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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

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JER-1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the

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

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

JER-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.

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

I [am] a child.

JER-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.

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

deliver thee, saith the LORD.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

will hasten my word to perform it.

JER-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.

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

shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

and an iron pillar, and brazen 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.

JER-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.

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

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

the families of the house of Israel:

JER-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?

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

and with your children's children will I plead.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

JER-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.

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

is he spoiled?

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

they made his land waste: his cities are burned without

inhabitant.

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

the crown of thy head.

JER-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?

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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,

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

transgressed against me, saith the LORD.

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

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

destroying lion.

JER-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?

JER-2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her

attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

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

thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

thou [art] the guide of my youth?

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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].

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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:

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

which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

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

LORD our God.

JER-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.

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

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

daughters.

JER-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.

*JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-4:3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and

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

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

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

JER-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.

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

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

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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,

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

me: now also will I give sentence against them.

JER-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.

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

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

within thee?

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

affliction from mount Ephraim.

JER-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.

JER-4:17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round

about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the

LORD.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, [and] my

curtains in a moment.

JER-4:21 How long shall I see the standard, [and] hear the

sound of the trumpet?

JER-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.

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

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

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

all the hills moved lightly.

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

birds of the heavens were fled.

JER-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.

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

desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-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.

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

falsely.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

neighed after his neighbour's wife.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-5:11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have

dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

JER-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:

JER-5:13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is]

not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

mighty men.

JER-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.

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

make a full end with you.

JER-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.

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

Judah, saying,

JER-5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without

understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears,

and hear not:

JER-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?

JER-5:23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious

heart; they are revolted and gone.

JER-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.

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

your sins have withholden good [things] from you.

JER-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.

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

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

JER-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.

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

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

JER-5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the

land;

JER-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?

*JER-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.

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

delicate [woman].

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

palaces.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

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

JER-6:9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly

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

grapegatherer into the baskets.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

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

JER-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.

JER-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].

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

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

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

what [is] among them.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

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

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

JER-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.

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

LORD hath rejected them.

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

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-7:5 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings;

if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his

neighbour;

JER-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:

JER-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.

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

JER-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;

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

in the streets of Jerusalem?

JER-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.

JER-7:19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: [do they]

not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

JER-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.

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

your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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]:

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

but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

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

a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to

return.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

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

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

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

time of health, and behold trouble!

JER-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.

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

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

saith the LORD.

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

[is] faint in me.

JER-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?

JER-8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are

not saved.

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

am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

JER-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?

*JER-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!

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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;

JER-9:14 But have walked after the imagination of their own

heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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].

JER-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:

JER-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.

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

punish all [them which are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;

JER-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.

*JER-10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O

house of Israel:

JER-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.

JER-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 ax.

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

with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

JER-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.

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

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

JER-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.

JER-10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock

[is] a doctrine of vanities.

JER-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].

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

time of their visitation they shall perish.

JER-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.

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

the fortress.

JER-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].

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

JER-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.

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

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

men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

JER-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,

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

know [it]: then thou showedst me their doings.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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:

JER-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.

*JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

JER-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.

JER-12:10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have

trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant

portion a desolate wilderness.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.

*JER-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.

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

and put [it] on my loins.

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

saying,

JER-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.

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

commanded me.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

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

pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

hath spoken.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

JER-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.

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

that thy shame may appear.

JER-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]?

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

the dearth.

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

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

JER-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.

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

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

JER-14:5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook

[it], because there was no grass.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

for [their] good.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

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

loathed 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!

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

iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

JER-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.

JER-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].

*JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-15:12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-15:20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen

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.

JER-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.

*JER-16:1 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,

JER-16:2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou

have sons or daughters in this place.

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-16:8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to

sit with them to eat and to drink.

JER-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.

JER-16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show 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?

JER-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;

JER-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:

JER-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 show

you favour.

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-16:20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they [are] no

gods?

JER-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.

*JER-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;

JER-17:2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their

groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-17:7 Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and

whose hope the LORD is.

JER-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.

JER-17:9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and

desperately wicked: who can know it?

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-17:12 A glorious high throne from the beginning [is] the

place of our sanctuary.

JER-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.

