
Jeremiah

   

   {1:1} The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who
were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: {1:2} to whom the word of
Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in
the thirteenth year of his reign. {1:3} It came also in the days of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh
year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying
away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. {1:4} Now the word of
Yahweh came to me, saying, {1:5} Before I formed you in the belly I
knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I
have appointed you a prophet to the nations. {1:6} Then said I, Ah,
Lord Yahweh! behold, I don't know how to speak; for I am a child. {1:7}
But Yahweh said to me, Don't say, I am a child; for to whoever I shall
send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall
speak. {1:8} Don't be afraid because of them; for I am with you to
deliver you, says Yahweh. {1:9} Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and
touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have put my words in
your mouth: {1:10} behold, I have this day set you over the nations and
over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to
overthrow, to build and to plant. {1:11} Moreover the word of Yahweh
came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what see you? I said, I see a rod of an
almond tree. {1:12} Then said Yahweh to me, You have well seen: for I
watch over my word to perform it. {1:13} The word of Yahweh came to me
the second time, saying, What see you? I said, I see a boiling caldron;
and the face of it is from the north. {1:14} Then Yahweh said to me,
Out of the north evil shall break forth on all the inhabitants of the
land. {1:15} For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms
of the north, says Yahweh; and they shall come, and they shall set
everyone his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and
against all the walls of it round about, and against all the cities of
Judah. {1:16} I will utter my judgments against them touching all their
wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to
other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands. {1:17} You
therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I
command you: don't be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
{1:18} For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an
iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the
kings of Judah, against the princes of it, against the priests of it,
and against the people of the land. {1:19} They shall fight against
you; but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you, says
Yahweh, to deliver you.

    {2:1} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {2:2} Go, and cry in
the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I remember for you the
kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after
me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. {2:3} Israel [was]
holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase: all who devour
him shall be held guilty; evil shall come on them, says Yahweh. {2:4}
Hear you the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of
the house of Israel: {2:5} thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have
your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have
walked after vanity, and are become vain? {2:6} Neither said they,
Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 none
passed through, and where no man lived? {2:7} I brought you into a
plentiful land, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it; but when
you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
{2:8} The priests didn't say, Where is Yahweh? and those who handle the
law didn't know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the
prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not
profit. {2:9} Therefore I will yet contend with you, says Yahweh, and
with your children's children will I contend. {2:10} For pass over to
the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider
diligently; and see if there has been such a thing. {2:11} Has a nation
changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed
their glory for that which does not profit. {2:12} Be astonished, you
heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says
Yahweh. {2:13} For my people have committed two evils: they have
forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns,
broken cisterns, that can hold no water. {2:14} Is Israel a servant? is
he a home-born [slave]? why is he become a prey? {2:15} The young lions
have roared on him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his
cities are burned up, without inhabitant. {2:16} The children also of
Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head. {2:17}
Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh
your God, when he led you by the way? {2:18} Now what have you to do in
the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what have you
to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? {2:19}
Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall
reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a
bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not
in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies. {2:20} For of old time I have
broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not serve;
for on every high hill and under every green tree you did bow yourself,
playing the prostitute. {2:21} Yet I had planted you a noble vine,
wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate
branches of a foreign vine to me? {2:22} For though you wash yourself
with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,
says the Lord Yahweh. {2:23} How can you say, I am not defiled, I have
not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you
have done: [you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways; {2:24} a
wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her
desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all those who seek her
will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her. {2:25}
Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but
you said, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them
will I go. {2:26} As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the
house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their
priests, and their prophets; {2:27} who tell a stock, You are my
father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned
their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble
they will say, Arise, and save us. {2:28} But where are your gods that
you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of
your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods,
Judah. {2:29} Why will you contend with me? you all have transgressed
against me, says Yahweh. {2:30} In vain have I struck your children;
they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets,
like a destroying lion. {2:31} Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have
I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my
people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you? {2:32} Can a
virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have
forgotten me days without number. {2:33} How trimmest you your way to
seek love! therefore even the wicked women have you taught your ways.
{2:34} Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the
innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; but it is because of
all these things. {2:35} Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger
is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you,
because you say, I have not sinned. {2:36} Why go you about so much to
change your way? you shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were
ashamed of Assyria. {2:37} From there also shall you go forth, with
your hands on your head: for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you
trust, and you shall not prosper with them.

    {3:1} They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him,
and become another man's, will he return to her again? Won't that land
be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many
lovers; yet return again to me, says Yahweh. {3:2} Lift up your eyes to
the bare heights, and see; where have you not been lain with? By the
ways have you sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and you
have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
{3:3} Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no
latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be
ashamed. {3:4} Will you not from this time cry to me, My Father, you
are the guide of my youth? {3:5} Will he retain [his anger] forever?
will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and have done evil
things, and have had your way. {3:6} Moreover Yahweh said to me in the
days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel
has done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under every green
tree, and there has played the prostitute. {3:7} I said after she had
done all these things, She will return to me; but she didn't return:
and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. {3:8} I saw, when, for this
very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put
her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her
sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute. {3:9}
It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land
was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
{3:10} Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned
to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says Yahweh. {3:11}
Yahweh said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous
than treacherous Judah. {3:12} Go, and proclaim these words toward the
north, and say, Return, you backsliding Israel, says Yahweh; I will not
look in anger on you; for I am merciful, says Yahweh, I will not keep
[anger] forever. {3:13} Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have
transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to
the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,
says Yahweh. {3:14} Return, backsliding children, says Yahweh; for I am
a husband to you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a
family, and I will bring you to Zion: {3:15} and I will give you
shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and
understanding. {3:16} It shall come to pass, when you are multiplied
and increased in the land, in those days, says Yahweh, they shall say
no more, The ark of the covenant of Yahweh; neither shall it come to
mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it;
neither shall it be made any more. {3:17} At that time they shall call
Jerusalem the throne of Yahweh; and all the nations shall be gathered
to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any
more after the stubbornness of their evil heart. {3:18} In those days
the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall
come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for
an inheritance to your fathers. {3:19} But I said, How I will put you
among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of
the armies of the nations! and I said, You shall call me My Father, and
shall not turn away from following me. {3:20} Surely as a wife
treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously
with me, house of Israel, says Yahweh. {3:21} A voice is heard on the
bare heights, the weeping [and] the petitions of the children of
Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten
Yahweh their God. {3:22} Return, you backsliding children, I will heal
your backsliding. Behold, we are come to you; for you are Yahweh our
God. {3:23} Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the
hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Yahweh our God is the
salvation of Israel. {3:24} But the shameful thing has devoured the
labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds,
their sons and their daughters. {3:25} Let us lie down in our shame,
and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our
God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have
not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.

   {4:1} If you will return, Israel, says Yahweh, if you will return to
me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then
you shall not be removed; {4:2} and you shall swear, As Yahweh lives,
in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless
themselves in him, and in him shall they glory. {4:3} For thus says
Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow
ground, and don't sow among thorns. {4:4} Circumcise yourselves to
Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and
inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so
that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. {4:5}
Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow you the
trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us
go into the fortified cities. {4:6} Set up a standard toward Zion: flee
for safety, don't stay; for I will bring evil from the north, and a
great destruction. {4:7} A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a
destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his
place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste,
without inhabitant. {4:8} For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and
wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us. {4:9}
It shall happen at that day, says Yahweh, 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
Yahweh! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem,
saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches to the life.
{4:11} At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A
hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of
my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse; {4:12} a full wind from these
shall come for me: now will I also utter judgments against them. {4:13}
Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the
whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are
ruined. {4:14} Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may
be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you? {4:15}
For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of
Ephraim: {4:16} make you 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 has been rebellious
against me, says Yahweh. {4:18} Your way and your doings have procured
these things to you; this is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it
reaches to your heart. {4:19} My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my
very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace;
because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm
of war. {4:20} Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land
is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a
moment. {4:21} How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of
the trumpet? {4:22} For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they
are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to
do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. {4:23} I saw the earth,
and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no
light. {4:24} I saw the mountains, and, behold, they trembled, and all
the hills moved back and forth. {4:25} I saw, and, behold, there was no
man, and all the birds of the sky were fled. {4:26} I saw, and, behold,
the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the cities of it were
broken down at the presence of Yahweh, [and] before his fierce anger.
{4:27} For thus says Yahweh, The whole land shall be a desolation; 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 I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it. {4:29}
Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go
into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken,
and not a man dwells therein. {4:30} You, when you are made desolate,
what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you
deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with
paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [your] lovers despise
you, they seek your life. {4:31} For I have heard a voice as of a woman
in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the
voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her
hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul faints before the murderers.

    {5:1} Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and
see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find
a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will
pardon her. {5:2} Though they say, As Yahweh lives; surely they swear
falsely. {5:3} O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? you have
stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have 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} Then I said,
Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they don't know the way of
Yahweh, nor the law of their God: {5:5} I will get me to the great men,
and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of
their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst
the bonds. {5:6} Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a
wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against
their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces;
because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is
increased. {5:7} How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me,
and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full,
they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the
prostitutes' houses. {5:8} They were as fed horses roaming at large;
everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife. {5:9} Shall I not visit for
these things? says Yahweh; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a
nation as this? {5:10} Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make
a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's. {5:11}
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
treacherously against me, says Yahweh. {5:12} They have denied Yahweh,
and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we
see sword nor famine: {5:13} and the prophets shall become wind, and
the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to them. {5:14}
Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, Because you speak this
word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people
wood, and it shall devour them. {5:15} Behold, I will bring a nation on
you from far, house of Israel, says Yahweh: it is a mighty nation, it
is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither
understand what they say. {5:16} Their quiver is an open tomb, they are
all mighty men. {5:17} They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread,
[which] your sons and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your
flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees;
they shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with
the sword. {5:18} But even in those days, says Yahweh, I will not make
a full end with you. {5:19} It shall happen, when you shall say, Why
has Yahweh our God done all these things to us? then shall you say to
them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your
land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours. {5:20}
Declare you this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah,
saying, {5:21} Hear now this, foolish people, and without
understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't
hear: {5:22} Don't you fear me? says Yahweh: won't you tremble at my
presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a
perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though the waves of it
toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they
can't pass over it. {5:23} But this people has a revolting and a
rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. {5:24} Neither say they
in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both
the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the
appointed weeks of the harvest. {5:25} Your iniquities have turned away
these things, and your sins have withheld good from you. {5:26} For
among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in
wait; they set a trap, they catch men. {5:27} As a cage is full of
birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become
great, and grew rich. {5:28} They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they
overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause
of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy
they don't judge. {5:29} Shall I not visit for these things? says
Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? {5:30} A
wonderful and horrible thing is happen 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 you do in the end of it?

    {6:1} Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst
of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on
Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a great
destruction. {6:2} The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion,
will I cut off. {6:3} Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her;
they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed
everyone in his place. {6:4} Prepare you war against her; arise, and
let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day declines, for the shadows
of the evening are stretched out. {6:5} Arise, and let us go up by
night, and let us destroy her palaces. {6:6} For thus has Yahweh of
Armies said, Hew you down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem:
this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst
of her. {6:7} As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her
wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me
continually is sickness and wounds. {6:8} Be instructed, Jerusalem,
lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a
land not inhabited. {6:9} Thus says Yahweh of Armies, They shall
thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again your hand
as a grape-gatherer into the baskets. {6:10} To whom shall I speak and
testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and
they can't listen: behold, the word of Yahweh is become to them a
reproach; they have no delight in it. {6:11} Therefore I am full of the
wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out on the
children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for
even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is
full of days. {6:12} Their houses shall be turned to others, their
fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the
inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh. {6:13} For from the least of them
even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and
from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely. {6:14} They
have healed also the hurt 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 those who fall; at the time
that I visit them they shall be cast down, says Yahweh. {6:16} Thus
says Yahweh, Stand you in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths,
where is the good way; and walk therein, and you shall find rest for
your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein]. {6:17} I set
watchmen over you, [saying], Listen to the sound of the trumpet; but
they said, We will not listen. {6:18} Therefore hear, you nations, and
know, congregation, what is among them. {6:19} Hear, earth: behold, I
will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts,
because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they
have rejected it. {6:20} To what purpose comes there to me frankincense
from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings
are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me. {6:21}
Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before
this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble
against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish. {6:22} Thus
says Yahweh, Behold, a people comes from the north country; and a great
nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
{6:23} They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no
mercy; their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses,
everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of
Zion. {6:24} We have heard the report of it; our hands wax feeble:
anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.
{6:25} Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the
sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side. {6:26} Daughter of
my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make
you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the
destroyer shall suddenly come on us. {6:27} I have made you a tester of
metals [and] a fortress among my people; that you may know and try
their way. {6:28} They are all grievous rebels, going about with
slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
{6:29} The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in
vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.
{6:30} Refuse silver shall men them, because Yahweh has rejected them.

