The Apostles' Bible
2005 by Paul Esposito
Jer 1:1 The word of God which came to Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who dwelt in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
Jer 1:2 accordingly as the word of God came to him in the days of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Jer 1:3 And it was in the days of Joakim, son of Josiah king of Judah, until the eleventh year of Zedekiah king of Judah, even until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
Jer 1:4 And the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
Jer 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; and before you came forth from the womb, I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.
Jer 1:6 And I said, O Lord, Sovereign Lord, behold, I know not how to speak, for I am a child.
Jer 1:7 And the Lord said to me, Say not, I am a child; for you shall go to all to whomsoever I shall send you, and according to all the words that I shall command you, you shall speak.
Jer 1:8 Be not afraid before them; for I am with you, to deliver you, says the Lord.
Jer 1:9 And the Lord stretched forth His hand to me, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put My words into your mouth.
Jer 1:10 Behold, I have appointed you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to rebuild, and to plant.
Jer 1:11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, What do you see? And I said, A rod of an almond tree.
Jer 1:12 And the Lord said to me, You have seen well, for I have watched over My words, to perform them.
Jer 1:13 And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, A caldron on the fire; and the face of it is toward the north.
Jer 1:14 And the Lord said to me, From the north shall flame forth evils upon all the inhabitants of the land.
Jer 1:15 For behold, I call together all the kingdoms of the earth from the north, says the Lord. And they shall come, and shall set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls round about her, and against all the cities of Judah.
Jer 1:16 And I will speak to them in judgment concerning all their iniquity, forasmuch as they have forsaken Me, and sacrificed to strange gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
Jer 1:17 Gird up your loins, and stand up, and speak all the words that I shall command you. Be not afraid of their face, neither be alarmed before them; for I am with you, to deliver you, says the Lord.
Jer 1:18 Behold, I have made you this day as a strong city, and as a bronze wall, strong against all the kings of Judah and its princes, and the people of the land.
Jer 1:19 And they shall fight against you, but they shall by no means prevail against you; because I am with you, to deliver you, says the Lord.
Jer 2:1 And He said, Thus says the Lord,
Jer 2:2 I remember the kindness of your youth, and the love of your betrothal,
Jer 2:3 in following the Holy One of Israel, says the Lord, Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of His increase. All that devoured him shall offend; evils shall come upon them, says the Lord.
Jer 2:4 Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and every family of the house of Israel.
Jer 2:5 Thus says the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in Me, that they have revolted far from Me, and gone after vanities, and have become vain?
Jer 2:6 And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land in which no man has entered, and no man has dwelt in?
Jer 2:7 And I brought you to Carmel, that you should eat the fruits thereof, and the goods thereof; and you went in, and defiled My land, and made My heritage an abomination.
Jer 2:8 The priest said not, Where is the Lord? And they that held by the law knew Me not: the shepherds also sinned against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not.
Jer 2:9 Therefore I will yet plead with you, and will plead with your children's children.
Jer 2:10 For go to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and observe accurately, and see if such things have been done;
Jer 2:11 if the nations will change their gods, though they are not gods: but My people have changed their glory, for that from which they shall not be profited.
Jer 2:12 The heaven is amazed at this, and is very exceedingly horrorstruck, says the Lord.
Jer 2:13 For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.
Jer 2:14 Is Israel a servant, or a home-born slave? Why has he become a spoil?
Jer 2:15 The lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his land a wilderness; and his cities are broken down, that they should not be inhabited.
Jer 2:16 Also the children of Memphis and Tahpanhes have known you, and mocked you.
Jer 2:17 Has not your forsaking Me brought these things upon you? Says the Lord your God.
Jer 2:18 And now what have you to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the water of Gihon? And what have you to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of rivers?
Jer 2:19 Your apostasy shall correct you, and your wickedness shall reprove you. Know then, and see, that your forsaking Me has been bitter to you, says the Lord your God; and I have taken no pleasure in you, says the Lord your God.
Jer 2:20 For of old you have broken your yoke, and plucked asunder your bands; and you have said, I will not serve You, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.
Jer 2:21 Yet I planted you a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort how are you a strange vine turned to bitterness!
Jer 2:22 Though you should wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, still you are stained by your iniquities before Me, says the Lord.
Jer 2:23 How will you say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? Behold your ways in the burial ground, and know what you have done: her voice has howled in the evening;
Jer 2:24 she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up to them, who will turn her back? None that seek her shall be weary; at the time of her humiliation they shall find her.
Jer 2:25 Withdraw your foot from a rough way, and your throat from thirst: but she said I will strengthen myself for she loved strangers, and went after them.
Jer 2:26 As is the shame of a thief when he is caught, so shall the children of Israel be ashamed; they, and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.
Jer 2:27 They said to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have begotten me; and they have turned their backs to Me, and not their faces. Yet in the time of their afflictions they will say, Arise, and save us.
Jer 2:28 And where are your gods which you have made for yourself? Will they arise and save you in the time of your affliction? For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they sacrificed to Baal.
Jer 2:29 Why do you speak unto Me? You all have been ungodly, and you all have transgressed against Me, says the Lord.
Jer 2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; you have not received correction. A sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet you feared not.
Jer 2:31 Therefore hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Have I been a wilderness or a dry land to Israel? Why have My people said, We will not be ruled over, and will not come to You anymore?
Jer 2:32 Will a bride forget her attire, or a virgin her ornaments? But My people have forgotten Me days without number!
Jer 2:33 What fair device will you yet employ in your ways, so as to seek love? It shall not be so; moreover you have done wickedly in corrupting your ways;
Jer 2:34 and in your hands have been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak.
Jer 2:35 Yet you said, I am innocent: only let His wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I will plead with you, in that you say, I have not sinned.
Jer 2:36 For you have been so exceedingly contemptuous as to repeat your ways; but you shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
Jer 2:37 For you shall go forth from here also with your hands upon your head; for the Lord has rejected your hope, and you shall not prosper in it.
Jer 3:1 If a man put away his wife, and she depart from him, and become another man's, shall she return to him anymore? Shall not that woman be utterly defiled? But you have played the harlot with many shepherds, and have returned to Me, says the Lord.
Jer 3:2 Lift up your eyes and look straight ahead, and see where you have not been utterly defiled. You have sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and have defiled the land with your fornications and your wickedness.
Jer 3:3 And you retained many shepherds for a stumbling block to yourself. You had a whore's face; you became shameless toward all.
Jer 3:4 Have you not called Me as it were a home, and the father and guide of your youth?
Jer 3:5 Will God's anger continue forever, or be preserved to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done these bad things, as you were able.
Jer 3:6 And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what things the house of Israel has done to Me? They have gone on every high mountain, and under every shady tree, and have committed fornication there.
Jer 3:7 And I said after she had committed all these acts of fornication, Turn again to Me. Yet she returned not. And faithless Judah saw her faithlessness.
