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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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11 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah of the priests

that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin .

12 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 .

13 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 .

14 Then the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

15 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 .

16 Then said I Ah Lord GOD behold I cannot speak for I am a

child .

17 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 .

18 Be not afraid of their faces for I am with thee to deliver

thee saith the LORD .

19 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 .

110 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 .

111 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 .

112 Then said the LORD unto me Thou hast well seen for I will

hasten my word to perform it .

113 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 .

114 Then the LORD said unto me Out of the north an evil shall

break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land .

115 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 .

116 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 .

117 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 .

118 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 .

119 And they shall fight against thee but they shall not

prevail against thee for I am with thee saith the LORD to

deliver thee .

* 21 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me saying .

22 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 .

23 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 .

24 Hear ye the word of the LORD O house of Jacob and all the

families of the house of Israel .

25 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 .

26 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 .

27 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 .

28 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 .

29 Wherefore I will yet plead with you saith the LORD and with

your children's children will I plead .

210 For pass over the isles of Chittim and see and send unto

Kedar and consider diligently and see if there be such a thing .

211 Hath a nation changed their gods which are yet no gods but

my people have changed their glory for that which doth not

profit .

212 Be astonished O ye heavens at this and be horribly afraid

be ye very desolate saith the LORD .

213 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 .

214 Is Israel a servant is he a homeborn slave why is he

spoiled .

215 The young lions roared upon him and yelled and they made

his land waste his cities are burned without inhabitant .

216 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the

crown of thy head .

217 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself in that thou hast

forsaken the LORD thy God when he led thee by the way .

218 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 .

219 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 .

220 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 .

221 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 .

222 For though thou wash thee with nitre and take thee much

soap yet thine iniquity is marked before me saith the Lord GOD .

223 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 .

224 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 .

225 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 .

226 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 .

227 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 .

228 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 .

229 Wherefore will ye plead with me ye all have transgressed

against me saith the LORD .

230 In vain have I smitten your children they received no

correction your own sword hath devoured your prophets like a

destroying lion .

231 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 .

232 Can a maid forget her ornaments or a bride her attire yet

my people have forgotten me days without number .

233 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love therefore hast thou

also taught the wicked ones thy ways .

234 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 .

235 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 .

236 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way thou also

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

237 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 .

* 31 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 .

32 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 .

33 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 .

34 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me My father thou art

the guide of my youth .

35 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 .

36 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 .

37 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 .

38 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 .

39 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom

that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and

with stocks .

310 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not

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

311 And the LORD said unto me The backsliding Israel hath

justified herself more than treacherous Judah .

312 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 .

313 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 .

314 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 .

315 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart which

shall feed you with knowledge and understanding .

316 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 .

317 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 .

318 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 .

319 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 .

320 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband

so have ye dealt treacherously with me O house of Israel saith

the LORD .

321 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 .

322 Return ye backsliding children and I will heal your

backslidings Behold we come unto thee for thou art the LORD our

God .

323 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 .

324 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our

youth their flocks and their herds their sons and their

daughters .

325 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 .

* 41 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 .

42 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 .

43 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem

Break up your fallow ground and sow not among thorns .

44 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 .

45 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 .

46 Set up the standard toward Zion retire stay not for I will

bring evil from the north and a great destruction .

47 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 .

48 For this gird you with sackcloth lament and howl for the

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

49 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 .

410 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 .

411 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 .

412 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me now

also will I give sentence against them .

413 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 .

414 O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickedness that thou

mayest be saved How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within

thee .

415 For a voice declareth from Dan and publisheth affliction

from mount Ephraim .

416 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 .

417 As keepers of a field are they against her round about

because she hath been rebellious against me saith the LORD .

418 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 .

419 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 .

420 Destruction upon destruction is cried for the whole land

is spoiled suddenly are my tents spoiled and my curtains in a

moment .

421 How long shall I see the standard and hear the sound of

the trumpet .

422 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 .

423 I beheld the earth and lo it was without form and void and

the heavens and they had no light .

424 I beheld the mountains and lo they trembled and all the

hills moved lightly .

425 I beheld and lo there was no man and all the birds of the

heavens were fled .

426 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 .

427 For thus hath the LORD said The whole land shall be

desolate yet will I not make a full end .

428 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 .

429 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 .

430 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 .

431 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 .

* 51 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 .

52 And though they say The LORD liveth surely they swear

falsely .

53 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 .

54 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 .

55 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 .

56 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 .

57 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 .

58 They were as fed horses in the morning every one neighed

after his neighbour's wife .

59 Shall I not visit for these things saith the LORD and shall

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

510 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 .

511 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt

very treacherously against me saith the LORD .

512 They have belied the LORD and said It is not he neither

shall evil come upon us neither shall we see sword nor famine .

513 And the prophets shall become wind and the word is not in

them thus shall it be done unto them .

514 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 .

515 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 .

516 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre they are all mighty

men .

517 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 .

518 Nevertheless in those days saith the LORD I will not make

a full end with you .

519 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 .

520 Declare this in the house of Jacob and publish it in Judah

saying .

521 Hear now this O foolish people and without understanding

which have eyes and see not which have ears and hear not .

522 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 .

523 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart

they are revolted and gone .

524 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 .

525 Your iniquities have turned away these things and your

sins have withholden good things from you .

526 For among my people are found wicked men they lay wait as

he that setteth snares they set a trap they catch men .

527 As a cage is full of birds so are their houses full of

deceit therefore they are become great and waxen rich .

528 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 .

529 Shall I not visit for these things saith the LORD shall

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

530 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land .

