of David, thus saith Jehovah: Judge with justice in
 the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of
 the oppressor, lest my fury go forth like fire and burn, and
 there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
21:13 Behold, I am against thee, inhabitress of the valley, the
 rock of the plain, saith Jehovah; ye that say, Who shall come
 down against us, or who shall enter into our dwellings?
21:14 And I will visit you according to the fruit of your
 doings, saith Jehovah; and I will kindle a fire in her forest,
 and it shall devour all that is round about her.
22:1 Thus saith Jehovah: Go down to the house of the king of
 Judah, and speak there this word,
22:2 and say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O king of Judah, that
 sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and
 thy people who enter in through these gates.
22:3 Thus saith Jehovah: Execute judgment and righteousness, and
 deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor; and do no
 wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the
 widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place.
22:4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in
 through the gates of this house kings sitting in the place of
 David upon his throne, riding in chariots and on horses, -- he,
 and his servants, and his people.
22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I have sworn by
 myself, saith Jehovah, that this house shall become a waste.
22:6 For thus saith Jehovah concerning the house of the king of
 Judah: Thou art a Gilead unto me, the summit of Lebanon: verily
 I will make thee a wilderness, cities not inhabited.
22:7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with
 his weapons; and they shall cut down the choice of thy cedars,
 and cast [them] into the fire.
22:8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall
 say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath Jehovah done
 thus unto this great city?
22:9 And they shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant
 of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and served
 them.
22:10 Weep not for the dead, neither bemoan him; [but] weep sore
 for him that goeth away, for he shall return no more, nor see
 his native country.
22:11 For thus saith Jehovah concerning Shallum the son of
 Josiah, the king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his
 father, who went forth out of this place: He shall not return
 thither any more;
22:12 for he shall die in the place whither they have led him
 captive, and shall see this land no more.
22:13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness,
 and his upper chambers by injustice; that taketh his
 neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not his
 earning;
22:14 that saith, I will build me a wide house, and spacious
 upper chambers; and he cutteth out for himself windows; and it
 is wainscoted with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
22:15 Shalt thou reign, because thou viest with the cedar? Did
 not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice? Then
 it was well with him.
22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was
 well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
22:17 But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion,
 and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression
 and on violence, to do it.
22:18 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the son
 of Josiah, the king of Judah: They shall not lament for him,
 Ah, my brother! or, Ah, sister! They shall not lament for him,
 Ah, lord! or Ah, his glory!
22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, dragged
 along and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
22:20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and give forth thy voice in
 Bashan, and cry from [the heights of] Abarim: for all thy
 lovers are destroyed.
22:21 I spoke unto thee in thy prosperity; [but] thou saidst, I
 will not hear. This hath been thy way from thy youth, that thou
 hearkenedst not unto my voice.
22:22 The wind shall feed on all thy shepherds, and thy lovers
 shall go into captivity; surely, then shalt thou be ashamed and
 confounded for all thy wickedness.
22:23 Thou inhabitress of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the
 cedars, how pitiful shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee,
 pain as of a woman in travail!
22:24 [As] I live, saith Jehovah, though Coniah the son of
 Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a signet upon my right hand,
 yet will I pluck thee thence;
22:25 and I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy
 life, and into the hand of them before whom thou art afraid,
 even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into
 the hand of the Chaldeans.
22:26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee,
 into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall
 ye die.
22:27 And into the land whereunto they lift up their souls to
 return, thither shall they not return.
22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken vase? a vessel
 wherein is no delight? Wherefore are they thrown out, he and
 his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah!
22:30 Thus saith Jehovah: Write this man childless, a man that
 shall not prosper in his days; for no man of his seed shall
 prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more
 in Judah.
23:1 Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep
 of my pasture! saith Jehovah.
23:2 Therefore thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel concerning
 the shepherds that feed my people: Ye have scattered my flock,
 and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will
 visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith Jehovah.
23:3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all
 countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again
 to their pastures; and they shall be fruitful and shall
 multiply.
23:4 And I will raise up shepherds over them, who shall feed
 them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither
 shall any be missing, saith Jehovah.
23:5 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, when I will raise
 unto David a righteous Branch, who shall reign as king, and act
 wisely, and shall execute judgment and righteousness in the
 land.
23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell in
 safety; and this is his name whereby he shall be called,
 Jehovah our Righteousness.
23:7 Therefore behold, days are coming, saith Jehovah, that they
 shall no more say, [As] Jehovah liveth, who brought up the
 children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
23:8 but, [As] Jehovah liveth, who brought up and who led back
 the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and
 from all countries whither I had driven them. And they shall
 dwell in their own land.
23:9 Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken; all
 my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom
 wine hath overcome; because of Jehovah, and because of the
 words of his holiness.
23:10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of
 execration the land mourneth. The pastures of the wilderness
 are dried up; for their course is evil, and their force is not
 right.
23:11 For both prophet and priest are profane: even in my house
 have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.
23:12 Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places
 in the darkness; they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for
 I will bring evil upon them in the year of their visitation,
 saith Jehovah.
23:13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they
 prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
23:14 And in the prophets of Jerusalem have I seen a horrible
 thing: they commit adultery, and walk in falsehood, and
 strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none doth return
 from his wickedness. They are all become unto me as Sodom, and
 the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
23:15 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the
 prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them
 drink water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is
 profaneness gone forth into all the land.
23:16 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Hearken not unto the words of
 the prophets that prophesy unto you: they lead you to vanity;
 they speak a vision of their own heart, not out of the mouth of
 Jehovah.
23:17 They say constantly unto them that despise me, Jehovah
 hath said, Ye shall have peace. And they say unto every one
 that walketh in the stubbornness of his heart, No evil shall
 come upon you.
23:18 For who hath stood in the council of Jehovah, so that he
 hath perceived and heard his word? who hath hearkened to his
 word and listened?
23:19 Behold, a tempest of Jehovah, fury is gone forth, yea, a
 whirling storm: it shall whirl down upon the head of the
 wicked.
23:20 The anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he have
 executed, and until he have performed the purposes of his
 heart: at the end of the days ye shall understand it clearly.
23:21 I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I have not
 spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
23:22 But if they had stood in my council, and had caused my
 people to hear my words, then would they have turned them from
 their evil way and from the wickedness 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, that I shall not
 see him? saith Jehovah. Do not I fill the heavens and the
 earth? saith Jehovah.
23:25 I have heard what the prophets say, who prophesy falsehood
 in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
23:26 How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets who
 prophesy falsehood, and who are prophets of the deceit of their
 own heart?
23:27 who think to cause my people to forget my name by their
 dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour: as their
 fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
23:28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell the dream; and
 he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is
 the chaff to the wheat? saith Jehovah.
23:29 Is not my word like a fire, saith Jehovah; and like a
 hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces?
23:30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith
 Jehovah, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
23:31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that use
 their tongues, and say, He hath said.
23:32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams,
 saith Jehovah, and that tell them, and cause my people to err
 by their lies and by their boasting; and I have not sent them,
 nor commanded them; and they profit not this people at all,
 saith Jehovah.
23:33 And when this people, or a prophet, or a priest, ask thee,
 saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? thou shalt then say unto
 them, What burden? I will even cast you off, saith Jehovah.
23:34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people,
 that shall say, The burden of Jehovah, I will even punish that
 man and his house.
23:35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every
 one to his brother: What hath Jehovah answered? and, What hath
 Jehovah spoken?
23:36 And the burden of Jehovah shall ye mention no more; for
 every man's own word shall be his burden: for ye have perverted
 the words of the living God, of Jehovah of hosts, our God.
23:37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: What hath Jehovah
 answered thee? and, What hath Jehovah spoken?
23:38 But since ye say, The burden of Jehovah, therefore thus
 saith Jehovah: Because ye say this word, The burden of Jehovah,
 and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden
 of Jehovah;
23:39 therefore behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will
 cast you off, far from my face, and the city that I gave to you
 and to your fathers.
23:40 And I will bring everlasting reproach upon you, and
 everlasting shame, that shall not be forgotten.
24:1 Jehovah shewed me, and behold, two baskets of figs, set
 before the temple of Jehovah, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of
 Babylon had carried away captive from Jerusalem, Jeconiah the
 son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and the princes of Judah,
 and the craftsmen and smiths, and had brought them to Babylon.
24:2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs first ripe;
 and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be
 eaten for badness.
24:3 And Jehovah said unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I
 said, Figs: the good figs very good; and the bad very bad,
 which cannot be eaten for badness.
24:4 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
24:5 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Like these good
 figs, so will I regard for good them that are carried away
 captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the
 land of the Chaldeans;
24:6 and I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will
 bring them again to this land; and I will build them and not
 pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.
24:7 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Jehovah;
 and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they
 shall return unto me with their whole heart.
24:8 And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten for badness,
 surely, thus saith Jehovah: So will I make Zedekiah the king of
 Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, that
 remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt.
24:9 And I will give them over to be driven hither and thither
 unto all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach
 and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I
 shall drive them;
24:10 and I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the
 pestilence, until they be consumed from off the land that I
 gave unto them and to their fathers.
25:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of
 Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the
 king of Judah (that is, the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king
 of Babylon),
25:2 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto all the people of
 Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:
25:3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, the
 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 early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
25:4 And Jehovah hath sent unto you all his servants the
 prophets, rising early and sending; but ye have not hearkened,
 nor inclined your ear to hear,
25:5 when they said, Turn again now every one from his evil way,
 and from the wickedness of your doings, and dwell in the land
 that Jehovah hath given unto you and to your fathers from of
 old even for ever.
25:6 And go not after other gods, to serve them and to worship
 them; and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands;
 and I will do you no hurt.
25:7 But ye have not hearkened unto me, saith Jehovah; that ye
 might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, to your
 own hurt.
25:8 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Because ye have not
 listened to my words,
25:9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,
 saith Jehovah, and [I will send] to Nebuchadrezzar the king of
 Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and
 against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations
 round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an
 astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual wastes.
25:10 And I will cause to perish from them the voice of mirth
 and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice
 of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the
 lamp.
25:11 And this whole land shall become a waste, an astonishment;
 and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy
 years.
25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are
 accomplished, [that] I will visit on the king of Babylon and on
 that nation, saith Jehovah, their iniquity, and on the land of
 the Chaldeans, and I will make it perpetual desolations.
25:13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have
 pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which
 Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
25:14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of
 them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds,
 and according to the work of their hands.
25:15 For thus hath Jehovah the God of Israel said unto me: Take
 the cup of the wine of this fury at my hand, and cause all the
 nations to whom I send thee to drink it.
25:16 And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad,
 because of the sword that I will send among them.
25:17 And I took the cup at Jehovah's hand, and made all the
 nations to drink, to whom Jehovah had sent me:
25:18 Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof,
 and the princes thereof, to make them a waste, an astonishment,
 a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
25:19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes,
 and all his people;
25:20 and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land
 of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and
 Ashkelon, and Gazah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
25:21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;
25:22 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and
 the kings of the isles that are beyond the sea;
25:23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners
 [of their beard] cut off;
25:24 and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the
 mingled people that dwell in the desert;
25:25 and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and
 all the kings of the Medes;
25:26 and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with
 another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the
 face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after
 them.
25:27 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts,
 the God of Israel: Drink, and be drunken, and vomit, and fall,
 and rise no more, because of the sword that I will send among
 you.
25:28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup from thy
 hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith
 Jehovah of hosts: Ye shall certainly drink.
25:29 For behold, I begin to bring evil on the city that is
 called by my name, and should ye be altogether unpunished? Ye
 shall not be unpunished; for I call for a sword upon all the
 inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah of hosts.
25:30 And thou, prophesy unto them all these words, and say unto
 them, Jehovah will roar from on high, and utter his voice from
 his holy habitation; he will mightily roar upon his
 dwelling-place, he will give a shout, as they that tread [the
 vintage], against all the inhabitants of the earth.
