1:1:
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth
in the land of Benjamin:
1:2:
To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon
king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
1:3:
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah,
unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of
Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
1:4:
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
1:5:
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth
out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the
nations.
1:6:
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
1:7:
But the LORD said 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.
1:8:
Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith
the LORD.
1:9:
Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said
unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
1:10:
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to
root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build,
and to plant.
1:11:
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest
thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
1:12:
Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word
to perform it.
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.
1:14:
Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth
upon all the inhabitants of the land.
1:15:
For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith
the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne
at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof
round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
1:16:
And I will 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.
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.
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.
1:19:
And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee;
for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
2:1:
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2:2:
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember
thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou
wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
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.
2:4:
Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of
the house of Israel:
2:5:
Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that
they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become
vain?
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?
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.
2:8:
The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew
me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied
by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
2:9:
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's
children will I plead.
2:10:
For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider
diligently, and see if there be such a thing.
2:11:
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people
have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
2:12:
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very
desolate, saith the LORD.
2:13:
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain
of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can
hold no water.
2:14:
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
2:15:
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste:
his cities are burned without inhabitant.
2:16:
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
2:17:
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the
LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
2:18:
And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of
Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters
of the river?
2:19:
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.
2:20:
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst,
I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green
tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
2:21:
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art
thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
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.
2:23:
How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see
thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary
traversing her ways;
2:24:
A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure;
in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not
weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
2:25:
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou
saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them
will I go.
2:26:
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed;
they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
2:27:
Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought
me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face:
but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
2:28:
But where are thy gods that thou hast made 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.
2:29:
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith
the LORD.
2:30:
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your
own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
2:31:
O generation, 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?
2:32:
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have
forgotten me days without number.
2:33:
Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught
the wicked ones thy ways.
2:34:
Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents:
I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
2:35:
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from
me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
3:4:
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide
of my youth?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
3:11:
And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself
more than treacherous Judah.
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.
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.
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:
3:15:
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you
with knowledge and understanding.
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.
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.
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.
3:19:
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant
land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt
call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
3:20:
Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt
treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
3:21:
A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the
children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten
the LORD their God.
3:22:
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold,
we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
3:23:
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude
of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
3:24:
For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their
flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
3:25:
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned
against 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.
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.
4:2:
And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness;
and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
4:3:
For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your
fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
4:4:
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your
heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come
forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil
of your doings.
4:5:
Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet
in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let
us go into the defenced cities.
4:6:
Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil
from the north, and a great destruction.
4:7:
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles
is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate;
and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
4:8:
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger
of the LORD is not turned back from us.
4:9:
And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of
the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall
be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
4:10:
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people
and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth
unto the soul.
4:11:
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind
of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people,
not to fan, nor to cleanse,
4:12:
Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I
give sentence against them.
4:13:
Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind:
his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
4:14:
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved.
How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
4:15:
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
4:16:
Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that
watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the
cities of Judah.
4:17:
As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath
been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
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.
4:19:
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise
in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the
sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
4:20:
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly
are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
4:21:
How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
4:22:
For my people 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.
4:23:
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens,
and they had no light.
4:24:
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved
lightly.
4:25:
I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were
fled.
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.
4:27:
For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will
I not make a full end.
4:28:
For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because
I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will
I turn back from it.
4:29:
The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they
shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be
forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
4:30:
And when thou art 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.
4:31:
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of
her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion,
that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now!
for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
5:1:
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know,
and seek in 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.
5:2:
And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
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.
5:4:
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know
not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
5:5:
I will 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.
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.
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.
5:8:
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's
wife.
5:9:
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul
be avenged on such a nation as this?
5:10:
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away
her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.
5:11:
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously
against me, saith the LORD.
5:12:
They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come
upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
5:13:
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall
it be done unto them.
5:14:
Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word,
behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and
it shall devour them.
5:15:
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the
LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language
thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
5:16:
Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
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.
5:18:
Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end
with you.
5:19:
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, 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.
5:20:
Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
5:21:
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have
eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
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?