531 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 .

* 61 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 .

62 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and

delicate woman .

63 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 .

64 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 .

65 Arise and let us go by night and let us destroy her palaces

66 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 .

67 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 .

68 Be thou instructed O Jerusalem lest my soul depart from

thee lest I make thee desolate a land not inhabited .

69 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 .

610 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 .

611 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 .

612 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 .

613 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 .

614 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my

people slightly saying Peace peace when there is no peace .

615 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 .

616 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 .

617 Also I set watchmen over you saying Hearken to the sound

of the trumpet But they said We will not hearken .

618 Therefore hear ye nations and know O congregation what is

among them .

619 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 .

620 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 .

621 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 .

622 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 .

623 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 .

624 We have heard the fame thereof our hands wax feeble

anguish hath taken hold of us and pain as of a woman in travail .

625 Go not forth into the field nor walk by the way for the

sword of the enemy and fear is on every side .

626 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 .

627 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people

that thou mayest know and try their way .

628 They are all grievous revolters walking with slanders they

are brass and iron they are all corrupters .

629 The bellows are burned the lead is consumed of the fire

the founder melteth in vain for the wicked are not plucked away .

630 Reprobate silver shall men call them because the LORD hath

rejected them .

* 71 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying .

72 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 .

73 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

74 Trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the LORD

The temple of the LORD The temple of the LORD are these .

75 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings if ye

thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour .

76 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 .

77 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place in the land

that I gave to your fathers for ever and ever .

78 Behold ye trust in lying words that cannot profit .

79 Will ye steal murder and commit adultery and swear falsely

and burn incense unto Baal and walk after other gods whom ye

know not .

710 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

711 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 .

712 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 .

713 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 .

714 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 .

715 And I will cast you out of my sight as I have cast out all

your brethren even the whole seed of Ephraim .

716 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 .

717 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in

the streets of Jerusalem .

718 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 .

719 Do they provoke me to anger saith the LORD do they not

provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces .

720 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 .

721 Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Put your

burnt offerings unto your sacrifices and eat flesh .

722 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 .

723 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 .

724 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 .

725 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 .

726 Yet they hearkened not unto me nor inclined their ear but

hardened their neck they did worse than their fathers .

727 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 .

728 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 .

729 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 .

730 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 .

731 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 .

732 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 .

733 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 .

734 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 .

* 81 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 .

82 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 .

83 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 .

84 Moreover thou shalt say unto them Thus saith the LORD Shall

they fall and not arise shall he turn away and not return .

85 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a

perpetual backsliding they hold fast deceit they refuse to

return .

86 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 .

87 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 .

88 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 .

89 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 .

810 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 .

811 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people

slightly saying Peace peace when there is no peace .

812 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 .

813 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 .

814 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 .

815 We looked for peace but no good came and for a time of

health and behold trouble .

816 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 .

817 For behold I will send serpents cockatrices among you

which will not be charmed and they shall bite you saith the LORD

818 When I would comfort myself against sorrow my heart is

faint in me .

819 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 .

820 The harvest is past the summer is ended and we are not

saved .

821 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt I am

black astonishment hath taken hold on me .

822 Is there no balm in Gilead is there no physician there why

then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered .

* 91 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 .

92 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 .

93 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 .

94 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 .

95 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 .

96 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit through deceit

they refuse to know me saith the LORD .

97 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 .

98 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 .

99 Shall I not visit them for these things saith the LORD

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

910 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 .

911 And I will make Jerusalem heaps and a den of dragons and I

will make the cities of Judah desolate without an inhabitant .

912 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 .

913 And the LORD saith Because they have forsaken my law which

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

therein .

914 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart

and after Baalim which their fathers taught them .

915 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 .

916 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 .

917 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 .

918 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 .

919 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 .

920 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 .

921 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 .

922 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 .

923 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 .

924 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 .

925 Behold the days come saith the LORD that I will punish all

them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised .

926 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 .

* 101 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you O house

of Israel .

102 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 .

103 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 .

104 They deck it with silver and with gold they fasten it with

nails and with hammers that it move not .

105 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 .

106 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee O LORD thou art

great and thy name is great in might .

107 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 .

108 But they are altogether brutish and foolish the stock is a

doctrine of vanities .

109 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 .

1010 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 .

1011 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 .

1012 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 .

1013 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 .

1014 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 .

1015 They are vanity and the work of errors in the time of

their visitation they shall perish .

1016 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 .

1017 Gather up thy wares out of the land O inhabitant of the

fortress .

1018 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 .

1019 Woe is me for my hurt my wound is grievous but I said

Truly this is a grief and I must bear it .

1020 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 .

1021 For the pastors are become brutish and have not sought

the LORD therefore they shall not prosper and all their flocks

shall be scattered .

1022 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 .

1023 O LORD I know that the way of man is not in himself it is

not in man that walketh to direct his steps .

1024 O LORD correct me but with judgment not in thine anger

lest thou bring me to nothing .

1025 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 .

* 111 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying .

112 Hear ye the words of this covenant and speak unto the men

of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem .

113 And say thou unto them Thus saith the LORD God of Israel

Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant .

114 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 .

115 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 .

116 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 .

117 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 .

118 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 .

119 And the LORD said unto me A conspiracy is found among the

men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem .

1110 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 .

1111 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 .

1112 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

1113 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 .

1114 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 .

1115 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 .

1116 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 .

1117 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 .

1118 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it and I know it

then thou showedst me their doings .

1119 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 .

1120 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 .

1121 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 .

