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

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
words
of
Jeremiah
the
son
of
Hilkiah,
one
of
the
priests
who
were
in
Anathoth
in
the
land
of
Benjamin.
\VS{2}Yahweh’s\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:2 }
“Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.}
word
came
to
him
in
the
days
of
Josiah
the
son
of
Amon,
king
of
Judah,
in
the thirteenth
year
of
his
reign.
\VS{3}It
came
also
in
the
days
of
Jehoiakim
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah,
to
the
end
of
the
eleventh
year
of
Zedekiah,
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah,
to
the carrying
away
of
Jerusalem
captive
in
the
fifth
month.
\VS{4}Now
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\par }{\Q \VS{5}“Before
I
formed
you
in
the
womb,
I
knew
you.
\par }{\QB Before
you
were born,
I
sanctified
you.
\par }{\QB I
have
appointed
you
a
prophet
to
the
nations.”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Then
I
said, “Ah,
Lord\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:6 }
The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”
} Yahweh!
Behold,\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 1:6 }
“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.}
I
don’t
know
how
to
speak;
for
I
am
a
child.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}But
Yahweh
said
to
me, “Don’t
say, ‘I
am
a
child;’
for
you
must
go
to
whomever
I
send
you,
and
you
must
say
whatever
I
command
you.
\VS{8}Don’t
be
afraid
because
of
them,
for
I
am
with
you
to
rescue
you,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Then
Yahweh
stretched
out
his
hand
and
touched
my
mouth.
Then
Yahweh
said
to
me, “Behold,
I
have
put
my
words
in
your
mouth.
\VS{10}Behold,
I
have
today
set
you
over
the
nations
and
over
the
kingdoms,
to
uproot
and
to
tear
down,
to
destroy
and
to
overthrow,
to
build
and
to
plant.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Moreover
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
me,
saying, “Jeremiah,
what
do
you
see?”
\par }{\PP I
said, “I
see
a branch
of
an
almond
tree.”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Then
Yahweh
said
to
me, “You
have
seen
well;
for
I
watch
over
my
word
to
perform
it.”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Yahweh’s
word
came
to
me
the
second
time,
saying, “What
do
you
see?”
\par }{\PP I
said, “I
see
a
boiling cauldron;
and
it
is tipping away
from
the
north.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Then
Yahweh
said
to
me, “Out
of
the
north,
evil
will break
out
on
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
land.
\VS{15}For
behold,
I
will
call
all
the
families
of
the
kingdoms
of
the
north,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q “They
will
come,
and
they
will
each
set
his
throne
at
the
entrance
of
the
gates
of
Jerusalem,
\par }{\QB and
against
all
its
walls
all
around,
and
against
all
the
cities
of
Judah.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}I
will
utter
my
judgments
against
them
concerning
all
their
wickedness,
\par }{\QB in
that
they
have forsaken
me,
\par }{\QB and
have
burned
incense
to
other
gods,
\par }{\QB and
worshiped
the
works
of
their own
hands.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}“You
therefore
put
your belt
on
your
waist,
arise,
and
say
to
them
all
that
I
command
you.
Don’t
be
dismayed
at
them,
lest
I
dismay
you
before
them.
\VS{18}For
behold,
I
have
made
you
today
a
fortified
city,
an
iron
pillar,
and
bronze
walls
against
the
whole
land—against
the
kings
of
Judah,
against
its
princes,
against
its
priests,
and
against
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{19}They
will
fight
against
you,
but
they
will
not
prevail
against
you;
for
I
am
with
you”,
says
Yahweh, “to
rescue
you.”

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Yahweh’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“Go
and
proclaim
in
the
ears
of
Jerusalem,
saying, ‘Yahweh
says,
\par }{\Q “I
remember
for
you
the
kindness
of
your
youth,
\par }{\QB your
love
as
a bride,
\par }{\Q how
you
went
after
me
in
the
wilderness,
\par }{\QB in
a
land
that
was
not
sown.
\par }{\Q \VS{3}Israel
was
holiness
to
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB the
first
fruits
of
his
increase.
\par }{\Q All
who
devour
him
will
be
held
guilty.
\par }{\QB Evil
will
come
on
them,” ’
says
Yahweh.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Hear
Yahweh’s
word,
O
house
of
Jacob,
and
all
the
families
of
the
house
of
Israel!
\VS{5}Yahweh
says,
\par }{\Q “What
unrighteousness
have
your
fathers
found
in
me,
\par }{\QB that
they
have
gone
far
from
me,
\par }{\Q and
have walked
after
worthless
vanity,
\par }{\QB and
have become
worthless?
\par }{\Q \VS{6}They
didn’t
say, ‘Where
is
Yahweh
who
brought
us
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
\par }{\QB who led
us
through
the
wilderness,
\par }{\QB through
a
land
of
deserts
and
of
pits,
\par }{\QB through
a
land
of
drought
and
of
the
shadow
of
death,
\par }{\QB through
a
land
that
no
one
passed
through,
\par }{\QB and
where
no
man
lived?’
\par }{\Q \VS{7}I
brought
you
into
a plentiful
land
\par }{\QB to
eat
its
fruit
and
its
goodness;
\par }{\Q but
when
you
entered,
you
defiled
my
land,
\par }{\QB and
made
my
heritage
an
abomination.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}The
priests
didn’t
say, ‘Where
is
Yahweh?’
\par }{\QB and
those
who
handle
the
law
didn’t
know
me.
\par }{\Q The
rulers
also
transgressed
against
me,
\par }{\QB and
the
prophets
prophesied
by
Baal
\par }{\QB and
followed
things
that do
not
profit.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}“Therefore
I
will
yet
contend
with
you,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB “and
I
will
contend
with
your
children’s
children.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}For
pass
over
to
the
islands
of
Kittim,
and
see.
\par }{\QB Send
to
Kedar,
and
consider
diligently,
\par }{\QB and
see
if
there
has
been
such
a
thing.
\par }{\Q \VS{11}Has
a
nation
changed
its
gods,
\par }{\QB which
really
are
no
gods?
\par }{\QB But
my
people
have
changed
their
glory
for
that
which
doesn’t
profit.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}“Be
astonished,
you
heavens,
at
this
\par }{\QB and
be horribly afraid.
\par }{\QB Be
very
desolate,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{13}“For
my
people
have
committed
two evils:
\par }{\QB they
have forsaken
me,
the
spring
of
living
waters,
\par }{\QB and
cut
out
cisterns
for
themselves:
broken
cisterns
that
can’t
hold
water.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}Is
Israel
a
slave?
\par }{\QB Is
he
born
into
slavery?
\par }{\QB Why
has
he
become
a captive?
\par }{\Q \VS{15}The
young
lions
have
roared
at
him
and
raised
their
voices.
\par }{\QB They
have
made
his
land
waste.
\par }{\QB His
cities
are
burned
up,
without
inhabitant.
\par }{\QB \VS{16}The
children
also
of
Memphis
and
Tahpanhes
have broken
the
crown
of
your
head.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}“Haven’t
you
brought
this
on yourself,
\par }{\QB in
that
you
have forsaken
Yahweh
your
God,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 2:17 }
The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).}
when
he led
you
by
the
way?
\par }{\Q \VS{18}Now
what
do
you gain
by going
to
Egypt,
to
drink
the
waters
of
the
Shihor?
\par }{\QB Or
why
do
you
to go
on
the
way
to
Assyria,
to
drink
the
waters
of
the
River?\FTNT{†}{{\FR 2:18 }
i.e., the Euphrates River}
\par }{\Q \VS{19}“Your own
wickedness
will
correct
you,
\par }{\QB and
your backsliding
will
rebuke
you.
\par }{\Q Know
therefore
and
see
that
it
is
an
evil
and
bitter
thing,
\par }{\QB that
you
have forsaken
Yahweh
your
God,
\par }{\QB and
that
my fear
is
not
in
you,”
says
the
Lord,
Yahweh
of
Armies.
\par }{\Q \VS{20}“For
long
ago
I
broke
off
your
yoke,
\par }{\QB and
burst
your
bonds.
\par }{\Q You
said, ‘I
will
not
serve;’
\par }{\QB for
on
every
high
hill
and
under
every
green
tree
you bowed
yourself,
\par }{\QB playing
the
prostitute.
\par }{\Q \VS{21}Yet
I
had
planted
you
a noble
vine,
\par }{\QB a pure
and
faithful
seed.
\par }{\QB How
then
have
you
turned
into
the degenerate branches
of
a
foreign
vine
to
me?
\par }{\Q \VS{22}For
though
you
wash
yourself
with
lye,
\par }{\QB and use
much
soap,
\par }{\QB yet
your
iniquity
is marked
before
me,”
says
the
Lord Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{23}“How
can
you
say, ‘I
am
not
defiled.
\par }{\QB I
have
not
gone
after
the Baals’?
\par }{\Q See
your
way
in
the
valley.
\par }{\QB Know
what
you
have
done.
\par }{\Q You
are
a
swift dromedary traversing
her
ways,
\VS{24}a
wild
donkey
used
to
the
wilderness,
that sniffs
the
wind
in
her craving.
\par }{\QB When
she
is
in heat,
who
can
turn
her
away?
\par }{\QB All
those
who
seek
her
will
not
weary
themselves.
In
her
month,
they
will
find
her.
\par }{\Q \VS{25}“Keep
your
feet
from being bare,
\par }{\QB and
your throat
from
thirst.
\par }{\Q But
you
said, ‘It
is
in vain.
\par }{\QB No,
for
I
have
loved
strangers,
\par }{\QB and
I
will go
after
them.’
\par }{\Q \VS{26}As
the
thief
is
ashamed
when
he
is
found,
\par }{\QB so
the
house
of
Israel
is
ashamed—
\par }{\QB they,
their
kings,
their
princes,
their
priests,
and
their
prophets,
\par }{\Q \VS{27}who
tell
wood, ‘You
are
my
father,’
\par }{\QB and
a
stone, ‘You
have
given
birth
to
me,’
\par }{\Q for
they
have
turned
their
back
to
me,
\par }{\QB and
not
their
face,
\par }{\QB but
in
the
time
of
their
trouble
they
will
say, ‘Arise,
and
save
us!’
\par }{\Q \VS{28}“But
where
are
your
gods
that
you
have
made
for yourselves?
\par }{\QB Let
them
arise,
if
they
can
save
you
in
the
time
of
your
trouble,
\par }{\QB for
you
have
as
many
gods
as
you
have
towns,
O
Judah.
\par }{\Q \VS{29}“Why
will
you
contend
with
me?
\par }{\QB You
all
have
transgressed
against
me,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{30}“I
have
struck
your
children
in
vain.
\par }{\QB They
received
no
correction.
\par }{\Q Your own
sword
has
devoured
your
prophets,
\par }{\QB like
a
destroying
lion.
\par }{\Q \VS{31}Generation,
consider
Yahweh’s
word.
\par }{\QB Have
I
been
a
wilderness
to
Israel?
\par }{\QB Or
a
land
of
thick
darkness?
\par }{\Q Why
do
my
people
say, ‘We
have broken loose.
\par }{\QB We
will
come
to
you
no more’?
\par }{\Q \VS{32}“Can
a
virgin
forget
her
ornaments,
\par }{\QB or
a
bride
her
attire?
\par }{\QB Yet
my
people
have
forgotten
me
for
days
without
number.
\par }{\Q \VS{33}How
well
you
prepare
your
way
to
seek
love!
\par }{\QB Therefore
you
have
even
taught
the
wicked women
your
ways.
\par }{\Q \VS{34}Also
the
blood
of
the
souls
of
the
innocent
poor
is
found
in
your
skirts.
\par }{\QB You
didn’t
find
them
breaking
in,
\par }{\QB but
it
is
because
of
all
these
things.
\par }{\Q \VS{35}“Yet
you
said, ‘I
am
innocent.
\par }{\QB Surely
his
anger
has
turned
away
from
me.’
\par }{\Q “Behold,
I
will
judge
you,
\par }{\QB because
you
say, ‘I
have
not
sinned.’
\par }{\Q \VS{36}Why
do
you
go
about
so
much
to change
your
ways?
\par }{\QB You
will
be
ashamed
of
Egypt
also,
\par }{\QB as
you
were
ashamed
of
Assyria.
\par }{\Q \VS{37}You
will
also
leave
that
place
with
your
hands
on
your
head;
\par }{\QB for
Yahweh
has
rejected
those
in
whom
you
trust,
\par }{\QB and
you
won’t
prosper
with
them.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“They
say, ‘If
a
man
puts
away
his
wife,
and
she
goes
from
him,
and
becomes
another
man’s,
should
he
return
to
her
again?’ Wouldn’t
that
land
be greatly
polluted?
But
you
have
played
the
prostitute
with
many
lovers;
yet
return
again
to
me,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}“Lift
up
your
eyes
to
the
bare
heights,
and
see!
Where
have
you
not
been lain
with?
You
have
sat waiting
for
them
by
the
road,
as
an Arabian
in
the
wilderness.
You
have
polluted
the
land
with
your
prostitution
and
with
your
wickedness.
\VS{3}Therefore
the
showers
have
been
withheld
and
there
has
been
no
latter
rain;
yet
you
have
had
a prostitute’s
forehead
and
you
refused
to
be
ashamed.
\VS{4}Will
you
not
from
this
time
cry
to
me, ‘My
Father,
you
are
the guide
of
my
youth!’?
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“ ‘Will
he retain
his anger
forever?
Will
he
keep
it
to
the
end?’
Behold,
you
have
spoken
and
have
done
evil things,
and
have
had
your
way.”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Moreover,
Yahweh
said
to
me
in
the
days
of
Josiah
the
king, “Have
you
seen
that
which backsliding
Israel
has
done?
She
has
gone
up
on
every
high
mountain
and
under
every
green
tree,
and
has
played
the
prostitute
there.
\VS{7}I
said
after
she
had
done
all
these
things, ‘She
will
return
to
me;’
but
she
didn’t
return,
and
her
treacherous
sister
Judah
saw
it.
\VS{8}I
saw
when,
for
this
very
cause,
that backsliding
Israel
had
committed
adultery,
I
had
put
her
away
and
given
her
a
certificate
of
divorce,
yet
treacherous
Judah,
her
sister,
had
no
fear,
but
she
also
went
and
played
the
prostitute.
\VS{9}Because she
took
her
prostitution lightly,
the
land
was
polluted,
and she
committed
adultery
with
stones
and
with
wood.
\VS{10}Yet
for
all
this
her
treacherous
sister,
Judah,
has
not
returned
to
me
with
her
whole
heart,
but
only
in pretense,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Yahweh
said
to
me, “Backsliding
Israel
has shown
herself
more
righteous than
treacherous
Judah.
\VS{12}Go,
and
proclaim
these
words
toward
the
north,
and
say, ‘Return,
you backsliding
Israel,’
says
Yahweh; ‘I
will
not
look
in
anger
on
you,
for
I
am
merciful,’
says
Yahweh. ‘I
will
not
keep
anger
forever.
\VS{13}Only
acknowledge
your
iniquity,
that
you
have
transgressed
against
Yahweh
your
God,
and
have
scattered
your
ways
to
the
strangers
under
every
green
tree,
and
you
have
not
obeyed
my
voice,’ ”
says
Yahweh.
\VS{14}“Return, backsliding
children,”
says
Yahweh, “for
I
am
a
husband
to
you.
I
will
take
one
of
you
from
a
city,
and
two
from
a
family,
and
I
will
bring
you
to
Zion.
\VS{15}I
will
give
you
shepherds according
to
my
heart,
who
will
feed
you
with
knowledge
and
understanding.
\VS{16}It
will
come
to
pass,
when
you
are
multiplied
and
increased
in
the
land
in
those
days,”
says
Yahweh, “they
will
no
longer
say, ‘the
ark
of
Yahweh’s
covenant!’
It
will
not
come
to
mind.
They
won’t
remember
it.
They
won’t
miss
it,
nor
will
another
be
made.
\VS{17}At
that
time
they
will
call
Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s
Throne;’
and
all
the
nations
will
be
gathered
to
it,
to
Yahweh’s
name,
to
Jerusalem.
They
will
no
longer walk
after
the
stubbornness
of
their
evil
heart.
\VS{18}In
those
days
the
house
of
Judah
will walk
with
the
house
of
Israel,
and
they
will
come
together
out
of
the
land
of
the
north
to
the
land
that
I
gave
for
an
inheritance
to
your
fathers.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“But
I
said, ‘How
I
desire
to
put
you
among
the
children,
and
give
you
a
pleasant
land,
a goodly
heritage
of
the
armies
of
the
nations!’
and
I
said, ‘You
shall
call
me “My
Father”,
and
shall
not
turn
away
from
following
me.’
\par }{\PP \VS{20}“Surely
as
a
wife
treacherously departs
from
her
husband,
so
you
have
dealt
treacherously
with
me,
house
of
Israel,”
says
Yahweh.
\VS{21}A
voice
is
heard
on
the
bare
heights,
the
weeping
and
the petitions
of
the
children
of
Israel;
because
they
have perverted
their
way,
they
have
forgotten
Yahweh
their
God.
\VS{22}Return,
you backsliding
children,
and
I
will
heal
your backsliding.
\par }{\PP “Behold,
we
have
come
to
you;
for
you
are
Yahweh
our
God.
\VS{23}Truly help
from
the
hills,
the
tumult
on
the
mountains,
is
in
vain.
Truly
the
salvation
of
Israel
is
in
Yahweh
our
God.
\VS{24}But
the
shameful
thing
has
devoured
the
labor
of
our
fathers
from
our
youth,
their
flocks
and
their
herds,
their
sons
and
their
daughters.
\VS{25}Let
us
lie
down
in
our
shame,
and
let
our confusion
cover
us;
for
we
have
sinned
against
Yahweh
our
God,
we
and
our
fathers,
from
our
youth
even
to
this
day.
We
have
not
obeyed
Yahweh
our
God’s
voice.”

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“If
you
will
return,
Israel,”
says
Yahweh, “if
you
will
return
to
me,
and
if
you
will
put
away
your
abominations
out
of
my
sight;
then
you
will
not
be
removed;
\VS{2}and
you
will
swear, ‘As
Yahweh
lives,’
in
truth,
in
justice,
and
in
righteousness.
The
nations
will
bless themselves
in
him,
and
they
will glory
in
him.”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}For
Yahweh
says
to
the
men
of
Judah
and
to
Jerusalem, “Break
up
your fallow ground,
and
don’t
sow
among
thorns.
\VS{4}Circumcise
yourselves
to
Yahweh,
and
take
away
the
foreskins
of
your
heart,
you
men
of
Judah
and
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem;
lest
my
wrath
go
out
like
fire,
and
burn
so
that
no
one
can
quench
it,
because
of
the
evil
of
your
doings.
\VS{5}Declare
in
Judah,
and publish
in
Jerusalem;
and
say, ‘Blow
the
trumpet
in
the
land!’
Cry
aloud
and
say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s
go
into
the
fortified
cities!’
\VS{6}Set
up
a
standard
toward
Zion.
Flee
for
safety!
Don’t
wait;
for
I
will
bring
evil
from
the
north,
and
a
great
destruction.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}A
lion
has
gone
up
from
his
thicket,
and
a
destroyer
of
nations.
He
is
on
his way.
He
has
gone
out
from
his
place,
to
make
your
land
desolate,
that
your
cities
be
laid
waste,
without
inhabitant.
\VS{8}For
this, clothe
yourself
with
sackcloth,
lament
and
wail;
for
the
fierce
anger
of
Yahweh
hasn’t
turned
back
from
us.
\VS{9}“It
will
happen
at
that
day,”
says
Yahweh, “that
the
heart
of
the
king
will
perish, along
with
the
heart
of
the
princes.
The
priests
will
be
astonished,
and
the
prophets
will
wonder.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Then
I
said, “Ah,
Lord Yahweh!
Surely
you
have greatly deceived
this
people
and
Jerusalem,
saying, ‘You
will
have
peace;’ whereas
the
sword
reaches
to
the
heart.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}At
that
time
it
will
be
said
to
this
people
and
to
Jerusalem, “A hot
wind blows
from
the
bare
heights
in
the
wilderness
toward
the
daughter
of
my
people,
not
to
winnow,
nor
to
cleanse.
\VS{12}A
full
wind
from
these
will
come
for
me.
Now
I
will
also
utter
judgments
against
them.”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Behold,
he
will
come
up
as
clouds,
and
his
chariots
will
be
as
the whirlwind.
His
horses
are
swifter
than
eagles.
Woe
to
us!
For
we
are
ruined.
\VS{14}Jerusalem,
wash
your
heart
from
wickedness,
that
you
may
be
saved.
How
long
will
your
evil
thoughts lodge
within
you?
\VS{15}For
a
voice
declares
from
Dan,
and publishes
evil
from
the
hills
of
Ephraim:
\VS{16}“Tell
the
nations,
behold, publish
against
Jerusalem, ‘Watchers
come
from
a
far
country,
and
raise
their
voice
against
the
cities
of
Judah.
\VS{17}As
keepers
of
a
field,
they
are
against
her
all
around,
because
she
has
been
rebellious
against
me,’ ”
says
Yahweh.
\VS{18}“Your
way
and
your
doings
have
brought
these
things
to
you.
This
is
your
wickedness,
for
it
is
bitter,
for
it
reaches
to
your
heart.”
\par }{\PP \VS{19}My
anguish,
my
anguish!
I am pained
at
my very
heart!
My
heart trembles
within
me.
I
can’t hold
my peace,
because
you
have
heard,
O
my
soul,
the
sound
of
the
trumpet,
the
alarm
of
war.
\VS{20}Destruction
on
destruction
is decreed,
for
the
whole
land
is laid
waste.
Suddenly
my
tents
are
destroyed,
and
my
curtains gone
in
a
moment.
\VS{21}How
long
will
I
see
the
standard
and
hear
the
sound
of
the
trumpet?
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“For
my
people
are
foolish.
They
don’t
know
me.
They
are
foolish
children,
and
they
have
no
understanding.
They
are
skillful
in
doing
evil,
but
they
don’t
know
how
to
do
good.”
\VS{23}I
saw
the
earth
and,
behold,
it
was
waste
and
void,
and
the
heavens,
and
they
had
no
light.
\VS{24}I
saw
the
mountains,
and
behold,
they trembled,
and
all
the
hills
moved back
and forth.
\VS{25}I
saw,
and
behold,
there
was
no
man,
and
all
the
birds
of
the
sky
had
fled.
\VS{26}I
saw,
and
behold,
the
fruitful
field
was
a
wilderness,
and
all
its
cities
were
broken
down
at
the
presence
of
Yahweh,
before
his
fierce
anger.
\VS{27}For
Yahweh
says, “The
whole
land
will
be
a
desolation;
yet
I
will
not
make
a
full
end.
\VS{28}For
this
the
earth
will
mourn,
and
the
heavens
above
be
black,
because
I
have
spoken
it.
I
have
planned
it,
and
I
have
not
repented,
neither
will
I
turn
back
from
it.”
\par }{\PP \VS{29}Every
city
flees
for
the
noise
of
the
horsemen
and
archers.
They
go
into
the
thickets
and
climb
up
on
the
rocks.
Every
city
is forsaken,
and
not
a
man
dwells therein.
\VS{30}You,
when
you
are
made
desolate,
what
will
you
do?
Though
you
clothe
yourself
with
scarlet,
though
you deck
yourself
with
ornaments
of
gold,
though
you
enlarge
your
eyes
with makeup,
you
make
yourself
beautiful
in
vain.
Your
lovers
despise
you.
They
seek
your
life.
\VS{31}For
I
have
heard
a
voice
as
of
a
woman
in travail,
the
anguish
as
of
her
who gives
birth
to
her
first
child,
the
voice
of
the
daughter
of
Zion,
who gasps
for
breath,
who
spreads
her
hands,
saying, “Woe
is
me
now!
For
my
soul faints
before
the
murderers.”

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Run
back
and
forth
through
the
streets
of
Jerusalem,
and
see
now,
and
know,
and
seek
in
its wide places,
if
you
can
find
a
man,
if
there
is
anyone
who
does
justly,
who
seeks
truth,
then
I
will
pardon
her.
\VS{2}Though
they
say, ‘As
Yahweh
lives,’
surely
they
swear
falsely.”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}O
Yahweh,
don’t
your
eyes
look
on
truth?
You
have
stricken
them,
but
they
were
not grieved.
You
have
consumed
them,
but
they
have
refused
to
receive
correction.
They
have
made
their
faces
harder
than
a
rock.
They
have
refused
to
return.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Then
I
said, “Surely
these
are
poor.
They
are
foolish;
for
they
don’t
know
Yahweh’s
way,
nor
the law
of
their
God.
\VS{5}I
will go
to
the
great
men
and
will
speak
to
them,
for
they
know
the
way
of
Yahweh,
and
the law
of
their
God.”
But
these
with
one
accord
have
broken
the
yoke,
and
burst
the
bonds.
\VS{6}Therefore
a
lion
out
of
the
forest
will
kill
them.
A
wolf
of
the evenings
will
destroy
them.
A
leopard
will
watch
against
their
cities.
Everyone
who
goes
out
there
will
be
torn
in
pieces,
because
their
transgressions
are
many
and
their backsliding
has
increased.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“How
can
I
pardon
you?
Your
children
have forsaken
me,
and
sworn
by
what
are
no
gods.
When
I
had
fed
them
to
the
full,
they
committed
adultery,
and assembled themselves
in
troops
at
the prostitutes’
houses.
\VS{8}They
were
as fed
horses roaming
at large.
Everyone neighed
after
his
neighbor’s
wife.
\VS{9}Shouldn’t
I
punish
them
for
these
things?”
says
Yahweh. “Shouldn’t
my
soul
be
avenged
on
such
a
nation
as
this?
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“Go
up
on
her walls,
and
destroy,
but
don’t
make
a
full
end.
Take
away
her
branches,
for
they
are
not
Yahweh’s.
\VS{11}For
the
house
of
Israel
and
the
house
of
Judah
have
dealt
very
treacherously against
me,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}They
have
denied
Yahweh,
and
said, “It
is
not
he.
Evil
won’t
come
on
us.
We
won’t
see
sword
or
famine.
\VS{13}The
prophets
will
become
wind,
and
the word
is
not
in
them.
Thus
it
will
be
done
to
them.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Therefore
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Armies
says, “Because
you
speak
this
word,
behold,
I
will
make
my
words
in
your
mouth
fire,
and
this
people
wood,
and
it
will
devour
them.
\VS{15}Behold,
I
will
bring
a
nation
on
you
from
far
away,
house
of
Israel,”
says
Yahweh. “It
is
a mighty
nation.
It
is
an
ancient
nation,
a
nation
whose
language
you
don’t
know
and
don’t
understand
what
they
say.
\VS{16}Their
quiver
is an
open
tomb.
They
are
all
mighty
men.
\VS{17}They
will
eat
up
your
harvest
and
your
bread,
which
your
sons
and
your
daughters should
eat.
They
will
eat
up
your
flocks
and
your
herds.
They
will
eat
up
your
vines
and
your
fig
trees.
They
will beat
down
your
fortified
cities
in
which
you
trust
with
the
sword.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}“But
even
in
those
days,”
says
Yahweh, “I
will
not
make
a
full
end
of
you.
\VS{19}It
will
happen
when
you
say, ‘Why
has
Yahweh
our
God
done
all
these
things
to
us?’
Then
you
shall
say
to
them, ‘Just
as
you
have forsaken
me
and
served
foreign
gods
in
your
land,
so
you
will
serve
strangers
in
a
land
that
is
not
yours.’
\par }{\PP \VS{20}“Declare
this
in
the
house
of
Jacob,
and publish
it
in
Judah,
saying,
\VS{21}‘Hear
this
now,
foolish
people
without
understanding,
who
have
eyes,
and
don’t
see,
who
have
ears,
and
don’t
hear:
\VS{22}Don’t
you
fear
me?’
says
Yahweh; ‘Won’t
you
tremble
at
my
presence,
who
have
placed
the
sand
for
the bound
of
the
sea
by
a
perpetual
decree,
that
it
can’t
pass
it?
Though
its
waves
toss
themselves,
yet
they
can’t
prevail.
Though
they
roar,
they still
can’t
pass
over
it.’
\par }{\PP \VS{23}“But
this
people
has
a revolting
and
a
rebellious
heart.
They
have revolted
and
gone.
\VS{24}They
don’t
say
in
their
heart, ‘Let’s
now
fear
Yahweh
our
God,
who
gives
rain, both
the former
and
the
latter,
in
its
season,
who
preserves
to
us
the
appointed
weeks
of
the
harvest.’
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“Your
iniquities
have
turned
away
these
things,
and
your
sins
have
withheld
good
from
you.
\VS{26}For
wicked
men
are
found
among
my
people.
They
watch,
as
fowlers
lie
in
wait.
They
set
a
trap.
They
catch
men.
\VS{27}As
a
cage
is
full
of
birds,
so
are
their
houses
full
of
deceit.
Therefore
they
have
become
great,
and
grew
rich.
\VS{28}They
have
grown
fat.
They shine;
yes,
they excel
in
deeds
of
wickedness.
They
don’t
plead
the
cause,
the
cause
of
the
fatherless,
that
they
may
prosper;
and
they
don’t
defend
the
rights
of
the
needy.
\par }{\PP \VS{29}“Shouldn’t
I
punish
for
these
things?”
says
Yahweh. “Shouldn’t
my
soul
be
avenged
on
such
a
nation
as
this?
\par }{\PP \VS{30}“An astonishing
and horrible thing
has
happened
in
the
land.
\VS{31}The
prophets
prophesy
falsely,
and
the
priests
rule
by
their own
authority;
and
my
people
love
to
have
it
so.
What
will
you
do
in
the
end
of
it?

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Flee
for
safety,
you
children
of
Benjamin,
out
of
the
middle
of
Jerusalem!
Blow
the
trumpet
in
Tekoa
and
raise
up
a
signal
on Beth Haccherem,
for
evil
looks
out
from
the
north
with
a
great
destruction.
\VS{2}I
will
cut
off
the beautiful
and delicate one,
the
daughter
of
Zion.
\VS{3}Shepherds
with
their
flocks
will
come
to
her.
They
will
pitch
their
tents
against
her
all
around.
They
will
feed
everyone
in
his
place.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}“Prepare
war
against
her!
Arise! Let’s
go
up
at
noon.
Woe
to
us!
For
the
day
declines,
for
the shadows
of
the
evening
are
stretched
out.
\VS{5}Arise! Let’s
go
up
by
night,
and let’s
destroy
her
palaces.”
\VS{6}For
Yahweh
of
Armies
said, “Cut
down
trees,
and
cast
up
a mound
against
Jerusalem.
This
is
the
city
to
be
visited.
She
is filled
with
oppression
within
herself.
\VS{7}As
a
well produces
its
waters,
so
she produces
her
wickedness.
Violence
and
destruction
is
heard
in
her.
Sickness
and
wounds
are
continually
before
me.
\VS{8}Be
instructed,
Jerusalem,
lest
my
soul
be
alienated
from
you,
lest
I
make
you
a
desolation,
an
uninhabited
land.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Yahweh
of
Armies
says, “They
will thoroughly glean
the
remnant
of
Israel
like
a
vine.
Turn
again
your
hand
as
a grape
gatherer
into
the baskets.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}To
whom
should
I
speak
and testify,
that
they
may
hear?
Behold,
their
ear
is
uncircumcised,
and
they
can’t
listen.
Behold,
Yahweh’s
word
has
become
a
reproach
to
them.
They
have
no
delight
in
it.
\VS{11}Therefore
I
am
full
of
Yahweh’s
wrath.
I
am
weary
with
holding
it
in.
\par }{\Q “Pour
it
out
on
the
children
in
the
street,
\par }{\QB and
on
the
assembly
of
young
men
together;
\par }{\Q for
even
the
husband
with
the
wife
will
be
taken,
\par }{\QB the
aged
with
him
who
is
full
of
days.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}Their
houses
will
be
turned
to
others,
\par }{\QB their
fields
and
their
wives
together;
\par }{\Q for
I
will
stretch
out
my
hand
on
the
inhabitants
of
the
land,
says
Yahweh.”
\par }{\Q \VS{13}“For
from
their least
even
to
their
greatest,
everyone
is given
to covetousness.
\par }{\QB From
the
prophet
even
to
the
priest,
everyone deals
falsely.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}They
have
healed
also
the hurt
of
my
people
superficially,
\par }{\QB saying, ‘Peace,
peace!’
when
there
is
no
peace.
\par }{\Q \VS{15}Were
they
ashamed
when
they
had
committed
abomination?
\par }{\QB No,
they
were
not
at
all
ashamed,
neither
could
they
blush.
\par }{\Q Therefore
they
will
fall
among
those
who
fall.
\par }{\QB When
I
visit
them,
they
will
be
cast
down,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Yahweh
says, “Stand
in
the
ways
and
see,
and
ask
for
the
old
paths, ‘Where
is
the
good
way?’
and
walk
in
it,
and
you
will
find
rest
for
your
souls.
But
they
said, ‘We
will
not
walk
in
it.’
\VS{17}I
set
watchmen
over
you,
saying, ‘Listen
to
the
sound
of
the
trumpet!’
But
they
said, ‘We
will
not
listen!’
\VS{18}Therefore
hear,
you
nations,
and
know,
congregation,
what
is among
them.
\VS{19}Hear,
earth!
Behold,
I
will
bring
evil
on
this
people,
even
the
fruit
of
their
thoughts,
because
they
have
not
listened
to
my
words;
and
as
for
my
law,
they
have
rejected
it.
\VS{20}To
what
purpose
does
frankincense
from
Sheba
come
to
me,
and
the
sweet
cane
from
a
far
country?
Your
burnt
offerings
are
not
acceptable,
and
your
sacrifices
are
not
pleasing
to
me.”
\par }{\PP \VS{21}Therefore
Yahweh
says, “Behold,
I
will
lay
stumbling
blocks
before
this
people.
The
fathers
and
the
sons
together
will
stumble
against
them.
The
neighbor
and
his
friend
will
perish.”
\VS{22}Yahweh
says, “Behold,
a
people
comes
from
the
north
country.
A
great
nation
will
be
stirred
up
from
the uttermost
parts
of
the
earth.
\VS{23}They
take
hold
of
bow
and
spear.
They
are
cruel,
and
have
no
mercy.
Their
voice
roars
like
the
sea,
and
they
ride
on
horses,
everyone set
in
array,
as
a
man
to
the
battle,
against
you,
daughter
of
Zion.”
\par }{\PP \VS{24}We
have
heard
its
report.
Our
hands
become
feeble.
Anguish
has
taken
hold
of
us,
and pains
as
of
a woman
in
labor.
\VS{25}Don’t
go
out
into
the
field
or
walk
by
the
way;
for
the
sword
of
the
enemy
and
terror
are
on
every
side.
\VS{26}Daughter
of
my
people, clothe
yourself
with
sackcloth,
and
wallow
in
ashes!
Mourn,
as
for
an
only
son,
most
bitter
lamentation,
for
the
destroyer
will
suddenly
come
on
us.
\par }{\PP \VS{27}“I
have
made
you
a
tester
of metals
and
a
fortress among
my
people,
that
you
may
know
and
try
their
way.
\VS{28}They
are
all grievous
rebels,
going
around
to slander.
They
are
bronze
and
iron.
All
of
them deal
corruptly.
\VS{29}The
bellows
blow
fiercely.
The
lead
is consumed
in
the
fire.
In
vain
they go
on
refining,
for
the
wicked
are
not plucked
away.
\VS{30}Men
will
call
them
rejected
silver,
because
Yahweh
has
rejected
them.”

