Hall of Fame/HallofFameCDROM.cdr/biblekjv/jeremiah.txt

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JEREMIAH 1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the
priests that {were} in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 1:3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of
Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away
of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
JEREMIAH 1:4 Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
JEREMIAH 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and
before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, {and}
I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
JEREMIAH 1:6 Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak:
for I {am} a child.
JEREMIAH 1:7 But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I {am} a child:
for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I
command thee thou shalt speak.
JEREMIAH 1:8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I {am} with thee
to deliver thee, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 1:9 Then the Lord put forth his hand, And touched my
mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in
thy mouth.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 1:11 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond
tree.
JEREMIAH 1:12 Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen:
for I will hasten my word to perform it.
JEREMIAH 1:13 And the word of the Lord came unto me the second
time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot;
and the face thereof {is} toward the north.
JEREMIAH 1:14 Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the north an
evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
JEREMIAH 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 entering of the gates
of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and
against all the cities of Judah.
JEREMIAH 1:16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching
all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned
incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own
hands.
JEREMIAH 1:17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and
speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their
faces, lest I confound thee before them.
JEREMIAH 1:18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced
city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole
land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof,
against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 2:1 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
JEREMIAH 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 thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the
wilderness, in a land {that was} not sown.
JEREMIAH 2:3 Israel {was} holiness unto the Lord, {and} the
firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend;
evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 2:4 Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and
all the families of the house of Israel:
JEREMIAH 2:5 Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers
found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked
after vanity, and are become vain?
JEREMIAH 2:6 Neither said they, Where {is} the Lord that brought
us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the
wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land
of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no
man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
JEREMIAH 2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat
the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered,
ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 2:9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord,
and with your children's children will I plead.
JEREMIAH 2:10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and
send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be
such a thing.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be
horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have
forsaken me the fountain of living waters, {and} hewed them out
cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
JEREMIAH 2:14 {Is} Israel a servant? {is} he a homeborn {slave}?
why is he spoiled?
JEREMIAH 2:15 The young lions roared upon him, {and} yelled, and
they made his land waste: his cities are burned without
inhabitant.
JEREMIAH 2:16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken
the crown of thy head.
JEREMIAH 2:17 Hast thou not Procured this unto thyself, in that
thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 2:19 Thine 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 unto me?
JEREMIAH 2:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee
much soap, {yet} thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the
Lord God.
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 unto me, and not {their} face: but in the time of their
trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
JEREMIAH 2:28 But where {are} thy gods that thou hast made thee?
let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble:
for {according to} the number of thy cities are thy gods, O
Judah.
JEREMIAH 2:29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have
transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received
no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a
destroying lion.
JEREMIAH 2:31 O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. Have I
been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say
my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
JEREMIAH 2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, {or} a bride her
attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
JEREMIAH 2:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore
hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 2:35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his
anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because
thou sayest, I have not sinned.
JEREMIAH 2:36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?
thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of
Assyria.
JEREMIAH 2:37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands
upon thine head: for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and
thou shalt not prosper in them.
JEREMIAH 3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go
from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her
again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast
played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith
the Lord.
JEREMIAH 3:2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see
where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for
them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted
the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
JEREMIAH 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and
there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's
forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
JEREMIAH 3:4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father,
thou {art} the guide of my youth?
JEREMIAH 3:5 Will he reserve {his anger} for ever? will he keep
{it} to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as
thou couldest.
JEREMIAH 3:6 The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the
king, Hast thou seen {that} which backsliding Israel hath done?
she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green
tree, and there hath played the harlot.
JEREMIAH 3:7 And I said after she had done all these {things},
Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous
sister Judah saw {it}.
JEREMIAH 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby
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.
JEREMIAH 3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her
whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with
stones and with stocks.
JEREMIAH 3:10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah
hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly,
saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 3:11 And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel
hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
JEREMIAH 3:12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and
say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; {and} I
will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I {am} merciful,
saith the Lord, {and} I will not keep {anger} for ever.
JEREMIAH 3:13 Only acknowledge thine 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.
JEREMIAH 3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I
am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two
of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
JEREMIAH 3:15 And I will give you pastors according to mine
heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
JEREMIAH 3:16 And it shall come to pass, when ye 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.
JEREMIAH 3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne
of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to
the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any
more after the imagination of their evil heart.
JEREMIAH 3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with
the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land
of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance
unto your fathers.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 3:22 Return, ye backsliding children, {and} I will heal
your backslidings.  Behold, we come unto thee; for thou {art} the
Lord our God.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 3:24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers
from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and
their daughters.
JEREMIAH 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 unto this day, and have not
obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.
JEREMIAH 4:1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord,
return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out
of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 4:3 For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and
Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 defenced cities.
JEREMIAH 4:6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not:
for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
JEREMIAH 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; {and} thy cities shall be
laid waste, without an inhabitant.
JEREMIAH 4:8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl:
for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 unto the soul.
JEREMIAH 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 toward
the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
JEREMIAH 4:12 {Even} a full wind from those {places} shall come
unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
JEREMIAH 4:13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his
chariots {shall be} as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than
eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
JEREMIAH 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that
thou mayest be saved.  How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge
within thee?
JEREMIAH 4:15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth
affliction from mount Ephraim.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 4:17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round
about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the
Lord.
JEREMIAH 4:18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these {things}
unto thee; this {is} thy wickedness, because it is bitter,
because it reacheth unto thine heart.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 4:20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the
whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, {and} my
curtains in a moment.
JEREMIAH 4:21 How long shall I see the standard, {and} hear the
sound of the trumpet?
JEREMIAH 4:22 For my people {is} foolish, they have not known me;
they {are} sottish children, and they have none understanding:
they {are} wise to do evil, but to do good they have no
knowledge.
JEREMIAH 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, {it was} without form,
and void; and the heavens, and they {had} no light.
JEREMIAH 4:24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and
all the hills moved lightly.
JEREMIAH 4:25 I beheld, and, lo, {there was} no man, and all the
birds of the heavens were fled.
JEREMIAH 4:26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place {was} a
wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the
presence of the Lord, {and} by his fierce anger.
JEREMIAH 4:27 For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall
be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 4:30 And {when} thou {art} spoiled, what wilt thou do?
Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest
thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with
painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; {thy} lovers will
despise thee, they will seek thy life.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,
and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if
ye can find a man, if there be {any} that executeth judgment,
that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
JEREMIAH 5:2 And though they say, The Lord liveth; surely they
swear falsely.
JEREMIAH 5:3 O Lord, {are} not thine 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 5:5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak
unto them; for they have known the way of the Lord, {and} the
judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke,
{and} burst the bonds.
JEREMIAH 5:6 Wherefore a lion out of 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.
JEREMIAH 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, they then committed adultery, and assembled
themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
JEREMIAH 5:8 They were {as} fed horses in the morning: every one
neighed after his neighbour's wife.
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 5:11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have
dealt very treacherously against me, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 5:13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word
{is} not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 5:16 Their quiver {is} as an open sepulchre, they {are}
all mighty men.
JEREMIAH 5:17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread,
{which} thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up
thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy
fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou
trustedst, with the sword.
JEREMIAH 5:18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will
not make a full end with you.
JEREMIAH 5:19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say,
Wherefore doeth the Lord our God all these {things} unto us? then
shalt thou answer them, like as ye have forsaken me, and served
strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land
{that is} not yours.
JEREMIAH 5:20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it
in Judah, saying,
JEREMIAH 5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without
understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and
hear not:
JEREMIAH 5:22 Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble
at my presence, which have placed the sand {for} the bound of the
sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the
waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though
they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
JEREMIAH 5:23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious
heart; they are revolted and gone.
JEREMIAH 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 his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks
of the harvest.
JEREMIAH 5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these {things},
and your sins have withholden good {things} from you.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so {are} their houses
full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
JEREMIAH 5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass
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.
JEREMIAH 5:29 Shall I not visit for these {things}? saith the
Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
JEREMIAH 5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the
land;
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 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 Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of
the north, and great destruction.
JEREMIAH 6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and
delicate {woman}.
JEREMIAH 6:3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her;
they shall pitch {their} tents against her round about; they
shall feed every one in his place.
JEREMIAH 6:4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up
at noon. Woe unto us!  for the day goeth away, for the shadows of
the evening are stretched out.
JEREMIAH 6:5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy
her palaces.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 6:7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth
out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me
continually {is} grief and wounds.
JEREMIAH 6:8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart
from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
JEREMIAH 6:9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall throughly
glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a
grapegatherer into the baskets.
JEREMIAH 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 unto them a reproach;
they have no delight in it.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 6:12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, {with
their} fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand
upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 6:13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest
of them every one {is} given to covetousness; and from the
prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
JEREMIAH 6:14 They have healed also the hurt {of the daughter} of
my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when {there is} no
peace.
JEREMIAH 6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed
abomination? nay, 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.
JEREMIAH 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
therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We
will not walk {therein}.
JEREMIAH 6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, {saying}, Hearken to
the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
JEREMIAH 6:18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O
congregation, what {is} among them.
JEREMIAH 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this
people, {even} the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not
hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
JEREMIAH 6:20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from
Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt
offerings {are} not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto
me.
JEREMIAH 6:21 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will lay
stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons
together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall
perish.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 6:24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax
feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, {and} pain, as of a woman
in travail.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 6:27 I have set thee {for} a tower {and} a fortress
among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
JEREMIAH 6:28 They {are} all grievous revolters, walking with
slanders: {they are} brass and iron; they {are} all corrupters.