1122 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 .

1123 And there shall be no remnant of them for I will bring

evil upon the men of Anathoth even the year of their visitation .

* 121 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 .

122 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 .

123 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 .

124 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 .

125 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 .

126 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 .

127 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 .

128 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest it crieth

out against me therefore have I hated it .

129 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 .

1210 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard they have trodden

my portion under foot they have made my pleasant portion a

desolate wilderness .

1211 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 .

1212 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 .

1213 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

1214 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 .

1215 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 .

1216 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 .

1217 But if they will not obey I will utterly pluck up and

destroy that nation saith the LORD .

* 131 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 .

132 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD and

put it on my loins .

133 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time

saying .

134 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 .

135 So I went and hid it by Euphrates as the LORD commanded me

136 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 .

137 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 .

138 Then the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

139 Thus saith the LORD After this manner will I mar the pride

of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem .

1310 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 .

1311 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 .

1312 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 .

1313 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 .

1314 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 .

1315 Hear ye and give ear be not proud for the LORD hath

spoken .

1316 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 .

1317 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 .

1318 Say unto the king and to the queen Humble yourselves sit

down for your principalities shall come down even the crown of

your glory .

1319 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 .

1320 Lift up your eyes and behold them that come from the

north where is the flock that was given thee thy beautiful flock

1321 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 .

1322 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 .

1323 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his

spots then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil .

1324 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth

away by the wind of the wilderness .

1325 This is thy lot the portion of thy measures from me saith

the LORD because thou hast forgotten me and trusted in falsehood

1326 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face that

thy shame may appear .

1327 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 .

* 141 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the

dearth .

142 Judah mourneth and the gates thereof languish they are

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

143 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 .

144 Because the ground is chapt for there was no rain in the

earth the plowmen were ashamed they covered their heads .

145 Yea the hind also calved in the field and forsook it

because there was no grass .

146 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 .

147 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 .

148 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 .

149 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 .

1410 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 .

1411 Then said the LORD unto me Pray not for this people for

their good .

1412 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 .

1413 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 .

1414 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 .

1415 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 .

1416 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 .

1417 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 .

1418 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 .

1419 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 .

1420 We acknowledge O LORD our wickedness and the iniquity of

our fathers for we have sinned against thee .

1421 Do not abhor us for thy name's sake do not disgrace the

throne of thy glory remember break not thy covenant with us .

1422 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 .

* 151 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 .

152 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 .

153 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 .

154 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 .

155 For who shall have pity upon thee O Jerusalem or who shall

bemoan thee or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest .

156 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 .

157 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 .

158 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 .

159 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 .

1510 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 .

1511 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 .

1512 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel .

1513 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil

without price and that for all thy sins even in all thy borders .

1514 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 .

1515 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 .

1516 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 .

1517 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 .

1518 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 .

1519 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 .

1520 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 .

1521 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked and

I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible .

* 161 The word of the LORD came also unto me saying .

162 Thou shalt not take thee a wife neither shalt thou have

sons or daughters in this place .

163 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 .

164 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 .

165 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 .

166 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 .

167 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 .

168 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting to sit

with them to eat and to drink .

169 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 .

1610 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 .

1611 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 .

1612 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 .

1613 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 .

1614 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 .

1615 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 .

616 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 .

1617 For mine eyes are upon all their ways they are not hid

from my face neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes .

1618 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 .

1619 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 .

1620 Shall a man make gods unto himself and they are no gods .

1621 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 .

* 171 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 .

172 Whilst their children remember their altars and their

groves by the green trees upon the high hills .

173 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 .

174 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 .

175 Thus saith the LORD Cursed be the man that trusteth in man

and maketh flesh his arm and whose heart departeth from the LORD

176 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 .

177 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD and whose

hope the LORD is .

178 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 .

179 The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately

wicked who can know it .

1710 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 .

1711 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 .

1712 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of

our sanctuary .

1713 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 .

1714 Heal me O LORD and I shall be healed save me and I shall

be saved for thou art my praise .

1715 Behold they say unto me Where is the word of the LORD let

it come now .

1716 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 .

1717 Be not a terror unto me thou art my hope in the day of

evil .

1718 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 .

1719 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 .

1720 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 .

1721 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 .

1722 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 .

1723 But they obeyed not neither inclined their ear but made

their neck stiff that they might not hear nor receive

instruction .

1724 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 .

1725 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 .

1726 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 .

1727 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 .

* 181 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying .

182 Arise and go down to the potter's house and there I will

cause thee to hear my words .

183 Then I went down to the potter's house and behold he

wrought a work on the wheels .

184 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 .

185 Then the word of the LORD came to me saying .

186 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 .

187 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and

concerning a kingdom to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy

it .

188 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 .

189 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and

concerning a kingdom to build and to plant it .

1810 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 .

1811 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 .

1812 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 .

1813 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 .

1814 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 .

1815 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 .

1816 To make their land desolate and a perpetual hissing every

one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and wag his head .

1817 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 .

1818 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 .

1819 Give heed to me O LORD and hearken to the voice of them

that contend with me .

1820 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 .

1821 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 .

1822 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 .

1823 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 .

* 191 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 .

192 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 .

193 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 .

194 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 .

195 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 .

196 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 .

197 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 .

198 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 .

199 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 .

1910 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men

that go with thee .

1911 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 .

1912 Thus will I do unto this place saith the LORD and to the

inhabitants thereof and even make this city as Tophet .

1913 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 .

1914 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 .

1915 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 .

* 201 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 .

202 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 .

203 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 .

