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The next file is: JEREMIAH
1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests
 that [were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
1:2 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the
 son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
1:3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king
 of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son
 of Josiah king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem
 captive in the fifth month.
1:4 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
1:5 Before I formed thee in embryo I knew thee; and before thou
 wast born I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet to
 the nations.
1:6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I
 [am] a child.
1:7 But the LORD said to me, Say not, I [am] a child: for thou
 shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatever I command
 thee thou shalt speak.
1:8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I [am] with thee to
 deliver thee, saith the LORD.
1:9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And
 the LORD said to 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 root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to
 throw down, to build, and to plant.
1:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Jeremiah,
 What seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree.
1:12 Then said the LORD to me, Thou hast well seen: for I will
 hasten my word to perform it.
1:13 And the word of the LORD came to me the second time,
 saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and
 its face [is] towards the north.
1:14 Then the LORD said to me, Out of the north an evil shall
 break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
1:15 For lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the
 north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set
 every one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem,
 and against all its walls around, and against all the cities of
 Judah.
1:16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all
 their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense
 to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.
1:17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to
 them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces,
 lest I confound thee before them.
1:18 For behold, I have made thee this day a fortified city, and
 an iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land,
 against the kings of Judah, against her princes, against her
 priests, and against the people of the land.
1:19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not
 prevail against thee; for I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to
 deliver thee.
2:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2:2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the
 LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of
 thy espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in
 a land [that was] not sown.
2:3 Israel [was] holiness to the LORD, [and] the first-fruits of
 his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come
 upon them, saith the LORD.
2:4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the
 families of the house of Israel:
2:5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found
 in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after
 vanity, and have become vain?
2:6 Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us out
 of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness,
 through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of
 drouth, and of the shades of death, through a land that no man
 passed through, and where no man dwelt?
2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit
 of it, and the goodness of it; but when ye entered, ye defiled
 my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
2:8 The priests said not, Where [is] the LORD? and they that
 handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed
 against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked
 after [things that] do not profit.
2:9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and
 with your children's children will I plead.
2:10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send to
 Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there is such a
 thing.
2:11 Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no
 gods? but my people have changed their glory for [that which]
 doth not profit.
2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly
 afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken
 me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed out for
 themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
2:14 [Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a home-born [slave]? why is
 he laid waste?
2:15 The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they
 made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
2:16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the
 crown of thy head.
2:17 Hast thou not procured this to thyself in that thou hast
 forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
2:18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink
 the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of
 Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
2:19 Thy own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings
 shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that [it is] an evil
 [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God,
 and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
2:20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy
 bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every
 high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing
 the harlot.
2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed:
 how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange
 vine to me?
2:22 For though thou shalt wash thee with niter, and take thee
 much soap, [yet] thy iniquity is marked before me, saith the
 Lord GOD.
2:23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone
 after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast
 done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
2:24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, [that] snuffeth up the
 wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can 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 have loved
 strangers, and after them will I go.
2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house
 of Israel 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 [their] back
 to me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their trouble
 they will say, Arise, and save us.
2:28 But where [are] thy gods that thou hast made for thyself?
 let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy
 trouble: for [according to] the number of thy cities are thy
 gods, O Judah.
2:29 Why will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against
 me, saith the LORD.
2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they have received no
 correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a
 destroying lion.
2:31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a
 wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why say my people, We
 are lords; we will come no more to thee?
2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her attire?
 yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
2:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou
 also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
2:34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the
 poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon
 all these.
2:35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger
 will turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou
 sayest, I have not sinned.
2:36 Why dost thou go about so much to change thy way? thou also
 shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
2:37 Yes, thou shalt go forth from him, and thy hands upon thy
 head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou
 shalt not prosper in them.
3:1 They say, If a man shall put away his wife, and she shall go
 from him, and become another man's, shall he return to her
 again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast
 played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me,
 saith the LORD.
3:2 Lift up thy eyes to the high places, and see where thou hast
 not been lain with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the
 Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with
 thy acts of lewdness, and with thy wickedness.
3:3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there hath
 been no latter rain? and thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou
 refusedst to be ashamed.
3:4 Wilt thou not from this time cry to me, My father, thou
 [art] the guide of my youth?
3:5 Will he retain [his anger] for ever? will he keep [it] to
 the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou
 couldst.
3:6 The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king,
 Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding Israel hath done? she
 hath gone up upon every high mountain, and under every green
 tree, and there hath played the harlot.
3:7 And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn thou
 to me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah
 saw [it].
3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes by which backsliding
 Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a
 bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not,
 but went and played the harlot also.
3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her lewdness,
 that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones
 and with stocks.
3:10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not
 turned to me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the
 LORD.
3:11 And the LORD said to me, The backsliding Israel hath
 justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
3:12 Go and proclaim these words towards the north, and say,
 Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; [and] I will
 not cause my anger to fall upon you: for I [am] merciful, saith
 the LORD, [and] I will not keep [anger] for ever.
3:13 Only acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed
 against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the
 strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my
 voice, saith the LORD.
3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am
 married to 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 pastors according to my heart, who
 shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
3:16 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall be multiplied and
 increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they
 shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither
 shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither
 shall they visit [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more.
3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the
 LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name
 of the LORD, to Jerusalem; neither shall they walk any more
 after the imagination 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 from the land of the
 north to the land that I have given for an inheritance to your
 fathers.
3:19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and
 give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of
 nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt
 not turn away from me.
3:20 Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her
 husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of
 Israel, saith the LORD.
3:21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping [and]
 supplications of the children of Israel: for they have
 perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten the LORD their
 God.
3:22 Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal your
 backslidings. Behold, we come to thee; for thou [art] the LORD
 our God.
3:23 Truly in vain [is salvation hoped for] from the hills, [and
 from] the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God
 [is] the salvation of Israel.
3:24 For shame hath devoured the labor 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 the LORD our God, we and our
 fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed
 the voice of the LORD our God.
4:1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return to me:
 and if thou wilt put away thy abominations out of my sight,
 then shalt thou not remove.
4:2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in
 judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless
 themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
4:3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem,
 Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the
 foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of
 Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that
 none can quench [it], because of the evil of your doings.
4:5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow
 ye the trumpet in the land: cry, Gather together, and say,
 Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.
4:6 Set up the standard towards Zion: retire, stay not: for I
 will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
4:7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of
 the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to
 make thy land desolate; thy cities shall be laid waste, without
 an inhabitant.
4:8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl for the
 fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
4:9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD,
 [that] the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the
 princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets
 shall wonder.
4:10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly
 deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have
 peace; whereas the sword reacheth to the soul.
4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to
 Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness
 towards the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
4:12 [Even] a full wind from those [places] shall come to me:
 now also will I give sentence against them.
4:13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall
 be] as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to
 us! for we are laid waste.
4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thy heart 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 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against
 Jerusalem, [that] watchers come from a far country, and give
 out their voice against the cities of Judah.
4:17 As keepers of a field they are against her on all sides;
 because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
4:18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these [things] to
 thee; this [is] thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because
 it reacheth to thy heart.
4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my
 heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because
 thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm
 of war.
4:20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land
 is laid waste; suddenly are my tents ruined, [and] 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 [are] foolish, they have not known me; they
 [are] sottish children, and they have no understanding: they
 [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
4:23 I beheld the earth, and lo, [it was] without form, and
 void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.
4:24 I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the
 hills moved lightly.
4:25 I beheld, and lo, [there was] no man, and all the fowls of
 the heavens had fled.
4:26 I beheld, and lo, the fruitful place [was] a wilderness,
 and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the
 LORD, [and] by his fierce anger.
4:27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be
 desolate; yet will I 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 from it.
4:29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and
 bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the
 rocks: every city [shall be] forsaken, and not a man dwell
 therein.
4:30 And [when] thou [art] laid waste, what wilt thou do? Though
 thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee
 with ornaments of gold, though thou rendest thy face with
 painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair: [thy] lovers
 will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
4:31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, [and]
 the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the
 voice of the daughter of Zion, [that] bewaileth herself, [that]
 spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe [is] me now! for my soul is
 wearied because of murderers.
5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see
 now, and know, and seek in its broad places, if ye can find a
 man, if there is [any] that executeth judgment, that seeketh
 the truth; and I will pardon it.
5:2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear
 falsely.
5:3 O LORD, [are] not thy eyes upon the truth? thou hast
 stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed
 them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have
 made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to
 return.
5:4 Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish:
 for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of
 their God.
5:5 I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they
 have known the way of the LORD, [and] the judgment of their
 God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, [and] burst the
 bonds.
5:6 Wherefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, [and] a
 wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch
 over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be
 torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, [and]
 their backslidings are increased.
5:7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken
 me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had fed them
 to the full, then they committed adultery, and assembled
 themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
5:8 They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one neighed
 after his neighbor's wife.
5:9 Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: and
 shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
5:10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full
 end: take away her battlements; for they [are] not the LORD'S.
5:11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt
 very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
5:12 They have belied the LORD, and said, [It is] not he;
 neither shall evil come upon us; neither 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 to them.
5:14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD 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 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of
 Israel, saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an
 ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not,
 neither understandest what they say.
5:16 Their quiver [is] as an open sepulcher, they [are] all
 mighty men.
5:17 And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, [which]
 thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy
 flocks and thy herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy
 fig-trees: they shall impoverish with the sword thy fortified
 cities, in which thou hast trusted.
5:18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make
 a full end with you.
5:19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Why doeth the
 LORD our God all these [things] to us? then shalt thou answer
 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 people, and without understanding;
 who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not:
5:22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my
 presence, who have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea
 by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though its
 waves toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they
 roar, yet can they not pass over it?
5:23 But this people have a revolting and a rebellious heart;
 they have revolted and gone.
5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD
 our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in
 its season: he reserveth to us the appointed weeks of harvest.
5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and your
 sins have withheld good [things] from you.
5:26 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait,
 as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of
 deceit: therefore they have become great, and have grown rich.
5:28 They have become fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the
 deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the
 fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do
 they not judge.
5:29 Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: shall
 not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by
 their means; and my people love [to have it] so: and what will
 ye do in the end thereof?
6:1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of
 the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set
 up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of
 the north, and great destruction.
6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate
 [woman].
6:3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they
 shall pitch [their] tents against her on every side; they shall
 feed every one in his place.
6:4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon.
 Woe to us! for the day departeth, for the shadows of the
 evening are lengthened.
6:5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her
 palaces.
6:6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and
 cast a mount against Jerusalem: this [is] the city to be
 visited; she [is] wholly oppression in the midst of her.
6:7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her
 wickedness: violence and devastation is heard in her; before me
 continually [are] grief and wounds.
6:8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from
 thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
6:9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean
 the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thy hand as a
 grape-gatherer into the baskets.
6:10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may
 hear? Behold, their ear [is] uncircumcised, and they cannot
 hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach;
 they have no delight in it.
6:11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary
 with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad,
 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 to others, [with their]
 fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon
 the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them
 every one [is] given to covetousness; and from the prophet even
 to the priest every one dealeth falsely.
6:14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people
 slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.
6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no,
 they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:
 therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time
 [that] I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask
 for the old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk in it, and
 ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not
 walk [in it].
6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the
 sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
6:18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what
 [is] among them.
6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people,
 [even] the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not
 hearkened to my words, nor to my law, but have rejected it.
6:20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and
 the sweet cane from a distant country? your burnt-offerings
 [are] not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet to me.
6:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay
 stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the
 sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbor and his friend
 shall perish.
6:22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north
 country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of
 the earth.
6:23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they [are] cruel, and
 have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride
 upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O
 daughter of Zion.
6:24 We have heard the fame of it: our hands become feeble:
 anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pain, as of a woman in
 travail.
6:25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the
 sword of the enemy [and] fear [is] on every side.
6:26 O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and
 wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only
 son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly
 come upon us.
6:27 I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my
 people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
6:28 They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with slanders:
 [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters.
6:29 The bellows is burned, the lead is consumed by the fire;
 the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked
 away.
6:30 Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD
 hath rejected them.
7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
7:2 Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there
 this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all [ye of]
 Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
7:3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your
 ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this
 place.
7:4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD,
 The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are] these.
7:5 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye
 thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;
7:6 [If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the
 widow, and shed not 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, for ever and ever.
7:8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear
 falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods
 whom ye know not;
7:10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called
 by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these
 abominations?
7:11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of
 robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith the
 LORD.
7:12 But go ye now to my place which [was] in Shiloh, where I
 set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the
 wickedness of my people Israel.
7:13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the
 LORD, and I spoke to you, rising early and speaking, but ye
 heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
7:14 Therefore will I do to [this] house, which is called by my
 name, in which ye trust, and to 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, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim.
7:16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up
 cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I
 will not hear thee.
7:17 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 to other gods, that
 they may provoke me to anger.
