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                        JEREMIAH 1
 1:1  The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests
that [were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
 1:2  To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah
the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his
reign.
 1:3  It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah
the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of
Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
 1:4  Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 1:5  Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before
thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I
ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
 1:6  Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I
[am] a child.
 1:7  But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I [am] a child: for
thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I
command thee thou shalt speak.
 1:8  Be not afraid of their faces: for I [am] with thee to
deliver thee, saith the LORD.
 1:9  Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth.
And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy
mouth.
 1:10  See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over
the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy,
and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
 1:11  Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond
tree.
 1:12  Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I
will hasten my word to perform it.
 1:13  And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time,
saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and
the face thereof [is] toward the north.
 1:14  Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil
shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
 1:15  For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of
the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall
set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of
Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and
against all the cities of Judah.
 1:16  And I will utter my judgments against them touching all
their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense
unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
 1:17  Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak
unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their
faces, lest I confound thee before them.
 1:18  For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city,
and an iron pillar, and 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.
 1:19  And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not
prevail against thee; for I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to
deliver thee.

                        JEREMIAH 2
 2:1  Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
 2:2  Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith
the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love
of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the
wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown.
 2:3  Israel [was] holiness unto the LORD, [and] the
firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend;
evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
 2:4  Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all
the families of the house of Israel:
 2:5  Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers
found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked
after vanity, and are become vain?
 2:6  Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us up
out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness,
through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of
drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man
passed through, and where no man dwelt?
 2:7  And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the
fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye
defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
 2:8  The priests said not, Where [is] the LORD? and they that
handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed
against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked
after [things that] do not profit.
 2:9  Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and
with your children's children will I plead.
 2:10  For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send
unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a
thing.
 2:11  Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no
gods? but my people have changed their glory for [that which]
doth not profit.
 2:12  Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly
afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
 2:13  For my people have committed two evils; they have
forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out
cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
 2:14  [Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why
is he spoiled?
 2:15  The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they
made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
 2:16  Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the
crown of thy head.
 2:17  Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou
hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
 2:18  And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to
drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way
of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
 2:19  Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy
backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that
[it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the
LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord
GOD of hosts.
 2:20  For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy
bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every
high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing
the harlot.
 2:21  Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right
seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a
strange vine unto me?
 2:22  For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much
soap, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord
GOD.
 2:23  How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone
after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast
done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
 2:24  A wild ass used to the wilderness, [that] snuffeth up
the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her
away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her
month they shall find her.
 2:25  Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from
thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved
strangers, and after them will I go.
 2:26  As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the
house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and
their priests, and their prophets,
 2:27  Saying to a stock, Thou [art] my father; and to a stone,
Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned [their] back
unto me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their trouble
they will say, Arise, and save us.
 2:28  But where [are] thy gods that thou hast made thee? let
them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble:
for [according to] the number of thy cities are thy gods, O
Judah.
 2:29  Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have
transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
 2:30  In vain have I smitten your children; they received no
correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a
destroying lion.
 2:31  O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a
wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my
people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
 2:32  Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her
attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
 2:33  Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast
thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
 2:34  Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of
the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but
upon all these.
 2:35  Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger
shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because
thou sayest, I have not sinned.
 2:36  Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou
also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of
Assyria.
 2:37  Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon
thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and
thou shalt not prosper in them.

                        JEREMIAH 3
 3:1  They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from
him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again?
shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played
the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the
LORD.
 3:2  Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where
thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for
them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted
the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
 3:3  Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there
hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead,
thou refusedst to be ashamed.
 3:4  Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou
[art] the guide of my youth?
 3:5  Will he reserve [his anger] for ever? will he keep [it]
to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as
thou couldest.
 3:6  The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the
king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding Israel hath done?
she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green
tree, and there hath played the harlot.
 3:7  And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn
thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister
Judah saw [it].
 3:8  And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding
Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a
bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not,
but went and played the harlot also.
 3:9  And it came to pass through the lightness of her
whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery
with stones and with stocks.
 3:10  And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath
not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith
the LORD.
 3:11  And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath
justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
 3:12  Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say,
Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; [and] I will
not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I [am] merciful,
saith the LORD, [and] I will not keep [anger] for ever.
 3:13  Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast
transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy
ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not
obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
 3:14  Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am
married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of
a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
 3:15  And I will give you pastors according to mine heart,
which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
 3:16  And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and
increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they
shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither
shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither
shall they visit [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more.
 3:17  At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the
LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the
name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any
more after the imagination of their evil heart.
 3:18  In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the
house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land
of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance
unto your fathers.
 3:19  But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and
give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of
nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt
not turn away from me.
 3:20  Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her
husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of
Israel, saith the LORD.
 3:21  A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping [and]
supplications of the children of Israel: for they have
perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten the LORD their
God.
 3:22  Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal your
backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou [art] the
LORD our God.
 3:23  Truly in vain [is salvation hoped for] from the hills,
[and from] the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our
God [is] the salvation of Israel.
 3:24  For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from
our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their
daughters.
 3:25  We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us:
for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our
fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed
the voice of the LORD our God.

                        JEREMIAH 4
 4:1  If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return
unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my
sight, then shalt thou not remove.
 4:2  And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in
judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless
themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
 4:3  For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and
Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among
thorns.
 4:4  Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the
foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of
Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that
none can quench [it], because of the evil of your doings.
 4:5  Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say,
Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say,
Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
 4:6  Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I
will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
 4:7  The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer
of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place
to make thy land desolate; [and] thy cities shall be laid
waste, without an inhabitant.
 4:8  For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for
the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
 4:9  And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD,
[that] the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the
princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets
shall wonder.
 4:10  Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly
deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have
peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.
 4:11  At that time shall it be said to this people and to
Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness
toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
 4:12  [Even] a full wind from those [places] shall come unto
me: now also will I give sentence against them.
 4:13  Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots
[shall be] as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
 4:14  O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou
mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within
thee?
 4:15  For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth
affliction from mount Ephraim.
 4:16  Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against
Jerusalem, [that] watchers come from a far country, and give
out their voice against the cities of Judah.
 4:17  As keepers of a field, are they against her round about;
because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
 4:18  Thy way and thy doings have procured these [things] unto
thee; this [is] thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because
it reacheth unto thine heart.
 4:19  My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my
heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because
thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm
of war.
 4:20  Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole
land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, [and] my
curtains in a moment.
 4:21  How long shall I see the standard, [and] hear the sound
of the trumpet?
 4:22  For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they
[are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they
[are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
 4:23  I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and
void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.
 4:24  I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all
the hills moved lightly.
 4:25  I beheld, and, lo, [there was] no man, and all the birds
of the heavens were fled.
 4:26  I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place [was] a
wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the
presence of the LORD, [and] by his fierce anger.
 4:27  For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be
desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
 4:28  For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be
black: because I have spoken [it], I have purposed [it], and
will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
 4:29  The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen
and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the
rocks: every city [shall be] forsaken, and not a man dwell
therein.
 4:30  And [when] thou [art] spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though
thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee
with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with
painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; [thy] lovers
will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
 4:31  For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, [and]
the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the
voice of the daughter of Zion, [that] bewaileth herself, [that]
spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe [is] me now! for my soul is
wearied because of murderers.

                        JEREMIAH 5
 5:1  Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and
see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye
can find a man, if there be [any] that executeth judgment, that
seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
 5:2  And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear
falsely.
 5:3  O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast
stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed
them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have
made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to
return.
 5:4  Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are
foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the
judgment of their God.
 5:5  I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto
them; for they have known the way of the LORD, [and] the
judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the
yoke, [and] burst the bonds.
 5:6  Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, [and]
a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch
over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be
torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, [and]
their backslidings are increased.
 5:7  How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have
forsaken me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had
fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and
assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
 5:8  They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one
neighed after his neighbour's wife.
 5:9  Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: and
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
 5:10  Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a
full end: take away her battlements; for they [are] not the
LORD'S.
 5:11  For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have
dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
 5:12  They have belied the LORD, and said, [It is] not he;
neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor
famine:
 5:13  And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is]
not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
 5:14  Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye
speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth
fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
 5:15  Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of
Israel, saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an
ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not,
neither understandest what they say.
 5:16  Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all
mighty men.
 5:17  And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread,
[which] thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat
up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and
thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein
thou trustedst, with the sword.
 5:18  Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not
make a full end with you.
 5:19  And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore
doeth the LORD our God all these [things] unto us? then shalt
thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served
strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a
land [that is] not yours.
 5:20  Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in
Judah, saying,
 5:21  Hear now this, O foolish people, and without
understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears,
and hear not:
 5:22  Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at
my presence, which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the
sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though
the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail;
though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
 5:23  But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart;
they are revolted and gone.
 5:24  Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the
LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter,
in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the
harvest.
 5:25  Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and
your sins have withholden good [things] from you.
 5:26  For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay
wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch
men.
 5:27  As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full
of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
 5:28  They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the
deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the
fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do
they not judge.
 5:29  Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD:
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
 5:30  A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
 5:31  The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule
by their means; and my people love [to have it] so: and what
will ye do in the end thereof?

                        JEREMIAH 6
 6:1  O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out
of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and
set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out
of the north, and great destruction.
 6:2  I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and
delicate [woman].
 6:3  The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they
shall pitch [their] tents against her round about; they shall
feed every one in his place.
 6:4  Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at
noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of
the evening are stretched out.
 6:5  Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her
palaces.
 6:6  For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees,
and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this [is] the city to be
visited; she [is] wholly oppression in the midst of her.
 6:7  As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out
her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me
continually [is] grief and wounds.
 6:8  Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from
thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
 6:9  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean
the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a
grapegatherer into the baskets.
 6:10  To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may
hear? behold, their ear [is] uncircumcised, and they cannot
hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach;
they have no delight in it.
 6:11  Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary
with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad,
and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the
husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with [him that
is] full of days.
 6:12  And their houses shall be turned unto others, [with
their] fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my
hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
 6:13  For from the least of them even unto the greatest of
them every one [is] given to covetousness; and from the prophet
even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
 6:14  They have healed also the hurt [of the daughter] of my
people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no
peace.
 6:15  Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:
therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time
[that] I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
 6:16  Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and
ask for the old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk
therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said,
We will not walk [therein].
 6:17  Also I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the
sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
 6:18  Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation,
what [is] among them.
 6:19  Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this
people, [even] the fruit of their thoughts, because they have
not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
 6:20  To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba,
and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings
[are] not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
 6:21  Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay
stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the
sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his
friend shall perish.
 6:22  Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the
north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the
sides of the earth.
 6:23  They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they [are] cruel,
and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they
ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O
daughter of Zion.
 6:24  We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble:
anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pain, as of a woman in
travail.
 6:25  Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for
the sword of the enemy [and] fear [is] on every side.
 6:26  O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and
wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only
son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly
come upon us.
 6:27  I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my
people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
 6:28  They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with
slanders: [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters.
 6:29  The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the
fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not
plucked away.
 6:30  Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD
hath rejected them.