25:31 The noise shall come to the end of the earth: for Jehovah
 hath a controversy with the nations, he entereth into judgment
 with all flesh; as for the wicked, he will give them up to the
 sword, saith Jehovah.
25:32 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, evil shall go forth
 from nation to nation, and a great storm shall be raised up
 from the uttermost parts of the earth.
25:33 And the slain of Jehovah shall [be] at that day from [one]
 end of the earth even unto the [other] end of the earth: they
 shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall
 be dung upon the face of the ground.
25:34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves [in the
 dust], noble ones of the flock: for the days of your slaughter
 are accomplished, and I will disperse you; and ye shall fall
 like a precious vessel.
25:35 And refuge shall perish from the shepherds, and escape
 from the noble ones of the flock.
25:36 There shall be a voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a
 howling of the noble ones of the flock: for Jehovah layeth
 waste their pasture;
25:37 and the peaceable enclosures shall be desolated, because
 of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
25:38 He hath forsaken his covert as a young lion; for their
 land is a desolation because of the fierceness of the
 oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
26:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of
 Josiah, the king of Judah, came this word from Jehovah, saying,
26:2 Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the court of Jehovah's house,
 and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship
 in Jehovah's house, all the words that I command thee to speak
 unto them: diminish not a word.
26:3 Peradventure they will hearken, and turn every man from his
 evil way, that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to
 do unto them because of the wickedness of their doings.
26:4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: If ye
 will not hearken unto me, to walk in my law, which I have set
 before you,
26:5 to hearken unto the words of my servants the prophets, whom
 I have sent unto you, even rising early and sending [them], but
 ye have not hearkened,
26:6 -- then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make
 this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
26:7 And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard
 Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah.
26:8 And it came to pass when Jeremiah had ended speaking all
 that Jehovah had commanded [him] to speak unto all the people,
 that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized
 him, saying, Thou shalt certainly die.
26:9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying,
 This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be
 desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered
 against Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.
26:10 And the princes of Judah heard these things; and they went
 up from the king's house unto the house of Jehovah, and sat in
 the entry of the new gate of Jehovah.
26:11 And the priests and the prophets spoke unto the princes
 and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die, for
 he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with
 your ears.
26:12 And Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the
 people, saying, Jehovah sent me to prophesy against this house
 and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
26:13 And now, amend your ways and your doings, and hearken to
 the voice of Jehovah your God; and Jehovah will repent him of
 the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
26:14 But as for me, behold, I am in your hand; do unto me as
 seemeth good and right in your eyes:
26:15 only know for certain that if ye put me to death, ye shall
 surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this
 city, and upon the inhabitants thereof; for of a truth Jehovah
 hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
26:16 And the princes and all the people said unto the priests
 and to the prophets, This man is not worthy to die; for he hath
 spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God.
26:17 And there rose up certain of the elders of the land and
 spoke to all the congregation of the people, saying,
26:18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah
 king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying,
 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be ploughed [as] a
 field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of
 the house as the high places of a forest.
26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to
 death? Did he not fear Jehovah, and supplicate Jehovah, and
 Jehovah repented him of the evil that he had pronounced against
 them? And we should be doing a great evil against our souls.
26:20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of
 Jehovah, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim: and he
 prophesied against this city and against this land according to
 all the words of Jeremiah;
26:21 and Jehoiakim the king, and all his mighty men, and all
 the princes, heard his words, and the king sought to put him to
 death; but Urijah heard it, and he was afraid, and fled, and
 went into Egypt.
26:22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the
 son of Achbor, and men with him, into Egypt;
26:23 and they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought
 him to Jehoiakim the king; and he slew him with the sword, and
 cast his dead body into the graves of the children of the
 people.
26:24 -- Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was
 with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of
 the people to put him to death.
27:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of
 Josiah, the king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from
 Jehovah, saying,
27:2 Thus hath Jehovah said unto me: Make thee bonds and yokes,
 and put them upon thy neck;
27:3 and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab,
 and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of
 Tyre, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers
 that come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah.
27:4 And give them a charge unto their masters, saying, Thus
 saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Thus shall ye say
 unto your masters:
27:5 I have made the earth, man and beast that are upon the face
 of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and
 I give them unto whom it seemeth right in mine eyes.
27:6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of
 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of
 the field also have I given him to serve him.
27:7 And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his
 son's son, until the time of his land also come, when many
 nations and great kings shall reduce him to servitude.
27:8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom
 which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,
 and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of
 Babylon, that nation will I visit, saith Jehovah, with the
 sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I
 have consumed them by his hand.
27:9 And ye, hearken not to your prophets, nor to your diviners,
 nor to your dreamers, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your
 sorcerers, who speak unto you saying: Ye shall not serve the
 king of Babylon.
27:10 For they prophesy falsehood unto you, to remove you far
 from your land, and that I should drive you out, and ye should
 perish.
27:11 But the nation that bringeth its neck under the yoke of
 the king of Babylon and serveth him, will I let remain still in
 its own land, saith Jehovah; and they shall till it, and dwell
 therein.
27:12 And I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all
 these words, saying, bring your necks under the yoke of the
 king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
27:13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the
 famine, and by the pestilence, as Jehovah hath spoken
 concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
27:14 And hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak
 unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon; for
 they prophesy falsehood unto you.
27:15 For I have not sent them, saith Jehovah, yet they prophesy
 falsely in my name; in order that I should drive you out, and
 that ye should perish, ye, and the prophets who prophesy unto
 you.
27:16 And I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying,
 Thus saith Jehovah: Hearken not to the words of your prophets
 that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of
 Jehovah's house shall now shortly be brought again from
 Babylon; for they prophesy falsehood unto you.
27:17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and
 live: wherefore should this city become a waste?
27:18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of Jehovah be
 with them, let them now make intercession to Jehovah of hosts,
 that the vessels which are left in the house of Jehovah, and in
 the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to
 Babylon.
27:19 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the pillars,
 and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and
 concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,
27:20 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he
 carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of
 Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of
 Judah and Jerusalem;
27:21 yea, thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,
 concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Jehovah,
 and in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:
27:22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be
 until the day of my visiting them, saith Jehovah; then I will
 bring them up, and restore them to this place.
28:1 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the
 reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the
 fifth month, [that] Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who
 was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Jehovah, in the
 presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
28:2 Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying,
 I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
28:3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place
 all the vessels of Jehovah's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of
 Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon;
28:4 and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of
 Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah
 that went to Babylon, saith Jehovah: for I will break the yoke
 of the king of Babylon.
28:5 And the prophet Jeremiah spoke unto the prophet Hananiah in
 the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the
 people that stood in the house of Jehovah.
28:6 And the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen, may Jehovah do so! may
 Jehovah perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring
 again from Babylon, into this place, the vessels of Jehovah's
 house, and all them of the captivity!
28:7 Nevertheless, hear, I pray thee, this word which I speak in
 thine ears, and in the ears of all the people:
28:8 The prophets that have been before me and before thee of
 old, prophesied also concerning many countries and concerning
 great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
28:9 The prophet that prophesieth of peace, when the word of the
 prophet shall come to pass, shall be known as the prophet whom
 Jehovah hath really sent.
28:10 And the prophet Hananiah took the yoke from off the
 prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broke it.
28:11 And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people,
 saying, Thus saith Jehovah: So will I break the yoke of
 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon within two full years from
 off the neck of all the nations. And the prophet Jeremiah went
 his way.
28:12 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, after that the
 prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke from off the neck of the
 prophet Jeremiah, saying,
28:13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou
 hast broken the yokes of wood, and thou hast made in their
 place yokes of iron.
28:14 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: I have
 put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that
 they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall
 serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.
28:15 And the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah,
 Hear now, Hananiah: Jehovah hath not sent thee; and thou makest
 this people to trust in falsehood.
28:16 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will cast thee
 from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, for
 thou hast spoken revolt against Jehovah.
28:17 And the prophet Hananiah died in the same year in the
 seventh month.
29:1 And these are the words of the letter that the prophet
 Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of
 the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to
 all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive
 from Jerusalem to Babylon
29:2 (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the
 eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen,
 and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem);
29:3 by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the
 son of Hilkijah (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon,
 unto Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), saying,
29:4 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all
 the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away from
 Jerusalem unto Babylon:
29:5 Build houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat
 the fruit of them.
29:6 Take wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives
 for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they
 may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and be not
 diminished.
29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to
 be carried away captive, and pray unto Jehovah for it: for in
 the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
29:8 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not
 your prophets that are in your midst, nor your diviners deceive
 you, neither hearken to your dreams, which ye like to dream.
29:9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not
 sent them, saith Jehovah.
29:10 For thus saith Jehovah: When seventy years shall be
 accomplished for Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good
 word toward you, in bringing you back to this place.
29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith
 Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you in
 your latter end a hope.
29:12 And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto
 me, and I will hearken unto you;
29:13 and ye shall seek me and find me, for ye shall search for
 me with all your heart,
29:14 and I will be found of you, saith Jehovah. And I will turn
 your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and
 from all the places whither I have driven you, saith Jehovah;
 and I will bring you again into the place whence I have caused
 you to be carried away captive.
29:15 If ye say, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
29:16 yea, thus saith Jehovah concerning the king that sitteth
 upon the throne of David, and concerning all the people that
 dwell in this city, your brethren that are not gone forth with
 you into captivity;
29:17 thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will send against
 them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make
 them like the vile figs, that cannot be eaten for badness.
29:18 And I will pursue them with the sword, with the famine,
 and with the pestilence, and will give them over to be driven
 hither and thither into all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an
 execration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach,
 among all the nations whither I will drive them:
29:19 because they have not hearkened to my words, saith
 Jehovah, wherewith I sent unto them my servants the prophets,
 rising early and sending; but ye have not hearkened, saith
 Jehovah.
29:20 But ye, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from
 Jerusalem to Babylon, hear the word of Jehovah.
29:21 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning
 Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of
 Maaseiah, who prophesy falsehood unto you in my name: Behold, I
 will give them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
 and he shall smite them before your eyes.
29:22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity
 of Judah that are in Babylon, saying, Jehovah make thee like
 Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the
 fire;
29:23 because they have committed infamy in Israel, and have
 committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have
 spoken words of falsehood in my name, which I had not commanded
 them: and I [am] he that knoweth, and [am] witness, saith
 Jehovah.
29:24 And thou shalt speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,
29:25 Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying,
 Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people
 that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the
 priest, and to all the priests, saying,
29:26 Jehovah hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the
 priest, that there should be officers [in] the house of
 Jehovah, over every madman and self-made prophet, that thou
 shouldest put him in the stocks and in the shackles.
29:27 And now, why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth,
 who maketh himself a prophet to you?
29:28 Forasmuch as he hath sent unto us in Babylon, saying, It
 will be long; build houses, and dwell [in them], and plant
 gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
29:29 -- And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears
 of the prophet Jeremiah.
29:30 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, saying,
29:31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith
 Jehovah concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because that
 Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he
 hath caused you to trust in falsehood;
29:32 therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will punish
 Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man
 to dwell among this people; neither shall he see the good that
 I will do for my people, saith Jehovah; because he hath spoken
 revolt against Jehovah.
30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,
30:2 Thus speaketh Jehovah the God of Israel, saying, Write thee
 in a book all the words that I have spoken unto thee.
30:3 For behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, when I will turn
 the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith Jehovah; and
 I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their
 fathers, and they shall possess it.
30:4 And these are the words that Jehovah hath spoken concerning
 Israel and concerning Judah;
30:5 for thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voice of trembling,
 there is fear, and no peace.
30:6 Ask ye now, and see, whether a male doth travail with
 child? Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his
 loins, as a woman in travail; and all faces are turned into
 paleness?
30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is
 even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of
 it.