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
came
to
Jeremiah
from
Yahweh,
saying,
\VS{2}“Stand
in
the
gate
of
Yahweh’s
house,
and
proclaim
this
word
there,
and
say, ‘Hear
Yahweh’s
word,
all
you
of
Judah,
who
enter
in
at
these
gates
to
worship
Yahweh.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel
says, “Amend
your
ways
and
your
doings,
and
I
will cause
you
to
dwell
in
this
place.
\VS{4}Don’t
trust
in
lying
words,
saying, ‘Yahweh’s
temple,
Yahweh’s
temple,
Yahweh’s
temple,
are
these.’
\VS{5}For
if
you
thoroughly
amend
your
ways
and
your
doings,
if
you
thoroughly execute
justice
between
a
man
and
his
neighbor;
\VS{6}if
you
don’t
oppress
the
foreigner,
the
fatherless,
and
the
widow,
and
don’t
shed
innocent
blood
in
this
place,
and
don’t walk
after
other
gods
to
your own hurt,
\VS{7}then
I
will
cause
you
to
dwell
in
this
place,
in
the
land
that
I
gave
to
your
fathers,
from
of
old
even
forever
more.
\VS{8}Behold,
you
trust
in
lying
words
that can’t
profit.
\VS{9}Will
you
steal,
murder,
commit
adultery,
swear
falsely,
burn
incense
to
Baal,
and
walk
after
other
gods
that
you
have
not
known,
\VS{10}then
come
and
stand
before
me
in
this
house,
which
is
called
by
my
name,
and
say, ‘We
are
delivered,’
that
you
may
do
all
these
abominations?
\VS{11}Has
this
house,
which
is
called
by
my
name,
become
a
den
of
robbers
in
your
eyes?
Behold,
I
myself
have
seen
it,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“But
go
now
to
my
place
which
was
in
Shiloh,
where
I
caused
my
name
to
dwell
at
the
first,
and
see
what
I
did
to
it
for
the
wickedness
of
my
people
Israel.
\VS{13}Now,
because
you
have
done
all
these
works,”
says
Yahweh, “and
I
spoke
to
you,
rising
up
early
and
speaking,
but
you
didn’t
hear;
and
I
called
you,
but
you
didn’t
answer;
\VS{14}therefore
I
will
do
to
the
house
which
is
called
by
my
name,
in
which
you
trust,
and
to
the
place
which
I
gave
to
you
and
to
your
fathers,
as
I
did
to
Shiloh.
\VS{15}I
will
cast
you
out
of
my
sight,
as
I
have
cast
out
all
your
brothers,
even
the
whole
offspring\FTNT{*}{{\FR 7:15 }
or, seed}
of
Ephraim.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}“Therefore
don’t
pray
for
this
people.
Don’t
lift
up
a
cry
or
prayer
for
them
or
make intercession
to
me;
for
I
will
not
hear
you.
\VS{17}Don’t
you
see
what
they
do
in
the
cities
of
Judah
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
the
sky,
and
to
pour
out drink offerings
to
other
gods,
that
they
may
provoke
me
to
anger.
\VS{19}Do
they
provoke
me
to
anger?”
says
Yahweh. “Don’t
they
provoke
themselves,
to
the confusion
of
their
own
faces?”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}Therefore
the
Lord Yahweh
says: “Behold,
my
anger
and
my
wrath
will
be
poured
out
on
this
place,
on
man,
on
animal,
on
the
trees
of
the
field,
and
on
the
fruit
of
the
ground;
and
it
will
burn
and
will
not
be
quenched.”
\par }{\PP \VS{21}Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel
says: “Add
your
burnt
offerings
to
your
sacrifices
and
eat
meat.
\VS{22}For
I
didn’t
speak
to
your
fathers
or
command
them
in
the
day
that
I
brought
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
concerning
burnt
offerings
or
sacrifices;
\VS{23}but
this
thing
I
commanded
them,
saying, ‘Listen
to
my
voice,
and
I
will
be
your
God,
and
you
shall
be
my
people.
Walk
in
all
the
way
that
I
command
you,
that
it
may
be
well
with
you.’
\VS{24}But
they
didn’t
listen
or
turn
their
ear,
but walked
in
their
own
counsels
and
in
the
stubbornness
of
their
evil
heart,
and
went
backward,
and
not
forward.
\VS{25}Since
the
day
that
your
fathers
came
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
to
this
day,
I
have
sent
to
you
all
my
servants
the
prophets,
daily
rising
up
early
and
sending
them.
\VS{26}Yet
they
didn’t
listen
to
me
or
incline
their
ear,
but
made
their
neck stiff.
They
did worse
than
their
fathers.
\par }{\PP \VS{27}“You
shall
speak
all
these
words
to
them,
but
they
will
not
listen
to
you.
You
shall
also
call
to
them,
but
they
will
not
answer
you.
\VS{28}You
shall
tell
them, ‘This
is
the
nation
that
has
not
listened
to
Yahweh
their
God’s
voice,
nor
received
instruction.
Truth
has
perished,
and
is
cut
off
from
their
mouth.’
\VS{29}Cut
off
your
hair,
and
throw
it
away,
and
take
up
a
lamentation
on
the
bare
heights;
for
Yahweh
has
rejected
and
forsaken
the
generation
of
his
wrath.
\par }{\PP \VS{30}“For
the
children
of
Judah
have
done
that
which
is
evil
in
my
sight,”
says
Yahweh. “They
have
set
their
abominations
in
the
house
which
is
called
by
my
name,
to
defile
it.
\VS{31}They
have
built
the
high
places
of
Topheth,
which
is
in
the
valley
of
the
son
of
Hinnom,
to
burn
their
sons
and
their
daughters
in
the
fire,
which
I
didn’t
command,
nor
did
it
come
into
my
mind.
\VS{32}Therefore
behold,
the
days
come”,
says
Yahweh, “that
it
will
no
more
be
called ‘Topheth’
or ‘The
valley
of
the
son
of Hinnom’,
but ‘The
valley
of Slaughter’;
for
they
will
bury
in
Topheth until
there
is
no
place
to
bury.
\VS{33}The
dead
bodies
of
this
people
will
be
food
for
the
birds
of
the
sky,
and
for
the
animals
of
the
earth.
No
one
will
frighten
them
away.
\VS{34}Then
I
will
cause
to
cease
from
the
cities
of
Judah
and
from
the
streets
of
Jerusalem
the
voice
of
mirth
and
the
voice
of
gladness,
the
voice
of
the bridegroom
and
the
voice
of
the
bride;
for
the
land
will
become
a
waste.”

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“At
that
time,”
says
Yahweh, “they
will
bring
the
bones
of
the
kings
of
Judah,
the
bones
of
his
princes,
the
bones
of
the
priests,
the
bones
of
the
prophets,
and
the
bones
of
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
out
of
their
graves.
\VS{2}They
will
spread
them
before
the
sun,
the
moon,
and
all
the
army
of
the
sky,
which
they
have
loved,
which
they
have
served,
after
which
they
have
walked,
which
they
have
sought,
and
which
they
have
worshiped.
They
will
not
be
gathered
or
be
buried.
They
will
be
like
dung
on
the
surface
of
the
earth.
\VS{3}Death
will
be
chosen
rather
than
life
by
all
the residue
that
remain
of
this
evil
family,
that
remain
in
all
the
places
where
I
have
driven
them,”
says
Yahweh
of
Armies.
\VS{4}“Moreover
you
shall
tell
them, ‘Yahweh
says:
\par }{\Q “ ‘Do
men
fall,
and
not
rise
up
again?
\par }{\QB Does
one
turn
away,
and
not
return?
\par }{\Q \VS{5}Why
then
have
the
people
of
Jerusalem fallen
back
by
a perpetual backsliding?
\par }{\QB They cling
to deceit.
\par }{\QB They
refuse
to
return.
\par }{\Q \VS{6}I
listened
and
heard,
but
they
didn’t
say
what
is
right.
\par }{\QB No
one repents
of
his
wickedness,
saying, “What
have
I
done?”
\par }{\Q Everyone
turns
to
his
course,
\par }{\QB as
a
horse
that rushes headlong
in
the
battle.
\par }{\Q \VS{7}Yes,
the
stork
in
the
sky
knows
her
appointed
times.
\par }{\QB The
turtledove,
the
swallow,
and
the
crane
observe
the
time
of
their
coming;
\par }{\QB but
my
people
don’t
know
Yahweh’s law.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{8}“ ‘How
do
you
say, “We
are
wise,
and
Yahweh’s
law
is
with
us?”
\par }{\QB But,
behold,
the
false
pen
of
the
scribes
has
made
that
a
lie.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}The
wise
men
are
disappointed.
\par }{\QB They
are
dismayed
and trapped.
\par }{\Q Behold,
they
have
rejected
Yahweh’s
word.
\par }{\QB What kind
of
wisdom
is
in
them?
\par }{\Q \VS{10}Therefore
I
will
give
their
wives
to
others
\par }{\QB and
their
fields
to
those
who
will
possess
them.
\par }{\Q For
everyone
from
the least
even
to
the
greatest
is
given
to covetousness;
\par }{\QB from
the
prophet
even
to
the
priest
everyone deals
falsely.
\par }{\Q \VS{11}They
have
healed
the hurt
of
the
daughter
of
my
people slightly,
saying,
\par }{\QB “Peace,
peace,”
when
there
is
no
peace.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}Were
they
ashamed
when
they
had
committed
abomination?
\par }{\QB No,
they
were
not
at
all
ashamed.
\par }{\QB They
couldn’t
blush.
\par }{\Q Therefore
they
will
fall
among
those
who
fall.
\par }{\QB In
the
time
of
their visitation
they
will
be
cast
down,
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{13}“ ‘I
will utterly consume
them,
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\QB No
grapes
will
be
on
the
vine,
\par }{\QB no
figs
on
the
fig
tree,
\par }{\QB and
the
leaf
will
fade.
\par }{\Q The
things
that
I
have
given
them
\par }{\QB will
pass
away
from
them.’ ”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{14}“Why
do
we
sit
still?
\par }{\QB Assemble
yourselves!
\par }{\QB Let’s
enter
into
the
fortified
cities,
\par }{\QB and let’s
be silent
there;
\par }{\Q for
Yahweh
our
God
has
put
us
to silence,
\par }{\QB and
given
us
poisoned
water
to
drink,
\par }{\QB because
we
have
sinned
against
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{15}We
looked
for
peace,
but
no
good came;
\par }{\QB and
for
a
time
of
healing,
and
behold, dismay!
\par }{\Q \VS{16}The snorting
of
his
horses
is
heard
from
Dan.
\par }{\QB The
whole
land trembles
at
the
sound
of
the
neighing
of
his
strong
ones;
\par }{\Q for
they
have
come,
and
have
devoured
the
land
and
all
that
is
in
it,
\par }{\QB the
city
and
those
who
dwell therein.”
\par }{\Q \VS{17}“For,
behold,
I
will
send
serpents,
\par }{\QB adders among
you,
\par }{\QB which
will
not
be
charmed;
\par }{\QB and
they
will bite
you,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{18}Oh
that
I could comfort
myself
against
sorrow!
\par }{\QB My
heart
is
faint
within
me.
\par }{\Q \VS{19}Behold,
the
voice
of
the
cry
of
the
daughter
of
my
people
from
a
land
that
is very
far
off:
\par }{\QB “Isn’t
Yahweh
in
Zion?
\par }{\QB Isn’t
her
King
in
her?”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q “Why
have
they
provoked
me
to
anger
with
their
engraved
images,
\par }{\QB and
with
foreign
idols?”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{20}“The
harvest
is past.
\par }{\QB The
summer has
ended,
\par }{\QB and
we
are
not
saved.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{21}For
the
hurt
of
the
daughter
of
my
people,
I am
hurt.
\par }{\QB I
mourn.
\par }{\QB Dismay
has
taken
hold
of
me.
\par }{\Q \VS{22}Is
there
no
balm
in
Gilead?
\par }{\QB Is
there
no
physician
there?
\par }{\Q Why
then
isn’t
the
health
of
the
daughter
of
my
people recovered?

\par }\PoetryChap{9}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Oh
that
my head
were waters,
\par }{\QB and
my eyes
a spring
of tears,
\par }{\Q that
I might weep day
and night
\par }{\QB for
the slain
of
the daughter
of
my
people!
\par }{\Q \VS{2}Oh
that
I
had
in
the wilderness
\par }{\QB a lodging
place
of wayfaring men,
\par }{\Q that
I
might
leave
my
people
\par }{\QB and
go
from
them!
\par }{\Q For
they
are
all adulterers,
\par }{\QB an assembly
of treacherous men.
\par }{\Q \VS{3}“They bend
their tongue,
\par }{\QB as
their bow,
for falsehood.
\par }{\Q They
have grown strong
in
the land,
\par }{\QB but
not
for truth;
\par }{\Q for
they
proceed
from evil
to evil,
\par }{\QB and
they
don’t know
me,” says Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}“Everyone beware
of
his
neighbor,
\par }{\QB and
don’t trust
in
any brother;
\par }{\Q for
every brother
will utterly supplant,
\par }{\QB and
every
neighbor
will go around
like
a slanderer.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}Friends deceive each other,
\par }{\QB and
will
not speak
the truth.
\par }{\Q They
have
taught
their tongue
to speak
lies.
\par }{\QB They weary themselves committing iniquity.
\par }{\Q \VS{6}Your habitation
is
in
the middle
of deceit.
\par }{\QB Through deceit,
they refuse
to know
me,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Therefore Yahweh
of Armies
says,
\par }{\Q “Behold,
I
will melt
them
and test
them;
\par }{\QB for
how should
I deal
with
the daughter
of
my
people?
\par }{\Q \VS{8}Their tongue
is
a
deadly arrow.
\par }{\QB It
speaks deceit.
\par }{\Q One
speaks peaceably
to
his neighbor
with
his
mouth,
\par }{\QB but
in
his
heart,
he waits
to ambush
him.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}Shouldn’t
I punish
them
for these
things?” says Yahweh.
\par }{\QB “Shouldn’t
my soul
be avenged
on
a nation
such
as
this?
\par }{\Q \VS{10}I
will weep
and wail
for
the mountains,
\par }{\QB and lament
for
the pastures
of
the wilderness,
\par }{\Q because
they
are burned
up,
so
that
no
one passes through;
\par }{\QB Men can’t hear
the voice
of
the livestock.
\par }{\Q Both
the birds
of
the sky
and
the animals
have fled.
\par }{\QB They
are gone.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{11}“I
will
make Jerusalem heaps,
\par }{\QB a dwelling
place
of jackals.
\par }{\Q I
will
make
the cities
of Judah
a desolation,
\par }{\QB without inhabitant.”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Who
is wise enough
to
understand
this?
Who
is
he
to
whom
the
mouth
of
Yahweh
has
spoken,
that
he
may declare
it?
Why
has
the
land perished
and burned
up
like
a wilderness,
so
that
no
one
passes
through?
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Yahweh says, “Because
they
have forsaken
my law
which
I
set before
them,
and
have not obeyed
my voice
or walked
in
my ways,
\VS{14}but
have walked after
the stubbornness
of
their own heart
and after
the Baals,
which
their fathers taught
them.”
\VS{15}Therefore Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of Israel, says, “Behold,
I
will
feed
them,
even
this
people,
with wormwood
and give
them poisoned water
to drink.
\VS{16}I
will scatter
them
also
among
the nations,
whom neither
they
nor
their fathers
have known.
I
will
send
the sword
after
them, until
I
have consumed
them.”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Yahweh
of Armies says,
\par }{\Q “Consider,
and call
for
the mourning women,
that
they
may
come.
\par }{\QB Send
for
the skillful women,
that
they
may
come.
\par }{\Q \VS{18}Let
them
make haste
\par }{\QB and take
up
a
wailing
for
us,
\par }{\Q that
our eyes
may run
down
with tears
\par }{\QB and
our eyelids gush
out
with waters.
\par }{\Q \VS{19}For
a voice
of
wailing
is
heard out
of Zion,
\par }{\QB ‘How
we
are ruined!
\par }{\Q We
are greatly confounded
\par }{\QB because
we
have forsaken
the land,
\par }{\QB because
they
have cast
down
our dwellings.’ ”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{20}Yet hear Yahweh’s word,
you women.
\par }{\QB Let
your ear receive
the word
of
his mouth.
\par }{\Q Teach
your daughters wailing.
\par }{\QB Everyone teach
her neighbor
a lamentation.
\par }{\Q \VS{21}For
death
has
come
up
into
our windows.
\par }{\QB It
has entered
into
our palaces
\par }{\Q to cut
off
the children
from
outside,
\par }{\QB and
the young
men
from
the streets.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}Speak, “Yahweh
says,
\par }{\Q “ ‘The dead bodies
of
men
will fall
as dung
on
the open field,
\par }{\QB and
as
the handful after
the harvester.
\par }{\QB No
one
will gather
them.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{23}Yahweh
says,
\par }{\Q “Don’t let
the
wise man glory
in
his wisdom.
\par }{\QB Don’t let
the mighty man glory
in
his
might.
\par }{\QB Don’t let
the rich man glory
in
his riches.
\par }{\Q \VS{24}But
let
him
who glories glory
in
this,
\par }{\QB that
he
has understanding,
and knows
me,
\par }{\Q that
I
am
Yahweh
who exercises loving kindness, justice,
and righteousness
in
the earth,
\par }{\QB for
I delight
in
these
things,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“Behold,
the days come,” says Yahweh, “that
I
will punish
all
those
who
are circumcised
only
in
their flesh:
\VS{26}Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hear
the
word
which
Yahweh
speaks
to
you,
house
of
Israel!
\VS{2}Yahweh
says,
\par }{\Q “Don’t
learn
the
way
of
the
nations,
\par }{\QB and
don’t
be
dismayed
at
the
signs
of
the
sky;
\par }{\QB for
the
nations
are
dismayed
at
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{3}For
the
customs
of
the
peoples
are
vanity;
\par }{\QB for
one
cuts
a
tree
out
of
the
forest,
\par }{\QB the
work
of
the
hands
of
the workman
with
the ax.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}They deck
it
with
silver
and
with
gold.
\par }{\QB They
fasten
it
with
nails
and
with
hammers,
\par }{\QB so
that
it
can’t move.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}They
are
like
a
palm
tree,
of turned
work,
\par }{\QB and
don’t
speak.
\par }{\Q They
must
be
carried,
\par }{\QB because
they
can’t move.
\par }{\Q Don’t
be
afraid
of
them;
\par }{\QB for
they
can’t
do
evil,
\par }{\QB neither
is
it
in
them
to
do
good.”
\par }{\Q \VS{6}There
is
no
one
like
you,
Yahweh.
\par }{\QB You
are
great,
\par }{\QB and
your
name
is
great
in
might.
\par }{\Q \VS{7}Who shouldn’t
fear
you,
\par }{\QB King
of
the
nations?
\par }{\QB For
it belongs
to
you.
\par }{\Q Because
among
all
the
wise
men
of
the
nations,
\par }{\QB and
in
all
their
royal estate,
\par }{\QB there
is
no
one
like
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}But
they are
together brutish
and
foolish,
\par }{\QB instructed
by
idols!
\par }{\QB It
is just
wood.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}There
is
silver
beaten
into
plates, which
is
brought
from
Tarshish,
\par }{\QB and
gold
from
Uphaz,
\par }{\QB the
work
of
the
engraver
and
of
the
hands
of
the
goldsmith.
\par }{\Q Their
clothing
is
blue
and
purple.
\par }{\QB They
are
all
the
work
of
skillful
men.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}But
Yahweh
is
the
true
God.
\par }{\QB He
is
the
living
God,
\par }{\QB and
an
everlasting
King.
\par }{\Q At
his
wrath,
the
earth trembles.
\par }{\QB The
nations aren’t able
to withstand
his
indignation.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“You shall
say
this
to
them: ‘The
gods
that have
not
made
the
heavens
and
the
earth
will
perish
from
the
earth,
and
from
under
the
heavens.’ ”
\par }{\Q \VS{12}God
has
made
the
earth
by
his
power.
\par }{\QB He
has
established
the
world
by
his
wisdom,
\par }{\QB and
by
his
understanding
has
he
stretched
out
the
heavens.
\par }{\Q \VS{13}When
he
utters
his
voice,
\par }{\QB the
waters
in
the
heavens
roar,
\par }{\QB and
he
causes
the vapors
to
ascend
from
the ends
of
the
earth.
\par }{\Q He
makes
lightnings
for
the
rain,
\par }{\QB and
brings
the
wind
out
of
his
treasuries.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}Every
man
has
become brutish
and
without
knowledge.
\par }{\QB Every
goldsmith
is disappointed
by
his engraved
image;
\par }{\Q for
his molten
image
is
falsehood,
\par }{\QB and
there
is
no
breath
in
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{15}They
are
vanity,
a
work
of
delusion.
\par }{\QB In
the
time
of
their visitation
they
will
perish.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}The
portion
of
Jacob
is
not
like
these;
\par }{\QB for
he
is
the
maker
of
all
things;
\par }{\Q and
Israel
is
the
tribe
of
his
inheritance.
\par }{\QB Yahweh
of
Armies
is
his
name.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}Gather
up
your wares
out
of
the
land,
\par }{\QB you
who
live
under
siege.
\par }{\Q \VS{18}For
Yahweh
says,
\par }{\QB “Behold,
I
will sling
out
the
inhabitants
of
the
land
at
this
time,
\par }{\QB and
will distress
them,
that
they
may feel
it.”
\par }{\Q \VS{19}Woe
is
me
because
of
my
injury!
\par }{\QB My
wound
is serious;
\par }{\Q but
I
said,
\par }{\QB “Truly
this
is
my
grief,
and
I
must
bear
it.”
\par }{\Q \VS{20}My
tent
has
been
destroyed,
\par }{\QB and
all
my
cords
are
broken.
\par }{\Q My
children
have
gone
away
from
me,
and
they
are
no
more.
\par }{\QB There
is
no
one
to
spread
my
tent
any
more,
\par }{\QB to
set
up
my
curtains.
\par }{\Q \VS{21}For
the
shepherds
have become brutish,
\par }{\QB and
have
not
inquired
of
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q Therefore
they
have
not prospered,
\par }{\QB and
all
their flocks
have
scattered.
\par }{\Q \VS{22}The
voice
of
news,
behold,
it
comes,
\par }{\QB and
a
great
commotion
out
of
the
north
country,
\par }{\Q to
make
the
cities
of
Judah
a
desolation,
\par }{\QB a
dwelling
place
of
jackals.
\par }{\Q \VS{23}Yahweh,
I
know
that
the
way
of
man
is
not
in
himself.
\par }{\QB It
is
not
in
man
who
walks
to
direct
his
steps.
\par }{\Q \VS{24}Yahweh,
correct
me,
but gently;
\par }{\QB not
in
your
anger,
\par }{\QB lest
you
reduce
me
to
nothing.
\par }{\Q \VS{25}Pour
out
your
wrath
on
the
nations
that
don’t
know
you,
\par }{\QB and
on
the
families
that
don’t
call
on
your
name;
\par }{\Q for
they
have
devoured
Jacob.
\par }{\QB Yes,
they
have
devoured
him,
consumed
him,
\par }{\QB and
have
laid
waste
his habitation.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
came
to
Jeremiah
from
Yahweh,
saying,
\VS{2}“Hear
the
words
of
this
covenant,
and
speak
to
the
men
of
Judah,
and
to
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem;
\VS{3}and
say
to
them,
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel
says: ‘Cursed
is
the
man
who
doesn’t
hear
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,
out
of
the
iron
furnace,’
saying, ‘Obey
my
voice
and
do
them, according
to
all
which
I
command
you;
so
you
shall
be
my
people,
and
I
will
be
your
God;
\VS{5}that
I
may
establish
the
oath
which
I
swore
to
your
fathers,
to
give
them
a
land
flowing
with
milk
and
honey,’
as
it
is
today.”
\par }{\PP Then
I
answered,
and
said, “Amen,
Yahweh.”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Yahweh
said
to
me, “Proclaim
all
these
words
in
the
cities
of
Judah,
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem,
saying, ‘Hear
the
words
of
this
covenant,
and
do
them.
\VS{7}For
I earnestly protested
to
your
fathers
in
the
day
that
I
brought
them
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
even
to
this
day,
rising
early
and protesting,
saying, “Obey
my
voice.”
\VS{8}Yet
they
didn’t
obey,
nor
turn
their
ear,
but
everyone walked
in
the
stubbornness
of
their
evil
heart.
Therefore
I
brought
on
them
all
the
words
of
this
covenant,
which
I
commanded
them
to
do,
but
they
didn’t
do
them.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Yahweh
said
to
me, “A
conspiracy
is
found
among
the
men
of
Judah,
and
among
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{10}They
have
turned
back
to
the
iniquities
of
their
forefathers,
who
refused
to
hear
my
words.
They
have
gone
after
other
gods
to
serve
them.
The
house
of
Israel
and
the
house
of
Judah
have
broken
my
covenant
which
I
made
with
their
fathers.
\VS{11}Therefore
Yahweh
says, ‘Behold,
I
will
bring
evil
on
them
which
they
will
not
be
able
to
escape;
and
they
will
cry
to
me,
but
I
will
not
listen
to
them.
\VS{12}Then
the
cities
of
Judah
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
will
go
and
cry
to
the
gods
to
which
they
offer
incense,
but
they
will
not
save
them
at all
in
the
time
of
their
trouble.
\VS{13}For according
to
the
number
of
your
cities
are
your
gods,
Judah;
and according
to
the
number
of
the
streets
of
Jerusalem
you
have
set
up
altars
to
the
shameful
thing,
even
altars
to
burn
incense
to
Baal.’
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“Therefore
don’t
pray
for
this
people.
Don’t
lift
up
cry
or
prayer
for
them;
for
I
will
not
hear
them
in
the
time
that
they
cry
to
me
because
of
their
trouble.
\par }{\Q \VS{15}What
has
my
beloved
to
do
in
my
house,
\par }{\QB since
she
has
behaved lewdly
with
many,
\par }{\QB and
the
holy
flesh
has
passed
from
you?
\par }{\Q When
you
do
evil,
\par }{\QB then
you
rejoice.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{16}Yahweh
called
your
name, “A
green
olive
tree,
\par }{\QB beautiful
with goodly
fruit.”
\par }{\Q With
the
noise
of
a
great roar
he
has
kindled
fire
on
it,
\par }{\QB and
its
branches
are broken.
\par }{\MM \VS{17}For
Yahweh
of
Armies,
who
planted
you,
has
pronounced
evil
against
you,
because
of
the
evil
of
the
house
of
Israel
and
of
the
house
of
Judah,
which
they
have
done
to
themselves
in
provoking
me
to
anger
by
offering
incense
to
Baal.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Yahweh gave
me
knowledge
of
it,
and
I
knew
it.
Then
you
showed
me
their
doings.
\VS{19}But
I
was
like
a gentle
lamb
that
is
led
to
the
slaughter.
I
didn’t
know
that
they
had
devised
plans
against
me, saying,
\par }{\Q “Let’s
destroy
the
tree
with
its
fruit,
\par }{\QB and let’s
cut
him
off
from
the
land
of
the
living,
\par }{\QB that
his
name
may
be
no
more
remembered.”
\par }{\Q \VS{20}But,
Yahweh
of
Armies,
who
judges
righteously,
\par }{\QB who
tests
the
heart
and
the
mind,
\par }{\Q I
will
see
your
vengeance
on
them;
\par }{\QB for
to
you
I
have
revealed
my
cause.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}“Therefore
Yahweh
says
concerning
the
men
of
Anathoth,
who
seek
your
life,
saying, ‘You
shall
not
prophesy
in
Yahweh’s
name,
that
you
not
die
by
our hand’—
\VS{22}therefore
Yahweh
of
Armies
says, ‘Behold,
I
will
punish
them.
The
young
men
will
die
by
the
sword.
Their
sons
and
their
daughters
will
die
by
famine.
\VS{23}There
will
be
no
remnant
to
them,
for
I
will
bring
evil
on
the
men
of
Anathoth,
even
the
year
of
their visitation.’ ”

\par }\PoetryChap{12}{\Q \VerseOne{1}You
are
righteous,
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB when
I
contend
with
you;
\par }{\Q yet
I
would
like
to
plead
a
case
with
you.
\par }{\QB Why
does
the
way
of
the
wicked
prosper?
\par }{\QB Why
are
they
all
at
ease
who
deal
very
treacherously?
\par }{\Q \VS{2}You
have
planted
them.
Yes,
they
have
taken
root.
\par }{\QB They grow.
Yes,
they
produce
fruit.
\par }{\Q You
are
near
in
their
mouth,
\par }{\QB and
far
from
their
heart.
\par }{\Q \VS{3}But
you,
Yahweh,
know
me.
\par }{\QB You
see
me,
and
test
my
heart
toward
you.
\par }{\Q Pull
them
out
like
sheep
for
the
slaughter,
\par }{\QB and
prepare
them
for
the
day
of
slaughter.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}How
long
will
the
land
mourn,
\par }{\QB and
the
herbs
of
the
whole
country
wither?
\par }{\Q Because
of
the
wickedness
of
those
who
dwell therein,
\par }{\QB the
animals
and
birds
are consumed;
\par }{\Q because
they
said,
\par }{\QB “He
won’t
see
our
latter
end.”
\par }{\Q \VS{5}“If
you
have
run
with
the
footmen,
\par }{\QB and
they
have
wearied
you,
\par }{\QB then
how
can
you contend
with
horses?
\par }{\Q Though
in
a
land
of
peace
you
are
secure,
\par }{\QB yet
how
will
you
do
in
the
pride
of
the
Jordan?
\par }{\Q \VS{6}For
even
your
brothers,
and
the
house
of
your
father,
\par }{\QB even
they
have
dealt
treacherously
with
you!
\par }{\QB Even
they
have
cried
aloud
after
you!
\par }{\Q Don’t
believe
them,
\par }{\QB though
they
speak beautiful words
to
you.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{7}“I
have
forsaken
my
house.
\par }{\QB I
have
cast
off
my
heritage.
\par }{\QB I
have
given
the dearly
beloved
of
my
soul
into
the
hand
of
her
enemies.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}My
heritage
has
become
to
me
as
a
lion
in
the
forest.
\par }{\QB She
has
uttered
her
voice
against
me.
\par }{\QB Therefore
I
have
hated
her.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}Is
my
heritage
to
me
as
a
speckled
bird
of
prey?
\par }{\QB Are
the
birds
of
prey
against
her
all
around?
\par }{\Q Go,
assemble
all
the
animals
of
the
field.
\par }{\QB Bring
them
to devour.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}Many
shepherds
have
destroyed
my
vineyard.
\par }{\QB They
have
trodden
my
portion under foot.
\par }{\QB They
have
made
my
pleasant
portion
a
desolate
wilderness.
\par }{\Q \VS{11}They
have
made
it
a
desolation.
\par }{\QB It
mourns
to
me, being
desolate.
\par }{\Q The
whole
land
is
made
desolate,
\par }{\QB because
no
one
cares.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}Destroyers
have
come
on
all
the
bare
heights
in
the
wilderness;
\par }{\QB for
the
sword
of
Yahweh
devours
from
the
one
end
of
the
land
even
to
the
other
end
of
the
land.
\par }{\QB No
flesh
has
peace.
\par }{\Q \VS{13}They
have
sown
wheat,
\par }{\QB and
have reaped
thorns.
\par }{\Q They
have exhausted themselves,
\par }{\QB and
profit
nothing.
\par }{\Q You
will
be
ashamed
of
your fruits,
\par }{\QB because
of
Yahweh’s
fierce
anger.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{14}Yahweh
says, “Concerning
all
my
evil
neighbors,
who
touch
the
inheritance
which
I
have
caused
my
people
Israel
to
inherit:
Behold,
I
will
pluck
them
up
from
off
their
land,
and
will
pluck
up
the
house
of
Judah
from
among
them.
\VS{15}It
will
happen
that
after
I
have
plucked
them
up,
I
will
return
and
have
compassion
on
them.
I
will
bring
them
again,
every
man
to
his
heritage,
and
every
man
to
his
land.
\VS{16}It
will
happen,
if
they
will diligently
learn
the
ways
of
my
people,
to
swear
by
my
name, ‘As
Yahweh
lives;’
even
as
they
taught
my
people
to
swear
by
Baal,
then
they
will
be
built
up
in
the
middle
of
my
people.
\VS{17}But
if
they
will
not
hear,
then
I
will
pluck
up
that
nation, plucking
up
and
destroying
it,”
says
Yahweh.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Yahweh
said
to
me, “Go,
and
buy
yourself
a
linen
belt,
and
put
it
on
your
waist,
and
don’t
put
it
in
water.”
\par }{\PP \VS{2}So
I
bought
a
belt
according
to
Yahweh’s
word,
and
put
it
on
my
waist.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Yahweh’s
word
came
to
me
the
second
time,
saying,
\VS{4}“Take
the
belt
that
you
have
bought,
which
is
on
your
waist,
and
arise,
go
to
the
Euphrates,
and
hide
it
there
in
a cleft
of
the
rock.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}So
I went
and
hid
it
by
the
Euphrates,
as
Yahweh
commanded
me.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}After
many
days,
Yahweh
said
to
me, “Arise,
go
to
the
Euphrates,
and
take
the
belt
from
there,
which
I
commanded
you
to
hide
there.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Then
I went
to
the
Euphrates,
and
dug,
and
took
the
belt
from
the
place
where
I
had
hidden
it;
and
behold,
the
belt
was
ruined.
It
was profitable
for
nothing.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Then
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{9}“Yahweh
says, ‘In
this
way
I
will
ruin
the
pride
of
Judah,
and
the
great
pride
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{10}This
evil
people,
who
refuse
to
hear
my
words,
who
walk
in
the
stubbornness
of
their
heart,
and
have
gone
after
other
gods
to
serve
them
and
to
worship
them,
will
even
be
as
this
belt,
which
is profitable
for
nothing.
\VS{11}For
as
the
belt
clings
to
the
waist
of
a
man,
so
I
have
caused
the
whole
house
of
Israel
and
the
whole
house
of
Judah
to
cling
to
me,’
says
Yahweh; ‘that
they
may
be
to
me
for
a
people,
for
a
name,
for
praise,
and
for
glory;
but
they
would
not
hear.’
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“Therefore
you
shall
speak
to
them
this
word: ‘Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel
says, “Every container
should
be
filled
with
wine.” ’
They
will
tell
you, ‘Do
we
not
certainly
know
that
every container
should
be
filled
with
wine?’
\VS{13}Then
tell
them, ‘Yahweh
says, “Behold,
I
will
fill
all
the
inhabitants
of
this
land,
even
the
kings
who
sit
on
David’s
throne,
the
priests,
the
prophets,
and
all
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
with
drunkenness.
\VS{14}I
will dash
them
one
against
another,
even
the
fathers
and
the
sons
together,”
says
Yahweh: “I
will
not
pity,
spare,
or
have
compassion,
that
I
should
not
destroy
them.” ’ ”
\par }{\Q \VS{15}Hear,
and
give
ear.
\par }{\QB Don’t
be
proud,
\par }{\QB for
Yahweh
has
spoken.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}Give
glory
to
Yahweh
your
God,
\par }{\QB before
he
causes
darkness,
\par }{\QB and
before
your
feet
stumble
on
the
dark
mountains,
\par }{\Q and
while
you
look
for
light,
\par }{\QB he
turns
it
into
the
shadow
of
death,
\par }{\QB and
makes
it
deep
darkness.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}But
if
you
will
not
hear
it,
\par }{\QB my
soul
will
weep
in
secret
for
your
pride.
\par }{\Q My
eye
will
weep
bitterly,
\par }{\QB and
run
down
with
tears,
\par }{\QB because
Yahweh’s
flock
has
been
taken
captive.
\par }{\Q \VS{18}Say
to
the
king
and
to
the
queen
mother,
\par }{\QB “Humble yourselves.
\par }{\Q Sit
down,
for
your
crowns
have
come
down,
\par }{\QB even
the
crown
of
your
glory.
\par }{\Q \VS{19}The
cities
of
the
South
are
shut
up,
\par }{\QB and
there
is
no
one
to
open
them.
\par }{\Q Judah
is
carried
away
captive:
all
of
them.
\par }{\QB They
are
wholly
carried
away
captive.
\par }{\Q \VS{20}Lift
up
your
eyes,
\par }{\QB and
see those who
come
from
the
north.
\par }{\Q Where
is
the
flock
that
was
given
to
you,
\par }{\QB your
beautiful
flock?
\par }{\Q \VS{21}What
will
you
say
when
he sets
over
you
as
head
those whom
you
have
yourself
taught
to
be friends
to
you?
\par }{\QB Won’t sorrows
take
hold
of
you,
as
of
a
woman
in travail?
\par }{\Q \VS{22}If
you
say
in
your
heart,
\par }{\QB “Why
have
these
things
come
on
me?”
\par }{\Q Your
skirts
are
uncovered
because
of
the
greatness
of
your
iniquity,
\par }{\QB and
your
heels suffer
violence.
\par }{\Q \VS{23}Can
the
Ethiopian
change
his
skin,
\par }{\QB or
the
leopard
his
spots?
\par }{\Q Then
may
you
also
do
good,
\par }{\QB who
are
accustomed
to
do
evil.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{24}“Therefore I
will
scatter
them
\par }{\QB as
the
stubble
that
passes
away
\par }{\QB by
the
wind
of
the
wilderness.
\par }{\Q \VS{25}This
is
your
lot,
\par }{\QB the
portion
measured
to
you
from
me,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\Q “because
you
have
forgotten
me,
\par }{\QB and
trusted
in
falsehood.”
\par }{\Q \VS{26}Therefore
I
will
also uncover
your
skirts
on
your
face,
\par }{\QB and
your
shame
will
appear.
\par }{\Q \VS{27}I
have
seen
your
abominations,
even
your
adulteries
\par }{\QB and
your
neighing,
the
lewdness
of
your
prostitution,
\par }{\QB on
the
hills
in
the
field.
\par }{\Q Woe
to
you,
Jerusalem!
\par }{\QB You
will
not
be made
clean.
\par }{\QB How
long
will
it
yet
be?”

