1.1
The word of God which came to Jeremias the [son] of Chelcias, of the
priests, who dwelt in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
1.2 [accordingly] as the word of God came to
him in the days of Josias son of Amos king of Juda, in the thirteenth
year of his reign.
1.3 And it was in the days of Joakim, son of
Josias king of Juda, until the eleventh year of Sedekias king of Juda,
[even] until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
1.4 And the word of the Lord came to him, [saying],
1.5 Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew
thee; and before thou camest forth from the womb, I sanctified thee; I
appointed thee a prophet to the nations.
1.6 And I said, O Lord, thou that art supreme Lord, behold, I know not [how] to speak, for I am a child.
1.7 And the Lord said to me, Say not, I am a
child: for thou shalt go to all to whomsoever I shall send thee, and
according to all [the words] that I shall command thee, thou shalt
speak.
1.8 Be not afraid before them: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.
1.9 And the Lord stretched forth his hand to
me, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put
my words into thy mouth.
1.10 Behold, I have appointed thee this day over
nations and over kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to
destroy, and to rebuild, and to plant.
1.11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, What seest thou? And I said, A rod of an almond tree.
1.12 And the Lord said to me, Thou hast well seen: for I have watched over my words to perform them.
1.13 And the word of the Lord came to me a second
time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, A caldron on the fire; and
the face of it is toward the north.
1.14 And the Lord said to me, From the north shall flame forth evils upon all the inhabitants of the land.
1.15 For, behold, I call together all the kingdoms of
the earth from the north, saith the Lord; and they shall come, and
shall set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of
Jerusalem, and against all the walls round about her, and against all
the cities of Juda.
1.16 And I will speak to them in judgment, concerning
all their iniquity, [forasmuch] as they have forsaken me, and
sacrificed to strange gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
1.17 And do thou gird up thy loins, and stand up, and
speak all [the words] that I shall command thee: be not afraid of their
face, neither be thou alarmed before them; for I am with thee to
deliver thee, saith the Lord.
1.18 Behold, I have made thee this day as a strong
city, and as a brazen wall, strong [against] all the kings of Juda, and
the princes thereof, and the people of the land.
1.19 And they shall fight against thee; but they
shall by no means prevail against thee; because I am with thee, to
deliver thee, saith the Lord.
2.1 And he said, Thus saith the Lord,
2.2 I remember the kindness of thy youth, and the love of thine espousals,
2.3 in following the Holy One of Israel, saith
the Lord, Israel was the holy [people] to the Lord, [and] the
first-fruits of his increase: al that devoured him shall offend; evils
shall come upon them, saith the Lord.
2.4 Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and every family of the house of Israel.
2.5 Thus saith the Lord, What trespass have
your fathers found in me, that they have revolted far from me, and gone
after vanities, and become vain?
2.6 And they said not, Where is the Lord, who
brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the
wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at
all went through, and no man dwelt there?
2.7 And I brought you to Carmel, that ye should
eat the fruits thereof, and the good thereof; and ye went in, and
defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
2.8 The priest said not, Where is the Lord? and
they that held by the law knew me not: the shepherds also sinned
against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that
which profited not.
2.9 Therefore I will yet plead with you, and will plead with your children's children.
2.10 For go to the isles of the Chettians, and se;
and send to Kedar, and observe accurately, and see if such things have
been done;
2.11 if the nations will change their gods, though
they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory, [for that]
from which they shall not be profited.
2.12 The heaven is amazed at this, and is very exceedingly horror-struck, saith the Lord.
2.13 For my people has committed two [faults], and
evil ones: they have forsaken me, the fountain of water of life, and
hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold
water.
2.14 Is Israel a servant, or a home-born slave? why has he become a spoil?
2.15 The lions roared upon him, and uttered their
voice, which have made his land a wilderness: and his cities are broken
down, that they should not be inhabited.
2.16 Also the children of Memphis and Taphnas have known thee, and mocked thee.
2.17 Has not thy forsaking me brought these things upon thee? saith the Lord thy God.
2.18 And now what hast thou to do with the way of
Egypt, to drink the water of Geon? and what hast thou to do with the
way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of rivers?
2.19 Thine apostasy shall correct thee, and thy
wickedness shall reprove thee: know then, and see, that thy forsaking
me [has been] bitter to thee, saith the Lord thy God; and I have taken
no pleasure in thee, saith the Lord thy God.
2.20 For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and
plucked asunder thy bands; and thou has said, I will not serve thee,
but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there
will I indulge in my fornication.
2.21 Yet I planted thee a fruitful vine, entirely of
the right sort: how art thou a strange vine turned to bitterness!
2.22 Though thou shouldest wash thyself with nitre,
and multiply to thyself soap, [still] thou art stained by thine
iniquities before me, saith the Lord.
2.23 How wilt thou say, I am not polluted, and have
not gone after Baal? behold thy ways in the burial-ground, and know
what thou hast done: her voice has howled in the evening:
2.24 she has extended her ways over the waters of the
desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up
[to them], who will turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary;
at [the time of] her humiliation they shall find her.
2.25 Withdraw thy foot from a rough way, and they
throat from thirst: but she said I will strengthen myself: for she
loved strangers, and went after them.
2.26 As is the shame of a thief when he is caught, so
shall the children of Israel be ashamed; they, and their kings, and
their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.
2.27 They said to a stock, Thou art my father; and to
a stone, Thou has begotten me: and they have turned [their] backs to
me, and not their faces: yet in the time of their afflictions they will
say, Arise, and save us.
2.28 And where are thy gods, which thou madest for
thyself? will they arise and save in the time of thine affliction? for
according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda; and
according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they sacrificed to
Baal.
2.29 Wherefore do ye speak unto me? ye all have been
ungodly, and ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
2.30 In vain have I smitten your children; ye have
not received correction: a sword has devoured your prophets as a
destroying lion; yet ye feared not.
2.31 Hear ye the word of the Lord: thus saith the
Lord, Have I been a wilderness or a dry land to Israel? wherefore has
my people said, We will not be ruled over, and will not come to thee
any more?
2.32 Will a bride forget her ornaments, or a virgin
her girdle? but my people has forgotten me days without number.
2.33 What fair device wilt thou yet employ in thy
ways, so as to seek love? [it shall] not [be] so; moreover thou has
done wickedly in corrupting thy ways;
2.34 and in thine hands has been found the blood of
innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak.
2.35 Yet thou saidst, I am innocent: only let his
wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I [will] plead with thee, whereas
thou sayest, I have not sinned.
2.36 For thou has been so exceedingly contemptuous as
to repeat thy ways; but thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast
ashamed of Assur.
2.37 For thou shalt go forth thence also with thine
hands upon thine head; for the Lord has rejected thine hope, and thou
shalt not prosper in it.
3.1
If a man put away his wife, and she depart from him, and become another
man's, shall she return to him any more at all? shall not that woman be
utterly defiled? ye thou hast gone a-whoring with many shepherds, and
hast returned to me, saith the Lord.
3.2 Lift up thine eyes [to look] straight
forward, and see where thou hast not been utterly defiled. Thou hast
sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and hast defiled the
land with thy fornications and thy wickedness.
3.3 And thou didst retain many shepherds for a
stumbling-block to thyself: thou hadst a whore's face, thou didst
become shameless toward all.
3.4 Hast thou not called me as it were a home, and the father and guide of thy virgin-time?
3.5 Will [God's anger] continue for ever, or be
preserved to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done these bad
things, and hadst power [to do them].
3.6 And the Lord said to me in the days of
Josias the king, Hast thou seen what things the house of Israel has
done to me? they have gone on every high mountain, and under every
shady tree, and have committed fornication there.
3.7 And I said after she had committed all
these acts of fornication, Turn again to me. Yet she returned not. And
faithless Juda saw her faithlessness.
3.8 And I saw that (for all the sins of which
she was convicted, wherein the house of Israel committed adultery, and
I put her away, and gave into her hands a bill of divorcement,) yet
faithless Juda feared not, but went and herself also committed
fornication.
3.9 And her fornication was nothing accounted of; and she committed adultery with wood and stone.
3.10 And for all these things faithless Juda turned not to me with all her heart, but falsely.
3.11 And the Lord said to me, Israel has justified himself more than faithless Juda.
3.12 Go and read these words toward the north, and
thou shalt say, Return to me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord; and I
will not set my face against you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord,
and I will not be angry with you for ever.
3.13 Nevertheless, know thine iniquity, that thou
hast sinned against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to
strangers under every shady tree, but thou didst not hearken to my
voice, saith the Lord.
3.14 Turn, ye children that have revolted, saith the
Lord; for I will rule over you: and I will take you one of a city, and
two of a family, and I will bring you in to Sion:
3.15 and I will give you shepherds after my heart, and they shall certainly tend you with knowledge.
3.16 And it shall come to pass that when ye are
multiplied and increased upon the land, saith the Lord, in those days
they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Holy One of
Israel: it shall not come to mind; it shall not be named; neither shall
it be visited; nor shall [this] be done any more.
3.17 In those days and at that time they shall call
Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered
to it: and they shall not walk any more after the imaginations of their
evil heart.
3.18 In those days the house of Juda, shall come
together to the house of Israel, and they shall come, together, from
the land of the north, and from all the countries, to the land, which I
caused their fathers to inherit.
3.19 And I said, So be it, Lord, for [thou saidst] I
will set thee among children, and will give thee a choice land, the
inheritance of the Almighty God of the Gentiles: and I said, Ye shall
call me Father; and ye shall not turn away rom me.
3.20 But as a wife acts treacherously against her
husband, so has the house of Israel dealt treacherously against me,
saith the Lord.
3.21 A voice from the lips was heard, [even] of
weeping and supplication of the children of Israel: for they have dealt
unrighteously in their ways, they have forgotten God their Holy One.
3.22 Turn, ye children that are given to turning, and
I will heal your bruises. Behold, we will be thy servants; for thou art
the Lord our God.
3.23 Truly the hills and the strength of the
mountains were a lying refuge: but by the Lord our God is the salvation
of Israel.
3.24 But shame has consumed the labours of our
fathers from our youth; their sheep and their calves, and their sons
and their daughters.
3.25 We have lain down in our shame, and our disgrace
has covered us: because we and our fathers have sinned before our God,
from our youth until this day; and we have not hearkened to the voice
of the Lord our God.
4.1
If Israel will return to me, saith the Lord, he shall return: and if he
will remove his abominations out of his mouth, and fear before me, and
swear,
4.2 The Lord lives, with truth, in judgment and
righteousness, then shall nations bless by him, and by him they shall
praise God in Jerusalem.
4.3 For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda,
and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Break up fresh ground for
yourselves, and sow not among thorns.
4.4 Circumcise yourselves to your God, and
circumcise your hardness of heart, ye men of Juda, and inhabitants of
Jerusalem: lest my wrath go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none
to quench it, because of the evil of your devices.
4.5 Declare ye in Juda, and let it be heard in
Jerusalem: say ye, Sound the trumpet in the land; cry ye aloud: say ye,
Gather yourselves together, and let us enter into the fortified cities.
4.6 Gather up [your wares] and flee to Sion:
hasten, stay not: for I will bring evils from the north, an great
destruction.
4.7 The lion is gone up from his lair, he has
roused [himself] to the destruction of the nations, and has gone forth
out of his place, to make the land desolate; and the cities shall be
destroyed, so as to be without inhabitant.
4.8 For these things gird yourselves with
sackcloths, and lament, and howl: for the anger of the Lord is not
turned away from you.
4.9 And it shall come to pass in that day,
saith the Lord, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart
of the princes; and the priests shall be amazed, and the prophets shall
wonder.
4.10 And I said, O sovereign Lord, verily thou hast
deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, There shall be peace;
whereas behold, the sword has reached even to their soul.
4.11 At that time they shall say to this people and
to Jerusalem, [There is] a spirit of error in the wilderness: the way
of the daughter of my people is not to purity, nor to holiness.
4.12 [But] a spirit of full vengeance shall come upon me; and now I declare my judgments against them.
4.13 Behold, he shall come up as a cloud, and his
chariots as a tempest: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us!
for we are in misery.
4.14 Cleanse thine heart from wickedness, O
Jerusalem, that thou mayest be saved: how long will thy grievous
thoughts be within thee?
4.15 For a voice of one publishing from Dan shall come, and trouble out of mount Ephraim shall be heard of.
4.16 Remind ye the nations; behold, they are come:
proclaim [it] in Jerusalem, that bands are approaching from a land afar
off, and have uttered their voice against the cities of Juda.
4.17 As keepers of a field, they have surrounded her; because thou, saith the Lord, has neglected me.
4.18 Thy ways and thy devices have brought these
things upon thee; this is thy wickedness, for [it is] bitter, for it
has reached to thy heart.
4.19 I am pained in my bowels, my bowels, and the
sensitive powers of my heart; my soul is in great commotion, my heart
is torn: I will not be silent, for my soul has heard the sound of a
trumpet, the cry of war, and of distress: it calls on destruction;
4.20 for all the land is distressed: suddenly [my
tabernacle is distressed, my curtains have been rent asunder.
4.21 How long shall I see fugitives, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
4.22 For the princes of my people have not known me,
they are foolish and unwise children: they are wise to do evil, but
[how] to do good they have not known.
4.23 I looked upon the earth, and, behold, [it was] not; and to the sky, an there was no light in it.
4.24 I beheld the mountains, and they trembled, and [I saw] all the hills in commotion.
4.25 I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky were scared.
4.26 I saw, and, behold, Carmel was desert, and all
the cities were burnt with fire at the presence of the Lord, and at the
presence of his fierce anger they were utterly destroyed.
4.27 Thus saith the Lord, The whole land shall be desolate; but I will not make a full end.
4.28 For these things let the earth mourn, and let
the sky be dark above: for I have spoken, and I will not repent; I have
purposed, and I will not turn back from it.
4.29 The whole land has recoiled from the noise of
the horseman and the bent bow; they have gone into the caves, and have
hidden themselves in the groves, and have gone up upon the rocks: every
city was abandoned, no man dwelt in them.
4.30 And what wilt thou do? Though thou clothe
thyself with scarlet, and adorn thyself with golden ornaments; though
thou adorn thine eyes with stibium, thy beauty [will be] in vain: thy
lovers have rejected thee, they seek thy life.
4.31 For I have heard thy groaning as the voice of a
woman in travail, as of her that brings forth her first child; the
voice of the daughter of Zion shall fail through weakness, and she
shall lose the strength of her hands, [saying], Woe is me! for my soul
faints because of the slain.
5.1
Run ye about in the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek
in her broad places, if ye can find [one], if there is any one that
does judgment, and seeks faithfulness; and I will pardon them, saith
the Lord.
5.2 The Lord lives, they say; do they not therefore swear falsely?
5.3 O Lord, thine eyes are upon faithfulness:
thou hast scourged them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed
them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces
harder than a rock; and they would not return.
5.4 Then I said, It may be they are poor; for
they are weak, for they know not the way of the Lord, or the judgment
of God.
5.5 I will go to the rich men, and will speak
to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of
God: but, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have
burst the bonds.
5.6 Therefore has a lion out of the forest
smitten them, and a wolf has destroyed them even to [their] houses, and
a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them
shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have
strengthened themselves in their revoltings.
5.7 In what [way] shall I forgive thee for
these things? Thy sons have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no
gods: and I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and
lodged in harlots' houses.
5.8 They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbour's wife.
5.9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith
the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this.
5.10 Go up upon her battlements, and break [them]
down; but make not a full end: leave her buttresses: for they are the
Lord's.
5.11 For the house of Israel have indeed dealt
treacherously against me, saith the Lord: the house of Juda also
5.12 have lied to their Lord, and they have said,
These things are not so; no evils shall come upon us; and we shall not
see sword or famine.
5.13 Our prophets became wind, and the word of the Lord was not in them.
5.14 Therefore thus saith the Lord Almighty, Because
ye have spoken this word, behold, I have made my words in thy mouth
fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
5.15 Behold, I [will] bring upon you a nation from
far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord; a nation the sound of whose
language on shall not understand.
5.16 [They are] all mighty men:
5.17 and they shall devour you harvest, and your
bread; and shall devour your sons, and your daughters; and they shall
devour your sheep, and your calves, and devour your vineyards, and your
fig-plantations, and your olive yards: and they shall utterly destroy
your strong cities, wherein ye trusted, with the sword.
5.18 And it shall come to pass in those days, saith the Lord thy God, that I will not utterly destroy you.
5.19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say,
Wherefore has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that thou
shalt say to them, Because ye served strange gods in your land, so
shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
5.20 Proclaim these things to the house of Jacob, and let them be heard in the house of Juda.
5.21 Hear ye now these things, O foolish and
senseless people; who have eyes, and see not; and have ears, and hear
not:
5.22 will ye not be afraid of me? saith the Lord; and
will ye not fear before me, who have set the sand for a bound to the
sea, [as] a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it: yea, it
shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass
over it.
5.23 But this people has a disobedient and rebellious heart; and they have turned aside and gone back:
5.24 and they have not said in their heart, Let us
fear now the Lord our God, who gives us the early and latter rain,
according to the season of the fulfillment of the ordinance of harvest,
and has preserved [it] for us.
5.25 Your transgressions have turned away these things, and your sins have removed good things from you.
5.26 For among my people were found ungodly men; and
they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught [them].
5.27 As a snare which has been set is full of birds,
so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great,
and become rich:
5.28 and they have transgressed [the rule of]
judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they
judged the cause of the widow.
5.29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the
Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
5.30 Shocking and horrible deeds have been done on the land;
5.31 the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and
the priests have clapped their hands: and my people has loved [to have
it] thus: and what will ye do for the future.
6.1
Strengthen yourselves, ye children of Benjamin, [to flee] out of the
midst of Jerusalem, and sound an alarm with the trumpet in Thecue, and
set up a signal over Baethacharma: for evil threatens from the north,
and a great destruction is coming.
6.2 And [thy] pride, O daughter of Sion, shall be taken away.
6.3 The shepherds and their flocks shall come
to her; and they shall pitch [their] tents against her round about, and
shall feed [their flocks] each with his hand.
6.4 Prepare yourselves for war against her;
rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us! for the day
has gone down, for the shadows of the day fail.
6.5 Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.
6.6 For thus saith the Lord, Hew down her
trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city; [there
is] all oppression in her.
6.7 As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness
cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, [as]
continually before her.
6.8 Thou shalt be chastened, O Jerusalem, with
pain and the scourge, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee a
desert land, which shall not be inhabited.
6.9 For thus saith the Lord, Glean, glean
thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel: turn back [your hands] as a
grape-gatherer to his basket.
6.10 To whom shall I speak, and testify, that he may
hearken? behold, thine ears are uncircumcised, and they shall not be
able to hear: behold, the word of the Lord is become to them a
reproach, they will not at all desire it.
6.11 And I allowed my wrath to come to full, yet I
kept [it] in, and did not utterly destroy them: I will pour it out on
the children without, and on the assembly of young men together: for
man and woman shall be taken together, the old man with him that is
full of days.
6.12 And their houses shall be turned to others,
[with] their fields and their wives together: for I will stretch out my
hand upon the inhabitants of this land, saith the Lord.
6.13 For from the least of them even to the greatest
they have all committed iniquity; from the priest even to the false
prophet they have all wrought falsely.
6.14 And they healed the breach of my people
[imperfectly], making light [of it], and saying, Peace, peace, and
where is peace?
6.15 They were ashamed because they failed; yet they
were not ashamed as those who are [truly] ashamed, and they knew not
their own disgrace: therefore shall they [utterly] fall when they do
fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, said the Lord.
6.16 Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and
see, and ask for the old paths of the Lord; and see what is the good
way, and walk in it, and ye shall find purification for your souls. But
they said, We will not walk [in them].
6.17 I have set watchmen over you, [saying], Hear ye
the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hear [it].
6.18 Therefore have the nations heard, and they that feed their flocks.
6.19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evils upon
this people, [even] the fruit of their rebellions; for they have not
heeded my words, and they have rejected my law.
6.20 Wherefore do ye bring me frankincense from Saba,
and cinnamon from a land afar off? your whole-burnt-offerings are not
acceptable, and your sacrifices have not been pleasant to me.
6.21 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I [will]
bring weakness upon this people, and the fathers and sons shall be weak
together; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
6.22 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people comes from
the north, and nations shall be stirred up from the end of the earth.
6.23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; [the
people] is fierce, and will have no mercy; their voice is as the
roaring sea; they shall array themselves for war against thee as fire
on horses and chariots, O daughter of Sion.
