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Yirməyāh
Introduction
The prophet Yirmeyah/Jeremiah, started his vocation as a prophet around 627 B.C. and continued for just under fifty years until around 580 B.C. Te long time of serving Yirmeyah, impanpanayan he/his the people concerning the destruction coming of nation due to sins their, and of worshipping ran of false gods. And/Now saw of Yirmeyah the katumanan of prophesied he/his of time nasakup e the Yerushalem of Nibukadnisar King of Babylon. Saw/Found his again the demolition of city and temple, and the capture of many people other of King their there to Babylon. Prophesied he/his again the return of people from capture their, and the replacement of standing up of nation there to old natahuan here.
The Account of Yirmeyah divided of five main sections: 1. The calling to Yirmeyah; 2. the what was said of God for of nation of Yehudah and of teachers here at time of kingdom of Husiyas, Huwakim, Hihuyakin and of Sidikiyas; 3. the all persecution of people according to it’s written of Baruk secretary of Yirmeyah, including the various prophecies, and the important what happened of life of Yirmeyah; 4. the what was said of Master God concerning the various foreigner there nations; and 5. the other still story concerning the demolition of Yerushalem, and of pegkaddakep of people going to Babylon.
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Main components of this document
Yirmeyah’s calling 1:1-19
The prophecies concerning the kingdom of Husiyas, Huwakim, Huwakin, and of Sidikiyas 2:1-25:38
Yirmeyah’s persecution 26:1-45:5
The prophecies for nations 46:1-51:64
Yerushalem’s destruction 52:1-34
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1 These are the messages from Hilkiyah’s son, Yirmeyah—one of the priests who were in Anatot in Benyamin’s territory. 2 Yahweh’s messages started coming to him when Yehudah’s King Yoshiyah (Josiah, Amon’s son) was in the thirteenth year of his reign.[ref] 3 It continued through the reign of Yoshiyah’s son, King Yehoyakim (Jehoiakim) until the end of the eleventh year of the reign of Yoshiyah’s son, King Hizkiyah (Hezekiah)—Yerushalem (Jerusalem) was exiled in the fifth month of that year.[ref]
4 Now Yahweh’s message came to me:
5 
“Before I formed you in your mother, I already knew you,
≈ and before you came out of the womb, I had a plan for you.
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
6 But I said, “Oh no, Yahweh, my master. Listen, I don’t know how to speak, because I’m just a young lad.”
7 but Yahweh told me, “Don’t say that you’re only a child, because you must go to everyone I send you to and you must tell them everything that I command you to say. 8 Don’t be afraid of them, because I’ll be with you to rescue you.”
9 Then Yahweh stretched out his hand and touched my mouth and said, “Listen, I’ve put my messages into your mouth. 10 I’m appointing you today over the nations and kingdoms—to uproot and to break down, to destroy and to pull down, to build and to plant.”
11 Another time, Yahweh’s message came to me, saying, “Yirmeyah (Jeremiah), what do you see?”
“I see a branch from an almond tree,” I replied.
12 Then Yahweh told me, “You’ve done well to see that, because I keep watch[fn] on my message to make sure it happens.”
13 Then Yahweh asked me a second time what I was seeing, and I replied, “I see a pot full of boiling water and it’s tipping towards the north.”
14 “Yes, disaster will come from the north and be released onto all the inhabitants of this region,” Yahweh continued. 15 “Listen, I’m about to summon all the clans of the northern kingdoms, and they’ll come and attack the walls around Yerushalem and all of Yehudah’s other cities, then each king will place his throne at the entrance to Yerushalem’s gates.” That is Yahweh’s declaration. 16 “That’s how I’ll judge my people for their wickedness as they’ve abandoned me and sacrificed to other gods and bowed down to idols that they made with their own hands. 17 So Yirmeyah, get yourself ready and go and tell them everything that I’ll tell you. Don’t be scared in front of them or else I’ll scare you right there in front of them! 18 And listen, today I’ve you as strong as a fortified city and an iron pillar and bronze walls, as far as the kings of Yehudah are concerned, along with their officials and priests, and the general population. 19 They’ll oppose you but they won’t be able to defeat you because I’ll be with you to rescue you,” says Yahweh.
2 Then Yahweh gave me a message 2 to proclaim to Yerushalem’s ears:
“Yahweh says: I remember your loyal commitment when you were all young
≈ and your love when you were committed to me.
You all followed after me in the wilderness where no crops were planted.
3 Yisrael was set apart for Yahweh—the firstfruits of his harvest.
All those who devoured it became guilty—calamity came to them.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
4 Listen to Yahweh’s message you descendants of Yakov (Jacob),
≈ and all you clans that are part of Yisrael (Israel).
5 Yahweh asks: what injustices did you ancestors find in me,
that caused them to become distant from me.
They chased after vanity and became vain.
6 They didn’t try to find out where Yahweh was—
the one brought led them out of Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim)
then led them through the wilderness with its pits and desert areas.
It was a region of deep darkness without water—
an area that no one passes through, let alone lives in.
7 Then I took you to the Carmel region
to eat its fruit and other good things.
However you came and defiled my land
≈ and made the inheritance that I gave you into something detestable.
8 The priests didn’t ask where Yahweh was,
and the handlers of the law didn’t know me.
The shepherds rebelled against me,
and the prophets prophesied by Ba’al
9 Yahweh declares: I will bring a case against you all,
and I’ll contend against your children and your grandchildren.
10 If you all cross over west to the coasts of Cypress Island and look,
or head east to Kedar, ask around and pay careful attention
to see if something like this has ever happened before.
11 
Has a country ever swapped out its gods (not that they were actual gods)?
But my people have exchanged their greatness for something of no benefit.
12 You heavens, be appalled and shudder.
That’s what Yahweh says
13 because my people have done two evil things:
1. They’ve abandoned the spring of living water
and 2. They’ve gone and dug wells for themselves—broken cisterns that can’t hold any water.
14 Is Yisrael a slave? Was it born into slavery?
Why has it been carried off as plunder?
≈ they’ve made their voice heard.
They’ve made the land into wasteland—
≈ its cities have become ruins without any inhabitants.
16 Also the people from Memphis (Heb. Nof) and Tahpanhes have shaved your heads.
17 Didn’t you bring this on yourself by abandoning your god, Yahweh
at the time when he was leading you along the right path.
18 So now, what’s the point of travelling to Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim) to drink from Shihor’s waters?
≈ And why bother taking a trip to Assyria (Heb. Ashshur) to drink the river water?
19 Your own wickedness will punish you
≈ and your turning away will rebuke you.
So see and know that it’s evil and bitter to abandon your god Yahweh,
and you no longer have respect for me.
That’s Commander-in-chief Yahweh’s declaration.
20 I broke off your yoke from long ago.
≈ I tore your chains to pieces and you said that you wouldn’t disobey,
because you’d been lying down with prostitutes on every high hill and under every leafy tree.
21 I myself had planted you as a choice vine from a reliable seed,
but how you’ve changed yourself into some degenerate, wild vine,
22 because even if you wash yourself with bleach or use heaps of soap,
your guilt remains as a stain in front of me.
That is the declaration of my master, Yahweh.
23 How can you say, ‘I’m not defiled—I haven’t worshipped the Baals’?
Consider your conduct in the valley.
≈ Recognise what you’ve done:
behaving like a young, female camel that flits here and there.
24 You’re like a wild, female donkey, accustomed to the wilderness in its desire for the wind.
No one can hold her back when she’s in heat.
All those searching for her won’t give up trying to find her at mating time.
25 Keep your feet from becoming bare, and your throat from thirst,
26 It’s like the shame felt by a thief who gets caught.
So too, you Israelis will be shamed:
the people, their kings and officials, and their priests and prophets
27 who say to the tree, ‘You’re my father,’
and to the standing stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’
Yes, they show their backs to me, not their faces,
but when calamity comes, they’ll say, ‘Do something and rescue us!’
28 So where then are the gods that you made for yourself?
Let them take action if they can save you at the time of your calamity,
because you have as many gods and you have cities in Yehudah (Judah).
29 Why do you all complain to me, when all of you have rebelled against me?
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
30 It was a waste of time when I beat your sons—they wouldn’t accept discipline.
You’ve all killed your prophets like a destructive lion.
31 You in this generation, pay attention to Yahweh’s message.
Have I been a wilderness to Yisrael, or a land of thick darkness?
Why would my people say that they’ve now gone their own ways
and so won’t come back to me again?
32 Would a young woman forget to wear her jewelry,
≈ or a bride forget to wear her wedding sashes?
However my people have forgotten me for such a long time.
33 You’ve become very good at finding love—
you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!
34 The blood of innocent, poor people was even found on your clothes—
it wasn’t because you caught them breaking in, but you did it anyway
35 then you said, ‘But I’m innocent—surely he’s not angry at me.’
Listen, I’m about to judge you because you said that you didn’t sin.
36 Why are you constantly changing your alliances?
You’ll be disappointed by Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim) just like you were disappointed by Assyria (Heb. Ashshur).
37 What’s more, you’ll be removed from this place will your hands on your head,
because Yahweh has rejected the ones that you put your confidence in
→ and they won’t be of any help to you.
3 Listen, if a man divorced his wife and she left and married another man,
surely he wouldn’t move in with her again?
Wouldn’t the country end up totally immoral?
Now you’ve acted like a prostitute with many partners—
would you then return to me?
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
2 Look up at the barren hilltops and see.
Is there anywhere there where you haven’t given yourself?
You sat by the paths waiting for them like an Arab waiting in the wilderness,
and so you’ve polluted the nation by your acts of prostitution and wickedness.
3 That’s why the showers have been withheld
≈ and the late rains never came,
yet you have the look of a prostitute who refuses to be ashamed.
4 Even now you say that I’m your father,
or that I’m your close friend from since you were young.
≈ Or permanently keep watch?
Listen, you say that, but you do all the wicked things that you can.
6 At the time when Yoshiyah (Josiah) was king of Yehudah (Judah), Yahweh asked me, “Do you see what faithless Yisrael has done? She herself has walked up every high hill, and has been a prostitute underneath every green tree.[ref] 7 However I thought that after she’d done all those things, she’d return to me, but she hasn’t, and her treacherous sister, Yehudah, saw her. 8 So I saw that because of all those situations where faithless Yisrael had committed adultery, I had given her divorce notice to her and sent her away. But her sister Yehudah, acting treacherously, wasn’t worried and she went out and also prostituted herself. 9 Because she took her prostitution lightly, the nation became immoral and committed adultery with standing stones and trees. 10 Then after all that, that treacherous sister Yehudah didn’t return to me with sincerity, but with deception. That is Yahweh’s declaration.
11 Then Yahweh told me: Unfaithful Yisrael has actually been more upright than treacherous Yehudah! 12 Go up north and tell them:
Unfaithful Yisrael, Yahweh declares:
Return to me—
I won’t continue to be angry at you, because I’m faithful.
That’s Yahweh’s declaration.
13 However you must recognise your disobedience
because you’ve rebelled against your god, Yahweh,
and you’ve extended your connections to foreign gods under every leafy tree,
and you haven’t listened to my voice.
That’s Yahweh’s declaration.
14 Return you unfaithful children, Yahweh declares,
because I’m your husband.
Then I’ll take you all—one from a city and a couple from a clan—and I’ll bring you to Tsiyyon (Zion),
15 and I’ll give you shepherds who’ll be faithful to me,
and they will guide you with knowledge and insight.
16 Then when you’re fruitful and multiply in the land, Yahweh says,
they’ll no longer talk about having the chest containing Yahweh’s agreement.
They won’t call it to mind or remember it,
≈ and they won’t miss it or want a new one made again.
17 At that time, they’ll call Yerushalem (Jerusalem) Yahweh’s throne,
and they’ll be gathered there from all the nations to honour Yahweh’s name,
and they won’t want to behave again according to the evil in their own stubborn minds.
18 In those days, the people of Yehudah will join the people of Yisrael,
coming from the northern lands to the land that I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.
19 Then I thought to myself about how I’d accept you to be my children,
and give you a desirable land—an inheritance that all nations consider very beautiful.
I decided that you’ll all call me ‘my father’,
and then you all won’t turn away from me.
20 However, like a woman who deals treacherously with her companion,
so too you’ve all dealt treacherously with me, you Israeli people.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
21 A sound of weeping is heard on the barren hilltops—
≈ the Israeli people begging for mercy
because they’ve followed paths of disobedience
≈ and they’ve forgotten their god, Yahweh.
22 Come back, you unfaithful children—I will cure your faithlessness.
Say, look, we’re coming back to you because you’re our god, Yahweh.
23 Deception definitely comes from the hills—a commotion of mountains.
Our god Yahweh is certainly Yisrael’s salvation.
24 From our youth, that shameful idol worship has consumed our ancestors’ hard work—
their sheep and cattle, and their sons and daughters.
25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our humiliation cover us,
because we’ve disobeyed our god, Yahweh.
Our ancestors and then we ourselves, haven’t listened to the voice of our god, Yahweh.
If you’ll return, Yisrael (Israel),
yes, if you’ll return to me
and remove those detestable idols away from me without wavering,
2 and if you promise as Yahweh lives, in truth, justice, and righteousness,
then the nations will bless themselves in him,
and it’s him that they’ll boast about.
3 Yes, tells the people from Yerushalem and across all Yehudah (Judah):
Plough your unploughed ground, but don’t sow thornbushes.[ref]
4 Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh by removing the foreskins from your hearts
you people of Yerushalem and Yehudah,
so that my rage doesn’t burst out and burn like fire,
because there wouldn’t be anyone to extinguish it due to the wickedness of your behaviour.
5 Announce in Yerushalem and declare in Yehudah to blow the horn in the land.
Call out loudly to gather together and enter the fortified cities.
6 Lift up a banner towards Tsiyyon (Zion) and get to safety.
Don’t stand still because I’m about to bring calamity from the north with horrific destruction.
7 A lion has come up from its thicket,
≈ and a destroyer of nations has set out.
He’s come out from his place to make your country into a wasteland.
Your cities will be reduced to ruins with no inhabitants.
8 So put on sackcloth—mourn and wail
because Yahweh’s burning anger hasn’t turned away from us.
9 Yahweh says that at that time,
the king and his officials will lose heart
and the priests and prophets will be astonished.
10 Then I replied, “Oh now! My master Yahweh,
you’ve certainly completely deceived Yerushalem and also this people,
saying, ‘It will be well for you all.’ Yet the sword will come for our throats.”
11 When that happens, Yerushalem and this people will be told:
A scorching wind will come from the bare hills in the wilderness.
It won’t be coming just to winnow the grain and blow away the chaff—
12 it’ll be a strong blast from me.
Then I’ll speak judgements against them.
13 Listen, he goes up like the clouds,
and his chariots are like the storm wind.
≈ His horses are faster than eagles.
→ We won’t end well because we’ll be devastated.
14 Yerushalem, wash the evil from your heart so that you can be saved.
How much longer will you hold onto your wicked thoughts for,
15 because a voice from Dan declares trouble
and disaster is proclaimed from Efrayim’s hill?
≈ listen, announce to Yerushalem:
They’re coming from a distant land to lay siege against you,
and they raise their voice against Yehudah’s cities.
17 They’ll surround Yerushalem like the watchmen around a field because it rebelled against me.
That’s Yahweh’s declaration.
18 Your conduct and your actions have brought that to you, Yerushalem.
That’s your punishment—it’s bitter and it’ll pierce to your heart.
19 My inward parts, my insides!
≈ I writhe with chest pains.
≈ My heart is pounding—I won’t stay silent,
→ because my soul, you hear the sound of the trumpet—an alarm for battle.
20 Destruction followed by more destruction has been proclaimed,
≈ because all the land has been devastated.
Suddenly my tents are devastated—
≈ my tent fabrics gone in a moment.
21 How long do I have to watch the enemy’s banner for?
How long will that trumpet sound go on for?
22 Yes, my people are foolish—they don’t know me.
≈ They’re like stupid children who don’t understand anything.
They’ve very clever at doing what’s evil
≈ and they don’t know how to do what’s good.
23 I saw the land, and wow, it was formless and empty,
≈ and the skies didn’t have any light.
24 I saw the mountains, and wow, they were quaking,
≈ and all the hills shook back-and-forth.
25 I looked, and wow, there were no more people,
≈ and all the birds had flown away.
26 I saw, and wow, the orchard had turned into a wilderness,
≈ and all the cities had been pulled down out of Yahweh’s sight
The entire country will become desolate,
^ but I won’t completely destroy it.
28 The land will mourn after that,
≈ and the skies will darken from above,
because I’ve revealed my resolution,
^ and I won’t change my mind or turn back from it.
29 The city people will flee from the sound of approaching horsemen and archers.
≈ They’ll head into the thickets and up onto the cliffs.
→ Every city will be abandoned without anyone living in them.
30 So you,[fn] what will you do for the devastated one?
You dress in scarlet, adorning yourself with gold jewelry.
≈ You make your eyes look bigger with makeup, but it won’t help—
your lovers reject you and they’re coming for your life.
31 Yes, I hear a sound like a woman in labour—
≈ distress like a woman giving birth to her first child—
the sound of Tsiyyon’s daughter as she gasps for breath.
She spreads out her hands saying,
5 Roam around Yerushalem’s streets and look and observe,
≈ and search around its plazas.
If you can find one person there who values justice and strives to be faithful,
2 Even when they make an oath in Yahweh’s name,
it’ll still be a lie.
3 Yahweh, don’t you look for honesty?
You struck them but they don’t even react.
You brought them to an end, but they refuse to accept correction.
They make their faces harder than rock and refuse to change.
4 Then I thought that maybe they’re just poor people?
They act foolishly because they’re not educated about Yahweh’s way
or what their god requires of them?
5 So I’ll go to the leaders and speak to them,
because they know Yahweh’s way and what their god requires.
However, all of them have broken out from under his yoke,
and torn off the chains.
6 Because of that, a lion from a thicket will attack them.
≈ A wolf from the wilderness will devastate them.
≈ A leopard lies in wait outside their cities—
→ everyone who goes out from them will be torn to pieces
because their disobedience is extensive
≈ and their disloyalty is substantial.
7 How could I forgive you for that?
Your children have abandoned me and have made oaths by things that are not gods.
I satisfied them, but they committed adultery
and ritually cut themselves[fn] at the prostitute’s house.
8 They were well-fed, lusty horses,
each man neighing at his neighbour’s wife.
Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?
≈ Shouldn’t I avenge myself on a nation like that?
10 Go along the rows in the vineyard and destroy them,
but don’t completely destroy them—
break off their shoots because they don’t belong to Yahweh.
11 No, Yisrael’s and Yehudah’s people had indeed dealt treacherously with me.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
12 They’ve denied Yahweh and said:
He doesn’t exist and nothing bad will happen us,
and we’ll never experience war or famine.
13 The prophets are full of air and don’t have any message.
So let what they say, happen to them.
14 So Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this:
Because you’ve spoken those words,
I’ll put my messages in your mouth as a fire
and this people group will be the wood that it consumes.
15 Listen you Israelis to Yahweh’s declaration:
I’m about to bring to you all a nation from far away—
it’s an enduring nation that’s been around for a long time.
You won’t know their language or understand what they say.
16 Its quiver is like an open tomb.
All of them are warriors.
17 It will consume your grain and your food.
They’ll devour your sons and daughters, and your flocks and your cattle.
They’ll strip your grapevines and your fig trees.
With their swords, they’ll shatter your fortified cities that you were trusting in.
Even in those days, I won’t completely destroy you all.
19 When the people ask why Yahweh’s doing that, you’ll tell them:
You rejected me and served foreign gods in your own country,
so you’ll all serve strangers in a land that doesn’t belong to you.
20 Declare this to Yakov’s (Jacob’s) descendants,
and proclaim it in Yehudah (Judah):
21 Please listen to this, you foolish, heartless people.
They have eyes but do not see,
and they have ears, but do not hear.[ref]
Should you all respect and strive to obey me,
and shouldn’t you tremble in front of me?
It was me who designated the sand as the boundary for the ocean—
it’s a permanent line and the sea doesn’t go past it.
The waters surge but get no further,
and the waves roar, but can’t get past it.[ref]
23 But this group of people has a stubborn and rebellious heart.
They’ve turned aside and gone away.
24 They don’t say to themselves:
Please, let’s strive to obey our god Yahweh—
the one who gives the autumn and spring rains at the appropriate time.
He decides on the harvest weeks for us.
25 Your disobedience has diverted those things,
≈ and your sins have withheld goodness from you all
26 because there are wicked influencers among my people.
They lie in wait like a bird-catcher.
≈ They set a trap and catch people.
27 Their homes are full of deceit like a cage full of birds.
→ so that’s how they’ve become rich and powerful.
28 They’ve become fat and slick.
They also disobey by doing evil.
They don’t plead the cause of those who are fatherless,
≈ and they’re successful, yet they haven’t insisted on justice for the poor.
Why shouldn’t I punish them for all that behaviour?
≈ Why shouldn’t I avenge myself on a nation like this one?
30 Something horrible and shocking has happened in the country:
31 The prophets prophesy with lies,
and the priests rule by their own authority,
and my people love it this way,
6 Get out of Yerushalem (Jerusalem) and get yourselves to safety, you people of Benyamin,
≈ Send up a signal from Beyt-Hakkerem
because disaster and terrible destruction looms from the north.
2 Although it’s beautiful and delicate,
I will destroy Tsiyyon’s (Zion’s) daughter.
3 Shepherds and their flocks will go and pitch their tents all around it.[fn]
Each one will graze their own area.
Take action and let’s attack at midday.
It won’t be good for us if the day is ending
because the evening shadows get longer.
5 Take action and attack at night
6 Commander-in-chief Yahweh says:
Cut down trees for timber
and mound up a ramp against Yerushalem (Jerusalem).
→ That city must be punished as it’s full of oppression.
7 Just as a well keeps its water fresh,
≈ so too she keeps her evil fresh.
Violence and oppression can be heard there.
≈ I always see sickness and plague.
8 Take note of my warning Yerushalem
in case I turn away from you—
9 Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this:
Those who remain in Yisrael (Israel)
will be picked over like gleaning the last few grapes off a vine.
Return your hand over the branches like a grape-picker.
10 Who should I speak to and warn so they can list?
Wow, their ears are so closed that they can’t pay attention.
Wow, Yahweh’s message has become offensive to them—
they don’t enjoy hearing it.
11 Now I’m filled with Yahweh’s rage.
I’m tired of holding it in.
Pour it out on the children in the street
and on the young men who gather together,
because a husband will be captured with his wife—
the very elderly as well.
12 Then their houses will be turned over to others,
along with their fields and wives
because I’ll stretch out my hand
against the land’s inhabitants.
That’s Yahweh’s declaration
13 because from the smallest to the greatest,
they’re all greedy for dishonest gain.
From a prophet to the priest, everyone deals in lies.
14 They’ve lightly bandaged my peoples’s wound
by saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ but there wasn’t any peace.[ref]
15 Were they ashamed when they did something disgusting?[ref]
No, they weren’t ashamed—
they didn’t even know how to be humiliated
so therefore they’ll fall among the fallen.
Stand at the crossroads and look,
and ask about the ancient paths.
‘Where is the path of the good?’ Then walk along it
and find rest for your spirit.
But they say, ‘We won’t walk on it.’
Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet,
But they said, ‘We won’t pay attention.’
18 Therefore listen you nations,
≈ and you congregation, know what will happen to them.
Yes, I will bring disaster to this people—
the fruit of their own plans
because they paid no attention to my messages
≈ and they rejected my instructions.
20 What difference does it make to me if they burn frankincense that came from Sheva?
≈ Or if they have good cane from a distant land?
Your burnt offerings aren’t acceptable,
≈ and your sacrifices don’t please me.
Listen, I’ll give this group of people a stumbling block,
and they’ll trip over it—
Listen, an army is about to come from a northern country,
≈ and a powerful nation will be roused from the remotest parts of the world.
23 They carry bows and spears.
It’s cruel and they have no mercy.
They make a noise like the sea roaring
and they ride in battle formation on horses
against you, Tsiyyon’s (Zion’s) daughter.
24 We felt weak when we heard the reports about them.
Distress took hold of us and we’re in agony like a woman about to give birth.
25 Don’t go out to the countryside,
≈ There’s terror all around.
26 My people’s daughter, dress yourself in sackcloth
≈ and roll in ashes.
Go into mourning as if you’d lost an only child—
because the destroyer will suddenly come against us.
27 I’ve appointed you to examine my people like ore,
so you can observe their conduct, and test them.
28 They’re all stubborn rebels who go around slandering others.
They’re all like bronze and iron, behaving corruptly.
but after the thorough refining, the lead remains.
The evil people haven’t been separated out.
7 Yahweh’s message came to Yirmeyah (Jeremiah):
2 Stand at the gate at Yahweh’s temple and proclaim this message, saying:
Listen to Yahweh’s message,
all you people of Yehudah (Judah) who enter these gates to worship Yahweh.
3 Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says that
you all must improve your ways,
so that I’ll allow you all to live in this land.
4 Don’t trust in deceptive words that say,
‘Yahweh’s temple is here.’
≈ ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple.’
5 Yes, if you all really make your behaviour good,
≈ and everyone really acts fairly towards their neighbours,
6 and you all don’t oppress strangers, orphans, or widows,
and don’t shed innocent blood in this place
or follow after other gods that will harm you,
7 then I’ll allow you all to live in this place in the land that I gave to your ancestors from ancient times and for the future to come.
8 Listen, you’re all relying on deceptive messages which can’t profit. 9 Will you all keep stealing and murdering, committing adultery and telling lies in court, offering incense to Baal and following other gods that you didn’t previously know. 10 Then you all come here and stand in front of this temple that’s associated with my name, and say that you’re saved while you all continue to do all those disgusting things. 11 This house which bears my name has become a robbers’ den in your eyes. Listen, I’ve also seen it. That is Yahweh’s utterance.[ref] 12 But please go to my place in Shiloh where I had previously had my tent and my name resided, and see what I did to destroy that place due to the wickedness of my people, Yisrael.[ref] 13 So now Yahweh declares that because you’ve all been doing those things, and I’ve spoken to you all over and over again but you wouldn’t listen, and I called you all but you wouldn’t answer, 14 then I’ll do what I did to Shiloh, to this house that’s called by my name—the temple that you’ve all trusted in, and the place that I gave to you and your ancestors. 15 I’ll throw you all away where I can’t see you just as I threw out all your relatives, all of Efrayim’s descendants, from the northern kingdom.
16 And you, Yirmeyah, don’t pray on behalf of this group of people, and don’t cry out for help, or pray for them, or petition me about them, because I won’t listen to you. 17 Don’t you see what they do in Yehudah’s (Judah’s) cities and in Yerushalem’s (Jerusalem’s) streets? 18 The sons are gathering firewood, and the fathers are kindling the fire, and the women are kneading dough to make cakes for ‘the queen of the heavens’ and pouring out drink offerings for other gods so as to provoke me to anger.[ref] 19 Yahweh declares that it’s not me they’re provoking, but rather it’s themselves that they’re hurting to their own shame. 20 So my master Yahweh, says this: “Listen, my anger and rage will gush out onto this place—onto people and animals, and trees in the countryside and crops in the ground. It will burn and not be extinguished.”
