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\par }{\MT Jeremiah

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
words
of
Jeremiah,
the
son
of
Hilkiah,
of
the
priests
who
were
in
Anathoth
in
the
land
of
Benjamin:
\VS{2}To
whom
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
in
the
days
of
Josiah,
the
son
of
Amon,
king
of
Judah,
in
the thirteenth
year
of
his
rule.
\VS{3}And
it
came
again
in
the
days
of
Jehoiakim,
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah,
up
to
the
eleventh
year
of
Zedekiah,
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah;
till
Jerusalem
was
taken
away
in
the
fifth
month.
\VS{4}Now
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{5}Before
you
were
formed
in
the
body
of
your
mother
I
had
knowledge
of
you,
and
before
your
birth
I
made
you
holy;
I
have
given
you
the
work
of
being
a
prophet
to
the
nations.
\VS{6}Then
said
I,
O
Lord
God!
see,
I
have
no power
of words,
for
I
am
a
child.
\VS{7}But
the
Lord
said
to
me,
Do
not
say,
I
am
a
child:
for
wherever
I
send
you,
you
are
to
go,
and
whatever
I
give
you
orders
to
say,
you
are
to
say.
\VS{8}Have
no
fear
because
of
them:
for
I
am
with
you,
to keep
you safe,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{9}Then
the
Lord
put
out
his
hand,
touching
my
mouth;
and
the
Lord
said
to
me,
See,
I
have
put
my
words
in
your
mouth:
\VS{10}See,
this
day
I
have
put
you
over
the
nations
and
over
the
kingdoms,
for uprooting
and smashing
down,
for
destruction
and overturning,
for
building
up
and planting.
\VS{11}Again
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me,
saying,
Jeremiah,
what
do
you
see?
And
I
said,
I
see
a branch
of
an almond-tree.
\VS{12}Then
the
Lord
said
to
me,
You
have
seen
well:
for
I
keep
watch
over
my
word
to
give effect
to
it.
\VS{13}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me
a
second
time,
saying,
What
do
you
see?
And
I
said,
I
see
a
boiling
pot,
and
its
face
is
from
the
north.
\VS{14}Then
the
Lord
said
to
me,
Out
of
the
north
evil
will come, bursting
out
on
all
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{15}For
see,
I
will
send
for
all
the
families
of
the
kingdoms
of
the
north,
says
the
Lord;
and
they
will
come,
everyone
placing
his high
seat
at
the
way
into
Jerusalem,
and
against
its
walls
on
every
side,
and
against
all
the
towns
of
Judah.
\VS{16}And
I
will
give
my
decision
against
them
on
account
of
all
their evil-doing;
because
they
have
given
me
up,
burning perfumes
to
other
gods
and worshipping
the
works
of
their
hands.
\VS{17}So
make
yourself ready,
and
go
and
say
to
them
everything
I
give
you
orders
to
say:
do
not
be overcome
by
fear
of
them,
or
I
will send
fear
on
you
before
them.
\VS{18}For
see,
this
day
have
I
made
you
a
walled
town,
and
an
iron
pillar,
and
walls
of
brass,
against
all
the
land,
against
the
kings
of
Judah,
against
its
captains,
against
its
priests,
and
against
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{19}They
will
be
fighting
against
you,
but
they
will
not
overcome
you:
for
I
am
with
you,
says
the
Lord,
to give
you salvation.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}Go
and
say
in
the
ears
of
Jerusalem,
The
Lord
says,
I
still
keep
the memory
of
your kind heart
when
you
were young,
and
your
love
when
you
became
my bride;
how
you
went
after
me
in
the waste
of sand,
in
an unplanted
land.
\VS{3}Israel
was
holy
to
the
Lord,
the first-fruits
of
his
increase:
all
who
made
attacks
on
him
were judged
as wrongdoers,
evil
came
on
them,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{4}Give ear
to
the
words
of
the
Lord,
O sons
of
Jacob
and
all
the
families
of
Israel:
\VS{5}These
are
the words
of
the
Lord:
What
evil
have
your
fathers seen
in
me
that
they
have
gone
far
from
me,
and, walking
after
what
is false,
have become false?
\VS{6}And
they
never
said,
Where
is
the
Lord,
who
took
us
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt;
who
was
our guide
through
the waste
of sand,
through
an unplanted
land full
of
deep holes,
through
a
dry
land
of
deep shade,
which
no
one
went
through
and
where
no
man
was
living?
\VS{7}And
I
took
you
into
a
fertile
land,
where
you
were living
on
its
fruit
and
its wealth;
but
when
you
came
in,
you
made
my
land
unclean,
and
made
my
heritage
a
disgusting
thing.
\VS{8}The
priests
did
not
say,
Where
is
the
Lord?
and
those
who
were expert
in
the
law
had
no
knowledge
of
me:
and
the
rulers
did evil
against
me,
and
the
prophets
became
prophets
of
the
Baal,
going
after
things
without
value.
\VS{9}For
this
reason,
I
will
again put forward
my cause
against
you,
says
the
Lord,
even
against
you
and
against
your children's
children.
\VS{10}For
go
over
to
the sea-lands
of
Kittim
and
see;
send
to
Kedar
and
give deep thought
to
it;
and
see
if
there
has ever
been
such
a
thing.
\VS{11}Has
any
nation ever made
a
change
in
their
gods, though
they
are
no
gods?
but
my
people
have given up
their
glory
in
exchange
for what
is
of
no
profit.
\VS{12}Be full
of wonder,
O
heavens,
at
this;
be overcome
with fear,
be
completely
waste,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{13}For
my
people
have
done
two evils;
they
have given
up
me,
the
fountain
of
living
waters,
and
have
made
for
themselves water-holes,
cut
out
from
the rock,
broken water-holes,
of
no use
for storing
water.
\VS{14}Is
Israel
a
servant?
has
he
been
a house-servant
from birth?
why
has
he
been
made waste?
\VS{15}The
young
lions
have
made
an
outcry
against
him
with
a loud
voice:
they
have
made
his
land
waste;
his
towns
are
burned
up,
with
no
one
living
in
them.
\VS{16}Even
the
children
of Noph
and
Tahpanhes
have put shame
on
you.
\VS{17}Has
not
this come
on
you
because
you
have given
up
the
Lord
your
God,
who
was
your guide
by
the
way?
\VS{18}And
now,
what
have
you
to
do
on
the
way
to
Egypt,
to get
your
drink
from
the
waters
of
the
Nile?
or
what
have
you
to
do
on
the
way
to
Assyria,
to get
your
drink
from
the
waters
of
the
River?
\VS{19}The
evil
you
yourselves
have
done
will
be
your punishment,
your errors
will
be
your judge:
be
certain
then,
and
see
that
it
is
an
evil
and
a
bitter
thing
to
give
up
the
Lord
your
God,
and
no
longer
to
be moved
by fear
of
me,
says
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{20}For
in
the
past,
your
yoke
was
broken
by
your hands
and
your cords parted;
and
you
said,
I
will
not
be
your
servant;
for
on
every
high
hill
and
under
every branching
tree,
your behaviour
was
like
that
of
a
loose woman
\VS{21}But when
you were
planted
by
me,
you were
a noble
vine,
in
every
way
a
true
seed:
how
then
have
you
been
changed
into
the branching
plant
of
a strange
vine?
\VS{22}For
even
if
you
are
washed
with
soda
and take
much
soap, still
your evil-doing
is marked
before
me,
says
the
Lord
God.
\VS{23}How
are
you able
to
say,
I
am
not
unclean,
I
have
not
gone
after
the
Baals?
see
your
way
in
the
valley,
be clear
about
what
you
have
done:
you
are
a quick-footed
camel twisting
her
way
in
and
out;
\VS{24}An untrained ass,
used
to
the waste land, breathing
up
the
wind
in
her
desire;
at
her time,
who
is able
to send
her
away?
all
those
who
are
looking
for
her
will
have
no need
to
make
themselves tired;
in
her
month
they
will
get
her.
\VS{25}Do
not
let
your
foot
be
without shoes,
or
your throat dry
from need
of water:
but
you
said, There
is
no hope:
no,
for
I
have
been
a
lover
of
strange gods,
and
after
them
I
will go.
\VS{26}As
the
thief
is
shamed
when
he
is
taken,
so
is
Israel
shamed;
they,
their
kings
and
their
rulers,
their
priests
and
their
prophets;
\VS{27}Who
say
to
a
tree,
You
are
my
father;
and
to
a
stone,
You
have
given
me life:
for
their
backs
have
been
turned
to
me,
not
their
faces:
but
in
the
time
of
their
trouble
they
will
say,
Up!
and
be
our saviour.
\VS{28}But
where
are
the
gods
you
have
made
for yourselves?
let
them
come,
if
they
are able
to
give
you
salvation
in
the
time
of
your
trouble:
for
the
number
of
your
gods
is
as
the
number
of
your
towns,
O
Judah.
\VS{29}Why
will
you put forward
your cause
against
me?
You
have
all
done evil
against
me,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{30}I
gave
your
children
blows
to
no purpose;
they
got
no good
from training:
your
sword
has
been
the
destruction
of
your
prophets,
like
a death-giving
lion.
\VS{31}O
generation,
see
the
word
of
the
Lord.
Have
I
been
a waste
land
to
Israel?
or
a
land
of dark night?
why
do
my
people
say,
We
have got loose,
we
will
not
come
to
you
again?
\VS{32}Is it possible
for
a
virgin
to put out
of
her memory
her
ornaments,
or
a
bride
her robes?
but
my
people
have put
me out
of
their memories
for unnumbered
days.
\VS{33}With
what care
are
your
ways ordered
when
you
are
looking
for
love!
so ...
your
ways.
\VS{34}And
in
the
skirts
of
your robe
may
be seen
the life-blood
of
those
who
have
done
no wrong: ...
\VS{35}And
still
you
said,
I
have
done
no
wrong;
truly,
his
wrath
is
turned
away
from
me.
See,
I
will
take
up
the
cause
against
you,
because
you
say,
I
have
done
no
wrong.
\VS{36}Why
do
you
go
about
so
much
for
the purpose
of
changing
your
way?
you
will
be
shamed
on account
of
Egypt,
as
you
were
shamed
on account
of
Assyria.
\VS{37}Truly,
you
will
go
out
from
him
with
your
hands
on
your
head:
for
the
Lord
has
given
up
those
in
whom
you
have
put
your faith,
and
they
will
be
of
no help
to
you.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}They
say,
If
a
man
puts
away
his
wife
and
she
goes
from
him
and
becomes
another man's,
will
he
go
back
to
her
again?
will
not
that
land
have
been
made unclean?
but
though
you
have
been
acting
like
a
loose
woman
with
a number
of
lovers,
will
you
now
come
back
to
me?
says
the
Lord.
\VS{2}Let
your
eyes
be
lifted
up
to
the
open hilltops,
and
see;
where
have
you
not
been
taken
by
your lovers?
You
have
been
seated waiting
for
them
by
the
wayside
like
an Arabian
in
the waste
land;
you
have made
the
land unclean
with
your
loose
ways
and
your evil-doing.
\VS{3}So
the
showers
have
been
kept
back,
and
there
has
been
no
spring
rain; still
your brow
is
the brow
of
a loose
woman,
you
will
not
let yourself
be shamed.
\VS{4}Will
you
not,
from
this
time,
make
your prayer
to
me,
crying,
My
father,
you
are
the friend
of
my early years?
\VS{5}Will
he
be
angry
for
ever?
will
he
keep
his wrath
to
the
end?
These things
you
have
said,
and
have
done
evil
and
have
had
your
way.
\VS{6}And
the
Lord
said
to
me
in
the
days
of
Josiah
the
king,
Have
you
seen
what
Israel,
turning
away
from
me,
has
done?
She
has
gone
up
on
every
high
mountain
and
under
every branching
tree,
acting
like
a
loose woman
there.
\VS{7}And
I
said,
After
she
has
done
all
these
things
she
will
come
back
to
me;
but
she
did
not.
And
her false
sister
Judah
saw
it.
\VS{8}And
though
she
saw
that,
because
Israel,
turning
away
from
me,
had
been untrue
to
me,
I
had
put
her
away
and
given
her
a statement
in writing ending
the relation
between
us,
still
Judah,
her false
sister,
had
no
fear,
but
went
and
did
the
same.
\VS{9}So
that
through all
her loose behaviour
the
land
became unclean,
and she
was untrue, giving herself
to
stones
and
trees.
\VS{10}But
for
all
this,
her
false
sister
Judah
has
not
come
back
to
me
with
all
her
heart,
but
with
deceit,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{11}And
the
Lord
said
to
me,
Israel
in
her
turning away
is seen
to
be
more upright than false
Judah.
\VS{12}Go,
and
give
out
these
words
to
the
north,
and
say,
Come
back,
O
Israel,
though
you
have
been
turned
away
from
me,
says
the
Lord;
my
face
will
not
be
against
you
in wrath:
for
I
am
full
of
mercy,
says
the
Lord,
I
will
not
be
angry
for
ever.
\VS{13}Only
be conscious
of
your
sin,
the
evil
you
have
done
against
the
Lord
your
God;
you
have
gone
with
strange
men
under
every branching
tree, giving
no
attention
to
my
voice,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{14}Come
back,
O
children
who
are
turned
away,
says
the
Lord;
for
I
am
a
husband
to
you,
and
I
will
take
you,
one
from
a
town
and
two
from
a
family,
and
will
make
you
come
to
Zion;
\VS{15}And
I
will
give
you keepers, pleasing
to
my
heart,
who
will
give
you
your food
with
knowledge
and
wisdom.
\VS{16}And
it
will
come
about,
when
your numbers
are
increased
in
the
land,
in
those
days,
says
the
Lord,
that
they
will
no
longer
say,
The
ark
of
the
agreement
of
the
Lord:
it
will
not
come
into
their
minds,
they
will
not
have
any memory
of
it,
or
be conscious
of
the loss
of
it,
and
it
will
not
be
made
again.
\VS{17}At
that
time
Jerusalem
will
be
named
the
seat
of
the Lord's kingdom;
and
all
the
nations
will come together
to
it,
to
the
name
of
the
Lord,
to
Jerusalem:
and
no
longer
will
their steps
be guided
by
the purposes
of
their
evil
hearts.
\VS{18}In
those
days
the
family
of
Judah
will
go
with
the
family
of
Israel,
and
they
will
come
together
out
of
the
land
of
the
north
into
the
land
which
I
gave
for
a heritage
to
your
fathers.
\VS{19}But
I
said,
How
am
I
to
put
you
among
the
children,
and
give
you
a
desired
land,
a
heritage
of glory
among
the
armies
of
the
nations?
and
I
said,
You
are
to
say
to
me,
My
father;
and
not
be
turned
away
from
me.
\VS{20}Truly,
as
a
wife
is false
to
her
husband,
so
have
you
been false
to
me,
O
Israel,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{21}A
voice
is sounding
on
the open hilltops,
the
weeping
and
the prayers
of
the
children
of
Israel;
because
their
way
is twisted,
they
have
not kept
the
Lord
their
God
in mind.
\VS{22}Come
back,
you
children
who
have
been
turned
away,
and
I
will
take
away
your desire
for wandering.
See,
we
have
come
to
you,
for
you
are
the
Lord
our
God.
\VS{23}Truly,
the
hills,
and
the
noise
of
an
army
on
the
mountains,
are
a
false
hope:
truly,
in
the
Lord
our
God
is
the
salvation
of
Israel.
\VS{24}But
the Baal
has taken
all
the work
of
our
fathers
from
our earliest days;
their
flocks
and
their
herds,
their
sons
and
their
daughters.
\VS{25}Let
us
be stretched
on
the earth
in
our downfall,
covering
ourselves
with
our
shame:
for
we
have
been sinners
against
the
Lord
our
God,
we
and
our
fathers,
from
our earliest
years
even
till
this
day:
and
we
have
not
given ear
to
the
voice
of
the
Lord
our
God.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}If
you
will
come
back,
O
Israel,
says
the
Lord,
you
will
come
back
to
me:
and
if
you
will
put
away
your disgusting ways,
you
will
not
be
sent
away
from
before
me.
\VS{2}And
you
will
take
your
oath,
By
the
living
Lord,
in good
faith
and wisdom
and
righteousness;
and
the
nations
will
make use
of
you
as
a
blessing,
and
in
you
will
they
take
a pride.
\VS{3}For
this
is
what
the
Lord
says
to
the
men
of
Judah
and
to
Jerusalem: Get
your unworked land ploughed
up,
do
not put
in
your seeds
among
thorns.
\VS{4}Undergo
a circumcision
of
the
heart,
you
men
of
Judah
and
people
of
Jerusalem:
or
my
wrath
may
come
out
like
fire,
burning
so
that
no
one
is able
to
put
it
out,
because
of
the
evil
of
your
doings.
\VS{5}Say openly
in
Judah,
give
it
out
in
Jerusalem,
and
say,
Let
the
horn
be
sounded
in
the
land:
crying
out
in
a loud voice,
Come
together,
and
let
us
go
into
the walled
towns.
\VS{6}Put
up
a flag
for
a sign
to
Zion:
go
in flight
so
that
you
may
be safe, waiting
no longer:
for
I
will send
evil
from
the
north,
and
a
great
destruction.
\VS{7}A
lion
has
gone
up
from
his secret
place
in
the woods,
and
one
who
makes
waste
the
nations
is
on
his way;
he
has
gone
out
from
his
place,
to
make
your
land unpeopled,
so
that
your
towns
will
be
made
waste,
with
no
man
living
in
them.
\VS{8}For
this
put
on haircloth,
with weeping
and loud crying:
for
the
burning
wrath
of
the
Lord
is
not
turned
back
from
us.
\VS{9}And
it
will
come
about
in
that
day,
says
the
Lord,
that
the
heart
of
the
king
will
be dead
in
him,
and
the
hearts
of
the
rulers;
and
the
priests
will
be overcome
with fear,
and
the
prophets
with
wonder.
\VS{10}Then
said
I,
Ah,
Lord
God!
your words
were
not true
when
you
said
to
this
people
and
to
Jerusalem,
You
will
have
peace;
when
the
sword
has
come
even
to
the
soul.
\VS{11}At
that
time
it
will
be
said
to
this
people
and
to
Jerusalem,
A burning
wind
from
the open hilltops
in
the waste land
is blowing
on
the
daughter
of
my
people,
not
for separating
or cleaning
the grain;
\VS{12}A
full
wind
will
come
for
me:
and
now
I
will
give
my
decision
against
them.
\VS{13}See,
he
will
come
up
like
the
clouds,
and
his war-carriages
like
the storm-wind:
his
horses
are quicker
than
eagles. Sorrow
is ours,
for destruction
has
come
on
us.
\VS{14}O
Jerusalem, make
your
heart clean
from
evil,
so
that
you
may
have
salvation.
How
long
are
evil
purposes
to
have
a resting-place
in
you?
\VS{15}For
a
voice
is sounding
from
Dan, giving out
evil
from
the
hills
of
Ephraim:
\VS{16}Make
this
come
to
the minds
of
the
nations,
make
a statement openly
against
Jerusalem,
that attackers
are
coming
from
a
far
country
and
their
voices
will
be loud
against
the
towns
of
Judah.
\VS{17}Like
keepers
of
a
field
they
are
against
her
on
every
side;
because
she
has
been fighting
against
me,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{18}Your
ways
and
your
doings
have
made
these
things
come
on
you;
this
is
your sin;
truly
it
is
bitter, going deep into
your
heart.
\VS{19}My
soul,
my
soul!
I am pained
to
my inmost
heart;
my
heart
is troubled
in
me;
I am
not able
to
be quiet,
because
the
sound
of
the
horn,
the note
of
war,
has come
to
my ears.
\VS{20}News
is
given
of
destruction
on
destruction;
all
the
land
is
made
waste:
suddenly
my
tents, straight
away
my
curtains,
are
made
waste.
\VS{21}How
long
will
I go
on
seeing
the flag
and
hearing
the
sound
of
the war-horn?
\VS{22}For
my
people
are
foolish,
they
have
no
knowledge
of
me;
they
are evil-minded
children,
without sense,
all
of
them:
they
are
wise
in evil-doing,
but
have
no
knowledge
of
doing
good.
\VS{23}Looking
at
the
earth,
I
saw
that
it
was
waste
and
without form;
and
to
the
heavens,
that
they
had
no
light.
\VS{24}Looking
at
the
mountains,
I
saw
them shaking,
and
all
the
hills
were
moved
about.
\VS{25}Looking,
I
saw
that
there
was
no
man,
and
all
the
birds
of
heaven
had
gone
in flight.
\VS{26}Looking,
I
saw
that
the
fertile
field
was
a
waste,
and
all
its
towns
were
broken
down
before
the
Lord
and
before
his
burning
wrath.
\VS{27}For
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
All
the
land
will
become
a
waste;
I
will
make
destruction
complete.
\VS{28}The
earth
will
be weeping
for
this,
and
the
heavens
on
high
will
be
black:
because
I
have
said
it,
and
I
will
not
go
back
from
it;
it
is
my
purpose,
and
it
will
not
be
changed.
\VS{29}All
the land
is
in
flight
because
of
the
noise
of
the
horsemen
and
the
bowmen;
they
have
taken cover
in
the woodland
and
up
on
the
rocks:
every
town
has
been given
up,
not
a
man
is
living
in
them.
\VS{30}And
you,
when
you
are
made
waste,
what
will
you
do?
Though
you
are
clothed
in
red,
though
you
make
yourself
beautiful
with
ornaments
of
gold,
though
you
make
your
eyes wide
with
paint,
it
is
for
nothing
that
you
make
yourself fair;
your
lovers
have no
more
desire
for
you,
they
have designs
on
your
life.
\VS{31}A
voice
has
come
to
my ears
like
the
voice
of
a
woman
in birth-pains,
the pain
of
one
giving
birth
to
her
first
child,
the
voice
of
the
daughter
of
Zion, fighting
for
breath,
stretching
out
her
hands,
saying,
Now sorrow
is mine!
for
my
strength
is gone
from
me
before
the takers
of
life.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Go quickly
through
the
streets
of
Jerusalem,
and
see
now,
and get
knowledge,
and
make
a
search
in
her wide places
if
there
is
a
man,
if
there
is
one
in
her
who
is upright,
who keeps
faith;
and
she
will
have
my forgiveness.
\VS{2}And
though
they
say,
By
the
living
Lord;
truly
their
oaths
are
false.
\VS{3}O
Lord, do
not
your
eyes
see good
faith?
you
have given
them
punishment,
but
they
were
not
troubled;
you
have
sent
destruction
on
them,
but
they
did
not
take
your teaching
to heart:
they
have
made
their
faces
harder
than
a
rock;
they
would
not
come
back.
\VS{4}Then
I
said,
But
these
are
the
poor:
they
are
foolish,
for
they
have
no
knowledge
of
the
way
of
the
Lord
or
of
the behaviour
desired
by
their
God.
\VS{5}I
will go
to
the
great
men
and
have
talk
with
them;
for
they
have
knowledge
of
the
way
of
the
Lord
and
of
the behaviour desired
by
their
God.
But
as
for
these,
their
one purpose
is
a
broken
yoke
and
burst
bands.
\VS{6}And
so
a
lion
from
the
woods
will
put
them
to death,
a
wolf
of
the
waste land
will
make
them
waste,
a
leopard
will
keep
watch
on
their
towns,
and
everyone
who
goes
out
from
them
will
be food
for
the beasts;
because
of
the
great
number
of
their sins
and
the
increase
of
their wrongdoing.
\VS{7}How
is
it possible
for
you
to
have
my forgiveness
for
this?
your
children
have given
me
up, taking
their
oaths
by
those
who
are
no
gods:
when
I
had given
them
food
in
full measure,
they
were false
to
their wives, taking
their pleasure
in
the
houses
of loose women.
\VS{8}They
were full
of
desire,
like
horses
after
a meal
of grain:
everyone
went
after
his neighbour's
wife.
\VS{9}Am
I
not
to give
punishment
for
these
things?
says
the
Lord:
will
not
my
soul
take payment
from
such
a
nation
as
this?
\VS{10}Go
up
against
her vines
and
make
waste;
let
the
destruction
be
complete:
take
away
her
branches,
for
they
are
not
the Lord's.
\VS{11}For
the people
of
Israel
and
the people
of
Judah
have
been
very false
to
me,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{12}They
would
have
nothing
to
do
with
the
Lord,
saying,
He
will
do
nothing,
and
no
evil
will
come
to
us;
we
will
not
see
the
sword
or
be short
of food:
\VS{13}And
the
prophets
will
become
wind,
and
the word
is
not
in
them;
so
it
will
be
done
to
them.
\VS{14}For
this
reason
the
Lord,
the
God
of
armies,
has
said:
Because
you
have
said
this,
I
will
make
my
words
in
your
mouth
a
fire,
and
this
people
wood,
and
they
will
be burned
up
by
it.
\VS{15}See,
I
will send
you
a
nation
from
far
away,
O
people
of
Israel,
says
the
Lord;
a strong
nation
and
an
old
nation,
a
nation
whose
language
is strange
to
you,
so
that
you
may
not
get
the sense
of
their words.
\VS{16}Their arrows give certain death,
they
are
all
men
of war.
\VS{17}They
will take
all
the produce
of
your fields,
which
would
have
been
food
for
your
sons
and
your
daughters:
they
will take
your
flocks
and
your
herds:
they
will take
all
your
vines
and
your fig-trees:
and
with
the
sword
they
will make waste
your walled
towns
in
which
you
put
your faith.
\VS{18}But
even
in
those
days,
says
the
Lord,
I
will
not
let
your
destruction
be
complete.
\VS{19}And
it
will
come
about,
when
you
say,
Why
has
the
Lord
our
God
done
all
these
things
to
us?
that
you
will
say
to
them,
As
you
gave
me
up,
making
yourselves
servants
to
strange
gods
in
your
land,
so
will
you
be
servants
to
strange
men
in
a
land
which
is
not
yours.
\VS{20}Say
this openly
in
Jacob
and
give
it out
in
Judah,
saying,
\VS{21}Give
ear
now
to
this,
O
foolish
people
without
sense;
who
have
eyes
but
see
nothing,
and
ears
without
the power
of
hearing:
\VS{22}Have
you
no
fear
of
me?
says
the
Lord;
will
you
not
be shaking
with
fear
before
me,
who
have
put
the
sand
as
a
limit
for
the
sea,
by
an
eternal
order,
so
that
it
may
not
go
past
it?
and
though
it
is
ever
in motion,
it
is
not
able
to
have
its
way;
though
the sound
of
its
waves
is loud,
they
are
not
able
to
go
past
it.
\VS{23}But
the
heart
of
this
people
is uncontrolled
and
turned
away
from
me;
they
are broken loose
and
gone.
\VS{24}And
they
do
not
say
in
their
hearts,
Now
let
us
give
worship
to
our
God,
who
gives
the
rain,
the winter
and
the
spring
rain,
at
the right
time;
who
keeps
for
us
the
ordered
weeks
of
the grain-cutting.
\VS{25}Through
your evil-doing
these
things
have been
turned
away,
and
your
sins
have
kept
back
good
from
you.
\VS{26}For
there
are sinners
among
my
people:
they keep
watch,
like
men watching
for birds;
they put
a net
and
take
men
in
it.
\VS{27}As
the fowl-house
is
full
of
birds,
so
are
their
houses
full
of
deceit:
for
this
reason
they
have
become
great
and
have got
wealth.
\VS{28}They
have become
fat
and strong:
they
have
gone far
in works
of
evil:
they give
no support
to
the
cause
of
the child
without
a father,
so
that
they
may do
well;
they do
not see
that
the
poor
man gets
his
rights.
\VS{29}Am
I
not
to give
punishment
for
these
things?
says
the
Lord:
will
not
my
soul
take payment
from
such
a
nation
as
this?
\VS{30}A thing
of wonder
and fear
has
come
about
in
the
land;
\VS{31}The
prophets give
false words
and
the
priests give decisions
by
their
direction;
and
my
people
are glad
to
have
it
so:
and
what
will
you
do
in
the
end?

