1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests

that [were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

1:2 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the

son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

1:3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king

of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son

of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem

captive in the fifth month.

1:4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before

thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I

ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

1:6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I

[am] a child.

1:7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I [am] a child: for thou

shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I

command thee thou shalt speak.

1:8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I [am] with thee to

deliver thee, saith the LORD.

1:9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And

the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy

mouth.

1:10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the

kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to

throw down, to build, and to plant.

1:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond

tree.

1:12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will

hasten my word to perform it.

1:13 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time,

saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and

the face thereof [is] toward the north.

1:14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall

break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

1:15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of

the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall

set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of

Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and

against all the cities of Judah.

1:16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all

their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense

unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

1:17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto

them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces,

lest I confound thee before them.

1:18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and

an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land,

against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof,

against the priests thereof, and against the people of the

land.

1:19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not

prevail against thee; for I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to

deliver thee.

2:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the

LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of

thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness,

in a land [that was] not sown.

2:3 Israel [was] holiness unto the LORD, [and] the firstfruits

of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall

come upon them, saith the LORD.

2:4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the

families of the house of Israel:

2:5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found

in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after

vanity, and are become vain?

2:6 Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us up

out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness,

through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of

drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man

passed through, and where no man dwelt?

2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit

thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye

defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

2:8 The priests said not, Where [is] the LORD? and they that

handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed

against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked

after [things that] do not profit.

2:9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and

with your children's children will I plead.

2:10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto

Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a

thing.

2:11 Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no

gods? but my people have changed their glory for [that which]

doth not profit.

2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly

afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken

me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out

cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

2:14 [Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why is

he spoiled?

2:15 The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they

made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

2:16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the

crown of thy head.

2:17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast

forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

2:18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink

the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of

Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?

2:19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy

backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that

[it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the

LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord

GOD of hosts.

2:20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy

bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every

high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing

the harlot.

2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed:

how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange

vine unto me?

2:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much

soap, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord

GOD.

2:23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone

after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast

done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

2:24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, [that] snuffeth up the

wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away?

all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month

they shall find her.

2:25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from

thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved

strangers, and after them will I go.

2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house

of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their

priests, and their prophets,

2:27 Saying to a stock, Thou [art] my father; and to a stone,

Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned [their] back

unto me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their trouble

they will say, Arise, and save us.

2:28 But where [are] thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them

arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for

[according to] the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.

2:29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed

against me, saith the LORD.

2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no

correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a

destroying lion.

2:31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a

wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my

people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her attire?

yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

2:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou

also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

2:34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the

poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon

all these.

2:35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger

shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because

thou sayest, I have not sinned.

2:36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also

shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

2:37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon

thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and

thou shalt not prosper in them.

3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him,

and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall

not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the

harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the

LORD.

3:2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou

hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as

the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land

with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

3:3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath

been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou

refusedst to be ashamed.

3:4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou

[art] the guide of my youth?

3:5 Will he reserve [his anger] for ever? will he keep [it] to

the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou

couldest.

3:6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king,

Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding Israel hath done? she

is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree,

and there hath played the harlot.

3:7 And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn thou

unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah

saw [it].

3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding

Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a

bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not,

but went and played the harlot also.

3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom,

that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones

and with stocks.

3:10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not

turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the

LORD.

3:11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath

justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

3:12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say,

Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; [and] I will

not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I [am] merciful,

saith the LORD, [and] I will not keep [anger] for ever.

3:13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast

transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy

ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not

obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am

married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of

a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

3:15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which

shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

3:16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and

increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they

shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither

shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither

shall they visit [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more.

3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the

LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the

name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any

more after the imagination of their evil heart.

3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house

of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the

north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto

your fathers.

3:19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and

give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of

nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt

not turn away from me.

3:20 Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her

husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of

Israel, saith the LORD.

3:21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping [and]

supplications of the children of Israel: for they have

perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten the LORD their

God.

3:22 Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal your

backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou [art] the

LORD our God.

3:23 Truly in vain [is salvation hoped for] from the hills, [and

from] the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God

[is] the salvation of Israel.

3:24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our

youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their

daughters.

3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us:

for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our

fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed

the voice of the LORD our God.

4:1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto

me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my

sight, then shalt thou not remove.

4:2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in

judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless

themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

4:3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem,

Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the

foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of

Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that

none can quench [it], because of the evil of your doings.

4:5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow

ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say,

Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.

4:6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I

will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

4:7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of

the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to

make thy land desolate; [and] thy cities shall be laid waste,

without an inhabitant.

4:8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the

fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

4:9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD,

[that] the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the

princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets

shall wonder.

4:10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly

deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have

peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.

4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to

Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness

toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

4:12 [Even] a full wind from those [places] shall come unto me:

now also will I give sentence against them.

4:13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall

be] as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe

unto us! for we are spoiled.

4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou

mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within

thee?

4:15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction

from mount Ephraim.

4:16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against

Jerusalem, [that] watchers come from a far country, and give

out their voice against the cities of Judah.

4:17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about;

because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.

4:18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these [things] unto

thee; this [is] thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because

it reacheth unto thine heart.

4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my

heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because

thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm

of war.

4:20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land

is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, [and] my curtains in

a moment.

4:21 How long shall I see the standard, [and] hear the sound of

the trumpet?

4:22 For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they

[are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they

[are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and

void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.

4:24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the

hills moved lightly.

4:25 I beheld, and, lo, [there was] no man, and all the birds of

the heavens were fled.

4:26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place [was] a wilderness,

and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of

the LORD, [and] by his fierce anger.

4:27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be

desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be

black: because I have spoken [it], I have purposed [it], and

will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

4:29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and

bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the

rocks: every city [shall be] forsaken, and not a man dwell

therein.

4:30 And [when] thou [art] spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though

thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee

with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with

painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; [thy] lovers

will despise thee, they will seek thy life.

4:31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, [and]

the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the

voice of the daughter of Zion, [that] bewaileth herself, [that]

spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe [is] me now! for my soul is

wearied because of murderers.

5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see

now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can

find a man, if there be [any] that executeth judgment, that

seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

5:2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear

falsely.

5:3 O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast

stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed

them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have

made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to

return.

5:4 Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish:

for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of

their God.

5:5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them;

for they have known the way of the LORD, [and] the judgment of

their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, [and]

burst the bonds.

5:6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, [and] a

wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch

over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be

torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, [and]

their backslidings are increased.

5:7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken

me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had fed them

to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled

themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

5:8 They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one neighed

after his neighbour's wife.

5:9 Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: and

shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

5:10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full

end: take away her battlements; for they [are] not the LORD'S.

5:11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt

very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

5:12 They have belied the LORD, and said, [It is] not he;

neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor

famine:

5:13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is] not

in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

5:14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye

speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth

fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

5:15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of

Israel, saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an

ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not,

neither understandest what they say.

5:16 Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all

mighty men.

5:17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, [which]

thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy

flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig

trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou

trustedst, with the sword.

5:18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make

a full end with you.

5:19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore

doeth the LORD our God all these [things] unto us? then shalt

thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served

strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a

land [that is] not yours.

5:20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in

Judah, saying,

5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding;

which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

5:22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my

presence, which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea

by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the

waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though

they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

5:23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart;

they are revolted and gone.

5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD

our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in

his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the

harvest.

5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and your

sins have withholden good [things] from you.

5:26 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait,

as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of

deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the

deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the

fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do

they not judge.

5:29 Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: shall

not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by

their means; and my people love [to have it] so: and what will

ye do in the end thereof?

6:1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of

the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set

up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of

the north, and great destruction.

6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate

[woman].

6:3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they

shall pitch [their] tents against her round about; they shall

feed every one in his place.

6:4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon.

Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the

evening are stretched out.

6:5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her

palaces.

6:6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and

cast a mount against Jerusalem: this [is] the city to be

visited; she [is] wholly oppression in the midst of her.

6:7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her

wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me

continually [is] grief and wounds.

6:8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from

thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

6:9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the

remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a

grapegatherer into the baskets.

6:10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may

hear? behold, their ear [is] uncircumcised, and they cannot

hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach;

they have no delight in it.

6:11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary

with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad,

and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the

husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with [him that

is] full of days.

6:12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, [with their]

fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon

the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.

6:13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them

every one [is] given to covetousness; and from the prophet even

unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

6:14 They have healed also the hurt [of the daughter] of my

people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no

peace.

6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,

they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:

therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time

[that] I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask

for the old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk therein,

and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will

not walk [therein].

6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the

sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

6:18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what

[is] among them.

6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people,

[even] the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not

hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

6:20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and

the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings [are]

not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.

6:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay

stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the

sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his

friend shall perish.

6:22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north

country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of

the earth.

6:23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they [are] cruel, and

have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride

upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O

daughter of Zion.

6:24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble:

anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pain, as of a woman in

travail.

6:25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the

sword of the enemy [and] fear [is] on every side.

6:26 O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and

wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only

son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly

come upon us.

6:27 I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my

people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

6:28 They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with slanders:

[they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters.

6:29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire;

the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked

away.

6:30 Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD

hath rejected them.

7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

7:2 Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there

this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all [ye of]

Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.

7:3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your

ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this

place.

7:4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD,

The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are] these.

7:5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye

throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

7:6 [If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the

widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk

after other gods to your hurt:

7:7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land

that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

7:8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear

falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods

whom ye know not;

7:10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called

by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these

abominations?

7:11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of

robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith the

LORD.

7:12 But go ye now unto my place which [was] in Shiloh, where I

set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the

wickedness of my people Israel.

7:13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the

LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but

ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;

7:14 Therefore will I do unto [this] house, which is called by

my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to

you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

7:15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all

your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim.

7:16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up

cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I

will not hear thee.

7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in

the streets of Jerusalem?

7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire,

and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen

of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods,

that they may provoke me to anger.