30:8 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of
 hosts, I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst
 thy bonds, and strangers shall no more reduce him to servitude.
30:9 But they shall serve Jehovah their God, and David their
 king, whom I will raise up unto them.
30:10 And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith Jehovah;
 neither be dismayed, O Israel: for behold, I will save thee
 from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and
 Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and at ease, and none
 shall make [him] afraid.
30:11 For I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to save thee: for I
 will make a full end of all the nations whither I have
 scattered thee; yet of thee will I not make a full end, but I
 will correct thee with judgment, and will not hold thee
 altogether guiltless.
30:12 For thus saith Jehovah: Thy bruise is incurable, thy wound
 is grievous.
30:13 There is none to plead thy cause, to bind up [thy wound];
 thou hast no healing medicines.
30:14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not.
 For I have smitten thee with the stroke of an enemy, with the
 chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine
 iniquity: thy sins are manifold.
30:15 Why criest thou because of thy bruise? thy sorrow is
 incurable; for the greatness of thine iniquity, [because] thy
 sins are manifold, I have done these things unto thee.
30:16 Therefore all that devour thee shall be devoured, and all
 thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity;
 and they that spoil thee shall be for a spoil; and all they
 that prey upon thee will I give to be a prey.
30:17 For I will apply a bandage unto thee, and I will heal thee
 of thy wounds, saith Jehovah; for they have called thee an
 outcast: This is Zion that no man seeketh after.
30:18 Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will turn the captivity of
 Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his habitations; and the city
 shall be built upon her own heap; and the palace shall be
 inhabited after the manner thereof.
30:19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving, and the voice
 of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they
 shall not be diminished; and I will honour them, and they shall
 not be small.
30:20 And their sons shall be as aforetime; and their assembly
 shall be established before me; and I will punish all that
 oppress them.
30:21 And their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler
 shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to
 approach, and he shall draw near unto me. For who is this that
 engageth his heart to draw near unto me? saith Jehovah.
30:22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
30:23 Behold, a tempest of Jehovah, fury is gone forth, a
 sweeping storm: it shall whirl down upon the head of the
 wicked.
30:24 The fierce anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he
 have executed, and until he have performed the purposes of his
 heart. At the end of the days ye shall consider it.
31:1 At that time, saith Jehovah, will I be the God of all the
 families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
31:2 Thus saith Jehovah: The people [that were] left of the
 sword have found grace in the wilderness, [even] Israel, when I
 go to give him rest.
31:3 Jehovah hath appeared from afar unto me, [saying,] Yea, I
 have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with
 loving-kindness have I drawn thee.
31:4 I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin
 of Israel! Thou shalt again be adorned with thy tambours, and
 shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
31:5 Thou shalt again plant vineyards upon the mountains of
 Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall eat the fruit.
31:6 For there shall be a day, when the watchmen upon mount
 Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up to Zion, unto
 Jehovah our God.
31:7 For thus saith Jehovah: Sing aloud [with] gladness for
 Jacob, and shout at the head of the nations; publish ye, praise
 ye, and say, Jehovah, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
31:8 Behold, I bring them from the north country, and gather
 them from the uttermost parts of the earth; [and] among them
 the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that
 travaileth with child together: a great assemblage shall they
 return hither.
31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I
 lead them; I will cause them to walk by water-brooks, in a
 straight way, wherein they shall not stumble; for I will be a
 father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
31:10 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye nations, and declare [it] to
 the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will
 gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd his flock.
31:11 For Jehovah hath ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the
 hand of one stronger than he.
31:12 And they shall come and sing aloud upon the height of
 Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of Jehovah, for
 corn, and for new wine, and for oil, and for the young of the
 flock and of the herd; and their soul shall be as a watered
 garden, and they shall not languish any more at all.
31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young
 men and old together; for I will turn their mourning into
 gladness, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice after
 their sorrow.
31:14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness,
 and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith
 Jehovah.
31:15 Thus saith Jehovah: A voice hath been heard in Ramah, the
 wail of very bitter weeping, -- Rachel weeping for her
 children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because
 they are not.
31:16 Thus saith Jehovah: Refrain thy voice from weeping, and
 thine eyes from tears; for there is a reward for thy work,
 saith Jehovah; and they shall come again from the land of the
 enemy.
31:17 And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah, and
 thy children shall come again to their own border.
31:18 I have indeed heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]: Thou
 hast chastised me, and I was chastised as a bullock not
 trained: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art
 Jehovah my God.
31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after I
 knew myself, I smote upon [my] thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even
 confounded, for I bear the reproach of my youth.
31:20 Is Ephraim a dear son unto me? is he a child of delights?
 For whilst I have been speaking against him, I do constantly
 remember him still. Therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I
 will certainly have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah.
31:21 Set up waymarks, make for thyself signposts; set thy heart
 toward the highway, the way by which thou wentest: turn again,
 O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
31:22 How long wilt thou wander about, thou backsliding
 daughter? For Jehovah hath created a new thing on the earth, a
 woman shall encompass a man.
31:23 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: They shall
 again use this speech, in the land of Judah and in the cities
 thereof, when I shall turn their captivity: Jehovah bless thee,
 O habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness!
31:24 And therein shall dwell Judah, and all the cities thereof
 together, the husbandmen, and they that go about with flocks.
31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and every languishing
 soul have I replenished.
31:26 -- Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet
 unto me.
31:27 Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will sow the
 house of Israel and the house of Judah [with] the seed of man
 and the seed of beast.
31:28 And it shall come to pass, as I have watched over them, to
 pluck up, and to break down, and to overthrow, and to destroy,
 and to afflict; so will I watch over them to build, and to
 plant, saith Jehovah.
31:29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have
 eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge:
31:30 for every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man
 that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31:31 Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new
 covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
31:32 not according to the covenant that I made with their
 fathers, in the day of my taking them by the hand, to lead them
 out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke,
 although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.
31:33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house
 of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law
 in their inward parts, and will write it in their heart; and I
 will be their God, and they shall be my people.
31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and
 every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all
 know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them,
 saith Jehovah: for I will pardon their iniquity, and their sin
 will I remember no more.
31:35 Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for light by day,
 the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for light by night,
 who stirreth up the sea so that the waves thereof roar, --
 Jehovah of hosts is his name:
31:36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith Jehovah,
 the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before
 me for ever.
31:37 Thus saith Jehovah: If the heavens above can be measured,
 and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will
 also cast off the whole seed of Israel, for all that they have
 done, saith Jehovah.
31:38 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that the city shall
 be built to Jehovah, from the tower of Hananeel unto the
 corner-gate.
31:39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth before it unto
 the hill Gareb, and shall turn toward Goath.
31:40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes,
 and all the fields unto the torrent Kidron, unto the corner of
 the horse-gate toward the east, shall be holy unto Jehovah: it
 shall not be plucked up, nor overthrown any more for ever.
32:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the tenth
 year of Zedekiah king of Judah: that year was the eighteenth
 year of Nebuchadrezzar.
32:2 And the king of Babylon's army was then besieging
 Jerusalem; and the prophet Jeremiah was shut up in the court of
 the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.
32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why
 dost thou prophesy and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I give
 this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall
 take it;
32:4 and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand
 of the Chaldeans; for he shall certainly be given into the hand
 of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to
 mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
32:5 and he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he
 be until I visit him, saith Jehovah: though ye fight with the
 Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?
32:6 And Jeremiah said, The word of Jehovah came unto me,
 saying,
32:7 Behold, Hanameel, the son of Shallum thine uncle, shall
 come unto thee, saying, Buy for thyself my field which is in
 Anathoth; for thine is the right of redemption, to buy [it].
32:8 And Hanameel, mine uncle's son, came to me in the court of
 the guard according to the word of Jehovah, and said unto me,
 Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the
 land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is thine, and
 the redemption is thine: buy [it] for thyself. Then I knew that
 this was the word of Jehovah.
32:9 And I bought of Hanameel, mine uncle's son, the field which
 is in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, seventeen shekels of
 silver.
32:10 And I subscribed the writing, and sealed it, and took
 witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances.
32:11 And I took the writing of the purchase, that which was
 sealed [according to] the law and the statutes, and that which
 was open;
32:12 and I gave the writing of the purchase unto Baruch the son
 of Nerijah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine
 uncle's [son], and in the presence of the witnesses that had
 subscribed the writing of purchase, before all the Jews that
 were sitting in the court of the guard.
32:13 And I charged Baruch in their presence, saying,
32:14 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these
 writings, this writing of the purchase, both that which is
 sealed and this writing which is open; and put them in an
 earthen vessel, that they may remain many days.
32:15 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses
 and fields and vineyards shall again be purchased in this land.
32:16 And after I had given the writing of the purchase unto
 Baruch the son of Nerijah, I prayed unto Jehovah saying,
32:17 Alas, Lord Jehovah! Behold, thou hast made the heavens and
 the earth by thy great power and stretched-out arm; there is
 nothing too hard for thee:
32:18 who shewest mercy unto thousands, and recompensest the
 iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after
 them, thou, the great, the mighty ∙God, -- Jehovah of hosts is
 his name;
32:19 great in counsel and mighty in work, whose eyes are open
 upon all the ways of the children of men, to give every one
 according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his
 doings:
32:20 who hast displayed signs and wonders unto this day, in the
 land of Egypt and in Israel and among [other] men; and hast
 made thee a name, as at this day.
32:21 And thou broughtest forth thy people Israel out of the
 land of Egypt by signs, and by wonders, and by a powerful hand,
 and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terror;
32:22 and didst give them this land, which thou hadst sworn unto
 their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
32:23 And they came in and possessed it: but they hearkened not
 unto thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done
 nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do; so that thou
 hast caused all this evil to come upon them.
32:24 Behold the mounds, they are come unto the city for taking
 it; and the city is given over into the hand of the Chaldeans,
 that fight against it, by the sword, and the famine, and the
 pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and
 behold, thou seest [it].
32:25 And thou, Lord Jehovah, thou hast said unto me, Buy for
 thyself the field for money, and take witnesses; -- and the
 city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
32:26 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, saying,
32:27 Behold, I am Jehovah, the God of all flesh: is there
 anything too hard for me?
32:28 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I give this city
 into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of
 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.
32:29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall
 come in and set fire to this city, and shall burn it, and the
 houses upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal,
 and poured out drink-offerings unto other gods, to provoke me
 to anger.
32:30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have
 been doing only evil in my sight from their youth; for the
 children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work
 of their hands, saith Jehovah.
32:31 For this city hath been to me [a provocation] of mine
 anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto
 this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
32:32 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of
 the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to
 anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and
 their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of
 Jerusalem.
32:33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face;
 and though I taught them, rising early and teaching, they
 hearkened not to receive instruction.
32:34 And they have set their abominations in the house which is
 called by my name, to defile it;
32:35 and they have built the high places of Baal, which are in
 the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause to pass through [the
 fire] their sons and their daughters unto Molech: which I
 commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they
 should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
32:36 And now therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, saith thus
 concerning this city, whereof ye say, It hath been given over
 into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the
 famine, and by the pestilence:
32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries
 whither I have driven them, in mine anger, and in my fury, and
 in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place,
 and I will cause them to dwell safely.
32:38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
32:39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may
 fear me all [their] days, for the good of them, and of their
 children after them.
32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I
 will not draw back from them, to do them good; and I will put
 my fear in their heart, that they may not turn aside from me.
32:41 And I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will
 assuredly plant them in this land with my whole heart and with
 my whole soul.
32:42 For thus saith Jehovah: Like as I have brought all this
 great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the
 good that I have spoken concerning them.
32:43 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say,
 It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand
 of the Chaldeans.
32:44 [Men] shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the
 writings, and seal them, and take witnesses, in the land of
 Benjamin, and in the environs of Jerusalem, and in the cities
 of Judah, and in the cities of the hill-country, and in the
 cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the south: for I
 will turn their captivity, saith Jehovah.