204 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 .

205 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 .

206 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 .

207 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 .

208 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 .

209 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 .

2010 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 .

2011 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 .

2012 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 .

2013 Sing unto the LORD praise ye the LORD for he hath

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

2014 Cursed be the day wherein I was born let not the day

wherein my mother bare me be blessed .

2015 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father saying

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

2016 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 .

2017 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

2018 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and

sorrow that my days should be consumed with shame .

* 211 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 .

212 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 .

213 Then said Jeremiah unto them Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah

214 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 .

215 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 .

216 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city both man and

beast they shall die of a great pestilence .

217 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 .

218 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 .

219 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 .

2110 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 .

2111 And touching the house of the king of Judah say Hear ye

the word of the LORD .

2112 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 .

2113 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 .

2114 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 .

* 221 Thus saith the LORD Go down to the house of the king of

Judah and speak there this word .

222 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 .

223 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 .

224 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 .

225 But if ye will not hear these words I swear by myself

saith the LORD that this house shall become a desolation .

226 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 .

227 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 .

228 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 .

229 Then they shall answer Because they have forsaken the

covenant of the LORD their God and worshipped other gods and

served them .

2210 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 .

2211 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 .

2212 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him

captive and shall see this land no more .

2213 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 .

2214 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 .

2215 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 .

2216 He judged the cause of the poor and needy then it was

well with him was not this to know me saith the LORD .

2217 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 .

2218 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 .

2219 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass drawn and

cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem .

2220 Go up to Lebanon and cry and lift up thy voice in Bashan

and cry from the passages for all thy lovers are destroyed .

2221 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 .

2222 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 .

2223 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 .

2224 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 .

2225 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 .

2226 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 .

2227 But to the land whereunto they desire to return thither

shall they not return .

2228 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 .

2229 O earth earth earth hear the word of the LORD .

2230 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 .

* 231 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the

sheep of my pasture saith the LORD .

232 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 .

233 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 .

234 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 .

235 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 .

236 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 .

237 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 .

238 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 .

239 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 .

2310 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 .

2311 For both prophet and priest are profane yea in my house

have I found their wickedness saith the LORD .

2312 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 .

2313 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria they

prophesied in Baal and caused my people Israel to err .

2314 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 .

2315 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 .

2316 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 .

2317 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 .

2318 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 .

2319 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 .

2320 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 .

2321 I have not sent these prophets yet they ran I have not

spoken to them yet they prophesied .

2322 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 .

2323 Am I a God at hand saith the LORD and not a God afar off .

2324 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 .

2325 I have heard what the prophets said that prophesy lies in

my name saying I have dreamed I have dreamed .

2326 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 .

2327 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 .

2328 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 .

2329 Is not my word like as a fire saith the LORD and like a

hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces .

2330 Therefore behold I am against the prophets saith the LORD

that steal my words every one from his neighbour .

2331 Behold I am against the prophets saith the LORD that use

their tongues and say He saith .

2332 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 .

2333 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 .

2334 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 .

2335 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 .

2336 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 .

2337 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet What hath the LORD

answered thee and What hath the LORD spoken .

2338 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 .

2339 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 .

2340 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you and a

perpetual shame which shall not be forgotten .

* 241 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 .

242 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 .

243 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 .

244 Again the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

245 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 .

246 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 .

247 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 .

248 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 .

249 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 .

2410 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 .

* 251 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 .

252 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people

of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying .

253 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 .

254 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 .

255 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 .

256 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 .

257 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 .

258 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts Because ye have not

heard my words .

259 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 .

2510 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 .

2511 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an

astonishment and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon

seventy years .

2512 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 .

2513 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 .

2514 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 .

2515 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 .

2516 And they shall drink and be moved and be mad because of

the sword that I will send among them .

2517 Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand and made all the

nations to drink unto whom the LORD had sent me .

2518 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 .

2519 Pharaoh king of Egypt and his servants and his princes

and all his people .

2520 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 .

2521 Edom and Moab and the children of Ammon .

2522 And all the kings of Tyrus and all the kings of Zidon and

the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea .

2523 Dedan and Tema and Buz and all that are in the utmost

corners .

2524 And all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the

mingled people that dwell in the desert .

2525 And all the kings of Zimri and all the kings of Elam and

all the kings of the Medes .

2526 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 .

2527 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 .

2528 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 .

2529 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 .

2530 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 .

2531 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 .

2532 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 .

2533 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 .

2534 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 .

2535 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee nor the

principal of the flock to escape .

2536 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 .

2537 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the

fierce anger of the LORD .

2538 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 .

* 261 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of

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

262 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 .

263 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 .

264 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 .

265 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 .

266 Then will I make this house like Shiloh and will make this

city a curse to all the nations of the earth .

267 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard

Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD .

268 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 .

269 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 .

2610 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 .

2611 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 .

2612 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 .

2613 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 .

2614 As for me behold I am in your hand do with me as seemeth

good and meet unto you .

2615 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 .

2616 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 .

2617 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land and spake

to all the assembly of the people saying .

2618 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 .

2619 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 .

2620 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 .

2621 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 .

2622 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt namely

Elnathan the son of Achbor and certain men with him into Egypt .

2623 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 .

2624 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 .

* 271 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of

Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD

saying .

272 Thus saith the LORD to me Make thee bonds and yokes and

put them upon thy neck .

273 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 .

274 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 .

275 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 .

276 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 .

277 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 .

278 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 .

279 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 .

2710 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 .

2711 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 .

2712 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 .

2713 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 .

2714 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 .