7:19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: [do they] not
 [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
7:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, my anger and my
 fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon
 beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of
 the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
7:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your
 burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
7:22 For I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the
 day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning
 burnt-offerings or sacrifices:
7:23 But this thing I commanded them, saying, Obey my voice, and
 I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in
 all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well to
 you.
7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked
 in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart,
 and went backward, and not forward.
7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth from the land of
 Egypt to this day I have even sent to you all my servants the
 prophets, daily rising early and sending [them]:
7:26 Yet they hearkened not to me, nor inclined their ear, but
 hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
7:27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words to them; but
 they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call to them;
 but they will not answer thee.
7:28 But thou shalt say to them, This [is] a nation that obeyeth
 not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction:
 truth hath perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
7:29 Cut off thy hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and
 take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath
 rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith
 the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which
 is called by my name, to pollute it.
7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which [is]
 in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and
 their daughters in the fire; which I commanded [them] not,
 neither came it into my heart.
7:32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it
 shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of
 Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in
 Tophet, till there shall be no place.
7:33 And the carcasses of this people shall be food for the
 fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none
 shall frighten [them] away.
7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and
 from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the
 voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice
 of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
8:1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring the bones of
 the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones
 of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of
 the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and
 all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they
 have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they
 have sought, and whom they have worshiped: they shall not be
 gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face
 of the earth.
8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the
 residue of them that remain of this evil family, who remain in
 all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of
 hosts.
8:4 Moreover, thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall
 they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
8:5 Why [then] hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a
 perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to
 return.
8:6 I hearkened and heard, [but] they spoke not aright: no man
 repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one
 turned to his course, as the horse rusheth to the battle.
8:7 Yes, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;
 and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time
 of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the
 LORD.
8:8 How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is]
 with us? Lo, certainly in vain he hath made [it]; the pen of
 the scribes [is] in vain.
8:9 The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo,
 they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is]
 in them?
8:10 Therefore will I give their wives to others, [and] their
 fields to them that shall inherit [them]: for every one from
 the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness, from
 the prophet even to the priest every one dealeth falsely.
8:11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
 slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.
8:12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no,
 they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:
 therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of
 their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
8:13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: [there shall
 be] no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree, and the
 leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given to them
 shall pass away from them.
8:14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter
 into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the
 LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall
 to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
8:15 We looked for peace, but no good [came]; [and] for a time
 of health, and behold, trouble!
8:16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole
 land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones;
 for they have come, and have devoured the land, and all that is
 in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
8:17 For behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you,
 which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith
 the LORD.
8:18 [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is]
 faint in me.
8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people
 because of them that dwell in a distant country: [Is] not the
 LORD in Zion? [is] not her king in her? Why have they provoked
 me to anger with their graven images, [and] with strange
 vanities?
8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not
 saved.
8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am
 black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
8:22 [Is there] no balm in Gilead: [is there] no physician
 there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people
 recovered.
9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of
 tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the
 daughter of my people!
9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of
 way-faring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them!
 for they [are] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
9:3 And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but
 they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they
 proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the
 LORD.
9:4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in
 any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every
 neighbor will walk with slanders.
9:5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not
 speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies,
 [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.
9:6 Thy habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit
 they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
9:7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt
 them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my
 people?
9:8 Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit:
 [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in
 heart he layeth his wait.
9:9 Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith the LORD:
 shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
9:10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and
 for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because
 they are burned up, so that none can pass through [them];
 neither can [men] hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl
 of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.
9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, [and] a den of dragons;
 and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
 inhabitant.
9:12 Who [is] the wise man that may understand this? and [who is
 he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may
 declare it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up like
 a wilderness, that none passeth through?
9:13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which
 I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked
 therein;
9:14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart,
 and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
9:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
 Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood,
 and give them water of gall to drink.
9:16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither
 they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword
 after them, till I have consumed them.
9:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the
 mourning women, that they may come; and send for skillful
 [women], that they may come:
9:18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that
 our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with
 waters.
9:19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we
 laid waste! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken
 the land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out.
9:20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear
 receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters
 wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
9:21 For death hath come up into our windows, [and] hath entered
 into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and]
 the young men from the streets.
9:22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall
 fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the
 harvest-man, and none shall gather [them].
9:23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise [man] glory in his
 wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let
 not the rich [man] glory in his riches:
9:24 But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he
 understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD who exercise
 loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for
 in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.
9:25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish
 all [them who are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;
9:26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and
 Moab, and all [that are] in the utmost corners, that dwell in
 the wilderness: for all [these] nations [are] uncircumcised,
 and all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised in the heart.
10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh to you, O house of
 Israel:
10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and
 be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are
 dismayed at them.
10:3 For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth
 a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman,
 with the ax.
10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with
 nails and with hammers, that it may not move.
10:5 They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they
 must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of
 them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to
 do good.
10:6 Forasmuch as [there is] none like to thee, O LORD; 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: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the
 nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like to
 thee.
10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is]
 a doctrine of vanities.
10:9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and
 gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of
 the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are]
 all the work of skillful [men].
10:10 But the LORD [is] the true God, he [is] the living God,
 and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble,
 and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
10:11 Thus shall ye say to them, The gods that have not made the
 heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth,
 and from under these 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 discretion.
10:13 When he uttereth his voice, [there is] a multitude of
 waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from
 the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and
 bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
10:14 Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is
 confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is]
 falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
10:15 They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time
 of their visitation they shall perish.
10:16 The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the
 former of all [things]; and Israel [is] the rod of his
 inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.
10:17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the
 fortress.
10:18 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will sling out the
 inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them
 that they may find [it so].
10:19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said,
 Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it.
10:20 My tabernacle is laid waste, and all my cords are broken:
 my children are gone 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 pastors have become brutish, and have not sought
 the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their
 flocks shall be scattered.
10:22 Behold, the sound of the noise is come, and a great
 commotion from the north country, to make the cities of Judah
 desolate, [and] a den of dragons.
10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself:
 [it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
10:24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thy anger,
 lest thou bring me to nothing.
10:25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and
 upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have
 eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have
 made his habitation desolate.
11:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
11:2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of
 Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
11:3 And say thou to them, Thus saith the LORD 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 from the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace,
 saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I
 command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
11:5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn to your
 fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as
 [it is] this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
11:6 Then the LORD said to me, Proclaim all these words in the
 cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear
 ye the words of this covenant, and do them.
11:7 For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day [that]
 I brought them out of the land of Egypt, [even] to this day,
 rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
11:8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked
 every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I
 will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I
 commanded [them] to do; but they did [them] not.
11:9 And the LORD said to me, A conspiracy is found among the
 men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
11:10 They have turned back to the iniquities of their
 forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they went after
 other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of
 Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
11:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil
 upon them which they shall not be able to escape; and though
 they shall cry to me, I will not hearken to them.
11:12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of
 Jerusalem go, and cry to the gods to which they offer incense:
 but they shall not save them at all in the time of their
 trouble.
11:13 For [according to] the number of thy cities were thy gods,
 O Judah; and [according to] the number of the streets of
 Jerusalem have ye set up altars to [that] shameful thing,
 [even] altars to burn incense to Baal.
11:14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a
 cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear [them] in the time
 when they cry to me for their trouble.
11:15 What hath my beloved to do in my house, [seeing] she hath
 wrought lewdness with many; and the holy flesh is passed from
 thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
11:16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, [and]
 of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath
 kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
11:17 For the LORD 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 against themselves to
 provoke me to anger in offering incense to Baal.
11:18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge [of it], and I know
 [it]: then thou showedst me their doings.
11:19 But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to
 the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices
 against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
 and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his
 name may be no more remembered.
11:20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that
 triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on
 them: for to thee have I revealed my cause.
11:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the men of
 Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name
 of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:
11:22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will
 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, [even] the year of their
 visitation.
12:1 Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet
 let me speak with thee of [thy] judgments: Why doth the way of
 the wicked prosper? [why] are they all happy that deal very
 treacherously?
12:2 Thou hast planted them, yes, they have taken root: they
 grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: thou [art] near in their
 mouth, and far from their reins.
12:3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried
 my heart towards thee: pull them out like sheep for the
 slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field
 wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the
 beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He will
 not see our last end.
12:5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied
 thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and [if] in the
 land of peace, [in which] thou hast trusted, [they wearied
 thee], then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
12:6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even
 they have dealt treacherously with thee; yes, they have called
 a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak
 fair words to thee.
12:7 I have forsaken my house, I have left my heritage; I have
 given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her
 enemies.
12:8 My heritage is to me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out
 against me: therefore have I hated it.
12:9 My heritage [is] to me [as] a speckled bird, the birds
 around [are] against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of
 the field, come to devour.
12:10 Many pastors 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 desolate, [and being] desolate it
 mourneth to me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man
 layeth [it] to heart.
12:12 The spoilers have come upon all high places through the
 wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the
 [one] end of the land even to the other [end] of the land: no
 flesh shall have peace.
12:13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put
 themselves to pain, [but] shall not profit; and they shall be
 ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the
 LORD.
12:14 Thus saith the LORD against all my evil neighbors, that
 touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to
 inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck
 out the house of Judah from among them.
12:15 And it shall come to pass, after I have plucked them out I
 will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them
 again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
12:16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn
 the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as
 they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be
 built in the midst of my people.
12:17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and
 destroy that nation, saith the LORD.
13:1 Thus saith the LORD to me, Go and get for thee a linen
 girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
13:2 So I procured a girdle according to the word of the LORD,
 and put [it] on my loins.
13:3 And the word of the LORD came to me the second time,
 saying,
13:4 Take the girdle that thou hast procured, which [is] upon
 thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a
 hole of the rock.
13:5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded
 me.
13:6 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said to
 me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence,
 which I commanded thee to hide there.
13:7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle
 from the place where I had hid it: and behold, the girdle was
 marred, it was profitable for nothing.
13:8 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
13:9 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar 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 imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to
 serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle,
 which is good for nothing.
13:11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have
 I caused to cleave to me the whole house of Israel and the
 whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be to me
 for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a
 glory: but they would not hear.
13:12 Therefore thou shalt speak to them this word; Thus saith
 the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine:
 and they shall say to thee, Do we not certainly know that every
 bottle shall be filled with wine?
13:13 Then shalt thou say to them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold,
 I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings
 that sit upon David's 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, even the fathers
 and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor
 spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
13:15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath
 spoken.
13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he shall cause
 darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains,
 and while ye look for light, he shall turn it into the shades
 of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.
13:17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret
 places for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and
 run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away
 captive.
13:18 Say to the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit
 down: for your principalities shall come down, [even] the crown
 of your glory.
13:19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall
 open [them]; Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it
 shall be 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 punish thee? for thou
 hast taught them [to be] captains, [and] as chief over thee:
 shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
13:22 And if thou shalt say in thy heart, Why come these things
 upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity are thy skirts
 uncovered, [and] thy heels made bare.
13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his
 spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do
 evil.
13:24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth
 away by the wind of the wilderness.
13:25 This [is] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me,
 saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in
 falsehood.
13:26 Therefore will I uncover thy skirts upon thy face, that
 thy shame may appear.
13:27 I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighings, the
 enormity of thy lewdness, [and] thy abominations on the hills
 in the fields. Woe to thee O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made
 clean? when [shall it] once [be]?
14:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the
 dearth.
14:2 Judah mourneth, and her gates languish; they are black to
 the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
14:3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters:
 they came to the pits, [and] found no water; they returned with
 their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and
 covered their heads.
14:4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain on the
 earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
14:5 Yes, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook [it],
 because there was no grass.
14:6 And the wild asses stood in the high places, they snuffed
 up the wind like dragons; their eyes failed, because [there
 was] no grass.
14:7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou
 [it] for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we
 have sinned against thee.
14:8 O the hope of Israel, his Savior in time of trouble, why
 shouldst thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a way-faring
 man [that] turneth aside to tarry for a night?
14:9 Why shouldst thou be as a man astonished, as a mighty man
 [that] cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, [art] in the midst of us,
 and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
14:10 Thus saith the LORD to this people, Thus have they loved
 to wander, they have not restrained their feet, therefore the
 LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity,
 and visit their sins.
14:11 Then said the LORD to me, Pray not for this people for
 [their] good.
14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they
 offer burnt-offering and an oblation, I will not accept them:
 but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by
 the pestilence.
14:13 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say to
 them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine;
 but I will give you assured peace in this place.
14:14 Then the LORD said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my
 name: I have not sent them, neither have I commanded them,
 neither spoken to them: they prophesy to you a false vision and
 divination, and a thing of naught, and the deceit of their
 heart.
14:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that
 prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword
 and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall
 those prophets be consumed.
14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in
 the streets of Jerusalem, because of the famine, and the sword;
 and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor
 their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their
 wickedness upon them.
14:17 Therefore thou shalt say this word to them; Let my eyes
 run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for
 the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach,
 with a very grievous blow.