33:1 And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the second time,
 while he was still shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
33:2 Thus saith Jehovah the doer of it, Jehovah that formeth it
 to establish it, Jehovah is his name:
33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and I will shew thee
 great and hidden things, which thou knowest not.
33:4 For thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel concerning the
 houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of
 Judah, which are thrown down because of the mounds and because
 of the sword:
33:5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but to fill them
 with the dead bodies of the men whom I have slain in mine anger
 and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face
 from this city.
33:6 Behold, I will apply a healing dressing to it and cure, and
 I will heal them, and will reveal unto them an abundance of
 peace and truth.
33:7 And I will turn the captivity of Judah and the captivity of
 Israel, and will build them, as at the beginning.
33:8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby
 they have sinned against me, and I will pardon all their
 iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and whereby
 they have transgressed against me.
33:9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory
 before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear of all
 the good that I do unto them; and they shall fear and tremble
 for all the good and for all the prosperity that I procure unto
 it.
33:10 Thus saith Jehovah: In this place of which ye say, It is
 waste, without man and without beast! in the cities of Judah
 and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man,
 and without inhabitant, and without beast,
33:11 there shall again be heard the voice of mirth and the
 voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the
 bride, the voice of them that say, Give ye thanks unto Jehovah
 of hosts; for Jehovah is good, for his loving-kindness
 [endureth] for ever, -- of them that bring thanksgiving unto
 the house of Jehovah. For I will turn the captivity of the land
 as in the beginning, saith Jehovah.
33:12 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In this place which is waste,
 without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof,
 there shall again be a habitation of shepherds causing [their]
 flocks to lie down.
33:13 In the cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the
 lowland, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of
 Benjamin, and in the environs of Jerusalem, and in the cities
 of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him
 that counteth [them], saith Jehovah.
33:14 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will perform
 the good word which I have spoken unto the house of Israel and
 unto the house of Judah.
33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of
 righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute
 judgment and righteousness in the land.
33:16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall
 dwell in safety. And this is the name wherewith she shall be
 called: Jehovah our Righteousness.
33:17 For thus saith Jehovah: There shall never fail to David a
 man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
33:18 neither shall there fail to the priests the Levites a man
 before me to offer up burnt-offerings, and to burn oblations,
 and to do sacrifice continually.
33:19 And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying,
33:20 Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant [in
 respect] of the day, and my covenant [in respect] of the night,
 so that there should not be day and night in their season,
33:21 [then] shall also my covenant be broken with David my
 servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his
 throne; and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers.
33:22 As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the
 sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David
 my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
33:23 And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying,
33:24 Hast thou not seen what this people have spoken, saying,
 The two families that Jehovah had chosen, he hath even cast
 them off? And they despise my people, that they should be no
 more a nation before them.
33:25 Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night
 [stand] not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of the
 heavens and the earth,
33:26 [then] will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of
 David my servant, so as not to take of his seed to be rulers
 over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will turn
 their captivity, and will have mercy on them.
34:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, when
 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the
 kingdoms of the earth under his dominion, and all the peoples,
 fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities thereof,
 saying,
34:2 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Go and speak to
 Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith Jehovah:
 Behold, I give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon,
 and he shall burn it with fire.
34:3 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt
 certainly be taken, and given into his hand; and thine eyes
 shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and his mouth
 shall speak with thy mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
34:4 Only, hear the word of Jehovah, O Zedekiah king of Judah.
 Thus saith Jehovah as to thee: Thou shalt not die by the sword;
34:5 thou shalt die in peace, and with the burnings of thy
 fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they
 burn for thee; and they will lament for thee, Ah, lord! for I
 have spoken the word, saith Jehovah.
34:6 And the prophet Jeremiah spoke all these words unto
 Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem.
34:7 And the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem,
 and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against
 Lachish, and against Azekah; for these were amongst the cities
 of Judah, the fenced cities that were left.
34:8 The word that came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that
 king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people that were
 at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them:
34:9 that every man should let his bondman, and every man his
 bondmaid, the Hebrew and the Hebrewess, go free, that none
 should exact service of them, [that is,] of a Jew his brother.
34:10 And all the princes and all the people that had entered
 into the covenant obeyed, every man letting his bondman and
 every man his bondmaid go free, that none should exact service
 of them any more: they obeyed, and let [them] go.
34:11 But afterwards they turned, and caused the bondmen and the
 bondmaids whom they had let go free, to return, and brought
 them into subjection for bondmen and for bondmaids.
34:12 And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah from Jehovah,
 saying,
34:13 Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: I made a covenant
 with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of
 the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,
34:14 At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his
 brother, a Hebrew, who hath sold himself unto thee; when he
 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 you, ye had this day turned, and had done right in my
 sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and
 ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called
 by my name:
34:16 but ye have turned and profaned my name, and caused every
 man his bondman, and every man his bondmaid, whom ye had set at
 liberty at their pleasure, to return, and ye have brought them
 into subjection, to be unto you for bondmen and for bondmaids.
34:17 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ye have not hearkened unto
 me, in proclaiming liberty, every man to his brother, and every
 man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you,
 saith Jehovah, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the
 famine; and I will give you over to be driven hither and
 thither among all the kingdoms of the earth.
34:18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my
 covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant
 which they had made before me, -- the calf which they cut in
 twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
34:19 -- the princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem, the
 eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, that
 passed between the parts of the calf;
34:20 them will I give into the hand of their enemies and into
 the hand of them that seek their life; and their carcases shall
 be food for the fowl of the heavens and for the beasts of the
 earth.
34:21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give
 into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that
 seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's
 army, which are gone up from you.
34:22 Behold, I command, saith Jehovah, and I will cause them to
 return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take
 it, and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah
 a desolation, without inhabitant.
35:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days of
 Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, saying,
35:2 Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and
 bring them into the house of Jehovah, into one of the chambers,
 and give them wine to drink.
35:3 And I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of
 Habazziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole
 house of the Rechabites,
35:4 and I brought them into the house of Jehovah, into the
 chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of
 God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above
 the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the
 threshold.
35:5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites
 bowls full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink wine.
35:6 And they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son
 of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no
 wine, ye nor your sons for ever;
35:7 neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant
 vineyard, nor shall ye have [any]; but all your days ye shall
 dwell in tents, that ye may live many days in the land where ye
 sojourn.
35:8 And we have hearkened unto the voice of Jonadab the son of
 Rechab our father in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine
 all our days, we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters,
35:9 and not to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we
 vineyard, nor field, nor seed;
35:10 but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and done
 according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
35:11 And it came to pass when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
 came up into the land, that we said, Come and let us go into
 Jerusalem because of the army of the Chaldeans, and because of
 the army of Syria; and we dwell at Jerusalem.
35:12 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, saying,
35:13 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and say
 to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will
 ye not receive instruction to hearken unto my words? saith
 Jehovah.
35:14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded
 his sons not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they
 have drunk none, for they have obeyed their father's
 commandment. But I have spoken unto you, rising early and
 speaking, and ye have not hearkened unto me.
35:15 And I have sent unto you all my servants the prophets,
 rising early and sending, saying, Return ye now every man from
 his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other
 gods to serve them; and ye shall dwell in the land that I have
 given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your
 ear nor hearkened unto me.
35:16 Yea, the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed
 the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but
 this people hath not hearkened unto me;
35:17 therefore thus saith Jehovah the God of hosts, the God of
 Israel: Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the
 inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced
 against them, because I have spoken unto them, but they have
 not hearkened, and I have called unto them, but they have not
 answered.
35:18 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus
 saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have
 obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his
 injunctions, and have done according unto all that he hath
 commanded you;
35:19 therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,
 There shall not fail to Jonadab the son of Rechab a man to
 stand before me, for ever.
36:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son
 of Josiah, the king of Judah, [that] this word came to Jeremiah
 from Jehovah, saying,
36:2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words
 that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah,
 and against all the nations, from the day I spoke unto thee,
 from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
36:3 It may be the house of Judah will hear all the evil that I
 purpose to do unto them, that they may return every man from
 his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their
 sin.
36:4 And Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Nerijah; and Baruch
 wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Jehovah,
 which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
36:5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up, I
 cannot go into the house of Jehovah; but go thou in,
36:6 and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my
 mouth, the words of Jehovah in the ears of the people in the
 house of Jehovah upon the fast day; and thou shalt also read
 them in the ears of all Judah that come from their cities.
36:7 It may be they will present their supplication before
 Jehovah, and that they will return every one from his evil way;
 for great is the anger and the fury that Jehovah hath
 pronounced against this people.
36:8 And Baruch the son of Nerijah did according to all that the
 prophet Jeremiah commanded him, reading in the book the words
 of Jehovah in Jehovah's house.
36:9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son
 of Josiah, the king of Judah, in the ninth month, [that] they
 proclaimed a fast before Jehovah, for all the people in
 Jerusalem, and for all the people that came from the cities of
 Judah to Jerusalem.
36:10 And Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremiah in the
 house of Jehovah, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan
 the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of
 the house of Jehovah, in the ears of all the people.
36:11 And Micah the son of Gemariah the son of Shaphan heard out
 of the book all the words of Jehovah;
36:12 and he went down to the king's house, into the scribe's
 chamber, and behold, all the princes were sitting there:
 Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and
 Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan,
 and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
36:13 And Micah declared unto them all the words that he had
 heard, when Baruch read in the book in the ears of the people.
36:14 And all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the
 son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take
 in thy hand the roll in which thou hast read in the ears of the
 people, and come. And Baruch the son of Nerijah took the roll
 in his hand, and came unto them.
36:15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our
 ears. And Baruch read [it] in their ears.
36:16 And it came to pass, when they heard all the words, they
 turned in fear one toward another, and said unto Baruch, We
 will certainly report to the king all these words.
36:17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou
 write all these words from his mouth?
36:18 And Baruch said unto them, He pronounced all these words
 unto me with his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink in the
 book.
36:19 And the princes said unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and
 Jeremiah; that none may know where ye are.
36:20 And they went in unto the king into the court, but they
 laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and
 they told all the words in the ears of the king.
36:21 And the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll, and he fetched
 it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read
 it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes
 that stood beside the king.
36:22 Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth
 month, and with the fire-pan burning before him.
36:23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or
 four columns, he cut it with the scribe's knife, and cast it
 into the fire that was in the pan until all the roll was
 consumed in the fire that was in the pan.
36:24 And they were not afraid, nor rent their garments,
 [neither] the king nor any of his servants that heard all these
 words.
36:25 Moreover, Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made
 intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll; but
 he would not hear them.
36:26 And the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and
 Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to
 take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Jehovah
 hid them.
36:27 And after that the king had burned the roll, and the words
 that Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, the word of Jehovah
 came to Jeremiah, saying,
36:28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the
 former words that were in the first roll which Jehoiakim the
 king of Judah hath burned.
36:29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith
 Jehovah: Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou
 written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly
 come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from it
 man and beast?
36:30 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of
 Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David; and
 his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in
 the night to the frost.
36:31 And I will visit their iniquity upon him, and upon his
 seed, and upon his servants; and I will bring upon them, and
 upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah,
 all the evil that I have pronounced against them; and they have
 not hearkened.
36:32 And Jeremiah took another roll, and gave it to Baruch the
 scribe, the son of Nerijah; and he wrote therein from the mouth
 of Jeremiah, all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of
 Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides unto
 them many like words.
37:1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of
 Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
 having made him king in the land of Judah.
37:2 And neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the
 land, hearkened unto the words of Jehovah, which he had spoken
 through the prophet Jeremiah.
37:3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah,
 and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet
 Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto Jehovah our God for us.
37:4 And Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for
 they had not put him into prison.
37:5 And Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt; and when
 the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them,
 they went up from Jerusalem.
37:6 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah the prophet,
 saying,
37:7 Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: Thus shall ye say to
 the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me:
 Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall
 return to Egypt into their own land.