                        JEREMIAH 7
 7:1  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
 7:2  Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there
this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all [ye of]
Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
 7:3  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend
your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in
this place.
 7:4  Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the
LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are]
these.
 7:5  For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if
ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
 7:6  [If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the
widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk
after other gods to your hurt:
 7:7  Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land
that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
 7:8  Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
 7:9  Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear
falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods
whom ye know not;
 7:10  And come and stand before me in this house, which is
called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these
abominations?
 7:11  Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den
of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith
the LORD.
 7:12  But go ye now unto my place which [was] in Shiloh, where
I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the
wickedness of my people Israel.
 7:13  And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the
LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but
ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
 7:14  Therefore will I do unto [this] house, which is called
by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave
to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
 7:15  And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out
all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim.
 7:16  Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up
cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I
will not hear thee.
 7:17  Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and
in the streets of Jerusalem?
 7:18  The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the
fire, and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the
queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other
gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
 7:19  Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: [do they]
not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
 7:20  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger
and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and
upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit
of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
 7:21  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put
your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
 7:22  For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in
the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
 7:23  But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice,
and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye
in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well
unto you.
 7:24  But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but
walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil
heart, and went backward, and not forward.
 7:25  Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the
land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my
servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending
[them]:
 7:26  Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear,
but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
 7:27  Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them;
but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto
them; but they will not answer thee.
 7:28  But thou shalt say unto them, This [is] a nation that
obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth
correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
 7:29  Cut off thine hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away,
and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath
rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
 7:30  For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight,
saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house
which is called by my name, to pollute it.
 7:31  And they have built the high places of Tophet, which
[is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and
their daughters in the fire; which I commanded [them] not,
neither came it into my heart.
 7:32  Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of
Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in
Tophet, till there be no place.
 7:33  And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the
fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none
shall fray [them] away.
 7:34  Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and
from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the
voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice
of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

                        JEREMIAH 8
 8:1  At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the
bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and
the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and
the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
 8:2  And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon,
and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they
have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they
have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be
gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face
of the earth.
 8:3  And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the
residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain
in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of
hosts.
 8:4  Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD;
Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not
return?
 8:5  Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a
perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to
return.
 8:6  I hearkened and heard, [but] they spake not aright: no
man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done?
every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the
battle.
 8:7  Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;
and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time
of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the
LORD.
 8:8  How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD
[is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of
the scribes [is] in vain.
 8:9  The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken:
lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom
[is] in them?
 8:10  Therefore will I give their wives unto others, [and]
their fields to them that shall inherit [them]: for every one
from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness,
from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth
falsely.
 8:11  For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my
people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no
peace.
 8:12  Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:
therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of
their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
 8:13  I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: [there shall
be] no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the
leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall
pass away from them.
 8:14  Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us
enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for
the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of
gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
 8:15  We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time
of health, and behold trouble!
 8:16  The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole
land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones;
for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is
in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
 8:17  For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among
you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you,
saith the LORD.
 8:18  [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart
[is] faint in me.
 8:19  Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people
because of them that dwell in a far country: [Is] not the LORD
in Zion? [is] not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to
anger with their graven images, [and] with strange vanities?
 8:20  The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not
saved.
 8:21  For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I
am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
 8:22  [Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician
there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people
recovered?

                        JEREMIAH 9
 9:1  Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of
tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the
daughter of my people!
 9:2  Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of
wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them!
for they [be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
 9:3  And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies:
but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they
proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the
LORD.
 9:4  Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not
in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and
every neighbour will walk with slanders.
 9:5  And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will
not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak
lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.
 9:6  Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through
deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
 9:7  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will
melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of
my people?
 9:8  Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh
deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his
mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
 9:9  Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith the
LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
 9:10  For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing,
and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation,
because they are burned up, so that none can pass through
[them]; neither can [men] hear the voice of the cattle; both
the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
 9:11  And I will make Jerusalem heaps, [and] a den of dragons;
and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
inhabitant.
 9:12  Who [is] the wise man, that may understand this? and
[who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he
may declare it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up
like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
 9:13  And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law
which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither
walked therein;
 9:14  But have walked after the imagination of their own
heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
 9:15  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with
wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
 9:16  I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither
they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword
after them, till I have consumed them.
 9:17  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for
the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning
[women], that they may come:
 9:18  And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us,
that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out
with waters.
 9:19  For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we
spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken
the land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out.
 9:20  Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your
ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters
wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
 9:21  For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered
into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and]
the young men from the streets.
 9:22  Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men
shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful
after the harvestman, and none shall gather [them].
 9:23  Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise [man] glory in his
wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let
not the rich [man] glory in his riches:
 9:24  But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he
understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD which
exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the
earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.
 9:25  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
punish all [them which are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;
 9:26  Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon,
and Moab, and all [that are] in the utmost corners, that dwell
in the wilderness: for all [these] nations [are] uncircumcised,
and all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised in the heart.

                        JEREMIAH 10
 10:1  Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O
house of Israel:
 10:2  Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen,
and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are
dismayed at them.
 10:3  For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one]
cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the
workman, with the ax.
 10:4  They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it
with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
 10:5  They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they
must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of
them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to
do good.
 10:6  Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD;
thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.
 10:7  Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee
doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the
nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto
thee.
 10:8  But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock
[is] a doctrine of vanities.
 10:9  Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and
gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of
the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are]
all the work of cunning [men].
 10:10  But the LORD [is] the true God, he [is] the living God,
and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble,
and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
 10:11  Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not
made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from
the earth, and from under these heavens.
 10:12  He hath made the earth by his power, he hath
established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the
heavens by his discretion.
 10:13  When he uttereth his voice, [there is] a multitude of
waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend
from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and
bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
 10:14  Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder
is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is]
falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
 10:15  They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the
time of their visitation they shall perish.
 10:16  The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is]
the former of all [things]; and Israel [is] the rod of his
inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.
 10:17  Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of
the fortress.
 10:18  For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the
inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them,
that they may find [it so].
 10:19  Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I
said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it.
 10:20  My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken:
my children are gone forth of me, and they [are] not: [there
is] none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my
curtains.
 10:21  For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought
the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their
flocks shall be scattered.
 10:22  Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great
commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah
desolate, [and] a den of dragons.
 10:23  O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself:
[it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
 10:24  O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine
anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
 10:25  Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not,
and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have
eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have
made his habitation desolate.

                        JEREMIAH 11
 11:1  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
 11:2  Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the
men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
 11:3  And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel; Cursed [be] the man that obeyeth not the words of this
covenant,
 11:4  Which I commanded your fathers in the day [that] I
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron
furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all
which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be
your God:
 11:5  That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your
fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as
[it is] this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
 11:6  Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in
the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying,
Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.
 11:7  For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day
[that] I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, [even] unto
this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
 11:8  Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked
every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I
will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I
commanded [them] to do; but they did [them] not.
 11:9  And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among
the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 11:10  They are turned back to the iniquities of their
forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went
after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the
house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their
fathers.
 11:11  Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring
evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and
though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
 11:12  Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of
Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer
incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of
their trouble.
 11:13  For [according to] the number of thy cities were thy
gods, O Judah; and [according to] the number of the streets of
Jerusalem have ye set up altars to [that] shameful thing,
[even] altars to burn incense unto Baal.
 11:14  Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift
up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear [them] in the
time that they cry unto me for their trouble.
 11:15  What hath my beloved to do in mine house, [seeing] she
hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed
from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
 11:16  The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair,
[and] of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath
kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
 11:17  For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath
pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of
Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against
themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto
Baal.
 11:18  And the LORD hath given me knowledge [of it], and I
know [it]: then thou showedst me their doings.
 11:19  But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to
the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices
against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit
thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living,
that his name may be no more remembered.
 11:20  But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that
triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on
them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
 11:21  Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth,
that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the
LORD, that thou die not by our hand:
 11:22  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will
punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons
and their daughters shall die by famine:
 11:23  And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring
evil upon the men of Anathoth, [even] the year of their
visitation.

                        JEREMIAH 12
 12:1  Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee:
yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth
the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy
that deal very treacherously?
 12:2  Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they
grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou [art] near in their
mouth, and far from their reins.
 12:3  But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and
tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the
slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
 12:4  How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every
field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein?
the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He
shall not see our last end.
 12:5  If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied
thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and [if] in the
land of peace, [wherein] thou trustedst, [they wearied thee],
then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
 12:6  For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even
they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called
a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak
fair words unto thee.
 12:7  I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I
have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her
enemies.
 12:8  Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it
crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
 12:9  Mine heritage [is] unto me [as] a speckled bird, the
birds round about [are] against her; come ye, assemble all the
beasts of the field, come to devour.
 12:10  Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have
trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant
portion a desolate wilderness.
 12:11  They have made it desolate, [and being] desolate it
mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no
man layeth [it] to heart.
 12:12  The spoilers are come upon all high places through the
wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the
[one] end of the land even to the [other] end of the land: no
flesh shall have peace.
 12:13  They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have
put themselves to pain, [but] shall not profit: and they shall
be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the
LORD.
 12:14  Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours,
that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel
to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and
pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
 12:15  And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked
them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will
bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to
his land.
 12:16  And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently
learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD
liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall
they be built in the midst of my people.
 12:17  But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and
destroy that nation, saith the LORD.

                        JEREMIAH 13
 13:1  Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen
girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
 13:2  So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and
put [it] on my loins.
 13:3  And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time,
saying,
 13:4  Take the girdle that thou hast got, which [is] upon thy
loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole
of the rock.
 13:5  So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD
commanded me.
 13:6  And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said
unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from
thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.
 13:7  Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the
girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the
girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
 13:8  Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 13:9  Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the
pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
 13:10  This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which
walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other
gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this
girdle, which is good for nothing.
 13:11  For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so
have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and
the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be
unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for
a glory: but they would not hear.
 13:12  Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with
wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know
that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
 13:13  Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD,
Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the
kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the
prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with
drunkenness.
 13:14  And I will dash them one against another, even the
fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity,
nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
 13:15  Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath
spoken.
 13:16  Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause
darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains,
and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of
death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.
 13:17  But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in
secret places for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore,
and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried
away captive.
 13:18  Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves,
sit down: for your principalities shall come down, [even] the
crown of your glory.
 13:19  The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none
shall open [them]: Judah shall be carried away captive all of
it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.
 13:20  Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the
north: where [is] the flock [that] was given thee, thy
beautiful flock?
 13:21  What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou
hast taught them [to be] captains, [and] as chief over thee:
shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
 13:22  And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these
things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy
skirts discovered, [and] thy heels made bare.
 13:23  Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his
spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do
evil.
 13:24  Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that
passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
 13:25  This [is] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me,
saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in
falsehood.
 13:26  Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face,
that thy shame may appear.
 13:27  I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the
lewdness of thy whoredom, [and] thine abominations on the hills
in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be
made clean? when [shall it] once [be]?

                        JEREMIAH 14
 14:1  The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning
the dearth.
 14:2  Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are
black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
 14:3  And their nobles have sent their little ones to the
waters: they came to the pits, [and] found no water; they
returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and
confounded, and covered their heads.
 14:4  Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in
the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
 14:5  Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook
[it], because there was no grass.
 14:6  And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they
snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because
[there was] no grass.
 14:7  O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do
thou [it] for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many;
we have sinned against thee.
 14:8  O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of
trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and
as a wayfaring man [that] turneth aside to tarry for a night?
 14:9  Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man
[that] cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, [art] in the midst of us,
and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
 14:10  Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they
loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore
the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their
iniquity, and visit their sins.
 14:11  Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people
for [their] good.
 14:12  When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when
they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept
them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine,
and by the pestilence.
 14:13  Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say
unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have
famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
 14:14  Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies
in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them,
neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision
and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their
heart.
 14:15  Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets
that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say,
Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine
shall those prophets be consumed.
 14:16  And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out
in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the
sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their
wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour
their wickedness upon them.
 14:17  Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine
eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease:
for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great
breach, with a very grievous blow.
 14:18  If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain
with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them
that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest
go about into a land that they know not.
 14:19  Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul 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!
 14:20  We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the
iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
 14:21  Do not abhor [us], for thy name's sake, do not disgrace
the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with
us.
 14:22  Are there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that
can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou
he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou
hast made all these [things].