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Go
in flight
out
of
Jerusalem,
so
that
you
may
be safe,
you
children
of
Benjamin,
and let
the
horn
be
sounded
in
Tekoa,
and
the flag
be
lifted
up
on
Beth-haccherem:
for
evil
is looking
out
from
the
north,
and
a
great
destruction.
\VS{2}The fair
and delicate one,
the
daughter
of
Zion,
will
be
cut
off
by my hand.
\VS{3}Keepers
of sheep
with
their
flocks
will
come
to
her;
they
will
put
up
their
tents
round
her;
everyone
will
get food
in
his
place.
\VS{4}Make
war ready
against
her;
up!
let
us
go
up
when
the sun
is
high.
Sorrow
is ours!
for
the
day
is
turned
and
the shades
of
evening
are
stretched
out.
\VS{5}Up! let
us
go
up
by
night,
and
send
destruction
on
her great houses.
\VS{6}For
this
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said:
Let
trees
be
cut
down
and
an earthwork
be placed
against
Jerusalem:
sorrow
on
the false
town!
inside
her
there
is
nothing
but cruel ways.
\VS{7}As
the
spring keeps
its
waters cold,
so
she keeps
her
evil
in
her:
the
sound
of cruel
and
violent behaviour
is
in
her;
before
me
at
all
times
are
disease
and
wounds.
\VS{8}Undergo teaching,
O
Jerusalem,
or
my
soul
will
be
turned
away
from
you,
and
I
will
make
you
a
waste,
an unpeopled
land.
\VS{9}This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said: Everything
will
be taken
from
the
rest
of
Israel
as
the last grapes
are taken
from
the
vine; let
your
hand
be
turned
to
the small
branches,
like
one pulling
off grapes.
\VS{10}To
whom
am
I
to
give
word, witnessing
so
that
they
may
take
note?
see,
their
ears
are stopped,
and
they
are
not
able
to
give
attention:
see,
the
word
of
the
Lord
has
been
a
cause
of
shame
to
them,
they
have
no
delight
in
it.
\VS{11}For
this
reason
I
am
full
of
the
wrath
of
the
Lord,
I
am
tired
of keeping
it
in:
may
it
be let
loose
on
the
children
in
the
street,
and
on
the band
of
the
young
men
together:
for
even
the
husband
with
his
wife
will
be
taken,
the
old
man
with
him
who
is
full
of
days.
\VS{12}And
their
houses
will
be
handed
over
to
others,
their
fields
and
their
wives
together:
for
my
hand
will
be
stretched
out
against
the
people
of
the
land,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{13}For
from
the least
of
them
even
to
the
greatest,
everyone
is given
up
to getting money;
from
the
prophet
even
to
the
priest,
everyone
is working
deceit.
\VS{14}And
they
have made little
of
the wounds
of
my
people,
saying,
Peace,
peace;
when
there
is
no
peace.
\VS{15}Let
them
be
put
to
shame
because
they
have
done
disgusting
things.
They
had
no
shame,
they
were
not able
to
become red
with
shame:
so
they
will
come
down
with
those
who
are
falling:
when
my
punishment comes
on
them,
they
will
be
made low,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{16}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
Take
your
place
looking
out
on
the
ways;
make
search
for
the
old
roads,
saying,
Where
is
the
good
way?
and go
in
it
that
you
may
have
rest
for
your
souls.
But
they
said,
We
will
not go
in
it.
\VS{17}And
I put
watchmen
over
you,
saying,
Give
attention
to
the
sound
of
the
horn;
but
they
said, We
will
not
give
attention.
\VS{18}So
then,
give ear,
you
nations,
and ...
\VS{19}Give ear,
O
earth:
see,
I
will
make
evil
come
on
this
people,
even
the
fruit
of
their
thoughts,
because
they
have
not
given
attention
to
my
words,
and
they
would
have
nothing
to
do
with
my
law.
\VS{20}To
what
purpose
does
sweet perfume
come
to
me
from
Sheba,
and spices
from
a
far
country?
your burned
offerings
give
me
no
pleasure,
your
offerings
of beasts
are
not
pleasing
to
me.
\VS{21}For
this
reason
the
Lord
has
said,
See,
I
will
put stones
in
the
way
of
this
people:
and
the
fathers
and
the
sons
together
will go falling
over
them;
the neighbour
and
his
friend
will come
to
destruction.
\VS{22}The
Lord
has
said,
See,
a
people
is
coming
from
the
north
country,
a
great
nation
will
be
put
in motion
from
the inmost
parts
of
the
earth.
\VS{23}Bows
and spears
are
in
their hands;
they
are
cruel
and
have
no
mercy;
their
voice
is
like
the
thunder
of
the
sea,
and
they go
on
horses;
everyone
in
his
place
like
men
going
to
the
fight,
against
you, O
daughter
of
Zion.
\VS{24}The news
of
it
has come
to
our ears;
our
hands
have
become
feeble:
trouble
has come
on
us
and
pain, like
the
pain
of
a woman
in
childbirth.
\VS{25}Go
not
out
into
the
field
or
by
the
way;
for there
is
the
sword
of
the attacker,
and fear
on
every
side.
\VS{26}O
daughter
of
my
people,
put
on haircloth, rolling
yourself
in
the
dust:
give
yourself
to
sorrow,
as
for
an
only
son,
with
most
bitter cries
of grief;
for
he
who
makes
waste
will
come
on
us
suddenly.
\VS{27}I
have
made
you
a
tester among
my
people,
so
that
you
may
have
knowledge
of
their
way
and
put
it
to
the
test.
\VS{28}All
of
them
are
turned
away,
going
about
with false stories;
they
are
brass
and
iron:
they
are
all workers
of deceit.
\VS{29}The blower
is blowing strongly,
the
lead
is
burned
away
in
the
fire:
they go
on heating
the metal
to
no purpose,
for
the evil-doers
are
not taken
away.
\VS{30}They
will
be
named waste
silver,
because
the
Lord
has
given
them up.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
Lord,
saying,
\VS{2}Take
your
place
in
the doorway
of
the Lord's
house,
and
give
out
this
word
there,
and
say,
Give ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
all
you
of
Judah
who
come
inside
these doors
to
give
worship
to
the
Lord.
\VS{3}The
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says, Let
your
ways
and
your
doings
be changed
for
the
better
and
I
will let
you
go
on
living
in
this
place.
\VS{4}Put
no faith
in
false
words,
saying,
The
Temple
of
the
Lord,
the
Temple
of
the
Lord,
the
Temple
of
the
Lord,
are
these.
\VS{5}For
if
your
ways
and
your
doings
are
truly changed
for
the
better;
if
you
truly give
right
decisions
between
a
man
and
his neighbour;
\VS{6}If
you
are
not cruel
to
the man
from
a strange
country,
and
to
the child
without
a father,
and
to
the
widow,
and
do
not put
the upright
to
death
in
this
place,
or go
after
other
gods, causing damage
to yourselves:
\VS{7}Then
I
will
let
you go
on
living
in
this
place,
in
the
land
which
I
gave
to
your
fathers
in
the
past
and
for
ever.
\VS{8}See,
you
put
your faith
in
false
words
which
are
of
no
profit.
\VS{9}Will
you
take
the goods
of
others,
put
men
to
death,
and
be untrue
to
your wives,
and
take
false
oaths,
and
have perfumes
burned
to
the
Baal,
and
go
after
other
gods
which
are strange
to
you;
\VS{10}And
come
and
take
your
place
before
me
in
this
house,
which
is
named
by
my
name,
and
say,
We
have
been
made safe;
so
that
you
may
do
all
these
disgusting
things?
\VS{11}Has
this
house,
which
is
named
by
my
name,
become
a hole
of thieves
to
you?
Truly
I,
even
I,
have
seen
it,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{12}But
go
now
to
my
place
which
was
in
Shiloh,
where
I put
my
name
at
first,
and
see
what
I
did
to
it
because
of
the evil-doing
of
my
people
Israel.
\VS{13}And
now,
because
you
have
done
all
these
works,
says
the
Lord,
and
I sent
my
word
to
you, getting
up
early
and sending,
but
you
did
not
give ear;
and
my voice
came
to
you,
but
you
gave
no
answer:
\VS{14}For
this
reason
I
will
do
to
the
house
which
is
named
by
my
name,
and
in
which
you
have
put
your faith,
and
to
the
place
which
I
gave
to
you
and
to
your
fathers,
as
I
have
done
to
Shiloh.
\VS{15}And
I
will send
you
away
from
before
my
face,
as
I
have sent
away
all
your
brothers,
even
all
the
seed
of
Ephraim.
\VS{16}And
as
for
you (Jeremiah),
make
no
prayers
for
this
people, send
up
no
cry
or
prayer
for
them,
make
no request
for
them
to
me:
for
I
will
not
give ear.
\VS{17}Do
you
not
see
what
they
are
doing
in
the
towns
of
Judah
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem?
\VS{18}The
children go
for
wood,
the
fathers get
the
fire
burning,
the
women
are working
the paste
to
make
cakes
for
the
queen
of
heaven,
and drink offerings
are drained
out
to
other
gods, moving
me
to wrath.
\VS{19}Are
they moving
me
to wrath?
says
the
Lord;
are
they
not moving
themselves
to
their
shame?
\VS{20}So
this
is
what
the
Lord
God
has
said:
See,
my
wrath
and
my passion
will
be
let
loose
on
this
place,
on
man
and
beast,
and
on
the
trees
of
the
field,
and
on
the
produce
of
the
earth;
it
will
be
burning
and
will
not
be
put
out.
\VS{21}These
are
the words
of
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel: Put
your burned
offerings
with
your
offerings
of beasts,
and take
flesh
for
your
food.
\VS{22}For
I
said
nothing
to
your
fathers,
and
gave
them
no
orders,
on
the
day
when
I
took
them
out
of
Egypt,
about burned
offerings
or
offerings
of beasts:
\VS{23}But
this
was
the
order
I
gave
them,
saying,
Give ear
to
my
voice,
and
I
will
be
your
God,
and
you
will
be
my
people:
go
in
all
the
way
ordered
by
me,
so
that
all
may
be
well
for
you.
\VS{24}But
they
took
no note
and
did
not
give
ear,
but
were guided
by
the
thoughts
and
the pride
of
their
evil
hearts, going
back
and
not
forward.
\VS{25}From
the
day
when
your
fathers
came
out
of
Egypt
till
this
day,
I
have
sent
my
servants
the
prophets
to
you, getting
up
early
every
day
and
sending
them:
\VS{26}But still
they
took
no note
and would
not
give
ear,
but
they
made
their
necks stiff, doing worse
than
their
fathers.
\VS{27}And
you
are
to
say
all
these
words
to
them,
but
they
will
not
give ear
to
you:
you
will send
out
your voice
to
them,
but
they
will
give
no
answer.
\VS{28}And
you
are
to
say
to
them,
This
is
the
nation
which
has
not
given ear
to
the
voice
of
their
God,
or
taken
his teaching
to
heart: good
faith
is dead
and
is
cut
off
from
their
mouths.
\VS{29}Let
your
hair
be
cut
off,
O Jerusalem,
and
let
it go,
and
let
a song
of grief go
up
on
the open hilltops;
for
the
Lord
is turned
away
from
the
generation
of
his
wrath
and
has given
them
up.
\VS{30}For
the
children
of
Judah
have
done
what
is
evil
in
my
eyes,
says
the
Lord:
they
have
put
their disgusting images
in
the
house
which
is
named
by
my
name,
making
it
unclean.
\VS{31}And
they
have
put
up
the
high
place
of
Topheth
in
the
valley
of
the
son
of
Hinnom,
burning
their
sons
and
their
daughters
there
in
the
fire;
a thing
which
was
not
ordered
by
me
and
never
came
into
my
mind.
\VS{32}For
this cause,
the
days
are
coming,
says
the
Lord,
when
it
will
no
longer
be named
Topheth,
or,
The
valley
of
the
son
of
Hinnom,
but,
The
valley
of Death:
for
they
will
put
the dead
into
the earth
in
Topheth till
there
is
no
more
room.
\VS{33}And
the
bodies
of
this
people
will
be
food
for
the
birds
of
heaven
and
for
the
beasts
of
the
earth;
and
there
will
be
no
one
to send
them
away.
\VS{34}And
in
the
towns
of
Judah
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem,
I
will put
an end
to
the laughing
voices,
the
voice
of
joy
and
the
voice
of
the newly-married man
and
the
voice
of
the
bride:
for
the
land
will
become
a
waste.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}At
that
time,
says
the
Lord,
they
will
take
the
bones
of
the
kings
of
Judah,
and
the
bones
of
his
rulers,
and
the
bones
of
the
priests,
and
the
bones
of
the
prophets,
and
the
bones
of
the
people
of
Jerusalem
out
of
their resting-places:
\VS{2}And
they
will
put
them
out
before
the
sun
and
the
moon
and
all
the stars
of
heaven,
whose
lovers
and
servants
they
have
been,
after
whom
they
have
gone,
to
whom
they
have
made prayers,
and
to
whom
they
have
given
worship:
they
will
not
be
put
together
or
placed
in
the
earth;
they
will
be waste
on
the
face
of
the
earth.
\VS{3}And
death
will
be
desired
more
than
life
by
the
rest
of
this
evil
family
who
are still
living
in
all
the
places
where
I
have sent
them
away,
says
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{4}Further,
you
are
to
say
to
them,
This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
Will those
who
are
falling
not
be lifted
up
again?
will
he
who
has
gone
away
not
come
back?
\VS{5}Why
do
these
people
of
Jerusalem
go
back,
for
ever
turning
away?
they
will
not
give up
their deceit,
they
will
not
come
back.
\VS{6}I
took note
and
gave ear,
but
no
one
said
what
is
right:
no
man
had
regret
for
his evil-doing,
saying,
What
have
I
done?
everyone goes
off
on
his
way
like
a
horse rushing
to
the
fight.
\VS{7}Truly,
the
stork
in
the
heavens
is conscious
of
her
fixed
times;
the dove
and
the
swallow
and
the
crane
keep
to
the
times
of
their
coming;
but
my
people
have
no
knowledge
of
the law
of
the
Lord.
\VS{8}How
is
it
that
you
say,
We
are
wise
and
the
law
of
the
Lord
is
with
us?
But
see,
the
false
pen
of
the
scribes
has
made
it
false.
\VS{9}The
wise
men
are
shamed,
they
are overcome
with fear
and
taken:
see,
they
have given up
the
word
of
the
Lord;
and
what use
is
their
wisdom
to
them?
\VS{10}So
I
will
give
their
wives
to
others,
and
their
fields
to
those
who
will
take
them
for themselves:
for
everyone,
from
the least
to
the
greatest,
is
given
up
to getting money;
from
the
priest
even
to
the
prophet,
everyone
is
false.
\VS{11}And
they
have made little
of
the wounds
of
the
daughter
of Zion,
saying,
Peace,
peace;
when
there
is
no
peace.
\VS{12}Let
them
be
put
to
shame
because
they
have
done
disgusting
things.
They
had
no
shame,
they
were
not able
to
become red
with
shame:
so
they
will
come
down
with
those
who
are
falling:
in
the
time
of
their
punishment
they
will
be
made low,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{13}I
will
put
an
end
to
them
completely,
says
the
Lord:
there
are
no
grapes
on
the
vine
and
no
figs
on
the fig-tree,
and
the
leaf
is dry.
\VS{14}Why
are
we
seated doing nothing?
come
together,
and let
us
go
to
the walled
towns,
and let destruction
overtake
us
there,
for
the
Lord
our
God
has sent destruction
on
us,
and
given
us bitter
water
for
our
drink,
because
we
have
done evil
against
the
Lord.
\VS{15}We
were
looking
for
peace,
but
no
good came;
and
for
a
time
of
well-being,
but
there
is
only
a
great fear.
\VS{16}The loud breathing
of
the
horses
comes
to
our ears
from
Dan:
at
the
sound
of
the
outcry
of
his war-horses,
all
the
land
is shaking
with fear;
for
they
have
come,
and
have
made
a meal
of
the
land
and
everything
in
it;
the
town
and
the
people
living
in
it.
\VS{17}See,
I
will
send
snakes
and poison-snakes among
you,
against
which
the wonder-worker
has
no power;
and
they
will give
you wounds
which
may
not
be
made
well,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{18}Sorrow
has come
on
me!
my
heart
in
me
is feeble.
\VS{19}The
voice
of
the
cry
of
the
daughter
of
my
people comes
from
a
far
land:
Is
the
Lord
not
in
Zion?
is
not
her
King
in
her?
Why
have
they made
me
angry
with
their
images
and
their
strange gods which
are
no gods?
\VS{20}The grain-cutting
is past,
the
summer
is
ended,
and
no
salvation has
come
to
us.
\VS{21}For
the
destruction
of
the
daughter
of
my
people
I am
broken:
I am dressed
in
the clothing
of grief; fear
has
taken
me
in
its grip.
\VS{22}Is
there
no life-giving oil
in
Gilead?
is
there
no expert
in medical arts?
why
then
have
my
people
not
been
made well?

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}If
only
my head
was
a stream
of waters
and
my eyes fountains
of weeping,
so
that
I might go
on weeping day
and night
for
the dead
of
the daughter
of
my
people!
\VS{2}If only
I
had
in
the waste
land
a night's resting-place
for travellers,
so
that
I
might
go
away,
far
from
my
people!
for
they
are
all untrue,
a band
of
false men.
\VS{3}Their tongues
are bent
like
a bow
to send
out false words:
they
have
become strong
in
the land,
but
not
for good faith:
they
go
on
from evil
to evil,
and
they
have
no knowledge
of
me, says
the Lord.
\VS{4}Let
everyone keep watch
on
his neighbour,
and put
no
faith
in
any brother:
for
every brother
will
certainly
be tricking
his brother,
and
every neighbour
will go
about
saying evil.
\VS{5}Everyone
will
make sport
of
his neighbour
with
deceit,
not saying
what
is
true:
their tongues
have
been trained
to say
false words;
they
are twisted, hating
to come
back.
\VS{6}There
is wrong
on wrong, deceit
on deceit;
they
have given up
the knowledge
of
me,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{7}So
the Lord
of armies
has
said, See,
I
will
make
them soft
in
the fire
and
put
them
to
the test; this
I
will do because
of
their evil-doing.
\VS{8}His tongue
is
an arrow causing
death;
the words
of
his
mouth
are deceit:
he
says words
of peace
to
his neighbour,
but
in
his
heart
he
is waiting secretly
for
him.
\VS{9}Am
I
not
to send punishment
for these
things? says
the Lord:
will
not
my soul
take payment
from
such
a nation
as
this?
\VS{10}Give yourselves
to weeping, crying
out
in sorrow
for
the mountains;
and
for
the fields
of
the
waste land
send
up
a song
of grief,
because
they
are burned
up,
so
that
no
one goes through;
there
is
no sound
of cattle;
the bird
of
the heavens
and
the beast
are
in flight
and
are gone.
\VS{11}And
I
will
make Jerusalem
a mass
of
broken stones,
the living-place
of jackals;
and
I
will
make
the towns
of Judah
a waste,
with
no
man
living
there.
\VS{12}Who
is
the wise man able
to
see
this?
who
is
he
to
whom
the
word
of
the
Lord
has
come,
so
that
he
may
make
it clear?
why
is
the
land
given
to destruction
and burned
up
like
a waste
place,
so
that
no
one
goes
through?
\VS{13}And
the Lord said,
Because
they
have given up
my law
which
I put before
them, giving no
attention
to
my voice
and not being guided
by
it;
\VS{14}But
they
have
been walking
in
the pride
of
their hearts,
going after
the Baals,
as
their fathers
gave
them teaching.
\VS{15}So
the Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of Israel,
has said,
I
will give
them,
even
this
people, bitter plants
for food
and bitter water
for drink.
\VS{16}And
I
will
send
them wandering
among
the nations,
among people strange
to
them
and
to
their fathers:
and
I
will
send
the sword
after
them till
I
have
put
an end
to
them.
\VS{17}This
is
what
the Lord
of armies
has said:
Take
thought
and send
for
the weeping women,
so
that
they
may
come;
and send
for
the wise women,
so
that
they
may
come:
\VS{18}Let
them
quickly
make
cries
of sorrow
for
us,
so
that drops
may
be flowing
from
our eyes till
they
are streaming
with water.
\VS{19}For
a
sound
of weeping goes up
from Zion,
a cry,
How
has destruction come
on
us?
we
are overcome
with shame
because
we
have gone
away
from
our land;
he
has
sent
us out
from
our house.
\VS{20}But
even
now,
give ear
to
the word
of
the Lord, O
you women; let
your ears
be
open
to
the word
of
his mouth, training
your daughters
to
give cries
of sorrow, everyone teaching
her neighbour
a song
of grief.
\VS{21}For
death
has
come
up
into
our windows, forcing
its
way
into
our great houses; cutting
off
the children
in
the streets
and
the young
men
in
the wide places.
\VS{22}The bodies
of
men
will
be falling
like waste
on
the open fields,
and
like grain dropped
by
the grain-cutter,
and
no
one
will take
them up.
\VS{23}This
is
the word
of
the
Lord: Let
not
the
wise man
take pride
in
his wisdom,
or
the strong man
in
his strength,
or
the man
of wealth
in
his wealth:
\VS{24}But
if
any
man
has pride,
let
it
be
in
this,
that
he
has
the wisdom
to
have knowledge
of
me,
that
I
am
the
Lord, working
mercy, giving
true decisions,
and doing righteousness
in
the earth:
for
in
these
things
I
have delight,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{25}See,
the day
is coming, says
the Lord,
when
I
will send punishment
on
all
those
who
have circumcision
in
the flesh;
\VS{26}On Egypt and on Judah and on Edom and on the children of Ammon and on Moab and on all who have the ends of their hair cut, who are living in the waste land: for all these nations and all the people of Israel are without circumcision in their hearts.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Give ear
to
the
word
which
the
Lord
says
to
you,
O
people
of
Israel:
\VS{2}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
Do
not go
in
the
way
of
the
nations;
have
no fear
of
the
signs
of
heaven,
for
the
nations go
in fear
of
them.
\VS{3}For
that
which
is feared
by
the
people
is foolish:
it
is
the
work
of
the
hands
of
the workman;
for
a
tree
is
cut
down
by
him
out
of
the
woods
with
his axe.
\VS{4}They
make
it
beautiful
with
silver
and
gold;
they
make
it
strong
with
nails
and
hammers,
so
that
it
may
not
be moved.
\VS{5}It
is
like
a pillar
in
a garden
of plants,
and
has
no voice:
it
has
to
be
lifted,
for
it
has
no power
of walking.
Have
no
fear
of
it;
for
it
has
no power
of
doing
evil
and
it
is
not able
to
do
any
good.
\VS{6}There
is
no
one
like
you,
O
Lord;
you
are
great
and
your
name
is
great
in
power.
\VS{7}Who
would
not
have
fear
of
you,
O
King
of
the
nations?
for
it
is
your right:
for
among
all
the
wise
men
of
the
nations,
and
in
all
their
kingdoms,
there
is
no
one
like
you.
\VS{8}But
they are
together
like beasts
and
foolish:
the teaching
of false gods
is
wood.
\VS{9}Silver
hammered
into
plates
is
sent
from
Tarshish,
and
gold
from
Uphaz,
the
work
of
the
expert workman
and
of
the
hands
of
the gold-worker;
blue
and
purple
is
their
clothing,
all
the
work
of
expert
men.
\VS{10}But
the
Lord
is
the
true
God;
he
is
the
living
God
and
an
eternal
king:
when
he
is
angry,
the
earth
is shaking
with fear,
and
the
nations
give way
before
his
wrath.
\VS{11}This
is
what
you
are
to
say
to
them:
The
gods
who have
not
made
the
heavens
and
the
earth
will
be cut off
from
the
earth
and
from
under
the
heavens.
\VS{12}He
has
made
the
earth
by
his
power,
he
has
made
the
world
strong
in
its
place
by
his
wisdom,
and
by
his
wise design
the
heavens
have
been
stretched
out.
\VS{13}At
the
sound
of
his
voice
there
is
a massing
of
waters
in
the
heavens,
and
he
makes
the mists
go
up
from
the ends
of
the
earth;
he
makes
the thunder-flames
for
the
rain,
and
sends
out
the
wind
from
his store-houses.
\VS{14}Then
every
man
becomes
like
a beast
without
knowledge;
every gold-worker
is put
to shame
by
the
image
he
has
made:
for
his metal
image
is
deceit,
and
there
is
no
breath
in
them.
\VS{15}They
are
nothing,
a
work
of error:
in
the
time
of
their
punishment,
destruction
will overtake
them.
\VS{16}The
heritage
of
Jacob
is
not
like
these;
for
the
maker
of
all
things
is
his
heritage:
the
Lord
of
armies
is
his
name.
\VS{17}Get
your goods
together
and
go
out
of
the
land, O
you
who
are shut
up
in
the walled town.
\VS{18}For
the
Lord
has
said,
I
will send
the
people
in flight
like
a stone
from
the
land
at
this
time, troubling
them
so
that
they
will
be conscious
of
it.
\VS{19}Sorrow
is mine
for
I
am
wounded!
my
wound may
not
be made well;
and
I
said, Cruel
is
my
disease,
I may
not
be free
from
it.
\VS{20}My
tent
is pulled
down
and
all
my
cords
are
broken:
my
children
have
gone
from
me,
and
they
are
not:
no
longer
is
there
anyone
to
give
help
in
stretching
out
my
tent
and hanging
up
my
curtains.
\VS{21}For
the keepers
of
the sheep
have become
like beasts,
not looking
to
the
Lord
for directions:
so
they
have
not
done wisely
and
all
their flocks
have
been put
to flight.
\VS{22}News
is
going
about,
see,
it
is
coming,
a
great
shaking
is
coming
from
the
north
country,
so
that
the
towns
of
Judah
may
be
made
waste
and become
the living-place
of
jackals.
\VS{23}O
Lord,
I
am conscious
that
a man's
way
is
not
in
himself:
man
has
no
power
of guiding
his
steps.
\VS{24}O
Lord, put
me
right,
but
with wise purpose;
not
in
your
wrath,
or
you
will
make
me
small.
\VS{25}Let
your
wrath
be
let
loose
on
the
nations
which
have
no
knowledge
of
you,
and
on
the
families
who
give
no
worship
to
your
name:
for
they
have
made
a meal
of
Jacob,
truly
they
have
made
a meal
of
him
and
put
an
end
to
him
and
made
his fields
a
waste.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
Lord,
saying,
\VS{2}Give ear
to
the
words
of
this
agreement,
and
say
to
the
men
of
Judah
and
to
the
people
of
Jerusalem,
\VS{3}The
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said,
Let
that
man
be
cursed
who
does
not
give ear
to
the
words
of
this
agreement,
\VS{4}To
the
order
which
I
gave
your
fathers
on
the
day
when
I
took
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
out
of
the oven
of
iron,
saying,
Give ear
to
my
voice,
and
do
all
the
orders
I
have
given
you:
so
you
will
be
my
people,
and
I
will
be
your
God:
\VS{5}So
that
I
may
give
effect
to
the
oath
which
I
made
to
your
fathers,
to
give
them
a
land
flowing
with
milk
and
honey
as
at
this
day.
And
I
said
in
answer,
So
be
it,
O
Lord.
\VS{6}And
the
Lord
said
to
me,
Give
out
these
words
in
the
towns
of
Judah
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem,
saying,
Give ear
to
the
words
of
this
agreement
and
do
them.
\VS{7}For
I
gave
certain
witness
to
your
fathers
on
the
day
when
I
took
them
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
and
even
to
this
day, getting
up
early
and witnessing
and
saying,
Give ear
to
my
voice.
\VS{8}But
they
gave
no
attention
and
did
not
give
ear,
but
they
went
on,
every
man
in
the pride
of
his
evil
heart:
so
I
sent
on
them
all
the curses
in
this
agreement,
which
I
gave
them
orders
to
keep,
but
they
did
not.
\VS{9}And
the
Lord
said
to
me,
There
is
an evil design
at work
among
the
men
of
Judah
and
the
people
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{10}They
are
turned
back
to
the
sins
of
their
fathers,
who
would not
give ear
to
my
words;
they
have
gone
after
other
gods
and
become
their
servants:
the
people
of
Israel
and
the
people
of
Judah
have not kept
the
agreement
which
I
made
with
their
fathers.
\VS{11}So
the
Lord
has
said,
I
will
send
evil
on
them,
which
they
will
not
be
able
to
get
away
from;
and
they
will
send
up
a
cry
for help
to
me,
but
I
will
not
give ear
to
them.
\VS{12}Then
the
towns
of
Judah
and
the
people
of
Jerusalem
will
go
crying
for
help
to
the
gods
to
whom
they
have
been
burning perfumes:
but
they
will give
them
no
salvation
in
the
time
of
their
trouble.
\VS{13}For
the
number
of
your
gods
is
as
the
number
of
your
towns,
O
Judah;
and
for every
street
in
Jerusalem
you
have
put
up
altars
to
the
Baal
for
burning perfumes
to
the
Baal.
\VS{14}And
as
for
you,
make
no
prayers
for
this
people, send
up
no
cry
or
prayer
for
them:
for
I
will
not
give ear
to
their
cry
in
the
time
of
their
trouble.
\VS{15}About Judah.
What
have
you
to
do
in
my
house?
is
it
your thought
that oaths
and
holy
flesh
will get
you
out
of
your
trouble?
will
you
make
yourself safe
in
this
way?
\VS{16}You
had
been
named
by
the
Lord,
A branching olive-tree,
fair
with
beautiful
fruit:
with
the
noise
of
a
great rushing
he
has put
it
on
fire
and
its
branches
are broken.
\VS{17}For
the
Lord
of
armies,
by
whom
you
were
planted,
has given
his decision
for
evil
against
you,
because
of
the
evil
which
the
people
of
Israel
and
the
people
of
Judah
have
done,
In moving
me
to wrath
by
offering perfumes
to
the
Baal.
\VS{18}And
the
Lord gave
me
knowledge
of
it
and
I
saw
it:
then
you
made clear
to
me
their
doings.
\VS{19}But
I
was
like
a gentle
lamb taken
to
be
put
to death;
I
had
no
thought
that
they
were designing evil
against
me, saying,
Come
and
let
us
make trouble
his
food, cutting
him
off
from
the
land
of
the
living,
so
that
there
may
be
no
more
memory
of
his
name.
\VS{20}But,
O
Lord
of
armies,
judging
in
righteousness,
testing
the
thoughts
and
the
heart,
let
me
see
your punishment
come
on
them:
for
I
have put
my
cause
before
you.
\VS{21}So
this
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said
about
the
men
of
Anathoth
who
have
made designs
against
your
life,
saying,
You
are
not
to
be
a
prophet
in
the
name
of
the
Lord,
or
death
will
overtake
you
by
our
hands:
\VS{22}So
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said,
See,
I
will send
punishment
on
them:
the
young
men
will
be
put
to
the
sword;
their
sons
and
their
daughters
will
come
to
death
through
need
of food:
\VS{23}Not
one
of
them
will
keep
his
life,
for
I
will send
evil
on
the
men
of
Anathoth
in
the
year
of
their
punishment.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}You
are
in
the
right,
O
Lord,
when
I put
my
cause
before
you: still
let
me take
up
with
you
the question
of
your
decisions:
why
does
the evil-doer
do well?
why
are
the workers
of deceit
living
in comfort?
\VS{2}They
have been
planted
by
you,
they
have
taken
root;
they go
on
and give
fruit:
you
are
near
in
their
mouths
but
far
from
their thoughts.
\VS{3}But
you,
O
Lord,
have
knowledge
of
me;
you
see
me, searching
and
testing
how
my
heart
is
with
you: let
them
be pulled
out
like
sheep
to
be
put
to death,
make
them ready
for
the
day
of death.
\VS{4}How
long
will
the
land
have grief,
and
the
plants
of
all
the
land
be
dry?
because
of
the sins
of
the
people
living
in
it,
destruction
has overtaken
the
beasts
and
the
birds;
because
they
said,
God
does
not
see
our ways.
\VS{5}If
running
with
the fighting-men
has
made
you
tired,
how
will
you
be able
to
keep up
with
horses?
and
if
in
a
land
of
peace
you go
in flight,
what
will
become
of
you
in
the thick growth
of
Jordan?
\VS{6}For
even
your
brothers,
your father's
family,
even
they
have been untrue
to
you,
crying loudly
after
you:
have
no
faith
in
them,
though
they
say fair words
to
you.
\VS{7}I
have
given
up
my
house,
I
have
let
my
heritage go;
I
have
given
the loved
one
of
my
soul
into
the
hands
of
her haters.
\VS{8}My
heritage
has
become
like
a
lion
in
the woodland
to
me;
her
voice
has
been loud
against
me;
so
I
have
hate
for
her.
\VS{9}My
heritage
is
like
a brightly coloured
bird
to
me;
the cruel
birds are attacking
her
on
every
side:
go, get
together
all
the
beasts
of
the
field, make
them
come
for destruction.
\VS{10}The keepers
of sheep
have been
the
destruction
of
my vine-garden, crushing
my heritage under
their feet; they
have
made
my fair heritage
an unplanted
waste;
\VS{11}They
have
made
it
waste;
it
is weeping
to
me, being wasted;
all
the
land
is
made
waste,
because
no
man
takes
it
to
heart.
\VS{12}Those
who
make
waste
have
come
on
all
the
open hilltops
in
the
waste
land;
for
the
sword
of
the
Lord sends destruction
from
one
end
of
the
land
to
the
other
end
of
the
land:
no
flesh
has
peace.
\VS{13}Though
good
grain
was
planted,
they
have got
in
thorns:
they
have given themselves pain
without
profit:
they
will
be
shamed
on account
of
their
produce, because
of
the
burning
wrath
of
the
Lord.
\VS{14}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said
against
all
my
evil neighbours,
who put
their hands
on
the
heritage
which
I
gave
my
people
Israel:
See,
I
will
have
them
uprooted
from
their
land, uprooting
the
people
of
Judah
from
among
them.
\VS{15}And
it
will
come
about
that,
after
they
have
been
uprooted,
I
will
again
have
pity
on
them;
and
I
will
take
them
back,
every
man
to
his
heritage
and
every
man
to
his
land.
\VS{16}And
it
will
be
that,
if
they
give
their minds
to learning
the
ways
of
my
people, using
my
name
in
their
oaths,
By
the
living
Lord;
as
they
have
been
teaching
my
people
to
take
oaths
by
the
Baal;
then
their
place
will
be
made
certain
among
my
people.
\VS{17}But
if
they
will
not
give ear,
then
I
will
have
that
nation
uprooted,
and
given
to
destruction,
says
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}This
is
what
the
Lord
said
to
me:
Go
and
get
yourself
a
linen band
and
put
it round
you
and
do
not
put
it
in
water.
\VS{2}So,
as
the
Lord
said,
I got
a band
for
a price
and
put
it round
my
body.
\VS{3}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me
a
second
time,
saying,
\VS{4}Take
the band
which
you
got
for
a price,
which
is round
your
body,
and
go
to Parah
and
put
it
in
a secret
place
there
in
a hole
of
the
rock.
\VS{5}So
I went
and
put
it
in
a secret place
by Parah,
as
the
Lord
had said
to
me.
\VS{6}Then
after
a
long
time,
the
Lord
said
to
me,
Up!
go
to Parah
and
get
the band
which
I
gave
you
orders
to
put
there.
\VS{7}So
I went
to Parah
and, uncovering
the hole,
took
the band
from
the
place
where
I
had
put
it
away:
and
the band
was damaged
and
of
no
use
for
anything.
\VS{8}Then
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{9}The
Lord
has
said,
In
this
way
I
will do damage
to
the
pride
of
Judah
and
to
the
great
pride
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{10}These
evil
people
who
say
they
will
not
give ear
to
my
words,
who
go
on
in
the pride
of
their
hearts
and
have
become
servants
and worshippers
of
other
gods,
will
become
like
this band
which
is
of
no
use
for
anything.
\VS{11}For
as
a band goes
tightly round
a man's
body,
so
I
made
all
the
people
of
Israel
and
all
the
people
of
Judah
tightly united
to
me;
so
that
they
might
be
a
people
for
me
and
a
name
and
a
praise
and
a
glory:
but
they
would
not
give ear.
\VS{12}So
you
are
to
say
this
word
to
them:
This
is
the
word
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel:
Every skin bottle
will
be
full
of
wine;
and
they
will
say
to
you,
Is
it
not quite
clear
to
us
that
every skin bottle
will
be
full
of
wine?
\VS{13}Then
you
are
to
say
to
them,
The
Lord
has
said,
I
will make
all
the
people
of
this
land,
even
the
kings
seated
on David's
seat,
and
the
priests
and
the
prophets
and
all
the
people
of
Jerusalem, overcome
with strong drink.
\VS{14}I
will
have
them smashed
against
one
another,
fathers
and
sons
together,
says
the
Lord:
I
will
have
no
pity
or
mercy,
I
will
have
no feeling
for
them
to keep
me
from giving
them
to
destruction.
\VS{15}Give
ear
and
let
your ears
be open;
be
not lifted up:
for
these
are
the words
of
the
Lord.
\VS{16}Give
glory
to
the
Lord
your
God,
before
he
makes
it
dark,
and
before
your
feet
are slipping
on
the
dark
mountains,
and,
while
you
are
looking
for
a
light,
he
makes
it
into
deep
dark,
into
black night.
\VS{17}But
if
you
do
not
give ear
to
it,
my
soul
will
be
weeping
in
secret
for
your
pride;
my
eye
will
be
weeping
bitterly, streaming
with water,
because
the Lord's
flock
has
been
taken
away
as prisoners.
\VS{18}Say
to
the
king
and
to
the queen-mother,
Make yourselves
low,
be
seated
on
the earth:
for
the
crown
of
your
glory
has
come
down
from
your heads.
\VS{19}The
towns
of
the
south
are
shut
up,
and
there
is
no
one
to
make
them
open:
Judah
is
taken
away
as prisoners;
all
Judah
is
taken
away
as prisoners.
\VS{20}Let
your
eyes
be
lifted
up (O Jerusalem),
and
see those who
are
coming
from
the
north.
Where
is
the
flock
which
was
given
to
you,
your
beautiful
flock?
\VS{21}What
will
you
say
when
he puts
over
you
those whom
you
yourself
have
made
your friends?
will
not
pains
take
you
like
a
woman
in
childbirth?
\VS{22}And
if
you
say
in
your
heart,
Why
have
these
things
come
on
me?
because
of
the
number
of
your
sins,
your
skirts
have been
uncovered
and violent
punishment overtakes
you.
\VS{23}Is
it possible
for
the
skin
of
the
Ethiopian
to
be
changed,
or
the markings
on
the
leopard?
Then
it might
be possible
for
you
to
do
good, who
have been trained
to
do
evil.
\VS{24}So I
will send
them
in all directions, as dry grass
is
taken
away
by
the
wind
of
the waste land.
\VS{25}This
is
your fate,
the part
measured
out
to
you
by
me,
says
the
Lord,
because
you
have
put
me
out
of
your memory
and
put
your faith
in
what
is
false.
\VS{26}So
I
will
have
your
skirts
uncovered
before
your
face,
in order
that
your
shame
may
be
seen.
\VS{27}I
have
seen
your disgusting
acts,
even
your false behaviour
and
your cries
of desire
and
your
loose ways
on
the
hills
in
the
field. Unhappy
are
you,
O
Jerusalem,
you
have
no desire
to
be made
clean;
how
long
will
you
be
in turning
back
to
me?