21 
Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says: “Instead of wasting time burning up your sacrifices, just eat the meat yourselves, 22 because on the day when I brought your ancestors out from Egypt, I didn’t immediately give them orders about burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23 What I told them was, ‘Listen to my voice, and I’ll be your god, and you all will be my people. Follow all the instructions that I’ll give you so that everything will go well for you all.’ 24 But they didn’t turn their heads towards him and listen, and they enacted schemes from the stubbornness of their own evil hearts—going backwards instead of forwards 25 from the day that their ancestors left Egypt even until today. Then I sent my servants the prophets to you all—rising early each day and sending them. 26 However, they didn’t listen to me, and they stiffened their necks and turned their heads—doing even more evil than their ancestors.
27 So pass all these messages on to them, even though they won’t listen to you.
You’ll call to them, but they won’t answer you. 28 Tell them that this is a nation that doesn’t listen to the voice of its god Yahweh, and doesn’t accept discipline.
29 Shave your head in mourning and throw the hair away.
Sing a mourning song on the barren heights
because Yahweh has rejected and abandoned the generation who made him angry.
30 Yes, Yahweh says that Yehudah’s people have done what I consider evil—putting disgusting things in the temple that’s associated with my name, and so have defiled it. 31 They’ve built hilltop shrines to Tofet in Hinnom Valley outside Yerushalem (Jerusalem) to burn their sons and daughters in fire—something I’ve never commanded or even considered.[ref] 32 So listen, Yahweh says, that days are coming because of that that, when it’ll no longer be called ‘Tofet’ or ‘Hinnom Valley’, but rather, ‘The Valley of Slaughter’, because so many people will be buried in Tofet that they’ll run out of space. 33 Then the people’s corpses will become food for the vultures and the wild animals, and there’ll be no one left to frighten them away. 34 Then in Yehudah’s cities and Yerushalem’s streets, I’ll halt the sounds of joy and gladness, even wedding celebrations, because the region will become a wasteland.[ref]
8 Yahweh declares that they will bring the bones of Yehudah’s (Judah’s) kings out from their graves at that time, as well as the bones of their leaders, priests, and prophets, along with the bones of Yerushalem’s (Jerusalem’s) inhabitants. 2 Then they’ll spread them out under the sun, moon, and stars—the heavenly bodies that they loved and served, and that they followed after and searched for, and that they bowed down to. Those bones won’t be collected up, and they won’t be buried again. They’ll be like dung across the surface of the land. 3 The remnant of that evil group of people in all those places where I banished them, will choose death rather than life. That is Commander-in-chief Yahweh’s declaration.
4 Then Yahweh says to tell them:
Don’t people get back up when they fall down?
≈ Don’t they come back after they’ve turned the wrong way?
5 So Why do these people from Yerushalem (Jerusalem) turn and away, then continue to be unfaithful?
They keep hold of deceitfulness and refuse to come back.
6 I’ve listened carefully but they don’t say the right things.
None of them wants to give up their wickedness.
^ All of them carry on their own ways, like a horse rushing forward in battle.
7 Even the stork as it flies, knows the seasons.
≈ The dove, swallow, and thrush stick to their migration times,
^ yet my people do know what Yahweh expects of them.
8 How can you all say that you’re wise and that you have Yahwehs instructions?
Honestly, the quills of deceitful scribes have made it into a lie.
9 The wise will be put to shame—
they will be dismayed and trapped.
Yes, they’ve rejected Yahweh’s message.
What wisdom do they really have?
10 Because of that, I’ll give their wives to others,
and their fields to those who dispossess them,
because they’re all prospering by taking advantage of others—
prophets and priests are all behaving deceptively.
11 They lightly treated the fracture of my people’s daughter,
saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there’s no peace.[ref]
12 Were they ashamed when they did something disgusting?
Even when confronted, they weren’t ashamed—
they didn’t know how to be humiliated[ref]
so they’ll fall like the others.
They’ll stumble at the time of their punishment says Yahweh.
13 I’ll bring their harvests to an end, says Yahweh.
≈ There won’t be any grapes on their vines, or figs on their trees.
Even the leaves will wither,
≈ and what I gave them, will rot away.
14 Why are we just sitting here?
→ Let’s go into the fortified cities together so we can die there,
because our god Yahweh is going to cause us to perish,
≈ and he’ll make us drink poisoned water because we’ve sinned against him.
15 We had hoped for peace, but nothing good came.
We hoped for a time of healing, but wow, got terror.
16 The snorting of his stallions could be heard from Dan.
≈ The whole earth shakes from the sound of the neighing of his powerful horses.
They are coming to destroy the land and everything in it,
≈ and the city and everyone living in it.
17 Yes, listen, I’ll send snakes[fn] among you all—
≈ vipers that can’t be charmed,
→ and they’ll bite you all, says Yahweh.
18 My sorrow is beyond comfort.
≈ My heart is faint within me.
19 Listen, it’s the sound of a cry for help from my people’s daughter from a far away land.
Isn’t Yahweh in Tsiyyon (Zion)?
Why have they provoked me to anger with their idols and with useless foreign gods?
20 The harvest has passed, summer has ended,
and we haven’t been rescued.
21 I’m broken because of the brokenness of my people’s daughter.
≈ I’m in mourning and overwhelmed by depression.
22 Is there no medicine in Gilead?
≈ Isn’t there a doctor there?
Why isn’t my people’s daughter getting healed?
9 If only my head was water, and my eyes were a fountain of tears,
→ then I’d weep day and night for my people’s slain daughter.
2 Who will give me a lodging place for travellers in the desert?
Then I would leave my people and walk away from them,
because all of them are adulterers—
≈ a treacherous group of people.
3 They bend their tongues like bows—
chasing lies rather than faithfulness.
They grow strong in the land
because they go from evil to evil and they don’t know me.
That’s Yahweh’s declaration.
4 Let each person beware of his neighbour,
≈ and don’t rely on any relative,
because brothers consistently betray,
≈ and neighbours go around slandering.
5 Every one will deceive their neighbour,
≈ and they won’t tell the truth—
≈ they teach their tongues to tell lies.
→ They wear themselves out being disobedient.
6 Your residence is in the middle of deceit—
because of deceit they refuse to know me.
That’s Yahweh’s declaration.
7 Because of that, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says,
I’m about to refine them and test them,
because how else should I act towards my people’s daughter.
8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow—
it speaks out deceit.
With his mouth, a man speaks peace with his neighbours,
while in his mind, he’s planning his ambush.
9 Shouldn’t I punish them for those things? Yahweh says.
≈ Shouldn’t I avenge myself against a nation like that?
10 On the mountains I’ll take up weeping and wailing,
≈ and a funeral song out in the wilderness pastures,
because they’re left desolate as no one passes through there.
They don’t hear the sound of cattle or birds or wild animals—
they’ve fled and gone away.
11 Then I’ll make Yerushalem (Jerusalem) into piles of ruins—
a place for jackals to live in—
and I’ll make Yehudah’s (Judah’s) cities into uninhabited wastelands.
12 Who is the person that’s wise and understands this?
Who has Yahweh’s mouth spoken to so that they can declare it—
concerning why the nation has perished and been destroyed
like the wilderness with no one passing through it?
13 Then Yahweh said, “Because they abandoned my instructions that I gave to them,
≈ and they don’t listen to my voice or follow what say,
14 and they’re guided by their own stubborn minds,
≈ and follow after the Baal that their ancestors taught them about,
15 then Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this:
Listen, I’m about to feed them bitter food
≈ and give them poison water to drink.
16 Then I’ll scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors knew anything about,
and I’ll send an army after them until I’ve finished them off.
17 Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this:
Consider that and summon funeral wailers to come—
≈ get the most skillful women to come.
18 Let them hurry and start wailing about us,
→ so our eyes have tears running down them,
≈ and our eyelids flow with water,
19 because the sound of mourning can be heard from Tsiyyon (Zion):
‘We’ve been so devastated.
We’re terribly ashamed, because we’ve left the land
because they tore down our houses.’
20 So now hear Yahweh’s message, you women.
≈ Let your ear receive the message from his mouth,
and teach your daughters a mourning song,
≈ and each woman teach her neighbour a funeral song,
21 because death has come up into our windows.
≈ It enters into our fortresses,
cutting off children from the street
≈ and young men from the open plazas.
22 Yahweh says to pass this on:
Human corpses will fall like dung across the ground’s surface
and like fallen grain after the harvesters have finished,
and there’s no one to collect them.
Don’t let the wise person boast about their wisdom,
≈ and don’t let the warrior boast about his strength.
≈ Don’t let the rich person boast about their riches,
24 because if they want to boast, let them boast about this:
Understanding and knowing me because I’m Yahweh,
demonstrating loyal commitment, justice, and righteousness on the earth
because I take pleasure in those things.[ref]
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
25 Listen, Yahweh declares that there’s a time coming
when I will punish all those who’ve been physically circumcised:
26 the Egyptians, Judeans, Edomites, Ammonites, and Moabites,
and all those who trim the corners of their beards, those living in the wilderness,
because all the uncircumcised nations and all the Israelis have uncircumcised hearts.
10 Listen to the message that Yahweh is telling you all, you Israelis. 2 This is what Yahweh says:
Don’t imitate the ways of other nations,
and don’t be dismayed by signs in the skies,
just because those other nations are,
3 because the customs of those groups of people are worthless.
Yes, they cut down a tree from a forest,
and a craftsman does his handywork with his tools,
4 then they overlay it with gold and silver.
They use hammer and nails to securely fasten it
so that it won’t topple over.
5 Those idols are like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,
not being able to speak.
What’s more, they have to be carried because they can’t walk.
Don’t be afraid of them because they can’t harm anyone,
but at the same time, there’s no good in them either.
6 There’s no one like you, Yahweh.
You’re powerful and have a reputation for your strength.
7 Who wouldn’t respect and obey you, king of the nations
because that’s what you deserve?[ref]
Yes, among all the wise people of the word,
there’s no one like you.
8 Those ‘wise’ people are both stupid and foolish all at once—
instructed by an idol that’s just a piece of wood.
9 They brought hammered silver from Tarshish and gold from Ufaz—
≈ the work of a craftsman and from the hands of the refiners.
Then they put violet and purple clothing on them—
all the work of skillful people.
10 However, Yahweh is the true god.
≈ He is the living god and permanent king.
When he’s angry, the earth shakes,
and the nations can’t endure his indignation.
11 You need to tell them this:
12 Yahweh made the earth using his power.
≈ He established the world by his wisdom,
≈ and with his understanding, he stretched out the skies.
13 When he projects his voice, there’s a rush of waters in the skies,
≈ and he brings clouds up from the ends of the earth.
He made lightning for the rain,
≈ and sends out wind from his storehouse.
14 Every person has become stupid from knowledge.
Every metalworker is put to shame by idols
because his molten image is a deception and there’s no life in them.
15 They’re worthless—a work of mockery.
They’ll perish at the time for their punishment.
16 Yakov’s (Jacob’s) inheritance isn’t like that
because he’s the one who made everything,
and the Israelis are his inheritance.
17 Gather your stuff and leave the land,
you who are living under siege
Listen, I’m flinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time,
and I’ll cause them distress so that they can find me.
19 Oh dear, poor me. My fracture, my wound is severe,
but I said that this is a sickness and I will endure it.
20 My tent has been devastated, and all of my tent ropes have been snapped.
My sons have gone off and left me.
There’s no one to pitch my tent again,
or to hang up my tent curtains.
21 Yes, the shepherds are stupid and haven’t asked Yahweh for direction
so therefore they haven’t prospered, and all their flock has been scattered.
22 Listen, it sounds like news has arrived
≈ plus there’s a loud rumble from a land in the north
coming to make Yehudah’s (Judah’s) cities into deserted places for jackals to live in.
23 Yahweh, I know that a person’s life pathway isn’t their own—
no one who walks, directs their own steps.
24 Discipline me, Yahweh, only in justice and not in anger
in case you reduce me to nothing.
25 Pour your fury out on the nations that don’t know you.
≈ and on the families that don’t call out to you to help them,
because they’ve consumed Yakov (Jacob).
≈ Yes, they’ve completely destroyed him and ruined his farmland.
11 Yahweh’s message came to Yirmeyah (Jeremiah) to say: 2 Listen to the words of this agreement and tell them to everyone in Yehudah (Judah), including those who live in Yerushalem (Jerusalem) 3 and tell them, “Yisrael’s god Yahweh says that anyone who won’t listen to the words of this agreement will be cursed. 4 It’s the same agreement that I commanded for your ancestors at the time when I brought them out of the iron furnace that was Egypt, telling them: ‘Listen to my voice and follow the instructions that I’ve given you all, and then you’ll be my people, and I’ll become your god 5 in order to fulfill the promise that I made to your ancestors to give them a land that’s flowing with milk and honey, as it is right now.’ ”
“So be it, Yahweh,” I answered.
6 Then Yahweh told me, “Proclaim all these things in Yehudah’s cities, including in Yerushalem’s streets. Tell them to listen to the words of this agreement and carry them out 7 because I solemnly warned your ancestors at the time when I brought them out of Egypt until today, repeatedly warning them to listen to my voice. 8 However, they didn’t listen or even pay any attention to me, and each one of them stubbornly followed their own evil desires, so I ordered all the consequences from not obeying the agreement, to come to them.”
9 Then Yahweh told me, “A conspiracy has been found across Yehudah, and including Yerushalem’s inhabitants. 10 They’ve returned to the evil ways of their ancestors from the past who refused to listen to my messages, and then they followed after other gods to serve them. The people of both Yisrael and Yehudah broke the agreement that I made with the ancestors. 11 So now,, listen: Yahweh says that I’m about to bring calamity to them which they won’t be able to avoid, and they’ll cry out to me for help but I won’t listen to them. 12 Then Yehudah’s cities, including those living in Yerushalem, will go and cry out to the gods for help that they’ve been burning incense to, but those gods won’t be able to rescue them from their calamity 13 because there are now as many gods in Yehudah as you all have cities, and as many incense altars for Baal in Yerushalem as you all have streets. 14 Yirmeyah, don’t pray for those people, and don’t plead with me to rescue them, because I won’t be listening when they call out to me for help during their difficulties.
15 “My dear Yehudah, what right do you have to be in my temple after doing so much evil?
≈ You offer holy sacrifices then go and happily do wicked things.
16 Yahweh called you a luxuriant olive tree with beautiful, good-looking fruit.
^ Now he’ll kindle a fire with a loud roar on its branches that have gone bad.
17 Commander-in-chief Yahweh who planted you, has decided that you’ll experience evil because of the evil done by the peoples of Yisrael and Yehudah when they’ve provoked me to anger by offering incense to Baal.
18 Then Yahweh revealed something to me which I understood once he showed me their preparations. 19 I was like a tame lamb being led to be slaughtered, and I didn’t know that they had made plans against me, saying, ‘Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and cut him off from the land of the living. Then his name won’t be remembered any longer.’
20 Then I prayed, “Commander-in-chief Yahweh who always judges fairly, examining our inner thoughts and motives, let me see your vengeance on them, because I’ve presented my case to you.”
21 So Yahweh said it was some men of Anatot[fn] who were wanting to kill me, saying that I mustn’t prophesy in Yahweh’s name or else they’d make sure that I die. 22 Therefore Commander-in-chief Yahweh says, “Listen, I’m about to punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, and their children will die from famine. 23 There won’t be any of them left, because I will bring calamity to the people from Anatot at the time of their punishment.”
12 Yahweh, you do what’s right when I bring you a case.
→ Nevertheless, I want to talk with you about justice:
≈ Why are treacherous people able to relax?
2 You planted them like trees and they’ve taken root,
then they’ve grown and produced fruit.
They’re full of talk about you,
but they’re really far from you.
≈ You see me, and test my heart toward you.
Drag them away like sheep doing to slaughter,
≈ and reserve a time for them to be slaughtered.
4 How much longer will the land be dry for
with the plants in the countryside withering up?
Even the wild animals and birds have diminished in number,
because people have said that he won’t see what will happen to us.
Yahweh’s response to Yirmeyah
5 If you’ve run with foot soldiers and they’ve worn you out,
how will you compete with horses?
If you’re falling to the ground in a safe region,
how will you do in the thickets by the Yarden (Jordan) river?
6 Even your brothers and other family members are working against you.
≈ They speak out against you.
7 I’ve abandoned my country.
I’ve walked away from my inheritance.
I’ve given my dearly loved one into the hand of its enemies.
8 My inheritance become like a lion in a forest for me.
That country always speaks against me so I hate it.
9 My inheritance is like a speckled bird of prey to me,
with other birds of prey all around it.
Go and get all the wild animals from the countryside to come and eat.
10 Many shepherds (foreign rulers) have ruined my vineyard—
they’ve trampled my area.
They’ve made my desirable region into a desolate wasteland.
11 They’ve made it into a wasteland—it’s mourning to me.
All the land has been made desolate because there’s no one who cares about it.
12 Destroyers have come to all the bare hilltops in the wilderness,
because a sword is devouring for Yahweh, from each end of the land.
There’s no peace for any living thing.
13 People have sown wheat and harvested thorns.
They’ve wearied themselves but not profited,
and they were ashamed by your low production
14 Yahweh says this: All my evil neighbours who touch the inheritance that I gave to my Israeli people, listen, I’ll uproot them from the land, and I’ll uproot Yehudah’s descendants from among them. 15 Then after I’ve uprooted them, I’ll have compassion on them again, and I’ll bring them back—each one back to their own inheritance and their own land. 16 If they’ll properly learn the ways of my people, to make promises using my name saying, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ instead of how my people were taught to make promises by Baal, then they’ll prosper and be my people again. 17 However if they won’t listen when I uproot the nation, then I’ll uproot it to destroy it. That is Yahweh’s declaration.
13 Yahweh told me this: Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it on, but don’t let it get near water. 2 So I bought a loincloth as Yahweh had told me to, and I put it on. 3 Then Yahweh gave me a second instruction, saying: 4 Take the loincloth that you bought and you’re wearing, and pack up and go to Perat[fn] and bury it in a crack in the rock. 5 So I went and hid it at Perat just as Yahweh had told me to.
6 Then after many days, Yahweh told me to get ready and go to Perat to retrieve the loincloth that he’d told me to bury there. 7 So I went to Perat and dug the loincloth out from the crack that I’d hidden it in, but wow, it was ruined and totally worthless.
8 Then Yahweh gave me this message: 9 Yahweh says that I’ll rot away the pride of Yehudah (Judah), including the pride of the great Yerushalem (Jerusalem). 10 That wicked nation that refused to listen to my messages, who are following their own stubborn desires and have followed other god by serving them and bowing down to them, let that nation become like that loincloth that’s no good for anything. 11 Yahweh declares that just like a loincloth is hitched to someone’s hips, so too I’ve made all those from Yisrael and Yehudah cling to me, to be my people who would bring me fame, praise, and honour, but they didn’t listen.
12 So you must pass this message along to them: Yisrael’s god Yahweh says that every jar will be filled with wine, and they’ll tell you, ‘Of course we know that every jar will be filled with wine.’ 13 So tell them that Yahweh says this: Listen, I’m about to fill all the inhabitants of this land with drunkenness—the kings that sit of David’s throne, the priests and prophets, and all of Yerushalem’s inhabitants. 14 Then Yahweh declares: I’ll cause a drunken brawl among brothers, parents, and children. I won’t pity you or have compassion, and I won’t spare them from destruction.
Don’t be arrogant, because Yahweh has spoken.
16 Give honour to your god Yahweh before he brings darkness,
≈ and before he causes you all to stumble on the mountains at twilight,
because you’re hoping for light, but he’ll turn the place into deep darkness—into a dark cloud.
17 But if you all won’t listen,
I’ll weep in private because of your arrogance.
≈ Tears will run down my eyes because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.
18 Tell the king and the queen mother to take a low seat
because their splendid crowns have been removed from their heads.
19 The cities of the Negev have been shut up,
and there’s no one to open them again.
Yehudah has been taken into exile—
they’ve all been taken far away.
20 Look up and see them coming from the north.
Where’s the flock that was given to you—those beautiful sheep?
21 What will you say when the allies that you taught, he sets over you?
Won’t labour pains hit you like a woman giving birth?
22 Then as a country you’ll ask why those things have happened to you.
It’s the magnitude of your disobedience that’s caused your skirt to be lifted
and your body to be treated with violence.
23 An Ethiopian person can’t change their skin colour
≈ and a leopard can’t change its spots.
Similarly you all aren’t able to do good
as you’re all so accustomed to doing evil.
24 I’ll scatter them like straw that’s blown across the wilderness by the wind.
25 Yahweh declares that that’s your part of your inheritance
as you’ve forgotten me and trusted in lies.
26 So I’ll also pull your skirt up over your face
and then your shame will become visible.
27 I’ve seen your adultery and neighing—
the wickedness of your prostitution on the hills and across the countryside.
I’ve seen your detestable behaviour.
You won’t end well, Yerushalem.
How long will you remain ‘unclean’?
14 This is Yahweh’s message to Yirmeyah regarding droughts:
2 Yehudah (Judah) is in mourning and its gates are neglected.
They’re mourning for the land
and Yerushalem is crying out in distress.
3 The leading citizens send their servants out for water,
but when they get to the wells, they didn’t find any.
They return with empty containers—
ashamed and humiliated, and with their heads covered in grief.
4 The ground is cracked open because there hasn’t been any rain.
The farmers are ashamed—they’ve covered their heads in grief,
5 because even the doe in the countryside abandoned her newborn fawn as there was no grass.
6 Wild donkeys stand on bare hills and pant for breath like jackals—
their eyes have failed because there’s no vegetation.
7 Even though our transgressions testify against us,
do something, Yahweh, for the sake of your reputation
because we sinned against you with our frequent rebellion.
8 You are Yisrael’s hope—the one who rescues it at a time of distress.
Why would you act like a stranger in the land—
≈ like a traveller who’s stopped in to stay the night.
9 Why are you like someone just standing there with their mouth open—
like a warrior who’s powerless to save someone?
You’re here among us, Yahweh, and we’ve been calling out to you to rescue us.
10 This is what Yahweh says about this nation:
They love to wander, so they’ve gone wherever their feet take them,
→ but Yahweh hasn’t accepted them.
Now he’ll remember their wickedness
≈ and he’ll punish them for their disobedience.
11 Yahweh told me, “Don’t pray for good to come to this nation 12 because even if they fast, I won’t listen to their petition, and when they offer up a burnt offering and a grain offering, I won’t be accepting them, because I’m bringing an end to them by the sword, and famine, and disease.”
13 Then I said, “Oh no, my master Yahweh. Listen, the prophets are telling the people that they won’t experience war or famine because you’ll give them ongoing peace in this place.”
14 “The prophets use my name but speak deceitfully,” Yahweh answered. “I didn’t appoint them and I didn’t send them, and I didn’t give them a false vision. The worthless prophecies that they’re proclaiming to you all come from their own minds.” 15 Therefore Yahweh says, “Now those prophets who I never sent but who are using my name and say that no war or famine will happen in this region, well those prophets will meet their own ends through war and famine. 16 Then the people that they prophesied to will be thrown out into Yerushalem’s streets because of famine and war. No one will be there to bury them or their wives, sons, or daughters, as I’ll pour their wickedness out onto them.
17 Then you’ll pass this message onto them:
Day and night the tears run down my eyes.
Don’t let them stop, because of the terrible damage
as my virgin daughter has been shattered—
my people have received a very severe wound.
18 If I go out into the countryside, wow, I see those who were killed by the sword.
Then if I go into the city, wow, there’s diseases caused by famine,
because both prophets and priests have gone into a land that they weren’t familiar with.
19 Have you completely rejected Yehudah (Judah)?
≈ Do you really hate Tsiyyon (Zion)?
Why have you struck us when there’s no healing for us?
We eagerly hoped for peace, but there was nothing good.
≈ We hoped for a time of healing, but wow, we got terror!
20 Yahweh, we acknowledge our wickedness—
≈ the transgression of our ancestors.
≈ Yes, we’ve sinned against you.
21 For the sake of your reputation, don’t reject us.
≈ Don’t treat the place hosting your wonderful throne with contempt.
Remember your agreement with us, and don’t break it.
22 Do those useless idols from other countries send rain?
≈ Do they cause showers to fall?
Isn’t it you, our god Yahweh, who does that?
We eagerly wait for you, because you’re the one who does all those things.
15 Then Yahweh told me, “Even if Mosheh (Moses) or Shemuel (Samuel) were standing in front of me, I still wouldn’t be in favour of this group of people. Send them out away from me, and let them go away.[ref] 2 If anyone comes to ask you where they should go, tell them that this is what Yahweh says:
Those who are destined for death, will die.
Those for the sword, will die in war.
Those for famine, will suffer starvation.
Those for exile, will be taken away in captivity.[ref]
3 Yahweh declares that he’ll assign them to four groups:
4 Because of what Yehudah’s King Menashsheh (Manasseh) did in Yerushalem (Jerusalem), I’ll make people in all the world’s nations be horrified by them.[ref]
5 Yes, who will feel sorry for you, Yerushalem,
≈ and who will show sympathy for you?
Who will go out of their way to ask about your welfare?
6 Yahweh declares: You’ve forsaken me—
you’ve turned your back on me
so I’ve used my power against you to destroy you.
I’m tired of letting you off.
7 So I’ll winnow them with a pitchfork at the country’s gates.
I’ll make them childless, thus destroying my people
as they haven’t turned from their own ways.
8 I’ll make more widows for them than sand grains on the beach.
I’ll send a destroyer against the mothers of their young men at midday.
I’ll make shock and horror fall on them suddenly.
9 The mother who has borne seven children will waste away.
She’ll gasp—her sun will set while it is still daytime.
She’ll be ashamed and embarrassed, because I will give those who remain
to be killed by the sword in their enemies’ presence.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
10 Poor me, mother, that you gave birth to me—
a man of strife and contention throughout the entire region.
I haven’t lent money or borrowed it
yet they all curse me.
Won’t I rescue you for good?
Won’t I make your enemies plead with you
in a time of evil and distress?
iron from the north, or bronze?
13 I’ll give your wealth and treasures to your enemies as plunder without them having to pay
as the price for all your sins committed across all your territories.
14 Then I’ll make you serve your enemies in a land that you hadn’t been to before
because the fire of my anger towards you all has been kindled and will burn.
15 Yahweh, you know my situation.
Take note of my situation and bring your vengeance to those harassing me.
Don’t be patient with them and let them take me away.
Know that I suffer reproach for your sake.
16 Your messages were found and I consumed them.
Your message to me made me happy and gave me cause for celebration
because I bear your name, Commander-in-chief Yahweh, god of armies.
17 I didn’t sit among the gathering of the merry makers,
but rather, I enjoyed feeling your presence.
I sat alone because you’d filled me with indignation.
18 Why is my pain ongoing and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?
Will you be like a spring that lets me down when its supply is unreliable?