JER-17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and

I shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise.

JER-17:15 Behold, they say unto me, Where [is] the word of the

LORD? let it come now.

JER-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.

JER-17:17 Be not a terror unto me: thou [art] my hope in the

day of evil.

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-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:

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-17:23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but

made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive

instruction.

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

JER-18:2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I

will cause thee to hear my words.

JER-18:3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold,

he wrought a work on the wheels.

JER-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].

JER-18:5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

JER-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.

JER-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];

JER-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.

JER-18:9 And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a

nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it];

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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;

JER-18:16 To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual

hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and

wag his head.

JER-18:17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the

enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day

of their calamity.

JER-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.

JER-18:19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of

them that contend with me.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-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;

JER-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,

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-19:10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the

men that go with thee.

JER-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.

JER-19:12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and

to the inhabitants thereof, and [even] make this city as Tophet:

JER-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.

JER-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,

JER-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.

*JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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].

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-20:13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath

delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

JER-20:14 Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the

day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

JER-20:15 Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father,

saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

JER-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

morning, and the shouting at noontide;

JER-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].

JER-20:18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour

and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

*JER-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,

JER-21:2 Inquire, 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.

JER-21:3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to

Zedekiah:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-21:6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both

man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-21:11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, [say],

Hear ye the word of the LORD;

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

*JER-22:1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king

of Judah, and speak there this word,

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself,

saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the

covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and

served them.

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-22:12 But he shall die in the place whither they have led

him captive, and shall see this land no more.

JER-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;

JER-22:14 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large

chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and [it is] ceiled with

cedar, and painted with vermilion.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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].

JER-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!

JER-22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn

and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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!

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-22:27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return,

thither shall they not return.

JER-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?

JER-22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

JER-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.

*JER-23:1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the

sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-23:11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my

house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

JER-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.

JER-23:13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria;

they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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]?

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-23:21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have

not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

JER-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.

JER-23:23 [Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God

afar off?

JER-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.

JER-23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy

lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-23:29 [Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and

like a hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces?

JER-23:30 Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith

the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

JER-23:31 Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD,

that use their tongues, and say, He saith.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-23:37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the

LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?

JER-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;

JER-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:

JER-23:40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you,

and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

*JER-24:1 The LORD showed 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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-24:4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-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;

JER-25:2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the

people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-25:8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye

have not heard my words,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an

astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon

seventy years.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-25:16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad,

because of the sword that I will send among them.

JER-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:

JER-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;

JER-25:19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his

princes, and all his people;

JER-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,

JER-25:21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,

JER-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,

JER-25:23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all [that are] in the

utmost corners,

JER-25:24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the

mingled people that dwell in the desert,

JER-25:25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam,

and all the kings of the Medes,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-25:35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the

principal of the flock to escape.

JER-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.

JER-25:37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of

the fierce anger of the LORD.

JER-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.

*JER-26:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of

Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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,

JER-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;

JER-26:6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make

this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

JER-26:7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people

heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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].

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-26:14 As for me, behold, I [am] in your hand: do with me as

seemeth good and meet unto you.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-26:17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and

spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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;

JER-26:22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely],

Elnathan the son of Achbor, and [certain] men with him into

Egypt.

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-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,

JER-27:2 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes,

and put them upon thy neck,

JER-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;

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-27:17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and

live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

JER-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.

JER-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,

JER-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;

JER-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;

JER-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.

*JER-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,

JER-28:2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,

saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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,

JER-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.

JER-28:7 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in

thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-28:10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the

prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.

JER-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.

JER-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,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-28:17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the

seventh month.

*JER-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;

JER-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;)

JER-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,

JER-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;

JER-29:5 Build ye houses, and dwell [in them]; and plant

gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-29:9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have

not sent them, saith the LORD.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray

unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

JER-29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall

search for me with all your heart.

JER-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.

JER-29:15 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up

prophets in Babylon;

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-29:20 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the

captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:

JER-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;

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-29:24 [Thus] shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the

Nehelamite, saying,

JER-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,

JER-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.

JER-29:27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of

Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?

JER-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.

JER-29:29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears

of Jeremiah the prophet.