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Jeremiah
when
there
was no water.
\VS{2}Judah
is weeping
and
its doors
are
dark
with sorrow,
and
people
are seated
on
the
earth clothed
in
black;
and
the
cry
of
Jerusalem
has
gone
up.
\VS{3}Their great
men
have
sent
their
servants
for
water:
they
come
to
the holes
and
there
is
no
water
to
be seen;
they
come
back
with
nothing
in
their
vessels;
they
are overcome
with
shame
and fear, covering
their
heads.
\VS{4}Those
who do work
on
the
land
are
in fear,
for
there
has
been
no
rain
on
the
land,
and
the
farmers
are
shamed, covering
their
heads.
\VS{5}And
the roe,
giving
birth
in
the
field, lets
her young
one
be uncared
for,
because
there
is
no
grass.
\VS{6}And
the asses
of
the field
on
the open hilltops
are opening
their mouths wide
like
jackals
to get
air;
their
eyes
are hollow
because
there
is
no
grass.
\VS{7}Though
our
sins
give witness
against
us,
do something,
O
Lord,
for
the honour
of
your
name:
for again
and again
we
have
been turned away
from
you,
we
have
done
evil
against
you.
\VS{8}O
you hope
of
Israel,
its saviour
in
time
of
trouble,
why
are
you
like
one
who
is strange
in
the
land,
and
like
a traveller putting
up
his tent
for
a night?
\VS{9}Why
are
you
like
a
man surprised,
like
a
man
of war
who
is
not
able
to
give
help?
but
you,
O
Lord,
are
with
us,
and
we
are
named
by
your
name;
do
not
go away
from
us.
\VS{10}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said
about
this
people:
Even
so
they
have
been glad
to go
from
the
right
way;
they
have
not
kept
their
feet
from wandering,
so
the
Lord
has
no
pleasure
in
them;
now
he
will
keep
their wrongdoing
in
mind
and send
punishment
for
their
sins.
\VS{11}And
the
Lord
said
to
me,
Make
no prayer
for
this
people
for
their
good.
\VS{12}When
they
go
without food,
I
will
not
give ear
to
their
cry;
when
they
give burned
offerings
and
meal
offerings,
I
will
not
take
pleasure
in
them:
but
I
will
put
an
end
to
them
by
the
sword
and
by need
of food
and
by disease.
\VS{13}Then
I
said,
Ah,
Lord
God!
see,
the
prophets
say
to
them,
You
will
not
see
the
sword
or
be short
of food;
but
I
will
give
you certain
peace
in
this
place.
\VS{14}Then
the
Lord
said
to
me,
The
prophets
say
false words
in
my
name,
and
I
gave
them
no
orders,
and
I
said
nothing
to
them:
what
they
say
to
you
is
a
false
vision
and wonder-working words
without substance,
the
deceit
of
their
hearts.
\VS{15}So
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said
about
the
prophets
who
make
use
of
my
name, though
I
sent
them
not,
and
say,
The
sword
and
need
of food
will
not
be
in
this
land:
the
sword
and
need
of food
will
put
an
end
to
those
prophets.
\VS{16}And
the
people
to
whom
they
are prophets
will
be pushed
out dead
into
the
streets
of
Jerusalem,
because
there
is
no food,
and
because
of
the
sword;
and
they
will
have
no
one
to put
their bodies
into
the earth,
them
or
their
wives
or
their
sons
or
their
daughters:
for
I
will
let
loose
their evil-doing
on
them.
\VS{17}And
you
are
to
say
this
word
to
them,
Let
my
eyes
be streaming
with water
night
and
day,
and
let
it
not
be stopped;
for
the
virgin
daughter
of
my
people
is
wounded
with
a
great
wound,
with
a
very bitter
blow.
\VS{18}If
I
go
out
into
the
open
country,
there
are
those
put
to death
by
the
sword!
and
if
I
go
into
the
town,
there
are
those
who
are diseased
from need
of food!
for
the
prophet
and
the
priest
go
about
in
the
land
and
have
no
knowledge.
\VS{19}Have
you
completely given
up
Judah?
is
your
soul turned
in disgust
from
Zion?
why
have
you given
us
blows
from
which
there
is
no
one
to make
us
well?
we
were
looking
for
peace,
but
no
good came;
and
for
a
time
of
well-being,
but
there
was
only
a
great fear.
\VS{20}We
are conscious,
O
Lord,
of
our
sin
and
of
the wrongdoing
of
our
fathers:
we
have
done
evil
against
you.
\VS{21}Do
not
be turned
from
us
in disgust,
because
of
your
name;
do
not
put shame
on
the
seat
of
your
glory:
keep
us
in
mind,
let
not
your
agreement
with
us
be
broken.
\VS{22}Are
any
of
the false
gods
of
the
nations able
to
make
rain come?
are
the
heavens able
to
give
showers?
are
you
not
he,
O
Lord
our
God?
so
we
will go
on waiting
for
you,
for
you
have
done
all
these
things.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
the
Lord
said
to
me,
Even
if
Moses
and
Samuel
came
before
me,
I
would
have
no
desire
for
this
people:
send
them
away
from
before
me,
and
let
them
go.
\VS{2}And
it
will
be,
when
they
say
to
you,
Where
are
we
to
go?
then
you
are
to
say
to
them,
The
Lord
has
said,
Such
as
are
for
death,
to
death;
and
such
as
are
for
the
sword,
to
the
sword;
and
such
as
are
to
be
in need
of food,
to need
of food;
and
such
as
are
to
be
taken
away
prisoners,
to
be
taken
away.
\VS{3}And
I
will
put
over
them
four divisions,
says
the
Lord:
the
sword causing death,
dogs pulling
the dead bodies
about,
and
the
birds
of
heaven,
and
the
beasts
of
the
earth
to
take
their bodies
for
food
and
put
an end
to
them.
\VS{4}And
I
will
make
them
a
cause
of fear
to
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth,
because
of
Manasseh,
the
son
of
Hezekiah,
king
of
Judah,
and
what
he
did
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{5}For
who
will
have
pity
on
you,
O
Jerusalem?
and
who
will
have
sorrow
for
you?
or
who
will
go
out
of
his
way
to see
how
you
are?
\VS{6}You
have
given
me
up,
says
the
Lord,
you
have gone
back:
so
my
hand
is
stretched
out
against
you
for
your
destruction;
I
am
tired
of changing
my purpose.
\VS{7}And
I
have
sent
a cleaning wind
on
them
in
the public places
of
the
land;
I
have taken
their
children
from
them;
I
have given
my
people
to
destruction;
they
have
not
been
turned
from
their
ways.
\VS{8}I
have let
their
widows
be increased
in number
more
than
the
sand
of
the
seas:
I
have sent
against
them,
against
the
mother
and
the
young
men, one
who makes
waste
in
the heat
of
the day,
causing pain
and fears
to
come
on
her
suddenly.
\VS{9}The mother
of
seven
is without
strength;
her
spirit
is
gone
from
her,
her
sun
has
gone
down
while
it
is
still
day:
she
has
been
shamed
and overcome:
and
the
rest
of
them
I
will
give
up
to
the
sword
before
their haters,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{10}Sorrow
is mine,
my
mother,
because
you
have
given
birth
to
me,
a
cause
of fighting
and argument
in
all
the
earth!
I
have
not
made
men
my
creditors
and
I am
not
in debt
to
any,
but
every
one
of
them
is
cursing
me.
\VS{11}...
\VS{12}Is it possible
for
iron
to be broken; even
iron from
the
north,
and
brass?
\VS{13}I
will
give
your
wealth
and
your
stores
to
your attackers,
without
a
price,
because
of
all
your
sins,
even
in
every part
of
your
land.
\VS{14}They
will
go
away
with
your haters
into
a
land
which
is strange
to
you:
for
my
wrath
is
on
fire
with
a
flame
which
will
be
burning
on
you.
\VS{15}O
Lord,
you
have
knowledge:
keep
me
in
mind
and
come
to
my help,
and
give
their right reward
to
those
who
are attacking
me;
take
me
not
away,
for
you
are
slow
to
be
angry:
see
how
I
have undergone
shame
because
of
you
from
all
those
who
make little
of
your word;
\VS{16}But
to
me
your
word
is
a
joy, making
my
heart glad;
for
I
am
named
by
your
name,
O
Lord
God
of
armies.
\VS{17}I
did
not
take
my
seat
among
the band
of
those
who
are glad,
and
I
had
no joy;
I kept
by myself
because
of
your
hand;
for
you
have made
me
full
of
wrath.
\VS{18}Why
is
my
pain unending
and
my
wound
without hope
of
being
made well?
Sorrow
is mine,
for
you
are
to
me
as
a
stream offering false hope
and
as
waters
which
are
not certain.
\VS{19}For
this
cause
the
Lord
has
said,
If
you
will
come
back,
then
I
will
again
let
you
take
your
place
before
me;
and
if
you
give
out
what
is
of value
and
not
that which
has
no value,
you
will
be
as
my
mouth:
let
them
come
back
to
you,
but
do
not
go
back
to
them.
\VS{20}And
I
will
make
you
a strong
wall
of
brass
to
this
people;
they
will
be
fighting
against
you,
but
they
will
not
overcome
you:
for
I
am
with
you
to keep
you
safe,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{21}I
will keep
you safe
from
the
hands
of
the evil-doers,
and
I
will give
you salvation
from
the
hands
of
the cruel
ones.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
again
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}You
are
not
to
take
a
wife
for yourself
or
have
sons
or
daughters
in
this
place.
\VS{3}For
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said
about
the
sons
and
daughters
who come
to
birth
in
this
place,
and
about
their
mothers
who
have
given
them
birth,
and
about
their
fathers
who
have
given life
to
them
in
this
land:
\VS{4}Death
from evil
diseases
will
overtake
them;
there
will
be
no weeping
for
them
and
their
bodies
will
not
be
put
to
rest;
they
will
be
like
waste
on
the
face
of
the
earth:
the
sword
and need
of
food
will
put
an
end
to
them;
their
dead
bodies
will
be meat
for
the
birds
of
heaven
and
for
the
beasts
of
the
earth.
\VS{5}For
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
Do
not
go
into
the
house
of sorrow,
do
not
go
to
make weeping
or songs
of grief
for
them:
for
I
have
taken
away
my
peace
from
this
people,
says
the
Lord,
even
mercy
and pity.
\VS{6}Death
will overtake
great
as well
as
small
in
the
land:
their
bodies
will
not
be
put
in
a resting-place,
and
no
one
will
be weeping
for
them
or wounding
themselves
or cutting off
their hair
for
them:
\VS{7}No
one
will make
a feast
for
them
in
sorrow,
to
give
them
comfort
for
the
dead,
or
put
to
their lips
the
cup
of
comfort
on
account
of
their
father
or
their
mother.
\VS{8}And
you
are
not
to
go
into
the
house
of
feasting,
or
be
seated
with
them
to
take
food
or
drink.
\VS{9}For
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said,
See,
before
your
eyes
and
in
your
days
I
will put
an end
in
this
place
to
the laughing
voices
and
the
voice
of
joy;
to
the
voice
of
the newly-married man
and
the
voice
of
the
bride.
\VS{10}And
it
will
be,
that
when
you
say
all
these
words
to
the
people,
then
they
will
say
to
you,
Why
has
the
Lord
done
all
this
evil
against
us?
what
is
our wrongdoing
and
what
is
our
sin
which
we
have
done
against
the
Lord
our
God?
\VS{11}Then
you
will
say
to
them,
Because
your
fathers
have
given
me
up,
says
the
Lord,
and
have
gone
after
other
gods
and
become
their
servants
and
their worshippers,
and
have
given
me
up
and
have
not
kept
my
law;
\VS{12}And
you
have
done
worse
evil
than
your
fathers;
for
see,
every
one
of
you
is guided
by
the pride
of
his
evil
heart,
so
as
not
to
give ear
to
me:
\VS{13}For
this
reason
I
will
send
you away
out
of
this
land
into
a
land
which
is strange
to
you,
to
you
and
to
your
fathers;
there
you
will
be
the
servants
of
other
gods
day
and
night,
and
you
will
have
no
mercy
from
me.
\VS{14}For
this cause,
see,
the
days
are
coming,
says
the
Lord,
when
it
will
no
longer
be
said,
By
the
living
Lord,
who
took
the
children
of
Israel
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt.
\VS{15}But,
By
the
living
Lord,
who
took
the
children
of
Israel
up
out
of
the
land
of
the
north,
and
from
all
the
countries
where
he
had
sent
them:
and
I
will
take
them
back
again
to
their
land
which
I
gave
to
their
fathers.
\VS{16}See,
I
will
send
for
great numbers
of
fishermen,
says
the
Lord,
and
they
will take
them
like
fish
in
a net;
and
after
that,
I
will
send
for numbers
of bowmen,
and
they
will
go
after
them,
driving
them
from
every
mountain
and
from
every
hill,
and
out
of
the holes
of
the
rocks.
\VS{17}For
my
eyes
are
on
all
their
ways:
there
is
no
cover
for
them
from
my
face,
and
their evil-doing
is
not
kept
secret
from
my
eyes.
\VS{18}And
I
will
give
them
the
reward
of
their evil-doing
and
their
sin
twice
over;
because
they
have made
my
land unclean,
and
have made
my
heritage
full
of
the
bodies
of
their unholy
and
disgusting
things.
\VS{19}O
Lord,
my
strength
and
my
strong tower,
my safe
place
in
the
day
of
trouble,
the
nations
will
come
to
you
from
the
ends
of
the
earth,
and
say,
The heritage
of
our
fathers
is
nothing
but
deceit,
even
false
things
in
which
there
is
no
profit.
\VS{20}Will
a
man
make
for
himself
gods which
are
no
gods?
\VS{21}For
this
reason,
truly,
I
will
make
them
see,
this
once
I
will give
them
knowledge
of
my
hand
and
my
power;
and
they
will
be
certain
that
my
name
is
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
sin
of
Judah
is
recorded
with
a
pen
of
iron,
and
with
the sharp
point
of
a jewel
it
is cut
on
their
hearts
of stone,
and
on
the
horns
of
their
altars
for
a
sign
to
them:
\VS{2}Their
altars
and
their
wood pillars
under every branching
tree,
on
the
high
hills
and
the mountains
in
the field.
\VS{3}I
will
give
your
wealth
and
all
your
stores
to
be
taken
away
in war without
a price,
because
of
your
sins
in
every part
of
your
land.
\VS{4}And
your
hand
will
have
to
let
go
your
heritage
which
I
gave
you;
and
I
will
make
you
a
servant
to
your haters
in
a
land
which
is strange
to
you:
for
you
have
put
my
wrath
on
fire
with
a
flame
which
will
go
on
burning
for
ever.
\VS{5}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
Cursed
is
the
man
who
puts
his faith
in
man,
and
makes
flesh
his
arm,
and
whose
heart
is
turned
away
from
the
Lord.
\VS{6}For
he
will
be
like
the brushwood
in
the upland,
and
will
not
see
when
good
comes;
but
his living-place
will
be
in
the dry places
in
the
waste
land,
in
a
salt
and unpeopled
land.
\VS{7}A
blessing
is
on
the
man
who puts
his faith
in
the
Lord,
and
whose hope
the
Lord
is.
\VS{8}For
he
will
be
like
a
tree
planted
by
the
waters, pushing
out
its
roots
by
the
stream;
he
will
have
no
fear
when
the
heat
comes,
but
his
leaf
will
be
green;
in
a dry
year
he
will
have
no
care,
and
will
go
on giving
fruit.
\VS{9}The
heart
is
a twisted
thing,
not
to
be searched
out
by
man:
who
is able
to
have
knowledge
of
it?
\VS{10}I
the
Lord
am
the searcher
of
the
heart,
the tester
of
the
thoughts,
so
that
I
may
give
to
every
man
the
reward
of
his
ways,
in
keeping
with
the
fruit
of
his
doings.
\VS{11}Like
the
partridge, getting
eggs together
but
not producing
young,
is
a
man
who gets
wealth
but
not
by
right;
before
half
his
days
are ended,
it
will
go
from
him,
and
at
his
end
he
will
be
foolish.
\VS{12}A
seat
of
glory, placed
on
high
from
the
first,
is our
holy
place.
\VS{13}O
Lord,
the hope
of
Israel,
all
who
give
you
up
will
be
put
to
shame;
those
who go
away
from
you
will
be cut
off
from
the
earth,
because
they
have given
up
the
Lord,
the
fountain
of
living
waters.
\VS{14}Make
me well,
O
Lord,
and
I
will
be well;
be
my saviour,
and
I
will
be
safe:
for
you
are
my hope.
\VS{15}See,
they
say
to
me,
Where
is
the
word
of
the
Lord?
let
it
come
now.
\VS{16}As
for
me,
I
have
not said;
Let
the
day
of trouble
come
to
them quickly;
and
I
have
not
been hoping
for
the death-giving
day;
you
have
knowledge
of
what
came
from
my
lips;
it
was
open
before
you.
\VS{17}Be
not
a
cause
of fear
to
me:
you
are
my safe
place
in
the
day
of
evil.
\VS{18}Let
them
be
put
to
shame
who
are attacking
me,
but
let
me
not
be
shamed;
let
them
be overcome
with fear,
but
let
me
not
be overcome: send
on
them
the
day
of
evil,
and
put
them
to
destruction
twice
over.
\VS{19}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said
to
me:
Go
and
take
your
place
in
the doorway
of Benjamin,
where
the
kings
of
Judah
come
in
and
by
which
they
go
out,
and
in
all
the doorways
of
Jerusalem;
\VS{20}And
say
to
them,
Give ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
you
kings
of
Judah,
and
all
the
people
of
Jerusalem
who
come
in
by
these doors:
\VS{21}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
See
to
yourselves,
that
you
take
up
no weight
on
the
Sabbath
day,
or
take
it
in
through
the doors
of
Jerusalem;
\VS{22}And
take
no weight
out
of
your
houses
on
the
Sabbath
day,
or
do
any
work,
but
keep
the
Sabbath
day
holy,
as
I
gave
orders
to
your
fathers;
\VS{23}But
they
gave
no
attention
and would
not
give
ear,
but
they
made
their
necks stiff
so
that
they might
not
give
ear
and might
not
get teaching.
\VS{24}And
it
will
be,
that
if
with
all care
you
give ear
to
me,
says
the
Lord,
and
take
no weight
through
the doorways
of
this
town
on
the
Sabbath
day,
but
keep
the
Sabbath
day
holy
and
do
no
work
in
it;
\VS{25}Then
through
the doors
of
this
town
there
will
come
kings
and
princes,
seated
on
the
seat
of
David,
going
in carriages
and
on
horseback,
they
and
their
princes,
and
the
men
of
Judah
and
the
people
of
Jerusalem:
and
this
town
will
keep
its
place
for
ever.
\VS{26}And
they
will
come
from
the
towns
of
Judah,
and
from
the
places
round
about
Jerusalem,
and
from
the
land
of
Benjamin,
and
from
the lowlands,
and
from
the
mountains,
and
from
the
South,
with burned
offerings
and
offerings
of beasts
and
meal
offerings
and perfume
and
offerings
of
praise,
to
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{27}But
if
you
do
not
give ear
to
me,
to
keep
the
Sabbath
day
holy,
and
to
let
no weight
be
lifted
and
taken
through
the doors
of
Jerusalem
on
the
Sabbath
day:
then
I
will
put
a
fire
in
its doorways,
burning
up
the great houses
of
Jerusalem,
and
it
will
never
be
put
out.

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
Lord,
saying,
\VS{2}Up!
go
down
to
the potter's
house,
and
there
I
will
let
my
words
come
to
your ears.
\VS{3}Then
I
went
down
to
the potter's
house,
and
he
was
doing
his
work
on
the stones.
\VS{4}And
when
the
vessel,
which
he
was
forming
out
of earth, got damaged
in
the
hand
of
the
potter,
he
made
it
again
into
another
vessel,
as
it
seemed
good
to
the
potter
to
make
it.
\VS{5}Then
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{6}O
Israel,
am
I
not
able
to
do
with
you
as
this
potter
does?
says
the
Lord.
See,
like earth
in
the potter's
hand
are
you
in
my
hands,
O
Israel.
\VS{7}Whenever
I
say anything
about uprooting
a
nation
or
a
kingdom,
and smashing
it
and sending
destruction
on
it;
\VS{8}If,
in
that very minute,
that
nation
of
which
I
was
talking
is
turned
away
from
its
evil,
my purpose
of
doing
evil
to
them
will
be
changed.
\VS{9}And whenever
I
say anything
about
building
up
a
nation
or
a
kingdom,
and planting
it;
\VS{10}If,
in
that
very minute,
it
does
evil
in
my
eyes, going
against
my
orders,
then
my
good purpose,
which
I
said
I
would
do
for
them,
will
be
changed.
\VS{11}Now,
then,
say
to
the
men
of
Judah
and
to
the
people
of
Jerusalem,
This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
See,
I
am
forming
an
evil
thing
against
you,
and designing
a
design
against
you:
let
every
man
come
back
now
from
his
evil
way,
and
let
your
ways
and
your
doings
be changed
for
the
better.
\VS{12}But
they
will
say, There
is no hope:
we
will go
on
in
our
designs,
and
every
one
of
us
will
do
what
he
is moved
by
the pride
of
his
evil
heart
to
do.
\VS{13}So
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
Make search
among
the
nations
and see
who
has
had
word
of
such
things;
the
virgin
of
Israel
has
done
a
very shocking
thing.
\VS{14}Will
the white
snow go
away
from
the top
of Sirion?
will
the
cold
waters
flowing
from
the mountains become dry?
\VS{15}For
my
people
have put
me out
of
their memory,
burning perfumes
to
that which
is
nothing;
and
because
of
this,
I
will put
a cause
of falling
in
their
ways,
even
in
the
old
roads,
and
will
make
them go
on side-roads,
in
a
way
not lifted
up;
\VS{16}Making
their
land
a
thing
of wonder,
causing sounds
of surprise
for
ever;
everyone
who goes
by
will
be overcome
with wonder, shaking
his
head.
\VS{17}I
will send
them
in flight,
as
from
an
east
wind,
before
the attacker;
I
will
let
them
see
my
back
and
not
my
face
on
the
day
of
their downfall.
\VS{18}Then
they
said, Come,
let
us
make
a
design
against
Jeremiah;
for
teaching
will
never
be cut
off
from
the
priest,
or
wisdom
from
the
wise,
or
the
word
from
the
prophet. Come,
let
us
make use
of
his
words
for
an
attack
on
him,
and
let
us
give
attention
with
care
to
what
he
says.
\VS{19}Give thought
to
me,
O
Lord,
and
give ear
to
the
voice
of those
who put forward
a cause
against
me.
\VS{20}Is
evil
to
be
the
reward
of
good?
for
they
have
made
a deep hole
for
my
soul.
Keep
in
mind
how
I
took
my
place
before
you,
to
say
a
good
word
for
them
so
that
your
wrath might
be
turned
away
from
them.
\VS{21}For
this
cause,
let
their
children
be without food,
and
give
them
over
to
the
power
of
the
sword;
and
let
their
wives
be without
children
and
become
widows;
let
their
men
be overtaken
by
death,
and
their
young
men
be
put
to
the
sword
in
the
fight.
\VS{22}Let
a
cry
for help
go
up
from
their
houses,
when
you send
an armed
band
on
them
suddenly:
for
they
have
made
a hole
in
which
to
take
me,
and
have
put nets
for
my
feet
secretly.
\VS{23}But
you,
Lord,
have
knowledge
of
all
the
designs which
they
have
made
against
my life;
let
not
their evil-doing
be covered
or
their
sin
be washed
away
from
before
your eyes:
but
let
it
be
a
cause
of falling
before
you:
so
do
to
them
in
the
time
of
your
wrath.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
Go
and
get
for money
a potter's bottle
made
of earth,
and
take
with
you
some
of
the responsible
men
of
the
people
and
of
the
priests;
\VS{2}And
go
out
to
the
valley
of
the
son
of
Hinnom,
by
the
way
into
the
door
of broken pots,
and
there
say
in
a loud voice
the
words
which
I
will
give
you;
\VS{3}Say,
Give
ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
O
kings
of
Judah
and
people
of
Jerusalem;
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said,
See,
I
will send
evil
on
this
place
which
will
be bitter
to
the
ears
of
anyone
hearing
of
it.
\VS{4}Because
they
have
given
me
up,
and
made
this
place
a strange
place,
burning perfumes
in
it
to
other
gods,
of
whom
they
and
their
fathers
and
the
kings
of
Judah
had
no
knowledge;
and
they
have
made
this
place
full
of
the
blood
of
those
who
have done
no wrong;
\VS{5}And
they
have
put
up
the
high
places
of
the
Baal,
burning
their
sons
in
the
fire;
a thing
which
was
not
ordered
by
me,
and
it
was
never
in
my
mind:
\VS{6}For
this
cause,
see,
a
time
is
coming,
says
the
Lord,
when
this
place
will
no
longer
be
named
Topheth,
or,
The
valley
of
the
son
of
Hinnom,
but,
The
valley
of Death.
\VS{7}I
will
make
the
purpose
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem
come
to nothing
in
this
place;
I
will
have
them
put
to
the
sword
by
their haters,
and
by
the
hands
of
those
who
have
designs
on
their
life;
and
their
dead
bodies
I
will
give
to
be
food
for
the
birds
of
heaven
and
the
beasts
of
the
earth.
\VS{8}And
I
will
make
this
town
a
thing
of wonder
and
a cause
of surprise;
everyone
who goes
by
will
be overcome
with wonder
and
make sounds
of surprise,
because
of
all
its troubles.
\VS{9}I
will make
them take
the
flesh
of
their
sons
and
the
flesh
of
their
daughters
for
food,
they
will
be making
a meal
of
one
another,
because
of
their bitter
need
and
the cruel grip
of
their haters
and
those
who
have
made designs
against
their
life.
\VS{10}Then
let
the potter's bottle
be
broken
before
the
eyes
of
the
men
who
have
gone
with
you,
\VS{11}And
say
to
them,
This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said:
Even
so
will
this
people
and
this
town
be
broken
by
me,
as
a potter's bottle
is
broken
and
may
not
be put
together
again:
and
the bodies
of
the dead
will
be put
in
the earth
in
Topheth, till
there
is
no
more
room.
\VS{12}This
is
what
I
will
do
to
this
place,
says
the
Lord,
and
to
its
people,
making
this
town
like
Topheth:
\VS{13}And
the
houses
of
Jerusalem,
and
the
houses
of
the
kings
of
Judah,
which
they
have
made
unclean,
will
be
like
the
place
of
Topheth,
even
all
the
houses
on
whose
roofs perfumes
have
been
burned
to
all
the
army
of
heaven,
and drink offerings drained
out
to
other
gods.
\VS{14}Then
Jeremiah
came
from
Topheth,
where
the
Lord
had
sent
him
to
give
the prophet's
word;
and
he
took
his
place
in
the open square
of
the Lord's
house,
and
said
to
all
the
people,
\VS{15}The
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
See,
I
will send
on
this
town
and
on
all
her
towns
all
the
evil
which
I
have
said;
because
they
made
their
necks stiff,
so
that
they
might
not
give ear
to
my
words.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
it came
to
the ears
of
Pashhur,
the
son
of
Immer
the
priest,
who
was
chief
in
authority
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
that
Jeremiah
was
saying
these
things;
\VS{2}And
Pashhur
gave
blows
to
Jeremiah
and
had
his feet chained
in
a framework
of wood
in
the higher doorway
of
Benjamin,
which
was
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{3}Then
on
the
day
after,
Pashhur
let
Jeremiah loose.
Then
Jeremiah
said
to
him,
The
Lord
has
given
you
the
name
of
Magor-missabib (Cause-of-fear-on-every-side),
not
Pashhur.
\VS{4}For
the
Lord
has
said,
See,
I
will
make
you
a
cause
of fear
to
yourself
and
to
all
your
friends:
they
will
come
to
their death
by
the
sword
of
their haters,
and
your
eyes
will
see
it:
and
I
will
give
all
Judah
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
will
take
them
away prisoners
into
Babylon
and
put
them
to
the
sword.
\VS{5}And more
than
this,
I
will
give
all
the
wealth
of
this
town
and
all
its profits
and
all
its
things
of value,
even
all
the
stores
of
the
kings
of
Judah
will
I
give
into
the
hands
of
their haters,
who
will
put violent
hands
on
them
and
take
them
away
to
Babylon.
\VS{6}And
you,
Pashhur,
and
all
who
are
in
your
house,
will
go
away
prisoners:
you
will
come
to
Babylon,
and
there
your
body
will
be
put
to rest,
you
and
all
your
friends,
to
whom
you said
false words.
\VS{7}O
Lord,
you
have
been false
to
me,
and
I
was tricked;
you
are
stronger
than
I,
and
have
overcome
me:
I
have
become
a
thing
to
be laughed
at
all
the
day,
everyone
makes
sport
of
me.
\VS{8}For
every
word
I
say
is
a
cry
for help;
I
say
with
a loud voice,
Violent behaviour
and wasting:
because
the
word
of
the
Lord
is
made
a
shame
to
me
and
a
cause
of laughing
all
the
day.
\VS{9}And
if
I
say,
I
will
not
keep
him
in
mind,
I
will
not
say
another
word
in
his
name;
then
it
is
in
my
heart
like
a
burning
fire
shut
up
in
my
bones,
and
I
am
tired
of keeping
myself
in,
I
am
not
able
to
do
it.
\VS{10}For numbers
of
them say
evil secretly
in
my
hearing (there
is fear
on
every
side):
they say, Come,
let
us
give
witness
against
him;
all
my nearest
friends,
who
are
watching
for
my
fall, say,
It
may
be
that
he
will
be
taken
by deceit,
and
we
will
get
the better
of
him
and
give
him punishment.
\VS{11}But
the
Lord
is
with
me
as
a
great
one,
greatly
to
be feared:
so
my attackers
will
have
a
fall,
and
they
will
not
overcome
me:
they
will
be
greatly
shamed,
because
they
have
not done wisely,
even
with
an
unending
shame, kept
in memory
for
ever.
\VS{12}But,
O
Lord
of
armies,
testing
the upright
and
seeing
the
thoughts
and
the
heart,
let
me
see
your punishment
come
on
them;
for
I
have put
my
cause
before
you.
\VS{13}Make melody
to
the
Lord, give
praise
to
the
Lord:
for
he
has made
the
soul
of
the
poor
man free
from
the
hands
of
the evil-doers.
\VS{14}A
curse
on
the
day
of
my
birth:
let
there
be
no
blessing
on
the
day
when
my
mother
had
me.
\VS{15}A
curse
on
the
man
who
gave
the
news
to
my
father,
saying,
You
have
a
male
child; making
him
very
glad.
\VS{16}May
that
man
be
like
the
towns
overturned
by
the
Lord
without
mercy:
let
a
cry
for help
come
to
his ears
in
the
morning,
and
the
sound
of
war
in
the middle
of
the
day;
\VS{17}Because
he
did
not
put
me
to
death
before
my
birth
took
place:
so
my mother's
body
would
have
been
my
last resting-place,
and
she
would
have
been
with
child
for
ever.
\VS{18}Why
did
I
come
from
my mother's body
to
see
pain
and
sorrow,
so
that
my
days might
be wasted
with
shame?

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
Lord,
when
King
Zedekiah
sent
to
him
Pashhur,
the
son
of Malchiah,
and
Zephaniah,
the
son
of
Maaseiah
the
priest,
saying,
\VS{2}Will
you
get directions
from
the
Lord
for
us;
for
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
is
making war
against
us;
it
may
be
that
the
Lord
will
do something
for
us
like
all
the
wonders
he
has
done,
and
make
him
go
away
from
us.
\VS{3}Then
Jeremiah
said
to
them,
This
is
what
you are
to
say
to
Zedekiah:
\VS{4}The
Lord
God
of
Israel
has
said,
See,
I
am
turning
back
the
instruments
of
war
in
your
hands,
with
which
you
are
fighting
against
the
king
of
Babylon
and
the Chaldaeans,
who
are
outside
the
walls
and shutting
you
in;
and
I
will
get
them
together
inside
this
town.
\VS{5}And
I
myself
will
be
fighting
against
you
with an
outstretched
hand
and
with
a
strong
arm, even
with
angry feeling
and passion
and
in
great
wrath.
\VS{6}And I
will send
a
great disease
on
the
people
living
in
this
town,
on
man
and
on
beast, causing
their
death.
\VS{7}And
after
that,
says
the
Lord,
I
will
give
up
Zedekiah,
king
of
Judah,
and
his
servants
and
his
people,
even
those
in
the
town
who
have
not come
to
their
end
from
the disease
and
the
sword
and
from
need
of food,
into
the
hands
of
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
and
into
the
hands
of
their haters,
and
into
the
hands
of
those desiring
their
death:
he
will
put
them
to
the
sword;
he
will
not
let
anyone get
away,
he
will
have
no
pity
or
mercy.
\VS{8}And
to
this
people
you
are
to
say,
The
Lord
has
said,
See,
I
put
before
you
the
way
of
life
and
the
way
of
death.
\VS{9}He
who keeps
in
this
town
will
come
to
his
death
by
the
sword
and
through need
of food
and
through disease;
but
he
who
goes
out
and gives
himself
up
to
the Chaldaeans
who
are shutting
you
in,
will
go
on
living,
and
will keep
his
life safe.
\VS{10}For
my
face
is
turned
to
this
town
for
evil
and
not
for
good,
says
the
Lord:
it
will
be
given
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
will
have
it
burned
with
fire.
\VS{11}About
the
family
of
the
king
of
Judah.
Give ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord;
\VS{12}O
family
of
David,
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
Do
what
is
right
in
the
morning,
and
make
free
from
the
hands
of
the cruel
one
him whose goods
have
been
violently
taken
away,
or
my
wrath
will
go
out
like
fire,
burning
so
that
no
one
may
put
it
out,
because
of
the
evil
of
your
doings.
\VS{13}See,
I
am
against
you,
you
who
are
living
on
the
rock
of
the
valley,
says
the
Lord;
you
who
say,
Who
will
come
down
against
us?
or
who
will
get
into
our houses?
\VS{14}I
will send
punishment
on
you
in keeping
with
the
fruit
of
your
doings,
says
the
Lord:
and
I
will
put
a
fire
in
her woodlands,
burning
up
everything
round
about
her.

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
Go
down
to
the
house
of
the
king
of
Judah
and
there
give
him
this
word,
\VS{2}And
say,
Give ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
O
king
of
Judah,
seated
on
the
seat
of
David,
you
and
your
servants
and
your
people
who
come
in
by
these doors.
\VS{3}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
Do
what
is
right, judging
uprightly,
and
make
free
from
the
hands
of
the cruel
one
him whose goods
have
been
violently
taken
away:
do
no
wrong
and
be
not
violent
to
the man
from
a strange
country
and
the child
without
a father
and
the
widow,
and
let
not
those
who
have
done
no
wrong
be
put
to
death
in
this
place.
\VS{4}For
if
you
truly
do
this,
then
there
will
come
in
through
the doors
of
this
house
kings
seated
on
the
seat
of
David,
going
in carriages
and
on
horseback,
he
and
his
servants
and
his
people
\VS{5}But
if
you
do
not
give ear
to
these
words,
I
give
you
my
oath
by myself,
says
the
Lord,
that
this
house
will
become
a
waste.
\VS{6}For
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said
about
the
family
of
the
king
of
Judah:
You
are
Gilead
to
me,
and
the
top
of
Lebanon:
but,
truly,
I
will
make
you waste,
with
towns unpeopled.
\VS{7}And
I
will
make ready
those
who
will send
destruction
on
you,
everyone armed
for war:
by
them
your best cedar-trees
will
be
cut
down
and put
in
the
fire.
\VS{8}And
nations
from
all sides
will
go past
this
town,
and
every
man
will
say
to
his neighbour,
Why
has
the
Lord
done
such
things
to
this
great
town?
\VS{9}And
they
will
say,
Because
they
gave
up
the
agreement
of
the
Lord
their
God,
and became worshippers
and
servants
of
other
gods.
\VS{10}Let
there
be
no
weeping
for
the
dead,
and
make
no songs
of grief
for
him:
but
make bitter
weeping
for
him
who
has
gone
away,
for
he
will
never
come
back
or
see
again
the
country
of
his
birth.
\VS{11}For
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said
about
Shallum,
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah,
who
became
king
in
place
of
Josiah
his
father,
who
went
out
from
this
place:
He
will
never
come
back
there
again:
\VS{12}But
death
will come
to
him
in
the
place
where
they
have
taken
him
away prisoner,
and
he
will
never
see
this
land
again.
\VS{13}A curse
is
on
him
who
is
building
his
house
by wrongdoing,
and
his
rooms
by doing
what
is
not
right;
who
makes
use
of
his neighbour
without
payment,
and
gives
him
nothing
for
his
work;
\VS{14}Who
says,
I
will make
a wide
house
for myself,
and
rooms
of great
size,
and
has
windows
cut out,
and
has
it roofed
with
cedar
and painted
with
bright
red.
\VS{15}Are
you
to
be
a
king
because
you
make
more
use
of
cedar
than
your
father?
did
not
your
father take
food
and
drink
and
do
right, judging
in
righteousness,
and
then
it
was
well
for
him?
\VS{16}He
was
judge
in
the
cause
of
the
poor
and
those
in need;
then
it
was
well.
Was
not
this
to
have
knowledge
of
me?
says
the
Lord.
\VS{17}But
your
eyes
and
your
heart
are fixed
only
on
profit
for
yourself,
on causing
the
death
of
him
who
has
done
no wrong,
and
on
violent
and cruel
acts.
\VS{18}So
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said
about
Jehoiakim,
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah:
They
will make
no weeping
for
him,
saying,
Ah
my
brother!
or,
Ah
sister!
they
will make
no weeping
for
him,
saying,
Ah
lord!
or,
Ah
his
glory!
\VS{19}They
will do
to
him what
they do
to
the dead body
of
an ass;
his body
will
be pulled
out
and placed
on
the earth
outside
the doors
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{20}Go
up
to
Lebanon
and
give
a
cry;
let
your
voice
be loud
in
Bashan,
crying
out
from
Abarim;
for
all
your
lovers
have
come
to destruction
\VS{21}My
word
came
to
you
in
the
time
of
your well-being;
but
you
said,
I
will
not
give ear.
This
has
been
your
way
from
your earliest years,
you
did
not
give
attention
to
my
voice.
\VS{22}All
the keepers
of
your sheep
will
be food
for
the
wind,
and
your
lovers
will
be taken
away
prisoners:
truly,
then
you
will
be
shamed
and unhonoured
because
of
all
your evil-doing.
\VS{23}O
you
who
are
living
in
Lebanon, making
your living-place
in
the
cedars,
how greatly
to be pitied
will
you be
when
pains
come
on
you,
as
on
a woman
in
childbirth!
\VS{24}By
my
life,
says
the
Lord,
even
if Coniah,
the
son
of
Jehoiakim,
king
of
Judah,
was
the ring
on
my
right
hand,
even
from
there
I
would
have
you pulled
off;
\VS{25}And
I
will
give
you
into
the
hands
of
those desiring
your
death,
and
into
the
hands
of
those
whom
you
are fearing, even
into
the
hands
of
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
and
into
the
hands
of
the Chaldaeans.
\VS{26}I
will send
you
out,
and
your
mother
who
gave
you
birth,
into
another
country
not
the
land
of
your
birth;
and
there
death
will come
to
you.
\VS{27}But
to
the
land
on
which
their soul's
desire
is fixed,
they
will
never
come
back.
\VS{28}Is
this
man Coniah
a broken
vessel
of
no value?
is
he
a
vessel
in
which
there
is
no
pleasure?
why
are
they violently sent
out,
he
and
his
seed,
into
a
land
which
is strange
to
them?
\VS{29}O
earth,
earth,
earth,
give ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord!
\VS{30}The
Lord
has
said,
Let
this
man
be
recorded
as
having
no
children,
a
man
who
will
not
do well
in
all
his
life:
for
no
man
of
his
seed
will
do well,
seated
on
the
seat
of
the kingdom
of
David
and
ruling
again
in
Judah.