If you return to me, then I’ll restore you and you’ll stand in front of me
because if you separate out the foolish things from the precious things,
you will be like my mouth. The people will come back to you,
but you yourself mustn’t go back to them.
20 I’ll make you like an impenetrable bronze wall to this people,
and they’ll fight against you.
However, they won’t defeat you,
because I’ll be with you to save you, and to rescue you.
That is Yahweh’s declaration. 21 Then I’ll rescue you from the plots of wicked people
16 Then Yahweh gave me a message, telling me: 2 Don’t get married and don’t have children in this place 3 because Yahweh says this to the children born in this place and to the parents who brought them into this world:
4 They’ll die from disease and not be mourned or buried—
they’ll be like dung on the ground.
They’ll come to their ends through war and famine,
and their corpses will become food for the birds and the wild animals.
Don’t enter a home where there’s a funeral.
Don’t go to mourn or to show sympathy to them,
because I’ve withdrawn my peace from this people,
as well as my compassion and loyal commitment.
That is Yahweh’s declaration. 6 Both the important people and the ordinary people will die in this land.
They won’t be buried and no one will mourn for them,
or cut themselves or shave off their hair to show grief for them.
7 No one must share any food to comfort those in mourning because of the deaths,
≈ and no one must give a comforting cup to his father or mother.
8 Don’t go to a dining establishment to sit with them to eat and drink
9 because Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this:
Listen, right in front of your eyes, in your lifetime and in this place,
I’m about to make the sounds of happiness and gladness cease—
including the sounds of brides and grooms.[ref]
10 Then when you pass on all these messages to the people, they’ll ask you:
Why has Yahweh decreed all this terrible calamity against us,
≈ and what wickedness or sin have we committed against our god Yahweh?
11 So give them this declaration from Yahweh:
It’s because your ancestors followed after foreign gods and served them and bowed down to them.
They abandoned me and didn’t follow my instructions.
12 Then you yourselves have done even more wickedness than your ancestors,
and everyone of you is walking by the stubbornness of their wicked heart—
not listening to me.
14 Now listen, Yahweh declares:
Because of that the days are coming when they’ll no longer say,
‘As Yahweh, the one who brought the Israelis out of Egypt, lives.’
15 Instead they’ll say:
‘As Yahweh lives, the one who brought the Israelis back from the land of the north
and from the lands where he had driven them,’
because I’ll bring them back to the land that I gave to their ancestors.
I’ll send for many fishermen to fish the people out.
After that, I’ll send for many hunters
to hunt them from under every mountain and hill, and from the crevices in the rocks
17 because I’m watching everything they do
and their wicked behaviour can’t be hidden from me.
18 Firstly, I’ll pay back double for their disobedience and wickedness,
because of their polluting my land with their detestable carvings,
and because they filled my inheritance with their disgusting idols.”
19 Yahweh, you’re my stronghold and my refuge—
≈ my place of safety in any distressing time.
The nations will go to you from the ends of the earth and say,
“Surely our ancestors inherited lies—
Those idols are a waste of time and there’s no profit in them.
20 Can people make their own gods?
Well, they’re not gods at all!
21 So listen, I’m about to demonstrate that at this time—
I’ll reveal my power and activity to them
17 Yehudah’s sin is written with an iron stylus that has a diamond point.
It’s engraved on the tablet which is their hearts, and on the projecting corners of your altars.
2 Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles
that were beside the luxuriant trees and on the high hills—
3 even on my mountain in the countryside.
I’ll give your wealth and all your treasures to be plundered by others
because of your sin on your hilltop shrines throughout all your territories.
4 You’ll have to let go the inheritance that I gave you.
I’ll make your serve your enemies in a land that you’ve never been to,
because you’ve ignited a fire in my anger which will burn forever.
17:5 Various sayings
Anyone who trusts in humankind will be cursed—
trusting in their own physical strength turns their hearts away from Yahweh.
6 They’re like shrubs in the desert, unable to see any good coming,
and they’ll live in dry parts of the wilderness
that’s salty and with no one else living there.
7 The person who trusts in Yahweh will be blessed,
as they put their confidence in him.
8 That person will be like a tree planted by a stream[ref]
that sends its roots out to the water.
It has nothing to fear when the heat comes and its leaves stay green.
It has nothing to be afraid of in a drought year
and it won’t stop producing fruit.
9 Human motives are the most deceitful of all.
They can’t be cured—who can determine them?
10 I am Yahweh who searches the mind.
I test the motives.
I give to everyone according to the results of their actions.[ref]
11 A partridge hatches an egg that it didn’t lay.
Someone might get rich by unjust means
but right in the middle of their life it’ll leave them
and in the end, that person will be a fool.
12 The place of our sanctuary from the beginning has been like a splendid throne on a high place.
13 You, Yahweh are the one that Yisrael puts their hope in.
All who abandon you will be put to shame.
≈ Those who turn away from you will be written on the ground,
because they’ve forsaken Yahweh—the fountain of living waters.
14 Heal me, Yahweh, and I’ll be healed.
Rescue me, and I’ll be rescued,
because you are the one I praise.
15 Listen, they’re asking me,
Where is Yahweh’s message? Let it come.
16 As for me, I didn’t run from being a shepherd following you.
I didn’t long for the day of disaster.
You know everything I said—it was said in your presence.
17 Don’t become a terror to me.
You’re my place of safety when disaster comes.
18 Let my pursuers be ashamed, but don’t let me be ashamed.
Ley them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed.
Send the day of disaster against them
and shatter them with a double share of destruction.
Go and stand in at gate of the people where Yehudah’s kings come and go,
then in all the other gates of Yerushalem.
20 Tell the people:
Listen to Yahweh’s message, you kings of Yehudah and all you people of Yehudah,
and all of Yerushalem’s residents who go in through those gates.
Be careful for the sake of your lives
and on the rest day, don’t carry a load to bring it to Yerushalem’s gates.[ref]
22 Don’t bring a load out from your homes on the rest day.
Don’t do any work, but set apart the rest day,
just as I instructed your ancestors to do.
23 They did not listen or pay attention,
but stubbornly refused to listen to me, nor did they accept discipline.
24 Yahweh declares that if you carefully listen to me
and don’t bring a load to this city’s gates on the rest day
but instead set apart the rest day for Yahweh, and don’t do any work on it,
25 then kings, princes, and those who sit on David’s throne
will come to this city’s gates in chariots and on horses.
They’ll come along with their leaders from Yehudah including Yerushalem’s residents,
and this city will be inhabited forever.
26 They’ll come from Yehudah’s cities including from all around Yerushalem,
from the Benyamin region and the foothills,
from the mountains, and from the Negev desert,
bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense,
as well as those who bring thank offerings to Yahweh’s residence.
27 But if you don’t listen to me
and don’t set apart the rest day
and don’t carry heavy loads to enter Yerushalem’s gates on the rest day,
then I’ll light a fire at its gates that will incinerate Yerushalem’s fortresses,
and that won’t be able to be put out.
18 Yahweh’s message came to Yirmeyah (Jeremiah) to say, 2 “Get ready and go down to the potter’s house, and I’ll give you my messages there.”
3 So I went down to pottery factory, and wow, he was on his potter’s wheel. 4 However, the container that he was making with his hand on the clay was ruined, so he started again and make it into another container that he was pleased with.
5 Then Yahweh gave me this message: 6 Like that potter, shouldn’t I be able to do what I want with you Israelis? Yahweh declares that you Israelis are in my hand like that clay in the potter’s hand. 7 One time, I might declare to a nation or a kingdom that it will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed. 8 and later on, that nation that I spoke to might turn away from its evil, and then I’ll cancel the destruction that I’d planned for them. 9 Another time, I might declare that a nation or kingdom will be established, or strengthened, 10 however if I see it doing evil and not listening to my voice, then I’ll cancel the good that I’d said I’d do to it. 11 So now, speak to the people of Yehudah including Yerushalem’s residents and tell them that Yahweh says, “Listen, I’m about to devise a plan against you all and prepare calamity for you. Each of you needs to turn back from their evil activities and improve your behaviour and your activities.” 12 However, they’ll say, “Don’t waste your time because we’ll continue with our plans, and each of us will do whatever wicked things that we want!”
13 Because of that, Yahweh says this:
Ask the nations if they’ve ever heard anything like this?
The virgin Yisrael (Israel) has done something extremely horrible.
14 Does the snow in Lebanon ever disappear off its rocky slopes?
Do the cool waters stop flowing?
15 Yet my people have forgotten me.
They offer incense to useless idols
that have made them stumble on the ancient paths
that haven’t had any maintenance.
16 Their land will become a wasteland—forever mocked at.
Everyone who passes by will be appalled
and will wag their heads.
17 I’ll scatter them before their enemies like the east wind from the desert does.
I won’t look at them but will turn my back when their disaster comes.
The people
Come on, let’s decide what to do about Yirmeyah,
because we have plenty of instructions from the priests,
advice from the wise men,
and messages from the prophets.
Yirmeyah
19 Yahweh, pay attention to me
and listen to the what my enemies are saying.
20 Should good be repaid with evil,
because they’re digging a pit for me?
Remember how I stood in front of you to tell you their good points—
to turn back your rage from them.
21 Therefore, hand their children over to famine,
and send war to punish them.
Let their wives be childless and become widowed,
and let their husbands die from disease—
their young men killed in battle.
22 Let a cry of distress be heard from their houses
when you send raiders to surprise them,
because they’ve dug a pit to capture me in
and have hidden traps for me to step into.
23 But you, Yahweh, know all their deadly plots against me.
Don’t forgive their wickedness.
Don’t erase their disobedience from your sight.
Let them be overthrown as you watch
Take some of the elders and some of the priests,
and go and buy a clay flask from the potter.
2 Then go out to the Ben-Hinnom Valley by the Broken Pottery Gate,
and then proclaim the words that I’ll tell you there.[ref]
3 Tell them:
You kings of Yehudah (Judah) and you residents of Yerushalem,
Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says,
Listen, I’m about to send calamity to this place,
and the ears of everyone who hears about it will tingle.
4 I’m doing that because they’ve abandoned me and defiled this place—
they’ve burnt incense to other ‘gods’,
that neither they or their ancestors or Yehudah’s kings used to know.
Then they’ve filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
5 They built hilltop shrines to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal,
something I never instructed or talked about, nor did it even enter my mind.[ref]
6 So Yahweh declares that the time is coming when this place will no longer be called Tofet or the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, but rather, the ‘Valley of Slaughter’. 7 Then I’ll confound Yehudah and Yerushalem’s plans in this place, and I’ll have them struck down by their enemies’ swords and by those who want to kill them, and I’ll give their dead bodies to the birds and the wild animals for food. 8 Then I’ll make that city into a wasteland that’s something to scoff at—everyone who passes by will be appalled and will mock it because of all its disasters. 9 I’ll cause them to eat the flesh of their children and of their neighbours during the distress caused by the siege imposed by the enemies who want to kill them.
10 Then as the men who went with you watch, you must break that pottery flask 11 and tell them that Commander-in_chief Yahweh says this:
I’ll shatter this nation and this city, just like someone shatters a piece of pottery that can never be repaired again. They’ll bury the dead in Tofet until they run out of room. 12 Yahweh declares that I’ll do that to this place and its residents—making this city like Tofet 13 and Yerushalem’s houses including the houses of Yehudah’s kings will be defiled like that place, Tofet—all the houses on whose rooftops they burnt incense to all the constellations and poured out drink offerings to other ‘gods’.
14 Then Yirmeyah returned from Tofet where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the temple courtyard and proclaimed to all the people, 15 “This is what Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh, says: ‘Listen, every disaster that I’ve pronounced against these people, I’m about to send to this city and to all the villages around it, because they’ve been stubborn and failed to take notice of my messages.’ ”
20 The priest, Pashhur (Immer’s son) who was a supervisor, heard Yirmeyah prophesying those words at Yahweh’s house, 2 and he struck the prophet Yirmeyah. Then he placed him in the stocks that were at the upper gate of Benyamin hear Yahweh’s house. 3 The next day, when Pashhur released Yirmeyah from the stocks, Yirmeyah said to him, “Yahweh won’t call you ‘Pashhur’, but ‘Magor-Missabib’ (which means ‘surrounded by terror’), 4 because Yahweh says this: Listen, I’ll make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They’ll fall by their enemies’ swords before your very eyes, and then I’ll hand Yehudah over to the Babylonian king, and he’ll carry them away to Babylon and put them to death. 5 I’ll give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of Yehudah’s kings—to their enemies. They’ll plunder it, seize it, and carry it off to Babylon. 6 Then you, Pashhur will be taken into captivity along with all the others in your home. You’ll be taken to Babylon, and you’ll die there and be buried—you and all your friends who you’ve prophesied these lies to.
7 Yahweh, you’ve deceived me, and I was deceived.
≈ You’ve overcome me and prevailed.
≈ everyone mocks me.
8 Yes, whenever I speak, I call out loudly.
I proclaim violence and destruction
because Yahweh’s message has become a reproach and derision for me, all day long.
9 If I say that I won’t mention him
and won’t speak in his name anymore,
then his message becomes a fire burning in my heart—
shut up in my bones.
Then I get worn out holding it in,
and I can’t continue to do it.
10 Yes, I’ve heard many people whispering
that terror is all around.
They want to publicly denounce me.
All my trusted friends watch for my fall:
“Perhaps he can be deceived
so that we may prevail against him
and take out our vengeance on him.”
11 However Yahweh is like a fearsome warrior with me,
therefore my persecutors will stumble and won’t prevail.
Because they won’t succeed, they’ll be totally put to shame—
an everlasting disgrace that’ll never be forgotten.
12 Commander-in-chief Yahweh, who examines the righteous people,
who sees the thoughts and motives,
let me see your vengeance upon them,
→ because I’ve made my case known to you.
13 Sing to Yahweh.
Praise Yahweh because he’s rescued the lives of those who are oppressed from the clutch of those who do evil.
14 Let the day when I was born be cursed.[ref]
≈ Don’t let the day that my mother gave birth to me be blessed.
15 Let the man who brought the news to my father be cursed—
≈ The one who said, ‘You now have a son,’ causing great celebration.
16 Let that man be like the cities that Yahweh overthrew without having compassion on them.
≈ Let him hear a cry for help in the dawn and a battle cry at noontime,
17 because he didn’t kill me in the womb—
→ making my mother become my tomb—her womb forever pregnant.
18 Why did I come out from the womb to see trouble and sorrow,
21 Then Yahweh gave Yirmeyah (Jeremiah) a message when King Tsidkiyah (Zedekiah) sent Malkiyah’s son Pashhur and Maaseyah’s son Tsefanyah (Zephaniah) the priest to him, and they said, 2 “Please request Yahweh’s advice on our behalf, because the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar is attacking us. Perhaps Yahweh will do miracles for us like he has in the past, and will make him stop attacking us and leave.”[ref]
3 So Yirmeyah told them to tell King Tsidkiyah that 4 Yisrael’s god Yahweh says this:
Listen, I’m about to make your own weapons ineffective that you’re all using to fight the Babylonian king and the Babylonians (Heb. Kasdi = Chaldeans) who are laying siege to you from outside the wall, and I’ll gather them[fn] in the middle of this city. 5 Then I myself will fight you all with all my strength and power in my anger and rage and terrible fury, 6 and I’ll kill this city’s inhabitants—people and animals will all die in a terrible plague. 7 Then Yahweh declares that after that I’ll hand over Yehudah’s King Tsidkiyah along with his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, and to their enemies who want to kill them. He’ll kill them with the sword—he won’t spare them or show pity or compassion.
8 Then you must tell this to the people:
Yahweh says that I’m about to give you the choice between the path to life and the path to death. 9 Anyone who stays in this city will die from war, famine, or plague, but anyone who goes out and falls to their knees in front of the Babylonians who’ve surrounded you all, will live They’ll escape with their lives that way 10 because I’ve already decided to harm this city rather than doing good. Yahweh declares that this city will be handed over to the Babylonian king and he’ll burn it down.
11 As for Yehudah’s king, listen to this message from Yahweh 12 for David’s descendants:
Administer justice every morning
and rescue anyone who’s been robbed, from their oppressor,
otherwise my fury will go out like fire
and burn, but no one will be able to extinguish it
because of your wicked activities.
13 Yahweh declares: listen you inhabitants from the valley
and you on the rocky plain.
You all say that no one can swoop down on you,
or be able to enter your hiding places,
14 however I will punish you all according to the results of your actions.
Yahweh declares:
22 Yahweh told me to go down to Yehudah’s palace and proclaim this message: 2 Listen to Yahweh’s message for Yehudah’s king who sits on David’s throne, along with your officials and your people who enter these doorways. 3 Yahweh says that you must administer justice and do what’s right. Rescue anyone who’s been robbed, from their oppressor. Don’t mistreat any foreigner or orphan or widow. Don’t be violent, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, 4 because if you carefully do those things, then the kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding in chariots or on horses, along with their officials and their people. 5 However, if you take no notice of those instructions, then Yahweh solemnly promises that this palace will become a pile of rubble,[ref] 6 because this is what Yahweh says about the palace of Yehudah’s king:
To me, you’re like the Gilead forests or like Lebanon’s summit.
However, I’ll make you into a wilderness—
7 I’ll appoint destroyers against you—
each warrior with his weapons.
They’ll cut down your choicest cedars
8 Then many nations will pass by this city and ask each other why Yahweh has done that to this great city? 9 Someone else will answer that it’s because they abandoned the agreement with their god Yahweh, and bowed down to their gods and served them.
10 Don’t weep for King Yoshiyah (Josiah) who was killed
≈ and don’t mourn because he died.
Instead, weep bitterly for his son, King Yehoahaz (Jehoahaz) who’s about to be exiled
because he won’t return again and see his native land again.
11 Yes, Yahweh says this about Yoshiyah’s son Yehoahaz[fn] who reigned instead of his father, who then left this place. He won’t return there again[ref] 12 because he’ll die in the place where they took him into exile, and he won’t ever see this country again.
13 The king[fn] who built his house by doing what’s not right
≈ and built his upper rooms by unjustly forcing people to work,
→ won’t end well.
He forced the citizens to work without getting paid—
≈ not giving them their wages.
14 He’d decided to build himself a large house with spacious upper rooms,
so he cut out large windows for it, and panelled it with cedar,
and painted it with red ochre.
15 Does having the best cedar make you a better king?
Didn’t (Yoshiyah/Josiah) your father eat and drink well?
However, he administered justice and did what was right
→ so things went well for him.
16 He took up the cause of the poor and needy,
→ so things went well for him.
Yahweh declares that that’s what it means to know me,
17 but your desires and motives are only focused on your dishonest gain,
and on oppression and practicing extortion.
18 Therefore this is what Yahweh says about Yehoyakim (Jehoiakim), son of Yehudah’s King Yoshiyah (Josiah):
They won’t mourn for him saying, ‘Oh no, my brother! Oh no, my sister!’
≈ They won’t mourn for him saying, ‘Oh no, my master! Oh no, his splendour!’[ref]
19 He’ll be buried just like a donkey would be—
dragged away and thrown somewhere outside Yerushalem’s gates.
20 You people of Yehudah, go up to Lebanon and cry out.
Shout in the Bashan region.
Cry out from the Avarim mountains,
because all your ‘lovers’ have been destroyed.
21 I warned you when you were still secure—
you said that you wouldn’t listen.
That’s been your way since your youth,
that you haven’t taken any notice of my instructions.
22 The wind will drive away all your ‘shepherds’,
and your ‘lovers’ will go into captivity.
Then you’ll be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.
nested there among the cedars,
but how you’ll groan when your labour pains come to you,
like a woman giving birth.
24 Yahweh declares by his life:
Even if you, Yehoyakin (Jehoiachin),[fn] son of Yehudah’s King Yehoyakim (Jehoiakim), were the signet ring on my right hand, I would tear you off[ref] 25 because I’m handing you over to the ones who are wanting to kill you and to those that you’re afraid of—to Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar and his men. (Heb. The Kasdi = Chaldeans) 26 I’ll hurl you and your mother who bore you, into another land—a country where you’re both foreigners and you’ll both die there. 27 Although they’ll long to return to this land, they’ll never return here.
28 Is this man Yehoyakin a despised, shattered pot—
≈ a jar that no one wants
Why will before hurled out along with his descendants,
and thrown into a country that they’re not familiar with?
29 Land, land, land, Listen to Yahweh’s message.
Record this man as being childless—
a man who won’t prosper in his lifetime.
None of his descendants will prosper
23 Yahweh declares that the shepherds who destroy and scatter the flock from my pasture won’t end well. 2 Therefore, this is what Yisrael’s god Yahweh says about the shepherds who tend My people: Yahweh declares that you’ve all scattered my flock and driven them away, and haven’t looked after them. Listen, I’m about to punish you all for your wicked actions. 3 Then I myself will gather the remnant of my flock from all the countries that I’ve banished them to and I’ll return them to their pasture, where they’ll be fruitful and multiply. 4 Yahweh declares that I’ll appoint shepherds over them who’ll look after them, and then they’ll no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any go missing. 5 Listen, Yahweh declares that the time is coming
when I will appoint a righteous branch for David
and he will reign wisely as king
and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.[ref]
6 At that time, Yehudah will be rescued and Yisrael will live in security,
and this is the name that he’ll be known by: Yahweh who does what is right for us.
7 Listen, Yahweh declares that the time is coming when they’ll no longer say, ‘As surely as Yahweh lives, who brought the Israelis out from Egypt.’ 8 Instead they’ll say, ‘As surely as Yahweh lives, who brought and led the Israelis out of the land in the north and all the other lands that he’d banished them to.’ Then they’ll live in their own land again.
I feel broken inside and all my bones tremble.
I’ve become like a drunkard—like a man overcome by wine,
because of Yahweh—because of his holy words.
10 Yes, the land is full of adulterers—
the land mourns because of the curse,
and the pastures in the wilderness have dried up—
their course is evil and their power is misused.
11 Yes, both prophet and priest are compromised—
even in my house I’ve discovered their wickedness.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
12 Therefore their path will become slippery.
They’ll be pushed into the darkness and will fall into it
because I’ll send them disaster in the year of their punishment.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
13 Among the prophets in Shomrom (Samaria), I’ve seen offensive behaviour:
they prophesied by Baal and led my people Yisrael astray.
14 Also, among the prophets in Yerushalem, I’ve seen horrible things:[ref]
They commit adultery and walk in lies.
They empower those who do evil,
→ so that no one turns their back on wickedness.
They’re all like Sodom to me.
≈ The people in Jerusalem are like Gomorrah,
15 therefore this is what Commander-in-chief Yahweh says about the prophets:
≈ and give them poisoned water to drink,
because ungodliness has spread throughout the land
starting from Yerushalem’s prophets.
16 This is what Commander-in-chief Yahweh says:
Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.
They are filling you all with false hopes.
They speak visions from their own minds,
17 They keep telling those who despise me,
that Yahweh says that you’ll all have peace.
They tell everyone who practises their own stubborn ways
that no harm will come to them.
18 But which of them has attended Yahweh’s council meeting
where he could see what’s happening and hear his message?
Who has paid attention to his message and obeyed it?
19 Listen, the storm of Yahweh’s rage is going out,
and the storm is creating a whirlwind that’s whirling around the heads of those who are wicked.
20 Yahweh’s anger won’t turn back until he’s carried out his plans and purposes.
In the final days, you’ll all understand it.
21 I didn’t send those prophets, yet they rushed to proclaim their messages.
≈ I didn’t speak to them, yet they still prophesied.
22 If they had in fact attended my council meeting,
they would have proclaimed my messages to my people
and turned them back from their wickedness and their wicked activities.
Am I a god who’s only nearby, but who isn’t also a god from far away?
24 Would someone hide themself in some place and think that I couldn’t see them? Yahweh asks.
Don’t I fill the heavens and the earth? declares Yahweh.
25 Those prophets who prophesy lies in my name, I’ve heard them say, ‘I had a dream. I had a dream!’ 26 How long will this go on, with prophets who prophesy lies from their own minds, but who are prophesying from the deceitfulness of their own hearts. 27 They’re planning on making my people forget my name with the dreams that they report, each one to his neighbour, just as their ancestors forgot my name in favour of Baal’s name. 28 Let the prophet who has a dream, report that dream. However, the one who I’ve declared something to, let him declare my message truthfully. What does straw have to do with grain? That is Yahweh’s declaration. 29 Isn’t my message like fire, and like a hammer that shatters rock? That is Yahweh’s declaration. 30 So listen, Yahweh declares that I’m against the prophets who steal my messages from someone else. 31 Yes, I’m against those prophets who speak their own messages by claim that the messages came from me. 32 Yahweh declares that indeed, I’m against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead my people astray with their reckless lies. It wasn’t me who sent or commanded them, and they’re of no benefit at all to those people. That is Yahweh’s declaration.
33 Now when this people group or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is Yahweh’s burden?’[fn] you should tell them, ‘You are the burden and I’ll abandon you.’ That is Yahweh’s declaration. 34 As for the prophet or priest or anyone who claims that he knows Yahweh’s burden, I’ll punish that man and his household. 35 This is what each of you should ask their friend or relative: ‘What did Yahweh answer?’ or ‘What has Yahweh said?’ 36 But don’t refer anymore to Yahweh’s burden, because each person’s message becomes the burden, so you all end up perverting the words of the living god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh, our god. 37 This is what you should ask to the prophet, ‘What answer did Yahweh give you?’ or ‘What did Yahweh say?’ 38 However if you say, ‘Yahweh’s burden’, then this is what Yahweh says: Because you said those words, ‘Yahweh’s burden,’ after I sent you all a message saying, ‘Don’t say, “Yahweh’s burden,’ 39 therefore listen, I’ll definitely forget you and will remove you all out of my presence—both you and your ancestors, and the city that I gave you. 40 Then I’ll put permanent shame on you all, and continual insults that won’t be forgotten.
24 After the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar had carried away Yehoyakin (Jehoiakim, Heb. Yekonyah = Jeconiah), son of Yehudah’s King Yehoyakim (Jehoiakim), as well as Yehudah’s officials and Yerushalem’s craftsmen and metalsmiths, and had taken them to Babylon, Yahweh showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of his temple.[ref] 2 One basket of figs was very good like early, ripe figs, but the figs in the other basket were so bad that they weren’t edible. 3 Then Yahweh asked me, “Yirmeyah, what do you see?”
“Figs,” I replied. “Some figs that look very good, and others that are so bad they’re inedible.”
4 Then Yahweh gave me this message: 5 Yisrael’s god, Yahweh, says this: I’ll look favourably at the exiles from Yehudah just like those good figs, the exiles that I’ve sent out from this place to Babylonia. 6 I’ll give them my favour and restore them to this land. I’ll build them up, and not tear them down. I’ll plant them, and not uproot them. 7 Then I will give them a desire to know me, because I’m Yahweh. They’ll be my people and I will be their god, so they will turn to me wholeheartedly.
8 But Yahweh declares that just like those bad figs that are inedible will be discarded, I’ll act in that same way towards Yehudah’s King Zedekiah, along with his officials and the rest of Yerushalem who remain in this land or go to stay in the land of Egypt. 9 I’ll turn them into something horrifying—a disaster, right there in the sight of all the world’s kingdoms—a disgrace and a subject for proverbs, taunts, and curses in every place that I’ll drive them into. 10 I’ll send armies, famine, and disease against them until they’re destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.