2715 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 .

2716 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 .

2717 Hearken not unto them serve the king of Babylon and live

wherefore should this city be laid waste .

2718 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 .

2719 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 .

2720 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 .

2721 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 .

2722 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 .

* 281 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 .

282 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts the God of Israel saying I

have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon .

283 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 .

284 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 .

285 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 .

286 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 .

287 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine

ears and in the ears of all the people .

288 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 .

289 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 .

2810 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the

prophet Jeremiah's neck and brake it .

2811 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 .

2812 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 .

2813 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 .

2814 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 .

2815 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 .

2816 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 .

2817 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh

month .

* 291 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 .

292 (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 .

293 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 .

294 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 .

295 Build ye houses and dwell in them and plant gardens and

eat the fruit of them .

296 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 .

297 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 .

298 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 .

299 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name I have not

sent them saith the LORD .

2910 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 .

2911 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 .

2912 Then shall ye call upon me and ye shall go and pray unto

me and I will hearken unto you .

2913 And ye shall seek me and find me when ye shall search for

me with all your heart .

2914 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 .

2915 Because ye have said The LORD hath raised us up prophets

in Babylon .

2916 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 .

2917 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 .

2918 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 .

2919 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 .

2920 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD all ye of the

captivity whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon .

2921 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 .

2922 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 .

2923 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 .

2924 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite

saying .

2925 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 .

2926 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 .

2927 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of

Anathoth which maketh himself a prophet to you .

2928 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 .

2929 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of

Jeremiah the prophet .

2930 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah saying .

2931 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 .

2932 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 .

* 301 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying .

302 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel saying Write thee all

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

303 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 .

304 And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning

Israel and concerning Judah .

305 For thus saith the LORD We have heard a voice of trembling

of fear and not of peace .

306 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 .

307 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

308 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 .

309 But they shall serve the LORD their God and David their

king whom I will raise up unto them .

3010 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 .

3011 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 .

3012 For thus saith the LORD Thy bruise is incurable and thy

wound is grievous .

3013 There is none to plead thy cause that thou mayest be

bound up thou hast no healing medicines .

3014 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 .

3015 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 .

3016 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 .

3017 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 .

3018 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 .

3019 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 .

3020 Their children also shall be as aforetime and their

congregation shall be established before me and I will punish

all that oppress them .

3021 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 .

3022 And ye shall be my people and I will be your God .

3023 Behold the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury a

continuing whirlwind it shall fall with pain upon the head of

the wicked .

3024 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 .

* 311 At the same time saith the LORD will I be the God of all

the families of Israel and they shall be my people .

312 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 .

313 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 .

314 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 .

315 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria

the planters shall plant and shall eat them as common things .

316 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 .

317 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 .

318 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 .

319 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 .

3110 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 .

3111 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from

the hand of him that was stronger than he .

3112 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 .

3113 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 .

3114 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness

and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness saith the LORD

3115 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 .

3116 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 .

3117 And there is hope in thine end saith the LORD that thy

children shall come again to their own border .

3118 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 .

3119 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 .

3120 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 .

3121 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 .

3122 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 .

3123 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 .

3124 And there shall dwell in Judah itself and in all the

cities thereof together husbandmen and they that go forth with

flocks .

3125 For I have satiated the weary soul and I have replenished

every sorrowful soul .

3126 Upon this I awaked and beheld and my sleep was sweet unto

me .

3127 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 .

3128 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 .

3129 In those days they shall say no more The fathers have

eaten a sour grape and the children's teeth are set on edge .

3130 But every one shall die for his own iniquity every man

that eateth the sour grape his teeth shall be set on edge .

3131 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 .

3132 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 .

3133 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 .

3134 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 .

3135 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 .

3136 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 .

3137 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 .

3138 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 .

3139 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it

upon the hill Gareb and shall compass about to Goath .

3140 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 .

* 321 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 .

322 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 .

323 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 .

324 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 .

325 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 .

326 And Jeremiah said The word of the LORD came unto me saying

327 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 .

328 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 .

329 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 .

3210 And I subscribed the evidence and sealed it and took

witnesses and weighed him the money in the balances .

3211 So I took the evidence of the purchase both that which

was sealed according to the law and custom and that which was

open .

3212 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 .

3213 And I charged Baruch before them saying .

3214 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 .

3215 For thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Houses

and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land .

3216 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase

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

3217 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 .

3218 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 .

3219 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 .

3220 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 .

3221 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 .

3222 And hast given them this land which thou didst swear to

their fathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey .

3223 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 .

3224 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 .

3225 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 .

3226 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah saying .

3227 Behold I am the LORD the God of all flesh is there any

thing too hard for me .

3228 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 .

3229 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 .

3230 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 .

3231 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 .

3232 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 .

3233 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 .

3234 But they set their abominations in the house which is

called by my name to defile it .

3235 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 .

3236 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 .

3237 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 .

3238 And they shall be my people and I will be their God .

3239 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 .

3240 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 .

3241 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 .

3242 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 .

3243 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 .

3244 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 .

* 331 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 .

332 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof the LORD that formed

it to establish it the LORD is his name .

333 Call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee great

and mighty things which thou knowest not .

334 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 .

335 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 .

336 Behold I will bring it health and cure and I will cure

them and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth .

337 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity

of Israel to return and will build them as at the first .

338 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 .

339 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 .

3310 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 .

3311 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 .

3312 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 .

3313 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 .

3314 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 .

3315 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 .

3316 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 .