\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}A curse
is
on
the keepers
who
are causing
the
destruction
and loss
of
the
sheep
of
my field,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{2}So
this
is
what
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said
against
the keepers
who
have
the
care
of
my
people:
You
have
let
my
flock
be broken
up, driving
them
away
and
not caring
for
them;
see,
I
will send
on
you
the
punishment
for
the
evil
of
your
doings,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{3}And
I
will
get
the
rest
of
my
flock
together
from
all
the
countries
where
I
have
sent
them,
and
will
make
them
come
back
again
to
their resting-place;
and
they
will
have offspring
and
be
increased.
\VS{4}And
I
will
put
over
them keepers
who
will
take
care
of
them:
never
again
will
they
be overcome
with
fear
or
be troubled,
and
there
will
not
be
the loss
of
one
of
them,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{5}See,
the
days
are
coming,
says
the
Lord,
when
I
will
give
to
David
a
true
Branch,
and
he
will
be ruling
as
king, acting wisely,
doing
what
is
right,
and judging
uprightly
in
the
land.
\VS{6}In
his
days
Judah
will
have
salvation
and
Israel
will
be
living without fear:
and
this
is
the
name
by
which
he
will
be
named,
The
Lord
is
our
righteousness.
\VS{7}And
so, truly,
the
days
are
coming
when
they
will
say
no
longer,
By
the
living
Lord,
who
took
the
children
of
Israel
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt;
\VS{8}But,
By
the
living
Lord,
who
took
up
the
seed
of
Israel,
and
made
them
come
out
of
the
north
country,
and
from
all
the
countries
where
I
had
sent
them;
and
they
will
be
living
in
the
land
which
is theirs.
\VS{9}About
the
prophets.
My
heart
is
broken
in
me,
all
my
bones
are shaking;
I
am
like
a
man
full
of strong drink,
like
a
man overcome
by
wine;
because
of
the
Lord,
and
because
of
his
holy
words.
\VS{10}For
the
land
is
full
of
men
who
are untrue
to
their wives;
because
of
the
curse
the
land
is
full
of grief;
the green fields
of
the waste
land
have
become
dry;
and
they
are quick
to do
evil,
their
strength
is
for
what
is
not
right.
\VS{11}For
the
prophet
as
well
as
the
priest
is unclean;
even
in
my
house
I
have seen
their evil-doing,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{12}For
this
cause
their steps
will
be slipping
on
their
way:
they
will
be forced
on
into
the dark
and
have
a
fall
there:
for
I
will send
evil
on
them
in
the
year
of
their
punishment,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{13}And
I
have
seen ways without sense
in
the
prophets
of
Samaria;
they
became
prophets
of
the
Baal, causing
my
people
Israel
to
go wrong.
\VS{14}And
in
the
prophets
of
Jerusalem
I
have
seen
a shocking
thing;
they
are untrue
to
their wives,
walking
in
deceit,
and
they
make
strong
the
hands
of evil-doers,
so
that
a
man
may
not
be
turned
back
from
his evil-doing:
they
have
all
become
like
Sodom
to
me,
and
its
people
like
Gomorrah.
\VS{15}So
this
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said
about
the
prophets:
See,
I
will
give
them
a bitter plant
for
their
food,
and bitter
water
for
their
drink:
for
from
the
prophets
of
Jerusalem unclean behaviour
has
gone
out
into
all
the
land.
\VS{16}This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said:
Do
not
give ear
to
the
words
which
the
prophets
say
to
you:
they
give
you teaching
of
no value:
it
is
from
themselves
that
their
vision
comes,
and
not
out
of
the
mouth
of
the
Lord.
\VS{17}They
keep
on
saying
to
those
who
have
no
respect
for
the
word
of
the
Lord,
You
will
have
peace;
and
to
everyone
who
goes
on
his
way
in
the pride
of
his
heart,
they
say,
No
evil
will
come
to
you.
\VS{18}For
which
of
them
has knowledge
of
the
secret
of
the
Lord,
and
has
seen
him,
and
given ear
to
his
word?
which
of
them
has taken
note
of
his
word
and
given
attention
to
it?
\VS{19}See,
the storm-wind
of
the
Lord,
even
the
heat
of
his
wrath,
has
gone
out,
a rolling
storm, bursting
on
the
heads
of
the evil-doers.
\VS{20}The
wrath
of
the
Lord
will
not
be
turned
back
till
he
has
done,
till
he
has
put
into
effect,
the
purposes
of
his
heart:
in
days
to
come
you
will
have
full knowledge
of
this.
\VS{21}I
did
not
send
these
prophets,
but
they
went
running:
I
said
nothing
to
them,
but
they
gave
out
the prophet's
word.
\VS{22}But
if
they
had been
in
my
secret,
then
they
would
have
made
my
people
give ear
to
my
words,
turning
them
from
their
evil
way,
and
from
the
evil
of
their
doings.
\VS{23}Am
I only
a
God
who
is
near,
says
the
Lord,
and
not
a
God
at
a
distance?
\VS{24}In what
secret
place
may
a
man
take
cover
without
my
seeing
him?
says
the
Lord.
Is
there
any
place
in
heaven
or
earth
where
I
am
not?
says
the
Lord.
\VS{25}My ears
have
been open
to
what
the
prophets
have
said,
who
say
false words
in
my
name,
saying,
I
have
had
a
dream,
I
have
had
a
dream,
I
have
had
a
dream,
\VS{26}Is (my word)
in
the
hearts
of
the
prophets
who give
out
false words,
even
the
prophets
of
the
deceit
of
their
hearts?
\VS{27}Whose purpose
is
to take away
the
memory
of
my
name
from
my
people
by
their
dreams,
of
which
every
man
is talking
to
his neighbour,
as
their
fathers gave
up
the
memory
of
my
name
for
the
Baal.
\VS{28}If
a
prophet
has
a
dream, let
him
give
out
his
dream;
and
he
who
has
my
word, let
him
give
out
my
word
in good
faith.
What
has
the dry stem
to
do
with
the
grain?
says
the
Lord.
\VS{29}Is
not
my
word
like
fire?
says
the
Lord;
and
like
a
hammer, smashing
the
rock
to bits?
\VS{30}For
this
cause
I
am
against
the
prophets,
says
the
Lord,
who take
my
words,
every
one
from
his neighbour.
\VS{31}See,
I
am
against
the
prophets,
says
the
Lord,
who let
their
tongues say,
He
has said.
\VS{32}See,
I
am
against
the prophets
of
false
dreams,
says
the
Lord,
who
give
them
out
and make
my
people
go
out
of
the
way
by
their
deceit
and
their uncontrolled words:
but
I
did
not
send
them
or
give
them
orders;
and
they
will
be
of
no
profit
to
this
people,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{33}And
if
this
people,
or
the
prophet,
or
a
priest, questioning
you,
says,
What
word
of weight
is
there
from
the
Lord?
then
you
are
to
say
to
them,
You
are
the
word,
for
I
will
not
be troubled
with
you
any
more,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{34}And
as
for
the
prophet
and
the
priest
and
the
people
who
say,
A
word
of weight
from
the
Lord!
I
will send
punishment
on
that
man
and
on
his
house.
\VS{35}But
this
is
what
you
are
to
say,
every
man
to
his neighbour
and
every
man
to
his
brother,
What
answer
has
the
Lord given?
and,
What
has
the
Lord
said?
\VS{36}And
you
will
no
longer
put
people
in
mind
of
the
word
of weight
of
the
Lord:
for
every man's
word
will
be
a weight
on
himself;
for
the
words
of
the
living
God,
of
the
Lord
of
armies,
our
God,
have
been twisted
by
you.
\VS{37}This
is
what
you
are
to
say
to
the
prophet,
What
answer
has
the
Lord given
to
you?
and,
What
has
the
Lord
said?
\VS{38}But
if
you
say,
The
word
of weight
of
the
Lord;
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
Because
you
say,
The weight
of
the
Lord,
and
I
have
sent
to
you,
saying,
You
are
not
to
say,
The weight
of
the
Lord;
\VS{39}For
this
reason, truly,
I
will
put
you completely
out
of
my memory,
and
I
will
put
you,
and
the
town
which
I
gave
to
you
and
to
your
fathers,
away
from
before
my
face:
\VS{40}And
I
will
give
you
a name
without honour
for
ever,
and
unending
shame
which
will
never go
from
the memory
of men.

\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
Lord
gave
me
a
vision,
and
I
saw
two
baskets full
of
figs
put
in
front
of
the
Temple
of
the
Lord,
after
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
had
taken prisoner
Jeconiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiakim,
king
of
Judah,
and
the
chiefs
of
Judah,
and
the expert workmen
and metal-workers
from
Jerusalem,
and
had
taken
them
to
Babylon.
\VS{2}One
basket
had
very
good
figs,
like
the
figs
which
first come
to growth:
and
the
other
basket
had
very
bad
figs,
so
bad
that
they
were
of
no
use
for
food.
\VS{3}Then
the
Lord
said
to
me,
What
do
you
see,
Jeremiah?
And
I
said,
Figs;
the
good
figs
are
very
good,
and
the
bad
very
bad,
and
of
no
use
for
food,
they
are
so
bad.
\VS{4}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{5}This
is
what
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
Like
these
good
figs,
so
in
my eyes
will
be
the prisoners
of
Judah,
whom
I
have
sent
from
this
place
into
the
land
of
the Chaldaeans
for
their
good.
\VS{6}For
I
will keep
my
eyes
on
them
for
good,
and
I
will
take
them
back
again
to
this
land,
building
them
up
and
not pulling
them
down, planting
them
and
not uprooting
them.
\VS{7}And
I
will
give
them
a
heart
to
have
knowledge
of
me,
that
I
am
the
Lord:
and
they
will
be
my
people,
and
I
will
be
their
God:
for
they
will
come
back
to
me
with
all
their
heart.
\VS{8}And
like
the
bad
figs
which
are
so
bad
that
they
are
of
no
use
for
food,
so
I
will
give
up
Zedekiah,
king
of
Judah,
and
his
chiefs
and
the
rest
of
Jerusalem
who
are
still
in
this
land,
and
those
who
are
in
the
land
of
Egypt:
\VS{9}I
will
give
them
up
to
be
a
cause
of fear
and
of
trouble
among
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth;
to
be
a name
of
shame
and
common talk
and
a cutting word
and
a
curse
in
all
the
places
wherever
I
will
send
them wandering.
\VS{10}And
I
will
send
the
sword,
and need
of food,
and disease,
among
them
till
they
are
all cut
off
from
the
land
which
I
gave
to
them
and
to
their
fathers.

\par }\Chap{25}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
about
all
the
people
of
Judah
in
the
fourth
year
of
Jehoiakim,
the
son
of
Josiah
king
of
Judah;
this
was
the
first
year
of
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon.
\VS{2}This
word
Jeremiah
gave
out
to
all
the
people
of
Judah
and
to
those
living
in
Jerusalem,
saying,
\VS{3}From
the thirteenth
year
of
Josiah,
the
son
of
Amon,
king
of
Judah,
even
till
this
day,
for twenty-three
years,
the
word
of
the
Lord
has
been coming
to
me,
and
I
have
given
it
to
you, getting
up
early
and
talking
to
you;
but
you
have
not
given ear.
\VS{4}And
the
Lord
has
sent
to
you
all
his
servants
the
prophets, getting
up
early
and
sending
them;
but
you
have
not
given
attention
and
your
ear
has
not
been open
to
give
hearing;
\VS{5}Saying,
Come
back
now,
everyone
from
his
evil
way
and
from
the
evil
of
your
doings,
and keep
your
place
in
the
land
which
the
Lord
has
given
to
you
and
to
your
fathers,
from
times
long
past
even
for
ever:
\VS{6}Do
not go
after
other
gods
to
be
their
servants
and
to give
them
worship,
and
do
not
make
me
angry
with
the
work
of
your
hands, causing
evil
to
yourselves.
\VS{7}But
you
have
not
given ear
to
me,
says
the
Lord;
so
that
you
have
made
me
angry
with
the
work
of
your
hands, causing
evil
to
yourselves.
\VS{8}So
this
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said:
Because
you
have
not
given ear
to
my
words,
\VS{9}See,
I
will
send
and
take
all
the
families
of
the
north,
says
the
Lord,
and
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
my
servant,
and
make
them
come
against
this
land,
and
against
its
people,
and
against
all
these
nations
on
every
side;
and
I
will
give
them
up
to
complete
destruction,
and
make
them
a cause
of fear
and surprise
and
a
waste
place
for
ever.
\VS{10}And more than this,
I
will
take
from
them
the
sound
of laughing
voices,
the
voice
of
joy,
the
voice
of
the newly-married man,
and
the
voice
of
the
bride,
the
sound
of
the stones crushing
the grain,
and
the
shining
of
lights.
\VS{11}All
this
land
will
be
a
waste
and
a
cause
of wonder;
and
these
nations
will
be
the
servants
of
the
king
of
Babylon
for
seventy
years.
\VS{12}And
it
will
come
about,
after
seventy
years
are
ended,
that
I
will send
punishment
on
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
on
that
nation,
says
the
Lord,
for
their evil-doing,
and
on
the
land
of
the Chaldaeans;
and
I
will
make
it
a
waste
for
ever.
\VS{13}And
I
will make
that
land undergo
everything
I
have
said
against
it,
even
everything
recorded
in
this
book,
which
Jeremiah
the
prophet
has
said
against
all
the
nations.
\VS{14}For
a number
of
nations
and
great
kings
will
make
servants
of
them,
even
of
them:
and
I
will give
them
the
reward
of
their acts,
even
the
reward
of
the
work
of
their
hands.
\VS{15}For
this
is
what
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said
to
me:
Take
the
cup
of
the
wine
of
this
wrath
from
my
hand,
and
make
all
the
nations
to
whom
I
send
you
take
of
it.
\VS{16}And
after
drinking
it,
they
will
go rolling
from side
to side,
and
be
off
their heads,
because
of
the
sword
which
I
will
send
among
them.
\VS{17}Then
I
took
the
cup
from
the Lord's
hand,
and
gave
a
drink
from
it
to
all
the
nations
to
whom
the
Lord
sent
me;
\VS{18}Jerusalem
and
the
towns
of
Judah
and
their
kings
and
their
princes,
to
make
them
a
waste
place,
a
cause
of fear
and surprise
and
a
curse,
as
it
is
this
day;
\VS{19}Pharaoh,
king
of
Egypt,
and
his
servants
and
his
princes
and
all
his
people;
\VS{20}And
all
the mixed
people
and
all
the
kings
of
the
land
of
Uz,
and
all
the
kings
of
the
land
of
the
Philistines,
and
Ashkelon
and
Gaza
and
Ekron
and
the
rest
of
Ashdod;
\VS{21}Edom
and
Moab
and
the
children
of
Ammon,
\VS{22}And
all
the
kings
of
Tyre,
and
all
the
kings
of Zidon,
and
the
kings
of
the lands
across
the
sea;
\VS{23}Dedan
and
Tema
and
Buz,
and
all
who
have
the ends
of
their hair
cut;
\VS{24}And
all
the
kings
of
Arabia,
and
all
the
kings
of
the mixed people
living
in
the waste land;
\VS{25}And
all
the
kings
of
Zimri,
and
all
the
kings
of
Elam,
and
all
the
kings
of
the
Medes;
\VS{26}And
all
the
kings
of
the
north,
far
and
near,
one
with
another;
and
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
world
on
the
face
of
the
earth.
\VS{27}And
you
are
to
say
to
them,
This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
Take
of
this cup
and
be
overcome,
and
let
it
come
out
again
from
your lips,
and
from
your
fall
you
will
never
be lifted
up
again,
because
of
the
sword
which
I
will
send
among
you.
\VS{28}And
it
will
be,
if
they
will
not
take
of
the
cup
in
your
hand,
then
you
are
to
say
to
them,
This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said:
You
will
certainly
take
of
it.
\VS{29}For
see,
I
am starting
to send
evil
on
the
town
which
is
named
by
my
name,
and
are
you
to
be
without
any
punishment?
You
will
not
be
without
punishment:
for
I
will send
a
sword
on
all
people
living
on
the
earth,
says
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{30}So,
as
a
prophet,
give
out
these
words
among
them,
and
say
to
them,
The
voice
of
the
Lord
will
be sounding
like
a lion
from
on
high;
he
will
send
out
his
voice
from
his
holy
place,
like
the loud
voice
of
a lion,
against
his flock;
he
will
give
a
cry,
like
those
who
are crushing
the grapes,
against
all
the
people
of
the
earth.
\VS{31}A
noise
will
come,
even
to
the
end
of
the
earth;
for
the
Lord
has
a
cause
against
the
nations,
he
will
give
his decision
against
all
flesh;
as
for
the evil-doers,
he
will
give
them
to
the
sword,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{32}This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said:
See,
evil
is
going
out
from
nation
to
nation,
and
a
great
storm
will
come
up
from
the inmost
parts
of
the
earth.
\VS{33}And
at
that
day,
the bodies
of
those whom
the
Lord
has
put
to death
will
be seen
from
one
end
of
the
earth
even
to
the other
end
of
the
earth:
there
will
be
no weeping
for
them,
their bodies
will
not
be
taken
up
or
put
to
rest
in
the
earth;
they
will
be
like waste
on
the
face
of
the
land.
\VS{34}Give
cries
of grief,
you keepers
of
sheep;
give
cries
for help, rolling yourselves
in
the dust,
you chiefs
of
the
flock:
for
the
days
of
your destruction
have
fully
come,
and
I
will send
you
in
all directions,
and
your
fall
will
be
like
that
of
the males
of
the
flock.
\VS{35}There
will
be
no way
of
flight
for
the keepers
of
sheep,
no road
for
the chiefs
of
the
flock
to get
away safely.
\VS{36}A
sound
of
the
cry
of
the keepers
of
sheep,
and
the bitter
crying
of
the chiefs
of
the
flock!
for
the
Lord
has made
waste
their green fields.
\VS{37}And
there
is no sound
in
the fields
of
peace,
because
of
the
burning
wrath
of
the
Lord.
\VS{38}The
lion
has
come
out
of
his secret
place,
for
the
land
has
become
a
waste
because
of
the cruel sword,
and
because
of
the heat
of
his
wrath.

\par }\Chap{26}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
Jehoiakim,
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah,
first
became
king,
this
word
came
from
the
Lord,
saying,
\VS{2}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
Take
your
place
in
the open square
of
the Lord's
house
and
say
to
all
the
towns
of
Judah,
who
come
into
the Lord's
house
for
worship,
everything
I
give
you
orders
to
say
to
them:
keep
back
not
a
word;
\VS{3}It
may
be
that
they
will
give ear,
and
that
every
man
will
be
turned
from
his
evil
way,
so
that
my purpose
of sending
evil
on
them
because
of
the
evil
of
their
doings
may
be
changed.
\VS{4}And
you
are
to
say
to
them,
This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
If
you
do
not
give ear
to
me
and go
in
the
way
of
my
law
which
I
have
put
before
you,
\VS{5}And
give ear
to
the
words
of
my
servants
the
prophets
whom
I
send
to
you, getting
up
early
and
sending
them, though
you
gave
no
attention;
\VS{6}Then
I
will
make
this
house
like
Shiloh,
and
will
make
this
town
a
curse
to
all
the
nations
of
the
earth.
\VS{7}And
in
the
hearing
of
the
priests
and
the
prophets
and
all
the
people,
Jeremiah
said
these
words
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{8}Now,
when
Jeremiah
had
come
to
the
end
of
saying
everything
the
Lord
had
given
him
orders
to
say
to
all
the
people,
the
priests
and
the
prophets
and
all
the
people
took
him
by force,
saying,
Death
will
certainly
be
your fate.
\VS{9}Why
have
you
said
in
the
name
of
the
Lord,
This
house
will
be
like
Shiloh,
and
this land
a waste
with
no
one
living
in
it?
And
all
the
people
had
come
together
to
Jeremiah
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{10}And
the
rulers
of
Judah,
hearing
of
these
things,
came
up
from
the king's
house
to
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
took
their seats
by
the
new
door
of
the Lord's
house.
\VS{11}Then
the
priests
and
the
prophets
said
to
the
rulers
and
to
all
the
people,
The
right fate
for
this
man
is
death;
for
he
has
said words
against
this
town
in
your
hearing.
\VS{12}Then
Jeremiah
said
to
all
the
rulers
and
to
all
the
people,
The
Lord
has
sent
me
as
his
prophet
to
say
against
this
house
and
against
this
town
all
the
words
which
have come
to
your ears.
\VS{13}So
now,
make
a
change
for
the
better
in
your
ways
and
your
doings,
and
give ear
to
the
voice
of
the
Lord
your
God;
then
the
Lord
will
let
himself
be
turned
from
the decision
he
has
made
against
you
for
evil.
\VS{14}As
for
me,
here
I
am
in
your
hands:
do
with
me
whatever
seems
good
and
right
in
your
opinion.
\VS{15}Only
be
certain
that,
if
you
put
me
to
death,
you
will
make
yourselves
and
your
town
and
its
people
responsible
for
the
blood
of
one
who
has
done
no wrong:
for
truly,
the
Lord
has
sent
me
to
you
to
say
all
these
words
in
your
ears.
\VS{16}Then
the
rulers
and
all
the
people
said
to
the
priests
and
the
prophets,
It
is
not
right
for
this
man
to
be put
to
death:
for
he
has
said words
to
us
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
our
God.
\VS{17}Then
some
of
the responsible
men
of
the
land
got
up
and
said
to
all
the meeting
of
the
people,
\VS{18}Micah
the Morashtite,
who
was
a
prophet
in
the
days
of
Hezekiah,
king
of
Judah,
said
to
all
the
people
of
Judah,
This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said:
Zion
will
become
like
a ploughed
field,
and
Jerusalem
will
become
a mass
of broken walls,
and
the
mountain
of
the
house
like
the
high
places
of
the woodland.
\VS{19}Did
Hezekiah
and
all
Judah
put
him
to
death?
did
he
not
in
the
fear
of
the
Lord
make prayer
for
the grace
of
the
Lord,
and
the
Lord
let
himself
be
turned
from
the decision
he
had
made
against
them
for
evil?
By
this
act
we
might
do
great
evil
against
ourselves.
\VS{20}And
there
was
another
man
who
was
a
prophet
of
the
Lord,
Uriah,
the
son
of
Shemaiah
of
Kiriath-jearim;
he
said
against
this
town
and
against
this
land
all
the
words
which
Jeremiah
had
said:
\VS{21}And
when
his
words
came
to
the ears
of
Jehoiakim
the
king
and
all
his
men
of war
and
his
captains,
the
king
would
have
put
him
to
death;
but
Uriah,
hearing
of
it,
was
full
of
fear
and
went
in
flight
into
Egypt:
\VS{22}And
Jehoiakim
the
king
sent
Elnathan,
the
son
of
Achbor,
and
certain
men
with
him,
into
Egypt.
\VS{23}And
they
took
Uriah
out
of
Egypt
and
came
back
with
him
to
Jehoiakim
the
king;
who
put
him
to
death
with
the
sword,
and
had
his
dead
body
put
into
the resting-place
of
the
bodies
of
the
common
people.
\VS{24}But
Ahikam,
the
son
of
Shaphan,
gave
Jeremiah
his
help,
so
that
he
was
not
given
into
the
hands
of
the
people
to
be
put
to
death.

\par }\Chap{27}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When Zedekiah,
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah,
first
became
king
this
word
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
Lord,
saying,
\VS{2}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said
to
me:
Make
for
yourself
bands
and
yokes
and
put
them
on
your
neck;
\VS{3}And
send
them
to
the
king
of
Edom,
and
to
the
king
of
Moab,
and
to
the
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
to
the
king
of
Tyre,
and
to
the
king
of Zidon,
by
their servants
who
come
to
Jerusalem,
to
Zedekiah,
king
of
Judah;
\VS{4}And
give
them
orders
to
say
to
their
masters,
This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
Say
to
your
masters,
\VS{5}I
have
made
the
earth,
and
man
and
beast
on
the
face
of
the
earth,
by
my
great
power
and
by
my
outstretched
arm;
and
I
will
give
it
to
anyone
at
my pleasure.
\VS{6}And
now
I
have
given
all
these
lands
into
the
hands
of
Nebuchadnezzar,
the
king
of
Babylon,
my
servant;
and
I
have
given
the
beasts
of
the
field
to
him
for
his
use.
\VS{7}And
all
the
nations
will
be
servants
to
him
and
to
his
son
and
to
his son's
son,
till
the
time
comes
for
his
land
to
be overcome:
and
then
a number
of
nations
and
great
kings
will
take
it
for
their
use.
\VS{8}And
it
will
come
about,
that
if
any
nation
does
not
become
a
servant
to
this
same
Nebuchadnezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
and
does
not
put
its
neck
under
the
yoke
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
then
I
will
send
punishment
on
that
nation,
says
the
Lord,
by
the
sword
and need
of food
and
by disease,
till
I
have
given
them
into
his
hands.
\VS{9}And
you
are
not
to
give
attention
to
your
prophets
or
your
readers
of signs
or
your
dreamers
or
those
who
see
into
the future
or
those
who
make
use
of secret arts,
who
say
to
you,
You
will
not
become
servants
of
the
king
of
Babylon:
\VS{10}For
they say
false words
to
you,
so
that
you
may
be sent
away
far
from
your
land,
and
so
that
you
may
be forced
out
by
me
and come
to
destruction.
\VS{11}But
as
for
that
nation
which puts
its
neck
under
the
yoke
of
the
king
of
Babylon
and becomes
his
servant,
I
will let
that
nation
keep
on
in
its
land, farming
it
and
living
in
it,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{12}And
I
said
all
this
to
Zedekiah,
king
of
Judah,
saying,
Put
your
necks
under
the
yoke
of
the
king
of
Babylon
and
become
his
servants
and
his
people,
so
that
you
may
keep
your
lives.
\VS{13}Why
are
you desiring
death,
you
and
your
people,
by
the
sword,
and
because food
is
gone,
and
by disease,
as
the
Lord
has
said
of
the
nation
which
does
not
become
the
servant
of
the
king
of
Babylon?
\VS{14}And
you
are
not
to
give ear
to
the
prophets
who
say
to
you,
You
will
not
become
servants
of
the
king
of
Babylon:
for
what
they
say
is
not true.
\VS{15}For
I
have
not
sent
them,
says
the
Lord,
but
they
are saying
what
is
false
in
my
name,
so
that
I
might
send
you
out
by force, causing
destruction
to come
on
you
and
on
your
prophets.
\VS{16}And
I
said
to
the
priests
and
to
all
the
people,
This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
Give
no
attention
to
the
words
of
your
prophets
who
say
to
you,
See,
in
a
very little
time
now
the
vessels
of
the Lord's
house
will
come
back
again
from
Babylon:
for
what
they
say
to
you
is
false.
\VS{17}Give
no
attention
to
them;
become
servants
of
the
king
of
Babylon
and
keep yourselves
from death:
why
let
this
town
become
a
waste?
\VS{18}But
if
they
are
prophets,
and
if
the
word
of
the
Lord
is
with
them,
let
them
now
make
request
to
the
Lord
of
armies
that
the
vessels
which
are still
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
in
the
house
of
the
king
of
Judah
and
at
Jerusalem,
may
not
go
to
Babylon.
\VS{19}For
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said
about
the
rest
of
the
vessels
which
are
still
in
this
town,
\VS{20}Which
Nebuchadnezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
did
not
take
away,
when
he
took
Jeconiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiakim,
king
of
Judah,
a prisoner
from
Jerusalem
to
Babylon,
with
all
the great
men
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem;
\VS{21}For
this
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said
about
the
rest
of
the
vessels
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
in
the
house
of
the
king
of
Judah
and
at
Jerusalem:
\VS{22}They
will
be
taken
away
to
Babylon,
and
there
they
will
be
till
the
day
when
I
send
their
punishment
on
them,
says
the
Lord.
Then
I
will
take
them
up
and
put
them
back
in
their
place.

\par }\Chap{28}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
about
in
that
year,
when
Zedekiah
first
became
king
of
Judah,
in
the
fourth
year,
in
the
fifth
month,
that
Hananiah,
the
son
of
Azzur
the
prophet,
who
came
from
Gibeon,
said
to
Jeremiah
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
before
the
priests
and
all
the
people,
\VS{2}These
are
the words
of
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel:
By me
the
yoke
of
the
king
of
Babylon
has
been
broken.
\VS{3}In
the
space
of
two
years
I
will send
back
into
this
place
all
the
vessels
of
the Lord's
house
which
Nebuchadnezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
took
away
from
this
place
to
Babylon:
\VS{4}And
I
will let
Jeconiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiakim,
king
of
Judah,
come
back
to
this
place,
with
all
the prisoners
of
Judah
who
went
to
Babylon,
says
the
Lord:
for
I
will
have
the
yoke
of
the
king
of
Babylon
broken.
\VS{5}Then
the
prophet
Jeremiah
said
to
the
prophet
Hananiah,
before
the
priests
and
all
the
people
who
had come
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
\VS{6}The
prophet
Jeremiah
said,
So
be
it:
may
the
Lord
do
so:
may
the
Lord
give
effect
to
the
words
which
you
have
said,
and
let
the
vessels
of
the Lord's
house,
and
all
the
people
who
have
been
taken
away,
come
back
from
Babylon
to
this
place.
\VS{7}But still,
give
ear
to
this
word
which
I
am
saying
to
you
and
to
all
the
people:
\VS{8}The
prophets,
who
were
before
me
and
before
you,
from early
times
gave word
to
a number
of
countries
and
great
kingdoms
about
war
and
destruction
and disease.
\VS{9}The
prophet
whose
words
are
of
peace,
when
his
words
come
true,
will
be seen
to
be
a
prophet
whom
the
Lord
has
sent.
\VS{10}Then
Hananiah
the
prophet
took
the
yoke
from
the
neck
of
the
prophet
Jeremiah
and
it
was
broken
by
his hands.
\VS{11}And
before
all
the
people
Hananiah
said,
The
Lord
has
said,
Even
so
will
I let
the
yoke
of
the
king
of
Babylon
be
broken
off
the
necks
of
all
the
nations
in
the space
of two
years.
Then
the
prophet
Jeremiah went
away.
\VS{12}Then
after
the
yoke
had
been
broken
off
the
neck
of
the
prophet
Jeremiah
by
Hananiah
the
prophet,
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{13}Go
and
say
to
Hananiah,
This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
Yokes
of
wood
have
been
broken
by
you,
but
in
their
place
I
will
make
yokes
of
iron.
\VS{14}For
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
I
have
put
a
yoke
of
iron
on
the
necks
of
all
these
nations,
making
them
servants
to
Nebuchadnezzar,
king
of
Babylon;
and
they
are
to
be
his
servants:
and
in
addition
I
have
given
him
the
beasts
of
the
field.
\VS{15}Then
the
prophet
Jeremiah
said
to
Hananiah
the
prophet,
Give ear,
now,
Hananiah;
the
Lord
has
not
sent
you;
but
you
are making
this
people
put
their faith
in
what
is
false.
\VS{16}For
this
reason
the
Lord
has
said,
See,
I
will
send
you
away
from
off
the
face
of
the
earth:
this
year
death
will
overtake
you,
because
you
have
said words
against
the
Lord.
\VS{17}So
death
came
to
Hananiah
the
prophet
the
same
year,
in
the
seventh
month.