    {7:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {7:2}
Stand in the gate of Yahweh's house, and proclaim there this word, and
say, Hear the word of Yahweh, all you of Judah, who enter in at these
gates to worship Yahweh. {7:3} Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of
Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell
in this place. {7:4} Don't you trust in lying words, saying, The temple
of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these. {7:5}
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you
thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; {7:6} if you
don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't
shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to
your own hurt: {7:7} then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in
the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.
{7:8} Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit. {7:9} Will
you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn
incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
{7:10} and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by
my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these
abominations? {7:11} Is this house, which is called by my name, become
a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says
Yahweh. {7:12} But go you now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I
caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the
wickedness of my people Israel. {7:13} Now, because you have done all
these works, says Yahweh, and I spoke to you, rising up early and
speaking, but you didn't hear; and I called you, but you didn't answer:
{7:14} therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, in
which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your
fathers, as I did to Shiloh. {7:15} I will cast you out of my sight, as
I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
{7:16} Therefore don't you pray for this people, neither lift up a cry
nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not
hear you. {7:17} Don't you see 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 the dough, to make cakes
to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods,
that they may provoke me to anger. {7:19} Do they provoke me to anger?
says Yahweh; [do they] not [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of
their own faces? {7:20} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, my
anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on
animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground;
and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. {7:21} Thus says Yahweh
of Armies, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your
sacrifices, and eat you flesh. {7:22} For I didn't speak to your
fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the
land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: {7:23} but
this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be
your God, and you shall be my people; and walk you in all the way that
I command you, that it may be well with you. {7:24} But they didn't
listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in
the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not
forward. {7:25} Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the
land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the
prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: {7:26} yet they
didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff:
they did worse than their fathers. {7:27} You shall speak all these
words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to
them; but they will not answer you. {7:28} You shall tell them, This is
the nation that has not listened to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor
received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their
mouth. {7:29} Cut off your hair, [Jerusalem], and cast it away, and
take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and
forsaken the generation of his wrath. {7:30} For the children of Judah
have done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set
their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile
it. {7:31} They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the
valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in
the fire; which I didn't command, neither came it into my mind. {7:32}
Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be
called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of
Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place [to
bury]. {7:33} The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the
birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall
frighten them away. {7:34} Then will I cause to cease from the cities
of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the
voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the
bride; for the land shall become a waste.

    {8:1} At that time, says Yahweh, 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 army of the sky,
which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they
have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped:
they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on
the surface of the earth. {8:3} Death shall be chosen rather than life
by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all
the places where I have driven them, says Yahweh of Armies. {8:4}
Moreover you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Shall men fall, and not
rise up again? Shall one 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 listened and heard,
but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness,
saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that
rushes headlong in the battle. {8:7} Yes, the stork in the sky knows
her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane
observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know Yahweh's
law. {8:8} How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with
us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely. {8:9}
The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold,
they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner of wisdom is in
them? {8:10} Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their
fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least
even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to
the priest every one deals falsely. {8:11} 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 those who fall; in the time of their visitation
they shall be cast down, says Yahweh. {8:13} I will utterly consume
them, says Yahweh: 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 fortified cities, and
let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and
given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
{8:15} We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of
healing, and, behold, dismay! {8:16} The snorting of his horses is
heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the
whole land trembles; for they are come, and have devoured the land and
all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein. {8:17} For,
behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be
charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh. {8:18} Oh that I could
comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me. {8:19}
Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land
that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why
have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with
foreign 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 mourn; dismay has taken hold on me. {8:22} Is there no balm in
Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the
daughter of my people recovered?

    {9:1} Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring 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
are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. {9:3} They bend
their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown
strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to
evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh. {9:4} Take you heed everyone
of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother
will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
{9:5} They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the
truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary
themselves to commit iniquity. {9:6} Your habitation is in the midst of
deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh. {9:7}
Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will melt them, and try
them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?
{9:8} Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks
peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait
for him. {9:9} Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh;
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 pastures of
the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none
passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the
birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone. {9:11} I will
make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the
cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant. {9:12} Who is the
wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth
of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished
and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through? {9:13}
Yahweh says, 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 stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals,
which their fathers taught them; {9:15} therefore thus says Yahweh of
Armies, 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 nations, whom neither they nor their
fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have
consumed them. {9:17} Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Consider you, and
call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the
skillful women, that they may come: {9:18} and let them make haste, and
take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and
our eyelids gush out with waters. {9:19} For a voice of wailing is
heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded,
because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our
dwellings. {9:20} Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your
ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing,
and everyone her neighbor lamentation. {9:21} For death is come up into
our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children
from outside, [and] the young men from the streets. {9:22} Speak, Thus
says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open
field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather
[them]. {9:23} Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his
wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let the
rich man glory in his riches; {9:24} but let him who glories glory in
this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who
exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth:
for in these things I delight, says Yahweh. {9:25} Behold, the days
come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in
[their] uncircumcision: {9:26} Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the
children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their
hair] cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are
uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

   {10:1} Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!
{10:2} Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't
be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at
them. {10:3} For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts 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 not move. {10:5} They are like a palm
tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because
they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither
is it in them to do good." {10:6} There is none like you, Yahweh; you
are great, and your name is great in might. {10:7} Who should not fear
you, King of the nations? for to you does it appertain; because among
all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there
is none like you. {10:8} But they are together brutish and foolish: the
instruction of idols! it is but a stock. {10:9} There is silver beaten
into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the
work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and
purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.
{10:10} But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an
everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are
not able to abide his indignation. {10:11} Thus shall you say to them,
The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall
perish from the earth, and from under the heavens. {10:12} He has made
the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and
by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens: {10:13} when he
utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he
causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes
lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his
treasuries. {10:14} Every man is become brutish [and is] without
knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for
his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. {10:15}
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation
they shall perish. {10:16} The portion of Jacob is not like these; for
he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his
inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name. {10:17} Gather up your wares
out of the land, you who abide in the siege. {10:18} For thus says
Yahweh, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this
time, and will distress them, that they may feel [it]. {10:19} Woe is
me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is
[my] grief, and I must bear it. {10:20} My tent is destroyed, and all
my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are
no more: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my
curtains. {10:21} For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not
inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their
flocks are scattered. {10:22} The voice of news, behold, it comes, and
a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah
a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals. {10:23} Yahweh, I know that
the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct
his steps. {10:24} Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your
anger, lest you bring me to nothing. {10:25} Pour out your wrath on the
nations that don't know you, and on the families that don't call on
your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him
and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

   {11:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {11:2}
Hear you the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; {11:3} and say you to them, Thus says
Yahweh, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who doesn't hear 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, out of the iron furnace,
saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command
you: so shall you be my people, and I will be your God; {11:5} that I
may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a
land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and
said, Amen, Yahweh. {11:6} Yahweh said to me, Proclaim all these words
in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear
you the words of this covenant, and do them. {11:7} For I earnestly
protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the
land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying,
Obey my voice. {11:8} Yet they didn't obey, nor turn their ear, but
walked everyone in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I
brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them
to do, but they didn't do them. {11:9} Yahweh said to me, A conspiracy
is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of
Jerusalem. {11:10} They are turned back to the iniquities of their
forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after
other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah
have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers. {11:11}
Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which
they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will
not listen to them. {11:12} Then shall the cities of Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry to the gods to which they offer
incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their
trouble. {11:13} For according to the number of your cities are your
gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem
have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn
incense to Baal. {11:14} Therefore don't you pray for this people,
neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in
the time that they cry to me because of their trouble. {11:15} What has
my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness [with]
many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you
rejoice. {11:16} Yahweh called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful
with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire
on it, and the branches of it are broken. {11:17} For Yahweh of Armies,
who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil
of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have
worked for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to
Baal. {11:18} Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you
shown me their doings. {11:19} But I was like a gentle lamb that is led
to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices
against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it, and
let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no
more remembered. {11:20} But, Yahweh of Armies, who judge righteously,
who try the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for
to you have I revealed my cause. {11:21} Therefore thus says Yahweh
concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, You shall
not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, that you not die by our hand;
{11:22} therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, 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 to
them: for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of
their visitation.

   {12:1} Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would
I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper?
why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously? {12:2} You have
planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring
forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
{12:3} But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward
you: 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 the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who
dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they
said, He shall not see our latter end. {12:5} If you have run with the
footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with
horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you
do in the pride of the Jordan? {12:6} For even your brothers, and the
house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even
they have cried aloud after you: don't believe them, though they speak
beautiful words to you. {12:7} I have forsaken my house, I have cast
off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the
hand of her enemies. {12:8} My heritage is become to me as a lion in
the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have
hated her. {12:9} Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are
the birds of prey against her round about? go you, assemble all the
animals of the field, bring them to devour. {12:10} Many shepherds have
destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they
have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. {12:11} They have
made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land
is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart. {12:12} Destroyers
are come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of
Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of
the land: no flesh has peace. {12:13} They have sown wheat, and have
reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing:
and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of
Yahweh. {12:14} Thus says Yahweh against all my evil neighbors, who
touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit:
behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the
house of Judah from among them. {12:15} It shall happen, after that I
have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I
will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his
land. {12:16} It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways
of my people, to swear by my name, As Yahweh lives; even as they taught
my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of
my people. {12:17} But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that
nation, plucking up and destroying it, says Yahweh.

   {13:1} Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy you a linen belt, and put
it on your loins, and don't put it in water. {13:2} So I bought a belt
according to the word of Yahweh, and put it on my loins. {13:3} The
word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, {13:4} Take the belt
that you have bought, which is on your loins, and arise, go to the
Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock. {13:5} So I went,
and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me. {13:6} It happened
after many days, that Yahweh said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates,
and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.
{13:7} Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from
the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the belt was marred, it was
profitable for nothing. {13:8} Then the word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, {13:9} Thus says Yahweh, After this manner will I mar the pride
of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. {13:10} This evil people,
who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their
heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship
them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.
{13:11} For as the belt cleaves to the loins of a man, so have I caused
to cleave to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah,
says Yahweh; that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and
for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear. {13:12}
Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh, the God
of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall tell
you, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with
wine? {13:13} Then shall you tell them, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I
will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on
David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. {13:14} I will dash them
one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says
Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should
not destroy them. {13:15} Hear you, and give ear; don't be proud; for
Yahweh has spoken. {13:16} Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he
cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains,
and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and
make it gross darkness. {13:17} But if you will not hear it, my soul
shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and
run down with tears, because Yahweh's flock is taken captive. {13:18}
Say you to the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit
down; for your headdresses are come down, even the crown of your glory.
{13:19} The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open
them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried
away captive. {13:20} Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from
the north: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?
{13:21} What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those
whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? shall not sorrows
take hold of you, as of a woman in travail? {13:22} If you say in your
heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your
iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.
{13:23} Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil. {13:24}
Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the
wind of the wilderness. {13:25} This is your lot, the portion measured
to you from me, says Yahweh; because you have forgotten me, and trusted
in falsehood. {13:26} Therefore will I also uncover your skirts on your
face, and your shame shall appear. {13:27} I have seen your
abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of
your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem!
you will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?

   {14:1} The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the
drought. {14:2} Judah mourns, and the gates of it languish, they sit in
black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. {14:3} Their
nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns,
and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are
disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads. {14:4} Because of
the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the
plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads. {14:5} Yes, the hind
also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no
grass. {14:6} The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for
air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage. {14:7}
Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's
sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against
you. {14:8} You hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of
trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a
wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night? {14:9} Why should
you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't save? yet you,
Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don't
leave us. {14:10} Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they
loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh
does not accept them; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit
their sins. {14:11} Yahweh said to me, Don't pray for this people for
[their] good. {14:12} When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and
when they offer burnt offering and meal-offering, 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 Yahweh! behold, the
prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have
famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. {14:14} Then
Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn't send
them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they
prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing,
and the deceit of their own heart. {14:15} Therefore thus says Yahweh
concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I didn't send
them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By
sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed. {14:16} 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 on them. {14:17} You shall say this word to them,
Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease;
for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach,
with a very grievous wound. {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, those who are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the
priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge. {14:19} Have you
utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck
us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good
came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay! {14:20} We
acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers;
for we have sinned against you. {14:21} Do not abhor [us], for your
name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of your glory: remember, don't
break your covenant with us. {14:22} Are there any among the vanities
of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't
you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have
made all these things.