5:23:
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted
and gone.
5:24:
Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that
giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth
unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
5:25:
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden
good things from you.
5:26:
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth
snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
5:27:
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore
they are become great, and waxen rich.
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.
5:29:
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this?
5:30:
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
5:31:
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means;
and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
6:1:
O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of
Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in
Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
6:2:
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
6:3:
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their
tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
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.
6:5:
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
6:6:
For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount
against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression
in the midst of her.
6:7:
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness:
violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and
wounds.
6:8:
Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I
make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
6:9:
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of
Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
6:10:
To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their
ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the
LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
6:11:
Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in:
I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young
men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged
with him that is full of days.
6:12:
And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives
together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land,
saith the LORD.
6:13:
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is
given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every
one dealeth falsely.
6:14:
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying,
Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
6:15:
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? 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.
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.
6:17:
Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet.
But they said, We will not hearken.
6:18:
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
6:19:
Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit
of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to
my law, but rejected it.
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.
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.
6:22:
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and
a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
6:23:
They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy;
their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array
as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
6:24:
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken
hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
6:25:
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the
enemy and fear is on every side.
6:26:
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in
ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation:
for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
6:27:
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest
know and try their way.
6:28:
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass
and iron; they are all corrupters.
6:29:
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth
in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
6:30:
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
7:1:
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
7:2:
Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and
say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these
gates to worship the LORD.
7:3:
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your
doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
7:4:
Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple
of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
7:5:
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute
judgment between a man and his neighbour;
7:6:
If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed
not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your
hurt:
7:7:
Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to
your fathers, for ever and ever.
7:8:
Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
7:9:
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn
incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
7:10:
And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name,
and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
7:11:
Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your
eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
7:12:
But go ye now 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.
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;
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.
7:15:
And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren,
even the whole seed of Ephraim.
7:16:
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer
for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
7:17:
Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem?
7:18:
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women
knead 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
7:19:
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves
to the confusion of their own faces?
7:20:
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall
be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees
of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and
shall not be quenched.
7:21:
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings
unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
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:
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.
7:24:
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels
and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not
forward.
7:25:
Since the day that your fathers came forth 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:
7:26:
Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their
neck: they did worse than their fathers.
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.
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.
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.
7:30:
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they
have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to
pollute it.
7:31:
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of
the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire;
which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
7:32:
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more
be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of
slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
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.
7:34:
Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets
of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice
of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
8:1:
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring 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:
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.
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.
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?
8:5:
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?
they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
8:6:
I hearkened and heard, but they 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.
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.
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.
8:9:
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected
the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
8:10:
Therefore will I give their wives 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.
8:11:
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying,
Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
8:12:
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? 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.
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.
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.
8:15:
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold
trouble!
8:16:
The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled
at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and
have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that
dwell therein.
8:17:
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not
be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
8:18:
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
8:19:
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them
that dwell in a 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?
8:20:
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
8:21:
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment
hath taken hold on me.
8:22:
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not
the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
9:1:
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I
might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
9:2:
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that
I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers,
an assembly of treacherous men.
9:3:
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant
for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they
know not me, saith the LORD.
9:4:
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother:
for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk
with slanders.
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.
9:6:
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse
to know me, saith the LORD.
9:7:
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try
them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
9:8:
Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh
peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
9:9:
Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul
be avenged on such a nation as this?
9:10:
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations
of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none
can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both
the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
9:11:
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make
the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
9:12:
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the
mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land
perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
9:13:
And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before
them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
9:14:
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim,
which their fathers taught them:
9:15:
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will
feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall
to drink.
9:16:
I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their
fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed
them.
9:17:
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women,
that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
9:18:
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may
run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
9:19:
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are
greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings
have cast us out.
9:20:
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the
word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her
neighbour lamentation.
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.
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.
9:23:
Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither
let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his
riches:
9:24:
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth
me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness,
in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
9:25:
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which
are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
9:26:
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all
that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these
nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised
in the heart.
10:1:
Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
10:2:
Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed
at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
10:3:
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the
forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
10:4:
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with
hammers, that it move not.