\par }\Chap{29}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
these
are
the
words
of
the
letter
which
Jeremiah
the
prophet
sent
from
Jerusalem
to
the responsible
men
among
those
who
had
been
taken
away,
and
to
the
priests
and
the
prophets
and
to
all
the
rest
of
the
people
whom
Nebuchadnezzar
had
taken
away prisoners
from
Jerusalem
to
Babylon;
\VS{2}(After
Jeconiah
the
king
and
the queen-mother
and
the unsexed servants
and
the
rulers
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem
and
the expert workmen
and
the metal-workers
had
gone
away
from
Jerusalem;)
\VS{3}By
the
hand
of
Elasah,
the
son
of
Shaphan,
and
Gemariah,
the
son
of
Hilkiah, (whom
Zedekiah,
king
of
Judah,
sent
to
Babylon,
to
Nebuchadnezzar,
king
of
Babylon,)
saying,
\VS{4}This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said
to
all
those
whom
I
have
taken
away prisoners
from
Jerusalem
to
Babylon:
\VS{5}Go
on
building
houses
and
living
in
them,
and planting
gardens
and using
the
fruit
of
them;
\VS{6}Take
wives
and
have
sons
and
daughters,
and
take
wives
for
your
sons,
and
give
your
daughters
to
husbands,
so
that
they
may
have
sons
and
daughters;
and
be
increased
in
number
there
and
do
not
become
less.
\VS{7}And
be working
for
the
peace
of
the land
to
which
I
have
had
you
taken
away prisoners,
and
make prayer
to
the
Lord
for
it:
for
in
its
peace
you
will
have
peace.
\VS{8}For
this
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
Do
not
let
yourselves
be
tricked
by
the
prophets
who
are
among
you,
and
the readers
of signs,
and
give
no
attention
to
their
dreams
which
they
may
have;
\VS{9}For
they
are saying
to
you
what
is
false
in
my
name:
I
have
not
sent
them,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{10}For
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
When
seventy
years
are
ended
for
Babylon,
I
will
have pity
on
you
and
give
effect
to
my
good
purpose
for
you, causing
you
to
come
back
to
this
place.
\VS{11}For
I
am conscious
of
my
thoughts
about
you,
says
the
Lord,
thoughts
of
peace
and
not
of
evil,
to
give
you
hope
at
the
end.
\VS{12}And
you
will
go
on
crying
to
me
and making prayer
to
me,
and
I
will
give ear
to
you.
\VS{13}And
you
will
be
searching
for
me
and
I
will
be
there,
when
you
have gone
after
me
with
all
your
heart.
\VS{14}I
will
be
near
you
again,
says
the
Lord,
and
your fate
will
be changed,
and
I
will
get
you
together
from
all
the
nations
and
from
all
the
places
where
I
had
sent
you
away,
says
the
Lord;
and
I
will
take
you
back
again
to
the
place
from
which
I
sent
you
away prisoners.
\VS{15}For
you
have
said,
The
Lord
has given
us
prophets
in
Babylon.
\VS{16}For
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said
about
the
king
who
is
seated
on
the
seat
of David's
kingdom,
and
about
all
the
people
living
in
this
town,
your
countrymen
who
have
not
gone
out
with
you
as prisoners;
\VS{17}This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said:
See,
I
will
send
on
them
the
sword
and need
of
food
and disease,
and
will
make
them
like bad
figs,
which
are
of
no
use
for
food,
they
are
so bad.
\VS{18}I
will go
after
them, attacking
them
with
the
sword
and
with need
of food
and
with disease,
and
will
make
them
a
cause
of fear
to
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth,
to
be
a
curse
and
a wonder
and
a surprise
and
a name
of
shame
among
all
the
nations
where
I
have
sent
them:
\VS{19}Because
they
have
not
given ear
to
my
words,
says
the
Lord,
when
I
sent
to
them
my
servants
the
prophets, getting
up
early
and
sending
them;
but
you
did
not
give ear,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{20}And
now,
give ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
all
you
whom
I
have
sent
away prisoners
from
Jerusalem
to
Babylon.
\VS{21}This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said
about
Ahab,
the
son
of
Kolaiah,
and
about
Zedekiah,
the
son
of
Maaseiah,
who
are
saying
to
you
what
is
false
in
my
name:
See,
I
will
give
them
up
into
the
hands
of
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
will
put
them
to death
before
your
eyes.
\VS{22}And
their fate
will
be
used
as
a
curse
by
all
the prisoners
of
Judah
who
are
in
Babylon,
who
will
say,
May
the
Lord
make
you
like
Zedekiah
and
like
Ahab,
who
were burned
in
the
fire
by
the
king
of
Babylon;
\VS{23}Because
they
have
done shame
in
Israel,
and
have taken
their neighbours'
wives,
and
in
my
name
have
said
false
words,
which
I
did
not
give
them
orders
to
say;
and
I
myself
am
the
witness,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{24}About
Shemaiah
the
Nehelamite.
\VS{25}Shemaiah
the Nehelamite
sent
a
letter
in
his
name
to
Zephaniah,
the
son
of
Maaseiah
the
priest,
saying,
\VS{26}The
Lord
has
made
you
priest
in
place
of
Jehoiada
the
priest,
to
be
an
overseer
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
for
every
man
who
is
off
his head
and
is acting
as
a
prophet,
to
put
such
men
in
prison
and
in chains.
\VS{27}So
why
have
you made
no protest
against
Jeremiah
of
Anathoth,
who
is acting
as
a prophet
to
you?
\VS{28}For
he
has
sent
to
us
in
Babylon
saying,
The time
will
be
long:
go
on
building
houses
and
living
in
them,
and planting
gardens
and using
the
fruit
of
them.
\VS{29}And
Zephaniah
the
priest
made clear
to
Jeremiah
the
prophet
what
was said
in
the
letter,
reading
it
to
him.
\VS{30}Then
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Jeremiah
the
prophet,
saying,
\VS{31}Send
to
all
those
who
have
been taken
away,
saying,
This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said
about
Shemaiah
the
Nehelamite:
Because
Shemaiah
has
been acting
as
a
prophet
to
you,
and
I
did
not
send
him,
and
has
made
you
put
your faith
in
what
is
false;
\VS{32}For
this
cause
the
Lord
has
said,
Truly
I
will send
punishment
on
Shemaiah
and
on
his
seed;
not
a
man
of
his
family
will
have
a
place
among
this
people,
and
he
will
not
see
the
good
which
I
am
going
to
do
to
my
people,
says
the
Lord:
because
he
has
said words
against
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{30}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
Lord,
saying,
\VS{2}The
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said, Put
down
in
a
book
all
the
words
which
I
have
said
to
you.
\VS{3}For
see,
the
days
are
coming,
says
the
Lord,
when
I
will
let
the
fate
of
my
people
Israel
and
Judah
be changed,
says
the
Lord:
and
I
will
make
them
come
back
to
the
land
which
I
gave
to
their
fathers,
so
that
they
may
take
it
for
their heritage.
\VS{4}And
these
are
the
words
which
the
Lord
said
about
Israel
and
about
Judah.
\VS{5}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
A
voice
of shaking
fear
has come
to
our ears,
of
fear
and
not
of
peace.
\VS{6}Put
the
question
and
see
if
it
is possible
for
a
man
to
have birth-pains:
why
do
I
see
every
man
with
his
hands gripping
his
sides,
as
a woman
does
when
the pains
of
birth
are
on
her,
and
all
faces
are
turned green?
\VS{7}Ha!
for
that
day
is
so
great
that
there
is
no
day
like
it:
it
is
the
time
of Jacob's
trouble:
but
he
will get
salvation
from
it.
\VS{8}For
it
will
come
about
on
that
day,
says
the
Lord
of
armies,
that
his
yoke
will
be
broken
off
his
neck,
and
his
bands
will
be
burst;
and
men
of
strange lands
will
no
longer
make
use
of
him
as
their
servant:
\VS{9}But
they
will
be
servants
to
the
Lord
their
God
and
to
David
their
king,
whom
I
will give back
to
them.
\VS{10}So
have
no
fear,
O
Jacob,
my
servant,
says
the
Lord;
and
do
not
be troubled,
O
Israel:
for
see,
I
will
make
you
come
back
from
far
away,
and
your
seed
from
the
land
where
they
are
prisoners;
and
Jacob
will
come
back,
and
will
be
quiet
and
at
peace,
and
no
one
will
give
him
cause
for
fear.
\VS{11}For
I
am
with
you,
says
the
Lord,
to
be
your saviour:
for
I
will put
an
end
to
all
the
nations
where
I
have sent
you wandering,
but
I
will
not put
an
end
to
you
completely:
though
with wise purpose
I
will put
right
your errors,
and
will
not
let
you
go quite
without
punishment.
\VS{12}For
the
Lord
has
said,
Your
disease
may
not
be made well
and
your
wound
is bitter.
\VS{13}There
is
no help
for
your
wound,
there
is
nothing
to make you well.
\VS{14}Your
lovers
have
no
more thought
for
you,
they go
after
you
no
longer;
for
I
have given
you
the
wound
of
a hater,
even
cruel
punishment;
\VS{15}Why
are
you
crying
for help
because
of
your wound?
for
your
pain
may never be taken away:
because
your evil-doing was
so
great
and
because
your
sins
were
increased,
I
have
done
these
things
to
you.
\VS{16}For
this
cause,
all
those
who
take
you
for
their
food
will themselves
become
your
food;
and
all
your attackers,
every
one
of
them,
will
be
taken
prisoners;
and
those
who
send destruction
on
you
will
come
to destruction;
and
all
those
who
take
away
your goods
by force
will undergo
the
same themselves.
\VS{17}For
I
will
make
you healthy again
and
I
will
make
you well
from
your
wounds,
says
the
Lord;
because
they
have
given
you
the
name
of
an outlaw, saying,
It
is
Zion cared
for
by
no
man.
\VS{18}The
Lord
has
said,
See,
I
am changing
the fate
of
the
tents
of
Jacob,
and
I
will
have
pity
on
his houses;
the
town
will
be
put
up
on
its hill,
and
the great houses
will
be living-places
again.
\VS{19}And
from
them
will
go
out
praise
and
the
sound
of laughing:
and
I
will
make
them great
in
number,
and
they
will
not
become
less;
and
I
will
give
them
glory,
and
they
will
not
be
small.
\VS{20}And
their
children
will
be
as
they
were
in
the
old days,
and
the meeting
of
the
people
will
have
its
place
before
me,
and
I
will send
punishment
on
all
who
are cruel
to
them.
\VS{21}And
their chief
will
be
of
their number;
their
ruler
will
come
from
among themselves;
and
I
will
let
him
be
present
before
me,
so
that
he
may
come
near
to
me:
for
who
may
have strength
of
heart
to
come
near
me?
says
the
Lord.
\VS{22}And
you
will
be
my
people,
and
I
will
be
your
God.
\VS{23}See,
the storm-wind
of
the
Lord,
even
the
heat
of
his
wrath,
has
gone
out,
a rolling
storm, bursting
on
the
heads
of
the evil-doers.
\VS{24}The
wrath
of
the
Lord
will
not
be
turned
back
till
he
has
done,
till
he
has
put
into
effect,
the
purposes
of
his
heart:
in
days
to
come
you
will
have
full knowledge
of
this.

\par }\Chap{31}{\PP \VerseOne{1}At
that
time,
says
the
Lord,
I
will
be
the
God
of
all
the
families
of
Israel,
and
they
will
be
my
people.
\VS{2}The
Lord
has
said,
Grace
came
in
the waste land
to
a
people kept safe
from
the
sword,
even
to
Israel
on
the
way
to
his resting-place.
\VS{3}From
far
away
he
saw
the
Lord:
my
love
for
you
is
an
eternal
love:
so
with
mercy
I
have made
you
come
with
me.
\VS{4}I
will
again make new
your buildings,
O
virgin
of
Israel,
and
you
will
take
up
your place:
again
you
will
take
up
your instruments
of music,
and
go
out
in
the
dances
of those
who
are glad.
\VS{5}Again
will your vine-gardens
be
planted
on
the
hill
of
Samaria:
the
planters
will
be planting
and using
the fruit.
\VS{6}For
there
will
be
a
day
when
those
who
get
in
the grapes
on
the
hills
of
Ephraim
will
be
crying,
Up! let
us
go
up
to
Zion
to
the
Lord
our
God.
\VS{7}For
the
Lord
has
said,
Make
a glad song
for
Jacob
and
give
a
cry
on
the
top
of
the mountains:
give
the
news,
give
praise,
and
say,
The
Lord
has
given
salvation
to
his
people,
even
to
the
rest
of
Israel.
\VS{8}See,
I
will
take
them
from
the
north
country,
and
get
them
from
the inmost
parts
of
the
earth,
and
with
them
the
blind
and
the feeble-footed,
the
woman
with
child
and
her
who
is
in birth-pains
together:
a
very
great
army,
they
will
come
back
here.
\VS{9}They
will
come
with
weeping,
and
going
before
them
I
will
be
their guide: guiding
them
by
streams
of
water
in
a
straight
way
where
there
is
no falling:
for
I
am
a
father
to
Israel,
and
Ephraim
is
the first
of
my
sons.
\VS{10}Give ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
O
you
nations,
and
give
news
of
it
in
the sea-lands
far
away,
and
say,
He
who
has
sent
Israel wandering
will get
him
together
and
will
keep
him
as
a
keeper
does
his
flock.
\VS{11}For
the
Lord
has
given
a
price
for
Jacob,
and made
him free
from
the
hands
of
him
who
was
stronger
than
he.
\VS{12}So
they
will
come
with songs
on
the
high
places, flowing
together
to
the
good
things
of
the
Lord,
to
the
grain
and
the
wine
and
the
oil,
to
the
young
ones
of
the
flock
and
of
the
herd:
their
souls
will
be
like
a
watered
garden,
and
they
will
have
no
more
sorrow.
\VS{13}Then
the
virgin
will
have
joy
in
the
dance,
and
the
young
men
and
the
old
will
be
glad:
for
I
will
have
their weeping
turned
into
joy,
I
will
give
them
comfort
and
make
them
glad after
their
sorrow.
\VS{14}I
will give
the
priests
their desired fat
things,
and
my
people
will
have
a
full measure
of
my
good
things,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{15}So
has
the
Lord
said:
In
Ramah
there
is
a
sound
of
crying,
weeping
and
bitter
sorrow;
Rachel
weeping
for
her
children;
she
will
not
be
comforted
for
their loss.
\VS{16}The
Lord
has
said
this:
Keep
your
voice
from
sorrow
and
your
eyes
from
weeping:
for
your
work
will
be
rewarded,
says
the
Lord;
and
they
will
come
back
from
the
land
of
their hater.
\VS{17}And
there
is
hope
for
the
future,
says
the
Lord;
and
your
children
will
come
back
to
the
land
which
is theirs.
\VS{18}Certainly Ephraim's words
of grief
have
come
to
my ears,
You
have
given
me training
and
I
have undergone
it
like
a young cow unused
to
the yoke:
let
me
be
turned
and
come
back,
for
you
are
the
Lord
my
God.
\VS{19}Truly,
after
I
had
been
turned,
I
had
regret
for
my ways;
and
after
I
had got
knowledge,
I
made signs
of
sorrow:
I
was
put
to
shame,
truly,
I
was
covered
with
shame,
because
I
had
to undergo
the
shame
of
my early years.
\VS{20}Is
Ephraim
my
dear
son?
is
he
the
child
of
my
delight?
for
whenever
I
say things
against
him,
I
still
keep
him
in
my memory:
so
my
heart
is troubled
for
him;
I
will
certainly
have
mercy
on
him,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{21}Put
up guiding pillars,
make
road signs
for
yourself:
give
attention
to
the
highway, even
the
way
in
which
you
went:
be
turned
again, O
virgin
of
Israel,
be
turned
to
these
your
towns.
\VS{22}How
long
will
you
go
on
turning
this
way
and
that,
O wandering
daughter?
for
the
Lord
has
made
a
new
thing
on
the
earth,
a
woman
changed
into
a
man.
\VS{23}So
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said,
Again
will
these
words
be used
in
the
land
of
Judah
and
in
its
towns,
when
I
have let
their fate
be changed:
May
the
blessing
of
the
Lord
be
on
you,
O resting-place
of
righteousness,
O
holy
mountain.
\VS{24}And
Judah
and
all
its
towns
will
be
living
there
together;
the
farmers
and
those
who
go
about
with
flocks.
\VS{25}For
I
have
given new
strength
to
the
tired
soul
and
to
every sorrowing
soul
in
full measure.
\VS{26}At
this, awaking
from
my
sleep,
I
saw;
and
my
sleep
was
sweet
to
me.
\VS{27}See,
the
days
are
coming,
says
the
Lord,
when
I
will
have
Israel
and
Judah
planted
with
the
seed
of
man
and
with
the
seed
of
beast.
\VS{28}And
it
will
come
about
that,
as
I
have
been
watching
over
them
for
the purpose
of uprooting
and smashing
down
and overturning
and sending
destruction
and causing trouble;
so
I
will
be
watching
over
them
for
the purpose
of
building
up
and planting,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{29}In
those
days
they
will
no
longer
say,
The
fathers
have
been
tasting bitter
grapes
and
the children's
teeth
are put
on edge.
\VS{30}But
everyone
will
be
put
to
death
for
the
evil which
he
himself
has
done:
whoever
has taken bitter
grapes
will
himself
have
his
teeth
put
on edge.
\VS{31}See,
the
days
are
coming,
says
the
Lord,
when
I
will
make
a
new
agreement
with
the people
of
Israel
and
with
the people
of
Judah:
\VS{32}Not
like
the
agreement
which
I
made
with
their
fathers,
on
the
day
when
I
took
them
by
the
hand
to
be
their guide
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt;
which
agreement
was
broken
by
them,
and
I
gave
them
up,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{33}But
this
is
the
agreement
which
I
will
make
with
the
people
of
Israel
after
those
days,
says
the
Lord;
I
will
put
my
law
in
their
inner parts,
writing
it
in
their
hearts;
and
I
will
be
their
God,
and
they
will
be
my
people.
\VS{34}And
no
longer
will
they
be
teaching
every
man
his neighbour
and
every
man
his
brother,
saying, Get
knowledge
of
the
Lord:
for
they
will
all
have
knowledge
of
me,
from
the least
of
them
to
the
greatest
of
them,
says
the
Lord:
for
they
will
have
my forgiveness
for
their evil-doing,
and
their
sin
will go
from
my memory
for
ever.
\VS{35}These
are
the words
of
the
Lord,
who
has
given
the
sun
for
a
light
by
day,
ordering
the
moon
and
stars
for
a
light
by
night,
who
puts
the
sea
in motion, causing
the thunder
of
its
waves;
the
Lord
of
armies
is
his
name.
\VS{36}If
the
order
of
these
things
before
me
is ever broken,
says
the
Lord,
then
will
the
seed
of
Israel
come
to
an end
as
a
nation
before
me
for ever.
\VS{37}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
If
the
heavens
on
high
may
be
measured,
and
the bases
of
the
earth
searched
out,
then
I
will give
up
the
seed
of
Israel,
because
of
all
they
have
done,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{38}See,
the
days
are
coming,
says
the
Lord,
for
the
building
of
the Lord's
town,
from
the
tower
of
Hananel
to
the doorway
of
the angle.
\VS{39}And
the measuring-line
will
go
out
in
front
of
it
as
far
as
the
hill
Gareb,
going
round
to
Goah.
\VS{40}And
all
the
valley
of
the
dead
bodies,
and
all
the field
of death
as
far
as
the
stream
Kidron,
up
to
the angle
of
the horses' doorway
to
the
east,
will
be
holy
to
the
Lord;
it
will
not
again
be
uprooted
or overturned
for
ever.

\par }\Chap{32}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
Lord
in
the
tenth
year
of
Zedekiah,
king
of
Judah,
which
was
the
eighteenth
year
of
Nebuchadrezzar.
\VS{2}Now
at
that
time
the
king
of Babylon's
army
was round
Jerusalem, shutting
it
in:
and
Jeremiah
the
prophet
was
shut
up
in
the
place
of
the armed watchmen,
in
the
house
of
the
king
of
Judah.
\VS{3}For
Zedekiah,
king
of
Judah,
had
had
him
shut
up,
saying,
Why
have
you,
as
a
prophet,
been
saying,
The
Lord
has
said,
See,
I
will
give
this
town
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
will
take
it;
\VS{4}And
Zedekiah,
king
of
Judah,
will
not
get
away
from
the
hands
of
the Chaldaeans,
but
will
certainly
be
given
up
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
will
have
talk
with
him,
mouth
to
mouth,
and
see
him,
eye
to
eye.
\VS{5}And
he
will
take
Zedekiah away
to
Babylon,
where
he
will
be
till
I
have pity
on
him,
says
the
Lord:
though
you
are
fighting
with
the Chaldaeans,
things
will
not
go well
for
you?
\VS{6}And
Jeremiah
said,
The
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{7}See,
Hanamel,
the
son
of
Shallum,
your father's brother,
will
come
to
you
and
say,
Give
the price
and
get
for
yourself
my
property
in
Anathoth:
for
you
have
the
right
of
the nearest relation.
\VS{8}So
Hanamel,
the
son
of
my father's brother,
came
to
me,
as
the
Lord
had
said,
to
the
place
of
the armed watchmen,
and
said
to
me,
Give
the price
and
get
my
property
which
is
in
Anathoth
in
the
land
of
Benjamin:
for
you
have
the nearest relation's
right
to
the heritage;
so
get
it
for
yourself.
Then
it
was clear
to
me
that
this
was
the
word
of
the
Lord.
\VS{9}So
I got
for
a
price
the
property
in
Anathoth
from
Hanamel,
the
son
of
my father's brother,
and gave
him
the
money, seventeen
shekels
of
silver;
\VS{10}And I put
it
in
writing, stamping
it
with my stamp,
and I took
witnesses
and put
the
money
into
the
scales.
\VS{11}So I
took
the paper witnessing
the business, one copy rolled
up
and stamped,
and one copy
open:
\VS{12}And
I
gave
the paper
to
Baruch,
the
son
of
Neriah,
the
son
of
Mahseiah,
before
the
eyes
of
Hanamel,
the
son
of
my father's brother,
and
of
the
witnesses
who
had
put
their names
to
the paper,
and
before
all
the
Jews
who
were
seated
in
the
place
of
the armed watchmen.
\VS{13}And
I
gave
orders
to
Baruch
in front
of
them,
saying,
\VS{14}This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
Take
these
papers,
the witness
of
this business,
the
one
which
is rolled
up
and stamped,
and
the
one
which
is
open;
and
put
them
in
a
vessel
of earth
so
that
they
may
be
kept
for
a
long
time.
\VS{15}For
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said,
There
will
again
be trading
in
houses
and
fields
and vine-gardens
in
this
land.
\VS{16}Now
after
I
had
given
the paper
to
Baruch,
the
son
of
Neriah,
I
made
my prayer
to
the
Lord,
saying,
\VS{17}Ah
Lord
God!
see,
you
have
made
the
heaven
and
the
earth
by
your
great
power
and
by
your
outstretched
arm,
and
there
is
nothing
you
are
not able
to
do:
\VS{18}You
have
mercy
on
thousands,
and send
punishment
for
the evil-doing
of
the
fathers
on
their
children
after
them:
the
great,
the
strong
God,
the
Lord
of
armies
is
his
name:
\VS{19}Great
in wisdom
and
strong
in act:
whose
eyes
are
open
on
all
the
ways
of
the
sons
of
men,
giving
to
everyone
the
reward
of
his
ways
and
the
fruit
of
his
doings:
\VS{20}You
have
done
signs
and
wonders
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
and
even
to
this
day,
in
Israel
and
among
other
men;
and
have
made
a
name
for yourself
as
at
this
day;
\VS{21}And
have
taken
your
people
Israel
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
with
signs
and
with
wonders
and
with
a
strong
hand
and
an
outstretched
arm, causing
great
fear;
\VS{22}And
have
given
them
this
land,
which
you
gave
your word
to
their
fathers
to
give
them,
a
land
flowing
with
milk
and
honey;
\VS{23}And
they
came
in
and
took
it
for
their heritage,
but
they
did
not
give ear
to
your
voice,
and
were
not ruled
by
your
law;
they
have
done
nothing
of
all
you
gave
them
orders
to
do:
so
you
have
made
all
this
evil
come
on
them:
\VS{24}See,
they
have
made earthworks
against
the
town
to
take
it;
and
the
town
is
given
into
the
hands
of
the Chaldaeans
who
are
fighting
against
it,
because
of
the
sword
and need
of food
and disease:
and
what
you
have
said
has
taken
place,
and truly
you
see
it.
\VS{25}And
you
have
said
to
me,
Give
the
money
to
get
yourself
a
property,
and
have
the business witnessed; though
the
town
is
given
into
the
hands
of
the Chaldaeans.
\VS{26}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{27}See,
I
am
the
Lord,
the
God
of
all
flesh:
is
there
anything
so
hard
that
I
am unable
to
do
it?
\VS{28}So
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
See,
I
am
giving
this
town
into
the
hands
of
the Chaldaeans
and
into
the
hands
of
Nebuchadrezzar,
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
will
take
it:
\VS{29}And
the Chaldaeans,
who
are
fighting
against
this
town,
will
come
and
put
the
town
on
fire,
burning
it
together
with
the
houses,
on
the
roofs
of
which perfumes
have
been
burned
to
the
Baal,
and drink offerings
have
been drained
out
to
other
gods, moving
me
to wrath.
\VS{30}For
the
children
of
Israel
and
the
children
of
Judah
have
done
nothing
but
evil
in
my
eyes
from
their earliest years:
the
children
of
Israel
have
only
made
me
angry
with
the
work
of
their
hands,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{31}For
this
town
has
been
to
me
a
cause
of
wrath
and
of
burning passion
from
the
day
of
its
building
till
this
day,
so
that
I
put
it
away
from
before
my
face:
\VS{32}Because
of
all
the
evil
of
the
children
of
Israel
and
of
the
children
of
Judah,
which
they
have
done
to
make
me
angry,
they
and
their
kings,
their
princes,
their
priests,
and
their
prophets,
and
the
men
of
Judah
and
the
people
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{33}And
they
have
been
turning
their
backs
and
not
their
faces
to
me:
and
though
I
was
their teacher, getting
up
early
and
teaching
them,
their ears
were
not
open
to
teaching.
\VS{34}But
they
put
their disgusting images
into
the
house
which
is
named
by
my
name, making
it
unclean.
\VS{35}And
they
put
up
the
high
places
of
the
Baal
in
the
valley
of
the
son
of
Hinnom,
making
their
sons
and
their
daughters
go
through
the fire
to
Molech;
which
I
did
not
give
them
orders
to
do,
and
it
never
came
into
my
mind
that
they
would
do
this
disgusting
thing, causing
Judah
to
be
turned
out
of
the
way.
\VS{36}And
now
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said
of
this
town,
about
which
you
say,
It
is
given
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Babylon
by
the
sword
and
by
need
of food
and
by disease:
\VS{37}See,
I
will
get
them
together
from
all
the
countries
where
I
have
sent
them
in
my
wrath
and
in
the
heat
of
my passion
and
in
my bitter feeling;
and
I
will let
them
come
back
into
this
place
where
they
may
take
their rest
safely.
\VS{38}And
they
will
be
my
people,
and
I
will
be
their
God:
\VS{39}And
I
will
give
them
one
heart
and
one
way,
so
that
they
may go
on
in
the
worship
of
me
for ever,
for
their
good
and
the
good
of
their
children
after
them:
\VS{40}And
I
will
make
an
eternal
agreement
with
them,
that
I
will
never
give
them
up,
but
ever
do
them
good;
and
I
will
put
the
fear
of
me
in
their
hearts,
so
that
they
will
not
go
away
from
me.
\VS{41}And
truly,
I
will take pleasure
in doing
them
good,
and
all
my
heart
and
soul
will
be given
to planting
them
in
this
land
in
good
faith.
\VS{42}For
the
Lord
has
said:
As
I
have
made
all
this
great
evil
come
on
this
people,
so
I
will send
on
them
all
the
good
which
I
said
about
them.
\VS{43}And
there
will
be trading
in
fields
in
this
land
of
which
you
say,
It
is
a
waste,
without
man
or
beast;
it
is
given
into
the
hands
of
the Chaldaeans.
\VS{44}Men
will
get
fields
for
money,
and
put
the business
in
writing, stamping
the
papers
and
having
them witnessed,
in
the
land
of
Benjamin
and
in
the
country
round
Jerusalem
and
in
the
towns
of
Judah
and
in
the
towns
of
the hill-country
and
in
the
towns
of
the
lowland
and
in
the
towns
of
the
South:
for
I
will let
their fate
be changed,
says
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{33}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Jeremiah
the
second
time,
while
he
was
still
shut
up
in
the
place
of
the armed watchmen,
saying,
\VS{2}These
are
the words
of
the
Lord,
who
is
doing
it,
the
Lord
who
is
forming
it,
to
make
it
certain;
the
Lord
is
his
name;
\VS{3}Let
your
cry come
to
me,
and
I
will
give
you
an
answer,
and
let
you
see
great
things
and secret
things
of which
you
had
no
knowledge.
\VS{4}For
this
is
what
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said
about
the
houses
of
this
town
and
the
houses
of
the
kings
of
Judah,
which
have
been
broken
down
to
make earthworks
and ... ;
\VS{5}...
and
to make
them
full
of
the
dead
bodies
of
men
whom
I
have
put
to death
in
my
wrath
and
in
my passion,
and
because
of
whose evil-doing
I
have kept
my
face
covered
from
this
town.
\VS{6}See,
I
will
make
it healthy
and
well again,
I
will
even
make
them
well;
I
will
let
them
see
peace
and
good
faith
in full measure.
\VS{7}And
I
will let
the fate
of
Judah
and
of
Israel
be changed,
building
them
up
as
at
first.
\VS{8}And
I
will make
them
clean
from
all
their
sin,
with
which
they
have
been
sinning
against
me;
I
will
have forgiveness
for
all
their
sins,
with
which
they
have
been
sinning
against
me,
and
with
which
they
have
done
evil
against
me.
\VS{9}And
this town
will
be
to
me
for
a
name
of
joy,
for
a
praise
and
a
glory
before
all
the
nations
of
the
earth,
who,
hearing
of
all
the
good
which
I
am
doing
for
them,
will
be shaking
with
fear
because
of
all
the
good
and
the
peace
which
I
am
doing
for
it.
\VS{10}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
There
will
again
be sounding
in
this
place,
of
which
you
say,
It
is
a
waste,
without
man
and
without
beast;
even
in
the
towns
of
Judah
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem
which
are
waste
and unpeopled,
without
man
and
without
beast,
\VS{11}Happy
sounds,
the
voice
of
joy,
the
voice
of
the newly-married man
and
the
voice
of
the
bride,
the
voices
of
those
who
say,
Give
praise
to
the
Lord
of
armies,
for
the
Lord
is
good,
for
his
mercy
is unchanging
for
ever:
the
voices
of
those
who
go
with
praise
into
the
house
of
the
Lord.
For
I
will let
the
land
come
back
to
its
first condition,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{12}This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said:
Again
there
will
be
in
this
place,
which
is
a waste,
without
man
and
without
beast,
and
in
all
its
towns,
a resting-place
where
the keepers
of
sheep
will make
their
flocks
take
rest.
\VS{13}In
the
towns
of
the hill-country,
in
the
towns
of
the
lowland,
and
in
the
towns
of
the
South
and
in
the
land
of
Benjamin
and
in
the
country
round
Jerusalem
and
in
the
towns
of
Judah,
the
flocks
will
again
go
under
the
hand
of
him
who
is numbering
them,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{14}See,
the
days
are
coming,
says
the
Lord,
when
I
will
give
effect
to
the
good
word
which
I
have
said
about
the
people
of
Israel
and
the
people
of
Judah.
\VS{15}In
those
days
and
at
that
time,
I
will
let
a
Branch
of
righteousness come
up
for
David;
and
he
will
be
a
judge
in
righteousness
in
the
land.
\VS{16}In
those
days,
Judah
will
have
salvation
and
Jerusalem
will
be
safe:
and
this
is
the
name
which
will
be
given
to
her:
The
Lord
is
our
righteousness.
\VS{17}For
the
Lord
has
said,
David
will
never
be
without
a
man
to
take
his
place
on
the
seat
of
the kingdom
of
Israel;
\VS{18}And
the
priests
and
the
Levites
will
never
be
without
a
man
to
come
before
me,
offering
burned
offerings
and perfumes
and
meal
offerings
and
offerings
of beasts
at
all
times.
\VS{19}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{20}The
Lord
has
said:
If
it
is possible
for
my
agreement
of
the
day
and
the
night
to
be
broken,
so
that
day
and
night
no
longer
come
at
their fixed
times,
\VS{21}Then
my
agreement
with
my
servant
David
may
be
broken,
so
that
he no longer
has
a
son
to
take
his
place
on
the
seat
of
the kingdom;
and
my
agreement
with
the
Levites,
the
priests,
my
servants.
\VS{22}As
it
is
not possible
for
the
army
of
heaven
to
be
numbered,
or
the
sand
of
the
sea
measured,
so
will
I make
the
seed
of
my
servant
David,
and
the
Levites
my
servants.
\VS{23}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{24}Have
you
taken
note
of
what
these
people
have
said,
The
two
families,
which
the
Lord
took
for
himself,
he
has
given
up?
This
they
say,
looking
down
on
my
people
as
being,
in
their eyes,
no
longer
a
nation.
\VS{25}The
Lord
has
said,
If
I
have
not
made
day
and
night,
and
if
the limits
of
heaven
and
earth
have
not
been
fixed
by
me,
\VS{26}Then
I
will
give
up caring
for
the
seed
of
Jacob
and
of
David
my
servant,
so
that
I
will
not
take
of
his
seed
to
be
rulers
over
the
seed
of
Abraham,
Isaac,
and
Jacob:
for
I
will
let
their fate
be changed
and
will
have
mercy
on
them.

\par }\Chap{34}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
Lord,
when
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
and
all
his
army,
and
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth
which
were
under
his
rule,
and
all
the
peoples,
were
fighting
against
Jerusalem
and
all
its
towns,
saying,
\VS{2}The
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said,
Go
and
say
to
Zedekiah,
king
of
Judah,
This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
See,
I
will
give
this
town
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
will
have
it
burned
with
fire:
\VS{3}And
you
will
not
get
away
from
him,
but
will
certainly
be
taken
and
given
up
into
his
hands;
and
you
will
see
the
king
of
Babylon,
eye
to
eye,
and
he
will
have
talk
with
you,
mouth
to
mouth,
and
you
will
go
to
Babylon.
\VS{4}But
give ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
O
Zedekiah,
king
of
Judah;
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said
about
you:
Death
will
not come
to
you
by
the
sword:
\VS{5}You
will
come
to
your end
in
peace;
and
such burnings
as
they
made
for
your
fathers,
the
earlier
kings
before
you,
will
be
made
for
you;
and
they
will
be weeping
for
you
and
saying,
Ah
lord!
for
I
have
said
the
word,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{6}Then
Jeremiah
the
prophet
said
all
these
things
to
Zedekiah,
king
of
Judah,
in
Jerusalem,
\VS{7}When
the
army
of
the
king
of
Babylon
was
fighting
against
Jerusalem
and
against
all
the
towns
of
Judah which
had
not
been taken,
against
Lachish
and
against
Azekah;
for
these
were
the last
of
the walled
towns
of
Judah.
\VS{8}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
Lord,
after
King
Zedekiah
had
made
an
agreement
with
all
the
people
in
Jerusalem,
to
give news
in public
that servants
were
to
be
made free;
\VS{9}That
every
man
was
to
let
his
Hebrew man-servant
and
his
Hebrew servant-girl
go
free;
so
that
no
one might
make
use
of
a
Jew,
his
countryman,
as
a
servant:
\VS{10}And
this
was
done
by
all
the
rulers
and
the
people
who
had taken part
in
the
agreement,
and
every
one
let
his man-servant
and
his servant-girl
go
free,
not
to
be
used
as
servants
any
longer;
they
did
so,
and
let
them
go.
\VS{11}But
later,
they
took
back
again
the
servants
and
the servant-girls
whom
they
had
let
go
free,
and
put
them
again
under
the yoke
as
servants
and servant-girls.
\VS{12}For
this
reason
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
Lord,
saying,
\VS{13}The
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said,
I
made
an
agreement
with
your
fathers
on
the
day
when
I
took
them
out
of
Egypt,
out
of
the prison-house,
saying,
\VS{14}At
the
end
of
seven
years
every
man
is
to
let
go
his
countryman
who
is
a
Hebrew,
who
has
become yours
for
a price
and
has
been
your
servant
for
six
years;
you
are
to
let
him
go
free:
but
your
fathers
gave
no
attention
and
did
not
give
ear.
\VS{15}And
now,
turning
away
from evil,
you
had
done
what
is
right
in
my
eyes, giving
a public undertaking
for
every
man
to
make
his neighbour free;
and
you
had
made
an
agreement
before
me
in
the
house
which
is
named
by
my
name:
\VS{16}But
again
you
have
put shame
on
my
name,
and
you
have
taken
back,
every
one
his man-servant
and
his servant-girl,
whom
you
had
sent
away
free,
and
you
have
put
them
under
the yoke
again
to
be
your
servants
and servant-girls.
\VS{17}And
so
the
Lord
has
said,
You
have
not
given ear
to
me
and undertaken publicly,
every
man
to
let loose
his
countryman
and
his neighbour:
see,
I undertake
to
let loose
against
you
the
sword
and disease
and
need
of food;
and
I
will
send
you wandering
among
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth.
\VS{18}And
I
will
give
the
men
who
have
gone
against
my
agreement
and
have
not
given
effect
to
the
words
of
the
agreement
which
they
made
before
me,
when
the ox
was
cut
in
two
and
they
went
between
the
parts
of
it,
\VS{19}The
rulers
of
Judah
and
the
rulers
of
Jerusalem,
the unsexed servants
and
the
priests
and
all
the
people
of
the
land
who went
between
the
parts
of
the ox,
\VS{20}Even these
I
will
give
up
into
the
hands
of
their haters
and
into
the
hands
of
those
who
have designs
against
their
lives:
and
their
dead
bodies
will
become
food
for
the
birds
of
heaven
and
the
beasts
of
the
earth.
\VS{21}And
Zedekiah,
king
of
Judah,
and
his
rulers
I
will
give
into
the
hands
of
their haters
and
into
the
hands
of
those
who
have designs
against
their
lives,
and
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of Babylon's
army which
has
gone
away
from
you.
\VS{22}See,
I
will
give
orders,
says
the
Lord,
and
make
them
come
back
to
this
town;
and
they
will
make war
on
it
and
take
it
and
have
it
burned
with
fire:
and
I
will
make
the
towns
of
Judah
waste
and unpeopled.