7:19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: [do they] not

[provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

7:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and

my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon

beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of

the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

7:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your

burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in

the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,

concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and

I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in

all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well

unto you.

7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked

in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart,

and went backward, and not forward.

7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land

of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my

servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending

[them]:

7:26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but

hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

7:27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but

they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them;

but they will not answer thee.

7:28 But thou shalt say unto them, This [is] a nation that

obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth

correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

7:29 Cut off thine hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and

take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath

rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith

the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which

is called by my name, to pollute it.

7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which [is]

in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and

their daughters in the fire; which I commanded [them] not,

neither came it into my heart.

7:32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it

shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of

Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in

Tophet, till there be no place.

7:33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls

of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall

fray [them] away.

7:34 Then will I 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 shall be desolate.

8:1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones

of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the

bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the

bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and

all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they

have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they

have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be

gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face

of the earth.

8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the

residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain

in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of

hosts.

8:4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD;

Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not

return?

8:5 Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a

perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to

return.

8:6 I hearkened and heard, [but] they spake not aright: no man

repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every

one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;

and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time

of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the

LORD.

8:8 How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is]

with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the

scribes [is] in vain.

8:9 The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo,

they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is]

in them?

8:10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, [and] their

fields to them that shall inherit [them]: for every one from

the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from

the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

8:11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people

slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.

8:12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,

they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:

therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of

their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

8:13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: [there shall

be] no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the

leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall

pass away from them.

8:14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter

into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the

LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall

to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

8:15 We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of

health, and behold trouble!

8:16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole

land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones;

for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is

in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.

8:17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you,

which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith

the LORD.

8:18 [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is]

faint in me.

8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people

because of them that dwell in a far country: [Is] not the LORD

in Zion? [is] not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to

anger with their graven images, [and] with strange vanities?

8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not

saved.

8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am

black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

8:22 [Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician

there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people

recovered?

9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of

tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the

daughter of my people!

9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring

men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they

[be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

9:3 And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but

they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they

proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the

LORD.

9:4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in

any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every

neighbour will walk with slanders.

9:5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not

speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies,

[and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.

9:6 Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit

they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

9:7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt

them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my

people?

9:8 Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit:

[one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but

in heart he layeth his wait.

9:9 Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith the LORD:

shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

9:10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and

for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because

they are burned up, so that none can pass through [them];

neither can [men] hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl

of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, [and] a den of dragons;

and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an

inhabitant.

9:12 Who [is] the wise man, that may understand this? and [who

is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may

declare it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up like

a wilderness, that none passeth through?

9:13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which

I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked

therein;

9:14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart,

and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

9:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;

Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood,

and give them water of gall to drink.

9:16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither

they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword

after them, till I have consumed them.

9:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the

mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning

[women], that they may come:

9:18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that

our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with

waters.

9:19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we

spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken

the land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out.

9:20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear

receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters

wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

9:21 For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered

into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and]

the young men from the streets.

9:22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall

fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the

harvestman, and none shall gather [them].

9:23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise [man] glory in his

wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let

not the rich [man] glory in his riches:

9:24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he

understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD which

exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the

earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.

9:25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish

all [them which are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;

9:26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and

Moab, and all [that are] in the utmost corners, that dwell in

the wilderness: for all [these] nations [are] uncircumcised,

and all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised in the heart.

10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house

of Israel:

10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and

be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are

dismayed at them.

10:3 For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth

a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman,

with the axe.

10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with

nails and with hammers, that it move not.

10:5 They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they

must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of

them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to

do good.

10:6 Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou

[art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.

10:7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee

doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the

nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto

thee.

10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is]

a doctrine of vanities.

10:9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and

gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of

the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are]

all the work of cunning [men].

10:10 But the LORD [is] the true God, he [is] the living God,

and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble,

and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

10:11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made

the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the

earth, and from under these heavens.

10:12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established

the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by

his discretion.

10:13 When he uttereth his voice, [there is] a multitude of

waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend

from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and

bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

10:14 Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is

confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is]

falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.

10:15 They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time

of their visitation they shall perish.

10:16 The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the

former of all [things]; and Israel [is] the rod of his

inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.

10:17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the

fortress.

10:18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the

inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them,

that they may find [it so].

10:19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said,

Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it.

10:20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my

children are gone forth of me, and they [are] not: [there is]

none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my

curtains.

10:21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought

the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their

flocks shall be scattered.

10:22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great

commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah

desolate, [and] a den of dragons.

10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself:

[it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

10:24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger,

lest thou bring me to nothing.

10:25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and

upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have

eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have

made his habitation desolate.

11:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

11:2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men

of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

11:3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel;

Cursed [be] the man that obeyeth not the words of this

covenant,

11:4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day [that] I brought

them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace,

saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I

command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:

11:5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your

fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as

[it is] this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.

11:6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the

cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear

ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

11:7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day

[that] I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, [even] unto

this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

11:8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked

every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I

will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I

commanded [them] to do; but they did [them] not.

11:9 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the

men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

11:10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their

forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went

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.

11:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil

upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though

they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.

11:12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of

Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer

incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of

their trouble.

11:13 For [according to] the number of thy cities were thy gods,

O Judah; and [according to] the number of the streets of

Jerusalem have ye set up altars to [that] shameful thing,

[even] altars to burn incense unto Baal.

11:14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a

cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear [them] in the time

that they cry unto me for their trouble.

11:15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, [seeing] she

hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed

from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

11:16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, [and]

of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath

kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

11:17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced

evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of

the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to

provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.

11:18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge [of it], and I know

[it]: then thou shewedst me their doings.

11:19 But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to

the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices

against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit

thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living,

that his name may be no more remembered.

11:20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that

triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on

them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

11:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that

seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD,

that thou die not by our hand:

11:22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will

punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons

and their daughters shall die by famine:

11:23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring

evil upon the men of Anathoth, [even] the year of their

visitation.

12:1 Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet

let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the

way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that

deal very treacherously?

12:2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they

grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou [art] near in their

mouth, and far from their reins.

12:3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried

mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the

slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field

wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the

beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall

not see our last end.

12:5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied

thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and [if] in the

land of peace, [wherein] thou trustedst, [they wearied thee],

then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

12:6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even

they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called

a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak

fair words unto thee.

12:7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I

have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her

enemies.

12:8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth

out against me: therefore have I hated it.

12:9 Mine heritage [is] unto me [as] a speckled bird, the birds

round about [are] against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts

of the field, come to devour.

12:10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden

my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a

desolate wilderness.

12:11 They have made it desolate, [and being] desolate it

mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no

man layeth [it] to heart.

12:12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the

wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the

[one] end of the land even to the [other] end of the land: no

flesh shall have peace.

12:13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put

themselves to pain, [but] shall not profit: and they shall be

ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the

LORD.

12:14 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that

touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to

inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck

out the house of Judah from among them.

12:15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them

out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring

them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his

land.

12:16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn

the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as

they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be

built in the midst of my people.

12:17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and

destroy that nation, saith the LORD.

13:1 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen

girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.

13:2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and

put [it] on my loins.

13:3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time,

saying,

13:4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which [is] upon thy

loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole

of the rock.

13:5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded

me.

13:6 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said

unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from

thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.

13:7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle

from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was

marred, it was profitable for nothing.

13:8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

13:9 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride

of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

13:10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which

walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other

gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this

girdle, which is good for nothing.

13:11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have

I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the

whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto

me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a

glory: but they would not hear.

13:12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith

the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine:

and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that

every bottle shall be filled with wine?

13:13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD,

Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the

kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the

prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with

drunkenness.

13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers

and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor

spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

13:15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath

spoken.

13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness,

and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and,

while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death,

[and] make [it] gross darkness.

13:17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret

places for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run

down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away

captive.

13:18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit

down: for your principalities shall come down, [even] the crown

of your glory.

13:19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall

open [them]: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it

shall be wholly carried away captive.

13:20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the

north: where [is] the flock [that] was given thee, thy

beautiful flock?

13:21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou

hast taught them [to be] captains, [and] as chief over thee:

shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?

13:22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these

things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy

skirts discovered, [and] thy heels made bare.

13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his

spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do

evil.

13:24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth

away by the wind of the wilderness.

13:25 This [is] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me,

saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in

falsehood.

13:26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that

thy shame may appear.

13:27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the

lewdness of thy whoredom, [and] thine abominations on the hills

in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be

made clean? when [shall it] once [be]?

14:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the

dearth.

14:2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are

black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

14:3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters:

they came to the pits, [and] found no water; they returned with

their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and

covered their heads.

14:4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the

earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

14:5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook [it],

because there was no grass.

14:6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they

snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because

[there was] no grass.

14:7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou

[it] for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we

have sinned against thee.

14:8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of

trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and

as a wayfaring man [that] turneth aside to tarry for a night?

14:9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man

[that] cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, [art] in the midst of us,

and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

14:10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved

to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the

LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity,

and visit their sins.

14:11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for

[their] good.

14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they

offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them:

but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by

the pestilence.

14:13 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto

them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine;

but I will give you assured peace in this place.

14:14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in

my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them,

neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision

and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their

heart.

14:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that

prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword

and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall

those prophets be consumed.

14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in

the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword;

and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor

their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their

wickedness upon them.

14:17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine

eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease:

for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great

breach, with a very grievous blow.

14:18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with

the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that

are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go

about into a land that they know not.

14:19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed

Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and [there is] no healing for

us? we looked for peace, and [there is] no good; and for the

time of healing, and behold trouble!

14:20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity

of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

14:21 Do not abhor [us], for thy name's sake, do not disgrace

the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with

us.

14:22 Are there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that

can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou

he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou

hast made all these [things].

15:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood

before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people:

cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.

15:2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither

shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the

LORD; Such as [are] for death, to death; and such as [are] for

the sword, to the sword; and such as [are] for the famine, to

the famine; and such as [are] for the captivity, to the

captivity.