10:5:
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne,
because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil,
neither also is it in them to do good.
10:6:
Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and
thy name is great in might.
10:7:
Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain:
forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms,
there is none like unto thee.
10:8:
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of
vanities.
10:9:
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz,
the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple
is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
10:10:
But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting
king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be
able to abide his indignation.
10:11:
Thus shall ye say 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.
10:12:
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his
wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
10:13:
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens,
and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh
lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
10:14:
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the
graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath
in them.
10:15:
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation
they shall perish.
10:16:
The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things;
and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
10:17:
Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
10:18:
For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the
land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
10:19:
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is
a grief, and I must bear it.
10:20:
My tabernacle is 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.
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.
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.
10:23:
O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man
that walketh to direct his steps.
10:24:
O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring
me to nothing.
10:25:
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families
that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him,
and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
11:1:
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
11:2:
Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
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,
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:
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.
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.
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.
11:8:
Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the
imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the
words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them
not.
11:9:
And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah,
and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
11:10:
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
11:16:
The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit:
with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the
branches of it are broken.
11:17:
For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against
thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which
they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense
unto Baal.
11:18:
And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst
me their doings.
11:19:
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I
knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy
the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of
the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
11:20:
But, 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.
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:
11:22:
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the
young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall
die by famine:
11:23:
And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men
of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
12:1:
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with
thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore
are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
12:8:
Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against
me: therefore have I hated it.
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.
12:10:
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under
foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
12:11:
They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the
whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
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.
12:13:
They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to
pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues
because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
12:14:
Thus saith the LORD against all 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.
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.
12:16:
And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my
people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people
to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.
12:17:
But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation,
saith the LORD.
13:1:
Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it
upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
13:2:
So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
13:3:
And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
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.
13:5:
So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
13:6:
And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise,
go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee
to hide there.
13:7:
Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place
where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable
for nothing.
13:8:
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
13:9:
Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and
the great pride of Jerusalem.
13:10:
This evil people, 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.
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.
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?
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.
13:14:
And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons
together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but
destroy them.
13:15:
Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
13:16:
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he 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.
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.
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.
13:19:
The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah
shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away
captive.
13:20:
Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the
flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
13:21:
What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them
to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as
a woman in travail?
13:22:
And if thou 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.
13:23:
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye
also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
13:24:
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind
of the wilderness.
13:25:
This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because
thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
13:26:
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may
appear.
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?
14:1:
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
14:2:
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the
ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
14:3:
And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to
the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they
were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
14:4:
Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen
were ashamed, they covered their heads.
14:5:
Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was
no grass.
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.
14:7:
O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's
sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
14:8:
O the hope of Israel, 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?
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.
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.
14:11:
Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.
14:12:
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering
and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the
sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
14:13:
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall
not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured
peace in this place.
14:14:
Then the LORD said 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.
14:15:
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in
my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not
be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
14:16:
And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of
Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none
to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for
I will pour their wickedness upon them.
14:17:
Therefore thou shalt say this word 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.
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.
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!
14:20:
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers:
for we have sinned against thee.
14:21:
Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy
glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
14:22:
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or
can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore
we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
15:1:
Then said the LORD 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.
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.
15:3:
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay,
and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the
earth, to devour and destroy.
15:4:
And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because
of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in
Jerusalem.
15:5:
For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee?
or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
15:6:
Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore
will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with
repenting.
15:7:
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave
them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from
their ways.
15:8:
Their widows are 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.
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.
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.
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.
15:12:
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
15:13:
Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price,
and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
15:14:
And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou
knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon
you.
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.
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.
15:17:
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because
of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
15:18:
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be
healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
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.
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.
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.
16:1:
The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
16:2:
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters
in this place.
16:3:
For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters
that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them,
and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
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.
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.
16:6:
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be
buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make
themselves bald for them:
16:7:
Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them
for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink
for their father or for their mother.
16:8:
Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to
eat and to drink.
16:9:
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause
to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of
mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the
voice of the bride.