                        JEREMIAH 15
 15:1  Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel
stood before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this
people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.
 15:2  And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee,
Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus
saith the LORD; Such as [are] for death, to death; and such as
[are] for the sword, to the sword; and such as [are] for the
famine, to the famine; and such as [are] for the captivity, to
the captivity.
 15:3  And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD:
the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the
heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
 15:4  And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of
the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of
Judah, for [that] which he did in Jerusalem.
 15:5  For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who
shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
 15:6  Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone
backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee,
and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
 15:7  And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land;
I will bereave [them] of children, I will destroy my people,
[since] they return not from their ways.
 15:8  Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the
seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young
men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused [him] to fall upon it
suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
 15:9  She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up
the ghost; her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day: she
hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will
I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
 15:10  Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of
strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have
neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; [yet]
every one of them doth curse me.
 15:11  The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy
remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee [well]
in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
 15:12  Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
 15:13  Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the
spoil without price, and [that] for all thy sins, even in all
thy borders.
 15:14  And I will make [thee] to pass with thine enemies into
a land [which] thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine
anger, [which] shall burn upon you.
 15:15  O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and
revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy
longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
 15:16  Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word
was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am
called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
 15:17  I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced;
I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with
indignation.
 15:18  Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable,
[which] refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me
as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?
 15:19  Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then
will I bring thee again, [and] thou shalt stand before me: and
if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as
my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto
them.
 15:20  And I will make thee unto this people a fenced 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.
 15:21  And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked,
and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

                        JEREMIAH 16
 16:1  The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
 16:2  Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have
sons or daughters in this place.
 16:3  For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and
concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and
concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their
fathers that begat them in this land;
 16:4  They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be
lamented; neither shall they be buried; [but] they shall be as
dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by
the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for
the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
 16:5  For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of
mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have
taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, [even]
lovingkindness and mercies.
 16:6  Both the great and the small shall die in this land:
they shall not be buried, neither shall [men] lament for them,
nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
 16:7  Neither shall [men] tear [themselves] for them in
mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall [men]
give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or
for their mother.
 16:8  Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to
sit with them to eat and to drink.
 16:9  For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes,
and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the
bride.
 16:10  And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt 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?
 16:11  Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers
have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other
gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have
forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
 16:12  And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold,
ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that
they may not hearken unto me:
 16:13  Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land
that ye know not, [neither] ye nor your fathers; and there
shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not show
you favour.
 16:14  Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
 16:15  But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of
Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands
whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into
their land that I gave unto their fathers.
 16:16  Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD,
and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many
hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from
every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
 16:17  For mine eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are not
hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
 16:18  And first I will recompense their iniquity and their
sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled
mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and
abominable things.
 16:19  O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in
the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from
the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have
inherited lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no
profit.
 16:20  Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they [are] no
gods?
 16:21  Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know,
I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they
shall know that my name [is] The LORD.

                        JEREMIAH 17
 17:1  The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron, [and]
with the point of a diamond: [it is] graven upon the table of
their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
 17:2  Whilst their children remember their altars and their
groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
 17:3  O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance
[and] all thy treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high places for
sin, throughout all thy borders.
 17:4  And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine
heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine
enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled
a fire in mine anger, [which] shall burn for ever.
 17:5  Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth
in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth
from the LORD.
 17:6  For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall
not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places
in the wilderness, [in] a salt land and not inhabited.
 17:7  Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and
whose hope the LORD is.
 17:8  For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and
[that] spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see
when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be
careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from
yielding fruit.
 17:9  The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and
desperately wicked: who can know it?
 17:10  I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to
give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the
fruit of his doings.
 17:11  [As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth
[them] not; [so] he that getteth riches, and not by right,
shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall
be a fool.
 17:12  A glorious high throne from the beginning [is] the
place of our sanctuary.
 17:13  O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall
be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in
the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of
living waters.
 17:14  Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I
shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise.
 17:15  Behold, they say unto me, Where [is] the word of the
LORD? let it come now.
 17:16  As for me, I have not hastened from [being] a pastor to
follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou
knowest: that which came out of my lips was [right] before
thee.
 17:17  Be not a terror unto me: thou [art] my hope in the day
of evil.
 17:18  Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not
me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be
dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them
with double destruction.
 17:19  Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of
the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in,
and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of
Jerusalem;
 17:20  And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye
kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
 17:21  Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear
no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of
Jerusalem;
 17:22  Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the
sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath
day, as I commanded your fathers.
 17:23  But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but
made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive
instruction.
 17:24  And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken
unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the
gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath
day, to do no work therein;
 17:25  Then shall there enter into the gates of this city
kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in
chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of
Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall
remain for ever.
 17:26  And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from
the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and
from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south,
bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings,
and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house
of the LORD.
 17:27  But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the
sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the
gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a
fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of
Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

                        JEREMIAH 18
 18:1  The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
 18:2  Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I
will cause thee to hear my words.
 18:3  Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he
wrought a work on the wheels.
 18:4  And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the
hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as
seemed good to the potter to make [it].
 18:5  Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
 18:6  O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter?
saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay [is] in the potter's hand,
so [are] ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
 18:7  [At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to
destroy [it];
 18:8  If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn
from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do
unto them.
 18:9  And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation,
and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it];
 18:10  If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice,
then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would
benefit them.
 18:11  Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD;
Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against
you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your
ways and your doings good.
 18:12  And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after
our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of
his evil heart.
 18:13  Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the
heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath
done a very horrible thing.
 18:14  Will [a man] leave the snow of Lebanon [which cometh]
from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold flowing waters
that come from another place be forsaken?
 18:15  Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned
incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in
their ways [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a
way not cast up;
 18:16  To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual hissing;
every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his
head.
 18:17  I will scatter them as with an east wind before the
enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day
of their calamity.
 18:18  Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against
Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor
counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and
let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to
any of his words.
 18:19  Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of
them that contend with me.
 18:20  Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have
digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to
speak good for them, [and] to turn away thy wrath from them.
 18:21  Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and
pour out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their
wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let
their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by
the sword in battle.
 18:22  Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt
bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to
take me, and hid snares for my feet.
 18:23  Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to
slay [me]: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their
sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee;
deal [thus] with them in the time of thine anger.

                        JEREMIAH 19
 19:1  Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen
bottle, and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the
ancients of the priests;
 19:2  And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which
[is] by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the
words that I shall tell thee,
 19:3  And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah,
and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the
which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
 19:4  Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this
place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom
neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of
Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
 19:5  They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn
their sons with fire [for] burnt offerings unto Baal, which I
commanded not, nor spake [it], neither came [it] into my mind:
 19:6  Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of
the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
 19:7  And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem
in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword
before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their
lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls
of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
 19:8  And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing;
every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss
because of all the plagues thereof.
 19:9  And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and
the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the
flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith
their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten
them.
 19:10  Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the
men that go with thee.
 19:11  And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Even so will I break this people and this city, as [one]
breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again:
and they shall bury [them] in Tophet, till [there be] no place
to bury.
 19:12  Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to
the inhabitants thereof, and [even] make this city as Tophet:
 19:13  And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the
kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet,
because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned
incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink
offerings unto other gods.
 19:14  Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had
sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S
house; and said to all the people,
 19:15  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all
the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have
hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.

                        JEREMIAH 20
 20:1  Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who [was] also
chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah
prophesied these things.
 20:2  Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in
the stocks that [were] in the high gate of Benjamin, which
[was] by the house of the LORD.
 20:3  And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought
forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him,
The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
 20:4  For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a
terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall
by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold
[it]: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and
shall slay them with the sword.
 20:5  Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city,
and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things
thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I
give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them,
and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
 20:6  And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house
shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and
there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all
thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
 20:7  O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou
art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision
daily, every one mocketh me.
 20:8  For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and
spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto
me, and a derision, daily.
 20:9  Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak
any more in his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a
burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with
forbearing, and I could not [stay].
 20:10  For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side.
Report, [say they], and we will report it. All my familiars
watched for my halting, [saying], Peradventure he will be
enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take
our revenge on him.
 20:11  But the LORD [is] with me as a mighty terrible one:
therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not
prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not
prosper: [their] everlasting confusion shall never be
forgotten.
 20:12  But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, [and]
seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on
them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
 20:13  Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath
delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
 20:14  Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day
wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
 20:15  Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father,
saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
 20:16  And let that man be as the cities which the LORD
overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the
morning, and the shouting at noontide;
 20:17  Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother
might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great
[with me].
 20:18  Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour
and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

                        JEREMIAH 21
 21:1  The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when
king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and
Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
 21:2  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.
 21:3  Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to
Zedekiah:
 21:4  Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn
back the weapons of war that [are] in your hands, wherewith ye
fight against the king of Babylon, and [against] the Chaldeans,
which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them
into the midst of this city.
 21:5  And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched
hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in
great wrath.
 21:6  And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man
and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
 21:7  And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah
king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as
are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and
from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand
of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the
edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity,
nor have mercy.
 21:8  And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the
LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of
death.
 21:9  He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and
by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out,
and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live,
and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
 21:10  For I have set my face against this city for evil, and
not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand
of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
 21:11  And touching the house of the king of Judah, [say],
Hear ye the word of the LORD;
 21:12  O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment
in the morning, and deliver [him that is] spoiled out of the
hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn
that none can quench [it], because of the evil of your doings.
 21:13  Behold, I [am] against thee, O inhabitant of the
valley, [and] rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who
shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our
habitations?
 21:14  But I will punish you according to the fruit of your
doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest
thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

                        JEREMIAH 22
 22:1  Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of
Judah, and speak there this word,
 22:2  And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah,
that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants,
and thy people that enter in by these gates:
 22:3  Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and
righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the
oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the
fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this
place.
 22:4  For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter
in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of
David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants,
and his people.
 22:5  But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself,
saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
 22:6  For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah;
Thou [art] Gilead unto me, [and] the head of Lebanon: [yet]
surely I will make thee a wilderness, [and] cities [which] are
not inhabited.
 22:7  And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one
with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars,
and cast [them] into the fire.
 22:8  And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall
say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done
thus unto this great city?
 22:9  Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the
covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and
served them.
 22:10  Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: [but]
weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more,
nor see his native country.
 22:11  For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of
Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his
father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return
thither any more:
 22:12  But he shall die in the place whither they have led him
captive, and shall see this land no more.
 22:13  Woe unto him that buildeth his house by
unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his
neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his
work;
 22:14  That saith, I will build me a wide house and large
chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and [it is] ceiled with
cedar, and painted with vermilion.
 22:15  Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thyself] in
cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and
justice, [and] then [it was] well with him?
 22:16  He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it
was] well [with him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD.
 22:17  But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy
covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for
oppression, and for violence, to do [it].
 22:18  Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him,
[saying], Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament
for him, [saying], Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
 22:19  He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and
cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
 22:20  Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in
Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are
destroyed.
 22:21  I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; [but] thou saidst,
I will not hear. This [hath been] thy manner from thy youth,
that thou obeyedst not my voice.
 22:22  The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers
shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and
confounded for all thy wickedness.
 22:23  O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the
cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee,
the pain as of a woman in travail!
 22:24  [As] I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of
Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet
would I pluck thee thence;
 22:25  And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek
thy life, and into the hand [of them] whose face thou fearest,
even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into
the hand of the Chaldeans.
 22:26  And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare
thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there
shall ye die.
 22:27  But to the land whereunto they desire to return,
thither shall they not return.
 22:28  [Is] this man Coniah a despised broken idol? [is he] a
vessel wherein [is] no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out,
he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
 22:29  O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
 22:30  Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man
[that] shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed
shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any
more in Judah.