14:18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with
 the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that
 are sick with famine! yes, both the prophet and the priest go
 about into a land that they know not.
14:19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed
 Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, and [there is] no healing for
 us? we looked for peace, and [there is] no good; and for the
 time of healing, and behold trouble!
14:20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity
 of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.
14:21 Do not abhor [us], for thy name's sake; 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 Gentiles that
 can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou
 he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou
 hast made all these [things].
15:1 Then said the LORD to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood
 before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] towards this people:
 cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.
15:2 And it shall come to pass, if they say to thee, Whither
 shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the
 LORD; Such as [are] for death, to death; and such as [are] for
 the sword, to the sword; and such as [are] for the famine, to
 the famine; and such as [are] for the captivity, to the
 captivity.
15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD:
 the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the
 heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
15:4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of
 the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of
 Judah, for [that] which he did in Jerusalem.
15:5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who
 shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask concerning thy
 welfare?
15:6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone
 backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee,
 and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
15:7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I
 will bereave [them] of children, I will destroy my people,
 [since] they return not from their ways.
15:8 Their widows are multiplied to me above the sand of the
 seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young
 men a spoiler at noon-day: I have caused [him] to fall upon it
 suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath resigned
 her breath; her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day: she
 hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will
 I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of
 strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have
 neither lent on usury, nor have men lent to me on usury; [yet]
 every one of them doth curse me.
15:11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant;
 verily I will cause the enemy to treat thee [well] in the time
 of evil and in the time of affliction.
15:12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
15:13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil
 without price, and [that] for all thy sins, even in all thy
 borders.
15:14 And I will make [thee] to pass with thy enemies into a
 land [which] thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in my
 anger, [which] shall burn upon you.
15:15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and
 avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy
 long-suffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was
 to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy
 name, O LORD God of hosts.
15:17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; 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, [which]
 refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether to me as a liar,
 [and as] waters [that] fail?
15:19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou shalt return, then
 will I bring thee again, [and] thou shalt stand before me: and
 if thou shalt separate the precious from the vile, thou shalt
 be as my mouth: let them return to thee; but return not thou to
 them.
15:20 And I will make thee to this people a fortified 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 the LORD.
15:21 And I will deliver thee from the hand of the wicked, and I
 will redeem thee from the hand of the terrible.
16:1 The word of the LORD came also to me, saying,
16:2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have
 sons nor daughters in this place.
16:3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning
 the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their
 mothers that bore them, and concerning their fathers that begat
 them in this land;
16:4 They shall die by grievous deaths; they shall not be
 lamented; neither shall they be buried; [but] they shall be as
 dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by
 the sword, and by famine; and their carcasses shall be food for
 the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
16:5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of
 mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have
 taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, [even]
 loving-kindness and mercies.
16:6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they
 shall not be buried, neither shall [men] lament for them, nor
 cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
16:7 Neither shall [men] tear [themselves] for them in mourning,
 to comfort them for the dead; neither shall [men] give them the
 cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their
 mother.
16:8 Also thou shalt not go into the house of feasting, to sit
 with them to eat and to drink.
16:9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
 Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes,
 and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of
 gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the
 bride.
16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this
 people all these words, and they shall say to thee, Why hath
 the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what
 [is] our iniquity? or what [is] our sin that we have committed
 against the LORD our God?
16:11 Then shalt thou say to them, Because your fathers have
 forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods,
 and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have
 forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
16:12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye
 walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that
 they may not hearken to me:
16:13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land
 that ye know not, [neither] ye nor your fathers; and there
 shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not show
 you favor.
16:14 Therefore behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it
 shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought the
 children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
16:15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought the children of Israel
 from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he
 had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land
 that I gave to their fathers.
16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, 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 my eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are not hid
 from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from my eyes.
16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin
 double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled my
 inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and
 abominable things.
16:19 O LORD, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the
 day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to thee from the
 ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have
 inherited lies, vanity, and [things] in which [there is] no
 profit.
16:20 Shall a man make gods to 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 pen of iron, [and]
 with the point of a diamond: [it is] graven upon the table of
 their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
17:2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their
 groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
17:3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance [and]
 all thy treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high places for sin,
 throughout all thy borders.
17:4 And thou, even thyself, shall discontinue from thy heritage
 that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thy enemies in
 the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in
 my anger, [which] shall burn for ever.
17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in
 man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from
 the LORD.
17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not
 see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in
 the wilderness, [in] a salt land and not inhabited.
17:7 Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose
 hope the LORD is.
17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that]
 spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when
 heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be
 anxious in the year of drouth, neither shall cease from
 yielding fruit.
17:9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and
 desperately wicked: who can know it?
17:10 I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to
 give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the
 fruit of his doings.
17:11 [As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth [them]
 not; [so] he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave
 them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
17:12 A glorious high throne from the beginning [is] the place
 of our sanctuary.
17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be
 ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the
 earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of
 living waters.
17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I
 shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise.
17:15 Behold, they say to me, Where [is] the word of the LORD?
 let it come now.
17:16 As for me, I have not hastened from [being] a pastor to
 follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou
 knowest: that which was uttered by my lips was [right] before
 thee.
17:17 Be not a terror to me: thou [art] my hope in the day of
 evil.
17:18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me
 be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be
 dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them
 with double destruction.
17:19 Thus said the LORD to 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 to them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of
 Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
 that enter by these gates:
17:21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no
 burden on the sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of
 Jerusalem;
17:22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the
 sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath
 day, as I commanded your fathers.
17:23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made
 their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive
 instruction.
17:24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken to me,
 saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this
 city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no
 work therein;
17:25 Then shall there enter into 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
 remain for ever.
17:26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the
 places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from
 the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing
 burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and meat-offerings, and
 incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, to the house of the
 LORD.
17:27 But if ye will not hearken to me to hallow the sabbath
 day, and not to bear a burden, even entering at the gates of
 Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in its
 gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it
 shall not be quenched.
18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
18:2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will
 cause thee to hear my words.
18:3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he
 wrought a work on the wheels.
18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand
 of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as it seemed
 good to the potter to make [it].
18:5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter?
 saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay [is] in the potter's hand,
 so [are] ye in my hand, O house of Israel.
18:7 [At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
 concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to
 destroy [it];
18:8 If that nation against which I have pronounced, shall turn
 from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do
 to them.
18:9 And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation,
 and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it];
18:10 If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my
 voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I
 would benefit them.
18:11 Now therefore come, speak to the men of Judah, and to the
 inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold,
 I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you:
 return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways
 and your doings good.
18:12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after
 our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of
 his evil heart.
18:13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the
 heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath
 done a very horrible thing.
18:14 Will [a man] leave the snow of Lebanon [which cometh] from
 the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold flowing waters that
 come from another place be forsaken?
18:15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned
 incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in
 their ways [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a
 way not cast up;
18:16 To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual hissing;
 every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and wag his
 head.
18:17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy;
 I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of
 their calamity.
18:18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against
 Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor
 counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and
 let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to
 any of his words.
18:19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them
 that contend with me.
18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a
 pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak
 good for them, [and] to turn away thy wrath from them.
18:21 Therefore deliver their children to the famine, and pour
 out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their
 wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let
 their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by
 the sword in battle.
18:22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt
 bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to
 take me, and hid snares for my feet.
18:23 Yet, LORD, thou 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 [thus] with them in the time of thy anger.
19:1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle,
 and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients
 of the priests;
19:2 And go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which [is]
 by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words
 that I shall tell thee,
19:3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah,
 and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
 God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which
 whoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
19:4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this
 place, and have burned incense in it to 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 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their
 sons with fire [for] burnt-offerings to Baal, which I commanded
 not, nor spoke [it], neither came [it] into my mind:
19:6 Therefore behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this
 place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The 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 hands of them that seek their lives:
 and their carcasses will I give to be food for the fowls of the
 heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
19:8 And I will make this city desolate, and a hissing; every
 one that passeth by it shall be astonished and hiss because of
 all its plagues.
19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and
 the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the
 flesh of his friend in the siege and distress with which their
 enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall distress them.
19:10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men
 that go with thee,
19:11 And shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD 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 [them] in Tophet, till [there be] no place to bury.
19:12 Thus will I do to this place, saith the LORD, and to its
 inhabitants, and [even] make this city as Tophet:
19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings
 of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of
 all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all
 the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings to
 other gods.
19:14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent
 him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house;
 and said to all the people,
19:15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
 will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil
 that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened
 their necks, that they might not hear my words.
20:1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who [was] also
 chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah
 prophesied these things.
20:2 Then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the
 stocks that [were] in the high gate of Benjamin, which [was] by
 the house of the LORD.
20:3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought
 forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah to him,
 The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.
20:4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror
 to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the
 sword of their enemies, and thy eyes shall behold [it]: and I
 will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
 he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them
 with the sword.
20:5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and
 all its labors, and all its precious things, and all the
 treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of
 their enemies, who shall pillage them, 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 shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy
 friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
20:7 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art
 stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily,
 every one mocketh me.
20:8 For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil;
 because the word of the LORD was made a reproach to me, and a
 derision, daily.
20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any
 more in his name. But [his word] was in my heart as a burning
 fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and
 I could not [stay].
20:10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side.
 Report, [say they], and we will report it. All my familiars
 watched for my halting, [saying], Perhaps he will be enticed,
 and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge
 on him.
20:11 But the LORD [is] with me as a mighty terrible one:
 therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not
 prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not
 prosper: [their] everlasting confusion shall never be
 forgotten.
20:12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, [and]
 seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on
 them: for to thee have I opened my cause.
20:13 Sing to the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath
 delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evil-doers.
20:14 Cursed [be] the day in which I was born: let not the day
 in which my mother bore me be blessed.
20:15 Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father,
 saying, A male child is born to thee; making him very glad.
20:16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD
 overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the
 morning, and the shouting at noon;
20:17 Because he slew me not at my birth; or that my mother
 might have been my grave, and she had not been delivered.
20:18 Why was I brought into the world to see labor and sorrow,
 that my days should be consumed with shame?
21:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when king
 Zedekiah sent to him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah
 the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
21:2 Inquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for
 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; it may be
 that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous
 works, that he may go up from us.
21:3 Then said Jeremiah to them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
21:4 Thus saith the LORD 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 without the walls, and I will assemble them
 into the midst of this city.
21:5 And I myself will fight against you with an out-stretched
 hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in
 great wrath.
21:6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and
 beast; they shall die by a great pestilence.
21:7 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king
 of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are
 left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from
 the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar 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 to this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD;
 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
 falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and
 his life shall be to him for a prey.
21:10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not
 for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of
 the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
21:11 And concerning the house of the king of Judah, [say], Hear
 ye the word of the LORD;
21:12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in
 the morning, and deliver [him that is] made desolate out of the
 hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn
 that none can quench [it], because of the evil of your doings.
21:13 Behold, I [am] against thee, O inhabitant of the valley,
 [and] rock of the plain, saith the LORD; who say, Who shall
 come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
21:14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your
 doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest
 thereof, and it shall devour all things around it.
22:1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of
 Judah, and speak there this word,
22:2 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that
 sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and
 thy people that enter by these gates:
22:3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness,
 and deliver him that is laid waste out of the hand of the
 oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the
 fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this
 place.
22:4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter, by
 the gates of this house, kings sitting upon the throne of
 David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants,
 and his people.
22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself,
 saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
22:6 For thus saith the LORD to the king's house of Judah; Thou
 [art] Gilead to me, [and] the head of Lebanon; [yet] surely I
 will make thee a wilderness, [and] cities [which] are not
 inhabited.
22:7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with
 his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice 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 neighbor, Why hath the LORD done thus to
 this great city?
22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the
 covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods, and
 served them.
22:10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: [but] weep
 bitterly for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more,
 nor see his native country.
22:11 For thus saith the LORD concerning Shallum the son of
 Josiah king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father,
 who went forth from this place; He shall not return thither any
 more:
22:12 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him
 captive, and shall see this land no more.
22:13 Woe to him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and
 his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbor's service
 without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
22:14 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large
 chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and [it is] ceiled with
 cedar, and painted with vermilion.
22:15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thyself] in cedar?
 did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice,
 [and] then [it was] well with him?
22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was]
 well [with him]: [was] not this to know me? saith the LORD.
22:17 But thy eyes and thy heart [are] only for thy
 covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for
 oppression, and for violence, to do [it].
22:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son
 of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him,
 [saying], Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament
 for him, [saying], Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and
 cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
22:20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in
 Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are
 destroyed.
22:21 I spoke to thee in thy prosperity; [but] thou saidest, I
 will not hear. This [hath been] thy manner from thy youth, that
 thou hast not obeyed my voice.
22:22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers
 shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and
 confounded for all thy wickedness.
22:23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the
 cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee,
 the pain as of a woman in travail!