16:10:
And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt 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?
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;
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:
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
16:20:
Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
16:21:
Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them
to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The
LORD.
17:1:
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a
diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns
of your altars;
17:2:
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green
trees upon the high hills.
17:3:
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures
to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
17:4:
And thou, even thyself, 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.
17:5:
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh
flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
17:6:
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good
cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt
land and not inhabited.
17:7:
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
17:8:
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out
her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf
shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither
shall cease from yielding fruit.
17:9:
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can
know it?
17:10:
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according
to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
17:11:
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth
riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and
at his end shall be a fool.
17:12:
A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
17:13:
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and
they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have
forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
17:14:
Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved:
for thou art my praise.
17:15:
Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
17:16:
As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither
have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my
lips was right before thee.
17:17:
Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
17:18:
Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded:
let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day
of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
17:19:
Thus said the LORD 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;
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:
17:21:
Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the
sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
17:22:
Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither
do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
17:23:
But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff,
that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
17:24:
And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken 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;
17:25:
Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting
upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their
princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city
shall remain for ever.
17:26:
And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about
Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from
the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices,
and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto
the house of the LORD.
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.
18:1:
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
18:2:
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to
hear my words.
18:3:
Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work
on the wheels.
18:4:
And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter:
so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make
it.
18:5:
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
18:6:
O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD.
Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O
house of Israel.
18:7:
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom,
to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
18:8:
If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I
will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
18:9:
And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a
kingdom, to build and to plant it;
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.
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.
18:12:
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices,
and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
18:13:
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard
such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
18:14:
Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the
field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be
forsaken?
18:15:
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity,
and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths,
to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
18:16:
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth
thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
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.
18:18:
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the
law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the
word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and
let us not give heed to any of his words.
18:19:
Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend
with me.
18:20:
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul.
Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away
thy wrath from them.
18:21:
Therefore deliver 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.
18:22:
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly
upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my
feet.
18:23:
Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive
not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let
them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine
anger.
19:1:
Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of
the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
19:2:
And go forth 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,
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.
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;
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:
19:6:
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall
no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The
valley of slaughter.
19:7:
And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place;
and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by
the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give
to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
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.
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.
19:10:
Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
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.
19:12:
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants
thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
19:13:
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall
be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose
roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured
out drink offerings unto other gods.
19:14:
Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy;
and he stood in the court of the LORD's house; and said to all the people,
19:15:
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon
this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against
it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my
words.
20:1:
Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in
the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
20:2:
Then Pashur 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.
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 Magor-missabib.
20:4:
For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself,
and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies,
and 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.
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.
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.
20:7:
O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than
I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
20:8:
For since I 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.
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.
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.
20:11:
But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors
shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed;
for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be
forgotten.
20:12:
But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and
the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened
my cause.
20:13:
Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul
of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
20:14:
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother
bare me be blessed.
20:15:
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child
is born unto thee; making him very glad.
20:16:
And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented
not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
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.
20:18:
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my
days should be consumed with shame?
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,
21:2:
Enquire, 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.
21:3:
Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
21:4:
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons
of war that are in your hands, 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.
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.
21:6:
And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they
shall die of a great pestilence.
21:7:
And 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.
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.
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.
21:10:
For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith
the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he
shall burn it with fire.
21:11:
And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the
LORD;
21:12:
O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning,
and deliver him that is 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.
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?
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.
22:1:
Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak
there this word,
22:2:
And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon
the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter
in by these gates:
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.
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.
22:5:
But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD,
that this house shall become a desolation.
22:6:
For thus saith the LORD 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.
22:7:
And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons:
and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
22:8:
And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man
to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?
22:9:
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the
LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
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.
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:
22:12:
But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall
see this land no more.
22:13:
Woe 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;
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.
22:15:
Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father
eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
22:16:
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was
not this to know me? saith the LORD.
22:17:
But 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.
22:18:
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king
of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah
sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
22:19:
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond
the gates of Jerusalem.
22:20:
Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from
the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
22:21:
I 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.
22:22:
The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity:
surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.
