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{\MTB The Book of
\par }{\MT Jeremiah

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
words
of Jeremias
the
son
of Helcias,
of
the
priests
that
were
in
Anathoth,
in
the
land
of
Benjamin.
\VS{2}The
word
of
the
Lord
which
came
to
him
in
the
days
of Josias
the
son
of
Amon
king
of Juda,
in
the thirteenth
year
of
his
reign.
\VS{3}And which
came
to
him
in
the
days
of Joakim
the
son
of Josias
king
of Juda, unto
the
end
of
the
eleventh
year
of Sedecias
the
son
of Josias
king
of Juda,
even unto
the carrying
away
of
Jerusalem
captive,
in
the
fifth
month.
\VS{4}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me,
saying:
\VS{5}Before
I
formed thee
in
the bowels
of thy
mother,
I
knew thee:
and
before thou camest
forth
out
of
the
womb,
I
sanctified thee,
and
made thee
a
prophet unto
the
nations.
\VS{6}And
I
said:
Ah,
ah,
ah,
Lord
God:
behold,
I
cannot
speak,
for
I
am
a
child.
\VS{7}And
the
Lord
said
to
me:
Say
not:
I
am
a
child:
for thou shalt
go
to
all
that
I
shall
send thee:
and
whatsoever
I
shall
command thee, thou shalt
speak.
\VS{8}Be
not
afraid
at
their
presence:
for
I
am
with thee
to
deliver thee, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{9}And
the
Lord
put
forth
his
hand,
and
touched
my
mouth:
and
the
Lord
said
to
me:
Behold
I
have
given
my
words
in thy
mouth:
\VS{10}Lo,
I
have
set thee
this
day
over
the
nations,
and
over
the
kingdoms,
to
root
up,
and
pull
down,
and
to waste,
and
to
destroy,
and
to
build,
and
to
plant.
\VS{11}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me,
saying:
What seest thou, Jeremias?
And
I
said:
I
see
a
rod watching.
\VS{12}And
the
Lord
said
to
me: Thou hast
seen
well:
for
I
will
watch
over
my
word
to
perform
it.
\VS{13}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me
a
second
time,
saying:
What seest thou?
I
see
a
boiling caldron,
and
the
face thereof
from
the
face
of
the
north.
\VS{14}And
the
Lord
said
to
me:
from
the
north
shall
an
evil break forth
upon
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
land.
\VS{15}For
behold
I
will
call
together
all
the
families
of
the
kingdoms
of
the
north: saith
the
Lord:
and
they
shall
come,
and
shall
set
every
one
his
throne
in
the
entrance
of
the
gates
of
Jerusalem,
and
upon
all
the
walls thereof
round
about,
and
upon
all
the
cities
of Juda,
\VS{16}And
I
will
pronounce
my judgements
against
them, touching
all
their
wickedness,
who
have forsaken
me,
and
have sacrificed
to strange
gods,
and
have adored
the
work
of
their own
hands.
\VS{17}Thou
therefore
gird
up thy
loins,
and
arise,
and
speak
to
them
all
that
I
command thee.
Be
not afraid
at
their
presence:
for
I
will
make thee
not
to
fear
their
countenance.
\VS{18}For
behold
I
have
made thee
this
day
a
fortified
city,
and
a
pillar
of
iron,
and
a
wall
of
brass,
over
all
the
land,
to
the
kings
of Juda,
to
the
princes thereof,
and
to
the
priests,
and
to
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{19}And
they
shall
fight
against thee,
and
shall
not
prevail:
for
I
am
with thee, saith
the
Lord,
to
deliver thee.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me,
saying:
\VS{2}Go,
and
cry
in
the
ears
of
Jerusalem,
saying:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
I
have
remembered thee, pitying thy soul, pitying thy
youth,
and
the
love
of thy espousals,
when thou followedst
me
in
the
desert,
in
a
land
that
is
not
sown.
\VS{3}Israel
is
holy
to
the
Lord,
the
first
fruits
of
his
increase:
all
they
that
devour
him offend: evils
shall
come
upon
them, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{4}Hear ye
the
word
of
the
Lord,
O
house
of
Jacob,
and
all ye
families
of
the
house
of
Israel.
\VS{5}Thus saith
the
Lord:
What
iniquity
have
your
fathers
found
in
me,
that
they
are
gone
far
from
me,
and
have walked
after
vanity,
and
are become
vain?
\VS{6}And
they
have
not
said:
Where
is
the
Lord,
that
made
us
come
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt?
that led
us
through
the
desert,
through
a
land
uninhabited
and unpassable,
through
a
land
of
drought,
and
the image
of
death,
through
a
land wherein
no
man walked,
nor
any
man
dwelt?
\VS{7}And
I
brought
you
into
the
land
of Carmel,
to
eat
the
fruit thereof,
and
the
best
things thereof:
and
when ye
entered
in,
you
defiled
my
land,
and
made
my
inheritance
an
abomination.
\VS{8}The
priests
did
not
say:
Where
is
the
Lord?
and
they
that held
the
law
knew
me
not,
and
the pastors
transgressed
against
me:
and
the
prophets
prophesied
in
Baal,
and
followed idols.
\VS{9}Therefore
will
I
yet
contend
in judgement
with
you, saith
the
Lord,
and
I
will
plead
with
your
children.
\VS{10}Pass
over
to
the
isles
of Cethim,
and
see:
and
send
into Cedar,
and
consider
diligently:
and
see
if
there hath
been
done
any
thing
like
this.
\VS{11}If
a
nation hath
changed
their
gods,
and
indeed
they
are
not
gods:
but
my
people
have
changed
their
glory
into
an idol.
\VS{12}Be
astonished,
O ye
heavens,
at
this,
and ye gates thereof,
be
very
desolate, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{13}For
my
people
have
done
two evils.
They
have forsaken
me,
the
fountain
of
living
water,
and
have digged
to
themselves
cisterns,
broken
cisterns,
that
can
hold
no
water.
\VS{14}Is
Israel
a bondman,
or
a homeborn
slave?
why
then
is
he
become
prey?
\VS{15}The
lions
have
roared
upon
him,
and
have
made
a
noise,
they
have
made
his
land
a wilderness:
his
cities
are burnt
down
and
there
is none
to
dwell
in
them.
\VS{16}The
children
also
of
Memphis,
and
of Taphnes
have deflowered thee,
even
to
the
crown
of
the
head.
\VS{17}Hath
not
this
been
done
to thee,
because thou hast forsaken
the
Lord thy
God
at
that
time,
when
he led thee
by
the
way?
\VS{18}And
now
what hast thou
to
do
in
the
way
of
Egypt,
to
drink
the troubled
water?
And
what hast thou
to
do
with
the
way
of
the Assyrians,
to
drink
the
water
of
the
river?
\VS{19}Thy own
wickedness
shall
reprove thee,
and thy
apostasy
shall
rebuke thee.
Know thou,
and
see
that
it
is
an
evil
and
a
bitter
thing
for thee,
to
have
left
the
Lord thy
God,
and
that
my fear
is
not
with thee, saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
hosts.
\VS{20}Of
old
time thou hast
broken
my
yoke, thou hast
burst
my
bands,
and thou saidst:
I
will
not
serve.
For
on
every
high
hill,
and
under
every
green
tree thou didst
prostitute thyself.
\VS{21}Yet
I
planted thee
a chosen vineyard,
all
true
seed:
how
then art thou
turned unto
me
into
that which
is good
for
nothing, O strange vineyard?
\VS{22}Though thou
wash thyself
with nitre,
and
multiply
to thyself
the herb borith, thou art stained
in thy
iniquity
before
me, saith
the
Lord
God.
\VS{23}How canst thou
say:
I
am
not polluted,
and
I
have
not
walked
after Baalim?
see thy
ways
in
the
valley,
know
what thou hast
done:
as
a
swift runner
pursuing
his
course.
\VS{24}A
wild ass
accustomed
to
the
wilderness
in
the
desire
of
his
heart, snuffed
up
the
wind
of
his love:
none
shall
turn
her
away:
all
that
seek
her
shall
not
fail:
in
her
monthly filth
they
shall
find
her.
\VS{25}Keep thy
foot
from being bare,
and thy throat
from
thirst.
But thou saidst:
I
have lost
all hope,
I
will
not do
it:
for
I
have
loved
strangers,
and
I
will walk
after
them.
\VS{26}As
the
thief
is
confounded
when
he
is
taken,
so
is
the
house
of
Israel
confounded,
they
and
their
kings,
their
princes
and
their
priests,
and
their
prophets.
\VS{27}Saying
to
a stock: Thou art
my
father:
and
to
a
stone: thou hast
begotten
me:
they
have
turned
their
back
to
me,
and
not
their
face:
and
in
the
time
of
their affliction
they
will
say:
Arise,
and
deliver
us.
\VS{28}Where
are
the
gods,
whom thou hast
made thee?
let
them
arise
and
deliver thee
in
the
time
of thy affliction:
for according
to
the
number
of thy
cities
were thy
gods,
O Juda.
\VS{29}Why
will
you
contend
with
me
in judgement?
you
have
all forsaken
me, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{30}In
vain
have
I
struck
your
children,
they
have
not
received
correction:
your
sword hath
devoured
your
prophets,
your generation
is
like
a ravaging
lion.
\VS{31}See ye
the
word
of
the
Lord:
Am
I
become
a
wilderness
to
Israel,
or
a lateward springing
land?
why
then
have
my
people
said:
We
are revolted,
we
will
come
to thee
no
more.
\VS{32}Will
a
virgin
forget
her ornament,
or
a
bride
her stomacher?
but
my
people hath
forgotten
me
days
without
number.
\VS{33}Why dost thou endeavour
to shew thy
way
good
to
seek
my
love, thou
who
has
also
taught thy malices
to
be thy
ways,
\VS{34}And
in thy
skirts
is
found
the
blood
of
the
souls
of
the
poor
and
innocent?
not
in ditches
have
I
found
them,
but
in
all
places,
which
I mentioned
before.
\VS{35}And thou hast
said:
I
am
without
sin
and
am
innocent:
and
therefore
let thy
anger
be
turned
away
from
me.
Behold,
I
will contend
with thee
in judgement,
because thou hast
said:
I
have
not
sinned.
\VS{36}How
exceeding base art thou
become, going
the
same
ways
over
again!
and thou shalt
be
ashamed
of
Egypt,
as thou wast
ashamed
of
Assyria.
\VS{37}For
from thence thou shalt
go,
and thy
hand
shall
be
upon thy
head:
for
the
Lord hath destroyed thy
trust,
and thou shalt
have
nothing
prosperous therein.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}It
is commonly
said:
If
a
man
put
away
his
wife,
and
she
go
from
him,
and
marry
another
man,
shall
he
return
to
her
any
more?
shall
not
that
woman
be
polluted,
and defiled?
but thou hast
prostituted thyself
to
many
lovers: nevertheless
return
to
me, saith
the
Lord,
and
I
will
receive thee.
\VS{2}Lift
up thy
eyes
on
high:
and
see
where thou hast
not prostituted thyself: Thou didst
sit
in
the
ways, waiting
for
them
as
a robber
in
the
wilderness:
and thou hast
polluted
the
land
with thy fornications,
and
with thy
wickedness.
\VS{3}Therefore
the
showers
were withholden,
and
there
was
no lateward
rain: thou hadst
a
harlot’s
forehead, thou wouldst
not
blush.
\VS{4}Therefore
at least
at
this
time
call
to
me: Thou art
my
father,
the guide
of
my virginity:
\VS{5}Wilt thou
be
angry
for
ever,
or wilt thou
continue until
the
end?
Behold, thou hast
spoken,
and hast
done
evil things,
and hast
been
able.
\VS{6}And
the
Lord
said
to
me
in
the
days
of
king Josias: Hast thou
seen
what rebellious
Israel hast
done?
she hath
gone
out
of
herself
upon
every
high
mountain,
and
under
every
green
tree,
and hath
played
the
harlot
there.
\VS{7}And
when
she
had
done
all
these
things,
I
said:
Return
to
me,
and
she
did
not
return.
And
her
treacherous
sister Juda
saw,
\VS{8}That
because
the rebellious
Israel
had
played
the
harlot,
I
had
put
her
away,
and
had
given
her
a bill
of
divorce:
yet
her
treacherous
sister Juda
was
not
afraid,
but
went
and
played
the
harlot
also
herself.
\VS{9}And
by
the facility
of
her fornication she defiled
the
land,
and
played
the harlot
with
stones
and
with stocks.
\VS{10}And
after
all
this,
her
treacherous
sister Juda hath
not
returned
to
me
with
her
whole
heart,
but
with
falsehood, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{11}And
the
Lord
said
to
me:
The rebellious
Israel hath
justified
her
soul,
in comparison
of
the
treacherous Juda.
\VS{12}Go,
and
proclaim
these
words
toward
the
north,
and thou shalt
say:
Return,
O rebellious
Israel, saith
the
Lord,
and
I
will
not
turn
away
my
face
from
you:
for
I
am
holy, saith
the
Lord,
and
I
will
not
be
angry
for
ever.
\VS{13}But
yet
acknowledge thy
iniquity,
that thou hast
transgressed
against
the
Lord thy
God:
and thou hast
scattered thy
ways
to
strangers
under
every
green
tree,
and hast
not
heard
my
voice, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{14}Return,
O ye revolting
children, saith
the
Lord:
for
I
am
your
husband:
and
I
will
take
you,
one
of
a
city,
and
two
of
a kindred,
and
will
bring
you
into Sion.
\VS{15}And
I
will
give
you pastors according
to
my own
heart,
and
they
shall
feed
you
with
knowledge
and doctrine.
\VS{16}And
when
you
shall
be
multiplied,
and
increase
in
the
land
in
those
days, saith
the
Lord,
they
shall
say
no
more:
The
ark
of
the
covenant
of
the
Lord:
neither
shall
it
come
upon
the
heart,
neither
shall
they
remember
it,
neither
shall
it
be
visited,
neither
shall
that
be
done
any
more.
\VS{17}At
that
time
Jerusalem
shall
be
called
the thrown
of
the
Lord:
and
all
the
nations
shall
be
gathered together
to
it,
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
to
Jerusalem,
and
they
shall
not walk
after
the perversity
of
their most
wicked
heart.
\VS{18}In
those
days
the
house
of Juda
shall
go
to
the
house
of
Israel,
and
they
shall
come
together
out
of
the
land
of
the
north
to
the
land
which
I
gave
to
your
fathers.
\VS{19}But
I
said:
How
shall
I
put thee
among
the
children,
and
give thee
a lovely
land,
the goodly
inheritance
of
the
armies
of
the
Gentiles?
And
I
said: Thou shalt
call
me
father
and shalt cease
to walk
after
me.
\VS{20}But
as
a
woman
that despiseth
her
lover,
so hath
the
house
of
Israel despised
me, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{21}A
voice
was
heard
in
the highways,
weeping
and howling
of
the
children
of
Israel:
because
they
have
made
their
way wicked,
they
have
forgotten
the
Lord
their
God.
\VS{22}Return,
you rebellious
children,
and
I
will
heal
your rebellions.
Behold
we
come
to thee:
for thou art
the
Lord
our
God.
\VS{23}In very deed
the
hills
were
liars.
and
the
multitude
of
the
mountains:
truly
in
the
Lord
our
God
is
the
salvation
of
Israel.
\VS{24}Confusion hath
devoured
the
labor
of
our
fathers
from
our
youth,
their
flocks
and
their
herds,
their
sons
and
their
daughters.
\VS{25}We
shall
sleep
in
our confusion,
and
our
shame
shall
cover
us,
because
we
have
sinned
against
the
Lord
our
God,
we
and
our
fathers
from
our
youth
even
to
this
day,
and
we
have
not hearkened
to
the
voice
of
the
Lord
our
God.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}If thou wilt
return,
O
Israel, saith
the
Lord,
return
to
me:
if thou wilt
take
away thy stumblingblocks
out
of
my
sight, thou shalt
not
be moved.
\VS{2}And thou shalt
swear:
As
the
Lord liveth,
in
truth,
and
in judgement,
and
in
justice:
and
the
Gentiles
shall
bless
him,
and
shall
praise
him.
\VS{3}For
thus saith
the
Lord
to
the
men
of Juda
and
Jerusalem:
Break
up anew
your fallow ground,
and
sow
not
upon
thorns:
\VS{4}Be
circumcised
to
the
Lord,
and
take
away
the
foreskins
of
your
hearts, ye
men
of Juda,
and ye
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem:
lest
my indignation
come
forth
like
fire,
and
burn,
and
there
be
none
that
can
quench
it:
because
of
the
wickedness
of
your
thoughts.
\VS{5}Declare ye
in Juda,
and
make
it
heard
in
Jerusalem:
speak,
and
sound
with
the
trumpet
in
the
land:
cry
aloud,
and
say:
Assemble yourselves,
and
let
us
go
into strong
cities.
\VS{6}Set
up
the
standard
in Sion. Strengthen
yourselves,
stay
not:
for
I
bring
evil
from
the
north,
and
great
destruction.
\VS{7}The
lion
is
come
up
out
of
his den,
and
the robber
of
nations hath roused
himself:
he
is
come
forth
out
of
his
place,
to
make thy
land
desolate: thy
cities
shall
be
laid
waste,
remaining
without
an
inhabitant.
\VS{8}For
this
gird
yourselves
with haircloth,
lament
and
howl:
for
the
fierce
anger
of
the
Lord
is
not
turned
away
from
us.
\VS{9}And
it
shall
come
to
pass
in
that
day, saith
the
Lord:
That
the
heart
of
the
king
shall
perish,
and
the
heart
of
the
princes:
and
the
priests
shall
be
astonished,
and
the
prophets
shall
be
amazed.
\VS{10}And
I
said:
Alas,
alas,
alas,
O
Lord
God, hast thou
then deceived
this
people
and
Jerusalem,
saying:
You
shall
have
peace:
and behold
the
sword reacheth
even
to
the
soul?
\VS{11}At
that
time
it
shall
be
said
to
this
people,
and
to
Jerusalem:
A burning
wind
is
in
the
ways
that
are
in
the
desert
of
the
way
of
the
daughter
of
my
people,
not
to fan,
nor
to
cleanse.
\VS{12}A
full
wind
from
these places
shall
come
to
me:
and
now
I
will
speak
my
judgments
with
them.
\VS{13}Behold
he shall
come
up
as
a
cloud,
and
his
chariots
as
a tempest:
his
horses
are
swifter
than
eagles:
woe unto
us,
for
we
are laid
waste.
\VS{14}Wash thy
heart
from
wickedness,
O
Jerusalem,
that thou mayst
be
saved:
how
long
shall hurtful
thoughts
abide
in thee?
\VS{15}For
a
voice
of
one
declaring
from
Dan,
and giving notice
of
the
idol
from
mount
Ephraim.
\VS{16}Say ye
to
the
nations:
Behold
it
is
heard
in
Jerusalem,
that
guards
are
coming
from
a
far
country,
and
give
out
their
voice
against
the
cities
of Juda.
\VS{17}They
are set
round
about
her,
as
keepers
of
fields:
because
she hath provoked
me
to wrath, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{18}They
ways,
and thy devices
have
brought
these
things upon thee:
this
is thy
wickedness,
because
it
is
bitter,
because
it hath
touched thy
heart.
\VS{19}My
bowels,
my
bowels
are
in pain,
the senses
of
my
heart
are troubled
within
me,
I
will
not hold
my peace,
for
my
soul hath
heard
the
sound
of
the
trumpet,
the
cry
of
battle.
\VS{20}Destruction
upon
destruction
is
called
for,
and
all
the
earth
is laid
waste:
my
tents
are
destroyed
on
a
sudden,
and
my pavilions
in
a
moment.
\VS{21}How
long shall
I
see men fleeing away,
how
long shall
I
hear
the
sound
of
the
trumpet?
\VS{22}For
my
foolish
people
have
not
known
me:
they
are
foolish
and senseless
children:
they
are
wise
to
do
evil,
but
to
do
good
they
have
no
knowledge.
\VS{23}I beheld
the
earth,
and
lo
it
was
void,
and
nothing:
and
the
heavens,
and
there
was
no
light
in
them.
\VS{24}I
looked
upon
the
mountains,
and
behold
they trembled:
and
all
the
hills
were troubled.
\VS{25}I beheld,
and
lo
there
was
no
man:
and
all
the
birds
of
the air
were
gone.
\VS{26}I
looked,
and
behold Carmel
was
a
wilderness:
and
all
its
cities
were
destroyed
at
the
presence
of
the
Lord,
and
at
the
presence
of
the
wrath
of
his indignation.
\VS{27}For
thus saith
the
Lord:
All
the
land
shall
be
desolate,
but
yet
I
will
not
utterly
destroy.
\VS{28}The
earth
shall
mourn,
and
the
heavens
shall
lament
from
above:
because
I
have
spoken,
I
have
purposed,
and
I
have
not
repented,
neither
am
I
turned
away
from
it.
\VS{29}At
the
voice
of
the
horsemen,
and
the
archers,
all
the
city
is
fled
away;
they
have
entered
into
thickets
and
have
climbed
up
the
rocks:
all
the
cities
are forsaken,
and
there dwelleth
not
a
man
in
them.
\VS{30}But
when thou art spoiled
what wilt thou
do?
though thou deckest thee
with
ornaments
of
gold,
and paintest thy
eyes
with stibic stone, thou shalt
dress thyself
out
in
vain: thy
lovers
have despised thee,
they
will
seek thy
life.
\VS{31}For
I
have
heard
the
voice
as
of
a
woman
in travail, anguishes
as
of
a
woman
in labor
of
a
child.
The
voice
of
the
daughter
of Sion, dying away,
spreading
her
hands:
Woe
is
me,
for
my
soul hath fainted
because
of
them
that
are
slain.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Go
about
through
the
streets
of
Jerusalem,
and
see,
and
consider,
and
seek
in
the broad places thereof,
if
you
can fins
a
man
that executeth judgement,
and seeketh
faith:
and
I
will
be merciful unto
it.
\VS{2}And
though
they
say:
The
Lord liveth;
this
also
they
will
swear
falsely.
\VS{3}O
Lord, thy
eyes
are upon
truth: thou hast
struck
them,
and
they
have
not grieved: thou hast bruised
them,
and
they
have
refused
to
receive
correction:
they
have
made
their
faces
harder
than
the
rock,
and
they
have
refused
to
return.
\VS{4}But
I
said:
Perhaps
these
are
poor
and
foolish,
that
know
not
the
way
of
the
Lord,
the judgement
of
their
God.
\VS{5}I
will go
therefore
to
the
great
men,
and
I
will
speak
to
them:
for
they
known
the
way
of
the
Lord,
the judgement
of
their
God:
and behold
these
have
together
broken
the
yoke
more,
and
have
burst
the
bonds.
\VS{6}Wherefore
a
lion
out
of
the wood hath
slain
them,
a
wolf
in
the evening, hath spoiled
them,
a
leopard watcheth
for
their
cities:
every
one
that shall
go
out thence shall
be
taken,
because
their
transgressions
are
multiplied,
their rebellions
are strengthened.
\VS{7}How
can
I
be merciful
to thee? thy
children
have forsaken
me,
and
swear
by
them
that
are
not
gods:
I
fed
them
to
the
full,
and
they
committed
adultery,
and rioted
in
the
harlot’s
house.
\VS{8}They
are
become
as amorous
horses
and
stallions,
every
one neighed
after
his
neighbor’s
wife.
\VS{9}Shall
I
not
visit
for
these
things, sayeth
the
Lord?
and
shall
not
my
soul
take
revenge
on
such
a
nation?
\VS{10}Scale
down
the walls thereof,
and throw
them
down,
but
do
not utterly
destroy:
take
away
the
branches thereof,
because
they
are
not
the
Lord’s.
\VS{11}For
the
house
of
Israel,
and
the
house
of Juda
have greatly transgressed against
me, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{12}They
have
denied
the
Lord,
and
said,
It
is
not
he:
and
the
evil
shall
not
come
upon
us:
we
shall
not
see
the
sword
and
famine.
\VS{13}The
prophets
have spoken
in
the
wind,
and
there
was
no word
of
God
in
them: these
things
therefore
shall
befall
them.
\VS{14}Thus saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
hosts:
Because
you
have
spoken
this
word,
behold
I
will
make
my
words
in thy
mouth
as
fire,
and
this
people
as
wood,
and
it
shall
devour
them.
\VS{15}Behold
I
will
bring
upon
you
a
nation
from
afar,
O
house
of
Israel, saith
the
Lord:
a strong
nation,
an
ancient
nation,
a
nation
whose
language thou shalt
not
know,
nor
understand
what
they
say.
\VS{16}Their
quiver
is as an
open sepulchre,
they
are
all
valiant.
\VS{17}And
they
shall
eat
up thy corn,
and thy
bread:
they
shall
devour thy
sons,
and thy
daughters:
they
shall
eat
up thy
flocks,
and thy
herds:
they
shall
eat thy vineyards,
and thy
figs:
and
with
the
sword
they
shall
destroy thy strong
cities,
wherein thou trustest.
\VS{18}Nevertheless
in
those
days, saith
the
Lord,
I
will
not bring
you
to utter
destruction.
\VS{19}And
if
you
shall
say:
why hath
the
Lord
our
God
done
all
these
things
to
us? thou shalt
say
to
them:
As
you
have forsaken
me,
and
served
a
strange
god
in
your
own
land,
so
shall
you
serve
strangers
in
a
land
that
is
not
your
own.
\VS{20}Declare ye
this
to
the
house
of
Jacob,
and publish
it
in Juda,
saying:
\VS{21}Hear,
O
foolish
people,
and
without
understanding:
who
have
eyes,
and
see
not:
and
ears,
and
hear
not.
\VS{22}Will
not
you
then
fear
me, saith
the
Lord:
and
will
you
not repent
at
my
presence?
I
have
set
the
sand
a bound
for
the
sea,
an
everlasting
ordinance,
which
it
shall
not
pass
over:
and
the
waves thereof
shall
toss
themselves,
and
shall
not
prevail:
they
shall swell,
and
shall
not
pass
over
it.
\VS{23}But
the
heart
of
this
people
is
become hard
of belief
and provoking,
they
are revolted
and
gone
away.
\VS{24}And
they
have
not
said
in
their
heart:
let
us
fear
the
Lord
our
God,
who giveth
us
the
early
and
the
latter
rain
in
due
season:
who preserveth
for
us
the fullness
of
the yearly
harvest.
\VS{25}Your
iniquities
have
turned
these
things
away,
and
your
sins
have withholden
good
things
from
you.
\VS{26}For
among
my
people
are
found
wicked
men,
that
lie
in
wait
as
fowlers, setting snares
and traps
to
catch
men.
\VS{27}As
a net
is
full
of
birds,
so
their
houses
are
full
of
deceit:
therefore
are
they
become
great
and
enriched.
\VS{28}They
are
grown gross
and
fat:
and
have most
wickedly transgressed
my
words.
They
have
not
judged
the
cause
of
the widow,
they
have
not managed
the
cause
of
the
fatherless,
they
have
not
judged
the judgement
of
the
poor.
\VS{29}Shall
I
not
visit
for
these
things, saith
the
Lord?
or
shall
not
my
soul
take
revenge
on
such
a
nation?
\VS{30}Astonishing
and wonderful
things
have
been
done
in
the
land.
\VS{31}The
prophets
prophesied
falsehood,
and
the
priests clapped
their
hands:
and
my
people
loved
such things:
what
then
shall
be
done
in
the
end thereof?