25 This is the message that came to Yirmeyah (Jeremiah) concerning all the people of Yehudah (Judah) in the fourth year of the reign of Yehoyakim (Jehoiakim, son of Yehudah’s King Yoshiyah (Josiah)), which was the first year of the reign of the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar. 2 The prophet Yirmeyah proclaimed this to all the people across Yehudah including all of Yerushalem’s inhabitants, saying: 3 Yahweh’s messages have been coming to me for twenty-three years since the thirteenth year of the reign of Yehudah’s king Yoshiyah (Josiah, Amon’s son), and I’ve passed them on to you all over and over again, but you haven’t taken any notice of them. 4 Yahweh sent all his servants the prophets to you again and again, but you all haven’t listened or paid any attention. 5 Those prophets said, ‘Let everyone turn from their wicked ways and their evil activities, and return to the land that Yahweh gave in ancient times to your ancestors and to all of you as a permanent inheritance. 6 So don’t walk after other gods to worship them or to bow down to them, and don’t provoke him with things you make with your hands, and then he won’t harm you all.’ 7 But Yahweh declares that you all haven’t listened to me, because with what you’ve made, you’ve provoked me to do harm to you.
8 So Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this: Since all of you haven’t listen to my messages, 9 listen, I’m about to send out a command to fetch all the northern peoples. Yahweh declares that I will bring my servant, the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar and his armies against this land and its inhabitants, and against all the nations around you. I will mark them for destruction and turn them into a horror—something to be hissed at, and permanent ruins. 10 I’ll put an end to the sounds of gladness and celebration, the sounds of brides and grooms, and the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.[ref] 11 Then all of this land will become a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the Babylonian king for seventy years.[ref]
12 Then after seventy years have passed, then I’ll punish the king of Babylon and that nation—the land of the Chaldeans—for their wickedness, and make it into a permanent wasteland. That is Yahweh’s declaration. 13 Then I’ll carry out all the messages that I’d spoken against that land, and everything written in this document that Yirmeyah has prophesied against all the nations. 14 Yes many other nations and great kings will also make slaves out of those nations. I’ll repay them for everything they’ve done.
15 Yes Yisrael’s god Yahweh told me, “Take this cup of the wine of fury from my hand, and all the nations that I’m sending you to, make them drink it. 16 They’ll drink and then stagger around and act like mad people when they see the deadly army that I’m sending out to them.
17 So I took the cup from Yahweh’s hand and made all the nations that he’d sent me to, drink from it, 18 as well as Yehudah’s cities including Yerushalem and its king and officials—to turn them into ruins and something terrifying, and into something to hiss and curse at, as they are until this present day. 19 Those nations included:
And after all of them, the Babylonian[fn] king will drink it too.
27 Then Yahweh told me to tell them, ‘Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh, says this: Drink and become drunk, then vomit, fall down, and don’t get up again until the deadly army arrives that I’m sending among you.’ 28 Then if any of the above refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, tell me, ‘Commander-in-chief Yahweh says that you certainly must drink it, 29 because listen, I’m about to bring disaster to the city that is called by my name, and should you yourselves be free from punishment? You won’t be free, because I’m calling a deadly army against all the inhabitants of the land.’
That is Commander-in-chief Yahweh’s declaration.
30 You must prophesy all these messages against them, telling them:
‘Yahweh will roar from the heights
and he’ll shout with his voice from his sacred residence,
and he will roar mightily against his land,
and he will shout, like those who tread grapes in a wine-pressing pit
against all those who live on the earth.
31 The uproar will be heard even at the ends of the earth
because Yahweh brings a charge against the nations.
He will pass judgement on all humankind
and have the wicked killed in war.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
32 Commander-in-chief says this:
Listen, disaster is spreading from nation to nation.
A terrible storm is rising from the ends of the earth.
33 Then those killed that day by Yahweh will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They won’t be mourned over, gathered, or buried—they’ll be like dung lying on the ground.
34 Wail, you shepherds, and call out for help.
Roll around in the dust, you leaders of the flock,
because the time has come for your slaughter.
You’ll all be scattered when you fall, like fragments of broken pottery.
35 There’s no safe place for the shepherds to go to.
≈ There’ll be no escape for the leaders of the flock.
36 Hear the shepherds’ cries of distress
≈ and the wails of the leaders of the flock,
→ because Yahweh is destroying their pastures.
37 So the peaceful pastures will be devastated
because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.
38 He’s left his den like a young lion would,
because their land will become a horror
due to the oppressor’s anger and Yahweh’s fierce angry.
26 Near the beginning of the reign of Yehoyakim (Jehoiakim, Yoshiyah’s/Josiah’s son), this message came from Yahweh: 2 Yahweh says this: Stand in the courtyard of my temple and speak about all of Yehudah’s cities who come to worship at my residence. Proclaim all the messages that I’ve commanded you to say to them—don’t hold anything back. 3 Maybe they’ll listen and everyone will turn from their wicked ways, and then I would turn back the disaster that I’m planning to send to them because of their wicked behaviour, 4 so you need to tell them that Yahweh says this:
If you don’t listen to me so as to follow my instructions that I’ve given to you all, 5 if you don’t listen to the words of my servants the prophets that I’ve been regularly sending to you, and indeed you haven’t listened, 6 then I’ll destroy this house like I did at Shiloh[ref] and I’ll turn this city into a curse to/for all the nations in the world.
7 The priests, the prophets, and all the people heard Yirmeyah proclaiming those words at Yahweh’s temple. 8 Then as soon as Yirmeyah had finished saying everything that Yahweh had commanded him to tell all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him and threatened to kill him, saying: 9 Why have you prophesied in Yahweh’s name and said that this temple will be destroyed like Shiloh, and that this city will become desolate, with no inhabitants?” Then all the people gathered together against Yirmeyah at Yahweh’s residence.
10 Then Yehudah’s officials heard about what was going on, and they went up from the palace to the temple where they sat in the gateway at the New Gate at Yahweh’s residence. 11 Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the officials and to all the people, saying, “It’s right for this man to die, because he prophesied against this city, as you’ve all heard with your own ears.”
12 So Yirmeyah spoke to all the officials and all the people and said, “Yahweh has sent me out to prophesy to say all the words that you have heard, against both this temple and this city. 13 So now, improve your ways and your practices, and listen to the voice of your god Yahweh so that he’ll relent concerning the disaster that he’s proclaimed against you all. 14 As for me, here I am in your hands—do to me whatever you think is right and proper. 15 However, you must surely know that if you kill me, then you’re all bringing innocent blood on yourselves and on this city and its inhabitants, because Yahweh has truly sent me to you to proclaim all these messages for you all to hear.”
16 Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, “This man doesn’t deserve to be sentenced to death, because he’s spoken to us in the name of our god, Yahweh.”
17 Then some of Yehudah’s elders stepped forward and spoke to all the people who were gathered there, 18 “Micah (Heb. Mikah, the Morashtite) prophesied during the lifetime of Yehudah’s King Hizkiyah(Hezekiah), and he told all the people from Yehudah that Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this:
Tsiyyon (Zion), a field will be ploughed,
and Yerushalem will become heaps of ruins,
and the temple hill will become an overgrown forest.[ref]
19 Did Yehudah’s King Hizkiyah or anyone else in Yehudah put him to death? Didn’t Hizkiyah respect and honour Yahweh and ask for his favour, and didn’t Yahweh relent from sending the disaster that he had pronounced against them? It seems that we’re about to bring great harm on ourselves.”
20 Now there was another man prophesying in Yahweh’s name of Yahweh: Uriyah (son of Shemayah from Kiriat-Yearim) who prophesied against this city and against this land with similar messages to Yirmeyah. 21 When King Yehoyakim (Jehoiakim) and all his warriors and all the officials heard his words, the king wanted to put him to death. However when Uriyah heard about it, he became afraid, and he fled and went to Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim). 22 However, King Yehoyakim sent sent Akbor’s son Elnatan and several other men to Egypt to get Uriyah. 23 They brought Uriyah back from Egypt and took him to King Yehoyakim who ran him through with a sword and threw his corpse into the public graveyard.
24 However, Shafan’s son Ahikam supported Yirmeyah and didn’t allow the people to kill him.
27 At the beginning of the reign of Yehudah’s King Yehoyakim (Jehoiakim, son of Yoshiyah Josiah), this message came to Yirmeyah (Jeremiah) from Yahweh,[ref] 2 telling him this:
Make yourself a wooden ox yoke with bars, and tie it to your neck. 3 Use it to send messages to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tsor (Tyre), and Tsidon (Sidon), through the ambassadors from those countries who’ve come to Yerushalem to meet with King Tsidkiyah (Zedekiah) 4 to tell them that Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says to give their masters this message: 5 I myself made the earth and the people and animals that are on the earth, by my direct actions and my great strength, and I give it to whoever see fit. 6 Now I’ve personally handed over all these lands to my servant, the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, and I’ve also given the animals in the countryside to him to serve him. 7 All the nations will serve him and his son and then his grandson, until the time of his own land comes due. Yes, it will, and then many nations and great kings will make him serve them.
8 Any nation or kingdom that won’t serve the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar and that won’t put its neck into his yoke, then I’ll punish that nation with war and famine and disease until I’ve used King Nebuchadnezzar to finish them off. That is Yahweh’s declaration, 9 so don’t you all keep listening to your ‘prophets’, and to your diviners and dreamers, and to your soothsayers and sorcerers—all those who keep telling you that you all won’t serve the Babylonian king, 10 because they’re prophesying lies to you, so as to remove you all far away from on your land. Yes, I will drive you all out and you’ll die in a foreign land. 11 However, the nation that brings its neck into the Babylonian king’s yoke and serves him, I’ll let that nation remain on its land, and it will cultivate it and live there. That’s is Yahweh’s declaration.
12 Then to Yehudah’s King Tsidkiyah (Zedekiah), I passed on those same words, saying, “Put your necks into the yoke of the Babylonian king, and serve him and his people, and live. 13 Why would you and your people die from war, famine, and disease, as Yahweh has said will come to any nation that doesn’t serve the Babylonian king? 14 So don’t listen to the messages from the prophets who are speaking to you when they tell you all not to serve the king of Babylon as they’re prophesying lies to you 15 because I didn’t send them. Yahweh declares that they’re using my name to prophesy lies so that I’ll drive you out, and you’ll all perish—both you and the prophets who are prophesying to you.” 16 Then I told the priests and all those people that Yahweh says: Don’t listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you and saying that the utensils from Yahweh’s temple will soon be brought back from Babylon, because they’re prophesying lies to you. 17 Don’t listen to them. Serve the Babylonian king and live. Why should this city become a ruin? 18 If they were prophets who really have access to Yahweh’s message, then please let them intercede with Commander-in-chief Yahweh so that the utensils remaining in Yahweh’s temple and in Yehudah’s king’s palace and in Yerushalem don’t end up being taken to Babylon.
19 Yes, Commander-in-chief Yahweh has spoken about the bronze pillars and the large, bronze water basin, and concerning the bronze stands and the rest of the utensils remaining in this city, 20 which the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar didn’t take when he exiled Yehudah’s King Yekonyah (Jeconiah, son of Yehoyakim/Jehoiakim) from Yerushalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Yehudah including Yerushalem. 21 Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says about the utensils remaining in Yahweh’s temple and in the palace of the king of Yehudah and Yerushalem: 22 They’ll be taken to Babylon and they’ll remain there until the time when I punish those Babylonians, and then I’ll bring them back and restore them to this place. That is Yahweh’s declaration.
28 In the fifth month of the fourth year of the reign of Yehudah’s King Tsidkiyah (Zedekiah), Azzur’s son Hananyah who was a ‘prophet’ from Gibeon, said to me in Yahweh’s temple as priests and all the people watched, saying,[ref] 2 “Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says: I’ve broken the yoke of the Babylonian king. 3 Within two years, I, myself, will bring back here all the utensils from Yahweh’s residence that the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar got from this place and took to Babylon. 4 I, myself, will also bring Yekonyah (Jeconiah, the son of Yehudah’s King Yehoyakim/Jehoiakim) back to this place, and all the exiles from Yehudah that were taken to Babylon, because I’ll break the yoke of the Babylonian king. That is Yahweh’s declaration.”
5 Then the prophet Yirmeyah spoke to the prophet Hananyah, as the priests and all the people standing in Yahweh’s temple watched, 6 saying, “Let it be so—may Yahweh do all that. May Yahweh confirm your messages that you prophesied, to bring the temple utensils back to this place, along with all the exiles from Babylon. 7 However, please listen to this message that I, myself, am speaking as you and all the people listen: 8 The prophets who preceded both me and you, prophesied long ago that many nations and powerful kingdoms would experience wars, terrible suffering, and deadly diseases. 9 The prophet who prophesies about peace, that prophet will be known as ‘a truthful prophet sent by Yahweh’ only when his message comes to pass.”
10 Then the prophet Hananyah took the yoke bar off the prophet Yirmeyah’s neck, and broke it. 11 Then as all the people watched, he said, “This is what Yahweh says: Just like that, I’ll break the yoke of the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar off the neck of all the nations within two more years.”
Then the prophet Yirmeyah left the gathering.
12 After the prophet Hananyah broke the yoke bar that had been on the prophet Yirmeyah’s neck, Yahweh’s message came to Yirmeyah saying, 13 “Go and tell Hananyah this: ‘Yahweh says that you’ve broken wooden yoke bars, but in their place, you’ll make yoke bars out of iron,’ 14 because Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says, ‘I’ve put an iron yoke bar on the neck of all these nations to serve the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, and they will indeed serve him. I’ve also given him the animals from the countryside.’ ”
15 Then the prophet Yirmeyah told the prophet Hananyah, “Listen, please, Hananyah. Yahweh hasn’t sent you, and you yourself have made this people group put their trust in things that aren’t true. 16 Because of that, Yahweh says this: ‘Listen, I’m removing you from this world. You’ll die this very year, because you have said things that would cause the people to rebel against Yahweh.’ ”
17 The prophet Hananyah then died in the seventh month of that year.
29 The prophet Yirmeyah sent a letter from Yerushalem to the remainder of the elders of the exile, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people that Nebuchadnezzar had exiled from Yerushalem to Babylon[ref] 2 after the removal from Yerushalem of King Yekonyah (Jeconiah) and the queen mother, the court officials and the leaders of Yehudah and Yerushalem, plus the craftsmen and the metalsmiths. 3 He sent it with Shafan’s son Elasah and Hilkiyah’s son Gemaryah, who Yehudah’s King Tsidkiyah (Zedekiah) sent to the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. The letter said,
4 Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this to all of you that I’ve exiled from Yerushalem to Babylon: 5 Build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit. 6 Marry and have children. Find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage so that they also have children. Increase in number there—don’t become fewer. 7 In addition, the city that I’ve sent you all into exile to, work to make it more prosperous and pray to Yahweh for it, because if it prospers, its prosperity will belong to all of you. 8 That’s because Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this: Don’t let your prophets and diviners who are among you deceive you, and don’t listen to your dreams that you wishfully dream, 9 because those prophets are prophesying using my name but not being truthful—I didn’t send them. That is Yahweh’s declaration.
10 “Because this is what Yahweh says: When seventy years have passed for Babylon, I’ll visit take notice of you all again, and I’ll implement my good message about you—to bring you all back to this place,[ref] 11 because I know the plans that I have for you all: plans for peaceful well-being—not to bring you all harm, but rather a future with hope. That is Yahweh’s declaration. 12 Then you’ll all call out to me for help, and you’ll come and pray to me, and I’ll listen to you all. 13 You’ll search for me, and you’ll find me, because you’ll all want to follow me with complete sincerity.[ref] 14 Then, Yahweh has declared, I’ll let myself be found by you all, and I’ll bring you back from captivity. I’ll gather you all from all the nations and all the places that I banished you to, and I’ll bring you all back to the place that I sent you into exile from. That is Yahweh’s declaration.
15 Because you’ve all said that Yahweh has appointed prophets for you there in Babylon, 16 then Yahweh has something to say about the king sitting on David’s throne and about all the people living in this city—your relatives who didn’t go into exile with you. 17 So Commander-in-chief Yahweh says: Listen, I’m about to send war, famine and deadly diseases against them. I’ll make them like rotten figs that are so bad they’re inedible. 18 Yes, I’ll chase after them with war, famine, and deadly diseases, and I’ll make them become a horror to all the world’s kingdoms—a curse and a desolation, and a reproach and something to be hissed at by all the nations where I’ve driven them, 19 because they didn’t listen to my messages that I sent to them over and over again via my servants the prophets, but all you exiles didn’t listen. That is Yahweh’s declaration.
20 But all you exiles that I sent away from Yerushalem to Babylon, listen to Yahweh’s message:
21 Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh, says this about Kolayah’s son Ahav and Maaseyah’s son Tsidkiyah, who are both prophesying untruths to you in my name: Listen, I’m handing them over to the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, and he’ll kill them right in front of you. 22 Then because of them, a new curse phrase will be taken on by all the Jewish exiles in Babylon, which goes, “May Yahweh make you like Tsidkiyah and Ahav, who were roasted in the fire by the Babylonian king,” 23 because they did something shameful in Yisrael and they have committed adultery with the wives of their neighbours, and they spoke untrue messages in my name that I hadn’t commanded them to. I am the one who knows that and I’m a witness. That is Yahweh’s declaration.
24 Yahweh told me to tell Shemayah (the Nehelamite) this: 25 Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this: Because you sent letters in your name to all the people in Yerushalem, and to the priest Tsefanyah (Maaseyah’s son), and to all the priests, to tell Tsefanyah:
26 Yahweh has made you, Tsefanyah, priest in place of the priest Yehoyada (Jehoiada), to be overseer in Yahweh’s temple over every man who raves out loud, making himself a prophet, and you must put him in the stocks with an iron collar around his neck. 27 So why haven’t you rebuked Yirmeyah the Antotite who’s prophesying to you all, 28 because he’s sent a letter to us here in Babylon saying, “Your exile will last a long time. Build houses and live in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit.”
29 The priest Tsefanyah read that letter to the prophet Yirmeyah, 30 then Yahweh gave this message to Yirmeyah: 31 Send to all the exiles to tell them: This is what Yahweh says about Shemayah the Nehelamite: Because Shemayah has prophesied to you all, even though I didn’t send him, and he made you trust what’s not true, 32 therefore Yahweh says this: Listen, I will punish Shemayah the Nehelamite and his descendants. None of his family will live among this people, and he won’t experience the good things that I’ll do for my people, because he’s encouraged rebellion against Yahweh. That is Yahweh’s declaration.
30 Yahweh gave Yirmeyah a message, saying: 2 Yisrael’s god, Yahweh says this: Write down on a scroll all the messages that I’ve given you, 3 because listen to Yahweh’s declaration: The time is coming when I’ll restore my people of Yisrael and Yehudah from captivity, and I’ll bring them back to the land that I have to their ancestors, and they’ll take possession of it again.
4 Now these are the messages that Yahweh spoke concerning Yisrael and Yehudah:
A cry of panic and terror has been heard,
6 Please ask and find out: can males give birth?
Why do I see every strong man with his hands on his hips like a woman in labour?
And why has everyone’s faces gone so pale?
7 Oh dear, that will be a terrible day like nothing that’s come before.
≈ It’ll be a distressing time for Yakov (Jacob),
→ but he’ll be rescued from it.
8 Then Commander-in-chief Yahweh declares that at that time I’ll break his yoke off your neck, and I’ll pull your chains apart, and foreigners will no longer enslave your country. 9 Then they’ll serve their god Yahweh, and their king on David’s throne who I’ll appoint for them.
Then you, my servant Yakov (Jacob), don’t be afraid,
≈ and don’t be dismayed, Yisrael (Israel),
because listen, I’m rescuing you from afar,
and your offspring from the land where they were held captive.
Yisrael will return and be left alone and at ease,
and there won’t be anyone making it afraid.[ref]
Yes, I’m with you to rescue you,
because I’ll completely destroy all the nations that I’ve scattered you to,
but I won’t completely destroy you.
I’ll discipline you according to justice,
but I won’t just let you off what you deserve.
13 There’s no one pleading your cause.
There’s no medicines for your wound.
≈ There’s no healing for you.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you—
≈ they don’t care about you.
Yes, I’ve struck you like an enemy would,
≈ with the discipline of a cruel person,
due to the severity of your wickedness.
≈ You’ve disobeyed so frequently.
15 Why do you cry out about your fracture—
≈ about your incurable pain?
Your wickedness has been severe.
≈ You’ve disobeyed so often
→ so I’ve done those things to you.
16 Because of that, all those who devoured you will be devoured,
≈ and all of your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity.
Then the ones plundering you will become like plunder,
≈ and all those preying on you, I’ll give to you as spoil.
17 Yes, I’ll bring healing to you,
and I’ll heal you from your wounds
because they’ve called you an outcast.
‘She is Tsiyyon (Zion)—no one cares about her.’
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
Listen, I’m restoring the fortune of Yakov’s (Jacob’s) descendants,
≈ and I will have compassion on the places where they live.
Each city will be rebuilt on its mound,
≈ and each fortress will sit on its proper place.
19 Then thanksgiving will go out from them,
≈ and the sound of those laughing.
I’ll multiply them, and they won’t diminish in number,
→ and I’ll make them honoured—
≈ they won’t become insignificant.
20 Then its children will be as in former times,
and its community will be established under my supervision,
and I’ll punish all those who oppress it.
21 Its king will be from among it,
≈ and its ruler will come from its middle.
Then I’ll bring it near, and it will approach me,
because who is this that has pledged its heart to approach me?
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
23 Listen, Yahweh’s storm of rage has gone out—
a storm whirling around the heads of wicked people.
24 Yahweh’s burning anger won’t turn back
until he’s established and completed what he’s planned.
You’ll all understand it in the days to come.
31 Yahweh declares that at that time, I’ll be the god to all of Yisrael’s families, and they’ll be my people. 2 Yahweh says this:
A people, the survivors after being attacked in war,
found favour in the wilderness,
Yisrael going to find a peaceful place.
3 From far off, Yahweh appeared to me: I’ve always loved you
therefore I’ve displayed loyal commitment to help you endure.
4 I’ll rebuild you, and you’ll be restored, Yisrael’s pretty daughter.
Again you’ll adorn yourself with your tambourines,
≈ and will go out in the dance of those celebrating.
5 You’ll plant vineyards again on the Shomron (Samaria) hills.
The planters will plant and make them productive.
6 Yes, there’ll be a day when the watchers in the Efrayim hill country will call out,
‘Get ready and let’s go up to our god Yahweh at Tsiyyon (Zion),’
“Sing for Yisrael (Yakov) with gladness,
≈ and shout for this leader of the nations.
Cause it to be heard, praise, and say,
‘Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Yisrael.’
8 Listen, I’m bringing them back from the land in the north,
≈ and I’ll gather them from the remote parts of the world.
Among them are the blind and the lame,
and pregnant women together with those giving birth.
A large number of people will return here.
9 They’ll be weeping as they come,
and as they request me, I’ll bring them out.
I’ll cause them to walk to streams of water on a straight road.
because I’ve become a father for Yisrael,
≈ and Efrayim,[fn] he’s my firstborn.
10 Listen to Yahweh’s message, you nations,
and declare it in the coastlands from far off, and say,
‘The one scattering Yisrael will gather him back,
and he’ll protect him like a shepherd of his flock,
11 because Yahweh has ransomed Yisrael (Yakov)
and paid the price to free it from the power of a nation that’s stronger than it.
12 Then they’ll come and sing on Tsiyyon’s (Zion’s) heights,
and they’ll be radiant about Yahweh’s goodness:
about the grain, about the new wine and the fresh oil,
and about the young from the flock and the herd.
Their soul will be like a watered garden,
and they won’t be weakened again.
13 Then the young women will celebrate with dancing,
≈ along with the young and old men together.
I’ll turn their mourning into happiness and I’ll comfort them,
≈ and I’ll give them reason for celebration rather than sorrow.
14 I’ll satisfy the priests’ appetites for good food
and my people will be pleased by my goodness.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
“A voice is heard in Ramah, wailing,
Rachel is weeping over her sons.
She refuses to be comforted over her sons,
“Don’t cry any more,
≈ and keep the tears out of your eyes,
→ because there’s a reward for your work,
→ and they’ll return from the enemy’s country.”
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
17 There’s hope for your future,
and your children will return to their border.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
18 I’ve heard Yisrael (Heb. Efrayim) upset at itself, saying,
You disciplined me,
and I was disciplined like an untrained calf.
Restore me so I can return
19 Yes, after I turned away, I repented,
and after I was instructed, I slapped my thigh.
I was ashamed and also humiliated
because I still bore the reproach from my youthful rebellion.
20 Isn’t Yisrael (Heb. Efrayim) a precious son to me,
or a child that I really liked?
Yes, as often as I speak against him,
I still continually remember him.
Therefore I groan deep down for him.
I’ll always feel compassionate towards him.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
21 Set signposts up for yourself.
≈ Place markers where you can see them.
Set the highway as your goal—
Yisrael’s young daughter, return—
≈ return to those cities of yours.
22 How much longer will you waver, you apostate daughter?
23 Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this:
When I restore the prosperity of Yehudah and its cities,
again they’ll restore this saying,
Yahweh who’s the repository of righteousness—
24 Then Yehudah and all its cities will live in the land together—
farmers, and also shepherds who roam around with their flocks,
25 because I satisfy those who are weary,
≈ and I refresh everyone who’s become faint.
26 After that, I woke up and looked around,
and I’d had a good sleep.
Listen, there’s a time coming when I’ll sow the Yisrael and Yehudah regions with the seeds of people and animals so they’ll multiply all around.
28 Just like how I supervised them to uproot and tear down,
and to overthrow and destroy and do harm,
now I’ll keep watch as they build and plant.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
29 Then at that time, they’ll no longer say:
‘The parents ate sour grapes,
→ but it’s the teeth of the children that are set on edge.’[ref]
30 because everyone will die for their own disobedience,
i.e., whoever eats sour grapes will have their own teeth set on edge.
31 Listen, Yahweh declares that the time is coming when I’ll make a new agreement with the people of Yisrael and Yehudah.[ref] 32 It won’t be like the agreement that I made with their ancestors at the time when I took hold of their hand to bring them out from Egypt, when they broke my agreement even though I was a husband to them. That is Yahweh’s declaration. 33 Yes, Yahweh declares that this is the agreement that I’ll make with the Israeli people after that time: I’ll put my law inside them—writing it on their heart, and I will be their god, and they will be a people for me.[ref] 34 Then each man will no longer teach his neighbour or his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh’, because all of them will know me—from the smallest of them to the greatest, because I’ll forgive their disobedience, and I won’t remember their wickedness any longer.[ref]
35 Yahweh says this:
I’m the one who gives the sun for light during the day,
≈ and the moon and the stars for light at night.
He stirs up the ocean, so that its waves roar,
His name is Commander-in-chief Yahweh.