                        JEREMIAH 23
 23:1  Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the
sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
 23:2  Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the
pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and
driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will
visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
 23:3  And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all
countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again
to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
 23:4  And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed
them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither
shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.
 23:5  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise
unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and
prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
 23:6  In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell
safely: and this [is] his name whereby he shall be called, THE
LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
 23:7  Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
 23:8  But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the
seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from
all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell
in their own land.
 23:9  Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets;
all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man
whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of
the words of his holiness.
 23:10  For the land is full of adulterers; for because of
swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the
wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their
force [is] not right.
 23:11  For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my
house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
 23:12  Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery
[ways] in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall
therein: for I will bring evil upon them, [even] the year of
their visitation, saith the LORD.
 23:13  And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they
prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
 23:14  I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an
horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they
strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return
from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and
the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
 23:15  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the
prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them
drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is
profaneness gone forth into all the land.
 23:16  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the
words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you
vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, [and] not out of
the mouth of the LORD.
 23:17  They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath
said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that
walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall
come upon you.
 23:18  For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath
perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and
heard [it]?
 23:19  Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury,
even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the
head of the wicked.
 23:20  The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have
executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart:
in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
 23:21  I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have
not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
 23:22  But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my
people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from
their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
 23:23  [Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God
afar off?
 23:24  Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not
see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith
the LORD.
 23:25  I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies
in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
 23:26  How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets
that prophesy lies? yea, [they are] prophets of the deceit of
their own heart;
 23:27  Which think to cause my people to forget my name by
their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as
their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
 23:28  The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream;
and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully.
What [is] the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
 23:29  [Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and
like a hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces?
 23:30  Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith
the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
 23:31  Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD,
that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
 23:32  Behold, I [am] against them that prophesy false dreams,
saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by
their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor
commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at
all, saith the LORD.
 23:33  And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest,
shall ask thee, saying, What [is] the burden of the LORD? thou
shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you,
saith the LORD.
 23:34  And [as for] the prophet, and the priest, and the
people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even
punish that man and his house.
 23:35  Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every
one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath
the LORD spoken?
 23:36  And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more:
for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted
the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
 23:37  Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD
answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
 23:38  But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore
thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of
the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say,
The burden of the LORD;
 23:39  Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you,
and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your
fathers, [and cast you] out of my presence:
 23:40  And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and
a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

                        JEREMIAH 24
 24:1  The LORD showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs
[were] set before the temple of the LORD, after that
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive
Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of
Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had
brought them to Babylon.
 24:2  One basket [had] very good figs, [even] like the figs
[that are] first ripe: and the other basket [had] very naughty
figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
 24:3  Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah?
And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very
evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
 24:4  Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 24:5  Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good
figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive
of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of
the Chaldeans for [their] good.
 24:6  For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will
bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not
pull [them] down; and I will plant them, and not pluck [them]
up.
 24:7  And I will give them an heart to know me, that I [am]
the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
 24:8  And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so
evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the
king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem,
that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of
Egypt:
 24:9  And I will deliver them to be removed into all the
kingdoms of the earth for [their] hurt, [to be] a reproach and
a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall
drive them.
 24:10  And I will send the sword, the famine, and the
pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land
that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

                        JEREMIAH 25
 25:1  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people
of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king
of Judah, that [was] the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon;
 25:2  The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people
of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
 25:3  From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king
of Judah, even unto this day, that [is] the three and twentieth
year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken
unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
 25:4  And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the
prophets, rising early and sending [them]; but ye have not
hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
 25:5  They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil
way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land
that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever
and ever:
 25:6  And go not after other gods to serve them, and to
worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of
your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
 25:7  Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that
ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to
your own hurt.
 25:8  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have
not heard my words,
 25:9  Behold, I will send and take all the families of the
north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon,
my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against
the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round
about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an
astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
 25:10  Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and
the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the
voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light
of the candle.
 25:11  And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an
astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon
seventy years.
 25:12  And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are
accomplished, [that] I will punish the king of Babylon, and
that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land
of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
 25:13  And I will bring upon that land all my words which I
have pronounced against it, [even] all that is written in this
book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
 25:14  For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves
of them also: and I will recompense them according to their
deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
 25:15  For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the
wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to
whom I send thee, to drink it.
 25:16  And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because
of the sword that I will send among them.
 25:17  Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all
the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
 25:18  [To wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the
kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a
desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as [it
is] this day;
 25:19  Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his
princes, and all his people;
 25:20  And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the
land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines,
and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
 25:21  Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
 25:22  And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon,
and the kings of the isles which [are] beyond the sea,
 25:23  Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all [that are] in the
utmost corners,
 25:24  And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the
mingled people that dwell in the desert,
 25:25  And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam,
and all the kings of the Medes,
 25:26  And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with
another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which [are] upon
the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink
after them.
 25:27  Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD
of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and
spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I
will send among you.
 25:28  And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at
thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith
the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
 25:29  For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is
called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye
shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all
the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
 25:30  Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words,
and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter
his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon
his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread [the
grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.
 25:31  A noise shall come [even] to the ends of the earth; for
the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead
with all flesh; he will give them [that are] wicked to the
sword, saith the LORD.
 25:32  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go
forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be
raised up from the coasts of the earth.
 25:33  And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from
[one] end of the earth even unto the [other] end of the earth:
they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they
shall be dung upon the ground.
 25:34  Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves [in
the ashes], ye principal of the flock: for the days of your
slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye
shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
 25:35  And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the
principal of the flock to escape.
 25:36  A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of
the principal of the flock, [shall be heard]: for the LORD hath
spoiled their pasture.
 25:37  And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of
the fierce anger of the LORD.
 25:38  He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their
land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor,
and because of his fierce anger.

                        JEREMIAH 26
 26:1  In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,
 26:2  Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD'S
house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to
worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I command thee
to speak unto them; diminish not a word:
 26:3  If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his
evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to
do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
 26:4  And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye
will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set
before you,
 26:5  To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets,
whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending [them],
but ye have not hearkened;
 26:6  Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make
this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
 26:7  So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard
Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.
 26:8  Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of
speaking all that the LORD had commanded [him] to speak unto
all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the
people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
 26:9  Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD,
saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be
desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were
gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
 26:10  When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they
came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and
sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S [house].
 26:11  Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the
princes and to all the people, saying, This man [is] worthy to
die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard
with your ears.
 26:12  Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the
people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house
and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
 26:13  Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey
the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of
the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
 26:14  As for me, behold, I [am] in your hand: do with me as
seemeth good and meet unto you.
 26:15  But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye
shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon
this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the
LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your
ears.
 26:16  Then said the princes and all the people unto the
priests and to the prophets; This man [is] not worthy to die:
for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.
 26:17  Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and
spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,
 26:18  Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah
king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] a
field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of
the house as the high places of a forest.
 26:19  Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all
to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and
the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced
against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our
souls.
 26:20  And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of
the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who
prophesied against this city and against this land according to
all the words of Jeremiah:
 26:21  And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men,
and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put
him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and
fled, and went into Egypt;
 26:22  And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely],
Elnathan the son of Achbor, and [certain] men with him into
Egypt.
 26:23  And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought
him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and
cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
 26:24  Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was
with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of
the people to put him to death.

                        JEREMIAH 27
 27:1  In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the
LORD, saying,
 27:2  Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes,
and put them upon thy neck,
 27:3  And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of
Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of
Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers
which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;
 27:4  And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto
your masters;
 27:5  I have made the earth, the man and the beast that [are]
upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm,
and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
 27:6  And now have I given all these lands into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts
of the field have I given him also to serve him.
 27:7  And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his
son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many
nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
 27:8  And it shall come to pass, [that] the nation and kingdom
which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the
king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD,
with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence,
until I have consumed them by his hand.
 27:9  Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your
diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to
your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not
serve the king of Babylon:
 27:10  For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far
from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should
perish.
 27:11  But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of
the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain
still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till
it, and dwell therein.
 27:12  I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all
these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the
king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
 27:13  Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by
the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken
against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
 27:14  Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets
that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of
Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
 27:15  For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they
prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that
ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
 27:16  Also I spake to the priests and to all this people,
saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your
prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of
the LORD'S house shall now shortly be brought again from
Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
 27:17  Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and
live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
 27:18  But if they [be] prophets, and if the word of the LORD
be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of
hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the
LORD, and [in] the house of the king of Judah, and at
Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
 27:19  For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the
pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and
concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,
 27:20  Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he
carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of
Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah
and Jerusalem;
 27:21  Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
concerning the vessels that remain [in] the house of the LORD,
and [in] the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;
 27:22  They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they
be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I
bring them up, and restore them to this place.

                        JEREMIAH 28
 28:1  And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of
the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, [and]
in the fifth month, [that] Hananiah the son of Azur the
prophet, which [was] of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of
the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people,
saying,
 28:2  Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
 28:3  Within two full years will I bring again into this place
all the vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to
Babylon:
 28:4  And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of
Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that
went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke of
the king of Babylon.
 28:5  Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah
in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the
people that stood in the house of the LORD,
 28:6  Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so:
the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring
again the vessels of the LORD'S house, and all that is carried
away captive, from Babylon into this place.
 28:7  Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in
thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;
 28:8  The prophets that have been before me and before thee of
old prophesied both against many countries, and against great
kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
 28:9  The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of
the prophet shall come to pass, [then] shall the prophet be
known, that the LORD hath truly sent him.
 28:10  Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the
prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
 28:11  And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people,
saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations
within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah
went his way.
 28:12  Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah [the
prophet], after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke
from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
 28:13  Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou
hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them
yokes of iron.
 28:14  For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I
have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations,
that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they
shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field
also.
 28:15  Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the
prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but
thou makest this people to trust in a lie.
 28:16  Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee
from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die,
because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.
 28:17  So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the
seventh month.