6.24 We have heard the report of them: our hands are
weakened: anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.
6.25 Go not forth into the field, and walk not in the ways; for the sword of the enemy lingers round about.
6.26 O daughter of my people, gird thyself with
sackcloth: sprinkle [thyself] with ashes; make for thyself pitiable
lamentation, [as] the mourning for a beloved [son]: for misery will
come suddenly upon you.
6.27 I have caused thee to be tried among tried nations, and thou shalt know me when I have tried their way.
6.28 [They are] all disobedient, walking perversely: [they are] brass and iron; they are all corrupted.
6.29 The bellows have failed from the fire, the lead
has failed: the silversmith works at his trade in vain; their
wickedness is not consumed.
6.30 Call ye them reprobate silver, because the Lord has rejected them.
7.1 [vide]
7.2 Hear ye the word of the Lord, all Judea.
7.3 Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Correct
your ways and your devices, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
7.4 Trust not in yourselves with lying words,
for they shall not profit you at all, saying, It is the temple of the
Lord, the temple of the Lord.
7.5 For if ye thoroughly correct your ways and
your practices, and do indeed execute judgment between a man and his
neighbour;
7.6 and oppress not the stranger, and the
orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and
go not after strange gods to your hurt:
7.7 then will I cause you to dwell in this
place, in the land which I gave to your fathers of old and for ever.
7.8 But whereas ye have trusted in lying words, whereby ye shall not be profited;
7.9 and ye murder, and commit adultery, and
steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and are gone after
strange gods whom ye know not,
7.10 so that it is evil with you; yet have ye come,
and stood before me in the house, whereon my name is called, and ye
have said, We have refrained from doing all these abominations.
7.11 Is my house, whereon my name is called, a den of
robbers in your eyes? And, behold, I have seen [it], saith the Lord.
7.12 For go ye to my place with is in Selo, where I
caused my name to dwell before, and see what I did to it because of the
wickedness of my people Israel.
7.13 And now, because ye have done all these deeds,
and I spoke to you, but ye hearkened not to me; and I called you, but
ye answered not;
7.14 therefore I also will do to the house whereon my
name is called, wherein ye trust, and to the place which I gave to you
and to your fathers, as I did to Selo.
7.15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast away your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.
7.16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, and
intercede not for them to be pitied, yea, pray not, and approach me not
for them: for I will not hearken [unto thee].
7.17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
7.18 Their children gather wood, and their fathers
kindle a fire, and their women knead dough, to make cakes to the host
of heaven; and they have poured out drink-offerings to strange gods,
that they might provoke me to anger.
7.19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do
they not [provoke] themselves, that their faces may be ashamed?
7.20 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, my anger
and wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and upon the men, and
upon the cattle, and upon every tree of their field, and upon the
fruits of the land; and it shall burn, and not be quenched.
7.21 Thus saith the Lord, Gather your whole-burnt-offerings with your meat-offerings, and eat flesh.
7.22 For I spoke not to your fathers, and commanded
them not in the day wherein I brought them up out of the land of Egypt,
concerning whole-burnt-offerings and sacrifice:
7.23 but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hear ye
my voice, and I will be to you a God, and ye shall be to me a people:
and walk ye in all my ways which I shall command you, that it may be
well with you.
7.24 But they hearkened not to me, and their ear gave
no heed, but they walked in the imaginations of their evil heart, and
went backward, and not forward;
7.25 from the day that their fathers went forth out
of the land of Egypt, even until this day. And I sent to you all my
servants, the prophets, by day and early in the morning: yea, I sent
[them],
7.26 but they hearkened not to me, and their ear gave
no heed; and they made their neck harder than their fathers.
7.27 Therefore thou shalt speak this word to them;
7.28 This is the nation which has not hearkened to
the voice of the Lord, nor received correction: truth has failed from
their mouth.
7.29 Cut off thine hair, and cast it away, and take
up a lamentation on thy lips; for the Lord has reprobated and rejected
the generation that does these things.
7.30 For the children of Juda have wrought evil
before me, saith the Lord; they have set their abominations in the
house on which my name is called, to defile it.
7.31 And they have built the altar of Tapheth, which
is in the valley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons and their
daughters with fire; which I did not command them [to do], neither did
I design it in my heart.
7.32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
Lord, when they shall no more say, The altar of Tapheth, and the valley
of the son of Ennom, but, The valley of the slain; and they shall bury
in Tapheth, for want of room.
7.33 And the dead bodies of this people shall be for
food to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and
there shall be none to drive [them] away.
7.34 And I will destroy out of the cities of Juda,
and the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of them that make merry, and
the voice of them that rejoice, the voice of the bridegroom, and the
voice of the bride; for the whole land shall become a desolation.
8.1
At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the
kings of Juda, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the
priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;
8.2 and they shall spread them out to the sun,
and the moon, and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven,
which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they
have walked, and to which they have held, and which they have
worshipped; they shall not be mourned for, neither shall they be
buried; but they shall be for an example on the face of the earth,
8.3 because they chose death rather than life,
even to all the remnant that are left of that family, in every place
whither I shall drive them out.
8.4 For thus saith the Lord, Shall not he that
falls arise? or he that turns away, shall he not turn back again?
8.5 Wherefore has this my people turned away
with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their
willfulness, and refused to return?
8.6 Hearken, I pray you, and hear: will they
not speak thus, There is no man that repents of his wickedness, saying,
What have I done? the runner has failed from his course, as a tired
horse in his neighing.
8.7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her
time, [also] the turtle-dove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the
times of their coming in; but this my people knows not the judgments of
the Lord.
8.8 How will ye say, We are wise, and the law
of the Lord is with us? In vain have the scribes used a false pen.
8.9 The wise men are ashamed, and alarmed, and
taken; because they have rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is
there in them?
8.10 Therefore will I give their wives to others, and
their fields to [new] inheritors; and they shall gather their fruits,
saith the Lord.
8.11 [vide]
8.12 [vide]
8.13 There are no grapes on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig-trees, and the leaves have fallen off.
8.14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and
let us enter into the strong cities, and let us be cast out there: for
God has cast us out, and made us drink water of gall, because we have
sinned before him.
8.15 We assembled for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, but behold anxiety.
8.16 We shall hear the neighing o his swift horses
out of Dan: the whole land quaked at the sound of the neighing of his
horses; and he shall come, and devour the land and the fullness of it;
the city, and them that dwell in it.
8.17 For, behold, I send forth against you deadly serpents, which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you
8.18 mortally with the pain of your distressed heart.
8.19 Behold, [there is] a sound of the cry of the
daughter of my people from a land afar off: Is not the Lord in Sion? is
there not a king there? because they have provoked me with their graven
[images], and with strange vanities.
8.20 The summer is gone, the harvest is past, and we are not saved.
8.21 For the breach of the daughter of my people I
have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a
woman in travail.
8.22 And is there no balm in Galaad, or is there no
physician there? why has not the healing of the daughter of my people
taken place?
9.1
Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes?
then would I weep for this my people day and night, [even] for the
slain of the daughter of my people.
9.2 Who would give me a most distant lodge in
the wilderness, that I might leave my people, and depart from them? for
they all commit adultery, an assembly of treacherous men.
9.3 And they have bent their tongue like a bow:
falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they
have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known me, saith the Lord.
9.4 Beware ye each of his neighbour, and trust
ye not in your brethren: for every one will surely supplant, and every
friend will walk craftily.
9.5 Every one will mock his friend; they will
not speak truth: their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they
have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.
9.6 [There is] usury upon usury, and deceit upon deceit: they would not know me, saith the Lord.
9.7 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I
will try them with fire, and prove them; for I will do [thus] because
of the wickedness of the daughter of my people.
9.8 Their tongue is a wounding arrow; the words
of their mouth are deceitful: [one] speaks peaceably to his neighbour,
but in himself retains enmity.
9.9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith
the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a people as this?
9.10 Take up a lamentation for the mountains, and a
mournful dirge for the paths of the wilderness, for they are desolate
for want of men; they heard not the sound of life from the birds of the
sky, nor the cattle: they were amazed, they are gone.
9.11 And I will remove the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and make it a dwelling-place of dragons; and I will utterly waste the
cities of Juda, so that they shall not be inhabited.
9.12 Who is the wise man, that he may understand
this? and he that has the word of the mouth of the Lord [addressed] to
him, let him tell you wherefore the land has been destroyed, has been
ravaged by fire like a desert, so that no one passes through it.
9.13 And the Lord said to me, Because they have
forsaken my law, which I set before them, and have not hearkened to my
voice;
9.14 but went after the lusts of their evil heart,
and after the idols which their fathers taught them [to worship]:
9.15 therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel,
Behold, I will feed them with trouble and will cause them to drink
water of gall:
9.16 and I will scatter them among the nations, to
them whom neither they nor their fathers knew; and I will send a sword
upon them, until I have consumed them with it.
9.17 Thus saith the Lord, Call ye the mourning women,
and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their
voice;
9.18 and let them take up a lamentation for you, and
let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.
9.19 For a voice of lamentation has been heard in
Sion, How are we become wretched! we are greatly ashamed, for we have
forsaken the land, and have abandoned our tabernacles!
9.20 Hear now, ye women, the word of God, and let
your ears receive the words of his mouth, and teach your daughters
lamentation, and [every] woman her neighbour a dirge.
9.21 For death has come up through your windows, it
has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the
young men from the streets.
9.22 And the carcases of the men shall be for an
example on the face of the field of your land, like grass after the
mower, and there shall be none to gather [them].
9.23 Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man boast
in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and
let not the rich man boast in his wealth;
9.24 but let him that boasts boast in this, the
understanding and knowing that I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and
judgment, and righteousness, upon the earth; for in these things is my
pleasure, saith the Lord.
9.25 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will visit upon all the circumcised their uncircumcision;
9.26 on Egypt, and on Idumea, and on Edom, and on the
children of Ammon, and on the children of Moab, and on every one that
shaves his face round about, [even] them that dwell in the wilderness;
for all the Gentiles are uncircumcised in flesh, and all the house of
Israel are uncircumcised [in] their hearts.
10.1 Hear ye the word of the Lord, which he has spoken to you, O house of Israel.
10.2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn ye not the ways of
the heathen, and be not alarmed at the signs of the sky; for they are
alarmed at them, [falling] on their faces.
10.3 For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a
tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten
image.
10.4 [They are] beautified with silver and gold, they fix them with hammers and nails;
10.5 they will set them up that they may not move;
10.6 it is wrought silver, they will not walk, it is forged silver
10.7 [vide]
10.8 [vide]
10.9 [brought] from Tharsis, gold will come from
Mophaz, and the work of goldsmiths: [they are] all the works of
craftsmen, they will clothe themselves with blue and scarlet.
10.10 They must certainly be borne, for they cannot ride
[of themselves]. Fear them not; for they cannot do any evil, and there
is no good in them.
10.11 Thus shall ye say to them, Let the gods which have
not made heaven and earth perish from off the earth, and from under
this sky.
10.12 It is the Lord that made the earth by his strength,
who set up the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched
out the sky,
10.13 and set abundance of waters in the sky, and brought
up clouds from the ends of the earth; he made lightnings for the rain,
and brought forth light out of his treasures.
10.14 Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith
is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods,
there is no breath in them.
10.15 They are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
10.16 Such is not the portion of Jacob; for he that formed all things, he is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.
10.17 He has gathered thy substance from without the lodged in choice [vessels].
10.18 For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I [will] overthrow
the inhabitants of this land with affliction, that thy plague may be
discovered.
10.19 Alas for thy ruin! thy plague is grievous: and I said, Surely this is thy wound, and it has overtaken thee.
10.20 Thy tabernacle is in a ruinous state, it has
perished; and all thy curtains have been torn asunder: my children and
my cattle are no more: there is no more any place for my tabernacle,
[nor] place for my curtains.
10.21 For the shepherds have become foolish, and have not
sought the Lord; therefore the whole pasture has failed, and [the
sheep] have been scattered.
10.22 Behold, there comes a sound of a noise, and a great
earthquake from the land of the north, to make the cities of Juda a
desolation, and a resting-place for ostriches.
10.23 I know, O Lord, that man's way is not his own; neither shall a man go, and direct his going.
10.24 Chasten us, O Lord, but with judgment; and not in wrath, lest thou make us few.
10.25 Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not
known thee, and upon the families that have not called upon thy name:
for they ave devoured Jacob, and consumed him, and have made his
pasture desolate.
11.1 The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying,
11.2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and thou
shalt speak to the men of Juda, and to the dwellers in Jerusalem;
11.3 and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord
God of Israel, Cursed is the man, who shall not hearken to the words of
this covenant,
11.4 which I commanded your fathers, in the day
wherein I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron
furnace, saying, Hearken to my voice, and do all things that I shall
command you; so shall ye be to me a people, and I will be to you a God;
11.5 that I may confirm mine oath, which I sware to
your fathers, to give them a land flowing [with] milk and honey, as [it
is] this day. Then I answered and said, So be it, O Lord.
11.6 And the Lord said to me, Read these words in the
cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the
words of this covenant, and do them.
11.7 [vide]
11.8 But they did [them] not.
11.9 And the Lord said to me, A conspiracy is found
among the men of Juda, and among the dwellers in Jerusalem.
11.10 They are turned [aside] to the iniquities of their
fathers that were of old, who would not hearken to my words: and,
behold, they go after strange gods, to serve them: and the house of
Israel and the house of Juda have broken my covenant, which I made with
their fathers.
11.11 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I bring evils
upon this people, out of which they shall not be able to come forth;
and they shall presently cry to me, but I will not hearken to them.
11.12 And the cities of Juda and the dwellers in Jerusalem
shall go, and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense; which shall
not deliver them in the time of their troubles.
11.13 For according to the number of thy cities were thy
gods, O Juda; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem
have ye set up altars to burn incense to Baal.
11.14 And thou, pray not for this people, and intercede not
for them in supplication an prayer: for I will not hear in the day in
which they call upon me, in the day of their affliction.
11.15 Why has [my] beloved wrought abomination in my house?
will prayers and holy offerings take away thy wickedness from thee, or
shalt thou escape by these things?
11.16 The Lord called thy name a fair olive tree, of a
goodly shade in appearance, at the noise of its being lopped, fire was
kindled against it; great is the affliction [coming] upon thee: her
branches are become good for nothing.
11.17 And the Lord that planted thee has pronounced evils
against thee, because of the iniquity of the house of Israel and the
house of Juda, whatsoever they have done against themselves to provoke
me to anger by burning incense to Baal.
11.18 O Lord, teach me, and I shall know: then I saw their practices.
11.19 But I as an innocent lamb led to the slaughter, knew
not: against me they devised an evil device, saying, Come and let us
put wood into his bread, and let us utterly destroy him from off the
land of the living, and let his name not be remembered any more.
11.20 O Lord, that judgest righteously, trying the reins
and hearts, let me see thy vengeance [taken] upon them, for to thee I
have declared my cause.
11.21 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the men of
Anathoth, that seek my life, that say, Thou shalt not prophesy at all
in the name of the Lord, but if thou dost, thou shalt die by our hands:
11.22 behold, I will visit them: their young men shall die
by the sword; and their sons and their daughters shall die of famine:
11.23 and there shall be no remnant [left] of them; for I
will bring evil upon the dwellers in Anathoth, in the year of their
visitation.
12.1
Righteous art thou, O Lord, that I may make my defence to thee, yea, I
will speak to thee [of] judgments. Why [is it] that the way of ungodly
[men] prospers? [that] all hat deal very treacherously are flourishing?
12.2 Thou hast planted them, and they have taken
root; they have begotten children, and become fruitful; thou art near
to their mouth, and art from their reins.
12.3 But thou, Lord, knowest me; thou hast proved my
heart before thee; purify them for the day of their slaughter.
12.4 How long shall the land mourn, and the grass of
the field wither, for the wickedness of them, that dwell in it? the
beasts and birds are utterly destroyed; because [the people] said, God
shall not see our ways.
12.5 Thy feet run, and they cause thee to faint; how
wilt thou prepare [to ride] upon horses? and thou hast been confident
in the land of thy peace? how wilt thou do in the roaring of Jordan?
12.6 For even thy brethren and the house of thy
father, even these have dealt treacherously with thee; and they have
cried out, they are gathered together in pursuit of thee; trust not
thou in them, though they shall speak fair [words] to thee.
12.7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine
heritage; I have given my beloved one into the hands of her enemies.
12.8 My inheritance has become to me as a lion in a
forest; she has uttered her voice against me; therefore have I hated
her.
12.9 Is not my inheritance to me a hyaena's cave, or
a cave round about her? Go ye, gather together all the wild beasts of
the field, and let them come to devour her.
12.10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have
defiled my portion, they have made my desirable portion a trackless
wilderness;
12.11 it is made a complete ruin: for my sake the whole
land has been utterly ruined, because there is none that lays [the
matter] to heart.
12.12 The ravagers are come to every passage in the
wilderness: for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the
land to the other: no flesh has any peace.
12.13 Sow wheat, and reap thorns; their portions shall not
profit them: be ashamed of your boasting, because of reproach before
the Lord.
12.14 For thus saith the Lord, concerning all the evil
neighbours that touch mine inheritance, which I have divided to my
people Israel; Behold, I [will] draw them away from their land, and I
will cast out Juda from the midst of them.
12.15 And it shall come to pass, after I have cast them
out, [that] I will return, and have mercy upon them, and will cause
them to dwell every one in his inheritance, and every one is his land.
12.16 And it shall be, if they will indeed learn the way of
my people, to swear by my name, [saying], The Lord lives; as they
taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall [that nation] be built in
the midst of my people.
12.17 But if they will not return, then will I cut off that nation with utter ruin and destruction.
13.1
Thus saith the Lord, Go and procure for thyself a linen girdle, and put
it about thy loins, and let it not be put in water.
13.2 So I procured the girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it about my loins.
13.3 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
13.4 Take the girdle that is upon thy loins, and
arise, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
13.5 So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
13.6 And it came to pass after many days, that the
Lord said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take thence the
girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there.
13.7 So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and
took the girdle out of the place where I [had] buried it: and, behold,
it was rotten, utterly good for nothing.
13.8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord,
13.9 Thus will I mar the pride of Juda, and the pride of Jerusalem;
13.10 [even] this great pride [of the men] that will not
hearken to my words, and have gone after strange gods, to serve them,
and to worship them: and they shall be as this girdle, which can be
used for nothing.
13.11 For as a girdle cleaves about the loins of a man, so
have I caused to cleave to myself the house of Israel, and the whole
house of Juda; that they might be to me a famous people, and a praise,
and a glory: but they did not hearken to me.
13.12 And thou shalt say to this people, Every bottle shall
be filled with wine: and it shall come to pass, if they shall say to
thee, Shall we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled
with wine? that thou shalt say to them,
13.13 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I [will] fill the
inhabitants of this land, and their kings the sons of David that sit
upon their throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and Juda and all
the dwellers in Jerusalem, with strong drink.
13.14 And I will scatter them a man and his brother, and
their fathers and their sons together: I will not have compassion,
saith the Lord, and I will not spare, neither will I pity [to save
them] from destruction.
13.15 Hear ye, and give ear, and be not proud: for the Lord has spoken.
13.16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause
darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and ye
shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be
brought into darkness.
13.17 But if ye will not hearken, your soul shall weep in
secret because of pride, and your eyes shall pour down tears, because
the Lord's flock is sorely bruised.
13.18 Say ye to the king and the princes, Humble
yourselves, and sit down; for your crown of glory is removed from your
head.
13.19 The cities toward the south were shut, and there was
none to open [them]: Juda is removed [into captivity,] they have
suffered a complete removal.
13.20 Lift up thine eyes, O Jerusalem, and behold them that
come from the north; where is the flock that was given thee, the sheep
of thy glory?
13.21 What wilt thou say when they shall visit thee, for
thou didst teach them lessons for rule against thyself; shall not pangs
seize thee as a woman in travail?
13.22 And if thou shouldest say in thine heart, Wherefore
have these things happened to me? Because of the abundance of thine
iniquity have thy skirts been discovered, that thine heels might be
exposed.
13.23 If the Ethiopian shall change his skin, or the
leopardess her spots, then shall ye be able to do good, having learnt
evil.
13.24 So I scattered them as sticks carried by the wind into the wilderness.
13.25 Thus is thy lot, and the reward of your disobedience
to me, saith he Lord; as thou didst forget me, and trust in lies,
13.26 I also will expose thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall be seen;
13.27 thine adultery also, and thy neighing, and the
looseness of thy fornication: on the hills and in the fields I have
seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, for thou hast not
been purified so as to follow me; how long yet [shall it be]?