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}This
is
Yahweh’s
word
that
came
to
Jeremiah
concerning
the
drought:
\par }{\Q \VS{2}“Judah
mourns,
\par }{\QB and
its
gates
languish.
\par }{\Q They
sit
in
black
on
the
ground.
\par }{\QB The
cry
of
Jerusalem
goes
up.
\par }{\Q \VS{3}Their
nobles
send
their
little
ones
to
the
waters.
\par }{\QB They
come
to
the
cisterns,
\par }{\QB and
find
no
water.
\par }{\Q They
return
with
their
vessels
empty.
\par }{\QB They
are
disappointed
and
confounded,
\par }{\QB and
cover
their
heads.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}Because
of
the
ground which
is
cracked,
\par }{\QB because
no
rain
has
been
in
the
land,
\par }{\Q the
plowmen
are
disappointed.
\par }{\QB They
cover
their
heads.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}Yes,
the
doe
in
the
field
also calves
and forsakes
her young,
\par }{\QB because
there
is
no
grass.
\par }{\Q \VS{6}The
wild
donkeys
stand
on
the
bare
heights.
\par }{\QB They pant
for
air
like
jackals.
\par }{\Q Their
eyes
fail,
\par }{\QB because
there
is
no
vegetation.
\par }{\Q \VS{7}Though
our
iniquities
testify
against
us,
\par }{\QB work
for
your
name’s
sake,
Yahweh;
\par }{\Q for
our rebellions
are
many.
\par }{\QB We
have
sinned
against
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}You hope
of
Israel,
\par }{\QB its
Savior
in
the
time
of
trouble,
\par }{\Q why
should
you
be
as
a
foreigner
in
the
land,
\par }{\QB and
as
a wayfaring man
who
turns
aside
to
stay
for
a night?
\par }{\Q \VS{9}Why
should
you
be
like
a scared
man,
\par }{\QB as
a
mighty
man
who
can’t
save?
\par }{\Q Yet
you,
Yahweh,
are
in
the
middle
of
us,
\par }{\QB and
we
are
called
by
your
name.
\par }{\QB Don’t
leave
us.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Yahweh
says
to
this
people:
\par }{\Q “Even
so
they
have
loved
to
wander.
\par }{\QB They
have
not
restrained
their
feet.
\par }{\Q Therefore
Yahweh
does
not
accept
them.
\par }{\QB Now
he
will
remember
their
iniquity,
\par }{\QB and
punish
them
for
their
sins.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Yahweh
said
to
me, “Don’t
pray
for
this
people
for
their
good.
\VS{12}When
they
fast,
I
will
not
hear
their
cry;
and
when
they
offer
burnt
offering
and
meal
offering,
I
will
not
accept
them;
but
I
will
consume
them
by
the
sword,
by
famine,
and
by
pestilence.”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Then
I
said, “Ah,
Lord Yahweh!
Behold,
the
prophets
tell
them, ‘You
will
not
see
the
sword,
neither
will
you
have
famine;
but
I
will
give
you assured
peace
in
this
place.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Then
Yahweh
said
to
me, “The
prophets
prophesy
lies
in
my
name.
I
didn’t
send
them.
I
didn’t
command
them.
I
didn’t
speak
to
them.
They
prophesy
to
you
a
lying
vision,
divination,
and
a thing
of
nothing,
and
the
deceit
of
their own
heart.
\VS{15}Therefore
Yahweh
says
concerning
the
prophets
who
prophesy
in
my
name,
but
I
didn’t
send
them,
yet
they
say, ‘Sword
and
famine
will
not
be
in
this
land.’
Those
prophets
will
be
consumed
by
sword
and
famine.
\VS{16}The
people
to
whom
they
prophesy
will
be
cast
out
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem
because
of
the
famine
and
the
sword.
They
will
have
no
one
to
bury
them—them,
their
wives,
their
sons,
or
their
daughters,
for
I
will
pour
their
wickedness
on
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}“You
shall
say
this
word
to
them:
\par }{\Q “ ‘Let
my
eyes
run
down
with
tears
night
and
day,
\par }{\QB and
let
them
not
cease;
\par }{\Q for
the
virgin
daughter
of
my
people
is
broken
with
a
great breach,
\par }{\QB with
a
very grievous
wound.
\par }{\Q \VS{18}If
I
go
out
into
the
field,
\par }{\QB then
behold,
the
slain
with
the
sword!
\par }{\Q If
I
enter
into
the
city,
\par }{\QB then
behold,
those
who
are sick
with
famine!
\par }{\Q For
both
the
prophet
and
the
priest
go
about
in
the
land,
\par }{\QB and
have
no
knowledge.’ ”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{19}Have
you utterly
rejected
Judah?
\par }{\QB Has
your
soul
loathed
Zion?
\par }{\Q Why
have
you
struck
us,
and
there
is
no
healing
for
us?
\par }{\QB We
looked
for
peace,
but
no
good came;
\par }{\QB and
for
a
time
of
healing,
and
behold, dismay!
\par }{\Q \VS{20}We
acknowledge,
Yahweh,
our
wickedness,
\par }{\QB and
the
iniquity
of
our
fathers;
\par }{\QB for
we
have
sinned
against
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{21}Do
not abhor
us,
for
your
name’s
sake.
\par }{\QB Do
not disgrace
the
throne
of
your
glory.
\par }{\QB Remember,
and
don’t
break
your
covenant
with
us.
\par }{\Q \VS{22}Are
there
any
among
the
vanities
of
the
nations
that
can
cause
rain?
\par }{\QB Or
can
the
sky
give
showers?
\par }{\QB Aren’t
you
he,
Yahweh
our
God?
\par }{\Q Therefore
we
will
wait
for
you;
\par }{\QB for
you
have
made
all
these
things.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Yahweh
said
to
me, “Though
Moses
and
Samuel
stood
before
me,
yet
my
mind
would
not turn
toward
this
people.
Cast
them
out
of
my
sight,
and
let
them
go
out!
\VS{2}It
will
happen
when
they
ask
you, ‘Where
shall
we
go
out?’
then
you
shall
tell
them, ‘Yahweh
says:
\par }{\Q “Such
as
are
for
death,
to
death;
\par }{\Q such
as
are
for
the
sword,
to
the
sword;
\par }{\Q such
as
are
for
the
famine,
to
the
famine;
\par }{\Q and
such
as
are
for
captivity,
to
captivity.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{3}“I
will
appoint
over
them
four
kinds,”
says
Yahweh: “the
sword
to
kill,
the
dogs
to tear,
the
birds
of
the
sky,
and
the
animals
of
the
earth,
to
devour
and
to
destroy.
\VS{4}I
will
cause
them
to
be tossed back
and
forth
among
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth,
because
of
Manasseh,
the
son
of
Hezekiah,
king
of
Judah,
for
that
which
he
did
in
Jerusalem.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}For
who
will
have
pity
on
you,
Jerusalem?
\par }{\QB Who
will
mourn
you?
\par }{\QB Who
will come
to
ask
of
your
welfare?
\par }{\Q \VS{6}You
have rejected
me,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\QB “You
have gone
backward.
\par }{\Q Therefore
I
have
stretched
out
my
hand
against
you
\par }{\QB and
destroyed
you.
\par }{\QB I
am
weary
of
showing
compassion.
\par }{\Q \VS{7}I
have
winnowed
them
with
a fan
in
the
gates
of
the
land.
\par }{\QB I
have
bereaved
them
of
children.
\par }{\Q I
have
destroyed
my
people.
\par }{\QB They
didn’t
return
from
their
ways.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}Their
widows
are increased
more
than
the
sand
of
the
seas.
\par }{\QB I
have
brought
on
them
against
the
mother
of
the
young
men
a
destroyer
at noonday.
\par }{\QB I
have caused anguish
and terrors
to
fall
on
her
suddenly.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}She
who
has
borne
seven
languishes.
\par }{\QB She
has
given
up
the
spirit.
\par }{\Q Her
sun
has
gone
down
while
it
was
yet
day.
\par }{\QB She
has
been
disappointed
and
confounded.
\par }{\QB I
will
deliver
their residue
to
the
sword
before
their
enemies,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{10}Woe
is
me,
my
mother,
that
you
have
borne
me,
a
man
of
strife,
\par }{\QB and
a
man
of
contention
to
the
whole
earth!
\par }{\Q I
have
not
lent,
neither
have
men
lent
to
me;
\par }{\QB yet
every
one
of
them
curses
me.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Yahweh
said,
\par }{\Q “Most
certainly
I
will strengthen
you
for
good.
\par }{\QB Most
certainly
I
will cause
the
enemy
to
make
supplication
to
you
in
the
time
of
evil
\par }{\QB and
in
the
time
of affliction.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}Can one break
iron,
\par }{\QB even
iron from
the
north,
and
bronze?
\par }{\Q \VS{13}I
will
give
your
substance
and
your
treasures
for
a
plunder
without
price,
\par }{\QB and
that
for
all
your
sins,
\par }{\QB even
in
all
your
borders.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}I
will
make
them
to
pass
with
your
enemies
into
a
land
which
you
don’t
know;
\par }{\QB for
a
fire
is
kindled
in
my
anger,
\par }{\QB which
will
burn
on
you.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{15}Yahweh,
you
know.
\par }{\QB Remember
me,
visit
me,
\par }{\QB and
avenge
me
of
my
persecutors.
\par }{\Q You
are
patient,
so
don’t
take
me
away.
\par }{\QB Know
that
for
your
sake
I
have suffered
reproach.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}Your
words
were
found,
\par }{\QB and
I
ate
them.
\par }{\Q Your
words
were
to
me
a
joy
and
the
rejoicing
of
my
heart,
\par }{\QB for
I
am
called
by
your
name,
Yahweh,
God
of
Armies.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}I
didn’t
sit
in
the
assembly
of
those
who
make merry
and
rejoice.
\par }{\QB I
sat
alone
because
of
your
hand,
\par }{\QB for
you
have
filled
me
with
indignation.
\par }{\Q \VS{18}Why
is
my
pain
perpetual,
\par }{\QB and
my
wound
incurable,
\par }{\QB which
refuses
to
be
healed?
\par }{\Q Will
you
indeed
be
to
me
as
a deceitful brook,
\par }{\QB like
waters
that
fail?
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Therefore
Yahweh
says,
\par }{\Q “If
you
return,
then
I
will
bring
you
again,
\par }{\QB that
you
may
stand
before
me;
\par }{\Q and
if
you
take
out
the
precious
from
the vile,
\par }{\QB you
will
be
as
my
mouth.
\par }{\Q They
will
return
to
you,
\par }{\QB but
you
will
not
return
to
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{20}I
will
make
you
to
this
people
a
fortified
bronze
wall.
\par }{\QB They
will
fight
against
you,
\par }{\QB but
they
will
not
prevail
against
you;
\par }{\Q for
I
am
with
you
to
save
you
\par }{\QB and
to
deliver
you,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{21}“I
will
deliver
you
out
of
the
hand
of
the
wicked,
\par }{\QB and
I
will
redeem
you
out
of
the
hand
of
the
terrible.”

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{2}“You
shall
not
take
a
wife,
neither
shall
you
have
sons
or
daughters,
in
this
place.”
\VS{3}For
Yahweh
says
concerning
the
sons
and
concerning
the
daughters
who
are
born
in
this
place,
and
concerning
their
mothers
who
bore
them,
and
concerning
their
fathers
who
became
their
father
in
this
land:
\VS{4}“They
will
die grievous deaths.
They
will
not
be
lamented,
neither
will
they
be
buried.
They
will
be
as
dung
on
the
surface
of
the
ground.
They
will
be
consumed
by
the
sword
and
by
famine.
Their
dead
bodies
will
be
food
for
the
birds
of
the
sky
and
for
the
animals
of
the
earth.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}For
Yahweh
says, “Don’t
enter
into
the
house
of
mourning.
Don’t
go
to
lament.
Don’t bemoan
them,
for
I
have
taken
away
my
peace
from
this
people,”
says
Yahweh, “even loving
kindness
and tender
mercies.
\VS{6}Both
great
and
small
will
die
in
this
land.
They
will
not
be
buried.
Men
won’t
lament
for
them,
cut
themselves,
or
make
themselves
bald
for
them.
\VS{7}Men
won’t
break bread
for
them
in
mourning,
to
comfort
them
for
the
dead. Men
won’t
give
them
the
cup
of
consolation
to
drink
for
their
father
or
for
their
mother.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“You
shall
not
go
into
the
house
of
feasting
to
sit
with
them,
to
eat
and
to
drink.”
\VS{9}For
Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel
says: “Behold,
I
will cause
to
cease
out
of
this
place,
before
your
eyes
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}It
will
happen,
when
you
tell
this
people
all
these
words,
and
they
ask
you, ‘Why
has
Yahweh
pronounced
all
this
great
evil
against
us?’
or ‘What
is
our
iniquity?’
or ‘What
is
our
sin
that
we
have
committed
against
Yahweh
our
God?’
\VS{11}then
you
shall
tell
them, ‘Because
your
fathers
have forsaken
me,’
says
Yahweh, ‘and
have walked
after
other
gods,
have
served
them,
have
worshiped
them,
have forsaken
me,
and
have
not
kept
my
law.
\VS{12}You
have
done
evil more
than
your
fathers,
for
behold,
you
each
walk
after
the
stubbornness
of
his
evil
heart,
so
that
you don’t
listen
to
me.
\VS{13}Therefore
I
will
cast
you
out
of
this
land
into
the
land
that
you
have
not
known,
neither
you
nor
your
fathers.
There
you
will
serve
other
gods
day
and
night,
for
I
will
show
you
no
favor.’
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“Therefore
behold,
the
days
come,”
says
Yahweh, “that
it
will
no
more
be
said, ‘As
Yahweh
lives,
who
brought
up
the
children
of
Israel
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt;’
\VS{15}but, ‘As
Yahweh
lives,
who
brought
up
the
children
of
Israel
from
the
land
of
the
north,
and
from
all
the
countries
where
he
had
driven
them.’
I
will
bring
them
again
into
their
land
that
I
gave
to
their
fathers.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}“Behold,
I
will
send
for
many
fishermen,”
says
Yahweh, “and
they
will
fish
them
up.
Afterward
I
will
send
for
many hunters,
and
they
will
hunt
them
from
every
mountain,
from
every
hill,
and
out
of
the
clefts
of
the
rocks.
\VS{17}For
my
eyes
are
on
all
their
ways.
They
are
not
hidden
from
my
face.
Their
iniquity
isn’t
concealed
from
my
eyes.
\VS{18}First
I
will recompense
their
iniquity
and
their
sin
double,
because
they
have polluted
my
land
with
the
carcasses
of
their
detestable
things,
and
have
filled
my
inheritance
with
their
abominations.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{19}Yahweh,
my
strength,
my
stronghold,
\par }{\QB and
my
refuge
in
the
day
of affliction,
\par }{\Q the
nations
will
come
to
you
from
the
ends
of
the
earth,
\par }{\QB and
will
say,
\par }{\Q “Our
fathers
have
inherited
nothing
but
lies,
\par }{\QB vanity
and
things
in
which
there
is
no
profit.
\par }{\Q \VS{20}Should
a
man
make
to
himself
gods
\par }{\QB which
yet
are
no
gods?”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{21}“Therefore
behold,
I
will cause
them
to
know,
\par }{\QB this
once
I
will cause
them
to
know
my
hand
and
my
might.
\par }{\QB Then
they
will
know
that
my
name
is
Yahweh.”

\par }\PoetryChap{17}{\Q \VerseOne{1}“The
sin
of
Judah
is
written
with
a
pen
of
iron,
\par }{\QB and
with
the
point
of
a
diamond.
\par }{\Q It
is engraved
on
the
tablet
of
their
heart,
\par }{\QB and
on
the
horns
of
your
altars.
\par }{\Q \VS{2}Even
their
children
remember
their
altars
\par }{\QB and
their
Asherah poles
by
the
green
trees
on
the
high
hills.
\par }{\Q \VS{3}My mountain
in
the
field,
\par }{\QB I
will
give
your
substance
and
all
your
treasures
for
a
plunder,
\par }{\QB and
your
high
places,
because
of
sin,
throughout
all
your
borders.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}You,
even
of
yourself,
will discontinue
from
your
heritage
that
I
gave
you.
\par }{\QB I
will
cause
you
to
serve
your
enemies
in
the
land
which
you
don’t
know,
\par }{\QB for
you
have
kindled
a
fire
in
my
anger
which
will
burn
forever.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Yahweh
says:
\par }{\Q “Cursed
is
the
man
who
trusts
in
man,
\par }{\QB relies
on
strength
of
flesh,
\par }{\QB and
whose
heart departs
from
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{6}For
he
will
be
like
a
bush
in
the
desert,
\par }{\QB and
will
not
see
when
good
comes,
\par }{\Q but
will
inhabit
the parched places
in
the
wilderness,
\par }{\QB an
uninhabited
salt
land.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{7}“Blessed
is
the
man
who
trusts
in
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB and
whose
confidence
is
in
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}For
he
will
be
as
a
tree
planted
by
the
waters,
\par }{\QB who
spreads
out
its
roots
by
the
river,
\par }{\Q and
will
not
fear
when
heat
comes,
\par }{\QB but
its
leaf
will
be
green,
\par }{\Q and
will
not
be concerned
in
the
year
of
drought.
\par }{\QB It
won’t
cease
from yielding
fruit.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}The
heart
is deceitful
above
all
things
\par }{\QB and
it
is exceedingly corrupt.
\par }{\QB Who
can
know
it?
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{10}“I,
Yahweh,
search
the
mind.
\par }{\QB I
try
the
heart,
\par }{\Q even
to
give
every
man
according
to
his
ways,
\par }{\QB according
to
the
fruit
of
his
doings.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{11}As
the
partridge
that sits
on
eggs which
she
has
not
laid,
\par }{\QB so
is
he
who gets
riches,
and
not
by
right.
\par }{\Q In
the
middle
of
his
days,
they
will
leave
him.
\par }{\QB At
his
end,
he
will
be
a
fool.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}A glorious
throne, set
on
high
from
the
beginning,
\par }{\QB is
the
place
of our
sanctuary.
\par }{\Q \VS{13}Yahweh,
the hope
of
Israel,
\par }{\QB all
who
forsake
you
will
be
disappointed.
\par }{\Q Those
who depart
from
me
will
be
written
in
the
earth,
\par }{\QB because
they
have forsaken
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB the
spring
of
living
waters.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}Heal
me,
O
Yahweh,
and
I
will
be
healed.
\par }{\QB Save
me,
and
I
will
be
saved;
\par }{\QB for
you
are
my
praise.
\par }{\Q \VS{15}Behold,
they
ask
me,
\par }{\QB “Where
is
Yahweh’s
word?
\par }{\QB Let
it
be
fulfilled
now.”
\par }{\Q \VS{16}As
for
me,
I
have
not
hurried
from
being
a
shepherd
after
you.
\par }{\QB I
haven’t
desired
the
woeful
day.
You
know.
\par }{\QB That which
came
out
of
my
lips
was
before
your
face.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}Don’t
be
a
terror
to
me.
\par }{\QB You
are
my
refuge
in
the
day
of
evil.
\par }{\Q \VS{18}Let
them
be
disappointed
who
persecute
me,
\par }{\QB but
don’t
let
me
be
disappointed.
\par }{\Q Let
them
be
dismayed,
\par }{\QB but
don’t
let
me
be
dismayed.
\par }{\Q Bring
on
them
the
day
of
evil,
\par }{\QB and
destroy
them
with
double
destruction.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Yahweh
said
this
to
me: “Go
and
stand
in
the
gate
of
the
children
of
the
people,
through
which
the
kings
of
Judah
come
in
and
by
which
they
go
out,
and
in
all
the
gates
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{20}Tell
them, ‘Hear
Yahweh’s
word,
you
kings
of
Judah,
all
Judah,
and
all
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
that
enter
in
by
these
gates:
\VS{21}Yahweh
says, “Be
careful,
and
bear
no
burden
on
the
Sabbath
day,
nor
bring
it
in
by
the
gates
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{22}Don’t
carry
a
burden
out
of
your
houses
on
the
Sabbath
day.
Don’t
do
any
work,
but
make
the
Sabbath
day
holy,
as
I
commanded
your
fathers.
\VS{23}But
they
didn’t
listen.
They
didn’t
turn
their
ear,
but
made
their
neck stiff,
that
they might
not
hear,
and might
not
receive
instruction.
\VS{24}It
will
happen,
if
you
diligently
listen
to
me,”
says
Yahweh, “to
bring
in
no
burden
through
the
gates
of
this
city
on
the
Sabbath
day,
but
to
make
the
Sabbath
day
holy,
to
do
no
work therein;
\VS{25}then
there
will
enter
in
by
the
gates
of
this
city
kings
and
princes
sitting
on
David’s
throne,
riding
in
chariots
and
on
horses,
they
and
their
princes,
the
men
of
Judah
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem;
and
this
city
will
remain
forever.
\VS{26}They
will
come
from
the
cities
of
Judah,
and
from
the
places
around
Jerusalem,
from
the
land
of
Benjamin,
from
the
lowland,
from
the
hill
country,
and
from
the
South,
bringing
burnt
offerings,
sacrifices,
meal
offerings,
and
frankincense,
and
bringing
sacrifices
of
thanksgiving
to
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{27}But
if
you
will
not
listen
to
me
to
make
the
Sabbath
day
holy,
and
not
to
bear
a
burden
and
enter
in
at
the
gates
of
Jerusalem
on
the
Sabbath
day,
then
I
will
kindle
a
fire
in
its
gates,
and
it
will
devour
the
palaces
of
Jerusalem.
It
will
not
be
quenched.” ’ ”

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
from
Yahweh,
saying,
\VS{2}“Arise,
and
go
down
to
the
potter’s
house,
and
there
I
will
cause
you
to
hear
my
words.”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Then
I
went
down
to
the
potter’s
house,
and
behold,
he
was
making
something
on
the wheels.
\VS{4}When
the
vessel
that
he
made
of
the clay
was marred
in
the
hand
of
the
potter,
he
made
it
again
another
vessel,
as
seemed
good
to
the
potter
to
make
it.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Then
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{6}“House
of
Israel,
can’t
I
do
with
you
as
this
potter?”
says
Yahweh. “Behold,
as
the clay
in
the
potter’s
hand,
so
are
you
in
my
hand,
house
of
Israel.
\VS{7}At
the
instant
I
speak
concerning
a
nation,
and
concerning
a
kingdom,
to
pluck
up
and
to
break
down
and
to
destroy
it,
\VS{8}if
that
nation,
concerning
which
I
have
spoken,
turns
from
their
evil,
I
will
repent
of
the
evil
that
I
thought
to
do
to
them.
\VS{9}At
the
instant
I
speak
concerning
a
nation,
and
concerning
a
kingdom,
to
build
and
to
plant
it,
\VS{10}if
they
do
that
which
is
evil
in
my
sight,
that
they
not
obey
my
voice,
then
I
will
repent
of
the
good
with
which
I
said
I
would
benefit
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“Now
therefore,
speak
to
the
men
of
Judah,
and
to
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
saying, ‘Yahweh
says: “Behold,
I frame
evil
against
you,
and
devise
a
plan
against
you.
Everyone
return
from
his
evil
way
now,
and
amend
your
ways
and
your
doings.” ’
\VS{12}But
they
say, ‘It
is
in vain;
for
we
will walk
after
our
own
plans,
and
we
will
each
follow
the
stubbornness
of
his
evil
heart.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Therefore
Yahweh
says:
\par }{\Q “Ask
now
among
the
nations,
\par }{\QB ‘Who
has
heard
such
things?’
\par }{\QB The
virgin
of
Israel
has
done
a
very horrible
thing.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}Will
the
snow
of
Lebanon fail
from
the
rock
of
the
field?
\par }{\QB Will
the
cold
waters
that
flow
down
from afar
be dried up?
\par }{\Q \VS{15}For
my
people
have
forgotten
me.
\par }{\QB They
have
burned
incense
to
false
gods.
\par }{\Q They
have
been made
to
stumble
in
their
ways
\par }{\QB in
the
ancient
paths,
\par }{\QB to
walk
in byways,
in
a
way
not built
up,
\par }{\Q \VS{16}to
make
their
land
an astonishment,
\par }{\QB and
a
perpetual
hissing.
\par }{\Q Everyone
who
passes
by
it
will
be
astonished,
\par }{\QB and
shake
his
head.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}I
will
scatter
them
as
with
an
east
wind
before
the
enemy.
\par }{\QB I
will
show
them
the
back,
and
not
the
face,
\par }{\QB in
the
day
of
their
calamity.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Then
they
said, “Come!
Let’s
devise
plans
against
Jeremiah;
for
the
law
won’t
perish
from
the
priest,
nor
counsel
from
the
wise,
nor
the
word
from
the
prophet. Come,
and
let’s
strike
him
with
the
tongue,
and
let’s
not
give
heed
to
any
of
his
words.”
\par }{\Q \VS{19}Give
heed
to
me,
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB and
listen
to
the
voice
of those
who
contend
with
me.
\par }{\Q \VS{20}Should
evil
be
recompensed
for
good?
\par }{\QB For
they
have
dug
a
pit
for
my
soul.
\par }{\Q Remember
how
I
stood
before
you
to
speak
good
for
them,
\par }{\QB to
turn
away
your
wrath
from
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{21}Therefore
deliver
up
their
children
to
the
famine,
\par }{\QB and
give
them
over
to
the
power
of
the
sword.
\par }{\Q Let
their
wives
become childless
and
widows.
\par }{\QB Let
their
men
be
killed
\par }{\QB and
their
young
men
struck
by
the
sword
in
battle.
\par }{\Q \VS{22}Let
a
cry
be
heard
from
their
houses
\par }{\QB when
you
bring
a
troop
suddenly
on
them;
\par }{\Q for
they
have
dug
a
pit
to
take
me
\par }{\QB and
hidden
snares
for
my
feet.
\par }{\Q \VS{23}Yet,
Yahweh,
you
know
all
their
counsel
against
me
to kill
me.
\par }{\QB Don’t
forgive
their
iniquity.
\par }{\QB Don’t blot
out
their
sin
from
your
sight,
\par }{\Q Let
them
be
overthrown
before
you.
\par }{\QB Deal
with
them
in
the
time
of
your
anger.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Thus
said
Yahweh, “Go,
and
buy
a
potter’s
earthen container,
and
take
some
of
the
elders
of
the
people
and
of
the
elders
of
the
priests;
\VS{2}and
go
out
to
the
valley
of
the
son
of
Hinnom,
which
is
by
the
entry
of
the
gate Harsith,
and
proclaim
there
the
words
that
I
will
tell
you.
\VS{3}Say, ‘Hear
Yahweh’s
word,
kings
of
Judah
and
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem:
Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel
says, “Behold,
I
will
bring
evil
on
this
place,
which
whoever
hears,
his
ears
will
tingle.
\VS{4}Because
they
have forsaken
me,
and
have defiled
this
place,
and
have
burned
incense
in
it
to
other
gods
that
they
didn’t
know—they,
their
fathers,
and
the
kings
of
Judah—and
have
filled
this
place
with
the
blood
of innocents,
\VS{5}and
have
built
the
high
places
of
Baal
to
burn
their
children
in
the
fire
for
burnt
offerings
to
Baal,
which
I
didn’t
command,
nor
speak,
which
didn’t
even
enter
into
my
mind.
\VS{6}Therefore,
behold,
the
days
come,”
says
Yahweh, “that
this
place
will
no
more
be
called ‘Topheth’,
nor ‘The
Valley
of
the
son
of Hinnom’,
but ‘The
valley
of Slaughter’.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“ ‘ “I
will
make
the
counsel
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem
void
in
this
place.
I
will
cause
them
to
fall
by
the
sword
before
their
enemies,
and
by
the
hand
of
those
who
seek
their
life.
I
will
give
their
dead
bodies
to
be
food
for
the
birds
of
the
sky
and
for
the
animals
of
the
earth.
\VS{8}I
will
make
this
city
an astonishment
and
a
hissing.
Everyone
who
passes
by
it
will
be
astonished
and
hiss
because
of
all
its
plagues.
\VS{9}I
will cause
them
to
eat
the
flesh
of
their
sons
and
the
flesh
of
their
daughters.
They
will
each
eat
the
flesh
of
his
friend
in
the
siege
and
in
the
distress
with
which
their
enemies,
and
those
who
seek
their
life,
will
distress
them.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“Then
you
shall
break
the container
in
the
sight
of
the
men
who
go
with
you,
\VS{11}and
shall
tell
them, ‘Yahweh
of
Armies
says: “Even
so
I
will
break
this
people
and
this
city
as
one
breaks
a
potter’s
vessel,
that
can’t
be
made whole
again.
They
will
bury
in
Topheth until
there
is
no
place
to
bury.
\VS{12}This
is
what
I
will
do
to
this
place,”
says
Yahweh, “and
to
its
inhabitants,
even
making
this
city
as
Topheth.
\VS{13}The
houses
of
Jerusalem
and
the
houses
of
the
kings
of
Judah,
which
are
defiled,
will
be
as
the
place
of
Topheth,
even
all
the
houses
on
whose
roofs
they
have
burned
incense
to
all
the
army
of
the
sky
and
have poured
out drink offerings
to
other
gods.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Then
Jeremiah
came
from
Topheth,
where
Yahweh
had
sent
him
to
prophesy,
and
he
stood
in
the
court
of
Yahweh’s
house,
and
said
to
all
the
people:
\VS{15}“Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel
says, ‘Behold,
I
will
bring
on
this
city
and
on
all
its
towns
all
the
evil
that
I
have
pronounced
against
it,
because
they
have
made
their
neck stiff,
that
they
may
not
hear
my
words.’ ”

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Pashhur,
the
son
of
Immer
the
priest,
who
was
chief
officer
in
Yahweh’s
house,
heard
Jeremiah
prophesying
these
things.
\VS{2}Then
Pashhur
struck
Jeremiah
the
prophet
and
put
him
in
the
stocks
that
were
in
the
upper
gate
of
Benjamin,
which
was
in
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{3}On
the
next
day,
Pashhur
released
Jeremiah
out
of
the
stocks.
Then
Jeremiah
said
to
him, “Yahweh
has
not
called
your
name
Pashhur,
but Magormissabib.\FTNT{*}{{\FR 20:3 }
“Magormissabib” means “surrounded by terror”}
\VS{4}For
Yahweh
says, ‘Behold,
I
will
make
you
a
terror
to
yourself
and
to
all
your
friends.
They
will
fall
by
the
sword
of
their
enemies,
and
your
eyes
will
see
it.
I
will
give
all
Judah
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
will
carry
them
captive
to
Babylon,
and
will
kill
them
with
the
sword.
\VS{5}Moreover
I
will
give
all
the
riches
of
this
city,
and
all
its
gains,
and
all
its
precious
things, yes,
I
will
give
all
the
treasures
of
the
kings
of
Judah
into
the
hand
of
their
enemies.
They
will
make
them captives,
take
them,
and
carry
them
to
Babylon.
\VS{6}You,
Pashhur,
and
all
who
dwell
in
your
house
will
go
into
captivity.
You
will
come
to
Babylon,
and
there
you
will
die,
and
there
you
will
be
buried,
you,
and
all
your
friends,
to
whom
you
have
prophesied
falsely.’ ”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{7}Yahweh,
you
have
persuaded
me,
and
I
was
persuaded.
\par }{\QB You
are
stronger
than
I,
and
have
prevailed.
\par }{\Q I
have
become
a
laughingstock
all
day.
\par }{\QB Everyone
mocks
me.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}For
as
often
as
I
speak,
I
cry
out;
\par }{\QB I
cry, “Violence
and
destruction!”
\par }{\Q because
Yahweh’s
word
has
been
made
a
reproach
to
me,
\par }{\QB and
a
derision,
all
day.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}If
I
say
that
I
will
not
make
mention
of
him,
\par }{\QB or
speak
any
more
in
his
name,
\par }{\Q then
there
is
in
my
heart
as
it
were
a
burning
fire
shut
up
in
my
bones.
\par }{\QB I
am
weary
with
holding
it
in.
\par }{\QB I
can’t.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}For
I
have
heard
the defaming
of
many:
\par }{\QB “Terror
on
every
side!
\par }{\QB Denounce,
and
we
will
denounce
him!”
\par }{\Q say
all
my familiar
friends,
\par }{\QB those
who
watch
for
my
fall.
\par }{\Q “Perhaps
he
will
be persuaded,
\par }{\QB and
we
will
prevail
against
him,
\par }{\QB and
we
will
take
our
revenge
on
him.”
\par }{\Q \VS{11}But
Yahweh
is
with
me
as
an awesome
mighty
one.
\par }{\QB Therefore
my
persecutors
will
stumble,
\par }{\QB and
they
won’t
prevail.
\par }{\Q They
will
be
utterly
disappointed
\par }{\QB because
they
have
not dealt wisely,
\par }{\QB even
with
an
everlasting
dishonor which
will
never
be
forgotten.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}But
Yahweh
of
Armies,
who
tests
the
righteous,
\par }{\QB who
sees
the
heart
and
the
mind,
\par }{\Q let
me
see
your
vengeance
on
them,
\par }{\QB for
I
have
revealed
my
cause
to
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{13}Sing
to
Yahweh!
\par }{\QB Praise
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB for
he
has
delivered
the
soul
of
the
needy
from
the
hand
of evildoers.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}Cursed
is
the
day
in
which
I
was
born.
\par }{\QB Don’t
let
the
day
in
which
my
mother
bore
me
be
blessed.
\par }{\Q \VS{15}Cursed
is
the
man
who
brought
news
to
my
father,
saying,
\par }{\QB “A
boy
is
born
to
you,” making
him
very
glad.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}Let
that
man
be
as
the
cities
which
Yahweh
overthrew,
\par }{\QB and
didn’t
repent.
\par }{\Q Let
him
hear
a
cry
in
the
morning,
\par }{\QB and
shouting
at noontime,
\par }{\Q \VS{17}because
he
didn’t
kill
me
from
the
womb.
\par }{\QB So
my
mother
would
have
been
my
grave,
\par }{\QB and
her
womb
always great.
\par }{\Q \VS{18}Why
did
I
come
out
of
the
womb
to
see
labor
and
sorrow,
\par }{\QB that
my
days
should
be
consumed
with
shame?

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
from
Yahweh,
when
King
Zedekiah
sent
to
him
Pashhur
the
son
of
Malchijah,
and
Zephaniah
the
son
of
Maaseiah,
the
priest,
saying,
\VS{2}“Please
inquire
of
Yahweh
for
us;
for
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
makes war
against
us.
Perhaps
Yahweh
will
deal
with
us
according
to
all
his
wondrous
works,
that
he
may
withdraw
from
us.”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Then
Jeremiah
said
to
them, “Tell
Zedekiah:
\VS{4}‘Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel
says, “Behold,
I
will
turn
back
the
weapons
of
war
that
are
in
your
hands,
with
which
you
fight
against
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
against
the
Chaldeans
who besiege
you
outside
the
walls;
and
I
will
gather
them
into
the
middle
of
this
city.
\VS{5}I
myself
will
fight
against
you
with an
outstretched
hand
and
with
a
strong
arm, even
in
anger,
in
wrath,
and
in
great indignation.
\VS{6}I
will
strike
the
inhabitants
of
this
city,
both
man
and
animal.
They
will
die
of
a
great
pestilence.
\VS{7}Afterward,”
says
Yahweh, “I
will
deliver
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah,
his
servants,
and
the
people,
even
those
who
are
left
in
this
city
from
the
pestilence,
from
the
sword,
and
from
the
famine,
into
the
hand
of
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon,
and
into
the
hand
of
their
enemies,
and
into
the
hand
of
those
who
seek
their
life.
He
will
strike
them
with
the
edge
of
the
sword.
He
will
not
spare
them,
have
pity,
or
have
mercy.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“You
shall
say
to
this
people, ‘Yahweh
says: “Behold,
I
set
before
you
the
way
of
life
and
the
way
of
death.
\VS{9}He
who
remains
in
this
city
will
die
by
the
sword,
by
the
famine,
and
by
the
pestilence,
but
he
who
goes
out
and passes
over
to
the
Chaldeans
who besiege
you,
he
will
live,
and
he
will
escape
with
his
life.
\VS{10}For
I
have
set
my
face
on
this
city
for
evil,
and
not
for
good,”
says
Yahweh. “It
will
be
given
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
will
burn
it
with
fire.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“Concerning
the
house
of
the
king
of
Judah,
hear
Yahweh’s
word:
\VS{12}House
of
David,
Yahweh
says,
\par }{\Q ‘Execute
justice
in
the
morning,
\par }{\QB and
deliver
him
who
is
robbed
out
of
the
hand
of
the
oppressor,
\par }{\Q lest
my
wrath
go
out
like
fire,
\par }{\QB and
burn
so
that
no
one
can
quench
it,
\par }{\QB because
of
the
evil
of
your
doings.
\par }{\Q \VS{13}Behold,
I
am
against
you,
O
inhabitant
of
the
valley,
\par }{\QB and
of
the
rock
of
the
plain,’
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q ‘You
that
say, “Who
would
come
down
against
us?”
\par }{\QB or, “Who
would
enter
into
our homes?”
\par }{\Q \VS{14}I
will
punish
you
according
to
the
fruit
of
your
doings,
says
Yahweh;
\par }{\QB and
I
will
kindle
a
fire
in
her
forest,
\par }{\QB and
it
will
devour
all
that
is
around
her.’ ”

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Yahweh
said, “Go
down
to
the
house
of
the
king
of
Judah,
and
speak
this
word
there:
\VS{2}‘Hear
Yahweh’s
word,
king
of
Judah,
who
sits
on
David’s
throne—you,
your
servants,
and
your
people
who
enter
in
by
these
gates.
\VS{3}Yahweh
says: “Execute
justice
and
righteousness,
and
deliver
him
who
is
robbed
out
of
the
hand
of
the
oppressor.
Do
no
wrong.
Do
no
violence
to
the
foreigner,
the
fatherless,
or
the
widow.
Don’t
shed
innocent
blood
in
this
place.
\VS{4}For
if
you
do
this
thing
indeed,
then
kings
sitting
on
David’s
throne
will
enter
in
by
the
gates
of
this
house,
riding
in
chariots
and
on
horses—they,
their
servants,
and
their
people.
\VS{5}But
if
you
will
not
hear
these
words,
I
swear
by myself,”
says
Yahweh, “that
this
house
will
become
a
desolation.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}For
Yahweh
says
concerning
the
house
of
the
king
of
Judah:
\par }{\Q “You
are
Gilead
to
me,
\par }{\QB the
head
of
Lebanon.
\par }{\Q Yet
surely
I
will
make
you
a
wilderness,
\par }{\QB cities
which
are
not
inhabited.
\par }{\Q \VS{7}I
will
prepare
destroyers
against
you,
\par }{\QB everyone
with
his
weapons,
\par }{\Q and
they
will
cut
down
your
choice
cedars,
\par }{\QB and
cast
them
into
the
fire.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“Many
nations
will
pass
by
this
city,
and
they
will
each
ask
his
neighbor, ‘Why
has
Yahweh
done
this
to
this
great
city?’
\VS{9}Then
they
will
answer, ‘Because
they
abandoned
the
covenant
of
Yahweh
their
God,
worshiped
other
gods,
and
served
them.’ ”
\par }{\Q \VS{10}Don’t
weep
for
the
dead.
\par }{\QB Don’t bemoan
him;
\par }{\Q but
weep
bitterly
for
him
who
goes
away,
\par }{\QB for
he
will
return
no
more,
\par }{\QB and
not
see
his
native
country.
\par }{\MM \VS{11}For
Yahweh
says touching
Shallum
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah,
who
reigned
instead
of
Josiah
his
father,
and
who
went
out
of
this
place: “He
won’t
return
there
any
more.
\VS{12}But
he
will
die
in
the
place
where
they
have
led
him
captive.
He
will
see
this
land
no
more.”
\par }{\Q \VS{13}“Woe
to
him
who
builds
his
house
by unrighteousness,
\par }{\QB and
his
rooms
by injustice;
\par }{\Q who
uses
his
neighbor’s
service
without
wages,
\par }{\QB and
doesn’t
give
him
his hire;
\par }{\Q \VS{14}who
says, ‘I
will
build myself
a wide
house
and
spacious
rooms,’
\par }{\QB and cuts out
windows
for himself,
\par }{\Q with
a
cedar ceiling,
\par }{\QB and painted
with
red.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{15}“Should
you
reign
because
you
strive
to excel
in
cedar?
\par }{\QB Didn’t
your
father
eat
and
drink,
\par }{\QB and
do
justice
and
righteousness?
\par }{\QB Then
it
was
well
with
him.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}He judged
the
cause
of
the
poor
and
needy;
\par }{\QB so
then
it
was
well.
\par }{\Q Wasn’t
this
to
know
me?”
\par }{\QB says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}But
your
eyes
and
your
heart
are
only
for
your covetousness,
\par }{\QB for
shedding
innocent
blood,
\par }{\QB for
oppression,
and
for
doing
violence.”
\par }{\MM \VS{18}Therefore
Yahweh
says
concerning
Jehoiakim
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah:
\par }{\Q “They
won’t
lament
for
him,
\par }{\QB saying, ‘Ah
my
brother!’
or, ‘Ah
sister!’
\par }{\Q They
won’t
lament
for
him,
\par }{\QB saying ‘Ah
lord!’
or, ‘Ah
his
glory!’
\par }{\Q \VS{19}He
will
be
buried
with
the
burial
of
a
donkey,
\par }{\QB drawn
and
cast
out
beyond
the
gates
of
Jerusalem.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{20}“Go
up
to
Lebanon,
and
cry
out.
\par }{\QB Lift
up
your
voice
in
Bashan,
\par }{\Q and
cry
from
Abarim;
\par }{\QB for
all
your
lovers
have
been destroyed.
\par }{\Q \VS{21}I
spoke
to
you
in
your
prosperity,
\par }{\QB but
you
said, ‘I
will
not
listen.’
\par }{\Q This
has
been
your
way
from
your
youth,
\par }{\QB that
you
didn’t
obey
my
voice.
\par }{\Q \VS{22}The
wind
will
feed
all
your
shepherds,
\par }{\QB and
your
lovers
will go into
captivity.
\par }{\Q Surely
then
you
will
be
ashamed
\par }{\QB and
confounded
for
all
your
wickedness.
\par }{\Q \VS{23}Inhabitant
of
Lebanon,
\par }{\QB who
makes
your
nest
in
the
cedars,
\par }{\Q how greatly
to be pitied
you
will be
when pangs
come
on
you,
\par }{\QB the
pain
as
of
a woman
in travail!
\par }{\PP \VS{24}“As
I
live,”
says
Yahweh, “though Coniah
the
son
of
Jehoiakim
king
of
Judah
were
the
signet
on
my
right
hand,
I
would still pluck
you
from
there.
\VS{25}I
would
give
you
into
the
hand
of
those
who
seek
your
life,
and
into
the
hand
of
them
of
whom
you
are afraid, even
into
the
hand
of
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon,
and
into
the
hand
of
the
Chaldeans.
\VS{26}I
will
cast
you
out
with
your
mother
who
bore
you
into
another
country,
where
you
were
not
born;
and
there
you
will
die.
\VS{27}But
to
the
land
to
which
their
soul longs
to
return,
there
they
will
not
return.”
\par }{\Q \VS{28}Is
this
man Coniah
a
despised broken
vessel?
\par }{\QB Is
he
a
vessel
in
which
no
one
delights?
\par }{\Q Why
are
they
cast
out,
he
and
his
offspring,
\par }{\QB and
cast
into
a
land
which
they
don’t
know?
\par }{\Q \VS{29}O
earth,
earth,
earth,
\par }{\QB hear
Yahweh’s
word!
\par }{\Q \VS{30}Yahweh
says,
\par }{\QB “Record
this
man
as
childless,
\par }{\QB a
man
who
will
not
prosper
in
his
days;
\par }{\Q for
no
more
will
a
man
of
his
offspring
prosper,
\par }{\QB sitting
on
David’s
throne
\par }{\QB and
ruling
in
Judah.”