Jer 3:8 And I saw that (for all the sins of which she was convicted, wherein the house of Israel committed adultery, and I put her away, and gave into her hands a certificate of divorce) yet faithless Judah feared not, but went and also committed fornication herself.
Jer 3:9 And her fornication was nothing accounted of; and she committed adultery with wood and stone.
Jer 3:10 And for all these things faithless Judah turned not to Me with all her heart, but falsely.
Jer 3:11 And the Lord said to me, Israel has justified himself more than faithless Judah.
Jer 3:12 Go and read these words toward the north, and you shall say, Return to Me, O house of Israel, says the Lord; and I will not set My face against you: for I am merciful, says the Lord, and I will not be angry with you forever.
Jer 3:13 Nevertheless, know your iniquity, that you have sinned against the Lord your God, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every shady tree, but you did not hearken to My voice, says the Lord.
Jer 3:14 Turn, you children that have revolted, says the Lord; for I will rule over you. And I will take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you in to Zion.
Jer 3:15 And I will give you shepherds after My heart, and they shall certainly tend you with knowledge.
Jer 3:16 And it shall come to pass that when you are multiplied and increased upon the land, says the Lord, in those days they shall say no more, The ark of the Covenant of the Holy One of Israel. It shall not come to mind; it shall not be named; neither shall it be visited; nor shall this be done anymore.
Jer 3:17 In those days and at that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered to it: and they shall not walk anymore after the imaginations of their evil heart.
Jer 3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall come together to the house of Israel, and they shall come, together, from the land of the north, and from all the countries, to the land, which I caused their fathers to inherit.
Jer 3:19 And I said, So be it, Lord, for You said I will set you among children, and will give you a choice land, the inheritance of the Almighty God of the Gentiles. And I said, You shall call me Father; and you shall not turn away from Me.
Jer 3:20 But as a wife acts treacherously against her husband, so has the house of Israel dealt treacherously against Me, says the Lord.
Jer 3:21 A voice from the lips was heard, even of weeping and supplication of the children of Israel; for they have dealt unrighteously in their ways, they have forgotten God, their Holy One.
Jer 3:22 Turn, you children that are given to turning, and I will heal your bruises. Behold, we will be Your servants; for You are the Lord our God.
Jer 3:23 Truly the hills and the strength of the mountains were a lying refuge; but by the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
Jer 3:24 But shame has consumed the labors of our fathers from our youth; their sheep and their calves, and their sons and their daughters.
Jer 3:25 We have lain down in our shame, and our disgrace has covered us. Because we and our fathers have sinned before our God, from our youth until this day; and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.
Jer 4:1 If Israel will return to Me, says the Lord, he shall return: and if he will remove his abominations out of his mouth, and fear before Me, and swear,
Jer 4:2 The Lord lives, with truth, in judgment and righteousness, then shall nations bless by him, and by him they shall praise God in Jerusalem.
Jer 4:3 For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Break up fresh ground for yourselves, and sow not among thorns.
Jer 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to your God, and circumcise your hardness of heart, you men of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest My wrath go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your devices.
Jer 4:5 Declare in Judah, and let it be heard in Jerusalem. Say, Sound the trumpet in the land; cry aloud: say, Gather yourselves together, and let us enter into the fortified cities.
Jer 4:6 Gather up your wares and flee to Zion. Hasten, stay not: for I will bring evils from the north, and great destruction.
Jer 4:7 The lion has gone up from his lair, he has roused himself to the destruction of the nations, and has gone forth out of his place, to make the land desolate; and the cities shall be destroyed, so as to be without inhabitant.
Jer 4:8 For these things gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament, and howl; for the anger of the Lord has not turned away from you.
Jer 4:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be amazed, and the prophets shall wonder.
Jer 4:10 And I said, O sovereign Lord, verily You have deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, There shall be peace; whereas behold, the sword has reached even to their soul.
Jer 4:11 At that time they shall say to this people and to Jerusalem, There is a spirit of error in the wilderness: the way of the daughter of My people is not to purity, nor to holiness.
Jer 4:12 But a spirit of full vengeance shall come upon Me; and now I declare My judgments against them.
Jer 4:13 Behold, he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a tempest. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us, for we are in misery!
Jer 4:14 Cleanse your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that you may be saved; how long will your grievous thoughts be within you?
Jer 4:15 For a voice of one publishing from Dan shall come, and trouble out of Mount Ephraim shall be heard of.
Jer 4:16 Remind the nations; behold, they have come. Proclaim it in Jerusalem, that bands are approaching from a land afar off, and have uttered their voice against the cities of Judah.
Jer 4:17 As keepers of a field, they have surrounded her; because you, says the Lord, have neglected Me.
Jer 4:18 Your ways and your devices have brought these things upon you; this is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it has reached to your heart.
Jer 4:19 I am pained in my bowels, my bowels, and the sensitive powers of my heart. My soul is in great commotion, my heart is torn. I will not be silent, for my soul has heard the sound of a trumpet, the cry of war, and of distress: it calls on destruction.
Jer 4:20 For all the land is distressed. Suddenly my tabernacle is distressed, my curtains have been torn in two.
Jer 4:21 How long shall I see fugitives, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
Jer 4:22 For the princes of My people have not known Me, they are foolish and unwise children. They are wise to do evil, but how to do good they have not known.
Jer 4:23 I looked upon the earth, and behold, it was not; and to the sky, and there was no light in it.
Jer 4:24 I beheld the mountains, and they trembled, and I saw all the hills in commotion.
Jer 4:25 I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky were scared.
Jer 4:26 I saw, and behold, Carmel was desert, and all the cities were burnt with fire at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of His fierce anger they were utterly destroyed.
Jer 4:27 Thus says the Lord, The whole land shall be desolate; but I will not make a full end.
Jer 4:28 For these things let the earth mourn, and let the sky be dark above. For I have spoken, and I will not relent; I have purposed, and I will not turn back from it.
Jer 4:29 The whole land has recoiled from the noise of the horseman and the bent bow; they have gone into the caves, and have hidden themselves in the groves, and have gone up upon the rocks: every city was abandoned, no man dwelt in them.
Jer 4:30 And what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, and adorn yourself with golden ornaments; though you adorn your eyes with paint, your beauty shall be in vain. Your lovers have rejected you, they seek your life.
Jer 4:31 For I have heard your groaning as the voice of a woman in travail, as of her that brings forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion shall fail through weakness, and she shall lose the strength of her hands, saying, Woe is me, for my soul faints because of the slain!
Jer 5:1 Run about in the streets of Jerusalem and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if you can find one, if there is anyone that executes judgment, and seeks faithfulness, and I will pardon them, says the Lord.
Jer 5:2 The Lord lives, they say; do they not therefore swear falsely?
Jer 5:3 O Lord, Your eyes are upon faithfulness. You have scourged them, but they have not grieved; You have consumed them; but they would not receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.
Jer 5:4 Then I said, It may be they are poor; for they are weak, for they know not the way of the Lord, or the judgment of God.
Jer 5:5 I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of God. But, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.