22:24 [As] I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of
 Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet
 would 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] whose face thou fearest, even
 into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the
 hand of the Chaldeans.
22:26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bore thee,
 into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall
 ye die.
22:27 But to the land to which they desire to return, thither
 shall they not return.
22:28 [Is] this man Coniah a despised broken idol? [is he] a
 vessel in which [is] no pleasure? why are they cast 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 the LORD.
22:30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye 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 be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of
 my pasture! saith the LORD.
23:2 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the
 pastors 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 the LORD.
23:3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock from all
 countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again
 to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
23:4 And I will set shepherds over them who shall feed them: and
 they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be
 lacking, saith the LORD.
23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise to
 David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper,
 and shall execute judgment and justice upon the earth.
23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell in
 safety: and this [is] his name by which he shall be called,
 JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
23:7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they
 shall no more say, The LORD liveth, who brought the children of
 Israel out of the land of Egypt;
23:8 But, the LORD liveth, who brought and who led the seed of
 the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all
 countries whither I have driven them; and they shall dwell in
 their own land.
23:9 My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all
 my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom
 wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the
 words of his holiness.
23:10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of
 swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the
 wilderness are dried up, and 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 the LORD.
23:12 Wherefore their way shall be to them as slippery [ways] in
 the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I
 will bring evil upon them, [even] the year of their visitation,
 saith the LORD.
23:13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they
 prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible
 thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen
 also the hands of evil-doers, that none doth return from his
 wickedness: they are all of them to me as Sodom, and the
 inhabitants of it as Gomorrah.
23:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the
 prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them
 drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is
 profaneness gone forth into all the land.
23:16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not to the words of
 the prophets that prophesy to you: they make you vain: they
 speak a vision of their own heart, [and] not from the mouth of
 the LORD.
23:17 They say still to them that despise me, The LORD hath
 said, Ye shall have peace; and they say to every one that
 walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall
 come upon you.
23:18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath
 perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and
 heard [it]?
23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury,
 even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the
 head of the wicked.
23:20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he shall
 have executed, and till he shall have performed the thoughts of
 his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
23:21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not
 spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my
 people to hear my words, then they would have turned them from
 their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23:23 [Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar
 off.
23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see
 him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the
 LORD.
23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in
 my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
23:26 How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets that
 prophesy lies? yes, [they 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 neighbor, as their
 fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
23:28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and
 he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What
 [is] the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD?
23:29 [Is] not my word like a fire? saith the LORD? and like a
 hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces?
23:30 Therefore behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the
 LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.
23:31 Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that
 use their tongues, and say, He saith.
23:32 Behold, I [am] against them that prophesy false dreams,
 saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by
 their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor
 commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at
 all, saith the LORD.
23:33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall
 ask thee, saying, What [is] the burden of the LORD? thou shalt
 then say to them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith
 the LORD.
23:34 And [as for] the prophet, and the priest, and the people
 that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that
 man and his house.
23:35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbor, and every one
 to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the
 LORD spoken?
23:36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for
 every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the
 words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
23:37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD
 answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
23:38 But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus
 saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the
 LORD, and I have sent to you, saying, Ye shall not say, The
 burden of the LORD;
23:39 Therefore behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and
 I will forsake you, and the city that I gave to you and your
 fathers, [and cast you] out of my presence:
23:40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a
 perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
24:1 The LORD showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs [were]
 set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadrezzar king of
 Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim,
 king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters
 and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
24:2 One basket [had] very good figs, [even] like the figs [that
 are] first ripe: and the other basket [had] very poor figs,
 which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
24:3 Then said the LORD to me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? and I
 said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad,
 that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.
24:4 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
24:5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good
 figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive
 of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of
 the Chaldeans for [their] good.
24:6 For I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will 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] the
 LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for
 they shall return to me with their whole heart.
24:8 And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so
 bad; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the
 king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem,
 that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of
 Egypt:
24:9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms
 of the earth for [their] hurt, [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 the sword, the famine, and the pestilence,
 among them, till they are consumed from off the land that I
 gave to 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 king of
 Judah, that [was] the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of
 Babylon;
25:2 Which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of
 Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
25:3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of
 Judah, even to this day, that [is] the three and twentieth
 year, the word of the LORD hath come to me, and I have spoken
 to you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
25:4 And the LORD hath sent to you all his servants the
 prophets, rising early and sending [them]; but ye have not
 hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
25:5 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way,
 and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that
 the LORD hath given to you and to your fathers for ever and
 ever:
25:6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship
 them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands;
 and I will do you no hurt.
25:7 Yet ye have not hearkened to me, saith the LORD; that ye
 might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your
 own hurt.
25:8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not
 heard my words,
25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,
 saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my
 servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its
 inhabitants, and against all these nations around, and will
 utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a
 hissing, and perpetual desolations.
25:10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the
 voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice
 of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the
 candle.
25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an
 astonishment; and these 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 punish the king of Babylon, and
 that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land
 of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
25:13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have
 pronounced against it, [even] all that is written in this book,
 which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
25:14 For many nations and great kings shall reduce them to
 subjection also: and I will recompense them according to their
 deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
25:15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel to me; Take the wine
 cup 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 be moved, and enraged, because
 of the sword that I will send among them.
25:17 Then I took the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the
 nations to drink, to whom the LORD had sent me:
25:18 [To wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and her
 kings, and her princes, to make them a desolation, 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 Azzah, 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 which [are] beyond the sea,
25:23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all [that are] in the utmost
 corners,
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 Therefore thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD of
 hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and vomit,
 and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will
 send among you.
25:28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thy
 hand to drink, then shalt thou say to them, Thus saith the LORD
 of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
25:29 For lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called
 by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not
 be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the
 inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
25:30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and
 say to them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his
 voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his
 habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread [the
 grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.
25:31 A noise shall come [even] to the ends of the earth; for
 the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead
 with all flesh; he will give them [that are] wicked to the
 sword, saith the LORD.
25:32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth
 from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised
 from the borders of the earth.
25:33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from [one]
 end of the earth even to the [other] end of the earth: they
 shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall
 be dung upon the ground.
25:34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves [in the
 ashes], ye principal of the flock: for the days of your
 slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye
 shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
25:35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the
 principal of the flock to escape.
25:36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the
 principal of the flock, [shall be heard]: for the LORD hath
 laid waste their pasture.
25:37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down, because of the
 fierce anger of the LORD.
25:38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land
 is desolate 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 king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,
26:2 Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD'S
 house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to
 worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I command thee
 to speak to them; diminish not a word:
26:3 It may be they will hearken, and turn every man from his
 evil way, that I may repent of the evil, which I purpose to do
 to them because of the evil of their doings.
26:4 And thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD, If ye will
 not hearken to me to walk in my law, which I have set before
 you,
26:5 To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I
 have sent to you, both 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 So the priests and the prophets, and all the people heard
 Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.
26:8 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of
 speaking all that the LORD had commanded [him] to speak to all
 the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the
 people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
26:9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying,
 This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be
 desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were
 gathered against Jeremiah, in the house of the LORD.
26:10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they
 came up from the king's house to the house of the LORD, and sat
 down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S [house].
26:11 Then the priests and the prophets spoke to 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 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes, and to all the
 people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house
 and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
26:13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey
 the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent of the
 evil that he hath pronounced against you.
26:14 As for me, behold, I [am] in your hand: do with me as it
 seemeth good and meet to you.
26:15 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye
 will surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, upon this
 city, and upon its inhabitants: for of a truth the LORD hath
 sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.
26:16 Then said the princes and all the people to the priests
 and to the prophets; This man [is] not worthy to die: for he
 hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.
26:17 Then arose certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to
 all the assembly 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 the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] a
 field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of
 the house as the high places of the forest.
26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death?
 did he not fear the LORD, and beseech the LORD, and the LORD
 repented of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus
 might we procure great evil against our souls.
26:20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of
 the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, who
 prophesied against this city and against this land according to
 all the words of Jeremiah:
26:21 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and
 all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to
 death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and
 went into Egypt;
26:22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely],
 Elnathan the son of Achbor, and [certain] men with him into
 Egypt.
26:23 And they brought forth Urijah from Egypt, and brought him
 to Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast
 his dead body into the graves of the common people.
26:24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was
 with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of
 the people to put him to death.
27:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of
 Josiah king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from the LORD,
 saying,
27:2 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make for 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 Ammonites, and to the king of Tyre, and
 to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to
 Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah;
27:4 And command them to say to their masters, Thus saith the
 LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to your
 masters;
27:5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that [are]
 upon the ground, by my great power and by my out-stretched arm,
 and have given it to whom it seemed meet to me.
27:6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of
 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts
 of the field have I given him also to serve him.
27:7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's
 son, until the very time of his land shall come: and then many
 nations and great kings shall bring him into subjection.
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 punish, saith the LORD, with the
 sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I
 have consumed them by his hand.
27:9 Therefore hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your
 diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to
 your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, Ye shall not serve
 the king of Babylon:
27:10 For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from
 your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should
 perish.
27:11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of
 the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain
 still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till
 it, and dwell in it.
27:12 I spoke also 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 the LORD hath spoken against
 the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
27:14 Therefore hearken not to the words of the prophets that
 speak to you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon;
 for they prophesy a lie to you.
27:15 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they
 prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that
 ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy to you.
27:16 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people,
 saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your
 prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of
 the LORD'S house shall now shortly be brought again from
 Babylon: for they prophesy a lie to you.
27:17 Hearken not to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live:
 why should this city be laid waste?
27:18 But if they [are] prophets, and if the word of the LORD is
 with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts,
 that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and
 [in] the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not
 to Babylon.
27:19 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars,
 and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and
 concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,
27:20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he
 carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of
 Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah
 and Jerusalem;
27:21 Yes, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
 concerning the vessels that remain [in] the house of the LORD,
 and [in] the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;
27:22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be
 until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I
 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, [and] in
 the fifth month, [that] Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet,
 who [was] of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD, in
 the presence of the priests, and of all the people, saying,
28:2 Thus speaketh the LORD 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 the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king
 of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to
 Babylon:
28:4 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of
 Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that
 went into Babylon, saith the LORD; for I will break the yoke of
 the king of Babylon.
28:5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in
 the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the
 people that stood in the house of the LORD,
28:6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the
 LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring
 again the vessels of the LORD'S house, and all that is carried
 away captive, from Babylon into this place.
28:7 Nevertheless, now hear thou this word that I speak in thy
 ears, and in the ears of all the people:
28:8 The prophets that have been before me and before thee of
 old prophesied both against many countries, and against great
 kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
28:9 The prophet who prophesieth of peace, when the word of the
 prophet shall come to pass, [then] shall the prophet be known,
 that the LORD hath truly sent him.
28:10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the
 prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broke it.
28:11 And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people,
 saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of
 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations
 within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah
 went his way.
28:12 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah
 the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the
 prophet Jeremiah, saying,
28:13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou
 hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them
 yokes of iron.
28:14 For thus saith the LORD 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 Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet,
 Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou
 makest this people to trust in a lie.
28:16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee
 from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die,
 because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.
28:17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh
 month.
29:1 Now these [are] the words of the letter that Jeremiah the
 prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders who
 were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the
 prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried
 away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
29:2 (After Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs,
 the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the
 smiths, had departed from Jerusalem;)
29:3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the
 son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to
 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,
29:4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all
 that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be
 carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon;
29:5 Build ye houses, and dwell [in them]; and plant gardens,
 and eat the fruit of them;
29:6 Take ye 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; that ye may be increased there,
 and not diminished.
29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to
 be carried away captives, and pray to the LORD for it: for in
 the peace of it ye shall have peace.
29:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let
 not your prophets and your diviners, that [are] in the midst of
 you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause
 to be dreamed.
29:9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not
 sent them, saith the LORD.
29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years shall be
 accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good
 word towards you, in causing you to return to this place.
29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith
 the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an
 expected end.
29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray to
 me, and I will hearken to you.
29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search
 for me with all your heart.
29:14 And I will be found by you, saith the LORD: and I will
 turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the
 nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you,
 saith the LORD: and I will bring you again into the place
 whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
29:15 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised up for us
 prophets in Babylon;
29:16 [Know] that thus saith the LORD concerning the king that
 sitteth upon the throne of David, and concerning all the people
 that dwelleth in this city, [and] concerning your brethren that
 are not gone forth with you into captivity;
29:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon
 them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make
 them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.
29:18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine,
 and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to
 all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an
 astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the
 nations whither I have driven them:
29:19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the
 LORD, which I sent to them by my servants the prophets, rising
 early and sending [them]; but ye would not hear, saith the
 LORD.