JEREMIAH 6:29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the
fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked
away.
JEREMIAH 6:30 Reprobate silver shall {men} call them, because the
Lord hath rejected them.
JEREMIAH 7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord,
saying,
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 7:5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings;
if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 7:8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
JEREMIAH 7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and
swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other
gods whom ye know not;
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 7:12 But go ye now unto my place which {was} in Shiloh,
where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for
the wickedness of my people Israel.
JEREMIAH 7:13 And now, because ye have done all these works,
saith the Lord, and I spake unto you, rising up early and
speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered
not;
JEREMIAH 7:14 Therefore will I do unto {this} house, which is
called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I
gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah
and in the streets of Jerusalem?
JEREMIAH 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle
the fire, and the women knead {their} dough, to make cakes to the
queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods,
that they may provoke me to anger.
JEREMIAH 7:19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: {do
they} not {provoke} themselves to the confusion of their own
faces?
JEREMIAH 7:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, mine
anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man,
and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the
fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be
quenched.
JEREMIAH 7:21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel;
Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
JEREMIAH 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded
them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
JEREMIAH 7:23 But this thing commanded I 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 unto you.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of
the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my
servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending {them}:
JEREMIAH 7:26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their
ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
JEREMIAH 7:27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto
them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call
unto them; but they will not answer thee.
JEREMIAH 7:28 But thou shalt say unto them, This {is} a nation
that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth
correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
JEREMIAH 7:29 Cut off thine 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 be no place.
JEREMIAH 7:33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for
the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and
none shall fray {them} away.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 8:1 At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out
the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes,
and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and
the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
JEREMIAH 8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the
moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom
they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they
have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be
gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of
the earth.
JEREMIAH 8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all
the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain
in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of
hosts.
JEREMIAH 8:4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not
return?
JEREMIAH 8:5 Why {then} is this people of Jerusalem slidden back
by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to
return.
JEREMIAH 8:6 I hearkened and heard, {but} they spake not aright:
no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done?
every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the
battle.
JEREMIAH 8:7 Yea, 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.
JEREMIAH 8:8 How do ye say, We {are} wise, and the law of the
Lord {is} with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he {it}; the pen of
the scribes {is} in vain.
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 8:10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others,
{and} their fields to them that shall inherit {them}: for every
one from the least even unto the greatest is given to
covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one
dealeth falsely.
JEREMIAH 8:11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my
people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when {there is} no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:12 Were they ashamed when they had committed
abomination? nay, 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.
JEREMIAH 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 them
shall pass away from them.
JEREMIAH 8:14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let
us enter into the defenced 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.
JEREMIAH 8:15 We looked for peace, but no good {came; and} for a
time of health, and behold trouble!
JEREMIAH 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 are come, and have devoured the land, and all that
is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
JEREMIAH 8:17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices,
among you, which {will} not {be} charmed, and they shall bite
you, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 8:18 {When} I would comfort myself against sorrow, my
heart {is} faint in me.
JEREMIAH 8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my
people because of them that dwell in a far country: {is} not the
Lord in Zion? {is} not her king in her? Why have they provoked me
to anger with their graven images, {and} with strange vanities?
JEREMIAH 8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we
are not saved.
JEREMIAH 8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I
hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a
fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain
of the daughter of my people!
JEREMIAH 9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of
wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them!
for they {be} all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 9:4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust
ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant,
and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
JEREMIAH 9:5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and
will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak
lies, {and} weary themselves to commit iniquity.
JEREMIAH 9:6 Thine habitation {is} in the midst of deceit;
through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 9:8 Their tongue {is as} an arrow shot out; it speaketh
deceit: {one} speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth,
but in heart he layeth his wait.
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 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 are fled; they are gone.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 9:14 But have walked after the imagination of their own
heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 9:17 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call
for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning
{women}, that they may come:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 9:19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How
are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have
forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast {us} out.
JEREMIAH 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 neighbour lamentation.
JEREMIAH 9:21 For death is come up into our windows, {and} is
entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without,
{and} the young men from the streets.
JEREMIAH 9:22 Speak, Thus saith the Lord, Even the carcases of
men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful
after the harvestman, and none shall gather {them}.
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 9:24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he
understandeth and knoweth me, that I {am} the Lord which exercise
lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in
these {things} I delight, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 9:25 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will
punish all {them which are} circumcised with the uncircumcised;
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 10:1 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you,
O house of Israel:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 axe.
JEREMIAH 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten
it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 10:6 Forasmuch as {there is} none like unto thee, O
Lord; thou {art} great, and thy name {is} great in might.
JEREMIAH 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 unto
thee.
JEREMIAH 10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the
stock {is} a doctrine of vanities.
JEREMIAH 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 cunning {men}.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 10:11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have
not made the heavens and the earth, {even} they shall perish from
the earth, and from under these heavens.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 10:13 When he uttereth his voice, {there is} a multitude
of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend
from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and
bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 10:15 They {are} vanity, {and} the work of errors: in
the time of their visitation they shall perish.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 10:17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant
of the fortress.
JEREMIAH 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}.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 10:20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are
broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they {are} not:
{there is} none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up
my curtains.
JEREMIAH 10:21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not
sought the Lord: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their
flocks shall be scattered.
JEREMIAH 10:22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a
great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of
Judah desolate, {and} a den of dragons.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 10:24 O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in
thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 11:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord
saying,
JEREMIAH 11:2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto
the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
JEREMIAH 11:3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of
Israel; Cursed {be} the man that obeyeth not the words of this
covenant,
JEREMIAH 11:4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day {that} I
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron
furnace, saying, 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:
JEREMIAH 11:5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto
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.
JEREMIAH 11:6 Then the Lord said unto me, Proclaim all these
words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.
JEREMIAH 11:7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the
day {that} I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, {even}
unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my
voice.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 11:9 And the Lord said unto me, A conspiracy is found
among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
JEREMIAH 11:10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their
forefathers, which 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.
JEREMIAH 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 unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
JEREMIAH 11:12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of
Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense:
but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
JEREMIAH 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 unto Baal.
JEREMIAH 11:14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither
lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear {them} in
the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.
JEREMIAH 11:15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, {seeing}
she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed
from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 unto Baal.
JEREMIAH 11:18 And the Lord hath given me knowledge {of it}, and
I know {it}: then thou shewedst me their doings.
JEREMIAH 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 the
fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the
living, that his name may be no more remembered.
JEREMIAH 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 unto thee have I revealed my cause.
JEREMIAH 11:21 Therefore thus saith the Lord of the men of
Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of
the Lord, that thou die not by our hand:
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 12:1 Righteous {art} thou, O Lord, when I plead with
thee: yet let me talk with thee of {thy} judgments: Wherefore
doth the way of the wicked prosper?  {wherefore} are all they
happy that deal very treacherously?
JEREMIAH 12:2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root:
they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou {art} near in their
mouth, and far from their reins.
JEREMIAH 12:3 But thou, O Lord, knowest me: thou hast seen me,
and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for
the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
JEREMIAH 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 shall not see our last end.
JEREMIAH 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, {wherein} thou trustedst, {they wearied
thee}, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
JEREMIAH 12:6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father,
even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have
called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they
speak fair words unto thee.
JEREMIAH 12:7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine
heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the
hand of her enemies.
JEREMIAH 12:8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest;
it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
JEREMIAH 12:9 Mine heritage {is} unto me {as} a speckled bird,
the birds round about {are} against her; come ye, assemble all
the beasts of the field, come to devour.
JEREMIAH 12:10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have
trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion
a desolate wilderness.
JEREMIAH 12:11 They have made it desolate, {and being} desolate
it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no
man layeth {it} to heart.
JEREMIAH 12:12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through
the wilderness: for the sword of the Lord shall devour from the
{one} end of the land even to the {other} end of the land: no
flesh shall have peace.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 12:14 Thus saith the Lord against all mine evil
neighbours, 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.
JEREMIAH 12:15 And it shall come to pass, after that 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 12:17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up
and destroy that nation, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 13:1 Thus saith the Lord unto me, Go and get thee a
linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
JEREMIAH 13:2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the
Lord, and put {it} on my loins.
JEREMIAH 13:3 And the word of the Lord came unto me the second
time, saying,
JEREMIAH 13:4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which {is} upon
thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a
hole of the rock.
JEREMIAH 13:5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the Lord
commanded me.
JEREMIAH 13:6 And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord
said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from
thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 13:8 Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
JEREMIAH 13:9 Thus saith the Lord, After this manner will I mar
the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
JEREMIAH 13:10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words,
which 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.
JEREMIAH 13:11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man,
so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and
the whole house of Judah, saith the Lord; that they might be unto
me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a
glory: but they would not hear.
JEREMIAH 13:12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word;
Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled
with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know
that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
JEREMIAH 13:13 Then shalt thou say unto 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 13:15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the Lord
hath spoken.
JEREMIAH 13:16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause
darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains,
and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of
death, {and} make {it} gross darkness.
JEREMIAH 13:17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in
secret places for {your} pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and
run down with tears, because the Lord's flock is carried away
captive.
JEREMIAH 13:18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble
yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down,
{even} the crown of your glory.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 13:22 And if thou say in thine heart, {Wherefore} come
these things upon me?  For the greatness of thine iniquity are
thy skirts discovered, {and} thy heels made bare.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 13:24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that
passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 13:26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy
face, that thy shame may appear.