Jer 5:6 Therefore has a lion out of the forest smitten them, and a wolf has destroyed them, even to their houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities. All that go forth from them shall be hunted, for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their backslidings.
Jer 5:7 In what way shall I forgive you for these things? Your sons have forsaken Me, and sworn by them that are not gods. And I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots' houses.
Jer 5:8 They became as wanton horses each one neighed after his neighbor's wife.
Jer 5:9 Shall I not punish them for these things? Says the Lord: and shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jer 5:10 Go up upon her battlements, and break them down; but make not a full end: leave her buttresses; for they are the Lord's.
Jer 5:11 For the house of Israel have indeed dealt treacherously against Me, says the Lord: the house of Judah also
Jer 5:12 have lied to their Lord, and they have said, These things are not so; no evils shall come upon us; and we shall not see sword or famine.
Jer 5:13 Our prophets became wind, and the word of the Lord was not in them.
Jer 5:14 Therefore thus says the Lord Almighty: Because you have spoken this word, behold, I have made My words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
Jer 5:15 Behold, I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, says the Lord; a nation the sound of whose language you shall not understand.
Jer 5:16 They are all mighty men;
Jer 5:17 and they shall devour your harvest and your bread, and shall devour your sons, and your daughters. And they shall devour your sheep, and your calves, and devour your vineyards, and your fig trees, and your olive yards. And they shall utterly destroy your strong cities, in which you trusted, with the sword.
Jer 5:18 And it shall come to pass in those days, says the Lord your God, that I will not utterly destroy you.
Jer 5:19 And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? That you shall say to them, Because you served strange gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
Jer 5:20 Proclaim these things to the house of Jacob, and let them be heard in the house of Judah.
Jer 5:21 Hear now these things, O foolish and senseless people; who have eyes, and see not; and have ears, and hear not:
Jer 5:22 Will you not fear Me? Says the Lord; and will you not fear before Me, who has set the sand as a boundary for the sea, as a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it. Yes, it shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.
Jer 5:23 But this people have a disobedient and rebellious heart; and they have turned aside and gone back.
Jer 5:24 And they have not said in their heart, Let us fear now the Lord our God, who gives us the early and latter rain, according to the season of the fulfillment of the ordinance of harvest, and has preserved it for us.
Jer 5:25 Your transgressions have turned away these things, and your sins have removed good things from you.
Jer 5:26 For among My people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught them.
Jer 5:27 As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich.
Jer 5:28 They have transgressed the rule of judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.
Jer 5:29 Shall I not punish for these things? Says the Lord: and shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jer 5:30 Shocking and horrible deeds have been done in the land;
Jer 5:31 the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands, and My people have loved it! And what will you do for the future?
Jer 6:1 Strengthen yourselves, you children of Benjamin, to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and sound an alarm with the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a signal over Beth Haccerem; for evil threatens from the north, and a great destruction is coming.
Jer 6:2 And your pride shall be taken away, O daughter of Zion.
Jer 6:3 The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch their tents against her round about, and shall feed their flocks, each with his hand.
Jer 6:4 Prepare yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us, for the day has gone down, and the shadows of the day fail.
Jer 6:5 Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.
Jer 6:6 For thus says the Lord, Cut down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city, she is full of oppression.
Jer 6:7 As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, as continually before her.
Jer 6:8 You shall be chastened, O Jerusalem, with pain and the scourge, lest My soul depart from you; lest I make you a desert land, which shall not be inhabited.
Jer 6:9 For thus says the Lord, Glean, glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel: turn back your hands as a grape-gatherer to his basket.
Jer 6:10 To whom shall I speak and testify, that he may hear? Behold, your ears are uncircumcised, and they shall not be able to hear. Behold, the word of the Lord has become a reproach to them, they will not at all desire it.
Jer 6:11 And I allowed My wrath to come to full, yet I kept it in, and did not utterly destroy them. I will pour it out on the children outside, and on the assembly of young men together; for man and woman shall be taken together, the old man with him that is full of days.
Jer 6:12 And their houses shall be turned to others, with their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out My hand upon the inhabitants of this land, says the Lord.
Jer 6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest they have all committed iniquity; from the priest even to the false prophet they have all dealt falsely.
Jer 6:14 And they healed the breach of My people imperfectly, making light of it, and saying, Peace, peace, and where is peace?
Jer 6:15 They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who were truly ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace; therefore shall they utterly fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, says the Lord.
Jer 6:16 Thus says the Lord, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths of the Lord; and see what is the good way and walk in it, and you shall find purification for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in them.
Jer 6:17 I have set watchmen over you, saying, Hear the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hear.
Jer 6:18 Therefore have the nations heard, and they that feed their flocks.
Jer 6:19 Hear, O earth; behold, I will bring evils upon this people, even the fruit of their rebellions; for they have not heeded My words, and they have rejected My law.
Jer 6:20 Why do you bring Me frankincense from Sheba, and cinnamon from a land afar off? Your whole burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices have not been pleasing to Me.
Jer 6:21 Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, I will bring weakness upon this people, and the fathers and sons shall be weak together; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.
Jer 6:22 Thus says the Lord, Behold, a people come from the north, and nations shall be stirred up from the end of the earth.
Jer 6:23 They shall lay hold of bow and spear; the people are fierce, and will have no mercy; their voice is as the roaring sea; they shall array themselves for war against you as fire on horses and chariots, O daughter of Zion.
Jer 6:24 We have heard the report of them; our hands are weakened. Anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.
Jer 6:25 Go not forth into the field, and walk not in the ways, for the sword of the enemy lingers round about.
Jer 6:26 O daughter of My people, gird yourself with sackcloth; sprinkle yourself with ashes; make for yourself pitiable lamentation, as the mourning for a beloved son; for misery will come suddenly upon you.
Jer 6:27 I have caused you to be tried among tried nations, and you shall know Me when I have tested their way.
Jer 6:28 They are all disobedient, walking perversely. They are brass and iron; they are all corrupted.
Jer 6:29 The bellows have failed from the fire, the lead has failed. The silversmith works at his trade in vain; their wickedness is not consumed.
Jer 6:30 Call them reprobate silver, because the Lord has rejected them.
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Jer 7:2 Hear the word of the Lord, all Judea.
Jer 7:3 Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Correct your ways and your devices, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
Jer 7:4 Trust not in yourselves with lying words, for they shall not profit you at all, saying, It is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.
Jer 7:5 For if you thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;
Jer 7:6 and oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your hurt;
Jer 7:7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers of old, and forever.
Jer 7:8 But seeing you have trusted in lying words, whereby you shall not be profited;
Jer 7:9 and you murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and have gone after strange gods whom you know not,
Jer 7:10 so that it is evil with you; yet have you come, and stood before Me in the house which is called by My name, and you have said, We have refrained from doing all these abominations.
Jer 7:11 Is My house, which is called by My name, a den of robbers in your eyes? And behold, I have seen it, says the Lord.