                        JEREMIAH 29
 29:1  Now these [are] the words of the letter that Jeremiah
the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders
which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to
the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had
carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
 29:2  (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the
eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the
carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)
 29:3  By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah
the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto
Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,
 29:4  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto
all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be
carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;
 29:5  Build ye houses, and dwell [in them]; and plant gardens,
and eat the fruit of them;
 29:6  Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take
wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that
they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased
there, and not diminished.
 29:7  And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you
to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for
in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
 29:8  For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let
not your prophets and your diviners, that [be] in the midst of
you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause
to be dreamed.
 29:9  For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have
not sent them, saith the LORD.
 29:10  For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be
accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good
word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
 29:11  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith
the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an
expected end.
 29:12  Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray
unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
 29:13  And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall
search for me with all your heart.
 29:14  And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will
turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the
nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you,
saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place
whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
 29:15  Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up
prophets in Babylon;
 29:16  [Know] that thus saith the LORD of the king that
sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that
dwelleth in this city, [and] of your brethren that are not gone
forth with you into captivity;
 29:17  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon
them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make
them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
 29:18  And I will persecute them with the sword, with the
famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be
removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an
astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the
nations whither I have driven them:
 29:19  Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the
LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets,
rising up early and sending [them]; but ye would not hear,
saith the LORD.
 29:20  Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the
captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
 29:21  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of
Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah,
which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will
deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
and he shall slay them before your eyes;
 29:22  And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the
captivity of Judah which [are] in Babylon, saying, The LORD
make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon
roasted in the fire;
 29:23  Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have
committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have
spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them;
even I know, and [am] a witness, saith the LORD.
 29:24  [Thus] shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the
Nehelamite, saying,
 29:25  Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the
people that [are] at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of
Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
 29:26  The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada
the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the
LORD, for every man [that is] mad, and maketh himself a
prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the
stocks.
 29:27  Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of
Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
 29:28  For therefore he sent unto us [in] Babylon, saying,
This [captivity is] long: build ye houses, and dwell [in them];
and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
 29:29  And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears
of Jeremiah the prophet.
 29:30  Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
 29:31  Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith
the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that
Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he
caused you to trust in a lie:
 29:32  Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish
Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man
to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good
that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath
taught rebellion against the LORD.

                        JEREMIAH 30
 30:1  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
 30:2  Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee
all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
 30:3  For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith
the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I
gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
 30:4  And these [are] the words that the LORD spake concerning
Israel and concerning Judah.
 30:5  For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of
trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
 30:6  Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with
child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his
loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into
paleness?
 30:7  Alas! for that day [is] great, so that none [is] like
it: it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be
saved out of it.
 30:8  For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of
hosts, [that] I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will
burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves
of him:
 30:9  But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their
king, whom I will raise up unto them.
 30:10  Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the
LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee
from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and
Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and
none shall make [him] afraid.
 30:11  For I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee:
though I make a full end of all nations whither I have
scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I
will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee
altogether unpunished.
 30:12  For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise [is] incurable,
[and] thy wound [is] grievous.
 30:13  [There is] none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be
bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
 30:14  All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not;
for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the
chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine
iniquity; [because] thy sins were increased.
 30:15  Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow [is]
incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: [because] thy
sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
 30:16  Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured;
and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into
captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all
that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
 30:17  For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal
thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an
Outcast, [saying], This [is] Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
 30:18  Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the
captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his
dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own
heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
 30:19  And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the
voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and
they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall
not be small.
 30:20  Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their
congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish
all that oppress them.
 30:21  And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their
governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause
him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who [is]
this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the
LORD.
 30:22  And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
 30:23  Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with
fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the
head of the wicked.
 30:24  The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he
have done [it], and until he have performed the intents of his
heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.

                        JEREMIAH 31
 31:1  At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of
all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
 31:2  Thus saith the LORD, The people [which were] left of the
sword found grace in the wilderness; [even] Israel, when I went
to cause him to rest.
 31:3  The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I
have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with
lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
 31:4  Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O
virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets,
and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
 31:5  Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of
Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat [them] as
common things.
 31:6  For there shall be a day, [that] the watchmen upon the
mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion
unto the LORD our God.
 31:7  For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob,
and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise
ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
 31:8  Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and
gather them from the coasts of the earth, [and] with them the
blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that
travaileth with child together: a great company shall return
thither.
 31:9  They shall come with weeping, and with supplications
will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of
waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I
am a father to Israel, and Ephraim [is] my firstborn.
 31:10  Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare
[it] in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel
will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd [doth] his flock.
 31:11  For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from
the hand of [him that was] stronger than he.
 31:12  Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of
Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for
wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the
flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered
garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
 31:13  Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young
men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy,
and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
 31:14  And I will satiate the soul of the priests with
fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness,
saith the LORD.
 31:15  Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah,
lamentation, [and] bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her
children refused to be comforted for her children, because they
[were] not.
 31:16  Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping,
and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded,
saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the
enemy.
 31:17  And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that
thy children shall come again to their own border.
 31:18  I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus];
Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock
unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be
turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.
 31:19  Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after
that I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed,
yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my
youth.
 31:20  [Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for
since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still:
therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have
mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
 31:21  Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine
heart toward the highway, [even] the way [which] thou wentest:
turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
 31:22  How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding
daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A
woman shall compass a man.
 31:23  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet
they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the
cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The
LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, [and] mountain of
holiness.
 31:24  And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the
cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they [that] go forth
with flocks.
 31:25  For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have
replenished every sorrowful soul.
 31:26  Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet
unto me.
 31:27  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow
the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of
man, and with the seed of beast.
 31:28  And it shall come to pass, [that] like as I have
watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw
down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over
them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
 31:29  In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have
eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
 31:30  But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man
that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
 31:31  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make
a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of
Judah:
 31:32  Not according to the covenant that I made with their
fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them
out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake,
although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
 31:33  But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with
the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will
put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts;
and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
 31:34  And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour,
and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they
shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of
them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I
will remember their sin no more.
 31:35  Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light
by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a
light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof
roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name:
 31:36  If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the
LORD, [then] the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a
nation before me for ever.
 31:37  Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured,
and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will
also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have
done, saith the LORD.
 31:38  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city
shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the
gate of the corner.
 31:39  And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against
it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
 31:40  And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the
ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the
corner of the horse gate toward the east, [shall be] holy unto
the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more
for ever.

                        JEREMIAH 32
 32:1  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the
tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which [was] the
eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
 32:2  For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem:
and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the
prison, which [was] in the king of Judah's house.
 32:3  For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying,
Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD,
Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall take it;
 32:4  And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the
hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the
hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to
mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
 32:5  And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall
he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with
the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.
 32:6  And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
 32:7  Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall
come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that [is] in
Anathoth: for the right of redemption [is] thine to buy [it].
 32:8  So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of
the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me,
Buy my field, I pray thee, that [is] in Anathoth, which [is] in
the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance [is]
thine, and the redemption [is] thine; buy [it] for thyself.
Then I knew that this [was] the word of the LORD.
 32:9  And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that
[was] in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, [even] seventeen
shekels of silver.
 32:10  And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed [it], and
took witnesses, and weighed [him] the money in the balances.
 32:11  So I took the evidence of the purchase, [both] that
which was sealed [according] to the law and custom, and that
which was open:
 32:12  And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the
son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel
mine uncle's [son], and in the presence of the witnesses that
subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that
sat in the court of the prison.
 32:13  And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
 32:14  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take
these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is
sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an
earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.
 32:15  For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in
this land.
 32:16  Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase
unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,
 32:17  Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the
earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, [and] there is
nothing too hard for thee:
 32:18  Thou 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,
 32:19  Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes
[are] open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every
one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his
doings:
 32:20  Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
[even] unto this day, and in Israel, and among [other] men; and
hast made thee a name, as at this day;
 32:21  And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the
land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong
hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;
 32:22  And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear
to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and
honey;
 32:23  And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not
thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of
all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast
caused all this evil to come upon them:
 32:24  Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take
it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that
fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and
of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass;
and, behold, thou seest [it].
 32:25  And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the
field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into
the hand of the Chaldeans.
 32:26  Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
 32:27  Behold, I [am] the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there
any thing too hard for me?
 32:28  Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this
city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:
 32:29  And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall
come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses,
upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and
poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to
anger.
 32:30  For the children of Israel and the children of Judah
have only done evil before me from their youth: for the
children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work
of their hands, saith the LORD.
 32:31  For this city hath been to me [as] a provocation of
mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even
unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
 32:32  Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and
of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to
anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and
their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem.
 32:33  And they have turned unto me the back, and not the
face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching
[them], yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
 32:34  But they set their abominations in the house, which is
called by my name, to defile it.
 32:35  And they built the high places of Baal, which [are] in
the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their
daughters to pass through [the fire] unto Molech; which I
commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they
should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
 32:36  And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of
Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be
delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword,
and by the famine, and by the pestilence;
 32:37  Behold, I will gather them out of all countries,
whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and
in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place,
and I will cause them to dwell safely:
 32:38  And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
 32:39  And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they
may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their
children after them:
 32:40  And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that
I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put
my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
 32:41  Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I
will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and
with my whole soul.
 32:42  For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all
this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all
the good that I have promised them.
 32:43  And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye
say, [It is] desolate without man or beast; it is given into
the hand of the Chaldeans.
 32:44  Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe
evidences, and seal [them], and take witnesses in the land of
Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities
of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities
of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause
their captivity to return, saith the LORD.

                        JEREMIAH 33
 33:1  Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the
second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the
prison, saying,
 33:2  Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that
formed it, to establish it; the LORD [is] his name;
 33:3  Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee
great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
 33:4  For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning
the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings
of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the
sword;
 33:5  They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but [it is] to
fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in
mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have
hid my face from this city.
 33:6  Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure
them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and
truth.
 33:7  And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the
captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the
first.
 33:8  And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby
they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their
iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have
transgressed against me.
 33:9  And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an
honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear
all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and
tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I
procure unto it.
 33:10  Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this
place, which ye say [shall be] desolate without man and without
beast, [even] in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of
Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without
inhabitant, and without beast,
 33:11  The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice
of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of
them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD
[is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: [and] of them
that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the
LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as
at the first, saith the LORD.
 33:12  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place,
which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the
cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing
[their] flocks to lie down.
 33:13  In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the
vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of
Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities
of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him
that telleth [them], saith the LORD.
 33:14  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of
Israel and to the house of Judah.
 33:15  In those days, and at that time, will I cause the
Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall
execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
 33:16  In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall
dwell safely: and this [is the name] wherewith she shall be
called, The LORD our righteousness.
 33:17  For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man
to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
 33:18  Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before
me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and
to do sacrifice continually.
 33:19  And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
 33:20  Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the
day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be
day and night in their season;
 33:21  [Then] may also my covenant be broken with David my
servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his
throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
 33:22  As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the
sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David
my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
 33:23  Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
 33:24  Considerest thou not what this people have spoken,
saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath
even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that
they should be no more a nation before them.
 33:25  Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant [be] not with day
and night, [and if] I have not appointed the ordinances of
heaven and earth;
 33:26  Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my
servant, [so] that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be]
rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will
cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

                        JEREMIAH 34
 34:1  The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the
kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people,
fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof,
saying,
 34:2  Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to
Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD;
Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
 34:3  And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt
surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes
shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall
speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
 34:4  Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah;
Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:
 34:5  [But] thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of
thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall
they burn [odours] for thee; and they will lament thee,
[saying], Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the
LORD.
 34:6  Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto
Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
 34:7  When the king of Babylon's army fought against
Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left,
against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities
remained of the cities of Judah.
 34:8  [This is] the word that came unto Jeremiah from the
LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all
the people which [were] at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto
them;
 34:9  That every man should let his manservant, and every man
his maidservant, [being] an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free;
that none should serve himself of them, [to wit], of a Jew his
brother.
 34:10  Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had
entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his
manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none
should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and
let [them] go.
 34:11  But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and
the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and
brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
 34:12  Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from
the LORD, saying,
 34:13  Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a
covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
 34:14  At the end of seven years let ye go every man his
brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he
hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from
thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined
their ear.
 34:15  And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight,
in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had
made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my
name:
 34:16  But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every
man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at
liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into
subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
 34:17  Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened
unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and
every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for
you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to
the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the
kingdoms of the earth.
 34:18  And I will give the men that have transgressed my
covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant
which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain,
and passed between the parts thereof.
 34:19  The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the
eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which
passed between the parts of the calf;
 34:20  I will even give them into the hand of their enemies,
and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead
bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to
the beasts of the earth.
 34:21  And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give
into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that
seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's
army, which are gone up from you.
 34:22  Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them
to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and
take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of
Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

                        JEREMIAH 35
 35:1  The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the
days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
 35:2  Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto
them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of
the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
 35:3  Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of
Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole
house of the Rechabites;
 35:4  And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the
chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of
God, which [was] by the chamber of the princes, which [was]
above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of
the door:
 35:5  And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites
pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye
wine.
 35:6  But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the
son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink
no wine, [neither ye], nor your sons for ever:
 35:7  Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant
vineyard, nor have [any]: but all your days ye shall dwell in
tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye [be]
strangers.
 35:8  Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of
Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no
wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
 35:9  Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we
vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
 35:10  But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done
according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
 35:11  But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us
go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for
fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
 35:12  Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
 35:13  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and
tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye
not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.
 35:14  The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he
commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto
this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment:
notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and
speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
 35:15  I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets,
rising up early and sending [them], saying, Return ye now every
man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after
other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which
I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not
inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
 35:16  Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have
performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded
them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:
 35:17  Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of
Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced
against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have
not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not
answered.
 35:18  And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye
have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept
all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath
commanded you:
 35:19  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand
before me for ever.