37:8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this
 city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
37:9 Thus saith Jehovah: Deceive not yourselves, saying, The
 Chaldeans are certainly gone away from us; for they are not
 gone.
37:10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans
 that fight against you, and there remained [but] wounded men
 among them, [yet] should they rise up every man in his tent,
 and burn this city with fire.
37:11 And it came to pass when the army of the Chaldeans was
 gone up from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh's army,
37:12 that Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the
 land of Benjamin, to have his portion there among the people.
37:13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the
 guard was there whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah,
 the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on the prophet Jeremiah,
 saying, Thou art deserting to the Chaldeans.
37:14 And Jeremiah said, It is false: I am not deserting to the
 Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him; and Irijah laid hold on
 Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
37:15 And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him,
 and put him in the place of confinement in the house of
 Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
37:16 When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon and into the
 vaults, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,
37:17 king Zedekiah sent and took him out. And the king asked of
 him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from
 Jehovah? And Jeremiah said, There is; and he said, Thou shalt
 be given into the hand of the king of Babylon.
37:18 And Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended
 against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people,
 that ye have put me in the prison?
37:19 And where are your prophets that prophesied unto you,
 saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor
 against this land?
37:20 And now hear, I pray thee, my lord, O king: let my
 supplication, I pray thee, come before thee; and cause me not
 to return into the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die
 there.
37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed
 Jeremiah into the court of the guard, and they gave him daily a
 loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in
 the city was spent. And Jeremiah abode in the court of the
 guard.
38:1 And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of
 Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of
 Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all
 the people, saying,
38:2 Thus saith Jehovah: He that remaineth in this city shall
 die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he
 that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; and he shall have
 his life for a prey, and shall live.
38:3 Thus saith Jehovah: This city shall certainly be given into
 the hand of the king of Babylon's army, and he shall take it.
38:4 And the princes said unto the king, Let this man, we pray
 thee, be put to death; for why should he weaken the hands of
 the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all
 the people, in speaking to them according to these words? for
 this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
38:5 And king Zedekiah said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the
 king is not he that can do a thing against you.
38:6 Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of
 Malchijah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the
 guard, and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the
 dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the
 mire.
38:7 And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the
 king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon
 -- now the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin,
38:8 -- and Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and
 spoke to the king, saying,
38:9 My lord, O king, these men have done evil in all that they
 have done to the prophet Jeremiah, whom they have cast into the
 dungeon; and he will die by reason of the famine in the place
 where he is; for there is no more bread in the city.
38:10 And the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying,
 Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the
 prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
38:11 And Ebed-melech took the men under his order, and went
 into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence
 old shreds and worn-out clothes, and let them down by cords
 into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
38:12 And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put, I
 pray, [these] old shreds and rags under thine armholes under
 the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
38:13 And they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and brought him up
 out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the
 guard.
38:14 And king Zedekiah sent and took the prophet Jeremiah unto
 him, into the third entry that is in the house of Jehovah; and
 the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing: hide
 nothing from me.
38:15 And Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare [it] unto
 thee, wilt thou not certainly put me to death? and if I give
 thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken unto me.
38:16 And king Zedekiah swore secretly unto Jeremiah, saying,
 [As] Jehovah liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put
 thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these
 men that seek thy life.
38:17 And Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, Thus saith Jehovah the
 God of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt freely go forth
 to the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and
 this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live,
 and thy house.
38:18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's
 princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the
 Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not
 escape out of their hand.
38:19 And king Zedekiah said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the
 Jews that have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest they give me
 over into their hand, and they mock me.
38:20 And Jeremiah said, They shall not give [thee] over.
 Hearken, I beseech thee, unto the voice of Jehovah, in that
 which I speak unto thee; so shall it be well unto thee, and thy
 soul shall live.
38:21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word which
 Jehovah hath shewn me:
38:22 Behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's
 house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes;
 and they shall say, Thy familiar friends have set thee on, and
 have prevailed over thee; thy feet are sunk in the mire, they
 are turned away back.
38:23 And they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to
 the Chaldeans, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand; for
 thou shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon, and
 thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
38:24 And Zedekiah said unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these
 words, and thou shalt not die.
38:25 And if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and
 they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now
 what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we
 will not put thee to death; and what hath the king said unto
 thee?
38:26 then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication
 before the king, that he would not cause me to return to
 Jonathan's house, to die there.
38:27 -- And all the princes came to Jeremiah, and asked him;
 and he told them according to all these words that the king had
 commanded. And they withdrew quietly from him; for the matter
 was not reported.
38:28 And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the
 day that Jerusalem was taken.
39:1 And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken, in the ninth
 year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came
 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against
 Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
39:2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on
 the ninth of the month, the city was broken into;
39:3 and all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat
 in the middle gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebu, Sarsechim,
 chief chamberlain, Nergal-sharezer, chief magian, and all the
 rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.
39:4 And it came to pass when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all
 the men of war saw them, that they fled, and went forth out of
 the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate
 between the two walls; and he went out the way of the plain.
39:5 And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and
 overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and they took him,
 and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, unto
 Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment upon
 him.
39:6 And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah in
 Riblah before his eyes, and the king of Babylon slaughtered all
 the nobles of Judah;
39:7 and he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with
 chains of brass, to carry him to Babylon.
39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of
 the people with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
39:9 And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard carried away
 captive into Babylon the rest of the people that were left in
 the city, and the deserters that had deserted to him, with the
 rest of the people that were left.
39:10 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard left
 [certain] of the people, the poor who had nothing, in the land
 of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
39:11 And Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had given charge
 concerning Jeremiah by Nebuzar-adan the captain of the
 body-guard, saying,
39:12 Take him, and keep an eye upon him, and do him no harm;
 but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.
39:13 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard sent, and
 Nebushazban, chief chamberlain, and Nergal-sharezer, chief
 magian, and all the king of Babylon's princes,
39:14 even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the
 guard and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son
 of Shaphan, that he should conduct him away home. And he dwelt
 among the people.
39:15 And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, while he was
 shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
39:16 Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus
 saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring
 my words upon this city for evil, and not for good, and they
 shall come to pass before thy face in that day.
39:17 And I will deliver thee in that day, saith Jehovah; and
 thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou
 art afraid;
39:18 for I will certainly save thee, and thou shalt not fall by
 the sword, but thou shalt have thy life for a prey; for thou
 hast put thy confidence in me, saith Jehovah.
40:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that
 Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard had let him go from
 Ramah, when he had taken him, being bound in chains, among all
 the captivity of Jerusalem and Judah, that were carried away
 captive to Babylon.
40:2 And the captain of the body-guard took Jeremiah, and said
 unto him, Jehovah thy God pronounced this evil upon this place,
40:3 and Jehovah hath brought [it about] and done according as
 he said; for ye have sinned against Jehovah, and have not
 hearkened unto his voice, therefore this thing is come upon
 you.
40:4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains that
 are upon thy hand. If it seem good in thy sight to come with me
 to Babylon, come, and I will keep mine eye upon thee; but if it
 seem ill unto thee to come with me to Babylon, forbear. See,
 all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and right
 in thy sight to go, thither go.
40:5 And while he had not yet given answer; [he said,] Yea, go
 back to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the
 king of Babylon hath appointed over the cities of Judah, and
 abide with him in the midst of the people; or go wheresoever it
 seemeth right in thy sight to go. And the captain of the
 body-guard gave him provisions and a present, and let him go.
40:6 And Jeremiah came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to
 Mizpah, and abode with him among the people that remained in
 the land.
40:7 And all the captains of the forces that were in the fields,
 they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had
 appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam over the land, and had
 committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the
 poor of the land, of them that had not been carried away
 captive to Babylon.
40:8 And they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah; even Ishmael the son
 of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and
 Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the
 Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and
 their men.
40:9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore
 unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the
 Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon,
 and it shall be well with you.
40:10 And as for me, behold, I dwell at Mizpah, to stand before
 the Chaldeans, who will come unto us; and ye, gather wine, and
 summer fruits, and oil, and put [them] in your vessels, and
 dwell in your cities which ye have taken.
40:11 Likewise all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the
 children of Ammon and in Edom, and that were in all the lands,
 heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah, and
 that he had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the
 son of Shaphan;
40:12 and all the Jews returned out of all the places whither
 they had been driven, and came to the land of Judah to
 Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits in
 great abundance.
40:13 And Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
 forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah unto Mizpah,
40:14 and said unto him, Dost thou indeed know that Baalis the
 king of the children of Ammon hath sent Ishmael the son of
 Nethaniah to smite thee to death? But Gedaliah the son of
 Ahikam believed them not.
40:15 And Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah
 secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will smite
 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and no man shall know it: why
 should he take thy life, and all they of Judah who are gathered
 unto thee be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?
40:16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son
 of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing; for thou speakest
 falsely of Ishmael.
41:1 And it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the
 son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the royal seed, and
 [one] of the king's chief men, and ten men with him, came to
 Gedaliah the son of Ahikam unto Mizpah, and there they ate
 bread together, in Mizpah.
41:2 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah arose, and the ten men
 that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the
 son of Shaphan with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of
 Babylon had appointed over the land.
41:3 And Ishmael smote all the Jews that were with him, with
 Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there,
 the men of war.
41:4 And it came to pass the second day after he had killed
 Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
41:5 that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from
 Samaria, eighty men, having their beards shaven and their
 clothes rent, and having cut themselves; with oblations and
 incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah.
41:6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to
 meet them, weeping all along as he went; and it came to pass
 when he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son
 of Ahikam.
41:7 And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city,
 that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, he and the men that were
 with him, slew them, [and cast them] into the midst of the pit.
41:8 But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael,
 Do not kill us, for we have hidden stores in the field, of
 wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbore,
 and did not kill them among their brethren.
41:9 And the pit into which Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies
 of the men whom he had slain by the side of Gedaliah was the
 one which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of
 Israel: Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.
41:10 And Ishmael carried away captive all the remnant of the
 people that were in Mizpah, the king's daughters, and all the
 people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the captain
 of the body-guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam:
 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and
 departed to go over to the children of Ammon.
41:11 And Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
 forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael
 the son of Nethaniah had done;
41:12 and they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael
 the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that
 are at Gibeon.
41:13 And it came to pass when all the people that were with
 Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
 the forces that were with him, then they were glad.
41:14 And all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive
 from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Johanan the
 son of Kareah.
41:15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with
 eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.
41:16 Then Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
 the forces that were with him, took all the remnant of the
 people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
 from Mizpah, after he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the
 mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the
 eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon;
41:17 and they departed, and dwelt at Geruth-Chimham, which is
 by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
41:18 because of the Chaldeans; for they feared them, because
 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had smitten Gedaliah the son of
 Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.
42:1 And all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of
 Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people
 from the least even to the greatest,
42:2 came near and said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we
 beseech thee, our supplication come before thee, and pray for
 us unto Jehovah thy God, for all this remnant (for we are left
 a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us);
42:3 that Jehovah thy God may shew us the way wherein we should
 walk, and the thing that we should do.
42:4 And Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard;
 behold, I will pray unto Jehovah your God according to your
 words; and it shall come to pass [that] whatsoever thing
 Jehovah shall answer you, I will declare it unto you: I will
 keep nothing back from you.
42:5 And they said to Jeremiah, Jehovah be a true and faithful
 witness amongst us, if we do not even according to all the word
 for which Jehovah thy God shall send thee to us.
42:6 Whether it be good or whether it be evil, we will hearken
 unto the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we send thee; that
 it may be well with us when we hearken unto the voice of
 Jehovah our God.
42:7 And it came to pass at the end of ten days, that the word
 of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah.
42:8 And he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
 captains of the forces that were with him, and all the people
 from the least even unto the greatest,
42:9 and said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel,
 to whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him:
42:10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build
 you, and not overthrow [you], and I will plant you, and not
 pluck [you] up; for I repent me of the evil that I have done
 unto you.