Jer 7:12 For go to My place which is in Shiloh, where I caused My name to dwell before, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
Jer 7:13 And now, because you have done all these deeds, and I spoke to you, but you hearkened not to Me; and I called you, but you answered not.
Jer 7:14 Therefore I also will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
Jer 7:15 And I will cast you out of My sight, as I cast away your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.
Jer 7:16 Therefore do not pray for this people, and do not intercede for them to be pitied. Yes, do not pray, and do not approach Me for them, for I will not hearken unto you.
Jer 7:17 Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Jer 7:18 Their children gather wood, and their fathers kindle a fire, and their women knead dough, to make cakes to the host of heaven; and they have poured out drink offerings to strange gods, that they might provoke Me to anger.
Jer 7:19 Do they provoke Me to anger? Says the Lord. Do they not provoke themselves, that their faces may be ashamed?
Jer 7:20 Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, My anger and wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and upon the men, and upon the cattle, and upon every tree of their field, and upon the fruits of the land; and it shall burn, and not be quenched.
Jer 7:21 Thus says the Lord, Gather your whole burnt offerings with your grain offerings, and eat flesh.
Jer 7:22 For I spoke not to your fathers, and commanded them not in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, concerning whole burnt offerings and sacrifice;
Jer 7:23 but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hear My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all My ways which I shall command you, that it may be well with you.
Jer 7:24 But they hearkened not to Me, and their ear gave no heed, but they walked in the imaginations of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Jer 7:25 From the day that their fathers went forth out of the land of Egypt, even until this day, and I sent to you all My servants the prophets, by day and early in the morning. Yes, I have sent them,
Jer 7:26 but they hearkened not to Me, and their ear gave no heed; and they made their neck harder than their fathers.
Jer 7:27 Therefore you shall speak this word to them.
Jer 7:28 This is the nation that has not heeded the voice of the Lord, nor received correction: truth has failed from their mouth.
Jer 7:29 Cut off your hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on your lips; for the Lord has reprobated and rejected the generation that does these things.
Jer 7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil before Me, says the Lord; they have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.
Jer 7:31 And they have built the altar of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters with fire; which I did not command them to do, neither did I design it in My heart.
Jer 7:32 Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when they shall no more say, The altar of Tophet, and the valley of the son of Hinnom, but The Valley of Slaughter; and they shall bury in Tophet, for need of room.
Jer 7:33 And the dead bodies of this people shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to drive them away.
Jer 7:34 And I will destroy out of the cities of Judah, and the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of them that make merry, and the voice of them that rejoice, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for the whole land shall become a desolation.
Jer 8:1 At that time, says the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;
Jer 8:2 and they shall spread them out to the sun, and the moon, and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and to which they have held, and which they have worshipped. They shall not be mourned for, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be for an example on the face of the earth,
Jer 8:3 because they chose death rather than life, even to all the remnant that are left of that family, in every place where I shall drive them out.
Jer 8:4 For thus says the Lord, Shall not he that falls arise? Or he that turns away, shall he not turn back again?
Jer 8:5 Why have My people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?
Jer 8:6 Hearken, I pray, and hear: will they not speak thus, There is no man that repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? The runner has failed from his course, as a tired horse in his neighing.
Jer 8:7 Even the stork in the heaven knows her time, also the turtledove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this My people knows not the judgments of the Lord.
Jer 8:8 How will you say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? In vain have the scribes used a false pen.
Jer 8:9 The wise men are ashamed, and alarmed, and taken; because they have rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is there in them?
Jer 8:10 Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to new inheritors; and they shall gather their fruits, says the Lord.
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Jer 8:13 There are no grapes on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig trees, and the leaves have fallen off.
Jer 8:14 Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the strong cities, and let us be cast out there: for God has cast us out, and made us drink water of gall, because we have sinned before Him.
Jer 8:15 We assembled for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, but there was anxiety.
Jer 8:16 We shall hear the neighing of His swift horses out of Dan. The whole land quaked at the sound of the neighing of His horses; and He shall come, and devour the land and the fullness of it; the city, and them that dwell in it.
Jer 8:17 For behold, I send forth against you deadly serpents, which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you
Jer 8:18 mortally with the pain of your distressed heart.
Jer 8:19 Behold, there is a sound of the cry of the daughter of My people from a land afar off. Is not the Lord in Zion? Is there not a king there? Because they have provoked Me with their graven images, and with strange vanities.
Jer 8:20 The summer is gone, the harvest is past, and we are not saved.
Jer 8:21 For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.
Jer 8:22 And is there no balm in Gilead, or is there no physician there? Why has not the healing of the daughter of my people taken place?
Jer 9:1 Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? Then would I weep for this my people day and night, even for the slain of the daughter of my people.
Jer 9:2 Who would give me a most distant lodge in the wilderness, that I might leave my people, and depart from them? For they all commit adultery, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jer 9:3 And they have bent their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known Me, says the Lord.
Jer 9:4 Beware, each of his neighbor, and trust not in your brother, for everyone will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.
Jer 9:5 Everyone will mock his friend; they will not speak truth; their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.
Jer 9:6 There is usury upon usury, and deceit upon deceit: they would not know Me, says the Lord.
Jer 9:7 Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, I will try them with fire, and prove them; for I will do thus because of the wickedness of the daughter of My people.
Jer 9:8 Their tongue is a wounding arrow; the words of their mouth are deceitful. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in himself retains enmity.
Jer 9:9 Shall I not punish them for these things? Says the Lord. And shall not My soul be avenged on such a people as this?
Jer 9:10 Take up a lamentation for the mountains, and a mournful dirge for the paths of the wilderness, for they are desolate from a lack of men; they heard not the sound of life from the birds of the sky, nor the cattle. They were amazed, they are gone.
Jer 9:11 And I will remove the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and make it a dwelling place of dragons; and I will utterly waste the cities of Judah, so that they shall not be inhabited.
Jer 9:12 Who is the wise man, that he may understand this? And he that has the word of the mouth of the Lord addressed to him, let him tell you why the land has been destroyed, and has been ravaged by fire like a desert, so that no one passes through it.
Jer 9:13 And the Lord said to me, Because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them, and have not hearkened to My voice;
Jer 9:14 but went after the lusts of their evil heart, and after the idols which their fathers taught them to worship.
Jer 9:15 Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I will feed them with trouble and will cause them to drink water of gall:
Jer 9:16 and I will scatter them among the nations, to them whom neither they nor their fathers knew; and I will send a sword upon them, until I have consumed them with it.
Jer 9:17 Thus says the Lord, Call the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice;
Jer 9:18 and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.
Jer 9:19 For a voice of lamentation has been heard in Zion, How we have become wretched! We are greatly ashamed, for we have forsaken the land, and have abandoned our tabernacles!
Jer 9:20 Hear the word of God, you women, and let your ears receive the words of His mouth, and teach your daughters lamentation, and every woman her neighbor a dirge.
Jer 9:21 For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants outside, and the young men from the streets.
Jer 9:22 And the carcasses of the men shall be for an example on the face of the field of your land, like grass after the mower, and there shall be none to gather them.