15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD:

the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the

heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

15:4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of

the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of

Judah, for [that] which he did in Jerusalem.

15:5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who

shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?

15:6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone

backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee,

and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

15:7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I

will bereave [them] of children, I will destroy my people,

[since] they return not from their ways.

15:8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the

seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young

men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused [him] to fall upon it

suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up

the ghost; her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day: she

hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will

I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of

strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have

neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; [yet]

every one of them doth curse me.

15:11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant;

verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee [well] in the

time of evil and in the time of affliction.

15:12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

15:13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil

without price, and [that] for all thy sins, even in all thy

borders.

15:14 And I will make [thee] to pass with thine enemies into a

land [which] thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine

anger, [which] shall burn upon you.

15:15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and

revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy

longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was

unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by

thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

15:17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I

sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with

indignation.

15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which]

refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a

liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?

15:19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I

bring thee again, [and] thou shalt stand before me: and if thou

take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my

mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto

them.

15:20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen

wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not

prevail against thee: for I [am] with thee to save thee and to

deliver thee, saith the LORD.

15:21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and

I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

16:1 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,

16:2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have

sons or daughters in this place.

16:3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning

the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their

mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat

them in this land;

16:4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be

lamented; neither shall they be buried; [but] they shall be as

dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by

the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for

the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

16:5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of

mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have

taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, [even]

lovingkindness and mercies.

16:6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they

shall not be buried, neither shall [men] lament for them, nor

cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

16:7 Neither shall [men] tear [themselves] for them in mourning,

to comfort them for the dead; neither shall [men] give them the

cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their

mother.

16:8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit

with them to eat and to drink.

16:9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;

Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in 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.

16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this

people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore

hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or

what [is] our iniquity? or what [is] our sin that we have

committed against the LORD our God?

16:11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have

forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods,

and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have

forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

16:12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye

walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that

they may not hearken unto me:

16:13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land

that ye know not, [neither] ye nor your fathers; and there

shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew

you favour.

16:14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it

shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the

children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

16:15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of

Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands

whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into

their land that I gave unto their fathers.

16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and

they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters,

and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every

hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

16:17 For mine eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are not hid

from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin

double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled

mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and

abominable things.

16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the

day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the

ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have

inherited lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no

profit.

16:20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they [are] no

gods?

16:21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I

will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall

know that my name [is] The LORD.

17:1 The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron, [and]

with the point of a diamond: [it is] graven upon the table of

their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

17:2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their

groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

17:3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance [and]

all thy treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high places for sin,

throughout all thy borders.

17:4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine

heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine

enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled

a fire in mine anger, [which] shall burn for ever.

17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in

man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from

the LORD.

17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not

see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in

the wilderness, [in] a salt land and not inhabited.

17:7 Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose

hope the LORD is.

17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that]

spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when

heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be

careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from

yielding fruit.

17:9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and

desperately wicked: who can know it?

17:10 I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to

give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the

fruit of his doings.

17:11 [As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth [them]

not; [so] he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave

them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

17:12 A glorious high throne from the beginning [is] the place

of our sanctuary.

17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be

ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the

earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of

living waters.

17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I

shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise.

17:15 Behold, they say unto me, Where [is] the word of the LORD?

let it come now.

17:16 As for me, I have not hastened from [being] a pastor to

follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou

knowest: that which came out of my lips was [right] before

thee.

17:17 Be not a terror unto me: thou [art] my hope in the day of

evil.

17:18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me

be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be

dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them

with double destruction.

17:19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of

the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in,

and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of

Jerusalem;

17:20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings

of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

that enter in by these gates:

17:21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no

burden on the sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of

Jerusalem;

17:22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the

sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath

day, as I commanded your fathers.

17:23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made

their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive

instruction.

17:24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto

me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of

this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do

no work therein;

17:25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings

and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in

chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of

Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall

remain for ever.

17:26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the

places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from

the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing

burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and

incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of

the LORD.

17:27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath

day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of

Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the

gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem,

and it shall not be quenched.

18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

18:2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will

cause thee to hear my words.

18:3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he

wrought a work on the wheels.

18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand

of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed

good to the potter to make [it].

18:5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter?

saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay [is] in the potter's hand,

so [are] ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

18:7 [At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and

concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to

destroy [it];

18:8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from

their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto

them.

18:9 And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation,

and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it];

18:10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then

I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit

them.

18:11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the

inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold,

I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you:

return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways

and your doings good.

18:12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after

our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of

his evil heart.

18:13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the

heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath

done a very horrible thing.

18:14 Will [a man] leave the snow of Lebanon [which cometh] from

the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold flowing waters that

come from another place be forsaken?

18:15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned

incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in

their ways [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a

way not cast up;

18:16 To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual hissing;

every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his

head.

18:17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy;

I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of

their calamity.

18:18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against

Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor

counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and

let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to

any of his words.

18:19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them

that contend with me.

18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a

pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak

good for them, [and] to turn away thy wrath from them.

18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and

pour out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their

wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let

their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by

the sword in battle.

18:22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt

bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to

take me, and hid snares for my feet.

18:23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to

slay [me]: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their

sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee;

deal [thus] with them in the time of thine anger.

19:1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle,

and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients

of the priests;

19:2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which

[is] by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the

words that I shall tell thee,

19:3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah,

and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the

God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the

which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.

19:4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this

place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom

neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of

Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

19:5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their

sons with fire [for] burnt offerings unto Baal, which I

commanded not, nor spake [it], neither came [it] into my mind:

19:6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this

place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son

of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

19:7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in

this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before

their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives:

and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the

heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

19:8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every

one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because

of all the plagues thereof.

19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and

the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the

flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith

their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten

them.

19:10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men

that go with thee,

19:11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;

Even so will I break this people and this city, as [one]

breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again:

and they shall bury [them] in Tophet, till [there be] no place

to bury.

19:12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the

inhabitants thereof, and [even] make this city as Tophet:

19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings

of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of

all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto

all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings

unto other gods.

19:14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent

him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house;

and said to all the people,

19:15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I

will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil

that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened

their necks, that they might not hear my words.

20:1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who [was] also

chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah

prophesied these things.

20:2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the

stocks that [were] in the high gate of Benjamin, which [was] by

the house of the LORD.

20:3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought

forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him,

The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.

20:4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror

to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the

sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold [it]: and I

will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and

he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them

with the sword.

20:5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and

all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof,

and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into

the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take

them, and carry them to Babylon.

20:6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall

go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there

thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy

friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.

20:7 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art

stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily,

every one mocketh me.

20:8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil;

because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a

derision, daily.

20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any

more in his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a burning

fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and

I could not [stay].

20:10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side.

Report, [say they], and we will report it. All my familiars

watched for my halting, [saying], Peradventure he will be

enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take

our revenge on him.

20:11 But the LORD [is] with me as a mighty terrible one:

therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not

prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not

prosper: [their] everlasting confusion shall never be

forgotten.

20:12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, [and]

seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on

them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.

20:13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath

delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

20:14 Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day

wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

20:15 Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father,

saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

20:16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD

overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the

20:17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother

might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great

[with me].

20:18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and

sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

21:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king

Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and

Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,

21:2 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for

Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be

that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous

works, that he may go up from us.

21:3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to

Zedekiah:

21:4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back

the weapons of war that [are] in your hands, wherewith ye fight

against the king of Babylon, and [against] the Chaldeans, which

besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into

the midst of this city.

21:5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched

hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in

great wrath.

21:6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and

beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

21:7 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king

of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are

left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from

the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,

and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those

that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of

the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have

mercy.

21:8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD;

Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

21:9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by

the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and

falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and

his life shall be unto him for a prey.

21:10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not

for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of

the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

21:11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, [say], Hear

ye the word of the LORD;

21:12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in

the morning, and deliver [him that is] spoiled out of the hand

of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that

none can quench [it], because of the evil of your doings.

21:13 Behold, I [am] against thee, O inhabitant of the valley,

[and] rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall

come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

21:14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your

doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest

thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

22:1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of

Judah, and speak there this word,

22:2 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that

sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and

thy people that enter in by these gates:

22:3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness,

and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and

do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless,

nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

22:4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in

by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of

David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants,

and his people.

22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself,

saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

22:6 For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah;

Thou [art] Gilead unto me, [and] the head of Lebanon: [yet]

surely I will make thee a wilderness, [and] cities [which] are

not inhabited.

22:7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with

his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and

cast [them] into the fire.

22:8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall

say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done

thus unto this great city?

22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the

covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and

served them.

22:10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: [but] weep

sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor

see his native country.

22:11 For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah

king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father,

which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither

any more:

22:12 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him

captive, and shall see this land no more.

22:13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness,

and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour's service

without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

22:14 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large

chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and [it is] cieled with

cedar, and painted with vermilion.

22:15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thyself] in cedar?

did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice,

[and] then [it was] well with him?

22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was]

well [with him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD.

22:17 But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy

covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for

oppression, and for violence, to do [it].

22:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son

of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him,

[saying], Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament

for him, [saying], Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and

cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

22:20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in

Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are

destroyed.

22:21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; [but] thou saidst, I

will not hear. This [hath been] thy manner from thy youth, that

thou obeyedst not my voice.

22:22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers

shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and

confounded for all thy wickedness.

22:23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the

cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee,

the pain as of a woman in travail!

22:24 [As] I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of

Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet

would I pluck thee thence;

22:25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy

life, and into the hand [of them] whose face thou fearest, even

into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the

hand of the Chaldeans.

22:26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee,

into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall

ye die.

22:27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither

shall they not return.

22:28 [Is] this man Coniah a despised broken idol? [is he] a

vessel wherein [is] no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out,

he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

22:30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man

[that] shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed

shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any

more in Judah.

23:1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep

of my pasture! saith the LORD.