\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Woe
to
the
shepherds
who
destroy
and
scatter
the
sheep
of
my
pasture!”
says
Yahweh.
\VS{2}Therefore
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
says
against
the
shepherds
who
feed
my
people: “You
have
scattered
my
flock,
driven
them
away,
and
have
not
visited
them.
Behold,
I
will
visit
on
you
the
evil
of
your
doings,”
says
Yahweh.
\VS{3}“I
will
gather
the
remnant
of
my
flock
out
of
all
the
countries
where
I
have
driven
them,
and
will
bring
them
again
to
their folds;
and
they
will
be
fruitful
and
multiply.
\VS{4}I
will
set
up
shepherds
over
them
who
will
feed
them.
They
will
no
longer
be
afraid
or
dismayed,
neither
will
any
be lacking,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}“Behold,
the
days
come,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB “that
I
will
raise
to
David
a
righteous
Branch;
\par }{\Q and
he
will
reign
as
king
and
deal wisely,
\par }{\QB and
will execute
justice
and
righteousness
in
the
land.
\par }{\Q \VS{6}In
his
days
Judah
will
be
saved,
\par }{\QB and
Israel
will
dwell
safely.
\par }{\Q This
is
his
name
by
which
he
will
be
called:
\par }{\QB Yahweh
our
righteousness.
\par }{\MM \VS{7}“Therefore,
behold,
the
days
come,”
says
Yahweh, “that
they
will
no
more
say, ‘As
Yahweh
lives,
who
brought
up
the
children
of
Israel
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt;’
\VS{8}but, ‘As
Yahweh
lives,
who
brought
up
and
who
led
the
offspring
of
the
house
of
Israel
out
of
the
north
country,
and
from
all
the
countries
where
I
had
driven
them.’
Then
they
will
dwell
in
their own
land.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Concerning
the
prophets:
\par }{\Q My
heart
within
me
is
broken.
\par }{\QB All
my
bones shake.
\par }{\Q I
am
like
a
drunken
man,
\par }{\QB and
like
a
man whom
wine
has overcome,
\par }{\Q because
of
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB and
because
of
his
holy
words.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}“For
the
land
is
full
of
adulterers;
\par }{\QB for
because
of
the
curse
the
land
mourns.
\par }{\Q The
pastures
of
the
wilderness
have
dried
up.
\par }{\QB Their
course
is
evil,
\par }{\QB and
their
might
is
not
right;
\par }{\Q \VS{11}for
both
prophet
and
priest
are profane.
\par }{\QB Yes,
in
my
house
I
have
found
their
wickedness,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}Therefore
their
way
will
be
to
them
as
slippery
places
in
the
darkness.
\par }{\QB They
will
be driven
on,
\par }{\QB and
fall therein;
\par }{\Q for
I
will
bring
evil
on
them,
\par }{\QB even
the
year
of
their visitation,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{13}“I
have
seen
folly
in
the
prophets
of
Samaria.
\par }{\QB They
prophesied
by
Baal,
\par }{\QB and caused
my
people
Israel
to
err.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}In
the
prophets
of
Jerusalem
I
have also
seen
a horrible
thing:
\par }{\QB they
commit
adultery
and
walk
in
lies.
\par }{\Q They
strengthen
the
hands
of evildoers,
\par }{\QB so
that
no
one
returns
from
his
wickedness.
\par }{\Q They
have
all
become
to
me
as
Sodom,
\par }{\QB and
its
inhabitants
as
Gomorrah.”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Therefore
Yahweh
of
Armies
says
concerning
the
prophets:
\par }{\Q “Behold,
I
will
feed
them
with
wormwood,
\par }{\QB and
make
them
drink
poisoned
water;
\par }{\QB for
from
the
prophets
of
Jerusalem ungodliness
has
gone
out
into
all
the
land.”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Yahweh
of
Armies
says,
\par }{\Q “Don’t
listen
to
the
words
of
the
prophets
who
prophesy
to
you.
\par }{\QB They teach
you vanity.
\par }{\QB They
speak
a
vision
of
their own
heart,
\par }{\QB and
not
out
of
the
mouth
of
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}They
say
continually
to
those
who
despise
me,
\par }{\QB ‘Yahweh
has
said, “You
will
have
peace;” ’
\par }{\Q and
to
everyone
who
walks
in
the
stubbornness
of
his
own
heart
they
say,
\par }{\QB ‘No
evil
will
come
on
you.’
\par }{\Q \VS{18}For
who
has
stood
in
the
council
of
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB that
he
should
perceive
and
hear
his
word?
\par }{\QB Who
has
listened
to
my
word,
and
heard
it?
\par }{\Q \VS{19}Behold,
Yahweh’s
storm,
his
wrath,
has
gone
out.
\par }{\QB Yes,
a whirling
storm!
\par }{\QB It
will burst
on
the
head
of
the
wicked.
\par }{\Q \VS{20}Yahweh’s
anger
will
not
return
until
he
has executed
\par }{\QB and performed
the intents
of
his
heart.
\par }{\QB In
the
latter
days,
you
will
understand
it perfectly.
\par }{\Q \VS{21}I
didn’t
send
these
prophets,
yet
they
ran.
\par }{\QB I
didn’t
speak
to
them,
yet
they
prophesied.
\par }{\Q \VS{22}But
if
they
had
stood
in
my
council,
\par }{\QB then
they
would
have
caused
my
people
to
hear
my
words,
\par }{\Q and
would
have
turned
them
from
their
evil
way,
\par }{\QB and
from
the
evil
of
their
doings.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{23}“Am
I
a
God
at
hand,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB “and
not
a
God
afar
off?
\par }{\Q \VS{24}Can
anyone
hide
himself
in
secret
places
\par }{\QB so
that
I
can’t
see
him?”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\QB “Don’t
I
fill
heaven
and
earth?”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“I
have
heard
what
the
prophets
have
said,
who
prophesy
lies
in
my
name,
saying, ‘I
had
a
dream!
I
had
a
dream!’
\VS{26}How
long
will
this
be
in
the
heart
of
the
prophets
who
prophesy
lies,
even
the
prophets
of
the
deceit
of
their own
heart?
\VS{27}They
intend
to cause
my
people
to
forget
my
name
by
their
dreams
which
they
each
tell
his
neighbor,
as
their
fathers
forgot
my
name
because
of
Baal.
\VS{28}The
prophet
who
has
a
dream, let
him
tell
a
dream;
and
he
who
has
my
word, let
him
speak
my
word
faithfully.
What
is
the
straw
to
the
wheat?”
says
Yahweh.
\VS{29}“Isn’t
my
word
like
fire?”
says
Yahweh; “and
like
a
hammer
that breaks
the
rock
in pieces?
\par }{\PP \VS{30}“Therefore
behold,
I
am
against
the
prophets,”
says
Yahweh, “who
each
steal
my
words
from
his
neighbor.
\VS{31}Behold,
I
am
against
the
prophets,”
says
Yahweh, “who
use
their
tongues,
and say, ‘He
says.’
\VS{32}Behold,
I
am
against
those
who
prophesy
lying
dreams,”
says
Yahweh, “who
tell
them,
and cause
my
people
to
err
by
their
lies,
and
by
their
vain
boasting;
yet
I
didn’t
send
them
or
command
them.
They
don’t
profit
this
people
at all,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{33}“When
this
people,
or
the
prophet,
or
a
priest,
asks
you,
saying, ‘What
is
the
message
from
Yahweh?’
Then
you
shall
tell
them, ‘ “What
message?
I
will
cast
you
off,”
says
Yahweh.’
\VS{34}As
for
the
prophet,
the
priest,
and
the
people,
who
say, ‘The
message
from
Yahweh,’
I
will
even
punish
that
man
and
his
household.
\VS{35}You
will
say
everyone
to
his
neighbor,
and
everyone
to
his
brother, ‘What
has
Yahweh
answered?’
and, ‘What
has
Yahweh
said?’
\VS{36}You
will
mention
the
message
from
Yahweh
no
more,
for
every
man’s
own
word
has
become
his
message;
for
you
have
perverted
the
words
of
the
living
God,
of
Yahweh
of
Armies,
our
God.
\VS{37}You
will
say
to
the
prophet, ‘What
has
Yahweh
answered
you?’
and, ‘What
has
Yahweh
spoken?’
\VS{38}Although
you
say, ‘The
message
from
Yahweh,’
therefore
Yahweh
says: ‘Because
you
say
this
word, “The
message
from
Yahweh,”
and
I
have
sent
to
you,
telling
you
not
to
say, “The
message
from
Yahweh,”
\VS{39}therefore
behold,
I
will utterly
forget
you,
and
I
will
cast
you
off
with
the
city
that
I
gave
to
you
and
to
your
fathers,
away
from
my
presence.
\VS{40}I
will
bring
an
everlasting
reproach
on
you,
and
a
perpetual
shame,
which
will
not
be
forgotten.’ ”

\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Yahweh
showed
me,
and
behold,
two
baskets
of
figs
were
set
before
Yahweh’s
temple,
after
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
had
carried
away
captive
Jeconiah
the
son
of
Jehoiakim,
king
of
Judah,
and
the
princes
of
Judah,
with
the
craftsmen
and
smiths,
from
Jerusalem,
and
had
brought
them
to
Babylon.
\VS{2}One
basket
had
very
good
figs,
like
the
figs
that
are first-ripe;
and
the
other
basket
had
very
bad
figs,
which could
not
be
eaten,
they
were
so
bad.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Then
Yahweh
asked
me, “What
do
you
see,
Jeremiah?”
\par }{\PP I
said, “Figs.
The
good
figs
are
very
good,
and
the
bad
are
very
bad,
so
bad
that
they
can’t
be
eaten.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Yahweh’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{5}“Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel
says: ‘Like
these
good
figs,
so
I
will
regard
the
captives
of
Judah,
whom
I
have
sent
out
of
this
place
into
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans,
as
good.
\VS{6}For
I
will
set
my
eyes
on
them
for
good,
and
I
will
bring
them
again
to
this
land.
I
will
build
them,
and
not
pull
them
down.
I
will
plant
them,
and
not
pluck
them
up.
\VS{7}I
will
give
them
a
heart
to
know
me,
that
I
am
Yahweh.
They
will
be
my
people,
and
I
will
be
their
God;
for
they
will
return
to
me
with
their
whole
heart.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“ ‘As
the
bad
figs,
which
can’t
be
eaten,
they
are
so
bad,’
surely
Yahweh
says, ‘So
I
will
give
up
Zedekiah
the
king
of
Judah,
and
his
princes,
and
the
remnant
of
Jerusalem
who
remain
in
this
land,
and
those
who
dwell
in
the
land
of
Egypt.
\VS{9}I
will
even
give
them
up
to
be tossed back
and
forth
among
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth
for
evil,
to
be
a
reproach
and
a
proverb,
a
taunt
and
a
curse,
in
all
places
where
I
will
drive
them.
\VS{10}I
will
send
the
sword,
the
famine,
and
the
pestilence
among
them,
until
they
are
consumed
from
off
the
land
that
I
gave
to
them
and
to
their
fathers.’ ”

\par }\Chap{25}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
came
to
Jeremiah
concerning
all
the
people
of
Judah,
in
the
fourth
year
of
Jehoiakim
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah (this
was
the
first
year
of
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon),
\VS{2}which
Jeremiah
the
prophet
spoke
to
all
the
people
of
Judah,
and
to
all
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem:
\VS{3}From
the thirteenth
year
of
Josiah
the
son
of
Amon,
king
of
Judah,
even
to
this
day,
these twenty-three
years,
Yahweh’s
word
has
come
to
me,
and
I
have
spoken
to
you,
rising
up
early
and
speaking;
but
you
have
not
listened.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Yahweh
has
sent
to
you
all
his
servants
the
prophets,
rising
up
early
and
sending
them (but
you
have
not
listened
or
inclined
your
ear
to
hear),
\VS{5}saying, “Return
now
everyone
from
his
evil
way,
and
from
the
evil
of
your
doings,
and
dwell
in
the
land
that
Yahweh
has
given
to
you
and
to
your
fathers,
from
of
old
and
even
forever
more.
\VS{6}Don’t go
after
other
gods
to
serve
them
or
worship
them,
and
don’t
provoke
me
to
anger
with
the
work
of
your
hands;
then
I
will
do
you
no
harm.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“Yet
you
have
not
listened
to
me,”
says
Yahweh, “that
you
may
provoke
me
to
anger
with
the
work
of
your
hands
to
your own hurt.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Therefore
Yahweh
of
Armies
says: “Because
you
have
not
heard
my
words,
\VS{9}behold,
I
will
send
and
take
all
the
families
of
the
north,”
says
Yahweh, “and
I
will
send
to
Nebuchadnezzar
the
king
of
Babylon,
my
servant,
and
will
bring
them
against
this
land,
and
against
its
inhabitants,
and
against
all
these
nations
around.
I
will utterly
destroy
them,
and
make
them
an astonishment,
and
a
hissing,
and
perpetual
desolations.
\VS{10}Moreover
I
will
take
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
millstones,
and
the
light
of
the
lamp.
\VS{11}This
whole
land
will
be
a
desolation,
and
an astonishment;
and
these
nations
will
serve
the
king
of
Babylon
seventy
years.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“It
will
happen,
when
seventy
years
are
accomplished,
that
I
will
punish
the
king
of
Babylon
and
that
nation,”
says
Yahweh, “for
their
iniquity.
I
will
make
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans
desolate
forever.
\VS{13}I
will
bring
on
that
land
all
my
words
which
I
have
pronounced
against
it,
even
all
that
is
written
in
this
book,
which
Jeremiah
has
prophesied
against
all
the
nations.
\VS{14}For
many
nations
and
great
kings
will
make bondservants
of
them,
even
of
them.
I
will recompense
them
according
to
their
deeds,
and
according
to
the
work
of
their
hands.”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}For
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
says
to
me: “Take
this
cup
of
the
wine
of
wrath
from
my
hand,
and cause
all
the
nations
to
whom
I
send
you
to
drink
it.
\VS{16}They
will
drink,
and reel back
and
forth,
and
be insane,
because
of
the
sword
that
I
will
send
among
them.”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Then
I
took
the
cup
at
Yahweh’s
hand,
and
made
all
the
nations
to
drink,
to
whom
Yahweh
had
sent
me:
\VS{18}Jerusalem,
and
the
cities
of
Judah,
with
its
kings
and
its
princes,
to
make
them
a
desolation,
an astonishment,
a
hissing,
and
a
curse,
as
it
is
today;
\VS{19}Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt,
with
his
servants,
his
princes,
and
all
his
people;
\VS{20}and
all
the mixed
people,
and
all
the
kings
of
the
land
of
Uz,
all
the
kings
of
the
Philistines,
Ashkelon,
Gaza,
Ekron,
and
the
remnant
of
Ashdod;
\VS{21}Edom,
Moab,
and
the
children
of
Ammon;
\VS{22}and
all
the
kings
of
Tyre,
all
the
kings
of
Sidon,
and
the
kings
of
the isle
which
is
beyond
the
sea;
\VS{23}Dedan,
Tema,
Buz,
and
all
who
have
the
corners
of
their beard
cut
off;
\VS{24}and
all
the
kings
of
Arabia,
all
the
kings
of
the mixed people
who
dwell
in
the
wilderness;
\VS{25}and
all
the
kings
of
Zimri,
all
the
kings
of
Elam,
and
all
the
kings
of
the
Medes;
\VS{26}and
all
the
kings
of
the
north,
far
and
near,
one
with
another;
and
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
world,
which
are
on
the
surface
of
the
earth.
The
king
of
Sheshach
will
drink
after
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{27}“You
shall
tell
them, ‘Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel
says: “Drink,
and
be
drunk, vomit,
fall,
and
rise
no
more,
because
of
the
sword
which
I
will
send
among
you.” ’
\VS{28}It
shall
be,
if
they
refuse
to
take
the
cup
at
your
hand
to
drink,
then
you
shall
tell
them, ‘Yahweh
of
Armies
says: “You
shall
surely
drink.
\VS{29}For,
behold,
I
begin
to work
evil
at
the
city
which
is
called
by
my
name;
and
should
you
be utterly
unpunished?
You
will
not
be
unpunished;
for
I
will
call
for
a
sword
on
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
earth,
says
Yahweh
of
Armies.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{30}“Therefore
prophesy
against
them
all
these
words,
and
tell
them,
\par }{\Q “ ‘Yahweh
will
roar
from
on
high,
\par }{\QB and
utter
his
voice
from
his
holy
habitation.
\par }{\QB He
will
mightily
roar
against
his fold.
\par }{\Q He
will
give
a
shout,
as
those
who
tread grapes,
\par }{\QB against
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
earth.
\par }{\Q \VS{31}A
noise
will
come
even
to
the
end
of
the
earth;
\par }{\QB for
Yahweh
has
a
controversy
with
the
nations.
\par }{\Q He
will
enter
into
judgment
with
all
flesh.
\par }{\QB As
for
the
wicked,
he
will
give
them
to
the
sword,” ’
says
Yahweh.”
\par }{\PP \VS{32}Yahweh
of
Armies
says,
\par }{\Q “Behold,
evil
will
go
out
from
nation
to
nation,
\par }{\QB and
a
great
storm
will
be raised
up
from
the uttermost
parts
of
the
earth.”
\par }{\MM \VS{33}The
slain
of
Yahweh
will
be
at
that
day
from
one
end
of
the
earth
even
to
the other
end
of
the
earth.
They
won’t
be
lamented.
They
won’t
be
gathered
or
buried.
They
will
be
dung
on
the
surface
of
the
ground.
\par }{\Q \VS{34}Wail,
you
shepherds,
and
cry.
\par }{\QB Wallow
in dust,
you
leader
of
the
flock;
\par }{\Q for
the
days
of
your
slaughter
and
of
your dispersions
have
fully
come,
\par }{\QB and
you
will
fall
like fine
pottery.
\par }{\Q \VS{35}The
shepherds
will
have
no way
to flee.
\par }{\QB The
leader
of
the
flock
will
have
no
escape.
\par }{\Q \VS{36}A
voice
of
the
cry
of
the
shepherds,
\par }{\QB and
the
wailing
of
the
leader
of
the
flock,
\par }{\QB for
Yahweh
destroys
their
pasture.
\par }{\Q \VS{37}The
peaceful folds
are brought
to silence
\par }{\QB because
of
the
fierce
anger
of
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{38}He
has
left
his covert,
as
the
lion;
\par }{\QB for
their
land
has
become
an astonishment
because
of
the
fierceness
of
the oppression,
\par }{\QB and
because
of
his
fierce
anger.

\par }\Chap{26}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
beginning
of
the
reign
of
Jehoiakim
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah,
this
word
came
from
Yahweh:
\VS{2}“Yahweh
says: ‘Stand
in
the
court
of
Yahweh’s
house,
and
speak
to
all
the
cities
of
Judah
which
come
to
worship
in
Yahweh’s
house,
all
the
words
that
I
command
you
to
speak
to
them.
Don’t
omit
a
word.
\VS{3}It
may
be
they
will
listen,
and
every
man
turn
from
his
evil
way,
that
I
may
relent
from
the
evil
which
I
intend
to
do
to
them
because
of
the
evil
of
their
doings.’ ”
\VS{4}You
shall
tell
them, “Yahweh
says: ‘If
you
will
not
listen
to
me,
to walk
in
my
law
which
I
have
set
before
you,
\VS{5}to
listen
to
the
words
of
my
servants
the
prophets
whom
I
send
to
you,
even
rising
up
early
and
sending
them—but
you
have
not
listened—
\VS{6}then
I
will
make
this
house
like
Shiloh,
and
will
make
this
city
a
curse
to
all
the
nations
of
the
earth.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}The
priests
and
the
prophets
and
all
the
people
heard
Jeremiah
speaking
these
words
in
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{8}When
Jeremiah
had
finished
speaking
all
that
Yahweh
had
commanded
him
to
speak
to
all
the
people,
the
priests
and
the
prophets
and
all
the
people
seized
him,
saying, “You
shall
surely
die!
\VS{9}Why
have
you
prophesied
in
Yahweh’s
name,
saying, ‘This
house
will
be
like
Shiloh,
and
this
city
will
be desolate,
without
inhabitant?’ ”
All
the
people
were
crowded around
Jeremiah
in
Yahweh’s
house.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}When
the
princes
of
Judah
heard
these
things,
they
came
up
from
the
king’s
house
to
Yahweh’s
house;
and
they
sat
in
the
entry
of
the
new
gate
of
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{11}Then
the
priests
and
the
prophets
spoke
to
the
princes
and
to
all
the
people,
saying, “This
man
is
worthy
of
death,
for
he
has
prophesied
against
this
city,
as
you
have
heard
with
your
ears.”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Then
Jeremiah
spoke
to
all
the
princes
and
to
all
the
people,
saying, “Yahweh
sent
me
to
prophesy
against
this
house
and
against
this
city
all
the
words
that
you
have
heard.
\VS{13}Now
therefore
amend
your
ways
and
your
doings,
and
obey
Yahweh
your
God’s
voice;
then
Yahweh
will
relent
from
the
evil
that
he
has
pronounced
against
you.
\VS{14}But
as
for
me,
behold,
I
am
in
your
hand.
Do
with
me
what
is
good
and
right
in
your
eyes.
\VS{15}Only
know
for
certain
that
if
you
put
me
to
death,
you
will
bring
innocent
blood
on
yourselves,
on
this
city,
and
on
its
inhabitants;
for
in
truth
Yahweh
has
sent
me
to
you
to
speak
all
these
words
in
your
ears.”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Then
the
princes
and
all
the
people
said
to
the
priests
and
to
the
prophets: “This
man
is
not
worthy
of
death;
for
he
has
spoken
to
us
in
the
name
of
Yahweh
our
God.”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Then
certain
of
the
elders
of
the
land
rose
up,
and
spoke
to
all
the
assembly
of
the
people,
saying,
\VS{18}“Micah
the Morashtite
prophesied
in
the
days
of
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah;
and
he
spoke
to
all
the
people
of
Judah,
saying, ‘Yahweh
of
Armies
says:
\par }{\Q “ ‘Zion
will
be
plowed
as
a
field,
\par }{\QB and
Jerusalem
will
become heaps,
\par }{\QB and
the
mountain
of
the
house
as
the
high
places
of
a
forest.’
\par }{\MM \VS{19}Did
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah
and
all
Judah
put
him
to
death?
Didn’t
he
fear
Yahweh,
and
entreat
the
favor
of
Yahweh,
and
Yahweh
relented
of
the
disaster
which
he
had
pronounced
against
them?
We
would commit
great
evil
against
our
own
souls
that
way!”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}There
was
also
a
man
who
prophesied
in
Yahweh’s
name,
Uriah
the
son
of
Shemaiah
of
Kiriath Jearim;
and
he
prophesied
against
this
city
and
against
this
land
according
to
all
the
words
of
Jeremiah.
\VS{21}When
Jehoiakim
the
king,
with
all
his
mighty
men
and
all
the
princes
heard
his
words,
the
king
sought
to
put
him
to
death;
but
when
Uriah
heard
it,
he
was
afraid,
and
fled,
and
went
into
Egypt.
\VS{22}Then
Jehoiakim
the
king
sent
Elnathan
the
son
of
Achbor
and
certain
men
with
him
into
Egypt.
\VS{23}They fetched
Uriah
out
of
Egypt
and
brought
him
to
Jehoiakim
the
king,
who
killed
him
with
the
sword
and
cast
his
dead
body
into
the
graves
of
the
common
people.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}But
the
hand
of
Ahikam
the
son
of
Shaphan
was
with
Jeremiah,
so
that
they didn’t
give
him
into
the
hand
of
the
people
to
put
him
to
death.

\par }\Chap{27}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
beginning
of
the
reign
of
Jehoiakim
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah,
this
word
came
to
Jeremiah
from
Yahweh,
saying,
\VS{2}Yahweh
says
to
me: “Make
bonds
and
bars,
and
put
them
on
your
neck.
\VS{3}Then
send
them
to
the
king
of
Edom,
to
the
king
of
Moab,
to
the
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
to
the
king
of
Tyre,
and
to
the
king
of
Sidon,
by
the
hand
of
the
messengers
who
come
to
Jerusalem
to
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah.
\VS{4}Give
them
a
command
to
their
masters,
saying, ‘Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel
says, “You
shall
tell
your
masters:
\VS{5}‘I
have
made
the
earth,
the
men,
and
the
animals
that
are
on
the
surface
of
the
earth
by
my
great
power
and
by
my
outstretched
arm.
I
give
it
to
whom
it
seems
right
to
me.
\VS{6}Now
I
have
given
all
these
lands
into
the
hand
of
Nebuchadnezzar
the
king
of
Babylon,
my
servant.
I
have
also
given
the
animals
of
the
field
to
him
to
serve
him.
\VS{7}All
the
nations
will
serve
him,
his
son,
and
his
son’s
son,
until
the
time
of
his own
land
comes.
Then
many
nations
and
great
kings
will
make
him
their bondservant.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“ ‘ “ ‘It
will
happen
that
I
will
punish
the
nation
and
the
kingdom
which
will
not
serve
the
same
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon,
and
that
will
not
put
their
neck
under
the
yoke
of
the
king
of
Babylon,’
says
Yahweh, ‘with
the
sword,
with
famine,
and
with
pestilence,
until
I
have
consumed
them
by
his
hand.
\VS{9}But
as
for
you,
don’t
listen
to
your
prophets,
to
your
diviners,
to
your
dreams,
to
your soothsayers,
or
to
your
sorcerers,
who
speak
to
you,
saying, “You
shall
not
serve
the
king
of
Babylon;”
\VS{10}for
they
prophesy
a
lie
to
you,
to
remove
you
far
from
your
land,
so
that
I would
drive
you
out,
and
you would
perish.
\VS{11}But
the
nation
that
brings
their
neck
under
the
yoke
of
the
king
of
Babylon
and
serves
him,
that
nation
I
will let
remain
in
their own
land,’
says
Yahweh; ‘and
they
will
till
it
and
dwell
in
it.’ ” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}I
spoke
to
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah
according
to
all
these
words,
saying, “Bring
your
necks
under
the
yoke
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
serve
him
and
his
people,
and
live.
\VS{13}Why
will
you
die,
you
and
your
people,
by
the
sword,
by
the
famine,
and
by
the
pestilence,
as
Yahweh
has
spoken
concerning
the
nation
that
will
not
serve
the
king
of
Babylon?
\VS{14}Don’t
listen
to
the
words
of
the
prophets
who
speak
to
you,
saying, ‘You
shall
not
serve
the
king
of
Babylon;’
for
they
prophesy
a
lie
to
you.
\VS{15}For
I
have
not
sent
them,”
says
Yahweh, “but
they
prophesy
falsely
in
my
name;
that
I
may
drive
you
out,
and
that
you
may
perish,
you,
and
the
prophets
who
prophesy
to
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Also
I
spoke
to
the
priests
and
to
all
this
people,
saying,
Yahweh
says, “Don’t
listen
to
the
words
of
your
prophets
who
prophesy
to
you,
saying, ‘Behold,
the
vessels
of
Yahweh’s
house
will
now
shortly
be
brought
again
from
Babylon;’
for
they
prophesy
a
lie
to
you.
\VS{17}Don’t
listen
to
them.
Serve
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
live.
Why
should
this
city
become
a
desolation?
\VS{18}But
if
they
are
prophets,
and
if
Yahweh’s
word
is
with
them,
let
them
now
make intercession
to
Yahweh
of
Armies,
that
the
vessels
which
are
left
in
Yahweh’s
house,
in
the
house
of
the
king
of
Judah,
and
at
Jerusalem, don’t
go
to
Babylon.
\VS{19}For
Yahweh
of
Armies
says
concerning
the
pillars,
concerning
the
sea,
concerning
the bases,
and
concerning
the
rest
of
the
vessels
that
are
left
in
this
city,
\VS{20}which
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
didn’t
take
when
he
carried
away
captive
Jeconiah
the
son
of
Jehoiakim,
king
of
Judah,
from
Jerusalem
to
Babylon,
and
all
the
nobles
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem—
\VS{21}yes,
Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says
concerning
the
vessels
that
are
left
in
Yahweh’s
house,
and
in
the
house
of
the
king
of
Judah,
and
at
Jerusalem:
\VS{22}‘They
will
be
carried
to
Babylon,
and
there
they
will
be,
until
the
day
that
I
visit
them,’
says
Yahweh; ‘then
I
will
bring
them
up,
and
restore
them
to
this
place.’ ”

\par }\Chap{28}{\PP \VerseOne{1}That
same
year,
in
the
beginning
of
the
reign
of
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah,
in
the
fourth
year,
in
the
fifth
month,
Hananiah
the
son
of
Azzur,
the
prophet,
who
was
of
Gibeon,
spoke
to
me
in
Yahweh’s
house,
in
the
presence
of
the
priests
and
of
all
the
people,
saying,
\VS{2}“Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says, ‘I
have
broken
the
yoke
of
the
king
of
Babylon.
\VS{3}Within
two
full
years
I
will
bring
again
into
this
place
all
the
vessels
of
Yahweh’s
house
that
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
took
away
from
this
place
and
carried
to
Babylon.
\VS{4}I
will
bring
again
to
this
place
Jeconiah
the
son
of
Jehoiakim,
king
of
Judah,
with
all
the
captives
of
Judah,
who
went
to
Babylon,’
says
Yahweh; ‘for
I
will
break
the
yoke
of
the
king
of
Babylon.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Then
the
prophet
Jeremiah
said
to
the
prophet
Hananiah
in
the
presence
of
the
priests,
and
in
the
presence
of
all
the
people
who
stood
in
Yahweh’s
house,
\VS{6}even
the
prophet
Jeremiah
said, “Amen!
May
Yahweh
do
so.
May
Yahweh
perform
your
words
which
you
have
prophesied,
to
bring
again
the
vessels
of
Yahweh’s
house,
and
all
those
who
are
captives,
from
Babylon
to
this
place.
\VS{7}Nevertheless
listen
now
to
this
word
that
I
speak
in
your
ears,
and
in
the
ears
of
all
the
people:
\VS{8}The
prophets
who
have
been
before
me
and
before
you
of
old
prophesied
against
many
countries,
and
against
great
kingdoms,
of
war,
of
evil,
and
of
pestilence.
\VS{9}As
for the
prophet
who
prophesies
of
peace,
when
the
word
of
the
prophet happens,
then
the
prophet
will
be
known,
that
Yahweh
has
truly
sent
him.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Then
Hananiah
the
prophet
took
the bar
from
off
the
prophet
Jeremiah’s
neck,
and
broke
it.
\VS{11}Hananiah
spoke
in
the
presence
of
all
the
people,
saying, “Yahweh
says: ‘Even
so
I
will
break
the
yoke
of
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
from
off
the
neck
of
all
the
nations
within two
full
years.’ ”
Then
the
prophet
Jeremiah went
his
way.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Then
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
Jeremiah,
after
Hananiah
the
prophet
had
broken
the bar
from
off
the
neck
of
the
prophet
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{13}“Go,
and
tell
Hananiah,
saying, ‘Yahweh
says, “You
have
broken
the
bars
of
wood,
but
you
have
made
in
their
place
bars
of
iron.”
\VS{14}For
Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel
says, “I
have
put
a
yoke
of
iron
on
the
neck
of
all
these
nations,
that
they
may
serve
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon;
and
they
will
serve
him.
I
have
also
given
him
the
animals
of
the
field.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Then
the
prophet
Jeremiah
said
to
Hananiah
the
prophet, “Listen,
Hananiah!
Yahweh
has
not
sent
you,
but
you
make
this
people
trust
in
a
lie.
\VS{16}Therefore
Yahweh
says, ‘Behold,
I
will
send
you
away
from
off
the
surface
of
the
earth.
This
year
you
will
die,
because
you
have
spoken
rebellion
against
Yahweh.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}So
Hananiah
the
prophet
died
the
same
year
in
the
seventh
month.