JEREMIAH 13:27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings,
the lewdness of thy whoredom, {and} thine abominations on the
hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be
made clean? when {shall it} once {be}?
JEREMIAH 14:1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah
concerning the dearth.
JEREMIAH 14:2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish;
they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone
up.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 14:4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain
in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
JEREMIAH 14:5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook
{it}, because there was no grass.
JEREMIAH 14:6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places,
they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail,
because {there was} no grass.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 14:8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time
of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and
as a wayfaring man {that} turneth aside to tarry for a night?
JEREMIAH 14:9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, 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.
JEREMIAH 14:10 Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Thus have
they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet,
therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now remember
their iniquity, and visit their sins.
JEREMIAH 14:11 Then said the Lord unto me, Pray not for this
people for {their} good.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 14:13 Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, the prophets
say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have
famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
JEREMIAH 14:14 Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy
lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them,
neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision
and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their
heart.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 14:17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let
mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not
cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a
great breach, with a very grievous blow.
JEREMIAH 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! yea, both the prophet and the
priest go about into a land that they know not.
JEREMIAH 14:19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul
lothed 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!
JEREMIAH 14:20 We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, {and} the
iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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}.
JEREMIAH 15:1 Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel
stood before me, {yet} my mind {could} not {be} toward this
people: cast {them} out of my sight, and let them go forth.
JEREMIAH 15:2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee,
Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith
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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 15:5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or
who shall bemoan thee?  or who shall go aside to ask how thou
doest?
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 15:8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of
the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the
young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused {him} to fall upon
it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
JEREMIAH 15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath
given up the Ghost; 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.
JEREMIAH 15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a
man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have
neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; {yet}
every one of them doth curse me.
JEREMIAH 15:11 The Lord said, Verily it shall be well with thy
remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee {well} in
the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
JEREMIAH 15:12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 15:14 And I will make {thee} to pass with thine enemies
into a land {which} thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in
mine anger, {which} shall burn upon you.
JEREMIAH 15:15 O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me,
and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy
longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
JEREMIAH 15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy
word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am
called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable,
{which} refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as
a liar, {and as} waters {that} fail?
JEREMIAH 15:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou return,
then will I bring thee again, {and} thou shalt stand before me:
and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be
as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto
them.
JEREMIAH 15:20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced
brasen 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.
JEREMIAH 15:21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the
wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
JEREMIAH 16:1 The word of the Lord came also unto me, saying,
JEREMIAH 16:2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou
have sons or daughters in this place.
JEREMIAH 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 bare them, and concerning their
fathers that begat them in this land;
JEREMIAH 16:4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not
be lamented; neither shall they be buried; {but} they shall be as
dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by
the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for
the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
JEREMIAH 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}
lovingkindness and mercies.
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 16:8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting,
to sit with them to eat and to drink.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew
this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee,
Wherefore 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?
JEREMIAH 16:11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your
fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have walked after
other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and
have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
JEREMIAH 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 unto me:
JEREMIAH 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 shew
you favour.
JEREMIAH 16:14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
that it shall no more be said, The Lord liveth, that brought up
the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
JEREMIAH 16:15 But, The Lord liveth, that brought up 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 unto their fathers.
JEREMIAH 16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the
Lord, and they shall fish them; and after 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.
JEREMIAH 16:17 For mine eyes {are} upon all their ways: they are
not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine
eyes.
JEREMIAH 16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and
their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have
filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and
abominable things.
JEREMIAH 16:19 O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my
refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto
thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our
fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and {things} wherein {there
is} no profit.
JEREMIAH 16:20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they {are}
no gods?
JEREMIAH 16:21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to
know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they
shall know that my name {is} The Lord.
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 17:2 Whilst their children remember their altars and
their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 17:4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from
thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve
thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have
kindled a fire in mine anger, {which} shall burn for ever.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 17:7 Blessed {is} the man that trusteth in the Lord, and
whose hope the Lord is.
JEREMIAH 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 careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from
yielding fruit.
JEREMIAH 17:9 The heart {is} deceitful above all {things}, and
desperately wicked: who can know it?
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 17:12 A glorious high throne from the beginning {is} the
place of our sanctuary.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 17:14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me,
and I shall be saved: for thou {art} my praise.
JEREMIAH 17:15 Behold, they say unto me, Where {is} the word of
the Lord? let it come now.
JEREMIAH 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 came out of my lips was {right} before
thee.
JEREMIAH 17:17 Be not a terror unto me: thou {art} my hope in the
day of evil.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 17:19 Thus said the Lord unto me; Go and stand in the
gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah
come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of
Jerusalem;
JEREMIAH 17:20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the Lord,
ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 17:23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear,
but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive
instruction.
JEREMIAH 17:24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently
hearken unto me, saith the Lord, to bring in no burden through
the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath
day, to do no work therein;
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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, unto the house of the
Lord.
JEREMIAH 17:27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the
sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the
gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire
in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of
Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
JEREMIAH 18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord,
saying,
JEREMIAH 18:2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there
I will cause thee to hear my words.
JEREMIAH 18:3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and,
behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
JEREMIAH 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
seemed good to the potter to make {it}.
JEREMIAH 18:5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
JEREMIAH 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 mine hand, O house of Israel.
JEREMIAH 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};
JEREMIAH 18:8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced,
turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to
do unto them.
JEREMIAH 18:9 And {at what} instant I shall speak concerning a
nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant {it};
JEREMIAH 18:10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my
voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would
benefit them.
JEREMIAH 18:11 Now therefore go to, 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 18:16 To make their land desolate, {and} a perpetual
hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and
wag his head.
JEREMIAH 18:17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before
the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the
day of their calamity.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 18:19 Give heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice
of them that contend with me.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 18:21 Therefore deliver up 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 thine anger.
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 19:2 And go forth unto 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,
JEREMIAH 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, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
JEREMIAH 19:4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged
this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom
neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of
Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
JEREMIAH 19:5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to
burn their sons with fire {for} burnt offerings unto Baal, which
I commanded not, nor spake {it}, neither came {it} into my mind:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 carcases will I give to be meat for the
fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
JEREMIAH 19:8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing;
every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss
because of all the plagues thereof.
JEREMIAH 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 straitness,
wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall
straiten them.
JEREMIAH 19:10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of
the men that go with thee,
JEREMIAH 19:11 And shalt say unto 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.
JEREMIAH 19:12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord,
and to the inhabitants thereof, and {even} make this city as
Tophet:
JEREMIAH 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 unto
all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto
other gods.
JEREMIAH 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,
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 20:2 Then Pashur smote 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.
JEREMIAH 20:3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur
brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto
him, The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
JEREMIAH 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 thine eyes shall behold {it}: and
I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them
with the sword.
JEREMIAH 20:5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this
city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things
thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give
into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take
them, and carry them to Babylon.
JEREMIAH 20:6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house
shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and
there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all
thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 20:8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence
and spoil; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto
me, and a derision, daily.
JEREMIAH 20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor
speak any more in his name. But {his word} was in mine heart as a
burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with
forbearing, and I could not {stay}.
JEREMIAH 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}, Peradventure he will be
enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our
revenge on him.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 unto thee have I opened my cause.
JEREMIAH 20:13 Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord: for he
hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
JEREMIAH 20:14 Cursed {be} the day wherein I was born: let not
the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
JEREMIAH 20:15 Cursed {be} the man who brought tidings to my
father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very
glad.
JEREMIAH 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 noontide;
JEREMIAH 20:17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my
mother might have been my grave, and her womb {to be} always
great {with me}.
JEREMIAH 20:18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see
labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
JEREMIAH 21:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord,
when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and
Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
JEREMIAH 21:2 Inquire, I pray thee, of the Lord for us; for
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be
that the Lord will deal with us according to all his wondrous
works, that he may go up from us.
JEREMIAH 21:3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to
Zedekiah:
JEREMIAH 21:4 Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will
turn back the weapons of war that {are} in your hands, wherewith
ye fight against the king of Babylon, and {against} the
Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will
assemble them into the midst of this city.
JEREMIAH 21:5 And I myself will fight against you with an
outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in
fury, and in great wrath.
JEREMIAH 21:6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both
man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
JEREMIAH 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 Nebuchadrezzar 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.
JEREMIAH 21:8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the
Lord; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of
death.
JEREMIAH 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 unto him for a prey.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 21:11 And touching the house of the king of Judah,
{say}, Hear ye the word of the Lord;
JEREMIAH 21:12 O house of David, thus saith the Lord; Execute
judgment in the morning, and deliver {him that is} spoiled 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.
JEREMIAH 21:13 Behold, I {am} against thee, O inhabitant of the
valley, {and} rock of the plain, saith the Lord; which say, Who
shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our
habitations?
JEREMIAH 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 round about it.
JEREMIAH 22:1 Thus saith the Lord; Go down to the house of the
king of Judah, and speak there this word,
JEREMIAH 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 in by these gates:
JEREMIAH 22:3 Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and
righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the
oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the
fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this
place.
JEREMIAH 22:4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there
enter in 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.
JEREMIAH 22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by
myself, saith the Lord, that this house shall become a
desolation.
JEREMIAH 22:6 For thus saith the Lord unto the king's house of
Judah; thou {art} Gilead unto me, {and} the head of Lebanon:
{yet} surely I will make thee a wilderness, {and} cities {which}
are not inhabited.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 22:8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they
shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the Lord
done thus unto this great city?
JEREMIAH 22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken
the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped other gods,
and served them.
JEREMIAH 22:10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him:
{but} weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no
more, nor see his native country.