23:2 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the

pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and

driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will

visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.

23:3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all

countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again

to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

23:4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed

them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither

shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.

23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise

unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and

prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell

safely: and this [is] his name whereby he shall be called, THE

LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

23:7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they

shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the

children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

23:8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the

seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from

all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell

in their own land.

23:9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all

my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom

wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the

words of his holiness.

23:10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of

swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the

wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their

force [is] not right.

23:11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house

have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

23:12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery [ways]

in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for

I will bring evil upon them, [even] the year of their

visitation, saith the LORD.

23:13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they

prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible

thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen

also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his

wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the

inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

23:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the

prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them

drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is

profaneness gone forth into all the land.

23:16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words

of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain:

they speak a vision of their own heart, [and] not out of the

mouth of the LORD.

23:17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath

said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that

walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall

come upon you.

23:18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath

perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and

heard [it]?

23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury,

even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the

head of the wicked.

23:20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have

executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart:

in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.

23:21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not

spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my

people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from

their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

23:23 [Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar

off?

23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see

him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the

LORD.

23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in

my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

23:26 How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets that

prophesy lies? yea, [they are] prophets of the deceit of their

own heart;

23:27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their

dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their

fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

23:28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and

he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What

[is] the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.

23:29 [Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like

a hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces?

23:30 Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the

LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

23:31 Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that

use their tongues, and say, He saith.

23:32 Behold, I [am] against them that prophesy false dreams,

saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by

their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor

commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at

all, saith the LORD.

23:33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall

ask thee, saying, What [is] the burden of the LORD? thou shalt

then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith

the LORD.

23:34 And [as for] the prophet, and the priest, and the people,

that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that

man and his house.

23:35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every

one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath

the LORD spoken?

23:36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for

every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the

words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.

23:37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD

answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?

23:38 But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus

saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the

LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The

burden of the LORD;

23:39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and

I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your

fathers, [and cast you] out of my presence:

23:40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a

perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

24:1 The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs [were]

set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar

king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of

Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the

carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to

Babylon.

24:2 One basket [had] very good figs, [even] like the figs [that

are] first ripe: and the other basket [had] very naughty figs,

which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

24:3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And

I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very

evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

24:4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

24:5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good

figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive

of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of

the Chaldeans for [their] good.

24:6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will

bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not

pull [them] down; and I will plant them, and not pluck [them]

up.

24:7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I [am] the

LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for

they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

24:8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so

evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the

king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem,

that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of

Egypt:

24:9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms

of the earth for [their] hurt, [to be] a reproach and a

proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall

drive them.

24:10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence,

among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave

unto them and to their fathers.

25:1 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, that [was] the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of

Babylon;

25:2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of

Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

25:3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of

Judah, even unto this day, that [is] the three and twentieth

year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken

unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.

25:4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the

prophets, rising early and sending [them]; but ye have not

hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

25:5 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way,

and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that

the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and

ever:

25:6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship

them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands;

and I will do you no hurt.

25:7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye

might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your

own hurt.

25:8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not

heard my words,

25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,

saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my

servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the

inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about,

and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment,

and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

25:10 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

candle.

25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an

astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon

seventy years.

25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are

accomplished, [that] I will punish the king of Babylon, and

that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land

of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

25:13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have

pronounced against it, [even] all that is written in this book,

which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

25:14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of

them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds,

and according to the works of their own hands.

25:15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the

wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to

whom I send thee, to drink it.

25:16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of

the sword that I will send among them.

25:17 Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the

nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:

25:18 [To wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the

kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a

desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as [it

is] this day;

25:19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes,

and all his people;

25:20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land

of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and

Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

25:21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,

25:22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon,

and the kings of the isles which [are] beyond the sea,

25:23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all [that are] in the utmost

corners,

25:24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the

mingled people that dwell in the desert,

25:25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and

all the kings of the Medes,

25:26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with

another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which [are] upon

the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink

after them.

25:27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of

hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue,

and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will

send among you.

25:28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine

hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the

LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.

25:29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called

by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not

be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the

inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.

25:30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and

say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his

voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his

habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread [the

grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.

25:31 A noise shall come [even] to the ends of the earth; for

the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead

with all flesh; he will give them [that are] wicked to the

sword, saith the LORD.

25:32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth

from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up

from the coasts of the earth.

25:33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from [one]

end of the earth even unto the [other] end of the earth: they

shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall

be dung upon the ground.

25:34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves [in the

ashes], ye principal of the flock: for the days of your

slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye

shall fall like a pleasant vessel.

25:35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the

principal of the flock to escape.

25:36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the

principal of the flock, [shall be heard]: for the LORD hath

spoiled their pasture.

25:37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the

fierce anger of the LORD.

25:38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land

is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and

because of his fierce anger.

26:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of

Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,

26:2 Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD'S

house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to

worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I command thee

to speak unto them; diminish not a word:

26:3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his

evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to

do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

26:4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye

will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set

before you,

26:5 To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I

sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending [them], but ye

have not hearkened;

26:6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this

city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

26:7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard

Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

26:8 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of

speaking all that the LORD had commanded [him] to speak unto

all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the

people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

26:9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying,

This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be

desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were

gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

26:10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they

came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and

sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S [house].

26:11 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes

and to all the people, saying, This man [is] worthy to die; for

he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with

your ears.

26:12 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the

people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house

and against this city all the words that ye have heard.

26:13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey

the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of

the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

26:14 As for me, behold, I [am] in your hand: do with me as

seemeth good and meet unto you.

26:15 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye

shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon

this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the

LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your

ears.

26:16 Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests

and to the prophets; This man [is] not worthy to die: for he

hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.

26:17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake

to all the assembly of the people, saying,

26:18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah

king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying,

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] a

field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of

the house as the high places of a forest.

26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to

death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the

LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against

them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

26:20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of

the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who

prophesied against this city and against this land according to

all the words of Jeremiah:

26:21 And 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 Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and

went into Egypt;

26:22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely],

Elnathan the son of Achbor, and [certain] men with him into

Egypt.

26:23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought

him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and

cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

26:24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was

with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of

the people to put him to death.

27:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of

Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the

LORD, saying,

27:2 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and

put them upon thy neck,

27:3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab,

and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and

to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come

to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;

27:4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the

LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your

masters;

27:5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that [are]

upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm,

and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

27:6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of

Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts

of the field have I given him also to serve him.

27:7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's

son, until the very time of his land come: and then many

nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

27:8 And it shall come to pass, [that] the nation and kingdom

which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of

Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the

king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD,

with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence,

until I have consumed them by his hand.

27:9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your

diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to

your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not

serve the king of Babylon:

27:10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from

your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should

perish.

27:11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of

the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain

still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till

it, and dwell therein.

27:12 I spake also 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.

27:13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the

famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against

the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

27:14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that

speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

for they prophesy a lie unto you.

27:15 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they

prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that

ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.

27:16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this people,

saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your

prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of

the LORD'S house shall now shortly be brought again from

Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

27:17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and

live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

27:18 But if they [be] prophets, and if the word of the LORD be

with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts,

that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and

[in] the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not

to Babylon.

27:19 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars,

and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and

concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,

27:20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, 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;

27:21 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,

concerning the vessels that remain [in] the house of the LORD,

and [in] the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;

27:22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be

until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I

bring them up, and restore them to this place.

28:1 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the

reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, [and] in

the fifth month, [that] Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet,

which [was] of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD,

in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

28:2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying,

I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

28:3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place

all the vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king

of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to

Babylon:

28:4 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of

Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that

went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke of

the king of Babylon.

28:5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in

the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the

people that stood in the house of the LORD,

28:6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the

LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring

again the vessels of the LORD'S house, and all that is carried

away captive, from Babylon into this place.

28:7 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine

ears, and in the ears of all the people;

28:8 The prophets that have been before me and before thee of

old prophesied both against many countries, and against great

kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

28:9 The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of

the prophet shall come to pass, [then] shall the prophet be

known, that the LORD hath truly sent him.

28:10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the

prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.

28:11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people,

saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations

within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah

went his way.

28:12 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah [the

prophet], after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke

from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

28:13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou

hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them

yokes of iron.

28:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I

have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations,

that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they

shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field

also.

28:15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet,

Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou

makest this people to trust in a lie.

28:16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee

from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die,

because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.

28:17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh

month.

29:1 Now these [are] the words of the letter that Jeremiah the

prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders

which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to

the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had

carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;

29:2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the

eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the

carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)

29:3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the

son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon

to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,

29:4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all

that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be

carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;

29:5 Build ye houses, and dwell [in them]; and plant gardens,

and eat the fruit of them;

29:6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives

for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they

may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there,

and not diminished.

29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to

be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in

the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

29:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let

not your prophets and your diviners, that [be] in the midst of

you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause

to be dreamed.

29:9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not

sent them, saith the LORD.

29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be

accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good

word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the

LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an

expected end.

29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto

me, and I will hearken unto you.

29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search

for me with all your heart.

29:14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will

turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the

nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you,

saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place

whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

29:15 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets

in Babylon;

29:16 [Know] that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth

upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth

in this city, [and] of your brethren that are not gone forth

with you into captivity;

29:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon

them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make

them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

29:18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine,

and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to

all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an

astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the

nations whither I have driven them:

29:19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the

LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets,

rising up early and sending [them]; but ye would not hear,

saith the LORD.

29:20 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the

captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:

29:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab

the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which

prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them

into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall

slay them before your eyes;

29:22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity

of Judah which [are] in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee

like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted

in the fire;

29:23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have

committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have

spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them;

even I know, and [am] a witness, saith the LORD.

29:24 [Thus] shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite,

saying,

29:25 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,

saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the

people that [are] at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of

Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

29:26 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada

the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the

LORD, for every man [that is] mad, and maketh himself a

prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the

stocks.