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Strengthen
yourselves, ye
sons
of
Benjamin,
in
the
midst
of
Jerusalem,
and
sound
the
trumpet
in Thecua,
and
set
up
the standard
over Bethacarem:
for
evil
is seen
out
of
the
north,
and
a
great
destruction.
\VS{2}I
have likened
the
daughter
of Sion
to
a beautiful
and delicate
woman.
\VS{3}The
shepherds
shall
come
to
her
with
their
flocks:
they
have
pitched
their
tents
against
her
round
about:
every
one
shall
feed
them
that
are
under
his
hand.
\VS{4}Prepare ye
war
against
her:
arise,
and
let
us
go
up
at midday:
woe unto
us,
for
the
day
is
declined,
for
the shadows
of
the
evening
are
grown longer.
\VS{5}Arise,
and let
us
go
up
in
the
night,
and
destroy
her houses.
\VS{6}For
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts: Hew
down
her
trees,
cast
up
a trench
about
Jerusalem:
this
is
the
city
to
be
visited,
all
oppression
is
in
the
midst
of
her.
\VS{7}As
a
cistern maketh
its
water cold,
so hath
she
made
her
wickedness cold:
violence
and spoil
shall
be
heard
in
her, infirmity
and
stripes
are
continually
before
me.
\VS{8}Be thou
instructed,
O
Jerusalem,
lest
my
soul depart
from thee,
lest
I
make thee
desolate,
a
land
uninhabited.
\VS{9}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts:
They
shall
gather
the remains
of
Israel,
as
in
a
vine,
even
to
one cluster:
turn
back thy
hand,
as
a grape
gatherer
into
the basket.
\VS{10}To
whom
shall
I
speak?
and
to
whom
shall
I testify,
that
he
may
hear?
behold,
their
ears
are
uncircumcised,
and
they
cannot
hear:
behold
the
word
of
the
Lord
is
become unto
them
a
reproach:
and
and
they
will
not
receive
it.
\VS{11}Therefore
am
I
full
of
the
fury
of
the
Lord,
I
am
weary
with
holding
in:
pour
it
out
upon
the
child
abroad,
and
upon
the
council
of
the
young
men
together:
for
man
and
woman
shall
be
taken,
the ancient
and
he
that
is
full
of
days.
\VS{12}And
their
houses
shall
be
turned
over
to
others,
with
their
lands
and
their
wives
together:
for
I
will
stretch
for
my
hand
upon
the
inhabitants
of
the
land, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{13}For
from
the least
of
them
even
to
the
greatest,
all
are given
to covetousness:
and
from
the
prophet
even
to
the
priest,
all
are guilty
of
deceit.
\VS{14}And
they
healed
the breach
of
the daughter
of
my
people disgracefully,
saying:
Peace,
peace:
and
there
was
no
peace.
\VS{15}They
were
confounded,
because
they
committed
abomination:
yea,
rather
they
were
not
confounded
with confusion,
and
they
knew
not
how
to
blush: wherefore
they
shall
fall
among
them
that
fall:
in
the
time
of
their visitation
they
shall
fall
down, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{16}Thus saith
the
Lord:
Stand ye
on
the
ways,
and
see
and
ask
for
the
old
paths
which
is
the
good
way,
and
walk ye
in
it:
and
you
shall
find refreshment
for
your
souls.
And
they
said:
we
will
not
walk.
\VS{17}And
I appointed
watchmen
over
you,
saying: Hearken ye
to
the
sound
of
the
trumpet.
And
they
said: We
will
not hearken.
\VS{18}Therefore
hear, ye
nations,
and
know,
O
congregation,
what great
things
I
will
do
to
them.
\VS{19}Hear,
O
earth:
Behold
I
will
bring evils
upon
this
people,
the
fruits
of
their own
thoughts:
because
they
have
not
heard
my
words,
and
they
have cast
away
my
law.
\VS{20}To
what
purpose
do
you
bring
me
frankincense
from Saba,
and
the
sweet smelling
cane
from
a
far
country?
your holocausts
are
not
acceptable,
nor
are
your
sacrifices
pleasing
to
me.
\VS{21}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold,
I
will
bring
destruction
upon
this
people,
by
which
fathers
and
sons
together
shall
fall,
neighbor
and kinsman
shall
perish.
\VS{22}Thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
a
people cometh
from
the
land
of
the
north,
and
a
great
nation
shall rise
up
from
the ends
of
the
earth.
\VS{23}They
shall lay
hold
on arrow
and shield:
they
are
cruel,
and
will
have
no
mercy.
Their
voice
shall
roar
like
the
sea:
and
they
shall mount
upon
horses, prepared
as
men
for
war,
against thee, O
daughter
of Sion.
\VS{24}We
have
heard
the
fame thereof,
our
hands
grow
feeble:
anguish hath
taken
hold
of
us,
as
a woman
in
labor.
\VS{25}Go
not
out
into
the
fields,
nor
walk
in
the
highway:
for
the
sword
of
the
enemy,
and fear
is
on
every
side.
\VS{26}Gird thee
with
sackcloth, O
daughter
of
my
people,
and sprinkle thee
with
ashes:
make thee
mourning
as
for
an
only
son,
a
bitter
lamentation,
because
the
destroyer shall
suddenly
come
upon
us.
\VS{27}I
have
set thee
for
a strong trier among
my
people:
and thou shalt
know
and
prove
their
way.
\VS{28}All
of
these princes
go
out
of
the
way,
they
walk deceitfully,
they
are
brass
and
iron:
they
are
all
corrupted.
\VS{29}The
bellows
have
failed,
the
lead
is consumed
in
the
fire,
the founder hath melted
in
vain:
for
their
wicked deeds
are
not consumed.
\VS{30}Call
them reprobate
silver,
for
the
Lord hath
rejected
them.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
came
to Jeremias
from
the
Lord,
saying:
\VS{2}Stand
in
the
gate
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
proclaim
there
this
word,
and
say:
Hear ye
the
word
of
the
Lord,
all ye
men
of Juda,
that
enter
in
at
these
gates,
to adore
the
Lord.
\VS{3}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Make
your
ways
and
your
doings
good:
and
I
will
dwell
with
you
in
this
place.
\VS{4}Trust
not
in
lying
words,
saying:
The
temple
of
the
Lord,
the
temple
of
the
Lord,
it
is
the
temple
of
the
Lord.
\VS{5}For
if
you
will
order
well
your
ways,
and
your
doings:
if
you
will execute judgement
between
a
man
and
his
neighbor,
\VS{6}If
you opress
not
the
stranger,
the
fatherless,
and
the
widow,
and
shed
not
innocent
blood
in
this
place,
and walk
not
after strange
gods
to
your own hurt,
\VS{7}I
will
dwell
with
you
in
this
place:
in
the
land,
which
I
gave
to
your
fathers
from
the
beginning
and
for evermore.
\VS{8}Behold
you
put
your
trust
in
lying
words,
which
shall
not
profit
you:
\VS{9}To
steal,
to
murder,
to
commit
adultery,
to
swear
falsely,
to
offer
to Baalim,
and
to
go
after strange
gods,
which
you
know
not.
\VS{10}And
you
have
come,
and
stood
before
me
in
this
house,
in
which
my
name
is
called
upon,
and
have
said:
We
are
delivered,
because
we
have
done
all
these
abominations.
\VS{11}Is
this
house
then,
in
which
my
name hath
been
called
upon,
in
your
eyes
become
a
den
of
robbers?
I,
I
am
he:
I
have
seen
it, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{12}Go ye
to
my
place
in Silo,
where
my
name
dwelt
from
the
beginning:
and
see
what
I
did
to
it
for
the
wickedness
of
my
people
Israel:
\VS{13}And
now,
because
you
have
done
all
these
works, saith
the
Lord:
and
I
have
spoken
to
you
rising
up
early,
and
speaking,
and
you
have
not
heard:
and
I
have
called
you,
and
you
have
not
answered:
\VS{14}I
will
do
to
this
house,
in
which
my
name
is
called
upon,
and
in
which
you
trust,
and
to
the
places
which
I
have
given
you
and
your
fathers,
as
I
did
to Silo.
\VS{15}And
I
will
cast
you
away
from
before
my
face,
as
I
have
cast
away
all
your
brethren,
the
whole
seed
of
Ephraim.
\VS{16}Therefore,
do
not thou
pray
for
this
people,
nor
take
to thee
praise
and
supplication
for
them:
and
do
not withstand
me:
for
I
will
not
hear thee.
\VS{17}Seest thou
not
what
they
do
in
the
cities
of Juda,
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem?
\VS{18}The
children
gather
wood,
and
the
fathers
kindle
the
fire
and
the
women
knead
the
dough,
to
make
cakes
to
the
queen
of
heaven,
and
to
offer libations
to strange
gods,
and
to
provoke
me
to
anger.
\VS{19}Do
they
provoke
me
to
anger, saith
the
Lord?
Is
it
not
themselves,
to
the confusion
of
their contenance?
\VS{20}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord
God:
Behold
my
wrath
and
my indignation
was enkindled
against
this
place,
upon
men
and
upon
beasts,
and
upon
the
trees
of
the
field,
and
upon
the
fruits
of
the
land,
and
it
shall
burn,
and
shall
not
be
quenched.
\VS{21}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Add
your
burnt
offerings
to
your
sacrifices,
and
eat ye
the
flesh.
\VS{22}For
I
spoke
not
to
your
fathers,
and
I
commanded
them
not,
in
the
day
that
I
brought
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
concerning
the
matter
of
burnt
offerings
and
sacrifices.
\VS{23}But
this
thing
I
commanded
them,
saying: Hearken
to
my
voice,
and
I
will
be
your
God,
and
you
shall
be
my
people:
and
walk ye
in
all
the
way
that
I
have
commanded
you,
that
it
may
be
well
with
you.
\VS{24}But
they hearkened
not,
nor
inclined
their
ear:
but walked
in
their
own
will,
and
in
the perversity
of
their
wicked
heart:
and
went
backward
and
not
forward,
\VS{25}From
the
day
that
their
fathers
came
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
even
to
this
day.
And
I
have
sent
to
you
all
my
servants
the
prophets
from
day
to
day,
rising
up
early
and
sending.
\VS{26}And
they
have
not hearkened
to
me:
nor
inclined
their
ear:
but
have
hardened
their
neck,
and
have done worse
than
their
fathers.
\VS{27}And thou shalt
speak
to
them
all
these
words,
but
they
will
not hearken
to thee:
and thou shalt
call
them,
but
they
will
not
answer thee.
\VS{28}And thou shalt
say
to
them:
This
is
a
nation
which hath
not hearkened
to
the
voice
of
the
Lord
their
God,
nor
received
instruction:
Faith
is
lost,
and
is
carried
away
out
of
their
mouth.
\VS{29}Cut
off thy
hair,
and
cast
it
away:
and
take
up
a
lamentation
on
high:
for
the
Lord hath
rejected
and
forsaken
the
generation
of
his
wrath,
\VS{30}Because
the
children
of Juda
have
done
evil
in
my
eyes, saith
the
Lord.
They
have
set
their
abominations
in
the
house
in
which
my
name
is
called
upon,
to pollute
it;
\VS{31}And
they
have
built
the
high
places
of Topeth,
which
is
in
the
valley
of
the
son
of Ennom,
to
burn
their
sons,
and
their
daughters
in
the
fire:
which
I
commanded
not,
nor
thought
on
in
my
heart.
\VS{32}Therefore
behold
the
days
shall
come, saith
the
Lord,
and
it
shall
no
more
be
called Topeth,
nor
the
valley
of
the
son
of Ennom:
but
the
valley
of
slaughter,
and
they
shall
bury
in Topeth,
because
there
is
no
place.
\VS{33}And
the
carcasses
of
this
people
shall
be meat
for
the fowls
of
the air,
and
for
the
beasts
of
the
earth,
and
there
shall
be non
to drive
them
away.
\VS{34}And
I
will
cause
to
cease
out
of
the
cities
of Juda,
and
out
of
the
streets
of
Jerusalem,
the
voice
of
joy,
and
the
voice
of
gladness,
the
voice
of
the bridegroom
and
the
voice
of
the
bride:
for
the
land
shall
be desolate.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}At
that
time, saith
the
Lord,
they
shall cast
out
the
bones
of
the
kings
of Juda,
and
the
bones
of
the
princes thereof,
and
the
bones
of
the
priests,
and
the
bones
of
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
out
of
their
graves.
\VS{2}And
they
shall
spread
them abroad
to
the
sun,
and
the
moon,
and
all
the
host
of
heaven,
whom
they
have
loved,
and
whom
they
have
served,
and
after
whom
they
have
walked,
and
whom
they
have
sought,
and
adored:
they
shall
not
be
gathered,
and
they
shall
not
be
buried:
they
shall
be
as
dung
upon
the
face
of
the
earth.
\VS{3}And
death
shall
be
chosen
rather
than
life
by
all
that
shall
remain
of
this
wicked kindred
in
all
places,
which
are
left,
to
which
I
have
cast
them
out, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{4}And thou shalt
say
to
them:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
Shall
not
he
that falleth,
rise
again?
and
he
that
is
turned
away,
shall
he
not
turn
again?
\VS{5}Why
then
is
this
people
in
Jerusalem
turned
away
with
a stubborn revolting?
they
have
laid
hold
on lying,
and
have
refused
to
return.
\VS{6}I attended,
and hearkened;
no
man speaketh
what
is good,
there
is
none
that doth penance
for
his sin,
saying:
What
have
I
done?
They
are
all
turned
to
their
own
course,
as
a
horse rushing
to
the
battle.
\VS{7}The kite
in
the air hath
known
her
time:
the turtle,
and
the
swallow,
and
the
stork
have
observed
the
time
of
their
coming:
but
my
people
have
not
known
the
judgment
of
the
Lord.
\VS{8}How
do
you
say:
We
are
wise,
and
the
law
of
the
Lord
is
with
us?
Indeed
the
lying
pen
of
the
scribes hath wrought
falsehood.
\VS{9}The
wise
men
are
confounded,
they
are
dismayed,
and
taken:
for
they
have cast away
the
word
of
the
Lord,
and
there
is no
wisdom
in
them.
\VS{10}Therefore
I
will
give
their
women
to strangers,
their
fields
to
others
for
an
inheritance:
because
from
the least
even
to
the
greatest
all follow covetousness:
from
the
prophet
even
to
the
priest,
all
deal deceitfully.
\VS{11}And
they
healed
the breach
of
the
daughter
of
my
people disgracefully,
saying
Peace,
peace:
when
there
was
no
peace.
\VS{12}They
are
confounded,
because
they
have
committed
abomination:
yea
rather
they
are
not
confounded
with confusion,
and
they
have
not
know
how
to
blush:
therefore
shall
they
fall
among
them
that
fall;
in
the
time
of
their visitation
they
shall
fall, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{13}Gathering
I
will
gather
them
together, saith
the
Lord,
there
is
no
grape
on
the
vines,
and
there
are
no
figs
on
the
fig
tree,
the
leaf
is fallen:
and
I
have
given
them
the
things
that
are
passed
away.
\VS{14}Why
do
we
sit
still?
assemble
yourselves,
and let
us
enter
into
the fenced
city,
and let
us
be silent
there:
for
the
Lord
our
God hath
put
us
to silence,
and hath
given
us
water
of
gall
to
drink:
for
we
have
sinned
against
the
Lord.
\VS{15}We
looked
for
peace
and
no
good came:
for
a
time
of
healing,
and
behold fear.
\VS{16}The snorting
of
his
horse
was
heard
from
Dan,
all
the
land
was
moved
at
the
sound
of
the
neighing
of
his warriors:
and
they
came
and
devoured
the
land,
and
all
that
was
in
it:
the
city
and
its
inhabitants.
\VS{17}For
behold
I
will
send among
you
serpents, basilisks,
against
which
there
is
no
charm:
and
they
shall bite
you, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{18}My
sorrow
is
above
sorrow,
my
heart mourneth
within
me.
\VS{19}Behold
the
voice
of
the
daughter
my
people
from
a
far
country:
Is
not
the
Lord
in Sion,
or
is
not
her
king
in
her?
why
then
have
they
provoked
me
to wrath
with
their
idols,
and
strange
vanities?
\VS{20}The
harvest
is
passed,
the
summer
is
ended,
and
we
are
not
saved.
\VS{21}For
the affliction
of
the
daughter
of
my
people
I am
afflicted,
and
made sorrowful, astonishment hath
taken
hold
on
me.
\VS{22}Is
there
no
balm
in Galaad?
or
is
no
physician
there?
Why
then
is
not
the wound
of
the
daughter
of
my
people closed?

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Who
will
give water
to
my head,
and
a fountain
of tears
to
my eyes?
and
I
will weep day
and night
for
the slain
of
the daughter
of
my
people.
\VS{2}Who
will give
me
in
the wilderness
a lodging
place
of wayfaring men,
and
I
will
leave
my
people,
and
depart
from
them?
because
they
are
all adulterers,
an assembly
of transgressors.
\VS{3}And
they
have bent
their tongue,
as
a bow,
for lies,
and
not
for truth:
they
have strengthened
themselves
upon
the earth,
for
they
have
proceeded
from evil
to evil,
and
me
they
have
not known, saith
the Lord.
\VS{4}Let
every
man take heed
of
his
neighbor,
and
let
his
not trust
in
any brother
of
his:
for
every brother
will utterly supplant,
and
every
friend
will walk deceitfully.
\VS{5}And
a man
shall mock
his brother,
and
they
will
not speak
the truth:
for
they
have
taught
their tongue
to speak
lies:
they
have laboured
to commit iniquity.
\VS{6}Thy habitation
is
in
the midst
of deceit:
Through deceit
they
have refused
to know
me, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{7}Therefore thus saith
the Lord
of hosts: Behold
I
will melt,
and try
them:
for
what
else
shall
I do
before
the daughter
of
my
people?
\VS{8}Their tongue
is
a piercing arrow,
it hath spoken deceit:
with
his
mouth
one speaketh peace
with
his friend,
and secretly
he lieth
in wait
for
him.
\VS{9}Shall
I
not visit
them
for these
things, saith
the Lord?
or
shall
not
my soul
be revenged
on
such
a nation?
\VS{10}For
the mountains
I
will
take
up weeping
and lamentation,
and
for
the beautiful places
of
the desert, mourning:
because
they
are burnt
up,
for
that
there
is not
a man
that passeth through
them:
and
they
have not heard
the voice
of
the owner:
from
the fowl
of
the air
to
the beasts
they
are gone away
and departed.
\VS{11}And
I
will
make Jerusalem
to
be heaps
of sand,
and dens
of dragons:
and
I
will
make
the cities
of Juda desolate,
for
want
of
an inhabitant.
\VS{12}Who
is
the wise man,
that
may
understand
this,
and
to
whom
the
word
of
the
mouth
of
the
Lord
may
come
that
he
may declare
this,
why
the
land hath perished,
and
is burnt
up
like
a wilderness,
which
none passeth
through?
\VS{13}And
the Lord said:
Because
they
have forsaken
my law,
which
I gave
them,
and
have not heard
my voice,
and
have not walked
in
it.
\VS{14}But
they
have gone after
the perverseness
of
their own heart,
and after Baalim,
which
their fathers taught
them.
\VS{15}Therefore
thus saith
the Lord
of hosts
the
God
of Israel:
Behold
I
will
feed
this
people
with wormwood,
and give
them water
of gall
to drink.
\VS{16}And
I
will scatter
them
among
the nations,
which
they
and
their fathers
have not known:
and
I
will
send
the sword
after
them till
they
be consumed.
\VS{17}Thus saith
the Lord
of hosts
the God
of Israel:
Consider ye,
and call
for
the mourning women,
and
let
them
come:
and send
to
them
that
are wise women,
and
let
them
make
haste:
\VS{18}Let
them hasten
and take
up
a
lamentation
for
us: let
our eyes shed tears,
and
our eyelids run
down
with waters.
\VS{19}For
a voice
of
wailing
is
heard out
of Sion:
How
are
we wasted
and greatly confounded?
because
we
have left
the land,
because
our dwellings
are cast
down.
\VS{20}Hear
therefore, ye women,
the word
of
the Lord:
and let
your ears receive
the word
of
his mouth:
and teach
your daughters wailing:
and every
one
her neighbor mourning.
\VS{21}For
death
is
come
up
through
our windows,
it
is entered
into
our houses
to
destroy
the children
from
without,
the young
men
from
the streets.
\VS{22}Speak:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
Even
the carcass
of
man
shall fall
as dung upon
the face
of
the country,
and
as grass behind
the back
of
the mower,
and
there
is
none
to gather
it.
\VS{23}Thus saith
the
Lord: Let
not
the
wise man glory
in
his wisdom,
and let
not
the strong man glory
in
his strength,
and let
not
the rich man glory
in
his riches:
\VS{24}But
let
him
that glorieth glory
in
this,
that
he understandeth
and knoweth
me,
for
I
am
the
Lord
that exercise
mercy,
and
judgment,
and justice
in
the earth:
for
these
things please
me, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{25}Behold,
the days come, saith
the Lord,
and
I
will visit
upon
every
one
that hath
the foreskin circumcised.
\VS{26}Upon Egypt, and upon Juda, and upon Edom, and upon the children of Ammon, and upon Moab, and upon all that have their hair polled round, that dwell in the desert: for all the nations are uncircumcised in the flesh, but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hear ye
the
word
which
the
Lord hath
spoken
concerning
you,
O
house
of
Israel.
\VS{2}Thus saith
the
Lord:
Learn
not
according
to
the
ways
of
the
Gentiles:
and
be
not afraid
of
the
signs
of
heaven,
which
the heathens fear:
\VS{3}For
the laws
of
the
people
are
vain:
for
the
works
of
the
hand
of
the workman hath
cut
a
tree
out
of
the
forest
with
an axe.
\VS{4}He hath decked
it
with
silver
and
gold:
he hath
put
it
together
with
nails
and
hammers,
that
it
may
not fall asunder.
\VS{5}They
are framed
after
the likeness
of
a
palm
tree,
and
shall
not
speak:
they
must
be
carried
to
be
removed,
because
they
cannot
go.
Therefore,
fear
them
not,
for
they
can
neither
do
evil
nor
good.
\VS{6}There
is
none
like
to thee,
O
Lord: thou art
great
and
great
is thy
name
in
might.
\VS{7}Who
shall
fear thee,
O
king
of
nations?
for thine
is
the glory:
among
all
the
wise
men
of
the
nations,
and
in
all
their
kingdoms
there
is
none
like unto thee.
\VS{8}They
shall
all proved
together
to
be senseless
and
foolish:
the doctrine
of their
vanity
is
wood.
\VS{9}Silver
spread
into
plates
is
brought
from Tharsis,
and
gold
from Ophaz:
the
work
of
the artificer,
and
of
the
hand
of
the coppersmith:
violet
and
purple
is
their
clothing:
all
these
things
are
the
work
of artificers.
\VS{10}But
the
Lord
is
the
true
God:
he
is
the
living
God,
and
the
everlasting
king,
at
his
wrath
the
earth
shall
tremble,
and
the
nations
shall
not
be able
to abide
his threatening.
\VS{11}Thus
then shall
you
say
to
them:
The
gods
that have
not
made
heaven
and
earth, let
them
perish
from
the
earth,
and
from among
those places
that
are
under
heaven.
\VS{12}He
that maketh
the
earth
by
his
power,
that prepareth
the
world
by
his
wisdom,
and stretcheth
out
the
heavens
by
his knowledge.
\VS{13}At
his
voice
he giveth
a
multitude
of
waters
in
the
heaven,
and lifteth
up
the clouds
from
the ends
of
the
earth:
he maketh
lightnings
for
rain,
and bringeth
for
the
wind
out
of
his
treasures.
\VS{14}Every
man
is
become
a fool
for
knowledge
every artist
is confounded
in
his
graven
idol:
for
what
he hath cast
is
false,
and
there
is
no
spirit
in
them.
\VS{15}They
are
vain
things
and
a ridiculous
work:
in
the
time
of
their visitation
they
shall
perish.
\VS{16}The
portion
of
Jacob
is
not
like
these:
for
it
is
he
who
formed
all
things:
and
Israel
is
the
rod
of
his
inheritance:
the
Lord
of
hosts
is
his
name.
\VS{17}Gather
up thy shame
out
of
the
land, thou
that dwellest
in
a
siege.
\VS{18}For
thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
I
will cast away far
off
the
inhabitants
of
the
land
at
this
time:
and
I
will afflict
them,
so
that
they
may
be
found.
\VS{19}Woe
is
me
for
my
destruction,
my
wound
is
very grievous.
But
I
said:
Truly
this
is
my own evil,
and
I
will
bear
it.
\VS{20}My
tabernacle
is
laid
waste,
all
my
cords
are
broken:
my
children
are
gone
out
from
me,
and
they
are
not:
there
is
none
to
stretch
forth
my
tent
any
more,
and
to
set
up
my
curtains.
\VS{21}Because
the pastors
have
done foolishly,
and
have
not
sought
the
Lord:
therefore
have
they
not
understood,
and
all
their
flock
is
scattered.
\VS{22}Behold
the
sound
of
a
noise cometh,
a
great
commotion
out
of
the
land
of
the
north:
to
make
the
cities
of Juda
a desert,
and
a
dwelling
for dragons.
\VS{23}I
know,
O
Lord,
that
the
way
of
a
man
is
not
his:
neither
is
it
in
a
man
to
walk,
and
to
direct
his
steps.
\VS{24}Correct
me,
O
Lord,
but
yet
with judgement:
and
not
in fury,
lest thou
bring
me
to
nothing.
\VS{25}Pour
out thy indignation
upon
the
nations
that
have
not
known thee,
and
upon
the provinces
that
have
not
called
upon thy
name:
because
they
have
eaten
up
Jacob,
and
devoured
him,
and
consumed
him,
and
have
destroyed
his glory.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
came
from
the
Lord
to Jeremias,
saying:
\VS{2}Hear ye
the
words
of
this
covenant,
and
speak
to
the
men
of Juda,
and
to
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
\VS{3}And thou shalt
say
to
them:
Thus saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel:
Cursed
is
the
man
that
shall
not hearken
to
the
words
of
this
covenant,
\VS{4}Which
I
commanded
your
fathers
in
the
day
that
I
brought
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
from
the
iron
furnace,
saying:
Hear ye
my
voice,
and
do
all
things
that
I
command
you:
and
you
shall
be
my
people,
and
I
will
be
your
God:
\VS{5}That
I
may accomplish
the
oath
which
I
swore
to
your
fathers,
to
give
them
a
land
flowing
with
milk
and
honey,
as
it
is
this
day.
And
I
answered
and
said:
Amen,
O
Lord.
\VS{6}And
the
Lord
said
to
me:
Proclaim
aloud
all
these
words
in
the
cities
of Juda,
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem,
saying:
Hear ye
the
words
of
the
covenant,
and
do
them:
\VS{7}For protesting
I conjured
your
fathers
in
the
day
that
I
brought
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
even
to
this
day:
rising
early
I conjured
them,
and
said: Hearken ye
to
my
voice:
\VS{8}And
they
obeyed
not,
nor
inclined
their
ear:
but walked
every
one
in
the perverseness
of
his
own
wicked
heart:
and
I
brought
upon
them
all
the
words
of
this
covenant,
which
I
commanded
them
to
do,
but
they
did
them
not.
\VS{9}And
the
Lord
said
to
me:
A
conspiracy
is
found
among
the
men
of Juda,
and
among
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{10}They
are
returned
to
the
former
iniquities
of
their
fathers,
who
refused
to
hear
my
words:
so
these likewise
have
gone
after strange
gods,
to
serve
them:
the
house
of
Israel,
and
the
house
of Juda
have
made void
my
covenant,
which
I
made
with
their
fathers.
\VS{11}Wherefore
thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
I
will
bring
in evils
upon
them,
which
they
shall
not
be
able
to
escape:
and
they
shall
cry
to
me,
and
I
will
not hearken
to
them.
\VS{12}And
the
cities
of Juda,
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
shall
go,
and
cry
to
the
gods
to
whom
they
offer
sacrifice,
and
they
shall
not
save
them
in
the
time
of
their affliction.
\VS{13}For according
to
the
number
of thy
cities
were thy
gods,
O Juda:
and according
to
the
number
of
the
streets
of
Jerusalem thou hast
set
up
altars
of confusion,
altars
to
offer
sacrifice
to Baalim.
\VS{14}Therefore,
do
not thou
pray
for
this
people,
and
do
not
take
up
praise
and
prayer
for
them:
for
I
will
not
hear
them
in
the
time
of
their
cry
to
me,
in
the
time
of
their affliction.
\VS{15}What
is
the meaning
that
my
beloved hath wrought muck
wickedness
in
my
house?
shall
the
holy
flesh take
away
from thee thy
crimes,
in
which thou hast boasted?
\VS{16}The
Lord
called thy
name,
a plentiful
olive
tree,
fair,
fruitful,
and
beautiful:
at
the
noise
of
a word,
a
great
fire
was
kindled
in
it
and
the
branches thereof
are burnt.
\VS{17}And
the
Lord
of
hosts
that
planted thee, hath
pronounced
evil
against thee:
for
the evils
of
the
house
of
Israel,
and
the
house
of Juda,
which
they
have
done
to
themselves,
to
provoke
me,
offering
sacrifice
to Baalim.
\VS{18}But thou,
O
Lord, hast shewn
me,
and
I
have
known:
then thou shewedst
me
their
doings.
\VS{19}And
I
was
as
a meek
lamb,
that
is
carried
to
be
a victim:
and
I
knew
not
that
they
had
devised counsels
against
me, saying:
Let
us
put
wood
on
his
bread,
and
cut
him
off
from
the
land
of
the
living,
and
let
his
name
be
remembered
no
more.
\VS{20}But thou,
O
Lord
of Sabaoth,
who judgest justly,
and triest
the reins
and
hearts,
let
me
see thy
revenge
on
them:
for
to thee
I
have
revealed
my
cause.
\VS{21}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord
to
the
men
of
Anathoth,
who
seek thy
life,
and
say: Thou shalt
not
prophesy
in
the
name
of
the
Lord,
and thou shalt
not
die
in
our
hands.
\VS{22}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts:
Behold
I
will
visit
upon
them:
and
their
young
men
shall
die
by
the
sword,
their
sons
and
their
daughters
shall
die
by
famine.
\VS{23}And
there
shall
be
no
remains
of
them:
for
I
will
bring
in
evil
upon
the
men
of
Anathoth,
the
year
of
their visitation.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Thou
indeed,
O
Lord, art
just,
if
I
plead
with thee,
but
yet
I
will
speak
what
is
just
to thee:
Why doth
the
way
of
the
wicked
prosper:
why
is
it well
with
all
them
that transgress,
and
do wickedly?
\VS{2}Thou hast
planted
them,
and
they
have
taken
root:
they prosper
and bring forth
fruit: thou art
near
in
their
mouth,
and
far
from
their reins.
\VS{3}And thou,
O
Lord, hast
known
me, thou hast
seen
me,
and
proved
my
heart
with thee: gather
them
together
as
sheep
for
a sacrifice,
and
prepare
them
for
the
day
of
slaughter.
\VS{4}How
long
shall
the
land
mourn,
and
the
herb
of
every
field
wither
for
the
wickedness
of
them
that
dwell therein?
The
beasts
and
the
birds
are consumed:
because
they
have
said:
He
shall
not
see
our
last
end.
\VS{5}If thou hast
wearied
with
running
with
footmen,
how canst thou contend
with
horses?
and
if thou hast
been
secure
in
a
land
of
peace,
what wilt thou
do
in
the swelling
of
the
Jordan?
\VS{6}For
even thy
brethren,
and
the
house
of thy
father,
even
they
have fought
against thee,
and
have
cried
after thee
with
full voice:
believe
them
not
when
they
speak
good
things
to thee.
\VS{7}I
have
forsaken
my
house,
I
have
left
my
inheritance:
I
have
given
my dear
soul
into
the
land
of
her
enemies.
\VS{8}My
inheritance
is
become
to
me
as
a
lion
in
the wood:
is hath
cried
out
against
me,
therefore
have
I
hated
it.
\VS{9}Is
my
inheritance
to
me
as
a
speckled
bird?
Is
it
as
a
bird died
throughout?
come ye,
assemble
yourselves,
all
the
beasts
of
the earth, make haste
to devour.
\VS{10}Many pastors
have
destroyed
my
vineyard, they
have
trodden
my
portion under foot: they
have changed
my delightful
portion
into
a
desolate
wilderness.
\VS{11}They
have
laid
it
waste,
and
it hath
mourned
for
me.
With
desolation
is
all
the
land
made
desolate;
because
there
is
none
that considereth
in
the
heart.
\VS{12}The spoilers
are
come
upon
all
the ways
of
the
wilderness,
for
the
sword
of
the
Lord
shall
devour
from
one
end
of
the
land
to
the
other
end thereof:
there
is
no
peace
for
all
flesh.
\VS{13}They
have
sown
wheat,
and reaped
thorns:
they
have received
an inheritance,
and
it
shall
not
profit
them:
you
shall
be
ashamed
of
your fruits, because
of
the
fierce
wrath
of
the
Lord.
\VS{14}Thus saith
the
Lord
against
all
my
wicked
neighbors,
that
touch
the
inheritance
that
I
have shared
out
to
my
people
Israel:
Behold
I
will
pluck
them
out
of
their
land,
and
I
will
pluck
the
house
of Juda
out
of
the
midst
of
them.
\VS{15}And
when
I
shall
have
plucked
them
out,
I
will
return,
and
have
mercy
on
them:
and
I
will
bring
them
back,
every
man
to
his
inheritance,
and
every
man
to
his
land.
\VS{16}And
it
shall
come
to
pass,
if
they
will
be
taught,
and
will
learn
the
ways
of
my
people,
to
swear
by
my
name:
The
Lord liveth,
as
they
have
taught
my
people
to
swear
by
baal:
that
they
shall
be
built
up
in
the
midst
of
my
people.
\VS{17}But
if
they
will
not
hear,
I
will
utterly
pluck
out
and
destroy
that
nation, saith
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Thus saith
the
Lord
to
me:
Go,
and
get thee
a
linen
girdle,
and thou shalt
put
it
about thy
loins,
and shalt
not
put
it
into
water.
\VS{2}And
I got
a
girdle accoding
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
and
put
it
about
my
loins.
\VS{3}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me
the
second
time,
saying:
\VS{4}Take
the
girdle
which thou hast
got,
which
is
about thy
loins,
and
arise,
and
go
to
the
Euphrates,
and
hide
it
there
in
a hole
of
the
rock.
\VS{5}And
I went,
and
hid
it
by
the
Euphrates,
as
the
Lord
had
commanded
me.
\VS{6}And
it
came
to
pass
after
many
days,
that
the
Lord
said
to
me:
Arise,
go
to
the
Euphrates,
and
take
from thence
the
girdle,
which
I
commanded thee
to
hide
there.
\VS{7}And
I went
to
the
Euphrates,
and digged,
and
took
the
girdle
out
of
the
place
where
I
had
hid
it:
and
behold
the
girdle
was rotten,
so
that
it
was fit
for
no
use.
\VS{8}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me,
saying:
\VS{9}Thus saith
the
Lord: after
this
manner
will
I make
the
pride
of Juda,
and
the
great
pride
of
Jerusalem
to rot.
\VS{10}This
wicked
people,
that
will
not
hear
my
words,
and
that
walk
in
the perverseness
of
their
heart,
and
have
gone
after strange
gods
to
serve
them,
and
to adore
them:
and
they
shall
be
as
this
girdle
which
is fit
for
no
use.
\VS{11}For
as
the
girdle sticketh
close
to
the
loins
of
a
man,
so
have
I
brought
close
to
me
all
of
the
house
of
Israel,
and
all
the
house
of Juda, saith
the
Lord:
that
they
might
be
my
people,
and
for
a
name,
and
for
a
praise,
and
for
a
glory:
but
they
would
not
hear.
\VS{12}Thou shalt
speak
therefore
to
them
this
word:
Thus saith
the
Lord
God
of
Israel:
Every bottle
shall
be
filled
with
wine,
and
they
shall
say
to thee:
Do
we
not
know
that
every bottle
shall
be
filled
with
wine?
\VS{13}And thou shalt
say
to
them:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
I
will
fill
all
the
inhabitants
of
this
land,
and
the
kings
of
the race
of
David
that
sit
upon
his
throne,
and
the
priests,
and
the
prophets,
and
all
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem.
with
drunkenness.
\VS{14}And
I
will scatter
them
every
man
from
his
brother,
and
fathers
and
sons
in
like manner, saith
the
Lord:
I
will
not
spare,
and
I
will
not pardon:
nor
will
I
have
mercy,
but
to
destroy
them.
\VS{15}Hear ye,
and
give
ear:
Be
not
proud,
for
the
Lord hath
spoken.
\VS{16}Give ye
glory
to
the
Lord
your
God,
before
it
be
dark,
and
before
your
feet
stumble
upon
the
dark
mountains:
you
shall
look
for
light,
and
he
will
turn
it
into
the
shadow
of
death,
and
into
darkness.
\VS{17}But
if
you
will
not
hear
this,
my
soul
shall
weep
in
secret
for
your
pride:
weeping
it
shall
weep,
and
my
eyes
shall
run
down
the
tears,
because
the
flock
of
the
Lord
is
carried
away
captive.
\VS{18}Say
to
the
king,
and
to
the
queen: Humble yourselves,
sit
down:
for
the
crown
of
your
glory
is
come
down
from
your head.
\VS{19}The
cities
of
the
south
are
shut
up,
and
there
is
none
to
open
them:
all Juda
is
carried
away
captive
with
an
entire
captivity.
\VS{20}Lift
up
your
eyes,
and
see,
you
that
come
from
the
north:
where
is
the
flock
that
is
given thee, thy
beautiful cattle?
\VS{21}What wilt thou
say
when
he
shall
visit thee?
for thou hast
taught
them
against thee,
and
instructed
them
against thy own
head:
shall
not sorrows
lay
hold
on thee,
as
a
woman
in labour?
\VS{22}And
if thou shalt
say
in thy
heart:
Why
are
these
things
come upon
me?
For
the
greatness
of thy
iniquity, thy nakedness
is discovered,
the soles
of thy feet
are defiled.
\VS{23}If
the
Ethiopian
can
change
his
skin,
or
the
leopard
his
spots:
you
may
also
do
well,
when
you
have learned
evil.
\VS{24}And I
will
scatter
them as
stubble,
which
is carried
away
by
the
wind
in
the
desert.
\VS{25}This
is thy
lot,
and
the
portion
of thy
measure
from
me, saith
the
Lord,
because thou hast
forgotten
me,
and hast
trusted
in
falsehood.
\VS{26}Wherefore
I
have
also
bared
my thighs
against thy
face,
and thy
shame hath
appeared.
\VS{27}I
have
seen thy
adulteries,
and thy
neighing,
the
wickedness
of thy fornication:
and thy
abominations,
upon
the
hills
in
the
field.
Woe
to thee,
Jerusalem, wilt thou
not
be made
clean
after
me:
how
long
yet?