14.1 AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JEREMIAS CONCERNING THE DROUGHT.
14.2 Judea has mourned, and her gates are emptied,
and are darkened upon the earth; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
14.3 And her nobles have sent their little ones to
the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back
their vessels empty.
14.4 And the labours of the land failed, because
there was no rain: the husbandmen were ashamed, they covered their
heads.
14.5 And hinds calved in the field, and forsook [it], because there was no grass.
14.6 The wild asses stood by the forests, and snuffed
up the wind; their eyes failed, because there was no grass.
14.7 Our sins have risen up against us: O Lord, do
thou for us for thine own sake; for our sins are many before thee; for
we have sinned against thee.
14.8 O Lord, [thou art] the hope of Israel, and
deliverest [us] in time of troubles; why art thou become as a sojourner
upon the land, or as one born in the land, yet turning aside for a
resting-place?
14.9 Wilt thou be as a man asleep, or as a [strong]
man that cannot save? yet thou art among us, O Lord, and thy name is
called upon us; forget us not.
14.10 Thus saith the Lord to this people, They have loved
to wander, and they have not spared, therefore God has not prospered
them; now will he remember their iniquity.
14.11 And the Lord said to me, Pray not for this people for [their] good:
14.12 for though they fast, I will not hear their
supplication; and though they offer whole-burnt-offerings and
sacrifices, I will take no pleasure in them: for I will consume them
with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence.
14.13 And I said, O [ever] living Lord! behold, their
prophets prophesy, and say, Ye shall not see a sword, nor shall famine
be among you; for I will give truth and peace on the land, and in this
place.
14.14 Then the Lord said to me, The prophets prophesy lies
in my name: I sent them not, and I commanded them not, and I spoke not
to them: for they prophesy to you false visions, and divinations, and
auguries, and devices of their own heart.
14.15 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets
that prophesy lies in my name, and I sent them not, who say, Sword and
famine shall not be upon this land; they shall die by a grievous death,
and the prophets shall be consumed by famine.
14.16 And the people to whom they prophesy, they also shall
be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, because of the sword and
famine; and there shall be none to bury them: their wives also, and
their sons, and their daughters [shall die thus]; and I will pour out
their wickedness upon them.
14.17 And thou shalt speak this word to them; Let your eyes
shed tears day and night, and let them not cease: for the daughter of
my people has been sorely bruised, and her plague is very grievous.
14.18 If I go forth into the plain, then behold the slain
by the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold the distress of
famine! for priest and prophet have gone to a land which they knew not.
14.19 Hast thou utterly rejected Juda? and has thy soul
departed from Sion? wherefore has thou smitten us, and there is no
healing for us? we waited for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a
time of healing, and behold trouble!
14.20 We know, O Lord, our sins, [and] the iniquities of our fathers: for we have sinned before thee.
14.21 Refrain for thy name's sake, destroy not the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
14.22 Is there any one among the idols of the Gentiles that
can give rain? and will the sky yield his fulness [at their bidding]?
Art not thou he? we will even wait on thee, O Lord: for thou hast made
all these things.
15.1
And the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before my face,
my soul could not be toward them: dismiss this people, and let them go
forth.
15.2 And it shall be, if they say to thee, Whither
shall we go forth? then thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord; As
many as are for death, to death; and as many as are for famine, to
famine; and as many as are for the sword, to the sword; and as many as
are for captivity, to captivity.
15.3 And I will punish them with four kinds [of
death], saith the Lord, the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and
the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the sky to devour and
destroy.
15.4 And I will deliver them up for distress to all
the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasses son of Ezekias king of
Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.
15.5 Who will spare thee, O Jerusalem? and who will
fear for thee? or who will turn back [to] [ask] for thy welfare?
15.6 Thou hast turned away from me, saith the Lord,
thou wilt go back: therefore I will stretch out my hand, and will
destroy thee, and will no more spare them.
15.7 And I will completely scatter them; in the gates
of my people they are bereaved of children: they have destroyed my
people because of their iniquities.
15.8 Their widows have been multiplied more than the
sand of the sea: I have brought young men against the mother, [even]
distress at noon-day: I have suddenly cast upon her trembling and
anxiety.
15.9 She that bore seven is spent; her soul has
fainted under trouble; her sun is gone down while it is yet noon; she
is ashamed and disgraced: I will give the remnant of them to the sword
before their enemies.
15.10 Woe is me, [my] mother! thou hast born me as some man
of strife, and at variance with the whole earth; I have not helped
[others], nor has any one helped me; my strength has failed among them
that curse me.
15.11 Be it so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood
before thee in the time of their calamities, and in the time of their
affliction, for [their] good against the enemy.
15.12 Will iron be known? whereas thy strength is a brazen covering.
15.13 Yea, I will give thy treasures for a spoil as a
recompence, because of all thy sins and [that] in all thy borders.
15.14 And I will enslave thee to thine enemies round about,
in a land which thou hast not known; for a fire has been kindled out of
my wrath; it shall burn upon you.
15.15 O Lord, remember me, and visit me, and vindicate me
before them that persecute me; do not bear long with them; know how I
have met with reproach for thy sake, from those who set at nought thy
words;
15.16 consume them; and thy word shall be to me for the joy
and gladness of my heart: for thy name has been called upon me, O Lord
Almighty.
15.17 I have not sat in the assembly of them as they
mocked, but I feared because of thy power: I sat alone, for I was
filled with bitterness.
15.18 Why do they that grieve me prevail against me? my
wound is severe; whence shall I be healed? it is indeed become to me as
deceitful water, that has no faithfulness.
15.19 Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou wilt return,
then will I restore thee, and thou shalt stand before my face: and if
thou wilt bring forth the precious from the worthless, thou shalt be as
my mouth: and they shall return to thee; but thou shalt not return to
them.
15.20 And I will make thee to this people as a strong
brazen wall; and they shall fight against thee, but they shall by no
means prevail against thee;
15.21 for I am with thee to save thee, and to deliver thee
out of the hand of wicked [men]; and I will ransom thee out of the hand
of pestilent [men].
16.1 And thou shalt not take a wife, saith the Lord God of Israel:
16.2 and there shall be no son born to thee, nor daughter in this place.
16.3 For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and
concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning
their mothers that have born them, and concerning their fathers that
have begotten them in this land;
16.4 They shall die of grievous death; they shall not
be lamented, nor buried; they shall be for an example on the face of
the earth; and they shall be for the wild beasts of the land, and for
the birds of the sky: they shall fall by the sword, and shall be
consumed with famine.
16.5 Thus saith the Lord, Enter not into their
mourning feast, and go not to lament, and mourn not for them: for I
have removed my peace from this people.
16.6 They shall not bewail them, nor make cuttings for them, and they shall not shave themselves [for them]:
16.7 and there shall be no bread broken in mourning
for them for consolation over the dead: they shall not give one to
drink a cup for consolation over his father or his mother.
16.8 Thou shalt not enter into the banquet-house, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
16.9 For thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I
[will] make to cease out of this place before your eyes, and in your
days, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
16.10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt report to
this people all these words, and they shall say to thee, Wherefore has
the Lord pronounced against us all these evils? what is our
unrighteousness? and what is our sin which we have sinned before the
Lord our God?
16.11 Then thou shalt say to them, Because your fathers
forsook me, saith the Lord, and went after strange gods and served
them, and worshipped them, and forsook me, and kept not my law;
16.12 (and ye sinned worse than your fathers; for, behold,
ye walk every one after the lusts of your own evil heart, so as not to
hearken to me);
16.13 therefore I will cast you off from this good land
into a land which neither ye nor your fathers have known; and ye shall
serve their other gods, who shall have no mercy upon you.
16.14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
when they shall no more say, The Lord lives, that brought up the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
16.15 but, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of
Israel from the land of the north, and from all countries whither they
were thrust out: and I will restore tem to their own land, which I gave
to their fathers.
16.16 Behold, I [will] send many fishers, saith the Lord,
and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send many hunters, and
they shall hunt them upon every mountain, and upon every hill, and out
of the holes of the rocks.
16.17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways; and their iniquities have not been hidden from mine eyes.
16.18 And I will recompense their mischiefs doubly, and
their sins, whereby they have profaned my land with the carcases of
their abominations, and with their iniquities, whereby they have
trespassed against mine inheritance.
16.19 O Lord, thou art my strength, and mine help, and my
refuge in days of evil: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the end of
the earth, and shall say, How vain [were the] idols [which] our fathers
procured to themselves, and there is no help in them.
16.20 Will a man make gods for himself, whereas these are no gods?
16.21 Therefore, behold, I will at this time manifest my
hand to them, and will make known to them my power; and they shall know
that my name is the Lord.
17.1 [vide]
17.2 [vide]
17.3 [vide]
17.4 [vide]
17.5 Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and will
lean his arm of flesh upon him, while his heart departs from the Lord.
17.6 And he shall be as the wild tamarisk in the
desert: he shall not see when good comes; but he shall dwell in barren
[places], and in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.
17.7 But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord shall be.
17.8 And he shall be as a thriving tree by the
waters, and he shall cast forth his root toward a moist place: he shall
not fear when heat comes, and there shall be upon him shady branches:
he shall not fear in a year of drought, and he shall not fail to bear
fruit.
17.9 The heart is deep beyond all things, and it is the man, and who can know him?
17.10 I the Lord try the hearts, and prove the reins, to
give to every one according to his ways, and according to the fruits of
his devices.
17.11 The partridge utters her voice, she gathers [eggs]
which she did not lay; [so is a man] gaining his wealth unjustly; in
the midst of his days [his riches] shall leave him, and at his latter
end he will be a fool.
17.12 An exalted throne of glory is our sanctuary.
17.13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, let all that have left
thee be ashamed, let them that have revolted be written on the earth,
because they have forsaken the fountain of life, the Lord.
17.14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved; for thou art my boast.
17.15 Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come.
17.16 But I have not been weary of following thee, nor have
I desired the day of man; thou knowest; the [words] that proceed out of
my lips are before thy face.
17.17 Be not to me a stranger, [but] spare me in the evil day.
17.18 Let them that persecute me bee ashamed, but let me
not be ashamed: let them be alarmed, but let me not be alarmed: bring
upon them the evil day, crush them with double destruction.
17.19 Thus saith the Lord; Go and stand in the gates of the
children of thy people, by which the kings of Juda enter, and by which
they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem:
17.20 and thou shalt say to them, Hear the word of the
Lord, ye kings of Juda, and all Judea, and all Jerusalem, [all] who go
in at these gates:
17.21 thus saith the Lord; Take heed to your souls, and
take up no burdens on the sabbath-day, and go not forth [through] the
gates of Jerusalem;
17.22 and carry forth no burdens out of your houses on the
sabbath-day, and ye shall do no work: sanctify the sabbath-day, as I
commanded your fathers.
17.23 But they hearkened not, and inclined not their ear,
but stiffened their neck more than their fathers [did], so as not to
hear me, and not to receive correction.
17.24 And it shall come to pass, if ye will hearken to me,
saith the Lord, to carry in no burdens through the gates of this city
on the sabbath-day, and to sanctify the sabbath-day, so as to do no
work [upon it],
17.25 that there shall enter through the gates of this city
kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, and riding on their
chariots and horses, they, and their princes, the men of Juda, and the
dwellers in Jerusalem: and this city shall be inhabited for ever.
17.26 And [men] shall come out of the cities of Juda, and
from round about Jerusalem, and out of the land of Benjamin, and out of
the plain country, and from the hill country, and from the south
[country], bringing whole-burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and incense,
and manna, and frankincense, bringing praise to the house of the Lord.
17.27 But it shall come to pass, if ye will not hearken to
me to sanctify the sabbath-day, to bear no burdens, nor go in [with
them by] the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath-day; then will I kindle
a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the streets of
Jerusalem, and shall not be quenched.
18.1 The word that came from the Lord to
18.2 Jeremias, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there thou shalt hear my words.
18.3 So I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was making a vessel on the stones.
18.4 And the vessel which he was making with his
hands fell: so he made it again another vessel, as it seemed good to
him to make [it].
18.5 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
18.6 Shall I not be able, O house of Israel, to do to
you as this potter? behold, as the clay of the potter are ye in my
hands.
18.7 [If] I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation, or upon a kingdom, to cut them off, and to destroy [them];
18.8 and that nation turn from all their sins, then will I repent of the evils which I purposed to do to them.
18.9 And [if] I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation and kingdom, to rebuild and to plant [it];
18.10 and they do evil before me, so as not to hearken to
my voice, then will I repent of the good which I spoke of, to do it to
them.
18.11 And now say to the men of Juda, and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, Behold, I prepare evils against you, and
devise a device against you: let every one turn now from his evil way,
and amend your practices.
18.12 And they said, We will quit ourselves like men, for
we will pursue our perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of
his evil heart.
18.13 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Enquire now among the
nations, who has heard such very horrible things as the virgin of
Israel has done?
18.14 Will fertilising streams fail [to flow] from a rock,
or snow [fail] from Libanus? will water violently impelled by the wind
turn aside?
18.15 For my people have forgotten me, they have offered
incense in vain, and they fail in their ways, [leaving] the ancient
tracks, to enter upon impassable paths;
18.16 to make their land a desolation, and a perpetual
hissing; all that go through it shall be amazed, and shall shake their
heads.
18.17 I will scatter them before their enemies like an east wind; I will shew them the day of their destruction.
18.18 Then they said, Come, and let us devise a device
against Jeremias; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor
counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us
smite him with the tongue, and wee will hear all his words.
18.19 Hear me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my pleading.
18.20 Forasmuch as evil is rewarded for good; for they have
spoken words against my soul, and they have hidden the punishment they
[meant] for me; remember that I stood before thy face, to speak good
for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
18.21 Therefore do thou deliver their sons to famine, and
gather them to the power of the sword: let their women be childless and
widows; and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall
by the sword in war.
18.22 Let there be a cry in their houses: thou shalt bring
upon them robbers suddenly: for they have formed a plan to take me, and
have hidden snares for me.
18.23 And thou, Lord, knowest all their deadly counsel
against me: account not their iniquities guiltless, and blot not out
their sins from before thee: let their weakness come before thee; deal
with them in the time of thy wrath.
19.1
Then said the Lord to me, Go and get an earthen bottle, the work of the
potter, and thou shalt bring [some] of the elders of the people, and of
the priests;
19.2 and thou shalt go forth to the burial-place of
the sons of their children, which is at the entrance of the gate of
Charsith; and do thou read there all these words which I shall speak to
thee:
19.3 and thou shalt say to them, Hear ye the word of
the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and men of Juda, and the dwellers in
Jerusalem, and they that enter in by these gates; thus saith the Lord
God of Israel; Behold, I [will] bring evil upon this place, so that the
ears of every one that hears it shall tingle.
19.4 Because they forsook me, and profaned this
place, and burnt incense in it to strange gods, which they and their
fathers knew not; and the kings of Juda have filled this place with
innocent blood,
19.5 and built high places for Baal, to burn their
children in the fire, which things I commanded not, neither did I
design [them] in my heart:
19.6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
Lord, when this place shall no more be called, The fall and
burial-place of the son of Ennom, but, The burial-place of slaughter.
19.7 And I will destroy the counsel of Juda and the
counsel of Jerusalem in this place; and I will cast them down with the
sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their
lives: and I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the
sky and to the wild beasts of the earth.
19.8 And I will bring this city to desolation and
[make it] a hissing; every one that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss
because of all her plague.
19.9 And they shall eat the flesh of their sons, and
the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of
his neighbour in the blockade, and in the siege wherewith their enemies
shall besiege them.
19.10 And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that go forth with thee,
19.11 and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Thus will I
break in pieces this people, and this city, eve as an earthen vessel is
broken in pieces which cannot be mended again.
19.12 Thus will I do, saith the Lord, to this place, and to
the inhabitants of it, that this city may be given up, as one that is
falling to ruin.
19.13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the
kings of Juda shall be as a ruinous place, because of their
uncleannesses in all the houses, wherein they burnt incense upon their
roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured drink-offerings to strange
gods.
19.14 And Jeremias came from [the place] of the Fall,
whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of
the Lord's house: and said to all the people, Thus saith the Lord;
19.15 Behold I bring upon this city, and upon all the
cities belonging to it, and upon the villages of it, all the evils
which I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their neck,
[that they might not] hearken to my commands.
20.1
Now Paschor the son of Emmer, the priest, who also had been appointed
chief of the house of the Lord, heard Jeremias prophesying these words.
20.2 And he smote him, and cast him into the dungeon
which was by the gate of the upper house that was set apart, which was
by the house of the Lord.
20.3 And Paschor brought Jeremias out of the dungeon:
and Jeremias said to him, [The Lord] has not called thy name Paschor,
but Exile.
20.4 For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I [will] give
thee up to captivity with all thy friends: and they shall fall by the
sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall see [it]: and I will give
thee and all Juda into the hands of the king of Babylon, and they shall
carry them captives, and cut them in pieces with swords.
20.5 And I will give all the strength of this city,
and all the labours of it, and all the treasures of the king of Juda,
into the hands of his enemies, and they shall bring them to Babylon.
20.6 And thou and all the dwellers in thine house
shall go into captivity: and thou shalt die in Babylon, and there thou
and all thy friends shall be buried, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
20.7 Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I have been
deceived: thou hast been strong, and has prevailed: I am become a
laughing-stock, I am continually mocked every day.
20.8 For I will laugh with my bitter speech, I will
call upon rebellion and misery: for the word of the Lord is become a
reproach to me and a mockery all my days.
20.9 Then I said, I will by no means name the name of
the Lord, and I will no more at all speak in his name. But it was a
burning fire flaming in my bones, and I am utterly weakened on all
sides, and cannot bear [up].
20.10 For I have heard the reproach of many gathering
round, [saying], Conspire ye, and let us conspire together against him,
[even] all his friends: watch his intentions, if perhaps he shall be
deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall be avenged on
him.
20.11 But the Lord was with me as a mighty man of war:
therefore they persecuted [me], but could not perceive [anything
against me]; they were greatly confounded, for they perceived not their
disgrace, which shall never be forgotten.
20.12 O Lord, that provest just [deeds], understanding the
reins and hearts, let me see thy vengeance upon them: for to thee I
have revealed my cause.
20.13 Sing ye to the Lord, sing praise to him: for he has rescued the soul of the poor from the hand of evil-doers.
20.14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: the day wherein my mother brought me forth, let it not be blessed.
20.15 Cursed be the man who brought the glad tidings to my father, saying, A male child is born to thee.
20.16 Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord
overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the
morning, and loud lamentation at noon;
20.17 because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me.
20.18 Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?
21.1
THE WORD THAT CAME FROM THE LORD TO JEREMIAS, WHEN KING SEDEKIAS SENT
TO HIM PASCHOR THE SON OF MELCHIAS, AND SOPONIAS SON OF BASAEAS, THE
PRIEST, SAYING,
21.2 Enquire of the Lord for us; for the king of
Babylon has risen up against us; if the Lord will do according to all
his wonderful works, and [the king] shall depart from us.
21.3 And Jeremias said to them, Thus shall ye say to Sedekias king of Juda,
21.4 Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I [will] turn back
the weapons of war wherewith ye fight against the Chaldeans that have
besieged you from outside the wall, and I will gather them into the
midst of this city.
21.5 And I will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, with wrath and great anger.
21.6 And I will smite all the dwellers in this city,
[both] men and cattle, with grievous pestilence: and they shall die.
21.7 And after this, thus saith the Lord; I will give
Sedekias king of Juda, and his servants, and the people that is left in
this city from the pestilence, and from the famine, and from the sword,
into the hands of their enemies, that seek their lives: and they shall
cut them in pieces with the edge of the sword: I will not spare them,
and I will not have compassion upon them.
21.8 And thou shalt say to this people, Thus saith
the Lord; Behold, I have set before you the way of life, and the way of
death.
21.9 He that remains in this city shall die by the
sword, and by famine: but he that goes forth to advance to the
Chaldeans that have besieged you, shall live, and his life shall be to
him for a spoil, and he shall live.
21.10 For I have set my face against this city for evil,
and not for good: it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of
Babylon, and he shall consume it with fire.
21.11 O house of the king of Juda, hear ye the word of the Lord.
21.12 O house of David, thus saith the Lord; Judge judgment
in the morning, and act rightly, and rescue the spoiled one from the
hand of him that wrongs him, lest mine anger be kindled like fire, and
it burn, and there be none to quench [it].