29:27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of

Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?

29:28 For therefore he sent unto us [in] Babylon, saying, This

[captivity is] long: build ye houses, and dwell [in them]; and

plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

29:29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of

Jeremiah the prophet.

29:30 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,

29:31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the

LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah

hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you

to trust in a lie:

29:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish

Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man

to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good

that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath

taught rebellion against the LORD.

30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

30:2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee

all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

30:3 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring

again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the

LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave

to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

30:4 And these [are] the words that the LORD spake concerning

Israel and concerning Judah.

30:5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of

trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?

wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a

woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

30:7 Alas! for that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it:

it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved

out of it.

30:8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of

hosts, [that] I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will

burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves

of him:

30:9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their

king, whom I will raise up unto them.

30:10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the

LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee

from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and

Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and

none shall make [him] afraid.

30:11 For I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though

I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee,

yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee

in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.

30:12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise [is] incurable, [and]

thy wound [is] grievous.

30:13 [There is] none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be

bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

30:14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not;

for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the

chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine

iniquity; [because] thy sins were increased.

30:15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow [is]

incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: [because] thy

sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

30:16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and

all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into

captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all

that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

30:17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee

of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an

Outcast, [saying], This [is] Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

30:18 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the

captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his

dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own

heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

30:19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice

of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they

shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not

be small.

30:20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their

congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish

all that oppress them.

30:21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their

governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause

him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who [is]

this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the

LORD.

30:22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

30:23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a

continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of

the wicked.

30:24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he

have done [it], and until he have performed the intents of his

heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.

31:1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all

the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

31:2 Thus saith the LORD, The people [which were] left of the

sword found grace in the wilderness; [even] Israel, when I went

to cause him to rest.

31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I

have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with

lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

31:4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin

of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and

shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

31:5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria:

the planters shall plant, and shall eat [them] as common

things.

31:6 For there shall be a day, [that] the watchmen upon the

mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion

unto the LORD our God.

31:7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and

shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye,

and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.

31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and

gather them from the coasts of the earth, [and] with them the

blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that

travaileth with child together: a great company shall return

thither.

31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I

lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in

a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a

father to Israel, and Ephraim [is] my firstborn.

31:10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare [it]

in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will

gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd [doth] his flock.

31:11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from

the hand of [him that was] stronger than he.

31:12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion,

and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat,

and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and

of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and

they shall not sorrow any more at all.

31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men

and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and

will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

31:14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness,

and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the

LORD.

31:15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah,

lamentation, [and] bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her

children refused to be comforted for her children, because they

[were] not.

31:16 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and

thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith

the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

31:17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy

children shall come again to their own border.

31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou

hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock

unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be

turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.

31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that

I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, yea,

even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

31:20 [Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for

since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still:

therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have

mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

31:21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine

heart toward the highway, [even] the way [which] thou wentest:

turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

31:22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter?

for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman

shall compass a man.

31:23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet

they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the

cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The

LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, [and] mountain of

holiness.

31:24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the

cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they [that] go forth

with flocks.

31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished

every sorrowful soul.

31:26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet

unto me.

31:27 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the

house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man,

and with the seed of beast.

31:28 And it shall come to pass, [that] like as I have watched

over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down,

and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to

build, and to plant, saith the LORD.

31:29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have

eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

31:30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man

that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a

new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of

Judah:

31:32 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 my covenant they brake,

although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

31:33 But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the

house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put

my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and

will be their God, and they shall be my people.

31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and

every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall

all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them,

saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will

remember their sin no more.

31:35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by

day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a

light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof

roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name:

31:36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD,

[then] the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation

before me for ever.

31:37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and

the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also

cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done,

saith the LORD.

31:38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall

be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate

of the corner.

31:39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it

upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.

31:40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes,

and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of

the horse gate toward the east, [shall be] holy unto the LORD;

it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

32:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth

year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which [was] the eighteenth year

of Nebuchadrezzar.

32:2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and

Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison,

which [was] in the king of Judah's house.

32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying,

Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD,

Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of

Babylon, and he shall take it;

32:4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand

of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand

of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to

mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;

32:5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he

be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the

Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.

32:6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me,

saying,

32:7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come

unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that [is] in Anathoth: for

the right of redemption [is] thine to buy [it].

32:8 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the

prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy

my field, I pray thee, that [is] in Anathoth, which [is] in the

country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance [is] thine,

and the redemption [is] thine; buy [it] for thyself. Then I

knew that this [was] the word of the LORD.

32:9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that

[was] in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, [even] seventeen

shekels of silver.

32:10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed [it], and took

witnesses, and weighed [him] the money in the balances.

32:11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, [both] that which

was sealed [according] to the law and custom, and that which

was open:

32:12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the

son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel

mine uncle's [son], and in the presence of the witnesses that

subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that

sat in the court of the prison.

32:13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,

32:14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take

these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is

sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an

earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.

32:15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;

Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in

this land.

32:16 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto

Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,

32:17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the

earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, [and] there is

nothing too hard for thee:

32:18 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and

recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of

their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD

of hosts, [is] his name,

32:19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes [are]

open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one

according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his

doings:

32:20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,

[even] unto this day, and in Israel, and among [other] men; and

hast made thee a name, as at this day;

32:21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land

of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand,

and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;

32:22 And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to

their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

32:23 And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not

thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of

all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast

caused all this evil to come upon them:

32:24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it;

and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that

fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and

of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass;

and, behold, thou seest [it].

32:25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field

for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the

hand of the Chaldeans.

32:26 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,

32:27 Behold, I [am] the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there

any thing too hard for me?

32:28 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this

city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of

Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:

32:29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall

come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses,

upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and

poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to

anger.

32:30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have

only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of

Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their

hands, saith the LORD.

32:31 For this city hath been to me [as] a provocation of mine

anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto

this day; that I should remove it from before my face,

32:32 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, and

their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of

Jerusalem.

32:33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face:

though I taught them, rising up early and teaching [them], yet

they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

32:34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is

called by my name, to defile it.

32:35 And 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 [the fire] unto Molech; which I

commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they

should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

32:36 And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,

concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered

into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the

famine, and by the pestilence;

32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I

have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great

wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will

cause them to dwell safely:

32:38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:

32:39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may

fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children

after them:

32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I

will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put

my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

32:41 Yea, 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.

32:42 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this

great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the

good that I have promised them.

32:43 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say,

[It is] desolate without man or beast; it is given into the

hand of the Chaldeans.

32:44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences,

and seal [them], and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin,

and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah,

and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the

valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their

captivity to return, saith the LORD.

33:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second

time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison,

saying,

33:2 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed

it, to establish it; the LORD [is] his name;

33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great

and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

33:4 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the

houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of

Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;

33:5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but [it is] to fill

them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine

anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid

my face from this city.

33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure

them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and

truth.

33:7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity

of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

33:8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby

they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their

iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have

transgressed against me.

33:9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour

before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the

good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for

all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto

it.

33:10 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this

place, which ye say [shall be] desolate without man and without

beast, [even] in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of

Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without

inhabitant, and without beast,

33:11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of

the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them

that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD [is]

good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: [and] of them that

shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD.

For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the

first, saith the LORD.

33:12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which

is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the

cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing

[their] flocks to lie down.

33:13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale,

and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin,

and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah,

shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth

[them], saith the LORD.

33:14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform

that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel

and to the house of Judah.

33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch

of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute

judgment and righteousness in the land.

33:16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall

dwell safely: and this [is the name] wherewith she shall be

called, The LORD our righteousness.

33:17 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to

sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

33:18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me

to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to

do sacrifice continually.

33:19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,

33:20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the

day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be

day and night in their season;

33:21 [Then] may also my covenant be broken with David my

servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his

throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

33:22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand

of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my

servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.

33:23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

33:24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying,

The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast

them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should

be no more a nation before them.

33:25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant [be] not with day and

night, [and if] I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven

and earth;

33:26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my

servant, [so] that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be]

rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will

cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

34:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the

kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people,

fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof,

saying,

34:2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to

Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD;

Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of

Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:

34:3 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely

be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall

behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with

thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.

34:4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah;

Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:

34:5 [But] thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy

fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they

burn [odours] for thee; and they will lament thee, [saying], Ah

lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.

34:6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto

Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

34:7 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem,

and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against

Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained

of the cities of Judah.

34:8 [This is] the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,

after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the

people which [were] at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto

them;

34:9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his

maidservant, [being] an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that

none should serve himself of them, [to wit], of a Jew his

brother.

34:10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had

entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his

manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none

should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and

let [them] go.

34:11 But afterward 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.

34:12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the

LORD, saying,

34:13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant

with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of

the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,

34:14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother

an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath

served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee:

but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their

ear.

34:15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in

proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made

a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

34:16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man

his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at

liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into

subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

34:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto

me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every

man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you,

saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the

famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms

of the earth.

34:18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my

covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant

which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain,

and passed between the parts thereof,

34:19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the

eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which

passed between the parts of the calf;

34:20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and

into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead

bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to

the beasts of the earth.

34:21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give

into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that

seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's

army, which are gone up from you.

34:22 Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to

return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take

it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah

a desolation without an inhabitant.

35:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days

of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

35:2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them,

and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the

chambers, and give them wine to drink.

35:3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of

Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole

house of the Rechabites;

35:4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the

chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of

God, which [was] by the chamber of the princes, which [was]

above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of

the door:

35:5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites

pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye

wine.

35:6 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son

of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no

wine, [neither ye], nor your sons for ever:

35:7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant

vineyard, nor have [any]: but all your days ye shall dwell in

tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye [be]

strangers.

35:8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab

our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all

our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;

35:9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we

vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

35:10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done

according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

35:11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon

came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to

Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear

of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.

35:12 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,

35:13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and

tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye

not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.