3317 For thus saith the LORD David shall never want a man to

sit upon the throne of the house of Israel .

3318 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 .

3319 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah saying .

3320 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 .

3321 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 .

3322 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 .

3323 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah saying .

3324 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 .

3325 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 .

3326 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 .

* 341 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 .

342 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 .

343 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 .

344 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 .

345 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 .

346 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto

Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem .

347 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 .

348 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 .

349 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 .

3410 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 .

3411 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 .

3412 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the

LORD saying .

3413 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 .

3414 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 .

3415 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 .

3416 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 .

3417 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 .

3418 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 .

3419 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 .

3420 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 .

3421 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 .

3422 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 .

* 351 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the

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

352 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 .

353 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 .

354 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 .

355 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 .

356 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 .

357 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 .

358 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 .

359 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in neither have we

vineyard nor field nor seed .

3510 But we have dwelt in tents and have obeyed and done

according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us .

3511 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 .

3512 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah saying .

3513 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 .

3514 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 .

3515 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 .

3516 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 .

3517 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 .

3518 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 .

3519 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 .

* 361 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 .

362 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 .

363 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 .

364 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 .

365 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch saying I am shut up I cannot

go into the house of the LORD .

366 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 .

367 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 .

368 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 .

369 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 .

3610 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 .

3611 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah the son of Shaphan had

heard out of the book all the words of the LORD .

3612 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 .

3613 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he

had heard when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people .

3614 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 .

3615 And they said unto him Sit down now and read it in our

ears So Baruch read it in their ears .

3616 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 .

3617 And they asked Baruch saying Tell us now How didst thou

write all these words at his mouth .

3618 Then Baruch answered them He pronounced all these words

unto me with his mouth and I wrote them with ink in the book .

3619 Then said the princes unto Baruch Go hide thee thou and

Jeremiah and let no man know where ye be .

3620 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 .

3621 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 .

3622 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month

and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him .

3623 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 .

3624 Yet they were not afraid nor rent their garments neither

the king nor any of his servants that heard all these words .

3625 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 .

3626 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 .

3627 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 .

3628 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 .

3629 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 .

3630 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 .

3631 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 .

3632 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 .

* 371 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 .

372 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 .

373 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 .

374 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people for

they had not put him into prison .

375 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 .

376 Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah

saying .

377 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 .

378 And the Chaldeans shall come again and fight against this

city and take it and burn it with fire .

379 Thus saith the LORD Deceive not yourselves saying The

Chaldeans shall surely depart from us for they shall not depart .

3710 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 .

3711 And it came to pass that when the army of the Chaldeans

was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army .

3712 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the

land of Benjamin to separate himself thence in the midst of the

people .

3713 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 .

3714 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 .

3715 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 .

3716 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon and into the

cabins and Jeremiah had remained there many days .

3717 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 .

3718 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 .

3719 Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you

saying The king of Babylon shall not come against you nor

against this land .

3720 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 .

3721 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 .

* 381 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 .

382 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 .

383 Thus saith the LORD This city shall surely be given into

the hand of the king of Babylon's army which shall take it .

384 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 .

385 Then Zedekiah the king said Behold he is in your hand for

the king is not he that can do any thing against you .

386 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 .

387 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 .

388 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house and spake to

the king saying .

389 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 .

3810 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 .

3811 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 .

3812 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 .

3813 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords and took him up out

of the dungeon and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison .

3814 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 .

3815 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 .

3816 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 .

3817 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 .

3818 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 .

3819 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 .

3820 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 .

3821 But if thou refuse to go forth this is the word that the

LORD hath showed me .

3822 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 .

3823 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 .

3824 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah Let no man know of these

words and thou shalt not die .

3825 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 .

3826 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 .

3827 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 .

3828 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the

day that Jerusalem was taken and he was there when Jerusalem was

taken .

* 391 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 .

392 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah in the fourth month

the ninth day of the month the city was broken up .

393 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 .

394 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 .

395 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 .

396 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 .

397 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him with

chains to carry him to Babylon .

398 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses

of the people with fire and brake down the walls of Jerusalem .

399 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 .

3910 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 .

3911 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning

Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard saying .

3912 Take him and look well to him and do him no harm but do

unto him even as he shall say unto thee .

3913 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent and

Nebushasban Rabsaris and Nergalsharezer Rabmag and all the king

of Babylon's princes .

3914 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 .

3915 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah while he was

shut up in the court of the prison saying .

3916 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 .

3917 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 .

3918 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 .

* 401 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 .

402 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said unto

him The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place .

403 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 .

404 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 .

405 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 .

406 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to

Mizpah and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the

land .

407 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 .

408 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 .

409 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 .

4010 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 .

4011 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 .

4012 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 .

4013 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains

of the forces that were in the fields came to Gedaliah to Mizpah

4014 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 .

4015 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 .

4016 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 .

* 411 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 .

412 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 .

413 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 .

414 And it came to pass the second day after he had slain

Gedaliah and no man knew it .

415 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 .

416 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 .

417 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 .

418 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 .

419 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

4110 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 .

4111 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 .

4112 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 .

4113 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 .

4114 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive

from Mizpah cast about and returned and went unto Johanan the

son of Kareah .

4115 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan

with eight men and went to the Ammonites .

4116 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 .

4117 And they departed and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham

which is by Bethlehem to go to enter into Egypt .

4118 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 .

* 421 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 .

422 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 .

423 That the LORD thy God may show us the way wherein we may

walk and the thing that we may do .

424 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 .

425 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 .

426 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 .