22:23:
O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious
shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
22:24:
As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah
were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
22:25:
And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into
the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
22:26:
And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country,
where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
22:27:
But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not
return.
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?
22:29:
O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
22:30:
Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not
prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon
the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
23:1:
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!
saith the LORD.
23:2:
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed
my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not
visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith
the LORD.
23:3:
And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither
I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they
shall be fruitful and increase.
23:4:
And I will set 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.
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
23:10:
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth;
the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is
evil, and their force is not right.
23:11:
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found
their wickedness, saith the LORD.
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.
23:13:
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal,
and caused my people Israel to err.
23:14:
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem 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.
23:15:
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold,
I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall:
for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the
land.
23:16:
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not 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.
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.
23:18:
For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard
his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
23:19:
Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous
whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
23:20:
The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till
he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall
consider it perfectly.
23:21:
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them,
yet they prophesied.
23:22:
But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my
words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from
the evil of their doings.
23:23:
Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
23:24:
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the
LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
23:25:
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying,
I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
23:26:
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies?
yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
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.
23:28:
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my
word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?
saith the LORD.
23:29:
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh
the rock in pieces?
23:30:
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal
my words every one from his neighbour.
23:31:
Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues,
and say, He saith.
23:32:
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and
do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness;
yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit
this people at all, saith the LORD.
23:33:
And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying,
What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden?
I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
23:34:
And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say,
The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
23:35:
Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother,
What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
23:36:
And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word
shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God,
of the LORD of hosts our God.
23:37:
Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and,
What hath the LORD spoken?
23:38:
But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD;
Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto
you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
23:39:
Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake
you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of
my presence:
23:40:
And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame,
which shall not be forgotten.
24:1:
The LORD 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.
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.
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.
24:4:
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
24:5:
Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I
acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent
out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.
24:6:
For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again
to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will
plant them, and not pluck them up.
24:7:
And I will give them 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.
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:
24:9:
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth
for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in
all places whither I shall drive them.
24:10:
And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them,
till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their
fathers.
25:1:
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the
fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the
first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
25:2:
The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and
to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
25:3:
From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon 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.
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.
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:
25:6:
And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke
me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
25:7:
Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke
me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
25:8:
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,
25:9:
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD,
and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them
against this land, and against 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.
25:10:
Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness,
the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the
millstones, and the light of the candle.
25:11:
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these
nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
25:12:
And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I
will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their
iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
25:13:
And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against
it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied
against all the nations.
25:14:
For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and
I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works
of their own hands.
25:15:
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel 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.
25:16:
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that
I will send among them.
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:
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;
25:19:
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
25:20:
And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all
the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and
Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
25:21:
Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
25:22:
And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of
the isles which are beyond the sea,
25:23:
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
25:24:
And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that
dwell in the desert,
25:25:
And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings
of the Medes,
25:26:
And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all
the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the
king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
25:27:
Therefore thou shalt say 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.
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.
25:29:
For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name,
and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I
will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the
LORD of hosts.
25:30:
Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say 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.
25:31:
A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy
with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that
are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
25:32:
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to
nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the
earth.
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.
25:34:
Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal
of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are
accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
25:35:
And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock
to escape.
25:36:
A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of
the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
25:37:
And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger
of the LORD.
25:38:
He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because
of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
26:1:
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah
came this word from the LORD, saying,
26:2:
Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak
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:
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.
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,
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;
26:6:
Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse
to all the nations of the earth.
26:7:
So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking
these words in the house of the LORD.
26:8:
Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that
the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests
and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely
die.
26:9:
Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall
be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant?
And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
26:10:
When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the
king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the
new gate of the LORD's house.
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.
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.
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.
26:14:
As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet
unto you.
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.
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.
26:17:
Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly
of the people, saying,
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 mountains of the house as the high places of a forest.
26:19:
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he
not fear 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.
26:20:
And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah
the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, who prophesied against this city
and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:
26:21:
And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes,
heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard
it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
26:22:
And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of
Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.
26:23:
And they 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.
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.