21.13 Behold, I am against thee that dwellest in the valley
of Sor; in the plain country, [eve against] them that say, Who shall
alarm us? or who shall enter into our habitation?
21.14 And I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
22.1
Thus saith the Lord; Go thou, and go down to the house of the king of
Juda, and thou shalt speak there this word,
22.2 and thou shalt say, Hear the word of the Lord, O
king of Juda, that sittest on the throne of David, thou, and thy house,
and thy people, and they that go in at these gates:
22.3 thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and
justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him:
and oppress not the stranger, and orphan, and widow, and sin not, and
shed no innocent blood in this place.
22.4 For if ye will indeed perform this word, then
shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the
throne of David, and riding on chariots and horses, they, and their
servants, and their people.
22.5 But if ye will not perform these words, by
myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, that this house shall be [brought]
to desolation.
22.6 For thus saith the Lord concerning the house of
the king of Juda; Thou art Galaad to me, [and] the head of Libanus:
[yet] surely I will make thee a desert, [even] cities that shall not be
inhabited:
22.7 and I will bring upon thee a destroying man, and
his axe: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast [them]
into the fire.
22.8 And nations shall pass through this city, and
each shall say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done thus to this
great city?
22.9 And they shall say Because they forsook the
covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped strange gods, and served
them.
22.10 Weep not for the dead, nor lament for him: weep
bitterly for him that goes away: for he shall return no more, nor see
his native land.
22.11 For thus saith the Lord concerning Sellem the son of
Josias, who reigns in the place of Josias his father, who has gone
forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:
22.12 but in that place whither I have carried him captive, there shall he die, and shall see this land no more.
22.13 He that builds his house not with justice, and his
upper chambers not with judgment, who works by means of his neighbour
for nothing, and will by no means give him his reward.
22.14 Thou hast built for thyself a well-proportioned
house, airy chambers, fitted with windows, and wainscoted with cedar,
and painted with vermilion.
22.15 Shalt thou reign, because thou art provoked with thy
father Achaz? they shall not eat, and they shall not drink: it is
better for thee to execute judgment and justice.
22.16 They understood not, they judged not the cause of the
afflicted, nor the cause of the poor: is not this thy not knowing me?
saith the Lord.
22.17 Behold, thine eyes are not good, nor thine heart, but
[they go] after thy covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed
it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.
22.18 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim son
of Josias, king of Juda, even concerning this man; they shall not
bewail him, [saying], Ah brother! neither shall they at all weep for
him, [saying], Alas Lord.
22.19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass; he
shall be dragged roughly along and cast outside the gate of Jerusalem.
22.20 Go up to Libanus, and cry; and utter thy voice to
Basan, and cry aloud to the extremity of the sea: for all thy lovers
are destroyed.
22.21 I spoke to thee on [occasion of] thy trespass, but
thou saidst, I will not hearken. This [has been] thy way from thy
youth, thou hast not hearkened to my voice.
22.22 The wind shall tend all thy shepherds, and thy lovers
shall go into captivity; for then shalt thou be ashamed and disgraced
because of all thy lovers.
22.23 O thou that dwellest in Libanus, making thy nest in
the cedars, thou shalt groan heavily, when pangs as of a travailing
woman are come upon thee.
22.24 [As] I live, saith the Lord, though Jechonias son of
Joakim king of Juda were indeed the seal upon my right hand, thence
would I pluck thee;
22.25 and I will deliver thee into the hands of them that
seek thy life, before whom thou art afraid, into the hands of the
Chaldeans.
22.26 And I will cast forth thee, and thy mother that bore
thee, into a land where thou wast not born; and there ye shall die.
22.27 But they shall by no means return to the land which they long for in their souls.
22.28 Jechonias is dishonoured as a good-for-nothing
vessel; for he is thrown out and cast forth into a land which he knew
not.
22.29 Land, land, hear the word of the Lord.
22.30 Write ye this man an outcast: for there shall none of
his seed at all grow up to sit on the throne of David, [or as] a prince
yet in Juda.
23.1 Woe to the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of their pasture!
23.2 Therefore thus saith the Lord against them that
tend my people; Ye have scattered my sheep, and driven them out, and ye
have not visited them: behold, I [will] take vengeance upon you
according to your evil practices.
23.3 And I will gather in the remnant of my people in
every land, whither I have driven them out, and will set them in their
pasture; and they shall increase and be multiplied.
23.4 And I will raise up shepherds to them, who shall
feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be alarmed, saith the Lord.
23.5 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I
will raise up to David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and
understand, and shall execute judgment and righteousness on the earth.
23.6 In his days both Juda shall be saved, and Israel
shall dwell securely: and this is his name, which the Lord shall call
him, Josedec among the prophets.
23.7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
Lord, when they shall no more say, The Lord lives, who brought up the
house of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
23.8 but The Lord lives, who has gathered the whole
seed of Israel from the north land, and from all the countries whither
he [had] driven them out, and has restored them into their own land.
23.9 My heart is broken within me; all my bones are
shaken: I am become as a broken-down ma, and as a man overcome with
wine, because of the Lord, and because of the excellence of his glory.
23.10 For because of these things the land mourns; the
pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course is become
evil, and so [also] their strength.
23.11 For priest and prophet are defiled; and I have seen their iniquities in my house.
23.12 Therefore let their way be to them slippery and dark:
and they shall be tripped up and fall in it: for I will bring evils
upon them, in the year of their visitation.
23.13 And in the prophets of Samaria I have seen lawless
deeds; they prophesied by Baal, and led my people Israel astray.
23.14 Also in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen
horrible things: as they committed adultery, and walked in lies, and
strengthened the hands of many, that they should not return each from
his evil way: they are all become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants
thereof as Gomorrha.
23.15 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will feed
them with pain, and give them bitter water to drink: for from the
prophets of Jerusalem has defilement gone forth [into] all the land.
23.16 Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Hearken not to the
words of the prophets: for they frame a vain vision for themselves;
they speak from their own heart, and not from the mouth of the Lord.
23.17 They say to them that reject the word of the Lord,
There shall be peace to you; and to all that walk after their own
lusts, and to everyone that walks in the error of his heart, they have
said, No evil shall come upon thee.
23.18 For who has stood in the counsel of the Lord, and seen his word? who has hearkened, and heard?
23.19 Behold, [there is] an earthquake from the Lord, and
anger proceeds to a convulsion, it shall come violently upon the
ungodly.
23.20 And the Lord's wrath shall return no more, until he
have accomplished it, and until he have established it, according to
the purpose of his heart: at the end of the days they shall understand
it.
23.21 I sent not the prophets, yet they ran: neither spoke I to them, ye they prophesied.
23.22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and if they had
hearkened to my words, then would they have turned my people from their
evil practices.
23.23 I am a God nigh at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off.
23.24 Shall any one hide himself in secret places, and I
not see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.
23.25 I have heard what the prophets say, what they prophesy in my name, saying falsely, I have seen a night vision.
23.26 How long shall [these things] be in the heart of the
prophets that prophesy lies, when they prophesy the purposes of their
own heart?
23.27 who devise that [men] may forget my law by their
dreams, which they have told every one to his neighbour, as their
fathers forgot my name in [the worship of] Baal.
23.28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream;
and [he] in whom is my word [spoken] to him, let him tell my word
truly: what is the chaff to the corn? so are my words, saith the Lord.
23.29 Behold, are not my words as fire? saith the Lord; and as an axe cutting the rock?
23.30 Behold, I am therefore against the prophets, saith
the Lord God, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
23.31 Behold, I am against the prophets that put forth prophecies of mere words, and slumber their sleep.
23.32 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets that
prophesy false dreams, and have not told them [truly], and have caused
my people to err by their lies, and by their errors; yet I sent them
not, and commanded them not; therefore, they shall not profit this
people at all.
23.33 And if this people, or the priest, or the prophet,
should ask, What is the burden of the Lord? then thou shalt say to
them, Ye are the burden, and I will dash you down, saith the Lord.
23.34 [As for] the prophet, and the priests, and the
people, who shall say, The burden of the Lord, I will even take
vengeance on that man, and on his house.
23.35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and
every one to his brother, What has the Lord answered? and, what has the
Lord said?
23.36 And do ye name no more the burden of the Lord; for his own word shall be a man's burden.
23.37 But wherefore, [say ye], has the Lord our God spoken?
23.38 Therefore thus saith the Lord our God; Because ye
have spoken this word, The burden of the Lord, and I sent to you,
saying, ye shall not say, The burden of the Lord;
23.39 therefore, behold, I [will] seize, and dash down you and the city which I gave to you and your fathers.
23.40 And I will bring upon you an everlasting reproach, and everlasting disgrace, which shall not be forgotten.
24.1
The Lord shewed me two baskets of figs, lying in front of the temple of
the Lord, after Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried captive
Jechonias son of Joakim king of Juda, and the princes, and the
artificers, and the prisoners, and the rich men out of Jerusalem, and
had brought them to Babylon.
24.2 The one basket was [full] of very good figs, as
the early figs; and the other basket was [full] of very bad figs, which
could not be eaten, for their badness.
24.3 And the Lord said to me, What seest thou,
Jeremias? and I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very
bad, which cannot be eaten, for their badness.
24.4 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
24.5 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; As these
good figs, so will I acknowledge the Jews that have been carried away
captive, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the
Chaldeans for good.
24.6 And I will fix mine eyes upon them for good, and
I will restore them into this land for good: and I will build them up,
and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
24.7 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I
am the Lord: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a
God: for they shall turn to me with all their heart.
24.8 And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, for
their badness; thus saith the Lord, So will I deliver Sedekias king of
Juda, and his nobles, and the remnant of Jerusalem, them that are left
in this land, and he dwellers in Egypt.
24.9 And I will cause them to be dispersed into all
the kingdoms of the earth, and they shall be for a reproach, and a
proverb, and an [object of] hatred, and a curse, in every place whither
I have driven them out.
24.10 And I will send against them famine, and pestilence,
and the sword, until they are consumed from off the land which I gave
them.
25.1
THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS concerning all the people of Juda in the
fourth year of Joakim, son of Josias, king of Juda;
25.2 which he spoke to all the people of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
25.3 In the thirteenth year of Josias, son of Amos,
king of Juda, even until this day for three and twenty years, I have
both spoken to you, rising early and speaking,
25.4 and I sent to you my servants the prophets,
sending them early; (but ye hearkened not, and listened not with your
ears;) saying,
25.5 Turn ye every one from his evil way, and from
your evil practices, and ye shall dwell in the land which I gave to you
and your fathers, of old and for ever.
25.6 Go ye not after strange gods, to serve them, and
to worship them, that ye provoke me not by the works of your hands, to
do you hurt.
25.7 But ye hearkened not to me.
25.8 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Since ye believed not my words,
25.9 behold I [will] send and take a family from the
north, and will bring them against this land, and against the
inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it, and I
will make them utterly waste, and make them a desolation, and a
hissing, and an everlasting reproach.
25.10 And I will destroy from [among] them the voice of
joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the
voice of the bride, the scent of ointment, and the light of a candle.
25.11 And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.
25.12 And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take
vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation.
25.13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I
have spoken against it, [even] all things that are written in this book.
25.14 [vide]
25.15 Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Take the cup of
this unmixed wine from mine hand, and thou shalt cause all the nations
to drink, to whom I send thee.
25.16 And they shall drink, and vomit, and be mad, because of the sword which I send among them.
25.17 So I took the cup out of the Lord's hand, and caused the nations to whom the Lord sent me to drink:
25.18 Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings of
Juda, and his princes, to make them a desert place, a desolation, and a
hissing;
25.19 and Pharao king of Egypt, and his servants, and his nobles, and all his people;
25.20 and all the mingled [people], and all the kings of
the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of
Azotus,
25.21 and Idumea, and the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon,
25.22 and the kings of Tyre, and the kings of Sidon, and the kings in the [country] beyond the sea,
25.23 and Daedan, and Thaeman, and Ros, and every one that is shaved round about the face,
25.24 and all the mingled [people] lodging in the wilderness,
25.25 and all the kings of Aelam, and all the kings of the Persians,
25.26 and all the kings from the north, the far and the
near, each one with his brother, and all the kingdom s which are on the
face of the earth.
25.27 And thou shalt say to them, Thus said the Lord
Almighty; Drink ye, be ye drunken; and ye shall vomit, and shall fall,
and shall in nowise rise, because of the sword which I send among you.
25.28 And it shall come to pass, when they refuse to take
the cup out of thine hand, to drink it, that thou shalt say, Thus said
the Lord; Ye shall surely drink.
25.29 For I am beginning to afflict the city whereon my
name is called, and ye shall by no means be held guiltless: for I am
calling a sword upon all that dwell upon the earth.
25.30 And thou shalt prophesy against them these words, and
shalt say, The Lord shall speak from on high, from his sanctuary he
will utter his voice; he will pronounce a declaration on his place; and
these shall answer like men gathering grapes: and destruction is coming
on them that dwell on the earth,
25.31 [even] upon [the extreme] part of the earth; for the
Lord [has] a controversy with the nations, he is pleading with all
flesh, and the ungodly are given to the sword, saith the Lord.
25.32 Thus said the Lord; Behold, evils are proceeding from
nation to nation, and a great whirlwind goes forth from the end of the
earth.
25.33 And the slain of the Lord shall be in the day of the
Lord from [one] end of the earth even to the [other] end of the earth:
they shall not be buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the
earth.
25.34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and lament, ye rams of
the flock: for your days have been completed for slaughter, and ye
shall fall as the choice rams.
25.35 And flight shall perish from the shepherds, and safety from the rams of the flock.
25.36 A voice of the crying of the shepherds, and a moaning
of the sheep and the rams: for the Lord has destroyed their pastures.
25.37 And the peaceable abodes that remain shall be destroyed before the fierceness of my anger.
25.38 He has forsaken his lair, as a lion: for their land is become desolate before the great sword.
26.1 IN THE BEGINNING OF THE REIGN OF KING JOAKIM SON OF JOSIAS THERE CAME THIS WORD FROM THE LORD.
26.2 Thus said the Lord; Stand in the court of the
Lord's house, and thou shalt declare to all the Jews, and to all that
come to worship in the house of the Lord, all the words which I
commanded thee to speak to them; abate not one word.
26.3 Peradventure they will hear, and turn every one
from his evil way: then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to
do to them, because of their evil practices.
26.4 And thou shalt say, Thus said the Lord; If ye
will not hearken to me, to walk in my statutes which I set before you,
26.5 to hearken to the words of my servants the
prophets, whom I send to you early in the morning; yea, I sent them,
but ye hearkened not to me;
26.6 then will I make this house as Selo, and I will
make [this] city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.
26.7 And the priests, and the false prophets, and all
the people heard Jeremias speaking these words in the house of the Lord.
26.8 And it came to pass, when Jeremias had ceased
speaking all that the Lord had ordered him to speak to all the people,
that the priests and the false prophets and all the people took him,
saying,
26.9 Thou shalt surely die, because thou hast
prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall be as
Selo, and this city shall be made quite destitute of inhabitants. And
all the people assembled against Jeremias in the house of the Lord.
26.10 And the princes of Juda heard this word, and they
went up out of the house of the king to the house of the Lord, and sat
in the entrance of the new gate.
26.11 Then the priests and the false prophets said to the
princes and to all the people, The judgment of death [is due] to this
man; because he has prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with
your ears.
26.12 Then Jeremias spoke to the princes, and to all the
people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and
against this city, all the words which ye have heard.
26.13 And now amend your ways and your works, and hearken
to the voice of the Lord; and the Lord shall cease from the evils which
he has pronounced against you.
26.14 And behold, I am in your hands; do to me as is expedient, and as it is best for you.
26.15 But know for a certainty, that if ye slay me, ye
bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon them
that dwell in it; for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak in
your ears all these words.
26.16 Then the princes and all the people said to the
priests and to the false prophets; Judgment of death is not [due] to
this man; for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.
26.17 And there rose up men of the elders of the land, and said to all the assembly of the people,
26.18 Michaea the Morathite lived in the days of Ezekias
king of Juda, and said to all the people of Juda, Thus saith the Lord;
Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become a
desolation, and the mountain of the house shall be a thicket of trees.
26.19 Did Ezekias and all Juda in any way slay him? Was it
not that they feared the Lord, and they made supplication before the
Lord, and the Lord ceased from the evils which he [had] pronounced
against them? whereas we have wrought great evil against our own souls.
26.20 And there was [another] man prophesying in the name
of the Lord, Urias the son of Samaeas of Cariathiarim; and he
prophesied concerning this land according to all the words of Jeremias.
26.21 And king Joakim and all the princes heard all his
words, and sought to slay him; and Urias heard [it] and went into Egypt.
26.22 And the king sent men into Egypt;
26.23 and they brought him thence, and brought him into the
king; and he smote him with the sword, and cast him into the sepulchre
of the children of his people.
26.24 Nevertheless the hand of Achicam son of Saphan was
with Jeremias, to prevent his being delivered into the hands of the
people, or being killed.
27.1 [vide]
27.2 Thus said the Lord; Make to thyself bonds and yokes, and put [them] about thy neck,
27.3 and thou shalt send them to the king of Idumea,
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 hands of their
messengers that come to meet them at Jerusalem to Sedekias king of Juda.
27.4 And thou shalt commission them to say to their
lords, Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to your
lords;
27.5 I have made the earth by my great power, and
with my high arm, and I will give it to whomsoever it shall seem [good]
in mine eyes.
27.6 I gave the earth to Nabuchodonosor king of
Babylon to serve him, and the wild beasts of the field to labour for
him.
27.7 [vide]
27.8 And the nation and kingdom, all that shall not
put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with sword and
famine will I visit them, saith the Lord, until they are consumed by
his hand.
27.9 And hearken ye not to your false prophets, nor
to them that divine to you, nor to them that foretell events by dreams
to you, nor to your auguries, nor your sorcerers, that say, Ye shall by
no means work for the king of Babylon:
27.10 for they prophesy lies to you, to remove you far from your land.
27.11 But the nation which shall put its neck under the
yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, I will even leave it upon
its land, and it shall serve him, and dwell in it.
27.12 I spoke also to Sedekias king of Juda according to
all these words, saying, Put your neck into [the yoke], and serve the
king of Babylon.
27.13 [vide]
27.14 For they prophesy unrighteous [words] to you,
27.15 for I sent them not, saith the Lord; and they
prophesy [in] my name unjustly, that I might destroy you, and ye should
perish, and your prophets, who unrighteously prophesy lies to you.
27.16 I spoke to you, and to all this people, and to the
priests, saying, Thus said the Lord; Hearken not to the words of the
prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the
Lord's house shall return from Babylon: for they prophesy to you
unrighteous [words].
27.17 I sent them not.
27.18 If they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is in them, let them meet me, for thus has the Lord said.
27.19 And as for the remaining vessels,
27.20 which the king of Babylon took not, when he carried Jechonias prisoner out of Jerusalem,
27.21 [vide]
27.22 they shall go into Babylon, saith the Lord.
28.1
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Sedekias king of Juda, in the
fifth month, [that] Ananias the false prophet, the son of Azor, from
Gabaon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the sight of the
priests and all the people, saying,
28.2 Thus saith the Lord; I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
28.3 Yet two full years, and I will return into this place the vessels of the house of the Lord,
28.4 and Jechonias, and the captivity of Juda: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
28.5 Then Jeremias spoke to Ananias in the sight of
all the people, and in the sight of the priests that stood in the house
of the Lord,
28.6 and Jeremias said, May the Lord indeed do thus;
may he confirm thy word which thou dost prophesy, to return the vessels
of the house of the Lord, and all the captivity, out of Babylon to this
place.
28.7 Nevertheless hear ye the word of the Lord which I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people.
28.8 The prophets that were before me and before you
of old, also prophesied over much country, and against great kingdoms,
concerning war.
28.9 [As for] the prophet that has prophesied for
peace, when the word has come [to pass], they shall know the prophet
whom the Lord has sent them in truth.
28.10 Then Ananias took the yokes from the neck of Jeremias
in the sight of all the people, and broke them to pieces.
28.11 And Ananias spoke in the presence of all the people,
saying, Thus said the Lord; Thus will I break the yoke of the king of
Babylon from the necks of all the nations. And Jeremias went his way.
28.12 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, after that Ananias had broken the yokes off his neck, saying,
28.13 Go and speak to Ananias, saying, Thus saith the Lord;
Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but I will make instead of them
yokes of iron.
28.14 For thus said the Lord, I have put a yoke of iron on
the neck of all the nations, that they may serve the king of Babylon.