\par }\Chap{35}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
Lord,
in
the
days
of
Jehoiakim,
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah,
saying,
\VS{2}Go
into
the
house
of
the Rechabites,
and
have
talk
with
them,
and
take
them
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
into
one
of
the
rooms,
and
give
them
wine.
\VS{3}Then
I
took
Jaazaniah,
the
son
of
Jeremiah,
the
son
of
Habazziniah,
and
his
brothers
and
all
his
sons
and
all
the Rechabites;
\VS{4}And
I
took
them
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
into
the
room
of
the
sons
of
Hanan,
the
son
of
Igdaliah,
the
man
of
God,
which
was
near
the rulers'
room,
which
was
over
the
room
of
Maaseiah,
the
son
of
Shallum,
the
keeper
of
the door;
\VS{5}And
I
put
before
the
sons
of
the Rechabites basins
full
of
wine
and
cups,
and
I
said
to
them,
Take some
wine.
\VS{6}But
they
said,
We
will take
no
wine:
for
Jonadab,
the
son
of
Rechab
our
father,
gave
us
orders,
saying,
You
are
to take
no
wine,
you
or
your
sons,
for
ever:
\VS{7}And
you
are
to
make
no
houses,
or put
in
seed,
or get vine-gardens
planted,
or
have
any:
but
all
your
days
you
are
to
go
on
living
in
tents,
so
that
you
may
have
a
long
life
in
the
land
where
you
are
living
as
in
a strange
country.
\VS{8}And
we
have kept
the rules
of
Jonadab,
the
son
of
Rechab
our
father,
in
everything
which
he
gave
us
orders
to
do,
drinking
no
wine
all
our
days,
we
and
our
wives
and
our
sons
and
our
daughters;
\VS{9}Building
no
houses
for
ourselves,
having
no vine-gardens
or
fields
or
seed:
\VS{10}But
we
have
been
living
in
tents,
and
have
done
everything
which
Jonadab
our
father
gave
us
orders
to
do.
\VS{11}But
when
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
came
up
into
the
land,
we
said,
Come,
let
us
go
to
Jerusalem,
away
from
the
army
of
the Chaldaeans
and
from
the
army
of
the Aramaeans:
and
so
we
are
living
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{12}Then
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{13}This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
Go
and
say
to
the
men
of
Judah
and
the
people
of
Jerusalem,
Is
there
no hope
of teaching
you
to
give ear
to
my
words?
says
the
Lord.
\VS{14}The
orders
which
Jonadab,
the
son
of
Rechab,
gave
to
his
sons
to
take
no
wine,
are done,
and
to
this
day
they
take
no
wine,
for
they
do
the
orders
of
their
father:
but
I
have
sent
my
words
to
you, getting
up
early
and sending
them,
and
you
have
not
given ear
to
me.
\VS{15}And
I
have
sent
you
all
my
servants
the
prophets, getting
up
early
and
sending
them,
saying,
Come
back,
now,
every
man
from
his
evil
way,
and
do
better,
and
go
not
after
other
gods
to
become
their
servants,
and
you
will
go
on
living
in
the
land
which
I
have
given
to
you
and
to
your
fathers:
but
your
ears
have
not
been open,
and
you
have
not
given
attention
to
me.
\VS{16}Though
the
sons
of
Jonadab
the
son
of
Rechab
have done
the
orders
of
their
father
which
he
gave
them,
this
people
has
not
given ear
to
me:
\VS{17}For
this
reason
the
Lord,
the
God
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said,
See,
I
will send
on
Judah
and
on
all
the
people
of
Jerusalem
all
the
evil
which
I
said
I
would
do
to
them:
because
I
sent
my words
to
them,
but
they
did
not
give ear;
crying
out
to
them,
but
they
gave
no
answer.
\VS{18}But
to
the Rechabites
Jeremiah
said,
This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
Because
you
have
done
the
orders
of
Jonadab
your
father,
and
have
kept
his rules,
and
done
everything
as
he
gave
you
orders
to
do
it;
\VS{19}For
this
reason
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said,
Jonadab,
the
son
of
Rechab,
will
never
be
without
a
man
to
take
his
place
before
me.

\par }\Chap{36}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
it
came
about
in
the
fourth
year
of
Jehoiakim,
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah,
that
this
word
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
Lord,
saying,
\VS{2}Take
a
book
and
put
down
in
it
all
the
words
I
have
said
to
you
against
Israel
and
against
Judah
and
against
all
the
nations,
from
the
day
when
my
word
came
to
you
in
the
days
of
Josiah
till
this
day.
\VS{3}It
may
be
that
the
people
of
Judah,
hearing
of
all
the
evil
which
it
is
my
purpose
to
do
to
them,
will
be
turned,
every
man
from
his
evil
ways;
so
that
they
may
have
my forgiveness
for
their evil-doing
and
their
sin.
\VS{4}Then
Jeremiah sent
for
Baruch,
the
son
of
Neriah;
and
Baruch
took
down
from
the
mouth
of
Jeremiah
all
the
words
of
the
Lord
which
he
had
said
to
him,
writing
them
in
a
book.
\VS{5}And
Jeremiah
gave
orders
to
Baruch,
saying,
I
am
shut
up,
and
am
not
able
to
go
into
the
house
of
the
Lord:
\VS{6}So
you
are
to
go,
reading
there
from
the book,
which
you
have taken
down
from
my
mouth,
the
words
of
the
Lord,
in
the
hearing
of
the
people
in
the Lord's
house,
on
a
day
when
they
go without
food,
and
in
the
hearing
of
all
the
men
of
Judah
who
have
come
out
from
their
towns.
\VS{7}It
may
be
that
their prayer
for
grace
will
go
up
to
the
Lord,
and
that
every
man
will
be
turned
from
his
evil
ways:
for
great
is
the
wrath
and
the passion
made clear
by
the
Lord
against
this
people.
\VS{8}And
Baruch,
the
son
of
Neriah,
did
as
Jeremiah
the
prophet
gave
him
orders
to
do,
reading
from
the
book
the
words
of
the
Lord
in
the Lord's
house.
\VS{9}Now
it
came
about
in
the
fifth
year
of
Jehoiakim,
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah,
in
the
ninth
month,
that
it
was
given
out publicly
that
all
the
people
in
Jerusalem,
and
all
the
people
who
came
from
the
towns
of
Judah
to
Jerusalem,
were
to
keep
from food
before
the
Lord.
\VS{10}Then
Baruch
gave
a public
reading
of
the
words
of
Jeremiah
from
the
book,
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
in
the
room
of
Gemariah,
the
son
of
Shaphan
the
scribe,
in
the higher square,
as
one goes
in
by
the
new
doorway
of
the Lord's
house,
in
the
hearing
of
all
the
people.
\VS{11}And
Micaiah,
the
son
of
Gemariah,
the
son
of
Shaphan,
after
hearing
all
the
words
of
the
Lord
from
the
book,
\VS{12}Went
down
to
the king's
house,
to
the scribe's
room:
and
all
the
rulers
were
seated
there,
Elishama
the
scribe
and
Delaiah,
the
son
of
Shemaiah,
and
Elnathan,
the
son
of
Achbor,
and
Gemariah,
the
son
of
Shaphan,
and
Zedekiah,
the
son
of
Hananiah,
and
all
the
rulers.
\VS{13}Then
Micaiah
gave
them
an
account
of
all
the
words
which
had come
to
his
ears
when
Baruch
was
reading
the
book
to
the
people.
\VS{14}So
all
the
rulers
sent
Jehudi,
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
the
son
of
Shelemiah,
the
son
of
Cushi,
to
Baruch,
saying,
Take
in
your
hand
the book
from
which
you
have
been
reading
to
the
people
and
come.
So
Baruch,
the
son
of
Neriah,
took
the book
in
his
hand
and
came
down
to
them.
\VS{15}Then
they
said
to
him,
Be
seated
now,
and
give
us
a
reading
from
it.
So
Baruch did
so,
reading
it
to
them.
\VS{16}Now
it
came
about
that,
after
hearing
all
the
words,
they
said
to
one
another
in
fear,
We
will
certainly
give
the
king
an
account
of
all
these
words.
\VS{17}And questioning
Baruch,
they
said,
Say
now,
how did
you
put
all
these
words
down
in
writing
from
his
mouth?
\VS{18}Then
Baruch, answering,
said,
He
said
all
these
things
to
me
by
word
of
mouth,
and
I
put
them
down
with
ink
in
the
book.
\VS{19}Then
the
rulers
said
to
Baruch, Go
and put
yourself
in
a safe place,
you
and
Jeremiah,
and
let
no
man
have
knowledge
of
where
you
are.
\VS{20}Then
they
went
into
the open square
to
the
king;
but
the book
they
put
away
in
the
room
of
Elishama
the
scribe;
and
they
gave
the
king
an
account
of
all
the
words.
\VS{21}So
the
king
sent
Jehudi
to
get
the book,
and
he
took
it
from
the
room
of
Elishama
the
scribe.
And
Jehudi
gave
a
reading
of
it
in
the
hearing
of
the
king
and
all
the
rulers
who
were
by
the king's side.
\VS{22}Now
the
king
was
seated
in
the
winter
house,
and
a fire
was
burning
in
the fireplace
in
front
of
him.
\VS{23}And
it
came
about
that
whenever
Jehudi,
in
his
reading,
had got
through
three
or
four divisions,
the
king, cutting
them
with
his penknife, put
them
into
the
fire,
till
all
the book
was burned
up
in
the
fire
which
was
burning
in
the fireplace.
\VS{24}But
they
had
no
fear
and
gave
no signs
of
grief,
not
the
king
or
any
of
his
servants, after
hearing
all
these
words.
\VS{25}And
Elnathan
and
Delaiah
and
Gemariah
had
made
a strong request
to
the
king
not
to
let
the book
be
burned,
but
he
would
not
give ear
to
them.
\VS{26}And
the
king
gave
orders
to
Jerahmeel,
the king's
son,
and
Seraiah,
the
son
of
Azriel,
and
Shelemiah,
the
son
of
Abdeel,
to
take
Baruch
the
scribe
and
Jeremiah
the
prophet:
but
the
Lord kept
them safe.
\VS{27}Then
after
the book,
in
which
Baruch
had
put
down
the
words
of
Jeremiah,
had
been
burned
by
the
king,
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{28}Take
another book
and
put
down
in
it
all
the
words
which
were
in
the
first book,
which
Jehoiakim,
king
of
Judah,
put
into
the fire.
\VS{29}And
about
Jehoiakim,
king
of
Judah,
you
are
to
say,
This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
You
have
put
this book
into
the fire,
saying,
Why
have
you
put
in
it
that
the
king
of
Babylon
will
certainly
come,
causing
the
destruction
of
this
land
and
putting
an end
to every
man
and
beast
in
it?
\VS{30}For
this
reason
the
Lord
has
said
of
Jehoiakim,
king
of
Judah,
He
will
have
no son
to
take
his
place
on
the
seat
of
David:
his
dead
body
will
be put
out
to undergo
the heat
of
the
day
and
the cold
of
the
night.
\VS{31}And
I
will send
punishment
on
him
and
on
his
seed
and
on
his
servants
for
their evil-doing;
I
will send
on
them
and
on
the
people
of
Jerusalem
and
the
men
of
Judah,
all
the
evil
which
I
said
against
them,
but
they
did
not
give ear.
\VS{32}Then
Jeremiah
took
another
book,
and
gave
it
to
Baruch
the
scribe,
the
son
of
Neriah,
who
put
down
in
it,
from
the
mouth
of
Jeremiah,
all
the
words
of
the
book
which
had
been
burned
in
the
fire
by
Jehoiakim,
king
of
Judah:
and
in
addition
a
number
of
other
words
of
the
same sort.

\par }\Chap{37}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Zedekiah,
the
son
of
Josiah,
became
king
in
place
of Coniah,
the
son
of
Jehoiakim,
whom
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
made
king
in
the
land
of
Judah.
\VS{2}But
he
and
his
servants
and
the
people
of
the
land
did
not
give ear
to
the
words
of
the
Lord
which
he
said
by
Jeremiah
the
prophet.
\VS{3}And
Zedekiah
the
king
sent
Jehucal,
the
son
of
Shelemiah,
and
Zephaniah,
the
son
of
Maaseiah
the
priest,
to
the
prophet
Jeremiah,
saying,
Make prayer
now
to
the
Lord
our
God
for
us.
\VS{4}(Now
Jeremiah
was
going
about
among
the
people,
for
they
had
not
put
him
in
prison.
\VS{5}And Pharaoh's
army
had
come
out
from
Egypt:
and
the Chaldaeans,
who
were attacking
Jerusalem,
hearing
news
of
them,
went
away
from
Jerusalem.)
\VS{6}Then
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
the
prophet
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{7}The
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
This
is
what
you
are
to
say
to
the
king
of
Judah
who
sent
you
to
get directions
from
me:
See, Pharaoh's
army, which
has
come
out
to
your
help,
will
go
back
to
Egypt,
to
their
land.
\VS{8}And
the Chaldaeans
will
come
back
again
and
make war
against
this
town
and
they
will
take
it
and
put
it
on
fire.
\VS{9}The
Lord
has
said,
Have
no false hopes,
saying
to
yourselves,
The Chaldaeans
will
go
away
from
us:
for
they
will
not
go
away.
\VS{10}For
even
if
you
had overcome
all
the
army
of
the Chaldaeans
fighting
against
you,
and
there
were
only
wounded
men
among
them, still
they
would
get
up,
every
man
in
his
tent,
and put
this
town
on
fire.
\VS{11}And
it
came
about
that
when
the Chaldaean
army
outside
Jerusalem
had
gone
away
for fear
of Pharaoh's
army,
\VS{12}Jeremiah
went
out
of
Jerusalem
to
go
into
the
land
of
Benjamin,
with
the purpose
of taking up
his heritage
there
among
the
people.
\VS{13}But
when
he
was
at
the
Benjamin door,
a
captain
of
the watch
named
Irijah,
the
son
of
Shelemiah,
the
son
of
Hananiah,
who
was stationed
there,
put
his hand
on
Jeremiah
the
prophet,
saying,
You
are
going
to
give
yourself
up
to
the Chaldaeans.
\VS{14}Then
Jeremiah
said,
That
is
not true;
I am
not
going
to
the Chaldaeans.
But
he
would
not
give ear
to
him:
so
Irijah
made
him prisoner
and
took
him
to
the
rulers.
\VS{15}And
the
rulers
were
angry
with
Jeremiah,
and
gave
him
blows
and
put
him
in
prison
in
the
house
of
Jonathan
the
scribe:
for
they
had
made
that
the
prison.
\VS{16}So
Jeremiah
came
into
the hole
of
the
prison,
under
the arches,
and
was
there
for
a
long
time.
\VS{17}Then
King
Zedekiah
sent
and
got
him
out:
and
the
king, questioning
him secretly
in
his
house,
said,
Is
there
any
word
from
the
Lord?
And
Jeremiah
said,
There
is.
Then
he
said,
You
will
be
given
up
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Babylon.
\VS{18}Then
Jeremiah
said
to
King
Zedekiah,
What
has been
my
sin
against
you
or
against
your
servants
or
against
this
people,
that
you
have
put
me
in
prison?
\VS{19}Where
now
are
your
prophets
who
said
to
you,
The
king
of
Babylon
will
not
come
against
you
and
against
this
land?
\VS{20}And
now
be pleased
to
give ear,
O
my
lord
the
king;
let
my prayer
for help
come
before
you,
and
do
not
make
me
go
back
to
the
house
of
Jonathan
the
scribe,
for fear
that
I
may
come
to
my
death
there.
\VS{21}Then
by
the
order
of
Zedekiah
the
king,
Jeremiah
was
put
into
the
place
of
the armed watchmen,
and
they
gave
him
every
day
a
cake
of
bread
from
the
street
of
the bread-makers,
till
all
the
bread
in
the
town
was
used
up.
So
Jeremiah
was
kept
in
the
place
of
the armed watchmen.

\par }\Chap{38}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
it
came
to
the ears
of
Shephatiah,
the
son
of
Mattan,
and
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Pashhur,
and Jucal,
the
son
of
Shelemiah,
and
Pashhur,
the
son
of Malchiah,
that
Jeremiah
had
said
to
all
the
people,
\VS{2}These
are
the words
of
the
Lord:
Whoever
goes
on
living
in
this
town
will
come
to
his
death
by
the
sword
or
through need
of food
or
by disease:
but
whoever
goes
out
to
the Chaldaeans
will keep
his
life
out
of
the power
of
the attackers
and
be safe.
\VS{3}The
Lord
has
said,
This
town
will
certainly
be
given
into
the
hands
of
the
army
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
will
take
it.
\VS{4}Then
the
rulers
said
to
the
king,
Let
this
man
be
put
to
death,
because
he
is
putting fear
into
the hearts
of
the
men
of
war
who
are
still
in
the
town,
and
into
the hearts
of
the
people,
by
saying
such
things
to
them:
this
man
is
not working
for
the
well-being
of
the
people,
but
for
their damage.
\VS{5}Then
Zedekiah
the
king
said,
See,
he
is
in
your
hands:
for
the
king
was
not
able
to
do
anything
against
them.
\VS{6}So
they
took
Jeremiah
and
put
him
into
the water-hole
of Malchiah,
the king's
son,
in
the place
of
the armed watchmen:
and
they
let
Jeremiah
down
with
cords.
And
in
the hole
there
was
no
water,
but wet earth:
and
Jeremiah
went
down
into
the wet earth.
\VS{7}Now
it
came
to
the ears
of
Ebed-melech
the
Ethiopian,
an unsexed servant
in
the king's
house,
that
they
had
put
Jeremiah
into
the water-hole;
the
king
at
that time being
seated
in
the doorway
of
Benjamin:
\VS{8}And
Ebed-melech
went
out
from
the king's
house
and
said
to
the
king,
\VS{9}My
lord
the
king,
these
men
have
done
evil
in
all
they
have
done
to
Jeremiah
the
prophet,
whom
they
have
put
into
the water-hole;
and
he
will come
to
his
death
in
the
place
where
he
is
through
need
of
food:
for
there
is
no
more
bread
in
the
town.
\VS{10}Then
the
king
gave
orders
to
Ebed-melech
the
Ethiopian,
saying,
Take
with
you
three
men
from
here
and
get
Jeremiah
out
of
the water-hole
before
death overtakes
him.
\VS{11}So
Ebed-melech
took
the
men
with
him
and
went
into
the
house
of
the
king,
to
the
place
where
the clothing
was kept,
and
got
from
there old clothing
and bits
of old cloth,
and
let
them
down
by
cords
into
the water-hole
where
Jeremiah
was.
\VS{12}And
Ebed-melech
the
Ethiopian
said
to
Jeremiah,
Put
these bits
of old cloth
under
your
arms
under
the
cords.
And
Jeremiah
did
so.
\VS{13}So pulling
Jeremiah
up
with
the
cords
they
got
him
out
of
the water-hole:
and
Jeremiah
was kept
in
the place
of
the armed watchmen.
\VS{14}Then
King
Zedekiah
sent
for
Jeremiah
the
prophet
and
took
him
into
the rulers' doorway
in
the
house
of
the
Lord:
and
the
king
said
to
Jeremiah,
I
have
a
question
to
put
to
you;
keep
nothing
back
from
me.
\VS{15}Then
Jeremiah
said
to
Zedekiah,
If
I
give
you
the
answer
to
your question,
will
you
not
certainly
put
me
to
death?
and
if
I
make
a suggestion
to
you,
you
will
not
give
it
a
hearing.
\VS{16}So
King
Zedekiah
gave
his
oath
to
Jeremiah secretly,
saying,
By
the
living
Lord,
who
gave
us
our
life,
I
will
not
put
you
to
death,
or
give
you
up
to
these
men
who
are desiring
to
take
your
life.
\VS{17}Then
Jeremiah
said
to
Zedekiah,
These
are
the words
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel:
If
you
go
out
to
the
king
of Babylon's
captains,
then
you
will
have
life,
and
the
town
will
not
be
burned
with
fire,
and
you
and
your
family
will
be kept
from
death:
\VS{18}But
if
you
do
not
go
out
to
the
king
of Babylon's
captains,
then
this
town
will
be
given
into
the
hands
of
the Chaldaeans
and
they
will
put
it
on
fire,
and
you
will
not
get
away
from
them.
\VS{19}And
King
Zedekiah
said
to
Jeremiah,
I
am troubled
on account
of
the
Jews
who
have
gone
over
to
the Chaldaeans,
for
fear
that
they
may
give
me
up
to
them
and
they
will
put
me
to shame.
\VS{20}But
Jeremiah
said,
They
will
not
give
you
up:
be guided
now
by
the
word
of
the
Lord
as
I
have
given
it
to
you,
and
it
will
be
well
for
you,
and
you
will
keep
your
life.
\VS{21}But
if
you
do
not
go
out,
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
made
clear
to
me:
\VS{22}See,
all
the
rest
of
the
women
in
the
house
of
the
king
of
Judah
will
be
taken
out
to
the
king
of Babylon's
captains,
and
these
women
will
say,
Your nearest friends
have
been false
to
you
and
have
got
the better
of
you:
they
have
made
your
feet
go deep
into
the wet earth,
and
they
are
turned
away
back
from
you.
\VS{23}And
they
will
take
all
your
wives
and
your
children
out
to
the Chaldaeans:
and
you
will
not
get
away
out
of
their
hands,
but
will
be
taken
by
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Babylon:
and
this
town
will
be
burned
with
fire.
\VS{24}Then
Zedekiah
said
to
Jeremiah,
Let
no
man
have
knowledge
of
these
words,
and
you
will
not
be
put
to
death.
\VS{25}But
if
it
comes
to
the ears
of
the
rulers
that
I
have
been
talking
with
you,
and
they
come
and
say
to
you,
Give
us
word
now
of
what
you
have
said
to
the
king
and
what
the
king
said
to
you, keeping
nothing
back
and
we
will
not
put
you
to
death;
\VS{26}Then
you
are
to
say
to
them,
I
made
my
request
to
the
king,
that
he
would
not send
me
back
to
my
death
in Jonathan's
house.
\VS{27}Then
all
the
rulers
came
to
Jeremiah, questioning
him:
and
he
gave
them
an
answer
in
the
words
the
king
had
given
him
orders
to
say.
So
they
said
nothing
more
to
him;
for
the
thing
was
not
made public.
\VS{28}So
Jeremiah
was kept
in
the
place
of
the armed watchmen
till
the
day
when
Jerusalem
was
taken.

\par }\Chap{39}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
about,
that
when
Jerusalem
was taken, (in
the
ninth
year
of
Zedekiah,
king
of
Judah,
in
the
tenth
month,
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
with
all
his
army,
came
against
Jerusalem, shutting
it
in
on
every side;
\VS{2}In
the
eleventh
year
of
Zedekiah,
in
the
fourth
month, on
the
ninth
day
of
the
month,
the
town
was
broken into:)
\VS{3}All
the
captains
of
the
king
of
Babylon
came
in
and
took
their
places
in
the
middle doorway
of
the
town, Nergal-shar-ezer,
ruler
of Sin-magir,
the Rabmag,
and Nebushazban,
the
Rab-saris,
and
all
the
captains
of
the
king
of
Babylon.
\VS{4}And
when
Zedekiah,
king
of
Judah,
and
all
the
men
of
war
saw
it,
they
went
in
flight
from
the
town
by
night,
by
the
way
of
the king's
garden,
through
the doorway
between
the
two
walls:
and
they
went
out
by
the
Arabah.
\VS{5}But
the Chaldaean
army
went
after
them
and
overtook
Zedekiah
in
the lowlands
of
Jericho:
and
they
made
him
a prisoner
and
took
him
up
to
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
to
Riblah
in
the
land
of
Hamath,
to
be
judged
by
him.
\VS{6}Then
the
king
of
Babylon put
the
sons
of
Zedekiah
to death
before
his
eyes
in
Riblah:
and
the
king
of
Babylon put
to death
all
the great
men
of
Judah.
\VS{7}And more than
this,
he
put
out Zedekiah's
eyes,
and
had
him
put
in
chains
to
take
him
away
to
Babylon.
\VS{8}And
the Chaldaeans put
the king's
house
on
fire,
as well
as
the
houses
of
the
people,
and
had
the
walls
of
Jerusalem
broken
down.
\VS{9}Then
Nebuzaradan,
the
captain
of
the armed
men,
took
away
to
Babylon
as prisoners, all
the
rest
of
the workmen
who
were still
in
the
town,
as
well
as
those
who
had given
themselves
up
to
him,
and all
the
rest
of
the
people.
\VS{10}But
Nebuzaradan,
the
captain
of
the armed
men,
let
the poorest
of
the
people,
who
had
nothing
whatever, go
on living
in
the
land
of
Judah,
and
gave
them vine-gardens
and
fields
at
the
same
time.
\VS{11}Now
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
gave
orders
about
Jeremiah
to
Nebuzaradan,
the
captain
of
the armed
men,
saying,
\VS{12}Take
him
and
keep
an
eye
on
him
and
see
that
no
evil
comes
to
him;
but
do
with
him
whatever
he
says
to
you.
\VS{13}So
Nebuzaradan,
the
captain
of
the armed
men,
sent Nebushazban,
the
Rab-saris,
and Nergal-shar-ezer,
the Rabmag,
and
all
the chief captains
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
\VS{14}And
they
sent
and
took
Jeremiah
out
of
the
place
of
the watchmen,
and
gave
him
into
the care
of
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Ahikam,
the
son
of
Shaphan,
to
take
him
to
his
house:
so
he
was
living
among
the
people.
\VS{15}Now
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Jeremiah
while
he
was
shut
up
in
the
place
of
the armed watchmen,
saying,
\VS{16}Go
and
say
to
Ebed-melech
the
Ethiopian,
This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
See,
my
words
will
come
true
for
this
town,
for
evil
and
not
for
good:
they
will
come
about
before
your eyes
on
that
day.
\VS{17}But
I
will keep
you safe
on
that
day,
says
the
Lord:
you
will
not
be
given
into
the
hands
of
the
men
you
are fearing.
\VS{18}For
I
will
certainly
let
you
go free,
and
you
will
not
be
put
to
the
sword,
but
your
life
will
be given
to
you out
of
the hands
of
your attackers:
because
you
have
put
your faith
in
me,
says
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{40}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
Lord,
after
Nebuzaradan,
the
captain
of
the armed
men,
had
let
him
go
from
Ramah,
when
he
had
taken
him;
for
he
had
been
put
in
chains,
among
all
the
prisoners
of
Jerusalem
and
Judah
who
were
taken
away
prisoners
to
Babylon.
\VS{2}And
the
captain
of
the armed
men
took
Jeremiah
and
said
to
him,
The
Lord
your
God
gave
word
of
the
evil
which
was
to come
on
this
place:
\VS{3}***and
the
Lord
has
made
it
come,
and
has
done
as
he
said;
because
of
your
sin
against
the
Lord
in
not
giving ear
to
his
voice;
and
that
is
why
this
thing
has
come
on
you.
\VS{4}Now
see,
this
day
I am freeing
you
from
the
chains
which
are
on
your
hands.
If
it
seems
good
to
you
to
come
with
me
to
Babylon,
then
come,
and
I
will
keep
an
eye
on
you;
but
if
it
does
not
seem
good
to
you
to
come
with
me
to
Babylon,
then
do
not
come:
see,
all
the
land
is
before
you;
if
it
seems
good
and
right
to
you
to
go
on living
in
the
land,
\VS{5}Then
go
back
to
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Ahikam,
the
son
of
Shaphan,
whom
the
king
of
Babylon
has
made
ruler
over
the
towns
of
Judah,
and
make
your living-place
with
him
among
the
people;
or
go
wherever
it
seems
right
to
you
to
go.
So
the
captain
of
the armed
men
gave
him food
and
some money
and
let
him
go.
\VS{6}So
Jeremiah
went
to
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Ahikam,
in
Mizpah,
and
was
living
with
him
among
the
people
who
were
still
in
the
land.
\VS{7}Now
when
it
came
to
the ears
of
all
the
captains
of
the
forces
who
were
in
the
field,
and
their
men,
that
the
king
of
Babylon
had
made
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Ahikam,
ruler
in
the
land,
and
had
put
under
his
care
the
men
and
women
and
children,
all
the poorest
of
the
land,
those
who
had
not
been
taken
away
to
Babylon;
\VS{8}Then
they
came
to
Gedaliah
in
Mizpah, even
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
and
Johanan,
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
Seraiah,
the
son
of
Tanhumeth,
and
the
sons
of
Ephai
the
Netophathite,
and
Jezaniah,
the
son
of
the
Maacathite,
they
and
their
men.
\VS{9}And
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Ahikam,
the
son
of
Shaphan,
took
an
oath
to
them
and
their
men,
saying,
Have
no
fear
of
the
servants
of
the Chaldaeans:
go
on
living
in
the
land,
and
become
the
servants
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
all
will
be
well.
\VS{10}As
for
me,
I
will
be
living
in
Mizpah
as
your representative
before
the Chaldaeans
who
come
to
us:
but
you
are
to
get
in
your
wine
and
summer fruits
and
oil
and
put
them
in
your
vessels,
and
make living-places
for
yourselves
in
the
towns
which
you
have
taken.
\VS{11}In
the
same
way,
when
all
the
Jews
who
were
in
Moab
and
among
the
children
of
Ammon
and
in
Edom
and
in
all
the
countries,
had news
that
the
king
of
Babylon
had
let
Judah
keep
some
of
its
people
and
that
he
had
put
over
them
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Ahikam,
the
son
of
Shaphan;
\VS{12}Then
all
the
Jews
came
back
from
all
the
places
to
which
they
had
gone
in flight,
and
came
to
the
land
of
Judah,
to
Gedaliah,
to
Mizpah,
and got
in
a
great store
of
wine
and
summer
fruit.
\VS{13}Now
Johanan,
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
all
the
captains
of
the
forces
which
were
in
the
field,
came
to
Gedaliah
in
Mizpah,
\VS{14}And
said
to
him,
Has
it come
to
your
knowledge
that
Baalis,
the
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
has
sent
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
to
take
your
life?
But
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Ahikam,
put
no
faith
in
what
they
said.
\VS{15}Then
Johanan,
the
son
of
Kareah,
said
to
Gedaliah
in
Mizpah secretly,
Let
me
now
go
and put
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
to
death
without anyone's
knowledge:
why
let
him
take
your
life
so
that
all
the
Jews
who
have
come
together
to
you
may
be
sent
in flight,
and
the
rest
of
the
men
of
Judah
come
to
an end?
\VS{16}But
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Ahikam,
said
to
Johanan,
the
son
of
Kareah,
You
are
not
to
do
this:
for
what
you
say
about
Ishmael
is
false.

\par }\Chap{41}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
it
came
about
in
the
seventh
month
that
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
the
son
of
Elishama,
of
the king's
seed,
having
with
him
ten
men,
came
to
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Ahikam,
in
Mizpah;
and
they
had
a
meal
together
in
Mizpah.
\VS{2}Then
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
and
the
ten
men
who
were
with
him,
got
up,
and
attacking
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Ahikam,
the
son
of
Shaphan,
with
the
sword,
put
to
death
him
whom
the
king
of
Babylon
had
made ruler
over
the
land.
\VS{3}And
Ishmael put
to death
all
the
Jews
who
were
with
him,
even
with
Gedaliah,
at
Mizpah,
and
the Chaldaean
men
of
war.
\VS{4}Now
on
the
second
day
after
he
had
put
Gedaliah
to
death,
when
no
one
had
knowledge
of
it,
\VS{5}Some
people
came
from
Shechem,
from
Shiloh
and
Samaria,
eighty
men,
with
the hair
of
their faces
cut
off
and
their
clothing
out
of
order,
and
with cuts
on
their
bodies,
and
in
their
hands
meal
offerings
and perfumes
which
they
were
taking
to
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}And
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
went
out
from
Mizpah
with
the purpose
of meeting
them,
weeping
on
his
way:
and
it
came
about
that
when
he
was face
to face
with
them
he
said,
Come
to
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Ahikam.
\VS{7}And
when
they
came
inside
the
town,
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
and
the
men
who
were
with
him,
put
them
to death
and
put
their bodies
into
a deep hole.
\VS{8}But
there
were
ten
men
among
them
who
said
to
Ishmael,
Do
not
put
us
to
death,
for
we
have secret
stores,
in
the
country,
of
grain
and
oil
and
honey.
So
he
did
not
put
them
to
death
with
their
countrymen.
\VS{9}Now
the hole
into
which
Ishmael
had
put
the
dead
bodies
of
the
men
whom
he
had
put
to death,
was
the great hole
which
Asa
the
king
had
made
for fear
of
Baasha,
king
of
Israel:
and
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
made
it
full
of
the
bodies
of
those
who
had
been
put
to death.
\VS{10}Then
Ishmael
took
away
as prisoners
all
the
rest
of
the
people
who
were
in
Mizpah,
the king's
daughters
and
all
the
people still
in
Mizpah,
whom
Nebuzaradan,
the
captain
of
the armed
men,
had
put
under
the
care
of
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Ahikam:
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
took
them
away prisoners
with
the purpose
of going
over
to
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{11}But
when
Johanan,
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
all
the
captains
of
the armed
forces
who
were
with
him,
had news
of
all
the
evil
which
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
had
done,
\VS{12}They
took
their
men
and
went
out
to
make war
on
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
and
they
came face
to face
with
him
by
the
great
waters
in
Gibeon.
\VS{13}Now
when
all
the
people
who
were
with
Ishmael
saw
Johanan,
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
all
the
captains
of
the
forces
with
him,
then
they
were
glad.
\VS{14}And
all
the
people
whom
Ishmael
had
taken
away prisoners
from
Mizpah,
turning
round,
came
back
and
went
to
Johanan,
the
son
of
Kareah.
\VS{15}But
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Nethaniah, got
away
from
Johanan,
with
eight
men,
and
went
to
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{16}Then
Johanan,
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
all
the
captains
of
the
forces
who
were
with
him,
took
all
the
rest
of
the
people
whom
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
had
made prisoners,
after
he
had
put
to death
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Ahikam,
the
people
from
Mizpah,
that
is,
the
men
of
war
and
the
women
and
the
children
and
the unsexed
servants,
whom
he
had
taken
back
with
him
from
Gibeon:
\VS{17}And
they
went
and
were
living
in
the resting-place
of
Chimham,
which
is
near Beth-lehem
on
the way
into
Egypt,
\VS{18}Because
of
the Chaldaeans:
for
they
were
in
fear
of
them
because
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
had
put
to death
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Ahikam,
whom
the
king
of
Babylon
had
made ruler
over
the
land.