35:14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded

his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day

they drink none, but obey their father's commandment:

notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and

speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.

35:15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets,

rising up early and sending [them], saying, Return ye now every

man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after

other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which

I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not

inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.

35:16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have

performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded

them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:

35:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of

Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the

inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced

against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have

not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not

answered.

35:18 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus

saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have

obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his

precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded

you:

35:19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;

Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before

me for ever.

36:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son

of Josiah king of Judah, [that] this word came unto Jeremiah

from the LORD, saying,

36:2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words

that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah,

and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee,

from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

36:3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil

which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man

from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their

sin.

36:4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch

wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD,

which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.

36:5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] shut up; I

cannot go into the house of the LORD:

36:6 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast

written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the

people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou

shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their

cities.

36:7 It may be they will present their supplication before the

LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great

[is] the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced

against this people.

36:8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that

Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the

words of the LORD in the LORD'S house.

36:9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son

of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, [that] they

proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in

Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of

Judah unto Jerusalem.

36:10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the

house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of

Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the

new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people.

36:11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had

heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,

36:12 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's

chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, [even] Elishama

the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the

son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah

the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

36:13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had

heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

36:14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of

Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch,

saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in

the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah

took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.

36:15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our

ears. So Baruch read [it] in their ears.

36:16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words,

they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We

will surely tell the king of all these words.

36:17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou

write all these words at his mouth?

36:18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words

unto me with his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink in the

book.

36:19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and

Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.

36:20 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid

up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all

the words in the ears of the king.

36:21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it

out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the

ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which

stood beside the king.

36:22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month:

and [there was a fire] on the hearth burning before him.

36:23 And it came to pass, [that] when Jehudi had read three or

four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast [it] into

the fire that [was] on the hearth, until all the roll was

consumed in the fire that [was] on the hearth.

36:24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments,

[neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all

these words.

36:25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made

intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but

he would not hear them.

36:26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and

Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to

take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD

hid them.

36:27 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the

king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at

the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,

36:28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the

former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the

king of Judah hath burned.

36:29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith

the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou

written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly

come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from

thence man and beast?

36:30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah;

He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his

dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the

night to the frost.

36:31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for

their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the

inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the

evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened

not.

36:32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, 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 there were added besides unto

them many like words.

37:1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of

Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of

Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

37:2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the

land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by

the prophet Jeremiah.

37:3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and

Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet

Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.

37:4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for

they had not put him into prison.

37:5 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when

the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them,

they departed from Jerusalem.

37:6 Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah,

saying,

37:7 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say

to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me;

Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall

return to Egypt into their own land.

37:8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this

city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

37:9 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The

Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not

depart.

37:10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans

that fight against you, and there remained [but] wounded men

among them, [yet] should they rise up every man in his tent,

and burn this city with fire.

37:11 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans

was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,

37:12 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the

land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of

the people.

37:13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the

ward [was] there, whose name [was] Irijah, the son of

Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the

prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

37:14 Then said Jeremiah, [It is] false; I fall not away to the

Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took

Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

37:15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote

him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe:

for they had made that the prison.

37:16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the

cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

37:17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the

king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there [any]

word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he,

thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

37:18 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I

offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this

people, that ye have put me in prison?

37:19 Where [are] now your prophets which prophesied unto you,

saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor

against this land?

37:20 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let

my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that

thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the

scribe, lest I die there.

37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit

Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should

give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street,

until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah

remained in the court of the prison.

38:1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of

Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of

Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the

people, saying,

38:2 Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall

die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he

that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have

his life for a prey, and shall live.

38:3 Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into

the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.

38:4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee,

let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands

of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of

all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man

seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

38:5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he [is] in your hand:

for the king [is] not [he that] can do [any] thing against you.

38:6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of

Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the

prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the

dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the

mire.

38:7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which

was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in

the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;

38:8 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to

the king, saying,

38:9 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; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he

is: for [there is] no more bread in the city.

38:10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying,

Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the

prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

38:11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the

house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast

clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the

dungeon to Jeremiah.

38:12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now

[these] old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes

under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.

38:13 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out

of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the

prison.

38:14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet

unto him into the third entry that [is] in the house of the

LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing;

hide nothing from me.

38:15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare [it] unto

thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee

counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?

38:16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying,

[As] the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put

thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these

men that seek thy life.

38:17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the

God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go

forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall

live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou

shalt live, and thine house:

38:18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's

princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the

Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not

escape out of their hand.

38:19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of

the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me

into their hand, and they mock me.

38:20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver [thee]. Obey, I

beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee:

so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.

38:21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this [is] the word that

the LORD hath shewed me:

38:22 And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of

Judah's house [shall be] brought forth to the king of Babylon's

princes, and those [women] shall say, Thy friends have set thee

on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the

mire, [and] they are turned away back.

38:23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to

the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but

shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou

shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.

38:24 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these

words, and thou shalt not die.

38:25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and

they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now

what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we

will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:

38:26 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication

before the king, that he would not cause me to return to

Jonathan's house, to die there.

38:27 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him:

and he told them according to all these words that the king had

commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter

was not perceived.

38:28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day

that Jerusalem was taken: and he was [there] when Jerusalem was

taken.

39:1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth

month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army

against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

39:2 [And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth

month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up.

39:3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat

in the middle gate, [even] Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo,

Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the

residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.

39:4 And it came to pass, [that] when Zedekiah the king of Judah

saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went

forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's

garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the

way of the plain.

39:5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook

Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him,

they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah

in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

39:6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in

Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the

nobles of Judah.

39:7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with

chains, to carry him to Babylon.

39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses

of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of

Jerusalem.

39:9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away

captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in

the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the

rest of the people that remained.

39:10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor

of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and

gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

39:11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning

Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,

39:12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do

unto him even as he shall say unto thee.

39:13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and

Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the

king of Babylon's princes;

39:14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the

prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the

son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt

among the people.

39:15 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was

shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

39:16 Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus

saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will

bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and

they shall be [accomplished] in that day before thee.

39:17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and

thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou

[art] afraid.

39:18 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by

the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because

thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.

40:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that

Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah,

when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were

carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried

away captive unto Babylon.

40:2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto

him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this

place.

40:3 Now the LORD hath brought [it], and done according as he

hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have

not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.

40:4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains

which [were] upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come

with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but

if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear:

behold, all the land [is] before thee: whither it seemeth good

and convenient for thee to go, thither go.

40:5 Now while he was not yet gone back, [he said], Go back also

to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king

of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and

dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth

convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave

him victuals and a reward, and let him go.

40:6 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to

Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in

the land.

40:7 Now when all the captains of the forces which [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 unto him men, and women, and children,

and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away

captive to Babylon;

40:8 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even 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 a Maachathite, they and

their men.

40:9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware

unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the

Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon,

and it shall be well with you.

40:10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the

Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and

summer fruits, and oil, and put [them] in your vessels, and

dwell in your cities that ye have taken.

40:11 Likewise when all the Jews that [were] in Moab, and among

the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that [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;

40:12 Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they

were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto

Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.

40:13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains

of the forces that [were] in the fields, came to Gedaliah to

Mizpah,

40:14 And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis

the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of

Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed

them not.

40:15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah

secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay

Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know [it]:

wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are

gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in

Judah perish?

40:16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son

of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest

falsely of Ishmael.

41:1 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, [that] Ishmael

the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal,

and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto

Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat

bread together in Mizpah.

41:2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men

that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the

son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of

Babylon had made governor over the land.

41:3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, [even]

with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found

there, [and] the men of war.

41:4 And it came to pass the second day after he had slain

Gedaliah, and no man knew [it],

41:5 That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from

Samaria, [even] fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and

their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings

and incense in their hand, to bring [them] to the house of the

LORD.

41:6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to

meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass,

as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of

Ahikam.

41:7 And it was [so], when they came into the midst of the city,

that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, [and cast them]

into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that [were] with

him.

41:8 But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael,

Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and

of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew

them not among their brethren.

41:9 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of

the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, [was] it which

Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: [and]

Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with [them that were]

slain.

41:10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the

people that [were] in Mizpah, [even] the king's daughters, and

all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the

captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of

Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away

captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.

41:11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains

of the forces that [were] with him, heard of all the evil that

Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,

41:12 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.

41:13 Now it came to pass, [that] when all the people which

[were] with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the

captains of the forces that [were] with him, then they were

glad.

41:14 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive

from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the

son of Kareah.

41:15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with

eight men, and went to the Ammonites.

41:16 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains

of the forces that [were] with him, all the remnant of the

people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,

from Mizpah, after [that] he had slain Gedaliah the son of

Ahikam, [even] mighty men of war, and the women, and the

children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from

Gibeon:

41:17 And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham,

which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,

41:18 Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them,

because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son

of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.

42:1 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 unto the greatest, came near,

42:2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee,

our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto

the LORD thy God, [even] for all this remnant; (for we are left

[but] a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)

42:3 That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may

walk, and the thing that we may do.

42:4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard

[you]; behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to

your words; and it shall come to pass, [that] whatsoever thing

the LORD shall answer you, I will declare [it] unto you; I will

keep nothing back from you.

42:5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful

witness between us, if we do not even according to all things

for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.

42:6 Whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil, we will obey

the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it

may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our

God.

42:7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the

LORD came unto Jeremiah.

42:8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the

captains of the forces which [were] with him, and all the

people from the least even to the greatest,

42:9 And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,

unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;

42:10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build

you, and not pull [you] down, and I will plant you, and not

pluck [you] up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done

unto you.

42:11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are

afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I [am] with

you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

42:12 And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy

upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

42:13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither

obey the voice of the LORD your God,

42:14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where

we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor

have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

42:15 And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of

Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye

wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn

there;

42:16 Then it shall come to pass, [that] the sword, which ye

feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the

famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you

there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

42:17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go

into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by

the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall

remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

42:18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As

mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the

inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon

you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an

execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach;

and ye shall see this place no more.

42:19 The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah;

Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you

this day.