28.15 And Jeremias said to Ananias, The Lord has not sent
thee; and thou hast caused this people to trust in unrighteousness.
28.16 Therefore thus said the Lord: Behold, I [will] cast
thee off from the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die.
28.17 So he died in the seventh month.
29.1
And these are the words of the book which Jeremias sent from Jerusalem
to the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the false
prophets, even an epistle to Babylon for the captivity, and to all the
people;
29.2 (after the departure of Jechonias the king and
the queen, and the eunuchs, and every freeman, and bondman, and
artificer, out of Jerusalem;)
29.3 by the hand of Eleasan son of Saphan, and
Gamarias son of Chelcias, (whom Sedekias king of Juda sent to the king
of Babylon to Babylon) saying,
29.4 Thus said the Lord God of Israel concerning the
captivity which I caused to be carried away from Jerusalem;
29.5 Build ye houses, and inhabit [them]; and plant gardens, and eat the fruits thereof;
29.6 and take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters;
and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and
be multiplied, and be not diminished.
29.7 And seek the peace of the land into which I have
carried you captive, and ye shall pray to the Lord for the people: for
in its peace ye shall [have] peace.
29.8 For thus saith the Lord; Let not the false
prophets that are among you persuade you, and let not your diviners
persuade you, and hearken not to your dreams which ye dream.
29.9 For they prophesy to you unrighteous [words] in my name; and I sent them not.
29.10 For thus said the Lord; When seventy years shall be
on the point of being accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you, and
will confirm my words to you, to bring back your people to this place.
29.11 And I will devise for you a device of peace, and not evil, to bestow upon you these [good things].
29.12 And do ye pray to me, and I will hearken to you: and do ye earnestly seek me, and ye shall find me;
29.13 for ye shall seek me with your whole heart.
29.14 And I will appear to you:
29.15 whereas ye said, The Lord has appointed for us prophets in Babylon:
29.16 [vide]
29.17 [vide]
29.18 [vide]
29.19 [vide]
29.20 [vide]
29.21 Thus saith the Lord concerning Achiab, and concerning
Sedekias; Behold, I [will] deliver them into the hands of the king of
Babylon; and he shall smite them in your sight.
29.22 And they shall make of them a curse in all the
captivity of Juda in Babylon, saying, The Lord do to thee as he did to
Sedekias, and as he did to Achiab, whom the king of Babylon fried in
the fire;
29.23 because of the iniquity which they wrought in Israel,
and [because] they committed adultery with the wives of their
fellow-citizens; and spoke a word in my name, which I did not command
them [to speak], and I am witness, saith the Lord.
29.24 And to Samaeas the Aelamite thou shalt say,
29.25 I sent thee not in my name: and to Sophonias the priest the son of Maasaeas say thou,
29.26 The Lord has made thee priest in the place of Jodae
the priest, to be ruler in the house of the Lord over every prophet,
and to every madman, and thou shalt put them in prison, and into the
dungeon.
29.27 And now wherefore have ye reviled together Jeremias of Anathoth, who prophesied to you?
29.28 Did he not send for this purpose? for in the course
of this month he sent to you to Babylon, saying, It is far off: build
ye houses, and inhabit [them]; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of
them.
29.29 And Sophonias read the book in the ears of Jeremias.
29.30 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying,
29.31 Send to the captivity, saying, Thus saith the Lord
concerning Samaeas the Aelamite, Since Samaeas has prophesied to you,
and I sent him not, and he has made you to trust in iniquity,
29.32 therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will visit
Samaeas, and his family: and there shall not be a man of them in the
midst of you to see the good which I will do to you: they shall not see
[it].
30.1 THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS FROM THE LORD, SAYING,
30.2 Thus speaks the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write all the words which I have spoken to thee in a book.
30.3 For, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when
I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, said the
Lord: and I will bring them back to the land which I gave to their
fathers, and they shall be lords of it.
30.4 AND THESE ARE THE WORDS WHICH THE LORD SPOKE CONCERNING ISRAEL AND JUDA;
30.5 Thus said the Lord: Ye shall hear a sound of fear, [there is] fear, and there is not peace.
30.6 Enquire, and see if a male has born a child? and
[ask] concerning the fear, wherein they shall hold their loins, and
[look for] safety: for I have seen every man, and his hands are on his
loins; [their] faces are turned to paleness.
30.7 For that day is great, and there is not such
[another]; and it is a time of straitness to Jacob; but he shall be
saved out of it.
30.8 In that day, said the Lord, I will break the
yoke off their neck, and will burst their bonds, and they shall no
longer serve strangers:
30.9 but they shall serve the Lord their God; and I will raise up to them David their king.
30.10 [vide]
30.11 [vide]
30.12 Thus saith the Lord; I have brought on [thee] destruction; thy stroke is painful.
30.13 There is none to judge thy cause: thou hast been painfully treated for healing, there is no help for thee.
30.14 All thy friends have forgotten thee; they shall not
ask [about thee] at all, for I have smitten thee with he stroke of an
enemy, [even] severe correction: thy sins have abounded above all thine
iniquity.
30.15 Thy sins have abounded beyond the multitude of thine
iniquities, [therefore] they have done these things to thee.
30.16 Therefore all that devour thee shall be eaten, and
all thine enemies shall eat all their [own] flesh. And they that spoil
thee shall become a spoil, and I will give up to be plundered all that
have plundered thee.
30.17 For I will bring about thy healing, I will heal thee
of thy grievous wound, saith the Lord; for thou art called Dispersed:
she is your prey, for no one seeks after her.
30.18 Thus said the Lord; Behold, I will turn the captivity
of Jacob, and will have pity upon his prisoners; and the city shall be
built upon her hill, and the people shall settle after their manner.
30.19 And there shall go forth from them singers, [even]
the sound of men making merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall
not at all be diminished.
30.20 And their sons shall go in as before, and their
testimonies shall be established before me, and I will visit them that
afflict them.
30.21 And their mighty ones shall be over them, and their
prince shall proceed of themselves; and I will gather them, and they
shall return to me: for who is this that has set his heart to return to
me? saith the Lord.
30.22 [vide]
30.23 For the wrathful anger of the lord has gone forth,
[even] a whirlwind of anger has gone forth: it shall come upon the
ungodly.
30.24 The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until
he shall execute [it], and until he shall establish the purpose of his
heart: in the latter days ye shall know these things.
31.1 At that time, saith the Lord, I will be a God to the family of Israel, and they shall be to me a people.
31.2 Thus saith the Lord, I found him warm in the
wilderness with them that were slain with the sword: go ye and destroy
not Israel.
31.3 The Lord appeared to him from afar, [saying], I
have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore have I drawn thee
in compassion.
31.4 For I will build thee, and thou shalt be built,
O virgin of Israel: thou shalt yet take thy timbrel, and go forth with
the party of them that make merry.
31.5 For ye have planted vineyards on the mountains of Samaria: plant ye, and praise.
31.6 For it is a day when those that plead on the
mountains of Ephraim shall call, [saying], Arise ye, and go up to Sion
to the Lord your God.
31.7 For thus saith the Lord to Jacob; Rejoice ye,
and exult over the head of the nations: make proclamation, and praise
ye: say, The Lord has delivered his people, the remnant of Israel.
31.8 Behold, I bring them from the north, and will
gather them from the end of the earth to the feast of the passover: and
[the people] shall beget a great multitude, and they shall return
hither.
31.9 They went forth with weeping, and I will bring
them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of
waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for I am become
a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.
31.10 Hear the words of the Lord, ye nations, and proclaim
[them] to the islands afar off; say, He that scattered Israel will also
gather him, and keep him as one that feeds his flock.
31.11 For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, he has rescued him out of the hand of them [that were] stronger than he.
31.12 And they shall come, and shall rejoice in the mount
of Sion, and shall come to the good things of the Lord, [even] to a
land of corn, and wine, and fruits, and cattle, and sheep: and their
soul shall be as a fruitful tree; and they shall hunger no more.
31.13 Then shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of
youth, and the old men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning
into joy, and will make them merry.
31.14 I will expand and cheer with wine the soul of the
priests the sons of Levi, and my people shall be satisfied with my good
things: thus saith the Lord.
31.15 A voice was heard in Rama, of lamentation, and of
weeping, and wailing; Rachel would not cease weeping for her children,
because they are not.
31.16 Thus saith the Lord; Let thy voice cease from
weeping, and thine eyes from thy tears: for their is a reward for thy
works; and they shall return from the land of [thine] enemies.
31.17 [There shall be] an abiding [home] for thy children.
31.18 I have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, [and
saying], Thou hast chastened me, and I was chastened; I as a calf was
not [willingly] taught: turn thou me, and I shall turn; for thou [art]
the Lord my God.
31.19 For after my captivity I repented; and after I knew,
I groaned for the day of shame, and shewed thee that I bore reproach
from my youth.
31.20 Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to me: for
because my words are in him, I will surely remember him: therefore I
made haste [to help] him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the
Lord.
31.21 Prepare thyself, O Sion; execute vengeance; look to
thy ways: return, O virgin of Israel, by the way by which thou wentest,
return mourning to thy cities.
31.22 How long, O disgraced daughter, wilt thou turn away?
for the Lord has created safety for a new plantation: men shall go
about in safety.
31.23 For thus saith the Lord; They shall yet speak this
word in the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when I shall turn
his captivity; blessed be the Lord on his righteous holy mountain!
31.24 And there shall be dwellers in the cities of Juda,
and in all his land, together with the husbandman, and [the shepherd]
shall go forth with the flock.
31.25 For I have saturated every thirsting soul, and filled every hungry soul.
31.26 Therefore I awake, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.
31.27 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed
of man, and the seed of beast.
31.28 And it shall come to pass, that as I watched over
them, to pull down, and to afflict, so will I watch over them, to
build, and to plant, saith the Lord.
31.29 In those days they shall certainly not say, The
fathers ate a sour grape, and the children's teeth were set on edge.
31.30 But every one shall die in his own sin; and the teeth of him that eats the sour grape shall be set on edge.
31.31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will
make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of
Juda:
31.32 not according to the covenant which I made with their
fathers in the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of
the land of Egypt; for they abode not in my covenant, and I disregarded
them, saith the Lord.
31.33 For this is my covenant which I will make with the
house of Israel; after those days, saith the Lord, I will surely put my
laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts; and I will be to
them a God, and they shall be to me a people.
31.34 And they shall not at all teach every one his
[fellow] citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for
all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them: for
I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember
no more.
31.35 Thus saith the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by
day, the moon and the stars for a light by night, and [makes] a roaring
in the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; the Lord Almighty is his
name:
31.36 if these ordinances cease from before me, saith the
Lord, then shall the family of Israel cease to be a nation before me
forever.
31.37 Though the sky should be raised to a [greater]
height, saith the Lord, and though the ground of the earth should be
sunk [lower] beneath, yet I will not cast off the family of Israel,
saith the Lord, for all that they have done.
31.38 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when the city
shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Anameel to the gate of the
corner.
31.39 And the measurement of it shall proceed in front of
them as far as the hills of Gareb, and it shall be compassed with a
circular wall of choice stones.
31.40 And all the Asaremoth even to Nachal Kedron, as far
as the corner of the horse-gate eastward, shall be holiness to the
Lord; and it shall not fail any more, and shall not be destroyed for
ever.
32.1
The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias in the tenth year of king
Sedekias, this is the eighteenth year of king Nabuchodonosor king of
Babylon.
32.2 and the host of the king of Babylon had made a
rampart against Jerusalem: and Jeremias was kept in the court of the
prison, which is in the king's house;
32.3 in which king Sedekias [had] shut him up,
saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, saying, Thus saith the Lord,
Behold, I [will] give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon,
and he shall take it;
32.4 and Sedekias shall by no means be delivered out
of the hand of the Chaldeans, for he shall certainly be given up into
the hands of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak to his
mouth, and his eyes shall look upon his eyes;
32.5 and Sedekias shall go into Babylon, and dwell there?
32.6 AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JEREMIAS, SAYING,
32.7 Behold, Anameel the son of Salom thy father's
brother is coming to thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in
Anathoth: for thou [hast] the right to take [it] as a purchase.
32.8 So Anamel the son of Salom my father's brother
came to me into the court of the prison, and said, Buy thee my field
that is in the land of Benjamin, in Anathoth: for thou [hast] a right
to buy it, and thou art the elder. So I knew that it was the word of
the Lord.
32.9 And I bought the field of Anameel the son of my
father's brother, and I weighed him seventeen shekels of silver.
32.10 And I wrote [it] in a book, and sealed [it], and took
the testimony of witnesses, and weighed the money in the balance.
32.11 And I took the book of the purchase that was sealed;
32.12 and I gave it to Baruch son of Nerias, son of
Maasaeas, in the sight of Anameel my father's brother's son, and in the
sight of the men that stood by and wrote in the book of the purchase,
and in the sight of the Jews that were in the court of the prison.
32.13 And I charged Baruch in their presence, saying, Thus saith the Lord Almighty;
32.14 Take this book of the purchase, and the book that has
been read; and thou shalt put it into an earthen vessel, that it may
remain many days.
32.15 For thus saith the Lord; There shall yet be bought fields and houses and vineyards in this land.
32.16 And I prayed to the Lord after I had given the book of the purchase to Baruch the son of Nerias, saying,
32.17 O [ever] living Lord! thou hast made the heaven and
the earth by thy great power, and with thy high and lofty arm: nothing
can be hidden from thee.
32.18 Granting mercy to thousands, and recompensing the
sins of the fathers into the bosoms of their children after them: the
great, the strong God;
32.19 the Lord of great counsel, and mighty in deeds, the
great Almighty God, and Lord of great name: thine eyes are upon the
ways of the children of men, to give to every one according to his way:
32.20 who hast wrought signs and wonders in the land of
Egypt even to this day, and in Israel, and among the inhabitants of the
earth; and thou didst make for thyself a name, as at this day;
32.21 and thou didst bring out thy people Israel out of the
land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, with a mighty hand, and
with a high arm, and with great sights;
32.22 and thou gavest them this land, which thou didst
swear [to give] to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey;
32.23 and they went in, and took it; but they hearkened not
to thy voice, and walked not in thine ordinances; they did none of the
things which thou didst command them, and they caused all these
calamities to happen to them.
32.24 Behold, a multitude is come against the city to take
it; and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans that fight
against it, by the power of the sword, and the famine: as thou hast
spoken, so has it happened.
32.25 And thou sayest to me, Buy thee the field for money;
and I wrote a book, and sealed [it], and took the testimony of
witnesses: and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.
32.26 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
32.27 I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: shall anything be hidden from me!
32.28 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel; This
city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the king of
Babylon, and he shall take it:
32.29 and the Chaldeans shall come to war against this
city, and they shall burn this city with fire, and shall burn down the
houses wherein they burnt incense on the roofs thereof to Baal, and
poured drink-offerings to other gods, to provoke me.
32.30 For the children of Israel and the children of Juda alone did evil in my sight from their youth.
32.31 For this city was [obnoxious] to my anger and my
wrath, from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should
remove it from my presence,
32.32 because of all the wickedness of the children of
Israel and Juda, which they wrought to provoke me, they and their
kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the
men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem.
32.33 And they turned the back to me, and not the face:
whereas I taught them early in the morning, but they hearkened no more
to receive instructions.
32.34 and they set their pollutions in the house, on which my name was called, by their uncleannesses.
32.35 And they built to Baal the altars that are in the
valley of the son of Ennom, to offer their sons and their daughters to
king Moloch; which things I commanded them not, neither came it into my
mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Juda to sin.
32.36 And now thus has the Lord God of Israel said
concerning this city, of which thou sayest, it shall be delivered into
the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and
banishment.
32.37 Behold, I [will] gather them out of every land, where
I have scattered them in my anger, and my wrath, and great fury; and I
will bring them back into this place, and will cause them to dwell
safely:
32.38 and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a god.
32.39 And I will give them another way, and another heart,
to fear me continually, and [that] for good to them and their children
after them.
32.40 And I will make with them an everlasting covenant,
which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will put my fear
into their heart, that they may not depart from me.
32.41 And I will visit [them] to do them good, and I will
plant them in this land in faithfulness, and with all my heart, and
with all [my] soul.
32.42 For thus saith the Lord; As I have brought upon this
people all these great evils, so will I bring upon them all the good
things which I pronounced upon them.
32.43 And there shall yet be fields bought in the land, of
which thou sayest, it shall be destitute of man and beast; and they are
delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.
32.44 And they shall buy fields for money, and thou shalt
write a book, and seal [it], and shalt take the testimony of witnesses
in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities
of Juda, and in the cities of the mountain, and in the cities of the
plain, and in the cities of the south: for I will turn their captivity.
33.1
And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the second time, when he was
yet bound in the court of the prison, saying,
33.2 Thus saith the Lord, who made the earth and formed it, to establish it; the Lord is his name;
33.3 Cry to me, and I will answer thee, and I will
declare to thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
33.4 For thus saith the Lord concerning the houses of
this city, and concerning the houses of the king of Juda, which have
been pulled down for mounds and fortifications,
33.5 to fight against the Chaldeans, and to fill it
with the corpses of men, whom I smote in mine anger and my wrath, and
turned away my face from them, for all their wickedness:
33.6 Behold, I bring upon her healing and cure, and I
will show [myself] to them, and will heal her, and make both peace and
security.
33.7 And I will turn the captivity of Juda, and the captivity of Israel, and will build them, even as before.
33.8 And I will cleanse them from all their
iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and will not remember
their sins, whereby they have sinned against me, and revolted from me.
33.9 And it shall be for joy and praise, and for
glory to all the people of the earth, who shall hear all the good that
I will do: and they shall fear and be provoked for all the good things
and for all the peace which I will bring upon them.
33.10 Thus saith the Lord; There shall yet be heard in this
place, of which ye say, it is destitute of men and cattle, in the
cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, [the places] that have
been made desolate for want of men and cattle,
33.11 the voice of gladness, and the voice of joy, the
voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of men
saying, Give thanks to the Lord Almighty: for the Lord is good; for his
mercy [endures] fore ever: and they shall bring gifts into the house of
the Lord; for I will turn all the captivity of that land as before,
said the Lord.
33.12 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet be in
this place, that is desert for want of man and beast, in all the cities
hereof, resting-places for shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
33.13 In the cities of the hill country, and in the cities
of the valley, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of
Benjamin, and in the [cities] round about Jerusalem, and in the cities
of Juda, flocks shall yet pass under the hand of him that numbers
[them], saith the Lord.
33.14 [vide]
33.15 [vide]
33.16 [vide]
33.17 [vide]
33.18 [vide]
33.19 [vide]
33.20 [vide]
33.21 [vide]
33.22 [vide]
33.23 [vide]
33.24 [vide]
33.25 [vide]
33.26 [vide]
34.1
The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord (now Nabuchodonosor king
of Babylon, and all his army, and all the country of his dominion, were
warring against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Juda,) saying,
34.2 Thus has the Lord said; Go to Sedekias king of
Juda, and thou shalt say to him, Thus has the Lord said, This city
shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and
he shall take it, and shall burn it with fire:
34.3 and thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but
shalt certainly be taken, and shalt be given into his hands; and thine
eyes shall see his eyes, and thou shalt enter into Babylon.
34.4 But hear the word of the Lord, O Sedekias king of Juda; Thus saith the Lord,
34.5 Thou shalt die in peace: and as they wept for
thy fathers that reigned before thee, they shall weep also for thee,
[saying], Ah lord! and they shall lament for thee down to the grave:
for I have spoken the word, said the Lord.
34.6 And Jeremias spoke to king Sedekias all these words in Jerusalem.
34.7 And the host of the king of Babylon warred
against Jerusalem, and against the cities of Juda, and against Lachis,
and against Azeca: for these strong cities were left among the cities
of Juda.
34.8 The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias,
after king Sedekias had concluded a covenant with the people, to
proclaim a release;
34.9 That every one should set at liberty his
servant, and every one has handmaid, the Hebrew man and Hebrew woman,
that no man of Juda should be a bondman.
34.10 Then all the nobles, and all the people who had
entered into the covenant, [engaging] to set free every one his
man-servant, and every one his maid, turned,
34.11 and gave them over to be men-servants and maid-servants.
34.12 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying,
34.13 Thus saith the Lord; I made a covenant with your
fathers in the day wherein I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of
the house of bondage, saying,
34.14 When six years are accomplished, thou shalt set free
thy brother the Hebrew, who shall be sold to thee: for he shall serve
thee six years, and [then] thou shalt let him go free: but they
hearkened not to me, and inclined not their ear.