JEREMIAH 22:11 For thus saith the Lord touching Shallum the son
of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his
father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return
thither any more:
JEREMIAH 22:12 But he shall die in the place whither they have
led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
JEREMIAH 22:13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by
unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; {that} useth his
neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his
work;
JEREMIAH 22:14 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large
chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and {it is} cieled with
cedar, and painted with vermilion.
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 22:17 But thine eyes and thine heart {are} not but for
thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for
oppression, and for violence, to do {it}.
JEREMIAH 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!
JEREMIAH 22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass,
drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 22:21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; {but} thou
saidst, I will not hear.  This {hath been} thy manner from thy
youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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!
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 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 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
JEREMIAH 22:26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare
thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there
shall ye die.
JEREMIAH 22:27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return,
thither shall they not return.
JEREMIAH 22:28 {Is} this man Coniah a despised broken idol? {is
he} a vessel wherein {is} no pleasure? wherefore are they cast
out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know
not?
JEREMIAH 22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 23:1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter
the sheep of my pasture!  saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 23:3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of
all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them
again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
JEREMIAH 23:4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall
feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither
shall they be lacking, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will
raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and
prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
JEREMIAH 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall
dwell safely: and this {is} his name whereby he shall be called,
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
JEREMIAH 23:7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
that they shall no more say, The Lord liveth, which brought up
the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
JEREMIAH 23:8 But, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which
led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and
from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall
dwell in their own land.
JEREMIAH 23:9 Mine 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 23:11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in
my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 23:12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery
{ways} in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall
therein: for I will bring evil upon them, {even} the year of
their visitation, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 23:13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria;
they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
JEREMIAH 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an
horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they
strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return
from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and
the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 23:16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Hearken not unto the
words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain:
they speak a vision of their own heart, {and} not out of the
mouth of the Lord.
JEREMIAH 23:17 They say still unto them that despise me, The Lord
hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that
walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall
come upon you.
JEREMIAH 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}?
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 23:20 The anger of the Lord shall not return, until he
have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his
heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
JEREMIAH 23:21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I
have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
JEREMIAH 23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had
caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned
them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
JEREMIAH 23:23 {Am} I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a
God afar off?
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy
lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
JEREMIAH 23:26 How long shall {this} be in the heart of the
prophets that prophesy lies?  yea, {they are} prophets of the
deceit of their own heart;
JEREMIAH 23:27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name
by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as
their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 23:29 {Is} not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord;
and like a hammer {that} breaketh the rock in pieces?
JEREMIAH 23:30 Therefore, behold, I {am} against the prophets,
saith the Lord, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
JEREMIAH 23:31 Behold, I {am} against the prophets, saith the
Lord, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you,
saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 23:35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and
every one to his brother, What hath the Lord answered? and, What
hath the Lord spoken?
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 23:37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the
Lord answered thee?  and, What hath the Lord spoken?
JEREMIAH 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 unto you, saying, Ye shall
not say, The burden of the Lord;
JEREMIAH 23:39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget
you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and
your fathers, {and cast you} out of my presence:
JEREMIAH 23:40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you,
and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
JEREMIAH 24:1 The Lord shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of
figs {were} set before the temple of the Lord, after that
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah
the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah,
with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought
them to Babylon.
JEREMIAH 24:2 One basket {had} very good figs, {even} like the
figs {that are} first ripe: and the other basket {had} very
naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
JEREMIAH 24:3 Then said the Lord unto me, What seest thou,
Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the
evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
JEREMIAH 24:4 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 24:6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I
will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and
not pull {them} down; and I will plant them, and not pluck {them}
up.
JEREMIAH 24:7 And I will give them an 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 unto me with their whole heart.
JEREMIAH 24:8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they
are so evil; surely thus saith the Lord, So will I give Zedekiah
the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem,
that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of
Egypt:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 24:10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the
pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land
that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 25:2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the
people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
JEREMIAH 25:3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon
king of Judah, even unto this day, that {is} the three and
twentieth year, the word of the Lord hath come unto me, and I
have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not
hearkened.
JEREMIAH 25:4 And the Lord hath sent unto you all his servants
the prophets, rising early and sending {them}; but ye have not
hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
JEREMIAH 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 unto you and to your fathers for ever
and ever:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 25:7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the Lord;
that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to
your own hurt.
JEREMIAH 25:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Because ye
have not heard my words,
JEREMIAH 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 the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations
round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an
astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, {and}
an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of
Babylon seventy years.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 25:14 For many nations and great kings shall serve
themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to
their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
JEREMIAH 25:15 For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me;
Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the
nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
JEREMIAH 25:16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad,
because of the sword that I will send among them.
JEREMIAH 25:17 Then took I the cup at the Lord's hand, and made
all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me:
JEREMIAH 25:18 {To wit}, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and
the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a
desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as {it is}
this day;
JEREMIAH 25:19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his
princes, and all his people;
JEREMIAH 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,
JEREMIAH 25:21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
JEREMIAH 25:22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of
Zidon, and the kings of the isles which {are} beyond the sea,
JEREMIAH 25:23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all {that are} in
the utmost corners,
JEREMIAH 25:24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of
the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
JEREMIAH 25:25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of
Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 25:27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and
spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I
will send among you.
JEREMIAH 25:28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at
thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith
the Lord of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 25:30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these
words, and say unto 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 25:32 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, evil shall
go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be
raised up from the coasts of the earth.
JEREMIAH 25:33 And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day
from {one} end of the earth even unto the {other} end of the
earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried;
they shall be dung upon the ground.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 25:35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor
the principal of the flock to escape.
JEREMIAH 25:36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an
howling of the principal of the flock, {shall be heard}: for the
Lord hath spoiled their pasture.
JEREMIAH 25:37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because
of the fierce anger of the Lord.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 26:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son
of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the Lord, saying,
JEREMIAH 26:2 Thus saith the Lord; Stand in the court of the
Lord's house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come
to worship in the Lord's house, all the words that I command thee
to speak unto them; diminish not a word:
JEREMIAH 26:3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from
his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose
to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
JEREMIAH 26:4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord;
If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set
before you,
JEREMIAH 26:5 To hearken to the words of my servants the
prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending
{them}, but ye have not hearkened;
JEREMIAH 26:6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will
make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
JEREMIAH 26:7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people
heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.
JEREMIAH 26:8 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end
of speaking all that the Lord had commanded {him} to speak unto
all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the
people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 26:10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, then
they came up from the king's house unto the house of the Lord,
and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the Lord's {house}.
JEREMIAH 26:11 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the
princes and to all the people, saying, This man {is} worthy to
die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard
with your ears.
JEREMIAH 26:12 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to
all the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy against this
house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
JEREMIAH 26:13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and
obey the voice of the Lord your God; and the Lord will repent him
of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
JEREMIAH 26:14 As for me, behold, I {am} in your hand: do with me
as seemeth good and meet unto you.
JEREMIAH 26:15 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to
death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and
upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth
the Lord hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your
ears.
JEREMIAH 26:16 Then said the princes and all the people unto 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.
JEREMIAH 26:17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land,
and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,
JEREMIAH 26:18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of
Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake 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 a forest.
JEREMIAH 26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him
at all to death? did he not fear the Lord, and besought the Lord,
and the Lord repented him of the evil which he had pronounced
against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
JEREMIAH 26:20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the
name of the Lord, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim,
who prophesied against this city and against this land according
to all the words of Jeremiah.
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;
JEREMIAH 26:22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt,
{namely}, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and {certain} men with him
into Egypt.
JEREMIAH 26:23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and
brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword,
and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 27:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son
of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the
Lord, saying,
JEREMIAH 27:2 Thus saith the Lord to me; Make thee bonds and
yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
JEREMIAH 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
Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers
which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;
JEREMIAH 27:4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus
saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say
unto your masters;
JEREMIAH 27:5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that
{are} upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched
arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 27:7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and
his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then
many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
JEREMIAH 27:8 And it shall come to pass, {that} the nation and
kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the 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.
JEREMIAH 27:9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to
your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor
to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not
serve the king of Babylon:
JEREMIAH 27:10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you
far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye
should perish.
JEREMIAH 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 therein.
JEREMIAH 27:12 I spake 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.
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 27:14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the
prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king
of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
JEREMIAH 27:15 For I have not sent them, saith the Lord, yet they
prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that
ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
JEREMIAH 27:16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this
people, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Hearken not to the words of
your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels
of the Lord's house shall now shortly be brought again from
Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
JEREMIAH 27:17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon,
and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
JEREMIAH 27:18 But if they {be} prophets, and if the word of the
Lord be 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 27:21 Yea, 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;
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 28:1 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning
of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, {and}
in the fifth month, {that} Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet,
which {was} of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the Lord, in
the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
JEREMIAH 28:2 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 28:5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet
Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of
all the people that stood in the house of the Lord,
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 28:7 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak
in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 28:9 The prophet which 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.
JEREMIAH 28:10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off
the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
JEREMIAH 28:11 And Hananiah spake 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.
JEREMIAH 28:12 Then the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah {the
prophet}, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke
from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 28:15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the
prophet, hear now, Hananiah; The Lord hath not sent thee; but
thou makest this people to trust in a lie.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 28:17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the
seventh month.
JEREMIAH 29:1 Now these {are} the words of the letter that
Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the
elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and
to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had
carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
JEREMIAH 29:2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and
the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the
carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)
JEREMIAH 29:3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and
Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent
unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,
JEREMIAH 29:4 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be
carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;
JEREMIAH 29:5 Build ye houses, and dwell {in them}; and plant
gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have
caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord
for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
JEREMIAH 29:8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that {be} in the
midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which
ye cause to be dreamed.