427 And it came to pass after ten days that the word of the

LORD came unto Jeremiah .

428 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 .

429 And said unto them Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel

unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him .

4210 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 .

4211 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 .

4212 And I will show mercies unto you that he may have mercy

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

4213 But if ye say We will not dwell in this land neither obey

the voice of the LORD your God .

4214 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 .

4215 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 .

4216 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 .

4217 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 .

4218 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 .

4219 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 .

4220 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 .

4221 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 .

4222 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 .

* 431 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 .

432 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 .

433 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 .

434 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 .

435 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 .

436 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 .

437 So they came into the land of Egypt for they obeyed not

the voice of the LORD thus came they even to Tahpanhes .

438 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes

saying .

439 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 .

4310 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 .

4311 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 .

4312 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 .

4313 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 .

* 441 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 .

442 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 .

443 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 .

444 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 .

445 But they hearkened not nor inclined their ear to turn from

their wickedness to burn no incense unto other gods .

446 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 .

447 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 .

448 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 .

449 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 .

4410 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 .

4411 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 .

4412 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 .

4413 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 .

4414 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 .

4415 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 .

4416 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name

of the LORD we will not hearken unto thee .

4417 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 .

4418 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

4419 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 .

4420 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 .

4421 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 .

4422 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 .

4423 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 .

4424 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 .

4425 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 .

4426 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 .

4427 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 .

4428 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 .

4429 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 .

4430 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 .

* 451 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 .

452 Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel unto thee O Baruch .

453 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 .

454 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 .

455 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 .

* 461 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet

against the Gentiles .

462 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 .

463 Order ye the buckler and shield and draw near to battle .

464 Harness the horses and get up ye horsemen and stand forth

with your helmets furbish the spears and put on the brigandines .

465 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 .

466 Let not the swift flee away nor the mighty man escape they

shall stumble and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates .

467 Who is this that cometh up as a flood whose waters are

moved as the rivers .

468 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 .

469 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 .

4610 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 .

4611 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 .

4612 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 .

4613 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet how

Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of

Egypt .

4614 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 .

4615 Why are thy valiant men swept away they stood not because

the LORD did drive them .

4616 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 .

4617 They did cry there Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise

he hath passed the time appointed .

4618 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 .

4619 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt furnish thyself to go

into captivity for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an

inhabitant .

4620 Egypt is like a very fair heifer but destruction cometh

it cometh out of the north .

4621 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 .

4622 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 .

4623 They shall cut down her forest saith the LORD though it

cannot be searched because they are more than the grasshoppers

and are innumerable .

4624 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded she shall be

delivered into the hand of the people of the north .

4625 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 .

4626 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 .

4627 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 .

4628 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 .

* 471 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet

against the Philistines before that Pharaoh smote Gaza .

472 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 .

473 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 .

474 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 .

475 Baldness is come upon Gaza Ashkelon is cut off with the

remnant of their valley how long wilt thou cut thyself .

476 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 .

477 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 .

* 481 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 .

482 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 .

483 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim spoiling and

great destruction .

484 Moab is destroyed her little ones have caused a cry to be

heard .

485 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 .

486 Flee save your lives and be like the heath in the

wilderness .

487 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 .

488 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 .

489 Give wings unto Moab that it may flee and get away for the

cities thereof shall be desolate without any to dwell therein .

4810 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully

and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood .

4811 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 .

4812 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 .

4813 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh as the house of

Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence .

4814 How say ye We are mighty and strong men for the war .

4815 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 .

4816 The calamity of Moab is near to come and his affliction

hasteth fast .

4817 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 .

4818 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 .

4819 O inhabitant of Aroer stand by the way and espy ask him

that fleeth and her that escapeth and say What is done .

4820 Moab is confounded for it is broken down howl and cry

tell ye it in Arnon that Moab is spoiled .

4821 And judgment is come upon the plain country upon Holon

and upon Jahazah and upon Mephaath .

4822 And upon Dibon and upon Nebo and upon Bethdiblathaim .

4823 And upon Kiriathaim and upon Bethgamul and upon Bethmeon .

4824 And upon Kerioth and upon Bozrah and upon all the cities

of the land of Moab far or near .

4825 The horn of Moab is cut off and his arm is broken saith

the LORD .

4826 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 .

4827 For was not Israel a derision unto thee was he found

among thieves for since thou spakest of him thou skippedst for

joy .

4828 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 .

4829 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 .

4830 I know his wrath saith the LORD but it shall not be so

his lies shall not so effect it .

4831 Therefore will I howl for Moab and I will cry out for all

Moab mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres .

4832 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 .

4833 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 .

4834 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 .

4835 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 .

4836 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 .

4837 For every head shall be bald and every beard clipped upon

all the hands shall be cuttings and upon the loins sackcloth .

4838 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 .

4839 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 .

4840 For thus saith the LORD Behold he shall fly as an eagle

and shall spread his wings over Moab .

4841 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 .

4842 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people because

he hath magnified himself against the LORD .

4843 Fear and the pit and the snare shall be upon thee O

inhabitant of Moab saith the LORD .

4844 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 .

4845 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 .

4846 Woe be unto thee O Moab the people of Chemosh perisheth

for thy sons are taken captives and thy daughters captives .

4847 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the

latter days saith the LORD Thus far is the judgment of Moab .

* 491 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 .

492 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 .

493 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 .

494 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys thy flowing valley

O backsliding daughter that trusted in her treasures saying Who

shall come unto me .

495 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 .

496 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the

children of Ammon saith the LORD .