34.15 And this day they turned to do that which was right
in my sight, to proclaim every one the release of his neighbour; and
they had concluded a covenant before me, in the house whereon my name
is called.
34.16 But ye turned and profaned my name, to bring back
every one his servant, and every one his handmaid, whom ye had sent
forth free [and] at their own disposal, to be to you men-servants and
maid-servants.
34.17 Therefore thus said the Lord; Ye have not hearkened
to me, to proclaim a release every one to his neighbour: behold, I
proclaim a release to you, to the sword, and to the pestilence, and to
the famine; and I will give you up to dispersion [among] all the
kingdoms of the earth.
34.18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my
covenant, who have not kept my covenant, which they made before me, the
calf which they prepared to sacrifice with it,
34.19 the princes of Juda, and the men in power, and the priests, and the people;
34.20 I will even give them to their enemies, and their
carcases shall be food for the birds of the sky and for the wild beasts
of the earth.
34.21 And I will give Sedekias king of Judea, and their
princes, into the hands of their enemies, and the host of the king of
Babylon [shall come upon] them that run away from them.
34.22 Behold, I [will] give command, saith the Lord, and
will bring them back to this land; and they shall fight against it, and
take it, and burn it with fire, and the cities of Juda; and I will make
them desolate without inhabitants.
35.1 THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS from the Lord in the days of Joakim, king of Juda, saying,
35.2 Go to the house of the Archabin, and thou shalt
bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the courts, and give
them wine to drink.
35.3 So I brought forth Jechonias the son of Jeremin
the son of Chabasin, and his brethren, and his sons, and all the family
of the Archabin;
35.4 and I brought them into the house of the Lord,
into the chamber of the sons of Joanan, the son of Ananias, the son of
Godolias, a man of God, who dwells near the house of the princes that
are over the house of Maasaeas the son of Selom, who kept the court.
35.5 And I set before them a jar of wine, and cups, and I said, Drink ye wine.
35.6 But they said, We will on no account drink wine,
for our father Jonadab the son of Rechab commanded us, saying, Ye shall
on no account drink wine, [neither] ye, nor your sons for ever:
35.7 nor shall ye at all build houses, nor sow any
seed, nor shall ye have a vineyard: for ye shall dwell in tents all
your days; that ye may live many days upon the land, in which ye
sojourn.
35.8 And we hearkened to the voice of Jonadab our
father, so as to drink no wine all our days, we, and our wives, and our
sons, and our daughters;
35.9 and so as to build no houses to dwell in: and we have had no vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
35.10 but we have dwelt in tents, and have hearkened, and
done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
35.11 And it came to pass, when Nabuchodonosor came up
against the land, that we said we would come in; and wee entered into
Jerusalem, for fear of the host of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the
host of the Assyrians: and we dwelt there.
35.12 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
35.13 Thus saith the Lord, Go, and say to the men of Juda,
and to them that dwell in Jerusalem, Will ye not receive correction to
hearken to my words?
35.14 The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the
word which he commanded his children, that they should drink no wine;
and they have not drunk [it]: but I spoke to you early, and ye
hearkened not.
35.15 And I sent to you my servants the prophets, saying,
Turn ye every one from his evil way, and amend your practices, and go
not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell upon the land
which I gave to you and to your fathers: but ye inclined not your ears,
and hearkened not.
35.16 But the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept
the command of their father; but this people has not hearkened to me.
35.17 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I [will] bring
upon Juda and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evils which I
pronounced against them.
35.18 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Since the sons of
Jonadab the son of Rechab have hearkened to the command of their
father, to do as their father commanded them:
35.19 there shall never be wanting a man of the sons of
Jonadab the son of Rechab to stand before my face while the earth
remains.
36.1 IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF JOAKIM son of Josias king of Juda, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
36.2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write upon it
all the words which I spoke to thee against Jerusalem, and against
Juda, and against all the nations, from the day when I spoke to thee,
from the days of Josias king of Juda, even to this day.
36.3 Perhaps the house of Juda will hear all the
evils which I purpose to do to them; that they may turn from their evil
way; and [so] I will be merciful to their iniquities and their sins.
36.4 So Jeremias called Baruch the son of Nerias: and
he wrote from the mouth of Jeremias all the words of the Lord, which he
had spoken to him, on a roll of a book.
36.5 And Jeremias commanded Baruch, saying, I am in prison; I cannot enter into the house of the Lord:
36.6 so thou shalt read in this roll in the ears of
the people in the house of the Lord, on the fast day; and in the ears
of all Juda that come out of their cities, thou shalt read to them.
36.7 Peradventure their supplication will come before
the Lord, and they will turn from their evil way: for great is the
wrath and the anger of the Lord, which he has pronounced against this
people.
36.8 And Baruch did according to all that Jeremias
commanded him-- reading in the book the words of the Lord in the Lord's
house.
36.9 And it came to pass in the eighth year of king
Joakim, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem, and the house
of Juda, proclaimed a fast before the Lord.
36.10 And Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremias in
the house of the Lord, in the house of Gamarias son of Saphan the
scribe, in the upper court, in the entrance of the new gate of the
house of the Lord, and in the ears of all the people.
36.11 And Michaeas the son of Gamarias the son of Saphan heard all the words of the Lord, out of the book.
36.12 And he went down to the king's house, into the house
of the scribe: and, behold, there were sitting there all the princes,
Elisama the scribe, and Dalaeas the son of Selemias, and Jonathan the
son of Acchobor, and Gamarias the son of Saphan, and Sedekias the son
of Ananias, and all the princes.
36.13 And Michaeas reported to them all the words which he had heard Baruch reading in the ears of the people.
36.14 And all the princes sent to Baruch son of Nerias
Judin the son of Nathanias, the son of Selemias, the son of Chusi,
saying, Take in thine hand the roll in which thou readest in the ears
of the people, and come. So Baruch took the roll, and went down to them.
36.15 And they said to him, Read [it] again in our ears. And Baruch read [it].
36.16 And it came to pass, when they [had] heard all the
words, [that] they took counsel each with his neighbour, and said, Let
us by all means tell the king all these words.
36.17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Where didst thou write all these words?
36.18 And Baruch said, Jeremias told me from his [own] mouth all these words, and I wrote them in a book.
36.19 And they said to Baruch, Go, and hide, thou and Jeremias; let no man know where ye [are].
36.20 And they went in to the king into the court, and ave
the roll [to one] to keep in the house of Elisama; and they told the
king all these words.
36.21 And the king sent Judin to fetch the roll: and he
took it out of the house of Elisama: and Judin read in the ears of the
king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood round the king.
36.22 Now the king was sitting in the winter house: and [there was] a fire on the hearth before him.
36.23 And it came to pass when Judin had read three or four
leaves, he cut them off with a penknife, and cast [them] into the fire
that was on the hearth, until the whole roll was consumed in the fire
that was on the hearth.
36.24 And the king and his servants that heard all these words sought not [the Lord], and rent not their garments.
36.25 But Elnathan and Godolias suggested to the king that he should burn the roll.
36.26 And the king commanded Jeremeel the king's son, and
Saraeas the son of Esriel, to take Baruch and Jeremias: but they were
hidden.
36.27 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, after the
king had burnt the roll, [even] all the words which Baruch wrote from
the mouth of Jeremias, saying,
36.28 Again take thou another roll, and write all the words that were on the roll, which king Joakim has burnt.
36.29 And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast
burnt this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The
king of Babylon shall certainly come in, and destroy this land, and man
and cattle shall fail from off it?
36.30 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim king
of Juda; He shall not have [a man] to sit on the throne of David: and
his carcass shall be cast forth in the heat by day, and in the frost by
night.
36.31 And I will visit him, and his family, and his
servants: and I will bring upon him, and upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and upon the land of Juda, all the evils which I spoke of to
them; and they hearkened not.
36.32 And Baruch took another roll, and wrote upon it from
the mouth of Jeremias all the words of the book which Joakim had burnt:
and there were yet more words added to it like the former.
37.1
And Sedekias the son of Josias reigned instead of Joakim, whom
Nabuchodonosor appointed to reign over Juda.
37.2 And he and his servants and the people of the
land hearkened not to the words of the Lord, which he spoke by Jeremias.
37.3 And king Sedekias sent Joachal son of Selemias
and Sophonias the priest son of Maasaeas to Jeremias, saying, Pray now
for us to the Lord.
37.4 Now Jeremias came and went through the midst of
the city: for they [had] not put him into the house of the prison.
37.5 And the host of Pharao was come forth out of
Egypt; and the Chaldeans heard the report of them, and they went up
from Jerusalem.
37.6 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying,
37.7 Thus said the Lord; Thus shalt thou say to the
king of Juda who sent to thee, to seek me; Behold, the army of Pharao
which is come forth to help you: they shall return to the land of Egypt:
37.8 and the Chaldeans themselves shall turn again,
and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
37.9 For thus saith he Lord; Suppose not in your
hearts, saying, The Chaldeans will certainly depart from us: for they
shall not depart.
37.10 And though ye should smite the whole host of the
Chaldeans that fight against you, and there should be left a few
wounded [men], these should rise up each in his place, and burn this
city with fire.
37.11 And it came to pass, when the host of the Chaldeans had gone up from Jerusalem for fear of the host of Pharao,
37.12 that Jeremias went forth from Jerusalem to go into
the land of Benjamin, to buy thence [a property] in the midst of the
people.
37.13 And he was in the gate of Benjamin, and [there was]
there a man with whom he lodged, Saruia the son of Selemias, the son of
Ananias; and he caught Jeremias, saying, Thou art fleeing to the
Chaldeans.
37.14 And he said, [It is] false; I do not flee to the
Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him; and Saruia caught Jeremias, and
brought him to the princes.
37.15 And the princes were very angry with Jeremias, and
smote him, and sent him into the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they
had made this a prison.
37.16 So Jeremias came into the dungeon, and into the cells, and he remained there many days.
37.17 Then Sedekias sent, and called him; and the king
asked him secretly, saying, Is there a word from the Lord? and he said,
There is: thou shalt be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.
37.18 And Jeremias said to the king, Wherein have I wronged
thee, or thy servants, or this people, that thou puttest me in prison?
37.19 And where are your prophets who prophesied to you
saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against this land?
37.20 Now therefore, my lord the king, let my supplication
come before thy face: and why dost thou send me back to the house of
Jonathan the scribe? and let me not on any account die there.
37.21 Then the king commanded, and they cast him into the
prison, and gave him a loaf a day out of the place where they bake,
until the bread failed out of the city. So Jeremias continued in the
court of the prison.
38.1
And Saphanias the son of Nathan, and Godolias the son of Paschor, and
Joachal the son of Semelias, heard the words which Jeremias spoke to
the people, saying,
38.2 Thus saith the Lord; He that remains in this
city shall die by the sword, and by the famine: but he that goes out to
the Chaldeans shall live; and his soul shall be given him for a found
treasure, and he shall live.
38.3 For thus saith the Lord; This city shall
certainly be delivered into the hands of the host of the king of
Babylon, and they shall take it.
38.4 And they said to the king. Let that man, wee
pray thee, be slain, for he weakens the hands of the fighting men that
are left in the city, and the hands of all the people, speaking to them
according to these words: for this man does not prophesy peace to this
people, but evil.
38.5 Then the king said, Behold, he is in your hands. For the king could not resist them.
38.6 And they cast him into the dungeon of Melchias
the kings son, which was in the court of the prison; and they let him
down into the pit: and there was no water in the pit, but mire: and he
was in the mire.
38.7 And Abdemelech the Ethiopian heard, (now he was
in the king's household,) that they [had] put Jeremias into the
dungeon; and the king was in the gate of Benjamin:
38.8 and he went forth to him, and spoke to the king and said,
38.9 Thou hast done evil in what thou hast done to
slay this man with hunger: for there is no more bread in the city.
38.10 And the king commanded Abdemelech, saying, Take with
thee hence thirty men, and bring him up out of the dungeon, that he die
not.
38.11 So Abdemelech took the men and went into the
underground [part of the] king's house, and took thence old rags and
old ropes, and threw them to Jeremias into the dungeon.
38.12 And he said, Put these under the ropes. And Jeremias did so.
38.13 And they drew him with the ropes, and lifted him out
of the dungeon: and Jeremias remained in the court of the prison.
38.14 Then the king sent, and called him to himself into
the house of Aselisel, which was in the house of the Lord: and the King
said to him, I will ask thee a question, and I pray thee hide nothing
from me.
38.15 And Jeremias said to the king, If I tell thee, wilt
thou not certainly put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou
wilt not at all hearken to me.
38.16 And the king swore to him, saying, [As] the Lord
lives who gave us this soul, I will not slay thee, neither will I give
thee into the hands of these men.
38.17 And Jeremias said to him, Thus saith the Lord; If
thou wilt indeed go forth to the captains of the king of Babylon, thy
soul shall live, and this city shall certainly not be burnt with fire;
and thou shalt live, and thy house.
38.18 But if thou wilt not go forth this city shall be
delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with
fire, and thou shalt by no means escape.
38.19 And the king said to Jeremias, I consider the Jews
that have gone over to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their
hands, and they mock me.
38.20 And Jeremias said, They shall in no wise deliver thee
up. Hear the word of the Lord which I speak to thee; and it shall be
better for thee, and thy soul shall live.
38.21 But if thou wilt not go forth, this is the word which the Lord has shewn me.
38.22 And, behold, all the women that are left in the house
of the king of Juda were brought forth to the princes of the king of
Babylon; and they said, The men who were at peace with thee have
deceived thee, and will prevail against thee; and they shall cause thy
foot to slide and fail, they have turned back from thee.
38.23 And they shall bring forth thy wives and thy children
to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt by no means escape, for thou shalt be
taken by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burnt.
38.24 Then the king said to him, Let no man know [any] of these words, and certainly thou shalt not die.
38.25 And if the princes shall hear that I have spoken to
thee, and they come to thee, and say to thee, Tell us, what said the
king to thee? hide [it] not from us, and we will in no wise slay thee,
and what said the king to thee?
38.26 Then thou shalt say to them, I brought my
supplication before the presence of the king, that he would not send me
back into the house of Jonathan, that I should die there.
38.27 And all the princes came to Jeremias, and asked him:
and he told them according to all these words, which the king had
commanded him. And they were silent, because the word of the Lord was
not heard.
38.28 And Jeremias remained in the court of the prison, until the time when Jerusalem was taken.
39.1
And it came to pass in the ninth month of Sedekias king of Juda, [that]
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against
Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
39.2 And in the eleventh year of Sedekias, in the
fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken [up].
39.3 And all the leaders of the king of Babylon went
in, and sat in the middle gate, Marganasar, and Samagoth, and
Nabusachar, and Nabusaris, Nagargas, Naserrabamath, and the rest of the
leaders of the king of Babylon,
39.4 [vide]
39.5 [vide]
39.6 [vide]
39.7 [vide]
39.8 [vide]
39.9 [vide]
39.10 [vide]
39.11 [vide]
39.12 [vide]
39.13 [vide]
39.14 and they sent, and took Jeremias out of the court of
the prison, and gave him [in charge] to Godolias the son of Achicam,
the son of Saphan: and they brought him out, and he sat in the midst of
the people.
39.15 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias in the court of the prison, saying,
39.16 Go and say to Abdemelech the Ethiopian, Thus said the
Lord God of Israel; Behold, I [will] bring my words upon this city for
evil, and not for good.
39.17 But I will save thee in that day, and I will by no
means deliver thee into the hands of the men before whom thou art
afraid.
39.18 For I will surely save thee, and thou shalt by no
means fall by the sword; and thou shalt find thy life, because thou
didst trust in me, saith the Lord.
40.1
The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, after that Nabuzardan the
captain of the guard had let him go out of Rama, when he had taken him
in manacles in the midst of the captivity of Juda, [even] those who
were carried to Babylon.
40.2 And the chief captain of the guard took him, and
said to him, The Lord thy God has pronounced all these evils upon this
place:
40.3 and the Lord has done it; because ye sinned against him, and hearkened not to his voice.
40.4 Behold, I have loosed thee from the manacles
that were upon thine hands. If it seem good to thee to go with me to
Babylon, then will I set mine eyes upon thee.
40.5 But if not, depart; return to Godolias the son
of Achicam, the son of Saphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed
governor in the land of Juda, and dwell with him in the midst of the
people in the land of Juda: to whatsoever places it seems good in thine
eyes to go, do thou even go. And the captain of the guard made him
presents, and let him go.
40.6 And he came to Godolias to Massepha, and dwelt in the midst of his people that was left in the land.
40.7 And al the leaders of the host that was in the
country, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had
appointed Godolias [governor] in the land, and they committed to him
the men and their wives, whom [Nabuchodonosor had] not removed to
Babylon.
40.8 And there came to Godolias to Massepha Ismael
the son of Nathanias, and Joanan son of Caree, and Saraeas the son of
Thanaemeth, and the sons of Jophe the Netophathite, and Ezonias son of
the Mochathite, they and their men.
40.9 And Godolias swore to them and to their men,
saying, Be not afraid before the children of the Chaldeans: dwell in
the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be better for you.
40.10 And, behold, I dwell in your presence at Massepha, to
stand before the Chaldeans who shall come against you: and do ye gather
grapes, and fruits, and oil, and put [them] into your vessels, and
dwell in the cities which ye have obtained possession of.
40.11 And all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the
children of Ammon, and those [that were] in Idumea, and those [that
were] in all [the rest of] the country, heard that the king of Babylon
[had] granted a remnant to Juda, and that he had appointed over them
Godolias the son of Achicam.
40.12 And they came to Godolias into the land of Juda, to
Massepha, and gathered grapes, and very much summer fruit, and oil.
40.13 And Joanan the son of Caree, and all the leaders of
the host, who were in the fields, came to Godolias to Massepha,
40.14 and said to him, Dost thou indeed know that king
Beleissa son of Ammon has sent Ismael to thee to slay thee? But
Godolias believed them not.
40.15 And Joanan said to Godolias secretly in Massepha, I
will go now and smite Ismael, and let no man know [it]; lest he slay
thee, and all the Jews that are gathered to thee be dispersed, and the
remnant of Juda perish.
40.16 But Godolias said to Joanan, Do not the thing, for thou speakest lies concerning Ismael.
41.1
Now it came to pass in the seventh month that Ismael the son of
Nathanias the son of Eleasa of the sed royal, came, and ten men with
him, to Godolias to Massepha: and they ate bread there together.
41.2 And Ismael rose up, and the ten men that were
with him, and smote Godolias, whom the king of Babylon had appointed
[governor] over the land,
41.3 and all the Jews that were with him in Massepha, and all the Chaldeans that were found there.
41.4 And it came to pass on the second day after he had smitten Godolias, and no man knew [of it],
41.5 that there came men from Sychem, and from Salem,
and from Samaria, [even] eighty men, having their beards shaven, and
their clothes rent, and beating their breasts, and [they had] manna and
frankincense in their hands, to bring [them] into the house of the Lord.
41.6 And Ismael went out to meet them; [and] they went on and wept: and he said to them, Come in to Godolias.
41.7 And it came to pass, when they had entered into
the midst of the city, [that] he slew them [and cast them] into a pit.
41.8 But ten men were found there, and they said to
Ismael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, wheat and
barley, honey and oil. So he passed by, and slew them not in the midst
of their brethren.
41.9 Now the pit into which Ismael cast all whom he
smote, is the great pit, which king Asa had made for fear of Baasa king
of Israel: [even] this Ismael filled with slain men.
41.10 And Ismael brought back all the people that were left
in Massepha, and the king's daughter, whom the captain of the guard had
committed in charge to Godolias the son of Achicam: and he went away
beyond the children of Ammon.
41.11 And Joanan the son of Caree, and all the leaders of
the host that were with him, heard of all the evil deeds which Ismael
had done.
41.12 And they brought all their army, and went to fight against him, and found him near much water in Gabaon.
41.13 And it came to pass, when all the people that was
with Ismael saw Joanan, and the leaders of the host that was with him,
41.14 that they returned to Joanan.
41.15 But Ismael escaped with eight men and went to the children of Ammon.
41.16 And Joanan, and all the leaders of the host that were
with him, took all the remnant of the people, whom he [had] brought
back from Ismael, mighty men in war, and the women, and the other
[property], and the eunuchs, whom they [had] brought back from Gabaon:
41.17 and they departed, and dwelt in Gaberoch-amaa, that
is by Bethleem, to go into Egypt, for fear of the Chaldeans:
41.18 for they were afraid of them, because Ismael had
smitten Godolias, whom the king of Babylon made [governor] in the land.