36 Yahweh declares that if these elements stopped working,
then Yisrael would also permanently cease to exist as a nation.
If the skies above could be measured and be searched out,
as well as the foundations of the earth below,
then I would also reject all of Yisrael’s descendants
for everything that they’ve done.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
38 Listen, Yahweh declares that the time is coming when the city will be rebuilt for Yahweh—from Hananel’s tower all the way to the Corner Gate. 39 After that, the measuring line will be stretched over Garev Hill and around to Goah. 40 Then all the valley of the corpses and ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron brook, to the corner of the Horses Gate toward the east, will be holiness to Yahweh. It won’t be uprooted, and it’ll never be overthrown again.
32 This was the message that came to Yirmeyah from Yahweh in the tenth year of the reign of Yehudah’s King Tsidkiyah (Zedekiah, the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign).[ref] 2 The army of the Babylonian king had besieged Yerushalem, and the prophet Yirmeyah was imprisoned in the guards’ courtyard at the palace of Yehudah’s king. 3 Yehudah’s king Tsidkiyah had imprisoned him there after asking, “Why do you prophesy and say that Yahweh says: Listen, I’m about to hand this city over to the Babylonian king and he’ll capture it. 4 Yehudah’s King Tsidkiyah definitely won’t escape from the power of the Babylonians (Heb. Chaldeans), because he’ll be handed over to the Babylonian king and they’ll speak face-to-face to each other. 5 He’ll take Tsidkiyah to Babylon where he’ll remain until I’ve dealt with him. No, you all won’t succeed in fighting against the Babylonians. That is Yahweh’s declaration.
6 Then Yirmeyah said: Yahweh gave me a message, saying: 7 Listen, your cousin Hanamel (your uncle Shallum’s son) is coming to see you and will ask you to buy his field in Anatot, because you have the right to buy it. 8 Then just as Yahweh had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the guards’ courtyard and he asked me, “Buy my field that is in Anatot in the Benyamin region, because you have the right to inherit it so the right to buy it belongs to you. Buy it for yourself.” Then I knew that this was Yahweh’s message. 9 So I bought the field in Anatot from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver for him. 10 Then I wrote in a scroll and sealed it, and had witnesses witness it and the weight of the silver on the scales. 11 Next I took that sealed purchase deed with the price and conditions, as well as an unsealed copy. 12 I gave the sealed purchase document to Baruk (son of Neriyah, son of Mahseyah) in front of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who’d signed the purchase agreement, as well as all the Judeans who were sitting in the guards’ courtyard. 13 Then still in front of them, I instructed Baruk, 14 Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this: Take these documents, both this receipt of purchase that’s sealed and the unsealed copies, and put them into a clay jar so they’ll last for a long time, 15 because Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.
16 After I’d given the purchase deed to Neriyah’s son Baruk, I prayed to Yahweh, saying: 17 Oh no, master Yahweh. Listen, you alone made the heavens and the earth by taking action and using your incredible strength. Nothing you say is too difficult for you to do. 18 You show loyal commitment to thousands, and pour people’s guilt into their children’s laps after them. You are the strong and powerful god—your name is Commander-in-chief Yahweh. 19 You are very wise and do incredible things, because your eyes are open to all the people’s ways—to give each person what their conduct and actions deserve. 20 You did miracles and amazing things in Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim), remembered to this day, and you’ve made a name for yourself in Yisrael and among humankind. 21 You brought your people Yisrael out from Egypt using miracles and amazing things and by taking action and using your incredible strength, along with great terror. 22 Then you gave them this land which you had promised their ancestors that you’d give them—a land flowing with milk and honey. 23 So they entered and took possession of it, but they didn’t listen to your voice or follow your instructions. They didn’t do anything that you’d ordered them to do so you’ve brought all this calamity onto them.
24 Look, the siege mounds have reached up to the city to capture it, and its been handed over to the Babylonians (Heb. Chaldeans) who’ve been fighting it. Everything you said would happen has, including war, famine, and deadly diseases, and you’re there watching it. 25 Then you yourself told me, ‘Use silver to buy yourself a field, and have witnesses witness it, even though this city is being handed over to the Babylonians (Heb. Chaldeans).’
26 Then Yahweh gave Yirmeyah this message: 27 Listen, I’m Yahweh, the god of all mankind. Is there anything that’s too difficult for me to do? 28 Therefore Yahweh says this, ‘Listen, I’m about to hand this city over to the Babylonians—the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar will capture it.[ref] 29 The soldiers who are fighting against this city will come and set fire to this city and burn it. Those people who worship Baal on their flat roofs, and who poured out drink offerings to other gods in order to provoke me, will now have their houses burnt down 30 because the people of Yisrael and Yehudah have certainly been people who’ve been doing evil in front of me since their youth. The people of Israel have certainly offended me with the practices and activities. That is Yahweh’s declaration. 31 Yahweh declares that the people of this city has provoked my anger and fury since the day that they built it, and then right up to the present day, so I’ll will remove it right out of my sight, 32 because of all the wicked things that the people of Yisrael and Yehudah have done to provoke me—their kings, princes, priests, prophets, and every person in Yehudah including Yerushalem’s inhabitants. 33 They turned their backs to me instead of their faces, even though I had eagerly taught them. I tried to teach them, but they wouldn’t listen or receive correction. 34 They set up their detestable idols in the house that is called by my name, in order to defile it,[ref] 35 and they built hilltop shrines for Baal along the Ben-Hinnom Valley in order to pass their sons and daughters through the fire for Molek.[ref] I didn’t command them to do that—it never entered my mind that they should do that detestable thing and so cause Yehudah to sin.’[ref]
36 So now Yisrael’s god Yahweh has something to say about this city that you’ve all been talking about, saying, ‘It’s been handed over to the Babylonian king due to war, famine, and deadly diseases.’ 37 Listen, I’ll gather them back from every land where I had banished them to in my rage, fury, and great anger. I’m about to bring them back to this place and enable them to live in security, 38 and then they’ll be my people and I’ll be their god. 39 I’ll give them a united vision and a single way to honour me every day so that it’ll turn out good for them and for their descendants after them. 40 Then I’ll make a permanent agreement with them, that I won’t turn away from doing good to them. I’ll set honour for me in their minds, so that they’ll never turn away from me. 41 Then I’ll take pleasure in doing good to them. I’ll faithfully plant them in this land with all my heart and all my life 42 because Yahweh says this, ‘Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so too I’ll bring on them all the good things that I’ve said I’d do for them. 43 Then people will buy fields in this land, about which you’ve been saying, “This land is ruined, without people or even animals living on it. It’s been handed over to the Babylonians.” 44 They’ll use silver to buy fields and will write in sealed scrolls. They’ll assemble witnesses in the Benyamin region, all around Yerushalem and Yehudah’s other cities of Judah, in the cities in the hill country and in the lowlands, and in the cities of the Negev, because I’ll bring back their fortunes. That is Yahweh’s declaration.
33 Then while Yirmeyah was still locked in the guards’ courtyard, Yahweh gave him a second message, saying, 2 Yahweh, the maker of the earth, who formed and established it and who’s known by his name Yahweh, says: 3 Call out to me, and I’ll answer you. I’ll tell you amazing things that you haven’t previously known or understood. 4 Yes, Yisrael’s god, Yahweh, says this about the houses in this city and the palaces of Yehudah’s king that were torn down to be used against the siege ramps and the attackers: 5 The Babylonians are coming to fight, and to fill the houses with the corpses of the people that I’ll kill in my rage and fury when I turn my back on this city because of all their wickedness. 6 Listen, I’m about to bring a cure and healing, because I’ll heal them and will bring bountiful peace and prosperity to them, and justice. 7 I’ll bring back the fortunes of Yehudah and Yisrael—I’ll build them up as they were before. 8 Then I’ll purify them from all the evil that they’ve committed against me—I’ll pardon all the times that they disobeyed me, and all the ways that they rebelled against me. 9 Then this city will become an object of joy for me—a song of praise and honour for all the nations of the earth who’ll hear about all the good things that I’m going to do for it. Then the people in the city will be respectful and tremble because of all the good things and the peace and prosperity that I’ll give to it.
10 Yahweh says this: In this place that you’re all talking about, saying, “It’s desolate—a place where neither people or animals live,” in Yehudah’s cities including Yerushalem’s streets that are indeed desolate with no people or animals around, there’ll be heard again 11 the sounds of happiness and celebration. You’ll all hear the sounds of the bride and groom, and those who bring thank offerings to Yahweh’s temple will be heard saying,
“Give thanks to Commander-in-chief Yahweh,
and his loyal commitment lasts forever!”
Yes, I’ll restore the fortunes of the land to what they were before, says Yahweh.[ref]
12 Commander-in-chief Yahweh says: ‘In this desolate place where no people or animals are living, around all its cities there’ll again be pastures where shepherds can rest their flocks. 13 In the cities in the hill country, the lowlands, and the Negev, in the Benyamin region, and all around Yerushalem and in Yehudah’s other cities, the flocks will again pass be counted by their shepherds,’ says Yahweh.
14 Yahweh declares: Listen, the time is coming when I’ll do what I’ve promised for the people of Yisrael and Yehudah. 15 In those days and at that time, I’ll make a righteous branch grow for David, and he’ll do what’s fair and right throughout the land. 16 Yehudah will be rescued in those days, and Yerushalem will live in security, because it’ll be called, ‘Yahweh is the one who does what’s right for us,’ 17 because Yahweh says this: ‘There’ll always be one of David’s descendants reigning over Yisrael,[ref] 18 and there’ll always be a Levitical priest to stand in front of me to sacrifice burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to offer other sacrifices.’[ref]
19 Then Yahweh gave Yirmeyah this message: 20 Yahweh says this: ‘If you all can break my contract with day and night so that there’ll no longer be day or night at their proper times, 21 then my agreement with my servant David my servant could also be broken, so that he would no longer have a descendant to sit on his throne. The same is true for my agreement with my servants, the priests from Levi tribe. 22 As the stars in the skies can’t be counted, and as the sand grains on the seashores can’t be measured, so I’ll increase the descendants of my servant David, as well as the Levites who work for me.’
23 Yahweh gave Yirmeyah this message: 24 Haven’t you noticed what this people group has declared when they said, ‘The two clans that Yahweh chose, now he’s rejected them’? In that way they despise my people, saying that they no longer deserve to be a nation as far as they’re concerned. 25 But I, Yahweh say this: Didn’t I establish the permanent contract with day and night, and determine the laws of the universe and this planet? 26 In the same way, would I now reject Yakov’s descendants and not bring a ruler for the descendants of Abraham, Yitshak, and Yakov out of them. No, because I’ll restore their fortunes and show mercy towards them.
34 Yahweh gave this message to Yirmeyah when the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, along with all the world’s kingdoms, domains, and people groups under his control, was attacking Yerushalem and Yehudah’s other cities, saying:[ref] 2 Yisrael’s god Yahweh says to go and speak to Yehudah’s King Tsidkiyah (Zedekiah) and tell him that Yahweh says this: Listen, I’m about to hand this city over to the Babylonian king, and he’ll set it on fire. 3 You won’t escape from his power, because you’ll definitely be captured and handed over to him and you’ll talk face-to-face with the king of Babylon as you’re taken to Babylon. 4 However King Tsidkiyah, listen to Yahweh’s message—you won’t be killed by being run through with a sword 5 but actually you’ll die in peace. They’ll cremate your body as was done for your ancestors, the previous kings, and they’ll mourn for you saying,, ‘Oh no, master!’ That’s the promise that Yahweh has declared. 6 So the prophet Yirmeyah passed on all those messages to Yehudah’s King Tsidkiyah in Yerushalem 7 when the Babylonian king’s army had attacked Yerushalem and Yehudah’s remaining fortified cities of Lakish and Azekah.
8 Yahweh gave a message to Yirmeyah after King Tsidkiyah had made an agreement with all the people in Yerushalem that they’d free 9 their male and female Hebrew slaves—no one should force a fellow Jew to work for them. 10 So all the leaders and people formally agreed that each person would free their male and female slaves, and they put it into practice—taking them from their work and setting them free. 11 However, after that they changed their minds and retrieved the male and female slaves that they’d freed, then forced them to work as slaves again.
12 Then Yahweh gave me this message to tell them: 13 Yisrael’s god Yahweh says that I personally made an agreement with your ancestors on the day that I brought them out from their lives of slavery in Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim). That was when I said that 14 at the end of every seven years, you all must release any fellow Hebrews who had sold themselves to you and served you for six years, releasing them as free people. However, your ancestors did not listen to me or show any desire to obey me.[ref] 15 Now recently, you yourselves repented and began to do what I’ve said is right. You all made a solemn agreement at my temple that carries my name, that you’d monitor each other to free your slaves. 16 But then you all turned and profaned my name by retrieving your male and female slaves which you’d released as free people, and then forced them to work as slaves again, 17 therefore Yahweh says this: You yourselves haven’t listened to me—you all should have declared your fellow Israelis to be free. So listen, I’m about to proclaim ‘freedom’ for you: freedom to experience war, deadly diseases, and famine, because I’m going to make you a horrible thing in the sight of every kingdom in the world. That is Yahweh’s declaration. 18 Then I’ll deal with the people who’ve broken my agreement, who didn’t respect the intent of the agreement that they established in front of me when they cut a bull in two and walked between the two halves, 19 when the leaders of Yehudah and Yerushalem, the officials and the priests, and all the people of the land walked between the two sections of the bull. 20 I’ll hand them over to their enemies and to those who want to see them dead. Their bodies will be food for the birds in the skies and the animals on the ground. 21 I’ll hand Yehudah’s King Tsidkiyah (Zedekiah) and his leaders over to their enemies and to those who want to see them dead, and to the army of the Babylonian king who’s attacking you. 22 This is Yahweh’s declaration: Listen, I’m about to order them back to battle against this city, and they’ll capture it and set it on fire. Then I’ll make Yehudah’s other cities into deserted wastelands.
35 Several years earlier, when Yehoyakim (Jehoiakim) son of Yoshiyah (Josiah) was the king of Yehudah (Judah), Yahweh had given Yirmeyah (Jeremiah) this message:[ref] 2 Go to the Rekavite clan and talk with them, then bring them into one of the rooms in my temple, and give them wine to drink. 3 So I took Yaazanyah (son of Yirmeyah, son of Havatsinyah) and his brothers and his sons, and all the rest of the Rekavite clan, 4 and I took them to the rooms of the sons of Hanan (son of Igdalyah, man of God) at the temple. Those rooms were beside the leaders’ room, which was above the room of Maaseyah (Shallum’s son), the gatekeeper. 5 Then I placed bowls and cups of wine in front of the Rekavites and told them to drink some.
6 But they responded, “We don’t drink wine, because our ancestor, Rekav’s son Yonadav, commanded all of us and our descendants not to ever drink any wine. 7 He also told us not to build any houses, or to plant any crops or vineyards, saying that we must always live in tents, so that we’d have long lives in the land that we’re staying in as foreigners. 8 We’ve obeyed the voice of our ancestor, Rekav’s son Yonadav in everything that he commanded us and we, our wives, and our children have never drunk wine in our lives. 9 We’ll never build houses to live in, or own any vineyards, fields, or seed. 10 We’ve lived in tents, and we’ve followed everything that our ancestor Yonadav told us, 11 but when the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar attacked the land, we decided that we must move to Yerushalem to escape from the Babylonian and Aramean armies, so now we’re all living in Yerushalem.
12 Then Yahweh gave this message to Yirmeyah, saying that 13 Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says to go and ask the people in Yehudah, including those who live in Yerushalem: Won’t you all accept correction and listen to my messages? This is Yahweh’s declaration: 14 Rekav’s son Yonadav told his descendants not to drink any wine and they’ve followed that to this very day. In contrast, I’ve personally and consistently spoken to all of you but you haven’t taken any notice of what I’ve said. 15 I persistently sent all my servants, the prophets, out to you all to tell each person to turn from their wicked behaviour and start doing good instead, and to stop following after other gods and serving them. Then they’d live on the land that I gave to your ancestors and to all of you, however, you all won’t listen to me or pay attention to me. 16 Yes, Yonadav’s descendants have followed the instructions that their ancestor gave them, but this people, refuses to obey me, 17 so Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh, says this: Listen, I’m sending all the disasters that I pronounced for Yehudah, including everyone living in Yerushalem. I’m sending them against them because I spoke to them, but they wouldn’t listen. I called to them, but they wouldn’t answer.
18 Then Yirmeyah told the Rekavite clan that Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this: You’ve all listened to the commands of your ancestor Yonadav and have kept them all. You’ve obeyed everything that he commanded you all to do, 19 so Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this: There’ll always be someone descended from Rekav’s son Yonadav to serve me.
36 In the fourth year of the reign Yehudah’s King Yehoyakim (or Jehoiakim, son of Yoshiyah/Josiah), Yahweh gave this message to Yirmeyah:[ref] 2 Get a scroll for yourself and write all the messages on it that I’ve told you concerning Yisrael and Yehudah, and all the other nations. Do this for everything I have said, back from the time of Yoshiyah until the present time. 3 Perhaps Yehudah’s people will hear about all the disasters that I intend to bring on them and then turn away from their wicked ways, so I can forgive them for their wickedness and their disobedience.
4 Then Yirmeyah called Neriyah’s son Baruk, and Yirmeyah dictated all the messages that Yahweh had given to him, for Baruk to record on a scroll. 5 Then Yirmeyah instructed Baruk saying, “I’m restrained from entering Yahweh’s residence 6 so you must go and read from the scroll that you wrote at my dictation. On the day of the fast, you must read Yahweh’s messages so that all the people in the temple will hear them as well as the people from the rest of Yehudah’s cities. Proclaim these messages to them. 7 Perhaps Yaweh will take notice of their pleas for mercy. Perhaps everyone will turn from their wicked ways, since the anger and fury that Yahweh has proclaimed against this nation is severe. 8 So Neriyah’s son Baruk did everything that the prophet Yirmeyah had told him to—he read Yahweh’s messages aloud at Yahweh’s temple.
9 In the ninth month of the next year, all the people in Yerushalem and the visitors to the city from the rest of Yehudah, announced a fast to honour Yahweh. 10 Again Baruk read Yirmeyah’s messages aloud at Yahweh’s temple, from the room of Gemaryah (son of the scribe Shafan) in the upper courtyard, by the entrance gate to Yahweh’s residence. He did this so that all the people could hear it.
11 When Mikayah (son of Gemaryah son of Shafan) heard all Yahweh’s messages from the scroll, 12 he went down to to the secretary’s room in the palace, and wow, all the officials were sitting there: Elishama the secretary, Shemayah’s son Delayah, Akbor’s son Elnatan, Shafan’s son Gemaryah, and Hananyah’s son Tsidkiyah, along with all the other officials. 13 When Mikayah reported to them all the messages that he’d heard Baruk read aloud for the people to hear, 14 the officials sent Yehudi (son of Netanyah son of Shelemyah son of Kushi) to Baruk. Yehudi ordered Baruk, “Take the scroll in your hand, the scroll from which you were reading in the hearing of the people, and come.” So Neriyah’s son Baruk took the scroll and went to the officials 15 where they told him to sit down and read it to them, so Baruk read out the messages. 16 When they heard it all, they were afraid and decided together that they needed to report it all to the king, 17 and they asked Baruk, “How come you wrote down all these messages from Yirmeyah?”
18 “He dictated them to me,” he replied, “and I just wrote them down on the scroll.”
19 Then the officials told Baruk, “Go and hide, and Yirmeyah as well. Don’t let anyone know where you two are.”
20 Then they left the scroll in the secretary Elishama’s room and went out to the king in the courtyard and told him everything they’d heard. 21 The king sent Yehudi to get the scroll, and he went and got it from the secretary Elishama’s room. Then Yehudi read it aloud for the king and all the officials who were standing beside him to hear. 22 That month, the king was in his winter house and a brazier was burning in front of him. 23 Whenever Yehudi had read a couple of columns, the king would slice it off with a knife and toss it into the fire until the entire scroll was gone, 24 but neither the king or any of his servants were afraid of the messages (and they didn’t tear their clothes to indicate repentance—25 Elnatan, Delayah, and Gemaryah had urged the king not to burn the scroll, but he hadn’t taken any notice of them). 26 Then the king ordered a relative Yerahme’el, Azriel’s son Serayah, and Abdeel’s son Shelemyah to arrest the scribe Baruk and the prophet Yirmeyah, but Yahweh had hidden them.
27 After the king had burnt the scroll with the messages on it that Yirmeyah had dictated to Baruk, Yahweh gave this message to Yirmeyah: 28 Get yourself another scroll and write down all the messages that were on the original scroll that Yehudah’s King Yehoyakim (Jehoiakim) burnt. 29 Then you must tell the king that Yahweh says: You burnt that scroll, asking why it was written that the Babylonian king would come and destroy this land and leave it without people or animals. 30 Now Yahweh says about King Yehoyakim: No descendant of his will ever sit on David’s throne. As for him, his corpse will be thrown out into the heat of the day and the frost at night. 31 I’ll punish him, his descendants, and his servants for their wickedness. The disasters that I’ve threatened them with, but which they ignored, I’ll send onto them and all Yerushalem’s inhabitants, and onto every person in the rest of Yehudah.
32 So Yirmeyah got another scroll and gave it to Baruk, son of Neriyah the scribe. Yirmeyah again dictated all the messages that had been on the scroll burnt by Yehudah’s King Yehoyakim, and Baruk wrote them onto the scroll, along with several other similar messages.
37 By now Yoshiyah’s son Tsidkiyah (Zedekiah) reigned as king instead of Yehoyakim’s son Yehoyakin. The Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar had made Tsidkiyah king over the Yehudah region.[ref] 2 However, Tsidkiyah, his servants, and his people wouldn’t listen to Yahweh’s messages that he’d given via the prophet Yirmeyah.
3 Eventually, King Tsidkiyah, Shelemyah’s son Yehukal, and Tsefanyah son of Maaseyah the priest, sent a message to the prophet Yirmeyah requesting him, “Pray on our behalf to our god, Yahweh. 4 At that time, Yirmeyah was still coming and going among the people, because he hadn’t yet been put in prison. 5 Far’oh’s (Pharaoh’s) army had come out of Egypt, and the Babylonians who were besieging Yerushalem heard the news about them and retreated from Yerushalem.
6 Then Yahweh gave Yirmeyah this message to proclaim: 7 Yisrael’s god, Yahweh told me that you people should say this to Yehudah’s king who sent you all to consult me: Listen Far’oh’s army which was coming out to help you all is about to return back to its own country, Egypt. 8 Then the Babylonians will return and attack this city, then they’ll capture it and burn it down. 9 Yahweh says not to deceive yourselves that the Babylonians have left, because they won’t leave, 10 because even if you all defeated the entire Babylonian army that’s attacking you so that only wounded men were left in their tents, they would get up and burn down this city.
11 Then when the Babylonian army had left Yerushalem to avoid Far’oh’s army, 12 Yirmeyah left the city to go to the Benyamin region to take possession of a section of land there among his people. 13 As he went through the Benyamin gate, a chief guard named Yiriyah (son of Shelemyah, son of Hananyah) was there. He seized the prophet Yirmeyah and claimed that he was deserting to the Babylonians.
14 But Yirmeyah disputed, “That’s a lie—I’m not deserting to the Babylonians.” However Yiriyah wouldn’t listen to him and he arrested him and took him to the officials. 15 The officials were angry at Yirmeyah and they had him beaten and put in prison. (The place had been the house of the scribe Yonatan, but it had been converted into a prison.) 16 So Yirmeyah was kept there in an underground cell for several days.
17 Then King Tsidkiyah sent someone to fetch Yirmeyah, and in his house, the king asked him privately, “Is there any message from Yahweh?”
“There is a message,” Jeremiah answered. “You’ll be handed over to the Babylonian king.” 18 Then Yirmeyah asked the king, “What crime have I committed against you or your servants or your people, that you’ve had me put in prison? 19 Where are all the other prophets who prophesied to you all that the Babylonian king wouldn’t come here? 20 But now, my master the king, please listen to this appeal: Don’t return me to the scribe Yonatan’s house, or I’ll die there.”
21 So King Tsidkiyah ordered that Yirmeyah be held in the guards’ courtyard, and he was given a loaf of bread every day from the bakers’ street, until the time when all the bread in the city ran out. But Yirmeyah remained confined in the guards’s courtyard.
38 Four officials, Mattan’s son Shefatyah, Pashhur’s son Gedalyah, Shelemyah’s son Yehukal, and Malkiyah’s son Pashhur heard the messages that Yirmeyah was telling all the people, saying: 2 Yahweh says this: Anyone who stays in this city will be killed by fighting, famine, or deadly diseases, but anyone who goes out to the Babylonians will survive—they won’t be killed. 3 Yahweh says that this city will definitely be taken over and captured by the Babylonian king.
4 So those officials went to King Tsidkiyah and requested that Yirmeyah be executed because (they claimed) his messages were discouraging their warriors defending the city and discouraging all the people. They claimed that he wasn’t advancing the people’s safety, but causing harm.
5 “All right,” King Tsidkiyah replied. “Do whatever you want with him, because no king can argue against all of you.” 6 So they took Yirmeyah and put him into the water storage cistern carved out by the king’s son Malkiyah. It was right there in the guards’ courtyard, and they lowered Yirmeyah down with ropes. There wasn’t any water left in the cistern, but it was still muddy at the bottom and he sank down into the mud.
7 Now the Kushite Eved-Melek was one of the trusted servants in the king’s house and he heard that they had put Yirmeyah down into the cistern. Meanwhile, the king was sitting at the Benyamin Gate. 8 So Eved-Melek left the palace and went and spoke with the king, 9 “My master the king, those men have been evil in the way they’ve mistreated the prophet Yirmeyah. They threw him into a cistern so he’d die in it from hunger, since there’s no food left in the city.” 10 Then the king ordered Eved-Melek to take command of thirty of the king’s men to go and get the prophet Yirmeyah out of the cistern so he wouldn’t die down there. 11 So Eved-Melek led the men to a storeroom for clothing under the king’s house where they got some rags and worn-out clothes. Then they let them down by ropes to Yirmeyah in the cistern 12 and told him to use the rags and old clothes under his armpits to protect him from being hurt by the ropes. Yirmeyah did that, 13 then they pulled him up with the ropes—that’s how they got him up out from the mud in the cistern. Then he stayed in the guards’ courtyard.
14 One day King Tsidkiyah (Zedekiah) summoned the prophet Yirmeyah to meet him at the third entrance to the temple and told him, “I want to ask you something. Don’t refuse to answer honestly and truthfully.”
15 “Ha, if I tell you the truth, you’ll order me to be executed,” Yirmeyah replied. “And if I give you good advice, you won’t take any notice of what I say.”
16 But King Tsidkiyah privately promised Yirmeyah, “As our creator Yahweh lives, I won’t execute you or hand you over to those men who want to see you dead.”
17 “Okay,” Yirmeyah answered the king, “Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this: If you indeed go out to the Babylonian king’s officials, then you’ll live, and this city won’t be burnt down. You and your family would live. 18 But if you don’t go out to his officials, then this city will be handed over to the Babylonians. They’ll burn it down, and you wouldn’t be able to escape from their power.”