42:11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are
 afraid: be not afraid of him, saith Jehovah; for I will be with
 you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
42:12 And I will grant mercies to you, that he may have mercy
 upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.
42:13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land; so as not
 to hearken unto the voice of Jehovah your God,
42:14 saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where
 we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor
 have hunger for bread; and there will we dwell;
42:15 -- and now, therefore, hear the word of Jehovah, ye
 remnant of Judah: thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of
 Israel: If ye really set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go
 to sojourn there,
42:16 then it shall come to pass, that the sword which ye fear
 shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine,
 whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in
 Egypt; and there ye shall die.
42:17 And it shall be that all the men that have set their faces
 to go into Egypt to sojourn there shall die by the sword, by
 the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall
 remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
42:18 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: As
 mine anger and my fury have been poured forth upon the
 inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my fury be poured forth upon
 you, when ye shall enter into Egypt; and ye shall be an
 execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach,
 and ye shall see this place no more.
42:19 Jehovah hath said concerning you, the remnant of Judah, Go
 ye not into Egypt. Know certainly that I have admonished you
 this day.
42:20 For ye deceived yourselves in your own souls, when ye sent
 me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our
 God; and according to all that Jehovah our God shall say, so
 declare unto us, and we will do it.
42:21 And I have this day declared [it] to you; but ye have not
 obeyed the voice of Jehovah your God, nor anything for which he
 hath sent me unto you.
42:22 And now know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by
 the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye
 desire to go to sojourn.
43:1 And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had ended speaking unto
 all the people all the words of Jehovah their God, with which
 Jehovah their God had sent him to them -- all these words,
43:2 -- then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the
 son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, Thou
 speakest falsely: Jehovah our God hath not sent thee to say, Go
 not into Egypt to sojourn there;
43:3 but Baruch the son of Nerijah is setting thee on against
 us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may
 put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.
43:4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
 forces, and all the people, hearkened not unto the voice of
 Jehovah to abide in the land of Judah;
43:5 but Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
 forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from
 all nations whither they had been driven, to sojourn in the
 land of Judah;
43:6 men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and
 every person that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard
 had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan,
 and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Nerijah;
43:7 and they came into the land of Egypt: for they hearkened
 not unto the voice of Jehovah. And they came as far as
 Tahpanhes.
43:8 And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes,
 saying,
43:9 Take great stones in thy hand, and hide them in the clay in
 the brick-kiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in
 Tahpanhes, in the sight of the Jews,
43:10 and say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of
 Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of
 Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones
 which I have hidden, and he shall spread his royal pavilion
 over them.
43:11 And he shall come and smite the land of Egypt: such as are
 for death to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity;
 and such as are for the sword to the sword.
43:12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of
 Egypt, and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive; and
 he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd
 putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in
 peace.
43:13 And he shall break the pillars of Beth-shemesh, which is
 in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall
 he burn with fire.
44:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who
 dwelt in the land of Egypt, who dwelt at Migdol, and at
 Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
44:2 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Ye have
 seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon
 all the cities of Judah; and behold they are, this day, a
 waste, and no man dwelleth therein,
44:3 because of their wickedness which they have committed to
 provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense to serve
 other gods which they knew not, they, [nor] ye, nor your
 fathers.
44:4 And I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising
 early and sending, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing
 which I hate!
44:5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from
 their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
44:6 And my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was
 kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem;
 and they are become a waste, a desolation, as at this day.
44:7 And now thus saith Jehovah the God of hosts, the God of
 Israel: Wherefore commit ye great evil against your souls, to
 cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the
 midst of Judah, to leave you no remnant;
44:8 provoking me to anger with the works of your hands, burning
 incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are
 come to sojourn, that ye should be cut off, and that ye should
 be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
44:9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the
 wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their
 wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your
 wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah and in
 the streets of Jerusalem?
44:10 They are not humbled unto this day, neither have they
 feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes which I set
 before you and before your fathers.
44:11 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel:
 Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off
 all Judah.
44:12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their
 faces to enter into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and
 they shall all be consumed: in the land of Egypt shall they
 fall; they shall be consumed by the sword [and] by the famine,
 from the least even unto the greatest; they shall die by the
 sword and by the famine, and they shall be an execration, an
 astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
44:13 And I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt as
 I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by
 the pestilence;
44:14 and none of the remnant of Judah, that have come into the
 land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, so as
 to return into the land of Judah, whither they have a desire to
 return to dwell there; for none shall return but such as shall
 escape.
44:15 Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense
 to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great
 assemblage, even all the people that dwelt in the land of
 Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
44:16 [As for] the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the
 name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee,
44:17 but we will certainly do every word that is gone forth out
 of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens, and
 to pour out drink-offerings to her, as we have done, we and our
 fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and
 in the streets of Jerusalem; and we had plenty of bread, and
 were well, and saw no evil.
44:18 But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the
 heavens, and pouring out drink-offerings to her, we have wanted
 everything, and have been consumed by the sword and by the
 famine.
44:19 And when we burned incense to the queen of the heavens and
 poured out drink-offerings to her, did we make for her cakes to
 portray her, and pour out drink-offerings to her, without our
 husbands?
44:20 And Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to
 the women, and to all the people that had given him that
 answer, saying,
44:21 Is it not the incense that ye burned in the cities of
 Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye and your fathers,
 your kings and your princes and the people of the land, that
 Jehovah remembered, and that came into his mind?
44:22 And Jehovah could no longer bear, because of the evil of
 your doings, [and] because of the abominations that ye had
 committed; and your land is become a waste, and an
 astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as at this day.
44:23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned
 against Jehovah, and have not hearkened unto the voice of
 Jehovah, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his
 testimonies; therefore this evil hath come upon you, as at this
 day.
44:24 And Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the
 women, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, all Judah that are in the
 land of Egypt.
44:25 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Ye
 and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled
 with your hands, saying, We will certainly perform our vows
 which we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the
 heavens, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her. Ye will
 certainly establish your vows, and entirely perform your vows.
44:26 Therefore hear ye the word of Jehovah, all Judah that
 dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great
 name, saith Jehovah, that my name shall no more be named in the
 mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying,
 [As] the Lord Jehovah liveth.
44:27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good;
 and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be
 consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end
 of them.
44:28 And they that escape the sword shall return out of the
 land of Egypt into the land of Judah, a very small company; and
 all the remnant of Judah, that have come into the land of Egypt
 to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine or
 theirs.
44:29 And this shall be the sign unto you, saith Jehovah, that I
 will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words
 shall certainly stand against you for evil:
44:30 thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will give Pharaoh-Hophra
 king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand
 of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah
 into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and
 that sought his life.
45:1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son
 of Nerijah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of
 Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
 the king of Judah, saying,
45:2 Thus sayeth Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning thee,
 Baruch:
45:3 Thou didst say, Woe unto me! for Jehovah hath added grief
 to my sorrow; I am weary with my sighing, and I find no rest.
45:4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold,
 what I have built do I overthrow, and what I have planted I
 pluck up, even this whole land.
45:5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek [them] not;
 for behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith Jehovah;
 but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places
 whither thou shalt go.
46:1 The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet
 concerning the nations.
46:2 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh-Necho king of
 Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish, which
 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of
 Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah.
46:3 Make ready buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!
46:4 Harness the horses, and mount ye horsemen, and stand forth
 with helmets; polish the spears, put on the coats of mail!
46:5 Why do I see them dismayed, turned away back? And their
 mighty ones are beaten down, and take to flight, and look not
 back? Terror [is] on every side, saith Jehovah.
46:6 Let not the swift flee away, neither let the mighty man
 escape! -- Toward the north, hard by the river Euphrates, they
 have stumbled and fallen.
46:7 Who is this [that] riseth up as the Nile, whose waters toss
 themselves like the rivers?
46:8 It is Egypt that riseth up as the Nile, and [his] waters
 toss themselves like the rivers; and he saith, I will rise up,
 I will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the
 inhabitants thereof.
46:9 Go up, ye horses, and drive furiously, ye chariots; and let
 the mighty men go forth: Cush and Phut that handle the shield,
 and the Ludim that handle the bow [and] bend it.
46:10 For this is the day of the Lord Jehovah of hosts, a day of
 vengeance, that he may be avenged of his adversaries; and the
 sword shall devour, and it shall be sated and made drunk with
 their blood; for the Lord Jehovah of hosts hath a sacrifice in
 the north country, by the river Euphrates.
46:11 Go up to Gilead, and fetch balm, O virgin-daughter of
 Egypt! In vain shalt thou multiply remedies: there is no
 healing for thee.
46:12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath
 filled the earth; for the mighty man stumbleth against the
 mighty, they are both fallen together.
46:13 The word that Jehovah spoke to Jeremiah the prophet,
 concerning the coming of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to
 smite the land of Egypt:
46:14 Declare in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in
 Noph, and in Tahpanhes; say, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for
 the sword devoureth round about thee.
46:15 Why are thy valiants swept away? They stood not, for
 Jehovah did thrust them down.
46:16 He made many to stumble, yea, one fell upon another; and
 they said, Arise, and let us return to our own people and to
 the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
46:17 There did they cry, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise;
 he hath let the time appointed go by.
46:18 [As] I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of
 hosts, surely as Tabor among the mountains, and as Carmel by
 the sea, so shall he come.
46:19 Thou, inhabitress, daughter of Egypt, furnish for thyself
 a captive's baggage, for Noph shall be a desolation and shall
 be ruined, so that none shall dwell therein.
46:20 Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh
 from the north.
46:21 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like fatted
 bullocks; for they also have turned back, they have fled away
 together, they did not stand; for the day of their calamity is
 come upon them, the time of their visitation.
46:22 Her voice shall go like a serpent's; for they shall march
 with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of
 wood.
46:23 They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it
 be impenetrable; for they are more than the locusts, and are
 innumerable.
46:24 The daughter of Egypt is put to shame; she is delivered
 into the hand of the people of the north.
46:25 Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saith, Behold, I will
 punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, and her gods, and
 her kings; yea, Pharaoh and them that confide in him.
46:26 And I will give them into the hand of those that seek
 their life, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
 Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; but afterwards it
 shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith Jehovah.
46:27 But thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, neither be dismayed,
 Israel: for behold, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed
 from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and
 be in rest and at ease, and none shall make [him] afraid.
46:28 Fear thou not, my servant Jacob, saith Jehovah: for I am
 with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations
 whither I have driven thee, but I will not make a full end of
 thee; but I will correct thee with judgment, and I will not
 hold thee altogether guiltless.
47:1 The word of Jehovah that came to the prophet Jeremiah
 concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh smote Gazah.
47:2 Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, waters rise up out of the
 north, and shall become an overflowing flood, and shall
 overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them
 that dwell therein: and the men shall cry, and all the
 inhabitants of the land shall howl,
47:3 at the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his steeds, at
 the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels:
 fathers shall not look back for [their] children, from
 feebleness of hands;
47:4 because of the day that cometh to lay waste all the
 Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that
 remaineth; for Jehovah will lay waste the Philistines, the
 remnant of the island of Caphtor.
47:5 Baldness is come upon Gazah; Ashkelon is cut off, the
 remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
47:6 Alas! sword of Jehovah, how long wilt thou not be quiet?
 Withdraw into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
47:7 How shouldest thou be quiet? -- For Jehovah hath given it a
 charge: against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore, there hath
 he appointed it.
48:1 Concerning Moab. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of
 Israel: Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled; Kirjathaim is put to
 shame, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and dismayed.
48:2 Moab's praise is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil
 against her: Come, and let us cut her off from [being] a
 nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be cut down; the sword shall
 pursue thee.
48:3 A voice of crying from Horonaim; wasting and great
 destruction!
48:4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be
 heard.
48:5 For by the ascent of Luhith continual weeping shall go up;
 for in the descent of Horonaim is heard the anguish of the cry
 of destruction.