   {15:1} Then said Yahweh to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before
me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my
sight, and let them go forth. {15:2} It shall happen, when they tell
you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says
Yahweh: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword,
to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such
as are for captivity, to captivity. {15:3} I will appoint over them
four kinds, says Yahweh: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and
the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to
destroy. {15:4} I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all
the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah,
king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. {15:5} For who will
have pity on you, Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or who will turn
aside to ask of your welfare? {15:6} You have rejected me, says Yahweh,
you are gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against
you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting. {15:7} I have
winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved
[them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they didn't return from
their ways. {15:8} Their widows are increased to me above the sand of
the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a
destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her
suddenly. {15:9} She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up
the spirit; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she has been
disappointed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to
the sword before their enemies, says Yahweh. {15:10} Woe is me, my
mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention
to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet]
everyone of them does curse me. {15:11} Yahweh said, Most assuredly I
will strengthen you for good; most assuredly I will cause the enemy to
make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of
affliction. {15:12} Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and
brass? {15:13} Your substance and your treasures will I give for a
spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your
borders. {15:14} I will make [them] to pass with your enemies into a
land which you don't know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which
shall burn on you. {15:15} Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me,
and avenge me of my persecutors; don't take me away in your
longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.
{15:16} Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to
me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name,
Yahweh, God of Armies. {15:17} I didn't sit in the assembly of those
who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you
have filled me with indignation. {15:18} Why is my pain perpetual, and
my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to
me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail? {15:19} Therefore thus
says Yahweh, If you return, then will I bring you again, that you may
stand before me; and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you
shall be as my mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not
return to them. {15:20} I will make you to this people a fortified
brazen wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not
prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you,
says Yahweh. {15:21} I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked,
and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.

   {16:1} The word of Yahweh came also to me, saying, {16:2} You shall
not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this
place. {16:3} For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning
the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers
who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became the father of
them in this land: {16:4} They shall die grievous deaths: they shall
not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on
the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and
by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the
sky, and for the animals of the earth. {16:5} For thus says Yahweh,
Don't enter into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither
bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says
Yahweh, even loving kindness and tender mercies. {16:6} Both great and
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 break [bread] 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} You
shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to
drink. {16:9} For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel:
Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and
in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice
of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. {16:10} It shall happen,
when you shall show this people all these words, and they shall tell
you, Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us? or what
is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against
Yahweh our God? {16:11} Then shall you tell them, Because your fathers
have forsaken me, says Yahweh, and have walked after other gods, and
have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and
have not kept my law; {16:12} and you have done evil more than your
fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his
evil heart, so that you don't listen to me: {16:13} therefore will I
cast you forth out of this land into the land that you have not known,
neither you nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods day
and night; for I will show you no favor. {16:14} Therefore, behold, the
days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be said, As Yahweh lives,
who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; {16:15}
but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the
land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.
I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
{16:16} Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Yahweh, and they
shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and
they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out
of the clefts of the rocks. {16:17} For my eyes are on all their ways;
they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed
from my eyes. {16:18} First I will recompense their iniquity and their
sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of
their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their
abominations. {16:19} Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my
refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the
ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing
but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit. {16:20}
Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods? {16:21}
Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I cause
them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is
Yahweh.

   {17:1} The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with
the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart,
and on the horns of your altars; {17:2} while their children remember
their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.
{17:3} My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all
your treasures for a spoil, [and] your high places, because of sin,
throughout all your borders. {17:4} You, even of yourself, shall
discontinue from your heritage that I gave you; and I will cause you to
serve your enemies in the land which you don't know: for you have
kindled a fire in my anger which shall burn forever. {17:5} Thus says
Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm,
and whose heart departs from Yahweh. {17:6} For he shall be like the
heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall
inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not
inhabited. {17:7} Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose
trust Yahweh is. {17:8} For he shall be as a tree planted by the
waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when
heat comes, but its 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 it is exceedingly corrupt:
who can know it? {17:10} I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart,
even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of
his doings. {17:11} As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has
not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of
his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
{17:12} A glorious throne, [set] on high from the beginning, is the
place of our sanctuary. {17:13} Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who
forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be
written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of
living waters. {17:14} Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save
me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise. {17:15} Behold, they
tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now. {17:16} As for
me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I
desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was
before your face. {17:17} Don't be a terror to me: you are my refuge in
the day of evil. {17:18} Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but
let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be
dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double
destruction. {17:19} Thus said Yahweh to me: Go, and stand in the gate
of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come
in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
{17:20} and tell them, Hear you the word of Yahweh, you kings of Judah,
and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by
these gates: {17:21} Thus says Yahweh, 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 holy, neither do any work: but make the Sabbath day, as
I commanded your fathers. {17:23} But they didn't listen, neither turn
their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and
might not receive instruction. {17:24} It shall happen, if you
diligently listen to me, says Yahweh, to bring in no burden through the
gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day
holy, to do no work therein; {17:25} then shall there enter in by the
gates of this city kings and princes sitting on 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
forever. {17:26} They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the
places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from
the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the South, bringing
burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and frankincense,
and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving, to the house of Yahweh.
{17:27} But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy,
and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the
Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates of it, and it shall
devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

   {18:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {18:2}
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to
hear my words. {18:3} Then I went down to the potter's house, and,
behold, he was making a work on the wheels. {18:4} When the vessel that
he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it
again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. {18:5}
Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {18:6} House of Israel,
can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in
the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. {18:7} At
what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a
kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it; {18:8} if
that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I
will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them. {18:9} At what
instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to
build and to plant it; {18:10} if they do that which is evil in my
sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good,
with which I said I would benefit them. {18:11} Now therefore, speak to
the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus
says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device
against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your
ways and your doings. {18:12} But they say, It is in vain; for we will
walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the
stubbornness of his evil heart. {18:13} Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask
you now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of
Israel has done a very horrible thing. {18:14} Shall the snow of
Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters
that flow down from afar be dried up? {18:15} For my people have
forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have
been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in
byways, in a way not built up; {18:16} to make their land an
astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby
shall be astonished, and shake his head. {18:17} I will scatter them as
with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not
the face, in the day of their calamity. {18:18} Then said they, Come,
and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not
perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from
the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us
not give heed to any of his words. {18:19} Give heed to me, Yahweh, and
listen to the voice of those who contend with me. {18:20} Shall evil be
recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how
I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from
them. {18:21} Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and
give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become
childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their
young men struck of the sword in battle. {18:22} Let a cry be heard
from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for
they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. {18:23}
Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't
forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but
let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of
your anger.

   {19:1} Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and
[take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
{19:2} and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the
entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall
tell you; {19:3} and say, Hear you the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah,
and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of
Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears,
his ears shall tingle. {19:4} Because they have forsaken me, and have
estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that
they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and
have filled this place with the blood of innocents, {19:5} and have
built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt
offerings to Baal; which I didn't command, nor spoke it, neither came
it into my mind: {19:6} therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh,
that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the
son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter. {19:7} I will make void the
counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to
fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who
seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the
birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. {19:8} I will make
this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby
shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it. {19:9} I
will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their
daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the
siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek
their life, shall distress them. {19:10} Then shall you break the
bottle in the sight of the men who go with you, {19:11} and shall tell
them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Even so will I break this people and
this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that can't be made whole
again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place to bury.
{19:12} Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to the
inhabitants of it, even making this city as Topheth: {19:13} and the
houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are
defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose
roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have
poured out drink-offerings to other gods. {19:14} Then came Jeremiah
from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in
the court of Yahweh's house, and said to all the people: {19:15} Thus
says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring on this
city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against
it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my
words.

   {20:1} Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief
officer in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these
things. {20:2} Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in
the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the
house of Yahweh. {20:3} It happened on the next day, that Pashhur
brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah to him,
Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib. {20:4} For
thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to
all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies,
and your eyes shall see it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of
the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and
shall kill them with the sword. {20:5} Moreover I will give all the
riches of this city, and all the gains of it, and all the precious
things of it, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give
into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and
take them, and carry them to Babylon. {20:6} You, Pashhur, and all who
dwell in your house shall go into captivity; and you shall come to
Babylon, and there you shall die, and there shall you be buried, you,
and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely. {20:7}
Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger
than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day,
every one mocks me. {20:8} For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry,
Violence and destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach
to me, and a derision, all the day. {20:9} If I say, I will not make
mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my
heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary
with forbearing, and I can't [contain]. {20:10} For I have heard the
defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce
him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall;
peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him,
and we shall take our revenge on him. {20:11} But Yahweh is with me as
an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they
shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they
have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall
never be forgotten. {20:12} But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the
righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance
on them; for to you have I revealed my cause. {20:13} Sing to Yahweh,
praise you Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the
hand of evil-doers. {20:14} Cursed be the day in which I was born:
don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. {20:15} Cursed
be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man-child is born
to you; making him very glad. {20:16} Let that man be as the cities
which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in
the morning, and shouting at noontime; {20:17} because he didn't kill
me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her
womb always great. {20:18} Why came I forth out of the womb to see
labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

   {21:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king
Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the
son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying, {21:2} Please inquire of Yahweh
for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon makes war against us:
peradventure Yahweh will deal with us according to all his wondrous
works, that he may go up from us. {21:3} Then said Jeremiah to them,
Thus shall you tell Zedekiah: {21:4} Thus says Yahweh, the God of
Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your
hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against
the Chaldeans who besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather
them into the midst of this city. {21:5} I myself will fight against
you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and
in wrath, and in great indignation. {21:6} I will strike the
inhabitants of this city, both man and animal: they shall die of a
great pestilence. {21:7} Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver
Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even 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 who seek their life:
and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare
them, neither have pity, nor have mercy. {21:8} To this people you
shall say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set before you the way of life
and the way of death. {21:9} He who remains in this city shall die by
the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes
out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live,
and his life shall be to him for a prey. {21:10} For I have set my face
on this city for evil, and not for good, says Yahweh: it shall be given
into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
{21:11} Touching the house of the king of Judah, hear you the word of
Yahweh: {21:12} House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in
the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the
oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can
quench it, because of the evil of your doings. {21:13} Behold, I am
against you, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] of the rock of the
plain, says Yahweh; you that say, Who shall come down against us? or
who shall enter into our habitations? {21:14} I will punish you
according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a
fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.

   {22:1} Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah,
and speak there this word, {22:2} Say, Hear the word of Yahweh, king of
Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and
your people who enter in by these gates. {22:3} Thus says Yahweh:
Execute you justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed
out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to
the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent
blood in this place. {22:4} For if you do this thing indeed, then shall
there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne
of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and
his people. {22:5} But if you will not hear these words, I swear by
myself, says Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation. {22:6}
For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are
Gilead to me, [and] the head of Lebanon; [yet] surely I will make you a
wilderness, [and] cities which are not inhabited. {22:7} I will prepare
destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut
down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire. {22:8} Many
nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his
neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city? {22:9} Then they
shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh their God,
and worshiped other gods, and served them. {22:10} Don't you weep for
the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him who goes away; for
he shall return no more, nor see his native country. {22:11} For thus
says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who
reigned instead of Josiah his father, [and] who went forth out of this
place: He shall not return there any more. {22:12} But in the place
where they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see
this land no more. {22:13} Woe to him who builds his house by
unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; who uses his neighbor's
service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire; {22:14} who says,
I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cuts him out
windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
{22:15} Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn't
your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it
was well with him. {22:16} He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh. {22:17} But your
eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding
innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. {22:18}
Therefore thus says Yahweh 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 a donkey, drawn
and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. {22:20} Go up to Lebanon,
and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all
your lovers are destroyed. {22:21} I spoke to you in your prosperity;
but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your
youth, that you didn't obey my voice. {22:22} The wind shall feed all
your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then
shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness. {22:23}
Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly
to be pitied shall you be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a
woman in travail! {22:24} As I live, says Yahweh, though Coniah the son
of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would
I pluck you there; {22:25} and I will give you into the hand of those
who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid,
even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand
of the Chaldeans. {22:26} I will cast you out, and your mother who bore
you, into another country, where you were not born; and there shall you
die. {22:27} But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return,
there shall they not return. {22:28} Is this man Coniah a despised
broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none delights? why are they cast
out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don't know?
{22:29} O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh. {22:30} Thus
says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man who shall not prosper
in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on
the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.