19 “But I’m afraid of the Judaneans who’ve already deserted to the Babylonians,” the king confided to Yirmeyah. “You see, I might be handed over to them and they might treat me cruelly.”
20 “The Babylonians won’t hand you over to those Jews,” Yirmeyah responded. “Obey Yahweh’s message from Yahweh that I’m passing on to you, so that things will go well for you, and so that you’ll live through this. 21 However, if you refuse to surrender, then this is what Yahweh has shown me: 22 Listen king of Yehudah, all the women who are left in your palace will be taken out to the Babylonian king’s commanders. Those women will tell you,
‘You were deceived by your friends—they’ve ruined you.
Now your feet are stuck in the mud, and your friends have turned away.’
23 Yes, all your wives and children will be taken out to the Babylonians and you yourself won’t escape from them either. You’ll be taken captive by the Babylonian king, and this city will be burnt down.”
24 Then Tsidkiyah told Yirmeyah, “Don’t tell anyone else what we spoke about or you might die. 25 If the officials hear that I’ve have talked with you, and if they come and demand, ‘Tell us what you said to the king—don’t hide it from us or we’ll kill you,’ 26 then you must tell them, ‘I was just pleading to the king not to return me to the dungeon in Yonatan’s house or I’d die there.’ 27 Then sure enough the officials came to Yirmeyah and questioned him and he answered them as the king had instructed him. They couldn’t say anything else because they hadn’t heard the conversation, 28 so Yirmeyah remained in the guards’ courtyard until the day that Yerushalem was captured.[ref]
39 In the tenth month of the ninth year of the reign of Yehudah’s King Tsidkiyah (Zedekiah), the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar came against Yerushalem with his large army and besieged it. 2 On the ninth day of the fourth month of Tsidkiyah’s eleventh year,[fn] the city was broken into. 3 Then all of the Babylonian king’s officials came and sat at the middle gate, including the top official Nevu-Sarsekim, and Samgar-Nevu and Sarsekim.
4 When Yehudah’s King Tsidkiyah and all his warriors saw what was happening, they left at nighttime through the gate between the two walls beside the king’s garden and fled towards the Yarden river plains. 5 However the Babylonian army chased after them and overtook the king down in the plains near Yeriho (Jericho). They took him back up to the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar at Rivlah in the Hamat region, and he pronounced his judgement on him. 6 The king had Tsidkiyah’s sons slaughtered at Rivlah as their father was forced to watch, and Yehudah’s officials were also executed. 7 Then they gouged out out Tsidkiyah’s eyes and put him in chains to be taken to Babylon. 8 Then the Babylonians burnt down the palace and the other houses, and tore down Yerushalem’s walls. 9 The rest of the people who’d stayed in the city, including those who’d previously deserted, were exiled to Babylon under the supervision of the chief bodyguard Nevuzar-Adan. 10 However, he allowed the poorest people who didn’t own anything to remain in Yehudah—allocating vineyards and fields for them to work.
11 Now the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar had given an order to his chief bodyguard Nevuzar-Adan about finding Yirmeyah 12 and keeping him safe and unharmed—even to care for him and do anything that he requested. 13 So Nevuzar-Adan, the top servant Nevu-Shazban, the high official Nergal-Sharezer, and all the Babylonian king’s most important officials 14 sent out men to fetch Yirmeyah from the guards’ courtyard. They handed him over to Gedalyah (son of Ahikam, son of Shafan) to take him home, so Yirmeyah stayed there among the people.
15 While Yirmeyah had still been heldin the guards’ courtyard, Yahweh had given him this message: 16 Go and tell Eved-Melek the Ethiopian that Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this: Listen, I’m about to fulfill my messages against this city for disaster and not for good, and they’ll all come true right in front of your eyes on that day. 17 But Yahweh declares that I’ll rescue you from those people that you’re afraid of 18 because I’ll definitely save your life. You won’t be killed by the soldiers, but Yahweh declares that because you put your trust in me, your life will be saved.
40 The chief bodyguard Nevuzar-Adan had found Yirmeyah chained up among all the exiles from Yerushalem and the rest of Yehudah to be taken to Babylon, and had released him at Ramah.
2 The chief bodyguard took Yirmeyah aside and told him, “Your god Yahweh decreed this disaster for this place, 3 then he caused it to happen. Yahweh did just as he’d decreed, since you people sinned against him and didn’t obey him. That’s why all this has happened to you people. 4 But now listen, I’ve released you today from your chains. If you choose to come with me to Babylon, I’ll look after you, but if you don’t want to, then look around and go wherever you think best. 5 Or why don’t you return to Gedalyah (son of Ahikam, son of Shafan) who the Babylonian king has put in charge of Yehudah’s cities. Stay among the people with him, or go wherever you think best.” Then the the king’s chief bodyguard gave him food and a gift, and sent him away. 6 So Yirmeyah went to Gedalyah’s place and stayed with him among the people who were left behind in the land.
7 Now some commanders of Judean soldiers who were still in the countryside, along with their men heard that the Babylonian king had made Ahikam’s son Gedalyah governor over the land. They also heard that he’d put him in charge of the men, women, and children who were the poorest people in the land—those who hadn’t been exiled to Babylon.[ref] 8 So they went to Gedalyah at Mitspah. Those who went were Netanyah’s son Yishmael, Kareah’s sons Yohanan and Yonatan, Tanhumet’s son Serayah, the sons of Ofai the Netofatite, and Maakati’s son Yezanyah, and their men. 9 Gedalyah (son of Ahikam, son of Shafan) made a promise to them and their men, saying, “Don’t be afraid to serve the Babylonian officials. Live in the land and serve the Babylonian king, and it will go well with you. 10 See, I’m living in Mitspah to meet with the Babylonians who came to us. So harvest wine, summer fruit, and oil and store them in your containers. Live in the cities that you’ve occupied.” 11 Then all the Judeans in Moav, among the people of Ammon, and in Edom, and in every land heard that the Babylonian king had allowed a small number of people to stay in Yehudah, and that he’d appointed Gedalyah (son of Ahikam, son of Shafan) over them. 12 So all the Judeans from every place that they’d be driven into, came back to Yehudah to Gedalyah at Mitspah, and they harvested a lot of wine and summer fruit.
13 Some time later, Kareah’s son Yonatan and all the army commanders from the countryside, came to Gedalyah at Mitspah, 14 and asked him, “Do you realise that the Ammonite King Baalis has sent Netanyah’s son Yishmael to assassinate you?” However Ahikim’s son Gedaliah didn’t believe them 15 so Kareah’s son Yohanan spoke privately to Gedalyah at Mitspah, “Allow me to go and kill Netanyah’s Yishmael. No one will suspect me. Why should he kill you? Why allow all of Yehudah that has been gathered to you to be scattered and the remnant destroyed?”
16 However Ahikam’s son Gedalyah replied to Kareah’s son Yohanan, “No, don’t do that, because you’re lying about Yishmael.”
41 However, in the seventh month, Yishmael (son of Netanyah, son of Elishama from the royal family) and some officers of the king came—he had ten men with him. They came to Ahikam’s son Gedalyah at Mitspah and had a meal together.[ref] 2 Then Yishmael and the ten men who were with him, stood up and attacked with their swords. Yishmael killed Gedalyah, who the Babylonian king had put in charge of the region, 3 and they killed all the Judeans who were with Gedalyah there at Mitspah, as well as the Babylonian soldiers who were there.
4 The next day before anyone found out that Gedalyah had been murdered, 5 eighty men from Shekem, Shiloh, and from Shomron came who had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut themselves in mourning. They were carrying grain offerings and incense to be offered at Yahweh’s residence. 6 Netanyah’s son Yishmael went out of Mitspah to meet them, weeping as he went. When he reached them, he told them to come and see what had happened to Ahikam’s son Gedalyah. 7 Then as they reached the middle of the town, Yishmael and his men slaughtered them and threw their bodies into a cistern.
8 However, ten of them bargained with Yishmael about some wheat, barley, oil, and honey that they’d left out in the countryside, so he didn’t kill them along with the others. 9 The water storage cistern when Yishmael had thrown all the bodies of those he’d killed including Gedalyah, had been dug by King Asa in defence against Yisrael’s King Baasha. Now Netanyah’s son Yishmael had filled it with dead bodies. 10 Next Yishmael captured the remaining people in Mitspah, including the king’s daughters and all the others who the chief bodyguard Nevuzar-Adan had assigned to Ahikam’s son Gedalyah. So Netanyah’s son Yishmael captured them to hand over to the Ammonites.
11 Meanwhile Kareah’s son Yohanan and all the army commanders with him, heard about all the evil things that Netanyah’s son Yishmael had done, 12 so they took all their men to fight against Yishmael. They came across him at the large pool near Giv’on city 13 When all the people who’d been captured by Yishmael saw Yohanan and all the army commanders they were very relieved. 14 So all those people that Yishmael had captured were freed and went back with Kareah’s son Yohanan. 15 Unfortunately, Netanyah’s son Yishmael escaped from Yohanan, along with eight of his men, and they went to the Ammonites.
16 Then Kareah’s son Yohanan and all the army commanders with him, took all the people from Mitspah who’d been rescued from Netanyah’s son Yishmael after he’d killed Ahikam’s son Gedalyah. They took those warriors, and women and children and court-officials that they’d saved at Giv’on, 17 and went and stayed at Gerut-Kimham near Beyt-Lehem, getting ready to go to Egypt 18 because of the Babylonians. (They worried about their response because Netanyah’s son Yishmael had assassinated Ahikam’s son Gedalyah who’d been appointed in the region by the Babylonian king.)
42 Then all the army commanders, as well as Kareah’s son Yohanan, Hoshayah’s son Yezanyah, and all the people from the less prominent to the most important officials approached the prophet Yirmeyah 2 and asked him, “Please listen to our request. Please ask your god Yahweh our on behalf of all of us who are left here, because there’s not very many of us left as you can see. 3 Ask your god Yahweh to tell us what we should do and where we should go.”
4 “Sure, I’ve heard your concerns,” the prophet Yirmeyah responded. “Listen, Ill pray to your god Yahweh as you’ve all requested. Whatever Yahweh answers, I’ll tell you. I’ll keep nothing back from you all.”
5 “We promise to do everything that your god Yahweh tells us to do,” they told Yirmeyah. “If we don’t, then Yahweh can be a true and faithful witness against us. 6 Whether it’s good or bad, we’ll obey the instructions from our god Yahweh who we’re asking you to speak to, so that it may be well with us when we obey his response.”
7 After ten days, Yahweh’s response came to Yirmeyah, 8 so he called Kareah’s son Yohanan and all the army commanders, as well as all the people from the less prominent to the most important officials, 9 then he told them, “You all sent me to Yisrael’s god Yahweh to pass on your requests and here’s his reply: 10 If you all stay in this region, then I’ll build you up and not tear you down. I’ll plant you and not pull you all out, because I’m upset about the harm that I’ve done to you all. 11 Don’t be afraid of the Babylonian king any more. This is Yahweh’s declaration: Don’t be afraid of him because I’m with you all to save you and to rescue you from his clutches, 12 because I’ll give you all mercy. I’ll have compassion on you, and I’ll restore you all back to your country.
13 However, suppose that you all decide not to listen to the words of your god Yahweh, and decide not to stay in this region, 14 and if you all say that you’ll go to Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim) to live there where there’s no war, and no trumpets signalling, and no shortage of food, 15 Now you remaining people listen to Yahweh’s message: Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says that if you all do decide to go and stay down in Egypt, 16 then the war that you all fear will overtake you in Egypt. The famine that you’re anxious about will follow you all to Egypt, and then you’ll die there, 17 i.e., anyone who decides to go to live as foreigners in Egypt, will die from war, famine, or deadly diseases. There won’t be any survivors from the calamities that I’d send onto them.
18 Yes, Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this: Just as my anger and rage was poured out on Yerushalem’s inhabitants, in the same way my anger would be poured out on all of you if you go to Egypt. You’d become an object of cursing and a horror, something to be used as a curse word, and something dishonourable, and you’d never see this place again.
19 Then Yirmeyah continued: Yahweh has spoken to you all, the remaining people of Yehudah. Don’t go down to Egypt as you know that I’ve definitely warned you all against that today. 20 Yes, you made a life and death mistake when you sent me to your god Yahweh, and asked me to ask him for instructions for you and when you all said that you’d do everything that he says, 21 because I’ve reported all that to you today. However, you haven’t listened to your god Yahweh’s message, or to anything that he sent me to tell you all about. 22 So now, you should definitely be aware that you’ll die from war, famine, and deadly diseases where you all wanted to go and live as foreigners.
43 When Yirmeyah had finished passing on Yahweh’s messages that their god Yahweh had told him to say, 2 Hoshayah’s son Azaryah, Kareah’s son Yohanan, and all the arrogant men told Yirmeyah, “You’re lying to us. Our god Yahweh didn’t send you to tell us not to go and live in Egypt. 3 It’s because Neriyah’s son Baruk is inciting you against us so that we’ll stay here and get captured by the Babylonians to be either put to death or be taken as exiles to Babylon.”
4 So Kareah’s son Yohanan, all the army officers, and all the rest of the people, refused to take notice of Yahweh’s instructions to remain living in the Yehudah region. 5 Then Yohanan and all the army commanders gathered all those remaining Judean people together, who’d come from all the other countries that they’d previously been driven away to and returned to live in Yehudah.[ref] 6 That included men and women, children, the king’s daughters, and all the people that Nevuzar-Adan, the king’s chief bodyguard Nevuzar-Adan had left with Gedalyah (son of Ahikam, son of Shafan), and including the prophet Yirmeyah and Neriyah’s son Baruk. 7 Then they went to Egypt because they took no notice of Yahweh’s instructions and they arrived at Tahpanhes.
8 In Tahpanhes, Yahweh gave Yirmeyah a message: 9 Get some large stones and while the people from Yehudah are watching, push them into the mortar in the pavement at the entrance to Far-oh’s (Pharaoh’s) palace at Tahpanhes. 10 Then tell the Judeans that Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief says: Listen, I’m about to send messengers to my servant the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, to summon him here. I’ll place his throne over the top of those hidden stones, and he’ll spread his royal tent over them. 11 He’ll come here to attack Egypt and he’ll kill those that I’ve assigned to die, and similarly for those to be taken captive or run through with a sword. 12 Then he’ll light a fire in the temples of Egypt’s gods. Nebuchadnezzar will either burn them or carry them away. He’ll clean Egypt out just like shepherds pick lice off their clothes, and then he’ll quietly leave 13 after smashing the stone pillars at Heliopolis and burning the temples of Egypt’s gods.
44 Yahweh spoke to Yirmeyah about all the Judeans who lived in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis in northern/lower Egypt, as well as those in Patros in southern/upper Egypt: 2 Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says that you yourselves have seen all the disasters that I sent to Yerushalem and Yehudah’s other cities. See, they’re just ruins today without anyone living in them. 3 That’s because of the wicked things they did to provoke me to anger by going to burn incense and to worship other gods that neither they themselves, nor you, nor your ancestors had ever heard about before. 4 I repeatedly sent all my servants, the prophets, to them to tell the people to stop doing those detestable things that I hate, 5 but they didn’t listen. They refused to take any notice of it, or to stop their wicked activities like burning incense to other gods. 6 So my anger and rage was poured out and burnt in Yehudah’s cities and Yerushalem’s streets like a fire and they’re still desolate ruins to this day.
7 So now Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh asks why you all insist on bringing this terrible harm onto yourselves that’ll see men and women, children and babies from Yehudah, eliminated without even leaving a remnant. 8 You’ve provoked me to anger by what you’ve all done with your own two hands, by burning incense to other gods in Egypt where you’ve all gone to live as foreigners. You’ve cut yourselves off so as to become a curse word and a reproach among all the nations in the world. 9 Have you all forgotten the wicked things done by your ancestors and also by Yehudah’s kings and their wives? Have you forgotten the evil committed by yourselves and your wives in Yehudah and on Yerushalem’s streets? 10 To this day, they still haven’t humbled themselves. They don’t respect the instructions or regulations that I gave them and their ancestors, and so they don’t follow them.
11 Therefore Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief says this: Listen, I’m about to start working against you all to bring disaster and destroy all Yehudah. 12 I’ll eliminate the small group of Judeans that has made up their minds to go to live as foreigners in Egypt. I’ll do that so that they’ll all die there Egypt—from either war or famine, and from the least to the very prominent people they’ll die and will become a curse word, a horror story, and something to ridicule and mock. 13 I will punish those living in Egypt just like I punished Yerushalem with war, famine, and deadly diseases 14 so that none of the remaining people from Yehudah who’ve gone to live in Egypt will escape or survive or be able to return to Yehudah when they want to return and live there. None of them will return except a few who escaped from there.
15 Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, and all the women who were in the great assembly, and all the people who were living in Lower and Upper Egypt, answered Yirmeyah: 16 Concerning that message that you told us in Yahweh’s name, we’re not listening to you 17 because we’ll certainly do everything that we said we’d do. We’ll burn incense to the queen of the skies and pour out drink offerings to her just as we, our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders did in Yehudah’s cities and on Yerushalem’s streets. Then we’ll have plenty of food and will prosper, and won’t experience distress. 18 Whenever we didn’t do those things—not offering incense to the queen of the skies and not pouring out drink offerings to her—we were all suffering from poverty and dying from by war and famine.
19 The women said, “When we were offering incense to the queen of the skies and pouring out drink offerings to her, and when we were making cakes in her image and pouring out drink offerings to her, did you think we were doing it behind our husbands’ backs?”
20 Then Yirmeyah responded to all those who’d answered him including both men and women. He told them all this message: 21 Didn’t Yahweh remember the incense that you all burned in Yehudah’s cities and on Yerushalem’s streets—you and your ancestors, your kings and leaders, and the people of the land, and didn’t it come back to his mind ? 22 Eventually, he could no longer bear it because of your wicked behaviour, i.e., because of the detestable things that you all did. Then your land became a deserted wasteland and a curse, without inhabitants as it is today. 23 Because you all burnt incense to other gods and sinned against Yahweh, and because you wouldn’t listen to his voice, his instructions, his regulations, or his promises, this disaster has come against you as you all can see today.
24 Then Yirmeyah told all the people, including all those women, “Listen to Yahweh’s message, all of you from Yehudah who are now here in Egypt. 25 Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says that both you and your wives have said out loud and confirmed with your actions that you’ll all certainly carry out your vows to worship the queen of the skies and to pour out drink offerings to her. So then, go ahead and do those things to fulfill your wows. 26 So then all of Yehudah who’re staying Egypt, listen to Yahweh’s message: Yahweh says, listen, I’ve promised by my powerful name that none of the men from Yehudah who’re living here in Egypt will call on my name any more, i.e., you’ll all no longer say, ‘As our master Yahweh lives.’ 27 Listen, I’m watching over them for disaster and not for good. Every Judean person in Egypt will meet their end through war or famine until they’re all eliminated. 28 Then a few survivors from the battles will return from Egypt to Yehudah region—only a small number of them. In that way, all the remaining Judens who went to live in Egypt will know whose word will stand—mine or theirs. 29 Yahweh declares that this will be the sign for you all: I’m going to punish you all in this place so that you’ll know that what I’ve said will come to pass, resulting in harm for all of you. 30 Yahweh says: Listen, I’m about to hand the Egyptian king, Far-oh (Pharaoh) Hofra over to his enemies and to those who want to kill him. It’ll be the same as when I handed Yehudah’s King Tsidkiyah (Zedekiah) king of Judah over to the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar—his enemy who wanted him dead.[ref]
45 This is the message that the prophet Yirmeyah (Jeremiah) dictated to Neriyah’s son Baruk to have it written on a scroll in the fourth year of of the reign of Yehudah’s King Yehoyakim (Jehoiakim, son of Yoshiyah/Josiah):[ref] 2 Yisrael’s god Yahweh says this to you Baruk: 3 You’ve said, ‘I’m not doing well because Yahweh has piled sorrow on top of my pain. I’m exhausted from groaning and I can’t find any peace.’
4 Yahweh says to tell Baruk, Listen, I’m about to tear down what I’ve built throughout the world, and to pull out what I’ve planted. 5 But maybe you’re hoping for great things for yourself? Don’t hope for that, because listen, disaster is coming for all humanity, but wherever you go, I’m giving you your life as your ‘spoil of war’. That is Yahweh’s declaration.
46:1 Judgement for Egypt
46 These are the messages that Yahweh gave the prophet Yirmeyah about other nations: 2 This is about the army of the Egyptian king Far-oh Nekoh (Pharaoh Necho) who was at Karkemish by the Perat (Euphrates) river. That was the army that the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar defeated in the fourth year of the reign of Yehudah’s King Yehoyakim (Jehoiakim), son of Yoshiyah (Josiah):[ref]
3 Get the small shield and the large shields ready,
and go out for battle.
4 Harness on the horses to the chariots
Mount up on the horses and take your stand with your helmets on.
Polish the spears and put on your armour.
5 What am I seeing here?
They’re filled with terror and they’re retreating,
because their warriors will be crushed.
They’re fleeing for safety without looking back.
Terror is all around.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
6 Don’t let the swift one flee,
and don’t let the warrior escape.
They’ll stumble and fall there
in the north by the Perat (Euphrates) River,
7 Who’s this coming who rises like the Nile,
whose waters surge up and down like the rivers?
8 Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim) rises like the Nile,
like rivers of water that rise and fall, saying,
‘I’ll go up and I will cover the earth.
≈ I’ll destroy cities and their inhabitants.
≈ Be angry, you chariots.
Let the soldiers go out,
Ethiopia (Kush) and Libya (Put),
men skillful with a shield,
≈ and Lydia, men skillful at using bows and arrows.’
10 That day will be the day of vengeance for the master, Commander-in-chief Yahweh, when he’ll avenge himself on his enemies.
The sword will devour and be satisfied—it’ll drink its fill of their blood
because there’ll be a sacrifice to the master, Commander-in-chief Yahweh
in the northern land by the Perat (Euphrates) River.
11 Go up to Gilead and obtain medicine, you virgin daughter of Egypt.
It’s vain to put that much medicine on yourself—there’s no cure for you.
12 The nations have heard about your disgrace.
The world is filled with your wailing,
46:13 Nebuchadnezzar’s arrival
13 When the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar was coming to attack Egypt, Yahweh gave the prophet Yirmeyah this message:[ref]
14 Announce in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpanhes:
‘Take your station and prepare to defend yourself,
because everyone around you will be killed.’
15 Why are your powerful warriors lying face down on the ground?
They can’t stand against the enemy,
because I Yahweh, have pushed them to the ground.
16 He increases the numbers of those who stumble.
Each soldier falls against the next one.
They’re saying, ‘Get ready.
Let’s go back to our own people, to our native land.
Let’s leave this oppressive war.
17 There in Egypt they’ll call out,
‘Our King Far-oh is all noise—
he’s let his opportunity slip away.
18 The king whose name is Commander-in-chief Yahweh declares:
‘As surely as I live
an invader is coming
who’s as tall as Mt. Tavor among the mountains,
≈ and like Mt. Karmel by the sea.
19 You inhabitants of Egypt,
pack your own baggage to carry into exile,
because Memfis will become a wasteland—
it will lie in ruins and no one will live there.
20 Egypt is a very beautiful young cow,
but a stinging insect is coming from the north.
It’s on its way.
21 Its hired soldiers are like calves that have been protected and well-fed,
but they’ll also turn away and run away.
They won’t stand together, because the day of their disaster is coming against them—
it’s time for their punishment.
22 Egypt hisses like a snake and crawls away,
because her enemies are coming with a show of strength.
They’re coming toward her like woodcutters with axes.
23 Yahweh declares that they’ll cut down the forest
so there’ll be nowhere to hide
because their soldiers will be more numerous than locusts
and no one will even be able to count them.
24 Egypt’s inhabitants will be humiliated—
they’ll be handed over to those northern people.
25 Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says, “Listen, I’m about to punish Amon the god of Thebes city, Egypt and her other gods, its kings the Far-ohs (Pharaohs), and all those who trust in them. 26 I’ll hand them over to those who want them dead, and over to Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar and his servants. But after that, Egypt will be inhabited as in past times. That is Yahweh’s declaration.
27 But you, my servant Yakov (Jacob, meaning Yisrael), don’t be afraid.
Don’t be dismayed, Yisrael, because listen,
I’m about to bring you back from far away,
and your descendants from the land of their captivity.
Then Yakov will return, find peace, and be secure,
and there’ll be no one to terrify him.[ref]
28 This is Yahweh’s declaration:
You, my servant Jacob, don’t be afraid,
because I’m with you,
so I’ll send complete destruction to all the nations that I drove you into.
But I won’t completely destroy you,
although I’ll discipline you fairly,
and I certainly won’t leave you unpunished.”
47 This is Yahweh’s message that he gave to the prophet Yirmeyah (Jeremiah) concerning the Philistines before Far-oh (Pharaoh) attacked Azzah (Gaza).[ref] 2 Yahweh says this:
Listen, armies are rising in the north like floods of water.
They’ll be like an overflowing river.
Then they’ll overflow the land and everything in it—
its cities and its inhabitants.
So everyone will shout out for help,
and all the land’s inhabitants will wail.
3 At the sound of the stamping of their powerful horses’ hooves,
at the clattering of their chariots and the noise of their wheels,
fathers won’t help their children because of their own helplessness.
4 The day is coming that will devastate all of the Philistines—
to cut every survivor off from Tsor and Tsidon (Tyre and Sidon) who wants to help them,
because Yahweh is devastating the Philistines—
the remnant who originally came from Crete (Heb. Kaftor Island).
5 The people of Azzah (Gaza) will shave their heads in mourning.
The remnant in Ashkelon’s valley will be silenced.
How much longer will you cut yourself in mourning for?
6 Oh no, sword of Yahweh, how long will it be until you stop?
Get back to your scabbard. Stop and be silent.
7 How can it stop when Yahweh has commanded it,
when he has ordered it to attack Ashkelon and the other cities along the coast?
48:1 Moav’s punishment
48 Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says to Moav:
Nevo won’t end well because it’ll be devastated.
Kiriatayim has been humiliated and captured.
Its fortress has been disgraced and shattered.[ref]
2 No one will praise Moav again.
Their enemies in Heshbon plotted disaster against them, saying,
Let’s go and destroy it as a nation.
Madmen will be silenced after the sword finishes with you.
3 Listen, a cry of distress is coming from Horonayim,
where there’s ruin and terrible destruction.
4 Moav has been destroyed.
Its workers have made their cries heard.
5 They weeps as they climb Luhit hill,
because on the way down to Horonayim,
shouts of distress will heard because of the destruction.
so you’ll be like a juniper bush in the wilderness.
7 Because of your trust in your practices and your wealth,
you too will be captured.
Then Kemosh will go away into captivity, along with its priests and leaders.
8 The destroyer will come to every city—no city will escape.
The valley will perish and the plain will be devastated, as Yahweh has said.
9 Give wings to Moav, because it must certainly fly away.
Its cities will become a wasteland without anyone living in them.