29:20 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the
 captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
29:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
 concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the
 son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name; Behold,
 I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
 Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;
29:22 And concerning them shall be taken up a curse by all the
 captivity of Judah who [are] in Babylon, saying, The LORD make
 thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon
 roasted in the fire;
29:23 Because they have committed villainy in Israel, and have
 committed adultery with their neighbor's wives, and have spoken
 lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I
 know, and [am] a witness, saith the LORD.
29:24 [Thus] shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite,
 saying,
29:25 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
 saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name to all the
 people that [are] at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of
 Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
29:26 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada
 the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the
 LORD, for every man [that is] mad, and maketh himself a
 prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the
 stocks.
29:27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of
 Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you?
29:28 For therefore he sent to us [in] Babylon, saying, This
 [captivity is] long: build ye houses, and dwell [in them]; and
 plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
29:29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of
 Jeremiah the prophet.
29:30 Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying,
29:31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the
 LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because Shemaiah hath
 prophesied to you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to
 trust in a lie:
29:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish
 Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man
 to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good
 that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath
 taught rebellion against the LORD.
30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
30:2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write for
 thee all the words that I have spoken to thee in a book.
30:3 For lo, the days come, saith the LORD; that I will bring
 again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the
 LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave
 to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
30:4 And these [are] the words that the LORD spoke concerning
 Israel and concerning Judah.
30:5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of
 trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?
 Why 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 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of
 hosts, [that] I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will
 burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more bring him into
 subjection:
30:9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their
 king, whom I will raise up to them.
30:10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the
 LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for lo, 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 quiet, and none
 shall make [him] afraid.
30:11 For I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though
 I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee,
 yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee
 in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
30:12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise [is] incurable, [and]
 thy wound [is] grievous.
30:13 [There is] none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be
 bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
30:14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not;
 for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the
 chastisements of a cruel one, for the multitude of thy
 iniquity; [because] thy sins were increased.
30:15 Why criest thou for thy affliction? thy sorrow [is]
 incurable for the multitude of thy iniquity: [because] thy sins
 were increased, I have done these things to thee.
30:16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and
 all thy adversaries, every one of them shall go into captivity;
 and they that plunder thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey
 upon thee will I give for a prey.
30:17 For I will restore health to thee, and I will heal thee of
 thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an
 Outcast, [saying], This [is] Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
30:18 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the
 captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling
 places; and the city shall be built upon her own heap, and the
 palace shall remain after its manner.
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 few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not
 be small.
30:20 Their children also shall be as in former time, and their
 congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish
 all that oppress them.
30:21 And their nobles shall be from themselves, and their
 governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause
 him to draw near, and he shall approach time: for who [is] this
 that engaged his heart to approach to me? saith the LORD.
30:22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
30:23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a
 continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of
 the wicked.
30:24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he
 hath done [it], and until he hath performed the intents of his
 heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
31:1 At the same time, saith the LORD, I will be the God of all
 the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
31:2 Thus saith the LORD, The people [who were] left by the
 sword found grace in the wilderness; [even] Israel, when I went
 to cause him to rest.
31:3 The LORD appeared of old to me, [saying], I have loved thee
 with an everlasting love: therefore with loving-kindness have I
 drawn thee.
31:4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin
 of Israel; thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and
 shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
31:5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria:
 the planters shall plant, and shall eat [them] as common
 things.
31:6 For there shall be a day, [that] the watchmen upon the
 mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion to
 the LORD our God.
31:7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and
 shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye,
 and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and
 gather them from the borders of the earth, [and] with them the
 blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that
 travaileth with child together: a great company shall return
 thither.
31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I
 lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in
 a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a
 father to Israel, and Ephraim [is] my first-born.
31:10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare [it]
 in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will
 gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd [doth] his flock.
31:11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from
 the hand of [him that was] stronger than he.
31:12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the hight of Zion,
 and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat,
 and for 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 sorrow any more at all.
31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men
 and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and
 will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
31:14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness,
 and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the
 LORD.
31:15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah,
 lamentation, [and] bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her
 children refused to be comforted for her children, because they
 [were] not.
31:16 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and
 thy eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the
 LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
31:17 And there is hope in thy end, saith the LORD, that thy
 children shall come again to their own border.
31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou
 hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock
 unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be
 turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.
31:19 Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was
 instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, and even
 confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.
31:20 [Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for
 since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still:
 therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have
 mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
31:21 Set thee up way-marks, make thee high heaps: set thy heart
 towards the highway, [even] the way [which] thou wentest; turn
 again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
31:22 How long wilt thou wander about, O thou backsliding
 daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A
 woman shall compass a man.
31:23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet
 they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in her
 cities, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD
 bless thee, O habitation of justice, mountain of holiness.
31:24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all her
 cities together, husbandmen, and they [that] go forth with
 flocks.
31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished
 every sorrowful soul.
31:26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to
 me.
31:27 Behold, the days come saith the LORD, that I will sow the
 house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man,
 and with the seed of beast.
31:28 And it shall come to pass, [that] as I have watched over
 them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to
 destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build
 and to plant, saith the LORD.
31:29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have
 eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
31:30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man
 that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, 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 [that] I took them by the hand to bring them
 out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke,
 although I was a husband to them, saith the LORD:
31:33 But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the
 house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put
 my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and
 will be their God, and they shall be my people.
31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and
 every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall
 all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,
 saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will
 remember their sin no more.
31:35 Thus saith the LORD, who giveth the sun for a light by
 day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a
 light by night, who divideth the sea when its waves roar; The
 LORD of hosts [is] his name:
31:36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD,
 [then] the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation
 before me for ever.
31:37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and
 the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also
 cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done,
 saith the LORD.
31:38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall
 be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel to the gate of
 the corner.
31:39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it
 upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
31:40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes,
 and all the fields to the brook of Kidron, to the corner of the
 horse-gate towards the east, [shall be] holy to the LORD; it
 shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.
32:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth
 year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which [was] the eighteenth year
 of Nebuchadrezzar.
32:2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and
 Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the court of the prison,
 which [was] in the king of Judah's house.
32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had confined him, saying, Why
 dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I
 will 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 from the hand
 of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand
 of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to
 mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
32:5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he
 be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the
 Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.
32:6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
32:7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thy uncle shall come to
 thee, saying, Buy for thee my field that [is] in Anathoth: for
 the right of redemption [is] thine to buy [it].
32:8 So Hanameel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the
 prison, according to the word of the LORD, and said to me, Buy
 my field, I pray thee, that [is] in Anathoth, which [is] in the
 country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance [is] thine,
 and the redemption [is] thine; buy [it] for thyself. Then I
 knew that this [was] the word of the LORD.
32:9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that
 [was] in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, [even] seventeen
 shekels of silver.
32:10 And I subscribed the contract, and sealed [it], and took
 witnesses, and weighed [him] the money in the balances.
32:11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, [both] that which
 was sealed [according] to the law and custom, and that which
 was open:
32:12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase to Baruch the son
 of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel my
 uncle's [son], and in the presence of the witnesses that
 subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that
 sat in the court of the prison.
32:13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
32:14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take
 these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both that which
 is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an
 earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.
32:15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
 Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in
 this land.
32:16 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase to
 Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD, saying,
32:17 Ah LORD God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the
 earth by thy great power and out-stretched arm, [and] there is
 nothing too hard for thee:
32:18 Thou showest loving-kindness to thousands, and
 recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of
 their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, JEHOVAH
 of hosts, [is] his name,
32:19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thy eyes [are]
 open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one
 according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his
 doings:
32:20 Who hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
 [even] to this day, and in Israel, and among [other] men; and
 hast made thee a name, as at this day;
32:21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel from the land of
 Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and
 with an out-stretched arm, and with great terror;
32:22 And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to
 their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
32:23 And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not
 thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of
 all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast
 caused all this evil to come upon them:
32:24 Behold the mounts, they are come to the city to take it;
 and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that
 fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and
 of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass;
 and behold, thou seest [it].
32:25 And thou hast said to me, O LORD GOD, Buy thee the field
 for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the
 hand of the Chaldeans.
32:26 Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying,
32:27 Behold, I [am] the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there
 any thing too hard for me?
32:28 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this
 city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of
 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:
32:29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall
 come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses,
 upon whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured
 out drink-offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
32:30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have
 done evil only before me from their youth: for the children of
 Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their
 hands, saith the LORD.
32:31 For this city hath been to me [as] a provocation of my
 anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even to
 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 to me the back, and not the face:
 though I taught them, rising early and teaching [them], yet
 they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
32:34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is
 called by my name, to defile it.
32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which [are] in the
 valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their
 daughters to pass through [the fire] to 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 thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,
 concerning this city, of which ye say, It shall be delivered
 into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the
 famine, and by the pestilence;
32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I
 have driven them in my anger, and in my fury, and in great
 wrath; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will
 cause them to dwell in safety.
32:38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
32:39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may
 fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children
 after them:
32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I
 will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put
 my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
32:41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will
 plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with
 my whole soul.
32:42 For thus saith the LORD; As I have brought all this great
 evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good
 that I have promised them.
32:43 And fields shall be bought in this land, of which 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 evidences,
 and seal [them], and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin,
 and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah,
 and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the
 valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their
 captivity to return, saith the LORD.
33:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the second
 time, while he was yet confined in the court of the prison,
 saying,
33:2 Thus saith the LORD the maker of this, the LORD that formed
 it, to establish it; the LORD [is] his name;
33:3 Call to me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and
 mighty things, which thou knowest not.
33:4 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the
 houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of
 Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
33:5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but [it is] to fill
 them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in my anger
 and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face
 from this city.
33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure
 them, and will reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
33:7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity
 of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
33:8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which
 they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their
 iniquities, by which they have sinned, and by which they have
 transgressed against me.
33:9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor
 before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the
 good that I do to them: and they shall fear and tremble for all
 the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure to it.
33:10 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this
 place, which ye say [shall be] desolate without man and without
 beast, [even] in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of
 Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without
 inhabitant, and without beast,
33:11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of
 the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them
 that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD [is]
 good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: [and] of them that
 shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD.
 For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the
 first, saith the LORD.
33:12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which
 is desolate without man and without beast, and in all its
 cities, shall be a habitation of shepherds causing [their]
 flocks to lie down.
33:13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale,
 and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin,
 and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah,
 shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that
 counteth [them], saith the LORD.
33:14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform
 that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel
 and to the house of Judah.
33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the branch
 of righteousness to grow up to 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] by which she shall be
 called, JEHOVAH our righteousness.
33:17 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to
 sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
33:18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me
 to offer burnt-offerings, and to kindle meat-offerings, and to
 do sacrifice continually.
33:19 And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
33:20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the
 day, and my covenant of the night, so that there should not be
 day and night in their season;
33:21 [Then] also may 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 heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand
 of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my
 servant, and the Levites that minister to me.
33:23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
33:24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying,
 The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast
 them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should
 be no more a nation before them.
33:25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant [is] not with day and
 night, [and if] I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven
 and earth;
33:26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my
 servant, [so] that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be]
 rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for I will
 cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
34:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when
 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the
 kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people
 fought against Jerusalem, and against all its cities, saying,
34:2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to
 Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD;
 Behold, I will 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 from his hand, but shalt surely
 be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thy eyes shall
 behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with
 thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
34:4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah;
 Thus saith the LORD concerning thee, Thou shalt not die by the
 sword:
34:5 [But] thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy
 fathers, the former kings who were before thee, so shall they
 burn [odors] for thee; and they will lament thee, [saying], Ah
 lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.
34:6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah
 king of Judah in Jerusalem,
34:7 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem,
 and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against
 Lachish, and against Azekah: for these fortified cities
 remained of the cities of Judah.
34:8 [This is] the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD,
 after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who
 [were] at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;
34:9 That every man should liberate his man-servant, and every
 man his maid-servant, [being] a Hebrew or a Hebrewess; that
 none should retain them in service, [to wit], a Jew his
 brother.
34:10 Now when all the princes, and all the people who had
 entered into the covenant, heard that every one should liberate
 his man-servant, and every one his maid-servant, that none
 should retain them in service any more, then they obeyed, and
 let [them] go.
34:11 But afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and
 the handmaids, whom they had liberated, to return, and brought
 them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
34:12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the
 LORD, saying,
34:13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant
 with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth from the
 land of Egypt, out of the house of bond-men, saying,
34:14 At the end of seven years dismiss ye every man his brother
 a Hebrew, who hath been sold to thee; and when he hath served
 thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your
 fathers hearkened not to me, neither inclined their ear.
34:15 And ye had now turned, and had done right in my sight, in
 proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and ye had made
 a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
34:16 But ye turned and profaned my name, and caused every man
 his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at
 liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into
 subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.
34:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened to
 me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every
 man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you,
 saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the
 famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms
 of the earth.
34:18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my
 covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant
 which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in two,
 and passed between the parts of it,
34:19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the
 eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, who
 passed between the parts of the calf;
34:20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and
 into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead
 bodies shall be for food to the fowls of the heaven, and to the
 beasts of the earth.