JEREMIAH 29:9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I
have not sent them, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 29:10 For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years
be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good
word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
JEREMIAH 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,
saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you
an expected end.
JEREMIAH 29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and
pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
JEREMIAH 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find {me}, when ye shall
search for me with all your heart.
JEREMIAH 29:14 And I will be found of 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.
JEREMIAH 29:15 Because ye have said, The Lord hath raised us up
prophets in Babylon;
JEREMIAH 29:16 {Know} that thus saith the Lord of the king that
sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that
dwelleth in this city, {and} of your brethren that are not gone
forth with you into captivity;
JEREMIAH 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 evil.
JEREMIAH 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 an hissing, and a reproach, among all the
nations whither I have driven them:
JEREMIAH 29:19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith
the Lord, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets,
rising up early and sending {them}; but ye would not hear, saith
the Lord.
JEREMIAH 29:20 Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord, all ye of
the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
JEREMIAH 29:21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah,
which prophesy a lie unto 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;
JEREMIAH 29:22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the
captivity of Judah which are {in} Babylon, saying, The Lord make
thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon
roasted in the fire;
JEREMIAH 29:23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and
have committed adultery with their neighbours' 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.
JEREMIAH 29:24 {Thus} shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the
Nehelamite, saying,
JEREMIAH 29:25 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto
all the people that {are} at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son
of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 29:27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah
of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
JEREMIAH 29:28 For therefore he sent unto us {in} Babylon,
saying, This {captivity is} long: build ye houses, and dwell {in
them}; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
JEREMIAH 29:29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the
ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
JEREMIAH 29:30 Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah,
saying,
JEREMIAH 29:31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus
saith the Lord concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that
Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he
caused you to trust in a lie:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord,
saying,
JEREMIAH 30:2 Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write
thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 30:4 And these {are} the words that the Lord spake
concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
JEREMIAH 30:5 For thus saith the Lord; We have heard a voice of
trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
JEREMIAH 30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with
child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins,
as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 serve
themselves of him:
JEREMIAH 30:9 But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David
their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
JEREMIAH 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 be quiet, and
none shall make {him} afraid.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 30:12 For thus saith the Lord, Thy bruise {is}
incurable, {and} thy wound {is} grievous.
JEREMIAH 30:13 {There is} none to plead thy cause, that thou
mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
JEREMIAH 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
chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity;
{because} thy sins were increased.
JEREMIAH 30:15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow
{is} incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: {because} thy
sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
JEREMIAH 30:16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be
devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go
into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and
all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
JEREMIAH 30:17 For I will restore health unto 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.
JEREMIAH 30:18 Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring again
the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his
dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap,
and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 30:20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and
their congregation shall be established before me, and I will
punish all that oppress them.
JEREMIAH 30:21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their
governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause
him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who {is}
this that engaged his heart to approach unto me?  saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 30:22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 30:24 The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return,
until he have done {it}, and until he have performed the intents
of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
JEREMIAH 31:1 At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God
of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
JEREMIAH 31:2 Thus saith the Lord, The people {which were} left
of the sword found grace in the wilderness; {even} Israel, when I
went to cause him to rest.
JEREMIAH 31:3 The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, {saying},
Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with
lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 31:5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of
Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat {them} as common
things.
JEREMIAH 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
unto the Lord our God.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
and gather them from the coasts 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.
JEREMIAH 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
firstborn.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 31:11 For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him
from the hand of {him that was} stronger than he.
JEREMIAH 31:12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height
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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 31:15 Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah,
lamentation, {and} bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children
refused to be comforted for her children, because they {were}
not.
JEREMIAH 31:16 Thus saith the Lord; Refrain thy voice from
weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be
rewarded, saith the Lord; and they shall come again from the land
of the enemy.
JEREMIAH 31:17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord,
that thy children shall come again to their own border.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and
after that I was instructed, I smote upon {my} thigh: I was
ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of
my youth.
JEREMIAH 31:20 {Is} Ephraim my dear son? {is he} a pleasant
child? for since I spake 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.
JEREMIAH 31:21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set
thine heart toward the highway, {even} the way {which} thou
wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy
cities.
JEREMIAH 31:22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding
daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A
woman shall compass a man.
JEREMIAH 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 the
cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; the
Lord bless thee, O habitation of justice, {and} mountain of
holiness.
JEREMIAH 31:24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all
the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they {that} go forth
with flocks.
JEREMIAH 31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have
replenished every sorrowful soul.
JEREMIAH 31:26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; my sleep was sweet
unto me.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 31:28 And it shall come to pass, {that} like as I have
watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw
down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them,
to build, and to plant, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 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 brake,
although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his
neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for
they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest
of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I
will remember their sin no more.
JEREMIAH 31:35 Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a
light by day, {and} the ordinances of the moon and of the stars
for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves
thereof roar; The Lord of hosts {is} his name:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 31:38 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the
city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananeel unto
the gate of the corner.
JEREMIAH 31:39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over
against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
JEREMIAH 31:40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of
the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the
corner of the horse gate toward the east, {shall be} holy unto
the Lord; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more
for ever.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 32:2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged
Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of
the prison, which {was} in the king of Judah's house.
JEREMIAH 32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying,
Wherefore 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;
JEREMIAH 32:4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of
the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the
hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to
mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 32:6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the Lord came unto
me, saying,
JEREMIAH 32:7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle
shall come unto thee saying, Buy thee my field that {is} in
Anathoth: for the right of redemption {is} thine to buy {it}.
JEREMIAH 32:8 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the
court of the prison according to the word of the Lord, and said
unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that {is} in Anathoth, which
{is} in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance
{is} thine, and the redemption {is} thine; buy {it} for thyself.
Then I knew that this {was} the word of the Lord.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 32:10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed {it},
and took witnesses, and weighed {him} the money in the balances.
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 32:12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto
Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of
Hanameel mine 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.
JEREMIAH 32:13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
JEREMIAH 32:14 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel;
Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which
is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an
earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 32:16 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the
purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the Lord,
saying,
JEREMIAH 32:17 Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and
the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, {and} there
is nothing too hard for thee:
JEREMIAH 32:18 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and
recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their
children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of
hosts, {is} his name,
JEREMIAH 32:19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine
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:
JEREMIAH 32:20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of
Egypt, {even} unto this day, and in Israel, and among {other}
men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;
JEREMIAH 32:21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of
the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong
hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 32:24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to
take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans,
that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine,
and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass;
and, behold, thou seest {it}.
JEREMIAH 32:25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord God, Buy thee
the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given
into the hand of the Chaldeans.
JEREMIAH 32:26 Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah,
saying,
JEREMIAH 32:27 Behold, I {am} the Lord, the God of all flesh: is
there any thing too hard for me?
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 32:29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city,
shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the
houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and
poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to
anger.
JEREMIAH 32:30 For the children of Israel and the children of
Judah have only done evil 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.
JEREMIAH 32:31 For this city hath been to me {as} a provocation
of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even
unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 32:33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the
face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching {them},
yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
JEREMIAH 32:34 But they set their abominations in the house,
which is called by my name, to defile it.
JEREMIAH 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} unto Molech; which I
commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they
should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
JEREMIAH 32:36 And now therefore thus saith the Lord, the God of
Israel, concerning this city, whereof 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;
JEREMIAH 32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries,
whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in
great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I
will cause them to dwell safely:
JEREMIAH 32:38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their
God:
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 32:41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and
I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and
with my whole soul.
JEREMIAH 32:42 For thus saith the Lord; Like 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.
JEREMIAH 32:43 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof
ye say, {It is} desolate without man or beast; it is given into
the hand of the Chaldeans.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 33:1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah
the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the
prison, saying,
JEREMIAH 33:2 Thus saith the Lord the maker thereof, the Lord
that formed it, to establish it; the Lord {is} his name;
JEREMIAH 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee
great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 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
mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have
hid my face from this city.
JEREMIAH 33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will
cure them and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and
truth.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 33:8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity,
whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their
iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have
transgressed against me.
JEREMIAH 33:9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and
an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear
all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble
for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure
unto it.
JEREMIAH 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,
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 33:12 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Again in this place,
which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the
cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing
{their} flocks to lie down.
JEREMIAH 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
telleth {them}, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 33:14 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will
perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of
Israel and to the house of Judah.
JEREMIAH 33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the
Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall
execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
JEREMIAH 33:16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem
shall dwell safely: and this {is the name} wherewith she shall be
called, The Lord our righteousness.
JEREMIAH 33:17 For thus saith the Lord; David shall never want a
man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 33:19 And the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah,
saying,
JEREMIAH 33:20 Thus saith the Lord; If ye can break my covenant
of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should
not be day and night in their season;
JEREMIAH 33:21 {Then} may also my covenant be broken with David
my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his
throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
JEREMIAH 33:22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither
the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of
David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
JEREMIAH 33:23 Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah,
saying,
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 33:25 Thus saith the Lord; If my covenant {be} not with
day and night, {and if} I have not appointed the ordinances of
heaven and earth;
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 34:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord,
when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all
the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people,
fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof,
saying,
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 34:3 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but
shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine
eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall
speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
JEREMIAH 34:4 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah king of
Judah; Thus saith the Lord of thee, Thou shalt not die by the
sword:
JEREMIAH 34:5 {But} thou shalt die in peace: and with the
burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee,
so shall they burn {odours} for thee; and they will lament thee,
{saying}, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the
Lord.