   {23:1} Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my
pasture! says Yahweh. {23:2} Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of
Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my
flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will
visit on you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh. {23:3} I will gather
the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven
them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be
fruitful and multiply. {23:4} I will set up shepherds over them, who
shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither
shall any be lacking, says Yahweh. {23:5} Behold, the days come, says
Yahweh, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall
reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and
righteousness in the land. {23:6} In his days Judah shall be saved, and
Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name by which he shall be
called: Yahweh our righteousness. {23:7} Therefore, behold, the days
come, says Yahweh, that they shall no more say, As Yahweh lives, who
brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; {23:8} but,
As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of
Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had
driven them. They shall dwell in their own land. {23:9} Concerning the
prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a
drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh,
and because of his holy words. {23:10} For the land is full of
adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pastures of
the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is
not right; {23:11} for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my
house have I found their wickedness, says Yahweh. {23:12} Therefore
their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they
shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them,
even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh. {23:13} I have seen
folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused
my people Israel to err. {23:14} In the prophets of Jerusalem also I
have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and
they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none does return from
his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and the
inhabitants of it as Gomorrah. {23:15} Therefore thus says Yahweh of
Armies 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 ungodliness gone forth into all the land. {23:16} Thus
says Yahweh of Armies, Don't listen to the words of the prophets who
prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their
own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh. {23:17} They say
continually to those who despise me, Yahweh has said, You shall have
peace; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart
they say, No evil shall come on you. {23:18} For who has stood in the
council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? who has
marked my word, and heard it? {23:19} Behold, the tempest of Yahweh,
[even his] wrath, is gone forth, yes, a whirling tempest: it shall
burst on the head of the wicked. {23:20} The anger of Yahweh shall not
return, until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents
of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.
{23:21} I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn't speak to
them, yet they prophesied. {23:22} But if they had stood in my council,
then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them
from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. {23:23} Am I a
God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off? {23:24} Can any hide
himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh.
Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh. {23:25} I have heard what
the prophets have said, who 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 who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of
their own heart? {23:27} who think to cause my people to forget my name
by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their
fathers forgot my name for Baal. {23:28} The prophet who has a dream,
let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word
faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh. {23:29} Isn't
my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that breaks the rock
in pieces? {23:30} Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says
Yahweh, who steal my words everyone from his neighbor. {23:31} Behold,
I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who use their tongues, and say,
He says. {23:32} Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,
says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their
lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, nor commanded
them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh. {23:33}
When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying,
What is the burden of Yahweh? then shall you tell them, What burden! I
will cast you off, says Yahweh. {23:34} As for the prophet, and the
priest, and the people, who shall say, The burden of Yahweh, I will
even punish that man and his house. {23:35} Thus shall you say everyone
to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has Yahweh answered?
and, What has Yahweh spoken? {23:36} The burden of Yahweh shall you
mention no more: for every man's own word shall be his burden; for you
have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies our
God. {23:37} Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has Yahweh
answered you? and, What has Yahweh spoken? {23:38} But if you say, The
burden of Yahweh; therefore thus says Yahweh: Because you say this
word, The burden of Yahweh, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall
not say, The burden of Yahweh; {23:39} therefore, behold, I will
utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave
to you and to your fathers, away from my presence: {23:40} and I will
bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which
shall not be forgotten.

   {24:1} Yahweh shown me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before
the temple of Yahweh, 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 craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem,
and had brought them to Babylon. {24:2} One basket had very good figs,
like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad
figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. {24:3} Then said
Yahweh to me, What see you, Jeremiah? I said, Figs; the good figs, very
good; and the bad, very bad, that can't be eaten, they are so bad.
{24:4} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {24:5} Thus says Yahweh,
the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives
of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the
Chaldeans, for good. {24:6} For I will set my eyes on 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} I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they
shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to
me with their whole heart. {24:8} As the bad figs, which can't be
eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give up
Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of
Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of
Egypt, {24:9} I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth
among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a
proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
{24:10} I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among
them, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and
to their fathers.

   {25:1} The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of
Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah
(the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon), {25:2}
which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: {25:3} From the thirteenth year
of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these
twenty-three years, the word of Yahweh has come to me, and I have
spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.
{25:4} Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up
early and sending them, (but you have not listened, nor inclined your
ear to hear), {25:5} saying, Return you now everyone from his evil way,
and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has
given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forevermore;
{25:6} and don't go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and
don't provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do
you no harm. {25:7} Yet you have not listened to me, says Yahweh; that
you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own
hurt. {25:8} Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies: Because you have not
heard my words, {25:9} behold, I will send and take all the families of
the north, says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadrezzar the king of
Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against
the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations round about; and I
will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a
hissing, and perpetual desolations. {25:10} Moreover I will take from
them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and
the light of the lamp. {25:11} This whole land shall be a desolation,
and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon
seventy years. {25:12} It shall happen, when seventy years are
accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation,
says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I
will make it desolate forever. {25:13} I will bring on that land all my
words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in
this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
{25:14} For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of
them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their
deeds, and according to the work of their hands. {25:15} For thus says
Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at
my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
{25:16} They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because
of the sword that I will send among them. {25:17} Then took I the cup
at Yahweh's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had
sent me: {25:18} [to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the
kings of it, and the princes of it, to make them a desolation, an
astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; {25:19}
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his
people; {25:20} and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land
of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and
Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; {25:21} Edom, and Moab, and
the children of Ammon; {25:22} and all the kings of Tyre, and all the
kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
{25:23} Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners [of
their hair] cut off; {25:24} and all the kings of Arabia, and all the
kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness; {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 on the surface of
the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. {25:27} You
shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Drink
you, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of
the sword which I will send among you. {25:28} It shall be, if they
refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then shall you tell them,
Thus says Yahweh of Armies: You shall surely drink. {25:29} For,
behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name;
and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for
I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says
Yahweh of Armies. {25:30} Therefore prophesy you against them all these
words, and tell them, Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his
voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold;
he will give a shout, as those who tread [the grapes], against all the
inhabitants of the earth. {25:31} A noise shall come even to the end of
the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations; he will enter
into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to
the sword, says Yahweh. {25:32} Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold,
evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be
raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth. {25:33} The slain of
Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other
end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor
buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground. {25:34} Wail,
you shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes], you principal of the
flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully
come, and you shall fall like a goodly vessel. {25:35} 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 the wailing of the
principal of the flock! for Yahweh lays waste their pasture. {25:37}
The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger
of Yahweh. {25:38} He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land
is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing
[sword], 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 Yahweh, saying, {26:2} Thus says
Yahweh: Stand in the court of Yahweh's house, and speak to all the
cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh's house, all the words
that I command you to speak to them; don't diminish a word. {26:3} It
may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; that I
may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the
evil of their doings. {26:4} You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: If
you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before
you, {26:5} to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I
send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not
listened; {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} The priests
and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words
in the house of Yahweh. {26:8} It happened, when Jeremiah had made an
end of speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the
people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold
on him, saying, You shall surely die. {26:9} Why have you prophesied in
the name of Yahweh, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this
city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? All the people were
gathered to Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh. {26:10} When the princes
of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house to the
house of Yahweh; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's
[house]. {26:11} Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes
and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he has
prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears. {26:12}
Then spoke Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people, saying,
Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all
the words that you have heard. {26:13} Now therefore amend your ways
and your doings, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God; and Yahweh will
repent him of the evil that he has pronounced against you. {26:14} But
as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is good and right
in your eyes. {26:15} Only know for certain that, if you put me to
death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city,
and on the inhabitants of it; for of a truth Yahweh has sent me to you
to speak all these words in your ears. {26:16} Then said the princes
and all the people to the priests and to the prophets: This man is not
worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.
{26:17} Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to
all the assembly of the people, saying, {26:18} Micah the Morashtite
prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all
the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Zion shall be
plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain
of the house as the high places of a forest. {26:19} Did Hezekiah king
of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn't he fear Yahweh, and
entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh repented him of the evil which
he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil
against our own souls. {26:20} There was also a man who prophesied in
the name of Yahweh, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he
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 Uriah 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 Uriah out of Egypt, and brought
him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his
dead body into the graves of the common people. {26:24} But the hand of
Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give
him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

   {27:1} In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {27:2}
Thus says Yahweh to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them on your
neck; {27:3} and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of
Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of
Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come
to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah; {27:4} and give them a charge
to their masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of
Israel, Thus shall you tell your masters: {27:5} I have made the earth,
the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my
great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems
right to me. {27:6} Now have I given all these lands into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the
field also have I given him to serve him. {27:7} All the nations shall
serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own
land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their
bondservant. {27:8} It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom
which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that
will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that
nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with the famine,
and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand. {27:9}
But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to your
diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your
sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of
Babylon: {27:10} for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from
your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.
{27:11} But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of
the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let remain in
their own land, says Yahweh; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
{27:12} I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words,
saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and
serve him and his people, and live. {27:13} Why will you die, you and
your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as
Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of
Babylon? {27:14} Don't listen to the words of the prophets who speak to
you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy
a lie to you. {27:15} For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they
prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may
perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you. {27:16} Also I spoke
to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Don't
listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying,
Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's house shall now shortly be brought
again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you. {27:17} Don't
listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this
city become a desolation? {27:18} But if they be prophets, and if the
word of Yahweh be with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh
of Armies, that the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh, and
in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don't go to
Babylon. {27:19} For thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the pillars,
and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the
residue of the vessels that are left in this city, {27:20} which
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn't take, when he carried away
captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to
Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; {27:21} yes, thus
says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that
are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah,
and at Jerusalem: {27:22} They shall be carried to Babylon, and there
shall they be, until the day that I visit them, says Yahweh; then will
I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

   {28:1} It happened the same year, in the beginning of the reign of
Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that
Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me
in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests and of all the
people, saying, {28:2} Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel,
saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. {28:3} Within
two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of
Yahweh's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this
place, and carried to Babylon: {28:4} and I will bring again to this
place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the
captives of Judah, who went to Babylon, says Yahweh; for I will break
the yoke of the king of Babylon. {28:5} Then the prophet Jeremiah said
to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the
presence of all the people who stood in the house of Yahweh, {28:6}
even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Yahweh do so; Yahweh perform your
words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh's
house, and all them of the captivity, from Babylon to this place.
{28:7} Nevertheless hear you now this word that I speak in your ears,
and in the ears of all the people: {28:8} The prophets who have been
before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and
against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. {28:9}
The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall
happen, then shall the prophet be known, that Yahweh has truly sent
him. {28:10} Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the
prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broke it. {28:11} Hananiah spoke in the
presence of all the people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Even so will I
break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years
from off the neck of all the nations. The prophet Jeremiah went his
way. {28:12} Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that
Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the
prophet Jeremiah, saying, {28:13} Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus
says Yahweh: You have broken the bars of wood; but you have made in
their place bars of iron. {28:14} For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these
nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they
shall serve him: and I have given him the animals of the field also.
{28:15} Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, Hear
now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but you make this people to
trust in a lie. {28:16} Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will send
you away from off the surface of the earth: this year you shall die,
because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh. {28:17} So Hananiah
the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

   {29:1} Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the
prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the
captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the
people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to
Babylon, {29:2} (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen-mother,
and the eunuchs, [and] the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the
craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem), {29:3} by the
hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah,
(whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon), saying, {29:4} Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel,
to all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive
from Jerusalem to Babylon: {29:5} Build you houses, and dwell in them;
and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them. {29:6} Take wives, and
father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your
daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and
multiply you there, and don't be diminished. {29:7} Seek the peace of
the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray
to Yahweh for it; for in the peace of it shall you have peace. {29:8}
For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Don't let your
prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you;
neither listen you to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. {29:9}
For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them, says
Yahweh. {29:10} For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are
accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word
toward you, in causing you to return to this place. {29:11} For I know
the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace,
and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end. {29:12} You shall
call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
{29:13} You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me
with all your heart. {29:14} I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I
will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the
nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh;
and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be
carried away captive. {29:15} Because you have said, Yahweh has raised
us up prophets in Babylon; {29:16} thus says Yahweh concerning the king
who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who
dwell in this city, your brothers who haven't gone forth with you into
captivity; {29:17} thus says Yahweh of Armies; Behold, I will send on
them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like
vile figs, that can't be eaten, they are so bad. {29:18} I will pursue
after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence,
and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the
kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment,
and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have
driven them; {29:19} because they have not listened to my words, says
Yahweh, with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up
early and sending them; but you would not hear, says Yahweh. {29:20}
Hear you therefore the word of Yahweh, all you of the captivity, whom I
have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. {29:21} Thus says Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and
concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in
my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon; and he shall kill them before your eyes; {29:22} and
of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah who are
in Babylon, saying, Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom
the king of Babylon roasted in the fire; {29:23} because they have
worked folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their
neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I
didn't command them; and I am he who knows, and am witness, says
Yahweh. {29:24} Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak,
saying, {29:25} Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel,
saying, Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the
people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the
priest, and to all the priests, saying, {29:26} Yahweh has made you
priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers
in the house of Yahweh, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a
prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles. {29:27}
Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes
himself a prophet to you, {29:28} because he has sent to us in Babylon,
saying, [The captivity] is long: build you houses, and dwell in them;
and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them? {29:29} Zephaniah the
priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet. {29:30}
Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying, {29:31} Send to all
them of the captivity, saying, Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the
Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn't send
him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie; {29:32} therefore thus
says Yahweh, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his
seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall
he see the good that I will do to my people, says Yahweh, because he
has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.