34:21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes I will give
 into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of 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 will command, saith the LORD, and 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 an inhabitant.
35:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days
 of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
35:2 Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and
 bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the
 chambers, and give them wine to drink.
35:3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of
 Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole
 house of the Rechabites;
35:4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the
 chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of
 God, who [was] by the chamber of the princes, which [was] above
 the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the
 door:
35:5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites
 pots full of wine, and cups, and I said to them, Drink ye wine.
35:6 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son
 of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no
 wine, [neither] ye, nor your sons for ever:
35:7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant
 vineyard, nor have [any]: but all your days ye shall dwell in
 tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye [are]
 strangers.
35:8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab
 our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all
 our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
35:9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we
 vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
35:10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done
 according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
35:11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
 came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to
 Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear
 of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
35:12 Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying,
35:13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and
 tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye
 not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.
35:14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded
 his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for to this day they
 drink none, but obey their father's commandment:
 notwithstanding I have spoken to you, rising early and
 speaking; but ye hearkened not to me.
35:15 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets,
 rising early and sending [them], 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 which
 I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not
 inclined your ear, nor hearkened to me.
35:16 Because 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 to me:
35:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD 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 to them, but they have not
 heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.
35:18 And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus
 saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have
 obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his
 precepts, and done according to all that he hath commanded you:
35:19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
 Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want 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 king of Judah, [that] this word came to Jeremiah from
 the LORD, saying,
36:2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write in it all the words
 that I have spoken to thee against Israel, and against Judah,
 and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to thee, from
 the days of Josiah, even to this day.
36:3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil
 which I purpose to do to them; that they may return every man
 from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their
 sin.
36:4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch
 wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD,
 which he had spoken to him, upon a roll of a book.
36:5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] confined, I
 cannot go into the house of the LORD:
36:6 Therefore go thou and read in the roll, which thou hast
 written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the
 people in the LORD'S house upon the day of fasting: and also
 thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of
 their cities.
36:7 It may be they will present their supplication before the
 LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great
 [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced
 against this people.
36:8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that
 Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the
 words of the LORD in the LORD'S house.
36:9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son
 of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, [that] they
 proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in
 Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of
 Judah to Jerusalem.
36:10 Then Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremiah in the
 house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of
 Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the
 new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people.
36:11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had
 heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,
36:12 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's
 chamber: and lo, all the princes sat there, [even] Elishama the
 scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son
 of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the
 son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
36:13 Then Michaiah declared to them all the words that he had
 heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
36:14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of
 Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch,
 saying, Take in thy hand the roll in which thou hast read in
 the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah
 took the roll in his hand, and came to them.
36:15 And they said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our
 ears. So Baruch read [it] in their ears.
36:16 Now it came to pass when they had heard all the words,
 they were afraid both one and another, and said to Baruch, We
 will surely tell the king of all these words.
36:17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou
 write all these words at his mouth?
36:18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words
 to me with his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink in the book.
36:19 Then said the princes to Baruch, Go, hide thyself, thou
 and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye are.
36:20 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid
 up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all
 the words in the ears of the king.
36:21 So the king sent Jehudi to bring the roll: and he took 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 who
 stood beside the king.
36:22 Now the king sat in the winter-house in the ninth month:
 and [there was a fire] on the hearth burning before him.
36:23 And it came to pass, [that] when Jehudi had read three or
 four leaves, he cut it with the scribe's pen-knife, and cast
 [it] into the fire that [was] on the hearth, until all the roll
 was consumed in the fire that [was] on the hearth.
36:24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments,
 [neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all
 these words.
36:25 Nevertheless 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 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and
 Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to
 take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD
 hid them.
36:27 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the
 king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at
 the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
36:28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the
 former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim king
 of Judah hath burned.
36:29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith
 the LORD; 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
 thence man and beast?
36:30 Therefore thus saith the LORD 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 punish him and his seed and his servants for
 their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the
 inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the
 evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened
 not.
36:32 Then Jeremiah took another roll, and gave it to Baruch the
 scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of
 Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of
 Judah had burned in the fire: and there were besides added to
 them many like words.
37:1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of
 Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of
 Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
37:2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the
 land, hearkened to the words of the LORD, which he spoke by the
 prophet Jeremiah.
37:3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and
 Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet
 Jeremiah, saying, Pray now to the LORD our God for us.
37:4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for
 they had not put him into prison.
37:5 Then Pharaoh's army had come from Egypt: and when the
 Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they
 departed from Jerusalem.
37:6 Then came the word of the LORD to the prophet Jeremiah,
 saying,
37:7 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say
 to the king of Judah, that sent you to me to inquire of me;
 Behold, Pharaoh's army, which hath 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 the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The
 Chaldeans will surely depart from us: for they will not depart.
37:10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans
 that fight against you, and there remained [but] wounded men
 among them, [yet] would they rise up every man in his tent, and
 burn this city with fire.
37:11 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans
 was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
37:12 Then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of
 Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the
 people.
37:13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the
 ward [was] there, whose name [was] Irijah, the son of
 Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the
 prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
37:14 Then said Jeremiah, [It is] false; I fall not away to the
 Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took
 Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
37:15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and beat
 him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe:
 for they had made that the prison.
37:16 When Jeremiah had entered into the dungeon, and into the
 cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
37:17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the
 king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there [any]
 word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he,
 thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
37:18 Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, In what have I
 offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this
 people, that ye have put me in prison?
37:19 Where [are] now your prophets who prophesied to you,
 saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor
 against this land?
37:20 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let
 my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that
 thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the
 scribe, lest I die there.
37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit
 Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should
 give him daily a piece of bread out of the baker's street,
 until all the bread in the city should be consumed. Thus
 Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
38:1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of
 Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of
 Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken to all the
 people, saying,
38:2 Thus saith the LORD, 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; for he shall have
 his life for a prey, and shall live.
38:3 Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into
 the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.
38:4 Therefore the princes said to the king, We beseech thee,
 let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands
 of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of
 all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man
 seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
38:5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he [is] in your hand:
 for the king [is] not [he that] can do [any] thing against you.
38:6 Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of
 Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the
 prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the
 dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the
 mire.
38:7 Now when Ebed-melech the Cushite, one of the eunuchs who
 was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in
 the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
38:8 Ebed-melech went out of the king's house, and spoke to the
 king, saying,
38:9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they
 have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the
 dungeon; and he is like to die by hunger in the place where he
 is: for [there is] no more bread in the city.
38:10 Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, saying,
 Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the
 prophet out of the dungeon, before he dieth.
38:11 So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the
 house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast
 clouts and old decayed rags, and let them down by cords into
 the dungeon to Jeremiah.
38:12 And Ebed-melech the Cushite said to Jeremiah, Put now
 [these] old cast clouts and decayed rags under thy arm-holes
 under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
38:13 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him out of
 the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
38:14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet
 to him into the third entry that [is] in the house of the LORD:
 and the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide
 nothing from me.
38:15 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare [it] to thee,
 wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee
 counsel, wilt thou not hearken to me?
38:16 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying,
 [As] the LORD 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 Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the
 God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly 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 from their hand.
38:19 And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the
 Jews that have fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me
 into their hand, and they mock me.
38:20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver [thee]. Obey, I
 beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak to thee: so
 it shall be well to thee, and thy soul shall live.
38:21 But if thou shalt refuse to go forth, this [is] the word
 that the LORD hath shown me:
38:22 And behold, all the women that are left in the king of
 Judah's house [shall be] brought forth to the king of Babylon's
 princes, and those [women] shall say, Thy friends have set thee
 on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the
 mire, [and] they are turned away back.
38:23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to
 the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but
 shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou
 shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
38:24 Then said Zedekiah to Jeremiah, Let no man know of these
 words, and thou shalt not die.
38:25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and
 they come to thee, and say to thee, Declare to us now what thou
 hast said to the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put
 thee to death; also what the king said to thee:
38:26 Then thou shalt say to them, I presented my supplication
 before the king, that he would not cause me to return to
 Jonathan's house, to die there.
38:27 Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him: and
 he told them according to all these words that the king had
 commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter
 was not perceived.
38:28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day
 that Jerusalem was taken: and he was [there] when Jerusalem was
 taken.
39:1 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 [And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth
 month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up.
39:3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat
 in the middle gate, [even] Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo,
 Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the
 residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.
39:4 And it came to pass, when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw
 them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went out of
 the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate
 betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
39:5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah
 in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they
 brought him to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the
 land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
39:6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in
 Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the
 nobles of Judah.
39:7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with
 chains, to carry him to Babylon.
39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses
 of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of
 Jerusalem.
39:9 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away
 captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in
 the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the
 rest of the people that remained.
39:10 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left of the poor
 of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave
 them vineyards and fields at the same time.
39:11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning
 Jeremiah to Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard, saying,
39:12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do
 to him even as he shall say to thee.
39:13 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard sent, and
 Nebushasban, Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all
 the king of Babylon's princes;
39:14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the
 prison, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son
 of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among
 the people.
39:15 Now the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, while he was
 confined in the court of the prison, saying,
39:16 Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Cushite, saying, Thus
 saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will
 bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and
 they shall be [accomplished] in that day before thee.
39:17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and
 thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou
 [art] afraid.
39:18 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by
 the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey to thee: because
 thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.
40:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that
 Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had let him go from
 Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all
 that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, who were
 carried away captive to Babylon.
40:2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to
 him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this
 place.
40:3 Now the LORD hath brought [it], and done according as he
 hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have
 not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
40:4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains
 which [were] upon thy hand. If it seemeth good to thee to come
 with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well to thee: but
 if it seemeth ill to thee to come with me into Babylon,
 forbear: behold, all the land [is] before thee: whither it
 seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go.
40:5 Now while he had not yet gone back, [he said], Go back also
 to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king
 of Babylon had made governor over the cities of Judah, and
 dwell with him among the people: or go wherever it seemeth
 convenient to thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him
 provisions and a reward, and let him go.
40:6 Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah;
 and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.
40:7 Now when all the captains of the forces who [were] in the
 fields, [even] they and their men, heard that the king of
 Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the
 land, and had committed to him men, and women, and children,
 and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away
 captive to Babylon;
40:8 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son
 of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and
 Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the
 Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and
 their men.
40:9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, swore to
 them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans:
 dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall
 be well with you.
40:10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the
 Chaldeans, who will come to us: but ye, gather ye wine, and
 summer fruits, and oil, and put [them] in your vessels, and
 dwell in your cities that ye have taken.
40:11 Likewise when all the Jews that [were] in Moab, and among
 the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that [were] in all the
 countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of
 Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam
 the son of Shaphan;
40:12 Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they
 were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to
 Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits in abundance.
40:13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains
 of the forces, that [were] in the fields, came to Gedaliah to
 Mizpah,
40:14 And said to him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the
 king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to
 slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.
40:15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah
 secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay
 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know [it]: why
 should he slay thee, that all the Jews who are gathered to thee
 should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?
40:16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of
 Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely
 of Ishmael.
41:1 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, [that] Ishmael
 the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal,
 and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came to
 Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread
 together in Mizpah.
41:2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men
 that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the
 son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of
 Babylon had made governor over the land.
41:3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, [even]
 with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found
 there, [and] the men of war.
41:4 And it came to pass the second day after he had slain
 Gedaliah, and no man knew [it],
41:5 That there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from
 Samaria, [even] eighty men, having their beards shaven, and
 their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings
 and incense in their hand, to bring [them] to the house of the
 LORD.
41:6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to
 meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass,
 as he met them, he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son of
 Ahikam.
41:7 And it was [so], when they came into the midst of the city,
 that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, [and cast them]
 into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that [were] with
 him.
41:8 But ten men were found among them that said to Ishmael,
 Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and
 of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbore, and slew
 them not among their brethren.
41:9 Now the pit into which Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies
 of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, [was] that
 which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel:
 [and] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with [them that
 were] slain.
41:10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the
 people that [were] in Mizpah, [even] the king's daughters, and
 all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the
 captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of
 Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away
 captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
41:11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains
 of the forces that [were] with him, heard of all the evil that
 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done.
41:12 Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael
 the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that
 [are] in Gibeon.
41:13 Now it came to pass, [that] when all the people who [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 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive
 from Mizpah cast about and returned, 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 Ammonites.
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 Mizpeh, after [that] he had slain Gedaliah the son of
 Ahikam, [even] 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 in the habitation of Chimham,
 which [is] by Beth-lehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
41:18 Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them,
 because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son
 of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.
42:1 Then 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, came near.
42:2 And said to Jeremiah the prophet, We beseech thee, let our
 supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us to the
 LORD thy God, [even] for all this remnant; (for we are left
 [but] a few of many, as thy eyes do behold us:)
42:3 That the LORD thy God may show us the way in which we may
 walk, and the thing that we may do.
42:4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard [you];
 behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your
 words; and it shall come to pass, [that] whatever thing the
 LORD shall answer you, I will declare [it] to you; I will keep
 nothing back from you.