10 Anyone who’s slack doing Yahweh’s work should be cursed.
Anyone who’s afraid to use his sword to kill should be cursed.
48:11 Moav’s cities destroyed
11 Moav has felt secure since it was young.
Its like its wine that’s never been poured from container to container.
Its never gone into captivity.
so it still tastes as good as ever—
its nice aroma hasn’t unchanged.
12 But Yahweh declares that the time is coming
when I’ll send along those who’ll tip it over
and empty out all its pots and smash its jars.
13 Then Moav will be ashamed of their god Kemosh
just as Yisrael’s people were ashamed of the golden calf that they put their trust in at Beyt-El.
14 How can you Moav soldiers say, ‘We are warriors,
powerful fighting men’?
15 Moav will be devastated and its cities attacked.
Its finest young men have gone down to the place of slaughter.
That is the king’s declaration—his name is Commander-in-chief Yahweh.
16 Moav’s disaster is coming soon.
Calamity is rushing towards it.
17 You surrounding nations, wail,
and all you who know Moav’s fame, shout
‘Oh no, the strong staff, the splendid rod, has been broken.’
18 Come down from your place of honour
and sit on the ground that’s dry and thirsty,
you daughter living in Dibon city,
because the one who’ll destroy Moav will attack you—
the one who’ll destroy your fortications.
19 You people who live in Aroer city,
Ask the escaping men and women what happened there.
20 Moav has been humiliated because it’s been shattered.
Tell the people at the Arnon river that Moav’s been devastated.
21 Now punishment has come to Moav’s high plateau:
to Holon, Yahtsah, Mefa’at, 22 Divon, Nevo, Beyt-Divlatayim, 23 Kiriatayim, Beyt-Gamul, Beyt-Meon, 24 Keriot, and Botsrah, and all of Moav’s towns, both near and far. 25 Moav’s power will be terminated and its dominance will be broken.
48:26 Moav’s humiliation
26 Make Moav drunk, because it acted proudly against Yahweh.
Let Moav wallow in its vomit,
and let it be an object of ridicule.
27 Didn’t Moav make Yisrael an object of ridicule?
Weren’t they thought of as thieves,
such that you shook your head when you spoke about them.
28 Abandon the cities and camp on the cliffs, you inhabitants of Moav,
≈ and become like a dove that’s nesting over the mouth of a hole in the rocks.
29 We’ve heard about Moav’s pride,
about its arrogance, haughtiness, pride, boastfulness,
and the conceit in its heart.
30 This is Yahweh’s declaration:
≈ and their hollow boasting about things they haven’t even done.
≈ and I’ll cry out for all of Moav.
I’ll lament for the people of Kir-Heres.
32 I’ll weep for you more than I did for Yazer, you vine of Sivmah.
Your tendrils passed across the Salt Sea and reached as far as Yazer.
A destroyer has attacked your summer fruit and your grape harvest,
33 so celebration and happiness have been taken away from the fruit trees and from Moav itself.
I’ve put an end to the wine from their wine-pressing pits.
They won’t tread the grapes with happy shouts—
any shouts won’t be shouts of celebration.
34 From the shouts at Heshbon as far as Elealeh, their sound is heard at Yahaz, from Tsoar to Horonayim and Eglat-Shelishiyah, since even the water at Nimrim has dried up. 35 I will put an end to anyone in Moav who makes sacrifices on the hilltop shrines and burns incense to his gods. That is Yahweh’s declaration.
36 Because of all that, I groan inwardly for Moav and Kir-Hareset, like a flute at a funeral, knowing that all the wealth that they acquired will be lost. 37 Yes, every head will be shaved and all their beards will be clipped. They’ll all have cuts on their hands and be wearing sackcloth around their waists. 38 There’s wailing coming from every flat roof and from all the plazas in Moav because I’ve destroyed Moav like pottery that no one wants. That is Yahweh’s declaration. 39 How it’s been shattered. How they keep wailing. Moav turns its back in shame—it will become an object of derision and a terror to all those who are around it 40 because Yahweh says this:
Listen, the enemy will swoop down like an eagle and spread out his wings against Moav.
41 Keriyot has been captured, and its fortresses have been seized,
because on that day, Moav’s soldiers will be apprehensive like women in labour.
42 Then Moav will be destroyed and no longer be a people group,
because they thought they were better than Yahweh.
43 Terror, and pits and traps, are coming to you inhabitants of Moav.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
44 Anyone who flees because of terror will fall into a pit,
and anyone who climbs out of the pit will be caught in a trap,
because I will bring this on them in the year when I punish them.
That is Yahweh’s declaration. 45 Those who flee will stand in the shadow of Heshbon city without any strength,
because will go out from Heshbon—flame from the middle of Sihon.
It’ll devour Moav’s forehead and the top of the heads of the rebellious people.
46 You won’t end well Moav. You worshippers of Kemosh will be destroyed
because your sons and daughters will be captured and taken away.
47 However, in future years, Moav’s judgement will end and I will restore Moav from captivity.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
49 Yahweh says this about the Ammonites:
Doesn’t Yisrael have any children of its own?
Is there no one to inherit anything in Yisrael?
Why does the god Molek (Heb. Malkom) occupy Gad,
and its people live in their cities?[ref] 2 So listen, Yahweh declares that the time is coming
when I’ll sound the signal for battle against Ammon’s capital city Rabbah,
so it’ll become a deserted heap and its villages will be set on fire,
because Yahweh says that Yisrael will drive out those who initially drove them out. 3 Wail, Heshbon, because Ai will be devastated.
≈ Cry out and put on sackcloth, you daughters of Rabbah.
Mourn and run back and forth trying to figure out what to do
because Molek is going into captivity along with its priests and leaders.
4 Why do you brag about your fertile valleys, you faithless daughter?
You who trust in your wealth and think that no one would ever attack you.
5 Listen, this is the declaration of my master, Commander-in-chief Yahweh:
I’m about to bring terror to you from all those who surround you.
You’ll all be driven away ahead of it
and there won’t be anyone to gather those running away.
6 However in future years, I’ll restore Ammon’s people from captivity.
That is Ammon’s captivity.
7 Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this about Edom:
Isn’t there any wisdom left in Teman district?
Has good advice disappeared from those who have understanding?
Has their wisdom become corrupted?[ref]
8 Turn and run away.
Stay in deep caves, you inhabitants of Dedan,
because I’m bringing Esav’s (Esau’s) disaster onto Edom when I punish it.
9 If grape harvesters came to you, wouldn’t they at least leave a little bit behind?
If thieves came in the night, wouldn’t they steal only as much as they needed?
10 However, I’ll strip Esav (i.e., Edom) bare.
I’ve uncovered his secret places so he can’t hide himself.
His descendants and other relatives and neighbours will be devastated and destroyed.
I’ll take care of their lives,
≈ and your widows can rely on me.
12 Yes, Yahweh says this: Listen, even those who didn’t deserve it, must certainly drink some of the cup of suffering. Did you think you yourself would escape being punished? You won’t, because you’ll certainly be included in it 13 because Yahweh declares that I’ve solemnly promised that Botsrah will become a horror, a disgrace, a devastation, and an object for cursing. All its cities will be forever ruined.
14 I’ve heard a report from Yahweh,
and a messenger has been sent out to the nations,
‘Gather together and attack Edom.
Get ready for battle.’ 15 Yes, listen, I’ve made you minor compared to the other nations,
16 As for your fearsomeness, your arrogance has deceived you, inhabitants of places on the cliff—
you who’ve occupied the highest hills so that you may make your nest high like an eagle.
I’ll bring you down from there.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
17 Edom will become a horror to everyone passing by it.
Those who do will be appalled and hiss about all its disasters.
18 Yahweh says that just like the overthrow of Sodom and Amorrah (Gomorrah) and their neighbours,[ref]
no one will live there—no human would want to stay there.
19 Listen, he’ll go up like a lion from the forests along the Jordan river to the green pasturelands,
because I’ll quickly make Edom flee from it,
and I’ll chose someone to be charge of it.
Indeed, no one else is like me, and who can challenge my decision?
What shepherd can stand against me?
20 So listen to the plans that Yahweh has decided against Edom—
≈ the intentions that he’s formed against Teman’s inhabitants.
They’ll be dragged away, even the smallest flock.
→ Their pasturelands will be turned into ruined places.
21 The ground will shake at the sound of their falling.
The sound of distressed shouts will be heard right across at the Red Sea.
22 Listen, someone will ascend like an eagle, and swoop down and spread his wings over Botsrah.
Then on that day, Edom’s soldiers will be apprehensive like women in labour.”
Hamat and Arpad will be ashamed, because they’ve heard bad news.
They’ll melt away—
they’ll become as troubled as an ocean that cannot stay calm.[ref]
24 Damascus will be disheartened.
It turns away to flee in panic.
Distress and pangs of pain seize it like a woman giving birth.
25 How has that widely praised city been abandoned—
the town that gave me happiness.
26 Therefore its young men will fall in its plazas,
and all the fighting men will perish on that day.
That is the declaration of Commander-in-chief Yahweh,
27 because I’ll light a fire on the wall around Damascus,
and it will burn up Ben-Hadad’s fortresses.
28 Concerning Kedar tribe and Hatsor’s kingdoms (which were about to be attacked by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar) Yahweh says this:
Take action and attack Kedar and destroy those eastern people.
29 Their tents and their flocks will be taken,
along with their tent curtains and all of their equipment.
Their camels will be led away from them,
and warriors surrounding them will call out things that terrify them.
30 Yahweh says to you inhabitants of Hatsor:
Quickly, flee, hide in deep caves,
because the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar has made a plan
and plotted out his destiny for you all.
31 Yahweh says to the Babylonians:
Take action and attack that nation at ease—
that lives in safety.
They don’t have gates with bars across them,
and its people live by themselves.
32 Their camels will become plunder,
and their many livestock will become war plunder.
Then those who cut the corners of their hair, I’ll scatter to every wind
and I’ll bring disaster on them from every direction.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
33 Hatsor will become a home for jackals—a permanent wasteland.
No one will live there—no human would want to stay there.
34 At the begining of the reign of Yehudah’s King Tsidkiyah (Zedekiah), Yahweh gave this message about Eylam to the prophet Yirmeyah (Jeremiah). 35 Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this:
Listen, I’m about to break the power of Eylam’s archers—
their main initial attack force.
36 Then I’ll bring four winds against Eylam from four different directions,
and I will scatter them to all of those winds.
There’s no nation that those banished from Eylam won’t go to.
37 So I’ll shatter Eylam in front of their enemies and those who want to see them dead.
In my furious anger, I’ll send disaster against them,
and then I’ll send war to follow them until I’ve annihilated them.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
38 Yahweh declares that I’ll put my throne in Eylam,
and will destroy its king and leaders from there, 39 however in future years, I’ll restore Eylam’s people from captivity.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
50 
Yahweh gave the prophet Yirmeyah (Jeremiah) this message concerning Babylon, the country of the Chaldeans:[ref]
2 Make a report to the nations and get them to listen to it.
Raise a signal flag and cause them to listen—don’t conceal it.
Tell them that Babylon will be captured and their ‘god’ Marduk (also called ‘Bel’) will be humiliated.
Marduk will be completely disgraced—
its replicas will be humiliated as its idols will be shattered.
3 A nation from the north will come against it, and make their land into ruins.
No one will live in it—people and animals will all flee away.
4 Yahweh declares that at a future time, the people of Yisrael and the people of Yehudah,
will join together to go to their god Yahweh with weeping and a desire to worship him. 5 They’ll ask the way to Tsiyyon (Zion) and will set off toward it
to join themselves to Yahweh with a permanent commitment that will never be forgotten.
6 My people have been a lost flock.
Their shepherds have led them astray in the mountains.
They’ve gone from hill to hill.
They went—they’d forgotten the place where they’d lived.
7 Everyone who found them devoured them
and their enemies told themselves that they weren’t guilty
because the people they attacked had sinned against Yahweh who was their true home—
Yahweh, who their ancestors had placed their hope in.
≈ Get out from the land of the Chaldeans.
Be like male goats that leave ahead of the rest of the flock,[ref]
9 because listen, I’m about to set in motion and raise up a group of powerful nations from the north against Babylon.
They’ll line up against her—Babylon will be captured from there.
Their arrows will be like a skilled warrior who always returns and never empty-handed.
50:10 Babylon’s fall
10 Babylon (Heb. Chaldea) will become plunder.
All those who plunder it will take everything they want.
That is Yahweh’s declaration
11 because you’re so happy Babylon—your people celebrate the plundering of my inheritance.
You skip around like a calf stamping in its pasture.
≈ You neigh like a powerful horse.
12 Your mother will be terribly ashamed—
≈ the one who bore you will be embarrassed.
Listen, she’ll become the least of nations—
a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
13 Due to Yahweh’s severe anger, Babylon won’t remain inhabited, but will become a complete ruin.
Everyone who passes by will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its wounds.
14 You armies,, line yourselves up all around Babylon—
everyone who uses a bow and arrows must shoot at it.
Don’t hold back any of your arrows, because it has disobeyed Yahweh.
15 Shout together all of you who are around the city.
It has surrendered—its towers have been taken over.
Its walls are torn down, because that is Yahweh’s vengeance.
Avenge yourselves on Babylon—
do to it just like what it’s done to others.
16 Destroy both the Babylonian farmer who sows seed
and the one who uses a sickle at harvest time.
Instead of the oppressor’s sword, let each person return to their own people—
50:17 Yisrael’s return
17 Israel is like sheep that were scattered and driven away by lions.
Firstly, the Assyrian king devoured its meat,
then after that, the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar chomped on its bones.
18 Therefore Yisrael’s god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh, says this:
Listen, I’m about to punish the Babylonian king and his country,
just as I punished the Assyrian king.
19 Then I’ll restore Yisrael to its homeland—
it will graze on Mt. Carmel and in the Bashan region.
≈ then it will be satisfied in the hill country of Efrayim and Gilead.
20 Yahweh says that at that time,
Yisrael’s disobedience won’t exist
21 Go up against the Meratayim region in Babylon
as well as Pekod’s inhabitants.
Attack them and ensure that they’re eliminated.
That is Yahweh’s declaration—make sure to do everything that I’m commanding you to do.
22 There’s a sound of battle and terrible destruction across the land.
23 How the ‘hammer’ of all the lands has itself been cut apart and destroyed.
How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations.
24 I set a trap for you and you were caught, Babylon, and you didn’t even know it.
You were found and captured, because you went against Yahweh.
25 Yahweh has opened his armoury and is bringing out the weapons for carrying out his anger.
There’s work for the master, Commander-in-chief Yahweh, in Babylon—the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come to it from far away.
Open its store-houses full of grain.
Pile everything up in heaps.
Completely destroy everything—don’t leave anyone alive.
27 Kill all its young bulls—send them off for slaughter.
They won’t end well because their moment has come—the time for their punishment.
28 There’s the sound of those fleeing—escaping from Babylon
to anounce in Tsiyyon (Zion) that our god Yahweh is taking vengeance—
vengeance for what was done to his temple.
29 Summon the archers against Babylon—all those who use bows and arrows.
Surround it completely and don’t let anyone escape.
Repay it for what it’s done.
Do to it what it did to others
because it had defied Yahweh, Yisrael’s holy one,[ref]
30 so their young men will fall in the city squares,
and all their fighting men will be killed on that day.
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
31 Listen, Commander-in-chief Yahweh declares:
I’m against you, you proud nation
because your time is up, you proud one—
the time has come for me to punish you.
32 So the proud one will stumble and fall,
and no one will be there to help it up.
I’ll light a fire in its cities and it will devour everything around it.
33 Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this:
The Yisrael’s people are oppressed,
as are the people from Yehudah.
All those who captured them have kept hold of them—
they’ve refused to let them go.
34 The one who paid the price to free them is strong.
His name is Commander-in-chief Yahweh.
He’ll successfully plead their case,
in order to bring peace and stability to the land,
and to cause turmoil for Babylon’s inhabitants.
35 Yahweh declares that war is coming to the Babylonians (Heb. Chaldeans)
including its inhabitants, leaders, and wise men.
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1:12 There’s a play on words in the original here, as the Hebrew word for ‘keeping watch’ has the same consonants as the word for ‘almond’.
4:30 The Hebrew has a female you pronoun (as used for the city), which doesn’t match the male form of devastated. Many modern versions have What will you do, devastated one? despite the gender mismatch.
5:7 Many translations follow the Septuagint here rather than the Hebrew, and end up with something like gathered together. (Of course, the prostitute here refers to idol worship.)
6:3 Many English translations interpret these ‘shepherds’ with their ‘flocks’ to be leaders of foreign nations with their armies implementing the destruction mentioned in the previous verse, i.e., the ones battling in the next verse. However, we’ve chosen to interpret the flocks grazing the city surrounds as the follow-on after the destruction, before the next verse goes back in time to give more details of how the destruction will occur.
8:17 This could likely be referring to enemy warriors, not literal snakes.
11:21 Yirmeyah’s home town—see 1:1.
13:4 About 6km away from Anatot. It’s possible that the Euphrates River is being referred to here, although less likely as that was a trip of over a thousand kilometres.
21:4 This last part of the sentence is left quite literal, as it’s ambiguous in the Hebrew, what or who the ‘them’ is referring to here.
22:11 Called ‘Shallum’ here in the Hebrew.
22:13 Referring here to Yehudah’s King Yehoyakim (Jehoiakim)—see verse 24.
22:24 Called ‘Shallum’ here in the Hebrew and in verse 28.
23:33 The Hebrew word translated ‘burden’ could alternatively mean ‘message of doom’ here and through to verse 40, except that it’s also used to describe the people.
25:26 ‘Babylon’ here in the Hebrew is ‘Sheshak’, which is Hebrew for ‘Babylon’ with the letters substituted in a simple code.
31:9 As a synonym, also referring to Yisrael.
31:22 Heb. ‘surrounds’—the intended meaning of this last line isn’t certain.
39:2 i.e., about eighteen months later (in 586 B.C.).
1:2: 2Ki 22:3–23:27; 2Ch 34:8–35:19.
1:3: a 2Ki 23:36–24:7; 2Ch 36:5-8; b 2Ki 24:18–25:21; 2Ch 36:11-21.
3:6: 2Ki 22:1–23:30; 2Ch 34:1–35:27.
5:21: Isa 6:9-10; Eze 12:2; Mrk 8:18.
7:11: Mat 21:13; Mrk 11:17; Luk 19:46.
7:12-14: Josh 18:1; Psa 78:60; Jer 26:6.
7:31: a 2Ki 23:10; Jer 32:35; b Lev 18:21.
7:34: Jer 16:9; 25:10; Rev 18:23.
15:1: a Exo 32:11-14; Num 14:13-19; b 1Sam 7:5-9.
15:4: 2Ki 21:1-16; 2Ch 33:1-9.
16:9: Jer 7:34; 25:10; Rev 18:23.
17:10: a Rev 2:23; b Psa 62:12.
19:2: 2Ki 23:10; Jer 7:30-32; 32:34-35.
21:2: 2Ki 25:1-11; 2Ch 36:17-21.
22:11: 2Ki 23:31-34; 2Ch 36:1-4.
22:18: 2Ki 23:36–24:6; 2Ch 36:5-7.
22:24: 2Ki 24:8-15; 2Ch 36:9-10.
24:1: 2Ki 24:12-16; 2Ch 36:10.
25:10: a Jer 7:34; 16:9; b Rev 18:22-23.
25:11: 2Ch 36:21; Jer 29:10; Dan 9:2.
26:6: Josh 18:1; Psa 78:60; Jer 7:12-14.
27:1: 2Ki 24:18-20; 2Ch 36:11-13.
28:1: 2Ki 24:18-20; 2Ch 36:11-13.
29:1-2: 2Ki 24:12-16; 2Ch 36:10.
29:10: 2Ch 36:21; Jer 25:11; Dan 9:2.
31:31: Mat 26:28; Mrk 14:24; Luk 22:20; 1Cor 11:25; 2Cor 3:6.
32:28: 2Ki 25:1-11; 2Ch 36:17-21.
32:34: 2Ki 23:10; Jer 7:30-31; 19:1-6.
33:11: 1Ch 16:34; 2Ch 5:13; 7:3; Ezr 3:11; Psa 100:5; 106:1; 107:1; 118:1; 136:1.
33:17: 2Sam 7:12-16; 1Ki 2:4; 1Ch 17:11-14.
34:1: 2Ki 25:1-11; 2Ch 36:17-21.
35:1: 2Ki 23:36–24:6; 2Ch 36:5-7.
36:1: 2Ki 24:1; 2Ch 36:5-7; Dan 1:1-2.
45:1: 2Ki 24:1; 2Ch 36:5-7; Dan 1:1-2.
46:2-26: Isa 19:1-25; Eze 29:1–32:32.
47:1-7: Isa 14:29-31; Eze 25:15-17; Yoel 3:4-8; Amos 1:6-8; Zeph 2:4-7; Zech 9:5-7.
48:1-47: Isa 15:1–16:14; 25:10-12; Eze 25:8-11; Amos 2:1-3; Zeph 2:8-11.
49:1-6: Eze 21:28-32; 25:1-7; Amos 1:13-15; Zeph 2:8-11.
49:7-22: Isa 34:5-17; 63:1-6; Eze 25:12-14; 35:1-15; Amos 1:11-12; Oba 1-14; Mic 1:2-5.
49:23-27: Isa 17:1-3; Amos 1:3-5; Zech 9:1.
1:5 OSHB variant note: אצור/ך: (x-qere) ’אֶצָּרְ/ךָ֤’: lemma_3335 morph_HVqi1cs/Sp2ms id_24BsK אֶצָּרְ/ךָ֤
1:6 OSHB note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
2:2 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
2:3 OSHB note: We have abandoned or added a ketib/qere relative to BHS. In doing this we agree with L against BHS.
2:15 OSHB variant note: נצתה: (x-qere) ’נִצְּת֖וּ’: lemma_3341 n_0.0 morph_HVNp3cp id_24Z4D נִצְּת֖וּ
2:16 OSHB variant note: ו/תחפנס: (x-qere) ’וְ/תַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס’: lemma_c/8471 n_1 morph_HC/Np id_24p7s וְ/תַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס
2:20 OSHB variant note: אעבד: (x-qere) ’אֶעֱב֑וֹר’: lemma_5674 a n_1 morph_HVqi1cs id_24x72 אֶעֱב֑וֹר
2:24 OSHB variant note: נפש/ו: (x-qere) ’נַפְשָׁ/הּ֙’: lemma_5315 n_1.1.0 morph_HNcbsc/Sp3fs id_24Cpt נַפְשָׁ/הּ֙
2:25 OSHB variant note: ו/גורנ/ך: (x-qere) ’וּ/גְרוֹנֵ֖/ךְ’: lemma_c/1627 n_1.0 morph_HC/Ncmsc/Sp2fs id_24LZU וּ/גְרוֹנֵ֖/ךְ
2:27 OSHB variant note: ילדת/ני: (x-qere) ’יְלִדְתָּ֔/נוּ’: lemma_3205 n_1.1 morph_HVqp2fs/Sp1cp id_24hDf יְלִדְתָּ֔/נוּ
2:33 OSHB variant note: למדתי: (x-qere) ’לִמַּ֖דְתְּ’: lemma_3925 n_0.0 morph_HVpp1cs id_24WMK לִמַּ֖דְתְּ
3:2 OSHB variant note: שגלת: (x-qere) ’שֻׁכַּ֔בְתְּ’: lemma_7901 n_1.2 morph_HVPp2fs id_24YfW שֻׁכַּ֔בְתְּ
3:4 OSHB variant note: קראתי: (x-qere) ’קָרָ֥את’: lemma_7121 morph_HVqp2fs id_24uXm קָרָ֥את
3:5 OSHB variant note: דברתי: (x-qere) ’דִבַּ֛רְתְּ’: lemma_1696 n_0.0.0 morph_HVpp2fs id_24wtX דִבַּ֛רְתְּ
3:5 OSHB note: Yathir readings in L which we have designated as Qeres when both Dothan and BHS list a Qere.
3:7 OSHB variant note: ו/תראה: (x-qere) ’וַ/תֵּ֛רֶא’: lemma_c/7200 n_0.0.0 morph_HC/Vqw3fs id_24Cdg וַ/תֵּ֛רֶא
3:19 OSHB variant note: תקראו: (x-qere) ’תִּקְרְאִי’: lemma_7121 morph_HVqi2fs id_24e5T תִּקְרְאִי
3:19 OSHB variant note: תשובו: (x-qere) ’תָשֽׁוּבִי’: lemma_7725 n_0 morph_HVqi2fs id_24jGt תָשֽׁוּבִי
4:5 OSHB variant note: ו/תקעו: (x-qere) ’תִּקְע֥וּ’: lemma_8628 morph_HVqv2mp id_24C5b תִּקְע֥וּ
4:19 OSHB variant note: אחולה: (x-qere) ’אוֹחִ֜ילָה’: lemma_3176 n_1.0.0.0 morph_HVhh1cs id_245Xt אוֹחִ֜ילָה
4:19 OSHB variant note: שמעתי: (x-qere) ’שָׁמַ֣עַתְּ’: lemma_8085 morph_HVqp2fs id_249XH שָׁמַ֣עַתְּ
4:30 OSHB variant note: ו/אתי: (x-qere) ’וְ/אַ֨תְּ’: lemma_c/859 b morph_HC/Pp2fs id_24DdX וְ/אַ֨תְּ
5:6 OSHB variant note: משבותי/הם: (x-qere) ’מְשׁוּבוֹתֵי/הֶֽם’: lemma_4878 n_0 morph_HNcfpc/Sp3mp id_24pBm מְשׁוּבוֹתֵי/הֶֽם
5:6 OSHB note: We have abandoned or added a ketib/qere relative to BHS. In doing this we agree with L against BHS.