JEREMIAH 34:6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words
unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
JEREMIAH 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 defenced cities
remained of the cities of Judah.
JEREMIAH 34:8 {This is} the word that came unto Jeremiah from the
Lord, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all
the people which {were} at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto
them;
JEREMIAH 34:9 That every man should let his manservant, and every
man his maidservant, {being} an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free;
that none should serve himself of them, {to wit}, of a Jew his
brother.
JEREMIAH 34:10 Now when all the princes, and all the people,
which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should
let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that
none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed,
and let {them} go.
JEREMIAH 34:11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants
and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and
brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
JEREMIAH 34:12 Therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah
from the Lord, saying,
JEREMIAH 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
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
JEREMIAH 34:14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his
brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he
hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee:
but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their
ear.
JEREMIAH 34:15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my
sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye
had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my
name:
JEREMIAH 34:16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused
every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had
set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them
into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
JEREMIAH 34:17 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not
hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his
brother, and every man to his neighbour: 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.
JEREMIAH 34:18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my
covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant
which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain,
and passed between the parts thereof,
JEREMIAH 34:19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of
Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of
the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
JEREMIAH 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 meat unto the fowls of the heaven,
and to the beasts of the earth.
JEREMIAH 34:21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I
give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them
that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's
army, which are gone up from you.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 35:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord in
the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
JEREMIAH 35:2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto
them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the
chambers, and give them wine to drink.
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 35:4 And I brought them into the house of the Lord, into
the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of
God, which {was} by the chamber of the princes, which {was} above
the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the
door:
JEREMIAH 35:5 And I set before the sons of the house of the
Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them,
Drink ye wine.
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 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} be
strangers.
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 35:9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither
have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
JEREMIAH 35:10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and
done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 35:12 Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah,
saying,
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 35:14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he
commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto
this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment:
notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and
speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
JEREMIAH 35:15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the
prophets, rising up 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 unto me.
JEREMIAH 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 unto me:
JEREMIAH 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 unto them, but they have not
heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.
JEREMIAH 35:18 And Jeremiah said unto 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 unto all that he
hath commanded you:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 36:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim
the son of Josiah king of Judah, {that} this word came unto
Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
JEREMIAH 36:2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all
the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and
against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake
unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
JEREMIAH 36:3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the
evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every
man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and
their sin.
JEREMIAH 36:4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and
Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the
Lord, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
JEREMIAH 36:5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I {am} shut
up; I cannot go into the house of the Lord:
JEREMIAH 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 fasting day: and also
thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of
their cities.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 unto
Jerusalem.
JEREMIAH 36:10 Then read Baruch 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.
JEREMIAH 36:11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of
Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the Lord,
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 36:13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words
that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the
people.
JEREMIAH 36:14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of
Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch,
saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the
ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took
the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
JEREMIAH 36:15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it
in our ears. So Baruch read {it} in their ears.
JEREMIAH 36:16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the
words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch,
We will surely tell the king of all these words.
JEREMIAH 36:17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How
didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
JEREMIAH 36:18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these
words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote {them} with ink in the
book.
JEREMIAH 36:19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee,
thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 36:21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he
took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it
in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which
stood beside the king.
JEREMIAH 36:22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth
month: and {there was a fire} on the hearth burning before him.
JEREMIAH 36:23 And it came to pass, {that} when Jehudi had read
three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast {it}
into the fire that {was} on the hearth, until all the roll was
consumed in the fire that {was} on the hearth.
JEREMIAH 36:24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments,
{neither} the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these
words.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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,
JEREMIAH 36:28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all
the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the
king of Judah hath burned.
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 36:30 Therefore thus saith the Lord of 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 36:32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to
Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the
mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king
of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides
unto them many like words.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 37:2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of
the land, did hearken unto the words of the Lord, which he spake
by the prophet Jeremiah.
JEREMIAH 37:3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of
Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the
prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the Lord our God for us.
JEREMIAH 37:4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people:
for they had not put him into prison.
JEREMIAH 37:5 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt:
and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of
them, they departed from Jerusalem.
JEREMIAH 37:6 Then came the word of the Lord unto the prophet
Jeremiah saying,
JEREMIAH 37:7 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Thus shall
ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of
me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you,
shall return to Egypt into their own land.
JEREMIAH 37:8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight
against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
JEREMIAH 37:9 Thus saith the Lord; deceive not yourselves,
saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall
not depart.
JEREMIAH 37:10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the
Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained {but}
wounded men among them, {yet} should they rise up every man in
his tent, and burn this city with fire.
JEREMIAH 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,
JEREMIAH 37:12 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go
into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the
midst of the people.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 37:15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah,
and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the
scribe: for they had made that the prison.
JEREMIAH 37:16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and
into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 37:18 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What
have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against
this people, that ye have put me in prison?
JEREMIAH 37:19 Where {are} now your prophets which prophesied
unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you,
nor against this land?
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 bakers' street,
until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah
remained in the court of the prison.
JEREMIAH 38:1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the
son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son
of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all
the people, saying,
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 38:4 Therefore the princes said unto 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 unto them: for
this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 38:6 Then took they 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.
JEREMIAH 38:7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the
eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put
Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of
Benjamin;
JEREMIAH 38:8 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and
spake to the king saying,
JEREMIAH 38:9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all
that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast
into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place
where he is: for {there is} no more bread in the city.
JEREMIAH 38:10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian,
saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up
Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
JEREMIAH 38:11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into
the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old
cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into
the dungeon to Jeremiah.
JEREMIAH 38:12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah,
Put now {these} old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine
armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
JEREMIAH 38:13 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him
up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the
prison.
JEREMIAH 38:14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the
prophet unto him into the third entry that {is} in the house of
the Lord: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a
thing; hide nothing from me.
JEREMIAH 38:15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare
{it} unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I
give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?
JEREMIAH 38:16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto 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.
JEREMIAH 38:17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the
Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly
go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall
live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt
live, and thine house:
JEREMIAH 38:18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of
Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of
the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt
not escape out of their hand.
JEREMIAH 38:19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am
afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they
deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
JEREMIAH 38:20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver {thee}.
Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the Lord, which I speak unto
thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
JEREMIAH 38:21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this {is} the word
that the Lord hath shewed me:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 38:24 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know
of these words, and thou shalt not die.
JEREMIAH 38:25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with
thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us
now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and
we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
JEREMIAH 38:26 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my
supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to
return to Jonathan's house, to die there.
JEREMIAH 38:27 Then came all the princes unto 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 39:2 {And} in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the
fourth month, the ninth {day} of the month, the city was broken
up.
JEREMIAH 39:3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in,
and sat in the middle gate, {even} Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo,
Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue
of the princes of the king of Babylon.
JEREMIAH 39:4 And it came to pass, {that} when Zedekiah the king
of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and
went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's
garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the
way of the plain.
JEREMIAH 39:5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and
overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had
taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 39:7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him
with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
JEREMIAH 39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the
houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of
Jerusalem.
JEREMIAH 39:9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried
away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained
in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the
rest of the people that remained.
JEREMIAH 39:10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of
the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah,
and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
JEREMIAH 39:11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge
concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard,
saying,
JEREMIAH 39:12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no
harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.
JEREMIAH 39:13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and
Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the
king of Babylon's princes;
JEREMIAH 39:14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court
of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam
the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt
among the people.
JEREMIAH 39:15 Now the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, while
he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
JEREMIAH 39:16 Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 39:18 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not
fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee:
because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 40:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after
that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from
Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that
were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were
carried away captive unto Babylon.
JEREMIAH 40:2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and
said unto him, The Lord thy God hath pronounced this evil upon
this place.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 40:4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the
chains which {were} upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to
come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee:
but if it seem ill unto 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.
JEREMIAH 40:5 Now while he was not yet gone back, {he said}, Go
back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom
the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah,
and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth
convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him
victuals and a reward, and let him go.
JEREMIAH 40:6 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam
to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in
the land.
JEREMIAH 40:7 Now when all the captains of the forces which
{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 unto him men, and women, and
children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not
carried away captive to Babylon;
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 40:9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan
sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the
Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and
it shall be well with you.
JEREMIAH 40:10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to
serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto 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.
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 40:12 Even all the Jews returned out of all places
whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to
Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very
much.
JEREMIAH 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,
JEREMIAH 40:14 And said unto 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.
JEREMIAH 40:15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake 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}:
wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are
gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah
perish?
JEREMIAH 40:16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan
the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou
speakest falsely of Ishmael.
JEREMIAH 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
unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat
bread together in Mizpah.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 41:4 And it came to pass the second day after he had
slain Gedaliah, and no man knew {it},
JEREMIAH 41:5 That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh,
and from Samaria, {even} fourscore 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.
JEREMIAH 41:6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from
Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to
pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 41:8 But ten men were found among them that said unto
Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of
wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare,
and slew them not among their brethren.
JEREMIAH 41:9 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead
bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, {was}
it 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.
JEREMIAH 41:10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue
of the people that {were} in Mizpah, {even} the king's daughters,
and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam:
and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and
departed to go over to the Ammonites.
JEREMIAH 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,
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 41:13 Now it came to pass, {that} when all the people
which {were} with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all
the captains of the forces that {were} with him, then they were
glad.
JEREMIAH 41:14 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away
captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto
Johanan the son of Kareah.