42:5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful
 witness between us, if we do not even according to all things
 for which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
42:6 Whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil, we will obey
 the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it
 may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our
 God.
42:7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the
 LORD came to Jeremiah.
42:8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
 captains of the forces who [were] with him, and all the people
 from the least even to the greatest,
42:9 And said to them, Thus saith the LORD, 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 pull [you] down, and I will plant you, and not
 pluck [you] up: for I repent of the evil that I have done to
 you.
42:11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are
 afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD; for I [am] with
 you, to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
42:12 And I will show 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, neither
 obey the voice of the LORD your God,
42:14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where
 we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor
 hunger for bread; and there will we dwell:
42:15 And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of
 Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye
 wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn
 there;
42:16 Then it shall come to pass, [that] the sword, which ye
 feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the
 famine of which ye were afraid, shall follow close after you
 there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
42:17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go
 into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by
 the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall
 remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
42:18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As my
 anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants
 of Jerusalem: so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when
 ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and
 an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see
 this place no more.
42:19 The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah;
 Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you
 this day.
42:20 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me to the
 LORD your God, saying, Pray for us to the LORD our God; and
 according to all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare to
 us, and we will do [it].
42:21 And [now] I have this day declared [it] to you; but ye
 have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any [thing]
 for which he hath sent me to you.
42:22 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the
 sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place
 whither ye desire to go [and] to sojourn.
43:1 And it came to pass, [that] when Jeremiah had made an end
 of speaking to all the people all the words of the LORD their
 God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, [even]
 all these words.
43:2 Then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son
 of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, Thou
 speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say,
 Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:
43:3 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth 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, obeyed not the voice of the LORD,
 to dwell 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 had returned from
 all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land
 of Judah;
43:6 [Even] men, and women, and children, and the king's
 daughters, and every person that Nebuzar-adan the captain of
 the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
 Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of
 Neriah.
43:7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not
 the voice of the LORD: thus they came [even] to Tahpanhes.
43:8 Then came the word of the LORD 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 men of Judah;
43:10 And say to them, Thus saith the LORD 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
 that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over
 them.
43:11 And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, [and
 deliver] such [as are] for death to death; and such [as are]
 for captivity to captivity; and such [as are] for the sword to
 the sword.
43:12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of
 Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives:
 and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a
 shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from
 thence in peace.
43:13 He shall break also the images of Beth-shemesh, that [is]
 in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the
 Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
44:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who
 dwell in the land of Egypt, who dwell at Migdol, and at
 Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
44:2 Thus saith the LORD 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, this day they [are] a
 desolation, and no man dwelleth in them.
44:3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to
 provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and]
 to serve other gods, whom they knew not, [neither] they, ye,
 nor your fathers.
44:4 Yet I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising
 early and sending [them], saying, Oh, do not this abominable
 thing that I hate.
44:5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from
 their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.
44:6 Wherefore my fury and my anger was poured forth, and was
 kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem;
 and they are wasted [and] desolate, as at this day.
44:7 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the
 God of Israel; Why do ye commit [this] great evil against your
 souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling,
 out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
44:8 In that ye provoke me to wrath with the works of your
 hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt,
 whither ye are gone to dwell, that ye may cut yourselves off,
 and that ye may 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 [even] to this day, neither have they
 feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set
 before you and before your fathers.
44:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD 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 go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they
 shall all be consumed, [and] fall in the land of Egypt; they
 shall [even] be consumed by the sword [and] by the famine: they
 shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword
 and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, [and] an
 astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
44:13 For 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 So that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into
 the land of Egypt, to sojourn there, shall escape or remain,
 that they should return into the land of Judah, to which 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 had burned
 incense to other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great
 multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt,
 in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
44:16 [As for] the word that thou hast spoken to us in the name
 of the LORD, we will not hearken to thee.
44:17 But we will certainly do whatever thing proceedeth from
 our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, 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: for [then] we had plenty of
 provisions, and were well, and saw no evil.
44:18 But since we ceased to burn incense to the queen of
 heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings to her, we have wanted
 all [things], and have been consumed by the sword and by the
 famine.
44:19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and
 poured out drink-offerings to her, did we make for her cakes to
 worship her, and pour out drink-offerings to her, without our
 men?
44:20 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to
 the women, and to all the people who had given him [that]
 answer, saying,
44:21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in
 the streets of Jerusalem, ye and your fathers, your kings and
 your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD
 remember them, and came it [not] into his mind?
44:22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil
 of your doings, [and] because of the abominations which ye have
 committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an
 astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this
 day.
44:23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned
 against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD,
 nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his
 testimonies; therefore this evil hath happened to you, as at
 this day.
44:24 Moreover, Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the
 women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that [are] in the
 land of Egypt:
44:25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying;
 Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and
 fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our
 vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of
 heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings to her: ye will surely
 accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
44:26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that
 dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great
 name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in
 the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying,
 The Lord GOD 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 shall
 be an end of them.
44:28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return from
 the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant
 of Judah, that have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn
 there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
44:29 And this [shall be] a sign to you, saith the LORD, that I
 will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words
 shall surely stand against you for evil:
44:30 Thus saith the LORD; 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 Neriah, when he had written these words in a book from the
 mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
 Josiah king of Judah, saying,
45:2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, to thee, O Baruch;
45:3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added
 grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no
 rest.
45:4 Thus shalt thou say to him, The LORD saith thus; Behold,
 [that] which I have built I will break down, and that which I
 have planted I will 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 the LORD:
 but thy life will I give to thee for a prey in all places
 whither thou goest.
46:1 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet
 against the Gentiles;
46:2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of
 Egypt, who was by the river Euphrates in Carshemish, whom
 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of
 Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.
46:3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
46:4 Harness the horses; and mount, ye horsemen, and stand forth
 with [your] helmets; furbish the spears, [and] put on the coats
 of mail.
46:5 Why have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back? and
 their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and
 look not back: [for] fear [was] on all sides, saith the LORD.
46:6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape!
 they shall stumble, and fall towards the north by the river
 Euphrates.
46:7 Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood, whose waters are
 moved as the rivers?
46:8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and [his] waters are moved
 like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, [and] will cover
 the earth; I will destroy the city and its inhabitants.
46:9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the
 mighty men come forth: the Cushites and the Libyans, that
 handle the shield; and the Lydians that handle [and] bend the
 bow.
46:10 For this [is] the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of
 vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the
 sword shall devour, and it shall be satiated and made drunk
 with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in
 the north country by the river Euphrates.
46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter
 of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; [for] thou
 shalt not be cured.
46:12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath
 filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the
 mighty, [and] they have fallen both together.
46:13 The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how
 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come [and] smite the land
 of Egypt.
46:14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in
 Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee;
 for the sword shall devour around thee.
46:15 Why are thy valiant [men] swept away? they stood not,
 because the LORD did drive them.
46:16 He made many to fall, yes, one fell upon another: and they
 said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the
 land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
46:17 They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise;
 he hath passed the time appointed.
46:18 [As] I live, saith the king, whose name [is] the LORD of
 hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel
 by the sea, [so] shall he come.
46:19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go
 into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an
 inhabitant.
46:20 Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction
 cometh; it cometh out of the north.
46:21 Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted
 bullocks; for they also have turned back, [and] have fled away
 together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity
 had come upon them, [and] the time of their visitation.
46:22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall
 march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers
 of wood.
46:23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it
 cannot be searched; because they are more than the
 grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.
46:24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be
 delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
46:25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel saith: Behold, I will
 punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their
 gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] them that trust
 in him:
46:26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek
 their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
 Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it
 shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.
46:27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not
 dismayed, O Israel: for behold, I will save thee from afar, 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, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: 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 correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee
 wholly unpunished.
47:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet
 against the Philistines, before Pharaoh smote Gaza.
47:2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise out of the north,
 and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land,
 and all that is in it; the city, and them that dwell therein:
 then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land
 shall howl.
47:3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong
 [horses], at the rushing of his chariots, [and at] the rumbling
 of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to [their]
 children for feebleness of hands:
47:4 Because of the day that cometh to lay waste all the
 Philistines, [and] to cut off from Tyre and Zidon every helper
 that remaineth: for the LORD will lay waste the Philistines,
 the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
47:5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off [with] the
 remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
47:6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long [will it be] ere thou be
 quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
47:7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge
 against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he
 appointed it.
48:1 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
 Israel; Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste: Kiriathaim is
 confounded [and] taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
48:2 [There shall be] no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they
 have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from
 [being] a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the
 sword shall pursue thee.
48:3 A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim, devastation and
 great destruction.
48:4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be
 heard.
48:5 For in the ascent of Luhith continual weeping shall go up;
 for in the descent of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of
 destruction.
48:6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the
 wilderness.
48:7 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy
 treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth
 into captivity [with] his priests and his princes together.
48:8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city
 shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall
 be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.
48:9 Give wings to Moab, that it may flee and get away: for its
 cities shall be desolate, without any to dwell in them.
48:10 Cursed [be] he that doeth the work of the LORD
 deceitfully, and cursed [be] he that keepeth back his sword
 from blood.
48:11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled
 on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
 neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste
 remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
48:12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
 will send to him wanderers that shall cause him to wander, and
 shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.
48:13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of
 Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.
48:14 How say ye, We [are] mighty and strong men for the war?
48:15 Moab is laid waste, and gone up [out of] her cities, and
 his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the
 king, whose name [is] the LORD 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, [and] the
 beautiful rod!
48:18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from
 [thy] glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall
 come upon thee, [and] he shall destroy thy strong holds.
48:19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him
 that fleeth, and her that escapeth, [and] say, What is done?
48:20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry;
 tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
48:21 And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon,
 and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,
48:22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim,
48:23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon
 Beth-meon,
48:24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities
 of the land of Moab, far or near.
48:25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith
 the LORD.
48:26 Make ye him drunken; for he magnified [himself] against
 the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also
 shall be in derision.
48:27 For was not Israel a derision to thee? was he found among
 thieves? for since thou hast spoken of him, thou hast leaped
 for joy.
48:28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in
 the rock, and be like the dove [that] maketh her nest in the
 sides of the hole's mouth.
48:29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud)
 his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and the
 haughtiness of his heart.
48:30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but [it shall] not [be]
 so; his lies shall not so effect [it].
48:31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all
 Moab; [my heart] shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.
48:32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of
 Jazer: thy plants have gone over the sea, they reach [even] to
 the sea of Jazer: the spoiler hath fallen upon thy summer
 fruits and upon thy vintage.
48:33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field,
 and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from
 the wine-presses: none shall tread with shouting; [their]
 shouting [shall be] no shouting.
48:34 From the cry of Heshbon [even] to Elealeh, [and even] to
 Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar [even] to
 Horonaim, [as] a heifer of three years old: for the waters also
 of Nimrim shall be desolate.
48:35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD,
 him that offereth in the high places, 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 Kirheres: because
 the riches [that] he hath gotten have perished.
48:37 For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped:
 upon all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon the loins
 sackcloth.
48:38 [There shall be] lamentation generally upon all the
 house-tops of Moab, and in its streets: for I have broken Moab
 like a vessel in which [is] no pleasure, saith the LORD.
48:39 They shall howl, [saying], How is it broken down! how hath
 Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision
 and a dismaying to all them about him.
48:40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle,
 and shall spread his wings over Moab.
48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and
 the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the
 heart of a woman in her pangs.
48:42 And Moab shall be destroyed from [being] a people, because
 he hath magnified [himself] against the LORD.
48:43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [shall be] upon thee, O
 inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
48:44 He that fleeth from the fear, shall fall into the pit; and
 he that getteth out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare:
 for I will bring upon it, [even] upon Moab, the year of their
 visitation, saith the LORD.
48:45 They that fled stood under the shade of Heshbon because of
 the force: but a fire shall come out of Heshbon, and a flame
 from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab,
 and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
48:46 Woe be to thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth:
 for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.
48:47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter
 days, saith the LORD. Thus far [is] the judgment of Moab.
49:1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel
 no sons? hath he no heir? why [then] doth their king inherit
 Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
49:2 Therefore behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
 will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the
 Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters
 shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir to them
 that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
49:3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste: cry, ye daughters of
 Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by
 the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, [and] his
 priests and his princes together.
49:4 Why gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O
 backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, [saying],
 Who shall come to me?
49:5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD
 of hosts, from all those that are about thee; and ye shall be
 driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him
 that wandereth.
49:6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the
 children of Ammon, saith the LORD.
49:7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; [Is] wisdom
 no more in Teman? hath counsel perished from the prudent? hath
 their wisdom vanished?
49:8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for
 I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time [that] I
 will visit him.
49:9 If grape-gatherers come to thee, would they not leave
 [some] gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy
 till they have enough.
49:10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret
 places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is
 laid waste, and his brethren, and his neighbors, and he [is]
 not.