Jer 9:23 Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth;
Jer 9:24 but let him that boasts boast in this: the understanding and knowing that I am the Lord that exercises mercy, and judgment, and righteousness upon the earth; for in these things is My pleasure, says the Lord.
Jer 9:25 Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will visit upon all the circumcised their uncircumcision:
Jer 9:26 on Egypt, Edom, Edom, on the children of Ammon, on the children of Moab, and everyone that shaves his face round about, even them that dwell in the wilderness; for all the Gentiles are uncircumcised in flesh, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in their hearts.
Jer 10:1 Hear the word of the Lord, which He has spoken to you, O house of Israel.
Jer 10:2 Thus says the Lord: Learn not the ways of the heathen, and be not alarmed at the signs of the sky; for they are alarmed at them, falling on their faces.
Jer 10:3 For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.
Jer 10:4 They are beautified with silver and gold, they fix them with hammers and nails;
Jer 10:5 they will set them up that they may not move.
Jer 10:6 It is wrought silver, they will not walk, it is forged silver
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Jer 10:9 brought from Tarshish, gold will come from Uphaz, and the work of goldsmiths. They are all the works of craftsmen, they will clothe themselves with blue and scarlet.
Jer 10:10 They must certainly be borne, for they cannot ride of themselves. Fear them not, for they cannot do any evil, and there is no good in them.
Jer 10:11 Thus shall you say to them: Let the gods which have not made heaven and earth perish from off the earth, and from under this sky.
Jer 10:12 It is the Lord that made the earth by His strength, who set up the world by His wisdom, and by His understanding stretched out the sky,
Jer 10:13 and set abundance of waters in the sky, and brought up clouds from the ends of the earth. He made lightnings for the rain, and brought forth light out of His treasures.
Jer 10:14 Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.
Jer 10:15 They are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jer 10:16 Such is not the portion of Jacob; for He that formed all things, He is his inheritance; the Lord is His name.
Jer 10:17 He has gathered your substance from without the lodged in choice vessels.
Jer 10:18 For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will overthrow the inhabitants of this land with affliction, that your plague may be discovered.
Jer 10:19 Alas for your ruin! Your plague is grievous. And I said, Surely this is your wound, and it has overtaken you.
Jer 10:20 Your tabernacle is in a ruinous state, it has perished; and all your curtains have been torn asunder. My children and my cattle are no more; there is no longer any place for my tent, nor place for my curtains.
Jer 10:21 For the shepherds have become foolish, and have not sought the Lord; therefore the whole pasture has failed, and the sheep have been scattered.
Jer 10:22 Behold, there comes a sound of a noise, and a great earthquake from the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, and a resting place for ostriches.
Jer 10:23 I know, O Lord, that man's way is not his own; neither shall a man go, and direct his going.
Jer 10:24 Chasten us, O Lord, but with judgment; and not in wrath, lest You make us few in number.
Jer 10:25 Pour out Your wrath upon the nations that have not known You, and upon the families that have not called upon Your name; for they have devoured Jacob, and consumed him, and have made his pasture desolate.
Jer 11:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
Jer 11:2 Hear the words of this covenant, and you shall speak to the men of Judah, and to the dwellers in Jerusalem.
Jer 11:3 And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Cursed is the man who shall not heed the words of this covenant
Jer 11:4 which I commanded your fathers, in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey My voice, and do all things that I shall command you; so shall you be My people, and I will be your God,
Jer 11:5 that I may confirm My oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then I answered and said, So be it, O Lord.
Jer 11:6 And the Lord said to me, Read these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.
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Jer 11:8 But they did not do them.
Jer 11:9 And the Lord said to me, A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah, and among the dwellers in Jerusalem.
Jer 11:10 They have turned aside to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear My words, and behold, they have gone after strange gods, to serve them. And the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.
Jer 11:11 Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I bring evils upon this people, out of which they shall not be able to come forth; and they shall presently cry to Me, but I will not listen to them.
Jer 11:12 And the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall go, and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense; which shall not deliver them in the time of their troubles.
Jer 11:13 For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to burn incense to Baal.
Jer 11:14 So do not pray for this people, and do not intercede for them with supplication and prayer; for I will not hear in the day in which they call upon Me, in the day of their affliction.
Jer 11:15 Why has My beloved done abominable things in My house? Will prayers and holy offerings take away your wickedness from you, or shall you escape by these things?
Jer 11:16 The Lord has called your name a fair olive tree, of a pleasant shade in appearance, at the noise of its being lopped, fire was kindled against it; great is the affliction coming upon you. Her branches have become good for nothing.
Jer 11:17 And the Lord that planted you has pronounced evils against you, because of the iniquity of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, whatsoever they have done against themselves to provoke Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.
Jer 11:18 O Lord, teach me, and I shall know: then I saw their practices.
Jer 11:19 But I, as an innocent lamb led to the slaughter, did not know. Against me they devised an evil device, saying, Come and let us put wood into his bread, and let us utterly destroy him from off the land of the living, and let his name not be remembered any more.
Jer 11:20 O Lord, You that judges righteously, and who tests the heart and the most secret parts, let me see Your vengeance taken upon them, for to You I have declared my cause.
Jer 11:21 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek my life, that say, You shall not prophesy at all in the name of the Lord, but if you do, you shall die by our hands.
Jer 11:22 Behold, I will visit them. Their young men shall die by the sword, and their sons and their daughters shall die of famine.
Jer 11:23 And there shall be no remnant of them, for I will bring evil upon the dwellers in Anathoth, in the year of their visitation.
Jer 12:1 Righteous are You, O Lord, that I may make my defense to You: yet I will speak to You of judgments. Why is it that the way of the ungodly prospers? And all that deal very treacherously are flourishing?
Jer 12:2 You have planted them, and they have taken root; they have begotten children, and become fruitful; You are near to their mouth, but far from their mind.
Jer 12:3 But You, O Lord, know me; You have tested my heart before You; purify them for the day of their slaughter.
Jer 12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the grass of the field wither, because the wickedness of them that dwell in it? The beasts and birds are utterly destroyed, because the people said, God shall not see our ways.
Jer 12:5 Your feet run, and they cause you to faint; how will you prepare to ride upon horses? And you have been confident in the land of your peace? How will you do in the roaring of the Jordan?
Jer 12:6 For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; and they have cried out, they are gathered together in pursuit of you. Do not trust in them, though they shall speak fair words to you.
Jer 12:7 I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage; I have given My beloved one into the hands of her enemies.
Jer 12:8 My inheritance has become to Me as a lion in a forest; she has uttered her voice against Me; therefore have I hated her.
Jer 12:9 Is not My inheritance to Me like a hyena's cave, or a cave round about her? Go, gather together all the wild beasts of the field, and let them come to devour her.
Jer 12:10 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have defiled My portion, they have made My desirable portion a trackless wilderness.
Jer 12:11 It is made a complete ruin: for My sake the whole land has been utterly ruined, because there is none that takes the matter to heart.