JEREMIAH 41:15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from
Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
JEREMIAH 41:16 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that {were} with him, all the remnant of
the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, from Mizpah, 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:
JEREMIAH 41:17 And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of
Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 unto the greatest, came near,
JEREMIAH 42:2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech
thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us
unto the Lord thy God, {even} for all this remnant; (for we are
left {but} a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)
JEREMIAH 42:3 That the Lord thy God may shew us the way wherein
we may walk, and the thing that we may do.
JEREMIAH 42:4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have
heard {you}; behold, I will pray unto the Lord your God according
to your words; and it shall come to pass, {that} whatsoever thing
the Lord shall answer you, I will declare {it} unto you; I will
keep nothing back from you.
JEREMIAH 42:5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The Lord be a true and
faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all
things for the which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 42:7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word
of the Lord came unto Jeremiah.
JEREMIAH 42:8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all
the captains of the forces which {were} with him, and all the
people from the least even to the greatest,
JEREMIAH 42:9 And said unto them, Thus saith the Lord, the God of
Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before
him;
JEREMIAH 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 me of the evil that I have done unto
you.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 42:12 And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have
mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.
JEREMIAH 42:13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land,
neither obey the voice of the Lord your God,
JEREMIAH 42:14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt,
where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor
have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 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, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after
you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 42:18 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel; As mine 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 42:20 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me
unto the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us unto the Lord our
God; and according unto all that the Lord our God shall say, so
declare unto us, and we will do {it}.
JEREMIAH 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 the which he hath sent me unto you.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 43:1 And it came to pass, {that} when Jeremiah had made
an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the Lord
their God, for which the Lord their God had sent him to them,
{even} all these words,
JEREMIAH 43:2 Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan
the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah,
Thou speakest falsely: the Lord our God hath not sent thee to
say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:
JEREMIAH 43:3 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on
against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans,
that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into
Babylon.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 43:5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains
of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned
from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the
land of Judah;
JEREMIAH 43:6 {Even} men, and women, and children, and the king's
daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
JEREMIAH 43:7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they
obeyed not the voice of the Lord: thus came they {even} to
Tahpanhes.
JEREMIAH 43:8 Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah in
Tahpanhes, saying,
JEREMIAH 43:9 Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in
the clay in the brickkiln, which {is} at the entry of Pharaoh's
house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
JEREMIAH 43:10 And say unto 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 43:13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh,
that {is} in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the
Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
JEREMIAH 44:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the
Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and
at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
JEREMIAH 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 therein,
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 44:4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the
prophets, rising early and sending {them}, saying, Oh, do not
this abominable thing that I hate.
JEREMIAH 44:5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to
turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
JEREMIAH 44:6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth,
and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem; and they are wasted {and} desolate, as at this day.
JEREMIAH 44:7 Therefore now thus saith the Lord, the God of
hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye {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;
JEREMIAH 44:8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of
your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt,
whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off,
and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations
of the earth?
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 44:10 They are not humbled {even} unto this day, neither
have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that
I set before you and before your fathers.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 unto the greatest, by the
sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, {and}
an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 44:14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are
gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or
remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the
which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall
return but such as shall escape.
JEREMIAH 44:15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had
burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by,
a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of
Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
JEREMIAH 44:16 {As for} the word that thou hast spoken unto us in
the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee.
JEREMIAH 44:17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth
forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of
heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have
done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the
cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for {then} had
we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
JEREMIAH 44:18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen
of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have
wanted all {things}, and have been consumed by the sword and by
the famine.
JEREMIAH 44:19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven,
and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to
worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our
men?
JEREMIAH 44:20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the
men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him
{that} answer, saying,
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 is happened unto you, as at this
day.
JEREMIAH 44:24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to
all the women, Hear the word of the Lord, all Judah that {are} in
the land of Egypt:
JEREMIAH 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 unto her: ye will surely accomplish
your vows, and surely perform your vows.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 44:27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not
for good: and all the men of Judah that {are} in the land of
Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until
there be an end of them.
JEREMIAH 44:28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall
return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all
the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to
sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or
theirs.
JEREMIAH 44:29 And this {shall be} a sign unto 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:
JEREMIAH 44:30 Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will give
Pharaohhophra 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.
JEREMIAH 45:1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto
Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a
book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim
the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
JEREMIAH 45:2 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, unto thee,
O Baruch:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 45:4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The Lord saith thus;
Behold, {that} which I have built will I break down, and that
which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.
JEREMIAH 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 unto thee for a prey in all
places whither thou goest.
JEREMIAH 46:1 The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the
prophet against the Gentiles;
JEREMIAH 46:2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho
king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish,
which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.
JEREMIAH 46:3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to
battle.
JEREMIAH 46:4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and
stand forth with {your} helmets; furbish the spears, {and} put on
the brigandines.
JEREMIAH 46:5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed {and} turned
away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled
apace, and look not back: {for} fear {was} round about, saith the
Lord.
JEREMIAH 46:6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man
escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the
river Euphrates.
JEREMIAH 46:7 Who {is} this {that} cometh up as a flood, whose
waters are moved as the rivers?
JEREMIAH 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 the inhabitants
thereof.
JEREMIAH 46:9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let
the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that
handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle {and} bend the
bow.
JEREMIAH 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 satiate and made drunk
with their blood: for the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrifice in
the north country by the river Euphrates.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 are fallen both together.
JEREMIAH 46:13 The word that the Lord spake to Jeremiah the
prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come {and}
smite the land of Egypt.
JEREMIAH 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 round about thee.
JEREMIAH 46:15 Why are thy valiant {men} swept away? they stood
not, because the Lord did drive them.
JEREMIAH 46:16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another:
and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and
to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
JEREMIAH 46:17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt {is but}
a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 46:19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself
to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate
without an inhabitant.
JEREMIAH 46:20 Egypt {is like} a very fair heifer, {but}
destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
JEREMIAH 46:21 Also her hired men {are} in the midst of her like
fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, {and} are fled
away together: they did not stand, because the day of their
calamity was come upon them, {and} the time of their visitation.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 46:24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she
shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 46:27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not
dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off,
and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall
return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make {him}
afraid.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 47:1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the
prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
JEREMIAH 47:2 Thus saith the Lord; Behold, waters rise up out of
the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow
the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell
therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the
land shall howl.
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 47:4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the
Philistines, {and} to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper
that remaineth: for the Lord will spoil the Philistines, the
remnant of the country of Caphtor.
JEREMIAH 47:5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off
{with} the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut
thyself?
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 48:1 Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God
of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is
confounded {and} taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 48:3 A voice of crying {shall be} from Horonaim,
spoiling and great destruction.
JEREMIAH 48:4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a
cry to be heard.
JEREMIAH 48:5 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping
shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have
heard a cry of destruction.
JEREMIAH 48:6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the
wilderness.
JEREMIAH 48:7 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in
thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go
forth into captivity {with} his priests and his princes together.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 48:9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get
away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to
dwell therein.
JEREMIAH 48:10 Cursed {be} he that doeth the work of the Lord
deceitfully, and cursed {be} he that keepeth back his sword from
blood.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 48:12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to
wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.
JEREMIAH 48:13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house
of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
JEREMIAH 48:14 How say ye, We {are} mighty and strong men for the
war?
JEREMIAH 48:15 Moab is spoiled, 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.
JEREMIAH 48:16 The calamity of Moab {is} near to come, and his
affliction hasteth fast.
JEREMIAH 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!
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 48:20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl
and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
JEREMIAH 48:21 And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon
Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,
JEREMIAH 48:22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon
Bethdiblathaim,
JEREMIAH 48:23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon
Bethmeon,
JEREMIAH 48:24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all
the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
JEREMIAH 48:25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is
broken, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 48:27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he
found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou
skippedst for joy.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 48:29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding
proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the
haughtiness of his heart.
JEREMIAH 48:30 I know his wrath, saith the Lord; but {it shall}
not {be} so; his lies shall not so effect {it}.
JEREMIAH 48:31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out
for all Moab; {mine heart} shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.
JEREMIAH 48:32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the
weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach
{even} to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer
fruits and upon thy vintage.
JEREMIAH 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 winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; {their}
shouting {shall be} no shouting.
JEREMIAH 48:34 From the cry of Heshbon {even} unto Elealeh, {and
even} unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar {even}
unto Horonaim, {as} an heifer of three years old: for the waters
also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 48:36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like
pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of
Kirheres: because the riches {that} he hath gotten are perished.
JEREMIAH 48:37 For every head {shall be} bald, and every beard
clipped: upon all the hands {shall be} cuttings, and upon the
loins sackcloth.
JEREMIAH 48:38 {There shall be} lamentation generally upon all
the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have
broken Moab like a vessel wherein {is} no pleasure, saith the
Lord.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 48:40 For thus saith the Lord; Behold, he shall fly as
an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 48:42 And Moab shall be destroyed from {being} a people,
because he hath magnified {himself} against the Lord.
JEREMIAH 48:43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, {shall be} upon
thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 48:44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the
pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the
snare: for I will bring upon it, {even} upon Moab, the year of
their visitation, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 48:45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon
because of the force: but a fire shall come forth 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.
JEREMIAH 48:46 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh
perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters
captives.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 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 unto them
that were his heirs, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 49:3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: 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.
JEREMIAH 49:4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing
valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures,
{saying}, Who shall come unto me?
JEREMIAH 49:5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the
Lord God of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye
shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather
up him that wandereth.
JEREMIAH 49:6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of
the children of Ammon, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 49:7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the Lord of hosts; {Is}
wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is
their wisdom vanished?