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
Word
of
the
Lord
that
came
to Jeremias
concerning
the
words
of
the
drought.
\VS{2}Judea hath
mourned,
and
the
gates thereof
are fallen,
and
are
become obscure
on
the
ground,
and
the
cry
of
Jerusalem
is
gone
up.
\VS{3}The great
ones
sent
their inferiors
to
the
water:
they
came
to
draw,
they
found
no
water,
they
carried
back
their
vessels
empty:
they
were
confounded
and
afflicted,
and
covered
their
heads.
\VS{4}For
the destruction
of
the
land,
because
there
came
no
rain
upon
the
earth,
the husbandmen
were
confounded,
they
covered
their
heads.
\VS{5}Yea,
the hind
also
brought
forth
in
the
field,
and
left
it,
because
there
was
no
grass.
\VS{6}And
the
wild asses
stood
upon
the rocks,
they snuffed
up
the
wind
like dragons,
their
eyes
failed,
because
there
was
no
grass.
\VS{7}If
our
iniquities
have testified
against
us,
O
Lord,
do thou
it
for thy
name’s
sake,
for
our rebellions
are
many,
we
have
sinned
against thee.
\VS{8}O expectation
of
Israel,
the Saviour thereof
in
time
of
trouble:
why wilt thou
be
a
stranger
in
the
land,
and
as
a wayfaring man
turning
in
to lodge?
\VS{9}Why wilt thou
be
as
a wandering
man,
as
a
mighty
man
that
cannot
save?
but thou,
O
Lord, art
among
us,
and thy
name
is
called
upon
by
us, forsake
us
not.
\VS{10}Thus saith
the
Lord
to
his
people,
that
have
loved
to move
their
feet,
and
have
not rested,
and
have
not
pleased
the
Lord:
He
will
now
remember
their
iniquities,
and
visit
their
sins.
\VS{11}And
the
Lord
said
to
me:
Pray
not
for
this
people
for
their
good.
\VS{12}When
they
fast
I
will
not
hear
their prayers:
and
if
they
offer holocausts
and victims,
I
will
not
receive
them:
for
I
will
consume
them
by
the
sword,
and
by
famine,
and
by
the
pestilence.
\VS{13}And
I
said:
Ah,
ah,
ah,
O
Lord
God,
the
prophets
say
to
them:
You
shall
not
see
the
sword,
and
there
shall
be
no
famine
among
you,
but
he
will
give
you
true
peace
in
this
place.
\VS{14}And
the
Lord
said
to
me:
The
prophets
prophesy
falsely
in
my
name:
I
sent
them
not,
neither
have
I
commanded
them,
nor
have
I
spoken
to
them:
they
prophesy unto
you
a
lying
vision,
and
divination
and
deceit,
and
the seduction
of
their own
heart.
\VS{15}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord
concerning
the
prophets
that
prophecy
in
my
name, whom
I
did
not
send,
that
say:
Sword
and
famine
shall
not
be
in
this
land:
By
sword
and
famine
shall
those
prophets
be
consumed.
\VS{16}And
the
people
to
whom
they prophecy,
shall
be
cast
out
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem
because
of
the
famine
and
the
sword,
and
there
shall
be
none
to
bury
them:
they
and
their
wives,
their
sons
and
their
daughters,
and
I
will
pour
out
their
wickedness
upon
them.
\VS{17}And thou shalt
speak
this
word
to
them:
Let
my
eyes
shed
down
tears
night
and
day,
and
let
them
not
cease,
because
the
virgin
daughter
of
my
people
is afflicted
with
a
great affliction,
with
an
exceeding grievous evil.
\VS{18}If
I
go
forth
into
the
fields,
behold
the
slain
with
the
sword:
and
if
I
enter
into
the
city,
behold
them
that
are consumed
with
famine.
The
prophet
also
and
the
priest
are
gone
into
a
land
which
they
knew
not.
\VS{19}Hast thou utterly
cast
away Juda,
or hath thy
soul
abhorred Sion?
why
then hast thou
struck
us,
so
that
there
is
no
healing
for
us?
we
have
looked
for
peace,
and
there
is
no
good:
and
for
the
time
of
healing,
and
behold trouble.
\VS{20}We
acknowledge,
O
Lord,
our
wickedness,
the
iniquities
of
our
fathers,
because
we
have
sinned
against thee.
\VS{21}Give
us
not
to
be
a reproach,
for thy
name’s
sake,
and
do
not disgrace
in
us
the
throne
of thy
glory:
remember,
break
not thy
covenant
with
us.
\VS{22}Are
there
any
among
the graven
things
of
the
Gentiles
that
can
send
rain?
or
can
the
heavens
give
showers? art
not thou
the
Lord
our
God,
whom
we
have looked
for?
for thou hast
made
all
these
things.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
Lord
said
to
me:
If
Moses
and
Samuel
shall
stand
before
me,
my
soul
is
not towards
this
people:
cast
them
out
from
my
sight,
and
let
them
go
forth.
\VS{2}And
if
they
shall
say unto thee: Whither
shall
we
go
forth? thou shalt
say
to
them:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
Such
as
are
for
death,
to
death:
and
such
as
are
to
the
sword,
to
the
sword:
and
such
as
are
for
famine,
to
famine:
and
such
as
are
to
captivity,
to
captivity.
\VS{3}And
I
will
visit
them
with
four
kinds, saith
the
Lord:
The
sword
to
kill,
and
the
dogs
to tear,
and
the fowls
of
the air,
and
the
beasts
of
the
earth,
to
devour
and
destroy.
\VS{4}And
I
will
give
them
up
to
the rage
of
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth:
because
of Manasses
the
son
of Ezechias
the
king
of Juda,
for
all
that
he
did
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{5}For
who
shall
have
pity
on thee,
O
Jerusalem?
or
who
shall bemoan thee?
or
who
shall
go
to
pray
for thy
peace?
\VS{6}Thou hast
forsaken
me, saith
the
Lord, thou art gone
backward:
and
I
will
stretch
out
my
hand
against thee,
and
I
will
destroy thee:
I
am
weary
of entreating thee.
\VS{7}And
I
will
scatter
them
with
a fan
in
the
gates
of
the
land:
I
have killed
and
destroyed
my
people,
and
yet
they
are
not
returned form
their
ways.
\VS{8}Their
widows
are
multiplied unto
me
above
the
sand
of
the
sea:
I
have
brought
upon
them
against
the
mother
of
the
young
man
a spoiler
at noonday:
I
have
cast
a
terror
on
a
sudden
upon
the
cities.
\VS{9}She
that hath
borne
seven
is
become weak,
her
soul hath fainted
away:
her
sun
is
gone
down,
while
it
was
yet
day:
she
is
confounded,
and
ashamed:
and
the residue
of
them
I
will
give
up
to
the
sword
in
the
sight
of
their
enemies, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{10}Woe
is
me,
my
mother:
why hast thou
borne
me
a
man
of
strife,
a
man
of
contention
to
all
the
earth?
I
have
not
lent
on usury,
neither hath
any
man
lent
to
me
on usury:
yet
all
curse
me.
\VS{11}The
Lord saith
to
me: Assuredly
it
shall
be
well
with thy remnant, assuredly
I
shall help thee
in
the
time
of affliction,
and
in
the
time
of tribulation against
the
enemy.
\VS{12}Shall
iron be allied
with
the
iron from
the
north,
and
the
brass?
\VS{13}Thy
riches
and thy
treasures
I
will
give unto
spoil
for
nothing,
because
of
all thy
sins,
even
in
all thy
borders.
\VS{14}And
I
will
bring thy
enemies
out
of
a
land,
which thou knowest
not:
for
a
fire
is
kindled
in
my rage,
it
shall
burn
upon
you.
\VS{15}O
Lord, thou knowest,
remember
me,
and
visit
me,
and defend
me
from
them
that
persecute
me,
do
not defend
me
in thy
patience:
know
that
for thy
sake
I
have sufferred
reproach.
\VS{16}Thy
words
were
found,
and
I did
eat
them,
and thy
word
was
to
me
a
joy
and
gladness
of
my
heart:
for thy
name
is
called
upon
me,
O
Lord
God
of
hosts.
\VS{17}I
sat
not
in
the
assembly
of jesters,
nor
did
I
make
a boast
of
the
presence
of thy
hand:
I
sat
alone,
because thou hast
filled
me
with threats.
\VS{18}Why
is
my
sorrow
become
perpetual,
and
my
wound desperate
so
as
to
refuse
to
be
healed?
it
is
become
to
me
as
the falsehood
of deceitful
waters
that
cannot
be
trusted.
\VS{19}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord:
If thou wilt
be
converted,
I
will convert thee,
and thou shalt
stand
before
my
face;
and
if thou wilt separate
the
precious
from
the vile, thou shalt
be
as
my
mouth:
they
shall
be
turned
to thee,
and thou shalt
not
be
turned
to
them.
\VS{20}And
I
will
make thee
to
this
people
as
a strong
wall
of
brass:
and
they
shall
fight
against thee,
and
shall
not
prevail:
for
I
am
with thee
to
save thee,
and
to
deliver thee, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{21}And
I
will
deliver thee
out
of
the
hand
of
the
wicked,
and
I
will
redeem thee
out
of
the
hand
of
the mighty.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me,
saying:
\VS{2}Thou shalt
not
take thee
a
wife,
neither shalt thou
have thee
sons
and
daughters
in
this
place.
\VS{3}For
thus saith
the
Lord
concerning
the
sons
and
daughters,
that
are
born
in
this
place,
and
concerning
their
mothers
that
bore
them:
and
concerning
their
fathers,
of whom
they
were
born
in
this
land:
\VS{4}They
shall
die
by
the
death
of grievous illnesses:
they
shall
not
be
lamented,
and
they
shall
not
be
buried,
they
shall
be
as
dung
upon
the
face
of
the
earth:
and
they
shall
be
consumed
with
the
sword,
and
with
famine:
and
their
carcasses
shall
be meat
for
the fowls
of
the air,
and
for
the
beasts
of
the
earth.
\VS{5}For
thus saith
the
Lord:
Enter
not
into
the
house
of feasting,
neither
go thou
to
mourn,
nor
to comfort
them:
because
I
have
taken
away
my
peace
from
this
people, saith
the
Lord,
my
mercy
and commiserations.
\VS{6}Both
the
great
and
the
little
shall
die
in
the
land:
they
shall
not
be
buried
nor
lamented,
and
men
shall
not
cut
themselves,
nor
make
themselves
bald
for
them.
\VS{7}And
they
shall
not
break bread
among
them
to
him
that mourneth,
to
comfort
him
for
the
dead:
neither
shall
they
give
them
to
drink
of
the
cup,
to
comfort
them
for
their
father
and
mother.
\VS{8}And
do
not thou
go
into
the
house
of
feasting,
to
sit
with
them,
and
to
eat
and
drink.
\VS{9}For
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts,
the
God
of
Israel:
Behold
I
will take
away
out
of
this
place
in
your
sight,
and
in
your
days
the
voice
of
mirth,
and
the
voice
of
gladness,
the
voice
of
the bridegroom,
and
the
voice
of
the
bride.
\VS{10}And
when thou shalt
tell
this
people
all
these
words,
and
they
shall
say
to thee: Wherefore hath
the
Lord
pronounced
against
us
all
this
great
evil?
what
is
our
iniquity?
and
what
is
our
sin,
that
we
have
sinned
against
the
Lord
our
God?
\VS{11}Thou shalt
say
to
them:
Because
your
fathers forsook
me, saith
the
Lord:
and
went
after strange
gods,
and
served
them,
and adored
them:
and
they forsook
me,
and
kept
not
my
law.
\VS{12}And
you
also
have
done
worse
than
your
fathers:
for
behold
every
one
of
you walketh
after
the perverseness
of
his
evil
heart,
so
as
not
to hearken
to
me.
\VS{13}So
I
will
cast
you
forth
out
of
this
land,
into
a
land
which
you
know
not,
nor
you
fathers:
and
there
you
shall
serve strange
gods
day
and
night,
which
shall
not
give
you
any rest.
\VS{14}Therefore
behold
the
days
come, saith
the
Lord,
when
it
shall
be
said
no
more:
The
Lord liveth,
that
brought
for
the
children
of
Israel
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt:
\VS{15}But,
the
Lord liveth,
that
brought
the
children
of
Israel
out
of
the
land
of
the
north,
and
out
of
all
the
lands
to
which
I
cast
them
out:
and
I
will
bring
them
again
into
their
land,
which
I
gave
to
their
fathers.
\VS{16}Behold
I
will
send
many fishers, saith
the
Lord,
and
they
shall
fish
them:
and
after
this
I
will
send
them
many hunters,
and
they
shall
hunt
them
from
every
mountain,
and
from
every
hill,
and
out
of
the holes
of
the
rocks.
\VS{17}For
my
eyes
are
upon
all
their
ways:
they
are
not
hid
from
my
face,
and
their
iniquity hath
not
been
hid
from
my
eyes.
\VS{18}And
I
will
repay
first
their
double
iniquities,
and
their
sins:
because
they
have defiled
my
land
with
the
carcasses
of
their
idols,
and
they
have
filled
my
inheritance
with
their
abominations.
\VS{19}O
Lord,
my
might,
and
my
strength,
and
my
refuge
in
the
day
of tribulation:
to thee
the
Gentiles
shall
come
from
the
ends
of
the
earth,
and
shall
say:
Surely
our
fathers
have
possessed
lies,
a
vanity
which hath
not profited
them.
\VS{20}Shall
a
man
make
gods unto
himself,
and
there
are
no
gods?
\VS{21}Therefore,
behold
I
will
this
once cause
them
to
know,
I
will shew
them
my
hand
and
my
power:
and
they
shall
know
that
my
name
is
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
sin
of Juda
is
written
with
a
pen
of
iron,
with
the
point
of
a
diamond,
it
is graven
upon
the table
of
their
heart,
upon
the
horns
of
their
altars.
\VS{2}When
their
children
shall
remember
their
altars,
and
their groves,
and
their
green
trees
upon
high mountains,
\VS{3}Sacrificing
in
the
field:
I
will
give thy
strength,
and
all thy
treasures
to
the
spoil,
and thy
high
places
for
sin
in
all thy
borders.
\VS{4}And thou shalt
be
left stripped
of thy
inheritance,
which
I
gave thee:
and
I
will
make thee
serve thy
enemies
in
a
land
which thou knowest
not:
because thou hast
kindled
a
fire
in
my
wrath,
it
shall
burn
for
ever.
\VS{5}Thus saith
the
Lord:
Cursed
be
the
man
that trusteth
in
man,
and maketh
flesh
his
arm,
and
whose
heart departeth
from
the
Lord.
\VS{6}For
he
shall
be
like tamaric
in
the
desert,
and
he
shall
not
see
when
good
shall
come:
but
he
shall
dwell
in dryness
in
the
desert
in
a
salt
land,
and
not
inhabited.
\VS{7}Blessed
be
the
man
that trusteth
in
the
Lord,
and
the
Lord
shall
be
his
confidence.
\VS{8}And
he
shall
be
as
a
tree
that
is
planted
by
the
waters,
that spreadeth
out
its
roots towards moisture:
and
it
shall
not
fear
when
the
heat cometh.
And
the
leaf thereof
shall
be
green,
and
in
the
time
of
drought
it
shall
not
be solicitous,
neither
shall
it
cease
at
any
time
to
bring
forth
fruit.
\VS{9}The
heart
is perverse
above
all
things,
and unsearchable,
who
can
know
it?
\VS{10}I
am
the
Lord
who
search
the
heart
and prove
the reins:
who
give
to
every
one
according
to
his
way,
and
according
to
the
fruit
of
his devices.
\VS{11}As
the
partridge hath hatched
eggs which
she
did
not
lay:
so
is
he
that hath gathered
riches,
and
not
by
right:
in
the
midst
of
his
days
he
shall
leave
them,
and
in
his
latter
end
he
shall
be
a
fool.
\VS{12}A
high
and glorious
throne
from
the
beginning
is
the
place
of our sanctification:
\VS{13}O
Lord
the hope
of
Israel:
all
that
forsake thee
shall
be
confounded:
they
that depart
from thee,
shall
be
written
in
the
earth:
because
they
have forsaken
the
Lord,
the vein
of
living
waters.
\VS{14}Heal
me,
O
Lord,
and
I
shall
be
healed:
save
me,
and
I
shall
be
saved,
for thou art
my
praise.
\VS{15}Behold
they
say
to
me:
Where
is
the
word
of
the
Lord?
let
it
come.
\VS{16}And
I
am
not troubled,
following thee
for
my pastor,
and
I
have
not
desired
the
day
of man, thou knowest.
That which
went
out
of
my
lips, hath
been
right
in thy
sight.
\VS{17}Be
not thou
a
terror unto
me, thou art
my hope
in
the
day
of affliction.
\VS{18}Let
them
be
confounded
that
persecute
me,
and
let
not
me
be
confounded:
let
them
be afraid,
and
let
not
me
be afraid:
bring
upon
them
the
day
of affliction,
and
with
a
double
destruction,
destroy
them.
\VS{19}Thus saith
the
Lord
to
me:
Go,
and
stand
in
the
gate
of
the
children
of
the
people,
by
which
the
kings
of Juda
come
in,
and
go
out,
and
in
all
the
gates
of
Jerusalem:
\VS{20}And thou shalt
say
to
them:
Hear
the
word
of
the
Lord, ye
kings
of Juda,
and
all Juda,
and
all
the
inhabitant
of
Jerusalem,
that
enter
in
by
these
gates.
\VS{21}Thus saith
the
Lord:
Take
heed
to
your
souls
and
carry
no burdens
on
the
Sabbath
day:
and
bring
them
not
in
by
the
gates
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{22}And
do
not
bring burdens
out
of
your
houses
on
the
sabbath
day,
neither
do ye
any
work:
sanctify
the
sabbath
day,
as
I
commanded
your
fathers.
\VS{23}But
they
did
not
hear,
nor
incline
their
ear:
but
hardened
their
neck,
that
they might
not
hear
me,
and might
not
receive
instruction.
\VS{24}And
it
shall
come
to
pass:
if
you
will hearken
to
me, saith
the
Lord,
to
bring
in
no burdens
by
the
gates
of
this
city
on
the
sabbath
day:
and
if
you
will
sanctify
the
sabbath
day,
to
do
no
work therein:
\VS{25}Then
shall
there
enter
in
by
the
gates
of
this
city
kings
and
princes,
sitting
upon
the
throne
of
David,
and
riding
in
chariots
and
on
horses,
they
and
their
princes,
the
men
of Juda,
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem:
and
this
city
shall
be
inhabited
forever.
\VS{26}And
they
shall
come
from
the
cities
of Juda,
and
from
the
places
round
about
Jerusalem,
and
from
the
land
of
Benjamin,
and
from
the plains,
and
from
the
mountains,
and
from
the
south,
bringing holocausts,
and victims,
and
sacrifices,
and
frankincense,
and
they
shall
bring
in
an
offering
into
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{27}But
if
you
will
not hearken
to
me,
to
sanctify
the
sabbath
day,
and
not
to
carry burdens,
and
not
to
bring
them
in
by
the
gates
of
Jerusalem
on
the
sabbath
day:
I
will
kindle
a
fire
in
the
gates thereof,
and
it
shall
devour
the houses
of
Jerusalem,
and
it
shall
not
be
quenched.

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
came
from Jeremias
to
the
Lord,
saying:
\VS{2}Arise,
and
go
down
to
the
potter’s
house,
and
there thou shalt
hear
my
words.
\VS{3}And
I
went
down
into
the
potter’s
house,
and
behold
he
was
doing
a
work
on
the
wheel.
\VS{4}And
the
vessel
was broken
which
he
was
making
with clay
with
his
hands:
and
turning
he
made
another
vessel,
as
it
seemed
good
in
his
eyes
to
make
it.
\VS{5}Then
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me,
saying:
\VS{6}Cannot
I
do
with
you
as
this
potter, saith
the
Lord?
behold
as clay
is
in
the
hand
of
the
potter,
so
are
you
in
my
hand,
O
house
of
Israel.
\VS{7}I
will
suddenly
speak
against
a
nation,
and
against
a
kingdom,
to
root
out,
and
to
pull
down,
and
to
destroy
it.
\VS{8}If
that
nation
against
which
I
have
spoken,
shall
repent
of
their
evil,
I
also
will
repent
of
the
evil
that
I
have
thought
to
do
to
them.
\VS{9}And
I
will
suddenly
speak
of
a
nation
and
of
a
kingdom,
to
build
up
and
plant
it.
\VS{10}If
it
shall
do
evil
in
my
sight,
that
it
obey
not
my
voice:
I
will
repent
of
the
good
that
I
have
spoken
to
do unto
it.
\VS{11}Now
therefore
tell
the
men
of Juda,
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
saying:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
I frame
evil
against
you,
and
devise
a device
against
you:
let
every
man
of
you
return
from
his
evil
way,
and
make ye
your
ways
and
your
doings
good.
\VS{12}And
they
said:
We
have no hopes:
for
we
will go
after
our
own
thoughts,
and
we
will
do
every
one
according
to
the perverseness
of
his
evil
heart.
\VS{13}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord:
Ask
among
the
nations:
Who hath
heard
such horrible
things,
as
the
virgin
of
Israel hath
done
to excess?
\VS{14}Shall now
the
snow
of Libanus fail
from
the
rock
of
the
field?
or
can
the
cold
waters
that gush
out
and run
down,
be taken
away?
\VS{15}Because
my
people
have
forgotten
me,
sacrificing
in
vain,
and stumbling
in
their
ways,
in
ancient
paths,
to
walk
by
them
in
a
way
not trodden:
\VS{16}That
their
land might
be given
up
to
desolation,
and
to
a
perpetual
hissing:
every
one
that
shall
pass
by
it,
shall
be
astonished,
and wag
his
head.
\VS{17}As
a burning
will
I
scatter
them
before
the
enemy:
I
will shew
them
the
back,
and
not
the
face,
in
the
day
of
their
destruction.
\VS{18}And
they
said: Come,
and
let
us invent devices
against Jeremias:
for
the
law
shall
not
perish
from
the
priest,
nor
counsel
from
the
wise,
nor
the
word
from
the
prophet: come,
and
let
us
strike
him
with
the
tongue,
and
let
us
give
no
heed
to
all
his
words.
\VS{19}Give
heed
to
me,
O
Lord,
and
hear
the
voice
of
my adversaries.
\VS{20}Shall
evil
be rendered
for
good,
because
they
have digged
a
pit
for
my
soul?
Remember
that
I
have
stood
in thy
sight,
so
speak
good
for
them,
and
turn
away thy indignation
from
them.
\VS{21}Therefore
deliver
up
their
children
to
famine,
and
bring
them
into
the
hands
of
the
sword:
let
their
wives
be bereaved
of
children
and
widows:
and
let
their
husbands
be
slain
by
death:
let
their
young
men
be
stabbed
with
the
sword
in
battle.
\VS{22}Let
a
cry
be
heard
out
of
their
houses:
for thou shalt
bring
the robber
upon
them
suddenly:
because
they
have digged
a
pit
to
take
me,
and
have
hid
snares
for
my
feet.
\VS{23}But thou,
O
Lord, knowest
all
their
counsel
against
me unto
death:
forgive
not
their
iniquity,
and
let
not
their
sin
be blotted
out
from thy
sight:
let
them
be
overthrown
before thy eyes,
in
the
time
of thy
wrath
do thou
destroy
them.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Thus saith
the
Lord:
Go,
and
take
a
potter’s
earthen bottle,
and
take
of
the ancients
of
the
people,
and
of
the ancients
of
the
priests:
\VS{2}And
go
forth
into
the
valley
of
the
son
of Ennom,
which
is
by
the
entry
of
the earthen
gate:
and
there thou shalt
proclaim
the
words
that
I
shall
tell thee.
\VS{3}And thou shalt
say:
Hear
the
word
of
the
Lord,
O ye
kings
of Juda,
and ye
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem:
Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts,
the
God
of
Israel:
Behold
I
will
bring
an affliction
upon
this
place:
so
that
whoever
shall
hear
it,
his
ears
shall
tingle:
\VS{4}Because
they
have forsaken
me,
and
have profaned
this
place:
and
have sacrificed therein
to strange
gods,
whom
neither
they
nor
their
fathers
knew,
nor
the
kings
of Juda:
and
they
have
filled
this
place
with
the
blood
of innocents.
\VS{5}And
they
have
built
the
high
places
of Baalim,
to
burn
their
children
with
fire
for
a holocaust
to Baalim:
which
I
did
not
command,
nor
speak
of,
neither
did
it once
come
into
my
mind.
\VS{6}Therefore
behold
the
days
come, saith
the
Lord,
that
this
place
shall
no
more
be
called
Topheth,
nor
the
valley
of
the
son
of Ennom,
but
the
valley
of
slaughter.
\VS{7}And
I
will
defeat
the
counsel
of Juda
and
of
Jerusalem
in
this
place:
and
I
will
destroy
them
with
the
sword
in
the
sight
of
their
enemies,
and
by
the
hands
of
them
that
seek
their
lives:
and
I
will
give
their
carcasses
to
be meat
for
the fowls
of
the air,
and
for
the
beasts
of
the
earth.
\VS{8}And
I
will
make
this
city
an astonishent,
and
a
hissing:
every
one
that shall
pass
by
it, shall
be
astonished,
and shall
hiss
because
of
all
the
plagues thereof.
\VS{9}And
I
will
feed
them
with
the
flesh
of
their
sons,
and
with
the
flesh
of
their
daughters:
and
they
shall
eat
every
one
the
flesh
of
his
friend
in
the
siege,
and
in
the
distress wherewith
their
enemies,
and
they
that
seek
their
lives
shall straiten
them.
\VS{10}And thou shalt
break
the bottle
in
the
sight
of
the
men
that
shall
go
with thee.
\VS{11}And thou shalt
say
to
them:
Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts:
even
so
will
I
break
this
people,
and
this
city,
as
the
potter’s
vessel
is
broken,
which
cannot
be
made whole
again:
and
they
shall
be
buried
in
Topheth,
because
there
is
no
other
place
to
bury
in.
\VS{12}Thus
will
I
do
to
this
place, saith
the
Lord,
and
to
the
inhabitants thereof:
and
I
will
make
this
city
as
Topheth.
\VS{13}And
the
houses
of
Jerusalem,
and
the
houses
of Juda
shall
be
unclean
as
the
place
of
Topheth:
all
the
houses
upon
whose roots
they
have sacrificed
to
all
the
host
of
heaven,
and
have poured
out drink offerings
to strange
gods.
\VS{14}Then Jeremias
came
from
Topheth, whither
the
Lord
had
sent
him
to prophecy,
and
he
stood
in
the
court
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
said
to
all
people:
\VS{15}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts,
the
God
of
Israel:
Behold
I
will
bring
in
upon
this
city,
and
upon
all
the
cities thereof
all
the evils
that
I
have
spoken
against
it:
because
they
have
hardened
their
necks,
and
they
might
not
hear
my
words.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now Phassur
the
son
of Emmur,
the
priest,
who
was appointed
chief
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
heard Jeremias
prophesying
these
words.
\VS{2}And Phassur
struck Jeremias
the
prophet,
and
put
him
in
the
stocks,
that
were
in
the
upper
gate
of
Benjamin,
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{3}And
when
it
was light
the
next
day, Phassur
brought Jeremias
out
of
the
stocks.
And Jeremias
said
to
him:
The
Lord hath
not
called thy
name Phassur,
but fear
on every side.
\VS{4}For
thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
I
will
deliver thee
up
to fear, thee
and
all thy
friends:
and
they
shall
fall
by
the
sword
of
their
enemies,
and thy
eyes
shall
see
it,
and
I
will
give
all Juda
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Babylon:
and
he
shall
strike
them
with
the
sword.
\VS{5}And
I
will
give
all
the substance
of
this
city,
and
all
its labour,
and
every
precious
thing thereof,
and
all
the
treasures
of
the
kings
of Juda
will
I
give
into
the
hands
of
their
enemies:
and
they
shall
pillage
them,
and
take
them
away,
and
carry
them
to
Babylon.
\VS{6}But thou, Phassur,
and
all
that
dwell
in thy
house,
shall
go
into
captivity,
and thou shalt
go
to
Babylon,
and
there thou shalt
die,
and
there thou shalt
be
buried, thou
and
all thy
friends,
to
whom thou hast
prophesied
a
lie.
\VS{7}Thou hast deceived
me,
O
Lord,
and
I
am deceived: thou hast
been
stronger
than
I,
and thou hast
prevailed.
I
am
become
a laughing-stock
all
the
day,
all
scoff
at
me.
\VS{8}For
I
am
speaking
now
this
long
time,
crying
out
against iniquity,
and
I
often
proclaim
devastation:
and
the
word
of
the
Lord
is
made
a
reproach
to
me,
and
a
derision
all
the
day.
\VS{9}Then
I
said:
I
will
not
make
mention
of
him,
nor
speak
any
more
in
his
name:
and
there
came
in
my
heart
as
a
burning
fire
shut
up
in
my
bones,
and
I
was
wearied,
not
being
able
to bear
it.
\VS{10}For
I
heard
the reproaches
of
many,
and
terror
on
every
side: Persecute
him,
and
let
us persecute
him:
from
all
the
men
that
were
my familiars,
and continued
at
my
side:
if
by
any means
he
may
be deceived,
and
we
may
prevail
against
him,
and
be revenged
on
him.
\VS{11}But
the
Lord
is
with
me
as
a
strong
warrior:
therefore
they
that
persecute
me
shall
fall,
and
shall
be
weak:
they
shall
be
greatly
confounded,
because
they
have
not
understood
the
everlasting
reproach, which
never
shall
be effaced.
\VS{12}And thou,
O
Lord
of
hosts, prover
of
the
just,
who seest
the reins
and
the
heart:
let
me
see,
I beseech thee, thy
vengeance
on
them:
for
to thee
I
have
laid
open
my
cause.
\VS{13}Sing ye
to
the
Lord,
praise
the
Lord:
because
he hath
delivered
the
soul
of
the
poor
out
of
the
hand
of
the
wicked.
\VS{14}Cursed
be
the
day
wherein
I
was
borne:
let
not
the
day
in
which
my
mother
bore
me,
be
blessed.
\VS{15}Cursed
be
the
man
that
brought
the
tidings
to
my
father,
saying:
A
man
child
is
born
to thee:
and
made
him greatly
rejoice.
\VS{16}Let
that
man
be
as
the
cities
that
the
Lord hath
overthrown,
and hath
not
repented:
let
him
hear
a
cry
in
the
morning,
and howling
at noontide:
\VS{17}Who slew
me
not
from
the
womb,
that
my
mother
might
have
been
my
grave,
and
her
womb
an
everlasting conception.
\VS{18}Why
came
I
out
of
the
womb,
to
see labour
and
sorrow,
and
that
my
days
should
be
spent
in confusion?

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
came
to Jeremias
from
the
Lord,
when
king Sedecias
sent unto
him Phassur,
the
son
of Melchias,
and Sophonias,
the
son
of Maasias
the
priest,
saying:
\VS{2}Inquire
of
the
Lord
for
us,
for Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon maketh war
against
us:
if
so
be
the
Lord
will
deal
with
us
according
to
all
his
wonderful
works,
that
he
may
depart
from
us.
\VS{3}And Jeremias
said
to
them:
Thus shall
you
say
to Sedecias:
\VS{4}Thus saith
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel:
Behold
I
will
turn
back
the
weapons
of
war
that
are
in
your
hands,
with
which
you
fight
against
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
the
Chaldeans,
that besiege
you
round
about
the
walls:
and
I
will
gather
them
together
in
the
midst
of
this
city.
\VS{5}And
I
myself
will
fight
against
you
with an
outstretched
hand,
and
with
a
strong
arm,
and
in
fury,
and
in indignation,
and
in
great
wrath.
\VS{6}And I
will
strike
the
inhabitants
of
this
city,
men
and
beasts
shall
die
of
a
great
pestilence.
\VS{7}And
after
this, saith
the
Lord,
I
will
give Sedecias
the
king
of Juda,
and
his
servants,
and
his
people,
and
such
as
are
left
in
this
city
from
the
pestilence,
and
the
sword,
and
the
famine,
into
the
hand
of Nabuchodonosor
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
into
the
hand
of
their
enemies,
and
into
the
hand
of
them
that
seek
their
life,
and
he
shall
strike
them
with
the
edge
of
the
sword,
and
he
shall
not
be
moved
to
pity,
nor
spare
them,
nor shew
mercy
on
them.
\VS{8}And
to
this
people thou shalt
say:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
I
set
before
you
the
way
of
life,
and
the
way
of
death.
\VS{9}He
that
shall
abide
in
this
city,
shall
die
by
the
sword,
and
by
the
famine,
and
by
the
pestilence:
but
he
that
shall
go
out
and
flee
over
to
the
Chaldeans,
that besiege
you,
shall
live,
and
his
life
shall
be
to
him
as
a
spoil.
\VS{10}For
I
have
set
my
face
against
this
city
for
evil,
and
not
for
good, saith
the
Lord:
it
shall
be
given
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
shall
burn
it
with
fire.
\VS{11}And
to
the
house
of
the
king
of Juda:
Hear ye
the
word
of
the
Lord,
\VS{12}O
house
of
David,
this saith
the
Lord:
Judge ye judgement
in
the
morning,
and
deliver
him
that
is
oppressed
by violence
out
of
the
hand
of
the
oppressor:
lest
my indignation
go
forth
like
a
fire,
and
be kindled,
and
there
be
none
to
quench
it,
because
of
the
evil
of
your ways.
\VS{13}Behold
I
come
to thee
that dwellest
in
a
valley
upon
a
rock
above
a
plain, saith
the
Lord:
and
you
say:
Who
shall strike
us?
and
who
shall
enter
into
our houses?
\VS{14}But
I
will
visit
upon
you
according
to
the
fruit
of
your
doings, saith
the
Lord:
and
I
will
kindle
a
fire
in
the
forest thereof:
and
it
shall
devour
all
things
round
about
it.

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Thus saith
the
Lord:
Go
down
to
the
house
of
the
king
of Juda,
and
there thou shalt
speak
this
word,
\VS{2}And thou shalt
say:
Hear
the
word
of
the
Lord,
O
king
of Juda,
that sittest
upon
the
throne
of
David: thou
and thy
servants,
and thy
people,
who
enter
in
by
these
gates.
\VS{3}Thus saith
the
Lord: Execute judgement
and
justice,
and
deliver
him
that
is oppressed
out
of
the
hand
of
the
oppressor:
and afflict
not
the
stranger,
the
fatherless,
nor
the
widow,
nor
oppress
them unjustly:
and
shed
not
innocent
blood
in
this
place.
\VS{4}For
if
you
will
do
this
thing
indeed,
then
shall
there
enter
in
by
the
gates
of
this
house,
kings
of
the race
of
David
sitting
upon
his
throne,
and
riding
in
chariots
and
on
horses,
they
and
their
servants,
and
their
people.
\VS{5}But
if
you
will
not hearken
to
these
words:
I
swear
by myself, saith
the
Lord,
that
this
house
shall
become
a
desolation.
\VS{6}For
thus saith
the
Lord
to
the
house
of
the
king
of Juda: Thou art
to
me Galaad
the
head
of Libanus:
yet
surely
I
will
make thee
a
wilderness,
and
cities
not habitable.
\VS{7}And
I
will
prepare
against thee
the
destroyer
and
his
weapons:
and
they
shall
cut
down thy chosen
cedars,
and
shall
cast
them headlong
into
the
fire.
\VS{8}And
many
nations
shall
pass
by
this
city:
and
they
shall
say
every
man
to
his
neighbor:
Why hath
the
Lord
done
so
to
this
great
city?
\VS{9}And
they
shall
answer:
Because
they
have forsaken
the
covenant
of
the
Lord
their
God,
and
have adored strange
gods,
and
served
them.
\VS{10}Weep
not
for
him
that
is
dead,
nor bemoan
him
with
your tears: lament
him
that goeth
away,
for
he
shall
return
no
more,
nor
see
his
native
country.
\VS{11}For
thus saith
the
Lord
to Sellum
the
son
of Josias
the
king
of Juda,
who
reigned
instead
of
his
father,
who
went
forth
out
of
this
place:
He
shall
return hither
no
more:
\VS{12}But
in
the
place,
to
which
I
have
removed
him,
there
shall
he
die,
and
he
shall
not
see
this
land
any
more.
\VS{13}Woe
to
him
that buildeth
up
his
house
by injustice,
and
his
chambers
not
in judgement:
that
will oppress
his
friend
without
cause,
and
will
not
pay
him
his
wages.
\VS{14}Who saith:
I
will
build
me
a wide
house
and
large
chambers:
who openeth
to himself
windows,
and maketh roofs
of
cedar,
and painteth
them
with
vermilion.
\VS{15}Shalt thou
reign,
because thou comparest thyself
to
the
cedar?
did
not thy
father
eat
and
drink,
and
do
judgment
and
justice,
and
it
was
then
well
with
him?
\VS{16}He judged
the
cause
of
the
poor
and
needy
for
his own
good:
was
it
not
therefore because
he knew
me, saith
the
Lord?
\VS{17}But thy
eyes
and thy
heart
are
set
upon covetousness,
and
upon
shedding
innocent
blood,
and
upon
oppression,
and running
after evil
works.
\VS{18}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord
concerning Joakim
the
son
of Josias
king
of Juda:
They
shall
not
mourn
for
him,
Alas,
my
brother,
and
Alas,
sister:
they
shall
not
lament
for
him,
Alas,
my
Lord,
or,
Alas,
the noble
one.
\VS{19}He
shall
be
buried
with
the
burial
of
an ass, rotten
and
cast forth without
the
gates
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{20}Go
up
to Libanus,
and
cry:
and
lift
up thy
voice
in Basan,
and
cry
to
them
that pass
by,
for
all thy
lovers
are destroyed.
\VS{21}I
spoke
to thee
in thy properity:
and thou saidst:
I
will
not
hear:
this hath
been thy
way
from thy
youth,
because thou hast
not
heard
my
voice.
\VS{22}The
wind shall
feed
all thy pastors,
and thy
lovers shall go into
captivity:
and
then shalt thou
be
confounded,
and
ashamed
of
all thy
wickedness.
\VS{23}Thou
that sittest
in Libanus,
and makest thy
nest
in
the
cedars,
how hast thou mourned
when sorrows
came
upon thee,
as
the
pains
of
a woman
in labour?
\VS{24}As
I
live, saith
the
Lord,
if Jechonias
the
son
of Joakim
the
king
of Juda
were
a ring
on
my
right
hand,
I
would pluck
him thence.
\VS{25}And
I
will
give thee
into
the
hand
of
them
that
seek thy
life,
and
into
the
hand
of
them
whose
face thou fearest,
and
into
the
hand
of Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon,
and
into
the
hand
of
the
Chaldeans.
\VS{26}And
I
will send thee,
and thy
mother
that
bore thee,
into
a strange
country,
in
which
you
were
not
born,
and
there
you
shall
die:
\VS{27}And
they
shall
not
return
into
the
land, whereunto
they
lift
up
their
mind
to
return thither.
\VS{28}Is
this
man Jechonias
an earthen
and
a broken
vessel?
is
he
a
vessel
wherein
there
is
no
pleasure?
why
are
they
cast
out,
he
and
his
seed,
and
are
cast
into
a
land
which
they
know
not?
\VS{29}O
earth,
earth,
earth,
hear
the
word
of
the
Lord.
\VS{30}Thus saith
the
Lord:
Write
this
man barren,
a
man
that
shall
not
prosper
in
his
days:
for
there
shall
not
be
a
man
of
his
seed
that
shall
sit
upon
the
throne
of
David,
and
have power
any
more
in Juda.