   {30:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {30:2}
Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words
that I have spoken to you in a book. {30:3} For, behold, the days come,
says Yahweh, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel
and Judah, says Yahweh; and I will cause them to return to the land
that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. {30:4} These
are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
{30:5} For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, of
fear, and not of peace. {30:6} Ask now, and see whether a man does
travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his loins,
as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? {30:7}
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the
time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. {30:8} It
shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will
break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and
strangers shall no more make him their bondservant; {30:9} but they
shall serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise
up to them. {30:10} Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant,
says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you
from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob
shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him
afraid. {30:11} For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will
make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I
will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and
will in no way leave you unpunished. {30:12} For thus says Yahweh, Your
hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous. {30:13} There is none to
plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing
medicines. {30:14} All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek
you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the
chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity,
because your sins were increased. {30:15} Why cry you for your hurt?
your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because
your sins were increased, I have done these things to you. {30:16}
Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your
adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who
despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a
prey. {30:17} For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of
your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast,
[saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after. {30:18} Thus says
Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and
have compassion on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be built on
its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner.
{30:19} Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those
who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I
will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. {30:20} Their
children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be
established before me; and I will punish all who oppress them. {30:21}
Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from
the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall
approach to me: for who is he who has had boldness to approach to me?
says Yahweh. {30:22} You shall be my people, and I will be your God.
{30:23} Behold, the tempest of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth,
a sweeping tempest: it shall burst on the head of the wicked. {30:24}
The fierce anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, and
until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days
you shall understand it.

   {31:1} At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the
families of Israel, and they shall be my people. {31:2} Thus says
Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found favor in the
wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. {31:3}
Yahweh appeared of old to me, [saying], Yes, I have loved you with an
everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.
{31:4} Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of
Israel: again shall you be adorned with your tambourines, and shall go
forth in the dances of those who make merry. {31:5} Again shall you
plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant,
and shall enjoy [the fruit of it]. {31:6} For there shall be a day,
that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let
us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God. {31:7} For thus says Yahweh, Sing
with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations:
publish you, praise you, and say, Yahweh, save your people, the remnant
of Israel. {31:8} Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and
gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, [and] with them the
blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with
child together: a great company shall they return here. {31:9} They
shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will
cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they
shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my
firstborn. {31:10} Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it
in the islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather
him, and keep him, as shepherd does his flock. {31:11} For Yahweh has
ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger
than he. {31:12} They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and
shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new
wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd:
and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow
any more at all. {31:13} Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance,
and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning
into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their
sorrow. {31:14} I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness,
and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh. {31:15}
Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter
weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted
for her children, because they are no more. {31:16} Thus says Yahweh:
Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your
work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; and they shall come again from the
land of the enemy. {31:17} There is hope for your latter end, says
Yahweh; and [your] children shall come again to their own border.
{31:18} I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have
chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the
yoke]: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
{31:19} Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I
was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even
confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. {31:20} Is
Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak
against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart
yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh. {31:21}
Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the highway,
even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn
again to these your cities. {31:22} How long will you go here and
there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in
the earth: a woman shall encompass a man. {31:23} Thus says Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech in the
land of Judah and in the cities of it, when I shall bring again their
captivity: Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of
holiness. {31:24} Judah and all the cities of it shall dwell therein
together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks. {31:25} For
I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I
replenished. {31:26} On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was
sweet to me. {31:27} Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will
sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man,
and with the seed of animal. {31:28} It shall happen that, like as I
have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow
and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and
to plant, says Yahweh. {31:29} In those days they shall say no more,
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on
edge. {31:30} But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man
who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. {31:31}
Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: {31:32} not
according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day
that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says
Yahweh. {31:33} But this is the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in
their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be
their God, and they shall be my people: {31:34} and they shall teach no
more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know
Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the
greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and
their sin will I remember no more. {31:35} Thus says Yahweh, who gives
the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the
stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of
it roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name: {31:36} If these ordinances
depart from before me, says Yahweh, then the seed of Israel also shall
cease from being a nation before me forever. {31:37} Thus says Yahweh:
If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth
searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel
for all that they have done, says Yahweh. {31:38} Behold, the days
come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be built to Yahweh from the
tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner. {31:39} The measuring line
shall go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and shall turn
about to Goah. {31:40} The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the
ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the
horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; it shall not be
plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.

   {32:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year
of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar. {32:2} Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was
besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court
of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house. {32:3} For
Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy,
and say, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand
of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it; {32:4} and Zedekiah king
of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall
surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall
speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall see his eyes; {32:5}
and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I
visit him, says Yahweh: though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall
not prosper? {32:6} Jeremiah said, The word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, {32:7} Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come
to you, saying, Buy you my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of
redemption is yours to buy it. {32:8} So Hanamel my uncle's son came to
me in the court of the guard according to the word of Yahweh, and said
to me, Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of
Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is
yours; buy it for yourself. Then I knew that this was the word of
Yahweh. {32:9} I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my
uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of
silver. {32:10} I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called
witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances. {32:11} So I took
the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the
terms and conditions, and that which was open; {32:12} and I delivered
the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of
Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's son, and in the
presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of the purchase,
before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard. {32:13} I
charged Baruch before them, saying, {32:14} Thus says Yahweh of Armies,
the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is
sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel;
that they may continue many days. {32:15} For thus says Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet
again be bought in this land. {32:16} Now after I had delivered the
deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh,
saying, {32:17} Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, you have made the heavens and
the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is
nothing too hard for you, {32:18} who show loving kindness to
thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of
their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies
is his name; {32:19} great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes
are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according
to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings: {32:20} who
performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day,
both in Israel and among [other] men; and made you a name, as in this
day; {32:21} and brought forth your people Israel out of the land of
Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an
outstretched arm, and with great terror; {32:22} and gave them this
land, which you did swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing
with milk and honey; {32:23} and they came in, and possessed it, but
they didn't obey your voice, neither walked in your law; they have done
nothing of all that you commanded them to do: therefore you have caused
all this evil to come on them. {32:24} Behold, the mounds, they are
come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the
famine, and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened;
and, behold, you see it. {32:25} You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, Buy
you the field for money, and call witnesses; whereas the city is given
into the hand of the Chaldeans. {32:26} Then came the word of Yahweh to
Jeremiah, saying, {32:27} Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is
there anything too hard for me? {32:28} Therefore thus says Yahweh:
Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into
the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:
{32:29} and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and
set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs
they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink-offerings to
other gods, to provoke me to anger. {32:30} For the children of Israel
and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my
sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked
me to anger with the work of their hands, says Yahweh. {32:31} For this
city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the
day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from
before my face, {32:32} because of all the evil of the children of
Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me
to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their
prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
{32:33} They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I
taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not
listened to receive instruction. {32:34} But they set their
abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
{32:35} They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of
the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass
through [the fire] to Molech; which I didn't command them, neither did
it come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause
Judah to sin. {32:36} Now therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of
Israel, concerning this city, about which you say, It is given into the
hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence: {32:37} Behold, I will gather them out of all the
countries, where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and
in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I
will cause them to dwell safely: {32:38} and they shall be my people,
and I will be their God: {32:39} and I will give them one heart and one
way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their
children after them: {32:40} and I will make an everlasting covenant
with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them
good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart
from me. {32:41} Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I
will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my
whole soul. {32:42} For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have brought all
this great evil on this people, so will I bring on them all the good
that I have promised them. {32:43} Fields shall be bought in this land,
about which you say, It is desolate, without man or animal; it is given
into the hand of the Chaldeans. {32:44} Men shall buy fields for money,
and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land
of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of
Judah, and in the cities of the hill-country, and in the cities of the
lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their
captivity to return, says Yahweh.

   {33:1} Moreover the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time,
while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying, {33:2} Thus
says Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it; Yahweh is
his name: {33:3} Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you
great things, and difficult, which you don't know. {33:4} For thus says
Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and
concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to
make a defense] against the mounds and against the sword; {33:5} while
[men] come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead
bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for
all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city: {33:6} Behold,
I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will
reveal to them abundance of peace and truth. {33:7} I will cause the
captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will
build them, as at the first. {33:8} I will cleanse them from all their
iniquity, by which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all
their iniquities, by which they have sinned against me, and by which
they have transgressed against me. {33:9} [This city] shall be to me
for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations
of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and
shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I
procure to it. {33:10} Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard
in this place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and
without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of
Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and
without animal, {33:11} the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the
voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those
who say, Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his
loving kindness endures forever; [and of them] who bring [sacrifices
of] thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. For I will cause the
captivity of the land to return as at the first, says Yahweh. {33:12}
Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Yet again shall there be in this place,
which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all the cities
of it, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
{33:13} In the cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the
lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin,
and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall
the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says
Yahweh. {33:14} Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will perform
that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and
concerning the house of Judah. {33:15} In those days, and at that time,
will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he
shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. {33:16} In those
days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this
is [the name] by which she shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
{33:17} For thus says Yahweh: David shall never want a man to sit on
the throne of the house of Israel; {33:18} neither shall the priests
the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn
meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. {33:19} The word of
Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying, {33:20} Thus says Yahweh: If you can
break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that
there shall not be day and night in their season; {33:21} then may also
my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a
son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my
ministers. {33:22} As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither
the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my
servant, and the Levites who minister to me. {33:23} The word of Yahweh
came to Jeremiah, saying, {33:24} Don't you consider what this people
has spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he has
cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no
more a nation before them. {33:25} Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of
day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven
and earth; {33:26} then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of
David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over
the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity
to return, and will have mercy on them.

   {34:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms
of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were
fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of it, saying:
{34:2} Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah
king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this
city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with
fire: {34:3} and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely
be taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes shall see the eyes
of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and
you shall go to Babylon. {34:4} Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah
king of Judah: thus says Yahweh concerning you, You shall not die by
the sword; {34:5} you shall die in peace; and with the burnings of your
fathers, the former kings who were before you, so shall they make a
burning for you; and they shall lament you, [saying], Ah Lord! for I
have spoken the word, says Yahweh. {34:6} Then Jeremiah the prophet
spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem, {34:7}
when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem, and
against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and
against Azekah; for these [alone] remained of the cities of Judah [as]
fortified cities. {34:8} The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh,
after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people
who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them; {34:9} that every
man should let his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, who is
a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of
them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother. {34:10} All the princes and all
the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone
should let his man-servant, and everyone his maid-servant, go free,
that none should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and
let them go: {34:11} but afterwards they turned, and caused the
servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and
brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids. {34:12}
Therefore the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
{34:13} Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with
your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying, {34:14} At the end of seven
years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has
been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go
free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined
their ear. {34:15} You were now turned, and had done that which is
right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and
you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my
name: {34:16} but you turned and profaned my name, and caused every man
his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at
their pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to be
to you for servants and for handmaids. {34:17} Therefore thus says
Yahweh: you have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to
his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a
liberty, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the
famine; and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the
kingdoms of the earth. {34:18} I will give the men who have
transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the
covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and
passed between the parts of it; {34:19} the princes of Judah, and the
princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people
of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf; {34:20} I will
even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of
those who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food to
the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth. {34:21} Zedekiah
king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their
enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the
hand of the king of Babylon's army, who have gone away from you.
{34:22} Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, and cause them to return
to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it
with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without
inhabitant.