48:6 Flee, save your lives, and be like a shrub in the
 wilderness.
48:7 For because thou hast confided in thy works and in thy
 treasures, thou also shalt be taken, and Chemosh shall go forth
 into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
48:8 And the waster shall come upon every city, that not a city
 shall escape; and the valley shall perish, and the plateau
 shall be destroyed: as Jehovah hath said.
48:9 Give wings unto Moab, that she may flee and get away; and
 the cities thereof shall become a desolation, without
 inhabitant.
48:10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovah negligently,
 and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood!
48:11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and hath settled on
 his lees; he hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
 neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste hath
 remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
48:12 Therefore behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will
 send unto him pourers that shall pour him off, and shall empty
 his vessels, and break in pieces his flagons.
48:13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of
 Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
48:14 How do ye say, We are mighty, and men of valour for the
 war?
48:15 Moab is laid waste, and his cities are gone up [in smoke],
 and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith
 the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
48:16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction
 hasteth fast.
48:17 All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that
 know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, the
 beautiful rod!
48:18 Come down from [thy] glory and sit in the drought, O
 inhabitress, daughter of Dibon; the spoiler of Moab is come up
 against thee, thy strongholds hath he destroyed.
48:19 Stand by the way, and watch, inhabitress of Aroer; ask him
 that fleeth, and her that escapeth; say, What is done?
48:20 Moab is put to shame; for he is broken down: howl and cry;
 tell it in Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
48:21 And judgment is come upon the country of the plateau; upon
 Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath;
48:22 and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim;
48:23 and upon Kirjathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon
 Beth-meon;
48:24 and upon Kerijoth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the
 cities of the land of Moab, far and near.
48:25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith
 Jehovah.
48:26 Make him drunken, for he magnified himself against
 Jehovah; and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall
 be in derision.
48:27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? Was he found
 among thieves, that as oft as thou didst speak of him, thou
 didst shake the head?
48:28 Leave the cities, and dwell in the rocks, ye inhabitants
 of Moab, and be like the dove, that maketh her nest in the
 sides of the cave's mouth.
48:29 We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, -- [he is] very
 proud; -- his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and
 the haughtiness of his heart.
48:30 I know his wrath, saith Jehovah; his pratings are vain:
 they do not as [they say].
48:31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all
 Moab: for the men of Kir-heres shall there be moaning.
48:32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with more than the
 weeping of Jaazer: thy shoots passed over the sea, they reached
 to the sea of Jaazer. The spoiler is fallen upon thy summer
 fruits and upon thy vintage.
48:33 And joy and gladness is taken away from the fruitful field
 and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from
 the winepresses: they shall no more tread with shouting; the
 shouting shall be no shouting.
48:34 Because of the cry from Heshbon, unto Elaleh, unto Jahaz
 have they uttered their voice, from Zoar unto Horonaim, [unto]
 Eglath-shelishijah: for even the waters of Nimrim shall become
 desolations.
48:35 And I will cause to cease in Moab, saith Jehovah, him that
 offereth in the high place, and him that burneth incense to his
 gods.
48:36 Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and my
 heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres; because
 the abundance that he hath gotten is perished.
48:37 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all
 the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
48:38 It is wholly lamentation upon all the housetops of Moab,
 and in the public places thereof; for I have broken Moab, like
 a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith Jehovah.
48:39 They howl, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the
 back with shame! And Moab shall be a derision and a terror to
 all that are round about him.
48:40 For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle,
 and shall spread forth his wings over Moab.
48:41 Kerijoth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and at
 that day the heart of the mighty men of Moab shall be as the
 heart of a woman in her pangs.
48:42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because
 he hath magnified himself against Jehovah.
48:43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare shall be upon thee, O
 inhabitant of Moab, saith Jehovah.
48:44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and
 he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare:
 for I will bring upon her, upon Moab, the year of their
 visitation, saith Jehovah.
48:45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon
 powerless; for a fire hath come forth from Heshbon, and a flame
 from the midst of Sihon, and hath consumed the corner of Moab,
 and the crown of the head of the sons of tumult.
48:46 Woe to thee, Moab! The people of Chemosh is undone; for
 thy sons are taken away in captivity, and thy daughters are
 captives.
48:47 But I will turn the captivity of Moab at the end of the
 days, saith Jehovah. Thus far is the judgement of Moab.
49:1 Concerning the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath
 Israel no sons? hath he no heir? Why is Malcam heir of Gad, and
 his people dwell in the cities thereof?
49:2 Therefore behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will
 cause the clamour of war to be heard in Rabbah of the children
 of Ammon; and it shall be a desolate heap; and her towns shall
 be burned with fire; and Israel shall possess them that
 possessed him, saith Jehovah.
49:3 Howl, Heshbon! for Ai is laid waste; cry, daughters of
 Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth, lament and run to and fro
 within the enclosures: for Malcam shall go into captivity, his
 priests and his princes together.
49:4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys? Thy valley shall
 flow down, O backsliding daughter, that trusteth in her
 treasures, [saying,] Who shall come against me?
49:5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord
 Jehovah of hosts, from all that are about thee; and ye shall be
 driven out every man right forth; and none shall assemble the
 fugitives.
49:6 And afterwards I will turn the captivity of the children of
 Ammon, saith Jehovah.
49:7 Concerning Edom. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Is there no
 more wisdom in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is
 their wisdom spent?
49:8 Flee, turn back, dwell deep down, ye inhabitants of Dedan!
 For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I
 visit him.
49:9 If grape-gatherers had come to thee, would they not have
 left a gleaning? If thieves by night, they would destroy only
 till they had enough.
49:10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret
 places, that he is unable to hide himself: his seed is wasted,
 and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
49:11 Leave thine orphans, I will preserve them alive; and let
 thy widows trust in me.
49:12 For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, they whose judgment was
 not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and thou indeed,
 shouldest thou be altogether unpunished? Thou shalt not go
 unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink.
49:13 For I have sworn by myself, saith Jehovah, that Bozrah
 shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse;
 and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
49:14 I have heard a rumour from Jehovah, and an ambassador is
 sent among the nations: -- Gather yourselves together, and come
 against her and rise up for the battle.
49:15 For behold, I have made thee small among the nations,
 despised among men.
49:16 Thy terribleness, the pride of thy heart, hath deceived
 thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that
 holdest the height of the hill. Though thou shouldest make thy
 nest high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence,
 saith Jehovah.
49:17 And Edom shall be an astonishment: every one that goeth by
 it shall be astonished, and shall hiss, because of all the
 plagues thereof.
49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and their
 neighbour cities, saith Jehovah, no one shall dwell there,
 neither shall a son of man sojourn therein.
49:19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of
 the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will make them
 suddenly run away from it; and who is a chosen [man] whom I
 shall appoint over her? For who is like me? and who will assign
 me a time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
49:20 Therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah, which he hath taken
 against Edom, and his purposes which he hath purposed against
 the inhabitants of Teman: The little ones of the flock shall
 certainly draw them away; he shall certainly make their
 habitation desolate for them.
49:21 The earth quaketh at the sound of their fall; there is a
 cry, the sound whereof is heard in the Red sea.
49:22 Behold, he shall come up, and fly as an eagle, and spread
 forth his wings against Bozrah; and at that day the heart of
 the mighty men of Edom shall be as the heart of a woman in her
 pangs.
49:23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad;
 for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away: there
 is distress on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
49:24 Damascus is grown feeble: she turneth herself to flee, and
 terror hath seized on her; trouble and sorrows have taken hold
 of her as of a woman in travail.
49:25 How is not the town of praise forsaken, the city of my
 joy!
49:26 Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all
 the men of war be cut off in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts.
49:27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it
 shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
49:28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor,
 which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote. Thus saith Jehovah:
 Arise, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
49:29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take; their
 curtains and all their vessels, and their camels, shall they
 carry away for themselves; and they shall cry unto them, Terror
 on every side!
49:30 Flee, wander very far, dwell deep down, ye inhabitants of
 Hazor, saith Jehovah; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath
 taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against
 you.
49:31 Arise, get you up against the nation at ease, that
 dwelleth securely, saith Jehovah, which hath neither gates nor
 bars: they dwell alone.
49:32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of
 their cattle a spoil; and I will scatter to every wind them
 that have the corners [of their beard] cut off, and I will
 bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith Jehovah.
49:33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a
 desolation for ever. No one shall dwell there, neither shall a
 son of man sojourn therein.
49:34 The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet
 concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king
 of Judah, saying,
49:35 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will break the bow
 of Elam, the chief of their might.
49:36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds, from the four
 ends of the heavens, and I will scatter them toward all those
 winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of
 Elam shall not come.
49:37 And I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,
 and before them that seek their life; and I will bring evil
 upon them, my fierce anger, saith Jehovah; and I will send the
 sword after them, till I have consumed them.
49:38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from
 thence king and princes, saith Jehovah.
49:39 But it shall come to pass at the end of the days, I will
 turn the captivity of Elam, saith Jehovah.
50:1 The word that Jehovah spoke concerning Babylon, concerning
 the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet.
50:2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and lift up a
 banner; publish, conceal not! Say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put
 to shame, Merodach is dismayed: her images are put to shame,
 her idols are dismayed.
50:3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her,
 which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell
 therein: both man and beast are fled; they are gone.
50:4 In those days, and at that time, saith Jehovah, the
 children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah
 together, going and weeping as they go, and shall seek Jehovah
 their God.
50:5 They shall inquire concerning Zion, with their faces
 thitherward, [saying,] Come, and let us join ourselves to
 Jehovah, in an everlasting covenant that shall not be
 forgotten.
50:6 My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have caused them
 to go astray, they turned them away on the mountains: they went
 from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.
50:7 All that found them devoured them, and their adversaries
 said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against
 Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the
 hope of their fathers.
50:8 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the
 land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flock.
50:9 For behold, I will raise and cause to come up against
 Babylon, an assemblage of great nations from the north country;
 and they shall set themselves in array against her: from thence
 shall she be taken. Their arrows shall be as those of a mighty
 expert man: none shall return empty.
50:10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all the spoilers thereof
 shall be satiated, saith Jehovah.
50:11 For ye rejoiced, for ye triumphed, ye plunderers of my
 heritage; for ye have been wanton as the heifer at grass, and
 neighed as steeds.
50:12 Your mother hath been sorely put to shame; she that bore
 you hath been covered with reproach: behold, [she is become]
 hindmost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a
 desert.
50:13 Because of the wrath of Jehovah, it shall not be
 inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate; every one that
 goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and shall hiss, because
 of all her plagues.
50:14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all
 ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she
 hath sinned against Jehovah.
50:15 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand;
 her ramparts are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for this is
 the vengeance of Jehovah. Take vengeance upon her; as she hath
 done, do unto her.
50:16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the
 sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the oppressing sword
 let them turn every one to his people, and let them flee every
 one to his own land.
50:17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away:
 first the king of Assyria devoured him, and last this
 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
50:18 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel:
 Behold, I will visit the king of Babylon and his land, like as
 I have visited the king of Assyria.
50:19 And I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall
 feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon
 mount Ephraim and in Gilead.
50:20 In those days, and at that time, saith Jehovah, the
 iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be
 none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I
 will pardon those whom I leave remaining.
50:21 Go up against the land of double rebellion, against it,
 and against the inhabitants of visitation; waste and utterly
 destroy after them, saith Jehovah, and do according to all that
 I have commanded thee.
50:22 A sound of battle is in the land, and great destruction.
50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and
 broken! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the
 nations!
50:24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou, Babylon, art also
 taken, and thou wast not aware; thou art found, and also
 caught, for thou hast contended with Jehovah.
50:25 Jehovah hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth
 the weapons of his indignation; for this is a work for the
 Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the land of the Chaldeans.