JER-29:30 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,

JER-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:

JER-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.

*JER-30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

JER-30:2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write

thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

JER-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.

JER-30:4 And these [are] the words that the LORD spake

concerning Israel and concerning Judah.

JER-30:5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of

trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-30:9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David

their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-30:12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise [is] incurable,

[and] thy wound [is] grievous.

JER-30:13 [There is] none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest

be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-30:22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-31:5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of

Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat [them] as

common things.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-31:11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him

from the hand of [him that was] stronger than he.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-31:17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that

thy children shall come again to their own border.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-31:24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the

cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they [that] go forth

with flocks.

JER-31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have

replenished every sorrowful soul.

JER-31:26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was

sweet unto me.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-31:39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over

against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.

JER-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.

*JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-32:6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me,

saying,

JER-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].

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-32:10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed [it], and

took witnesses, and weighed [him] the money in the balances.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-32:13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-32:16 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase

unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,

JER-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:

JER-32:18 Thou showest 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,

JER-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:

JER-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;

JER-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;

JER-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;

JER-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:

JER-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].

JER-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.

JER-32:26 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,

JER-32:27 Behold, I [am] the LORD, the God of all flesh: is

there any thing too hard for me?

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-32:34 But they set their abominations in the house, which

is called by my name, to defile it.

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-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:

JER-32:38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-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,

JER-33:2 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that

formed it, to establish it; the LORD [is] his name;

JER-33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee

great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-33:17 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man

to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

JER-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.

JER-33:19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-33:23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah,

saying,

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-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.

*JER-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,

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-34:6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto

Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-34:12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from

the LORD, saying,

JER-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,

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-34:16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every

man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at

liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into

subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-35:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in

the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-35:9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have

we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

JER-35:10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done

according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

JER-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.

JER-35:12 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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.

*JER-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,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-36:5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] shut up;

I cannot go into the house of the LORD:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-36:11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan,

had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-36:15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in

our ears. So Baruch read [it] in their ears.

JER-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.

JER-36:17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst

thou write all these words at his mouth?

JER-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.

JER-36:19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee,

thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-36:22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth

month: and [there was a fire] on the hearth burning before him.

JER-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.

JER-36:24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments,

[neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these

words.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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,

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-37:4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people:

for they had not put him into prison.

JER-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.

JER-37:6 Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet

Jeremiah, saying,

JER-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 inquire of me;

Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall

return to Egypt into their own land.

JER-37:8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against

this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

JER-37:9 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying,

The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not

depart.

JER-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.

JER-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,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-37:16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into

the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-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,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-38:8 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and

spake to the king, saying,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-38:21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this [is] the word

that the LORD hath showed me:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-38:24 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of

these words, and thou shalt not die.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-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.

JER-39:2 [And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth

month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-39:7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him

with chains, to carry him to Babylon.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-39:11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge

concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard,

saying,

JER-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.

JER-39:13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and

Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the

king of Babylon's princes;

JER-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.

JER-39:15 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he

was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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,

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

*JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-41:4 And it came to pass the second day after he had slain

Gedaliah, and no man knew [it],

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-41:15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan

with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.

JER-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:

JER-41:17 And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of

Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,

JER-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.

*JER-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,

JER-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:)

JER-42:3 That the LORD thy God may show us the way wherein we

may walk, and the thing that we may do.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-42:7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of

the LORD came unto Jeremiah.

JER-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,

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-42:12 And I will show mercies unto you, that he may have

mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

JER-42:13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land,

neither obey the voice of the LORD your God,

JER-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:

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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].

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-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,

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-43:8 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in

Tahpanhes, saying,

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-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,

JER-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,

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-44:5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn

from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-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?

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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,

JER-44:16 [As for] the word that thou hast spoken unto us in

the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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,

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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.

*JER-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,

JER-45:2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O

Baruch;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-46:1 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the

prophet against the Gentiles;

JER-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.

JER-46:3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to

battle.

JER-46:4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand

forth with [your] helmets; furbish the spears, [and] put on the

brigandines.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-46:7 Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood, whose

waters are moved as the rivers?

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-46:15 Why are thy valiant [men] swept away? they stood not,

because the LORD did drive them.

JER-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.