\par }\Chap{29}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
these
are
the
words
of
the
letter
that
Jeremiah
the
prophet
sent
from
Jerusalem
to
the residue
of
the
elders
of
the
captivity,
and
to
the
priests,
to
the
prophets,
and
to
all
the
people
whom
Nebuchadnezzar
had
carried
away
captive
from
Jerusalem
to
Babylon,
\VS{2}(after
Jeconiah
the
king,
the
queen
mother,
the
eunuchs,
the
princes
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
the
craftsmen,
and
the
smiths
had
departed
from
Jerusalem),
\VS{3}by
the
hand
of
Elasah
the
son
of
Shaphan
and
Gemariah
the
son
of
Hilkiah, (whom
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah
sent
to
Babylon
to
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon).
It
said:
\par }{\PI \VS{4}Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says
to
all
the
captives
whom
I
have
caused
to
be
carried
away
captive
from
Jerusalem
to
Babylon:
\VS{5}“Build
houses
and
dwell
in
them.
Plant
gardens
and
eat
their
fruit.
\VS{6}Take
wives
and
father
sons
and
daughters.
Take
wives
for
your
sons,
and
give
your
daughters
to
husbands,
that
they
may
bear
sons
and
daughters.
Multiply
there,
and
don’t
be
diminished.
\VS{7}Seek
the
peace
of
the
city
where
I
have
caused
you
to
be
carried
away
captive,
and
pray
to
Yahweh
for
it;
for
in
its
peace
you
will
have
peace.”
\VS{8}For
Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel
says: “Don’t
let
your
prophets
who
are
among
you
and
your
diviners
deceive
you.
Don’t
listen
to
your
dreams
which
you cause
to
be
dreamed.
\VS{9}For
they
prophesy
falsely
to
you
in
my
name.
I
have
not
sent
them,”
says
Yahweh.
\VS{10}For
Yahweh
says, “After
seventy
years
are
accomplished
for
Babylon,
I
will
visit
you
and perform
my
good
word
toward
you,
in causing
you
to
return
to
this
place.
\VS{11}For
I
know
the
thoughts
that
I
think
toward
you,”
says
Yahweh, “thoughts
of
peace,
and
not
of
evil,
to
give
you
hope
and
a
future.
\VS{12}You shall
call
on
me,
and
you shall
go
and
pray
to
me,
and
I
will
listen
to
you.
\VS{13}You
shall
seek
me
and
find
me,
when
you
search
for
me
with
all
your
heart.
\VS{14}I
will
be
found
by
you,”
says
Yahweh, “and
I
will
turn
again
your
captivity,
and
I
will
gather
you
from
all
the
nations,
and
from
all
the
places
where
I
have
driven
you,
says
Yahweh.
I
will
bring
you
again
to
the
place
from
where
I
caused
you
to
be
carried
away
captive.”
\par }{\PI \VS{15}Because
you
have
said, “Yahweh
has
raised
us
up
prophets
in
Babylon,”
\VS{16}Yahweh
says
concerning
the
king
who
sits
on
David’s
throne,
and
concerning
all
the
people
who
dwell
in
this
city,
your
brothers
who
haven’t
gone
with
you
into captivity,
\VS{17}Yahweh
of
Armies
says: “Behold,
I
will
send
on
them
the
sword,
the
famine,
and
the
pestilence,
and
will
make
them
like rotten
figs
that
can’t
be
eaten,
they
are
so bad.
\VS{18}I
will
pursue
after
them
with
the
sword,
with
the
famine,
and
with
the
pestilence,
and
will
deliver
them
to
be tossed
back
and
forth
among
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth,
to
be
an
object
of
horror,
an astonishment,
a
hissing,
and
a
reproach
among
all
the
nations
where
I
have
driven
them,
\VS{19}because
they
have
not
listened
to
my
words,”
says
Yahweh, “with
which
I
sent
to
them
my
servants
the
prophets,
rising
up
early
and
sending
them;
but
you
would
not
hear,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\PI \VS{20}Hear
therefore
Yahweh’s
word,
all
you
captives
whom
I
have
sent
away
from
Jerusalem
to
Babylon.
\VS{21}Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says
concerning
Ahab
the
son
of
Kolaiah,
and
concerning
Zedekiah
the
son
of
Maaseiah,
who
prophesy
a
lie
to
you
in
my
name: “Behold,
I
will
deliver
them
into
the
hand
of
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon;
and
he
will
kill
them
before
your
eyes.
\VS{22}A
curse
will
be
taken
up
about
them
by
all
the
captives
of
Judah
who
are
in
Babylon,
saying, ‘Yahweh
make
you
like
Zedekiah
and
like
Ahab,
whom
the
king
of
Babylon
roasted
in
the
fire;’
\VS{23}because
they
have
done foolish
things
in
Israel,
and
have
committed
adultery
with
their
neighbors’
wives,
and
have
spoken
words
in
my
name
falsely,
which
I
didn’t
command
them.
I
am
he
who
knows,
and
am
witness,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}Concerning
Shemaiah
the
Nehelamite
you shall
speak,
saying,
\VS{25}“Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says, ‘Because
you
have
sent
letters
in
your own
name
to
all
the
people
who
are
at
Jerusalem,
and
to
Zephaniah
the
son
of
Maaseiah,
the
priest,
and
to
all
the
priests,
saying,
\VS{26}“Yahweh
has
made
you
priest
in
the
place
of
Jehoiada
the
priest,
that
there
may
be
officers
in
Yahweh’s
house,
for
every
man
who
is crazy
and
makes
himself
a
prophet,
that
you
should
put
him
in
the
stocks
and
in shackles.
\VS{27}Now
therefore,
why
have
you
not
rebuked
Jeremiah
of
Anathoth,
who makes
himself
a prophet
to
you,
\VS{28}because
he
has
sent
to
us
in
Babylon,
saying,
The captivity
is
long.
Build
houses,
and
dwell
in
them.
Plant
gardens,
and
eat
their
fruit?” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{29}Zephaniah
the
priest
read
this
letter
in
the
hearing
of
Jeremiah
the
prophet.
\VS{30}Then
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{31}“Send
to
all
of
the
captives,
saying, ‘Yahweh
says
concerning
Shemaiah
the
Nehelamite: “Because
Shemaiah
has
prophesied
to
you,
and
I
didn’t
send
him,
and
he
has
caused
you
to
trust
in
a
lie,”
\VS{32}therefore
Yahweh
says, “Behold,
I
will
punish
Shemaiah
the
Nehelamite
and
his
offspring.
He
will
not
have
a
man
to
dwell
among
this
people.
He
won’t
see
the
good
that
I
will
do
to
my
people,”
says
Yahweh, “because
he
has
spoken
rebellion
against
Yahweh.” ’ ”

\par }\Chap{30}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
came
to
Jeremiah
from
Yahweh,
saying,
\VS{2}“Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
says, ‘Write
all
the
words
that
I
have
spoken
to
you
in
a
book.
\VS{3}For,
behold,
the
days
come,’
says
Yahweh, ‘that
I
will
reverse
the
captivity
of
my
people
Israel
and
Judah,’
says
Yahweh. ‘I
will
cause
them
to
return
to
the
land
that
I
gave
to
their
fathers,
and
they
will
possess
it.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}These
are
the
words
that
Yahweh
spoke
concerning
Israel
and
concerning
Judah.
\VS{5}For
Yahweh
says:
\par }{\Q “We
have
heard
a
voice
of
trembling;
\par }{\QB a
voice
of
fear,
and
not
of
peace.
\par }{\Q \VS{6}Ask
now,
and
see
whether
a
man travails
with
child.
\par }{\QB Why
do
I
see
every
man
with
his
hands
on
his
waist,
as
a woman
in travail,
\par }{\QB and
all
faces
are
turned
pale?
\par }{\Q \VS{7}Alas,
for
that
day
is
great,
so
that
none
is
like
it!
\par }{\QB It
is
even
the
time
of
Jacob’s
trouble;
\par }{\QB but
he
will
be
saved
out
of
it.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}It
will
come
to
pass
in
that
day,
says
Yahweh
of
Armies,
that
I
will
break
his
yoke
from
off
your
neck,
\par }{\QB and
will
burst
your
bonds.
\par }{\QB Strangers
will
no
more
make
them
their bondservants;
\par }{\Q \VS{9}but
they
will
serve
Yahweh
their
God,
\par }{\QB and
David
their
king,
\par }{\QB whom
I
will
raise
up
to
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}Therefore
don’t
be
afraid,
O
Jacob
my
servant,
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\QB Don’t
be
dismayed,
Israel.
\par }{\Q For,
behold,
I
will
save
you
from
afar,
\par }{\QB and
save
your
offspring
from
the
land
of
their
captivity.
\par }{\Q Jacob
will
return,
\par }{\QB and
will
be
quiet
and
at
ease.
\par }{\QB No
one
will
make
him
afraid.
\par }{\Q \VS{11}For
I
am
with
you,
says
Yahweh,
to
save
you;
\par }{\QB for
I
will
make
a
full
end
of
all
the
nations
where
I
have
scattered
you,
\par }{\QB but
I
will
not
make
a
full
end
of
you;
\par }{\Q but
I
will
correct
you
in measure,
\par }{\QB and
will
in
no
way
leave
you
unpunished.”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}For
Yahweh
says,
\par }{\Q “Your hurt
is
incurable.
\par }{\QB Your
wound
is grievous.
\par }{\Q \VS{13}There
is
no
one
to
plead
your
cause,
\par }{\QB that you may
be bound up.
\par }{\QB You
have
no
healing medicines.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}All
your
lovers
have
forgotten
you.
\par }{\QB They
don’t
seek
you.
\par }{\Q For
I
have
wounded
you
with
the
wound
of
an
enemy,
\par }{\QB with
the chastisement
of
a
cruel
one,
\par }{\Q for
the
greatness
of
your
iniquity,
\par }{\QB because
your
sins
were
increased.
\par }{\Q \VS{15}Why
do
you
cry
over
your
injury?
\par }{\QB Your
pain
is
incurable.
\par }{\Q For
the
greatness
of
your
iniquity,
\par }{\QB because
your
sins
have
increased,
\par }{\QB I
have
done
these
things
to
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}Therefore
all
those
who
devour
you
will
be
devoured.
\par }{\QB All
your adversaries,
everyone
of
them,
will
go
into
captivity.
\par }{\Q Those
who
plunder
you
will
be
plunder.
\par }{\QB I
will
make
all
who
prey
on
you
become
prey.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}For
I
will
restore
health
to
you,
\par }{\QB and
I
will
heal
you
of
your
wounds,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\Q “because
they
have
called
you
an
outcast,
\par }{\QB saying, ‘It
is
Zion,
whom
no
man
seeks
after.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Yahweh
says:
\par }{\Q “Behold,
I
will
reverse
the
captivity
of
Jacob’s
tents,
\par }{\QB and
have
compassion
on
his
dwelling
places.
\par }{\Q The
city
will
be
built
on
its
own hill,
\par }{\QB and
the
palace
will
be
inhabited
in
its
own
place.
\par }{\Q \VS{19}Thanksgiving
will
proceed
out
of
them
\par }{\QB with
the
voice
of
those
who
make merry.
\par }{\Q I
will
multiply
them,
\par }{\QB and
they
will
not
be
few;
\par }{\Q I
will also
glorify
them,
\par }{\QB and
they
will
not
be
small.
\par }{\Q \VS{20}Their
children also
will
be
as
before,
\par }{\QB and
their
congregation
will
be
established
before
me.
\par }{\QB I
will
punish
all
who
oppress
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{21}Their prince
will
be
one
of
them,
\par }{\QB and
their
ruler
will
proceed
from
among
them.
\par }{\Q I
will
cause
him
to
draw
near,
\par }{\QB and
he
will
approach
me;
\par }{\QB for
who
is
he
who
has
had boldness
to
approach
me?”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{22}“You shall
be
my
people,
\par }{\QB and
I
will
be
your
God.
\par }{\Q \VS{23}Behold,
Yahweh’s
storm,
his
wrath,
has
gone
out,
\par }{\QB a
sweeping
storm;
\par }{\QB it
will burst
on
the
head
of
the
wicked.
\par }{\Q \VS{24}The
fierce
anger
of
Yahweh
will
not
return
until
he
has
accomplished,
\par }{\QB and
until
he
has performed
the intentions
of
his
heart.
\par }{\QB In
the
latter
days
you
will
understand
it.”

\par }\Chap{31}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“At
that
time,”
says
Yahweh, “I
will
be
the
God
of
all
the
families
of
Israel,
and
they
will
be
my
people.”
\par }{\PP \VS{2}Yahweh
says, “The
people
who
survive
the
sword
found
favor
in
the
wilderness;
even
Israel,
when
I
went
to cause
him
to
rest.”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Yahweh
appeared
of
old
to
me, saying,
\par }{\Q “Yes,
I
have
loved
you
with
an
everlasting
love.
\par }{\QB Therefore
I
have
drawn
you
with
loving
kindness.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}I
will
build
you
again,
\par }{\QB and
you
will
be
built,
O
virgin
of
Israel.
\par }{\Q You
will
again
be adorned
with
your
tambourines,
\par }{\QB and
will
go
out
in
the
dances
of those
who make merry.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}Again
you
will
plant
vineyards
on
the
mountains
of
Samaria.
\par }{\QB The
planters
will
plant,
\par }{\QB and
will enjoy its fruit.
\par }{\Q \VS{6}For
there
will
be
a
day
that
the
watchmen
on
the
hills
of
Ephraim
cry,
\par }{\QB ‘Arise! Let’s
go
up
to
Zion
to
Yahweh
our
God.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}For
Yahweh
says,
\par }{\Q “Sing
with
gladness
for
Jacob,
\par }{\QB and
shout
for
the
chief
of
the
nations.
\par }{\Q Publish,
praise,
and
say,
\par }{\QB ‘Yahweh,
save
your
people,
\par }{\QB the
remnant
of
Israel!’
\par }{\Q \VS{8}Behold,
I
will
bring
them
from
the
north
country,
\par }{\QB and
gather
them
from
the uttermost
parts
of
the
earth,
\par }{\Q along
with
the
blind
and
the
lame,
\par }{\QB the
woman
with
child
and
her
who travails
with
child
together.
\par }{\QB They
will
return
as
a
great
company.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}They
will
come
with
weeping.
\par }{\QB I
will
lead
them
with petitions.
\par }{\Q I
will
cause
them
to
walk
by rivers
of
waters,
\par }{\QB in
a
straight
way
in
which
they
won’t
stumble;
\par }{\Q for
I
am
a
father
to
Israel.
\par }{\QB Ephraim
is
my
firstborn.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{10}“Hear
Yahweh’s
word,
you
nations,
\par }{\QB and
declare
it
in
the
distant
islands.
Say,
\par }{\Q ‘He
who
scattered
Israel
will
gather
him,
\par }{\QB and
keep
him,
as
a
shepherd
does
his
flock.’
\par }{\Q \VS{11}For
Yahweh
has
ransomed
Jacob,
\par }{\QB and
redeemed
him
from
the
hand
of
him
who
was
stronger
than
he.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}They
will
come
and
sing
in
the
height
of
Zion,
\par }{\QB and
will
flow
to
the
goodness
of
Yahweh,
\par }{\Q to
the
grain,
to
the
new
wine,
to
the
oil,
\par }{\QB and
to
the
young
of
the
flock
and
of
the
herd.
\par }{\Q Their
soul
will
be
as
a
watered
garden.
\par }{\QB They
will
not
sorrow
any
more
at
all.
\par }{\Q \VS{13}Then
the
virgin
will
rejoice
in
the
dance,
\par }{\QB the
young
men
and
the
old
together;
\par }{\Q for
I
will
turn
their
mourning
into
joy,
\par }{\QB and
will
comfort
them,
and
make
them
rejoice
from
their
sorrow.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}I
will satiate
the
soul
of
the
priests
with
fatness,
\par }{\QB and
my
people
will
be
satisfied
with
my
goodness,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{15}Yahweh
says:
\par }{\Q “A
voice
is
heard
in
Ramah,
\par }{\QB lamentation
and
bitter
weeping,
\par }{\Q Rachel
weeping
for
her
children.
\par }{\QB She
refuses
to
be
comforted
for
her
children,
\par }{\QB because
they
are
no
more.”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Yahweh
says:
\par }{\Q “Refrain
your
voice
from
weeping,
\par }{\QB and
your
eyes
from
tears,
\par }{\QB for
your
work
will
be
rewarded,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\QB “They
will
come
again
from
the
land
of
the
enemy.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}There
is
hope
for
your
latter
end,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\QB “Your
children
will
come
again
to
their own
territory.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{18}“I
have
surely
heard
Ephraim
grieving
thus,
\par }{\QB ‘You
have
chastised
me,
\par }{\QB and
I
was
chastised,
as
an untrained
calf.
\par }{\Q Turn
me,
and
I
will
be
turned,
\par }{\QB for
you
are
Yahweh
my
God.
\par }{\Q \VS{19}Surely
after
that
I
was
turned.
\par }{\QB I
repented.
\par }{\Q After
that
I
was
instructed.
\par }{\QB I
struck
my
thigh.
\par }{\Q I
was
ashamed,
yes,
even
confounded,
\par }{\QB because
I
bore
the
reproach
of
my
youth.’
\par }{\Q \VS{20}Is
Ephraim
my
dear
son?
\par }{\QB Is
he
a darling
child?
\par }{\Q For
as
often
as
I
speak
against
him,
\par }{\QB I
still earnestly
remember
him.
\par }{\Q Therefore
my
heart
yearns
for
him.
\par }{\QB I
will
surely
have
mercy
on
him,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{21}“Set
up
road signs.
\par }{\QB Make
guideposts.
\par }{\Q Set
your
heart
toward
the
highway,
\par }{\QB even
the
way
by
which
you
went.
\par }{\Q Turn
again,
virgin
of
Israel.
\par }{\QB Turn
again
to
these
your
cities.
\par }{\Q \VS{22}How
long
will
you
go
here
and
there,
\par }{\QB you
backsliding
daughter?
\par }{\Q For
Yahweh
has
created
a
new
thing
in
the
earth:
\par }{\QB a
woman
will
encompass
a
man.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{23}Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says: “Yet
again
they
will use
this
speech
in
the
land
of
Judah
and
in
its
cities,
when
I
reverse
their
captivity: ‘Yahweh
bless
you, habitation
of
righteousness,
mountain
of
holiness.’
\VS{24}Judah
and
all
its
cities
will
dwell therein
together,
the
farmers,
and
those
who
go
about
with
flocks.
\VS{25}For
I
have
satiated
the
weary
soul,
and
I
have replenished
every sorrowful
soul.”
\par }{\PP \VS{26}On
this
I awakened,
and
saw;
and
my
sleep
was
sweet
to
me.
\par }{\PP \VS{27}“Behold,
the
days
come,”
says
Yahweh, “that
I
will
sow
the
house
of
Israel
and
the
house
of
Judah
with
the
seed
of
man
and
with
the
seed
of
animal.
\VS{28}It
will
happen
that,
like
as
I
have
watched
over
them
to
pluck
up
and
to
break
down
and
to
overthrow
and
to
destroy
and
to afflict,
so
I
will
watch
over
them
to
build
and
to
plant,”
says
Yahweh.
\VS{29}“In
those
days
they
will
say
no
more,
\par }{\Q “ ‘The
fathers
have
eaten
sour
grapes,
\par }{\QB and
the
children’s
teeth
are set
on edge.’
\par }{\MM \VS{30}But
everyone
will
die
for
his
own
iniquity.
Every
man
who
eats
the
sour
grapes,
his
teeth
will
be set
on edge.
\par }{\PP \VS{31}“Behold,
the
days
come,”
says
Yahweh, “that
I
will
make
a
new
covenant
with
the
house
of
Israel,
and
with
the
house
of
Judah,
\VS{32}not
according
to
the
covenant
that
I
made
with
their
fathers
in
the
day
that
I
took
them
by
the
hand
to
bring
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
which
covenant
of mine
they broke,
although
I
was
a
husband
to
them,”
says
Yahweh.
\VS{33}“But
this
is
the
covenant
that
I
will
make
with
the
house
of
Israel
after
those
days,”
says
Yahweh:
\par }{\Q “I
will
put
my
law
in
their
inward parts,
\par }{\QB and
I
will
write
it
in
their
heart.
\par }{\Q I
will
be
their
God,
\par }{\QB and
they
shall
be
my
people.
\par }{\Q \VS{34}They
will
no
longer
each
teach
his
neighbor,
\par }{\QB and
every
man
teach
his
brother,
saying, ‘Know
Yahweh;’
\par }{\Q for
they
will
all
know
me,
\par }{\QB from
their least
to
their
greatest,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\Q “for
I
will
forgive
their
iniquity,
\par }{\QB and
I
will
remember
their
sin
no
more.”
\par }{\Q \VS{35}Yahweh,
who
gives
the
sun
for
a
light
by
day,
\par }{\QB and
the
ordinances
of
the
moon
and
of
the
stars
for
a
light
by
night,
\par }{\Q who stirs
up
the
sea,
so
that
its
waves
roar—
\par }{\QB Yahweh
of
Armies
is
his
name,
says:
\par }{\Q \VS{36}“If
these ordinances
depart
from
before
me,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB “then
the
offspring
of
Israel
also
will
cease
from
being
a
nation
before
me
forever.”
\par }{\Q \VS{37}Yahweh
says: “If
heaven
above
can
be
measured,
\par }{\QB and
the
foundations
of
the
earth
searched
out
beneath,
\par }{\QB then
I
will
also cast
off
all
the
offspring
of
Israel
for
all
that
they
have
done,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{38}“Behold,
the
days come,”
says
Yahweh, “that
the
city
will
be
built
to
Yahweh
from
the
tower
of
Hananel
to
the
gate
of
the
corner.
\VS{39}The
measuring line
will
go
out
further
straight onward
to
the
hill
Gareb,
and
will
turn
toward
Goah.
\VS{40}The
whole
valley
of
the
dead
bodies
and
of
the
ashes,
and
all
the fields
to
the
brook
Kidron,
to
the
corner
of
the
horse
gate
toward
the
east,
will
be
holy
to
Yahweh.
It
will
not
be
plucked
up
or
thrown
down
any
more
forever.”

\par }\Chap{32}{\PP \VerseOne{1}This
is
the
word
that
came
to
Jeremiah
from
Yahweh
in
the
tenth
year
of
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah,
which
was
the
eighteenth
year
of
Nebuchadnezzar.
\VS{2}Now
at
that
time
the
king
of
Babylon’s
army
was
besieging
Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
the
prophet
was
shut
up
in
the
court
of
the
guard,
which
was
in
the
king
of
Judah’s
house.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}For
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah
had
shut
him
up,
saying, “Why
do
you
prophesy,
and
say, ‘Yahweh
says, “Behold,
I
will
give
this
city
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
will
take
it;
\VS{4}and
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah
won’t
escape
out
of
the
hand
of
the
Chaldeans,
but
will
surely
be
delivered
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
will
speak
with
him
mouth
to
mouth,
and
his
eyes
will
see
his
eyes;
\VS{5}and
he
will
bring
Zedekiah
to
Babylon,
and
he
will
be
there
until
I
visit
him,”
says
Yahweh, “though
you
fight
with
the
Chaldeans,
you
will
not
prosper?” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Jeremiah
said, “Yahweh’s
word
came
to
me,
saying,
\VS{7}‘Behold,
Hanamel
the
son
of
Shallum
your
uncle
will
come
to
you,
saying, “Buy
my
field
that
is
in
Anathoth;
for
the
right
of
redemption
is yours
to
buy
it.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“So
Hanamel
my
uncle’s
son
came
to
me
in
the
court
of
the
guard
according
to
Yahweh’s
word,
and
said
to
me, ‘Please
buy
my
field
that
is
in
Anathoth,
which
is
in
the
land
of
Benjamin;
for
the
right
of
inheritance
is yours,
and
the
redemption
is yours.
Buy
it
for
yourself.’
\par }{\PP “Then
I
knew
that
this
was
Yahweh’s
word.
\VS{9}I
bought
the
field
that
was
in
Anathoth
of
Hanamel
my
uncle’s
son,
and
weighed
him
the
money,
even seventeen
shekels\FTNT{*}{{\FR 32:9 }
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.}
of
silver.
\VS{10}I
signed
the
deed,
sealed
it, called
witnesses,
and
weighed
the
money
in
the
balances
to him.
\VS{11}So I
took
the
deed
of
the
purchase, both
that which was
sealed, containing
the
terms
and
conditions,
and
that which was
open;
\VS{12}and
I
delivered
the
deed
of
the
purchase
to
Baruch
the
son
of
Neriah,
the
son
of
Mahseiah,
in
the
presence
of
Hanamel
my
uncle’s
son,
and
in
the
presence
of
the
witnesses
who
signed
the
deed
of
the
purchase,
before
all
the
Jews
who
sat
in
the
court
of
the
guard.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“I
commanded
Baruch
before
them,
saying,
\VS{14}Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says: ‘Take
these
deeds,
this
deed
of
the
purchase
which
is
sealed,
and
this
deed
which
is
open,
and
put
them
in
an
earthen
vessel,
that
they
may
last
many
days.’
\VS{15}For
Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel
says: ‘Houses
and
fields
and
vineyards
will
yet
again
be
bought
in
this
land.’
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Now
after
I
had
delivered
the
deed
of
the
purchase
to
Baruch
the
son
of
Neriah,
I
prayed
to
Yahweh,
saying,
\par }{\BB \par }{\MI \VS{17}“Ah
Lord Yahweh!
Behold,
you
have
made
the
heavens
and
the
earth
by
your
great
power
and
by
your
outstretched
arm.
There
is
nothing
too
hard
for
you.
\VS{18}You
show loving
kindness
to
thousands,
and
repay
the
iniquity
of
the
fathers
into
the
bosom
of
their
children
after
them.
The
great,
the
mighty
God,
Yahweh
of
Armies
is
your
name:
\VS{19}great
in
counsel,
and
mighty
in
work;
whose
eyes
are
open
to
all
the
ways
of
the
children
of
men,
to
give
everyone
according
to
his
ways,
and
according
to
the
fruit
of
his
doings;
\VS{20}who
performed
signs
and
wonders
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
even
to
this
day,
both
in
Israel
and
among
other
men;
and
made yourself
a
name,
as
it
is
today;
\VS{21}and
brought
your
people
Israel
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
with
signs,
with
wonders,
with
a
strong
hand,
with
an
outstretched
arm,
and
with
great
terror;
\VS{22}and
gave
them
this
land,
which
you
swore
to
their
fathers
to
give
them,
a
land
flowing
with
milk
and
honey.
\VS{23}They
came
in
and
possessed
it,
but
they
didn’t
obey
your
voice
and
didn’t
walk
in
your
law.
They
have
done
nothing
of
all
that
you
commanded
them
to
do.
Therefore
you
have
caused
all
this
evil
to
come
upon
them.
\par }{\PI \VS{24}“Behold,
siege
ramps
have
been built
against
the
city
to
take
it.
The
city
is
given
into
the
hand
of
the
Chaldeans
who
fight
against
it,
because
of
the
sword,
of
the
famine,
and
of
the
pestilence.
What
you
have
spoken
has
happened.
Behold,
you
see
it.
\VS{25}You
have
said
to
me,
Lord Yahweh, ‘Buy
the
field
for
money,
and
call
witnesses;’ whereas
the
city
is
given
into
the
hand
of
the
Chaldeans.”
\par }{\PP \VS{26}Then
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{27}“Behold,
I
am
Yahweh,
the
God
of
all
flesh.
Is
there
anything
too
hard
for
me?
\VS{28}Therefore
Yahweh
says:
Behold,
I
will
give
this
city
into
the
hand
of
the
Chaldeans,
and
into
the
hand
of
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
will
take
it.
\VS{29}The
Chaldeans,
who
fight
against
this
city,
will
come
and
set
this
city
on
fire,
and
burn
it
with
the
houses
on
whose
roofs
they
have
offered
incense
to
Baal,
and poured
out drink offerings
to
other
gods,
to
provoke
me
to
anger.
\par }{\PP \VS{30}“For
the
children
of
Israel
and
the
children
of
Judah
have
done
only
that
which
was
evil
in
my
sight
from
their
youth;
for
the
children
of
Israel
have
only
provoked
me
to
anger
with
the
work
of
their
hands,
says
Yahweh.
\VS{31}For
this
city
has
been
to
me
a provocation
of
my
anger
and
of
my
wrath
from
the
day
that
they
built
it
even
to
this
day,
so
that
I
should
remove
it
from
before
my
face,
\VS{32}because
of
all
the
evil
of
the
children
of
Israel
and
of
the
children
of
Judah,
which
they
have
done
to
provoke
me
to
anger—they,
their
kings,
their
princes,
their
priests,
their
prophets,
the
men
of
Judah,
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{33}They
have
turned
their
backs
to
me,
and
not
their
faces.
Although
I
taught
them,
rising
up
early
and
teaching
them,
yet
they
have
not
listened
to
receive
instruction.
\VS{34}But
they
set
their
abominations
in
the
house
which
is
called
by
my
name,
to
defile
it.
\VS{35}They
built
the
high
places
of
Baal,
which
are
in
the
valley
of
the
son
of
Hinnom,
to cause
their
sons
and
their
daughters
to
pass
through fire
to
Molech,
which
I
didn’t
command
them.
It
didn’t
even
come
into
my
mind,
that
they
should
do
this
abomination,
to cause
Judah
to
sin.”
\par }{\PP \VS{36}Now
therefore
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
says
concerning
this
city,
about
which
you
say, “It
is
given
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Babylon
by
the
sword,
by
the
famine,
and
by
the
pestilence:”
\VS{37}“Behold,
I
will
gather
them
out
of
all
the
countries
where
I
have
driven
them
in
my
anger,
and
in
my
wrath,
and
in
great indignation;
and
I
will
bring
them
again
to
this
place.
I
will
cause
them
to
dwell
safely.
\VS{38}Then
they
will
be
my
people,
and
I
will
be
their
God.
\VS{39}I
will
give
them
one
heart
and
one
way,
that
they
may
fear
me
forever,
for
their
good
and
the
good
of
their
children
after
them.
\VS{40}I
will
make
an
everlasting
covenant
with
them,
that
I
will
not
turn
away
from
following
them,
to
do
them
good.
I
will
put
my
fear
in
their
hearts,
that
they
may
not
depart
from
me.
\VS{41}Yes,
I
will
rejoice
over
them
to
do
them
good,
and
I
will
plant
them
in
this
land assuredly
with
my
whole
heart
and
with
my
whole
soul.”
\par }{\PP \VS{42}For
Yahweh
says: “Just
as
I
have
brought
all
this
great
evil
on
this
people,
so
I
will
bring
on
them
all
the
good
that
I
have
promised
them.
\VS{43}Fields
will
be
bought
in
this
land,
about
which
you
say, ‘It
is
desolate,
without
man
or
animal.
It
is
given
into
the
hand
of
the
Chaldeans.’
\VS{44}Men
will
buy
fields
for
money,
sign
the
deeds,
seal
them,
and
call
witnesses,
in
the
land
of
Benjamin,
and
in
the
places
around
Jerusalem,
in
the
cities
of
Judah,
in
the
cities
of
the
hill
country,
in
the
cities
of
the
lowland,
and
in
the
cities
of
the
South;
for
I
will
cause
their
captivity
to
be reversed,”
says
Yahweh.

\Chap{33}\VerseOne{1}Moreover
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
Jeremiah
the
second
time,
while
he
was
still locked
up
in
the
court
of
the
guard,
saying,
\VS{2}“Yahweh
who
does
it,
Yahweh
who
forms
it
to
establish
it—Yahweh
is
his
name,
says:
\VS{3}‘Call
to
me,
and
I
will
answer
you,
and
will
show
you
great
and
difficult
things, which
you
don’t
know.’
\VS{4}For
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
says
concerning
the
houses
of
this
city
and
concerning
the
houses
of
the
kings
of
Judah,
which
are
broken
down
to
make
a defense
against
the mounds
and
against
the
sword:
\VS{5}‘While
men
come
to
fight
with
the
Chaldeans,
and
to
fill
them
with
the
dead
bodies
of
men,
whom
I
have
killed
in
my
anger
and
in
my
wrath,
and
for
all
whose
wickedness
I
have
hidden
my
face
from
this
city,
\VS{6}behold,
I
will
bring
it
health
and
healing,
and
I
will cure
them;
and
I
will
reveal
to
them
abundance
of
peace
and
truth.
\VS{7}I
will
restore
the
fortunes
of
Judah
and
Israel,
and
will
build
them
as
at
the
first.
\VS{8}I
will
cleanse
them
from
all
their
iniquity
by
which
they
have
sinned
against
me.
I
will
pardon
all
their
iniquities
by
which
they
have
sinned
against
me
and
by
which
they
have
transgressed
against
me.
\VS{9}This city
will
be
to
me
for
a
name
of
joy,
for
praise,
and
for
glory,
before
all
the
nations
of
the
earth,
which
will
hear
all
the
good
that
I
do
to
them,
and
will
fear
and
tremble
for
all
the
good
and
for
all
the
peace
that
I
provide
to
it.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Yahweh
says: “Yet
again
there
will
be
heard
in
this
place,
about
which
you
say, ‘It
is
waste,
without
man
and
without
animal,
even
in
the
cities
of
Judah,
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem,
that
are
desolate,
without
man
and
without
inhabitant
and
without
animal,’
\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
those
who
say, ‘Give
thanks
to
Yahweh
of
Armies,
for
Yahweh
is
good,
for
his loving
kindness
endures
forever;’
who
bring
thanksgiving
into
Yahweh’s
house.
For
I
will
cause
the
captivity
of
the
land
to
be reversed
as
at
the
first,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Yahweh
of
Armies
says: “Yet
again
there
will
be
in
this
place,
which
is waste,
without
man
and
without
animal,
and
in
all
its
cities,
a habitation
of
shepherds causing
their
flocks
to
lie
down.
\VS{13}In
the
cities
of
the
hill
country,
in
the
cities
of
the
lowland,
in
the
cities
of
the
South,
in
the
land
of
Benjamin,
in
the
places
around
Jerusalem,
and
in
the
cities
of
Judah,
the
flocks
will
again
pass
under
the
hands
of
him
who
counts
them,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“Behold,
the
days
come,”
says
Yahweh, “that
I
will perform
that
good
word
which
I
have
spoken
concerning
the
house
of
Israel
and
concerning
the
house
of
Judah.
\par }{\Q \VS{15}“In
those
days
and
at
that
time,
\par }{\QB I
will
cause
a
Branch
of
righteousness
to
grow
up
to
David.
\par }{\QB He
will execute
justice
and
righteousness
in
the
land.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}In
those
days
Judah
will
be
saved,
\par }{\QB and
Jerusalem
will
dwell
safely.
\par }{\Q This
is
the
name
by
which
she
will
be
called:
\par }{\QB Yahweh
our
righteousness.”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}For
Yahweh
says: “David
will
never
lack
a
man
to
sit
on
the
throne
of
the
house
of
Israel.
\VS{18}The
Levitical
priests
won’t
lack
a
man
before
me
to
offer
burnt
offerings,
to
burn
meal
offerings,
and
to
do
sacrifice
continually.”
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Yahweh’s
word
came
to
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{20}“Yahweh
says: ‘If
you
can
break
my
covenant
of
the
day
and
my
covenant
of
the
night,
so
that
there
will
not
be
day
and
night
in
their
time,
\VS{21}then
my
covenant
could
also
be
broken
with
David
my
servant,
that
he won’t
have
a
son
to
reign
on
his
throne;
and
with
the
Levitical
priests,
my
ministers.
\VS{22}As
the
army
of
the
sky
can’t
be
counted,
and
the
sand
of
the
sea
can’t
be
measured,
so
I
will
multiply
the
offspring
of
David
my
servant
and
the
Levites
who
minister
to
me.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{23}Yahweh’s
word
came
to
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{24}“Don’t
consider
what
this
people
has
spoken,
saying, ‘Has
Yahweh cast
off
the
two
families
which
he
chose?’
Thus
they
despise
my
people,
that
they
should
be
no
more
a
nation
before
them.”
\VS{25}Yahweh
says: “If
my
covenant
of
day
and
night fails,
if
I
have
not
appointed
the
ordinances
of
heaven
and
earth,
\VS{26}then
I
will
also cast
away
the
offspring
of
Jacob,
and
of
David
my
servant,
so
that
I
will
not
take
of
his
offspring
to
be
rulers
over
the
offspring
of
Abraham,
Isaac,
and
Jacob;
for
I
will
cause
their
captivity
to
be reversed
and
will
have
mercy
on
them.”

\par }\Chap{34}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
from
Yahweh,
when
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon,
with
all
his
army,
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth
that
were
under
his
dominion,
and
all
the
peoples,
were
fighting
against
Jerusalem
and
against
all
its
cities,
saying:
\VS{2}“Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
says, ‘Go,
and
speak
to
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah,
and
tell
him,
Yahweh
says, “Behold,
I
will
give
this
city
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Babylon
and
he
will
burn
it
with
fire.
\VS{3}You
won’t
escape
out
of
his
hand,
but
will
surely
be
taken
and
delivered
into
his
hand.
Your
eyes
will
see
the
eyes
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
will
speak
with
you
mouth
to
mouth.
You
will
go
to
Babylon.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{4}“Yet
hear
Yahweh’s
word,
O
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah.
Yahweh
says
concerning
you, ‘You
won’t
die
by
the
sword.
\VS{5}You
will
die
in
peace;
and
with
the burnings
of
your
fathers,
the
former
kings
who
were
before
you,
so
they
will
make
a
burning
for
you.
They
will
lament
you,
saying, “Ah
Lord!”
for
I
have
spoken
the
word,’
says
Yahweh.”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Then
Jeremiah
the
prophet
spoke
all
these
words
to
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah
in
Jerusalem,
\VS{7}when
the
king
of
Babylon’s
army
was
fighting
against
Jerusalem
and
against
all
the
cities
of
Judah
that
were
left,
against
Lachish
and
against
Azekah;
for
these alone
remained
of
the
cities
of
Judah
as
fortified
cities.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}The
word
came
to
Jeremiah
from
Yahweh,
after
King
Zedekiah
had
made
a
covenant
with
all
the
people
who
were
at
Jerusalem,
to
proclaim
liberty
to
them,
\VS{9}that
every
man
should
let
his
male
servant,
and
every
man
his
female
servant,
who
is
a
Hebrew
or
a Hebrewess,
go
free,
that
no
one
should
make bondservants
of
them,
of
a
Jew
his
brother.
\VS{10}All
the
princes
and
all
the
people
obeyed
who
had
entered
into
the
covenant,
that
everyone
should
let
his
male
servant
and
everyone
his
female
servant
go
free,
that
no
one
should
make bondservants
of
them
any
more.
They
obeyed
and
let
them
go,
\VS{11}but
afterwards
they
turned,
and
caused
the
servants
and
the handmaids
whom
they
had
let
go
free
to
return,
and
brought
them
into
subjection
for
servants
and
for handmaids.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Therefore
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
Jeremiah
from
Yahweh,
saying,
\VS{13}“Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
says: ‘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,
every
man
of
you
shall
release
his
brother
who
is
a
Hebrew,
who
has
been
sold
to
you,
and
has
served
you
six
years.
You
shall
let
him
go
free
from
you.
But
your
fathers
didn’t
listen
to
me,
and
didn’t
incline
their
ear.
\VS{15}You
had
now
turned,
and
had
done
that
which
is
right
in
my
eyes,
in
every
man
proclaiming
liberty
to
his
neighbor.
You
had
made
a
covenant
before
me
in
the
house
which
is
called
by
my
name;
\VS{16}but
you
turned
and
profaned
my
name,
and
every
man
caused
his
servant
and
every
man
his handmaid,
whom
you
had
let
go
free
at
their pleasure,
to
return.
You
brought
them
into
subjection,
to
be
to
you
for
servants
and
for handmaids.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Therefore
Yahweh
says: “You
have
not
listened
to
me,
to
proclaim
liberty,
every
man
to
his
brother,
and
every
man
to
his
neighbor.
Behold,
I
proclaim
to
you
a
liberty,”
says
Yahweh, “to
the
sword,
to
the
pestilence,
and
to
the
famine.
I
will
make
you
be tossed
back
and
forth
among
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth.
\VS{18}I
will
give
the
men
who
have transgressed
my
covenant,
who
have
not
performed
the
words
of
the
covenant
which
they
made
before
me
when
they
cut
the
calf
in
two
and
passed
between
its
parts:
\VS{19}the
princes
of
Judah,
the
princes
of
Jerusalem,
the
eunuchs,
the
priests,
and
all
the
people
of
the
land,
who
passed
between
the
parts
of
the
calf.
\VS{20}I
will
even
give
them
into
the
hand
of
their
enemies
and
into
the
hand
of
those
who
seek
their
life.
Their
dead
bodies
will
be
food
for
the
birds
of
the
sky
and
for
the
animals
of
the
earth.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}“I
will
give
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah
and
his
princes
into
the
hands
of
their
enemies,
into
the
hands
of
those
who
seek
their
life
and
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Babylon’s
army,
who
has
gone
away
from
you.
\VS{22}Behold,
I
will
command,”
says
Yahweh, “and
cause
them
to
return
to
this
city.
They
will
fight
against
it,
take
it,
and
burn
it
with
fire.
I
will
make
the
cities
of
Judah
a
desolation,
without
inhabitant.”