   {35:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, {35:2} Go to the
house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the
house of Yahweh, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
{35:3} Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of
Habazziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house of
the Rechabites; {35:4} and I brought them into the house of Yahweh,
into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of
God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the
chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.
{35:5} I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full
of wine, and cups; and I said to them, Drink you wine. {35:6} But they
said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father,
commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your
sons, forever: {35:7} neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor
plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in
tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you sojourn.
{35:8} We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our
father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we,
our wives, our sons, or our daughters; {35:9} nor to build houses for
us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed: {35:10}
but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all
that Jonadab our father commanded us. {35:11} But it happened, when
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said,
Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans,
and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem.
{35:12} Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying, {35:13} Thus
says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Go, and tell the men of Judah
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction to
listen to my words? says Yahweh. {35:14} The words of Jonadab the son
of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are
performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their
father's commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up early and
speaking; and you have not listened to me. {35:15} I have sent also to
you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them,
saying, Return you now every man from his evil way, and amend your
doings, and don't go after other gods to serve them, and you shall
dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but
you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me. {35:16} Because the
sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of
their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened
to me; {35:17} therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God
of Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I
have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to
them, but they have not answered. {35:18} Jeremiah said to the house of
the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Because
you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all
his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you; {35:19}
therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Jonadab the
son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me forever.

   {36:1} It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh,
saying, {36:2} Take a scroll of a book, and write therein all the words
that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and
against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of
Josiah, even to this day. {36:3} It may be that the house of Judah will
hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them; that they may return
every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and
their sin. {36:4} Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and
Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh, which
he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book. {36:5} Jeremiah commanded
Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I can't go into the house of Yahweh:
{36:6} therefore go you, and read in the scroll, which you have written
from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people in
Yahweh's house on the fast-day; and also you shall read them in the
ears of all Judah who come out of their cities. {36:7} It may be they
will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will return everyone
from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that Yahweh has
pronounced against this people. {36:8} Baruch the son of Neriah did
according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in
the book the words of Yahweh in Yahweh's house. {36:9} Now it happened
in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the
ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who
came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before
Yahweh. {36:10} Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in
the house of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the
scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's
house, in the ears of all the people. {36:11} When Micaiah the son of
Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words
of Yahweh, {36:12} he went down into the king's house, into the
scribe's chamber: and, behold, all the princes were sitting there, [to
wit], Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and
Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and
Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. {36:13} Then Micaiah
declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the
book in the ears of the people. {36:14} Therefore all the princes sent
Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to
Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in
the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the
scroll in his hand, and came to them. {36:15} They said to him, Sit
down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
{36:16} Now it happened, when they had heard all the words, they turned
in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, We will surely tell the
king of all these words. {36:17} They asked Baruch, saying, Tell us
now, How did you write all these words at his mouth? {36:18} Then
Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me with his
mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. {36:19} Then said the
princes to Baruch, Go, hide you, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know
where you are. {36:20} They went in to the king into the court; but
they had laid up the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and
they told all the words in the ears of the king. {36:21} So the king
sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the chamber of
Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the
ears of all the princes who stood beside the king. {36:22} Now the king
was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month: and [there was a
fire in] the brazier burning before him. {36:23} It happened, when
Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that [the king] cut it with the
penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all
the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. {36:24}
They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor
any of his servants who heard all these words. {36:25} Moreover
Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king
that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not hear them. {36:26}
The king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son of
Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and
Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them. {36:27} Then the word of
Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the scroll, and
the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, {36:28}
Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that
were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
{36:29} Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says
Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written
therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy
this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and animal? {36:30}
Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall
have none to sit on the throne of David; and his dead body shall be
cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. {36:31}
I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and
I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the
men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but
they didn't listen. {36:32} Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave
it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the
mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of
Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides to them many
like words.

   {37:1} Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah
the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in
the land of Judah. {37:2} But neither he, nor his servants, nor the
people of the land, did listen to the words of Yahweh, which he spoke
by the prophet Jeremiah. {37:3} Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son
of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the
prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now to Yahweh our God for us. {37:4} Now
Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put
him into prison. {37:5} Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt; and
when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them,
they broke up from Jerusalem. {37:6} Then came the word of Yahweh to
the prophet Jeremiah, saying, {37:7} Thus says Yahweh, the God of
Israel, Thus shall you tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to
inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you,
shall return to Egypt into their own land. {37:8} The Chaldeans shall
come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and
burn it with fire. {37:9} Thus says Yahweh, Don't deceive yourselves,
saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not
depart. {37:10} For though you had struck the whole army of the
Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men
among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this
city with fire. {37:11} It happened that, when the army of the
Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
{37:12} then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land
of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst of the people.
{37:13} When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was
there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of
Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are
falling away to the Chaldeans. {37:14} Then said Jeremiah, It is false;
I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he didn't listen to him; so
Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. {37:15}
The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in
prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the
prison. {37:16} When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into
the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; {37:17} Then
Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: and the king asked him
secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from Yahweh?
Jeremiah said, There is. He said also, You shall be delivered into the
hand of the king of Babylon. {37:18} Moreover Jeremiah said to king
Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned against you, or against your servants,
or against this people, that you have put me in prison? {37:19} Where
now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of
Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? {37:20} Now
please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented
before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan
the scribe, lest I die there. {37:21} Then Zedekiah the king commanded,
and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave
him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the
bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the
guard.

   {38:1} Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of
Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of
Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people,
saying, {38:2} Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die
by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes
forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a
prey, and he shall live. {38:3} Thus says Yahweh, This city shall
surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and
he shall take it. {38:4} Then the princes said to the king, Let this
man, we pray you, be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the
men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in
speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek the welfare of
this people, but the hurt. {38:5} Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is
in your hand; for the king is not he who can do anything against you.
{38:6} Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of
Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they
let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but
mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. {38:7} Now when Ebedmelech the
Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had
put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of
Benjamin), {38:8} Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and
spoke to the king, saying, {38:9} My lord the king, these men have done
evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have
cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he
is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.
{38:10} Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take
from hence thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of
the dungeon, before he die. {38:11} So Ebedmelech took the men with
him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took
there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the
dungeon to Jeremiah. {38:12} Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah,
Put now these rags and worn-out garments under your armholes under the
cords. Jeremiah did so. {38:13} So they drew up Jeremiah with the
cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the
court of the guard. {38:14} Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took
Jeremiah the prophet to him into the third entry that is in the house
of Yahweh: and the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask you a thing; hide
nothing from me. {38:15} Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare
it to you, will you not surely put me to death? and if I give you
counsel, you will not listen to me. {38:16} So Zedekiah the king swore
secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I
will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of
these men who seek your life. {38:17} Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah,
Thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: If you will go
forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live, and
this city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your
house. {38:18} But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's
princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans,
and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape out of their
hand. {38:19} Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the
Jews who are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into
their hand, and they mock me. {38:20} But Jeremiah said, They shall not
deliver you. Obey, I beg you, the voice of Yahweh, in that which I
speak to you: so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live.
{38:21} But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that Yahweh has
shown me: {38:22} behold, all the women who are left in the king of
Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes,
and those women shall say, Your familiar friends have set you on, and
have prevailed over you: [now that] your feet are sunk in the mire,
they are turned away back. {38:23} They shall bring out all your wives
and your children to the Chaldeans; and you shall not escape out of
their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and
you shall cause this city to be burned with fire. {38:24} Then said
Zedekiah to Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and you shall not
die. {38:25} But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and
they come to you, and tell you, Declare to us now what you have said to
the king; don't hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also
what the king said to you: {38:26} then you shall tell them, I
presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me
to return to Jonathan's house, to die there. {38:27} Then came all the
princes to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all
these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with
him; for the matter was not perceived. {38:28} So Jeremiah abode in the
court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

   {39:1} It happened when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of
Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it; {39:2} in
the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of
the month, a breach was made in the city), {39:3} that all the princes
of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, [to wit],
Nergal Sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer,
Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon. {39:4}
It happened that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of
war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night,
by the way of the king's garden, through the gate between the two
walls; and he went out toward the Arabah. {39:5} But the army of the
Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of
Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he
gave judgment on him. {39:6} Then the king of Babylon killed the sons
of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon killed
all the nobles of Judah. {39:7} Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes,
and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. {39:8} The Chaldeans
burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and
broke down the walls of Jerusalem. {39:9} Then Nebuzaradan the captain
of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the
people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to
him, and the residue of the people who remained. {39:10} But
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people,
who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and
fields at the same time. {39:11} Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard, saying, {39:12} Take him, and look well to him, and do him no
harm; but do to him even as he shall tell you. {39:13} So Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal
Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon;
{39:14} they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and
committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that
he should carry him home: so he lived among the people. {39:15} Now the
word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of
the guard, saying, {39:16} Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian,
saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will
bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall
be accomplished before you in that day. {39:17} But I will deliver you
in that day, says Yahweh; and you shall not be given into the hand of
the men of whom you are afraid. {39:18} For I will surely save you, and
you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be for a prey to
you; because you have put your trust in me, says Yahweh.

   {40:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he
had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem
and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon. {40:2} The captain
of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, Yahweh your God pronounced
this evil on this place; {40:3} and Yahweh has brought it, and done
according as he spoke: because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have
not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come on you. {40:4} Now,
behold, I loose you this day from the chains which are on your hand. If
it seem good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will look
well to you; but if it seem ill to you to come with me into Babylon,
forbear: behold, all the land is before you; where it seems good and
right to you to go, there go. {40:5} Now while he was not yet gone
back, Go back then, [said he], to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son
of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities
of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems
right to you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him food and a
present, and let him go. {40:6} Then went Jeremiah to Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left
in the land. {40:7} Now when all the captains of the forces who were in
the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had
made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed
to him men, and women, and children, and of the poorest of the land, of
those who were not carried away captive to Babylon; {40:8} then they
came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, [to wit], Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and
Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of
Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son
of the Maacathite, they and their men. {40:9} Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, Don't
be afraid to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king
of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. {40:10} As for me, behold, I
will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who shall come to
us: but you, gather you wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in
your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken. {40:11}
Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children of
Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the
king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over
them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; {40:12} then all
the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to
the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer
fruits very much. {40:13} Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all
the captains of the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to
Mizpah, {40:14} and said to him, Do you know that Baalis the king of
the children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take
your life? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn't believe them. {40:15}
Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly,
saying, Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
and no man shall know it: why should he take your life, that all the
Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of
Judah perish? {40:16} But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan
the son of Kareah, You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely
of Ishmael.

   {41:1} Now it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal and [one of] the
chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah.
{41:2} Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who
were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan
with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had made
governor over the land. {41:3} Ishmael also killed all the Jews who
were with him, [to wit], with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans
who were found there, the men of war. {41:4} It happened the second day
after he had killed Gedaliah, and no man knew it, {41:5} that there
came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men,
having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut
themselves, with meal-offerings and frankincense in their hand, to
bring them to the house of Yahweh. {41:6} Ishmael the son of Nethaniah
went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and
it happened, as he met them, he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam. {41:7} It was so, when they came into the midst of the city,
that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, [and cast them] into the
midst of the pit, he, and the men who were with him. {41:8} But ten men
were found among those who said to Ishmael, Don't kill us; for we have
stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of
honey. So he stopped, and didn't kill them among their brothers. {41:9}
Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom
he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (the same was who which Asa the
king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed. {41:10} Then Ishmael
carried away captive all the residue of the people who were in Mizpah,
even the king's daughters, and all the people who remained in Mizpah,
whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive,
and departed to go over to the children of Ammon. {41:11} But when
Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were
with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had
done, {41:12} then they took all the men, and went to fight with
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that
are in Gibeon. {41:13} Now it happened that, when all the people who
were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains
of the forces who were with him, then they were glad. {41:14} So all
the people who Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned
about and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah. {41:15} But
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and
went to the children of Ammon. {41:16} Then took Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, all the
remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had killed Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam, [to wit], the men of war, and the women, and the children, and
the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon: {41:17} and they
departed, and lived in Geruth Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to
enter into Egypt, {41:18} because of the Chaldeans; for they were
afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over
the land.