                        JEREMIAH 36
 36:1  And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah king of Judah, [that] this word came unto
Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
 36:2  Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the
words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against
Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto
thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
 36:3  It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil
which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man
from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their
sin.
 36:4  Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and
Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the
LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
 36:5  And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] shut up; I
cannot go into the house of the LORD:
 36:6  Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast
written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the
people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou
shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their
cities.
 36:7  It may be they will present their supplication before
the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for
great [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced
against this people.
 36:8  And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that
Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the
words of the LORD in the LORD'S house.
 36:9  And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, [that] they
proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in
Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of
Judah unto Jerusalem.
 36:10  Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in
the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of
Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the
new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people.
 36:11  When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan,
had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,
 36:12  Then he went down into the king's house, into the
scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, [even]
Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and
Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan,
and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
 36:13  Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he
had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
 36:14  Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of
Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch,
saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in
the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah
took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
 36:15  And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in
our ears. So Baruch read [it] in their ears.
 36:16  Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words,
they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We
will surely tell the king of all these words.
 36:17  And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst
thou write all these words at his mouth?
 36:18  Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these
words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink in
the book.
 36:19  Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou
and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
 36:20  And they went in to the king into the court, but they
laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and
told all the words in the ears of the king.
 36:21  So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took
it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in
the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which
stood beside the king.
 36:22  Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month:
and [there was a fire] on the hearth burning before him.
 36:23  And it came to pass, [that] when Jehudi had read three
or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast [it] into
the fire that [was] on the hearth, until all the roll was
consumed in the fire that [was] on the hearth.
 36:24  Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments,
[neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all
these words.
 36:25  Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made
intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but
he would not hear them.
 36:26  But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech,
and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel,
to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the
LORD hid them.
 36:27  Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that
the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote
at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
 36:28  Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the
former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the
king of Judah hath burned.
 36:29  And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus
saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast
thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall
certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease
from thence man and beast?
 36:30  Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of
Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and
his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in
the night to the frost.
 36:31  And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for
their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the
evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened
not.
 36:32  Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch
the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth
of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of
Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto
them many like words.

                        JEREMIAH 37
 37:1  And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of
Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
 37:2  But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the
land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by
the prophet Jeremiah.
 37:3  And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah
and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet
Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.
 37:4  Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for
they had not put him into prison.
 37:5  Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and
when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of
them, they departed from Jerusalem.
 37:6  Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet
Jeremiah, saying,
 37:7  Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye
say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of
me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you,
shall return to Egypt into their own land.
 37:8  And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against
this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
 37:9  Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The
Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not
depart.
 37:10  For though ye had smitten the whole army of the
Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained [but]
wounded men among them, [yet] should they rise up every man in
his tent, and burn this city with fire.
 37:11  And it came to pass, that when the army of the
Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's
army,
 37:12  Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into
the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst
of the people.
 37:13  And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of
the ward [was] there, whose name [was] Irijah, the son of
Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the
prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
 37:14  Then said Jeremiah, [It is] false; I fall not away to
the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took
Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
 37:15  Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and
smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the
scribe: for they had made that the prison.
 37:16  When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into
the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
 37:17  Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the
king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there [any]
word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he,
thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
 37:18  Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I
offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this
people, that ye have put me in prison?
 37:19  Where [are] now your prophets which prophesied unto
you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you,
nor against this land?
 37:20  Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king:
let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that
thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the
scribe, lest I die there.
 37:21  Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should
commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they
should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers'
street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus
Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

                        JEREMIAH 38
 38:1  Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son
of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son
of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all
the people, saying,
 38:2  Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city
shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:
but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he
shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
 38:3  Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given
into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take
it.
 38:4  Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech
thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the
hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands
of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this
man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
 38:5  Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he [is] in your
hand: for the king [is] not [he that] can do [any] thing
against you.
 38:6  Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon
of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of
the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the
dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the
mire.
 38:7  Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs
which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah
in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
 38:8  Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake
to the king, saying,
 38:9  My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that
they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast
into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place
where he is: for [there is] no more bread in the city.
 38:10  Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian,
saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up
Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
 38:11  So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the
house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast
clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the
dungeon to Jeremiah.
 38:12  And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put
now [these] old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine
armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
 38:13  So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up
out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the
prison.
 38:14  Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the
prophet unto him into the third entry that [is] in the house of
the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a
thing; hide nothing from me.
 38:15  Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare [it]
unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give
thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?
 38:16  So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah,
saying, [As] the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will
not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand
of these men that seek thy life.
 38:17  Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD,
the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go
forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall
live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou
shalt live, and thine house:
 38:18  But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's
princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the
Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not
escape out of their hand.
 38:19  And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid
of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver
me into their hand, and they mock me.
 38:20  But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver [thee]. Obey,
I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee:
so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
 38:21  But if thou refuse to go forth, this [is] the word that
the LORD hath showed me:
 38:22  And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of
Judah's house [shall be] brought forth to the king of Babylon's
princes, and those [women] shall say, Thy friends have set thee
on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the
mire, [and] they are turned away back.
 38:23  So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children
to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand,
but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou
shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
 38:24  Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of
these words, and thou shalt not die.
 38:25  But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee,
and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now
what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we
will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
 38:26  Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my
supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to
return to Jonathan's house, to die there.
 38:27  Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him:
and he told them according to all these words that the king had
commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter
was not perceived.
 38:28  So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the
day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was [there] when Jerusalem
was taken.

                        JEREMIAH 39
 39:1  In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the
tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his
army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
 39:2  [And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth
month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up.
 39:3  And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and
sat in the middle gate, [even] Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo,
Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the
residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.
 39:4  And it came to pass, [that] when Zedekiah the king of
Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and
went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's
garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the
way of the plain.
 39:5  But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook
Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him,
they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah
in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
 39:6  Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in
Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the
nobles of Judah.
 39:7  Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with
chains, to carry him to Babylon.
 39:8  And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the
houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of
Jerusalem.
 39:9  Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away
captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in
the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the
rest of the people that remained.
 39:10  But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the
poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah,
and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
 39:11  Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge
concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard,
saying,
 39:12  Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but
do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.
 39:13  So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and
Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the
king of Babylon's princes;
 39:14  Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of
the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam
the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt
among the people.
 39:15  Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he
was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
 39:16  Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus
saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will
bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and
they shall be [accomplished] in that day before thee.
 39:17  But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD:
and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom
thou [art] afraid.
 39:18  For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall
by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee:
because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.

                        JEREMIAH 40
 40:1  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah,
when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were
carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried
away captive unto Babylon.
 40:2  And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said
unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this
place.
 40:3  Now the LORD hath brought [it], and done according as he
hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have
not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
 40:4  And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains
which [were] upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come
with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but
if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear:
behold, all the land [is] before thee: whither it seemeth good
and convenient for thee to go, thither go.
 40:5  Now while he was not yet gone back, [he said], Go back
also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the
king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah,
and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it
seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard
gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.
 40:6  Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to
Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in
the land.
 40:7  Now when all the captains of the forces which [were] in
the fields, [even] they and their men, heard that the king of
Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the
land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children,
and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away
captive to Babylon;
 40:8  Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah,
and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the
Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and
their men.
 40:9  And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware
unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the
Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon,
and it shall be well with you.
 40:10  As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the
Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and
summer fruits, and oil, and put [them] in your vessels, and
dwell in your cities that ye have taken.
 40:11  Likewise when all the Jews that [were] in Moab, and
among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that [were] in all the
countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of
Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam
the son of Shaphan;
 40:12  Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither
they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah,
unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
 40:13  Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that [were] in the fields, came to
Gedaliah to Mizpah,
 40:14  And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis
the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed
them not.
 40:15  Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in
Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will
slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know [it]:
wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are
gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in
Judah perish?
 40:16  But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the
son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest
falsely of Ishmael.

                        JEREMIAH 41
 41:1  Now it came to pass in the seventh month, [that] Ishmael
the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal,
and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat
bread together in Mizpah.
 41:2  Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men
that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the
son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of
Babylon had made governor over the land.
 41:3  Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him,
[even] with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were
found there, [and] the men of war.
 41:4  And it came to pass the second day after he had slain
Gedaliah, and no man knew [it],
 41:5  That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and
from Samaria, [even] fourscore men, having their beards shaven,
and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with
offerings and incense in their hand, to bring [them] to the
house of the LORD.
 41:6  And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah
to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to
pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam.
 41:7  And it was [so], when they came into the midst of the
city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, [and cast
them] into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that [were]
with him.
 41:8  But ten men were found among them that said unto
Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of
wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare,
and slew them not among their brethren.
 41:9  Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies
of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, [was] it
which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel:
[and] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with [them that
were] slain.
 41:10  Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of
the people that [were] in Mizpah, [even] the king's daughters,
and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away
captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
 41:11  But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that [were] with him, heard of all the
evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,
 41:12  Then they took all the men, and went to fight with
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters
that [are] in Gibeon.
 41:13  Now it came to pass, [that] when all the people which
[were] with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that [were] with him, then they were
glad.
 41:14  So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive
from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the
son of Kareah.
 41:15  But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan
with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
 41:16  Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that [were] with him, all the remnant of
the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after [that] he had slain Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam, [even] mighty men of war, and the women, and the
children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from
Gibeon:
 41:17  And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of
Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
 41:18  Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them,
because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.

                        JEREMIAH 42
 42:1  Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son
of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people
from the least even unto the greatest, came near,
 42:2  And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech
thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us
unto the LORD thy God, [even] for all this remnant; (for we are
left [but] a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)
 42:3  That the LORD thy God may show us the way wherein we may
walk, and the thing that we may do.
 42:4  Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard
[you]; behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to
your words; and it shall come to pass, [that] whatsoever thing
the LORD shall answer you, I will declare [it] unto you; I will
keep nothing back from you.
 42:5  Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and
faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all
things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
 42:6  Whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil, we will
obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that
it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our
God.
 42:7  And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the
LORD came unto Jeremiah.
 42:8  Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces which [were] with him, and all the
people from the least even to the greatest,
 42:9  And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of
Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication
before him;
 42:10  If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build
you, and not pull [you] down, and I will plant you, and not
pluck [you] up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done
unto you.
 42:11  Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are
afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I [am] with
you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
 42:12  And I will show mercies unto you, that he may have
mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.
 42:13  But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither
obey the voice of the LORD your God,
 42:14  Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt,
where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet,
nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
 42:15  And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant
of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If
ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn
there;
 42:16  Then it shall come to pass, [that] the sword, which ye
feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the
famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you
there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
 42:17  So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to
go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by
the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall
remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
 42:18  For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As
mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon
you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an
execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach;
and ye shall see this place no more.
 42:19  The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of
Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have
admonished you this day.
 42:20  For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto
the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God;
and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so
declare unto us, and we will do [it].
 42:21  And [now] I have this day declared [it] to you; but ye
have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any [thing]
for the which he hath sent me unto you.
 42:22  Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place
whither ye desire to go [and] to sojourn.