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 49:9 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not
leave {some} gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will
destroy till they have enough.
JEREMIAH 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 spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he {is}
not.
JEREMIAH 49:11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve
{them} alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
JEREMIAH 49:12 For thus saith the Lord; Behold, they whose
judgment {was} not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken;
and {art} thou {he} that shall altogether go unpunished? thou
shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink {of it}.
JEREMIAH 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 the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
JEREMIAH 49:14 I have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an
ambassador is sent unto the heathen, {saying}, Gather ye
together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
JEREMIAH 49:15 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen,
{and} despised among men.
JEREMIAH 49:16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, {and} the
pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the
rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest
make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from
thence, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 49:17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that
goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the
plagues thereof.
JEREMIAH 49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the
neighbour {cities} thereof, saith the Lord, no man shall abide
there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
JEREMIAH 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?
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 49:21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at
the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 49:23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and
Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted;
{there is} sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
JEREMIAH 49:24 Damascus is waxed feeble, {and} turneth herself to
flee, and fear hath seized on {her}: anguish and sorrows have
taken her, as a woman in travail.
JEREMIAH 49:25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my
joy!
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 49:27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
JEREMIAH 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 spoil the men of
the east.
JEREMIAH 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 unto them, fear
{is} on every side.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 49:31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that
dwelleth without care, saith the Lord, which have neither gates
nor bars, {which} dwell alone.
JEREMIAH 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 thereof, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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,
JEREMIAH 49:35 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will break
the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
JEREMIAH 49:36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the
four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those
winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam
shall not come.
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 49:38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy
from thence the king and the princes, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 49:39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days,
{that} I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 50:1 The word that the Lord spake against Babylon {and}
against the land of {the} Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 50:3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation
against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall
dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and
beast.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 50:5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces
thitherward, {saying}, Come, and let us join ourselves to the
Lord in a perpetual covenant {that} shall not be forgotten.
JEREMIAH 50:6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds
have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away {on}
the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have
forgotten their restingplace.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 50:8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth
out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before
the flocks.
JEREMIAH 50:9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up 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.
JEREMIAH 50:10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her
shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 50:11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye
destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the
heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
JEREMIAH 50:12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that
bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations
{shall be} a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 50:14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round
about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows:
for she hath sinned against the Lord.
JEREMIAH 50:15 Shout against her round about: 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 unto her.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 50:22 A sound of battle {is} in the land, and of great
destruction.
JEREMIAH 50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder
and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 50:25 The Lord hath opened his armoury, 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.
JEREMIAH 50:26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her
storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let
nothing of her be left.
JEREMIAH 50:27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the
slaughter: woe unto them!  for their day is come, the time of
their visitation.
JEREMIAH 50:28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the
land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our
God, the vengeance of his temple.
JEREMIAH 50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye
that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof
escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all
that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against
the Lord, against the holy one of Israel.
JEREMIAH 50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets,
and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the
Lord.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 round about him.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 50:34 Their Redeemer {is} strong; the Lord of hosts {is}
his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give
rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
JEREMIAH 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}.
JEREMIAH 50:36 A sword {is} upon the liars; and they shall dote:
a sword {is} upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 50:38 A drought {is} upon her waters; and they shall be
dried up: for it {is} the land of graven images, and they are mad
upon {their} idols.
JEREMIAH 50:39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the
wild beasts of the islands shall dwell {there}, and the owls
shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever;
neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
JEREMIAH 50:40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the
neighbour {cities} thereof, saith the Lord; {so} shall no man
abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
JEREMIAH 50:41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a
great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts
of the earth.
JEREMIAH 50:42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they {are}
cruel, and will not shew 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.
JEREMIAH 50:43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them,
and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, {and} pangs
as of a woman in travail.
JEREMIAH 50:44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the
swelling of Jordan unto 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?
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 50:46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is
moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
JEREMIAH 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 up against me, a destroying wind;
JEREMIAH 51:2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan
her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they
shall be against her round about.
JEREMIAH 51:3 Against {him that} bendeth let the archer bend his
bow, and against {him that} lifteth himself up in his brigandine:
and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
JEREMIAH 51:4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the
Chaldeans, and {they that are} thrust through in her streets.
JEREMIAH 51:5 For Israel {hath} not {been} forsaken, nor Judah of
his God, of the Lord of hosts; though their land was filled with
sin against the holy One of Israel.
JEREMIAH 51:6 Flee out of 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 unto her a
recompence.
JEREMIAH 51:7 Babylon {hath been} a golden cup in the Lord's
hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken
of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
JEREMIAH 51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for
her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
JEREMIAH 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 unto heaven, and is lifted up
{even} to the skies.
JEREMIAH 51:10 The Lord hath brought forth our righteousness:
come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God.
JEREMIAH 51:11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the
Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his
device {is} against Babylon, to destroy it; because it {is} the
vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.
JEREMIAH 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 spake
against the inhabitants of Babylon.
JEREMIAH 51:13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in
treasures, thine end is come, {and} the measure of thy
covetousness.
JEREMIAH 51:14 The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, {saying},
Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they
shall lift up a shout against thee.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 51:16 When he uttereth {his} voice, {there is} a
multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to
ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with
rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 51:18 They {are} vanity, the work of errors: in the time
of their visitation they shall perish.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 51:20 Thou {art} my battle axe {and} weapons of war: for
with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will
I destroy kingdoms;
JEREMIAH 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
his rider;
JEREMIAH 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;
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 51:24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the
inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion
in your sight, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 51:25 Behold, I {am} against thee, O destroying
mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I
will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the
rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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
caterpillers.
JEREMIAH 51:28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of
the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and
all the land of his dominion.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight,
they have remained in {their} holds: their might hath failed;
they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her
bars are broken.
JEREMIAH 51:31 One post shall run to meet another, and one
messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his
city is taken at {one} end,
JEREMIAH 51:32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds
they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
JEREMIAH 51:33 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel; The daughter of Babylon {is} like a threshingfloor, {it
is} time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her
harvest shall come.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace
for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an
inhabitant.
JEREMIAH 51:38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall
yell as lions' whelps.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the
slaughter, like rams with he goats.
JEREMIAH 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!
JEREMIAH 51:42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered
with the multitude of the waves thereof.
JEREMIAH 51:43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a
wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth {any}
son of man pass thereby.
JEREMIAH 51:44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring
forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the
nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall
of Babylon shall fall.
JEREMIAH 51:45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and
deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the Lord.
JEREMIAH 51:46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the
rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come
{one} year, and after that in {another} year {shall come} a
rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 51:48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that {is}
therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto
her from the north, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 51:49 As Babylon {hath caused} the slain of Israel to
fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and
though she should fortify the height of her strength, {yet} from
me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the Lord.
JEREMIAH 51:54 A sound of a cry {cometh} from Babylon, and great
destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
JEREMIAH 51:55 Because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon, and
destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like
great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
JEREMIAH 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 recompences shall surely requite.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 labour in vain, and the
folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 51:61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to
Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 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.
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.
JEREMIAH 52:2 And he did {that which was} evil in the eyes of the
Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 pitched against it, and built forts against it
round about.
JEREMIAH 52:5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of
king Zedekiah.
JEREMIAH 52:6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth {day} of the
month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no
bread for the people of the land.
JEREMIAH 52:7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war
fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the
gate between the two walls, which {was} by the king's garden;
(now the Chaldeans {were} by the city round about:) and they went
by the way of the plain.
JEREMIAH 52:8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the
king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his
army was scattered from him.
JEREMIAH 52:9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto
the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he
gave judgment upon him.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 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 Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, {which} served
the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
JEREMIAH 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}, burned he with fire:
JEREMIAH 52:14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that {were}
with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of
Jerusalem round about.
JEREMIAH 52:15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried
away captive {certain} of the poor of the people, and the residue
of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell
away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the
multitude.
JEREMIAH 52:16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left
{certain} of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for
husbandmen.
JEREMIAH 52:17 Also the pillars of brass that {were} in the house
of the Lord, and the bases, and the brasen sea that {was} in the
house of the Lord, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass
of them to Babylon.
JEREMIAH 52:18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the
snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of
brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
JEREMIAH 52:19 And the basons, and the firepans, 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, took the captain of the guard away.
JEREMIAH 52:20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen 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.
JEREMIAH 52:21 And {concerning} the pillars, the height of one
pillar {was} eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did
compass it; and the thickness thereof {was} four fingers: {it
was} hollow.
JEREMIAH 52:22 And a chapiter of brass {was} upon it; and the
height of one chapiter {was} five cubits, with network and
pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all {of} brass. The
second pillar also and the pomegranates {were} like unto these.
JEREMIAH 52:23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a
side; {and} all the pomegranates upon the network {were} an
hundred round about.
JEREMIAH 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:
JEREMIAH 52:25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had
the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were
near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the
principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the
land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were
found in the midst of the city.
JEREMIAH 52:26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them,
and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
JEREMIAH 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.
JEREMIAH 52:28 This {is} the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried
away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three
and twenty:
JEREMIAH 52:29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he
carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two
persons:
JEREMIAH 52:30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar
Nebuzaradan 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.
JEREMIAH 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}
Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the {first} year of his reign
lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him
forth out of prison.
JEREMIAH 52:32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne
above the throne of the kings that {were} with him in Babylon,
JEREMIAH 52:33 And changed his prison garments: and he did
continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.
JEREMIAH 52:34 And {for} his diet, 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.