\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Woe
to
the pastors,
that
destroy
and tear
the
sheep
of
my
pasture, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{2}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel
to
the pastors
that
feed
my
people:
You
have
scattered
my
flock,
and
driven
them
away,
and
have
not
visited
them:
behold
I
will
visit
upon
you
for
the
evil
of
your
doings, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{3}And
I
will
gather
together
the
remnant
of
my
flock,
out
of
all
the
lands
into
which
I
have
cast
them
out:
and
I
will
make
them
return
to
their own fields,
and
they
shall
increase
and
be
multiplied.
\VS{4}And
I
will
set
up pastors
over
them,
and
they
shall
feed
them:
they
shall
fear
no
more,
and
they
shall
not
be
dismayed:
and
none
shall
be
wanting
of
their
number, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{5}Behold
the
days
come, saith
the
Lord,
and
I
will
raise
up
to
David
a
just
branch:
and
a
king
shall
reign,
and
shall
be
wise,
and
shall execute judgement
and
justice
in
the
earth.
\VS{6}In
those
days
shall Juda
be
saved,
and
Israel
shall
dwell confidently:
and
this
is
the
name
that
they
shall
call
him:
the
Lord
our
just
one.
\VS{7}Therefore
behold
the
days
to
come, saith
the
Lord,
and
they
shall
say
no
more:
The
Lord liveth,
who
brought
up
the
children
of
Israel
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt:
\VS{8}But
the
Lord liveth,
who hath
brought
out,
and
brought hither
the
seed
of
the
house
of
Israel
from
the
land
of
the
north,
and
out
of
all
the
lands,
to
which
I
had
cast
them forth:
and
they
shall
dwell
in
their own
land.
\VS{9}To
the
prophets:
My
heart
is
broken
within
me,
all
my
bones tremble:
I
am
become
as
a
drunken
man,
and
as
a
man
full
of
wine,
at
the
presence
of
the
Lord,
and
at
the
presence
of
his
holy
words.
\VS{10}Because
the
land
is
full
of
adulterers,
because
the
land hath
mourned
by
reason
of cursing,
the fields
of
the
desert
are
dried
up:
and
their
course
is
become
evil,
and
their
strength
unlike.
\VS{11}For
the
prophet
and
the
priest
are defiled:
and
in
my
house
I
have
found
their
wickedness, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{12}Therefore
their
way
shall
be
as
a
slippery
way
in
the dark:
for
they
shall
be driven
on,
and
fall therein:
for
I
will
bring evils
upon
them,
the
year
of
their visitation, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{13}And
I
have
seen
folly
in
the
prophets
of
Samaria:
they
prophesied
in
Baal,
and
deceived
my
people
Israel.
\VS{14}And
I
have
seen
the likeness
of
adulterers,
and
the
way
of
lying
in
the
prophets
of
Jerusalem:
and
they
strengthened
the
hand
of
the
wicked,
that
no
man
should
return
from
his
evil doings:
that
are
all
become unto
me
as
Sodom,
and
the
inhabitants thereof
as Gomorrha.
\VS{15}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
to
the
prophets:
Behold
I
will
feed
them
with
wormwood,
and
I
will
give
them
gall
to
drink:
for
from
the
prophets
of
Jerusalem corruption
has
gone
forth
into
all
the
land.
\VS{16}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts: Hearken
not
to
the
words
of
the
prophets
that
prophesy
to
you,
and deceive
you:
they
speak
a
vision
of
their own
heart,
and
not
out
of
the
mouth
of
the
Lord.
\VS{17}They
say
to
them
that
blaspheme
me:
The
Lord hath
said:
You
shall
have
peace:
and
to
every
one
that walketh
in
the perverseness
of
his
own
heart,
they
have
said:
No
evil
shall
come
to
you.
\VS{18}For
who hath
stood
in
the
counsel
of
the
Lord,
and hath
seen
and
heard
his
word?
Who hath
considered
his
word
and
heard
it?
\VS{19}Behold
the whirlwind
of
the
Lord’s indignation
shall
come
forth,
and
a
tempest
shall break
out
and
come
upon
the
head
of
the
wicked.
\VS{20}The
wrath
of
the
Lord
shall
not
return
till
he execute
it,
and
till
he
accomplish
the
thought
of
his
heart:
in
the
latter
days
you
shall
understand
his counsel.
\VS{21}I
did
not
send
prophets,
yet
they
ran:
I
have
not
spoken
to
them,
yet
they
prophesied.
\VS{22}If
they
stood
in
my
counsel,
and
had
made
my
words
known
to
my
people,
I
should
have
turned
them
from
their
evil
way
and
from
their
wicked
doings.
\VS{23}Am
I, think ye,
a
God
at
hand, saith
the
Lord,
and
not
a
God
afar
off?
\VS{24}Shall
a
man
be
hid
in
secret
places,
and
I
not
see
him, saith
the
Lord?
do
not
I
fill
heaven
and
earth, saith
the
Lord?
\VS{25}I
have
heard
what
the
prophets
said,
that
prophesy
lies
in
my
name,
and
say:
I
have
dreamed,
I
have
dreamed.
\VS{26}How
long
shall
this
be
in
the
heart
of
the
prophets
that
prophesy
lies,
and
that
prophesy
the delusions
of
their own
heart?
\VS{27}Who seek
to
make
my
people
forget
my
name
through
their
dreams,
which
they
tell
every
man
to
his
neighbor:
as
their
fathers
forgot
my
name
for
Baal.
\VS{28}The
prophet
that hath
a
dream, let
him
tell
a
dream:
and
he
that hath
my
word, let
him
speak
my
word
with
truth:
what hath
the chaff
to
do
with
the
wheat, saith
the
Lord?
\VS{29}Are
not
my
words
as
a
fire, saith
the
Lord:
and
as
a
hammer
that breaketh
the
rock
in pieces?
\VS{30}Therefore
behold
I
am
against
the
prophets, saith
the
Lord:
who
steal
my
words
every
one
from
his
neighbor.
\VS{31}Behold
I
am
against
the
prophets, saith
the
Lord:
who
use
their
tongues,
and say:
The
Lord saith
it.
\VS{32}Behold
I
am
against
the prophets
that
have
lying
dreams, saith
the
Lord:
and
tell
them,
and cause
my
people
to
err
by
their
lying,
and
by
their wonders:
when
I
sent
them
not,
nor
commanded
them,
who
have
not profited
this
people
at all, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{33}If
therefore
this
people,
or
the
prophet,
or
the
priest
shall
ask thee,
saying:
What
is
the
burden
of
the
Lord? thou shalt
say
to
them:
You
are
the
burden:
for
I
will
cast
you
away, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{34}And
as
for
the
prophet,
and
the
priest,
and
the
people
that
shall
say:
The
burden
of
the
Lord:
I
will
visit
upon
that
man,
and
upon
his
house.
\VS{35}Thus
shall
you
say
every
one
to
his
neighbor,
and
to
his
brother:
What hath
the
Lord
answered?
and
what hath
the
Lord
spoken?
\VS{36}And
the
burden
of
the
Lord
shall
be
mentioned
no
more,
for
every
man’s
word
shall
be
his
burden:
for
you
have
perverted
the
words
of
the
living
God,
of
the
Lord
of
hosts
our
God.
\VS{37}Thus shalt thou
say
to
the
prophet:
What hath
the
Lord
answered thee?
and
what hath
the
Lord
spoken?
\VS{38}But
if
you
shall
say:
The
burden
of
the
Lord:
therefore
thus saith
the
Lord:
Because
you
have
said
this
word:
The
burden
of
the
Lord:
and
I
have
sent
to
you
saying:
Say
not,
The
burden
of
the
Lord:
\VS{39}Therefore
behold
I
will
take
you
away carrying
you,
and
will
forsake
you,
and
the
city
which
I
gave
to
you,
and
to
your
fathers,
out
of
my
presence.
\VS{40}And
I
will
bring
an
everlasting
reproach
upon
you,
and
a
perpetual
shame
which
shall
never
be
forgotten.

\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
Lord shewed
me:
and
behold
two
baskets full
of
figs,
set
before
the
temple
of
the
Lord:
after
that Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon
had
carried
away Jechonias
the
son
of Joakim
the
king
of Juda,
and
his
chief
men,
and
the
craftsmen,
and engravers
of
Jerusalem,
and
had
brought
them
to
Babylon.
\VS{2}One
basket
had
very
good
figs,
like
the
figs
of
the
first season:
and
the
other
basket
had
very
bad
figs,
which could
not
be
eaten,
because
they
were
bad.
\VS{3}And
the
Lord
said
to
me:
What seest thou, Jeremias?
And
I
said:
Figs,
the
good
figs,
very
good:
and
the
bad
figs,
very
bad,
which
cannot
be
eaten
because
they
are
bad.
\VS{4}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me,
saying:
\VS{5}Thus saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel:
Like
these
good
figs,
so
will
I
regard
the
captives
of Juda,
whom
I
have
sent
forth
out
of
this
place
into
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans,
for
their own
good.
\VS{6}And
I
will
set
my
eyes
upon
them
to
be pacified,
and
I
will
bring
them
again
into
this
land:
and
I
will
be
their
God:
and
I
will
build
them
up,
and
not
pull
them
down:
and
I
will
plant
them,
and
not
pluck
them
up.
\VS{7}And
I
will
give
them
a
heart
to
know
me,
that
I
am
the
Lord:
and
they
shall
be
my
people,
and
I
will
be
their
God:
because
they
shall
return
to
me
with
their
whole
heart.
\VS{8}And
as
the
very
bad
figs,
that
cannot
be
eaten,
because
they
are
bad:
thus saith
the
Lord:
So
will
I
give Sedecias
the
king
of Juda,
and
his
princes,
and
the residue
of
Jerusalem,
that
have
remained
in
this city,
and
that
dwell
in
the
land
of
Egypt.
\VS{9}And
I
will
deliver
them
up
to vexation,
and affliction,
to
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth:
to
be
a
reproach,
and
a
byword,
and
a
proverb,
and
to
be
a
curse
in
all
places,
to
which
I
have
cast
them
out.
\VS{10}And
I
will
send
among
them
the
sword,
and
the
famine,
and
the
pestilence:
till
they
be
consumed
out
of
the
land
which
I
gave
to
them,
and
their
fathers.

\par }\Chap{25}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
came
to Jeremias
concerning
all
the
people
of Juda,
in
the
fourth
year
of Joakim
the
son
of Josias
king
of Juda, (the
same
is
the
first
year
of Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon,)
\VS{2}Which Jeremias
the
prophet
spoke
to
all
the
people
of Juda,
and
to
all
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
saying:
\VS{3}From
the thirteenth
year
of Josias
the
son
of Ammon
king
of Juda
until
this
day:
this
is
the
three
and
twentieth
year,
the
word
of
the
Lord hath
come
to
me,
and
I
have
spoken
to
you,
rising
before
day,
and
speaking,
and
you
have
not hearkened.
\VS{4}And
the
Lord hath
sent
to
you
all
his
servants
the
prophets,
rising
early,
and
sending,
and
you
have
not hearkened,
nor
inclined
your
ears
to
hear.
\VS{5}When
he
said:
Return ye,
every
one
from
his
evil
way,
and
from
your
wicked devices,
and
you
shall
dwell
in
the
land
which
the
Lord hath
given
to
you,
and
your
fathers
for
ever
and
ever.
\VS{6}And go
not
after strange
gods
to
serve
them,
and adore
them:
nor
provoke
me
to wrath
by
the
works
of
your
hands,
and
I
will
not afflict
you.
\VS{7}And
you
have
not
heard
me, saith
the
Lord,
that
you
might
provoke
me
to
anger
with
the
works
of
your
hands,
to
your own hurt.
\VS{8}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts:
Because
you
have
not
heard
my
words:
\VS{9}Behold
I
will
send,
and
take
all
the kindreds
of
the
north, saith
the
Lord,
and Nabuchodonosor
the
king
of
Babylon
my
servant:
and
I
will
bring
them
against
this
land,
and
against
the
inhabitants thereof,
and
against
all
the
nations
that
are
round
about
it:
and
I
will
destroy
them,
and
make
them
an astonishment
and
a
hissing,
and
perpetual
desolations.
\VS{10}And
I
will
take away
from
them
the
voice
of
mirth,
and
the
voice
of
gladness,
the
voice
of
the bridegroom,
and
the
voice
of
the
bride,
the
sound
of
the mill,
and
the
light
of
the
lamp.
\VS{11}And
all
this
land
shall
be
a
desolation,
and
an astonishment:
and
all
these
nations
shall
serve
the
king
of
Babylon
seventy
years.
\VS{12}And
when
the
seventy
years
shall
be
expired,
I
will
punish
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
that
nation, saith
the
Lord,
for
their
iniquity,
and
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans:
and
I
will
make
it
perpetual desolations.
\VS{13}And
I
will
bring
upon
the
land
all
my
words,
that
I
have
spoken
against
it,
all
that
is
written
in
this
book,
all
that Jeremias hath
prophesied
against
all
nations:
\VS{14}For
they
have
served
them, whereas
they
were
many
nations,
and
great
kings:
and
I
will
repay
them
according
to
their
deeds,
and
according
to
the
works
of
their
hands.
\VS{15}For
thus saith
the
Lord
of hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Take
the
cup
of
wine
of
this
fury
at
my
hand:
and thou shalt
make
all
nations
to
drink thereof, unto
which
I
shall
send thee.
\VS{16}And
they
shall
drink,
and
be troubled,
and
be mad
because
of
the
sword,
which
I
shall
send
among
them.
\VS{17}And
I
took
the
cup
at
the
hand
of
the
Lord,
and
I presented
it
to
all
the
nations
to
drink
of
it,
to
which
the
Lord
sent
me:
\VS{18}To wit,
Jerusalem,
and
the
cities
of Juda,
and
the
kings thereof,
and
the
princes thereof:
to
make
them
a
desolation,
and
an astonishment,
and
a
hissing,
and
a
curse,
as
it
is
at
this
day.
\VS{19}Pharao
the
king
of
Egypt,
and
his
servants,
and
his
princes,
and
all
his
people,
\VS{20}And
all
in general:
all
the
kings
of
the
land
of Ausitis,
and
all
the
kings
of
the
land
of
the
Philistines,
and Ascalon,
and
Gaza,
and Accaron,
and
the
remnant
of Azotus.
\VS{21}And
Edom,
and
Moab,
and
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{22}And
all
the
kings
of
Tyre,
and
all
the
kings
of
Sidon:
and
the
kings
of
the
land
of
the
islands
that
are
beyond
the
sea.
\VS{23}And
Dedan,
and Thema,
and
Buz,
and
all
that
have
their hair
cut round.
\VS{24}And
all
the
kings
of
Arabia,
and
all
the
kings
of
the west,
that
dwell
in
the
desert.
\VS{25}And
all
the
kings
of Zambri,
and
all
the
kings
of
Elam,
and
all
the
kings
of
Medes:
\VS{26}And
all
the
kings
of
the
north
far
and
near,
every
one
against
his
brother:
and
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth,
which
are
upon
the
face thereof:
and
the
king
of Sesac
shall
drink
after
them.
\VS{27}And thou shalt
say
to
them:
Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Drink ye,
and
be drunken,
and vomit:
and
fall,
and
rise
no
more,
because
of
the
sword,
which
I
shall
send
among
you.
\VS{28}And
if
they
refuse
to
take
the
cup
at thy
hand
to
drink, thou shalt
say
to
them:
Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts:
Drinking
you
shall
drink:
\VS{29}For
behold
I
begin
to
bring
evil
on
the
city
wherein
my
name
is
called
upon:
and
shall
you
be
as
innocent
and escape
free?
you
shall
not escape
free:
for
I
will
call
for
the
sword
upon
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
earth, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{30}And thou shalt
prophesy unto
them
all
these
words,
and thou shalt
say
to
them:
The
Lord
shall
roar
from
on
high,
and
shall
utter
his
voice
from
his
holy
habitation:
roaring
he
shall
roar
upon
the
place
of
his beauty:
the
shout
as
it
were
of
them
that
tread grapes
shall
be
given
out
against
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
earth.
\VS{31}The
noise
is
come
even
to
the
ends
of
the
earth:
for
the
Lord entereth
into judgement
with
the
nations:
he entereth
into judgement
with
all
flesh;
the
wicked
I
have
delivered
up
to
the
sword, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{32}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts:
Behold
evil
shall
go
forth
from
nation
to
nation:
and
a
great whirlwind
shall
go
forth
from
the ends
of
the
earth.
\VS{33}And
the
slain
of
the
Lord
shall
be
at
that
day
from
one
end
of
the
earth
even
to
the other
end thereof:
they
shall
not
be
lamented,
and
they
shall
not
be
gathered
up,
nor
buried:
they
shall
lie
as
dung
upon
the
face
of
the
earth.
\VS{34}Howl, ye
shepherds,
and
cry:
and sprinkle yourselves
with ashes, ye leaders
of
the
flock:
for
the
days
of
your
slaughter
and
your dispersion
are
accomplished,
and
you
shall
fall
like
precious
vessels.
\VS{35}And
the
shepherds shall
have
no way
to flee,
nor
the leaders
of
the
flock
to save themselves.
\VS{36}A
voice
of
the
cry
of
the
shepherds,
and
a howling
of
the principal
of
the
flock:
because
the
Lord hath wasted
their pastures.
\VS{37}And
the fields
of
peace
have
been silent,
because
of
the
fierce
anger
of
the
Lord.
\VS{38}He
has forsaken
his covert
as
the
lion,
for
the
land
is
laid
waste
because
of
the
wrath
of
the dove,
and
because
of
the
fierce
anger
of
the Lord.

\par }\Chap{26}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
beginning
of
the
reign
of Joakim
the
son
of Josias
king
of Juda,
came
this
word
from
the
Lord,
saying:
\VS{2}Thus saith
the
Lord:
Stand
in
the
court
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
speak
to
all
the
cities
of Juda,
out
of
which
they
come,
to adore
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
all
the
words
which
I
have
commanded thee
to
to
speak unto
them: leave
not
out
one
word.
\VS{3}If
so
be
they
will hearken
and
be
converted
every
one
from
his
evil
way;
that
I
may
repent
me
of
the
evil
that
I
think
to
do unto
them
for
the
wickedness
of
their
doings.
\VS{4}And thou shalt
say
to
them:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
If
you
will
not hearken
to
me
to walk
in
my
law,
which
I
have
given
to
you:
\VS{5}To
give ear
to
the
words
of
my
servants
the
prophets,
whom
I
sent
to
you
rising
up
early:
and
sending,
and
you
have
not hearkened:
\VS{6}I
will
make
this
house
like Silo:
and
I
will
make
this
city
a
curse
to
all
the
nations
of
the
earth.
\VS{7}And
the
priests,
and
the
prophets,
and
all
the
people
heard Jeremias
speaking
these
words
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{8}And
when Jeremias
made
an
end
of
speaking
all
that
the
Lord
had
commanded
him
to
speak
to
all
the
people,
the
priests,
and
the
prophets,
and
all
the
people
laid
hold
on
him,
saying:
Let
him
be
put
to
death.
\VS{9}Why hath
he
prophesied
in
the
name
of
the
Lord,
saying:
This
house
shall
be
like Silo;
and
this
city
shall
be
made desolate,
without
an
inhabitant?
And
all
the
people
were
gathered
together
against Jeremias
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{10}And
the
princes
of Juda
heard
these
words:
and
they
went
up
from
the
king’s
house
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
sat
in
the
entry
of
the
new
gate
of
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{11}And
the
priests
and
the
prophets
spoke
to
the
princes,
and
to
all
the
people,
saying:
The judgement
of
death
is
for
this
man:
because
he hath
prophesied
against
this
city,
as
you
have
heard
with
your
ears.
\VS{12}Then Jeremias
spoke
to
all
the
princes,
and
to
all
the
people,
saying:
The
Lord
sent
me
to
prophesy
concerning
this
house,
and
concerning
this
city
all
the
words
you
have
heard.
\VS{13}Now
therefore
amend
your
ways,
and
your
doings,
and hearken
to
the
voice
of
the
Lord
your
God:
and
the
Lord
will
repent
of
the
evil
that
he hath
spoken
against
you.
\VS{14}But
as
for
me,
behold
I
am
in
your
hands:
do
with
me
what
is
good
and
right
in
your
eyes:
\VS{15}But
know ye,
and
understand,
that
if
you
put
me
to
death,
you
will
shed
innocent
blood
against
your own selves,
and
against
this
city,
and
the
inhabitants thereof.
For
in
truth
the
Lord
sent
me
to
you,
to
speak
all
these
words
in
your
hearing.
\VS{16}Then
the
princes,
and
all
the
people
said
to
the
priests,
and
to
the
prophets:
There
is
no judgement
of
death
for
this
man:
for
he hath
spoken
to
us
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
our
God.
\VS{17}And
some
of
the ancients
of
the
land
rose
up:
and
they
spoke
to
all
the
assembly
of
the
people,
saying:
\VS{18}Micheas
of Morasthi
was
a
prophet
in
the
days
of Ezechias
king
of Juda,
and
he
spoke
to
all
the
people
of Juda,
saying:
Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts: Sion
shall
be ploughed
like
a
field,
and
Jerusalem
shall
be
a
heap
of stones:
and
the
mountain
of
the
house
the
high
places
of
woods.
\VS{19}Did Ezechias
king
of Juda,
and
all Juda, condemn
him
to
death?
did
they
not
fear
the
Lord,
and beseech
the
face
of
the
Lord:
and
the
Lord
repented
of
the
evil
that
they
had
spoken
against
them?
therefore
we
are
doing
a
great
evil
against
our
souls.
\VS{20}There
was
also
a
man
that
prophesied
in
the
name
of
the
Lord, Urias
the
son
of Semei
of Cariathiarim:
and
he
prophesied
against
this
city,
and
against
this
land,
according
to
all
the
words
of Jeremias.
\VS{21}And Joakim,
and
all
his
men
in power,
and
his
princes
heard
these
words:
and
the
king
sought
to
put
him
to
death.
And Urias
heard
it,
and
was
afraid,
and
fled
and
went
into
Egypt.
\VS{22}And
king Joakim
sent
men
into
Egypt,
Elnathan
the
son
of Achobor,
and
men
with
him
into
Egypt.
\VS{23}And
they
brought Urias
out
of
Egypt:
and
brought
him
to
king Joakim,
and
he
slew
him
with
the
sword:
and
he
cast
his
dead
body
into
the
graves
of
the
common
people.
\VS{24}So
the
hand
of Ahicam
the
son
of Saphan
was
with Jeremias,
that
he should
not
be
delivered
into
the
hands
of
the
people,
to
put
him
to
death.

\par }\Chap{27}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
beginning
of
the
reign
of Joakim
the
son
of Josias
king
of Juda,
this
word
came
to Jeremias
from
the
Lord,
saying:
\VS{2}Thus saith
the
Lord
to
me:
Make thee
bands,
and
chains:
and thou shalt
put
them
on thy
neck.
\VS{3}And thou shalt
send
them
to
the
of
Edom,
and
to
the
king
of
Moab,
and
to
the
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
to
the
king
of
Tyre,
and
to
the
king
of
Sidon:
by
the
hand
of
the
messengers
that
are
come
to
Jerusalem
to Sedecias
the
king
of Juda.
\VS{4}And thou shalt
command
them
to
speak
to
their
masters:
Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Thus
shall
you
say
to
your
masters:
\VS{5}I
made
the
earth,
and
the
men,
and
the
beasts
that
are
upon
the
face
of
the
earth,
by
my
great
power,
and
by
my
stretched
out
arm:
and
I
have
given
it
to
whom
it
seemed
good
in
my
eyes.
\VS{6}And
now
I
have
given
all
these
lands
into
the
hand
of Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon
my
servant:
moreover
also
the
beasts
of
the
field
I
have
given
him
to
serve
him.
\VS{7}And
all
nations
shall
serve
him,
and
his
son,
and
his
son’s
son:
till
the
time
come
for
his
land
and
himself:
and
many
nations
and
great
kings
shall
serve
him.
\VS{8}But
the
nation
and
kingdom
that
will
not
serve Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon,
and whosoever
will
not bend
his
neck
under
the
yoke
of
the
king
of
Babylon:
I
will
visit
upon
that
nation
with
the
sword,
and
with
famine,
and
with
pestilence, saith
the
Lord:
till
I
consume
them
by
his
hand.
\VS{9}Therefore hearken
not
to
your
prophets,
and
diviners,
and
dreamers,
and soothsayers,
and
sorcerers,
that
say
to
you:
You
shall
not
serve
the
king
Babylon.
\VS{10}For
they
prophesy
lies
to
you:
to
remove
you
far
from
your
country,
and east
you
out,
and
to
make
you
perish.
\VS{11}But
the
nation
that
shall bend
down
their
neck
under
the
yoke
of
the
king
Babylon,
and
shall
serve
him:
Will let
them
remain
in
their own
land, saith
the
Lord:
and
they
shall
till
it,
and
dwell
in
it.
\VS{12}And
I
spoke
to Sedecias
the
king
of Juda
according
to
all
these
words,
saying: Bend
down
your
necks
under
the
yoke
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
serve
him,
and
his
people,
and
you
shall
live.
\VS{13}Why
will
you
die, thou
and thy
people
by
the
sword,
and
by
famine,
and
by
the
pestilence,
as
the
Lord hath
spoken
against
the
nation
that
will
not
serve
the
king
of
Babylon?
\VS{14}Hearken
not
to
the
words
of
the
prophets
that
say
to
you:
You
shall
not
serve
the
king
of
Babylon:
for
they
tell
you
a
lie.
\VS{15}For
I
have
not
sent
them, saith
the
Lord:
and
they
prophesy
in
my
name
falsely:
to
drive
you
out,
and
that
you
may
perish, both
you,
and
the
prophets
that
prophesy
to
you.
\VS{16}I
spoke
also
to
the
priests,
and
to
this
people,
saying:
Thus saith
the
Lord: Hearken
not
to
the
words
of
your
prophets,
that
prophesy
to
you,
saying:
Behold
the
vessels
of
the
Lord
shall
now
in
a short
time
be
brought
again
from
Babylon:
for
they
prophesy
a
lie unto
you.
\VS{17}Therefore hearken
not
to
them,
but
serve
the
king
of
Babylon,
that
you
may
live.
Why
should
this
city
be
given
up
to
desolation?
\VS{18}But
if
they
be
prophets,
and
the
word
of
the
Lord
be
in
them:
let
them interpose
themselves
before
the
Lord
of
hosts,
that
the
vessels
which
were
left
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
in
the
house
of
the
king
of Juda,
and
in
Jerusalem,
may
not
go
to
Babylon.
\VS{19}For
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
to
the
pillars,
and
to
the
sea,
and
to
the bases,
and
to
the
rest
of
the
vessels
that
remain
in
this
city:
\VS{20}Which Nabuchodonosor
the
king
of
Babylon
did
not
take,
when
he
carried
away Jechonias
the
son
of Joakim
the
king
of Juda,
from
Jerusalem
to
Babylon,
and
all
the great
men
of Juda
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{21}For
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel,
to
the
vessels
that
are
left
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
in
the
house
of
the
king
of Juda
and
Jerusalem:
\VS{22}They
shall
be
carried
to
Babylon,
and
there
they
shall
be
until
the
day
of
their visitation, saith
the
Lord:
and
I
will
cause
them
to
be
brought,
and
to
be
restored
in
this
place.

\par }\Chap{28}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass
in
that
year,
in
the
beginning
of
the
reign
of Sedecias
king
of Juda,
in
the
fourth
year,
in
the
fifth
month,
that Hananias
the
son
of Azur,
a
prophet
of Gabaon
spoke
to
me,
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
before
the
priests,
and
all
the
people,
saying:
\VS{2}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
I
have
broken
the
yoke
of
the
king
of
Babylon.
\VS{3}As
yet
two
years
of
days,
and
I
will
cause
all
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
the
Lord
to
be
brought
back
into
this
place,
which Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon
took
away
from
this
place,
and
carried
them
to
Babylon.
\VS{4}And
I
will
bring
back
to
this
place Jechonias
the
son
of Joakim
king
of Juda,
and
all
the
captives
of Juda,
that
are
gone
to
Babylon, saith
the
Lord:
for
I
will
break
the
yoke
of
the
king
of
Babylon.
\VS{5}And Jeremias
the
prophet
said
to Hananias
the
prophet
in
the
presence
of
the
priests,
and
in
the
presence
of
all
the
people
that
stood
in
the
house
of
the
Lord:
\VS{6}And Jeremias
the
prophet
said:
Amen,
the
Lord
do
so:
the
Lord
perform thy
words,
which thou hast
prophesied:
that
the
vessels
may
be
brought
again
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
all
the
captives
may
return
out
of
Babylon
to
this
place.
\VS{7}Nevertheless
hear
this
word
that
I
speak
in thy
ears,
and
in
the
ears
of
all
the
people:
\VS{8}The
prophets
that
have
been
before
me,
and
before thee
from
the beginning,
and
have
prophesied
concerning
many
countries,
and
concerning
great
kingdoms,
of
war,
and
of affliction,
and
of famine.
\VS{9}The
prophet
that
prophesied
peace
when
his
word
shall
come
to
pass,
the
prophet
shall
be
known,
whom
the
Lord hath
sent
in
truth.
\VS{10}And Hananias
the
prophet
took
the chain
from
the
neck
of Jeremias
the
prophet,
and
broke
it.
\VS{11}And Hananias
spoke
in
the
presence
of
all
the
people,
saying:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
Even
so
will
I
break
the
yoke
of Nabuchodonosor
the
king
of
Babylon
after two
full
years
from
off
the
neck
of
all
the
nations.
\VS{12}And Jeremias
the
prophet
went
his
way.
And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Jeremias,
after
that Hananias
the
prophet
had
broken
the chain
from
off
the
neck
of Jeremias
the
prophet,
saying:
\VS{13}Go,
and
tell Hananias:
Thus saith
the
Lord: Thou hast
broken
chains
of
wood,
and thou shalt
make
for
them
chains
of
iron.
\VS{14}For
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
I
have
put
a
yoke
of
iron
upon
the
neck
of
all
these
nations,
to
serve Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon,
and
they
shall
serve
him:
moreover
also
I
have
given
him
the
beasts
of
the earth.
\VS{15}And Jeremias
the
prophet
said
to Hananias
the
prophet:
Hear
now, Hananias:
the
Lord hath
not
sent thee,
and thou hast
made
this
people
to
trust
in
a
lie.
\VS{16}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
I
will
send thee
away
from
off
the
face
of
the
earth:
this
year shalt thou
die:
for thou hast
spoken
against
the
Lord.
\VS{17}And Hananias
the
prophet
died
in
that
year,
in
the
seventh
month.