                        JEREMIAH 43
 43:1  And it came to pass, [that] when Jeremiah had made an
end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD
their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them,
[even] all these words,
 43:2  Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the
son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah,
Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to
say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:
 43:3  But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us,
for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they
might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.
 43:4  So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the
LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.
 43:5  But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned
from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the
land of Judah;
 43:6  [Even] men, and women, and children, and the king's
daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of
Neriah.
 43:7  So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not
the voice of the LORD: thus came they [even] to Tahpanhes.
 43:8  Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in
Tahpanhes, saying,
 43:9  Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the
clay in the brickkiln, which [is] at the entry of Pharaoh's
house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
 43:10  And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the
king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these
stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion
over them.
 43:11  And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt,
[and deliver] such [as are] for death to death; and such [as
are] for captivity to captivity; and such [as are] for the
sword to the sword.
 43:12  And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of
Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives:
and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a
shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from
thence in peace.
 43:13  He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that
[is] in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the
Egyptians shall he burn with fire.

                        JEREMIAH 44
 44:1  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews
which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at
Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
 44:2  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have
seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon
all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they [are] a
desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
 44:3  Because of their wickedness which they have committed to
provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and]
to serve other gods, whom they knew not, [neither] they, ye,
nor your fathers.
 44:4  Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets,
rising early and sending [them], saying, Oh, do not this
abominable thing that I hate.
 44:5  But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn
from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
 44:6  Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and
was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem; and they are wasted [and] desolate, as at this day.
 44:7  Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the
God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye [this] great evil against
your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and
suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
 44:8  In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your
hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt,
whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off,
and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the
nations of the earth?
 44:9  Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and
the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of
their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of
your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and
in the streets of Jerusalem?
 44:10  They are not humbled [even] unto this day, neither have
they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I
set before you and before your fathers.
 44:11  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to
cut off all Judah.
 44:12  And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set
their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and
they shall all be consumed, [and] fall in the land of Egypt;
they shall [even] be consumed by the sword [and] by the famine:
they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the
sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, [and]
an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
 44:13  For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt,
as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and
by the pestilence:
 44:14  So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone
into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or
remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the
which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none
shall return but such as shall escape.
 44:15  Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned
incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a
great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of
Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
 44:16  [As for] the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the
name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
 44:17  But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth
out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven,
and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we,
and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of
Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for [then] had we
plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
 44:18  But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of
heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have
wanted all [things], and have been consumed by the sword and by
the famine.
 44:19  And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and
poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to
worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our
men?
 44:20  Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and
to the women, and to all the people which had given him [that]
answer, saying,
 44:21  The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and
in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings,
and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD
remember them, and came it [not] into his mind?
 44:22  So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the
evil of your doings, [and] because of the abominations which ye
have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an
astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this
day.
 44:23  Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have
sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the
LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his
testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at
this day.
 44:24  Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all
the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that [are] in
the land of Egypt:
 44:25  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths,
and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform
our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of
heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will
surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
 44:26  Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that
dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great
name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in
the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying,
The Lord GOD liveth.
 44:27  Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for
good: and all the men of Judah that [are] in the land of Egypt
shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there
be an end of them.
 44:28  Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return
out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the
remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to
sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or
theirs.
 44:29  And this [shall be] a sign unto you, saith the LORD,
that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my
words shall surely stand against you for evil:
 44:30  Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra
king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand
of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah
into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and
that sought his life.

                        JEREMIAH 45
 45:1  The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the
son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the
mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, saying,
 45:2  Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O
Baruch;
 45:3  Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added
grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no
rest.
 45:4  Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus;
Behold, [that] which I have built will I break down, and that
which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.
 45:5  And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek [them]
not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the
LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all
places whither thou goest.

                        JEREMIAH 46
 46:1  The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet
against the Gentiles;
 46:2  Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of
Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.
 46:3  Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to
battle.
 46:4  Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand
forth with [your] helmets; furbish the spears, [and] put on the
brigandines.
 46:5  Wherefore have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away
back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled
apace, and look not back: [for] fear [was] round about, saith
the LORD.
 46:6  Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape;
they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river
Euphrates.
 46:7  Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood, whose waters
are moved as the rivers?
 46:8  Egypt riseth up like a flood, and [his] waters are moved
like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, [and] will cover
the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
 46:9  Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the
mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that
handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle [and] bend the
bow.
 46:10  For this [is] the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day
of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and
the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk
with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in
the north country by the river Euphrates.
 46:11  Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the
daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; [for]
thou shalt not be cured.
 46:12  The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath
filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the
mighty, [and] they are fallen both together.
 46:13  The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet,
how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come [and] smite the
land of Egypt.
 46:14  Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish
in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee;
for the sword shall devour round about thee.
 46:15  Why are thy valiant [men] swept away? they stood not,
because the LORD did drive them.
 46:16  He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and
they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to
the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
 46:17  They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a
noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
 46:18  [As] I live, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD
of hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as
Carmel by the sea, [so] shall he come.
 46:19  O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to
go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without
an inhabitant.
 46:20  Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction
cometh; it cometh out of the north.
 46:21  Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like
fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, [and] are fled
away together: they did not stand, because the day of their
calamity was come upon them, [and] the time of their
visitation.
 46:22  The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they
shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as
hewers of wood.
 46:23  They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though
it cannot be searched; because they are more than the
grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.
 46:24  The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be
delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
 46:25  The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I
will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with
their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] them that
trust in him:
 46:26  And I will deliver them into the hand of those that
seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it
shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.
 46:27  But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not
dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar
off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob
shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make
[him] afraid.
 46:28  Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for
I [am] with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations
whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of
thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee
wholly unpunished.

                        JEREMIAH 47
 47:1  The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet
against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
 47:2  Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the
north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow
the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that
dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants
of the land shall howl.
 47:3  At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong
[horses], at the rushing of his chariots, [and at] the rumbling
of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to [their]
children for feebleness of hands;
 47:4  Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the
Philistines, [and] to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper
that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the
remnant of the country of Caphtor.
 47:5  Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off [with]
the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
 47:6  O thou sword of the LORD, how long [will it be] ere thou
be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
 47:7  How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a
charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath
he appointed it.

                        JEREMIAH 48
 48:1  Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is
confounded [and] taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
 48:2  [There shall be] no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they
have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from
[being] a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the
sword shall pursue thee.
 48:3  A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim, spoiling and
great destruction.
 48:4  Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to
be heard.
 48:5  For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go
up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a
cry of destruction.
 48:6  Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the
wilderness.
 48:7  For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy
treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth
into captivity [with] his priests and his princes together.
 48:8  And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city
shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall
be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.
 48:9  Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for
the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell
therein.
 48:10  Cursed [be] he that doeth the work of the LORD
deceitfully, and cursed [be] he that keepeth back his sword
from blood.
 48:11  Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath
settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to
vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his
taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
 48:12  Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander,
and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.
 48:13  And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of
Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
 48:14  How say ye, We [are] mighty and strong men for the war?
 48:15  Moab is spoiled, and gone up [out of] her cities, and
his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the
King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts.
 48:16  The calamity of Moab [is] near to come, and his
affliction hasteth fast.
 48:17  All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that
know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, [and] the
beautiful rod!
 48:18  Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from
[thy] glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall
come upon thee, [and] he shall destroy thy strong holds.
 48:19  O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask
him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, [and] say, What is
done?
 48:20  Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and
cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
 48:21  And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon
Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,
 48:22  And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,
 48:23  And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon
Bethmeon,
 48:24  And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the
cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
 48:25  The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken,
saith the LORD.
 48:26  Make ye him drunken: for he magnified [himself] against
the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also
shall be in derision.
 48:27  For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found
among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst
for joy.
 48:28  O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in
the rock, and be like the dove [that] maketh her nest in the
sides of the hole's mouth.
 48:29  We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding
proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the
haughtiness of his heart.
 48:30  I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but [it shall] not
[be] so; his lies shall not so effect [it].
 48:31  Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for
all Moab; [mine heart] shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.
 48:32  O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping
of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach [even]
to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer
fruits and upon thy vintage.
 48:33  And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field,
and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from
the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; [their]
shouting [shall be] no shouting.
 48:34  From the cry of Heshbon [even] unto Elealeh, [and even]
unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar [even]
unto Horonaim, [as] an heifer of three years old: for the
waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
 48:35  Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD,
him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth
incense to his gods.
 48:36  Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes,
and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres:
because the riches [that] he hath gotten are perished.
 48:37  For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard
clipped: upon all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon the
loins sackcloth.
 48:38  [There shall be] lamentation generally upon all the
housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have
broken Moab like a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure, saith the
LORD.
 48:39  They shall howl, [saying], How is it broken down! how
hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a
derision and a dismaying to all them about him.
 48:40  For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an
eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
 48:41  Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised,
and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the
heart of a woman in her pangs.
 48:42  And Moab shall be destroyed from [being] a people,
because he hath magnified [himself] against the LORD.
 48:43  Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [shall be] upon thee,
O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
 48:44  He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit;
and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the
snare: for I will bring upon it, [even] upon Moab, the year of
their visitation, saith the LORD.
 48:45  They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon
because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of
Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour
the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous
ones.
 48:46  Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh
perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters
captives.
 48:47  Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the
latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far [is] the judgment of
Moab.

                        JEREMIAH 49
 49:1  Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath
Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why [then] doth their king
inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
 49:2  Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the
Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters
shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them
that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
 49:3  Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of
Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by
the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, [and] his
priests and his princes together.
 49:4  Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing
valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures,
[saying], Who shall come unto me?
 49:5  Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord
GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall
be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up
him that wandereth.
 49:6  And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the
children of Ammon, saith the LORD.
 49:7  Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; [Is]
wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent?
is their wisdom vanished?
 49:8  Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan;
for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time [that]
I will visit him.
 49:9  If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave
[some] gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy
till they have enough.
 49:10  But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret
places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is
spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he [is] not.
 49:11  Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them]
alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
 49:12  For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment
[was] not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and [art]
thou he [that] shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not
go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink [of it].
 49:13  For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah
shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse;
and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
 49:14  I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador
is sent unto the heathen, [saying], Gather ye together, and
come against her, and rise up to the battle.
 49:15  For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen,
[and] despised among men.
 49:16  Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, [and] the pride of
thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock,
that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make
thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from
thence, saith the LORD.
 49:17  Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth
by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues
thereof.
 49:18  As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the
neighbour [cities] thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide
there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
 49:19  Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling
of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will
suddenly make him run away from her: and who [is] a chosen
[man, that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and
who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that
will stand before me?
 49:20  Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath
taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed
against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock
shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations
desolate with them.
 49:21  The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the
cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
 49:22  Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and
spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart
of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her
pangs.
 49:23  Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad:
for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; [there
is] sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
 49:24  Damascus is waxed feeble, [and] turneth herself to
flee, and fear hath seized on [her]: anguish and sorrows have
taken her, as a woman in travail.
 49:25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
 49:26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and
all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD
of hosts.
 49:27  And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and
it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
 49:28  Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor,
which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith
the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the
east.
 49:29  Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they
shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels,
and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear [is] on
every side.
 49:30  Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of
Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath
taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against
you.
 49:31  Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that
dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates
nor bars, [which] dwell alone.
 49:32  And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of
their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them
[that are] in the utmost corners; and I will bring their
calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.
 49:33  And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, [and] a
desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor [any]
son of man dwell in it.
 49:34  The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet
against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of
Judah, saying,
 49:35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the
bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
 49:36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four
quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those
winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of
Elam shall not come.
 49:37  For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their
enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring
evil upon them, [even] my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I
will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
 49:38  And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from
thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
 49:39  But it shall come to pass in the latter days, [that] I
will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.