Jer 12:12 The ravagers have come to every passage in the wilderness: for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other; no flesh has any peace.
Jer 12:13 Sow wheat, and reap thorns; their portions shall not profit them. Be ashamed of your boasting, because of your reproach before the Lord.
Jer 12:14 For thus says the Lord concerning all the evil neighbors that touch My inheritance, which I have divided to My people Israel: Behold, I will draw them away from their land, and I will cast out Judah from the midst of them.
Jer 12:15 And it shall come to pass, after I have cast them out, that I will return and have mercy upon them, and will cause them to dwell everyone in his inheritance, and everyone in his land.
Jer 12:16 And it shall be, if they will indeed learn the way of My people, to swear by My name, saying, The Lord lives; as they taught My people to swear by Baal; then shall that nation be built in the midst of My people.
Jer 12:17 But if they will not return, then will I cut off that nation with utter ruin and destruction.
Jer 13:1 Thus says the Lord: Go and procure for yourself a linen sash, and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.
Jer 13:2 So I procured the sash according to the word of the Lord, and put it around my waist.
Jer 13:3 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Jer 13:4 Take the sash that is around your waist, and get up, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
Jer 13:5 So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
Jer 13:6 And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the sash from there, which I commanded you to hide there.
Jer 13:7 So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the sash out of the place where I had buried it. And behold, it was ruined, utterly good for nothing.
Jer 13:8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus says the Lord,
Jer 13:9 Thus will I ruin the pride of Judah, and the pride of Jerusalem;
Jer 13:10 even this great pride of the men that will not listen to My words, and have gone after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them. And they shall be as this sash, which is profitable for nothing.
Jer 13:11 For as a sash clings about the waist of a man, so have I caused the house of Israel, and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me; that they might be to Me a famous people, and a praise, and a glory. But they did not hearken to Me.
Jer 13:12 And you shall say to this people, Every bottle shall be filled with wine. And it shall come to pass, if they shall say to you, Shall we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? That you shall say to them,
Jer 13:13 Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will fill the inhabitants of this land, and their kings, the sons of David that sit upon their throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and Judah and all the dwellers in Jerusalem, with strong drink.
Jer 13:14 And I will scatter them, a man and his brother, and their fathers and their sons together. I will not have compassion, says the Lord, and I will not spare, neither will I pity to save them from destruction.
Jer 13:15 Hear, and give ear, and be not proud; for the Lord has spoken.
Jer 13:16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before He causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and you shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.
Jer 13:17 But if you will not hear it, your soul shall weep in secret because of pride, and your eyes shall pour down tears, because the Lord's flock is sorely bruised.
Jer 13:18 Say to the king and the princes, Humble yourselves, and sit down; for your crown of glory is removed from your head.
Jer 13:19 The cities toward the south were shut, and there was none to open them. Judah is removed into captivity; they have suffered a complete removal.
Jer 13:20 Lift up your eyes, O Jerusalem, and behold them that come from the north; where is the flock that was given you, the sheep of your glory?
Jer 13:21 What will you say when they shall visit you, for you have taught them lessons to rule over you; shall not pangs seize you as a woman in travail?
Jer 13:22 And if you should say in your heart, Why have these things happened to me? Because of the abundance of your iniquity have your skirts been discovered, that your heels might be exposed.
Jer 13:23 If the Ethiopian shall change his skin, or the leopardess her spots, then shall you be able to do good, having learned to do evil.
Jer 13:24 So I scattered them as sticks carried by the wind into the wilderness.
Jer 13:25 Thus is your lot, and the reward of your disobedience to Me, says the Lord. As you have forgotten Me, and trusted in lies,
Jer 13:26 I also will expose your skirts upon your face, and your shame shall be seen;
Jer 13:27 your adultery also, and your neighing, and the looseness of your fornication. On the hills and in the fields I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, O Jerusalem, for you have not been purified so as to follow Me; how long yet shall it be?
Jer 14:1 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
Jer 14:2 Judah has mourned, and her gates are emptied, and are darkened upon the earth; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
Jer 14:3 And her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.
Jer 14:4 And the labors of the land failed, because there was no rain: the plowmen were ashamed; they covered their heads.
Jer 14:5 And the deer gave birth in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
Jer 14:6 The wild donkeys stood by the forests, and snuffed up the wind; their eyes failed, because there was no grass.
Jer 14:7 Our sins have risen up against us. O Lord, do for us for Your name's sake; for our sins are many before You; for we have sinned against You.
Jer 14:8 O Lord, You are the hope of Israel, and deliver us in times of trouble; why have You become as a sojourner upon the land, or as one born in the land, yet turning aside for a resting place?
Jer 14:9 Will You be as a man asleep, or as a strong man that cannot save? Yet You are among us, O Lord, and we are called by Your name; forget us not.
Jer 14:10 Thus says the Lord to this people: They have loved to wander, and they have not spared, therefore God has not prospered them; now will He remember their iniquity.
Jer 14:11 And the Lord said to me, Pray not for this people, for their good:
Jer 14:12 for though they fast, I will not hear their supplication; and though they offer whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, I will take no pleasure in them: for I will consume them with the sword, and with famine, and with pestilence.
Jer 14:13 And I said, Ah, Lord God! Behold, their prophets prophesy, and say, You shall not see a sword, nor shall famine be among you; for I will give truth and peace on the land, and in this place.
Jer 14:14 Then the Lord said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I sent them not, and I commanded them not, and I spoke not to them: for they prophesy to you false visions, divinations, and worthless things, and devices of their own heart.
Jer 14:15 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy lies in My name, and I sent them not, who say, Sword and famine shall not be upon this land; they shall die by a grievous death, and the prophets shall be consumed by famine.
Jer 14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy, they also shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, because of the sword and famine; and there shall be none to bury them. Their wives also, and their sons, and their daughters shall die thus; and I will pour out their wickedness upon them.
Jer 14:17 And you shall speak this word to them: Let your eyes shed tears day and night, and let them not cease; for the daughter of My people has been sorely bruised, and her plague is very grievous.
Jer 14:18 If I go forth into the plain, then behold the slain by the sword! And if I enter into the city, then behold the distress of famine! For priest and prophet have gone to a land which they knew not.
Jer 14:19 Have You utterly rejected Judah? And has Your soul departed from Zion? Why have You stricken us, and there is no healing for us? We waited for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, and behold trouble!
Jer 14:20 We know our sins, O Lord, and the iniquities of our fathers, for we have sinned before You.
Jer 14:21 Refrain for Your name's sake, destroy not the throne of Your glory. Remember, break not Your covenant with us.
Jer 14:22 Is there anyone among the idols of the Gentiles that can give rain? And will the sky yield His fullness at their bidding? Are not You He? We will even wait on You, O Lord, for You have made all these things.
Jer 15:1 And the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before My face, My soul could not be toward them: dismiss this people, and let them go forth.