   {42:1} Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of
Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the
least even to the greatest, came near, {42:2} and said to Jeremiah the
prophet, Let, we pray you, our supplication be presented before you,
and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we
are left but a few of many, as your eyes do see us: {42:3} that Yahweh
your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing
that we should do. {42:4} Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I
have heard you; behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to
your words; and it shall happen that whatever thing Yahweh shall answer
you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you.
{42:5} Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful
witness among us, if we don't do according to all the word with which
Yahweh your God shall send you to us. {42:6} Whether it be good, or
whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom
we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of
Yahweh our God. {42:7} It happened after ten days, that the word of
Yahweh came to Jeremiah. {42:8} Then called he Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, and all
the people from the least even to the greatest, {42:9} and said to
them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to
present your supplication before him: {42:10} If you will still abide
in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will
plant you, and not pluck you up; for I repent me of the evil that I
have done to you. {42:11} Don't be afraid of the king of Babylon, of
whom you are afraid; don't be afraid of him, says Yahweh: for I am with
you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. {42:12} I will grant
you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to
your own land. {42:13} But if you say, We will not dwell in this land;
so that you don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God, {42:14} saying,
No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war,
nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there
will we dwell: {42:15} now therefore hear you the word of Yahweh, O
remnant of Judah: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, If you
indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
{42:16} then it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, shall
overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which
you are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there
you shall die. {42:17} So shall it be with all the men who set their
faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there: they shall die by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or
escape from the evil that I will bring on them. {42:18} For thus says
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath has been
poured forth on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be
poured forth on you, when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be
an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach;
and you shall see this place no more. {42:19} Yahweh has spoken
concerning you, remnant of Judah, Don't you go into Egypt: know
certainly that I have testified to you this day. {42:20} For you have
dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh
your God, saying, Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all
that Yahweh our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it:
{42:21} and I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed
the voice of Yahweh your God in anything for which he has sent me to
you. {42:22} Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you
desire to go to sojourn there.

   {43:1} It happened that, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking
to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh
their God had sent him to them, even all these words, {43:2} then spoke
Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: Yahweh our God has
not sent you to say, You shall not go into Egypt to sojourn there;
{43:3} but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver
us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and
carry us away captive to Babylon. {43:4} So Johanan the son of Kareah,
and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, didn't obey the
voice of Yahweh, to dwell in the land of Judah. {43:5} But Johanan the
son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant
of Judah, who were returned from all the nations where they had been
driven, to sojourn in the land of Judah; {43:6} the men, and the women,
and the children, and the king's daughters, and every person who
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the
son of Neriah; {43:7} and they came into the land of Egypt; for they
didn't obey the voice of Yahweh: and they came to Tahpanhes. {43:8}
Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, {43:9}
Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick
work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the
sight of the men of Judah; {43:10} and tell them, Thus says Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar
the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these
stones that I have hidden; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over
them. {43:11} He shall come, and shall strike the land of Egypt; such
as are for death [shall be given] to death, and such as are for
captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.
{43:12} I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he
shall burn them, and carry them away captive: and he shall array
himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and
he shall go forth from there in peace. {43:13} He shall also break the
pillars of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses
of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.

   {44:1} The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who
lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and
at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying, {44:2} Thus says
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I
have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah; and, behold,
this day they are a desolation, and no man dwells therein, {44:3}
because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to
anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods,
that they didn't know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. {44:4}
However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and
sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this abominable thing that I hate.
{44:5} But they didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from
their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods. {44:6} Therefore my
wrath and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of
Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and
desolate, as it is this day. {44:7} Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the
God of Armies, the God of Israel: Why commit you [this] great evil
against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and
suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining;
{44:8} in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands,
burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are gone
to sojourn; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a
reproach among all the nations of the earth? {44:9} Have you forgotten
the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of
Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and
the wickedness of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah,
and in the streets of Jerusalem? {44:10} They are not humbled even to
this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my
statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers. {44:11}
Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will
set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah. {44:12} I
will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into
the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed; in
the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword
and by the famine; they shall die, from the least even to the greatest,
by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an object of horror,
[and] an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. {44:13} For I will
punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished
Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; {44:14}
so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of
Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be left, to return into the
land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there:
for none shall return save such as shall escape. {44:15} Then all the
men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the
women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who lived in
the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, {44:16} As
for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we will
not listen to you. {44:17} But we will certainly perform every word
that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of
the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to her, as we have done, we
and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and
in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were
well, and saw no evil. {44:18} But since we left off burning incense to
the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink-offerings to her, we have
wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the
famine. {44:19} When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and
poured out drink-offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship
her, and pour out drink-offerings to her, without our husbands? {44:20}
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women,
even to all the people who had given him who answer, saying, {44:21}
The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets
of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and
the people of the land, didn't Yahweh remember them, and didn't it come
into his mind? {44:22} so that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of
the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have
committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an
astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
{44:23} Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned
against Yahweh, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, nor walked in
his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this
evil is happened to you, as it is this day. {44:24} Moreover Jeremiah
said to all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of Yahweh,
all Judah who are in the land of Egypt: {44:25} Thus says Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel, saying, You and your wives have both spoken
with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, We
will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the
queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to her: establish
then your vows, and perform your vows. {44:26} Therefore hear the word
of Yahweh, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have
sworn by my great name, says Yahweh, that my name shall no more be
named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt,
saying, As the Lord Yahweh lives. {44:27} Behold, I watch over them for
evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of
Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be
an end of them. {44:28} Those who escape the sword shall return out of
the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the
remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn
there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs. {44:29} This
shall be the sign to you, says Yahweh, that I will punish you in this
place, that you may know that my words shall surely stand against you
for evil: {44:30} Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra
king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those
who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.

   {45:1} The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of
Neriah, when he wrote these word in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in
the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
{45:2} Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to you, Baruch: {45:3} You
did say, Woe is me now! for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain; I am
weary with my groaning, and I find no rest. {45:4} Thus shall you tell
him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I break
down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the
whole land. {45:5} Seek you great things for yourself? Don't seek them;
for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life
will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.

   

   {46:1} The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet
concerning the nations. {46:2} Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh
Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish,
which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah. {46:3} Prepare you the
buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. {46:4} Harness the horses,
and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish
the spears, put on the coats of mail. {46:5} Why have I seen it? they
are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten
down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every
side, says Yahweh. {46:6} Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty
man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and
fallen. {46:7} Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters
toss themselves like the rivers? {46:8} Egypt rises up like the Nile,
and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will
rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and the
inhabitants of it. {46:9} Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots;
and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield;
and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow. {46:10} For that day is [a
day] of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may
avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be
satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh
of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
{46:11} Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in
vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you. {46:12}
The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your
cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they are
fallen both of them together. {46:13} The word that Yahweh spoke to
Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should
come and strike the land of Egypt. {46:14} Declare you in Egypt, and
publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say you,
Stand forth, and prepare you; for the sword has devoured round about
you. {46:15} Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't stand,
because Yahweh did drive them. {46:16} He made many to stumble, yes,
they fell one on another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to
our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing
sword. {46:17} They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise;
he has let the appointed time pass by. {46:18} As I live, says the
King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, surely like Tabor among the
mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come. {46:19} You
daughter who dwell in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for
Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without
inhabitant. {46:20} Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction
out of the north is come, it is come. {46:21} Also her hired men in the
midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned
back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of
their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation. {46:22}
The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an
army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters. {46:23} They
shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched;
because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable. {46:24}
The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be delivered
into the hand of the people of the north. {46:25} Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and
Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust
in him: {46:26} and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek
their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and
into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as
in the days of old, says Yahweh. {46:27} But don't be afraid you, Jacob
my servant, neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you
from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob
shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him
afraid. {46:28} Don't be afraid you, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh;
for I am with you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where
I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will
correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.

   

   {47:1} The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet
concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh struck Gaza. {47:2}
Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall
become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that
is therein, the city and those who dwell therein; and the men shall
cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. {47:3} At the
noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing
of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don't look
back to their children for feebleness of hands; {47:4} because of the
day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and
Sidon every helper who remains: for Yahweh will destroy the
Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor. {47:5} Baldness is
come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their
valley: how long will you cut yourself? {47:6} You sword of Yahweh, how
long will it be before you be quiet? put up yourself into your
scabbard; rest, and be still. {47:7} How can you be quiet, seeing
Yahweh has given you a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the
sea-shore, there has he appointed it.

   

   {48:1} Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe
to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken;
Misgab is put to shame and broken down. {48:2} The praise of Moab is no
more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us
cut her off from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to
silence: the sword shall pursue you. {48:3} The sound of a cry from
Horonaim, desolation and great destruction! {48:4} Moab is destroyed;
her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. {48:5} For by the ascent
of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent
of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
{48:6} Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
{48:7} For, because you have trusted in your works and in your
treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into
captivity, his priests and his princes together. {48:8} The destroyer
shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also
shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.
{48:9} Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her
cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein. {48:10}
Cursed be he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed be he
who keeps back his sword from blood. {48:11} Moab has been at ease from
his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied
from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore
his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed. {48:12}
Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will send to him
those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty
his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces. {48:13} Moab shall be
ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their
confidence. {48:14} How say you, We are mighty men, and valiant men for
the war? {48:15} Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his
cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says
the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies. {48:16} The calamity of Moab
is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast. {48:17} All you who
are round about him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say,
How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod! {48:18} You daughter
who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for
the destroyer of Moab is come up against you, he has destroyed your
strongholds. {48:19} Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch:
ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done?
{48:20} Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell
you it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste. {48:21} Judgment is come
on the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahzah, and on Mephaath, {48:22}
and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth Diblathaim, {48:23} and on
Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth Meon, {48:24} and on
Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far
or near. {48:25} The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken,
says Yahweh. {48:26} Make you him drunken; for he magnified himself
against Yahweh: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall
be in derision. {48:27} For wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he
found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you wag the
head. {48:28} You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in
the rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of
the abyss. {48:29} We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is
very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the
haughtiness of his heart. {48:30} I know his wrath, says Yahweh, that
it is nothing; his boastings have worked nothing. {48:31} Therefore
will I wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of
Kir Heres shall they mourn. {48:32} With more than the weeping of Jazer
will I weep for you, vine of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea,
they reached even to the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits and on
your vintage the destroyer is fallen. {48:33} Gladness and joy is taken
away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have
caused wine to cease from the wine presses: none shall tread with
shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting. {48:34} From the cry of
Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice,
from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of
Nimrim also shall become desolate. {48:35} Moreover I will cause to
cease in Moab, says Yahweh, him who offers in the high place, and him
who burns incense to his gods. {48:36} Therefore my heart sounds for
Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir
Heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished. {48:37}
For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are
cuttings, and on the loins sackcloth. {48:38} On all the housetops of
Moab and in the streets of it there is lamentation every where; for I
have broken Moab like a vessel in which none delights, says Yahweh.
{48:39} How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab turned
the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to
all who are round about him. {48:40} For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he
shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.
{48:41} Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart
of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman
in her pangs. {48:42} Moab shall be destroyed from being a people,
because he has magnified himself against Yahweh. {48:43} Fear, and the
pit, and the snare, are on you, inhabitant of Moab, says Yahweh.
{48:44} He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who
gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring on
him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation, says Yahweh. {48:45}
Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for
a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of
Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head
of the tumultuous ones. {48:46} Woe to you, O Moab! the people of
Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your
daughters into captivity. {48:47} Yet will I bring back the captivity
of Moab in the latter days, says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of
Moab.