49:11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them]
 alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
49:12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment [was]
 not to drink of the cup have assuredly drank; and [art] thou he
 [that] shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go
 unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink [of it].
49:13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah
 shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse;
 and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes.
49:14 I have heard a rumor from the LORD, and an embassador is
 sent to the heathen, [saying], Assemble, and come against her,
 and rise up to the battle.
49:15 For lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, [and]
 despised among men.
49:16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, [and] the pride of
 thy heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that
 holdest the hight of the hill: though thou shouldst make thy
 nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence,
 saith the LORD.
49:17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by
 it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all her plagues.
49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the
 neighboring [cities], saith the LORD, no man shall abide there,
 neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
49:19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of
 Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will
 suddenly make him run away from her: and who [is] a chosen
 [man], [that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and
 who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that
 will stand before me?
49:20 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken
 against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against
 the inhabitants of Teman: surely the least of the flock shall
 draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate
 with them.
49:21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry
 the noise of it was heard in the Red sea.
49:22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread
 his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the
 mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
49:23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for
 they have heard evil tidings: they are faint-hearted; [there
 is] sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
49:24 Damascus hath become feeble, [and] turneth herself to
 flee, and fear hath seized on [her]: anguish and sorrows have
 taken her, as a woman in travail.
49:25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
49:26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all
 the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD 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 shall smite, thus saith
 the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and lay waste the men of
 the east.
49:29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they
 shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels,
 and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Fear [is] on
 every side.
49:30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of
 Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath
 taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against
 you.
49:31 Arise, go up to the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without
 care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars,
 [which] dwell alone.
49:32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of
 their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them
 [that are] in the utmost corners; and I will bring their
 calamity from all sides of it, saith the LORD.
49:33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, [and] a
 desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor [any]
 son of man dwell in it.
49:34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet
 against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of
 Judah, saying,
49:35 Thus saith the LORD 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
 quarters of heaven, and will scatter them towards all those
 winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of
 Elam shall not come.
49:37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,
 and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil
 upon them, [even] my fierce anger, saith the LORD; 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 the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
49:39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, [that] I
 will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
50:1 The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon [and] against
 the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
50:2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a
 standard; publish, [and] conceal not: say, Babylon is taken,
 Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are
 confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
50:3 For out of the north there cometh a nation against her,
 which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell in it,
 they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
50:4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the
 children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah
 together, going and weeping; they shall go, and seek the LORD
 their God.
50:5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces towards it,
 [saying], Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a
 perpetual covenant [that] shall not be forgotten.
50:6 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused
 them to go astray, they have turned them away [on] the
 mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have
 forgotten their resting-place.
50:7 All that found them have devoured them: and their
 adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned
 against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the
 hope of their fathers.
50:8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth from the
 land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the
 flocks.
50:9 For lo, I will raise and cause to come against Babylon an
 assembly of great nations from the north country: and they
 shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she
 shall be taken: their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty expert
 man; none shall return in vain.
50:10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be
 satisfied, saith the LORD.
50:11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers
 of my heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at
 grass, and bellow as bulls;
50:12 Your mother shall be greatly confounded; she that bore you
 shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations [shall
 be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
50:13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be
 inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that
 goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her
 plagues.
50:14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon on every side: all
 ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she
 hath sinned against the LORD.
50:15 Shout against her on every side; she hath given her hand:
 her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it
 [is] the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she
 hath done, do to 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
 they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee
 every one to his own land.
50:17 Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him]
 away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last
 this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
50:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
 Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I
 have punished the king of Assyria.
50:19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he
 shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be
 satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
50:20 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the
 iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and [there shall] be
 none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I
 will pardon them whom I reserve.
50:21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, [even] against it,
 and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy
 after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have
 commanded thee.
50:22 A sound of battle [is] in the land, and of great
 destruction.
50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and
 broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
50:24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O
 Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also
 caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.
50:25 The LORD hath opened his armory, and hath brought forth
 the weapons of his indignation: for this [is] the work of the
 Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
50:26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her
 store-houses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly:
 let nothing of her be left.
50:27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter:
 woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their
 visitation.
50:28 The voice of them that flee and escape from the land of
 Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God,
 the vengeance of his temple.
50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that
 bend the bow, encamp against it on every side; let none thereof
 escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all
 that she hath done, do to her: for she hath been proud against
 the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
50:30 Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets, and all
 her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
50:31 Behold, I [am] against thee, [O thou] most proud, saith
 the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time [that] I
 will visit thee.
50:32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall
 raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it
 shall devour all around him.
50:33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and
 the children of Judah [were] oppressed together: and all that
 took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
50:34 Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD of 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 A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon
 the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her
 wise [men].
50:36 A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall be sottish: a
 sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
50:37 A sword [is] upon their horses, and upon their chariots,
 and upon all the mingled people that [are] in the midst of her;
 and they shall become as women: a sword [is] upon her
 treasures; and they shall be robbed.
50:38 A drouth [is] upon her waters; and they shall be dried up:
 for it [is] the land of graven images, and they are mad upon
 [their] idols.
50:39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild
 beasts of the isles, shall dwell [there], and the owls 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 God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring
 [cities], saith the LORD; [so] shall no man abide there,
 neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
50:41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great
 nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the borders of
 the earth.
50:42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they [are] cruel,
 and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea,
 and they shall ride upon horses, [every one] put in array, like
 a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
50:43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his
 hands became feeble: anguish took hold of him, [and] pangs as
 of a woman in travail.
50:44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of
 Jordan to the habitation of the strong: but I will make them
 suddenly run away from her: and who [is] a chosen [man], [that]
 I may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and who will
 appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will stand
 before me?
50:45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath
 taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed
 against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the
 flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make [their]
 habitation desolate with them.
50:46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved,
 and the cry is heard among the nations.
51:1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against
 Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that
 rise against me, a destroying wind;
51:2 And will send to Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and
 shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be
 against her on all sides.
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 ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
51:4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and
 [they that are] thrust through in her streets.
51:5 For Israel [hath] not [been] forsaken, nor Judah by his
 God, by the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with
 sin against the Holy One of Israel.
51:6 Flee from the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his
 soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this [is] the time of
 the LORD'S vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.
51:7 Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that
 made all the earth drunken: the nations have drank of her wine;
 therefore the nations are mad.
51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her;
 take balm for her pain, it may be she may be healed.
51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed:
 forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for
 her judgment reacheth to heaven, and is lifted [even] to the
 skies.
51:10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and
 let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
51:11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath
 raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his purpose
 [is] against Babylon, to destroy it; because it [is] the
 vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
51:12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the
 watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for
 the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spoke against
 the inhabitants of Babylon.
51:13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in
 treasures, thy end is come, [and] the measure of thy
 covetousness.
51:14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying], Surely
 I will 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 heaven by
 his understanding.
51:16 When he uttereth [his] voice, [there is] a multitude of
 waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapors to ascend from
 the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and
 bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
51:17 Every man is brutish by [his] knowledge; every founder is
 confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is]
 falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
51:18 They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of
 their visitation they shall perish.
51:19 The portion of Jacob [is] not like them; for he [is] the
 former of all things: and [Israel is] the rod of his
 inheritance: the LORD of hosts [is] his name.
51:20 Thou [art] my battle-ax [and] weapons of war: for with
 thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I
 destroy kingdoms;
51:21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his
 rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and its
 rider;
51:22 With thee also 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 I will also break in pieces with thee 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 captains
 and rulers.
51:24 And I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of
 Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your
 sight, saith the LORD.
51:25 Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain, saith
 the LORD, 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 burnt mountain.
51:26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor
 a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever,
 saith the LORD.
51:27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among
 the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together
 against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz;
 appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as
 the rough caterpillars.
51:28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of Media,
 her captains, and all her rulers, and all the land of his
 dominion.
51:29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose
 of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the
 land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they
 have remained in [their] holds: their might hath failed; they
 became as women: they have burned her dwelling-places; her bars
 are broken.
51:31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to
 meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is
 taken at [one] end,
51:32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have
 burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
51:33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The
 daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshing-floor, [it is] time
 to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest
 shall come.
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 inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the
 inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
51:36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy
 cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea,
 and make her springs dry.
51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for
 dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
51:38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as
 lions' whelps.
51:39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make
 them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual
 sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
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 surprised! 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 a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness,
 a land in which no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of man
 pass by it.
51:44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth
 out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed: and the nations
 shall not flow together any more to him: even the wall of
 Babylon shall fall.
51:45 My people, depart from the midst of her, and deliver ye
 every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
51:46 And lest your heart should faint, and ye should fear for
 the rumor that shall be heard in the land; a rumor shall both
 come [one] year, and after that in [another] year [shall come]
 a rumor, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
51:47 Therefore behold, the days come, that I will do judgment
 upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be
 confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
51:48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that [is] in them,
 shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come to her from
 the north, saith the LORD.
51:49 As Babylon [hath 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 away, stand not still:
 remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your
 mind.
51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame
 hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the
 sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.
51:52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
 will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her
 land the wounded shall groan.
51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she
 should fortify the hight of her strength, [yet] from me shall
 spoilers come to her, saith the LORD.
51:54 A sound of a cry [cometh] from Babylon, and great
 destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
51:55 Because the LORD hath laid waste Babylon, and destroyed
 out of her the great voice; when her waves roar like great
 waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
51:56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, [even] upon Babylon,
 and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is
 broken: for the Lord GOD of recompenses shall surely requite.
51:57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise [men], her
 captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall
 sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the king, whose
 name [is] the LORD of hosts.
51:58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon
 shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned
 with fire; and the people shall labor in vain, and the people
 in the fire, and they shall be weary.
51:59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the
 son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah
 the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign.
 And [this] Seraiah [was] a quiet prince.
51:60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come
 upon Babylon, [even] all these words that are written against
 Babylon.
51:61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou shalt come to
 Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
51:62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this
 place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man
 nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
51:63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading
 this book, [that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it
 into the midst of Euphrates:
51:64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not
 rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall
 be weary. Thus far [are] the words of Jeremiah.
52:1 Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to
 reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his
 mother's name [was] Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of
 Libnah.
52:2 And he did [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD,
 according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
52:3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in
 Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his
 presence, that 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, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that]
 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army,
 against Jerusalem, and encamped against it, and built forts
 against it on every side.
52:5 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king
 Zedekiah.
52:6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth [day] of the month,
 the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread
 for the people of the land.
52:7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled,
 and went forth from 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] by the city on all sides:) and they went
 by the way of the plain.
52:8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and
 overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army
 was scattered from him.
52:9 Then they took the king, and carried him to the king of
 Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment
 upon him.
52:10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before
 his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
52:11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of
 Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and
 put him in prison till the day of his death.
52:12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth [day] of the month,
 which [was] the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of
 Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, [who] served
 the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
52:13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house;
 and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the
 great [men] he burned with fire:
52:14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that [were] with the
 captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem on
 every side.
52:15 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away
 captive [certain] of the poor of the people, and the residue of
 the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away,
 that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the
 multitude.
52:16 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left [certain]
 of the poor of the land for vine-dressers and for husbandmen.
52:17 Also the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the
 LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that [was] in the house
 of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke, and carried all the brass of
 them to Babylon.
52:18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and
 the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with
 which they ministered, they took away.
52:19 And the basins, and the fire-pans, and the bowls, and the
 caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups;
 [that] which [was] of gold [in] gold, and [that] which [was] of
 silver [in] silver, the captain of the guard took away.
52:20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen bulls that
 [were] under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the
 house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without
 weight.
52:21 And [concerning] the pillars, the hight of one pillar
 [was] eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits
 encompassed it; and the thickness of it [was] four fingers: [it
 was] hollow.
52:22 And a capital of brass [was] upon it; and the hight of one
 capital [was] five cubits, with net-work and pomegranates upon
 the capitals around, all [of] brass. The second pillar also and
 the pomegranates [were] like to these.
52:23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side;
 [and] all the pomegranates upon the net-work [were] a hundred
 on all sides.
52:24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief
 priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers
 of the door:
52:25 He took also out of the city a eunuch, who had the charge
 of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the
 king's person, who were found in the city; and the principal
 scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and
 sixty men of the people of the land, that were found in the
 midst of the city.
52:26 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and
 brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
52:27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death
 in Riblah, in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away
 captive out of his own land.
52:28 This [is] the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away
 captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and
 twenty:
52:29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away
 captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
52:30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar,
 Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive of
 the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons
 [were] four thousand and six hundred.
52:31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
 captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in
 the five and twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Evil-merodach
 king of Babylon in the [first] year of his reign lifted up the
 head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out of
 prison,
52:32 And spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the
 throne of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon,
52:33 And changed his prison garments: and he continually ate
 bread before him all the days of his life.
52:34 And [for] his food there was a continual diet given him of
 the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his
 death, all the days of his life.