50:26 Come ye against her from every quarter, open her
 storehouses; pile her up like sheaves, and destroy her utterly:
 let nothing of her be left.
50:27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter:
 woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their
 visitation.
50:28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of
 Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God,
 the vengeance of his temple.
50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon, all those that
 bend the bow: encamp against her round about; let there be no
 escaping: recompense her according to her work; according to
 all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath acted proudly
 against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.
50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets; and all
 her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith Jehovah.
50:31 Behold, I am against thee, proud one, saith the Lord
 Jehovah of hosts; for thy day is come, the time that I visit
 thee:
50:32 and the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall
 raise him up; yea, I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it
 shall devour all that are round about him.
50:33 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The children of Israel and
 the children of Judah were together oppressed; and all that
 took them captives held them fast: they refused to let them go.
50:34 Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah of hosts is his name: he
 will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the
 land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
50:35 The sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith Jehovah, and upon
 the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her
 wise men;
50:36 the sword is upon the liars, and they shall become fools;
 the sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed;
50:37 the sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots,
 and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her,
 and they shall become as women; the sword is upon her
 treasures, and they shall be robbed:
50:38 a drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up;
 for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad after
 frightful idols.
50:39 Therefore wild beasts of the desert with jackals shall
 dwell there, and ostriches shall dwell therein; and it shall be
 no more inhabited for ever, neither shall it be dwelt in from
 generation to generation.
50:40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and their
 neighbour cities, saith Jehovah, no one shall dwell there,
 neither shall a son of man sojourn therein.
50:41 Behold, a people cometh from the north, and a great
 nation. And many kings shall arise from the uttermost parts of
 the earth.
50:42 They lay hold of bow and spear; they are cruel, and will
 not shew mercy; their voice roareth like the sea, and they ride
 upon horses -- set in array like a man for the battle, against
 thee, O daughter of Babylon.
50:43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his
 hands wax feeble; trouble hath taken hold of him, pangs as of a
 woman in travail.
50:44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of
 the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will make him
 suddenly run away from it; and who is a chosen [man] whom I may
 appoint over her? For who is like me? and who will assign me a
 time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
50:45 Therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah, which he hath taken
 against Babylon, and his purposes which he hath purposed
 against the land of the Chaldeans: The little ones of the flock
 shall certainly draw them away; he shall certainly make their
 habitation desolate for them.
50:46 At the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth hath
 quaked, 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 the heart of those that
 rise against me, a destroying wind;
51:2 and I will send unto Babylon strangers, who shall fan her,
 and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall
 be against her round about.
51:3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and
 against him that lifteth himself up in his coat of mail; and
 spare not her young men: destroy utterly all her host.
51:4 And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and
 they that are thrust through in her streets.
51:5 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of
 Jehovah of hosts; for their land is full of guilt against the
 Holy One of Israel.
51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his
 life; be ye not cut off in her iniquity: for this is the time
 of Jehovah's vengeance: he shall render unto her a recompence.
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 have the nations become mad.
51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and ruined. Howl over her; take
 balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
51:9 We have treated Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake
 her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her
 judgment reacheth unto the heavens, and is lifted up to the
 skies.
51:10 Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and
 let us declare in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.
51:11 Sharpen the arrows; take the shields. Jehovah hath stirred
 up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; for his purpose is
 against Babylon, to destroy it; for this is the vengeance of
 Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.
51:12 Lift up a banner towards the walls of Babylon, make the
 watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for
 Jehovah hath both devised and done that which he spoke against
 the inhabitants of Babylon.
51:13 Thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in
 treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy rapacity.
51:14 Jehovah of hosts hath sworn by himself, I will assuredly
 fill thee with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall raise
 a shout against thee.
51:15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established
 the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by
 his understanding.
51:16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in
 the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the end
 of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth
 forth the wind out of his treasures.
51:17 Every man is become brutish, so as to have no knowledge;
 every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his
 molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
51:18 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their
 visitation they shall perish.
51:19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for it is he that
 hath formed all things: and [Israel] is the rod of his
 inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
51:20 Thou art my maul, [my] weapons of war: and with thee I
 will break in pieces the nations, and I will with thee destroy
 kingdoms;
51:21 and with thee I will break in pieces the horse and his
 rider; and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot and its
 driver;
51:22 and with thee will I break in pieces man and woman; and
 with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee
 will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
51:23 and with thee will I break in pieces the shepherd and his
 flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and
 his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces
 governors and rulers.
51:24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants
 of Chaldea, in your sight, all their evil which they have done
 in Zion, saith Jehovah.
51:25 Behold, I am against thee, mount of destruction, saith
 Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out
 my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will
 make thee a burning mountain.
51:26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor
 a stone for foundations; for thou shalt be desolate for ever,
 saith Jehovah.
51:27 Lift up a banner in the land, blow the trumpet among the
 nations, prepare nations against her; call together against her
 the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a captain
 against her; cause the horses to come up as the bristly
 caterpillars.
51:28 Prepare nations against her, the kings of the Medes, their
 governors and all their rulers, yea, all the land of their
 dominion.
51:29 And the land trembleth and is in pain; for the purposes of
 Jehovah against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a
 desolation, without inhabitant.
51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they are
 sitting in the fortresses; their might hath failed, they are
 become as women: they have set her dwelling places on fire; her
 bars are broken.
51:31 Courier runneth to meet courier, and messenger to meet
 messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city is
 taken from end to end;
51:32 and the passages are seized, and the reedy places are
 burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
51:33 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The
 daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor, at the time of
 its being trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest
 shall come for her.
51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he
 hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel; he hath
 swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my
 delicates, he hath cast me out.
51:35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,
 shall the inhabitress of Zion say; and, My blood be upon the
 inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
51:36 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy
 cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea,
 and make her spring dry.
51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place of
 jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
51:38 They shall roar together like young lions, growl as lions'
 whelps.
51:39 When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I
 will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a
 perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like
 rams with he-goats.
51:41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole
 earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the
 nations!
51:42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the
 multitude of its waves.
51:43 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a
 desert, a land wherein no one dwelleth, neither doth a son of
 man pass thereby.
51:44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth
 out of his mouth what he hath swallowed up; and the nations
 shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of
 Babylon is fallen.
51:45 Go ye out of the midst of her, my people, and deliver
 every man his soul from the fierce anger of Jehovah!
51:46 lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that
 shall be heard in the land; for a rumour shall come [one] year,
 and after that a rumour in [another] year, and violence in the
 earth, ruler against ruler.
51:47 Therefore behold, days are coming when I will punish the
 graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be put to
 shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
51:48 And the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein,
 shall shout aloud over Babylon; for out of the north the
 spoilers shall come against her, saith Jehovah.
51:49 As Babylon caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at
 Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
51:50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go, stand not still:
 remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your
 mind.
51:51 -- We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach;
 confusion hath covered our face: for strangers are come into
 the sanctuaries of Jehovah's house.
51:52 -- Therefore behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will
 punish her graven images; and throughout her land the wounded
 shall groan.
51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to the heavens, and though
 she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me
 shall spoilers come unto her, saith Jehovah.
51:54 The sound of a cry [cometh] from Babylon, and great
 destruction from the land of the Chaldeans;
51:55 for Jehovah spoileth Babylon, and he will destroy out of
 her the great voice; and their waves roar like great waters,
 the noise of their voice resoundeth.
51:56 For the spoiler is come against her, against Babylon, and
 her mighty men are taken; their bows are broken in pieces; for
 Jehovah, the ∙God of recompences, will certainly requite.
51:57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her
 governors, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall
 sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose
 name is Jehovah of hosts.
51:58 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon
 shall be utterly laid bare, and her high gates shall be burned
 with fire; so that the peoples will have laboured in vain, and
 the nations for the fire: and they shall be weary.
51:59 The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the
 son of Nerijah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah
 the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign.
 Now Seraiah was chief chamberlain.
51:60 And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come
 upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon.
51:61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon,
 see that thou read all these words;
51:62 and say, Jehovah, thou hast spoken concerning this place,
 that thou wilt cut it off, so that none shall dwell in it,
 neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
51:63 And it shall be, when thou hast ended reading this book,
 [that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the
 midst of the Euphrates;
51:64 and shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not
 rise, because of the evil that I will bring upon it: and they
 shall be weary. Thus far the words of Jeremiah.
52:1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign;
 and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name
 was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
52:2 And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all
 that Jehoiakim had done.
52:3 For, because the anger of Jehovah was against Jerusalem and
 Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, Zedekiah
 rebelled against the king of Babylon.
52:4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the
 tenth month, on the tenth of the month, [that] Nebuchadrezzar
 king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem;
 and they encamped against it, and built turrets against it
 round about.
52:5 And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king
 Zedekiah.
52:6 In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the famine
 prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of
 the land.
52:7 And the city was broken into: and all the men of war fled,
 and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the gate
 between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the
 Chaldeans were near the city round about); and they went the
 way toward the plain.
52:8 And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and
 overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army
 was scattered from him.
52:9 And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of
 Babylon, unto Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced
 judgment upon him.
52:10 And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah
 before his eyes; and he slaughtered also all the princes of
 Judah in Riblah.
52:11 And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with
 chains of brass; and the king of Babylon carried him to
 Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
52:12 And in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, which
 was in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
 Nebuzar-adan, captain of the body-guard, who stood before the
 king of Babylon, came unto Jerusalem;
52:13 and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house,
 and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great [man's] house
 he burned with fire.
52:14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the
 captain of the body-guard, broke down all the walls of
 Jerusalem round about.
52:15 And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard carried
 away captive of the poorest sort of the people, and the rest of
 the people that were left in the city, and the deserters that
 had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the
 multitude.
52:16 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard left of the
 poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
52:17 And the brazen pillars that were in the house of Jehovah,
 and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of
 Jehovah, the Chaldeans broke up, and carried all the brass
 thereof to Babylon.
52:18 The pots also, and the shovels, and the knives, and the
 bowls, and the cups, and all the vessels of brass wherewith
 they ministered, they took away.
52:19 And the basons and the censers, and the bowls, and the
 pots, and the candlesticks, and the cups, and the goblets, that
 which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in
 silver, the captain of the body-guard took away.
52:20 The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve brazen oxen
 that formed the bases, which king Solomon had made for the
 house of Jehovah: for the brass of all these vessels there was
 no weight.
52:21 And as to the pillars: the height of one pillar was
 eighteen cubits, and a line of twelve cubits encompassed it;
 and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
52:22 And the capital upon it was brass, and the height of the
 one capital [was] five cubits; and the network and the
 pomegranates, upon the capital round about, all of brass; and
 similarly for the second pillar, and the pomegranates.
52:23 And there were ninety-six pomegranates on the [four]
 sides; all the pomegranates upon the network were a hundred
 round about.
52:24 And the captain of the body-guard took Seraiah the chief
 priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three
 doorkeepers.
52:25 And out of the city he took a eunuch that was set over the
 men of war, and seven men of them that were in the king's
 presence, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the
 captain of the host, who enrolled the people of the land. And
 sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the
 midst of the city.
52:26 And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard took them,
 and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah;
52:27 and the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death
 at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away
 captive out of his land.
52:28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away
 captive: in the seventh year three thousand and twenty-three
 Jews;
52:29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar [he carried away
 captive] from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons;
52:30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzar-adan
 the captain of the body-guard carried away captive of the Jews
 seven hundred and forty-five persons: all the persons were four
 thousand six hundred.
52:31 And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the
 captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on
 the twenty-fifth of the month, [that] Evil-Merodach king of
 Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head
 of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of
 prison;
52:32 and he spoke kindly unto him, and set his seat above the
 seat of the kings that were with him in Babylon.
52:33 And he changed his prison garments; and he ate bread
 before him continually all the days of his life;
52:34 and his allowance was a continual allowance given him by
 the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his
 death, all the days of his life.