\par }\Chap{35}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
from
Yahweh
in
the
days
of
Jehoiakim
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah,
saying,
\VS{2}“Go
to
the
house
of
the Rechabites,
and
speak
to
them,
and
bring
them
into
Yahweh’s
house,
into
one
of
the
rooms,
and
give
them
wine
to
drink.”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Then
I
took
Jaazaniah
the
son
of
Jeremiah,
the
son
of
Habazziniah,
with
his
brothers,
all
his
sons,
and
the
whole
house
of
the Rechabites;
\VS{4}and
I
brought
them
into
Yahweh’s
house,
into
the
room
of
the
sons
of
Hanan
the
son
of
Igdaliah,
the
man
of
God,
which
was
by
the
room
of
the
princes,
which
was
above
the
room
of
Maaseiah
the
son
of
Shallum,
the
keeper
of
the threshold.
\VS{5}I
set
before
the
sons
of
the
house
of
the Rechabites bowls
full
of
wine,
and
cups;
and
I
said
to
them, “Drink
wine!”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}But
they
said, “We
will
drink
no
wine;
for
Jonadab
the
son
of
Rechab,
our
father,
commanded
us,
saying, ‘You
shall
drink
no
wine,
neither
you
nor
your
children,
forever.
\VS{7}You
shall
not
build
a
house,
sow
seed,
plant
a
vineyard,
or
have
any;
but
all
your
days
you
shall
dwell
in
tents,
that
you
may
live
many
days
in
the
land
in
which
you
live
as nomads.’
\VS{8}We
have
obeyed
the
voice
of
Jonadab
the
son
of
Rechab,
our
father,
in
all
that
he
commanded
us,
to
drink
no
wine
all
our
days,
we,
our
wives,
our
sons,
or
our
daughters;
\VS{9}and
not
to
build
houses
for
ourselves
to
dwell
in. We
have
no
vineyard,
field,
or
seed;
\VS{10}but
we
have
lived
in
tents,
and
have
obeyed,
and
done according
to
all
that
Jonadab
our
father
commanded
us.
\VS{11}But
when
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
came
up
into
the
land,
we
said, ‘Come! Let’s
go
to
Jerusalem
for fear
of
the
army
of
the
Chaldeans,
and
for fear
of
the
army
of
the Syrians;
so
we
will
dwell
at
Jerusalem.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Then
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{13}“Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says: ‘Go
and
tell
the
men
of
Judah
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem, “Will
you
not
receive
instruction
to
listen
to
my
words?”
says
Yahweh.
\VS{14}“The
words
of
Jonadab
the
son
of
Rechab
that
he
commanded
his
sons,
not
to
drink
wine,
are performed;
and
to
this
day
they
drink
none,
for
they
obey
their
father’s
commandment;
but
I
have
spoken
to
you,
rising
up
early
and
speaking,
and
you
have
not
listened
to
me.
\VS{15}I
have
sent
also
to
you
all
my
servants
the
prophets,
rising
up
early
and
sending
them,
saying, ‘Every
one
of
you
must
return
now
from
his
evil
way,
amend
your
doings,
and
don’t
go
after
other
gods
to
serve
them.
Then
you
will
dwell
in
the
land
which
I
have
given
to
you
and
to
your
fathers;’
but
you
have
not
inclined
your
ear,
nor
listened
to
me.
\VS{16}The
sons
of
Jonadab
the
son
of
Rechab
have performed
the
commandment
of
their
father
which
he
commanded
them,
but
this
people
has
not
listened
to
me.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{17}“Therefore
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says: ‘Behold,
I
will
bring
on
Judah
and
on
all
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
all
the
evil
that
I
have
pronounced
against
them,
because
I
have
spoken
to
them,
but
they
have
not
heard;
and
I
have
called
to
them,
but
they
have
not
answered.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Jeremiah
said
to
the
house
of
the Rechabites, “Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says: ‘Because
you
have
obeyed
the
commandment
of
Jonadab
your
father,
and
kept
all
his precepts,
and
done
according
to
all
that
he
commanded
you,’
\VS{19}therefore
Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says: ‘Jonadab
the
son
of
Rechab
will
not
lack
a
man
to
stand
before
me
forever.’ ”

\par }\Chap{36}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
fourth
year
of
Jehoiakim
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah,
this
word
came
to
Jeremiah
from
Yahweh,
saying,
\VS{2}“Take
a
scroll
of
a
book,
and
write
in
it
all
the
words
that
I
have
spoken
to
you
against
Israel,
against
Judah,
and
against
all
the
nations,
from
the
day
I
spoke
to
you,
from
the
days
of
Josiah
even
to
this
day.
\VS{3}It
may
be
that
the
house
of
Judah
will
hear
all
the
evil
which
I
intend
to
do
to
them,
that
they
may
each
return
from
his
evil
way;
that
I
may
forgive
their
iniquity
and
their
sin.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Then
Jeremiah
called
Baruch
the
son
of
Neriah;
and
Baruch
wrote
from
the
mouth
of
Jeremiah
all
Yahweh’s
words,
which
he
had
spoken
to
him,
on
a
scroll
of
a
book.
\VS{5}Jeremiah
commanded
Baruch,
saying, “I
am
restricted.
I
can’t
go
into
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{6}Therefore
you
go,
and
read
from
the
scroll
which
you
have
written
from
my
mouth,
Yahweh’s
words,
in
the
ears
of
the
people
in
Yahweh’s
house
on
the
fast
day.
Also
you
shall
read
them
in
the
ears
of
all
Judah
who
come
out
of
their
cities.
\VS{7}It
may
be
they
will
present
their
supplication
before
Yahweh,
and
will
each
return
from
his
evil
way;
for
Yahweh
has
pronounced
great
anger
and
wrath
against
this
people.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Baruch
the
son
of
Neriah
did according
to
all
that
Jeremiah
the
prophet
commanded
him,
reading
in
the
book
Yahweh’s
words
in
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{9}Now
in
the
fifth
year
of
Jehoiakim
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah,
in
the
ninth
month,
all
the
people
in
Jerusalem
and
all
the
people
who
came
from
the
cities
of
Judah
to
Jerusalem,
proclaimed
a
fast
before
Yahweh.
\VS{10}Then
Baruch
read
the
words
of
Jeremiah
from
the
book
in
Yahweh’s
house,
in
the
room
of
Gemariah
the
son
of
Shaphan
the
scribe,
in
the
upper
court,
at
the
entry
of
the
new
gate
of
Yahweh’s
house,
in
the
ears
of
all
the
people.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}When
Micaiah
the
son
of
Gemariah,
the
son
of
Shaphan,
had
heard
out
of
the
book
all
Yahweh’s
words,
\VS{12}he
went
down
into
the
king’s
house,
into
the scribe’s
room;
and
behold,
all
the
princes
were
sitting
there,
Elishama
the
scribe,
Delaiah
the
son
of
Shemaiah,
Elnathan
the
son
of
Achbor,
Gemariah
the
son
of
Shaphan,
Zedekiah
the
son
of
Hananiah,
and
all
the
princes.
\VS{13}Then
Micaiah
declared
to
them
all
the
words
that
he
had
heard,
when
Baruch
read
the
book
in
the
ears
of
the
people.
\VS{14}Therefore
all
the
princes
sent
Jehudi
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
the
son
of
Shelemiah,
the
son
of
Cushi,
to
Baruch,
saying, “Take
in
your
hand
the
scroll
in
which
you
have
read
in
the
ears
of
the
people,
and
come.”
\par }{\PP So
Baruch
the
son
of
Neriah
took
the
scroll
in
his
hand,
and
came
to
them.
\VS{15}They
said
to
him, “Sit
down
now,
and
read
it
in
our
hearing.”
\par }{\PP So
Baruch
read
it
in
their
hearing.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Now
when
they
had
heard
all
the
words,
they
turned
in
fear
one
toward
another,
and
said
to
Baruch, “We
will
surely
tell
the
king
of
all
these
words.”
\VS{17}They
asked
Baruch,
saying, “Tell
us
now,
how did
you
write
all
these
words
at
his
mouth?”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Then
Baruch
answered
them, “He
dictated
all
these
words
to
me
with
his
mouth,
and
I
wrote
them
with
ink
in
the
book.”
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Then
the
princes
said
to
Baruch, “You
and
Jeremiah go
hide.
Don’t
let
anyone
know
where
you
are.”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}They
went
in
to
the
king
into
the
court,
but
they
had
laid
up
the
scroll
in
the
room
of
Elishama
the
scribe.
Then
they
told
all
the
words
in
the
hearing
of
the
king.
\VS{21}So
the
king
sent
Jehudi
to
get
the
scroll,
and
he
took
it
out
of
the
room
of
Elishama
the
scribe.
Jehudi
read
it
in
the
hearing
of
the
king,
and
in
the
hearing
of
all
the
princes
who
stood
beside
the
king.
\VS{22}Now
the
king
was
sitting
in
the
winter
house
in
the
ninth
month,
and
there
was
a fire
in
the
brazier
burning
before
him.
\VS{23}When
Jehudi
had
read
three
or
four
columns,
the
king
cut
it
with
the penknife,
and
cast
it
into
the
fire
that
was
in
the
brazier,
until
all
the
scroll
was
consumed
in
the
fire
that
was
in
the
brazier.
\VS{24}The
king
and
his
servants
who
heard
all
these
words
were
not
afraid,
and
didn’t
tear
their
garments.
\VS{25}Moreover
Elnathan
and
Delaiah
and
Gemariah
had
made intercession
to
the
king
that
he
would
not
burn
the
scroll;
but
he
would
not
listen
to
them.
\VS{26}The
king
commanded
Jerahmeel
the
king’s
son,
and
Seraiah
the
son
of
Azriel,
and
Shelemiah
the
son
of
Abdeel,
to arrest
Baruch
the
scribe
and
Jeremiah
the
prophet;
but
Yahweh
hid
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{27}Then
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
Jeremiah,
after
the
king
had
burned
the
scroll,
and
the
words
which
Baruch
wrote
at
the
mouth
of
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{28}“Take
again
another
scroll,
and
write
in
it
all
the
former
words
that
were
in
the
first
scroll,
which
Jehoiakim
the
king
of
Judah
has
burned.
\VS{29}Concerning
Jehoiakim
king
of
Judah
you
shall
say, ‘Yahweh
says: “You
have
burned
this
scroll,
saying, “Why
have
you
written therein,
saying, ‘The
king
of
Babylon
will
certainly
come
and
destroy
this
land,
and
will cause
to
cease
from
there
man
and
animal?’ ” ’
\VS{30}Therefore
Yahweh
says
concerning
Jehoiakim
king
of
Judah: “He
will
have
no
one
to
sit
on
David’s
throne.
His
dead
body
will
be
cast
out
in
the
day
to
the heat,
and
in
the
night
to
the
frost.
\VS{31}I
will
punish
him,
his
offspring,
and
his
servants
for
their
iniquity.
I
will
bring
on
them,
on
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
and
on
the
men
of
Judah,
all
the
evil
that
I
have
pronounced
against
them,
but
they
didn’t
listen.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{32}Then
Jeremiah
took
another
scroll,
and
gave
it
to
Baruch
the
scribe,
the
son
of
Neriah,
who
wrote therein
from
the
mouth
of
Jeremiah
all
the
words
of
the
book
which
Jehoiakim
king
of
Judah
had
burned
in
the
fire;
and
many similar
words
were
added
to
them.

\par }\Chap{37}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Zedekiah
the
son
of
Josiah
reigned
as
king
instead
of Coniah
the
son
of
Jehoiakim,
whom
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
made
king
in
the
land
of
Judah.
\VS{2}But
neither
he,
nor
his
servants,
nor
the
people
of
the
land,
listened
to
Yahweh’s
words,
which
he
spoke
by
the
prophet
Jeremiah.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Zedekiah
the
king
sent
Jehucal
the
son
of
Shelemiah
and
Zephaniah
the
son
of
Maaseiah,
the
priest,
to
the
prophet
Jeremiah,
saying, “Pray
now
to
Yahweh
our
God
for
us.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Now
Jeremiah
came
in
and
went
out
among
the
people,
for
they
had
not
put
him
into
prison.
\VS{5}Pharaoh’s
army
had
come
out
of
Egypt;
and
when
the
Chaldeans
who
were
besieging
Jerusalem
heard
news
of
them,
they
withdrew
from
Jerusalem.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Then
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
the
prophet
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{7}“Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
says, ‘You
shall
tell
the
king
of
Judah,
who
sent
you
to
me
to
inquire
of
me: “Behold,
Pharaoh’s
army, which
has
come
out
to
help
you,
will
return
to
Egypt
into
their own
land.
\VS{8}The
Chaldeans
will
come
again,
and
fight
against
this
city.
They
will
take
it
and
burn
it
with
fire.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“Yahweh
says, ‘Don’t
deceive
yourselves,
saying, “The
Chaldeans
will
surely
depart
from
us;”
for
they
will
not
depart.
\VS{10}For
though
you
had
struck
the
whole
army
of
the
Chaldeans
who
fight
against
you,
and
only
wounded
men
remained
among
them,
they
would
each
rise
up
in
his
tent
and
burn
this
city
with
fire.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}When
the
army
of
the
Chaldeans
had
withdrawn
from
Jerusalem
for fear
of
Pharaoh’s
army,
\VS{12}then
Jeremiah
went
out
of
Jerusalem
to
go
into
the
land
of
Benjamin,
to receive
his portion
there,
in
the
middle
of
the
people.
\VS{13}When
he
was
in
Benjamin’s
gate,
a
captain
of
the
guard
was
there,
whose
name
was
Irijah,
the
son
of
Shelemiah,
the
son
of
Hananiah;
and
he
seized
Jeremiah
the
prophet,
saying, “You
are defecting
to
the
Chaldeans!”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Then
Jeremiah
said, “That
is
false!
I am
not defecting
to
the
Chaldeans.”
\par }{\PP But
he
didn’t
listen
to
him;
so
Irijah
seized
Jeremiah,
and
brought
him
to
the
princes.
\VS{15}The
princes
were
angry
with
Jeremiah,
and
struck
him,
and
put
him
in
prison
in
the
house
of
Jonathan
the
scribe;
for
they
had
made
that
the
prison.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}When
Jeremiah
had
come
into
the dungeon
house
and
into
the cells,
and
Jeremiah
had
remained
there
many
days,
\VS{17}then
Zedekiah
the
king
sent
and
had
him
brought
out.
The
king
asked
him secretly
in
his
house, “Is
there
any
word
from
Yahweh?”
\par }{\PP Jeremiah
said, “There
is.”
He
also
said, “You
will
be
delivered
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Babylon.”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Moreover
Jeremiah
said
to
King
Zedekiah, “How
have
I
sinned
against
you,
against
your
servants,
or
against
this
people,
that
you
have
put
me
in
prison?
\VS{19}Now
where
are
your
prophets
who
prophesied
to
you,
saying, ‘The
king
of
Babylon
will
not
come
against
you,
nor
against
this
land?’
\VS{20}Now
please
hear,
my
lord
the
king:
please
let
my
supplication
be presented
before
you,
that
you
not
cause
me
to
return
to
the
house
of
Jonathan
the
scribe, lest
I
die
there.”
\par }{\PP \VS{21}Then
Zedekiah
the
king
commanded,
and
they
committed
Jeremiah
into
the
court
of
the
guard.
They
gave
him
daily
a
loaf
of
bread
out
of
the
bakers’
street,
until
all
the
bread
in
the
city
was
gone. Thus
Jeremiah
remained
in
the
court
of
the
guard.

\par }\Chap{38}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Shephatiah
the
son
of
Mattan,
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Pashhur, Jucal
the
son
of
Shelemiah,
and
Pashhur
the
son
of
Malchijah
heard
the
words
that
Jeremiah
spoke
to
all
the
people,
saying,
\VS{2}“Yahweh
says, ‘He
who
remains
in
this
city
will
die
by
the
sword,
by
the
famine,
and
by
the
pestilence,
but
he
who
goes
out
to
the
Chaldeans
will
live.
He
will
escape
with
his
life
and
he
will
live.’
\VS{3}Yahweh
says, ‘This
city
will
surely
be
given
into
the
hand
of
the
army
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
will
take
it.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Then
the
princes
said
to
the
king, “Please
let
this
man
be
put
to
death,
because
he weakens
the
hands
of
the
men
of
war
who
remain
in
this
city,
and
the
hands
of
all
the
people,
in
speaking
such
words
to
them;
for
this
man doesn’t
seek
the
welfare
of
this
people,
but
harm.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Zedekiah
the
king
said, “Behold,
he
is
in
your
hand;
for
the
king
can’t
do
anything
to oppose
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Then
they
took
Jeremiah
and
threw
him
into
the dungeon
of
Malchijah
the king’s
son,
that
was
in
the
court
of
the
guard.
They
let
down
Jeremiah
with
cords.
In
the dungeon
there
was
no
water,
but
mire;
and
Jeremiah
sank
in
the
mire.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Now
when Ebedmelech
the
Ethiopian,
a
eunuch,
who
was
in
the
king’s
house,
heard
that
they
had
put
Jeremiah
in
the dungeon (the
king
was
then
sitting
in
Benjamin’s
gate),
\VS{8}Ebedmelech
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
to
Jeremiah
the
prophet,
whom
they
have
cast
into
the dungeon.
He
is likely
to
die
in
the
place
where
he
is,
because
of
the
famine;
for
there
is
no
more
bread
in
the
city.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Then
the
king
commanded Ebedmelech
the
Ethiopian,
saying, “Take
from
here
thirty
men
with
you,
and
take
up
Jeremiah
the
prophet
out
of
the dungeon,
before
he
dies.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}So Ebedmelech
took
the
men
with
him,
and
went
into
the
house
of
the
king
under
the
treasury,
and
took
from
there
rags
and
worn-out garments,
and
let
them
down
by
cords
into
the dungeon
to
Jeremiah.
\VS{12}Ebedmelech
the
Ethiopian
said
to
Jeremiah, “Now
put
these
rags
and
worn-out garments
under
your armpits
under
the
cords.”
\par }{\PP Jeremiah
did
so.
\VS{13}So
they
lifted
Jeremiah
up
with
the
cords,
and
took
him
up
out
of
the dungeon;
and
Jeremiah
remained
in
the
court
of
the
guard.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Then
Zedekiah
the
king
sent
and
took
Jeremiah
the
prophet
to
himself
into
the
third
entry
that
is
in
Yahweh’s
house.
Then
the
king
said
to
Jeremiah, “I
will
ask
you
something.
Hide
nothing
from
me.”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Then
Jeremiah
said
to
Zedekiah, “If
I
declare
it
to
you,
will
you
not
surely
put
me
to
death?
If
I
give
you
counsel,
you
will
not
listen
to
me.”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}So
Zedekiah
the
king
swore secretly
to
Jeremiah,
saying, “As
Yahweh
lives,
who
made
our
souls,
I
will
not
put
you
to
death,
neither
will
I
give
you
into
the
hand
of
these
men
who
seek
your
life.”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Then
Jeremiah
said
to
Zedekiah, “Yahweh,
the
God
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says: ‘If
you
will
go
out
to
the
king
of
Babylon’s
princes,
then
your
soul
will
live,
and
this
city
will
not
be
burned
with
fire.
You
will
live,
along
with
your
house.
\VS{18}But
if
you
will
not
go
out
to
the
king
of
Babylon’s
princes,
then
this
city
will
be
given
into
the
hand
of
the
Chaldeans,
and
they
will
burn
it
with
fire,
and
you
won’t
escape
out
of
their
hand.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Zedekiah
the
king
said
to
Jeremiah, “I
am afraid
of
the
Jews
who
have
defected
to
the
Chaldeans,
lest
they
deliver
me
into
their
hand,
and
they mock
me.”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}But
Jeremiah
said, “They
won’t
deliver
you.
Obey,
I
beg
you,
Yahweh’s
voice,
in
that
which
I
speak
to
you;
so
it
will
be
well
with
you,
and
your
soul
will
live.
\VS{21}But
if
you
refuse
to
go
out,
this
is
the
word
that
Yahweh
has
shown
me:
\VS{22}‘Behold,
all
the
women
who
are
left
in
the
king
of
Judah’s
house
will
be
brought
out
to
the
king
of
Babylon’s
princes,
and
those
women
will
say,
\par }{\Q “Your familiar friends
have
turned
on
you,
\par }{\QB and
have
prevailed
over
you.
\par }{\Q Your
feet
are
sunk
in
the
mire,
\par }{\QB they
have
turned
away
from
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{23}They
will
bring
out
all
your
wives
and
your
children
to
the
Chaldeans.
You
won’t
escape
out
of
their
hand,
but
will
be
taken
by
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Babylon.
You
will cause
this
city
to
be
burned
with
fire.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{24}Then
Zedekiah
said
to
Jeremiah, “Let
no
man
know
of
these
words,
and
you
won’t
die.
\VS{25}But
if
the
princes
hear
that
I
have
talked
with
you,
and
they
come
to
you,
and
tell
you, ‘Declare
to
us
now
what
you
have
said
to
the
king;
don’t
hide
it
from
us,
and
we
will
not
put
you
to
death;
also
tell
us
what
the
king
said
to
you;’
\VS{26}then
you
shall
tell
them, ‘I presented
my
supplication
before
the
king,
that
he
would
not
cause
me
to
return
to
Jonathan’s
house,
to
die
there.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{27}Then
all
the
princes
came
to
Jeremiah,
and
asked
him;
and
he
told
them
according
to
all
these
words
that
the
king
had
commanded.
So
they
stopped
speaking
with
him,
for
the
matter
was
not perceived.
\par }{\PP \VS{28}So
Jeremiah
stayed
in
the
court
of
the
guard
until
the
day
that
Jerusalem
was
taken.

\par }\Chap{39}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
ninth
year
of
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah,
in
the
tenth
month,
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
and
all
his
army
came
against
Jerusalem,
and besieged
it.
\VS{2}In
the
eleventh
year
of
Zedekiah,
in
the
fourth
month,
the
ninth
day
of
the
month,
a
breach
was made
in
the
city.
\VS{3}All
the
princes
of
the
king
of
Babylon
came
in,
and
sat
in
the
middle
gate: Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim
the Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer
the Rabmag,
with
all
the
rest
of
the
princes
of
the
king
of
Babylon.
\VS{4}When
Zedekiah
the
king
of
Judah
and
all
the
men
of
war
saw
them,
then
they
fled
and
went
out
of
the
city
by
night,
by
the
way
of
the
king’s
garden,
through
the
gate
between
the
two
walls;
and
he
went
out
toward
the
Arabah.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}But
the
army
of
the
Chaldeans
pursued
them,
and
overtook
Zedekiah
in
the
plains
of
Jericho.
When
they
had
taken
him,
they
brought
him
up
to
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
to
Riblah
in
the
land
of
Hamath;
and
he
pronounced
judgment
on
him.
\VS{6}Then
the
king
of
Babylon
killed
Zedekiah’s
sons
in
Riblah
before
his
eyes.
The
king
of
Babylon
also
killed
all
the
nobles
of
Judah.
\VS{7}Moreover
he
put
out
Zedekiah’s
eyes
and
bound
him
in
fetters,
to
carry
him
to
Babylon.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}The
Chaldeans
burned
the
king’s
house
and
the
people’s
houses
with
fire
and
broke
down
the
walls
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{9}Then
Nebuzaradan
the
captain
of
the
guard
carried
away
captive
into
Babylon
the
rest
of
the
people
who
remained
in
the
city,
the
deserters
also
who
fell
away
to
him,
and
the
rest
of
the
people
who
remained.
\VS{10}But
Nebuzaradan
the
captain
of
the
guard
left
of
the
poor
of
the
people,
who
had
nothing,
in
the
land
of
Judah,
and
gave
them
vineyards
and
fields
at
the
same
time.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Now
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
commanded
Nebuzaradan
the
captain
of
the
guard
concerning
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{12}“Take
him
and
take
care
of
him.
Do
him
no
harm;
but
do
to
him
even
as
he
tells
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}So
Nebuzaradan
the
captain
of
the
guard, Nebushazban, Rabsaris,
and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag,
and
all
the chief officers
of
the
king
of
Babylon
\VS{14}sent
and
took
Jeremiah
out
of
the
court
of
the
guard,
and
committed
him
to
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam,
the
son
of
Shaphan,
that
he
should
bring
him
home.
So
he
lived
among
the
people.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Now
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
Jeremiah
while
he
was
shut
up
in
the
court
of
the
guard,
saying,
\VS{16}“Go,
and
speak
to Ebedmelech
the
Ethiopian,
saying, ‘Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says: “Behold,
I
will
bring
my
words
on
this
city
for
evil,
and
not
for
good;
and
they
will
be accomplished
before
you
in
that
day.
\VS{17}But
I
will
deliver
you
in
that
day,”
says
Yahweh; “and
you
will
not
be
given
into
the
hand
of
the
men
of
whom
you
are afraid.
\VS{18}For
I
will
surely
save
you.
You
won’t
fall
by
the
sword,
but
you
will
escape
with
your
life,
because
you
have
put
your
trust
in
me,”
says
Yahweh.’ ”

\par }\Chap{40}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
from
Yahweh,
after
Nebuzaradan
the
captain
of
the
guard
had
let
him
go
from
Ramah,
when
he
had
taken
him
being
bound
in
chains
among
all
the
captives
of
Jerusalem
and
Judah
who
were
carried
away
captive
to
Babylon.
\VS{2}The
captain
of
the
guard
took
Jeremiah
and
said
to
him, “Yahweh
your
God
pronounced
this
evil
on
this
place;
\VS{3}and
Yahweh
has
brought
it,
and
done according
as
he
spoke.
Because
you
have
sinned
against
Yahweh,
and
have
not
obeyed
his
voice,
therefore
this
thing
has
come
on
you.
\VS{4}Now,
behold,
I release
you
today
from
the
chains
which
are
on
your
hand.
If
it
seems
good
to
you
to
come
with
me
into
Babylon,
come,
and
I
will
take
care
of
you;
but
if
it
seems bad
to
you
to
come
with
me
into
Babylon, don’t.
Behold,
all
the
land
is
before
you.
Where
it
seems
good
and
right
to
you
to
go,
go
there.”
\VS{5}Now
while
he
had
not
yet
gone
back, “Go
back
then,”
he
said, “to
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam,
the
son
of
Shaphan,
whom
the
king
of
Babylon
has
made governor
over
the
cities
of
Judah,
and
dwell
with
him
among
the
people;
or
go
wherever
it
seems
right
to
you
to
go.”
\par }{\PP So
the
captain
of
the
guard
gave
him food
and
a
present,
and
let
him
go.
\VS{6}Then
Jeremiah
went
to
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam
to
Mizpah,
and
lived
with
him
among
the
people
who
were
left
in
the
land.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Now
when
all
the
captains
of
the
forces
who
were
in
the
fields,
even
they
and
their
men,
heard
that
the
king
of
Babylon
had
made
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam
governor
in
the
land,
and
had
committed
to
him
men,
women,
children,
and
of
the poorest
of
the
land,
of
those
who
were
not
carried
away
captive
to
Babylon,
\VS{8}then
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
and
Johanan
and
Jonathan
the
sons
of
Kareah,
and
Seraiah
the
son
of
Tanhumeth,
and
the
sons
of
Ephai
the
Netophathite,
and
Jezaniah
the
son
of
the
Maacathite,
they
and
their
men
came
to
Gedaliah
to
Mizpah.
\VS{9}Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam
the
son
of
Shaphan
swore
to
them
and
to
their
men,
saying, “Don’t
be
afraid
to
serve
the
Chaldeans.
Dwell
in
the
land,
and
serve
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
it
will
be
well
with
you.
\VS{10}As
for
me,
behold,
I
will
dwell
at
Mizpah,
to
stand
before
the
Chaldeans
who
will
come
to
us;
but
you,
gather
wine
and
summer fruits
and
oil,
and
put
them
in
your
vessels,
and
dwell
in
your
cities
that
you
have
taken.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Likewise
when
all
the
Jews
who
were
in
Moab,
and
among
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
in
Edom,
and
who
were
in
all
the
countries,
heard
that
the
king
of
Babylon
had
left
a
remnant
of
Judah,
and
that
he
had
set
over
them
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam,
the
son
of
Shaphan,
\VS{12}then
all
the
Jews
returned
out
of
all
places
where
they
were
driven,
and
came
to
the
land
of
Judah,
to
Gedaliah,
to
Mizpah,
and
gathered
very
much
wine
and
summer fruits.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Moreover
Johanan
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
all
the
captains
of
the
forces
who
were
in
the
fields,
came
to
Gedaliah
to
Mizpah,
\VS{14}and
said
to
him, “Do
you
know
that
Baalis
the
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon
has
sent
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah
to
take
your
life?”
\par }{\PP But
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam
didn’t
believe
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Then
Johanan
the
son
of
Kareah
spoke
to
Gedaliah
in
Mizpah secretly,
saying, “Please
let
me
go,
and
I
will
kill
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
and
no
man
will
know
it.
Why
should
he
take
your
life,
that
all
the
Jews
who
are
gathered
to
you
should
be
scattered,
and
the
remnant
of
Judah
perish?”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}But
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam
said
to
Johanan
the
son
of
Kareah, “You
shall
not
do
this
thing,
for
you
speak
falsely
of
Ishmael.”

\par }\Chap{41}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
in
the
seventh
month,
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
the
son
of
Elishama,
of
the
royal
offspring
and
one
of
the chief officers
of
the
king,
and
ten
men
with
him,
came
to
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam
to
Mizpah;
and
there
they
ate
bread
together
in
Mizpah.
\VS{2}Then
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah
arose,
and
the
ten
men
who
were
with
him,
and
struck
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam
the
son
of
Shaphan
with
the
sword
and
killed
him,
whom
the
king
of
Babylon
had
made governor
over
the
land.
\VS{3}Ishmael
also
killed
all
the
Jews
who
were
with
Gedaliah
at
Mizpah,
and
the Chaldean
men
of
war
who
were
found
there.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}The
second
day
after
he
had
killed
Gedaliah,
and
no
man
knew
it,
\VS{5}men
came
from
Shechem,
from
Shiloh,
and
from
Samaria, even
eighty
men, having
their
beards
shaved
and
their
clothes
torn,
and having
cut themselves,
with
meal
offerings
and
frankincense
in
their
hand,
to
bring
them
to
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{6}Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah
went
out
from
Mizpah
to
meet
them,
weeping
all
along
as
he
went,
and
as
he
met
them,
he
said
to
them, “Come
to
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam.”
\VS{7}It
was
so,
when
they
came
into
the
middle
of
the
city,
that
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah
killed
them,
and cast
them
into
the
middle
of
the
pit,
he,
and
the
men
who
were
with
him.
\VS{8}But
ten
men
were
found
among
those
who
said
to
Ishmael, “Don’t
kill
us;
for
we
have
stores
hidden
in
the
field,
of
wheat,
and
of
barley,
and
of
oil,
and
of
honey.”
\par }{\PP So
he
stopped,
and
didn’t
kill
them
among
their
brothers.
\VS{9}Now
the
pit
in
which
Ishmael
cast
all
the
dead
bodies
of
the
men
whom
he
had
killed,
by
the
side
of
Gedaliah (this
was
that
which
Asa
the
king
had
made
for fear
of
Baasha
king
of
Israel),
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah
filled
it
with
those
who
were
killed.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Then
Ishmael
carried
away
captive
all
of
the
people
who
were
left
in
Mizpah,
even
the
king’s
daughters,
and
all
the
people
who
remained
in
Mizpah,
whom
Nebuzaradan
the
captain
of
the
guard
had
committed
to
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam.
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah
carried
them
away
captive,
and departed
to
go
over
to
the
children
of
Ammon.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}But
when
Johanan
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
all
the
captains
of
the
forces
who
were
with
him,
heard
of
all
the
evil
that
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah
had
done,
\VS{12}then
they
took
all
the
men,
and
went
to
fight
with
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
and
found
him
by
the
great
waters
that
are
in
Gibeon.
\VS{13}Now
when
all
the
people
who
were
with
Ishmael
saw
Johanan
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
all
the
captains
of
the
forces
who
were
with
him,
then
they
were
glad.
\VS{14}So
all
the
people
who
Ishmael
had
carried
away
captive
from
Mizpah
turned
about
and
came
back,
and
went
to
Johanan
the
son
of
Kareah.
\VS{15}But
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah
escaped
from
Johanan
with
eight
men,
and
went
to
the
children
of
Ammon.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Then
Johanan
the
son
of
Kareah
and
all
the
captains
of
the
forces
who
were
with
him
took
all
the
remnant
of
the
people
whom
he
had
recovered
from
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
from
Mizpah,
after
he
had
killed
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam—the
men
of
war,
with
the
women,
the
children,
and
the
eunuchs,
whom
he
had
brought
back
from
Gibeon.
\VS{17}They
departed
and
lived
in
Geruth
Chimham,
which
is
by
Bethlehem,
to
go
to
enter
into
Egypt
\VS{18}because
of
the
Chaldeans;
for
they
were
afraid
of
them,
because
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah
had
killed
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam,
whom
the
king
of
Babylon
made governor
over
the
land.

\par }\Chap{42}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
all
the
captains
of
the
forces,
and
Johanan
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
Jezaniah
the
son
of
Hoshaiah,
and
all
the
people
from
the least
even
to
the
greatest,
came
near,
\VS{2}and
said
to
Jeremiah
the
prophet, “Please
let
our
supplication
be presented
before
you,
and
pray
for
us
to
Yahweh
your
God,
even
for
all
this
remnant,
for
we
are
left
but
a
few
of
many,
as
your
eyes
see
us,
\VS{3}that
Yahweh
your
God
may
show
us
the
way
in
which
we
should
walk,
and
the
things
that
we
should
do.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Then
Jeremiah
the
prophet
said
to
them, “I
have
heard
you.
Behold,
I
will
pray
to
Yahweh
your
God
according
to
your
words;
and
it
will
happen
that
whatever
thing
Yahweh
answers
you,
I
will
declare
it
to
you.
I
will
keep
nothing
back
from
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Then
they
said
to
Jeremiah, “May
Yahweh
be
a
true
and
faithful
witness
among
us,
if
we
don’t
do
according
to
all
the
word
with
which
Yahweh
your
God
sends
you
to
tell
us.
\VS{6}Whether
it
is
good,
or
whether
it
is
bad,
we
will
obey
the
voice
of
Yahweh
our
God,
to
whom
we
send
you;
that
it
may
be
well
with
us,
when
we
obey
the
voice
of
Yahweh
our
God.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}After
ten
days,
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
Jeremiah.
\VS{8}Then
he
called
Johanan
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
all
the
captains
of
the
forces
who
were
with
him,
and
all
the
people
from
the least
even
to
the
greatest,
\VS{9}and
said
to
them, “Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
to
whom
you
sent
me
to
present
your
supplication
before
him,
says:
\VS{10}‘If
you
will
still
live
in
this
land,
then
I
will
build
you,
and
not
pull
you
down,
and
I
will
plant
you,
and
not
pluck
you
up;
for
I grieve
over
the distress
that
I
have
brought
on
you.
\VS{11}Don’t
be
afraid
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
of
whom
you
are
afraid.
Don’t
be
afraid
of
him,’
says
Yahweh, ‘for
I
am
with
you
to
save
you,
and
to
deliver
you
from
his
hand.
\VS{12}I
will
grant
you
mercy,
that
he
may
have
mercy
on
you,
and
cause
you
to
return
to
your own
land.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“ ‘But
if
you
say, “We
will
not
dwell
in
this
land,”
so
that
you
don’t
obey
Yahweh
your
God’s
voice,
\VS{14}saying, “No,
but
we
will
go
into
the
land
of
Egypt,
where
we
will
see
no
war,
nor
hear
the
sound
of
the
trumpet,
nor
have
hunger
of
bread;
and
there
we
will
dwell;” ’
\VS{15}now
therefore
hear
Yahweh’s
word,
O
remnant
of
Judah!
Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says, ‘If
you
indeed
set
your
faces
to
enter
into
Egypt,
and
go
to
live
there,
\VS{16}then
it
will
happen
that
the
sword,
which
you
fear,
will
overtake
you
there
in
the
land
of
Egypt;
and
the
famine,
about
which
you
are
afraid,
will
follow
close
behind
you
there
in
Egypt;
and
you
will
die
there.
\VS{17}So
will
it
be
with
all
the
men
who
set
their
faces
to
go
into
Egypt
to
live
there.
They
will
die
by
the
sword,
by
the
famine,
and
by
the
pestilence.
None
of
them
will
remain
or
escape
from
the
evil
that
I
will
bring
on
them.’
\VS{18}For
Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says: ‘As
my
anger
and
my
wrath
has
been
poured
out
on
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
so
my
wrath
will
be
poured
out
on
you,
when
you
enter
into
Egypt;
and
you
will
be
an
object
of
horror,
an astonishment,
a
curse,
and
a
reproach;
and
you
will
see
this
place
no
more.’
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“Yahweh
has
spoken
concerning
you,
remnant
of
Judah, ‘Don’t
go
into
Egypt!’
Know
certainly
that
I
have
testified
to
you
today.
\VS{20}For
you
have dealt deceitfully
against
your
own
souls;
for
you
sent
me
to
Yahweh
your
God,
saying, ‘Pray
for
us
to
Yahweh
our
God;
and
according
to
all
that
Yahweh
our
God
says,
so
declare
to
us,
and
we
will
do
it.’
\VS{21}I
have
declared
it
to
you
today;
but
you
have
not
obeyed
Yahweh
your
God’s
voice
in
anything
for
which
he
has
sent
me
to
you.
\VS{22}Now
therefore
know
certainly
that
you
will
die
by
the
sword,
by
the
famine,
and
by
the
pestilence
in
the
place
where
you
desire
to
go
to
live.”