Jer 15:2 And it shall be, if they say to you, Where shall we go forth? Then you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: As many as are for death, to death; and as many as are for famine, to famine; and as many as are for the sword, to the sword; and as many as are for captivity, to captivity.
Jer 15:3 And I will punish them with four kinds of death, says the Lord, the sword to slay, the dogs to tear, the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the sky to devour and destroy.
Jer 15:4 And I will deliver them up for distress to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for all that he did in Jerusalem.
Jer 15:5 Who will spare you, O Jerusalem? And who will fear for you? Or who will turn back to ask about your welfare?
Jer 15:6 You have turned away from Me, says the Lord, you will go back. Therefore I will stretch out My hand, and I will destroy you, and will spare them no more.
Jer 15:7 And I will completely scatter them; in the gates of My people they are bereaved of children. They have destroyed My people because of their iniquities.
Jer 15:8 Their widows have been multiplied more than the sand of the sea. I have brought young men against the mother, and distress at noonday. I have suddenly cast trembling and anxiety upon her.
Jer 15:9 She that bore seven is spent; her soul has fainted under trouble; her sun is gone down while it is yet noon; she is ashamed and disgraced. I will give the remnant of them to the sword before their enemies.
Jer 15:10 Woe is me, my mother! You have born me as some man of strife, and at variance with the whole earth. I have not helped others, nor has anyone helped me; my strength has failed among them that curse me.
Jer 15:11 Be it so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood before You in the time of their calamities, and in the time of their affliction, for their good against the enemy.
Jer 15:12 Will iron be known? Whereas your strength is a bronze covering.
Jer 15:13 Yes, I will give your treasures for a spoil as a recompense, because of all your sins, and that in all your borders.
Jer 15:14 And I will enslave you to your enemies round about, in a land which you have not known; for a fire has been kindled out of My wrath; it shall burn upon you.
Jer 15:15 O Lord, remember me, and visit me, and vindicate me before them that persecute me. Do not bear long with them; know how I have met with reproach for Your sake, from those who nullify Your words.
Jer 15:16 Consume them, and Your word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart. For Your name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.
Jer 15:17 I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of Your power. I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness.
Jer 15:18 Why do they that grieve me prevail against me? My wound is severe; when shall I be healed? It has indeed become to me as deceitful water that has no faithfulness.
Jer 15:19 Therefore thus says the Lord: If you will return, then will I restore you, and you shall stand before My face. And if you will bring forth the precious from the worthless, you shall be as My mouth; and they shall return to you; but you shall not return to them.
Jer 15:20 And I will make you to this people as a strong bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall by no means prevail against you.
Jer 15:21 For I am with you, to save you, and to deliver you out of the hand of wicked men; and I will ransom you out of the hand of pestilent men.
Jer 16:1 And you shall not take a wife, says the Lord God of Israel.
Jer 16:2 And there shall be no son born to you, nor daughter in this place.
Jer 16:3 For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that have born them, and their fathers that have begotten them in this land:
Jer 16:4 They shall die a grievous death. They shall not be lamented over, nor buried; they shall be for an example on the face of the earth; and they shall be for the wild beasts of the land, and for the birds of the sky. They shall fall by the sword, and shall be consumed with famine.
Jer 16:5 Thus says the Lord: Enter not into their mourning feast, and go not to lament, and mourn not for them, for I have removed My peace from this people.
Jer 16:6 They shall not bewail them, nor make cuttings for them, and they shall not shave themselves for them.
Jer 16:7 And there shall be no bread broken in mourning for them in consolation over the dead; they shall not give one to drink a cup for consolation over his father or his mother.
Jer 16:8 You shall not enter into the banquet house, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
Jer 16:9 For thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I will make the voice of joy to cease out of this place before your eyes, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
Jer 16:10 And it shall come to pass, when you report to this people all these words, and they shall say to you, Why has the Lord pronounced all these evils against us? What is our unrighteousness? And what is our sin which we have sinned before the Lord our God?
Jer 16:11 Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers forsook Me, says the Lord, and went after strange gods and served them, and worshipped them, and forsook Me, and kept not My law.
Jer 16:12 (And you sinned worse than your fathers for behold, you walk everyone after the lusts of your own evil heart, so as not to listen to Me).
Jer 16:13 Therefore I will cast you off from this good land into a land which neither you nor your fathers have known. And you shall serve their other gods, who shall have no mercy upon you.
Jer 16:14 Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when they shall no more say, The Lord lives, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
Jer 16:15 but, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel from the land of the north, and from all countries in which they were thrust out. And I will restore them to their own land, which I gave to their fathers.
Jer 16:16 Behold, I will send many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send many hunters, and they shall hunt them upon every mountain, and upon every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
Jer 16:17 For My eyes are upon all their ways; and their iniquities have not been hidden from My eyes.
Jer 16:18 And I will recompense double for their iniquity and their sins, whereby they have profaned My land with the carcasses of their abominations, and with their iniquities, whereby they have trespassed against My inheritance.
Jer 16:19 O Lord, You are my strength and my help, and my refuge in days of evil. To You the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, How worthless were the idols which our fathers procured for themselves, and there is no help in them.
Jer 16:20 Will a man make gods for himself, whereas these are no gods?
Jer 16:21 Therefore behold, I will at this time manifest My hand to them, and will make known to them My power; and they shall know that My name is the Lord.
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Jer 17:5 Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and will lean his arm of flesh upon him, while his heart departs from the Lord.
Jer 17:6 And he shall be as the wild tamarisk in the desert. he shall not see when good comes; but he shall dwell in barren places, and in the wilderness, in a salty land which is not inhabited.
Jer 17:7 But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.
Jer 17:8 And he shall be as a thriving tree by the waters, and he shall cast forth his root toward a moist place. He shall not fear when heat comes, and there shall be shady branches upon him; he shall not fear in a year of drought, and he shall not fail to bear fruit.
Jer 17:9 The heart is deep beyond all things, and it constitutes the man, and who can know him?
Jer 17:10 I, the Lord, search the hearts, and test the mind, to give to everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruits of his doings.
Jer 17:11 The partridge utters her voice; she gathers eggs which she did not lay. So is a man gaining his wealth unjustly: in the midst of his days his riches shall leave him, and at his latter end he will be a fool.
Jer 17:12 An exalted throne of glory is our sanctuary.
Jer 17:13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, let all that have left You be ashamed, let them that have revolted be written on the earth, because they have forsaken the fountain of life, the Lord.
Jer 17:14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed. Save me, and I shall be saved; for You are my boast.
Jer 17:15 Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come.
Jer 17:16 But I have not been weary of following You, nor have I desired the day of man. You know the words that proceed out of my lips; they are before Your face.
Jer 17:17 Be not a stranger to me, but spare me in the evil day.
Jer 17:18 Let them that persecute me be ashamed, but let me not be ashamed. Let them be alarmed, but let me not be alarmed. Bring upon them the evil day, crush them with double destruction.
Jer 17:19 Thus says the Lord; Go and stand in the gates of the children of your people, by which the kings of Judah enter, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.