42.1
Then came all the leaders of the host, and Joanan, and Azarias the son
of Maasaeas, and all the people great and small,
42.2 to Jeremias the prophet, and said to him, Let
now our supplication come before thy face, and pray thou to the Lord
thy God for this remnant; for we are left few out of many, as thine
eyes see.
42.3 And let the Lord thy God declare to us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing which we should do.
42.4 And Jeremias said to them, I have heard [you];
behold, I will pray for you to the Lord our God, according to your
words; and it shall come to pass, [that] whatsoever word the Lord God
shall answer, I will declare [it] to you; I will not hide anything from
you.
42.5 And they said to Jeremias, Let the Lord be
between us for a just and faithful witness, if we do not according to
every word which the Lord shall send to us.
42.6 And whether [it be] good, or whether [it be]
evil, we will hearken to the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send
thee; that it may be well with us, because we shall hearken to the
voice of the Lord our God.
42.7 And it came to pass after ten days, [that] the word of the Lord came to Jeremias.
42.8 And he called Joanan, and the Leaders of the
host, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,
42.9 and he said to them, Thus saith the Lord;
42.10 If ye will indeed dwell in this land, I will build
you, and will not pull [you] down, but will plant you, and in no wise
pluck you up: for I have ceased from the calamities which I brought
upon you.
42.11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are
afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the Lord: for I am with you, to
deliver you, and save you out of their hand.
42.12 And I will grant you mercy, and pity you, and will restore you to your land.
42.13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, that we may not hearken to the voice of the Lord;
42.14 for wee will go into the land of Egypt, and we shall
see no war, and shall not hear the sound of a trumpet, and we shall not
hunger for bread; and there we will dwell:
42.15 then hear the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord;
42.16 If ye set your face toward Egypt, and go in there to
dwell; then it shall be, [that] the sword which ye fear shall find you
in the land of Egypt, and the famine to which ye have regard, shall
overtake you, [coming] after you in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
42.17 And all the men, and all the strangers who have set
their face toward the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall be consumed
by the sword, and by the famine: and there shall not one of them escape
from the evils which I bring upon them.
42.18 For thus saith the Lord; As my wrath has dropped upon
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath drop upon you, when ye
have entered into Egypt: and ye shall be a desolation, and under the
power of others, and a curse and a reproach: and ye shall no more see
this place.
42.19 [These are the words] which the Lord has spoken
concerning you the remnant of Juda; Enter ye not into Egypt: and now
know ye for a certainty,
42.20 that ye have wrought wickedness in your hearts, when
ye sent me, saying, Pray thou for us to the Lord; and according to all
that the Lord shall speak to thee we will do.
42.21 And ye have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, with which he sent me to you.
42.22 Now therefore ye shall perish by sword and by famine, in the place which ye desire to go into to dwell there.
43.1
And it came to pass, when Jeremias ceased speaking to the people all
the words of the Lord, [for] wich the Lord had sent him to them, [even]
all these words,
43.2 that Azarias son of Maasaeas spoke, and Joanan,
the son of Caree, and all the men who had spoken to Jeremias, saying,
[It is] false: the Lord has not sent thee to us, saying, Enter not into
Egypt to dwell there:
43.3 but Baruch the son of Nerias sets thee against
us, that thou mayest deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, to
kill us, and that we should be carried away captives to Babylon.
43.4 So Joanan, and all the leaders of the host, and
all the people, refused to hearken to the voice of the Lord, to dwell
in the land of Juda.
43.5 And Joanan, and all the leaders of the host,
took all the remnant of Juda, who had returned to dwell in the land;
43.6 the mighty men, and the women, and the children
that were left, and the daughters of the king, and the souls which
Nabuzardan and left with Godolias the son of Achicam and Jeremias the
prophet, and Baruch the son of Nerias.
43.7 And they came into Egypt: for they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord: and they entered into Taphnas.
43.8 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias in Taphnas, saying,
43.9 Take thee great stones, and hide them in the
entrance, at the gate of the house of Pharao in Taphnas, in the sight
of the men of Juda:
43.10 and thou shalt say, Thus has the Lord said; Behold, I
[will] send, and will bring Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and he
shall place his throne upon these stones which thou hast hidden, and he
shall lift up weapons against them.
43.11 And he shall enter in, and smite the land of Egypt,
[delivering] some for death to death; and some for captivity to
captivity; and some for the sword to the sword.
43.12 And he shall kindle a fire in the houses of their
gods, and shall burn them, and shall carry them away captives: and
shall search the land of Egypt, as a shepherd searches his garment; and
he shall go forth in peace.
43.13 And he shall break to pieces the pillars of Heliopolis that are in On, and shall burn their houses with fire.
44.1
THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS for all the Jews dwelling in the land of
Egypt, and for those settled in Magdolo and in Taphnas, and in the land
of Pathura, saying,
44.2 Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; Ye have
seen all the evils which I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon the
cities of Juda; and, behold, they are desolate without inhabitants,
44.3 because of their wickedness, which they have
wrought to provoke me, [by] going to burn incense to other gods, whom
ye knew not.
44.4 yet I sent to you my servants the prophets early
in the morning, and I sent, saying, Do not ye this abominable thing
which I hate.
44.5 But they hearkened not to me, and inclined not
their ear to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn incense to
strange gods.
44.6 So mine anger and my wrath dropped [upon them],
and was kindled in the gates of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem;
and they became a desolation and a waste, as at this day.
44.7 And now thus has the Lord Almighty said,
Wherefore do ye commit [these] great evils against your souls? to cut
off man and woman of you, infant and suckling from the midst of Juda,
to the end that not one of you should be left;
44.8 by provoking me with the works of your hands, to
burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which ye entered
to dwell there, that ye might be cut off, and that ye might become a
curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
44.9 Have ye forgotten the sins of your fathers, and
the sins of the kings of Juda, and the sins of your princes, and the
sins of your wives, which they wrought in the land of Juda, and in the
streets of Jerusalem?
44.10 And have not ceased even to this day, and they have
not kept to my ordinances, which I set before their fathers.
44.11 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold I do set my face against [you]
44.12 to destroy all the remnant that are in Egypt; and
they shall fall by the sword, and by famine, and shall be consumed
small and great: and they shall be for reproach, and for destruction,
and for a curse.
44.13 And I will visit them that dwell in the land of
Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem, with sword and with famine:
44.14 and there shall not one be preserved of the remnant
of Juda that sojourn in the land of Egypt, to return to the land of
Juda, to which they hope in their hearts to return: they shall not
return, but only they that escape.
44.15 Then all the men that knew that their wives burned
incense, and all the women, a great multitude, and all the people that
dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathura, answered Jeremias, saying,
44.16 [As for] the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee.
44.17 For we will surely perform every word that shall
proceed out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and
to pour drink-offerings to her, as wee and our fathers have done, and
our kings and princes, in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of
Jerusalem: and [so] we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw
no evils.
44.18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of
heaven, we have all been brought low, and have been consumed by sword
and by famine.
44.19 And whereas we burned incense to the queen of heaven,
and poured drink-offerings to her, did we make cakes to her, and pour
drink-offerings to her, without our husbands?
44.20 Then Jeremias answered all the people, the mighty
men, and the women, and all the people that returned him [these] words
for answer, saying,
44.21 Did not the Lord remember the incense which ye burned
in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your
fathers, and your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land?
and came it not into his heart?
44.22 And the Lord could no longer bear [you], because of
the wickedness of your doings, and because of your abominations which
ye wrought; and so your land became a desolation and a waste, and a
curse, as at this day;
44.23 because of your burning incense, and [because] of the
things wherein ye sinned against the Lord: and ye have not hearkened to
the voice of the Lord, and have not walked in his ordinances, and in
his law, and in his testimonies; and so these evils have come upon you.
44.24 And Jeremias said to the people, and to the women, Hear ye the word of the Lord.
44.25 Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; Ye women have
spoken with your mouth, and ye fulfilled [it] with your hands, saying,
We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to
the queen of heaven, and to pour drink-offerings to her: full well did
ye keep to your vows, and ye have indeed performed [them].
44.26 Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Jews
dwelling in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name,
saith the Lord, my name shall no longer be in the mouth of every Jew to
say, The Lord lives, in all the land of Egypt.
44.27 For I have watched over them, to hurt them, and not
to do them good: and all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt shall
perish by sword and by famine, until they are utterly consumed.
44.28 And they that escape the sword shall return to the
land of Juda few in number, and the remnant of Juda, who have continued
in the land [of] Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word shall
stand.
44.29 And this [shall be] a sign to you, that I will visit you for evil.
44.30 Thus said the Lord; Behold, I [will] give Uaphres
king of Egypt into the hands of his enemy, and into the hands of one
that seeks his life; as I gave Sedekias king of Juda into the hands of
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, his enemy, and who sought his life.
45.1
THE WORD WHICH JEREMIAS THE PROPHET spoke to Baruch son of Nerias, when
he wrote these words in the book from the mouth of Jeremias, in the
fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda.
45.2 Thus has the Lord said to thee, O Baruch.
45.3 Whereas thou hast said, Alas! alas! for the Lord
has laid a grievous trouble upon me; I lay down in groaning, I found no
rest;
45.4 say thou to him, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I
pull down those whom I have built up, and I pluck up those whom I have
planted.
45.5 And wilt thou seek great things for thyself?
seek [them] not: for, behold, I bring evil upon all flesh, saith the
Lord: but I will give [to thee] thy life for a spoil in every place
whither thou shalt go.
46.1 In the beginning of the reign of king Sedekias, there came this word concerning Aelam.
46.2 FOR EGYPT, AGAINST THE POWER OF PHARAO NECHAO
KING OF EGYPT, who was by the river Euphrates in Charmis, whom
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Joakim king
of Juda.
46.3 Take up arms and spears, and draw nigh to battle;
46.4 and harness the horses: mount, ye horsemen, and
stand ready in your helmets; advance the spears, and put on your
breast-plates.
46.5 Why do they fear, and turn back? even because
their mighty men shall be slain: they have utterly fled, and being
hemmed in they have not rallied, saith the Lord.
46.6 Let not the swift flee, and let not the mighty
man escape to the north: the [forces] at Euphrates are become feeble,
and they have fallen.
46.7 Who is this [that] shall come up as a river, and as rivers roll [their] waves?
46.8 The waters of Egypt shall come up like a river:
and he said, I will go up, and will cover the earth, and will destroy
the dwellers in it.
46.9 Mount ye the horses, prepare the chariots; go
forth, ye warriors of the Ethiopians, and Libyans armed with shields;
and mount, ye Lydians, bend the bow.
46.10 And that day [shall be] to the Lord our God a day of
vengeance, to take vengeance on his enemies: and the sword of the Lord
shall devour, and be glutted, and be drunken with their blood: for the
Lord [has] a sacrifice from the land of the north at the river
Euphrates.
46.11 Go up to Galaad, and take balm for the virgin
daughter of Egypt: in vain hast thou multiplied thy medicines; there is
no help in thee.
46.12 The nations have heard thy voice, and the land has
been filled with thy cry: for the warriors have fainted fighting one
against another, [and] both are fallen together.
46.13 THE WORDS WHICH THE LORD SPOKE by Jeremias,
concerning the coming of the king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt.
46.14 Proclaim [it] at Magdol, and declare [it] at Memphis:
say ye, Stand up, and prepare; for the sword has devoured thy yew-tree.
46.15 Wherefore has Apis fled from thee? thy choice calf has not remained; for the Lord has utterly weakened him.
46.16 And thy multitude has fainted and fallen; and each
one said to his neighbour, Let us arise, and return into our country to
our people, from the Grecian sword.
46.17 Call ye the name of Pharao Nechao king of Egypt, Saon esbeie moed.
46.18 [As] I live, saith the Lord God, he shall come as
Itabyrion among the mountains, and as Carmel that is on the sea.
46.19 O daughter of Egypt dwelling [at home], prepare thee
stuff for removing: for Memphis shall be utterly desolate, and shall be
called Woe, because there are no inhabitants in it.
46.20 Egypt is a fair heifer, [but] destruction from the north is come upon her.
46.21 Also her hired [soldiers] in the midst of her are as
fatted calves fed in her; for they also have turned, and fled with one
accord: they stood not, for the day of destruction was come upon them,
and the time of their retribution.
46.22 Their voice is as [that] of a hissing serpent, for
they go upon the sand; they shall come upon Egypt with axes, as men
that cut wood.
46.23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, for
[their number] cannot at all be conjectured, for it exceeds the locust
in multitude, and they are innumerable.
46.24 The daughter of Egypt is confounded; she is delivered into the hands of a people from the north.
46.25 Behold, I [will] avenge Ammon her son upon Pharao, and upon them that trust in him.
46.26 [vide]
46.27 But fear not thou, my servant Jacob, neither be thou
alarmed, Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed
from their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be at ease, and
sleep, and there shall be no one to trouble him.
46.28 Fear not thou, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; for
I am with thee: she [that was] without fear and in luxury, has been
delivered up: for I will make a full end of every nation among whom I
have thrust thee forth; but I will not cause thee to fail: yet will I
chastise thee in the way of judgment, and will not hold thee entirely
guiltless.
47.1 THUS SAITH THE LORD AGAINST THE PHILISTINES;
47.2 Behold, waters come up from the north, and shall
become a sweeping torrent, and it shall sweep away the land, and its
fulness; the city, and them that dwell in it: and men shall cry and all
that dwell in the land shall howl,
47.3 at the sound of his rushing, at [the sound of]
his hoofs, and at the rattling of his chariots, at the noise of his
wheels: the fathers turned not to their children because of the
weakness of their hands,
47.4 in the day that is coming to destroy all the
Philistines: and I will utterly destroy Tyre and Sidon and all the rest
of their allies: for the Lord will destroy the remaining [inhabitants]
of the islands.
47.5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ascalon is cast away, and the remnant of the Enakim.
47.6 How long wilt thou smite, O sword of the Lord?
how long will it be ere thou art quiet? return into thy sheath, rest,
and be removed.
47.7 How shall it be quiet, whereas the Lord has
given it a commission against Ascalon, and against the regions on the
sea-coast, to awake against the remaining [countries]!
48.1
Thus has the Lord said concerning MOAB, Woe to Nabau! for it has
perished: Cariathaim is taken: Amath and Agath are put to shame.
48.2 There is no longer any healing for Moab, [nor]
glorying in Esebon: he has devised evils against her: we have cut her
off from [being] a nation, and she shall be completely still: after
thee shall go a sword;
48.3 for [there is] a voice of [men] crying out of Oronaim, destruction and great ruin.
48.4 Moab is ruined, proclaim [it] to Zogora:
48.5 for Aloth is filled with weeping: one shall go
up weeping by the way of Oronaim; ye have heard a cry of destruction.
48.6 Flee ye, and save your lives, and ye shall be as a wild ass in the desert.
48.7 Since thou hast trusted in thy strong-hold,
therefore thou shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go forth into
captivity, and his priests, and his princes together.
48.8 And destruction shall come upon every city, it
shall by no means escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain
country shall be completely destroyed, as the Lord has said.
48.9 Set marks upon Moab, for she shall be touched
with a plague-spot, and all her cities shall become desolate; whence
[shall there be] an inhabitant for her?
48.10 Cursed is the man that does the works of the Lord carelessly, keeping back his sword from blood.
48.11 Moab has been at ease from a child, and trusted in
his glory; he has not poured out [his liquor] from vessel to vessel,
and has not gone into banishment, therefore his taste remained in him,
and his smell departed not.
48.12 Therefore, behold, his days come, saith the Lord,
when I shall send upon him bad leaders, and they shall lead him astray,
and they shall utterly break in pieces his possessions, and shall cut
his horns asunder.
48.13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of
Israel was ashamed of Baethel their hope, having trusted in them.
48.14 How will ye say, We are strong, and men strong for war?
48.15 Moab is ruined, [even] his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.
48.16 The day of Moab is near at hand, and his iniquity moves swiftly [to vengeance].
48.17 Shake [the head] at him, all ye that are round about
him; all [of you] utter his name; say ye, How is the glorious staff
broken to pieces, the rod of magnificence!
48.18 Come down from [thy] glory, and sit down in a damp
place: Daebon shall be broken, because Moab is destroyed: there has
gone up against thee one to ravage thy strong-hold.
48.19 Stand by the way, and look, thou that dwellest in
Arer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What
has happened?
48.20 Moab is put to shame, because he is broken: howl and cry; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab has perished.
48.21 And judgment is coming against the land of Misor, upon Chelon, and Rephas, and Mophas,
48.22 and upon Daebon, and upon Nabau, and upon the house of Daethlathaim,
48.23 and upon Cariathaim, and upon the house of Gaemol, and upon the house of Maon,
48.24 and upon Carioth, and upon Bosor, and upon all the cities of Moab, far and near.
48.25 The horn of Moab is broken, and his arm is crushed.
48.26 Make ye him drunk; for he has magnified himself
against the Lord: and Moab shall clap with his hand, and shall be also
himself a laughing-stock.
48.27 For surely Israel was to thee a laughing-stock, and
was found among thy thefts, because thou didst fight against him.
48.28 The inhabitants of Moab have left the cities, and
dwelt in rocks; they have become as doves nestling in rocks, at the
mouth of a cave.
48.29 And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly
heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted
up.
48.30 But I know his works: is it not enough for him? has he not done thus?
48.31 Therefore howl ye for Moab on all sides; cry out
against the shorn men [in] a gloomy place. I will weep for thee,
48.32 O vine of Aserema, as with the weeping of Jazer: thy
branches are gone over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer:
destruction has come upon thy fruits, [and] upon thy grape-gatherers.
48.33 Joy and gladness have been utterly swept off the land
of Moab: and [though] there was wine in thy presses, in the morning
they trod it not, neither in the evening did they raise the cry of joy.
48.34 From the cry of Esebon even to Aetam their cities
uttered their voice, from Zogor to Oronaim, and their tidings [as] a
heifer of three years old, for the water also of Nebrin shall be dried
up.
48.35 And I will destroy Moab, saith the Lord, as he comes up to the altar, and burns incense to his gods.
48.36 Therefore the heart of Moab shall sound as pipes, my
heart shall sound as a pipe for the shorn men; forasmuch as what
[every] man has gained has perished from him.
48.37 They shall all ave their heads shaved in every place,
and every beard shall be shaved; and all hands shall beat [the
breasts], and on all loins shall be sackcloth.
48.38 And on all the housetops of Moab, and in his streets
[shall be mourning]: for I have broken [him], saith the Lord, as a
vessel, which is useless.
48.39 How has he changed! how has Moab turned [his] back!
Moab is put to shame, and become a laughing-stock, and an object of
anger to all that are round about him.
48.40 For thus said the Lord;
48.41 Carioth is taken, and the strong-holds have been taken together.
48.42 And Moab shall perish from being a multitude, because he has magnified himself against the Lord.
48.43 A snare, and fear, and the pit, are upon thee, O inhabitant off Moab.
48.44 he that flees from the terror shall fall into the
pit, and he that comes up out of the pit shall even be taken in the
snare: for I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their
visitation.
48.45 [vide]
48.46 [vide]
48.47 [vide]
49.1
CONCERNING THE SONS OF AMMON thus saith the Lord, Are there no sons in
Israel? or have they no one to succeed [them]? wherefore has Melchol
inherited Galaad, and why shall their people dwell in their cities?
49.2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
Lord, when I will cause to be heard in Rabbath a tumult of wars; and
they shall become a waste and ruined place, and her altars shall be
burned with fire; then shall Israel succeed to his dominion.
49.3 Howl, O Esebon, for Gai has perished; cry, ye
daughters of Rabbath, gird yourselves with sack-clothes, and lament;
for Melchol shall go into banishment, his priests and his princes
together.
49.4 Why do ye exult in the plains of the Enakim,
thou haughty daughter, that trustest in [thy] treasures, that sayest,
Who shall come in to me?
49.5 Behold, I [will] bring terror upon thee, saith
the Lord, from all the country round about thee; and ye shall be
scattered every one right before him, and there is none to gather you.
49.6 [vide]
49.7 CONCERNING IDUMEA, thus saith the Lord; There is
no longer wisdom in Thaeman, counsel has perished from the wise ones,
their wisdom is gone,
49.8 their place has been deceived. Dig deep for a
dwelling, ye that inhabit Daedam, for he has wrought grievously: I
brought trouble upon him in the time at which I visited him.
