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The Doom
17 The sin of Judah is written
With pencil of iron;
With diamond point it is graven
On the tablet of their heart,
On the horns of their altars,
2 On every green tree,
On every high hill,
3 On the heights in the field.
Thy substance and all thy treasures
As spoil I will give,
In requital for all the sins
That pervaded thy borders.
4 And then thou shalt slack thy hold
Of the land that I gave thee:
I will make thee the slave of thy foes
In a land that is strange to thee;
For a fire in Mine anger is kindled
That burneth for ever.
The Joy and Wisdom of Trust
5 Thus saith Jehovah:
Accursed the man that trusteth in man,
And maketh flesh his arm,
While his heart is estranged from Jehovah.
6 Like a bare desert shrub shall he be,
No destiny fair shall be his;
His home is the scorching wilderness,
A salt uninhabited land.
7 But blessed the man that trusteth Jehovah,
That maketh Jehovah his confidence;
8 Like a tree shall he be, by the waters planted,
That stretcheth its roots out towards the stream,
And is never afraid for the coming of heat,
But its leaves are for ever green–
In the year of drought untroubled–
And it yieldeth fruit without ceasing.
The Prophet’s Prayer
9 "The heart is most treacherous of all things,
And sick beyond cure: who can know it?"
10 "I, Jehovah, am Searcher of hearts,
And Tester of thoughts am I,
To give each what his doings have earned,
To let each reap the fruit of his deeds."
11 Like a patridge that sitteth on eggs
That it hath not laid,
Is the man that getteth him riches
In ways unjust.
In the midst of his days he must leave them,
His end shall declare him a fool.
12 A glorious throne, set on high from of old,
Is the site where standeth our holy place.
13 O Jehovah, Thou Hope of Israel,
Put to shame shall all be that forsake Thee;
Yea, they that prove faithless to Thee
In the land shall be put to confusion;
Because they have forsaken
The Fountain of Living Water.
14 "Heal me, Jehovah, and I shall be healed;
Save me, and I shall be saved indeed:
For Thou art my Praise.
15 Mark how they say to me ceaselessly
’Where is the word of Jehovah?
Pray, now, let it come to pass.’
16 Yet never for this did I urge Thee
To bring on the evil day,
Nor ever have longed in my heart
For the day of disaster – Thou knowest.
The words that came forth from my lips
Lie open before Thy face.
17 O be not a terror to me,
Thou Refuge of mine in the day of evil.
18 Confusion on them that torment me–
On them, but not on me:
Be dire dismay upon them–
On them, but not on me;
Bring the day of disaster upon them,
With two-fold destruction destroy them."
The Sanctity of the Sabbath
19 Jehovah commanded me to go and take my stand at the Benjamin gate, through which the kings of Judah go in and out, and at all the gates of Jerusalem, 20 and there He charged me to address them as follows: "Ye kings of Judah, and all ye citizens of Judah and Jerusalem that pass through these gates, 21 Thus saith Jehovah: As ye value you lives, be very careful not to carry a burden or to bring anything of the kind through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; 22 also to carry no load out of your houses on the Sabbath day, and to do no work of any kind, but to keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your forefathers. 23 But instead of obediently inclining their ear, they stiffened their neck; they would have nothing to 24 do with obedience or discipline. If you, however, will give earnest heed to Me, saith Jehovah, and refrain from bringing loads through the city gates on the Sabbath day, if you keep the Sabbath day holy and abstain from work of every kind, 25 then kings that sit upon the throne of David shall enter the gates of this city riding on chariots and horses, accompanied by their princes, the men of Judah, and the citizens of Jerusalem; and the city shall be inhabited for ever. 26 From the cities of Judah, the neighbourhood of Jerusalem, and the district of Benjamin, from the lowland, the hill country, and the south, men shall come to the Temple with burnt-offerings and sacrifices, oblations and frankincense, and praise-offerings. 27 If, however, you refuse to give heed to Me and to keep the Sabbath day holy by refraining from carrying burdens through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle in her gates a fire unquenchable, that shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
The Lesson of the Potter and the Clay
18 Jeremiah received from Jehovah the message which follows: 2 "Rise and go down to the potter’s house– I have somewhat to say to thee, which I will communicate to thee there." 3 So I went down to the potter’s house: and there he was – engaged on a piece of work at the wheel. 4 Now, if the thing he was making was spoiled in his hands, he would just shape the material over again into another such vessel as he had decided to make.
5 Thereupon there flashed upon me this message from Jehovah. 6 "Cannot I," He said, "deal with you, O household of Israel, like this potter? You are in My hand just like the clay in the potter’s hand. 7 At one moment I may decide to pluck up or break down and destroy some nation of kingdom; 8 but if the nation whose fate I have decreed turn from its wickedness, then I relent and do not execute the doom I had planned for it. 9 At another moment I may decide to build up or to plant some nation of kingdom; 10 but if its behaviour displeases Me, if it refuses to listen to My voice, then I will retract the favours I had intended to confer upon it.
11 Now, therefore, make this announcement to the men of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem, Thus saith Jehovah: Beware! I am shaping calamity for you, I am fashioning plans for your discomfiture. Turn, then, every man of you, from your evil ways, and amend your life and behaviour." 12 But they will say, "No, there is no hope of that: rather will we follow devices of our own and yield, every man of us, to the impulses of our wicked and stubborn hearts."
13 Thus therefore saith Jehovah:
Ask any heathen man
If he ever heard aught like this?
An utterly horrible thing
Hath been wrought by the Virgin of Israel.
14 Doth the white snow vanish from Sirion’s crags?
Do the rills that flow cold from the hills ever dry?
15 Yet Me hath My people forgotten;
The gods that they worship are phantoms.
They have stumbled upon the way
Ordained for them of old,
And turned into bypaths
That never were truly laid.
16 So their land shall be made a horror–
An everlasting scorn.
It shall fill every traveller with horror–
Thereat he will shake his head,
17 I will scatter them like the sirocco
Before the face of their foes.
Not My face, but My back, will I show them,
In the day of their calamity.
Plots against Jeremiah
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