\par }\Chap{29}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
these
are
the
words
of
the
letter
which Jeremias,
the
prophet
sent
from
Jerusalem
to
the residue
of
the ancients
that
were
carried
into
captivity,
and
to
the
priests,
and
to
the
prophets,
and
to
all
the
people,
whom Nabuchodonosor
had
carried
away
from
Jerusalem
to
Babylon:
\VS{2}After
that Jechonias
the
king,
and
the
queen,
and
the
eunuchs,
and
the
princes
of Juda,
and
of
Jerusalem,
and
the
craftsman,
and
the engravers
were
departed
out
of
Jerusalem:
\VS{3}By
the
hand
of Elasa
the
son
of Saphan,
and Gamarias
the
son
of Helcias,
whom Sedecias
king
of Juda
sent
to
Babylon
to Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon,
saying:
\VS{4}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel,
to
all
that
are
carried
away
captives,
whom
I
have
caused
to
be
carried
away
from
Jerusalem
to
Babylon:
\VS{5}Build ye
houses,
and
dwell
in
them:
and
plant orchards,
and
eat
the
fruit
of
them.
\VS{6}Take ye
wives,
and
beget
sons
and
daughters:
and
take
wives
for
your
sons,
and
give
your
daughters
to
husbands,
and
let
them
bear
sons
and
daughters:
and
be ye
multiplied
there,
and
be
not
few
in
number.
\VS{7}And
seek
the
peace
of
the
city,
to
which
I
have
caused
you
to
be
carried
away
captives;
and
pray
to
the
Lord
for
it:
for
in
the
peace thereof
shall
be
your
peace.
\VS{8}For
thus saith
the
Lord
of hoses
the
God
of
Israel:
Let
not
your
prophets
that
are
in
the
midst
of
you,
and
your
diviners
deceive
you:
and
give
no
heed
to
your
dreams
which
you
dream:
\VS{9}For
they
prophesy
falsely
to
you
in
my
name:
and
I
have
not
sent
them, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{10}For
thus saith
the
Lord:
When
the
seventy
years
shall begin
to
be
accomplished
in
Babylon,
I
will
visit
you:
and
I
will perform
my
good
word
in
your favour,
to
bring
you
again
to
this
place.
\VS{11}For
I
know
the
thoughts
that
I
think towards
you, saith
the
Lord,
thoughts
of
peace,
and
not
of affliction,
to
give
you
an
end
and patience.
\VS{12}And
you shall
call
upon
me,
and
you shall
go:
and
you shall
pray
to
me,
and
I
will
hear
you.
\VS{13}You
shall
seek
me,
and
shall
And
me:
when
you
shall
seek
me
with
all
your
heart.
\VS{14}And
I
will
be
found
by
you, saith
the
Lord:
and
I
will
bring
back
your
captivity,
and
I
will
gather
you
out
of
all
nations,
and
from
all
the
places
to
which
I
have
driven
you
out, saith
the
Lord:
and
I
will
bring
you
back
from
the
place
to
which
I
caused
you
to
be
carried
away
captive.
\VS{15}Because
you
have
said:
The
Lord hath
raised
us
up
prophets
in
Babylon:
\VS{16}For
thus saith
the
Lord
to
the
king
that sitteth
upon
the
throne
of
David,
and
to
all
the
people
that
dwell
in
this
city,
to
your
brethren
that
are
not
gone
forth
with
you
into captivity.
\VS{17}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts:
Behold
I
will
send
upon
them
the
sword,
and
the
famine,
and
the
pestilence:
and
I
will
make
them
like bad
figs
that
cannot
be
eaten,
because
they
are very bad.
\VS{18}And
I
will
persecute
them
with
the
sword,
and
with
famine,
and pith
the
pestilence:
and
I
will
give
them
up unto affliction
to
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth:
to
be
a
curse,
and
an astonishment,
and
a
hissing,
and
a
reproach
to
all
the
nations
to
which
I
have
driven
them
out:
\VS{19}Because
they
have
not hearkened
to
my
words, saith
the
Lord:
which
I
sent
to
them
by
my
servants
the
prophets,
rising
by night,
and
sending:
and
you
have
not
heard, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{20}Hear ye
therefore
the
word
of
the
Lord,
all ye
of
the captivity,
whom
I
have
sent
out
from
Jerusalem
to
Babylon.
\VS{21}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel,
to Achab
the
son
of Colias,
and
to Sedecias
the
son
of Maasias,
who
prophesy unto
you
in
my
name
falsely:
Behold
I
will
deliver
them
up
into
the
hands
of Nabuchodonosor
the
king
of
Babylon:
and
he
shall
kill
them
before
your
eyes.
\VS{22}And
of
them
shall
be
taken
up
a
curse
by
all
the captivity
of Juda,
that
are
in
Babylon,
saying:
The
Lord
make thee
like Sedecias,
and
like Achab,
whom
the
king
of
Babylon fried
in
the
fire:
\VS{23}Because
they
have
acted
folly
in
Israel,
and
have
committed
adultery
with
the
wives
of
their
friends,
and
have
spoken
lying
words
in
my
name,
which
I
commanded
them
not:
I
am
the
judge
and
the
witness, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{24}And
to Semeias
the
Nehelamite thou shalt
say:
\VS{25}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Because thou hast
sent
letters
in thy
name
to
all
the
people
that
are
in
Jerusalem,
and
to Sophonias
the
son
of Maasias
the
priest,
and
to
all
the
priests,
saying:
\VS{26}The
Lord hath
made thee
priest
instead
of
Joiada
the
priest,
that thou shouldst
be ruler
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
over
every
man
that raveth
and prophesieth,
to
put
him
in
the
stocks,
and
into
prison.
\VS{27}And
now
why hast thou
not
rebuked Jeremias
the
Anathothite,
who prophesieth
to
you?
\VS{28}For
he hath
also
sent
to
us
in
Babylon,
saying:
It
is
a
long time:
build ye
houses,
and
dwell
in
them:
and
plant
gardens,
and
eat
the
fruits
of
them.
\VS{29}So Sophonias
the
priest
read
this
letter,
in
the
hearing
of Jeremias
the
prophet.
\VS{30}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Jeremias,
saying:
\VS{31}Send
to
all
them
of
the captivity,
saying:
Thus saith
the
Lord
to Semeias
the
Nehelamite:
Because Semeias hath
prophesied
to
you,
and
I
sent
him
not:
and hath
caused
you
to
trust
in
a
lie:
\VS{32}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord:
behold
I
will
visit
upon Semeias
the
Nehelamite,
and
upon
his
seed:
he
shall
not
have
a
man
to
sit
in
the
midst
of
this
people,
and
he
shall
not
see
the
good
that
I
will
do
to
my
people, saith
the
Lord:
because
he hath
spoken treason
against
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{30}{\PP \VerseOne{1}This
is
the
word
that
came
to Jeremias
from
the
Lord,
saying:
\VS{2}Thus saith
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
saying:
Write thee
all
the
words
that
I
have
spoken
to thee,
in
a
book.
\VS{3}For
behold
the
days
come, saith
the
Lord,
and
I
will
bring
again
the
captivity
of
my
people
Israel
and Juda, saith
the
Lord:
and
I
will
cause
them
to
return
to
the
land
which
I
gave
to
their
fathers,
and
they
shall
possess
it.
\VS{4}And
these
are
the
words
that
the
Lord hath
spoken
to
Israel
and
to Juda:
\VS{5}For
thus saith
the
Lord:
We
have
heard
a
voice
of
terror:
there
is
fear
and
no
peace.
\VS{6}Ask ye,
and
see
if
a
man
bear
children?
why
then
have
I
seen
every
man
with
his
hands
on
his
loins,
like
a woman
in labour,
and
all
faces
are
turned yellow?
\VS{7}Alas,
for
that
day
is
great,
neither
is
there
the
like
to
it;
and
it
Is
the
time
of tribulation
to
Jacob,
but
he
shall
be
saved
out
of
it.
\VS{8}And
it
shall
come
to
pass
in
that
day, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts,
that
I
will
break
his
yoke
from
off thy
neck,
and
will
burst
his
bands:
and
strangers
shall
no
more rule
over
him:
\VS{9}But
they
shall
serve
the
Lord
their
God,
and
David
their
king,
whom
I
will
raise
up
to
them.
\VS{10}Therefore
fear thou
not,
my
servant
Jacob, saith
the
Lord,
neither
be
dismayed,
O
Israel:
for
behold,
I
will
save thee
from
a
country
afar
off,
and thy
seed
from
the
land
of
their
captivity:
and
Jacob
shall
return,
and
be
at
rest,
and abound
with all
good
things,
and
there
shall
be
none whom
he
may
fear:
\VS{11}For
I
am
with thee, saith
the
Lord,
to
save thee:
for
I
will
utterly consume
all
the
nations,
among
which
I
have
scattered thee:
but
I
will
not
utterly consume thee:
but
I
will
chastise thee
in
judgment,
that thou mayst
not seem
to thyself
innocent.
\VS{12}For
thus saith
the
Lord: Thy bruise
is
incurable, thy
wound
is very grievous.
\VS{13}There
is
none
to
judge thy
judgment
to bind it up: thou hast
no
healing medicines.
\VS{14}All thy
lovers
have
forgotten thee,
and
will
not
seek
after thee:
for
I
have
wounded thee
with
the
wound
of
an
enemy,
with
a
cruel chastisement:
by
reason
of
the
multitude
of thy
iniquities, thy
sins
are hardened.
\VS{15}Why criest thou
for thy affliction? thy
sorrow
is
incurable:
for
the
multitude
of thy
iniquity,
and
for thy hardened
sins
I
have
done
these
things
to thee.
\VS{16}Therefore
all
they
that
devour thee shall
be
devoured:
and
all thy enemies shall
be carried
into
captivity:
and
they
that waste thee shall
be wasted,
and
all
that
prey
upon thee
will
I
give
for
a
prey.
\VS{17}For
I
will close
up thy scar,
and
will
heal thee
of thy
wounds, saith
the
Lord.
Because
they
have
called thee,
O Sion,
an
outcast:
This
is
she
that hath
none
to
seek
after
her.
\VS{18}Thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
I
bring
back
the
captivity
of
the pavilions
of
Jacob,
and
will
have
pity
on
his houses,
and
the
city
shall
be
built
in
her
place,
and
the temple
shall
be found
according
to
the
order thereof.
\VS{19}And
out
of
them
shall
come
forth
praise,
and
the
voice
of
them
that
play:
and
I
will
multiply
them,
and
they
shall
not
be
made
few:
and
I
will
glorify
them,
and
they
shall
not
be lessened.
\VS{20}And
their
children
shall
be
as
from
the beginning,
and
their
assembly
be permanent
before
me:
and
I
will
against
all
that
afflict
them.
\VS{21}And
their
leader
shall
be
of themselves:
and
their prince
shall
come
forth
from
the
midst
of
them:
and
I
will
bring
him
near,
and
he
shall
come
to
me:
for
who
is
this
that setteth
his
heart
to
approach
to
me, saith
the
Lord?
\VS{22}And
you shall
be
my
people:
and
I
will
be
your
God.
\VS{23}Behold
the whirlwind
of
the
Lord,
his
fury
going
forth,
a violent
storm,
it
shall rest
upon
the
head
of
the
wicked.
\VS{24}The
Lord
will
not
turn
away
the
wrath
of
his indignation,
till
he
have executed
and performed
the
thought
o
his
heart:
in
the
latter
days
you
shall
understand these
things.

\par }\Chap{31}{\PP \VerseOne{1}At
that
time, saith
the
Lord,
I
will
be
the
God
of
all
the
families
of
and
they
shall
be
my
people.
\VS{2}Thus saith
the
Lord:
The
people
were
left
and escaped
from
the
sword,
found
grace
in
the
desert:
Israel
shall
to
his
rest.
\VS{3}The
Lord hath
appeared
from
afar
to
me. Yea
I
have
loved thee
with
everlasting
love,
therefore
have
I
drawn thee, taking pity
on thee.
\VS{4}And
I
will
build thee
again,
and thou shalt
be
built,
O
virgin
of
Israel: thou shalt
again
be adorned
with thy
timbrels,
and shalt
go
forth
in
the
dances
of
them
that make merry.
\VS{5}Thou shalt
yet
plant
vineyards
in
the
mountains
of
Samaria:
the
planters
shall
plant,
and
they
shall
not gather
the vintage
before
the
time.
\VS{6}For
there
shall
be
a
day,
in
which
the
watchmen
on
mount
Ephraim,
shall
cry:
Arise,
and let
us
go
up
to Sion
to
the
Lord
our
God.
\VS{7}For
thus saith
the
Lord:
Rejoice ye
in
the
joy
of
Jacob,
and neigh before
the
head
of
the
Gentiles:
shout ye,
and
sing,
and
say:
Save,
O
Lord, thy
people,
the
remnant
of
Israel.
\VS{8}Behold
I
will
bring
them
from
the
north
country,
and
will
gather
them
from
the ends
of
the
earth:
and
among
them
shall
be
the
blind,
and
the
lame,
the
woman
with
child,
and she
that
is
bringing
forth,
together,
a
great
company
of
them
returning hither.
\VS{9}They
shall
come
with
weeping:
and
I
will
bring
them
back
in mercy:
and
I
will
bring
them
through
the torrents
of
waters
in
a
right
way,
and
they
shall
not
stumble
in
it:
for
I
am
a
father
to
Israel,
and
Ephraim
is
my
firstborn.
\VS{10}Hear
the
word
of
the
Lord,
O ye
nations,
and
declare
it
in
the
islands
that
are
afar
off,
and
say:
He
that
scattered
Israel
will
gather
him:
and
he
will
keep
him
as
the
shepherd doth
his
flock.
\VS{11}For
the
Lord hath
redeemed
Jacob,
and
delivered
him
out
of
the
hand
of
one
that
was mightier
than
he.
\VS{12}And
they
shall
come,
and
shall
give praise
in mount Sion:
and
they
shall
flow
together
to
the
good
things
of
the
Lord,
for
the corn,
and
wine,
and
oil,
and
the
increase
of
cattle
and
herds,
and
their
soul
shall
be
as
a
watered
garden,
and
they
shall
be hungry
no
more.
\VS{13}Then shall
the
virgin
rejoice
in
the
dance,
the
young
men
and
old
men
together:
and
I
will
turn
their
mourning
into
joy,
and
will
comfort
them,
and
make
them
joyful after
their
sorrow.
\VS{14}And
I
will
fill
the
soul
of
the
priests
with
fatness:
and
my
people
shall
be
filled
with
my
good
things, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{15}Thus saith
the
Lord:
A
voice
was
heard
on high
of
lamentation,
of
mourning,
and
weeping,
of
Rachel
weeping
for
her
children,
and
refusing
to
be
comforted
for
them,
because
they
are
not.
\VS{16}Thus saith
the
Lord: Let thy
voice cease
from
weeping,
and thy
eyes
from
tears:
for
there
is
a
reward
for thy
work, saith
the
Lord:
and
they
shall
return out
of
the
land
of
the
enemy.
\VS{17}And here
is
hope
for thy
last
end, saith
the
Lord:
and
the
children
shall
return
to
their own
borders.
\VS{18}Hearing
I
heard
Ephraim
when
he
went
into captivity: thou hast
chastised
me,
and
I
was
instructed,
as
a young bullock unaccustomed
to
the yoke. Convert
me,
and
I
shall
be
converted,
for thou art
the
Lord
my
God.
\VS{19}For
after thou didst convert
me,
I did penance:
and
after thou didst shew unto
me,
I
struck
my
thigh:
I
am
confounded
and
ashamed,
because
I
have
borne
the
reproach
of
my
youth.
\VS{20}Surely
Ephraim
is
an honourable
son
to
me,
surely
he
is
a tender
child:
for
since
I
spoke
of
him,
I
will
still
remember
him.
Therefore
are
my
bowels troubled
for
him: pitying
I
will
pity
him, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{21}Set thee
up
a watchtower,
make
to thee bitterness:
direct thy
heart
into
the right
way, wherein thou hast
walked:
return, O
virgin
of
Israel,
return
to
these thy
cities.
\VS{22}How
long wilt thou
be dissolute
in deliciousness,
O wandering
daughter?
for
the
Lord hath
created
a
new
thing upon
the
earth:
A
WOMAN
SHALL COMPASS
A
MAN.
\VS{23}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts,
the
God
of
Israel:
As
yet
shall
they
say
this
word
in
the
land
of Juda,
and
in
the
cities thereof,
when
I
shall
bring
back
their
captivity:
The
Lord
bless thee,
the beauty
of
justice,
the
holy
mountain.
\VS{24}And Juda
and
all
his
cities
shall
dwell therein
together:
the husbandmen
and
they
that drive
the
flocks.
\VS{25}For
I
have inebriated
the
weary
soul:
and
I
have
filled
every hungry
soul.
\VS{26}Upon
this
I
was
as
it
were awaked
out
of
a
sleep,
and
I
saw,
and
my
sleep
was
sweet
to
me.
\VS{27}Behold
the
days
come, saith
the
Lord:
and
I
will
sow
the
house
of
Israel
and
the
house
of Juda
with
the
seed
of
men,
and
with
the
seed
of
beasts.
\VS{28}And
as
I
have
watched
over
them,
to
pluck
up,
and
to throw
down,
and
to scatter,
and
destroy,
and afflict:
so
will
I
watch
over
them,
to
build
up,
and
to
plant
them, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{29}In
those
days
they
shall
say
no
more:
The
fathers
have
eaten
a
sour
grape,
and
the
teeth
of
the
children
are set
on edge.
\VS{30}But
every
one
shall
die
for
his
own
iniquity:
every
man
that
shall
eat
the
sour
grape,
his
teeth
shall
be set
on edge.
\VS{31}Behold
the
days
shall
come, saith
the
Lord,
and
I
will
make
a
new
covenant
with
the
house
of
Israel,
and
with
the
house
of Juda:
\VS{32}Not
according
to
the
covenant
which
I
made
with
their
fathers,
in
the
day
that
I
took
them
by
the
hand
to
bring
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt:
the
covenant
which
they
made void,
and
I
had dominion
over
them, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{33}But
this
shall
be
the
covenant
that
I
will
make
with
the
house
of
Israel,
after
those
days, saith
the
Lord:
I
will
give
my
law
in
their bowels,
and
I
will
write
it
in
their
heart:
and
I
will
be
their
God,
and
they
shall
be
my
people.
\VS{34}And
they
shall
teach
no
more
every
man
his neighbour,
and
every
man
his
brother,
saying:
Know
the
Lord:
for
all
shall
know
me
from
the least
of
them
even
to
the
greatest, saith
the
Lord:
for
I
will
forgive
their
iniquity,
and
I
will
remember
their
sin
no
more.
\VS{35}Thus saith
the
Lord,
who giveth
the
sun
for
the
light
of
the
day,
the
order
of
the
moon
and
of
the
stars,
for
the
light
of
the
night:
who stirreth
up
the
sea,
and
the
waves thereof
roar,
the
Lord
of
hosts
is
his
name.
\VS{36}If
these ordinances
shall fail
before
me, saith
the
Lord:
then
also
the
seed
of
Israel
shall fail,
so
as
not
to
be
a
nation
before
me
for ever.
\VS{37}Thus saith
the
Lord:
If
the
heavens
above
can
be
measured,
and
the
foundations
of
the
earth
searched
out
beneath,
I
also
will cast
away
all
the
seed
of
Israel,
for
all
that
they
have
done, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{38}Behold
the
days come, saith
the
Lord,
that
the
city
shall
be
built
to
the
Lord
from
the
tower
of Hanameel even
to
the
gate
of
the
corner.
\VS{39}And
the
measuring line shall
go
out
farther
in
his
sight
upon
the
hill
Gareb:
and
it shall compass Goatha,
\VS{40}And
the
whole
valley
of
dead
bodies
and
of
ashes,
and
all
the country
of death,
even
to
the torrent Cedron,
and
the
corner
of
the
horse
gate towards
the
east,
the
Holy
of
the
Lord:
it
shall
not
be
plucked
up,
and
it
shall
not
be
destroyed
any
more
for
ever.

\par }\Chap{32}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
came
to Jeremias
from
the
Lord
in
the
tenth
year
of Sedecias
king
of Juda:
the
same
is
eighteenth
year
of Nabuchodonosor.
\VS{2}At
that
time
the
army
of
the
king
o
Babylon besieged
Jerusalem:
and Jeremias
the
prophet
was
shut
up
in
the
court
of
the
prison,
which
was
in
the
house
of
the
king
of Juda.
\VS{3}For Sedecias
king
of Juda
had
shut
him
up,
saying:
Why dost thou
prophesy,
saying:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
I
will
give
this
city
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
shall
take
it?
\VS{4}And Sedecias
king
of Juda
shall
not
escape
out
of
the
hand
of
the
Chaldeans:
but
he
shall
be
delivered
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Babylon:
and
he
shall
speak
to
him
mouth
to
mouth,
and
his
eyes
shall
see
his
eyes.
\VS{5}And
he
shall lead Sedecias
to
Babylon:
and
he
shall
be
there
till
I
visit
him, saith
the
Lord.
But
if
you
will
fight
against
the
Chaldeans,
you
shall
have
no
success.
\VS{6}And Jeremias
said:
The
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
me,
saying:
\VS{7}Behold, Hanameel
the
son
of Sellum thy cousin
shall
come
to thee,
saying:
Buy thee
my
field,
which
is
in
Anathoth,
for
it
is thy
right
to
buy
it,
being akin.
\VS{8}And Hanameel
my
uncle’s
son cam
to
me,
according
to
the
word
of
the
to
the entry
of
the prison,
and
said
me:
Buy
my held,
which
is
in
in
the
land
of
Benjamin:
for
the
right
of
inheritance
is thins,
and thou art
next
of kin
to possess
it.
And
I
understood
this
was
the
word
of
the
Lord.
\VS{9}And
I
bought
the held
of
my
uncle’s
son,
that
is
in
Anathoth:
and
I
weighed
him
the
money,
seven staters,
and
ten
pieces
of
silver.
\VS{10}And I
wrote
it
in
a
book
and
sealed
it,
and took
witnesses:
and I
weighed him
the
money
in
the
balances.
\VS{11}And I
took
the
deed
of
the
purchase
that was
sealed,
and
the stipulations,
and
the ratifications
with
the
seals
that
were on
the outside.
\VS{12}And
I
gave
the
deed
of
the
purchase
to
Baruch
the
son
of Neri
the
son
of Maasias
in
the
sight
of Hanameel
my
uncle’s
son,
in
the
presence
of
the
witnesses
that subscribed
the
book
of
the
purchase,
and
before
all
the
Jews
that
sat
in
the
court
of
the prison.
\VS{13}And
I
charged
Baruch
before
them,
saying:
\VS{14}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Take
these writings,
this
deed
of
the
purchase
that
is
sealed
up,
and
this
deed
that
is
open:
and
put
them
in
an
earthen
vessel,
that
they
may
continue
many
days.
\VS{15}For
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Houses,
and
fields,
and
vineyards
shall
be
possessed
again
in
this
land.
\VS{16}And
after
I
had
delivered
the
deed
of
purchase
to
Baruch
the
son
of Neri,
I
prayed
to
the
Lord,
saying:
\VS{17}Alas,
alas,
alas,
O
Lord
God,
behold thou hast
made
heaven
and
earth
by thy
great
power,
and thy
stretched
out
arm:
no
word
shall
be
hard
to thee:
\VS{18}Thou shewest
mercy unto
thousands,
and returnest
the
iniquity
of
the
fathers
into
the
bosom
of
their
children
after
them:
O
most
mighty,
great,
and
powerful,
the
Lord
of
hosts
is thy
name.
\VS{19}Great
in
counsel
and incomprehensible
in
thought:
whose
eyes
are
open
upon
all
the
ways
of
the
children
of Adam,
to
render unto
every
one
according
to
his
ways,
and
according
to
the
fruit
of
his devices.
\VS{20}Who hast
set
signs
and
wonders
in
the
land
of
Egypt
even
until
this
day,
and
in
Israel,
and amongst
men,
and hast
made thee
a
name
as
at
this
day.
\VS{21}And hast
brought
forth thy
people
Israel,
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
with
signs,
and
with
wonders,
and
with
a
strong
hand,
and
a
stretched
out
arm,
and
with
great
terror.
\VS{22}And best
given
them
this
land
which thou didst
swear
to
their
fathers,
to
give
them
a
land
flowing
with
milk
and
honey.
\VS{23}And
they
came
in,
and
possessed
it:
but
they
obeyed
not thy
voice,
and
they
walked
not
in thy
law:
and
they
did
not
any
of
those
things
that thou didst
command
them
to
do,
and
all
these evils
are
come
upon
them.
\VS{24}Behold
works
are built
up
against
the
city
to
take
it:
and
the
city
is
given
into
the
hands
of
the
Chaldeans,
who
fight
against
it,
by
the
sword,
and
the
famine,
and
the
pestilence:
and
what thou hast
spoken,
is
all
come
to
pass,
as thou thyself seest.
\VS{25}And sayest thou
to
me,
O
Lord
God:
Buy
a
field
for
money,
and
take
witnesses, whereas
the
city
is
given
into
the
hands
of
the
Chaldeans?
\VS{26}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Jeremias,
saying:
\VS{27}Behold
I
am
the
Lord
the
God
of
all
flesh:
shall
any
thing
be
hard
for
me?
\VS{28}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
I
will
deliver
this
city
into
the
hands
of
the
Chaldeans,
and
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
they
shall
take
it.
\VS{29}And
the
Chaldeans
that
fight
against
this
city,
shall
come
and
set
it
on
fire,
and
burn
it,
with
the
houses
upon
whose
roofs
they
offered
sacrifice
to
Baal,
and poured
out drink offerings
to strange
gods,
to
provoke
me
to wrath.
\VS{30}For
the
children
of
Israel,
and
the
children
of Juda,
have
continually
done
evil
in
my
eyes
from
their
youth:
the
children
of
Israel
who
even till
now
provoke
me
with
the
work
of
their
hands, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{31}For
this
city hath
been
to
me
a provocation
and indignation
from
the
day
that
they
built
it,
until
this
day,
in
which
it
shall
be
taken
out
of
my
sight.
\VS{32}Because
of
all
the
evil
of
the
children
of
Israel,
and
of
the
children
of Juda,
which
they
have
done,
provoking
me
to wrath,
they
and
their
kings,
their
princes,
and
their
priests,
and
their
prophets,
the
men
of Juda,
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{33}And
they
have
turned
their
backs
to
me,
and
not
their
faces:
when
I
taught
them
early
in
the
morning,
and instructed
them,
and
they
would
not hearken
to
receive
instruction.
\VS{34}And
they
have
set
their
idols
in
the
house,
in
which
my
name
is
called
upon,
to
defile
it.
\VS{35}And
they
have
built
the
high
places
of
Baal,
which
are
in
the
valley
of
the
son
of Ennom,
to consecrate
their
sons
and
their
daughters
to Moloch:
which
I
commanded
them
not,
neither
entered
it
into
my
heart,
that
they
should
do
this
abomination,
and cause Juda
to
sin.
\VS{36}And
now,
therefore,
thus saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel
to
this
city, whereof
you
say
that
it
shall
be
delivered
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Babylon
by
the
sword,
and
by
famine,
and
by
pestilence:
\VS{37}Behold
I
will
gather
them
together
out
of
all
the
lands
to
which
I
have
cast
them
out
in
my
anger,
and
in
my
wrath,
and
in
my
great indignation:
and
I
will
bring
them
again
into
this
place,
and
will
cause
them
to
dwell
securely.
\VS{38}And
they
shall
be
my
people,
and
I
will
be
their
God.
\VS{39}And
I
will
give
them
one
heart,
and
one
way,
that
they
may
fear
me
all
days:
and
that
it
may
be
well
with
them,
and
with
their
children
after
them.
\VS{40}And
I
will
make
an
everlasting
covenant
with
them,
and
will
not
cease
to
do
them
good:
and
I
will
give
my
fear
in
their
heart,
that
they
may
not revolt
from
me.
\VS{41}And
I
will
rejoice
over
them,
when
I
shall
do
them
good:
and
I
will
plant
them
in
this
land
in
truth,
with
my
whole
heart,
and
with
all
my
soul.
\VS{42}For
thus saith
the
Lord:
As
I
have
brought
upon
this
people
all
this
great
evil:
so
will
I
bring
upon
them
all
the
good
that
I
now
speak
to
them.
\VS{43}And
fields
shall
be
purchased
in
this
land: whereof
you
say
that
it
is
desolate,
because
there remaineth
neither
man
nor
beast,
and
it
is
given
into
the
hands
of
the
Chaldeans.
\VS{44}Fields
shall
be
bought
for
money,
and
deeds
shall
be
written,
and
sealed,
and
witnesses
shall
be taken,
in
the
land
of
Benjamin,
and
round
about
Jerusalem,
in
the
cities
of Juda,
and
in
the
cities
on
the
mountains,
and
in
the
cities
of
the
plains,
and
in
the
cities
that
are towards
the
south:
for
I
will
bring
their
captivity, saith
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{33}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Jeremias
the
second
time,
while
he
was
yet
shut
up
in
the
court
of
the prison,
saying:
\VS{2}Thus saith
the
Lord,
who
will
do,
and
will form
it,
and
prepare
it,
the
Lord
is
his
name.
\VS{3}Cry
to
me
and
I
will
hear thee:
and
I
will shew thee
great
things,
and
sure
things which thou knowest
not.
\VS{4}For
thus saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel
to
the
houses
of
this
city,
and
to
the
houses
of
the
king
of Juda,
which rue
destroyed,
and
to
the bulwarks,
and
to
the
sword.
\VS{5}Of
them
that
come
to
fight
with
the
Chaldeans,
and
to
fill
them
with
the
dead
bodies
of
the
men
whom
I
have
slain
in
my
wrath,
and
in
my indignation,
hiding
my
face
from
this
city
because
of
all
their
wickedness.
\VS{6}Behold
I
will
close
their wounds
and
give
them
health,
and
I
will cure
them:
and
I
will
reveal
to
them
the prayer
of
peace
and
truth.
\VS{7}And
I
will
bring
back
the
captivity
of Juda,
and
the
captivity
of Jerusalem:
and
I
will
build
them
as
from
the
beginning.
\VS{8}And
I
will
cleanse
them
from
all
their
iniquity,
whereby
they
have
sinned
against
me:
and
I
will
forgive
all
their
iniquities,
whereby
they
have
sinned
against
me,
and despised
me.
\VS{9}And
it
shall
be
to
me
a
name,
and
a
joy,
and
a
praise,
and
a
gladness
before
all
the
nations
of
the
earth,
that
shall
hear
of
all
the
good
things
which
I
will
do
to
them:
and
they
shall
fear
and
be
troubled
for
all
the
good
things,
and
for
all
the
peace
that
I
will
make
for
them.
\VS{10}Thus saith
the
Lord:
There
shall
be
heard
again
in
this
place (which
you
say
is
desolate,
because
there
is
neither
man
nor
beast:
in
the
cities
of Juda,
and
without
Jerusalem,
which
are
desolate
without
man,
and
without
inhabitant,
and
without
beast)
\VS{11}The
voice
of
joy
and
the
voice
of
gladness,
the
voice
of
the bridegroom
and
the
voice
of
the
bride,
the
voice
of
them
that
shall
say:
Give ye glory
to
the
Lord
of
hosts,
for
the
Lord
is
good,
for
his
mercy endureth
for
ever:
and
of
them
that
shall
bring
their vows
into
the
house
of
the
Lord:
for
I
will
bring
back
the
captivity
of
the
land
as
at
the
first, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{12}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts:
There
shall
be
again
in
this
place
that
is desolate
without
man,
and
without
beast,
and
in
all
the
cities thereof,
an habitation
of
shepherds causing
their
flocks
to
lie
down.
\VS{13}And
in
the
cities
on
the
mountains,
and
in
the
cities
of
the plains,
and
in
the
cities
that
are towards
the
south:
and
in
the
land
of
Benjamin,
and
round
about
Jerusalem,
and
in
the
cities
of Juda
shall
the
flocks
pass
again
under
the
hand
of
him
that numbereth
them, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{14}Behold
the
days
come, saith
the
Lord,
that
I
will perform
the
good
word
that
I
have
spoken
to
the
house
of
Israel,
and
to
the
house
of Juda.
\VS{15}In
those
days,
and
at
that
time,
I
will
make
the bud
of
justice
to
spring
forth unto
David,
and
he
shall
do
judgment
and
justice
in
the
earth.
\VS{16}In
those
days
shall Juda
be
saved,
and
Jerusalem
shall
dwell
securely:
and
this
is
the
name
that
they
shall
call
him,
The
Lord
our
just
one.
\VS{17}For
thus saith
the
Lord:
There
shall
not
be
cut
off
from
David
a
man
to
sit
upon
the
throne
of
the
house
of
Israel.
\VS{18}Neither
shall
there
be
cut
off
from
the
priests
and
Levites
a
man
before
my
face
to
offer holocausts,
and
to
burn
sacrifices,
and
to
kill victims
continually:
\VS{19}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Jeremias,
saying:
\VS{20}Thus saith
the
Lord:
If
my
covenant
with
the
day
can
be
made void,
and
my
covenant
with
the
night,
that
there
should
not
be
day
and
night
in
their
season:
\VS{21}Also
my
covenant
with
David
my
servant
may
be
made void,
that
he
should
not
have
a
son
to
reign
upon
his
throne,
and
with
the
Levites
and
priests
my
ministers.
\VS{22}As
the stars
of
heaven
cannot
be
numbered,
nor
the
sand
of
the
sea
be
measured:
so
will
I
multiply
the
seed
of
David
my
servant,
and
the
Levites
my
ministers.
\VS{23}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Jeremias,
saying:
\VS{24}Hast thou
not
seen
what
this
people hath
spoken,
saying:
The
two
families
which
the
Lord
had
chosen,
are cast
off:
and
they
have
despised
my
people,
so
that
it
is
no
more
a
nation
before
them?
\VS{25}Thus saith
the
Lord:
If
I
have
not
set
my
covenant between
day
and
night,
and laws
to
heaven
and
earth:
\VS{26}Surely
I
will
also cast;
off
the
seed
of
Jacob,
and
of
David
my
servant,
so
as
not
to
take
any
of
his
seed
to
be
rulers
of
the
seed
of
Abraham,
Isaac,
and
Jacob:
for
I
will
bring
back
their
captivity,
and
will
have
mercy
on
them.

\par }\Chap{34}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
came
to Jeremias
from
the
Lord, (when Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon,
and
all
his
army,
and
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth,
that
were
under
the
power
of
his
hand,
and
all
the
people
fought
against
Jerusalem
and
against
all
the
cities thereof,)
saying:
\VS{2}Thus saith
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel:
Go,
and
speak
to Sedecias
king
of Juda,
and
say
to
him:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
I
will
deliver
this
city
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
shall
burn
it
with
fire.
\VS{3}And thou shalt
not
escape
out
of
his
hand:
but thou shalt
surely
be
taken,
and thou shalt
be
delivered
into
his
hand:
and thy
eyes
shall
see
the
eyes
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
his
mouth
shall
speak
with thy
mouth,
and thou shalt
go
to
Babylon.
\VS{4}Yet
hear
the
word
of
the
Lord,
O Sedecias
king
of Juda:
Thus saith
the
Lord
to thee: Thou shalt
not
die
by
the
sword.
\VS{5}But thou shalt
die
in
peace,
and according
to
the burnings
of thy
fathers,
the
former
kings
that
were
before thee,
so
shall
they
burn thee:
and
they
shall
mourn
for thee,
saying:
Alas,
Lord:
for
I
have
spoken
the
word, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{6}And Jeremias
the
prophet
spoke
all
these
words
to Sedecias
the
king
of Juda
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{7}And
the
army
of
the
king
of
Babylon
fought
against
Jerusalem,
and
against
all
the
cities
of Juda
that
were
left,
against Lachis,
and
against Azecha:
for
these
remained
of
the
cities
of Juda, fenced
cities.
\VS{8}The
word
that
came
to Jeremias
from
the
Lord,
after
that
king Sedecias
had
made
a
covenant
with
all
the
people
in
Jerusalem
making
a
proclamation:
\VS{9}That
every
man
should
let
his manservant,
and
every
man
his
maidservant, being
a
Hebrew
man
or
a
Hebrew
woman,
go
free:
and
that
they
should
not lord
it
over
them,
to wit,
over
the
Jews
their
brethren.
\VS{10}And
all
the
princes,
and
all
the
people
who
entered
into
the
covenant,
heard
that
every
man
should
let
his manservant,
and
every
man
his
maidservant
go
free,
and
should
no
more
have dominion
over
them:
and
they
obeyed,
and
let
them
go
free.
\VS{11}But
afterwards
they
turned:
and
brought
back
again
their
servants
and
their handmaids,
whom
they
had
let
go
free,
and
brought
them
into
subjection
as menservants
and
maidservants.
\VS{12}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Jeremias
from
the
Lord,
saying:
\VS{13}Thus saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel:
I
made
a
covenant
with
your
fathers
in
the
day
that
I
brought
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
out
of
the
house
of
bondage,
saying:
\VS{14}At
the
end
of
seven
years,
let ye
go
every
man
his
brother being
a
Hebrew,
who hath
been
sold
to thee,
so
he
shall
serve thee
six
years:
and thou shalt
let
him
go
free
from thee:
and
your
fathers
did
not hearken
to
me,
nor
did
they
incline
their
ear.
\VS{15}And
you
turned
today,
and
did
that
which
was
right
in
my
eyes,
in
proclaiming
liberty
every
one
to
his brother:
and
you
made
a
covenant
in
my
sight,
in
the
house
upon
which
my
name
is invocated.
\VS{16}And
you
are
fallen
back,
and
have defiled
my
name:
and
you
have
brought
back
again
every
man
his manservant,
and
every
man
his
maidservant,
whom
you
had
let
go
free,
and
set
at liberty:
and
you
have
brought
them
into
subjection
to
be
your
servants
and handmaids.
\VS{17}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord:
You
have
not hearkened
to
me,
in
proclaiming
liberty
every
man
to
his
brother
and
every
man
to
his
friend:
behold
I
proclaim
a
liberty
for
you, saith
the
Lord,
to
the
sword,
to
the
pestilence,
and
to
the
famine:
and
I
will
cause
you
to
be removed
to
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth.
\VS{18}And
I
will
give
the
men
that
have transgressed
my
covenant,
and
have
not
performed
the
words
of
the
covenant
which
they agreed
to
in
my
presence,
when
they
cut
the
calf
in
two
and
passed
between
the
parts thereof:
\VS{19}The
princes
of Juda,
and
the
princes
of
Jerusalem,
the
eunuchs,
and
the
priests,
and
all
the
people
of
the
land
that
passed
between
the
parts
of
the
calf:
\VS{20}And
I
will
give
them
into
the
hands
of
their
enemies,
and
into
the
hands
of
them
that
seek
their
life:
and
their
dead
bodies
shall
be
for meat
to
the fowls
of
the air,
and
to
the
beasts
of
the
earth.
\VS{21}And Sedecias
the
king
of Juda,
and
his
princes,
I
will
give
into
the
hands
of
their
enemies,
and
into
the
hands
of
them
that
seek
their
lives,
and
into
the
hands
of
the
armies
of
the
king
of
Babylon, which
are
gone
from
you.
\VS{22}Behold
I
will
command, saith
the
Lord,
and
I
will
bring
them
again
to
this
city,
and
they
shall
fight
against
it,
and
take
it,
and
burn
it
with
fire:
and
I
will
make
the
cities
of Juda
a
desolation,
without
an
inhabitant.