42:20 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the

LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and

according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare

unto us, and we will do [it].

42:21 And [now] I have this day declared [it] to you; but ye

have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any [thing]

for the which he hath sent me unto you.

42:22 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the

sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place

whither ye desire to go [and] to sojourn.

43:1 And it came to pass, [that] when Jeremiah had made an end

of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their

God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, [even]

all these words,

43:2 Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son

of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou

speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say,

Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:

43:3 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us,

for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they

might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.

43:4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the

forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD,

to dwell in the land of Judah.

43:5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the

forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from

all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land

of Judah;

43:6 [Even] men, and women, and children, and the king's

daughters, and every person that 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.

43:7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not

the voice of the LORD: thus came they [even] to Tahpanhes.

43:8 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes,

saying,

43:9 Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay

in the brickkiln, which [is] at the entry of Pharaoh's house in

Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;

43:10 And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God

of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king

of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these

stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion

over them.

43:11 And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, [and

deliver] such [as are] for death to death; and such [as are]

for captivity to captivity; and such [as are] for the sword to

the sword.

43:12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of

Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives:

and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a

shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from

thence in peace.

43:13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that [is]

in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the

Egyptians shall he burn with fire.

44:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews

which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at

Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

44:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have

seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon

all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they [are] a

desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,

44:3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to

provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and]

to serve other gods, whom they knew not, [neither] they, ye,

nor your fathers.

44:4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets,

rising early and sending [them], saying, Oh, do not this

abominable thing that I hate.

44:5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from

their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.

44:6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was

kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem;

and they are wasted [and] desolate, as at this day.

44:7 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the

God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye [this] great evil against

your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and

suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

44:8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your

hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt,

whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off,

and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the

nations of the earth?

44:9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the

wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their

wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your

wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in

the streets of Jerusalem?

44:10 They are not humbled [even] unto this day, neither have

they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I

set before you and before your fathers.

44:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;

Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off

all Judah.

44:12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their

faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they

shall all be consumed, [and] fall in the land of Egypt; they

shall [even] be consumed by the sword [and] by the famine: they

shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword

and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, [and] an

astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

44:13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as

I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by

the pestilence:

44:14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into

the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain,

that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which

they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall

return but such as shall escape.

44:15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned

incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a

great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of

Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

44:16 [As for] the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the

name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.

44:17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out

of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and

to pour out drink offerings unto 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] had we

plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

44:18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of

heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have

wanted all [things], and have been consumed by the sword and by

the famine.

44:19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and

poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to

worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our

men?

44:20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to

the women, and to all the people which had given him [that]

answer, saying,

44:21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in

the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and

your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD

remember them, and came it [not] into his mind?

44:22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil

of your doings, [and] because of the abominations which ye have

committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an

astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this

day.

44:23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned

against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD,

nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his

testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at

this day.

44:24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the

women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that [are] in the

land of Egypt:

44:25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying;

Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and

fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our

vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of

heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will

surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.

44:26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that

dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great

name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in

the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying,

The Lord GOD liveth.

44:27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good:

and all the men of Judah that [are] in the land of Egypt shall

be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an

end of them.

44:28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out

of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the

remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to

sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or

theirs.

44:29 And this [shall be] a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that

I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words

shall surely stand against you for evil:

44:30 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra

king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand

of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah

into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and

that sought his life.

45:1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the

son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the

mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of

Josiah king of Judah, saying,

45:2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O

Baruch;

45:3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added

grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no

rest.

45:4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold,

[that] which I have built will I break down, and that which I

have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

45:5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek [them] not:

for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD:

but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places

whither thou goest.

46:1 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet

against the Gentiles;

46:2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of

Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which

Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of

Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

46:3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

46:4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand

forth with [your] helmets; furbish the spears, [and] put on the

brigandines.

46:5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back?

and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and

look not back: [for] fear [was] round about, saith the LORD.

46:6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape;

they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river

Euphrates.

46:7 Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood, whose waters are

moved as the rivers?

46:8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and [his] waters are moved

like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, [and] will cover

the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

46:9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the

mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that

handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle [and] bend the

bow.

46:10 For this [is] the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of

vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the

sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with

their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the

north country by the river Euphrates.

46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter

of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; [for] thou

shalt not be cured.

46:12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath

filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the

mighty, [and] they are fallen both together.

46:13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how

Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come [and] smite the land

of Egypt.

46:14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in

Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee;

for the sword shall devour round about thee.

46:15 Why are thy valiant [men] swept away? they stood not,

because the LORD did drive them.

46:16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they

said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the

land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

46:17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a

noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

46:18 [As] I live, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of

hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel

by the sea, [so] shall he come.

46:19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go

into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an

inhabitant.

46:20 Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction

cometh; it cometh out of the north.

46:21 Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted

bullocks; for they also are turned back, [and] are fled away

together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity

was come upon them, [and] the time of their visitation.

46:22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall

march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers

of wood.

46:23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it

cannot be searched; because they are more than the

grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.

46:24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be

delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

46:25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I

will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with

their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] them that

trust in him:

46:26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek

their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of

Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it

shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.

46:27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not

dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar

off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob

shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make

[him] afraid.

46:28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I

[am] with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations

whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of

thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee

wholly unpunished.

47:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet

against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.

47:2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the

north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow

the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that

dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants

of the land shall howl.

47:3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong

[horses], at the rushing of his chariots, [and at] the rumbling

of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to [their]

children for feebleness of hands;

47:4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the

Philistines, [and] to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper

that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the

remnant of the country of Caphtor.

47:5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off [with] the

remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

47:6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long [will it be] ere thou be

quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.

47:7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge

against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he

appointed it.

48:1 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of

Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is

confounded [and] taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

48:2 [There shall be] no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they

have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from

[being] a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the

sword shall pursue thee.

48:3 A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim, spoiling and

great destruction.

48:4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be

heard.

48:5 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go

up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a

cry of destruction.

48:6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the

wilderness.

48:7 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy

treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth

into captivity [with] his priests and his princes together.

48:8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city

shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall

be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.

48:9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for

the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell

therein.

48:10 Cursed [be] he that doeth the work of the LORD

deceitfully, and cursed [be] he that keepeth back his sword

from blood.

48:11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled

on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel,

neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste

remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

48:12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I

will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander,

and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.

48:13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of

Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

48:14 How say ye, We [are] mighty and strong men for the war?

48:15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up [out of] her cities, and his

chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the

King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts.

48:16 The calamity of Moab [is] near to come, and his affliction

hasteth fast.

48:17 All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that

know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, [and] the

beautiful rod!

48:18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from

[thy] glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall

come upon thee, [and] he shall destroy thy strong holds.

48:19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him

that fleeth, and her that escapeth, [and] say, What is done?

48:20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry;

tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,

48:21 And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon,

and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,

48:22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,

48:23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon

Bethmeon,

48:24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities

of the land of Moab, far or near.

48:25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith

the LORD.

48:26 Make ye him drunken: for he magnified [himself] against

the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also

shall be in derision.

48:27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found

among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst

for joy.

48:28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in

the rock, and be like the dove [that] maketh her nest in the

sides of the hole's mouth.

48:29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud)

his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the

haughtiness of his heart.

48:30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but [it shall] not [be]

so; his lies shall not so effect [it].

48:31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all

Moab; [mine heart] shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.

48:32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of

Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach [even] to

the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits

and upon thy vintage.

48:33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field,

and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from

the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; [their]

shouting [shall be] no shouting.

48:34 From the cry of Heshbon [even] unto Elealeh, [and even]

unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar [even]

unto Horonaim, [as] an heifer of three years old: for the

waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.

48:35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD,

him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth

incense to his gods.

48:36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and

mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres:

because the riches [that] he hath gotten are perished.

48:37 For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped:

upon all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon the loins

sackcloth.

48:38 [There shall be] lamentation generally upon all the

housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have

broken Moab like a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure, saith the

LORD.

48:39 They shall howl, [saying], How is it broken down! how hath

Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision

and a dismaying to all them about him.

48:40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle,

and shall spread his wings over Moab.

48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and

the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the

heart of a woman in her pangs.

48:42 And Moab shall be destroyed from [being] a people, because

he hath magnified [himself] against the LORD.

48:43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [shall be] upon thee, O

inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.

48:44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and

he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare:

for I will bring upon it, [even] upon Moab, the year of their

visitation, saith the LORD.

48:45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because

of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a

flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of

Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

48:46 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth:

for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.

48:47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter

days, saith the LORD. Thus far [is] the judgment of Moab.

49:1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel

no sons? hath he no heir? why [then] doth their king inherit

Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?

49:2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I

will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the

Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters

shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them

that were his heirs, saith the LORD.

49:3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of

Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by

the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, [and] his

priests and his princes together.

49:4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley,

O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures,

[saying], Who shall come unto me?

49:5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD

of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be

driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him

that wandereth.

49:6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the

children of Ammon, saith the LORD.

49:7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; [Is] wisdom

no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is

their wisdom vanished?

49:8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for

I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time [that] I

will visit him.

49:9 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave [some]

gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till

they have enough.

49:10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret

places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is

spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he [is] not.

49:11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them]

alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

49:12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment [was]

not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and [art] thou

he [that] shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go

unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink [of it].

49:13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah

shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse;

and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

49:14 I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is

sent unto the heathen, [saying], Gather ye together, and come

against her, and rise up to the battle.

49:15 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, [and]

despised among men.

49:16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, [and] the pride of

thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock,

that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make

thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from

thence, saith the LORD.

49:17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by

it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues

thereof.

49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the

neighbour [cities] thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide

there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.

49:19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of

Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will

suddenly make him run away from her: and who [is] a chosen

[man, that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and

who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that

will stand before me?

49:20 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken

against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against

the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall

draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate

with them.

49:21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry

the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.