497 Concerning Edom thus saith the LORD of hosts Is wisdom no

more in Teman is counsel perished from the prudent is their

wisdom vanished .

498 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 .

499 If grapegatherers come to thee would they not leave some

gleaning grapes if thieves by night they will destroy till they

have enough .

4910 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 .

4911 Leave thy fatherless children I will preserve them alive

and let thy widows trust in me .

4912 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 .

4913 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 .

4914 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 .

4915 For lo I will make thee small among the heathen and

despised among men .

4916 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 .

4917 Also Edom shall be a desolation every one that goeth by

it shall be astonished and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof

4918 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 .

4919 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 .

4920 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 .

4921 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall at the cry

the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea .

4922 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 .

4923 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 .

4924 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 .

4925 How is the city of praise not left the city of my joy .

4926 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 .

4927 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus and it

shall consume the palaces of Benhadad .

4928 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 .

4929 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 .

4930 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 .

4931 Arise get you up unto the wealthy nation that dwelleth

without care saith the LORD which have neither gates nor bars

which dwell alone .

4932 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 .

4933 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 .

4934 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 .

4935 Thus saith the LORD of hosts Behold I will break the bow

of Elam the chief of their might .

4936 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 .

4937 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 .

4938 And I will set my throne in Elam and will destroy from

thence the king and the princes saith the LORD .

4939 But it shall come to pass in the latter days that I will

bring again the captivity of Elam saith the LORD .

* 501 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against

the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet .

502 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 .

503 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 .

504 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 .

505 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 .

506 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 .

507 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 .

508 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 .

509 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 .

5010 And Chaldea shall be a spoil all that spoil her shall be

satisfied saith the LORD .

5011 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 .

5012 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 .

5013 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 .

5014 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 .

5015 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 .

5016 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 .

5017 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 .

5018 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 .

5019 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 .

5020 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 .

5021 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 .

5022 A sound of battle is in the land and of great destruction

5023 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and

broken how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations .

5024 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 .

5025 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 .

5026 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 .

5027 Slay all her bullocks let them go down to the slaughter

woe unto them for their day is come the time of their visitation

5028 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 .

5029 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 .

5030 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 .

5031 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

5032 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 .

5033 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 .

5034 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 .

5035 A sword is upon the Chaldeans saith the LORD and upon the

inhabitants of Babylon and upon her princes and upon her wise

men .

5036 A sword is upon the liars and they shall dote a sword is

upon her mighty men and they shall be dismayed .

5037 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 .

5038 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 .

5039 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 .

5040 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 .

5041 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 .

5042 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 .

5043 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 .

5044 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 .

5045 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 .

5046 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved

and the cry is heard among the nations .

* 511 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 .

512 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 .

513 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 .

514 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans and

they that are thrust through in her streets .

515 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 .

516 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 .

517 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 .

518 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed howl for her take

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

519 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

5110 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness come and

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

5111 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 .

5112 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 .

5113 O thou that dwellest upon many waters abundant in

treasures thine end is come and the measure of thy covetousness .

5114 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 .

5115 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 .

5116 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 .

5117 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 .

5118 They are vanity the work of errors in the time of their

visitation they shall perish .

5119 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 .

5120 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 .

5121 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 .

5122 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 .

5123 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 .

5124 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 .

5125 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 .

5126 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 .

5127 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 .

5128 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 .

5129 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 .

5130 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

5131 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 .

5132 And that the passages are stopped and the reeds they have

burned with fire and the men of war are affrighted .

5133 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 .

5134 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 .

5135 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 .

5136 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 .

5137 And Babylon shall become heaps a dwellingplace for

dragons and astonishment and an hissing without an inhabitant .

5138 They shall roar together like lions they shall yell as

lions' whelps .

5139 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 .

5140 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter like

rams with he goats .

5141 How is Sheshach taken and how is the praise of the whole

earth surprised how is Babylon become an astonishment among the

nations .

5142 The sea is come up upon Babylon she is covered with the

multitude of the waves thereof .

5143 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 .

5144 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 .

5145 My people go ye out of the midst of her and deliver ye

every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD .

5146 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 .

5147 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 .

5148 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 .

5149 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall so at

Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth .

5150 Ye that have escaped the sword go away stand not still

remember the LORD afar off and let Jerusalem come into your mind

5151 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 .

5152 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 .

5153 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 .

5154 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon and great

destruction from the land of the Chaldeans .

5155 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 .

5156 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 .

5157 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 .

5158 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 .

5159 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 .

5160 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come

upon Babylon even all these words that are written against

Babylon .

5161 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah When thou comest to Babylon

and shalt see and shalt read all these words .

5162 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 .

5163 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 .

5164 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 .

* 521 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 .

522 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD

according to all that Jehoiakim had done .

523 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 .

524 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 .

525 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king

Zedekiah .

526 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 .

527 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 .

528 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 .

529 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 .

5210 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before

his eyes he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah .

5211 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 .

5212 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 .

5213 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 .

5214 And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the

captain of the guard brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round

about .

5215 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 .

5216 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of

the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen .

5217 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 .

5218 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 .

5219 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 .

5220 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 .

5221 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 .

5222 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 .

5223 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side and

all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round

about .

5224 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief

priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of

the door .

5225 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 .

5226 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and

brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah .

5227 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 .

5228 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away

captive in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and

twenty .

5229 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away

captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons .

5230 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 .

5231 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 .

5232 And spake kindly unto him and set his throne above the

throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon .

5233 And changed his prison garments and he did continually

eat bread before him all the days of his life .

5234 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 .