JER-46:17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a

noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

JER-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.

JER-46:19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to

go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without

an inhabitant.

JER-46:20 Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction

cometh; it cometh out of the north.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-46:24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall

be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-47:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the

prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.

JER-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.

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-47:5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off [with]

the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

JER-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.

JER-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.

*JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-48:3 A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim, spoiling

and great destruction.

JER-48:4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry

to be heard.

JER-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.

JER-48:6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the

wilderness.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-48:10 Cursed [be] he that doeth the work of the LORD

deceitfully, and cursed [be] he that keepeth back his sword from

blood.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-48:13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of

Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

JER-48:14 How say ye, We [are] mighty and strong men for the

war?

JER-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.

JER-48:16 The calamity of Moab [is] near to come, and his

affliction hasteth fast.

JER-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!

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-48:20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and

cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,

JER-48:21 And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon

Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,

JER-48:22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon

Bethdiblathaim,

JER-48:23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon

Bethmeon,

JER-48:24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the

cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

JER-48:25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken,

saith the LORD.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-48:30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but [it shall] not

[be] so; his lies shall not so effect [it].

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-48:37 For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard

clipped: upon all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon the

loins sackcloth.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-48:40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an

eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

JER-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.

JER-48:42 And Moab shall be destroyed from [being] a people,

because he hath magnified [himself] against the LORD.

JER-48:43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [shall be] upon

thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-48:46 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh

perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters

captives.

JER-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.

*JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-49:6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the

children of Ammon, saith the LORD.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-49:11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them]

alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

JER-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].

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-49:15 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen,

[and] despised among men.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-49:21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the

cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-49:25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my

joy!

JER-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.

JER-49:27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and

it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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,

JER-49:35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break

the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-49:38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy

from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.

JER-49:39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, [that]

I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.

*JER-50:1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon [and]

against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-50:10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her

shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-50:22 A sound of battle [is] in the land, and of great

destruction.

JER-50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and

broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-50:34 Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD of hosts [is]

his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may

give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

JER-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].

JER-50:36 A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall dote: a

sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-50:42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they [are]

cruel, and will not show 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.

JER-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.

JER-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?

JER-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.

JER-50:46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is

moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

*JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-51:4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,

and [they that are] thrust through in her streets.

JER-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.

JER-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

recompense.

JER-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.

JER-51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her;

take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

JER-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.

JER-51:10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come,

and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-51:13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in

treasures, thine end is come, [and] the measure of thy

covetousness.

JER-51:14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying],

Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillars; and they

shall lift up a shout against thee.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-51:18 They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of

their visitation they shall perish.

JER-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.

JER-51:20 Thou [art] my battle ax [and] weapons of war: for

with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will

I destroy kingdoms;

JER-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;

JER-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;

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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 caterpillars.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne 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.

JER-51:31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger

to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is

taken at [one] end,

JER-51:32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they

have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for

dragons, and astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

JER-51:38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell

as lions' whelps.

JER-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.

JER-51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,

like rams with he goats.

JER-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!

JER-51:42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with

the multitude of the waves thereof.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-51:49 As Babylon [hath caused] the slain of Israel to fall,

so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-51:54 A sound of a cry [cometh] from Babylon, and great

destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

JER-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:

JER-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 recompenses shall surely requite.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-51:61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to

Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;

JER-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.

JER-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:

JER-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.

*JER-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.

JER-52:2 And he did [that which was] evil in the eyes of the

LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-52:5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of

king Zedekiah.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-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,

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-52:16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left

[certain] of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for

husbandmen.

JER-52:17 Also the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of

the LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that [was] in the

house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the

brass of them to Babylon.

JER-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.

JER-52:19 And the basins, 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.

JER-52:20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen 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.

JER-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.

JER-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.

JER-52:23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side;

[and] all the pomegranates upon the network [were] an hundred

round about.

JER-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:

JER-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.

JER-52:26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them,

and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

JER-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.

JER-52:28 This [is] the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away

captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and

twenty:

JER-52:29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried

away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:

JER-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.

JER-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,

JER-52:32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above

the throne of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon,

JER-52:33 And changed his prison garments: and he did

continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.

JER-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.