\par }\Chap{43}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
Jeremiah
had
finished
speaking
to
all
the
people
all
the
words
of
Yahweh
their
God,
with
which
Yahweh
their
God
had
sent
him
to
them,
even
all
these
words,
\VS{2}then
Azariah
the
son
of
Hoshaiah,
Johanan
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
all
the
proud
men
spoke,
saying
to
Jeremiah, “You
speak
falsely.
Yahweh
our
God
has
not
sent
you
to
say, ‘You
shall
not
go
into
Egypt
to
live
there;’
\VS{3}but
Baruch
the
son
of
Neriah
has
turned
you
against
us,
to
deliver
us
into
the
hand
of
the
Chaldeans,
that
they
may
put
us
to
death
or
carry
us
away
captive
to
Babylon.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}So
Johanan
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
all
the
captains
of
the
forces,
and
all
the
people,
didn’t
obey
Yahweh’s
voice,
to
dwell
in
the
land
of
Judah.
\VS{5}But
Johanan
the
son
of
Kareah
and
all
the
captains
of
the
forces
took
all
the
remnant
of
Judah,
who
had
returned
from
all
the
nations
where
they
had
been
driven,
to
live
in
the
land
of
Judah—
\VS{6}the
men,
the
women,
the
children,
the
king’s
daughters,
and
every
person
who
Nebuzaradan
the
captain
of
the
guard
had
left
with
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam,
the
son
of
Shaphan;
and
Jeremiah
the
prophet,
and
Baruch
the
son
of
Neriah.
\VS{7}They
came
into
the
land
of
Egypt,
for
they
didn’t
obey
Yahweh’s
voice;
and
they
came
to
Tahpanhes.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Then
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
Jeremiah
in
Tahpanhes,
saying,
\VS{9}“Take
great
stones
in
your
hand
and
hide
them
in
mortar
in
the
brick work
which
is
at
the
entry
of
Pharaoh’s
house
in
Tahpanhes,
in
the
sight
of
the
men
of Judah.
\VS{10}Tell
them,
Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says: ‘Behold,
I
will
send
and
take
Nebuchadnezzar
the
king
of
Babylon,
my
servant,
and
will
set
his
throne
on
these
stones
that
I
have
hidden;
and
he
will
spread
his
royal pavilion
over
them.
\VS{11}He
will
come,
and
will
strike
the
land
of
Egypt;
such
as
are
for
death
will
be
put
to
death,
and
such
as
are
for
captivity
to
captivity,
and
such
as
are
for
the
sword
to
the
sword.
\VS{12}I
will
kindle
a
fire
in
the
houses
of
the
gods
of
Egypt.
He
will
burn
them,
and
carry
them
away
captive.
He
will array himself
with
the
land
of
Egypt,
as
a
shepherd puts
on
his
garment;
and
he
will
go
out
from
there
in
peace.
\VS{13}He
will
also
break
the
pillars
of
Beth Shemesh
that
is
in
the
land
of
Egypt;
and
he
will
burn
the
houses
of
the
gods
of
Egypt
with
fire.’ ”

\par }\Chap{44}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
came
to
Jeremiah
concerning
all
the
Jews
who
lived
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
who
lived
at
Migdol,
and
at
Tahpanhes,
and
at
Memphis,
and
in
the
country
of
Pathros,
saying,
\VS{2}“Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says: ‘You
have
seen
all
the
evil
that
I
have
brought
on
Jerusalem,
and
on
all
the
cities
of
Judah.
Behold,
today
they
are
a
desolation,
and
no
man
dwells
in
them,
\VS{3}because
of
their
wickedness
which
they
have
committed
to
provoke
me
to
anger,
in
that
they
went
to
burn
incense,
to
serve
other
gods
that
they
didn’t
know,
neither
they,
nor
you,
nor
your
fathers.
\VS{4}However
I
sent
to
you
all
my
servants
the
prophets,
rising
up
early
and
sending
them,
saying, “Oh,
don’t
do
this
abominable
thing
that
I
hate.”
\VS{5}But
they
didn’t
listen
and
didn’t
incline
their
ear.
They
didn’t
turn
from
their
wickedness,
to
stop
burning
incense
to
other
gods.
\VS{6}Therefore
my
wrath
and
my
anger
was
poured
out,
and
was kindled
in
the
cities
of
Judah
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem;
and
they
are wasted
and
desolate,
as
it
is
today.’
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“Therefore
now
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says: ‘Why
do
you commit
great
evil
against
your
own
souls,
to
cut
off
from
yourselves
man
and
woman,
infant
and
nursing
child
out
of
the
middle
of
Judah,
to
leave
yourselves
no
one
remaining,
\VS{8}in
that
you
provoke
me
to
anger
with
the
works
of
your
hands,
burning
incense
to
other
gods
in
the
land
of
Egypt
where
you
have
gone
to
live,
that
you
may
be
cut
off,
and
that
you
may
be
a
curse
and
a
reproach
among
all
the
nations
of
the
earth?
\VS{9}Have
you
forgotten
the
wickedness
of
your
fathers,
the
wickedness
of
the
kings
of
Judah,
the
wickedness
of
their
wives,
your own
wickedness,
and
the
wickedness
of
your
wives
which
they
committed
in
the
land
of
Judah
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem?
\VS{10}They
are
not humbled
even
to
this
day,
neither
have
they
feared,
nor
walked
in
my
law,
nor
in
my
statutes,
that
I
set
before
you
and
before
your
fathers.’
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“Therefore
Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says: ‘Behold,
I
will
set
my
face
against
you
for
evil,
even
to
cut
off
all
Judah.
\VS{12}I
will
take
the
remnant
of
Judah
that
have
set
their
faces
to
go
into
the
land
of
Egypt
to
live
there,
and
they
will
all
be
consumed.
They
will
fall
in
the
land
of
Egypt.
They
will
be
consumed
by
the
sword
and
by
the
famine.
They
will
die,
from
the least
even
to
the
greatest,
by
the
sword
and
by
the
famine.
They
will
be
an
object
of
horror,
an astonishment,
a
curse,
and
a
reproach.
\VS{13}For
I
will
punish
those
who
dwell
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
as
I
have
punished
Jerusalem,
by
the
sword,
by
the
famine,
and
by
the
pestilence;
\VS{14}so
that
none
of
the
remnant
of
Judah,
who
have
gone
into
the
land
of
Egypt
to
live
there,
will
escape
or
be
left
to
return
into
the
land
of
Judah,
to
which
they
have
a
desire
to
return
to
dwell
there;
for
no
one
will
return
except
those
who
will
escape.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Then
all
the
men
who
knew
that
their
wives
burned
incense
to
other
gods,
and
all
the
women
who
stood
by,
a
great
assembly,
even
all
the
people
who
lived
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
in
Pathros,
answered
Jeremiah,
saying,
\VS{16}“As
for
the
word
that
you
have
spoken
to
us
in
Yahweh’s
name,
we
will
not
listen
to
you.
\VS{17}But
we
will
certainly
perform
every
word
that
has
gone
out
of
our
mouth,
to
burn
incense
to
the
queen
of
the
sky
and
to
pour
out
drink
offerings
to
her,
as
we
have
done,
we
and
our
fathers,
our
kings
and
our
princes,
in
the
cities
of
Judah
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem;
for
then
we
had
plenty
of
food,
and
were
well,
and
saw
no
evil.
\VS{18}But
since
we
stopped
burning
incense
to
the
queen
of
the
sky,
and pouring
out drink
offerings
to
her,
we
have
lacked
all
things,
and
have
been
consumed
by
the
sword
and
by
the
famine.”
\par }{\PP \VS{19}The women said, “When
we
burned
incense
to
the
queen
of
the
sky
and poured
out drink
offerings
to
her,
did
we
make
her
cakes
to worship
her,
and
pour
out drink
offerings
to
her,
without
our
husbands?”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}Then
Jeremiah
said
to
all
the
people—to
the
men
and
to
the
women,
even
to
all
the
people
who
had given
him
an
answer,
saying,
\VS{21}“The
incense
that
you
burned
in
the
cities
of
Judah,
and
in
the
streets
of
Jerusalem,
you
and
your
fathers,
your
kings
and
your
princes,
and
the
people
of
the
land,
didn’t
Yahweh
remember
them,
and
didn’t
it
come
into
his
mind?
\VS{22}Thus
Yahweh
could
no
longer
bear
it,
because
of
the
evil
of
your
doings
and
because
of
the
abominations
which
you
have
committed.
Therefore
your
land
has
become
a
desolation,
an astonishment,
and
a
curse,
without
inhabitant,
as
it
is
today.
\VS{23}Because
you
have
burned
incense
and
because
you
have
sinned
against
Yahweh,
and
have
not
obeyed
Yahweh’s
voice,
nor
walked
in
his
law,
nor
in
his
statutes,
nor
in
his
testimonies;
therefore
this
evil
has
happened
to
you,
as
it
is
today.”
\par }{\PP \VS{24}Moreover
Jeremiah
said
to
all
the
people,
including
all
the
women, “Hear
Yahweh’s
word,
all
Judah
who
are
in
the
land
of
Egypt!
\VS{25}Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says, ‘You
and
your
wives
have both
spoken
with
your
mouths,
and
with
your
hands
have
fulfilled
it,
saying, “We
will
surely
perform
our
vows
that
we
have
vowed,
to
burn
incense
to
the
queen
of
the
sky,
and
to
pour
out drink
offerings
to
her.”
\par }{\PP “ ‘Establish
then
your
vows,
and
perform
your
vows.’
\par }{\PP \VS{26}“Therefore
hear
Yahweh’s
word,
all
Judah
who
dwell
in
the
land
of
Egypt: ‘Behold,
I
have
sworn
by
my
great
name,’
says
Yahweh, ‘that
my
name
will
no
more
be
named
in
the
mouth
of
any
man
of
Judah
in
all
the
land
of
Egypt,
saying, “As
the
Lord
Yahweh
lives.”
\VS{27}Behold,
I
watch
over
them
for
evil,
and
not
for
good;
and
all
the
men
of
Judah
who
are
in
the
land
of
Egypt
will
be
consumed
by
the
sword
and
by
the
famine,
until
they
are
all
gone.
\VS{28}Those
who
escape
the
sword
will
return
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
into
the
land
of
Judah
few
in
number.
All
the
remnant
of
Judah,
who
have
gone
into
the
land
of
Egypt
to
live
there,
will
know
whose
word
will
stand,
mine
or
theirs.
\par }{\PP \VS{29}“ ‘This
will
be
the
sign
to
you,’
says
Yahweh, ‘that
I
will
punish
you
in
this
place,
that
you
may
know
that
my
words
will
surely
stand
against
you
for
evil.’
\VS{30}Yahweh
says, ‘Behold,
I
will
give
Pharaoh
Hophra
king
of
Egypt
into
the
hand
of
his
enemies
and
into
the
hand
of
those
who
seek
his
life,
just
as
I
gave
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah
into
the
hand
of
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon,
who
was
his
enemy
and
sought
his
life.’ ”

\par }\Chap{45}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
message
that
Jeremiah
the
prophet
spoke
to
Baruch
the
son
of
Neriah,
when
he
wrote
these
words
in
a
book
at
the
mouth
of
Jeremiah,
in
the
fourth
year
of
Jehoiakim
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah,
saying,
\VS{2}“Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
says
to
you,
Baruch:
\VS{3}‘You
said, “Woe
is
me
now!
For
Yahweh
has
added
sorrow
to
my
pain!
I
am
weary
with
my
groaning,
and
I
find
no
rest.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{4}“You
shall
tell
him,
Yahweh
says: ‘Behold,
that
which
I
have
built,
I
will
break
down,
and
that
which
I
have
planted
I
will
pluck
up;
and
this
in
the
whole
land.
\VS{5}Do
you
seek
great
things
for
yourself?
Don’t
seek
them;
for,
behold,
I
will
bring
evil
on
all
flesh,’
says
Yahweh, ‘but
I
will
let
you
escape
with
your
life
wherever
you
go.’ ”

\par }\Chap{46}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Yahweh’s
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
the
prophet
concerning
the
nations.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}Of
Egypt:
concerning
the
army
of
Pharaoh Necoh
king
of
Egypt,
which
was
by
the
river
Euphrates
in
Carchemish,
which
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
struck
in
the
fourth
year
of
Jehoiakim
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
of
Judah.
\par }{\Q \VS{3}“Prepare
the
buckler
and
shield,
\par }{\QB and
draw
near
to
battle!
\par }{\Q \VS{4}Harness
the
horses,
and
get
up,
you
horsemen,
\par }{\QB and
stand
up
with
your
helmets.
\par }{\Q Polish
the
spears,
\par }{\QB put
on
the coats
of mail.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}Why
have
I
seen
it?
\par }{\QB They
are dismayed
and
are
turned
backward.
\par }{\Q Their
mighty
ones
are beaten
down,
\par }{\QB have
fled
in haste,
\par }{\QB and
don’t
look
back.
\par }{\Q Terror
is
on
every
side,”
\par }{\QB says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{6}“Don’t
let
the
swift
flee
away,
\par }{\QB nor
the
mighty
man
escape.
\par }{\Q In
the
north
by
the
river
Euphrates
\par }{\QB they
have
stumbled
and
fallen.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{7}“Who
is
this
who
rises
up
like
the
Nile,
\par }{\QB like
rivers
whose
waters
surge?
\par }{\Q \VS{8}Egypt
rises
up
like
the
Nile,
\par }{\QB like
rivers
whose
waters
surge.
\par }{\Q He
says, ‘I
will
rise
up.
I
will
cover
the
earth.
\par }{\QB I
will
destroy
cities
and
its
inhabitants.’
\par }{\Q \VS{9}Go
up,
you
horses!
\par }{\QB Rage,
you
chariots!
\par }{\Q Let
the
mighty
men
go
out:
\par }{\QB Cush
and
Put,
who
handle
the
shield;
\par }{\QB and
the
Ludim,
who
handle
and
bend
the
bow.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}For
that
day
is
of
the
Lord, Yahweh
of
Armies,
\par }{\QB a
day
of
vengeance,
\par }{\QB that
he
may
avenge
himself
of
his adversaries.
\par }{\Q The
sword
will
devour
and
be
satiated,
\par }{\QB and
will
drink
its
fill
of
their
blood;
\par }{\QB for
the
Lord, Yahweh
of
Armies,
has
a
sacrifice
in
the
north
country
by
the
river
Euphrates.
\par }{\Q \VS{11}Go
up
into
Gilead,
and
take
balm,
virgin
daughter
of
Egypt.
\par }{\QB You
use
many medicines
in
vain.
\par }{\QB There
is
no
healing
for
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}The
nations
have
heard
of
your
shame,
\par }{\QB and
the
earth
is
full
of
your
cry;
\par }{\QB for
the
mighty
man
has
stumbled against
the
mighty,
\par }{\QB they
both
fall
together.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{13}The
word
that
Yahweh
spoke
to
Jeremiah
the
prophet,
how
that
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
should
come
and
strike
the
land
of
Egypt:
\par }{\Q \VS{14}“Declare
in
Egypt,
\par }{\QB publish
in
Migdol,
\par }{\QB and publish
in
Memphis
and
in
Tahpanhes;
\par }{\Q say, ‘Stand
up,
and
prepare,
\par }{\QB for
the
sword
has
devoured
around
you.’
\par }{\Q \VS{15}Why
are
your
strong
ones swept
away?
\par }{\QB They
didn’t
stand,
because
Yahweh
pushed
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}He
made
many
to
stumble.
\par }{\QB Yes,
they
fell
on
one
another.
\par }{\Q They
said, ‘Arise!
Let’s
go
again
to
our
own
people,
\par }{\QB and
to
the
land
of
our
birth,
\par }{\QB from
the
oppressing
sword.’
\par }{\Q \VS{17}They
cried
there, ‘Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt
is
but
a
noise;
\par }{\QB he
has let
the
appointed
time
pass
by.’
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{18}“As
I
live,”
says
the
King,
\par }{\QB whose
name
is
Yahweh
of
Armies,
\par }{\Q “surely
like
Tabor
among
the
mountains,
\par }{\QB and
like
Carmel
by
the
sea,
\par }{\QB so
he
will
come.
\par }{\Q \VS{19}You
daughter
who
dwells
in
Egypt,
\par }{\QB furnish yourself
to
go
into captivity;
\par }{\Q for
Memphis
will
become
a
desolation,
\par }{\QB and
will
be
burned
up,
\par }{\QB without
inhabitant.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{20}“Egypt
is
a very beautiful
heifer;
\par }{\QB but destruction
out
of
the
north
has
come.
\par }{\QB It
has
come.
\par }{\Q \VS{21}Also
her
hired men
in
the
middle
of
her
are
like
calves
of
the
stall,
\par }{\QB for
they
also
are
turned
back.
\par }{\QB They
have
fled
away
together.
\par }{\Q They
didn’t
stand,
\par }{\QB for
the
day
of
their
calamity
has
come
on
them,
\par }{\QB the
time
of
their visitation.
\par }{\Q \VS{22}Its
sound
will
go
like
the
serpent,
\par }{\QB for
they
will march
with
an
army,
\par }{\QB and
come
against
her
with
axes,
as
wood cutters.
\par }{\Q \VS{23}They
will
cut
down
her
forest,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB “though
it
can’t
be
searched;
\par }{\Q because
they
are
more
than
the
locusts,
\par }{\QB and
are
innumerable.
\par }{\Q \VS{24}The
daughter
of
Egypt
will
be disappointed;
\par }{\QB she
will
be
delivered
into
the
hand
of
the
people
of
the
north.”
\par }{\PP \VS{25}Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says: “Behold,
I
will
punish
Amon
of No,
and
Pharaoh,
and
Egypt,
with
her
gods
and
her
kings,
even
Pharaoh,
and
those
who
trust
in
him.
\VS{26}I
will
deliver
them
into
the
hand
of
those
who
seek
their
lives,
and
into
the
hand
of
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon,
and
into
the
hand
of
his
servants.
Afterwards
it
will
be
inhabited,
as
in
the
days
of old,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{27}“But
don’t
you
be
afraid,
Jacob
my
servant.
\par }{\QB Don’t
be
dismayed,
Israel;
\par }{\Q for,
behold,
I
will
save
you
from
afar,
\par }{\QB and
your
offspring
from
the
land
of
their
captivity.
\par }{\Q Jacob
will
return,
\par }{\QB and
will
be
quiet
and
at
ease.
\par }{\QB No
one
will
make
him
afraid.
\par }{\Q \VS{28}Don’t
be
afraid,
O
Jacob
my
servant,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB “for
I
am
with
you;
\par }{\QB for
I
will
make
a
full
end
of
all
the
nations
where
I
have
driven
you,
\par }{\Q but
I
will
not
make
a
full
end
of
you,
\par }{\QB but
I
will
correct
you
in measure,
\par }{\QB and
will
in
no
way
leave
you
unpunished.”

\par }\Chap{47}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Yahweh’s
word
that
came
to
Jeremiah
the
prophet
concerning
the
Philistines,
before
Pharaoh
struck
Gaza.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}Yahweh
says:
\par }{\Q “Behold,
waters
rise
up
out
of
the
north,
\par }{\QB and
will
become
an
overflowing
stream,
\par }{\Q and
will
overflow
the
land
and
all
that
is therein,
\par }{\QB the
city
and
those
who
dwell therein.
\par }{\Q The
men
will
cry,
\par }{\QB and
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
land
will
wail.
\par }{\Q \VS{3}At
the
noise
of
the stamping
of
the
hoofs
of
his
strong
ones,
\par }{\QB at
the rushing
of
his
chariots,
\par }{\QB at
the
rumbling
of
his
wheels,
\par }{\Q the
fathers
don’t
look
back
for
their
children
\par }{\QB because
their
hands
are
so feeble,
\par }{\Q \VS{4}because
of
the
day
that
comes
to
destroy
all
the
Philistines,
\par }{\QB to
cut
off
from
Tyre
and
Sidon
every
helper
who
remains;
\par }{\Q for
Yahweh
will
destroy
the
Philistines,
\par }{\QB the
remnant
of
the isle
of
Caphtor.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}Baldness
has
come
on
Gaza;
\par }{\QB Ashkelon
is
brought
to nothing.
\par }{\Q You
remnant
of
their
valley,
\par }{\QB how
long
will
you
cut
yourself?
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{6}“ ‘You
sword
of
Yahweh,
how
long
will
it
be
before
you
are
quiet?
\par }{\QB Put
yourself
back
into
your scabbard;
\par }{\QB rest,
and
be
still.’
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{7}“How
can
you
be
quiet,
\par }{\QB since
Yahweh
has
given
you
a
command?
\par }{\Q Against
Ashkelon,
and
against
the
seashore,
\par }{\QB there
he
has
appointed
it.”

\par }\Chap{48}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Of
Moab.
Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says:
\par }{\Q “Woe
to
Nebo!
\par }{\QB For
it
is laid
waste.
\par }{\Q Kiriathaim
is disappointed.
\par }{\QB It
is
taken.
\par }{\Q Misgab\FTNT{*}{{\FR 48:1 }
or, The stronghold}
is put
to shame
\par }{\QB and broken
down.
\par }{\Q \VS{2}The
praise
of
Moab
is
no
more.
\par }{\QB In
Heshbon
they
have
devised
evil
against
her:
\par }{\QB ‘Come! Let’s
cut
her
off
from
being
a
nation.’
\par }{\Q You
also,
Madmen,
will
be brought
to silence.
\par }{\QB The
sword
will
pursue
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{3}The
sound
of
a
cry
from
Horonaim,
\par }{\QB desolation
and
great
destruction!
\par }{\Q \VS{4}Moab
is destroyed.
\par }{\QB Her
little
ones
have caused
a
cry
to
be
heard.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}For
they
will
go
up
by
the
ascent
of
Luhith
with
continual
weeping.
\par }{\QB For
at
the
descent
of
Horonaim
they
have
heard
the
distress
of
the
cry
of
destruction.
\par }{\Q \VS{6}Flee!
Save
your
lives!
\par }{\QB Be
like
the
juniper
bush
in
the
wilderness.
\par }{\Q \VS{7}For,
because
you
have
trusted
in
your
works
and
in
your
treasures,
\par }{\QB you
also
will
be
taken.
\par }{\Q Chemosh
will
go
out
into captivity,
\par }{\QB his
priests
and
his
princes
together.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}The
destroyer
will
come
on
every
city,
\par }{\QB and
no
city
will
escape;
\par }{\Q the
valley
also
will
perish,
\par }{\QB and
the
plain
will
be
destroyed,
as
Yahweh
has
spoken.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}Give wings
to
Moab,
\par }{\QB that
she
may fly
and
get herself
away:
\par }{\Q and
her
cities
will
become
a
desolation,
\par }{\QB without
anyone
to
dwell
in
them.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{10}“Cursed
is
he
who
does
the
work
of
Yahweh negligently;
\par }{\QB and
cursed
is
he
who keeps
back
his
sword
from
blood.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{11}“Moab
has
been
at
ease
from
his
youth,
\par }{\QB and
he
has settled
on
his
dregs,
\par }{\Q and
has
not
been emptied
from
vessel
to
vessel,
\par }{\QB neither
has
he
gone
into captivity;
\par }{\Q therefore
his
taste
remains
in
him,
\par }{\QB and
his scent
is
not
changed.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}Therefore
behold,
the
days
come,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB “that
I
will
send
to
him those
who pour
off,
\par }{\Q and
they
will pour
him
off;
\par }{\QB and
they
will empty
his
vessels,
\par }{\QB and break
their
containers
in pieces.
\par }{\Q \VS{13}Moab
will
be
ashamed
of
Chemosh,
\par }{\QB as
the
house
of
Israel
was
ashamed
of
Bethel,
their
confidence.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{14}“How do
you
say, ‘We
are
mighty
men,
\par }{\QB and
valiant
men
for
the war’?
\par }{\Q \VS{15}Moab
is laid
waste,
\par }{\QB and
they
have
gone
up
into
his
cities,
\par }{\QB and
his chosen
young
men
have
gone
down
to
the
slaughter,”
\par }{\QB says
the
King,
whose
name
is
Yahweh
of
Armies.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}“The
calamity
of
Moab
is
near
to
come,
\par }{\QB and
his affliction hurries fast.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}All
you
who
are
around
him, bemoan
him;
\par }{\QB and
all
you
who
know
his
name,
say,
\par }{\Q ‘How
the
strong
staff
is
broken,
\par }{\QB the
beautiful
rod!’
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{18}“You
daughter
who
dwells
in
Dibon,
\par }{\QB come
down
from
your
glory,
\par }{\QB and
sit
in
thirst;
\par }{\Q for
the
destroyer
of
Moab
has
come
up
against
you.
\par }{\QB He
has
destroyed
your
strongholds.
\par }{\Q \VS{19}Inhabitant
of
Aroer,
stand
by
the
way
and
watch.
\par }{\QB Ask
him
who
flees,
and
her
who
escapes;
\par }{\QB say, ‘What
has
been
done?’
\par }{\Q \VS{20}Moab
is disappointed;
\par }{\QB for
it
is broken
down.
\par }{\Q Wail
and
cry!
\par }{\QB Tell
it
by
the
Arnon,
that
Moab
is laid
waste.
\par }{\Q \VS{21}Judgment
has
come
on
the
plain
country—
\par }{\QB on
Holon,
on
Jahzah,
on
Mephaath,
\par }{\QB \VS{22}on
Dibon,
on
Nebo,
on Beth Diblathaim,
\par }{\QB \VS{23}on
Kiriathaim,
on Beth Gamul,
on Beth Meon,
\par }{\QB \VS{24}on
Kerioth,
on
Bozrah,
\par }{\QB and
on
all
the
cities
of
the
land
of
Moab,
far
or
near.
\par }{\Q \VS{25}The
horn
of
Moab
is
cut
off,
\par }{\QB and
his
arm
is
broken,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{26}“Make
him
drunk,
\par }{\QB for
he
magnified
himself
against
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q Moab
will
wallow
in
his
vomit,
\par }{\QB and
he
also
will
be
in derision.
\par }{\Q \VS{27}For wasn’t
Israel
a derision
to
you?
\par }{\QB Was
he
found
among
thieves?
\par }{\Q For
as
often
as
you
speak
of
him,
\par }{\QB you
shake
your head.
\par }{\Q \VS{28}You
inhabitants
of
Moab,
leave
the
cities,
and
dwell
in
the
rock.
\par }{\QB Be
like
the
dove
that
makes
her
nest over
the
mouth
of
the abyss.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{29}“We
have
heard
of
the
pride
of
Moab.
\par }{\QB He
is
very
proud
in
his
loftiness,
his
pride,
\par }{\QB his
arrogance,
and
the
arrogance
of
his
heart.
\par }{\Q \VS{30}I
know
his
wrath,”
says
Yahweh, “that
it
is
nothing;
\par }{\QB his boastings
have
done
nothing.
\par }{\Q \VS{31}Therefore
I
will
wail
for
Moab.
\par }{\QB Yes,
I
will
cry
out
for
all
Moab.
\par }{\QB They
will
mourn
for
the
men
of Kir Heres.
\par }{\Q \VS{32}With
more
than
the
weeping
of
Jazer
\par }{\QB I
will
weep
for
you,
vine
of
Sibmah.
\par }{\Q Your
branches
passed
over
the
sea.
\par }{\QB They
reached
even
to
the
sea
of
Jazer.
\par }{\Q The
destroyer
has
fallen
on
your
summer fruits
\par }{\QB and
on
your
vintage.
\par }{\Q \VS{33}Gladness
and
joy
is
taken
away
from
the
fruitful
field
\par }{\QB and
from
the
land
of
Moab.
\par }{\Q I
have caused
wine
to
cease
from
the
wine
presses.
\par }{\QB No
one
will
tread
with
shouting.
\par }{\QB The
shouting
will
be
no
shouting.
\par }{\Q \VS{34}From
the
cry
of
Heshbon
even
to
Elealeh,
\par }{\QB even
to
Jahaz
they
have
uttered
their
voice,
\par }{\QB from
Zoar
even
to
Horonaim,
to Eglath Shelishiyah;
\par }{\QB for
the
waters
of
Nimrim
will
also
become
desolate.
\par }{\Q \VS{35}Moreover
I
will cause
to
cease
in
Moab,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB “him
who
offers
in
the
high
place,
\par }{\QB and
him
who
burns
incense
to
his
gods.
\par }{\Q \VS{36}Therefore
my
heart sounds
for
Moab
like
flutes,
\par }{\QB and
my
heart sounds
like
flutes
for
the
men
of Kir Heres.
\par }{\QB Therefore
the
abundance
that
he
has gotten
has
perished.
\par }{\Q \VS{37}For
every
head
is
bald,
\par }{\QB and
every
beard clipped.
\par }{\Q There
are cuttings
on
all
the
hands,
\par }{\QB and
sackcloth
on
the
waist.
\par }{\Q \VS{38}On
all
the
housetops
of
Moab,
\par }{\QB and
in
its
streets,
there
is
lamentation
everywhere;
\par }{\QB for
I
have
broken
Moab
like
a
vessel
in which
no
one
delights,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{39}“How
it
is broken down!
\par }{\QB How
they
wail!
\par }{\Q How
Moab
has
turned
the
back
with
shame!
\par }{\QB So
will
Moab
become
a derision
\par }{\QB and
a
terror
to
all
who
are
around
him.”
\par }{\Q \VS{40}For
Yahweh
says: “Behold,
he
will
fly
as
an
eagle,
\par }{\QB and
will
spread
out
his
wings
against
Moab.
\par }{\Q \VS{41}Kerioth
is
taken,
\par }{\QB and
the
strongholds
are
seized.
\par }{\Q The
heart
of
the
mighty
men
of
Moab
at
that
day
\par }{\QB will
be
as
the
heart
of
a
woman
in
her pangs.
\par }{\Q \VS{42}Moab
will
be
destroyed
from being
a
people,
\par }{\QB because
he
has
magnified
himself
against
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{43}Terror,
the
pit,
and
the
snare
are
on
you,
\par }{\QB inhabitant
of
Moab,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{44}“He
who flees
from
the
terror
will
fall
into
the
pit;
\par }{\QB and
he
who
gets
up
out
of
the
pit
will
be
taken
in
the
snare,
\par }{\Q for
I
will
bring
on
him,
even
on
Moab,
\par }{\QB the
year
of
their visitation,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{45}“Those
who
fled
stand without
strength under
the
shadow
of
Heshbon;
\par }{\QB for
a
fire
has
gone
out
of
Heshbon,
\par }{\QB and
a
flame
from
the middle
of
Sihon,
\par }{\Q and
has
devoured
the
corner
of
Moab,
\par }{\QB and
the
crown
of
the
head
of
the tumultuous
ones.
\par }{\Q \VS{46}Woe
to
you, O
Moab!
\par }{\QB The
people
of
Chemosh
are undone;
\par }{\Q for
your
sons
are
taken
away captive,
\par }{\QB and
your
daughters
into
captivity.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{47}“Yet
I
will
reverse
the
captivity
of
Moab
in
the
latter
days,”
\par }{\QB says
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP Thus
far
is
the
judgment
of
Moab.

\par }\Chap{49}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Of
the
children
of
Ammon.
Yahweh
says:
\par }{\Q “Has
Israel
no
sons?
\par }{\QB Has
he
no
heir?
\par }{\Q Why
then
does Malcam
possess
Gad,
\par }{\QB and
his
people
dwell
in
its
cities?
\par }{\Q \VS{2}Therefore
behold,
the
days
come,”
\par }{\QB says
Yahweh,
\par }{\Q “that
I
will
cause
an
alarm
of
war
to
be
heard
against
Rabbah
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
\par }{\QB and
it
will
become
a
desolate
heap,
\par }{\QB and
her
daughters
will
be
burned
with
fire;
\par }{\Q then
Israel
will
possess
those
who
possessed
him,”
\par }{\QB says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{3}“Wail,
Heshbon,
for
Ai
is laid
waste!
\par }{\QB Cry,
you
daughters
of
Rabbah!
\par }{\Q Clothe yourself
in
sackcloth.
\par }{\QB Lament,
and run back
and forth among
the fences;
\par }{\Q for Malcam
will go
into captivity,
\par }{\QB his
priests
and
his
princes
together.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}Why
do
you
boast
in
the
valleys,
\par }{\QB your
flowing
valley,
backsliding
daughter?
\par }{\Q You
trusted
in
her
treasures,
\par }{\QB saying, ‘Who
will
come
to
me?’
\par }{\Q \VS{5}Behold,
I
will
bring
a
terror
on
you,”
\par }{\QB says
the
Lord, Yahweh
of
Armies,
\par }{\Q “from
all
who
are
around
you.
\par }{\QB All
of
you
will
be
driven
completely
out,
\par }{\QB and
there
will
be
no
one
to
gather
together
the
fugitives.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{6}“But
afterward
I
will
reverse
the
captivity
of
the
children
of
Ammon,”
\par }{\QB says
Yahweh.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{7}Of
Edom,
Yahweh
of
Armies
says:
\par }{\Q “Is
wisdom
no
more
in
Teman?
\par }{\QB Has
counsel
perished
from
the
prudent?
\par }{\QB Has
their
wisdom vanished?
\par }{\Q \VS{8}Flee!
Turn
back!
\par }{\QB Dwell
in
the
depths,
inhabitants
of
Dedan;
\par }{\QB for
I
will
bring
the
calamity
of
Esau
on
him
when
I
visit
him.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}If
grape
gatherers
came
to
you,
\par }{\QB would
they
not
leave
some
gleaning grapes?
\par }{\Q If
thieves
came
by
night,
\par }{\QB wouldn’t
they steal until
they
had
enough?
\par }{\Q \VS{10}But
I
have
made
Esau
bare,
\par }{\QB I
have
uncovered
his
secret
places,
\par }{\QB and
he
will
not
be
able
to
hide
himself.
\par }{\Q His
offspring
is
destroyed,
\par }{\QB with
his
brothers
and
his
neighbors;
\par }{\QB and
he
is
no
more.
\par }{\Q \VS{11}Leave
your
fatherless
children.
\par }{\QB I
will
preserve
them
alive.
\par }{\QB Let
your
widows
trust
in
me.”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}For
Yahweh
says: “Behold,
they
to
whom
it
didn’t pertain
to
drink
of
the
cup
will
certainly
drink;
and
are
you
he
who
will altogether
go
unpunished?
You
won’t
go
unpunished,
but
you
will
surely
drink.
\VS{13}For
I
have
sworn
by myself,”
says
Yahweh, “that
Bozrah
will
become
an astonishment,
a
reproach,
a
waste,
and
a
curse.
All
its
cities
will
be
perpetual
wastes.”
\par }{\Q \VS{14}I
have
heard
news
from
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB and
an ambassador
is
sent
among
the
nations,
\par }{\Q saying, “Gather
yourselves
together!
\par }{\QB Come
against
her!
\par }{\QB Rise
up
to
the
battle!”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{15}“For,
behold,
I
have
made
you
small
among
the
nations,
\par }{\QB and
despised
among
men.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}As
for
your
terror,
\par }{\QB the
pride
of
your
heart
has deceived
you,
\par }{\Q O
you
who
dwell
in
the
clefts
of
the
rock,
\par }{\QB who
hold
the
height
of
the
hill,
\par }{\Q though
you
should
make
your
nest
as
high
as
the
eagle,
\par }{\QB I
will
bring
you
down
from
there,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}“Edom
will
become
an astonishment.
\par }{\QB Everyone
who
passes
by
it
will
be
astonished,
\par }{\QB and
will
hiss
at
all
its
plagues.
\par }{\Q \VS{18}As
in
the
overthrow
of
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
and
its
neighbor cities,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB “no
man
will
dwell
there,
\par }{\QB neither
will
any
son
of
man
live therein.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{19}“Behold,
he
will
come
up
like
a
lion
from
the
pride
of
the
Jordan
against
the strong habitation;
\par }{\QB for
I
will
suddenly
make
them
run
away
from
it,
\par }{\Q and
whoever
is
chosen,
\par }{\QB I
will
appoint
him
over
it.
\par }{\Q For
who
is
like
me?
\par }{\QB Who
will
appoint
me
a time?
\par }{\QB Who
is
the
shepherd
who
will
stand
before
me?”
\par }{\Q \VS{20}Therefore
hear
the
counsel
of
Yahweh,
that
he
has
taken
against
Edom,
\par }{\QB and
his
purposes
that
he
has
purposed
against
the
inhabitants
of
Teman:
\par }{\Q Surely
they
will
drag
them away,
\par }{\QB the
little
ones
of
the
flock.
\par }{\QB Surely
he
will
make
their habitation
desolate
over
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{21}The
earth trembles
at
the
noise
of
their
fall;
\par }{\QB there
is
a
cry,
the
noise which
is
heard
in
the Red
Sea.
\par }{\Q \VS{22}Behold,
he
will
come
up
and
fly
as
the
eagle,
\par }{\QB and
spread
out
his
wings
against
Bozrah.
\par }{\QB The
heart
of
the
mighty
men
of
Edom
at
that
day
will
be
as
the
heart
of
a
woman
in
her pangs.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{23}Of
Damascus:
\par }{\Q “Hamath
and
Arpad
are
confounded,
\par }{\QB for
they
have
heard
evil
news.
\par }{\QB They
have
melted
away.
\par }{\Q There
is sorrow
on
the
sea.
\par }{\QB It
can’t
be
quiet.
\par }{\Q \VS{24}Damascus
has grown
feeble,
\par }{\QB she
turns herself
to
flee,
\par }{\QB and trembling
has
seized
her.
\par }{\Q Anguish
and sorrows
have
taken
hold
of
her,
\par }{\QB as
of
a woman
in travail.
\par }{\Q \VS{25}How
is
the
city
of
praise
not forsaken,
\par }{\QB the
city
of
my
joy?
\par }{\Q \VS{26}Therefore
her
young
men
will
fall
in
her
streets,
\par }{\QB and
all
the
men
of
war
will
be brought
to silence
in
that
day,”
\par }{\QB says
Yahweh
of
Armies.
\par }{\Q \VS{27}“I
will
kindle
a
fire
in
the
wall
of
Damascus,
\par }{\QB and
it
will
devour
the
palaces
of Ben Hadad.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{28}Of
Kedar,
and
of
the
kingdoms
of
Hazor,
which
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
struck,
Yahweh
says:
\par }{\Q “Arise,
go
up
to
Kedar,
\par }{\QB and
destroy
the
children
of
the
east.
\par }{\Q \VS{29}They
will
take
their
tents
and
their
flocks.
\par }{\QB they
will
carry
away
for
themselves
their
curtains,
\par }{\QB all
their
vessels,
and
their
camels;
\par }{\QB and
they
will
cry
to
them, ‘Terror
on
every
side!’
\par }{\Q \VS{30}Flee!
\par }{\QB Wander
far
off!
\par }{\Q Dwell
in
the
depths,
you
inhabitants
of
Hazor,”
says
Yahweh;
\par }{\QB “for
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
has
taken
counsel
against
you,
\par }{\QB and
has conceived
a
purpose
against
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{31}Arise!
Go
up
to
a
nation
that
is
at
ease,
\par }{\QB that
dwells
without care,”
says
Yahweh;
\par }{\QB “that
has
neither
gates
nor
bars,
\par }{\QB that
dwells
alone.
\par }{\Q \VS{32}Their
camels
will
be
a
booty,
\par }{\QB and
the
multitude
of
their
livestock
a
plunder.
\par }{\Q I
will
scatter
to
all
winds
those
who
have
the
corners
of
their beards
cut
off;
\par }{\QB and
I
will
bring
their
calamity
from
every
side
of
them,”
\par }{\QB says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{33}Hazor
will
be
a
dwelling
place
of
jackals,
\par }{\QB a
desolation
forever.
\par }{\Q No
man
will
dwell
there,
\par }{\QB neither
will
any
son
of
man
live therein.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{34}Yahweh’s
word
that
came
to
Jeremiah
the
prophet
concerning
Elam,
in
the
beginning
of
the
reign
of
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah,
saying,
\VS{35}“Yahweh
of
Armies
says:
\par }{\Q ‘Behold,
I
will
break
the
bow
of
Elam,
\par }{\QB the chief
of
their
might.
\par }{\Q \VS{36}I
will
bring
on
Elam
the
four
winds
from
the
four
quarters
of
the
sky,
\par }{\QB and
will
scatter
them
toward
all
those
winds.
\par }{\QB There
will
be
no
nation
where
the
outcasts
of
Elam
will
not
come.
\par }{\Q \VS{37}I
will cause
Elam
to
be
dismayed
before
their
enemies,
\par }{\QB and
before
those
who
seek
their
life.
\par }{\Q I
will
bring
evil
on
them,
even
my
fierce
anger,’
says
Yahweh;
\par }{\QB ‘and
I
will
send
the
sword
after
them,
\par }{\QB until
I
have
consumed
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{38}I
will
set
my
throne
in
Elam,
\par }{\QB and
will
destroy
from
there
king
and
princes,’
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{39}‘But
it
will
happen
in
the
latter
days
\par }{\QB that
I
will
reverse
the
captivity
of
Elam,’
says
Yahweh.”