49.9 For grape-gatherers are come, who shall not
leave thee a remnant; as thieves by night, they shall lay their hand
upon [thy possessions].
49.10 For I have stripped Esau, I have uncovered their
secret places; they shall have no power to hide themselves, they have
perished [each] by the hand of his brother, my neighbour, and it is
impossible
49.11 for thy fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows trust in me.
49.12 For thus saith the Lord; They who were not appointed
to drink the cup have drunk [it]; and thou shalt by no means be cleared:
49.13 for by myself I have sworn, saith the Lord, that thou
shalt be in the midst of her an impassable [land], and a reproach, and
a curse; and all her cities shall be desert for ever.
49.14 I have heard a report from the lord, and he has sent
messengers to the nations, [saying,] Assemble yourselves, and come
against her; rise ye up to war.
49.15 I have made thee small among the nations, utterly contemptible among men.
49.16 Thine insolence has risen up against thee, the
fierceness of thine heart has burst the holes of the rocks, it has
seized upon the strength of a lofty hill; for as an eagle he set his
nest on high: thence will I bring thee down.
49.17 And Idumea shall be a desert: every one that passes by shall hiss at it.
49.18 As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha and they that
sojourned in her, saith the Lord Almighty, no man shall dwell there,
nor shall any son of man inhabit there.
49.19 Behold, he shall come up as a lion out of the midst
of Jordan to the place of Aetham: for I will speedily drive them from
it, and do ye set the young men against her: for who is like me? and
who will withstand me? and who [is] this shepherd, who shall confront
me?
49.20 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord which he
has framed against Idumea; and his device, which he has devised against
the inhabitants of Thaeman: surely the least of the sheep shall be
swept off; surely their dwelling shall be made desolate for them.
49.21 For at the sound of their fall the earth was scared, and the cry of the sea was not heard.
49.22 Behold, he shall look [upon her] as an eagle, and
spread forth [his] wings over her strongholds; and the heart of the
mighty men of Idumea shall be in that day as the heart of a woman in
her pangs.
49.23 CONCERNING DAMASCUS. Emath is brought to shame, and
Arphath: for they have heard an evil report: they are amazed, they are
angry, they shall be utterly unable to rest.
49.24 Damascus is utterly weakened, she is put to flight; trembling has seized upon her.
49.25 How has she not left my city, they have loved the village?
49.26 Therefore shall the young men fall in thy streets, and all thy warriors shall fall, saith the Lord.
49.27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the streets of the son of Ader.
49.28 CONCERNING KEDAR THE QUEEN OF THE PALACE, WHOM
NABUCHODONOSOR KING OF BABYLON SMOTE, thus saith the Lord; Arise ye,
and go up to Kedar, and fill the sons of Kedem.
49.29 They shall take their tents and their sheep, they
shall take for themselves their garments, and all their baggage and
their camels; and summon ye destruction against them from every side.
49.30 Flee ye, dig very deep for a dwelling-place, ye that
dwell in the palace; for the king of Babylon has framed a counsel, and
devised a device against you.
49.31 Rise up, and go up against a nation settled [and]
dwelling at ease, who have no doors, nor bolts, nor bars, [who] dwell
alone.
49.32 And their camels shall be a spoil, and the multitude
of their cattle shall be destroyed: and I will scatter them as chaff
with every wind, having their hair cut about their foreheads, I will
bring on their overthrow from all sides, saith the Lord.
49.33 And the palace shall be a resting-place for
ostriches, ad desolate for ever: no man shall abide there, and no son
of man shall dwell there.
49.34 THE PROPHECIES OF JEREMIAS AGAINST THE NATIONS OF AELAM.
49.35 Thus saith the Lord, The bow of Aelam is broken, [even] the chief of their power.
49.36 And I will bring upon Aelam the four winds from the
four corners of heaven, and I will disperse them toward all these
winds; and there shall be no nation [to] which they shall not come--
[even] the outcasts of Aelam.
49.37 And I will put them in fear before their enemies that
seek their life; and I will bring evils upon them according to my great
anger; and I will send forth my sword after them, until I have utterly
destroyed them.
49.38 And I will set my throne in Aelam, and will send forth thence king and rulers.
49.39 But it shall come to pass at the end of days, that I will turn the captivity of Aelam, saith the Lord.
50.1 THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH HE SPOKE AGAINST BABYLON.
50.2 Proclaim ye among the Gentiles, and cause the
tidings to be heard, and suppress [them] not: say ye, Babylon is taken,
Belus is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Maerodach is delivered
up.
50.3 For a nation has come up against her from the
north, he shall utterly ravage her land, and there shall be none to
dwell in it, neither man nor beast.
50.4 In those days, and at that time, the children of
Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together; they shall
proceed, weeping as they go, seeking the Lord their God.
50.5 They shall ask the way till [they come to] Sion,
for that way shall they set their face; and they shall come and flee
for refuge to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall
not be forgotten.
50.6 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds
thrust them out, they caused them to wander on the mountains: they went
from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.
50.7 All that found them consumed them: their enemies
said, Let us not leave them alone, because they have sinned against the
Lord: he that gathered their fathers [had] a pasture of righteousness.
50.8 Flee ye out of the midst of Babylon, and from
the land of the Chaldeans, and go forth, and be as serpents before
sleep.
50.9 For, behold, I stir up against Babylon the
gatherings of nations out of the land of the north; and they shall set
themselves in array against her: thence shall she be taken, as the dart
of an expert warrior shall not return empty.
50.10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied.
50.11 Because ye rejoiced, and boasted, [while] plundering
mine heritage; because ye exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed
with the horn as bulls.
50.12 Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore
you for prosperity is confounded: [she is] the last of the nations,
desolate,
50.13 by reason of the Lord's anger: it shall not be
inhabited, but it shall be all a desolation; and every one that passes
through Babylon shall scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plague.
50.14 Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about,
all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,
50.15 and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her
bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance
from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.
50.16 Utterly destroy seed out of Babylon, [and] him that
holds a sickle in time of harvest: for fear of the Grecian sword, they
shall return every one to his people, and every one shall flee to his
own land.
50.17 Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven
him out: the king of Assyria firsts devoured him, and afterward this
king of Babylon [has gnawed] his bones.
50.18 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I [will] take
vengeance on the king of Babylon, and upon his land, as I took
vengeance on the king of Assyria.
50.19 And I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he
shall feed on Carmel and on mount Ephraim and in Galaad, and his soul
shall be satisfied.
50.20 In those days, and at that time, they shall seek for
the iniquity of Israel, and there shall be none; and for the sins of
Juda, and they shall not be found: for I will be merciful to them that
are left
50.21 on the land, saith the Lord. Go up against it
roughly, and against them that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and
destroy utterly, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I command
thee.
50.22 A sound of war, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans!
50.23 How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
50.24 They shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know
it, Babylon, that thou wilt even be taken captive: thou art found and
taken, because thou didst resist the Lord.
50.25 The Lord has opened his treasury, and brought forth
the weapons of his anger: for the Lord God [has] a work in the land of
the Chaldeans.
50.26 For her times are come: open ye her storehouses:
search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her: let there be no remnant
of her.
50.27 Dry ye up all her fruits, and let them go down to the
slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, and the time of their
retribution.
50.28 A voice of men fleeing and escaping from the land of
Babylon, to declare to Sion the vengeance [that comes] from the Lord
our God.
50.29 Summon many against Babylon, [even] every one that
bends the bow: camp against her round about; let no one of her [people]
escape: render to her according to her works; according to all that she
has done, do to her: for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of
Israel.
50.30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors shall be cast down, saith the Lord.
50.31 Behold, I am against thee the haughty one, saith the
Lord: for thy day is come, and the time of thy retribution.
50.32 And thy pride shall fail, and fall, and there shall
be no one to set it up again: and I will kindle a fire in her forest,
and it shall devour all things round about her.
50.33 Thus saith the Lord; The children of Israel and the
children of Juda have been oppressed: all they that have taken them
captive have oppressed them together; for they would not let them go.
50.34 But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is
his name: he will enter into judgment with his adversaries, that he may
destroy the earth;
50.35 and he will sharpen a sword against the Chaldeans,
and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles and upon
her wise men;
50.36 a sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened: a sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots:
50.37 a sword upon their warriors and upon the mixed people
in the midst of her; and they shall be as women: a sword upon the
treasures, and they shall be scattered upon her water,
50.38 and they shall be ashamed: for it is a land of graven [images]; and in the islands, where they boasted.
50.39 Therefore shall idols dwell in the islands, and the
young of monsters shall dwell in it: it shall not be inhabited any more
for ever.
50.40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities
bordering upon them, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell there, and no
son of man shall sojourn there.
50.41 Behold, a people comes from the north, and a great
nation, and many kings shall be stirred up from the end of the earth;
holding bow and dagger:
50.42 [the people] is fierce, and will have no mercy: their
voices shall sound as the sea, they shall ride upon horses, prepared
for war, like fire, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
50.43 The king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his
hands were enfeebled: anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in
travail.
50.44 Behold, he shall come up as a lion from Jordan to
Gaethan; for I will speedily drive them from her, and I will set all
the youths against her: for who is like me? and who will resist me? and
who is this shepherd who will stand before me?
50.45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he
has taken against Babylon; and his devices, which he has devised upon
the Chaldeans inhabiting [it]: surely lambs of their flock shall be
destroyed: surely pasture shall be cut off from them.
50.46 or at the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth shall quake, and a cry shall be heard among the nations.
51.1
Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I stir up against Babylon, and against the
Chaldeans dwelling therein, a deadly burning wind.
51.2 And I will send forth against Babylon spoilers,
and they shall spoil her, and shall ravage her land. Woe to Babylon
round about [her] in the day of her affliction.
51.3 Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has
armour put it on: and spare ye not her young men, but destroy ye all
her host.
51.4 And slain men shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [men] pierced through shall fall without it.
51.5 For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken of
their God, of the Lord Almighty; whereas their land was filled with
iniquity against the holy things of Israel.
51.6 Flee ye out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver
every one his soul: and be not overthrown in her iniquity; for it is
the time of her retribution from the Lord; he is rendering to her a
recompence.
51.7 Babylon has been a golden cup in the Lord's
hand, causing all the earth to be drunken: the nations have drunk of
her wine; therefore they were shaken.
51.8 And Babylon is fallen suddenly, and is broken to
pieces: lament for her; take balm for her deadly wound, if by any means
she may be healed.
51.9 We tried to heal Babylon, but she was not
healed: let us forsake her, and depart every one to his own country:
for her judgment has reached to the heaven, it has mounted up to the
stars.
51.10 The Lord has brought forth his judgment: come, and let us declare in Sion the works of the Lord our God.
51.11 Prepare the arrows; fill the quivers: the Lord has
stirred up the spirit of the king of the Medes: for his wrath is
against Babylon, to destroy it utterly; for it is the Lord's vengeance,
it is the vengeance of his people.
51.12 Lift up a standard on the walls of Babylon, prepare
the quivers, rouse the guards, prepare the weapons: for the Lord has
taken [the work] in hand, and will execute what he has spoken against
the inhabitants of Babylon,
51.13 dwelling on many waters, and amidst the abundance of her treasures; thine end is come verily into thy bowels.
51.14 For the Lord has sworn by his arm, [saying,] I will
fill thee with men as with locusts; and they that come down shall cry
against thee.
51.15 The Lord made the earth by his power, preparing the
world by his wisdom, by his understanding he stretched out the heaven.
51.16 At [his] voice he makes a sound of water in the
heaven, and brings up clouds from the extremity of the earth; he makes
lightnings for rain, and brings light out of his treasures.
51.17 Every man has completely lost understanding; every
goldsmith is confounded because of his graven [images]: for they have
cast false [gods], there is no breath in them.
51.18 They are vain works, objects of scorn; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
51.19 Not such is Jacob's portion; for he that formed all things, he is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.
51.20 Thou scatterest for me the weapons of war: and I will
scatter nations by thee, and will destroy kings by means of thee.
51.21 And by thee I will scatter the horse and his rider;
and by thee I will scatter chariots and them that ride in them.
51.22 And by thee I will scatter youth and maid; and by thee I will scatter man and woman.
51.23 And by thee I will scatter the shepherd and his
flock; and by thee I will scatter the husbandman and his husbandry; and
by thee I will scatter leaders and the captains.
51.24 And I will recompense to Babylon and to all the
Chaldeans that dwell [there] all their mischiefs that they have done to
Sion before your eyes, saith the Lord.
51.25 Behold, I am against thee, the ruined mountain, that
destroys the whole earth; and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee,
and will roll thee down upon the rocks, and will make thee as a burnt
mountain.
51.26 And they shall not take from thee a stone for a
corner, nor a stone for a foundation: for thou shalt be a desolation
for ever, saith the Lord.
51.27 Lit up a standard in the land, sound the trumpet
among the nations, consecrate the nations against her, raise up kings
against her by me, and [that] for the people of Achanaz; set against
her engines of war; bring up against her horses as a multitude of
locusts.
51.28 Bring up nations against her, [even] the king of the
Medes and of the whole earth, his rulers, and all his captains.
51.29 The earth has quaked and been troubled, because the
purpose of the Lord has risen up against Babylon, to make the land of
Babylon a desolation, and uninhabitable.
51.30 The warrior of Babylon has failed to fight; they
shall sit there in the siege; their power is broken; they are become
like women; her tabernacles have been set on fire; her bars are broken.
51.31 One shall rush, running to meet [another] runner, and
one [shall go] with tidings to meet [another] with tidings, to bring
tidings to the king of Babylon, that his city is taken.
51.32 At the end of his passages they were taken, and his
cisterns they have burnt with fire, and his warriors are going forth.
51.33 For thus saith the Lord, The houses of the king of
Babylon shall be threshed as a floor in the season; yet a little while,
and her harvest shall come.
51.34 He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy
darkness has come upon me; Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon has swallowed
me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.
51.35 My troubles and my distresses have driven me out into
Babylon, shall she that dwells in Sion say; and my blood [shall be]
upon the Chaldeans dwelling [there], shall Jerusalem say.
51.36 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will judge
thine adversary, and I will execute vengeance for thee; and I will
waste her sea, and dry up her fountain.
51.37 And Babylon shall be a desolation, and shall not be inhabited.
51.38 For they rose up together as lions, and as lions' whelps.
51.39 In their heat I will give them a draught, and make
them drunk, that they may be stupefied, and sleep an everlasting sleep,
and not awake, saith the Lord.
51.40 And bring thou them down as lambs to the slaughter, and rams with kids.
51.41 How has the boast of all the earth been taken and
caught in a snare! how has Babylon become a desolation among the
nations!
51.42 The sea has come up upon Babylon with the sound of its waves, and she is covered.
51.43 Her cities are become like a dry and trackless land;
not so much as one [man] shall dwell in it, neither shall a son of man
lodge in it.
51.44 And I will take vengeance on Babylon, and bring forth
out of her mouth what she has swallowed down, and the nations shall no
more be gathered to her:
51.45 [vide]
51.46 [vide]
51.47 [vide]
51.48 [vide]
51.49 and in Babylon the slain men of all the earth shall fall.
51.50 Go forth of the land, ye that escape, and stay not;
ye that are afar off, remember the Lord, and let Jerusalem come into
your mind.
51.51 We are ashamed, because we have heard our reproach;
disgrace has covered our face; aliens are come into our sanctuary,
[even] into the house of the Lord.
51.52 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
when I will take vengeance upon her graven [images]: and slain men
shall fall in all her land.
51.53 For though Babylon should go up as the heaven, and
though she should strengthen her walls with her power, from me shall
come they that shall destroy her, saith the Lord.
51.54 A sound of a cry in Babylon, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans:
51.55 for the Lord has utterly destroyed Babylon, and cut
off from her the great voice sounding as many waters: he has consigned
her voice to destruction.
51.56 For distress has come upon Babylon, her warriors are taken, their bows are useless: for God recompenses them.
51.57 The Lord recompenses, and will make her leaders and
her wise men and her captains completely drunk, saith the King, the
Lord Almighty is his name.
51.58 Thus saith the Lord, The wall of Babylon was made
broad, but it shall be completely broken down, and her high gates shall
be burnt with fire; and the peoples shall not labour in vain, nor the
nations fail in [their] rule.
51.59 THE WORD WHICH THE LORD COMMANDED THE PROPHET
JEREMIAS to say to Saraeas son of Nerias, son of Maasaeas, when he went
from Sedekias king of Juda to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign.
And Saraeas was over the bounties.
51.60 And Jeremias wrote in a book all the evils which
should come upon Babylon, [even] all these words that are written
against Babylon.
51.61 And Jeremias said to Saraeas, When thou art come to Babylon, and shalt see and read all these words;
51.62 then thou shalt say, O Lord God, thou hast spoken
against this place, to destroy it, and that there should be none to
dwell in it, neither man nor beast; for it shall be a desolation for
ever.
51.63 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt cease from
reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone upon it, and cast it
into the midst of Euphrates;
51.64 and shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and not rise, because of the evils which I bring upon it.
52.1
It was the twenty-first ear of Sedekias, when he began to reign, and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Amitaal,
the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobena.
52.2 [vide]
52.3 [vide]
52.4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his
reign, in the ninth month, on the tenth day of the month, [that]
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against
Jerusalem, and they made a rampart round it, and built a wall round
about it with large stones.
52.5 So the city was besieged, until the eleventh year of king Sedekias,
52.6 on the ninth day of the month, and [then] the
famine was severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of
the land.
52.7 And the city was broken up, and all the men of
war went out by night by the way of the gate, between the wall and the
outworks, which were by the king's garden; and the Chaldeans were by
the city round about; and they went by the way [leading] to the
wilderness.
52.8 But the host of the Chaldeans pursued after the
king, and overtook him in the [country] beyond Jericho; and all his
servants were dispersed from [about] him.
52.9 And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Deblatha, and he judged him.
52.10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedekias
before his eyes; and he slew all the princes of Juda in Deblatha.
52.11 And he put out the eyes of Sedekias, and bound him in
fetters; and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon, and put him
into the grinding-house, until the day when he died.
52.12 And in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the
month, Nabuzardan the captain of the guard, who waited on the king of
Babylon, came to Jerusalem;
52.13 and he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's
house; and all the houses of the city, and every great house he burnt
with fire.
52.14 And the host of the Chaldeans that was with the
captain of the guard pulled down all the wall of Jerusalem round about.
52.15 [vide]
52.16 But the captain of the guard left the remnant of the people to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
52.17 And the Chaldeans broke in pieces the brazen pillars
that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen sea
that was in the house of the Lord, and they took the brass thereof, and
carried it away to Babylon.
52.18 Also the rim, and the bowls, and the flesh-hooks, and all the brazen vessels, wherewith they ministered;
52.19 and the basons, and the snuffers, and the
oil-funnels, and the candlesticks, and the censers, and the cups, the
golden, of gold, and the silver, of silver, the captain of the guard
took away.
52.20 And the two pillars, and the one sea, and the twelve
brazen oxen under the sea, which [things] king Solomon made for the
house of the Lord; the brass of which [articles] was without weight.
52.21 And as for the pillars, the height of one pillar was
thirty-five cubits; and a line of twelve cubits compassed it round; and
the thickness of it [all] round was four fingers.
52.22 And [there was] a brazen chapter upon them, and the
length was five cubits, [even] the height of one Chapiter; and [there
were] on the chapiter round about network and pomegranates, all of
brass: and correspondingly the second pillar [had] eight pomegranates
to a cubit for the twelve cubits.
52.23 And the pomegranates were ninety-six on a side; and
all the pomegranates on the network round about were a hundred.
52.24 And the captain of the guard took the chief priest, and the second priest, and those that kept the way;
52.25 and one eunuch, who was over the men of war, and
seven men of renown, who were in the king's presence that were found in
the city; and the scribe of the forces, who did the part of a scribe to
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 And Nabuzardan the captain of the king's guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Deblatha.
52.27 And the king of Babylon smote them in Deblatha, in the land of Aemath.
52.28 [vide]
52.29 [vide]
52.30 [vide]
52.31 And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year after
that Joakim king of Juda had been carried away captive, in the twelfth
month, on the four and twentieth [day] of the month, [that]
Ulaemadachar king of Babylon, in the year in which he began to reign,
raised the head of Joakim king of Juda, and shaved him, and brought him
out of the house where he was kept,
52.32 and spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the kings that were with him in Babylon,
52.33 and changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him all the days that he lived.
52.34 And his appointed portion was given him continually
by the king of Babylon from day to day, until the day when he died.