\par }\Chap{35}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
came
to Jeremias
from
the
Lord
in
the
days
of Joakim
the
son
of Josias
king
of Juda,
saying:
\VS{2}Go
to
the
house
of
the Rechabites:
and
speak
to
them,
and
bring
them
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
into
one
of
the
chambers
of
the treasures,
and thou shalt
give
them
wine
to
drink.
\VS{3}And
I
took Jezonias
the
son
of Jeremias
the
son
of Habsanias,
and
his
brethren,
and
all
his
sons,
and
the
whole
house
of
the Rechabites.
\VS{4}And
I
brought
them
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
to
the treasure
house
of
the
sons
of
Hanan,
the
son
of Jegedelias
the
man
of
God,
which
was
by
the treasure
house
of
the
princes,
above
the treasure
of Maasias
the
son
of Sellum,
who
was
keeper
of
the entry.
\VS{5}And
I
set
before
the
sons
of
the
house
of
the Rechabites pots
full
of
wine,
and
cups:
and
I
said
to
them:
Drink ye
wine.
\VS{6}And
they
answered:
We
will
not
drink
wine:
because
Jonadab
the
son
of
Rechab,
our
father,
commanded
us,
saying:
You
shall
drink
no
wine,
neither
you,
nor
your
children,
for
ever:
\VS{7}Neither
shall ye
build
houses,
nor
sow
seed,
nor
plant
vineyards,
nor
have
any:
but
you
shall
dwell
in
tents
all
your
days,
that
you
may
live
many
days
upon
the
face
of
the
earth,
in
which
you
are strangers.
\VS{8}Therefore
we
have
obeyed
the
voice
of
Jonadab
the
son
of
Rechab,
our
father,
in
all
things
that
he
commanded
us:
so
as
to
drink
no
wine
all
our
days:
neither
we,
nor
our
wives,
nor
our
sons,
nor
our
daughters:
\VS{9}Nor
to
build
houses
to
dwell
in,
nor
to
have
vineyard,
or
field,
or
seed:
\VS{10}But
we
have
dwelt
in
tents,
and
have
been
obedient according
to
all
that
Jonadab
our
father
commanded
us.
\VS{11}But
when Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon
came
up
to
our
land,
we
said:
Come,
let
us
go
into
Jerusalem
from
the
face
of
the
army
of
the
Chaldeans,
and
from
the
face
of
the
army
of
Syria:
and
we
have
remained
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{12}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Jeremias,
saying:
\VS{13}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Go,
and
say
to
the
men
of Juda,
and
to
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem:
Will
you
not
receive
instruction,
to
obey
my
words, saith
the
Lord?
\VS{14}The
words
of
Jonadab
the
son
of
Rechab,
by
which
he
commanded
his
sons
not
to
drink
wine,
have prevailed:
and
they
have
drunk
none
to
this
day,
because
they
have
obeyed
the
commandment
of
their
father:
but
I
have
spoken
to
you,
rising
early
and
speaking,
and
you
have
not
obeyed
me.
\VS{15}And
I
have
sent
to
you
all
my
servants
the
prophets,
rising
early,
and
sending
and
saying:
Return ye
every
man
from
his
wicked
way,
and
make
your
ways
good:
and
follow
not strange
gods,
nor
worship
them,
and
you
shall
dwell
in
the
land,
which
I
gave
you
and
your
fathers:
and
you
have
not
inclined
your
ear,
nor hearkened
to
me.
\VS{16}So
the
sons
of
Jonadab
the
son
of
Rechab
have constantly kept
the
commandment
of
their
father,
which
he
commanded
them:
but
this
people hath
not
obeyed
me.
\VS{17}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Behold
I
will
bring
upon Juda,
and
upon
all
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
all
the
evil
that
I
have
pronounced
against
them,
because
I
have
spoken
to
them,
and
they
have
not
heard:
I
have
called
to
them,
and
they
have
not
answered
me.
\VS{18}And Jeremias
said
to
the
house
of
the Rechabites:
Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Because
you
have
obeyed
the
commandment
of
Jonadab
your
father,
and
have
kept
all
his precepts,
and
have
done
all
that
he
commanded
you:
\VS{19}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord
of
host
the
God
of
Israel:
There
shall
not
be wanting
a
man
of
the
race
of
Jonadab
the
son
of
Rechab,
standing
before
me
for ever.

\par }\Chap{36}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
fourth
year
of Joakim
the
son
of Josias
king
of Juda,
that
this
word
came
to Jeremias
by
the
Lord,
saying:
\VS{2}Take thee
a roll
of
a
book,
and thou shalt
write
in
it
all
the
words
that
I
have
spoken
to thee
against
Israel
and Juda,
and
against
all
the
nations
from
the
day
that
I
spoke
to thee,
from
the
days
of Josias
even
to
this
day.
\VS{3}If
so
be,
when
the
house
of Juda
shall
hear
all
the evils
that
I
purpose
to
do unto
them,
that
they
may
return
every
man
from
his
wicked
way:
and
I
will
forgive
their
iniquity,
and
their
sin.
\VS{4}So Jeremias
called
Baruch
the
son
of Nerias:
and
Baruch
wrote
from
the
mouth
of Jeremias
all
the
words
of
the
Lord,
which
he
spoke
to
him,
upon
the roll
of
a
book.
\VS{5}And Jeremias
commanded
Baruch,
saying:
I
am
shut
up,
and
cannot
go
into
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}Go thou
in
therefore,
and
read
out
of
the volume,
which thou hast
written
from
my
mouth,
the
words
of
the
Lord,
in
the
hearing
of
all
the
people
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
on
the
fasting
day:
and
also thou shalt
read
them
in
the
hearing
of
all Juda
that
come
out
of
their
cities:
\VS{7}If
so
be
they
may
present
their
supplication
before
the
Lord,
and
may
return
every
one
from
his
wicked
way:
for
great
is
the
wrath
and indignation
which
the
Lord hath
pronounced
against
this
people.
\VS{8}And
Baruch
the
son
of Nerias
did according
to
all
that Jeremias
the
prophet
had
commanded
him,
reading
out
of
the volume
the
words
of
the
Lord
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{9}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
fifth
year
of Joakim
the
son
of Josias
king
of Juda,
in
the
ninth
month,
that
they
proclaimed
a
fast
before
the
Lord
to
all
the
people
in
Jerusalem,
and
to
all
the
people
that
were
come
together
out
of
the
cities
of Juda
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{10}And
Baruch
read
out
of
the volume
the
words
of Jeremias
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
in
the treasury
of Gamarias
the
son
of Saphan
the
scribe,
in
the
upper
court,
in
the
entry
of
the
new
gate
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
in
the
hearing
of
all
the
people.
\VS{11}And
when Micheas
the
son
of Gamarias
the
son
of Saphan
had
heard
out
of
the
book
all
the
words
of
the
Lord,
\VS{12}He
went
down
into
the
king’s
house
to
the secretary’s
chamber:
and
behold
all
the
princes
sat
there, Elisama
the
scribe,
and Dalaias
the
son
of Semeias,
and
Elnathan
the
son
of Achobor,
and Gamarias
the
son
of Saphan,
and Sedecias
the
son
of Hananias,
and
all
the
princes.
\VS{13}And Micheas
told
them
all
the
words
that
he
had
heard
when
Baruch
read
out
of
the volume
in
the
hearing
of
the
people.
\VS{14}Therefore
all
the
princes
sent Judi
the
son
of Nathanias,
the
son
of Selemias,
the
son
of Chusi,
to
Baruch,
saying:
Take
in thy
hand
the volume
in
which thou hast
read
in
the
hearing
of
the
people,
and
come.
So
Baruch
the
son
of Nerias
took
the volume
in
his
hand,
and
came
to
them.
\VS{15}And
they
said
to
him:
Sit
down
and
read these
things
in
our
hearing.
And
Baruch
read
in
their
hearing.
\VS{16}And
when
they
had
heard
all
the
words,
they looked
upon
one
another
with astonishment,
and
they
said
to
Baruch:
We
must
tell
the
king
all
these
words.
\VS{17}And
they
asked
him,
saying:
Tell
us
how didst thou
write
all
these
words
from
his
mouth.
\VS{18}And
Baruch
said
to
them:
With
his
mouth
he pronounced
all
these
words
as if
he
were
reading
to
me:
and
I
wrote
in
a volume
with
ink.
\VS{19}And
the
princes
said
to
Baruch: Go,
and
hide thee, both thou
and Jeremias,
and
let
no
man
know
where
you
are.
\VS{20}And
they
went
in
to
the
king
into
the
court:
but
they
laid
up
the volume
in
the
chamber
of Elisama
the
scribe:
and
they
told
all
the
words
in
the
hearing
of
the
king.
\VS{21}And
the
king
sent Judi
that
he
should
take
the volume:
who bringing
it
out
of
the
chamber
of Elisama
the
scribe,
read
it
in
the
hearing
of
the
king,
and
of
all
the
princes
that
stood
about
the
king.
\VS{22}Now
the
king
sat
in
the
winter
house,
In
the
ninth
month:
and
there
was
a hearth
before
him full
of
burning coals.
\VS{23}And
when Judi
had
read
three
or
four pages,
he
cut
it
with
the penknife,
and
he
cast
it
into
the
Are,
that
was
upon
the hearth,
till
all
the volume
was
consumed
with
the
fire
that
was
on
the hearth.
\VS{24}And
the
king
and
all
his
servants
that
heard
all
these
words
were
not
afraid,
nor
did
they
rend
their
garments.
\VS{25}But
yet
Elnathan,
and Dalaias,
and Gamarias
spoke
to
the
king,
not
to
burn.
the book:
and
he
heard
them
not.
\VS{26}And
the
king
commanded Jeremiel
the
son
of Amelech,
and Saraias
the
son
of Ezriel,
and Selemias
the
son
of
Abdeel,
to
take
up
Baruch
the
scribe,
and Jeremias
the
prophet:
but
the
Lord
hid
them.
\VS{27}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Jeremias
the
prophet,
after
that
the
king
had
burnt
the volume,
and
the
words
that
Baruch
had
written
from
the
mouth
of Jeremias,
saying:
\VS{28}Take thee
again
another volume:
and
write
in
it
all
the
former
words
that
were
in
the
first volume
which Joakim
the
king
of Juda hath
burnt.
\VS{29}And thou shalt
say
to Joakim
the
king
of Juda:
Thus saith
the
Lord: Thou hast
burnt
that volume,
saying:
Why hast thou
written therein,
and
said:
The
king
of
Babylon
shall
come speedily,
and
shall lay
waste
this
land:
and
shall cause
to
cease
from thence
man
and
beast?
\VS{30}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord
against Joakim
the
king
of Juda:
He
shall
have
none
to
sit
upon
the
throne
of
David:
and
his
dead
body
shall
be
cast
out
to
the heat
by
day,
and
to
the
frost
by
night.
\VS{31}And
I
will
punish
him,
and
his
seed
and
his
servants,
for
their
iniquities,
and
I
will
bring
upon
them,
and
upon
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
and
upon
the
men
of Juda
all
the
evil
that
I
have
pronounced
against
them,
but
they
have
not
heard.
\VS{32}And Jeremias
took
another volume,
and
gave
it
to
Baruch
the
son
of Nerias
the
scribe:
who
wrote
in
it
from
the
mouth
of Jeremias
all
the
words
of
the
book
which Joakim
the
king
of Juda
had
burnt
with
fire:
and
there
were
added
besides
many
more
words
than
had
been
before.

\par }\Chap{37}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
king Sedecias
the
son
of Josias
reigned
instead
of Jechonias
the
son
of Joakim:
whom Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon
made
king
in
the
land
of Juda.
\VS{2}But
neither
he,
nor
his
servants,
nor
the
people
of
the
land
did
obey
the
words
of
the
Lord,
that
he
spoke
in
the
hand
of Jeremias
the
prophet.
\VS{3}And
king Sedecias
sent Juchal
the
son
of Selemias,
and Sophonias
the
son
of Maasias
the
priest
to Jeremias
the
prophet,
saying:
Pray
to
the
Lord
our
God
for
us.
\VS{4}Now Jeremias walked freely
in
the
midst
of
the
people:
for
they
had
not
as
yet
cast
him
into
prison.
And
the
army
of Pharao
was
come
out
of Egypt:
and
the Chaldeans
that besieged Jerusalem, hearing
these tidings,
departed
from Jerusalem.
\VS{5}And
the word
of
the Lord
came
to Jeremias
the prophet, saying:
\VS{6}Thus saith
the
Lord
the
God
of Israel:
Thus
shall
you
say
to
the king
of Juda,
who
sent
you
to inquire
of
me: Behold
the army
of Pharao,
which
is
come forth
to help
you,
shall return
into
their
own land,
into Egypt.
\VS{7}And
the Chaldeans
shall
come
again,
and fight
against
this city,
and
take
it,
and burn
it
with fire.
\VS{8}Thus saith
the Lord: Deceive not
your souls, saying:
The
Chaldeans
shall
surely depart
and
go
away
from
us:
for
they
shall not
go
away;
\VS{9}But
if
you
should
even beat all
the army
of
the
Chaldeans
that fight
against
you,
and
there
should
be
left
of
them
some wounded
men:
they
shall rise
up, every
man
from
his tent,
and burn
this city
with
Are.
\VS{10}Now
when
the
army
of
the
Chaldeans
was gone
away
from Jerusalem,
because
of Pharao’s
army,
\VS{11}Jeremias
went forth
out
of
Jerusalem
to
go
into
the
land
of Benjamin:
and
to divide
a possession
there
in
the
presence
of
the citizens.
\VS{12}And
when
he
was
come
to
the gate
of
Benjamin,
the captain
of
the gate,
who
I
was
there
in
his turn,
was
one named Jerias,
the son
of Selemias,
the son
of Hananias:
and
he
took hold
of Jeremias
the prophet, saying: Thou art fleeing
to
the Chaldeans.
\VS{13}And Jeremias
answered:
It
is
not
so,
I
am
not fleeing
to
the
Chaldeans.
But
he hearkened
not
to
him:
so Jerias
took Jeremias
and
brought
him
to
the princes.
\VS{14}Wherefore
the
princes
were angry
with Jeremias,
and
they beat
him,
and
cast
him
into
the prison
that
was
in
the house
of
Jonathan
the scribe:
for
he
was
chief
over
the prison.
\VS{15}So Jeremias
went
into
the
house
of
the
prison,
and
into
the dungeon:
and Jeremias remained there many days.
\VS{16}Then Sedecias
the king, sending,
took
him:
and
asked
him secretly
in
his
house,
and
said:
Is
there, thinkest thou,
any word
from
the Lord?
And Jeremias
said:
There
is.
And
he
said: Thou shalt
be delivered
into
the hands
of
the king
of Babylon.
\VS{17}And Jeremias
said
to
king Sedecias:
In
what
have
I offended
against thee,
or thy servants,
or thy people,
that thou hast
cast
me
into
prison?
\VS{18}Where
are
your prophets
that prophesied
to
you,
and
said:
The
king
of Babylon
shall
not come
against
you,
and
against
this land?
\VS{19}Now
therefore hear,
I beseech thee,
my lord
the
king:
let
my petition
be accepted
in thy sight:
and send
me
not
back
into
the house
of
Jonathan
the scribe, lest
I die
there.
\VS{20}Then
king Sedecias commanded
that Jeremias
should
be committed
into
the entry
of
the
prison:
and
that
they
should
give
him daily
a piece
of bread, beside broth, till all
the bread
in
the city
were
spent:
and Jeremias remained
in
the entry
of
the
prison.

\par }\Chap{38}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now Saphatias
the
son
of Mathan,
and Gedelias
the
son
of Phassur,
and Juchal
the
son
of Selemias,
and Phassur
the
son
of Melchias
heard
the
words
that Jeremias
spoke
to
all
the
people,
saying:
\VS{2}Thus saith
the
Lord: Whosoever shell
remain
in
this
city,
shall
die
by
the
sword,
and
by
famine,
and
by
pestilence:
but
he
that
shall
go
forth
to
the
Chaldeans,
shall
live,
and
his
life
shall
be safe,
and
he
shall
live.
\VS{3}Thus saith
the
Lord:
This
city
shall
surely
be
delivered
into
the
hand
of
the
army
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
shall
take
it.
\VS{4}And
the
princes
said
to
the
king:
We
beseech thee
that
this
man
may
be
put
to
death:
for
on
purpose
he weakeneth
the
hands
of
the
men
of
war,
that
remain
in
this
city,
and
the
hands
of
the
people,
speaking
to
them
according
to
these
words:
for
this
man seeketh
not
peace
to
this
people,
but
evil.
\VS{5}And
king Sedecias
said:
Behold
he
is
in
your
hands:
for
it
is
not lawful
for
the
king
to deny
you
any
thing.
\VS{6}Then
they
took Jeremias
and
cast
him
into
the dungeon
of Melchias
the
son
of Amelech,
which
was
in
the entry
of
the prison:
and
they
let
down Jeremias
by
ropes
into
the dungeon,
wherein
there
was
no
water,
but
mire.
And Jeremias
sunk
into
the
mire.
\VS{7}Now Abdemelech
the
Ethiopian,
an
eunuch
that
was
in
the
king’s
house,
heard
that
they
had
put Jeremias
in
the dungeon:
but
the
king
was
sitting
in
the
gate
of
Benjamin.
\VS{8}And Abdemelech
went
out
of
the
king’s
house,
and
spoke
to
the
king,
saying:
\VS{9}My
lord
the
king,
these
men
have
done
evil
in
all
that
they
have
done
against Jeremias
the
prophet, casting
him
into
the dungeon
to
die
there
with
hunger,
for
there
is
no
more
bread
in
the
city.
\VS{10}Then
the
king
commanded Abdemelech
the
Ethiopian,
saying:
Take
from hence
thirty
men
with thee,
and draw
up Jeremias
the
prophet
out
of
the dungeon,
before
he
die.
\VS{11}So Abdemelech
taking
the
men
with
him,
went
into
the
king’s
house
that
was
under
the
storehouse:
and
he
took
from thence old
rags,
and old rotten things,
and
he
let
them
down
by
cords
to Jeremias
into
the dungeon.
\VS{12}And Abdemelech
the
Ethiopian
said
to Jeremias:
Put
these old
rags
and
these rent
and rotten things
under thy
arms,
and
upon
the
cords:
and Jeremias
did
so.
\VS{13}And
they
drew
up Jeremias
with
the
cords,
and
brought
him forth
out
of
the dungeon.
And Jeremias
remained
in
the entry
of
the prison.
\VS{14}And
king Sedecias
sent,
and
took Jeremias
the
prophet
to
him
to
the
third gate,
that
was
in
the
house
of
the
Lord:
and
the
king
said
to Jeremias:
I
will
ask thee
a
thing,
hide
nothing
from
me.
\VS{15}Then Jeremias
said
to Sedecias:
If
I
shall
declare
it
to thee, wilt thou
not
put
me
to
death?
and
if
I
give thee
counsel, thou wilt
not hearken
to
me.
\VS{16}Then
king Sedecias
swore
to Jeremias,
in private,
saying:
As
the
Lord liveth,
that
made
us
this
soul,
I
will
not
put thee
to
death,
nor
will
I
deliver thee
into
the
hands
of
these
men
that
seek thy
life.
\VS{17}And Jeremias
said
to Sedecias:
Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
If thou wilt
take
a resolution
and
go
out
to
the
princes
of
the
king
of
Babylon, thy
soul
shall
live,
and
this
city
shall
not
be
burnt
with
fire:
and thou shalt
be safe,
and thy
house.
\VS{18}But
if thou wilt
not
go
out
to
the
princes
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
this
city
shall
be
delivered
into
the
hands
of
the
Chaldeans,
and
they
shall
burn
it
with
fire:
and thou shalt
not
escape
out
of
their
hands.
\VS{19}And
king Sedecias
said
to Jeremias:
I
am afraid
because
of
the
Jews
that
are fled
over
to
the
Chaldeans:
lest
I
should
be
delivered
into
their
hands,
and
they
should abuse
me.
\VS{20}But Jeremias
answered:
They
shall
not
deliver thee: hearken,
I
beseech thee,
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
which
I
speak
to thee,
and
it
shall
be
well
with thee,
and thy
soul
shall
live.
\VS{21}But
if thou wilt
not
go
forth,
this
is
the
word
which
the
Lord hath shewn
me:
\VS{22}Behold
all
the
women
that
are
left
in
the
house
of
the
king
of Juda,
shall
be
brought
out
to
the
princes
of
the
king
of
Babylon:
and
they
shall
say: Thy
men
of
peace
have deceived thee,
and
have
prevailed
against thee,
they
have plunged thy
feet
in
the
mire,
and
in
a slippery
place,
and
they
have
departed
from thee.
\VS{23}And
all thy
wives,
and thy
children
shall
be
brought
out
to
the
Chaldeans,
and thou shalt
not
escape
their
hands,
but thou shalt
be
taken
by
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Babylon:
and
he
shall
burn
this
city
with
fire.
\VS{24}Then Sedecias
said
to Jeremias:
Let
no
man
know
these
words,
and thou shalt
not
die.
\VS{25}But
if
the
princes
shall
hear
that
I
have
spoken
with thee,
and
shall
come
to thee,
and
say
to thee:
Tell
us
what thou hast
said
to
the
king,
hide
it
not
from
us,
and
we
will
not
kill thee:
and
also
what
the
king
said
to thee:
\VS{26}Thou shalt
say
to
them:
I presented
my
supplication
before
the
king,
that
he
would
not
command
me
to
be
carried
back
into
the
house
of
Jonathan,
to
die
there.
\VS{27}So
all
the
princes
came
to Jeremias,
and
asked
him:
and
he
spoke
to
them
according
to
all
the
words
that
the
king
had
commanded
him:
and
they
left
him:
for
nothing
had
been
heard.
\VS{28}But Jeremias
remained
in
the entry
of
the prison,
until
the
day
that
Jerusalem
was
taken:
and
it
came
to
pass
that
Jerusalem
was
taken.

\par }\Chap{39}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
ninth
year
of Sedecias
king
of Juda,
in
the
tenth
month,
came Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon,
and
all
his
army
to
Jerusalem,
and
they besieged
it.
\VS{2}And
in
the
I
eleventh
year
of Sedecias,
in
the
fourth
month,
the fifth
day
of
the
month,
the
city
was opened.
\VS{3}And
all
the
princes
of
the
king
of
Babylon
came
in,
and
sat
in
the
middle
gate: Neregel, Sereser, Semegarnabu, Sarsachim, Rabsares, Neregel, Serezer, Rebmag,
and
all
the
rest
of
the
princes
of
the
king
of
Babylon.
\VS{4}And
when Sedecias
the
king
of Juda
and
all
the
men
of
war
saw
them,
they
fled:
and
they
went
forth
in
the
night
out
of
the
city
by
the
way
of
the
king’s
garden,
and
by
the
gate
that
was
between
the
two
walls,
and
they
went;
out
to
the
way
of
the
desert.
\VS{5}But
the
army
of
the
Chaldeans
pursued
after
them:
and
they
took Sedecias
in
the
plain
of
the
desert
of
Jericho,
and
when
they
had
taken
him,
they
brought
him
to Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon
to Reblatha, which
is
in
the
land
of Emath:
and
he
gave
judgment
upon
him.
\VS{6}And
the
king
of
Babylon
slew
the
sons
of Sedecias,
in Reblatha,
before
his
eyes:
and
the
king
of
Babylon
slew
all
the
nobles
of Juda.
\VS{7}He
also
put
out
the
eyes
of Sedecias:
and
bound
him
with
fetters,
to
be
carried
to
Babylon.
\VS{8}And
the
Chaldeans
burnt
the
king’s
house,
and
the
houses
of
the
people
with
fire,
and
they threw
down
the
wall
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{9}And Nabuzardan
the general
of
the
army
carried
away
captive
to
Babylon
the
remnant
of
the
people
that
remained
in
the
city,
and
the fugitives
that
had
gone
over
to
him,
and
the
rest
of
the
people
that
remained.
\VS{10}But Nabuzardan
the general
left
some
of
the
poor
people
that
had
nothing
at
all,
in
the
land
of Juda,
and
he
gave
them
vineyards,
and cisterns
at
that
time.
\VS{11}Now Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon
had
given
charge
to Nabuzardan
the general
concerning Jeremias,
saying:
\VS{12}Take
him,
and
set thy
eyes
upon
him,
and
do
him
no
harm:
but
as
he hath
a mind,
so
do
with
him.
\VS{13}Therefore Nabuzardan
the general
sent,
and Nabusezban,
and Rabsares,
and Neregel,
and Sereser,
and Rebmag,
and
all
the nobles
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
\VS{14}Sent,
and
took Jeremias
out
of
the
court
of
the
prison,
and
committed
him
to Codolias
the
son
of Ahicam
the
son
of Saphan,
that
he
might
go
home,
and
dwell
among
the
people.
\VS{15}But
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Jeremias,
when
he
was
yet
shut
up
in
the
court
of
the prison,
saying:
Go,
and
tell Abdemelech
the Ethiopian,
saying:
\VS{16}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Behold
I
will
bring
my
words
upon
this
city unto
evil,
and
not unto
good:
and
they
shall
be accomplished
in thy
sight
in
that
day.
\VS{17}And
I
will
deliver thee
in
that
day, saith
the
Lord:
and thou shalt
not
be
given
into
the
hands
of
the
men
whom thou fearest:
\VS{18}But delivering,
I
will
deliver thee,
and thou shalt
not
fall
by
the
sword:
but thy
life
shall
be
saved
for thee,
because thou hast
put thy
trust
in
me, saith
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{40}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
came
to Jeremias
from
the
Lord,
after
that Nabuzardan
the general
had
let
him
go
from Rama,
when
he
had
taken
him,
being
bound
with
chains,
among
all
them
that
were
carried
away
from
Jerusalem
and Juda,
and
were
carried
to
Babylon.
\VS{2}And
the general
of
the army
taking Jeremias,
said
to
him:
The
Lord thy
God hath
pronounced
this
evil
upon
this
place,
\VS{3}And
he hath
brought
it:
and
the
Lord hath
done
as
he hath
said:
because
you
have
sinned
against
the
Lord,
and
have
not hearkened
to
his
voice,
and
this
word
is
come
upon
you.
\VS{4}Now
then
behold
I
have loosed thee
this
day
from
the
chains
which
were
upon thy
hands:
if
it please thee
to
come
with
me
to
Babylon,
come:
and
I
will
set
my
eyes
upon thee:
but
if
it
do
not please thee
to
come
with
me
to
Babylon,
stay
here:
behold
all
the
land
is
before thee,
as thou shalt choose,
and whither
it
shall please thee
to
go, thither
go.
\VS{5}And
come
not
with
me:
but
dwell
with Godolias
the
son
of Ahicam
the
son
of Saphan,
whom
the
king
of
Babylon hath
made governor
over
the
cities
of Juda:
dwell
therefore
with
him
in
the
midst
of
the
people:
or whithersoever
it
shall please thee
to
go,
go.
And
the general
of
the
army
gave
him victuals
and
presents,
and
let
him
go.
\VS{6}And Jeremias
went
to Godolias
the
son
of Ahicam
to Masphath:
and
dwelt
with
him
in
the
midst
of
the
people
that
were
left
in
the
land.
\VS{7}And
when
all
the
captains
of
the
army
that
were scattered
through
the
countries,
they
and
their companions,
had
heard
that
the
king
of
Babylon
had
made Godolias
the
son
of Ahicam
governor
of
the
country,
and
that
he
had
committed unto
him
men
and
women,
and
children,
and
of
the poor
of
the
land,
them
that
had
not
been
carried
away
captive
to
Babylon:
\VS{8}They
came
to Godolias
to Masphath:
and Ismahel
the
son
of Nathanias,
and
Johanan,
and
Jonathan,
the
sons
of Caree,
and Sareas
the
son
of Thanehumeth,
and
the
children
of Ophi,
that
were
of Netophathi,
and Jezonias
the
son
of Maachati,
they
and
their
men.
\VS{9}And Godolias
the
son
of Ahicam
the
son
of Saphan
swore
to
them
and
to
their companions,
saying:
Fear
not
to
serve
the Chaldeass:
dwell
in
the
land,
and
serve
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
it
shall
be
well
with
you.
\VS{10}Behold
I
dwell
in Masphath,
that
I
may answer
the commandment
of
the
Chaldeans
that
are sent
to
us:
but
as
for
you,
gather ye
the vintage,
and
the
harvest,
and
the
oil,
and
lay
it
up
in
your
vessels,
and
abide
in
your
cities
which
you
hold.
\VS{11}Moreover
all
the
Jews
that
were
in
Moab,
and
among
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
in
Edom,
and
in
all
the
countries,
when
they
heard
that
the
king
of
Babylon
had
left
a
remnant
in Judea,
and
that
he
had
made Godolias
the
son
of Ahicam
the
son
of Saphan ruler
over
them:
\VS{12}All
the
Jews,
I say,
returned
out
of
all
the
places
to
which
they
had fled,
and
they
came
into
the
land
of Juda
to Godolias
to Masphath:
and
they
gathered
wine,
and
a
very
great
harvest.
\VS{13}Then
Johanan
the
son
of Caree,
and
all
the
captains
of
the
army,
that
had
been scattered
about
in
the countries,
came
to Godolias
to Masphath.
\VS{14}And
they
said
to
him:
Know
that
Baalis
the
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon hath
sent Ismahel
the
son
of Nathanias
to
kill thee.
And Godolias
the
son
of Ahicam
believed
them
not.
\VS{15}But
Johanan
the
son
of Caree,
spoke
to Oodolias
privately
in Masphath,
saying:
I
will
go,
and
I
will
kill Ismahel
the
son
of Nathanias,
and
no
man
shall
know
it, lest
he
kill thee,
and
all
the
Jews
be
scattered,
that
are
gathered unto thee,
and
the
remnant
of Juda
perish.
\VS{16}And Codolias
the
son
of Ahicam
said
to
Johanan
the
son
of Cares:
Do
not
this
thing:
for
what thou sayst
of Ismahel
is
false.

\par }\Chap{41}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
seventh
month,
that Ismahel
the
son
of Nathanias,
the
son
of Elisama
of
the
royal blood,
and
the nobles
of
the
king,
and
ten
men
with
him,
came
to Godolias
the
son
of Ahicam
into Masphath:
and
they
ate
bread
there
together
in Masphath.
\VS{2}And Ismahel
the
son
of Nathanias
arose,
and
the
ten
men
that
were
with
him,
and
they
struck Godolias
the
son
of Ahicam,
the
son
of Saphan
with
the
sword,
and
slew
him
whom
the
king
of
Babylon
had
made governor
over
the
land.
\VS{3}Ismahel
slew
also
all
the
Jews
that
were
with Godolias
in Masphath,
and
the
Chaldeans
that
were
found
there,
and
the
soldiers.
\VS{4}And
on
the
second
day
after
he
had
killed Godolias,
no
man
yet
knowing
it,
\VS{5}There
came
some
from Sichem,
and
from Silo,
and
from
Samaria, fourscore
men,
with
their
beards shaven,
and
their
clothes rent,
and mourning:
and
they
had
offerings
and
incense
in
their
hand,
to offer
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}And Ismahel
the
son
of Nathanias
went
forth
from Masphath
to
meet
them,
weeping
all
along
as
he
went:
and
when
he
had
met
them,
he
said
to
them:
Come
to Godolias,
the
son
of Ahicam.
\VS{7}And
when
they
were
come
to
the
midst
of
the
city, Ismahel
the
son
of Nathanias,
slew
them,
and cast
them
into
the
midst
of
the
pit,
he
and
the
men
that
were
with
him.
\VS{8}But
ten
men
were
found
among
them,
that
said
to Ismahel:
Kill
us
not:
for
we
have
stores
in
the
field,
of
wheat,
and
barley,
and
oil,
and
honey.
And
he forbore,
and slew
them
not
with
their
brethren.
\VS{9}And
the
pit
into
which Ismahel
cast
all
the
dead
bodies
of
the
men
whom
he
slew
because
of Godolias,
is
the
same
that
king
Asa
made,
for fear
of Baasa
the
king
of
Israel:
the
same
did Ismahel
the
son
of Nathanias
fill
with
them
that
were
slain.
\VS{10}Then Ismahel
carried
away
captive
all
the
remnant
of
the
people
that
were
in Masphath:
the
king’s
daughters,
and
all
the
people
that
remained
in Masphath:
whom Nabuzardan
the general
of
the
army
had
committed
to Godolias
the
son
of Ahicam.
And Ismahel
the
son
of Nathanias
took
them,
and
he departed,
to
go
over
to
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{11}But
Johanan
the
son
of Caree,
and
all
the
captains
of
the fighting
men
that
were
with
him,
heard
of
the
evil
that Ismahel
the
son
of Nathanias
had
done.
\VS{12}And
taking
all
the
men,
they
went
out
to
fight
against Ismahel
the
son
of Nathanias,
and
they
found
him
by
the
great
waters
that
are
in Gabaon.
\VS{13}And
when
all
the
people
that
were
with Ismahel,
had
seen
Johanan
the
son
of Caree,
and
all
the
captains
of
the fighting
men
that
were
with
him,
they
rejoiced.
\VS{14}And
all
the
people
whom Ismahel
had
taken,
went
back
to Masphath:
and
they
returned
and
went
to
Johanan
the
son
of Caree.
\VS{15}But Ismahel
the
son
of Nathanias fled
with
eight
men,
from
the
face
of
Johanan,
and
went
to
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{16}Then
Johanan
the
son
of Caree,
and
all
the
captains
of
the
soldiers
that
were
with
him,
took
all
the
remnant
of
the
people
whom
they
had
recovered
from Ismahel
the
son
of Nathanias,
from Masphath,
after
that
he
had
slain Godolias
the
son
of Ahicam:
valiant
men
for
war,
and
the
women,
and
the
children,
and
the
eunuchs,
whom
he
had
brought
back
from Gabaon:
\VS{17}And
they
departed,
and
sat
as sojourners
in Chamaam,
which
is
near
Bethlehem:
in order
to
go
forward,
and
enter
into
Egypt,
\VS{18}From
the
face
of
the
Chaldeans:
for
they
were
afraid
of
them,
because Ismahel
the
son
of Nathanias
had
slain Godolias
the
son
of Ahicam,
whom
the
king
of
Babylon
had
made governor
in
the
land
of Juda.