\par }\Chap{50}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
that
Yahweh
spoke
concerning
Babylon,
concerning
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans,
by
Jeremiah
the
prophet.
\par }{\Q \VS{2}“Declare among
the
nations
and publish,
\par }{\QB and
set
up
a
standard;
\par }{\QB publish,
and
don’t
conceal;
\par }{\Q say, ‘Babylon
has
been
taken,
\par }{\QB Bel
is disappointed,
\par }{\QB Merodach
is
dismayed!
\par }{\Q Her
images
are disappointed.
\par }{\QB Her
idols
are
dismayed.’
\par }{\Q \VS{3}For
a
nation
comes
up
out
of
the
north
against
her,
\par }{\QB which
will
make
her
land
desolate,
\par }{\QB and
no
one
will
dwell
in
it.
\par }{\Q They
have
fled.
\par }{\QB They
are
gone,
\par }{\QB both
man
and
animal.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{4}“In
those
days,
and
in
that
time,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB “the
children
of
Israel
will
come,
\par }{\QB they
and
the
children
of
Judah
together;
\par }{\Q they
will
go
on
their
way
weeping,
\par }{\QB and
will
seek
Yahweh
their
God.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}They
will
inquire
concerning
Zion
with
their
faces
turned
toward
it,
\par }{\QB saying, ‘Come,
and
join
yourselves
to
Yahweh
in
an
everlasting
covenant
\par }{\QB that
will
not
be
forgotten.’
\par }{\Q \VS{6}My
people
have
been
lost
sheep.
\par }{\QB Their
shepherds
have
caused
them
to
go
astray.
\par }{\Q They
have
turned
them
away
on
the
mountains.
\par }{\QB They
have
gone
from
mountain
to
hill.
\par }{\QB They
have
forgotten
their
resting
place.
\par }{\Q \VS{7}All
who
found
them
have
devoured
them.
\par }{\QB Their adversaries
said, ‘We
are
not
guilty,
\par }{\Q because
they
have
sinned
against
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB the habitation
of
righteousness,
\par }{\QB even
Yahweh,
the hope
of
their
fathers.’
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{8}“Flee
out
of
the
middle
of
Babylon!
\par }{\QB Go
out
of
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans,
\par }{\QB and
be
as
the
male
goats
before
the
flocks.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}For,
behold,
I
will
stir
up
\par }{\QB and
cause
to
come
up
against
Babylon
a
company
of
great
nations
from
the
north
country;
\par }{\QB and
they
will
set
themselves
in array
against
her.
\par }{\Q She
will
be
taken
from
there.
\par }{\QB Their
arrows
will
be
as
of
an expert
mighty
man.
\par }{\QB None
of
them
will
return
in vain.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}Chaldea
will
be
a prey.
\par }{\QB All
who prey
on
her
will
be
satisfied,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{11}“Because
you
are
glad,
\par }{\QB because
you
rejoice,
\par }{\Q O
you
who
plunder
my
heritage,
\par }{\QB because
you
are wanton
as
a
heifer
that treads out
the grain,
\par }{\QB and neigh
as
strong horses,
\par }{\Q \VS{12}your
mother
will
be
utterly
disappointed.
\par }{\QB She
who
bore
you
will
be
confounded.
\par }{\Q Behold,
she
will
be
the
least
of
the
nations,
\par }{\QB a
wilderness,
a
dry
land,
and
a
desert.
\par }{\Q \VS{13}Because
of
Yahweh’s
wrath
she
won’t
be
inhabited,
\par }{\QB but
she
will
be
wholly
desolate.
\par }{\Q Everyone
who goes
by
Babylon
will
be
astonished,
\par }{\QB and
hiss
at
all
her
plagues.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}Set
yourselves
in array
against
Babylon
all
around,
\par }{\QB all
you
who
bend
the
bow;
\par }{\QB shoot
at
her.
\par }{\Q Spare
no
arrows,
\par }{\QB for
she
has
sinned
against
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{15}Shout
against
her
all
around.
\par }{\QB She
has submitted
herself.
\par }{\QB Her bulwarks
have
fallen.
\par }{\Q Her
walls
have
been
thrown
down,
\par }{\QB for
it
is
the
vengeance
of
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q Take
vengeance
on
her.
\par }{\QB As
she
has
done,
do
to
her.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}Cut
off
the
sower
from
Babylon,
\par }{\QB and
him
who handles
the
sickle
in
the
time
of
harvest.
\par }{\Q For fear
of
the
oppressing
sword,
\par }{\QB they
will
each return
to
their
own
people,
\par }{\QB and
they
will
each
flee
to
their
own
land.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{17}“Israel
is
a
hunted
sheep.
\par }{\QB The
lions
have
driven
him
away.
\par }{\Q First,
the
king
of
Assyria
devoured
him,
\par }{\QB and
now
at
last
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
has broken
his bones.”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Therefore
Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
says:
\par }{\Q “Behold,
I
will
punish
the
king
of
Babylon
and
his
land,
\par }{\QB as
I
have
punished
the
king
of
Assyria.
\par }{\Q \VS{19}I
will
bring
Israel
again
to
his pasture,
\par }{\QB and
he
will
feed
on
Carmel
and
Bashan.
\par }{\QB His
soul
will
be
satisfied
on
the
hills
of
Ephraim
and
in
Gilead.
\par }{\Q \VS{20}In
those
days,
and
in
that
time,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB “the
iniquity
of
Israel
will
be
sought
for,
\par }{\QB and
there
will
be
none,
\par }{\Q also
the
sins
of
Judah,
\par }{\QB and
they
won’t
be
found;
\par }{\QB for
I
will
pardon
them
whom
I
leave
as
a
remnant.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{21}“Go
up
against
the
land
of
Merathaim,
\par }{\QB even
against
it,
and
against
the
inhabitants
of
Pekod.
\par }{\Q Kill
and utterly
destroy
after
them,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB “and
do
according
to
all
that
I
have
commanded
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{22}A
sound
of
battle
is
in
the
land,
\par }{\QB and
of
great
destruction.
\par }{\Q \VS{23}How
the
hammer
of
the
whole
earth
is
cut apart
and
broken!
\par }{\QB How
Babylon
has
become
a
desolation
among
the
nations!
\par }{\Q \VS{24}I
have laid
a
snare
for
you,
\par }{\QB and
you
are
also
taken,
Babylon,
\par }{\QB and
you weren’t
aware.
\par }{\Q You
are
found,
\par }{\QB and
also
caught,
\par }{\QB because
you
have fought
against
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{25}Yahweh
has
opened
his
armory,
\par }{\QB and
has
brought
out
the
weapons
of
his
indignation;
\par }{\QB for
the
Lord,
Yahweh
of
Armies,
has
a
work
to
do
in
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans.
\par }{\Q \VS{26}Come
against
her
from
the
farthest
border.
\par }{\QB Open
her storehouses.
\par }{\QB Cast
her
up
as
heaps.
\par }{\Q Destroy
her utterly.
\par }{\QB Let
nothing
of
her
be
left.
\par }{\Q \VS{27}Kill
all
her
bulls.
\par }{\QB Let
them
go
down
to
the
slaughter.
\par }{\Q Woe
to
them!
For
their
day
has
come,
\par }{\QB the
time
of
their visitation.
\par }{\Q \VS{28}Listen
to
those
who
flee
and
escape
out
of
the
land
of
Babylon,
\par }{\QB to
declare
in
Zion
the
vengeance
of
Yahweh
our
God,
\par }{\QB the
vengeance
of
his
temple.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{29}“Call
together
the
archers
against
Babylon,
\par }{\QB all
those
who
bend
the
bow.
\par }{\Q Encamp
against
her
all
around.
\par }{\QB Let
none
of
it
escape.
\par }{\Q Pay
her
back
according
to
her
work.
\par }{\QB According
to
all
that
she
has
done,
do
to
her;
\par }{\Q for
she
has
been proud
against
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB against
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
\par }{\Q \VS{30}Therefore
her
young
men
will
fall
in
her
streets.
\par }{\QB All
her
men
of
war
will
be brought
to silence
in
that
day,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{31}“Behold,
I
am
against
you,
you proud
one,”
says
the
Lord, Yahweh
of
Armies;
\par }{\QB “for
your
day
has
come,
\par }{\QB the
time
that
I
will
visit
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{32}The proud
one
will
stumble
and
fall,
\par }{\QB and
no
one
will
raise
him
up.
\par }{\Q I
will
kindle
a
fire
in
his
cities,
\par }{\QB and
it
will
devour
all
who
are
around
him.”
\par }{\Q \VS{33}Yahweh
of
Armies
says: “The
children
of
Israel
and
the
children
of
Judah
are
oppressed
together.
\par }{\QB All
who
took
them
captive
hold
them
fast.
\par }{\QB They
refuse
to
let
them
go.
\par }{\Q \VS{34}Their
Redeemer
is
strong.
\par }{\QB Yahweh
of
Armies
is
his
name.
\par }{\Q He
will thoroughly
plead
their
cause,
\par }{\QB that
he
may give
rest
to
the
earth,
\par }{\QB and disquiet
the
inhabitants
of
Babylon.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{35}“A
sword
is
on
the
Chaldeans,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB “and
on
the
inhabitants
of
Babylon,
\par }{\QB on
her
princes,
\par }{\QB and
on
her
wise
men.
\par }{\Q \VS{36}A
sword
is
on
the
boasters,
\par }{\QB and
they
will
become
fools.
\par }{\Q A
sword
is
on
her
mighty
men,
\par }{\QB and
they
will
be
dismayed.
\par }{\Q \VS{37}A
sword
is
on
their
horses,
\par }{\QB on
their
chariots,
\par }{\QB and
on
all
the mixed
people
who
are
in
the
middle
of
her;
\par }{\QB and
they
will
become
as
women.
\par }{\Q A
sword
is
on
her
treasures,
\par }{\QB and
they
will
be robbed.
\par }{\Q \VS{38}A drought
is
on
her
waters,
\par }{\QB and
they
will
be
dried
up;
\par }{\Q for
it
is
a
land
of
engraved
images,
\par }{\QB and
they
are mad
over
idols.
\par }{\Q \VS{39}Therefore
the wild animals
of
the desert
\par }{\QB with
the
wolves
will
dwell
there.
\par }{\Q The
ostriches
will
dwell therein.
\par }{\QB It
will
be
inhabited
no
more
forever,
\par }{\QB neither
will
it
be
lived
in
from
generation
to
generation.
\par }{\Q \VS{40}As
when
God
overthrew
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
and
its
neighbor cities,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB “so
no
man
will
dwell
there,
\par }{\QB neither
will
any
son
of
man
live therein.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{41}“Behold,
a
people
comes
from
the
north.
\par }{\QB A
great
nation
and
many
kings
will
be
stirred
up
from
the uttermost
parts
of
the
earth.
\par }{\Q \VS{42}They
take
up
bow
and
spear.
\par }{\QB They
are
cruel,
and
have
no
mercy.
\par }{\QB Their
voice
roars
like
the
sea.
\par }{\Q They
ride
on
horses,
\par }{\QB everyone set
in
array,
\par }{\QB as
a
man
to
the
battle,
\par }{\QB against
you,
daughter
of
Babylon.
\par }{\Q \VS{43}The
king
of
Babylon
has
heard
the
news
of
them,
\par }{\QB and
his
hands
become
feeble.
\par }{\Q Anguish
has
taken
hold
of
him,
\par }{\QB pains
as
of
a woman
in
labor.
\par }{\Q \VS{44}Behold,
the enemy
will
come
up
like
a
lion
\par }{\QB from
the thickets
of
the
Jordan
against
the strong habitation;
\par }{\QB for
I
will
suddenly
make
them
run
away
from
it.
\par }{\Q Whoever
is chosen,
\par }{\QB I
will
appoint
him
over
it,
\par }{\QB for
who
is
like
me?
\par }{\Q Who
will
appoint
me
a time?
\par }{\QB Who
is
the
shepherd
who
can
stand
before
me?”
\par }{\Q \VS{45}Therefore
hear
the
counsel
of
Yahweh
\par }{\QB that
he
has taken
against
Babylon;
\par }{\Q and
his
purposes
\par }{\QB that
he
has
purposed
against
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans:
\par }{\Q Surely
they
will
drag
them away,
\par }{\QB even
the
little
ones
of
the
flock.
\par }{\QB Surely
he
will
make
their habitation
desolate
over
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{46}The
earth trembles
at
the
noise
of
the taking
of
Babylon.
\par }{\QB The
cry
is
heard
among
the
nations.

\par }\Chap{51}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Yahweh
says:
\par }{\Q “Behold,
I
will
raise
up
against
Babylon,
\par }{\QB and
against
those
who
dwell
in Lebkamai,
a
destroying
wind.
\par }{\Q \VS{2}I
will
send
to
Babylon
strangers,
who
will
winnow
her.
\par }{\QB They
will empty
her
land;
\par }{\QB for
in
the
day
of
trouble
they
will
be
against
her
all
around.
\par }{\Q \VS{3}Against
him
who
bends,
let
the archer
bend
his
bow,
\par }{\QB also
against
him
who lifts
himself
up
in
his coat
of mail.
\par }{\Q Don’t
spare
her
young
men!
\par }{\QB Utterly
destroy
all
her
army!
\par }{\Q \VS{4}They
will
fall
down
slain
in
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans,
\par }{\QB and
thrust
through
in her
streets.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}For
Israel
is
not
forsaken,
nor
Judah,
by
his
God,
\par }{\QB by
Yahweh
of
Armies;
\par }{\QB though
their
land
is
full
of
guilt against
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{6}“Flee
out
of
the
middle
of
Babylon!
\par }{\QB Everyone
save
his
own
life!
\par }{\Q Don’t
be cut
off
in
her
iniquity,
\par }{\QB for
it
is
the
time
of
Yahweh’s
vengeance.
\par }{\QB He
will render
to
her
a
recompense.
\par }{\Q \VS{7}Babylon
has
been
a
golden
cup
in
Yahweh’s
hand,
\par }{\QB who
made
all
the
earth
drunk.
\par }{\Q The
nations
have
drunk
of
her
wine;
\par }{\QB therefore
the
nations
have gone mad.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}Babylon
has
suddenly
fallen
and been destroyed!
\par }{\QB Wail
for
her!
\par }{\Q Take
balm
for
her
pain.
\par }{\QB Perhaps she
may
be
healed.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{9}“We
would
have
healed
Babylon,
\par }{\QB but
she
is
not
healed.
\par }{\Q Forsake
her,
\par }{\QB and let’s
each go
into
his
own
country;
\par }{\Q for
her
judgment
reaches
to
heaven,
\par }{\QB and
is
lifted
up
even
to
the
skies.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}‘Yahweh
has
produced
our
righteousness.
\par }{\QB Come,
and let’s
declare
in
Zion
the
work
of
Yahweh
our
God.’
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{11}“Make
the
arrows sharp!
\par }{\QB Hold
the
shields firmly!
\par }{\Q Yahweh
has
stirred
up
the
spirit
of
the
kings
of
the
Medes,
\par }{\QB because
his
purpose
is
against
Babylon,
to
destroy
it;
\par }{\Q for
it
is
the
vengeance
of
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB the
vengeance
of
his
temple.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}Set
up
a
standard
against
the
walls
of
Babylon!
\par }{\QB Make
the
watch
strong!
\par }{\Q Set
the
watchmen,
\par }{\QB and
prepare
the
ambushes;
\par }{\Q for
Yahweh
has
both
purposed
and
done
\par }{\QB that
which
he
spoke
concerning
the
inhabitants
of
Babylon.
\par }{\Q \VS{13}You who
dwell
on
many
waters,
abundant
in
treasures,
\par }{\QB your
end
has
come,
the
measure
of
your covetousness.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}Yahweh
of
Armies
has
sworn
by
himself, saying,
\par }{\QB ‘Surely
I
will
fill
you
with
men,
\par }{\QB as
with
locusts,
\par }{\QB and
they
will lift
up
a
shout
against
you.’
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{15}“He
has
made
the
earth
by
his
power.
\par }{\QB He
has
established
the
world
by
his
wisdom.
\par }{\QB By
his
understanding
he
has
stretched
out
the
heavens.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}When
he
utters
his
voice,
\par }{\QB there
is
a
roar
of
waters
in
the
heavens,
\par }{\QB and
he
causes
the vapors
to
ascend
from
the ends
of
the
earth.
\par }{\Q He
makes
lightning
for
the
rain,
\par }{\QB and
brings
the
wind
out
of
his
treasuries.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{17}“Every
man
has
become stupid
and
without
knowledge.
\par }{\QB Every
goldsmith
is disappointed
by
his
image,
\par }{\Q for
his molten
images
are
falsehood,
\par }{\QB and
there
is
no
breath
in
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{18}They
are
vanity,
\par }{\QB a
work
of
delusion.
\par }{\QB In
the
time
of
their visitation,
they
will
perish.
\par }{\Q \VS{19}The
portion
of
Jacob
is
not
like
these,
\par }{\QB for
he
formed
all
things,
\par }{\QB including
the
tribe
of
his
inheritance.
\par }{\QB Yahweh
of
Armies
is
his
name.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{20}“You
are
my
battle ax
and
weapons
of
war.
\par }{\QB With
you
I
will break
the
nations
into pieces.
\par }{\QB With
you
I
will
destroy
kingdoms.
\par }{\Q \VS{21}With you
I
will break
in pieces
\par }{\QB the
horse
and
his
rider.
\par }{\Q \VS{22}With
you
I
will break
in pieces
\par }{\QB the chariot
and him
who rides therein.
\par }{\Q With
you
I
will break
in pieces
\par }{\QB man
and
woman.
\par }{\Q With
you
I
will break
in pieces
\par }{\QB the
old
man
and
the
youth.
\par }{\Q With
you
I
will break
in pieces
\par }{\QB the
young
man
and
the
virgin.
\par }{\Q \VS{23}With you
I
will break in pieces
\par }{\QB the
shepherd
and his
flock.
\par }{\Q With you
I
will break in pieces
\par }{\QB the
farmer
and his
yoke.
\par }{\Q With you
I
will break in pieces
\par }{\QB governors
and deputies.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}“I
will render
to
Babylon
and
to
all
the
inhabitants
of
Chaldea
all
their
evil
that
they
have
done
in
Zion
in
your
sight,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\Q \VS{25}“Behold,
I
am
against
you,
destroying
mountain,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB “which
destroys
all
the
earth.
\par }{\Q I
will
stretch
out
my
hand
on
you,
\par }{\QB roll
you
down
from
the
rocks,
\par }{\QB and
will
make
you
a
burned
mountain.
\par }{\Q \VS{26}They
won’t
take
a
cornerstone
from
you,
\par }{\QB nor
a
stone
for
foundations;
\par }{\QB but
you
will
be
desolate
forever,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{27}“Set
up
a
standard
in
the
land!
\par }{\QB Blow
the
trumpet
among
the
nations!
\par }{\Q Prepare
the
nations
against
her!
\par }{\QB Call
together
against
her
the
kingdoms
of
Ararat,
Minni,
and
Ashkenaz!
\par }{\Q Appoint
a
marshal
against
her!
\par }{\QB Cause
the
horses
to
come
up
as
the swarming
locusts!
\par }{\Q \VS{28}Prepare
against
her
the
nations,
\par }{\QB the
kings
of
the
Medes,
its
governors,
and
all
its deputies,
and
all
the
land
of
their
dominion!
\par }{\Q \VS{29}The
land trembles
and
is
in pain;
\par }{\QB for
the
purposes
of
Yahweh
against
Babylon
stand,
\par }{\QB to
make
the
land
of
Babylon
a
desolation,
without
inhabitant.
\par }{\Q \VS{30}The
mighty
men
of
Babylon
have
stopped
fighting,
\par }{\QB they
remain
in
their
strongholds.
\par }{\Q Their
might
has
failed.
\par }{\QB They
have
become
as
women.
\par }{\Q Her
dwelling
places
are
set
on
fire.
\par }{\QB Her
bars
are
broken.
\par }{\Q \VS{31}One
runner
will
run
to
meet
another,
\par }{\QB and
one
messenger
to
meet
another,
\par }{\QB to
show
the
king
of
Babylon
that
his
city
is
taken
on every quarter.
\par }{\Q \VS{32}So
the passages
are
seized.
\par }{\QB They
have
burned
the reeds
with
fire.
\par }{\QB The
men
of
war
are frightened.”
\par }{\PP \VS{33}For
Yahweh
of
Armies,
the
God
of
Israel
says:
\par }{\Q “The
daughter
of
Babylon
is
like
a
threshing
floor
at
the
time
when
it
is
trodden.
\par }{\QB Yet
a
little
while,
and
the
time
of
harvest
comes
for
her.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{34}“Nebuchadnezzar
the
king
of
Babylon
has
devoured
me.
\par }{\QB He
has
crushed
me.
\par }{\QB He
has
made
me an empty
vessel.
\par }{\Q He
has, like
a
monster,
swallowed
me
up.
\par }{\QB He
has
filled
his mouth
with
my delicacies.
\par }{\QB He
has cast
me out.
\par }{\Q \VS{35}May
the
violence done
to
me
and
to
my
flesh
be
on
Babylon!”
\par }{\QB the
inhabitant
of
Zion
will
say;
and,
\par }{\Q “May
my
blood
be
on
the
inhabitants
of
Chaldea!”
\par }{\QB will
Jerusalem
say.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{36}Therefore
Yahweh
says:
\par }{\Q “Behold,
I
will
plead
your
cause,
\par }{\QB and
take
vengeance
for
you.
\par }{\Q I
will
dry
up
her
sea,
\par }{\QB and
make
her
fountain
dry.
\par }{\Q \VS{37}Babylon
will
become
heaps,
\par }{\QB a
dwelling
place
for
jackals,
\par }{\QB an astonishment,
and
a
hissing,
\par }{\QB without
inhabitant.
\par }{\Q \VS{38}They will
roar
together
like
young
lions.
\par }{\QB They will
growl as
lions’
cubs.
\par }{\Q \VS{39}When
they
are inflamed,
I
will
make
their
feast,
\par }{\QB and
I
will
make
them
drunk,
\par }{\Q that
they
may
rejoice,
\par }{\QB and
sleep
a
perpetual
sleep,
\par }{\QB and
not
wake
up,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{40}“I
will
bring
them
down
like
lambs
to
the
slaughter,
\par }{\QB like
rams
with
male
goats.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{41}“How
Sheshach
is
taken!
\par }{\QB How
the
praise
of
the
whole
earth
is
seized!
\par }{\QB How
Babylon
has
become
a
desolation
among
the
nations!
\par }{\Q \VS{42}The
sea
has
come
up
on
Babylon.
\par }{\QB She
is
covered
with
the
multitude
of
its
waves.
\par }{\Q \VS{43}Her
cities
have
become
a
desolation,
\par }{\QB a
dry
land,
and
a
desert,
\par }{\QB a
land
in
which
no
man
dwells.
\par }{\QB No
son
of
man
passes
by
it.
\par }{\Q \VS{44}I
will execute
judgment
on
Bel
in
Babylon,
\par }{\QB and
I
will
bring
out
of
his
mouth
that
which
he
has
swallowed
up.
\par }{\Q The
nations
will
not
flow
any
more
to
him.
\par }{\QB Yes,
the
wall
of
Babylon
will
fall.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{45}“My
people,
go
away
from
the
middle
of
her,
\par }{\QB and
each
of
you
save
yourselves
from
Yahweh’s
fierce
anger.
\par }{\Q \VS{46}Don’t let
your
heart
faint.
\par }{\QB Don’t
fear
for
the
news
that
will
be
heard
in
the
land.
\par }{\Q For
news
will
come
one
year,
\par }{\QB and
after
that
in
another
year
news
will
come,
\par }{\QB and
violence
in
the
land,
\par }{\QB ruler
against
ruler.
\par }{\Q \VS{47}Therefore
behold,
the
days
come
that
I
will execute
judgment
on
the
engraved
images
of
Babylon;
\par }{\QB and
her
whole
land
will
be
confounded.
\par }{\QB All
her
slain
will
fall
in
the
middle
of
her.
\par }{\Q \VS{48}Then
the
heavens
and
the
earth,
\par }{\QB and
all
that
is therein,
\par }{\Q will
sing
for
joy
over
Babylon;
\par }{\QB for
the
destroyers
will
come
to
her
from
the
north,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{49}“As
Babylon
has caused
the
slain
of
Israel
to
fall,
\par }{\QB so
the
slain
of
all
the
land
will
fall
at
Babylon.
\par }{\Q \VS{50}You
who
have escaped
the
sword,
go!
\par }{\QB Don’t
stand
still!
\par }{\Q Remember
Yahweh
from
afar,
\par }{\QB and
let
Jerusalem
come
into
your
mind.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{51}“We
are
confounded
\par }{\QB because
we
have
heard
reproach.
\par }{\Q Confusion
has
covered
our
faces,
\par }{\QB for
strangers
have
come
into
the
sanctuaries
of
Yahweh’s
house.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{52}“Therefore
behold,
the
days
come,”
says
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB “that
I
will execute
judgment
on
her
engraved
images;
\par }{\QB and
through
all
her
land
the
wounded
will
groan.
\par }{\Q \VS{53}Though
Babylon
should
mount
up
to
the
sky,
\par }{\QB and
though
she
should
fortify
the
height
of
her
strength,
\par }{\QB yet
destroyers
will
come
to
her
from
me,”
says
Yahweh.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{54}“The
sound
of
a
cry comes
from
Babylon,
\par }{\QB and
of
great
destruction
from
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans!
\par }{\Q \VS{55}For
Yahweh
lays
Babylon
waste,
\par }{\QB and
destroys
out
of
her
the
great
voice!
\par }{\Q Their
waves
roar
like
many
waters.
\par }{\QB The
noise
of
their
voice
is
uttered.
\par }{\Q \VS{56}For
the
destroyer
has
come
on
her,
\par }{\QB even
on
Babylon.
\par }{\Q Her
mighty
men
are
taken.
\par }{\QB Their
bows
are broken
in pieces,
\par }{\Q for
Yahweh
is
a
God
of retribution.
\par }{\QB He
will
surely
repay.
\par }{\Q \VS{57}I
will
make
her
princes,
her
wise
men,
\par }{\QB her
governors,
her deputies,
and
her
mighty
men
drunk.
\par }{\Q They
will
sleep
a
perpetual
sleep,
\par }{\QB and
not
wake
up,”
\par }{\QB says
the
King,
whose
name
is
Yahweh
of
Armies.
\par }{\PP \VS{58}Yahweh
of
Armies
says:
\par }{\Q “The
wide
walls
of
Babylon
will
be utterly overthrown.
\par }{\QB Her
high
gates
will
be
burned
with
fire.
\par }{\Q The
peoples
will
labor
for vanity,
\par }{\QB and
the
nations
for
the
fire;
\par }{\QB and
they
will
be
weary.”
\par }{\PP \VS{59}The
word
which
Jeremiah
the
prophet
commanded
Seraiah
the
son
of
Neriah,
the
son
of
Mahseiah,
when
he went
with
Zedekiah
the
king
of
Judah
to
Babylon
in
the
fourth
year
of
his
reign. Now
Seraiah
was
chief quartermaster.
\VS{60}Jeremiah
wrote
in
a
book
all
the
evil
that
should
come
on
Babylon,
even
all
these
words
that
are
written
concerning
Babylon.
\VS{61}Jeremiah
said
to
Seraiah, “When
you
come
to
Babylon,
then
see
that
you
read
all
these
words,
\VS{62}and
say, ‘Yahweh,
you
have
spoken
concerning
this
place,
to
cut
it
off,
that
no
one
will
dwell
in
it,
neither
man
nor
animal,
but
that
it
will
be
desolate
forever.’
\VS{63}It
will
be,
when
you
have
finished
reading
this
book,
that
you
shall
bind
a
stone
to
it,
and
cast
it
into
the
middle
of
the
Euphrates.
\VS{64}Then
you
shall
say, ‘Thus
will
Babylon
sink,
and
will
not
rise
again
because
of
the
evil
that
I
will
bring
on
her;
and
they
will
be
weary.’ ”
\par }{\PP Thus
far
are
the
words
of
Jeremiah.

\par }\Chap{52}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Zedekiah
was twenty-one
years
old
when
he began
to
reign.
He
reigned
eleven
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Hamutal
the
daughter
of
Jeremiah
of
Libnah.
\VS{2}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight, according
to
all
that
Jehoiakim
had
done.
\VS{3}For
through
Yahweh’s
anger
this
happened
in
Jerusalem
and
Judah,
until
he
had
cast
them
out
from
his
presence.
\par }{\PP Zedekiah
rebelled
against
the
king
of
Babylon.
\VS{4}In
the
ninth
year
of
his
reign,
in
the
tenth
month,
in
the
tenth
day
of
the
month,
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
came,
he
and
all
his
army,
against
Jerusalem,
and
encamped
against
it;
and
they
built forts
against
it
round
about.
\VS{5}So
the
city
was
besieged
to
the
eleventh
year
of
King
Zedekiah.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}In
the
fourth
month,
in
the
ninth
day
of
the
month,
the
famine
was
severe
in
the
city,
so
that
there
was
no
bread
for
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{7}Then
a
breach
was
made
in
the
city,
and
all
the
men
of
war
fled,
and
went
out
of
the
city
by
night
by
the
way
of
the
gate
between
the
two
walls,
which
was
by
the
king’s
garden. Now
the
Chaldeans
were
against
the
city
all
around.
The
men
of
war
went
toward
the
Arabah,
\VS{8}but
the
army
of
the
Chaldeans
pursued
the
king,
and
overtook
Zedekiah
in
the
plains
of
Jericho;
and
all
his
army
was
scattered
from
him.
\VS{9}Then
they
took
the
king,
and
carried
him
up
to
the
king
of
Babylon
to
Riblah
in
the
land
of
Hamath;
and
he
pronounced
judgment
on
him.
\VS{10}The
king
of
Babylon
killed
the
sons
of
Zedekiah
before
his
eyes.
He
also
killed
all
the
princes
of
Judah
in
Riblah.
\VS{11}He
put
out
the
eyes
of
Zedekiah;
and
the
king
of
Babylon
bound
him
in
fetters,
and
carried
him
to
Babylon,
and
put
him
in
prison
until
the
day
of
his
death.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Now
in
the
fifth
month,
in
the
tenth
day
of
the
month,
which
was
the nineteenth
year
of
King
Nebuchadnezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
Nebuzaradan
the
captain
of
the
guard,
who
stood
before
the
king
of
Babylon,
came
into
Jerusalem.
\VS{13}He
burned
Yahweh’s
house,
and
the
king’s
house;
and
all
the
houses
of
Jerusalem,
even
every
great
house,
he
burned
with
fire.
\VS{14}All
the
army
of
the
Chaldeans,
who
were
with
the
captain
of
the
guard,
broke
down
all
the
walls
of
Jerusalem
all
around.
\VS{15}Then
Nebuzaradan
the
captain
of
the
guard
carried
away
captive
of
the poorest
of
the
people,
and
the
rest
of
the
people
who
were
left
in
the
city,
and
those
who
fell
away,
who
defected
to
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
the
rest
of
the multitude.
\VS{16}But
Nebuzaradan
the
captain
of
the
guard
left
of
the poorest
of
the
land
to
be vineyard keepers
and farmers.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}The
Chaldeans
broke
the
pillars
of
bronze
that
were
in
Yahweh’s
house
and
the bases
and
the
bronze
sea
that
were
in
Yahweh’s
house
in
pieces,
and
carried
all
of
their
bronze
to
Babylon.
\VS{18}They
also
took
away
the
pots,
the
shovels,
the
snuffers,
the
basins,
the
spoons,
and
all
the
vessels
of
bronze
with
which
they
ministered.
\VS{19}The
captain
of
the
guard
took
away
the cups,
the fire
pans,
the
basins,
the
pots,
the lamp stands,
the
spoons,
and
the
bowls;
that
which
was
of
gold,
as
gold,
and
that
which
was
of
silver,
as
silver.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}They
took
the
two
pillars,
the
one
sea,
and
the
twelve
bronze
bulls
that
were
under
the bases,
which
King
Solomon
had
made
for
Yahweh’s
house.
The
bronze
of
all
these
vessels
was
without
weight.
\VS{21}As
for
the
pillars,
the
height
of
the
one
pillar
was
eighteen
cubits;\FTNT{*}{{\FR 52:21 }
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.}
and
a
line
of
twelve
cubits
encircled
it;
and its
thickness
was
four
fingers.
It
was
hollow.
\VS{22}A
capital
of
bronze
was
on
it;
and
the
height
of
the
one
capital
was
five
cubits,\FTNT{†}{{\FR 52:22 }
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.}
with
network
and
pomegranates
on
the
capital
all
around,
all
of
bronze.
The
second
pillar also
had
the
same,
with
pomegranates.
\VS{23}There
were
ninety-six
pomegranates
on
the
sides;
all
the
pomegranates
were
one
hundred
on
the
network
all
around.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}The
captain
of
the
guard
took
Seraiah
the
chief
priest,
and
Zephaniah
the
second
priest,
and
the
three
keepers
of
the threshold,
\VS{25}and
out
of
the
city
he
took
an
officer
who
was
set
over
the
men
of
war;
and
seven
men
of
those
who
saw
the
king’s
face,
who
were
found
in
the
city;
and
the
scribe
of
the
captain
of
the
army,
who
mustered
the
people
of
the
land;
and
sixty
men
of
the
people
of
the
land,
who
were
found
in
the
middle
of
the
city.
\VS{26}Nebuzaradan
the
captain
of
the
guard
took
them,
and
brought
them
to
the
king
of
Babylon
to
Riblah.
\VS{27}The
king
of
Babylon
struck
them,
and
put
them
to
death
at
Riblah
in
the
land
of
Hamath.
\par }{\PP So
Judah
was
carried
away
captive
out
of
his
land.
\VS{28}This
is
the number
of
the
people
whom
Nebuchadnezzar
carried
away
captive:
\par }{\MM in
the
seventh
year,
three
thousand twenty-three
Jews;
\par }{\MM \VS{29}in
the
eighteenth
year
of
Nebuchadnezzar,
he carried away captive
from
Jerusalem
eight
hundred thirty-two
persons;
\par }{\MM \VS{30}in
the
twenty-third
year
of
Nebuchadnezzar,
Nebuzaradan
the
captain
of
the
guard
carried
away
captive
of
the
Jews
seven
hundred
forty-five
people.
\par }{\MM All
the
people
numbered
four
thousand
six
hundred.
\par }{\PP \VS{31}In
the thirty-seventh
year
of
the captivity
of
Jehoiachin
king
of
Judah,
in
the twelfth
month,
in
the twenty-fifth
day
of
the
month, Evilmerodach
king
of
Babylon,
in
the
first
year
of
his
reign,
lifted
up
the
head
of
Jehoiachin
king
of
Judah,
and
released
him
from
prison.
\VS{32}He
spoke
kindly
to
him,
and
set
his
throne
above
the
throne
of
the
kings
who
were
with
him
in
Babylon,
\VS{33}and changed
his
prison
garments.
Jehoiachin
ate
bread
before
him
continually
all
the
days
of
his
life.
\VS{34}For
his
allowance,
there
was
a
continual
allowance
given
him
by
the
king
of
Babylon,
every
day
a
portion
until
the
day
of
his
death,
all
the
days
of
his
life.
\par }