5:7 OSHB variant note: אסלוח: (x-qere) ’אֶֽסְלַֽח’: lemma_5545 morph_HVqi1cs id_24BPG אֶֽסְלַֽח
5:7 OSHB note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
5:24 OSHB variant note: ו/ירה: (x-qere) ’יוֹרֶ֥ה’: lemma_3138 morph_HNcmsa id_24GE5 יוֹרֶ֥ה
6:1 OSHB note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
6:7 OSHB variant note: בור: (x-qere) ’בַּ֨יִר֙’: lemma_953 a n_1.1.0 morph_HNcmsa id_24FSa בַּ֨יִר֙
6:21 OSHB variant note: יאבדו: (x-qere) ’וְ/אָבָֽדוּ’: lemma_c/6 n_0 morph_HC/Vqq3cp id_24vu4 וְ/אָבָֽדוּ
6:25 OSHB variant note: תצאי: (x-qere) ’תֵּֽצְאוּ֙’: lemma_3318 n_1.1.0 morph_HVqj2mp id_24MrQ תֵּֽצְאוּ֙
6:25 OSHB variant note: תלכי: (x-qere) ’תֵּלֵ֑כוּ’: lemma_1980 n_1 morph_HVqj2mp id_24ST2 תֵּלֵ֑כוּ
6:29 OSHB variant note: מ/אשת/ם: (x-qere) ’מֵ/אֵ֖שׁ’: lemma_m/784 n_1.0 morph_HR/Ncbsa id_243Hf מֵ/אֵ֖שׁ ’תַּ֣ם’: lemma_8552 morph_HVqp3ms id_247G6 תַּ֣ם
7:9 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
7:22 OSHB variant note: הוציא: (x-qere) ’הוֹצִיאִ֥/י’: lemma_3318 morph_HVhc/Sp1cs id_24mn4 הוֹצִיאִ֥/י
8:1 OSHB variant note: ו/יציאו: (x-qere) ’יוֹצִ֣יאוּ’: lemma_3318 morph_HVhi3mp id_24dp9 יוֹצִ֣יאוּ
8:6 OSHB variant note: ב/מרצות/ם: (x-qere) ’בִּ/מְר֣וּצָתָ֔/ם’: lemma_b/4794 n_0.1 morph_HR/Ncfsc/Sp3mp id_24Sgi בִּ/מְר֣וּצָתָ֔/ם
8:7 OSHB variant note: ו/סוס: (x-qere) ’וְ/סִיס֙’: lemma_c/5483 a n_1.1.0 morph_HC/Ncmsa id_24vWK וְ/סִיס֙
8:7 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
8:23 Note: KJB: Jer.9.1
9:1 Note: KJB: Jer.9.2
9:2 Note: KJB: Jer.9.3
9:3 Note: KJB: Jer.9.4
9:4 Note: KJB: Jer.9.5
9:5 Note: KJB: Jer.9.6
9:6 Note: KJB: Jer.9.7
9:7 Note: KJB: Jer.9.8
9:7 OSHB variant note: שוחט: (x-qere) ’שָׁח֛וּט’: lemma_7819 a n_1.0.0 morph_HVqsmsa id_24hgx שָׁח֛וּט
9:7 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
9:8 Note: KJB: Jer.9.9
9:9 Note: KJB: Jer.9.10
9:10 Note: KJB: Jer.9.11
9:11 Note: KJB: Jer.9.12
9:12 Note: KJB: Jer.9.13
9:13 Note: KJB: Jer.9.14
9:14 Note: KJB: Jer.9.15
9:15 Note: KJB: Jer.9.16
9:16 Note: KJB: Jer.9.17
9:17 Note: KJB: Jer.9.18
9:18 Note: KJB: Jer.9.19
9:19 Note: KJB: Jer.9.20
9:20 Note: KJB: Jer.9.21
9:21 Note: KJB: Jer.9.22
9:22 Note: KJB: Jer.9.23
9:23 Note: KJB: Jer.9.24
9:24 Note: KJB: Jer.9.25
9:25 Note: KJB: Jer.9.26
10:13 OSHB variant note: ארץ: (x-qere) ’הָ/אָ֑רֶץ’: lemma_d/776 n_1 morph_HTd/Ncbsa id_24fZb הָ/אָ֑רֶץ
10:17 OSHB variant note: ישבתי: (x-qere) ’יֹשֶׁ֖בֶת’: lemma_3427 n_0.0 morph_HVqrfsa id_24EMh יֹשֶׁ֖בֶת
13:12 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
13:13 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
13:16 OSHB variant note: ישית: (x-qere) ’וְ/שִׁ֖ית’: lemma_c/7896 n_0.0 morph_HC/Vqc id_24Xqr וְ/שִׁ֖ית
13:20 OSHB variant note: שאי: (x-qere) ’שְׂא֤וּ’: lemma_5375 morph_HVqv2mp id_246ev שְׂא֤וּ
13:20 OSHB variant note: ו/ראי: (x-qere) ’וּ/רְא֔וּ’: lemma_c/7200 n_1.1 morph_HC/Vqv2mp id_24dmq וּ/רְא֔וּ
14:3 OSHB variant note: צעורי/הם: (x-qere) ’צְעִירֵי/הֶ֖ם’: lemma_6810 n_1.0 morph_HAampc/Sp3mp id_24rN2 צְעִירֵי/הֶ֖ם
14:14 OSHB variant note: ו/אלול: (x-qere) ’וֶֽ/אֱלִיל֙’: lemma_c/457 n_0.1.0 morph_HC/Ncmsa id_249Yo וֶֽ/אֱלִיל֙
14:14 OSHB variant note: ו/תרמות: (x-qere) ’וְ/תַרְמִ֣ית’: lemma_c/8649 b morph_HC/Ncfsc id_24t1Z וְ/תַרְמִ֣ית
15:4 OSHB variant note: ל/זועה: (x-qere) ’לְ/זַֽעֲוָ֔ה’: lemma_l/2189 n_1.1 morph_HR/Ncfsa id_24U8E לְ/זַֽעֲוָ֔ה
15:8 OSHB note: We have abandoned or added a ketib/qere relative to BHS. In doing this we agree with L against BHS.
15:9 OSHB variant note: באה: (x-qere) ’בָּ֥א’: lemma_935 morph_HVqp3ms id_24x3o בָּ֥א
15:11 OSHB variant note: שרות/ך: (x-qere) ’שֵֽׁרִיתִ֖י/ךָ’: lemma_8281 n_1.0 morph_HVpp1cs/Sp2ms id_24gHx שֵֽׁרִיתִ֖י/ךָ
15:11 OSHB note: We read one or more consonants in L differently from BHS.
15:16 OSHB variant note: דברי/ך: (x-qere) ’דְבָֽרְ/ךָ֙’: lemma_1697 n_1.1.0 morph_HNcmsc/Sp2ms id_24Wom דְבָֽרְ/ךָ֙
16:16 OSHB variant note: ל/דוגים: (x-qere) ’לְ/דַיָּגִ֥ים’: lemma_l/1771 morph_HR/Ncmpa id_24Jp4 לְ/דַיָּגִ֥ים
17:8 OSHB variant note: ירא: (x-qere) ’יִרְאֶה֙’: lemma_7200 n_1.1.0 morph_HVqi3ms id_24agE יִרְאֶה֙
17:10 OSHB variant note: כ/דרכ/ו: (x-qere) ’כִּ/דְרָכָ֔י/ו’: lemma_k/1870 n_0.1 morph_HR/Ncbpc/Sp3ms id_24nHt כִּ/דְרָכָ֔י/ו
17:11 OSHB variant note: ימ/ו: (x-qere) ’יָמָי/ו֙’: lemma_3117 n_0.1.0 morph_HNcmpc/Sp3ms id_24qJK יָמָי/ו֙
17:13 OSHB variant note: יסור/י: (x-qere) ’וְ/סוּרַ/י֙’: lemma_c/5493 n_0.1.0 morph_HC/Vqrmpc/Sp1cs id_24q5z וְ/סוּרַ/י֙
17:19 OSHB variant note: עם: (x-qere) ’הָ/עָ֔ם’: lemma_d/5971 a n_1.2 morph_HTd/Ncmsa id_24Ddt הָ/עָ֔ם
17:23 OSHB variant note: שומע: (x-qere) ’שְׁמ֔וֹעַ’: lemma_8085 n_0.1 morph_HVqc id_244aE שְׁמ֔וֹעַ
17:24 OSHB variant note: ב/ה: (x-qere) ’בּ֖/וֹ’: lemma_b n_0.0 morph_HR/Sp3ms id_248MU בּ֖/וֹ
18:3 OSHB variant note: ו/הנ/הו: (x-qere) ’וְ/הִנֵּה’: lemma_c/2009 morph_HC/Tm id_24FZn וְ/הִנֵּה־ ־’ה֛וּא’: lemma_1931 n_0.0.0 morph_HPp3ms id_24HhN ה֛וּא
18:3 OSHB note: Adaptations to a Qere which L and BHS, by their design, do not indicate.
18:10 OSHB variant note: ה/רעה: (x-qere) ’הָ/רַע֙’: lemma_d/7451 a n_1.1.0 morph_HTd/Aamsa id_24Zvg הָ/רַע֙
18:16 OSHB variant note: שרוקת: (x-qere) ’שְׁרִיק֣וֹת’: lemma_8322 morph_HNcfpc id_24Jo5 שְׁרִיק֣וֹת
18:16 OSHB note: We read one or more consonants in L differently from BHS.
18:22 OSHB variant note: שיחה: (x-qere) ’שׁוּחָה֙’: lemma_7745 n_0.1.0 morph_HNcfsa id_24L1P שׁוּחָה֙
18:23 OSHB variant note: ו/היו: (x-qere) ’וְ/יִהְי֤וּ’: lemma_c/1961 morph_HC/Vqi3mp id_24CbA וְ/יִהְי֤וּ
19:2 OSHB variant note: ה/חרסות: (x-qere) ’הַֽ/חַרְסִ֑ית’: lemma_d/2777 n_1 morph_HTd/Ncfsa id_24mtF הַֽ/חַרְסִ֑ית
19:11 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
19:15 OSHB variant note: מבי: (x-qere) ’מֵבִ֜יא’: lemma_935 n_1.2.0.0 morph_HVhrmsa id_24NL7 מֵבִ֜יא
20:4 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
21:9 OSHB variant note: יחיה: (x-qere) ’וְ/חָיָ֔ה’: lemma_c/2421 n_0.1 morph_HC/Vqq3ms id_24Ui1 וְ/חָיָ֔ה
21:12 OSHB variant note: מעללי/הם: (x-qere) ’מַעַלְלֵי/כֶֽם’: lemma_4611 n_0 morph_HNcmpc/Sp2mp id_24ytA מַעַלְלֵי/כֶֽם
22:4 OSHB variant note: ו/עבד/ו: (x-qere) ’וַ/עֲבָדָ֖י/ו’: lemma_c/5650 n_0.0 morph_HC/Ncmpc/Sp3ms id_24Xge וַ/עֲבָדָ֖י/ו
22:6 OSHB variant note: נושבה: (x-qere) ’נוֹשָֽׁבוּ’: lemma_3427 n_0 morph_HVNp3cp id_24yT7 נוֹשָֽׁבוּ
22:18 OSHB note: We have abandoned or added a ketib/qere relative to BHS. In doing this we agree with L against BHS.
22:23 OSHB variant note: ישבתי: (x-qere) ’יֹשַׁבְתְּ֙’: lemma_3427 n_1.1.0 morph_HVqrfsc id_24zeo יֹשַׁבְתְּ֙
22:23 OSHB variant note: מקננתי: (x-qere) ’מְקֻנַּ֖נְתְּ’: lemma_7077 n_1.0 morph_HVPsfsa id_24ZPC מְקֻנַּ֖נְתְּ
23:9 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
23:18 OSHB variant note: דבר/י: (x-qere) ’דְּבָר֖/וֹ’: lemma_1697 n_0.0 morph_HC/Vqw3ms id_24ght דְּבָר֖/וֹ
24:9 OSHB variant note: ל/זועה: (x-qere) ’לְ/זַעֲוָ֣ה’: lemma_l/2113 morph_HR/Ncfsa id_2466z לְ/זַעֲוָ֣ה
25:7 OSHB variant note: הכעסו/ני: (x-qere) ’הַכְעִיסֵ֛/נִי’: lemma_3707 n_0.0.0 morph_HVhc/Sp1cs id_24nu8 הַכְעִיסֵ֛/נִי
25:13 OSHB variant note: ו/הבאיתי: (x-qere) ’וְ/הֵֽבֵאתִי֙’: lemma_c/935 n_1.1.0 morph_HC/Vhq1cs id_24FpP וְ/הֵֽבֵאתִי֙
26:6 OSHB variant note: ה/זאתה: (x-qere) ’הַ/זֹּאת֙’: lemma_d/2063 n_0.1.0 morph_HTd/Pdxfs id_24h7X הַ/זֹּאת֙
26:18 OSHB variant note: מיכיה: (x-qere) ’מִיכָה֙’: lemma_4318 n_1.2.0 morph_HNp id_24CTb מִיכָה֙
27:20 OSHB note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
28:1 OSHB variant note: ב/שנת: (x-qere) ’בַּ/שָּׁנָה֙’: lemma_b/8141 n_1.1.0 morph_HRd/Ncfsa id_24wRc בַּ/שָּׁנָה֙
28:3 OSHB note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
28:11 OSHB note: We read punctuation in L differently from BHS.
29:14 OSHB variant note: שבית/כם: (x-qere) ’שְׁבוּתְ/כֶ֗ם’: lemma_7622 n_1.0.2 morph_HNcfsc/Sp2mp id_24pPf שְׁבוּתְ/כֶ֗ם
29:18 OSHB variant note: ל/זועה: (x-qere) ’לְ/זַעֲוָ֜ה’: lemma_l/2189 n_0.1.1.1 morph_HR/Ncfsa id_24J16 לְ/זַעֲוָ֜ה
29:23 OSHB variant note: הוידע: (x-qere) ’הַ/יּוֹדֵ֥עַ’: lemma_d/3045 morph_HTd/Vqrmsa id_24xzj הַ/יּוֹדֵ֥עַ
29:23 OSHB exegesis note: A single word in the text has been divided for exegesis.
31:21 OSHB variant note: הלכתי: (x-qere) ’הָלָ֑כְתְּ’: lemma_1980 n_1 morph_HVqp2fs id_24fUh הָלָ֑כְתְּ
31:38 OSHB variant note: (x-qere) ’בָּאִ֖ים’: lemma_935 n_1.0 morph_HVqrmpa id_24hu2 בָּאִ֖ים
31:38 OSHB note: Adaptations to a Qere which L and BHS, by their design, do not indicate.
31:39 OSHB variant note: קוה: (x-qere) ’קָ֤ו’: lemma_6957 b morph_HNcmsc id_24KUc קָ֤ו
31:40 OSHB variant note: ה/שרמות: (x-qere) ’הַ/שְּׁדֵמוֹת֩’: lemma_d/7709 morph_HTd/Ncfpa id_24s5d הַ/שְּׁדֵמוֹת֩
32:1 OSHB variant note: ב/שנת: (x-qere) ’בַּ/שָּׁנָה֙’: lemma_b/8141 n_1.1.0 morph_HRd/Ncfsa id_24mRt בַּ/שָּׁנָה֙
32:4 OSHB variant note: עינ/ו: (x-qere) ’עֵינָ֥י/ו’: lemma_5869 a morph_HTd/Aofsa id_24Gnb עֵינָ֥י/ו
32:13 OSHB note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
32:23 OSHB variant note: ו/ב/תרות/ך: (x-qere) ’וּ/בְ/תוֹרָתְ/ךָ֣’: lemma_c/b/8451 morph_HC/R/Ncfsc/Sp2ms id_24qeu וּ/בְ/תוֹרָתְ/ךָ֣
32:35 OSHB variant note: החטי: (x-qere) ’הַחֲטִ֥יא’: lemma_2398 morph_HVhc id_24jmt הַחֲטִ֥יא
33:8 OSHB variant note: ל/כול: (x-qere) ’לְ/כָל’: lemma_l/3605 morph_HR/Ncmsc id_24HJr לְ/כָל
33:18 OSHB note: We read punctuation in L differently from BHS.
33:26 OSHB variant note: אשוב: (x-qere) ’אָשִׁ֥יב’: lemma_7725 morph_HVhi1cs id_24K5U אָשִׁ֥יב
34:11 OSHB variant note: ו/יכבישו/ם: (x-qere) ’וַֽ/יִּכְבְּשׁ֔וּ/ם’: lemma_c/3533 n_0.1 morph_HC/Vqw3mp/Sp3mp id_249Ga וַֽ/יִּכְבְּשׁ֔וּ/ם
34:17 OSHB variant note: ל/זועה: (x-qere) ’לְ/זַעֲוָ֔ה’: lemma_l/2189 n_0.1 morph_HR/Ncfsa id_24L7e לְ/זַעֲוָ֔ה
37:4 OSHB variant note: ה/כליא: (x-qere) ’הַ/כְּלֽוּא’: lemma_d/3628 n_0 morph_HTd/Ncmsa id_24fJr הַ/כְּלֽוּא
37:7 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
37:19 OSHB variant note: ו/אי/ו: (x-qere) ’וְ/אַיֵּה֙’: lemma_c/346 n_1.1.0 morph_HC/Ti id_24sQJ וְ/אַיֵּה֙
38:2 OSHB variant note: יחיה: (x-qere) ’וְ/חָיָ֔ה’: lemma_c/2421 n_0.1 morph_HC/Vqq3ms id_2411s וְ/חָיָ֔ה
38:11 OSHB variant note: ה/סחבות: (x-qere) ’סְחָב֔וֹת’: lemma_5499 n_1.1 morph_HNcfpa id_24srU סְחָב֔וֹת
38:16 OSHB variant note: את: (x-qere)
39:9 OSHB note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
39:12 OSHB variant note: אם: (x-qere)
39:13 OSHB note: Small letter(s). Shown as small letters without a superscript note number.
39:16 OSHB note: We read one or more vowels in L differently from BHS.
39:16 OSHB variant note: מבי: (x-qere) ’מֵבִ֨יא’: lemma_935 morph_HVhrmsa id_24tzm מֵבִ֨יא
40:3 OSHB variant note: דבר: (x-qere) ’הַ/דָּבָ֥ר’: lemma_d/1697 morph_HTd/Ncmsa id_242Lg הַ/דָּבָ֥ר
40:8 OSHB variant note: עופי: (x-qere) ’עֵיפַ֣י’: lemma_5778 morph_HNp id_24sir עֵיפַ֣י
40:14 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
40:16 OSHB variant note: תעש: (x-qere) ’תַּעֲשֵׂ֖ה’: lemma_6213 a n_1.0 morph_HVqj2ms id_249Tk תַּעֲשֵׂ֖ה
41:17 OSHB variant note: כמו/הם: (x-qere) ’כִּמְהָ֔ם’: lemma_3643 n_1.1 morph_HNp id_24aMS כִּמְהָ֔ם
42:6 OSHB variant note: אנו: (x-qere) ’אֲנַ֜חְנוּ’: lemma_587 n_1.0.0.0 morph_HPp1cp id_24JrR אֲנַ֜חְנוּ
42:20 OSHB variant note: התעתי/ם: (x-qere) ’הִתְעֵיתֶם֮’: lemma_8582 n_1.3.0 morph_HVhp2mp id_24NKg הִתְעֵיתֶם֮
42:20 OSHB note: We read one or more consonants in L differently from BHS.
43:10 OSHB variant note: שפרור/ו: (x-qere) ’שַׁפְרִיר֖/וֹ’: lemma_8237 n_0.0 morph_HNcmsc/Sp3ms id_24GLo שַׁפְרִיר֖/וֹ
43:11 OSHB variant note: ו/בא/ה: (x-qere) ’וּ/בָ֕א’: lemma_c/935 n_1.1 morph_HC/Vqq3ms id_24cbW וּ/בָ֕א
46:11 OSHB variant note: הרביתי: (x-qere) ’הִרְבֵּ֣ית’: lemma_7235 a morph_HVhp2fs id_24RTA הִרְבֵּ֣ית
48:4 OSHB variant note: צעורי/ה: (x-qere) ’צְעִירֶֽי/הָ’: lemma_6810 n_0 morph_HAampc/Sp3fs id_24zaA צְעִירֶֽי/הָ
48:5 OSHB variant note: ה/לחות: (x-qere) ’הַ/לּוּחִ֔ית’: lemma_d/3872 n_1.1 morph_HTd/Np id_24Khg הַ/לּוּחִ֔ית
48:5 OSHB note: We read one or more consonants in L differently from BHS.
48:7 OSHB variant note: כמיש: (x-qere) ’כְמוֹשׁ֙’: lemma_3645 n_0.1.0 morph_HNp id_24snw כְמוֹשׁ֙
48:7 OSHB variant note: יחד: (x-qere) ’יַחְדָּֽיו’: lemma_3162 b n_0 morph_HD id_24Ydf יַחְדָּֽיו
48:18 OSHB variant note: ישבי: (x-qere) ’וּ/שְׁבִ֣י’: lemma_c/3427 morph_HC/Vqv2fs id_24MLT וּ/שְׁבִ֣י
48:20 OSHB variant note: הילילי: (x-qere) ’הֵילִ֣ילוּ’: lemma_3213 morph_HVhv2mp id_247z2 הֵילִ֣ילוּ
48:20 OSHB variant note: ו/זעקי: (x-qere) ’וּֽ/זְעָ֑קוּ’: lemma_c/2199 n_1 morph_HC/Vqv2mp id_24cLh וּֽ/זְעָ֑קוּ
48:21 OSHB variant note: מופעת: (x-qere) ’מֵיפָֽעַת’: lemma_4158 n_0 morph_HNp id_24Hdc מֵיפָֽעַת
48:27 OSHB variant note: נמצאה: (x-qere) ’נִמְצָ֑א’: lemma_4672 n_1 morph_HVNp3ms id_24teg נִמְצָ֑א
48:30 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
48:32 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
48:44 OSHB exegesis note: WLC has this word divided as הניס
48:44 OSHB variant note: הניס: (x-qere) ’הַ/נָּ֞ס’: lemma_d/5127 n_1.2.0.0 morph_HTd/Vqrmsa id_24Rwm הַ/נָּ֞ס
49:25 OSHB variant note: תהלה: (x-qere) ’תְּהִלָּ֑ת’: lemma_8416 n_1 morph_HNcfsc id_249XL תְּהִלָּ֑ת
49:28 OSHB variant note: נבוכדראצור: (x-qere) ’נְבֽוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֣ר’: lemma_5019 morph_HNp id_249Xm נְבֽוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֣ר
49:30 OSHB variant note: עלי/הם: (x-qere) ’עֲלֵי/כֶ֖ם’: lemma_5921 a n_0.0 morph_HR/Sp2mp id_24e1F עֲלֵי/כֶ֖ם
49:36 OSHB variant note: עולם: (x-qere) ’עֵילָֽם’: lemma_5867 a n_0 morph_HNcmsa id_246gu עֵילָֽם
49:39 OSHB variant note: אשוב: (x-qere) ’אָשִׁ֛יב’: lemma_7725 n_0.0.0 morph_HVhi1cs id_249Jg אָשִׁ֛יב
49:39 OSHB variant note: שבית: (x-qere) ’שְׁב֥וּת’: lemma_7622 morph_HNcfsc id_241No שְׁב֥וּת
50:6 OSHB variant note: היה: (x-qere) ’הָי֣וּ’: lemma_1961 morph_HVqp3cp id_24K4p הָי֣וּ
50:6 OSHB variant note: שובבים: (x-qere) ’שֽׁוֹבְב֑וּ/ם’: lemma_7725 n_1 morph_HVop3cp/Sp3mp id_24sjy שֽׁוֹבְב֑וּ/ם
50:8 OSHB variant note: יצאו: (x-qere) ’צֵ֑אוּ’: lemma_3318 n_1 morph_HVqv2mp id_24BBy צֵ֑אוּ
50:11 OSHB variant note: תשמחי: (x-qere) ’תִשְׂמְחוּ֙’: lemma_8055 n_1.1.0 morph_HVqi2mp id_24Pdb תִשְׂמְחוּ֙
50:11 OSHB variant note: תעלזי: (x-qere) ’תַֽעֲלְז֔וּ’: lemma_5937 n_1.1 morph_HVqi2mp id_24Tum תַֽעֲלְז֔וּ
50:11 OSHB note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
50:11 OSHB variant note: תפושי: (x-qere) ’תָפ֨וּשׁוּ֙’: lemma_6335 a n_0.1.0 morph_HVqi2mp id_24zT5 תָפ֨וּשׁוּ֙
50:11 OSHB variant note: ו/תצהלי: (x-qere) ’וְ/תִצְהֲל֖וּ’: lemma_c/6670 a n_0.0 morph_HC/Vqi2mp id_24EJj וְ/תִצְהֲל֖וּ
50:15 OSHB variant note: אשויתי/ה: (x-qere) ’אָשְׁיוֹתֶ֔י/הָ’: lemma_803 n_1.1 morph_HNcfpc/Sp3fs id_24bRx אָשְׁיוֹתֶ֔י/הָ
50:29 OSHB variant note: (x-qere) ’לָ/הּ֙’: lemma_l n_1.2.0 morph_HR/Sp3fs id_24CRs לָ/הּ֙
50:29 OSHB note: Adaptations to a Qere which L and BHS, by their design, do not indicate.
50:44 OSHB variant note: ארוצ/ם: (x-qere) ’אֲרִיצֵ/ם֙’: lemma_7323 n_1.1.0 morph_HVhi1cs/Sp3mp id_24eYS אֲרִיצֵ/ם֙
51:3 OSHB variant note: ידרך: (x-qere)
51:9 OSHB variant note: רפאנו: (x-qere) ’רִפִּ֣ינוּ’: lemma_7495 morph_HVpp1cp id_24snx רִפִּ֣ינוּ
51:13 OSHB variant note: שכנתי: (x-qere) ’שֹׁכַנְתְּ֙’: lemma_7931 n_1.1.0 morph_HVqrfsc id_24Xh2 שֹׁכַנְתְּ֙
51:34 OSHB variant note: אכל/נו: (x-qere) ’אֲכָלַ֣/נִי’: lemma_398 morph_HVqp3ms/Sp1cs id_24fqc אֲכָלַ֣/נִי
51:34 OSHB variant note: הממ/נו: (x-qere) ’הֲמָמַ֗/נִי’: lemma_2000 n_1.3.1 morph_HVqp3ms/Sp1cs id_24QAy הֲמָמַ֗/נִי
51:34 OSHB variant note: הציג/נו: (x-qere) ’הִצִּיגַ֨/נִי֙’: lemma_3322 n_1.2.0 morph_HVhp3ms/Sp1cs id_24BMJ הִצִּיגַ֨/נִי֙
51:34 OSHB variant note: בלע/נו: (x-qere) ’בְּלָעַ֨/נִי֙’: lemma_1104 n_1.1.0 morph_HVqp3ms/Sp1cs id_24GLM בְּלָעַ֨/נִי֙
51:34 OSHB variant note: הדיח/נו: (x-qere) ’הֱדִיחָֽ/נִי’: lemma_1740 n_0 morph_HVhp3ms/Sp1cs id_2464g הֱדִיחָֽ/נִי
52:1 OSHB variant note: חמיטל: (x-qere) ’חֲמוּטַ֥ל’: lemma_2537 morph_HNp id_24v3H חֲמוּטַ֥ל
52:11 OSHB variant note: ב/בית: (x-qere) ’בֵֽית’: lemma_1004 b morph_HNcmsc id_24JoE בֵֽית
52:21 OSHB variant note: קומה: (x-qere) ’קוֹמַת֙’: lemma_6967 n_1.1.0 morph_HNcfsc id_24GkJ קוֹמַת֙
52:31 OSHB variant note: ה/כליא: (x-qere) ’הַ/כְּלֽוּא’: lemma_d/3628 n_0 morph_HTd/Ncmsa id_24Bxf הַ/כְּלֽוּא
52:32 OSHB variant note: מלכים: (x-qere) ’הַ/מְּלָכִ֛ים’: lemma_d/4428 n_0.0.0 morph_HTd/Ncmpa id_24chJ הַ/מְּלָכִ֛ים