\par }\Chap{42}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
all
the
captains
of
the
warriors,
and
Johanan
the
son
of Caree,
and Jezonias
the
son
of Osaias,
and
the rest
of
the
people
from
the least
to
the
greatest
came
near:
\VS{2}And
they
said
to Jeremias
the
prophet:
Let
our
supplication
fall
before thee:
and
pray thou
for
us
to
the
Lord thy
God
for
all
this
remnant,
for
we
are
left
but
a
few
of
many,
as thy
eyes
do
behold
us.
\VS{3}And
let
the
Lord thy
God shew
us
the
way
by
which
we
may
walk,
and
the
thing
that
we
must
do.
\VS{4}And Jeremias
the
prophet
said
to
them:
I
have
heard
you:
behold
I
will
pray
to
the
Lord
your
God
according
to
your
words:
and
whatsoever
thing
he
shall
answer
me,
I
will
declare
it
to
you:
and
I
will hide
nothing
from
you.
\VS{5}And
they
said
to Jeremias:
The
Lord
be
witness between
us
of
truth
and
faithfulness,
if
we
do
not
according
to
every
thing
for
which
the
Lord thy
God
shall
send thee
to
us.
\VS{6}Whether
it
be
good
or
evil,
we
will
obey
the
voice
of
the
Lord
our
God,
to
whom
me
send thee:
that
it
may
be
well
with
us
when
we
shall hearken
to
the
voice
of
the
Lord
our
God.
\VS{7}Now
after
ten
days,
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Jeremias.
\VS{8}And
he
called
Johanan
the
son
of Caree,
and
all
the
captains
of
the fighting
men
that
were
with
him,
and
all
the
people
from
the least
to
the
greatest.
\VS{9}And
he
said
to
them:
Thus saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel,
to
whom
you
sent
me,
to
present
your
supplications
before
him:
\VS{10}If
you
will
be quiet
and
remain
in
this
land,
I
will
build
you
up,
and
not
pull
you
down:
I
will plane
you,
and
not
pluck
you
up:
for
now
I
am
appeased
for
the
evil
that
I
have
done
to
you.
\VS{11}Fear
not
because
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
of
whom
you
are greatly
afraid:
fear
him
not, saith
the
Lord:
for
I
am
with
you,
to
save
you,
and
to
deliver
you
from
his
hand.
\VS{12}And
I
will shew
mercies
to
you,
and
will
take
pity
on
you,
and
will
cause
you
to dwell
in
your own
land.
\VS{13}But
if
you
say:
We
will
not
dwell
in
this
land,
neither
will
we hearken
to
the
voice
of
the
Lord
our
God,
\VS{14}Saying:
No,
but
we
will
go
into
the
land
of
Egypt:
where
we
shall
see
no
war,
nor
hear
the
sound
of
the
trumpet,
nor
suffer
hunger:
and
there
we
will
dwell.
\VS{15}For
this
now
hear
the
word
of
the
Lord, ye
remnant
of Juda:
Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts,
the
God
of
Israel:
If
you
set
your
faces
to
go
into
Egypt,
and
enter
in
to
dwell
there:
\VS{16}The
sword
which
you
fear,
shall
overtake
you
there
in
the
land
of
Egypt:
and
the
famine, whereof
you
are
afraid,
shall cleave
to
you
in
Egypt,
and
there
you
shall
die.
\VS{17}And
all
the
men
that
set
their
faces
to
go
into
Egypt,
to
dwell
there,
shall
die
by
the
sword,
and
by
famine,
and
by
pestilence:
none
of
them
shall
remain,
nor
escape
from
the
face
of
the
evil
that
I
will
bring
upon
them.
\VS{18}For
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts,
the
God
of
Israel:
As
my
anger
and
my indignation hath
been kindled
against
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem:
so
shall
my indignation
be kindled
against
you,
when
you
shall
enter
into
Egypt,
and
you
shall
be
an execration,
and
an astonishment,
and
a
curse,
and
a
reproach:
and
you
shall
see
this
place
no
more.
\VS{19}This
is
the
word
of
the
Lord
concerning
you,
O ye
remnant
of Juda:
Go ye
not
into
Egypt:
know
certainly
that
I
have adjured
you
this
day.
\VS{20}For
you
have
deceived
your
own
souls:
for
you
sent
me
to
the
Lord
our
God,
saying:
Pray
for
us
to
the
Lord
our
God,
and
according
to
all
that
the
Lord
our
God
shall
say
to thee,
so
declare unto
us,
and
we
will
do
it.
\VS{21}And
now
I
have
declared
it
to
you
this
day,
and;
you
have
not
obeyed
the
voice
of
the
Lord
your
God,
with
regard
to
all
the
things
for
which
he hath
sent
me
to
you.
\VS{22}Now
therefore
know
certainly
that
you
shall
die
by
the
sword,
and
by
famine,
and
by
pestilence
in
the
place
to
which
you
desire
to
go
to
dwell
there.

\par }\Chap{43}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass,
that
when Jeremias
had
made
an
end
of
speaking
to
the
people
all
the
words
of
the
Lord
their
God,
for
which
the
Lord
their
God
had
sent
him
to
them,
all
these
words:
\VS{2}Azarias
the
son
of Osaias,
and
Johanan
the
son
of Caree,
and
all
the
proud
men,
made
answer,
saying
to Jeremias: Thou tellest
a
lie:
the
Lord
our
God hath
not
sent thee,
saying:
Go
not
into
Egypt,
to
dwell
there.
\VS{3}But
Baruch
the
son
of Nerias setteth thee
on
against
us,
to
deliver
us
into
the
hands
of
the
Chaldeans,
to
kill
us,
and
to
cause
us
to
be
carried
away
captives
to
Babylon.
\VS{4}So
Johanan
the
son
of Caree,
and
all
the
captains
of
the
soldiers,
and
all
the
people,
obeyed
not
the
voice
of
the
Lord,
to
remain
in
the
land
of Juda.
\VS{5}But
Johanan
the
son
of Caree,
and
all
the
captains
of
the
soldiers
took
all
the
remnant
of Juda,
that
were
returned
out
of
all
nations,
to
which
they
had before
been
scattered,
to
dwell
in
the
land
of Juda:
\VS{6}Men,
and
women,
and
children,
and
the
king’s
daughters,
and
every
soul,
which Nabuzardan
the general
had
left
with Godolias
the
son
of Ahicam
the
son
of Saphan,
and Jeremias
the
prophet,
and
Baruch
the
son
of Nerias.
\VS{7}And
they
went
Into
the
land
of
Egypt,
for
they
obeyed
not
the
voice
of
the
Lord:
and
they
came
as
far
as Taphnis.
\VS{8}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Jeremias
in Taphnis,
saying:
\VS{9}Take
great
stones
in thy
hand,
and thou shalt
hide
them
in
the vault
that
is
under
the
brick wall
at
the
gate
of Pharao’s
house
in Taphnis:
in
the
sight
of
the
men
of Juda.
\VS{10}And thou shalt
say
to
them:
Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Behold
I
will
send,
and
take Nabuchodonosor
the
king
of
Babylon
my
servant:
and
I
will
set
his
throne
over
these
stones
which
I
have
hid,
and
he
shall
set
his
throne
over
them.
\VS{11}And
he
shall
come
and
strike
the
land
of
Egypt:
such
as
are
for
death,
to
death:
and
such
as
are
for
captivity,
to
captivity:
and
such
as
are
for
the
sword,
to
the
sword.
\VS{12}And
he
shall
kindle
a
fire
in
the
temples
of
the
gods
of
Egypt,
and
he
shall
burn
them,
and
he
shall
carry
them
away
captives:
and
he
shall array himself
with
the
land
of
Egypt,
as
a
shepherd putteth
on
his
garment:
and
he
shall
go
forth
from thence
in
peace.
\VS{13}And
he
shall
break
the statues
of
the
house
of
the sun,
that
are
in
the
land
of
Egypt;
and
the
temples
of
the
gods
of
Egypt
he
shall
burn
with
fire.

\par }\Chap{44}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
came
to Jeremias,
concerning
all
the
Jews
that
dwelt
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
dwelling
in Magdal,
and
in Taphnis,
and
in
Memphis,
and
in
the
land
of Phatures,
saying:
\VS{2}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
You
have
seen
all
this
evil
that
I
have
brought
upon
Jerusalem,
and
upon
all
the
cities
of Juda:
and
behold
they
are desolate
this
day,
and
there
is
not
an
inhabitant
in
them:
\VS{3}Because
of
the
wickedness
which
they
have
committed,
to
provoke
me
to wrath,
and
to go
and
offer
sacrifice,
and
worship
other
gods,
which
neither
they,
nor
you,
nor
your
fathers
knew.
\VS{4}And
I
sent
to
you
all
my
servants
the
prophets,
rising
early,
and
sending,
and
saying:
Do
not commit
this
abominable
thing,
which
I
hate.
\VS{5}But
they
heard
not,
nor
inclined
their
ear
to
turn
from
their
evil ways,
and
not
to
sacrifice
to strange
gods.
\VS{6}Wherefore
my indignation
and
my
fury
was
poured forth,
and
was kindled
in
the
cities
of Juda,
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem:
and
they
are
turned
to
desolation
and
waste,
as
at
this
day.
\VS{7}And
now
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Why
do
you commit
this
great
evil
against
your
own
souls,
that
there
should die
of
you
man
and
woman,
child
and suckling
out
of
the
midst
of Juda,
and
no
remnant
should
be
left
you:
\VS{8}In
that
you
provoke
me
to wrath
with
the
works
of
your
hands,
by
sacrificing
to
other
gods
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
into
which
you
are
come
to
dwell
there:
and
that
you
should
perish,
and
be
a
curse,
and
a
reproach
to
all
the
nations
of
the
earth?
\VS{9}Have
you
forgotten
the evils
of
your
fathers,
and
the evils
of
the
kings
of Juda,
and
the evils
of
their
wives,
and
your evils,
and
the evils
of
your
wives,
that
they
have
done
in
the
land
of Juda,
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem?
\VS{10}They
are
not cleansed
even
to
this
day:
neither
have
they
feared,
nor
walked
in
the
law
of
the Lord,
nor
in
my commandments,
which
I
set
before
you
and
your
fathers.
\VS{11}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Behold
I
will
set
my
face
upon
you
for
evil:
and
I
will
destroy
all Juda.
\VS{12}And
I
will
take
the
remnant
of Juda
that
have
set
their
faces
to
go
into
the
land
of
Egypt,
and
to
dwell
there:
and
they
shall
be
all
consumed
in
the
land
of
Egypt:
they
shall
fall
by
the
sword,
and
by
the
famine:
and
they
shall
be
consumed
from
the least
even
to
the
greatest,
by
the
sword,
and
by
the
famine
shall
they
die:
and
they
shall
be
for
an execration,
and
for
a wonder,
and
for
a
curse,
and
for
a
reproach.
\VS{13}And
I
will
visit
them
that
dwell
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
as
I
have
visited
Jerusalem
by
the
sword,
and
by
famine,
and
by
pestilence.
\VS{14}And
there
shall
be
none
that
shall
escape,
and
remain
of
the
remnant
of
the
Jews
that
are
gone
to sojourn
in
the
land
of
Egypt:
and
that
shall
return
into
the
land
of Juda,
to
which
they
have
a
desire
to
return
to
dwell
there:
there
shall
none
return
but
they
that
shall
flee.
\VS{15}Then
all
the
men
that
knew
that
their
wives sacrificed
to
other
gods:
and
all
the
women
of whom
there
stood
by
a
great multitude,
and
all
the
people
of
them
that
dwelt
in
the
land
of
Egypt
in Phatures,
answered Jeremias,
saying:
\VS{16}As
for
the
word
which thou hast
spoken
to
us
in
the
name
of
the
Lord,
we
will
not hearken
to thee:
\VS{17}But
we
will
certainly
do
every
word
that
shall
proceed
out
of
our
own
mouth,
to
sacrifice
to
the
queen
of
heaven,
and
to
pour
out
drink
offerings
to
her,
as
we
and
our
fathers
have
done,
our
kings,
and
our
princes
in
the
cities
of Juda,
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem:
and
we
were
filled
with
bread,
and
it
was
well
with
us,
and
we
saw
no
evil.
\VS{18}But
since
we
left
off
to
offer
sacrifice
to
the
queen
of
heaven,
and
to
pour
out drink
offerings
to
her,
we
have wanted
all
things,
and
have
been
consumed
by
the
sword,
and
by
famine.
\VS{19}And
if
we
offer
sacrifice
to
the
queen
of
heaven,
and
pour
out drink
offerings
to
her:
did
we
make
cakes
to worship
her,
to
pour
out drink
offerings
to
her,
without
our
husbands?
\VS{20}And Jeremias
spoke
to
all
the
people,
to
the
men,
and
to
the
women,
and
to
all
the
people
which
had given
him
that
answer,
saying:
\VS{21}Was
it
not
the
sacrifice
that
you
offered
in
the
cities
of Juda,
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem,
you
and Sour
fathers,
your
kings,
and
your
princes,
and
the
people
of
the
land,
which
the
Lord hath
remembered,
and hath
it
not
entered
into
his
heart?
\VS{22}So
that
the
Lord
could
no
longer
bear,
because
of
the
evil
of
your
doings,
and
because
of
the
abominations
which
you
have
committed:
therefore
your
land
is
become
a
desolation,
and
an astonishment,
and
a
curse,
without
an
inhabitant,
as
at
this
day.
\VS{23}Because
you
have sacrificed
to idols,
and
have
sinned
against
the
Lord:
and
have
not
obeyed
the
voice
of
the
Lord,
and
have
not
walked
in
his
law,
and
in
his commandments,
and
in
his
testimonies:
therefore
are
these evils
come
upon
you,
as
at
this
day.
\VS{24}And Jeremias
said
to
all
the
people,
and
to
all
the
women:
Hear ye
the
word
of
the
Lord,
all Juda,
you
that dwell
in
the
land
of
Egypt:
\VS{25}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel,
saying:
You
and
your
wives
have
spoken
with
your
mouth,
and
fulfilled
with
your
hands,
saying: Let
us
perform
our
vows
which
we
have
made,
to
offer
sacrifice
to
the
queen
of
heaven,
and
to
pour
out drink
offerings
to
her:
you
have
fulfilled
your
vows,
and
have performed
them
indeed.
\VS{26}Therefore
hear ye
the
word
of
the
Lord,
all Juda,
you
that
dwell
in
the
land
of
Egypt:
Behold
I
have
sworn
by
my
great
name, saith
the
Lord:
that
my
name
shall
no
more
be
named
in
the
mouth
of
any
man
of Juda,
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
saying:
The
Lord
God liveth.
\VS{27}Behold
I
will
watch
over
them
for
evil,
and
not
for
good:
and
all
the
men
of Juda
that
are
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
shall
be
consumed,
by
the
sword,
and
by
famine,
till
there
be
an
end
of
them.
\VS{28}And
a
few
men
that
shall
flee
from
the
sword,
shall
return
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
into
the
land
of Juda:
and
all
the
remnant
of Juda
that
are
gone
into
the
land
of
Egypt
to
dwell
there,
shall
know
whose
word
shall
stand,
mine,
or
theirs.
\VS{29}And
this
shall
be
a
sign
to
you, saith
the
Lord,
that
I
will
punish
you
in
this
place:
that
you
may
know
that
my
words
shall
be
accomplished
indeed
against
you
for
evil.
\VS{30}Thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
I
will
deliver Pharao Ephree
king
of
Egypt
into
the
hand
of
his
enemies,
and
into
the
hand
of
them
that
seek
his
life:
as
I
delivered Sedecias
king
of Juda
into
the
hand
of Nabuchodonosor
the
king
of
Babylon
his
enemy,
and
that
sought
his
life.

\par }\Chap{45}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that Jeremias
the
prophet
spoke
to
Baruch
the
son
of Nerias,
when
he
had
written
there
words
in
a
book,
out
of
the
mouth
of Jeremias,
in
the
fourth
year
of Joakim
the
son
of Josias
king
of Juda,
saying:
\VS{2}Thus saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel
to thee,
Baruch:
\VS{3}Thou hast
said:
Woe
is
me, wretch
that
I
am,
for
the
Lord hath
added
sorrow
to
my
sorrow:
I
am
wearied
with
my
groans,
and
I
find
no
rest.
\VS{4}Thus saith
the
Lord:
Thus shalt thou
say
to
him:
Behold,
them
whom
I
have
built,
I
do
destroy:
and
them
whom
I
have
planted,
I
do
pluck
up,
and
all
this
land.
\VS{5}And dost thou
seek
great
things
for thyself?
Seek
not:
for
behold
I
will
bring
evil
upon
all
flesh, saith
the
Lord!
but
I
will
give thee thy
life,
and
save thee
in
all
places whithersoever thou shalt
go.

\par }\Chap{46}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
of
the
Lord
that
came
to Jeremias
the
prophet
against
the
Gentiles,
\VS{2}Against
Egypt,
against
the
army
of Pharao Nechao
king
of
Egypt,
which
was
by
the
river
Euphrates
in Charcamis,
whom Nabuchodonosor
the
king
of
Babylon
defeated,
in
the
fourth
year
of Joakim
the
son
of Josias
king
of Juda.
\VS{3}Prepare ye
the
shield
and
buckler,
and
go
forth
to
battle.
\VS{4}Harness
the
horses,
and
get
up, ye
horsemen:
stand
forth
with
helmets, furbish
the
spears,
put
on coats
of mail.
\VS{5}What
then?
I
have
seen
them dismayed,
and
turning
their
backs,
their
valiant
ones slain:
they
fled apace,
and
they
looked
not
back:
terror
was
round
about, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{6}Let
not
the
swift
flee
away,
nor
the
strong think
to
escape:
they
are
overthrown,
and
fallen
down, towards
the
north
by
the
river
Euphrates.
\VS{7}Who
is
this
that cometh
up
as
a
flood:
and
his
streams swell
like
those
of
rivers?
\VS{8}Egypt riseth
up
like
a
flood,
and
the
waves thereof
shall
be moved
as
rivers,
and
he
shall
say:
I
will
go
up
and
will
cover
the
earth:
I
will
destroy
the
city,
and
its
inhabitants.
\VS{9}Get ye
up
on
horses,
and glory
in
chariots,
and let
the
valiant
men
come
forth,
the Ethiopians,
and
the Libyans
that
hold
the
shield,
and
the
Lydians
that
take,
and shoot
arrows.
\VS{10}For
this
is
the
day
of
the
Lord
the
God
of
hosts,
a
day
of
vengeance,
that
he
may
revenge
himself
of
his enemies:
the
sword
shall
devour,
and
shall
be
filled,
and
shall
be
drunk
with
their
blood:
for there
is
a
sacrifice
of
the
Lord
God
of
hosts
in
the
north
country,
by
the
river
Euphrates.
\VS{11}Go
up
into Galaad,
and
take
balm, O
virgin
daughter
of
Egypt:
in
vain dost thou
multiply medicines,
there
shall
be
no cure
for thee.
\VS{12}The
nations
have
heard
of thy
disgrace,
and thy howling hath
filled
the
land:
for
the
strong hath
stumbled against
the
strong,
and
both
are
fallen
together.
\VS{13}The
word
that
the
Lord
spoke
to Jeremias
the
prophet,
how Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon
should
come
and
strike
the
land
of
Egypt:
\VS{14}Declare ye
to
Egypt,
and publish
it
in Magdal,
and
let
it
be
known
in
Memphis,
and
in Taphnis:
say ye:
Stand
up,
and
prepare thyself:
for
the
sword
shall
devour
all
round
about thee.
\VS{15}Why
are thy
valiant
men come
to
nothing?
they
stood
not:
because
the
Lord hath overthrown
them.
\VS{16}He hath
multiplied
them
that
fall,
and
one hath
fallen
upon
another,
and
they
shall
say:
Arise,
and let
us
return
to
our
own
people,
and
to
the
land
our nativity,
from
the
sword
of
the dove.
\VS{17}Call ye
the
name
of Pharao
king
Egypt,
a
tumult
time hath brought.
\VS{18}As
I
live, (saith
the
King,
whose
name
is
the
Lord
of
hosts,)
as Thabor
is
among
the
mountains,
and
as
Carmel
by
the
sea,
so
shall
he
come.
\VS{19}Furnish thyself
to
go
into captivity, thou
daughter
inhabitant
of
Egypt:
for
Memphis
shall
be
made
desolate,
and
shall
be forsaken
and
uninhabited.
\VS{20}Egypt
is like
a fair
and beautiful
heifer: there
shall
come
from
the
north one
that
shall goad
her.
\VS{21}Her hirelings
also
that lived
in
the
midst
of
her,
like fatted
calves
are
turned
back,
and
are
fled
away
together,
and
they
could
not
stand,
for
the
day
of
their slaughter
is
come
upon
them,
the
time
of
their visitation.
\VS{22}Her
voice shall
sound
like brass,
for
they shall hasten
with
an
army,
and
with
axes
they shall
come
against
her,
as
hewers
of
wood.
\VS{23}They
have
cut
down
her
forest, saith
the
Lord, which
cannot
be
counted:
they
are
multiplied above
locusts,
and
are
without
number.
\VS{24}The
daughter
of
Egypt
is confounded,
and
delivered
into
the
hand
of
the
people
of
the
north.
\VS{25}The
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel hath
said:
Behold
I
will
visit
upon
the tumult
of Alexandria,
and
upon Pharao,
and
upon
Egypt,
and
upon
her
gods,
and
upon
her
kings,
and
upon Pharao,
upon
them
that
trust
in
him.
\VS{26}And
I
will
deliver
them
into
the
hand
of
them
that
seek
their
lives,
into
the
hand
of Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon,
and
into
the
hand
of
his
servants:
and
afterwards
it
shall
be
inhabited,
as
in
the
days
of old, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{27}And thou
my
servant
Jacob,
fear
not
and
be
not thou
dismayed,
O
Israel:
for
behold
I
will
save thee
from
afar
off,
and thy
seed
out
of
the
land
of thy
captivity:
and
Jacob
shall
return
and
be
at
rest,
and prosper:
and
there
shall
be
none
to
terrify
him.
\VS{28}And thou,
my
servant
Jacob,
fear
not, saith
the
Lord:
because
I
am
with thee,
for
I
will consume
all
the
nations
to
which
I
have
cast thee
out:
but thee
I
will
not consume,
but
I
will
correct thee
in
judgment,
neither
will
I spare thee
as
if thou wert
innocent.

\par }\Chap{47}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
of
the
Lord
that
came
to Jeremias
the
prophet
against
the
people
of Palestine,
before Pharao
took
Gaza.
\VS{2}Thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
there
come
up
waters
out
of
the
north,
and
they
shall
be
as
an
overflowing torrent,
and
they
shall cover
the
land,
and
all
that
is therein,
the
city
and
the
inhabitants thereof:
then
the
men
shall
cry,
and
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
land
shall
howl,
\VS{3}At
the
noise
of
the marching
of
arms,
and
of
his soldiers,
at
the rushing
of
his
chariots,
and
the
multitude
of
his
wheels.
The
fathers
have
not
looked
back
to
the
children,
for feebleness
of
hands,
\VS{4}Because
of
the
coming
of
the
day,
in which
all
the
Philistines
shall
be
laid
waste,
and
Tyre
and
Sidon
shall
be
destroyed,
with
all
the
rest
of
their
helpers.
For
the
Lord hath wasted
the
Philistines,
the
remnant
of
the isle
of Cappadocia.
\VS{5}Baldness
is
come
upon
Gaza: Ascalon hath held
her peace
with
the
remnant
of
their
valley:
how
long shalt thou
cut thyself?
\VS{6}O thou
sword
of
the
Lord,
how
long wilt thou
not
be
quiet?
Go
into thy scabbard,
rest,
and
be
still.
\VS{7}How
shall
it
be
quiet,
when
the
Lord hath
given
it
a
charge
against Ascalon,
and
against
the countries thereof
by
the
sea
side,
and
there hath
made
an
appointment
for
it?

\par }\Chap{48}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Against
Moab
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Woe
to Nabo,
for
it
is laid
waste,
and confounded: Cariathaim
is
taken:
the strong city
is confounded
and hath trembled.
\VS{2}There
is
no
more rejoicing
in
Moab
over Hesebon:
they
have
devised
evil. Come,
and let
us
cut
it
off
from
being
a
nation.
Therefore shalt thou
in silence hold thy peace,
and
the
sword
shall
follow thee.
\VS{3}A
voice
of
crying
from Oronaim: waste,
and
great
destruction.
\VS{4}Moab
is destroyed:
proclaim
a
cry
for
her
little
ones.
\VS{5}For
by
the
ascent
of Luith shall
the mourner
go
up
with
weeping:
for
in
the
descent
of Oronaim
the enemies
have
heard
a howling
of
destruction.
\VS{6}Flee,
save
your
lives:
and
be
as heath
in
the
wilderness.
\VS{7}For
because thou hast
trusted
in thy bulwarks,
and
in thy
treasures, thou
also shalt
be
taken:
and Chamos
shall
go
into captivity,
his
priests,
and
his
princes
together.
\VS{8}And
the spoiler
shall
come
upon
every
city,
and
no
city
shall
escape:
and
the
valleys
shall
perish,
and
the
plains
shall
be
destroyed,
for
the
Lord hath
spoken:
\VS{9}Give
a
flower
to
Moab,
for
in
its
flower
it
shall
go
out:
and
the
cities thereof
shall
be
desolate,
and
uninhabited.
\VS{10}Cursed
be
he
that doth
the
work
of
the
Lord
deceitfully:
and
cursed
be
he
that withholdeth
his
sword
from
blood.
\VS{11}Moab hath
been fruitful
from
his
youth,
and hath rested
upon
his lees:
and hath
not
been poured
out
from
vessel
to
vessel,
nor hath
gone
into captivity:
therefore
his
taste hath
remained
in
him,
and
his scent
is
not
changed.
\VS{12}Therefore
behold
the
days
come, saith
the
Lord,
and
I
will
send
him men
that
shall order
and overturn
his bottles,
and
they
shall
cast
him
down,
and
shall empty
his
vessels,
and break
their bottles
one
against another.
\VS{13}And
Moab
shall
be
ashamed
of Chamos,
as
the
house
of
Israel
was
ashamed
of
Bethel,
in
which
they trusted.
\VS{14}How do
you
say:
We
are
valiant,
and stout
men
in
battle?
\VS{15}Moab
is laid
waste,
and
they
have
cast
down
her
cities:
and
her
choice
young
men
are
gone
down
to
the
slaughter: saith
the
king,
whose
name
is
the
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{16}The
destruction
of
Moab
is
near
to
come:
the
calamity thereof shall
come
on
exceeding
swiftly.
\VS{17}Comfort
him,
all
you
that
are
round
about
him,
and
all
you
that
know
his
name,
say:
How
is
the
strong
staff
broken,
the
beautiful
rod?
\VS{18}Come
down
from thy
glory,
and
sit
in
thirst, O
dwelling
of
the
daughter
of
Dibon:
because
the spoiler
of
Moab
is
come
up
to thee,
he hath
destroyed thy bulwarks.
\VS{19}Stand
in
the
way,
and look
out,
O habitation
of
Aroer:
inquire
of
him
that fleeth:
and
say
to
him
that hath
escaped:
What
Is
done?
\VS{20}Moab
is confounded,
because
he
is overthrown:
howl ye,
and
cry,
tell ye
it
in Amen,
that
Moab
is wasted.
\VS{21}And
judgment
is
come
upon
the
plain
country:
upon Helon,
and
upon Jasa,
and
upon
Mephaath.
\VS{22}And
upon
Dibon,
and
upon Nabo,
and
upon
the house
of Deblathaim,
\VS{23}And
upon Cariathaim,
and
upon Bethgamul,
and
upon Bethmaon,
\VS{24}And
upon Carioth,
and
upon Bosra:
and
upon
all
the
cities
of
the
land
of
Moab,
far
or
near.
\VS{25}The
horn
of
Moab
is
cut
off,
and
his
arm
is
broken, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{26}Make
him
drunk,
because
he
lifted
up
himself
against
the
Lord:
and
Moab
shall dash
his hand
in
his
own
vomit,
and
he
also
shall
be
in derision.
\VS{27}For
Israel hath
been
a derision unto thee:
as
though thou hadst
found
him amongst
thieves:
for thy
words
therefore,
which thou hast
spoken
against
him, thou shalt
be led
away captive.
\VS{28}Leave
the
cities,
and
dwell
in
the
rock,
you
that
dwell
in
Moab:
and
be ye
like
the
dove
that maketh
her
nest
in
the
mouth
of
the hole
in
the highest
place.
\VS{29}We
have
heard
the
pride
of
Moab,
he
is
exceeding
proud:
his
haughtiness,
and
his arrogancy,
and
his
pride,
and
the
loftiness
of
his
heart.
\VS{30}I
know, saith
the
Lord,
his boasting,
and
that
the strength thereof
is
not according
to
it,
neither hath
it endeavoured
to
do according
as
it
was able.
\VS{31}Therefore
will
I lament
for
Moab,
and
I
will
cry
out
to
all
Moab,
for
the
men
of
the brick wall
that
mourn.
\VS{32}O vineyard
of Sabama,
I
will
weep
for thee,
with
the mourning
of
Jazer: thy
branches are
gone
over
the
sea,
they are
come
even
to
the
sea
of
Jazer:
the robber hath rushed
in
upon thy
harvest
and thy
vintage.
\VS{33}Joy
and
gladness
is
taken
away
from Carmel,
and
from
the
land
of
Moab,
and
I
have
taken
away
the
wine
out
of
the
presses:
the
treader
of
the grapes
shall
not sing
the accustomed cheerful tune.
\VS{34}From
the
cry
of Hesebon
even
to Eleale,
and
to Jasa,
they
have
uttered
their
voice:
from Segor
to Oronaim,
as
a
heifer
of
three years old:
the
waters
also
of Nemrim
shall
be
very bad.
\VS{35}And
I
will
take
away
from
Moab, saith
the
Lord,
him
that offereth
in
the
high
places,
and
that sacrificeth
to
his
gods.
\VS{36}Therefore
my
heart
shall sound
for
Moab
like pipes:
and
my
heart
a sound
like pipes
for
the
men
of
the brick wall:
because
he hath
done
more
than
he
could,
therefore
they
have
perished.
\VS{37}For
every
head
shall
be
bald,
and
every
beard
shall
be shaven:
all
hands
shall
be tied
together,
and
upon
every
back
there
shall
be haircloth.
\VS{38}Upon
all
the
housetops
of
Moab,
and
in
the
streets thereof general
mourning:
because
I
have
broken
Moab
as
an useless
vessel, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{39}How
is
it overthrown,
and
they
have howled!
How hath
Moab bowed down
the
neck,
and
is
confounded!
And
Moab shall
be
a derision,
and
an example
to
all
round
about
him.
\VS{40}Thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
he
shall
fly
as
an
eagle,
and
shall
stretch forth
his
wings
to
Moab.
\VS{41}Carioth
is
taken,
and
the
strong holds
are won:
and
the
heart
of
the
valiant
men
of
Moab
in
that
day
shall
be
as
the
heart
of
a
woman
in labour.
\VS{42}And
Moab
shall cease
to
be
a
people:
because
he hath gloried
against
the
Lord.
\VS{43}Fear,
and
the
pit,
and
the
snare come
upon thee,
O
inhabitant
of
Moab, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{44}He
that
shall
flee
from
the
fear,
shall
fall
into
the
pit:
and
he
that
shall
get
up
out
of
the
pit,
shall
be
taken
in
the
snare:
for
I
will
bring
upon
Moab
the
year
of
their visitation, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{45}They
that
fled
from
the snare
stood
in
the
shadow
of Hesebon:
but
there
came
a
fire
out
of Kesebon,
and
a
flame
out
of
the
midst
of Seen,
and
it
shall
devour part
of
Moab.
and
the
crown
of
the
head
of
the
children
of
tumult.
\VS{46}Woe
to thee,
Moab, thou hast
perished, O
people
of Chamos:
for thy
sons,
and thy
daughters
are
taken
captives.
\VS{47}And
I
will
bring
back
the
captivity
of
Moab
in
the
last
days, saith
the
Lord. Hitherto
the
judgments
of
Moab.