49:22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread

his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the

mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

49:23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for

they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; [there is]

sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

49:24 Damascus is waxed feeble, [and] turneth herself to flee,

and fear hath seized on [her]: anguish and sorrows have taken

her, as a woman in travail.

49:25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

49:26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all

the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of

hosts.

49:27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it

shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.

49:28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor,

which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith

the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the

east.

49:29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they

shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels,

and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear [is] on

every side.

49:30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of

Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath

taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against

you.

49:31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth

without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor

bars, [which] dwell alone.

49:32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of

their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them

[that are] in the utmost corners; and I will bring their

calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.

49:33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, [and] a

desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor [any]

son of man dwell in it.

49:34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet

against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of

Judah, saying,

49:35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow

of Elam, the chief of their might.

49:36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four

quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those

winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of

Elam shall not come.

49:37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,

and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil

upon them, [even] my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will

send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:

49:38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from

thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.

49:39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, [that] I

will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.

50:1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon [and] against

the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

50:2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a

standard; publish, [and] conceal not: say, Babylon is taken,

Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are

confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

50:3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her,

which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell

therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and

beast.

50:4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the

children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah

together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD

their God.

50:5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces

thitherward, [saying], Come, and let us join ourselves to the

LORD in a perpetual covenant [that] shall not be forgotten.

50:6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused

them to go astray, they have turned them away [on] the

mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have

forgotten their restingplace.

50:7 All that found them have devoured them: and their

adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned

against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the

hope of their fathers.

50:8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the

land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the

flocks.

50:9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon

an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they

shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she

shall be taken: their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty expert

man; none shall return in vain.

50:10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be

satisfied, saith the LORD.

50:11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers

of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at

grass, and bellow as bulls;

50:12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you

shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations [shall

be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

50:13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be

inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that

goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her

plagues.

50:14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all

ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she

hath sinned against the LORD.

50:15 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand:

her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it

[is] the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she

hath done, do unto her.

50:16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the

sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword

they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee

every one to his own land.

50:17 Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him]

away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last

this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

50:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;

Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I

have punished the king of Assyria.

50:19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he

shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be

satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

50:20 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the

iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and [there shall be]

none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I

will pardon them whom I reserve.

50:21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, [even] against it,

and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy

after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have

commanded thee.

50:22 A sound of battle [is] in the land, and of great

destruction.

50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and

broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

50:24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O

Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also

caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

50:25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth

the weapons of his indignation: for this [is] the work of the

Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

50:26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her

storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let

nothing of her be left.

50:27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter:

woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their

visitation.

50:28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of

Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God,

the vengeance of his temple.

50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that

bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof

escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all

that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud

against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all

her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.

50:31 Behold, I [am] against thee, [O thou] most proud, saith

the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time [that] I

will visit thee.

50:32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall

raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it

shall devour all round about him.

50:33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and

the children of Judah [were] oppressed together: and all that

took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

50:34 Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD of hosts [is] his

name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give

rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

50:35 A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon

the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her

wise [men].

50:36 A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword

[is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

50:37 A sword [is] upon their horses, and upon their chariots,

and upon all the mingled people that [are] in the midst of her;

and they shall become as women: a sword [is] upon her

treasures; and they shall be robbed.

50:38 A drought [is] upon her waters; and they shall be dried

up: for it [is] the land of graven images, and they are mad

upon [their] idols.

50:39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild

beasts of the islands shall dwell [there], and the owls shall

dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever;

neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

50:40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour

[cities] thereof, saith the LORD; [so] shall no man abide

there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

50:41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great

nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of

the earth.

50:42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they [are] cruel,

and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea,

and they shall ride upon horses, [every one] put in array, like

a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

50:43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his

hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, [and] pangs as of

a woman in travail.

50:44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of

Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them

suddenly run away from her: and who [is] a chosen [man, that] I

may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and who will

appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will stand

before me?

50:45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath

taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed

against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the

flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make [their]

habitation desolate with them.

50:46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved,

and the cry is heard among the nations.

51:1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against

Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that

rise up against me, a destroying wind;

51:2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and

shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be

against her round about.

51:3 Against [him that] bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and

against [him that] lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and

spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

51:4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and

[they that are] thrust through in her streets.

51:5 For Israel [hath] not [been] forsaken, nor Judah of his

God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with

sin against the Holy One of Israel.

51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his

soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this [is] the time of

the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.

51:7 Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that

made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her

wine; therefore the nations are mad.

51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her;

take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed:

forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for

her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up [even] to

the skies.

51:10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and

let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

51:11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath

raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device

[is] against Babylon, to destroy it; because it [is] the

vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

51:12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the

watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for

the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against

the inhabitants of Babylon.

51:13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in

treasures, thine end is come, [and] the measure of thy

covetousness.

51:14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying], Surely

I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall

lift up a shout against thee.

51:15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established

the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by

his understanding.

51:16 When he uttereth [his] voice, [there is] a multitude of

waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend

from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and

bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

51:17 Every man is brutish by [his] knowledge; every founder is

confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is]

falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.

51:18 They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of

their visitation they shall perish.

51:19 The portion of Jacob [is] not like them; for he [is] the

former of all things: and [Israel is] the rod of his

inheritance: the LORD of hosts [is] his name.

51:20 Thou [art] my battle axe [and] weapons of war: for with

thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I

destroy kingdoms;

51:21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his

rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his

rider;

51:22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and

with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee

will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;

51:23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his

flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and

his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains

and rulers.

51:24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants

of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your

sight, saith the LORD.

51:25 Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain, saith

the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch

out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and

will make thee a burnt mountain.

51:26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor

a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever,

saith the LORD.

51:27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among

the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together

against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz;

appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as

the rough caterpillers.

51:28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the

Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and

all the land of his dominion.

51:29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose

of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the

land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have

remained in [their] holds: their might hath failed; they became

as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are

broken.

51:31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to

meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is

taken at [one] end,

51:32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have

burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

51:33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The

daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshingfloor, [it is] time to

thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest

shall come.

51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he

hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath

swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my

delicates, he hath cast me out.

51:35 The violence done to me and to my flesh [be] upon Babylon,

shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the

inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

51:36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy

cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea,

and make her springs dry.

51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for

dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an

inhabitant.

51:38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as

lions' whelps.

51:39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make

them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual

sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like

rams with he goats.

51:41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole

earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among

the nations!

51:42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the

multitude of the waves thereof.

51:43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness,

a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of man

pass thereby.

51:44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth

out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the

nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the

wall of Babylon shall fall.

51:45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye

every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.

51:46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that

shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come [one]

year, and after that in [another] year [shall come] a rumour,

and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment

upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be

confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

51:48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that [is] therein,

shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her

from the north, saith the LORD.

51:49 As Babylon [hath caused] the slain of Israel to fall, so

at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

51:50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still:

remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your

mind.

51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame

hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the

sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.

51:52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I

will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her

land the wounded shall groan.

51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she

should fortify the height of her strength, [yet] from me shall

spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

51:54 A sound of a cry [cometh] from Babylon, and great

destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

51:55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out

of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great

waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

51:56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, [even] upon Babylon,

and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is

broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.

51:57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise [men], her

captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall

sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose

name [is] the LORD of hosts.

51:58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon

shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned

with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in

the fire, and they shall be weary.

51:59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the

son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah

the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign.

And [this] Seraiah [was] a quiet prince.

51:60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come

upon Babylon, [even] all these words that are written against

Babylon.

51:61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon,

and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;

51:62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this

place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man

nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

51:63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading

this book, [that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it

into the midst of Euphrates:

51:64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not

rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall

be weary. Thus far [are] the words of Jeremiah.

52:1 Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to

reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his

mother's name [was] Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

52:2 And he did [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD,

according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

52:3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in

Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his

presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

52:4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the

tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that]

Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army,

against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts

against it round about.

52:5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king

Zedekiah.

52:6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth [day] of the month,

the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for

the people of the land.

52:7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled,

and went forth 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] by the city round about:) and they went by

the way of the plain.

52:8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and

overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army

was scattered from him.

52:9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king

of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave

judgment upon him.

52:10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before

his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

52:11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of

Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and

put him in prison till the day of his death.

52:12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth [day] of the month,

which [was] the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of

Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, [which] served

the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,

52:13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house;

and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the

great [men], burned he with fire:

52:14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that [were] with the

captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem

round about.

52:15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away

captive [certain] of the poor of the people, and the residue of

the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away,

that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the

multitude.

52:16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left [certain] of

the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

52:17 Also the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the

LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that [was] in the house

of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of

them to Babylon.

52:18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and

the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass

wherewith they ministered, took they away.

52:19 And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the

caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups;

[that] which [was] of gold [in] gold, and [that] which [was] of

silver [in] silver, took the captain of the guard away.

52:20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that

[were] under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the

house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without

weight.

52:21 And [concerning] the pillars, the height of one pillar

[was] eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did

compass it; and the thickness thereof [was] four fingers: [it

was] hollow.

52:22 And a chapiter of brass [was] upon it; and the height of

one chapiter [was] five cubits, with network and pomegranates

upon the chapiters round about, all [of] brass. The second

pillar also and the pomegranates [were] like unto these.

52:23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side;

[and] all the pomegranates upon the network [were] an hundred

round about.

52:24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief

priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers

of the door:

52:25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the

charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near

the king's person, which were found in the city; and the

principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the

land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were

found in the midst of the city.

52:26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and

brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

52:27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death

in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away

captive out of his own land.

52:28 This [is] the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away

captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and

twenty:

52:29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away

captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:

52:30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar

Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of

the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons

[were] four thousand and six hundred.

52:31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the

captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in

the five and twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Evilmerodach

king of Babylon in the [first] year of his reign lifted up the

head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of

prison,

52:32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the

throne of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon,

52:33 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually

eat bread before him all the days of his life.

52:34 And [for] his diet, there was a continual diet given him

of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of

his death, all the days of his life.