   

   {49:1} Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no
sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people
well in the cities of it? {49:2} Therefore, behold, the days come, says
Yahweh, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of
the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her
daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those
who did possess him, says Yahweh. {49:3} Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid
waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament,
and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into
captivity, his priests and his princes together. {49:4} Why glory you
in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? who trusted
in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come to me? {49:5} Behold, I will
bring a fear on you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, from all who are
round about you; and you shall be driven out every man right forth, and
there shall be none to gather together the fugitives. {49:6} But
afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon,
says Yahweh. {49:7} Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Is wisdom no
more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom
vanished? {49:8} Flee you, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants
of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I
shall visit him. {49:9} If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not
leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy
until they had enough? {49:10} But I have made Esau bare, I have
uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself:
his seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is
no more. {49:11} Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them
alive; and let your widows trust in me. {49:12} For thus says Yahweh:
Behold, they to whom it didn't pertain to drink of the cup shall
assuredly drink; and are you he who shall altogether go unpunished? you
shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink. {49:13} For I have
sworn by myself, says Yahweh, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment,
a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities of it shall be
perpetual wastes. {49:14} I have heard news from Yahweh, and an
ambassador is sent among the nations, [saying], Gather yourselves
together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle. {49:15} For,
behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among
men. {49:16} As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived
you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of
the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will
bring you down from there, says Yahweh. {49:17} Edom shall become an
astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall
hiss at all the plagues of it. {49:18} As in the overthrow of Sodom and
Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell
there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. {49:19} Behold, he
shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the
strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and
whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and
who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will stand
before me? {49:20} Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has
taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the
inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the
little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation
desolate over them. {49:21} The earth trembles at the noise of their
fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea. {49:22}
Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings
against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day
shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. {49:23} Of Damascus.
Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they
are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet. {49:24}
Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has
seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a
woman in travail. {49:25} How is the city of praise not forsaken, the
city of my joy? {49:26} Therefore her young men shall fall in her
streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that
day, says Yahweh of Armies. {49:27} I will kindle a fire in the wall of
Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben Hadad. {49:28} Of
Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh: Arise you, go up to Kedar, and
destroy the children of the east. {49:29} Their tents and their flocks
shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains,
and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to them,
Terror on every side! {49:30} Flee you, wander far off, dwell in the
depths, you inhabitants of Hazor, says Yahweh; for Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose
against you. {49:31} Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, that
dwells without care, says Yahweh; that have neither gates nor bars,
that dwell alone. {49:32} Their camels shall be a booty, and the
multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds
those who have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring
their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh. {49:33} Hazor
shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a desolation forever: no man
shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.
{49:34} The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning
Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
{49:35} Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Behold, I will break the bow of
Elam, the chief of their might. {49:36} On Elam will I bring the four
winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward
all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of
Elam shall not come. {49:37} I will cause Elam to be dismayed before
their enemies, and before those who seek their life; and I will bring
evil on them, even my fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I will send the
sword after them, until I have consumed them; {49:38} and I will set my
throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and princes, says
Yahweh. {49:39} But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will
bring back the captivity of Elam, says Yahweh.

   

   {50:1} The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the
land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet. {50:2} Declare you
among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and
don't conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is
dismayed; her images are disappointed, her idols are dismayed. {50:3}
For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall
make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled,
they are gone, both man and animal. {50:4} In those days, and in that
time, says Yahweh, the children of Israel shall come, they and the
children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and
shall seek Yahweh their God. {50:5} They shall inquire concerning Zion
with their faces turned toward it, [saying], Come you, and join
yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be
forgotten. {50:6} My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have
caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains;
they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their
resting-place. {50:7} All who found them have devoured them; and their
adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against
Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their
fathers. {50:8} Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of
the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.
{50:9} For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon
a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set
themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their
arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.
{50:10} Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall be
satisfied, says Yahweh. {50:11} Because you are glad, because you
rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a
heifer that treads out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses; {50:12}
your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be
confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a
wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. {50:13} Because of the wrath of
Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate:
everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her
plagues. {50:14} Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about,
all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has
sinned against Yahweh. {50:15} Shout against her round about: she has
submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down;
for it is the vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance on her; as she has
done, do to her. {50:16} Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who
handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing
sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee
everyone to his own land. {50:17} Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions
have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now
at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones. {50:18}
Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will
punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of
Assyria. {50:19} I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall
feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills
of Ephraim and in Gilead. {50:20} In those days, and in that time, says
Yahweh, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be
none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will
pardon them whom I leave as a remnant. {50:21} Go up against the land
of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod:
kill and utterly destroy after them, says Yahweh, and do according to
all that I have commanded you. {50:22} A sound of battle is in the
land, and of great destruction. {50:23} How is the hammer of the whole
earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among
the nations! {50:24} I have laid a snare for you, and you are also
taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught,
because you have striven against Yahweh. {50:25} Yahweh has opened his
armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the
Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work [to do] in the land of the
Chaldeans. {50:26} Come against her from the utmost border; open her
store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let
nothing of her be left. {50:27} Kill all her bulls; let them go down to
the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their
visitation. {50:28} The voice of those who flee and escape out of the
land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God,
the vengeance of his temple. {50:29} Call together the archers against
Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her round about;
let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according
to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against
Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel. {50:30} Therefore shall her
young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought
to silence in that day, says Yahweh. {50:31} Behold, I am against you,
you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies; for your day is come,
the time that I will visit you. {50:32} The proud one shall stumble and
fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his
cities, and it shall devour all who are round about him. {50:33} Thus
says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the children of Judah
are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast;
they refuse to let them go. {50:34} Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of
Armies is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may
give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
{50:35} A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the
inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.
{50:36} A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a
sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed. {50:37} A sword
is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people
who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is
on her treasures, and they shall be robbed. {50:38} A drought is on her
waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved
images, and they are mad over idols. {50:39} Therefore the wild animals
of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches
shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither
shall it be lived in from generation to generation. {50:40} As when God
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says
Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man
sojourn therein. {50:41} Behold, a people comes from the north; and a
great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost
parts of the earth. {50:42} They lay hold on bow and spear; they are
cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride
on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you,
daughter of Babylon. {50:43} The king of Babylon has heard the news of
them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, [and]
pangs as of a woman in travail. {50:44} Behold, [the enemy] shall come
up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong
habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever
is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will
appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who can stand before me?
{50:45} Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against
Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the
Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of
the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.
{50:46} At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and
the cry is heard among the nations.

   

   {51:1} Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon,
and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind. {51:2} I
will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall
empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her
round about. {51:3} Against [him who] bends let the archer bend his
bow, and against [him who] lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and
don't you spare her young men; destroy you utterly all her army. {51:4}
They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust
through in her streets. {51:5} For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah,
of his God, of Yahweh of Armies; though their land is full of guilt
against the Holy One of Israel. {51:6} Flee out of the midst of
Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity:
for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a
recompense. {51:7} Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who
made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine;
therefore the nations are mad. {51:8} Babylon is suddenly fallen and
destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be
healed. {51:9} We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed:
forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country; for her
judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. {51:10}
Yahweh has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in
Zion the work of Yahweh our God. {51:11} Make sharp the arrows; hold
firm the shields: Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the
Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is
the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple. {51:12} Set up a
standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the
watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done
that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. {51:13} You
who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come, the
measure of your covetousness. {51:14} Yahweh of Armies has sworn by
himself, [saying], Surely I will fill you with men, as with the
canker-worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you. {51:15} He has
made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his
wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:
{51:16} when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the
heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;
he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his
treasuries. {51:17} Every man is become brutish [and is] without
knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten
image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. {51:18} They are
vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall
perish. {51:19} The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the
former of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance:
Yahweh of Armies is his name. {51:20} You are my battle-axe and weapons
of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you
will I destroy kingdoms; {51:21} and with you will I break in pieces
the horse and his rider; {51:22} and with you will I break in pieces
the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in
pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man
and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and
the virgin; {51:23} and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd
and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his
yoke [of oxen]; and with you will I break in pieces governors and
deputies. {51:24} I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants
of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,
says Yahweh. {51:25} Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,
says Yahweh, which destroy all the earth; and I will stretch out my
hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a
burnt mountain. {51:26} They shall not take of you a stone for a
corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for
ever, says Yahweh. {51:27} Set up a standard in the land, blow the
trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call
together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz:
appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough
canker-worm. {51:28} Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the
Medes, the governors of it, and all the deputies of it, and all the
land of their dominion. {51:29} The land trembles and is in pain; for
the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of
Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant. {51:30} The mighty men of
Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their
might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set
on fire; her bars are broken. {51:31} One post shall run to meet
another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Babylon
that his city is taken on every quarter: {51:32} and the passages are
seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war
are frightened. {51:33} For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of
Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time
when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall
come for her. {51:34} Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured
me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a
monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he
has cast me out. {51:35} The violence done to me and to my flesh be on
Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the
inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. {51:36} Therefore thus
says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for
you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. {51:37}
Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an
astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. {51:38} They shall
roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs.
{51:39} When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make
them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and
not wake, says Yahweh. {51:40} I will bring them down like lambs to the
slaughter, like rams with male goats. {51:41} How is Sheshach taken!
and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a
desolation among the nations! {51:42} The sea is come up on Babylon;
she is covered with the multitude of the waves of it. {51:43} Her
cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in
which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby. {51:44}
I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out
of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not
flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall. {51:45} My
people, go you out of the midst of her, and save yourselves every man
from the fierce anger of Yahweh. {51:46} Don't let your heart faint,
neither fear for the news that shall be heard in the land; for news
shall come one year, and after that in another year [shall come] news,
and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. {51:47} Therefore,
behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment on the engraved
images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her
slain shall fall in the midst of her. {51:48} Then the heavens and the
earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for
the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says Yahweh. {51:49}
As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall
fall the slain of all the land. {51:50} You who have escaped the sword,
go you, don't stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem
come into your mind. {51:51} We are confounded, because we have heard
reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers are come into
the sanctuaries of Yahweh's house. {51:52} Therefore, behold, the days
come, says Yahweh, that I will execute judgment on her engraved images;
and through all her land the wounded shall groan. {51:53} Though
Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the
height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says
Yahweh. {51:54} The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great
destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! {51:55} For Yahweh lays
Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves
roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered: {51:56} for
the destroyer is come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are
taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is a God of
recompenses, he will surely requite. {51:57} I will make drunk her
princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her
mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,
says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies. {51:58} Thus says Yahweh
of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and
her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor
for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.
{51:59} The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son
of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of
Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief
chamberlain. {51:60} Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should
come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning
Babylon. {51:61} Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon,
then see that you read all these words, {51:62} and say, Yahweh, you
have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell
therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever.
{51:63} It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book,
that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the
Euphrates: {51:64} and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and
shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and
they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

   

   {52:1} Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal
the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. {52:2} He did that which was evil
in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
{52:3} For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem and
Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled
against the king of Babylon. {52:4} It happened in the ninth year of
his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against
Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it
round about. {52:5} So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of
king Zedekiah. {52:6} In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the
month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for
the people of the land. {52:7} Then a breach was made in the city, and
all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the
way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden;
(now the Chaldeans were against the city round about;) and they went
toward the Arabah. {52:8} But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after
the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his
army was scattered from him. {52:9} Then they took the king, and
carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath;
and he gave judgment on him. {52:10} The king of Babylon killed the
sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the princes of
Judah in Riblah. {52:11} He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king
of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put
him in prison until the day of his death. {52:12} Now in the fifth
month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of
king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of
the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem:
{52:13} and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and
all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with
fire. {52:14} All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain
of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
{52:15} Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were
left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of
Babylon, and the residue of the multitude. {52:16} But Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard
keepers and farmers. {52:17} The pillars of brass that were in the
house of Yahweh, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the
house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the
brass of them to Babylon. {52:18} The pots also, and the shovels, and
the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels of
brass with which they ministered, took they away. {52:19} The cups, and
the fire pans, and the basins, and the pots, and the lampstands, and
the spoons, and the bowls-that which was of gold, in gold, and that
which was of silver, in silver,-the captain of the guard took away.
{52:20} The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve brazen bulls that
were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of
Yahweh. The brass of all these vessels was without weight. {52:21} As
for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and
a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness of it was
four fingers: it was hollow. {52:22} A capital of brass was on it; and
the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and
pomegranates on the capital round about, all of brass: and the second
pillar also had like these, and pomegranates. {52:23} There were
ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one
hundred on the network round about. {52:24} The captain of the guard
took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the
three keepers of the threshold: {52:25} and out of the city he took an
officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw
the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the
captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men
of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.
{52:26} Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought
them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. {52:27} The king of Babylon
struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So
Judah was carried away captive out of his land. {52:28} This is the
people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year
three thousand twenty-three Jews; {52:29} in the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred
thirty-two persons; {52:30} in the three and twentieth year of
Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away
captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five persons: all the persons
were four thousand and six hundred. {52:31} It happened in the seven
and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the
twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that
Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted
up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of
prison; {52:32} and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above
the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, {52:33} and
changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin] ate bread before him
continually all the days of his life: {52:34} and for his allowance,
there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every
day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

   

   

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