\par }\Chap{42}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
all
the
captains
of
the
forces,
and
Johanan,
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
Jezaniah,
the
son
of
Hoshaiah,
and
all
the
people
from
the least
to
the
greatest,
came
near,
\VS{2}And
said
to
Jeremiah
the
prophet,
Let
our
request
come
before
you,
and
make prayer
for
us
to
the
Lord
your
God,
even
for
this
small band
of
us;
for
we
are
only
a
small band
out
of
what
was
a
great
number,
as
your
eyes
may
see:
\VS{3}That
the
Lord
your
God
may
make clear
to
us
the
way
in
which
we
are
to go
and
what
we
are
to
do.
\VS{4}Then
Jeremiah
the
prophet
said
to
them,
I
have
given ear
to
you;
see,
I
will
make prayer
to
the
Lord
your
God,
as
you
have
said;
and
it
will
be
that,
whatever
the
Lord
may
say
in
answer
to
you,
I
will
give
you
word
of
it, keeping
nothing
back.
\VS{5}Then
they
said
to
Jeremiah,
May
the
Lord
be
a
true
witness
against
us
in good
faith,
if
we
do
not
do
everything
which
the
Lord
your
God
sends
you
to
say
to
us.
\VS{6}If
it
is
good
or
if
it
is
evil,
we
will
be guided
by
the
voice
of
the
Lord
our
God,
to
whom
we
are
sending
you;
so
that
it
may
be
well
for
us
when
we
give ear
to
the
voice
of
the
Lord
our
God.
\VS{7}And
it
came
about
that
after
ten
days
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Jeremiah.
\VS{8}And
he sent
for
Johanan,
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
all
the
captains
of
the
forces
who
were
still
with
him,
and
all
the
people,
from
the least
to
the
greatest,
\VS{9}And
said
to
them,
These
are
the words
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
to
whom
you
sent
me
to
put
your
request
before
him:
\VS{10}If
you
still
go
on
living
in
the
land,
then
I
will
go
on
building
you
up
and
not pulling
you
down, planting
you
and
not uprooting
you:
for
my purpose
of
doing
evil
to
you
has
been
changed.
\VS{11}Have
no
fear
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
of
whom
you
are
now
in
fear;
have
no
fear
of
him,
says
the
Lord:
for
I
am
with
you
to keep
you
safe
and
to give
you
salvation
from
his
hands.
\VS{12}And
I
will
have
mercy
on
you,
so
that
he
may
have
mercy
on
you
and
let
you
go
back
to
your
land.
\VS{13}But
if
you
say,
We
have
no desire
to go
on
living
in
this
land;
and
do
not
give ear
to
the
voice
of
the
Lord
your
God,
\VS{14}Saying,
No,
but
we
will
go
into
the
land
of
Egypt,
where
we
will
not
see
war,
or
be
hearing
the
sound
of
the
horn,
or
be
in need
of
food;
there
we
will
make
our living-place;
\VS{15}Then
give ear
now
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
O
you last
of
Judah:
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said,
If
your minds
are fixed
on
going
into
Egypt
and stopping
there;
\VS{16}Then
it
will
come
about
that
the
sword,
which
is
the
cause
of
your
fear,
will
overtake
you
there
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
and need
of food,
which
you
are fearing,
will
go
after
you
there
in
Egypt;
and
there
death
will
come
to
you.
\VS{17}Such
will
be
the fate
of
all
the
men
whose minds
are fixed
on
going
into
Egypt
and stopping
there;
they
will
come
to
their end
by
the
sword,
by
being short
of food,
and
by disease:
not
one
of
them
will
keep
his
life
or
get
away
from
the
evil
which
I
will send
on
them.
\VS{18}For
this
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
As
my
wrath
and passion
have
been
let
loose
on
the
people
of
Jerusalem,
so
will
my passion
be
let
loose
on
you
when
you
go
into
Egypt:
and
you
will
become
an
oath
and
a
cause
of wonder
and
a
curse
and
a
name
of
shame;
and
you
will
never
see
this
place
again.
\VS{19}The
Lord
has
said
about
you,
O last
of
Judah,
Go
not
into
Egypt:
be
certain
that
I
have given witness
to
you
this
day.
\VS{20}For
you
have
been acting
with deceit
in
your hearts;
for
you
sent
me
to
the
Lord
your
God,
saying,
Make prayer
for
us
to
the
Lord
our
God,
and
give
us
word
of
everything
he
may
say,
and
we
will
do
it.
\VS{21}And
this
day
I
have
made
it
clear
to
you,
and
you
have
not
given ear
to
the
voice
of
the
Lord
your
God
in
anything
for
which
he
has
sent
me
to
you.
\VS{22}And
now
be
certain
that
you
will
come
to
your end
by
the
sword
and
by being short
of food
and
by disease,
in
the
place
to
which
you
are
pleased
to
go
for
a living-place.

\par }\Chap{43}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
about
that
when
Jeremiah
had
come
to
the
end
of
giving
all
the
people
the
words
of
the
Lord
their
God,
which
the
Lord
their
God
had
sent
him
to
say
to
them,
even
all
these
words,
\VS{2}Then
Azariah,
the
son
of
Hoshaiah,
and
Johanan,
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
all
the
men
of pride,
said
to
Jeremiah,
You
have
said
what
is
false:
the
Lord
our
God
has
not
sent
you
to
say,
You
are
not
to
go
into
the land
of
Egypt
and make
your living-place
there:
\VS{3}But
Baruch,
the
son
of
Neriah,
is moving
you
against
us,
to
give
us
up
into
the
hands
of
the Chaldaeans
so
that
they
may
put
us
to
death,
and
take
us
away prisoners
into
Babylon.
\VS{4}So
Johanan,
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
all
the
captains
of
the
forces,
and
all
the
people,
did
not
give ear
to
the order
of
the
Lord
that
they
were
to go
on
living
in
the
land
of
Judah.
\VS{5}But
Johanan,
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
all
the
captains
of
the
forces
took
all
the
rest
of
Judah
who
had
come
back
into
the
land
of
Judah
from
all
the
nations
where
they
had
been forced
to
go;
\VS{6}The
men
and
the
women
and
the
children
and
the king's
daughters,
and
every
person
whom
Nebuzaradan,
the
captain
of
the armed
men,
had
put under
the care
of
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Ahikam,
the
son
of
Shaphan,
and
Jeremiah
the
prophet
and
Baruch,
the
son
of
Neriah;
\VS{7}And
they
came
into
the
land
of
Egypt;
for
they
did
not
give ear
to
the
voice
of
the
Lord:
and
they
came
to
Tahpanhes.
\VS{8}Then
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Jeremiah
in
Tahpanhes,
saying,
\VS{9}Take
in
your
hand
some
great
stones,
and
put
them
in
a safe
place
in
the paste
in
the brickwork
which
is
at
the way
into Pharaoh's
house
in
Tahpanhes,
before
the
eyes
of
the
men
of Judah;
\VS{10}And
say
to
them,
This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
See,
I
will
send
and
take
Nebuchadrezzar,
the
king
of
Babylon,
my
servant,
and
he
will
put
the
seat
of
his
kingdom
on
these
stones
which
have
been
put
in
a safe
place
here
by
you;
and
his tent
will
be
stretched
over
them.
\VS{11}And
he
will
come
and overcome
the
land
of
Egypt;
those
who
are
for
death
will
be
put
to
death,
those
who
are
to
be
prisoners
will
be
made
prisoners,
and
those
who
are
for
the
sword
will
be given
to
the
sword.
\VS{12}And
he
will
put
a
fire
in
the
houses
of
the
gods
of
Egypt;
and
they
will
be
burned
by
him:
and
he
will make
Egypt clean
as
a keeper
of sheep makes clean
his
clothing;
and
he
will
go
out
from
there
in
peace.
\VS{13}And
the
stone
pillars
of
Beth-shemesh
in
the
land
of
Egypt
will
be
broken
by
him,
and
the
houses
of
the
gods
of
Egypt
burned
with
fire.

\par }\Chap{44}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
about
all
the
Jews
who
were
living
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
in
Migdol
and
at
Tahpanhes
and
at Noph
and
in
the
country
of
Pathros,
saying,
\VS{2}The
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
You
have
seen
all
the
evil
which
I
have
sent
on
Jerusalem
and
on
all
the
towns
of
Judah;
and
now,
this
day
they
are
waste
and unpeopled;
\VS{3}Because
of
the
evil
which
they
have
done, moving
me
to wrath
by
burning perfumes
in
worship
to
other
gods,
who
were
not
their
gods
or
yours
or
the
gods
of
their
fathers.
\VS{4}And
I
sent
all
my
servants
the
prophets
to
you, getting
up
early
and
sending
them,
saying,
Do
not
do
this
disgusting
thing
which
is
hated
by
me.
\VS{5}But
they
gave
no
attention,
and
their
ears
were
not open
so
that
they might
be
turned
from
their evil-doing
and
from
burning perfume
to
other
gods.
\VS{6}Because
of
this,
my passion
and
my
wrath
were
let loose,
burning
in
the
towns
of
Judah
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem;
and
they
are
waste
and unpeopled
as
at
this
day.
\VS{7}So
now,
the
Lord,
the
God
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said,
Why
are
you
doing
this
great
evil
against
yourselves, causing
every
man
and
woman,
little
child
and baby
at
the breast
among
you
in
Judah
to
be
cut
off till
not
one
is
still
living;
\VS{8}Moving
me
to wrath
with
the
work
of
your
hands,
burning perfumes
to
other
gods
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
where
you
have
gone
to
make
a
place
for
yourselves,
so
that
you
may
become
a
curse
and
a name
of
shame
among
all
the
nations
of
the
earth?
\VS{9}Have
you no memory
of
the evil-doing
of
your
fathers,
and
the evil-doing
of
the
kings
of
Judah,
and
the evil-doing
of
their
wives,
and
the
evil
which
you yourselves
have
done,
and
the
evil
which
your
wives
have
done,
in
the
land
of
Judah
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem?
\VS{10}Even
to
this
day
their hearts
are
not broken,
and
they
have
no
fear,
and
have
not
gone
in
the
way
of
my
law
or
of
my
rules
which
I
gave
to
you
and
to
your
fathers.
\VS{11}So
this
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
See,
my
face
will
be
turned
against
you
for
evil,
for
the cutting
off
of
all
Judah;
\VS{12}And
I
will
take
the last
of
Judah,
whose minds
are fixed
on
going
into
the
land
of
Egypt
and stopping
there,
and
they
will
all
come
to
their
end,
falling
in
the
land
of
Egypt
by
the
sword
and
by
being short
of food
and
by disease;
death
will overtake
them,
from
the least
to
the
greatest,
death
by
the
sword
and
by need
of food:
they
will
become
an
oath
and
a
cause
of wonder
and
a
curse
and
a name
of
shame.
\VS{13}For
I
will send
punishment
on
those
who
are
living
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
as
I
have sent
punishment
on
Jerusalem,
by
the
sword
and
by need
of food
and
by disease:
\VS{14}So
that
not
one
of
the
rest
of
Judah,
who
have
gone
into
the
land
of
Egypt
and
are
living
there,
will
get
away
or
keep
his
life,
to
come
back
to
the
land
of
Judah
where
they
are hoping
to
come
back
and
be
living
again:
for
not
one
will
come
back,
but
only
those
who
are able
to
get
away.
\VS{15}Then
all
the
men
who
had
knowledge
that
their
wives
were
burning perfumes
to
other
gods,
and
all
the
women
who
were
present,
a
great meeting, answering
Jeremiah,
said,
\VS{16}As
for
the
word
which
you
have
said
to
us
in
the
name
of
the
Lord,
we
will
not
give ear
to
you.
\VS{17}But
we
will
certainly
do
every
word
which
has
gone
out
of
our
mouths,
burning perfumes
to
the
queen
of
heaven
and draining
out
drink
offerings
to
her
as
we
did,
we
and
our
fathers
and
our
kings
and
our
rulers,
in
the
towns
of
Judah
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem:
for
then
we
had
food
enough
and
did
well
and
saw
no
evil.
\VS{18}But
from
the
time
when
we
gave
up
burning perfumes
to
the
queen
of
heaven
and draining
out drink
offerings
to
her,
we
have
been
in
need
of
all
things,
and
have
been wasted
by
the
sword
and
by
need
of food.
\VS{19}And
the women said,
When
we
were
burning perfumes
to
the
queen
of
heaven
and draining
out drink
offerings
to
her,
did
we
make
cakes
in
her image
and give
her
our drink
offerings
without
the knowledge
of
our
husbands?
\VS{20}Then
Jeremiah
said
to
all
the
people,
to
the
men
and
women
and
all
the
people
who
had given
him
that
answer,
\VS{21}The perfumes
which
you
have
been
burning
in
the
towns
of
Judah
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem,
you
and
your
fathers
and
your
kings
and
your
rulers
and
the
people
of
the
land,
had
the
Lord
no memory
of
them,
and
did
he
not
keep
them
in
mind?
\VS{22}And
the
Lord
was
no
longer
able
to
put
up
with
the
evil
of
your
doings
and
the
disgusting
things
you
did;
and
because
of
this
your
land
has
become
a
waste
and
a
cause
of wonder
and
a
curse,
with
no
one
living
in
it,
as
at
this
day.
\VS{23}Because
you
have
been
burning perfumes,
and
sinning
against
the
Lord,
and
have
not
given ear
to
the
voice
of
the
Lord,
or
gone
in
the
way
of
his
law
or
his
rules
or
his orders;
for
this
reason
this
evil
has
come
on
you,
as
it
is
today.
\VS{24}Further,
Jeremiah
said
to
all
the
people
and
all
the
women,
Give ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
all
those
of
Judah
who
are living
in
Egypt:
\VS{25}This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
You
women
have
said
with
your
mouths,
and
with
your
hands
you
have
done
what
you
said,
We
will
certainly
give
effect
to
the oaths
we
have
made,
to
have perfumes
burned
to
the
queen
of
heaven
and drink
offerings drained
out
to
her:
then
give
effect
to
your oaths
and
do
them.
\VS{26}And
now
give ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
all
you
of
Judah
who
are
living
in
the
land
of
Egypt:
Truly,
I
have
taken
an
oath
by
my
great
name,
says
the
Lord,
that
my
name
is
no
longer
to
be
named
in
the
mouth
of
any
man
of
Judah
in
all
the
land
of
Egypt,
saying,
By
the
life
of
the
Lord
God.
\VS{27}See,
I
am
watching
over
them
for
evil
and
not
for
good:
all
the
men
of
Judah
who
are
in
the
land
of
Egypt
will
be wasted
by
the
sword
and
by
need
of food
till
there
is
an
end
of
them.
\VS{28}And
those
who
get
away safe
from
the
sword
will
come
back
from
the
land
of
Egypt
to
the
land
of
Judah,
a
very small
number;
and
all
the
rest
of
Judah,
who
have
gone
into
the
land
of
Egypt
and
are
living
there,
will
see
whose
word
has
effect,
mine
or
theirs.
\VS{29}And
this
will
be
the
sign
to
you,
says
the
Lord,
that
I
will give
you
punishment
in
this
place,
so
that
you
may
see
that
my
words
will
certainly
have
effect
against
you
for
evil:
\VS{30}The
Lord
has
said,
See,
I
will
give
up
Pharaoh
Hophra,
king
of
Egypt,
into
the
hands
of
those
who
are fighting
against
him
and desiring
to
take
his
life,
as
I
gave
Zedekiah,
king
of
Judah,
into
the
hands
of
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
his hater,
who
had designs
against
his
life.

\par }\Chap{45}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
words
which
Jeremiah
the
prophet
said
to
Baruch,
the
son
of
Neriah,
when
he
put
these
words
down
in
a
book
from
the
mouth
of
Jeremiah,
in
the
fourth
year
of
Jehoiakim,
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah;
he
said,
\VS{2}This
is
what
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said
of
you,
O
Baruch:
\VS{3}You
said,
Sorrow
is mine!
for
the
Lord
has given
me
sorrow
in
addition
to
my
pain;
I
am
tired
with
the sound
of
my
sorrow,
and
I
get
no
rest.
\VS{4}This
is
what
you
are
to
say
to
him:
The
Lord
has
said, Truly,
the
building
which
I put
up
will
be
broken
down,
and
that
which
was
planted
by
me
will
be
uprooted,
and
this
through
all
the
land;
\VS{5}And
as
for
you,
are
you
looking
for
great
things
for
yourself?
Have
no
desire
for
them:
for
truly
I
will
send
evil
on
all
flesh,
says
the
Lord:
but
your
life
I
will
keep safe
from
attack
wherever
you
go.

\par }\Chap{46}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
of
the
Lord
which
came
to
Jeremiah
the
prophet
about
the
nations.
\VS{2}Of
Egypt:
about
the
army
of Pharaoh-neco,
king
of
Egypt,
which
was
by
the
river
Euphrates
in
Carchemish,
which
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon, overcame
in
the
fourth
year
of
Jehoiakim,
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah.
\VS{3}Get out
the breastplate
and body-cover,
and
come together
to
the
fight.
\VS{4}Make
the
horses
ready,
and
get
up,
you
horsemen,
and
take
your places
with
your head-dresses; make
the
spears sharp
and
put
on
the breastplates.
\VS{5}What
have
I
seen?
they
are overcome
with
fear
and
turned
back;
their
men
of war
are
broken
and
have
gone
in
flight,
not
looking
back:
fear
is
on
every
side,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{6}Let
not
the quick-footed
go
in
flight,
or
the
man
of war
get
away;
on
the
north,
by
the
river
Euphrates,
they
are slipping
and
falling.
\VS{7}Who
is
this
coming
up
like
the
Nile,
whose
waters
are lifting
their heads
like
the
rivers?
\VS{8}Egypt
is
coming
up
like
the
Nile,
and
his
waters
are lifting
their heads
like
the
rivers,
and
he
says,
I
will
go
up,
covering
the
earth;
I
will
send
destruction
on
the
town
and
its
people.
\VS{9}Go
up,
you
horses;
go rushing
on,
you carriages
of war;
go
out,
you
men
of war:
Cush
and
Put, gripping
the body-cover,
and
the
Ludim,
with
bent
bows.
\VS{10}But
that
day
is
the
day
of
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies,
a
day
of punishment
when
he
will
take payment
from
his haters:
and
the
sword
will
have
all
its desire, drinking
their
blood
in
full measure:
for there
is
an offering
to
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies,
in
the
north
country
by
the
river
Euphrates.
\VS{11}Go
up
to
Gilead
and
take sweet oil, O
virgin
daughter
of
Egypt:
there
is
no
help
in
all
your medical arts;
nothing
will
make
you well.
\VS{12}Your
shame
has
come
to
the ears
of
the
nations,
and
the
earth
is
full
of
your
cry:
for
the
strong
man
is
falling against
the
strong,
they
have
come
down
together.
\VS{13}The
word
which
the
Lord
said
to
Jeremiah
the
prophet,
of
how
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
would
come
and make war
on
the
land
of
Egypt.
\VS{14}Give
the
news
in
Migdol,
make
it public
in Noph:
say,
Take
up
your positions
and
make
yourselves
ready;
for
on
every
side
of
you
the
sword
has
made destruction.
\VS{15}Why
has Apis,
your
strong
one,
gone
in flight?
he
was
not able
to keep
his
place,
because
the
Lord
was forcing
him
down
with strength.
\VS{16}...
are
stopped
in
their
going,
they
are
falling;
and
they
say
one
to
another, Let
us
get
up
and
go
back
to
our
people,
to
the
land
of
our
birth,
away
from
the cruel
sword.
\VS{17}Give
a
name
to
Pharaoh,
king
of
Egypt:
A
noise
who
has let
the
time
go
by.
\VS{18}By
my
life,
says
the
King,
whose
name
is
the
Lord
of
armies,
truly,
like
Tabor
among
the
mountains
and
like
Carmel
by
the
sea,
so
will
he
come.
\VS{19}O
daughter
living
in
Egypt,
make ready
the
vessels
of
a prisoner:
for Noph
will
become
a
waste,
it
will
be
burned
up
and
become unpeopled.
\VS{20}Egypt
is
a fair young cow;
but
a biting insect
has
come
on
her
out
of
the
north.
\VS{21}And
those
who
were
her fighters
for payment
are
like fat oxen;
for
they
are
turned
back,
they
have
gone
in
flight
together,
they
do
not
keep
their
place:
for
the
day
of
their
fate
has
come
on
them,
the
time
of
their
punishment.
\VS{22}She makes
a
sound
like
the hiss
of
a
snake
when
they
come
on
with
strength;
they
go
against
her
with
axes,
like wood-cutters.
\VS{23}They
will
be cutting
down
her
woods,
for
they
may
not
be
searched
out;
because
they
are
like
locusts,
more
than
may
be
numbered.
\VS{24}The
daughter
of
Egypt
will
be
put
to shame; she
will
be
given
up
into
the
hands
of
the
people
of
the
north.
\VS{25}The
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
See,
I
will send
punishment
on
Amon
of No
and
on
Pharaoh
and
on
those
who
put
their faith
in
him;
\VS{26}And
I
will
give
them
up
into
the
hands
of
those
who
will
take
their
lives,
and
into
the
hands
of
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
and
into
the
hands
of
his
servants:
and
later,
it
will
be peopled
as
in
the past,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{27}But
have
no
fear,
O
Jacob,
my
servant,
and
do
not
be troubled,
O
Israel:
for
see,
I
will
make
you
come
back
from
far
away,
and
your
seed
from
the
land
where
they
are
prisoners;
and
Jacob
will
come
back,
and
will
be
quiet
and
in
peace,
and
no
one
will
give
him
cause
for
fear.
\VS{28}Have
no
fear,
O
Jacob,
my
servant,
says
the
Lord;
for
I
am
with
you:
for
I
will put
an
end
to
all
the
nations
where
I
have sent
you,
but
I
will
not put
an
end
to
you
completely:
though
with wise purpose
I
will put
right
your errors,
and
will
not
let
you
go quite
without
punishment.

\par }\Chap{47}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
of
the
Lord
which
came
to
Jeremiah
the
prophet
about
the
Philistines,
before Pharaoh's
attack
on
Gaza.
\VS{2}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
See,
waters
are
coming
up
out
of
the
north,
and
will
become
an
overflowing
stream,
overflowing
the
land
and
everything
in
it,
the
town
and
those
who
are
living
in
it;
and
men
will
give
a
cry,
and
all
the
people
of
the
land
will
be
crying
out
in pain.
\VS{3}At
the
noise
of
the stamping
of
the feet
of
his war-horses,
at
the rushing
of
his carriages
and
the
thunder
of
his
wheels,
fathers
will give
no thought
to
their
children,
because
their
hands
are feeble;
\VS{4}Because
of
the
day which
is
coming
with destruction
on
all
the
Philistines, cutting
off
from
Tyre
and Zidon
the last
of
their
helpers:
for
the
Lord
will send destruction
on
the
Philistines,
the
rest
of
the sea-land
of
Caphtor.
\VS{5}The hair
is
cut
off
from
the
head
of
Gaza;
Ashkelon
has
come
to nothing;
the last
of
the Anakim
are deeply wounding themselves.
\VS{6}O
sword
of
the
Lord,
how
long
will
you
have
no
rest?
put
yourself
back
into
your cover;
be
at
peace,
be
quiet.
\VS{7}How
is
it possible
for
it
to
be
quiet, seeing
that
the
Lord
has
given
it
orders?
against
Ashkelon
and
against
the sea-land
he
has
given
it directions.