\par }\Chap{49}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Against
the
children
of
Ammon.
Thus saith
the
Lord: Hath
Israel
no
sons?
or hath
he
no
heir?
Why
then hath Melchom inherited
Gad:
and
his
people
dwelt
in
his
cities?
\VS{2}Therefore
behold
the
days
come, saith
the
Lord,
and
I
will
cause
the noise
of
war
to
be
heard
in Rabbath
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
it
shall
be destroyed
into
a
heap,
and
her
daughters
shall
be burnt
with
fire,
and
Israel
shall
possess
them
that
have
possessed
him, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{3}Howl, O Hesebon,
for Hai
is wasted.
Cry, ye
daughters
of Rabbath,
gird
yourselves
with haircloth:
mourn
and go
about
by
the hedges:
for Melchom
shall
be carried
into captivity,
his
priests,
and
his
princes
together.
\VS{4}Why gloriest thou
in
the
valleys? thy
valley hath
flowed
away,
O delicate
daughter,
that hast
trusted
in thy
treasures,
and hast
said:
Who
shall
come
to
me?
\VS{5}Behold
I
will
bring
a
fear
upon thee, saith
the
Lord
God
of
hosts,
from
all
that
are
round
about thee:
and
you
shall
be
scattered
every
one
out
of
one another’s
sight,
neither
shall
there
be
any
to
gather
together
them
that
flee.
\VS{6}And
afterwards
I
will
cause
the captives
of
the
children
of
Ammon
to
return, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{7}Against
Edom.
Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts:
Is
wisdom
no
more
in Theman?
counsel
is
perished
from
her children:
their
wisdom
is become unprofitable.
\VS{8}Flee
and
turn
your backs,
go
down
into
the
deep hole, ye
inhabitants
of
Dedan:
for
I
have
brought
the
destruction
of
Esau
upon
him,
the
time
of
his visitation.
\VS{9}If grapegatherers
had
come
to thee, would
they
not
have
left
a bunch?
if
thieves
in
the
night,
they would
have taken
what
was
enough
for
them.
\VS{10}But
I
have
made
Esau
bare,
I
have
revealed
his secrets,
and
he
cannot
be hid:
his
seed
is
laid
waste,
and
his
brethren,
and
his neighbours,
and
he
shall
not
be.
\VS{11}Leave thy
fatherless
children:
I
will make
them
live:
and thy
widows
shall hope
in
me.
\VS{12}For
thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
they
whose
judgment
was
not
to
drink
of
the
cup,
shall
certainly
drink:
and shalt thou come off
as
innocent? thou shalt
not come off
as
innocent,
but
drinking thou shalt
drink.
\VS{13}For
I
have
sworn
by myself, saith
the
Lord,
that Bosra
shall
become
a
desolation,
and
a
reproach,
and
a desert,
and
a
curse:
and
all
her
cities
shall
be
everlasting
wastes.
\VS{14}I
have
heard
a rumour
from
the
Lord,
and
an ambassador
is
sent
to
the
nations:
Gather
yourselves
together,
and
come
against
her,
and
let
us
rise
up
to
battle.
\VS{15}For
behold
I
have
made thee
a
little
one
among
the
nations,
despicable
among
men.
\VS{16}Thy arrogancy hath deceived thee,
and
the
pride
of thy
heart:
O thou
that dwellest
in
the
clefts
of
the
rock,
and endeavourest
to
lay
hold
on
the
height
of
the
hill:
but
though thou shouldst
make thy
nest
as
high
as
an
eagle,
I
will
bring thee
down
from thence, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{17}And
Edom shall
be
desolate:
every
one
that shall
pass
by
it, shall
be
astonished,
and shall
hiss
at
all
its
plagues.
\VS{18}As
Sodom
was
overthrown
and Gomorrha,
and
the neighbours thereof, saith
the
Lord:
there
shall
not
a
man
dwell
there,
and
there
shall
no
son
of
man
inhabit
it.
\VS{19}Behold
one
shall
come
up
as
a
lion
from
the swelling
of
the
Jordan,
against
the strong
and beautiful:
for
I
will
make
him
run
suddenly
upon
her:
and
who
shall
be
the
chosen
one
whom
I
may
appoint
over
her?
for
who
is
like
to
me?
and
who
shall abide
me?
and
who
is
that
shepherd
that
can
withstand
my
countenance?
\VS{20}Therefore
hear ye
the
counsel
of
the
Lord,
which
he hath
taken
concerning
Edom:
and
his
thoughts
which
he hath
thought
concerning
the
inhabitants
of Theman:
surely
the
little
ones
of
the
flock
shall cast
them
down,
of
a truth
they
shall
destroy
them
with
their habitation.
\VS{21}The
earth
is moved
at
the
noise
of
their
fall:
the
cry
of
their
voice
is
heard
in
the Red
Sea.
\VS{22}Behold
he
shall
come
up
as
an
eagle,
and
fly:
and
he
shall
spread
his
wings
over Bosra:
and
in
that
day
the
heart
of
the
valiant
ones
of
Edom
shall
be
as
the
heart
of
a
woman
in labour.
\VS{23}Against
Damascus. Emath
is
confounded
and Arphad:
for
they
have
heard very
bad
tidings,
they
are troubled
as
in
the
sea:
through care
they
could
not
rest.
\VS{24}Damascus
is undone, she
is
put
to
flight, trembling hath
seized
on
her:
anguish
and sorrows
have
taken
her
as
a woman
in labour.
\VS{25}How
have
they forsaken
the
city
of renown,
the
city
of
joy!
\VS{26}Therefore
her
young
men
shall
fall
in
her
streets:
and
all
the
men
of
war
shall
be silent
in
that
day, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{27}And I
will
kindle
a
fire
in
the
wall
of
Damascus, rind
it shall
devour
the strong holds
of Benadad.
\VS{28}Against Cedar
and
against
the
kingdoms
of Asor,
which Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon
destroyed.
Thus saith
the
Lord:
Arise,
and
go ye
up
to Cedar,
and
waste
the
children
of
the
east.
\VS{29}They
shall
take
their
tents,
and
their
flocks:
and
shall
carry
off
for
themselves
their
curtains,
and
all
their
vessels,
and
their
camels:
and
they
shall
call fear
upon
them
round
about.
\VS{30}Flee ye, get
away speedily,
sit
in
deep holes,
you
that
inhabit Asur, saith
the
Lord:
for Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon hath
taken
counsel
against
you,
and hath conceived
designs
against
you.
\VS{31}Arise,
and
so
up
to
a
nation
that
is
at
ease,
and
that dwelleth
securely, saith
the
Lord:
they
have
neither
gates,
nor
bars:
they
dwell
alone.
\VS{32}And
their
camels
shall
be
for
a
spoil,
and
the
multitude
of
their
cattle
for
a
booty,
and
I
will
scatter
into
every
wind
them
that
have
their hair
cut round,
and
I
will
bring
destruction
upon
them
from
I
all
their confines, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{33}And Asor
shall
be
a
habitation
for dragons,
desolate
for
ever:
no
man
shall
abide
there,
nor
son
of
man
inhabit
it.
\VS{34}The
word
of
the
Lord
that
came
to Jeremias
the
prophet
against
Elam,
in
the
beginning
of
the
reign
of Sedecias
king
of Juda,
saying:
\VS{35}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts:
Behold
I
will
break
the
bow
of
Elam,
and
their chief
strength.
\VS{36}And
I
will
bring
upon
Elam
the
four
winds
from
the fear
quarters
of
heaven:
and
I
will
scatter
them
into
all
these
winds:
and
there
shall
be
no
nation,
to
which
the
fugitives
of
Elam
shall
not
come.
\VS{37}And
I
will cause
Elam
to
be afraid
before
their
enemies,
and
in
the
sight
of
them
that
seek
their
life:
and
I
will
bring
evil
upon
them,
my
fierce
wrath, saith
the
Lord:
and
will
send
the
sword
after
them,
till
I
consume
them.
\VS{38}And
I
will
set
my
throne
in
Elam,
and
destroy
kings
and
princes
from thence, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{39}But
in
the
latter
days
I
will
cause
the captives
of
Elam,
to
return, saith
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{50}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
the
Lord hath
spoken
against
Babylon,
and
against
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans
in
the
hand
of Jeremias
the
prophet.
\VS{2}Declare ye among
the
nations,
and publish
it,
lift
up
a
standard:
proclaim,
and
conceal
it
not:
say:
Babylon
is
taken,
Bel
is confounded, Merodach
is overthrown,
their graven things
are confounded,
their
idols
are overthrown.
\VS{3}For
a
nation
is
come
up
against
her
out
of
the
north,
which
shall
make
her
land
desolate:
and
there
shall
be
none
to
dwell therein,
from
man
even
to
beast:
yea
they
are removed,
and
gone
away.
\VS{4}In
those
days,
and
at
that
time, saith
the
Lord,
the
children
of
Israel
shall
come,
they
and
the
children
of Juda
together:
going
and
weeping
they
shall make haste,
and
shall
seek
the
Lord
their
God.
\VS{5}They
shall
ask
the
way
to Sion,
their
faces
are hitherward.
They
shall
come,
and
shall
be
joined
to
the
Lord
by
an
everlasting
covenant, which
shall
never
be
forgotten.
\VS{6}My
people
have
been
a
lost
flock,
their
shepherds
have
caused
them
to
go
astray,
and
have
made
them
wander
in
the
mountains:
they
have
gone
from
mountain
to
hill,
they
have
forgotten
their
resting
place.
\VS{7}All
that
found
them,
have
devoured
them:
and
their enemies
said:
We
have
not
sinned
in
so doing:
because
they
have
sinned
against
the
Lord
the beauty
of
justice,
and
against
the
Lord
the hope
of
their
fathers.
\VS{8}Remove
out
of
the
midst
of
Babylon,
and
go
forth
out
of
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans:
and
be ye
as kids
at
the
head
of
the
flock.
\VS{9}For
behold
I
raise
up,
and
will
bring
against
Babylon
an
assembly
of
great
nations
from
the
land
of
the
north:
and
they
shall
be prepared
against
her,
and
from thence
she
shall
be
taken:
their
arrows,
like
those
of
a
mighty
man,
a destroyer,
shall
not
return
in vain.
\VS{10}And
Chaldea
shall
be
made
a prey:
all
that waste
her
shall
be
filled, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{11}Because
you
rejoice,
and speak great things, pillaging
my
inheritance:
because
you
are spread abroad
as calves upon
the
grass,
and
have bellowed
as
bulls.
\VS{12}Your
mother
is
confounded
exceedingly,
and
she
that
bore
you
is made even
with
the dust:
behold
she
shall
be
the
last among
the
nations,
a
wilderness unpassable,
and
dry.
\VS{13}Because
of
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
it
shall
not
be
inhabited,
but
shall
be
wholly
desolate:
every
one
that
shall
pass
by
Babylon,
shall
be
astonished,
and
hiss
at
all
her
plagues.
\VS{14}Prepare
yourselves
against
Babylon
round
about,
all
you
that
bend
the
bow: fight
against
her,
spare
not
arrows:
because
she hath
sinned
against
the
Lord.
\VS{15}Shout
against
her,
she hath
every
where
given
her
hand,
her foundations
are
fallen,
her
walls
are
thrown
down,
for
it
is
the
vengeance
of
the
Lord.
Take
vengeance
upon
her:
as
she hath
done,
so
do
to
her.
\VS{16}Destroy
the
sower
out
of
Babylon,
and
him
that holdeth
the
sickle
in
the
time
of
harvest:
for fear
of
the
sword
of
the dove
every
man
shall return
to
his
people,
and
every
one
shall
flee
to
his
own
land.
\VS{17}Israel
is
a
scattered
flock,
the
lions
have
driven
him
away:
first
the
king
of
Assyria
devoured
him:
and
last
this Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon hath broken
his bones.
\VS{18}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
Behold
I
will
visit
the
king
of
Babylon
and
his
land,
as
I
have
visited
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{19}And
I
will
bring
Israel
again
to
his habitation:
and
he
shall
feed
on
Carmel,
and Bason,
and
his
soul
shall
be
satisfied
in
mount
Ephraim,
and Galaad.
\VS{20}In
those
days,
and
at
that
time, saith
the
Lord,
the
iniquity
of
Israel
shall
be
sought
for,
and
there
shall
be
none:
and
the
sin
of Juda,
and
there
shall
none
be
found:
for
I
will
be merciful
to
them,
whom
I
shall
leave.
\VS{21}Go
up
against
the
land
of
the
rulers,
and punish
the
inhabitants thereof, waste,
and
destroy
all
behind
them, saith
the
Lord:
and
do
according
to
all
that
I
have
commanded thee.
\VS{22}A
noise
of
war
in
the
land,
and
a
great
destruction.
\VS{23}How
is
the
hammer
of
the
whole
earth
broken,
and
destroyed!
how
is
Babylon
turned
into
a desert
among
the
nations!
\VS{24}I
have caused thee
to
fall into
a
snare,
and thou art
taken,
O
Babylon,
and thou wast
not
aware
of
it: thou art
found
and
caught,
because thou hast provoked
the
Lord.
\VS{25}The
Lord hath
opened
his armoury,
and hath
brought
forth
the
weapons
of
his
wrath:
for
the
Lord
the
God
of
hosts hath
a
work
to
be done
in
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans.
\VS{26}Come ye
against
her
from
the uttermost borders:
open
that
they
may
go forth
that shall tread
her down:
take
the stones
out
of
the way,
and make
heaps,
and
destroy
her:
and
let
nothing
of
her
be
left.
\VS{27}Destroy
all
her valiant
men,
let
them
go
down
to
the
slaughter:
woe
to
them,
for
their
day
is
come,
the
time
of
their visitation.
\VS{28}The
voice
of
them
that
flee,
and
of
them
that
have
escaped
out
of
the
land
of
Babylon:
to
declare
in Sion
the
revenge
of
the
Lord
our
God,
the
revenge
of
his
temple.
\VS{29}Declare
to many
against
Babylon,
to
all
that
bend
the
bow: stand
together
against
her
round
about,
and
let nose
escape;
pay
her
according
to
her
work:
according
to
all
that
she hath
done,
do ye
to
her:
for
she hath lifted
up
herself
against
the
Lord,
against
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
\VS{30}Therefore
shall
her
young
men
fall
in
her
streets:
and
all
her
men
of
war
shall hold
their peace
in
that
day, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{31}Behold
I
come
against thee,
O proud
one, saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
hosts:
for thy
day
is
come,
the
time
of thy visitation.
\VS{32}And
the proud
one
shall
fall,
he
shall
fall
down,
and
there
shall
be
none
to
lift
him
up:
and
I
will
kindle
a
fire
in
his
cities,
and
it
shall
devour
all
round
about
him.
\VS{33}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts:
The
children
of
Israel,
and
the
children
of Juda
are
oppressed
together:
all
that
have
taken
them
captives,
hold
them
fast,
they
will
not
let
them
go.
\VS{34}Their
redeemer
is
strong,
the
Lord
of
hosts
is
his
name:
he
will
defend
their
cause
in judgment,
to terrify
the
land,
and
to disquiet
the
inhabitants
of
Babylon.
\VS{35}A
sword
is
upon
the
Chaldeans, saith
the
Lord,
and
upon
the
inhabitants
of
Babylon,
and
upon
her
princes,
and
upon
her
wise
men.
\VS{36}A
sword
upon
her diviners,
and
they
shall
be
foolish:
a
sword
upon
her
valiant
ones,
and
they
shall
be
dismayed.
\VS{37}A
sword
upon
their
horses,
and
upon
their
chariots,
and
upon
all
the
people
that
are
in
the
midst
of
her:
and
they
shall
become
as
women:
a
sword
upon
her
treasures,
and
they
shall
be
made
a
spoil.
\VS{38}A drought
upon
her
waters,
and
they
shall
be
dried
up:
because
it
is
a
land
of
idols,
and
they glory
in monstrous things.
\VS{39}Therefore
shall dragons
dwell
there
with
the fig fauns:
and
ostriches
shall
dwell therein,
and
it
shall
be
no
more
inhabited
for
ever,
neither
shall
it
be built
up
from
generation
to
generation.
\VS{40}As
the
Lord
overthrew
Sodom
and Gomorrha,
and
their neighbour cities, saith
the
Lord:
no
man
shall
dwell
there,
neither
shall
the
son
of
man
inhabit
it.
\VS{41}Behold
a
people cometh
from
the
north,
and
a
great
nation,
and
many
kings
shall rise
from
the ends
of
the
earth.
\VS{42}They
shall
take
the
bow
and
the shield:
they
are
cruel
and unmerciful:
their
voice
shall
roar
like
the
sea,
and
they
shall
ride
upon
horses:
like
a
man prepared
for
battle
against thee, O
daughter
of
Babylon.
\VS{43}The
king
of
Babylon hath
heard
the
report
of
them,
and
his
hands
are grown
feeble:
anguish hath
taken
hold
of
him, pangs
as
a, woman
in labour.
\VS{44}Behold
he
shall
come
up
like
a
lion
from
the swelling
of
the
Jordan
to
the strong
and beautiful:
for
I
will
make
him
run
suddenly
upon
her:
and
who
shall
be
the chosen
one
whom
I
may
appoint
over
her?
for
who
is
like
to
me?
and
who
shall bear
up
against
me?
and
who
is
that
shepherd
that
can
withstand
my
countenance?
\VS{45}Therefore
hear ye
the
counsel
of
the
Lord,
which
he hath taken
against
Babylon:
and
his
thoughts
which
he hath
thought
against
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans:
surely
the
little
ones
of
the
flocks
shall pull
them
down,
of
a truth
their habitation
shall
be destroyed
with
them.
\VS{46}At
the
noise
of
the taking
of
Babylon
the
earth
is moved,
and
the
cry
is
heard amongst
the
nations.

\par }\Chap{51}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
I
will
raise
up
as
it
were
a pestilential
wind
against
Babylon
and
against
the
inhabitants thereof,
who
have
lifted
up
their
heart
against
me.
\VS{2}And
I
will
send
to
Babylon fanners,
and
they
shall fan
her,
and
shall destroy
her
land:
for
they
are
come
upon
her
on
every
side
in
the
day
of
her affliction.
\VS{3}Let
not
him
that bendeth,
bend
his
bow,
and
let
not,
him
go
up
that
is armed
with
a coat
of mail:
spare
not
her
young
men,
destroy
all
her
army.
\VS{4}And
the
slain
shall
fall
in
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans,
and
the
wounded
in
the
regions thereof.
\VS{5}For
Israel
and Juda
have
not
been
forsaken
by
their
God
the
Lord
of
hosts:
but
their
land hath
been
filled
with
sin against
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
\VS{6}Flee ye
from
the
midst
of
Babylon,
and
let
every
one
save
his
own
life:
be
not silent upon
her
iniquity:
for
it
is
the
time
of
revenge
from
the
Lord,
he
will
I render unto
her
what
she hath deserved.
\VS{7}Babylon hath
been
a
golden
cup
in
the
hand
of
the
Lord,
that
made
all
the
earth
drunk:
the
nations
have
drunk
of
her
wine,
and
therefore
they
have staggered.
\VS{8}Babylon
is
suddenly
fallen,
and destroyed:
howl
for
her,
take
balm
for
her
pain,
if
so she
may
be
healed.
\VS{9}We
would
have cured
Babylon,
but
she
is
not
healed:
let
us
forsake
her,
and
let
us go
every
man
to
his
own
land:
because
her
judgment hath
reached
even
to
the
heavens,
and
is
lifted
up
to
the
clouds.
\VS{10}The
Lord hath
brought
forth
our justices:
Come,
and let
us
declare
in Sion
the
work
of
the
Lord
our
God.
\VS{11}Sharpen
the
arrows,
fill
the
quivers,
the
Lord hath raised
up
the
spirit
of
the
kings
of
the
Medes:
and
his
mind
is
against
Babylon
to
destroy
it,
because
it
is
the
vengeance
of
the
Lord,
the
vengeance
of
his
temple.
\VS{12}Upon
the
walls
of
Babylon
set
up
the
standard,
strengthen
the
watch:
set
up
the
watchmen,
prepare
the
ambushes:
for
the
Lord hath
both
purposed,
and
done
all
that
he
spoke
against
the
inhabitants
of
Babylon.
\VS{13}O thou
that dwellest
upon
many
waters, rich
in
treasures, thy
end
is
come
for thy entire destruction.
\VS{14}The
Lord
of
hosts hath
sworn
by
himself, saying:
I
will
fill thee
with
men
as
with
locusts,
and
they
shall lift
up
a joyful
shout
against thee.
\VS{15}He
that
made
the
earth
by
his
power,
that hath
prepared
the
world
by
his
wisdom,
and
stretched
out
the
heavens
by
his
understanding.
\VS{16}When
he uttereth
his
voice
the
waters
are multiplied
in
heaven:
he lifteth
up
the clouds
from
the ends
of
the
earth,
he hath
turned
lightning
into
rain:
and hath
brought
forth
the
wind
out
of
his
treasures.
\VS{17}Every
man
is
become foolish
by
his
knowledge:
every founder
is confounded
by
his
idol,
for
what
he hath cast
is
a
lie,
and
there
is
no
breath
in
them.
\VS{18}They
are
vain
works,
and worthy
to
be laughed
at,
in
the
time
of
their visitation
they
shall
perish.
\VS{19}The
portion
of
Jacob
is
not
like
them:
for
he
that
made
all
things
he
it
is,
and Israel
is
the sceptre
of
his
inheritance:
the
Lord
of
hosts
is
his
name.
\VS{20}Thou dashest together
for
me
the
weapons
of
war,
and
with thee
I
will dash
nations together,
and
with thee
I
will
destroy
kingdoms:
\VS{21}And
with thee
I
will break
in pieces
the
horse,
and
his
rider,
and
with thee
I
will break
in pieces
the
chariot,
and
him that getteth up into
it:
\VS{22}And
with thee
I
will break
in pieces
man
and
woman,
and
with thee
I
will break
in pieces
the
old
man
and
the
child,
and
with thee
I
will break
in pieces
the
young
man
and
the
virgin:
\VS{23}And with thee
I
will break in pieces the
shepherd
and his dock,
and with thee
I
will break in pieces the husbandman
and his
yoke
of oxen,
and with thee
I
will break in pieces
captains
and
rulers.
\VS{24}And
I
will render
to
Babylon,
and
to
all
the
inhabitants
of
Chaldea
all
their
evil,
that
they
have
done
in Sion,
before
your
eyes, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{25}Behold
I come
against thee, thou
destroying
mountain, saith
the
Lord,
which corruptest
the
whole
earth:
and
I
will
stretch
out
my
hand
upon thee,
and
will
roll thee
down
from
the
rocks,
and
will
make thee
a
burnt
mountain.
\VS{26}And
they
shall
not
take
of thee
a
stone
for
the
corner,
nor
a
stone
for
foundations,
but thou shalt
be destroyed
for
ever, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{27}Set ye
up
a
standard
in
the
land:
sound
with
the
trumpet
among
the
nations:
prepare
the
nations
against
her:
call
together
against
her
the kings
of
Ararat, Menni,
and Ascenez:
number Taphsar
against
her,
bring
the
horse
as
the stinging
locust.
\VS{28}Prepare
the
nations
against
her,
the
kings
of
Media,
their
captains,
and
all
their
rulers,
and
all
the
land
of
their
dominion.
\VS{29}And
the
land
shall
be
in
a commotion,
and
shall
be troubled:
for
the
design
of
the
Lord
against
Babylon
shall awake,
to
make
the
land
of
Babylon desert
and uninhabitable.
\VS{30}The
valiant
men
of
Babylon
have forborne
to
fight, they
have
dwelt
in holds:
their
strength hath
failed,
and they
are
become
as
women:
her
dwelling
places
are burnt,
her
bars
are
broken.
\VS{31}One
running post
shall
meet
another,
and
messenger
shall
meet
messenger:
to
tell
the
king
of
Babylon
that
his
city
is
taken
from
one
end
to
the other:
\VS{32}And
that
the fords
are
taken,
and
the
marshes
are
burnt
with
fire,
and
the
men
of
war
are affrighted.
\VS{33}For
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
the
God
of
Israel:
The
daughter
of
Babylon
is
like
a thrashingfloor,
this
is
the
time
of
her thrashing:
yet
a
little
while,
and
the
time
of
her
harvest
shall
come.
\VS{34}Nabuchodonosor
king
of
Babylon hath
eaten
me
up,
he hath
devoured
me:
he hath
made
me
as an empty
vessel:
he hath
swallowed
me
up like
a
dragon,
he hath
filled
his belly
with
my delicate meats,
and
he hath cast
me out.
\VS{35}The
wrong done
to
me,
and
my
flesh
be
upon
Babylon, saith
the habitation
of Sion:
and
my
blood
upon
the
inhabitants
of
Chaldea, saith
Jerusalem.
\VS{36}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
I
will
judge thy
cause,
and
will
take
vengeance
for thee,
and
I
will
make
her
sea desolate,
and
will
dry
up
her spring.
\VS{37}And
Babylon
shall
be reduced
to
heaps,
a
dwelling
place
for dragons,
an astonishment
and
a
hissing, because
there
is
no
inhabitant.
\VS{38}They shall
roar
together
like
lions,
they shall shake their manes
like
young
lions.
\VS{39}In
their
heat
I
will
set
them
drink:
and
I
will
make
them
drunk,
that
they
may slumber,
and
sleep
an
everlasting
sleep,
and awake
no
more, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{40}I
will
bring
them
down
like
lambs
to
the
slaughter,
and
like
rams
with kids.
\VS{41}How
is Sesach
taken,
and
the renowned
one
of
all
the
earth surprised?
How
is
Babylon
become
an astonishment
among
the
nations?
\VS{42}The
sea
is
come
up
over
Babylon: she
is
covered
with
the
multitude
of
the
waves thereof.
\VS{43}Her
cities
are
become
an astonishment,
a
land
uninhabited
and
desolate,
a
land wherein
none
can
dwell,
nor
son
of
man
pass
through
it.
\VS{44}And
I
will
visit
against
Bel
in
Babylon,
and
I
will
bring
forth
out
of
his
mouth
that
which
he
had
swallowed
down:
and
the rations
shall
no
more
flow
together
to
him,
for
the
wall
also
of
Babylon
shall
fall.
\VS{45}Go
out
of
the
midst
of
her,
my
people:
that
every
man
may
save
his
life
from
the
fierce
wrath
of
the
Lord.
\VS{46}And
lest
your
hearts
faint,
and ye
fear
for
the rumour
that
shall
be
heard
in
the
land:
and
a rumour
shall
come
in
one
year,
and
after
this
year
another rumour:
and iniquity
in
the
land,
and
ruler
upon
ruler.
\VS{47}Therefore
behold
the
days
come,
and
I
will
visit
the
idols
of
Babylon:
and
her
whole
land
shall
be
confounded,
and
all
her
slain
shall
fall
in
the
midst
of
her.
\VS{48}And
the
heavens
and
the
earth,
and
all
things
that
are
in
them
shall
give
praise
for
Babylon:
for spoilers
shall
come
to
her
from
the
north, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{49}And
as
Babylon caused
that
there
should
fall
slain
in
Israel:
so
of
Babylon
there
shall
fall
slain
in
all
the
earth.
\VS{50}You
that
have escaped
the
sword,
come
away,
stand
not
still:
remember
the
Lord
afar
off,
and
let
Jerusalem
come
into
your
mind.
\VS{51}We
are
confounded,
because
we
have
heard
reproach:
shame hath
covered
our
faces:
because
strangers
are
come
upon
the
sanctuaries
of
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{52}Therefore
behold
the
days
come, saith
the
Lord,
and
I
will
visit
her
graven
things,
and
in
all
her
land
the
wounded
shall
groan:
\VS{53}If
Babylon
should
mount
up
to
heaven,
and establish
her
strength
on
high:
from
me
there
should
come spoilers
upon
her, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{54}The
noise
of
a
cry
from
Babylon,
and
great
destruction
from
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans:
\VS{55}Because
the
Lord hath
laid
Babylon
waste,
and
destroyed
out
of
her
the
great
voice:
and
their wave
shall
roar
like
many
waters:
their
voice hath
made
a
noise:
\VS{56}Because
the spoiler
is
come
upon
her,
that
is,
upon
Babylon,
and
her
valiant
men
are
taken,
and
their
bow
is weakened,
because
the
Lord,
who
is
a
strong revenger,
will
surely
repay.
\VS{57}And
I
will
make
her
princes
drunk.
and
her
wise
men,
and
her
captains,
and
her
rulers,
and
her
valiant
men:
and
they
shall
sleep
an
everlasting
sleep,
and
shall awake
no
more, saith
the
whose
name
is
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{58}Thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts:
That
broad
wall
of
Babylon
shall
be utterly broken
down,
and
her
high
gates
shall
be burnt
with
fire,
and
the labours
of
the
people
shall
come
to nothing,
and
of
the
nations
shall go
to
the
fire,
and
shall perish.
\VS{59}The
word
that Jeremias
the
prophet
commanded Saraias
the
son
of Nerias,
the
son
of Maasias,
when
he went
with
king Sedecias
to
Babylon,
in
the
fourth
year
of
his
reign: now Saraias
was
chief
over
the
prophecy.
\VS{60}And Jeremias
wrote
in
one
book
all
the
evil
that
was
to
come
upon
Babylon:
all
these
words
that
are
written
against
Babylon.
\VS{61}And Jeremias
said
to Saraias:
When thou shalt
come
into
Babylon,
and shalt
see,
and shalt
read
all
these
words,
\VS{62}Thou shalt
say:
O
Lord, thou hast
spoken
against
this
place
to
destroy
it:
so
that
there
should
be
neither
man
nor
beast
to
dwell therein,
and
that
it
should
be
desolate
for
ever.
\VS{63}And
when thou shalt
have
made
an
end
of
reading
this
book, thou shalt
tie
a
stone
to
it,
and shalt
throw
it
into
the
midst
of
the
Euphrates:
\VS{64}And thou shalt
say:
Thus
shall
Babylon
sink,
and
she
shall
not
rise
up
from
the affliction
that
I
will
bring
upon
her,
and
she
shall
be utterly destroyed.
Thus
far
are
the
words
of Jeremias.

\par }\Chap{52}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Sedecias
was
one
and
twenty
years
old
when
he began
to
reign:
and
he
reigned
eleven
years
in
Jerusalem:
and
the
name
of
his
mother
was Amital,
the
daughter
of Jeremias
of Lobna.
\VS{2}And
he
did
that
which
was
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord, according
to
all
that Joakim
had
done.
\VS{3}For
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
was
against
Jerusalem,
and
against Juda,
till
he
cast
them
out
from
his
presence:
and Sedecias revolted
from
the
king
of
Babylon.
\VS{4}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
ninth
year
of
his
reign,
in
the
tenth
month,
the
tenth
day
of
the
month,
that Nabuchodonosor
the
king
of
Babylon
came,
he
and
all
his
army,
against
Jerusalem,
and
they besieged
it,
and
built forts
against
it
round
about.
\VS{5}And
the
city
was
besieged
until
the
eleventh
year
of
king Sedecias.
\VS{6}And
in
the
fourth
month,
the
ninth
day
of
the
month,
a
famine overpowered
the
city:
and
there
was
no
food
for
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{7}And
the
city
was
broken
up,
and
the
men
of
war
fled,
and
went
out
of
the
city
in
the
night
by
the
way
of
the
gate
that
is
between
the
two
walls,
and leadeth
to
the
king’s
garden, (the
Chaldeans
besieging
the
city
round
about,) sad
they
went
by
the
way
that leadeth
to
the
wilderness.
\VS{8}But
the
army
of
the
Chaldeans
pursued
after
the
king:
and
they
overtook Sedecias
in
the
desert which
is
near
Jericho:
and
all
his companions
were
scattered
from
him.
\VS{9}And
when
they
had
taken
the
king,
they
carried
him
to
the
king
of
Babylon
to Reblatha, which
is
in
the
land
of Emath:
and
he gave
judgment
upon
him.
\VS{10}And
the
king
of
Babylon
slew
the
sons
of Sedecias
before
his
eyes:
and
he
slew
all
the
princes
of Juda
in Reblatha.
\VS{11}And
he
put
out
the
eyes
of Sedecias,
and
bound
him
with
fetters,
and
the
king
of
Babylon
brought
him
into
Babylon,
and
he
put
him
in
prison
till
the
day
of
his
death.
\VS{12}And
in
the
fifth
month,
the
tenth
day
of
the
month,
the
same
is
the nineteenth
year
of Nabuchodonosor,
king
of
Babylon,
came Nabuzardan
the general
of
the
army,
who
stood
before
the
king
of
Babylon
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{13}And
he
burnt
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
the
king’s
house,
and
all
the
houses
of
Jerusalem,
and
every
great
house
he
burnt
with
fire.
\VS{14}And
all
the
army
of
the
Chaldeans
that
were
with
the general
broke
down
all
the
wall
of
Jerusalem
round
about.
\VS{15}But Nabuzardan
the general
carried
away
captives
some
of
the poor
people,
and
of
the
rest
of
the common sort
who
remained
in
the
city,
and
of
the fugitives
that
were fled
over
to
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
the
rest
of
the multitude.
\VS{16}But
of
the poor
of
the
land, Nabuzardan
the general
left
some
for
vinedressers,
and
for husbandmen.
\VS{17}The
Chaldeans
also
broke
in
pieces
the brazen
pillars
that
were
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
the bases,
and
the
sea
of
brass
that
was
in
the
house
of
the
Lord:
and
they
carried
all
the
brass
of
them
to
Babylon.
\VS{18}And
they
took
the caldrons,
and
the fleshhooks,
and
the psalteries,
and
the
bowls,
and
the little mortars,
and
all
the brazen
vessels
that
had
been
used
in
the ministry:
and
\VS{19}The general
took
away
the pitchers,
and
the
censers,
and
the
pots,
and
the
basins,
and
the candlesticks,
and
the mortars,
and
the cups:
as
many
as
were
of
gold,
in
gold:
and
as
many
as
were
of
silver,
in
silver:
\VS{20}And
the
two
pillars,
and
one
sea,
and
twelve
oxen
of
brass
that
were
under
the bases,
which
king
Solomon
had
made
in
the
house
of
the
Lord:
there
was
no
weight
of
the
brass
of
all
these
vessels.
\VS{21}And concerning
the
pillars,
one
pillar
was
eighteen
cubits
high:
and
a
cord
of
twelve
cubits compassed
it
about: but
the
thickness thereof
was
four
fingers,
and
it
was
hollow within.
\VS{22}And chapiters
of
brass
were
upon
both:
and
the
height
of
one chapiter
was
five
cubits:
and
network,
and
pomegranates
were
upon
the chapiters
round
about,
all
of
brass.
The
same
of
the
second
pillar,
and
the
pomegranates.
\VS{23}And
there
were
ninety-six
pomegranates hanging
down:
and
the
pomegranates
being
a
hundred
in
all,
were compassed
with
network.
\VS{24}And
the general
took Saraias
the
chief
priest,
and Sophonias
the
second
priest,
and
the
three
keepers
of
the entry.
\VS{25}He
also
took
out
of
the
city
one
eunuch
that
was
chief
over
the
men
of
war:
and
seven
men
of
them
that
were
near
the
king’s
person,
that
were
found
in
the
city:
and
a
scribe,
an
officer
of
the
army
who exercised
the young
soldiers:
and threescore
men
of
the
people
of
the
land,
that
were
found
in
the
midst
of
the
city.
\VS{26}And Nabuzardan
the general
took
them,
and
brought
them
to
the
king
of
Babylon,
to Reblatha.
\VS{27}And
the
king
of
Babylon
struck
them,
and
put
them
to
death
in Reblatha,
in
the
land
of Emath:
and Juda
was
carried
away
captive
out
of
his
land.
\VS{28}This
is
the
people
whom Nabuchodonosor
carried
away
captive:
in
the
seventh
year,
three
thousand
and twenty-three
Jews.
\VS{29}In
the
eighteenth
year
of Nabuchodonosor,
eight
hundred
and thirty-two
souls
from
Jerusalem.
\VS{30}In
the
three
and
twentieth
year
of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuzardan
the general
carried
away
of
the
Jews
seven
hundred
and
forty-five
souls. So
all
the
souls
were
four
thousand
six
hundred.
\VS{31}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
seven
and
thirtieth
year
of
the captivity
of Joachin
king
of Juda,
in
the twelfth
month,
the
five
and
twentieth
day
of
the
month,
that Evilmerodach
king
of
Babylon,
in
the
first
year
of
his
reign,
lifted
up
the
head
of Joachin
king
of Juda,
and
brought
him
forth
out
of
prison.
\VS{32}And
he
spoke
kindly
to
him,
and
he
set
his
throne
above
the
thrones
of
the
kings
that
were
with
him
in
Babylon.
\VS{33}And
he changed
his
prison
garments,
and
he
ate
bread
before
him
always
all
the
days
of
his
life.
\VS{34}And
for
his diet
a
continual provision
was
allowed
him
by
the
king
of
Babylon,
every
day
a
portion,
until
the
day
of
his
death,
all
the
days
of
his
life.
\par }