                        JEREMIAH 50
 50:1  The word that the LORD spake against Babylon [and]
against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
 50:2  Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a
standard; publish, [and] conceal not: say, Babylon is taken,
Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are
confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
 50:3  For out of the north there cometh up a nation against
her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell
therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and
beast.
 50:4  In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the
children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah
together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD
their God.
 50:5  They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces
thitherward, [saying], Come, and let us join ourselves to the
LORD in a perpetual covenant [that] shall not be forgotten.
 50:6  My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have
caused them to go astray, they have turned them away [on] the
mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have
forgotten their restingplace.
 50:7  All that found them have devoured them: and their
adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned
against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the
hope of their fathers.
 50:8  Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of
the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the
flocks.
 50:9  For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against
Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country:
and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence
she shall be taken: their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty
expert man; none shall return in vain.
 50:10  And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall
be satisfied, saith the LORD.
 50:11  Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye
destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the
heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
 50:12  Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you
shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations [shall
be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
 50:13  Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be
inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that
goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her
plagues.
 50:14  Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about:
all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for
she hath sinned against the LORD.
 50:15  Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand:
her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it
[is] the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she
hath done, do unto her.
 50:16  Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth
the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing
sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall
flee every one to his own land.
 50:17  Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven
[him] away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and
last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
 50:18  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land,
as I have punished the king of Assyria.
 50:19  And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he
shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be
satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
 50:20  In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the
iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and [there shall be]
none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I
will pardon them whom I reserve.
 50:21  Go up against the land of Merathaim, [even] against it,
and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy
after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have
commanded thee.
 50:22  A sound of battle [is] in the land, and of great
destruction.
 50:23  How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and
broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
 50:24  I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken,
O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also
caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.
 50:25  The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought
forth the weapons of his indignation: for this [is] the work of
the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
 50:26  Come against her from the utmost border, open her
storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let
nothing of her be left.
 50:27  Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the
slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of
their visitation.
 50:28  The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land
of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our
God, the vengeance of his temple.
 50:29  Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that
bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof
escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all
that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud
against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
 50:30  Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and
all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the
LORD.
 50:31  Behold, I [am] against thee, [O thou] most proud, saith
the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time [that] I
will visit thee.
 50:32  And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none
shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and
it shall devour all round about him.
 50:33  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel
and the children of Judah [were] oppressed together: and all
that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let
them go.
 50:34  Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD of hosts [is] his
name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give
rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
 50:35  A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and
upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon
her wise [men].
 50:36  A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall dote: a
sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
 50:37  A sword [is] upon their horses, and upon their
chariots, and upon all the mingled people that [are] in the
midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword [is] upon
her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
 50:38  A drought [is] upon her waters; and they shall be dried
up: for it [is] the land of graven images, and they are mad
upon [their] idols.
 50:39  Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild
beasts of the islands shall dwell [there], and the owls shall
dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever;
neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
 50:40  As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour
[cities] thereof, saith the LORD; [so] shall no man abide
there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
 50:41  Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great
nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of
the earth.
 50:42  They shall hold the bow and the lance: they [are]
cruel, and will not 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.
 50:43  The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and
his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, [and] pangs
as of a woman in travail.
 50:44  Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling
of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make
them suddenly run away from her: and who [is] a chosen [man,
that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and who
will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will
stand before me?
 50:45  Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath
taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed
against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the
flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make [their]
habitation desolate with them.
 50:46  At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is
moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

                        JEREMIAH 51
 51:1  Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against
Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that
rise up against me, a destroying wind;
 51:2  And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her,
and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall
be against her round about.
 51:3  Against [him that] bendeth let the archer bend his bow,
and against [him that] lifteth himself up in his brigandine:
and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her
host.
 51:4  Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,
and [they that are] thrust through in her streets.
 51:5  For Israel [hath] not [been] forsaken, nor Judah of his
God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with
sin against the Holy One of Israel.
 51:6  Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man
his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this [is] the
time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a
recompense.
 51:7  Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the LORD'S hand,
that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of
her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
 51:8  Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her;
take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
 51:9  We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed:
forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for
her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up [even] to
the skies.
 51:10  The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come,
and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
 51:11  Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD
hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his
device [is] against Babylon, to destroy it; because it [is] the
vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
 51:12  Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the
watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for
the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against
the inhabitants of Babylon.
 51:13  O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in
treasures, thine end is come, [and] the measure of thy
covetousness.
 51:14  The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying],
Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillars; and
they shall lift up a shout against thee.
 51:15  He hath made the earth by his power, he hath
established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the
heaven by his understanding.
 51:16  When he uttereth [his] voice, [there is] a multitude of
waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend
from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and
bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
 51:17  Every man is brutish by [his] knowledge; every founder
is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is]
falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
 51:18  They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of
their visitation they shall perish.
 51:19  The portion of Jacob [is] not like them; for he [is]
the former of all things: and [Israel is] the rod of his
inheritance: the LORD of hosts [is] his name.
 51:20  Thou [art] my battle ax [and] weapons of war: for with
thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I
destroy kingdoms;
 51:21  And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his
rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his
rider;
 51:22  With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman;
and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with
thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
 51:23  I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and
his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman
and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces
captains and rulers.
 51:24  And I will render unto Babylon and to all the
inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in
Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.
 51:25  Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain,
saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will
stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the
rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
 51:26  And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner,
nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for
ever, saith the LORD.
 51:27  Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet
among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call
together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and
Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to
come up as the rough caterpillars.
 51:28  Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the
Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and
all the land of his dominion.
 51:29  And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every
purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make
the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
 51:30  The mighty men of Babylon have 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.
 51:31  One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger
to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is
taken at [one] end,
 51:32  And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they
have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
 51:33  For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
The daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshingfloor, [it is]
time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her
harvest shall come.
 51:34  Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he
hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath
swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my
delicates, he hath cast me out.
 51:35  The violence done to me and to my flesh [be] upon
Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon
the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
 51:36  Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy
cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea,
and make her springs dry.
 51:37  And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for
dragons, and astonishment, and an hissing, without an
inhabitant.
 51:38  They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as
lions' whelps.
 51:39  In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make
them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual
sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
 51:40  I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with he goats.
 51:41  How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the
whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment
among the nations!
 51:42  The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with
the multitude of the waves thereof.
 51:43  Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a
wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any]
son of man pass thereby.
 51:44  And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring
forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the
nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the
wall of Babylon shall fall.
 51:45  My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver
ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
 51:46  And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour
that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come [one]
year, and after that in [another] year [shall come] a rumour,
and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
 51:47  Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do
judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land
shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst
of her.
 51:48  Then the heaven and the earth, and all that [is]
therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come
unto her from the north, saith the LORD.
 51:49  As Babylon [hath caused] the slain of Israel to fall,
so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
 51:50  Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not
still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into
your mind.
 51:51  We are confounded, because we have heard reproach:
shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the
sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.
 51:52  Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her
land the wounded shall groan.
 51:53  Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though
she should fortify the height of her strength, [yet] from me
shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
 51:54  A sound of a cry [cometh] from Babylon, and great
destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
 51:55  Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed
out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great
waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
 51:56  Because the spoiler is come upon her, [even] upon
Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows
is broken: for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely
requite.
 51:57  And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise [men],
her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they
shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King,
whose name [is] the LORD of hosts.
 51:58  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of
Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be
burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the
folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
 51:59  The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah
the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with
Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of
his reign. And [this] Seraiah [was] a quiet prince.
 51:60  So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should
come upon Babylon, [even] all these words that are written
against Babylon.
 51:61  And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to
Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
 51:62  Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against
this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it,
neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
 51:63  And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading
this book, [that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it
into the midst of Euphrates:
 51:64  And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall
not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they
shall be weary. Thus far [are] the words of Jeremiah.

                        JEREMIAH 52
 52:1  Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
 52:2  And he did [that which was] evil in the eyes of the
LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
 52:3  For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in
Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his
presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
 52:4  And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in
the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that]
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army,
against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts
against it round about.
 52:5  So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
Zedekiah.
 52:6  And in the fourth month, in the ninth [day] of the
month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no
bread for the people of the land.
 52:7  Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war
fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the
gate between the two walls, which [was] by the king's garden;
(now the Chaldeans [were] by the city round about:) and they
went by the way of the plain.
 52:8  But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king,
and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his
army was scattered from him.
 52:9  Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the
king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave
judgment upon him.
 52:10  And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah
before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in
Riblah.
 52:11  Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of
Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and
put him in prison till the day of his death.
 52:12  Now in the fifth month, in the tenth [day] of the
month, which [was] the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, [which]
served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
 52:13  And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house;
and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the
great [men], burned he with fire:
 52:14  And all the army of the Chaldeans, that [were] with the
captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem
round about.
 52:15  Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away
captive [certain] of the poor of the people, and the residue of
the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away,
that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the
multitude.
 52:16  But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left [certain]
of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
 52:17  Also the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of
the LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that [was] in the
house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the
brass of them to Babylon.
 52:18  The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers,
and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass
wherewith they ministered, took they away.
 52:19  And the 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.
 52:20  The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen bulls that
[were] under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the
house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without
weight.
 52:21  And [concerning] the pillars, the height of one pillar
[was] eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did
compass it; and the thickness thereof [was] four fingers: [it
was] hollow.
 52:22  And a chapiter of brass [was] upon it; and the height
of one chapiter [was] five cubits, with network and
pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all [of] brass.
The second pillar also and the pomegranates [were] like unto
these.
 52:23  And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side;
[and] all the pomegranates upon the network [were] an hundred
round about.
 52:24  And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief
priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers
of the door:
 52:25  He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the
charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near
the king's person, which were found in the city; and the
principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the
land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were
found in the midst of the city.
 52:26  So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and
brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
 52:27  And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to
death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried
away captive out of his own land.
 52:28  This [is] the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away
captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and
twenty:
 52:29  In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried
away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two
persons:
 52:30  In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of
the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons
[were] four thousand and six hundred.
 52:31  And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of
the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth
month, in the five and twentieth [day] of the month, [that]
Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the [first] year of his reign
lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him
forth out of prison,
 52:32  And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the
throne of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon,
 52:33  And changed his prison garments: and he did continually
eat bread before him all the days of his life.
 52:34  And [for] his diet, there was a continual diet given
him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day
of his death, all the days of his life.