\par }\Chap{48}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Of
Moab.
The
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said: Sorrow
on
Nebo,
for
it
has
been made
waste;
Kiriathaim
has
been put
to shame
and
is
taken:
the strong place
is put
to shame
and broken
down.
\VS{2}The
praise
of
Moab
has come
to
an
end;
as
for
Heshbon,
evil
has been designed
against
her; come, let
us put
an
end
to
her
as
a
nation.
But
your mouth
will
be shut, O
Madmen;
the
sword
will go
after
you.
\VS{3}There
is
the
sound
of
crying
from
Horonaim, wasting
and
great
destruction;
\VS{4}Moab
is
broken;
her
cry
has gone out
to Zoar.
\VS{5}For
by
the
slope
of
Luhith
they
will
go
up,
weeping
all
the way;
for
on
the way
down
to
Horonaim
the
cry
of
destruction
has
come
to
their ears.
\VS{6}Go
in
flight,
get
away
with
your
lives,
and
let
your faces
be
turned
to Aroer
in
the Arabah.
\VS{7}For
because
you
have
put
your faith
in
your strong places,
you,
even
you,
will
be
taken:
and
Chemosh
will
go
out
as
a prisoner,
his
priests
and
his
rulers
together.
\VS{8}And
the attacker
will
come
against
every
town,
not
one
will
be safe;
and
the
valley
will
be
made
waste,
and
destruction
will
come
to
the lowland,
as
the
Lord
has
said.
\VS{9}Put
up
a pillar
for
Moab,
for
she
will
come
to
a complete
end:
and
her
towns
will
become
a
waste,
without
anyone
living
in
them.
\VS{10}Let
him
be
cursed
who
does
the Lord's
work half-heartedly; let
him
be
cursed
who keeps
back
his
sword
from
blood.
\VS{11}From
his earliest days,
Moab
has
been
living
in comfort;
like
wine
long stored
he
has
not
been drained
from
vessel
to
vessel,
he
has
never
gone
away
as
a prisoner:
so
his
taste
is
still
in
him,
his smell
is unchanged.
\VS{12}So truly,
the
days
are
coming,
says
the
Lord,
when
I
will
send
to
him men
who
will
have
him turned
over till
there
is no
more wine
in
his
vessels,
and
his wine-skins
will
be completely broken.
\VS{13}And
Moab
will
be
shamed
on account
of
Chemosh,
as
the children
of
Israel
were
shamed
on account
of Beth-el
their hope.
\VS{14}How
say
you,
We
are
men
of
war
and
strong fighters?
\VS{15}He
who
makes
Moab
waste
has
gone
up
against
her;
and
the best
of
her
young
men
have
gone
down
to
their death,
says
the
King,
whose
name
is
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{16}The fate
of
Moab
is
near,
and
trouble
is
coming
on
him
very
quickly.
\VS{17}All
you
who
are
round
about
him, give signs
of grief
for
him,
and
all
you
who
have
knowledge
of
his
name,
say,
How
is
the
strong
rod
broken, even
the
beautiful
branch!
\VS{18}Come
down
from
your
glory, O
people
of
Dibon,
and
take
your
seat
in
the place
of
the
waste;
for
the attacker
of
Moab
has
gone
up
against
you, sending
destruction
on
your strong places.
\VS{19}O daughter
of
Aroer,
take
your
station
by
the
way,
on
the
watch: questioning
him
who
is
in
flight,
and
her
who
has got
away safe,
say,
What
has
been
done?
\VS{20}Moab
has
been put
to shame,
she
is broken:
make loud sounds
of grief,
crying
out
for help;
give
the news
in
Arnon,
that
Moab
has
been
made
waste.
\VS{21}And punishment
has
come
on
the lowlands;
on
Holon
and
Jahzah,
and
on
Mephaath,
\VS{22}And
on
Dibon,
and
on
Nebo,
and
on
Beth-diblathaim,
\VS{23}And
on
Kiriathaim,
and
on
Beth-gamul,
and
on
Beth-meon,
\VS{24}And
on
Kerioth,
and
on
Bozrah,
and
on
all
the
towns
of
the
land
of
Moab,
far
and
near.
\VS{25}The
horn
of
Moab
is
cut
off,
and
his
arm
is
broken,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{26}Make
him full
of wine,
for
his heart
has
been
lifted
up
against
the
Lord:
and
Moab
will
be rolling
in
the food
he
was
not able
to keep
down,
and everyone
will
be making
sport
of
him.
\VS{27}For
did
you
not
make
sport
of
Israel?
was
he
taken
among
thieves?
for
whenever
you
were talking
about
him,
you
were shaking
your head over
him.
\VS{28}O
people
of
Moab,
go away
from
the
towns
and
take cover
in
the
rock;
be
like
the
dove
of
the Arabah, which
makes
her living-place
in holes.
\VS{29}We
have had word
of
the
pride
of
Moab, how
great
it
is; how
he
is lifted up
in
pride;
and
his
great
opinion
of
himself,
and
that
his
heart
is lifted up.
\VS{30}I
have
knowledge
of
his
wrath,
says
the
Lord,
that
it
is
nothing;
his high-sounding words
have
done
nothing.
\VS{31}For
this cause
I
will give
cries
of grief
for
Moab,
crying
out
for
Moab,
even
for
all
of
it;
I
will
be sorrowing
for
the
men
of
Kir-heres.
\VS{32}My
weeping
for
you, O
vine
of
Sibmah,
will
be
more
than
the
weeping
of
Jazer:
your
branches
have
gone
over
the
sea, stretching
even
to
Jazer: destruction
has
come
down
on
your
summer fruits
and
your cut grapes.
\VS{33}All
joy
is
gone;
no
longer
are
they glad
for
the
fertile
field
and
for
the
land
of
Moab;
I
have made
the
wine
come
to an end
from
the crushing vessels:
no
longer
will
the grapes
be crushed
with
the sound
of glad voices.
\VS{34}The
cry
of
Heshbon
comes
even
to
Elealeh;
to
Jahaz
their
voice
is sounding;
from
Zoar
even
to
Horonaim
and
to Eglath-shelishiyah:
for
the
waters
of
Nimrim
will
become dry.
\VS{35}And
I
will
put
an end
in
Moab,
says
the
Lord,
to
him
who
is making
offerings
in
the
high
place
and
burning perfumes
to
his
gods.
\VS{36}So
my
heart
is sounding
for
Moab
like
the sound
of pipes,
and
my
heart
is sounding
like pipes
for
the
men
of
Kir-heres:
for
the wealth
he
has got
for
himself
has come
to
an end.
\VS{37}For
everywhere
the
hair
of
the
head
and
the
hair
of
the face
is
cut
off:
on
every
hand
there
are wounds,
and haircloth
on
every
body.
\VS{38}On
all
the house-tops
of
Moab
and
in
its
streets
there
is weeping
everywhere;
for
Moab
has
been
broken
like
a
vessel
in which
there
is
no
pleasure,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{39}How
is
it broken down!
how
is Moab's
back
turned
in
shame!
so
Moab
will
be
a
cause
of
sport
and
of fear
to
everyone
round
about
him.
\VS{40}For
the
Lord
has
said,
See,
he
will come
like
an
eagle
in flight,
stretching
out
his
wings
against
Moab.
\VS{41}Kerioth
is
taken,
and
the
strong places
have
been forced,
and
the
hearts
of Moab's
men
of war
in
that
day
will
be
like
the
heart
of
a
woman
in birth-pains.
\VS{42}And
Moab
will come
to
an end
as
a
people,
because
he
has
been lifting
himself
up
against
the
Lord.
\VS{43}Fear
and death
and
the net
have come
on
you,
O
people
of
Moab,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{44}He
who
goes
in flight
from
the
fear
will
be overtaken
by death;
and
he
who
gets free
from death
will
be
taken
in
the net:
for
I
will
make
this
come
on
Moab,
even
the
year
of
their
punishment,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{45}Those
who
went
in
flight
from
the fear
are waiting under
the
shade
of
Heshbon:
for
a
fire
has
gone
out
from
Heshbon
and
a
flame
from
the house
of
Sihon,
burning
up
the pride
of
Moab
and
the
crown
of
the
head
of
the violent
ones.
\VS{46}Sorrow
is yours, O
Moab!
the
people
of
Chemosh
are overcome:
for
your
sons
have
been
taken
away
as
prisoners,
and
your
daughters
made servants.
\VS{47}But
still,
I
will let
the
fate
of
Moab
be changed
in
the
last
days,
says
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{49}{\PP \VerseOne{1}About
the
children
of
Ammon.
These
are
the words
of
the
Lord:
Has
Israel
no
sons?
has
he
no
one
to
take
the heritage?
why
then
has Milcom
taken
Gad
for
himself, putting
his
people
in
its
towns?
\VS{2}Because
of
this,
see,
the
days
are
coming
when
I
will
have
a
cry
of
war
sounded
against
Rabbah,
the town
of
the
children
of
Ammon;
it
will
become
a
waste
of broken walls,
and
her daughter-towns
will
be
burned
with
fire:
then
Israel
will
take
the heritage
of
those
who
took
his heritage,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{3}Make sounds
of grief, O
Heshbon,
for
Ai
is wasted; give loud
cries, O
daughters
of
Rabbah,
and
put haircloth round
you: give
yourselves
to weeping, running here
and there
and wounding
yourselves;
for Milcom
will
be taken prisoner
together
with
his
rulers
and
his
priests.
\VS{4}Why
are
you
lifted
up
in pride
on
account
of
your
valleys,
your
flowing
valley,
O
daughter
ever turning
away?
who puts
her faith
in
her
wealth, saying,
Who
will
come
against
me?
\VS{5}See,
I
will send
fear
on
you,
says
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies,
from
those
who
are
round
you
on
every
side;
you
will
be
forced
out,
every
man straight
before
him,
and
there
will
be
no
one
to
get
together
the
wanderers.
\VS{6}But
after these things,
I
will
let
the fate
of
the
children
of
Ammon
be changed,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{7}About
Edom.
This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said.
Is
there
no
more
wisdom
in
Teman?
have
wise suggestions
come
to
an end among
men
of good sense?
has
their
wisdom completely
gone?
\VS{8}Go
in
flight,
go
back,
take cover
in
deep places,
you
who are
living
in
Dedan;
for
I
will send
the fate
of Edom
on
him,
even
the
time
of
his
punishment.
\VS{9}If men
came
to
get
your grapes, would
they
not
let
some
be uncut
on
the vines?
if
thieves
came
by
night, would
they
not make
waste till
they
had
enough?
\VS{10}I
have
had
Esau searched
out, uncovering
his
secret
places,
so
that
he
may
not keep
himself covered:
his
seed
is wasted
and
has come
to
an end,
and
there
is
no help
from
his neighbours.
\VS{11}Put
in
my
care
your
children who
have no father,
and
I
will keep
them safe;
and let
your
widows
put
their faith
in
me.
\VS{12}For
the
Lord
has
said,
Those
for
whom
the
cup
was
not
made ready
will
certainly
be forced
to take
of
it;
and
are
you
to
go
without
punishment?
you
will
not
be
without
punishment,
but
will
certainly
be forced
to take
from
the
cup.
\VS{13}For
I
have
taken
an
oath
by myself,
says
the
Lord,
that
Bozrah
will
become
a
cause
of wonder,
a name
of
shame,
a
waste
and
a
curse;
and
all
its
towns
will
be
waste
places
for
ever.
\VS{14}Word
has
come
to
me
from
the
Lord,
and
a representative
has
been
sent
to
the
nations,
to say,
Come
together
and
go
up
against
her,
and
take
your places
for
the
fight.
\VS{15}For
see,
I
have
made
you
small
among
the
nations,
looked
down
on
by
men.
\VS{16}...
the
pride
of
your
heart
has
been
a false hope,
O
you
who
are
living
in
the cracks
of
the
rock, keeping
your
place
on
the top
of
the
hill:
even
if
you
made
your living-place
as
high
as
the
eagle,
I
would
make
you
come
down,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{17}And
Edom
will
become
a
cause
of wonder:
everyone
who goes
by
will
be overcome
with wonder,
and
make sounds
of fear
at
all
her punishments.
\VS{18}As
at
the
downfall
of
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
and
their neighbouring towns,
says
the
Lord,
no
man
will
be
living
in
it,
no
son
of
man
will
have
a resting-place
there.
\VS{19}See,
he
will
come
up
like
a
lion
from
the thick growth
of
Jordan
against
the resting-place
of Teman:
but
I
will
suddenly
make
him
go
in flight
from
her;
and
I
will
put
over
her
the man
of
my selection:
for
who
is
like
me?
and
who
will
put
forward
his cause
against
me?
and
what keeper
of
sheep
will
be able
to keep
his
place
before
me?
\VS{20}For
this cause
give ear
to
the decision
of
the
Lord
which
he
has
made
against
Edom,
and
to
his
purposes designed
against
the
people
of
Teman:
Truly,
they
will
be pulled away
by
the smallest
of
the
flock;
truly,
he
will
make
waste
their fields
with
them.
\VS{21}The
earth
is shaking
with
the
noise
of
their
fall;
their
cry
is sounding
in
the Red
Sea.
\VS{22}See,
he
will
come
up
like
an
eagle
in flight,
stretching
out
his
wings
against
Bozrah:
and
the
hearts
of Edom's
men
of war
on
that
day
will
be
like
the
heart
of
a
woman
in birth-pains.
\VS{23}About
Damascus.
Hamath
is
put
to
shame,
and
Arpad;
for
the word
of
evil
has come
to
their ears,
their
heart
in
its fear
is turned
to water,
it
will
not
be
quiet.
\VS{24}Damascus
has
become
feeble, she
is
turned
to
flight, fear
has
taken
her
in its grip: pain
and sorrows
have come
on
her,
as
on
a woman
in birth-pains.
\VS{25}How
has
the
town
of
praise
been wasted,
the place
of
joy!
\VS{26}So
her
young
men
will
be
falling
in
her
streets,
and
all
the
men
of
war
will
be cut off
in
that
day,
says
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{27}And I
will
have
a
fire lighted
on
the
wall
of
Damascus,
burning
up
the great houses
of
Ben-hadad.
\VS{28}About
Kedar
and
the
kingdoms
of
Hazor,
which
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon, overcame.
This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
Up!
go
against
Kedar,
and
make
an
attack
on
the
children
of
the
east.
\VS{29}Their
tents
and
their
flocks
they
will
take;
they
will
take
away
for
themselves
their
curtains
and
all
their
vessels
and
their
camels:
they
will
give
a
cry
to
them, Fear
on
every
side.
\VS{30}Go
in
flight, go wandering
far
off,
take cover
in
deep places,
O
people
of
Hazor,
says
the
Lord;
for
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
has
made
a
design
against
you,
he
has
a
purpose
against
you
in mind.
\VS{31}Up!
go
against
a
nation
which
is
living
in comfort
and
without fear
of danger,
says
the
Lord,
without
doors
or locks,
living
by themselves.
\VS{32}And
their
camels
will
be
taken
from
them
by force,
and
their
great
herds
will
come
into
the hands
of
their attackers:
those
who
have
the ends
of
their hair
cut
I
will send
in flight
to
all
the
winds;
and
I
will send
their fate
on
them
from
every
side,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{33}And
Hazor
will
be
a hole
for
jackals,
a
waste
for
ever:
no
one
will
be
living
in
it,
and
no
son
of
man
will
have
a resting-place
there.
\VS{34}The
word
of
the
Lord
which
came
to
Jeremiah
the
prophet
about
Elam,
when
Zedekiah
first
became
king
of
Judah,
saying,
\VS{35}This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said:
See,
I
will
have
the
bow
of
Elam,
their chief
strength,
broken.
\VS{36}And
I
will send
on
Elam
four
winds
from
the
four
quarters
of
heaven, driving
them
out
to
all
those
winds;
there
will
be
no
nation
into
which
the wanderers
from
Elam
do
not
come.
\VS{37}And
I
will
let
Elam
be broken
before
their haters,
and
before
those
who
are making designs
against
their
lives:
I
will
send
evil
on
them,
even
my
burning
wrath,
says
the
Lord;
and
I
will
send
the
sword
after
them
till
I
have
put
an
end
to
them:
\VS{38}I
will
put
the
seat
of
my power
in
Elam,
and
in
Elam
I
will
put
an end
to
kings
and
rulers,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{39}But
it
will
come
about
that,
in
the
last
days,
I
will
let
the
fate
of
Elam
be changed,
says
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{50}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
the
Lord
said
about
Babylon,
about
the
land
of
the Chaldaeans,
by
Jeremiah
the
prophet.
\VS{2}Give
it
out among
the
nations,
make
it public,
and
let
the flag
be
lifted
up;
give
the
word
and
keep
nothing back;
say,
Babylon
is
taken,
Bel
is
put
to shame, Merodach
is broken,
her
images
are
put
to shame,
her gods
are broken.
\VS{3}For
out
of
the
north
a
nation
is
coming
up
against
her,
which
will
make
her
land
waste
and unpeopled:
they
are
in flight,
man
and
beast
are
gone.
\VS{4}In
those
days
and
in
that
time,
says
the
Lord,
the
children
of
Israel
will
come,
they
and
the
children
of
Judah
together;
they
will
go
on
their
way
weeping
and making prayer
to
the
Lord
their
God.
\VS{5}They
will
be questioning
about
the
way
to
Zion,
with
their
faces
turned
in
its
direction, saying,
Come,
and
be united
to
the
Lord
in
an
eternal
agreement which
will
be kept
in
mind
for
ever.
\VS{6}My
people
have
been
wandering
sheep:
their keepers
have
made
them
go
out
of
the right
way,
turning
them loose
on
the
mountains:
they
have
gone
from
mountain
to
hill,
having
no memory
of
their resting-place.
\VS{7}They
have
been attacked
by
all
those
who
came across
them:
and
their attackers
said,
We
are doing
no
wrong,
because
they
have
done evil
against
the
Lord
in
whom
is
righteousness,
against
the
Lord,
the hope
of
their
fathers.
\VS{8}Go
in flight
out
of
Babylon,
go
out
of
the
land
of
the Chaldaeans,
and
be
like he-goats
before
the
flocks.
\VS{9}For
see,
I
am moving
and sending
up
against
Babylon
a band
of
great
nations
from
the
north
country:
and
they
will
put
their
armies
in position
against
her;
and
from
there
she
will
be
taken:
their
arrows
will
be
like
those
of
an expert
man
of war;
not
one
will
come
back
without getting
its mark.
\VS{10}And
the wealth
of Chaldaea
will
come
into
the hands
of
her attackers:
all
those
who
take
her wealth
will
have
enough,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{11}Because
you
are
glad,
because
you
are lifted up
with pride,
you wasters
of
my
heritage,
because
you
are playing
like
a young cow put out
to
grass,
and
you
make
a noise
like
strong horses;
\VS{12}Your
mother
will
be
put
to
shame;
she
who
gave
you
birth
will
be
looked down
on:
see,
she
will
be
the
last
of
the
nations,
a waste place,
a
dry
and unwatered
land.
\VS{13}Because
of
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
no
one
will
be
living
in
it,
and
it
will
be quite unpeopled:
everyone
who goes
by
Babylon
will
be overcome
with wonder,
and
make sounds
of fear
at
all
her punishments.
\VS{14}Put
your armies
in position
against
Babylon
on
every
side,
all
you
bowmen;
let
loose
your
arrows
at
her,
not keeping
any
back:
for
she
has
done evil
against
the
Lord.
\VS{15}Give
a
loud
cry
against
her
on
every
side;
she
has
given
herself
up,
her supports
are overturned,
her
walls
are
broken
down:
for
it
is
the payment
taken
by
the
Lord;
give
her payment;
as
she
has
done,
so
do
to
her.
\VS{16}Let
the planter
of
seed
be
cut
off
from
Babylon,
and
everyone using
the curved blade
at
the
time
of
the grain-cutting:
for fear
of
the cruel
sword,
everyone
will
be
turned
to
his
people,
everyone
will go
in
flight
to
his
land.
\VS{17}Israel
is
a wandering
sheep;
the
lions
have been driving
him
away:
first
he
was attacked
by
the
king
of
Assyria,
and
now
his bones
have been broken
by
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon.
\VS{18}So
this
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
See,
I
will send
punishment
on
the
king
of
Babylon
and
on
his
land,
as
I
have given
punishment
to
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{19}And
I
will
make
Israel
come
back
to
his resting-place,
and
he
will
get
his food
on
Carmel
and
Bashan,
and
have
his
desire
in
full measure
on
the
hills
of
Ephraim
and
in
Gilead.
\VS{20}In
those
days
and
in
that
time,
says
the
Lord,
when
the evil-doing
of
Israel
is
looked
for,
there
will
be
nothing;
and
in
Judah
no
sins
will
be seen:
for
I
will
have forgiveness
for
those
whom
I
will keep safe.
\VS{21}Go
up
against
the
land
of
Merathaim,
even
against
it,
and
against
the
people
of
Pekod;
put
them
to death
and
send destruction
after
them,
says
the
Lord,
and
do
everything
I
have
given
you
orders
to
do.
\VS{22}There
is
a
sound
of
war
in
the
land
and
of
great
destruction.
\VS{23}How
is
the
hammer
of
all
the
earth
cut
in two
and
broken!
how
has
Babylon
become
a
waste
among
the
nations!
\VS{24}I
have
put
a net
for
you,
and
you
have
been
taken,
O
Babylon,
without
your
knowledge:
you
have
been uncovered
and
taken
because
you
were fighting
against
the
Lord.
\VS{25}From
his store-house
the
Lord
has
taken
the
instruments
of
his
wrath:
for
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies,
has
a
work
to
do
in
the
land
of
the Chaldaeans.
\VS{26}Come
up
against
her
one
and all,
let
her store-houses
be broken
open: make
her
into
a mass
of stones,
give
her
to
the curse, till
there
is
nothing
of
her
to
be seen.
\VS{27}Put
all
her
oxen
to
the sword;
let
them
go
down
to death:
sorrow
is theirs,
for
their
day
has
come,
the
time
of
their
punishment.
\VS{28}The
voice
of
those
who
are
in
flight,
who
have got
away safe
from
the
land
of
Babylon,
to
give
news
in
Zion
of punishment
from
the
Lord
our
God,
even payment
for
his
Temple.
\VS{29}Send
for
the
archers
to
come
together
against
Babylon,
all
the
bowmen; put
up
your tents
against
her
on
every
side;
let
no
one get
away:
give
her
the
reward
of
her
work;
as
she
has
done,
so
do
to
her:
for
she
has
been uplifted
in pride
against
the
Lord,
against
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
\VS{30}For
this cause
her
young
men
will
be
falling
in
her
streets,
and
all
her
men
of
war
will
be cut off
in
that
day,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{31}See,
I
am
against
you,
O
pride,
says
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies,
for
your
day
has
come,
the
time
when
I
will send
punishment
on
you.
\VS{32}And
pride
will
go
with uncertain steps
and
have
a
fall,
and
there
will
be
no
one
to
come
to
his
help:
and
I
will put
a
fire
in
his
towns,
burning
up
everything
round
about
him.
\VS{33}This
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said:
The
children
of
Israel
and
the
children
of
Judah
are
crushed
down
together:
all
those
who
took
them
prisoner
keep
them
in
a tight grip;
they
will
not
let
them
go.
\VS{34}Their saviour
is
strong;
the
Lord
of
armies
is
his
name:
he
will certainly
take
up
their
cause,
so
that
he
may give
rest
to
the
earth
and trouble
to
the
people
of
Babylon.
\VS{35}A
sword
is
on
the Chaldaeans,
says
the
Lord,
and
on
the
people
of
Babylon,
and
on
her
rulers
and
on
her
wise
men.
\VS{36}A
sword
is
on
the
men
of pride,
and
they
will
become
foolish:
a
sword
is
on
her
men
of
war,
and
they
will
be broken.
\VS{37}A
sword
is
on
all
the mixed
people
in
her,
and
they
will
become
like
women:
a
sword
is
on
her store-houses,
and
they
will
be
taken
by
her attackers.
\VS{38}A sword
is
on
her
waters, drying
them
up;
for
it
is
a
land
of
images,
and
their minds
are fixed
on false gods.
\VS{39}For
this
reason
the beasts
of
the waste land
with
the
wolves
will make
their holes
there
and
the
ostriches
will
be
living
in
it:
never
again
will men
be
living
there,
it
will
be unpeopled
from
generation
to
generation.
\VS{40}As
when
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
and
their neighbouring towns
were overturned
by
God,
says
the
Lord,
so
no
man
will
be
living
in
it,
and
no
son
of
man
will
have
a resting-place
there.
\VS{41}See,
a
people
is
coming
from
the
north;
a
great
nation
and
a number
of
kings
will
be
put
in motion
from
the inmost
parts
of
the
earth.
\VS{42}Bows
and spears
are
in
their hands;
they
are
cruel
and
have
no
mercy;
their
voice
is
like
the
thunder
of
the
sea,
and
they go
on
horses;
everyone
in
his
place
like
men
going
to
the
fight,
against
you, O
daughter
of
Babylon.
\VS{43}The
king
of
Babylon
has
had
news
of
them,
and
his
hands
have
become
feeble:
trouble
has come
on
him
and
pain like
the
pain
of
a woman
in
childbirth.
\VS{44}See,
he
will
come
up
like
a
lion
from
the thick growth
of
Jordan
against
the resting-place
of Teman:
but
I
will
suddenly
make
them
go
in flight
from
her;
and
I
will
put
over
her
the
man
of
my selection:
for
who
is
like
me?
and
who
will
put
forward
his cause
against
me?
and
what keeper
of
sheep
will keep
his
place
before
me?
\VS{45}So
give ear
to
the decision
of
the
Lord
which
he
has
made
against
Babylon,
and
to
his
purposes designed
against
the
land
of
the Chaldaeans;
Truly,
they
will
be pulled away
by
the smallest
of
the
flock;
truly,
he
will
make
waste
their fields
with
them.
\VS{46}At
the
cry,
Babylon
is
taken!
the
earth
is shaking,
and
the
cry comes
to
the ears
of
the
nations.

\par }\Chap{51}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
Lord
has
said:
See,
I
will
make
a
wind
of
destruction
come
up
against
Babylon
and
against
those
who
are
living
in Chaldaea;
\VS{2}And
I
will
send men
to
Babylon
to
make
her clean
and
get
her
land cleared:
for
in
the
day
of
trouble
they
will
put
up
their tents
against
her
on
every
side.
\VS{3}Against
her
the
bow
of
the archer
is
bent,
and
he puts
on
his coat
of metal:
have
no
mercy
on
her
young
men,
give
all
her
army
up
to
the curse.
\VS{4}And
the
dead
will
be stretched
out
in
the
land
of
the Chaldaeans,
and
the
wounded
in her
streets.
\VS{5}For
Israel
has
not
been
given up,
or
Judah,
by
his
God,
by
the
Lord
of
armies;
for
their
land
is
full
of
sin against
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
\VS{6}Go
in
flight
out
of
Babylon,
so
that
every
man
may keep
his
life;
do
not
be cut
off
in
her evil-doing:
for
it
is
the
time
of
the Lord's
punishment;
he
will give
her
her
reward.
\VS{7}Babylon
has
been
a
gold
cup
in
the
hand
of
the
Lord,
which
has
made
all
the
earth overcome
with
wine:
the
nations
have taken
of
her
wine,
and
for
this cause
the
nations
have gone
off
their heads.
\VS{8}Sudden
is
the
downfall
of
Babylon
and
her destruction:
make cries
of grief
for
her;
take sweet oil
for
her
pain,
if
it
is possible
for
her
to
be
made well.
\VS{9}We
would
have made
Babylon well,
but
she
is
not made well:
give
her
up,
and
let
us go
everyone
to
his
country:
for
her punishment
is stretching
up
to
heaven,
and
lifted
up
even
to
the
skies.
\VS{10}The
Lord
has
made
clear
our
righteousness:
come,
and let
us
give
an
account
in
Zion
of
the
work
of
the
Lord
our
God.
\VS{11}Make bright
the
arrows; take
up
the body-covers:
the
Lord
has
been moving
the
spirit
of
the
king
of
the
Medes;
because
his design
against
Babylon
is
its
destruction:
for
it
is
the punishment
from
the
Lord,
the payment
for
his
Temple.
\VS{12}Let
the flag
be
lifted
up
against
the
walls
of
Babylon,
make
the
watch
strong,
put
the
watchmen
in
their places,
make
ready
a surprise
attack:
for
it
is
the Lord's
purpose,
and
he
has
done
what
he
said
about
the
people
of
Babylon.
\VS{13}O
you whose living-place
is
by
the wide
waters, whose
stores
are
great,
your
end
is
come,
your evil
profit
is ended.
\VS{14}The
Lord
of
armies
has taken
an
oath
by
himself, saying,
Truly,
I
will
make
you
full
with
men
as
with
locusts,
and
their voices
will
be loud
against
you.
\VS{15}He
has
made
the
earth
by
his
power,
he
has
made
the
world
strong
in
its
place
by
his
wisdom,
and
by
his
wise design
the
heavens
have
been
stretched
out:
\VS{16}At
the
sound
of
his
voice
there
is
a massing
of
the
waters
in
the
heavens,
and
he
makes
the mists
go
up
from
the ends
of
the
earth;
he
makes
the thunder-flames
for
the
rain
and
sends
out
the
wind
from
his store-houses.
\VS{17}Then
every
man
becomes
like
a beast
without
knowledge;
every gold-worker
is put
to shame
by
the
image
he
has
made:
for
his metal
image
is
deceit,
and
there
is
no
breath
in
them.
\VS{18}They
are
nothing,
a
work
of error:
in
the
time
of
their
punishment,
destruction
will overtake
them.
\VS{19}The
heritage
of
Jacob
is
not
like
these;
for
the
maker
of
all
things
is
his
heritage:
the
Lord
of
armies
is
his
name.
\VS{20}You
are
my fighting axe
and
my instrument
of
war:
with
you
the
nations
will
be broken;
with
you
kingdoms
will
be broken;
\VS{21}With you
the
horse
and
the
horseman
will be broken;
with you
the war-carriage
and he who goes
in
it
will be broken;
\VS{22}With
you
man
and
woman
will
be broken;
with
you
the
old
man
and
the
boy
will
be broken;
with
you
the
young
man
and
the
virgin
will
be broken;
\VS{23}With you the keeper
of sheep with his
flock
will be broken,
and with you the
farmer
and his oxen
will be broken,
and with you
captains
and
rulers
will be broken.
\VS{24}And
I
will give
to
Babylon,
and
to
all
the
people
of Chaldaea,
their
reward
for
all
the
evil
they
have
done
in
Zion
before
your
eyes,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{25}See,
I
am
against
you,
says
the
Lord,
O
mountain
of
destruction, causing
the
destruction
of
all
the
earth:
and
my
hand
will
be
stretched
out
on
you, rolling
you
down
from
the
rocks,
and
making
you
a
burned
mountain.
\VS{26}And
they
will
not
take
from
you
a
stone
for
the angle
of
a wall
or
the base
of
a building;
but
you
will
be
a
waste
place
for
ever,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{27}Let
a flag
be
lifted
up
in
the
land,
let
the
horn
be
sounded
among
the
nations,
make
the
nations ready
against
her;
get
the
kingdoms
of
Ararat,
Minni,
and
Ashkenaz
together
against
her,
make ready
a scribe
against
her;
let
the
horses
come
up
against
her
like massed
locusts.
\VS{28}Make
the
nations ready
for war
against
her,
the
king
of
the
Medes
and
his
rulers
and
all
his
captains,
and
all
the
land
under
his
rule.
\VS{29}And
the
land
is shaking
and
in pain:
for
the
purposes
of
the
Lord
are fixed,
to
make
the
land
of
Babylon
an unpeopled
waste.
\VS{30}Babylon's
men
of war
have kept
back
from
the
fight, waiting
in
their
strong
places;
their
strength
has given way, they
have
become
like
women:
her houses
have
been put
on
fire,
her locks
are
broken.
\VS{31}One man,
running,
will
give
word
to
another,
and
one
who goes
with news
will
be handing
it
on
to
another,
to
give
word
to
the
king
of
Babylon
that
his
town
has been
taken
from every quarter:
\VS{32}And
the ways across
the river
have been
taken,
and
the water-holes ...
burned
with
fire,
and
the
men
of
war
are
in
the grip
of fear.
\VS{33}For these
are
the words
of
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel:
The
daughter
of
Babylon
is
like
a grain-floor
when
it
is
stamped
down;
before
long,
the
time
of
her grain-cutting
will
come.
\VS{34}Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
has
made
a meal
of
me, violently crushing
me,
he
has
made
me
a
vessel
with nothing
in
it,
he
has taken
me
in
his mouth like
a
dragon,
he
has
made
his
stomach
full
with
my delicate flesh, crushing
me
with
his teeth.
\VS{35}May
the
violent things done
to
me,
and
my
downfall, come
on
Babylon,
the
daughter
of
Zion
will
say;
and, May
my
blood
be
on
the
people
of Chaldaea,
Jerusalem
will
say.
\VS{36}For
this
reason
the
Lord
has
said:
See,
I
will give support
to
your
cause,
and
take payment
for
what
you
have undergone;
I
will
make
her
sea
dry,
and
her
fountain without water.
\VS{37}And
Babylon
will
become
a mass
of broken walls,
a hole
for
jackals,
a
cause
of wonder
and surprise,
without
a
living
man
in
it.
\VS{38}They will
be crying
out
together
like
lions, their voices will
be
like
the voices of
young
lions.
\VS{39}When
they
are heated,
I
will
make
a
feast
for
them,
and overcome
them
with wine,
so
that
they
may
become unconscious, sleeping
an
eternal
sleep
without awaking,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{40}I
will
make
them
go
down
to death
like
lambs,
like he-goats
together.
\VS{41}How
is
Babylon
taken!
and
the
praise
of
all
the
earth surprised!
how
has
Babylon
become
a
cause
of wonder
among
the
nations!
\VS{42}The
sea
has
come
up
over
Babylon; she
is
covered
with
the mass
of
its
waves.
\VS{43}Her
towns
have
become
a
waste,
a
dry
and unwatered
land,
where
no
man
has
his living-place
and
no
son
of
man goes
by.
\VS{44}And
I
will
send
punishment
on
Bel
in
Babylon,
and
take
out
of
his
mouth
what
went
into
it;
no
longer
will
the
nations
be
flowing
together
to
him:
truly,
the
wall
of
Babylon
will
come
down.
\VS{45}My
people,
go
out
from
her,
and
let
every
man
get
away safe
from
the
burning
wrath
of
the
Lord.
\VS{46}So
that
your
hearts
may
not become feeble
and full
of
fear
because
of
the
news which
will
go
about
in
the
land;
for
a story
will
go
about
one
year,
and
after
that
in
another
year
another story,
and
violent
acts
in
the
land,
ruler
against
ruler.
\VS{47}For
this cause, truly,
the
days
are
coming
when
I
will send
punishment
on
the
images
of
Babylon,
and
all
her
land
will
be
shamed,
and
her
dead
will
be
falling
down
in
her.
\VS{48}And
the
heaven
and
the
earth
and
everything
in
them,
will
make
a song
of
joy
over
Babylon:
for
those
who
make
her
waste
will
come
from
the
north,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{49}As
Babylon
had
the
dead
of
Israel put
to
the sword,
so
in
Babylon
the
dead
of
all
the
land
will
be stretched
out.
\VS{50}You
who
have
got
away safe
from
the
sword,
go, waiting
for
nothing;
have
the
Lord
in memory
when
you
are
far
away,
and
keep
Jerusalem
in
mind.
\VS{51}We
are
shamed
because bitter words
have
come
to
our ears;
our
faces
are
covered
with
shame:
for men
from
strange lands
have
come
into
the
holy
places
of
the Lord's
house.
\VS{52}For
this
reason,
see,
the
days
are
coming,
says
the
Lord,
when
I
will send
punishment
on
her
images;
and
through
all
her
land
the
wounded
will
be crying
out
in pain.
\VS{53}Even
if
Babylon
was
lifted
up
to
heaven,
even
if
she
had
the
high
places
of
her
strength shut
in
with walls, still
I
would
send
against
her
those
who
will
make
her
waste,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{54}There
is
the
sound
of
a
cry
from
Babylon,
and
of
a
great
destruction
from
the
land
of
the Chaldaeans:
\VS{55}For
the
Lord
is
making
Babylon
waste,
and
putting
an end
to
the
great
voice coming
out
of
her;
and
her
waves
are thundering
like
great
waters,
their
voice
is sounding
loud:
\VS{56}For
the waster
has
come
on
her,
even
on
Babylon,
and
her
men
of war
are
taken,
their
bows
are broken:
for
the
Lord
is
a rewarding
God,
and
he
will
certainly
give payment.
\VS{57}And
I
will
make
her
chiefs
and
her
wise
men,
her
rulers
and
her
captains
and
her
men
of
war, overcome
with wine;
their
sleep
will
be
an
eternal
sleep
without awaking,
says
the
King;
the
Lord
of
armies
is
his
name.
\VS{58}The
Lord
of
armies
has
said:
The
wide
walls
of
Babylon
will
be
completely uncovered
and
her
high doorways
will
be
burned
with
fire;
so
peoples keep
on working
for nothing,
and
the weariness
of
nations comes
to
an end
in
the smoke.
\VS{59}The
order
which
Jeremiah
the
prophet
gave
to
Seraiah,
the
son
of
Neriah,
the
son
of
Mahseiah,
when
he went
with
Zedekiah,
the
king
of
Judah,
to
Babylon
in
the
fourth
year
of
his
rule. Now
Seraiah
was
the
chief controller
of
the house.
\VS{60}And
Jeremiah
put
in
a
book
all
the
evil
which
was
to
come
on
Babylon.
\VS{61}And
Jeremiah
said
to
Seraiah,
When
you
come
to
Babylon,
see
that
you
give
them
all
these
words;
\VS{62}And
after reading
them,
say,
O
Lord,
you
have
said
about
this
place
that
it
is
to
be
cut
off,
so
that
no
one
will
be
living
in
it,
not
a
man
or
a
beast,
but
it
will
be unpeopled
for
ever.
\VS{63}And
it
will
be
that,
when
you
have
come
to
an
end
of
reading
this
book,
you
are
to
have
a
stone fixed
to
it,
and
have
it
dropped
into
the
Euphrates:
\VS{64}And
you
are
to
say,
So
Babylon
will
go
down,
never
to
be
lifted
up
again,
because
of
the
evil
which
I
will send
on
her:
and weariness
will overcome
them.
So
far,
these
are
the
words
of
Jeremiah.

\par }\Chap{52}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Zedekiah
was twenty-one
years
old
when
he
became
king;
he
was
king
for
eleven
years
in
Jerusalem:
and
his mother's
name
was
Hamutal,
the
daughter
of
Jeremiah
of
Libnah.
\VS{2}And
he
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
as
Jehoiakim
had
done.
\VS{3}And
because
of
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
this
came
about
in
Jerusalem
and
Judah,
till
he
had sent
them
away
from
before
him:
and
Zedekiah
took
up arms
against
the
king
of
Babylon.
\VS{4}And
in
the
ninth
year
of
his
rule,
on
the
tenth
day
of
the
tenth
month,
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
came
against
Jerusalem
with
all
his
army
and
took
up
his position
before
it,
building earthworks
all
round
it.
\VS{5}So
the
town
was shut
in
by
their forces
till
the
eleventh
year
of
King
Zedekiah.
\VS{6}In
the
fourth
month,
on
the
ninth
day
of
the
month,
the store
of
food
in
the
town
was almost
gone,
so
that
there
was
no
food
for
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{7}Then
an opening
was
made
in
the
wall
of
the
town,
and
all
the
men
of
war
went
in
flight
out
of
the
town
by
night
through
the doorway
between
the
two
walls
which
was
by
the king's
garden; (now
the Chaldaeans
were stationed
round
the
town:)
and
they
went
by
the
way
of
the
Arabah.
\VS{8}And
the Chaldaean
army
went
after
King
Zedekiah
and
overtook
him
on
the
other
side
of
Jericho,
and
all
his
army
went
in
flight
from
him
in
every direction.
\VS{9}Then
they
made
the
king
a prisoner
and
took
him
up
to
the
king
of
Babylon
to
Riblah
in
the
land
of
Hamath
to
be
judged.
\VS{10}And
the
king
of
Babylon put
the
sons
of
Zedekiah
to death
before
his
eyes:
and
he put
to death
all
the
rulers
of
Judah
in
Riblah.
\VS{11}And
he
put
out Zedekiah's
eyes;
and
the
king
of
Babylon, chaining
him
in iron bands,
took
him
to
Babylon,
and
put
him
in
prison
till
the
day
of
his
death.
\VS{12}Now
in
the
fifth
month,
on
the
tenth
day
of
the
month,
in
the nineteenth
year
of
King
Nebuchadrezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
Nebuzaradan,
the
captain
of
the armed men,
a servant
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
came
into
Jerusalem.
\VS{13}And
he
had
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
the king's
house
and
all
the
houses
of
Jerusalem,
even
every
great
house,
burned
with
fire:
\VS{14}And
the
walls
round
Jerusalem
were
broken
down
by
the Chaldaean
army
which
was
with
the
captain.
\VS{15}Then
Nebuzaradan,
the
captain
of
the armed
men,
took
away
as prisoners
the
rest
of
the
people
who
were still
in
the
town,
and
those
who
had given themselves
up
to
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
the
rest
of
the workmen.
\VS{16}But
Nebuzaradan,
the
captain
of
the armed men, let
the poorest
of
the
land go
on living
there,
to take care
of
the vines
and
the fields.
\VS{17}And
the
brass
pillars
which
were
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
the wheeled bases
and
the great
brass water-vessel
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
were
broken
up
by
the Chaldaeans,
who
took
all
the
brass
away
to
Babylon.
\VS{18}And
the
pots
and
the spades
and
the scissors
for
the lights
and
the
spoons,
and
all
the
brass
vessels
used
in
the Lord's house,
they
took
away.
\VS{19}And
the cups
and
the fire-trays
and
the
basins
and
the
pots
and
the supports
for
the lights
and
the
spoons
and
the wide
basins;
the
gold
of
the
gold vessels,
and
the
silver
of
the
silver vessels,
the
captain
of
the armed
men
took
away.
\VS{20}The
two
pillars,
the great water-vessel,
and
the
twelve
brass
oxen
which
were
under
it,
and
the ten wheeled bases,
which
King
Solomon
had
made
for
the
house
of
the
Lord:
the
brass
of
all
these
vessels
was
without
weight.
\VS{21}And
as
for
the
pillars,
one
pillar
was
eighteen
cubits
high,
and
twelve
cubits
measured
all
round,
and
it
was
as
thick
as
a man's hand:
it
was
hollow.
\VS{22}And
there
was
a
crown
of
brass
on
it:
the
crown
was
five
cubits
high, circled
with
a
network
and apples
all
of
brass;
and
the
second
pillar
had
the
same.
\VS{23}There
were
ninety-six apples
on
the
outside;
the number
of apples
all
round
the
network
was
a
hundred.
\VS{24}And
the
captain
of
the armed
men
took
Seraiah,
the
chief
priest,
and
Zephaniah,
the
second
priest,
and
the
three door-keepers;
\VS{25}And
from
the
town
he
took
the unsexed servant
who
was
over
the
men
of
war,
and
seven
of
the king's
near friends
who
were
in
the
town,
and
the
scribe
of
the
captain
of
the
army,
who
was responsible
for getting
the
people
of
the
land
together
in
military order,
and
sixty
men
of
the
people
of
the
land
who
were
in
the
town.
\VS{26}These
Nebuzaradan,
the
captain
of
the armed
men,
took
with
him
to
the
king
of
Babylon
at
Riblah.
\VS{27}And
the
king
of
Babylon
put
them
to
death
at
Riblah
in
the
land
of
Hamath.
So
Judah
was
taken prisoner
away
from
his
land.
\VS{28}These
are
the
people
whom
Nebuchadrezzar took
away prisoner:
in
the
seventh
year,
three
thousand
and twenty-three
Jews:
\VS{29}And
in
the
eighteenth
year
of
Nebuchadrezzar
he
took away
as prisoners
from
Jerusalem
eight
hundred
and thirty-two
persons:
\VS{30}In
the
twenty-third
year
of
Nebuchadrezzar,
Nebuzaradan,
the
captain
of
the armed
men, took
away
as prisoners
seven
hundred
and
forty-five
of
the
Jews:
all
the
persons
were
four
thousand
and
six
hundred.
\VS{31}And
in
the thirty-seventh
year
after
Jehoiachin,
king
of
Judah,
had
been
taken prisoner,
in
the twelfth
month,
on
the twenty-fifth
day
of
the
month,
Evil-merodach,
king
of
Babylon,
in
the
first
year
after
he
became
king,
took
Jehoiachin,
king
of
Judah,
out
of
prison.
\VS{32}And
he
said
kind words
to
him
and
put
his
seat
higher
than
the seats
of
the other
kings
who
were
with
him
in
Babylon.
\VS{33}And
his
prison
clothing
was changed,
and
he
was
a
guest
at
the king's
table
every
day
for
the rest
of
his
life.
\VS{34}And
for
his food,
the
king
gave
him
a
regular amount
every
day
till
the
day
of
his
death,
for
the rest
of
his
life.
\par }