Jer 17:20 And you shall say to them: Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all Judea, and all Jerusalem, all who go in at these gates:
Jer 17:21 thus says the Lord: Take heed to your souls, and take up no burdens on the Sabbath day, and go not forth through the gates of Jerusalem;
Jer 17:22 and carry forth no burdens out of your houses on the Sabbath day, and you shall do no work. Sanctify the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
Jer 17:23 But they hearkened not, and inclined not their ear, but stiffened their neck more than their fathers did, so as not to hear Me, and not to receive correction.
Jer 17:24 And it shall come to pass, if you will hearken to Me, says the Lord, to carry in no burdens through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and to sanctify the Sabbath day, so as to do no work upon it,
Jer 17:25 that there shall enter through the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, and riding on their chariots and horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the dwellers in Jerusalem. And this city shall be inhabited forever.
Jer 17:26 And men shall come out of the cities of Judah, and from round about Jerusalem, and out of the land of Benjamin, and out of the plain country, and from the hill country, and from the south, bringing whole burnt offerings, sacrifices, incense, manna, and frankincense, and bringing praise to the house of the Lord.
Jer 17:27 But it shall come to pass, that if you will not listen to Me and sanctify the Sabbath day, to bear no burdens, nor go in with them by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then will I kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the streets of Jerusalem, and shall not be quenched.
Jer 18:1 The word that came from the Lord to
Jer 18:2 Jeremiah, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there you shall hear My words.
Jer 18:3 So I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was making a vessel on the stones.
Jer 18:4 And the vessel which he was making with his hands fell apart. So he made it into another vessel, as it seemed good to him.
Jer 18:5 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Jer 18:6 O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in My hands.
Jer 18:7 If I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation, or upon a kingdom, to cut them off, and to destroy them;
Jer 18:8 and that nation turn from all their sins, then will I relent of the disasters which I purposed to do to them.
Jer 18:9 And if I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation and kingdom, to rebuild and to plant it;
Jer 18:10 and they do evil before Me, so as not to heed My voice, then will I relent of the good which I spoke of, to do it to them.
Jer 18:11 And now, say to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Behold, I prepare disasters against you, and devise a plan against you: let everyone turn now from his evil way, and amend your practices.
Jer 18:12 And they said, We will quit ourselves like men, for we will pursue our perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of his evil heart.
Jer 18:13 Therefore thus says the Lord: Inquire now among the nations, who has heard such horrible things as what the virgin of Israel has done?
Jer 18:14 Will fertilizing streams fail to flow from a rock, or snow fail from Lebanon? Will water violently impelled by the wind turn aside?
Jer 18:15 For My people have forgotten Me, they have offered incense in vain, and they fail in their ways, leaving the ancient tracks, to enter upon impassable paths;
Jer 18:16 to make their land a desolation, and a perpetual hissing. All that go through it shall be amazed, and shall shake their heads.
Jer 18:17 I will scatter them before their enemies like an east wind. I will show them the day of their destruction.
Jer 18:18 Then they said, Come, and let us devise a plan 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 attack him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.
Jer 18:19 Hear me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my pleading.
Jer 18:20 Forasmuch as evil is rewarded for good; for they have spoken words against my soul, and they have hidden the punishment they meant for me. Remember that I stood before Your face, to speak good concerning them, to turn away Your wrath from them.
Jer 18:21 Therefore deliver up their sons to famine, and gather them to the power of the sword. Let their women be childless and widows, and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in war.
Jer 18:22 Let there be a cry in their houses: You shall bring upon them robbers suddenly for they have formed a plan to take me, and have hidden snares for me.
Jer 18:23 And You, O Lord, know all their deadly counsel against me: provide no atonement for their iniquities, and do not blot out their sins from before You. Let their weakness come before You; deal with them in the time of Your wrath.
Jer 19:1 Then the Lord said to me, Go and get an earthen bottle, the work of the potter, and you shall bring some of the elders of the people, and of the priests.
Jer 19:2 And you shall go forth to the burial place of the sons of their children, which is at the entrance of the Potsherd Gate; and proclaim there all these words which I shall speak to you.
Jer 19:3 And you shall say to them, Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and men of Judah, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they that enter in by these gates. Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I will bring such a catastrophe upon this place, that the ears of everyone that hears it shall tingle.
Jer 19:4 Because they forsook Me, and profaned this place, and burned incense in it to strange gods, which they and their fathers knew not; and the kings of Judah have filled this place with innocent blood,
Jer 19:5 and built high places for Baal, to burn their children in the fire, which things I commanded not, neither did I design them in My heart.
Jer 19:6 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Tophet, or the fall and burial place of the son of Hinnom, but the burial place of slaughter.
Jer 19:7 And I will destroy the counsel of Judah and the counsel of Jerusalem in this place; and I will cast them down with the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives. And I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth.
Jer 19:8 And I will bring this city to desolation and make it a hissing: everyone that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plagues.
Jer 19:9 And they shall eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat, everyone the flesh of his neighbor in the blockade, and in the siege with which their enemies shall besiege them.
Jer 19:10 And you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men that go forth with you,
Jer 19:11 and you shall say, Thus says the Lord, Thus will I break in pieces this people, and this city, even as an earthen vessel is broken in pieces which cannot be mended again.
Jer 19:12 Thus will I do to this place, says the Lord, and to the inhabitants of it, that this city may be given up, as one that is falling to ruin.
Jer 19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as a ruinous place, because of their uncleanness in all the houses, in which they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured out drink offerings to strange gods.
Jer 19:14 And Jeremiah came from Tophet, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord's house. And said to all the people, Thus says the Lord:
Jer 19:15 Behold I bring upon this city, and upon all the cities belonging to it, and upon the villages of it, all the doom which I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their neck, that they might not hearken to My commands.
Jer 20:1 Now Pashur the son of Immer, the priest, who also had been appointed chief of the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these words.
Jer 20:2 And he struck him, and cast him into the dungeon which was by the gate of the upper house that was set apart, which was by the house of the Lord.
Jer 20:3 And Pashur brought Jeremiah out of the dungeon. And Jeremiah said to him, the Lord has not called your name Pashur, but Exile.
Jer 20:4 For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will give you up to captivity with all your friends, and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it. And I will give you and all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and they shall carry them captives, and cut them to pieces with swords.
Jer 20:5 And I will give all the strength of this city, and all the labors of it, and all the treasures of the king of Judah, into the hands of his enemies, and they shall bring them to Babylon.
Jer 20:6 And you and all who live in your house shall go into captivity, and you shall die in Babylon, and there you and all your friends shall be buried, to whom you have prophesied lies.
Jer 20:7 You have deceived me, O Lord, and I have been deceived. You have been strong, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing stock, I am continually mocked every day.
Jer 20:8 For I will laugh with my bitter speech, I will call upon rebellion and misery; for the word of the Lord has become a reproach to me and a mockery all my days.
Jer 20:9 Then I said, I will by no means name the name of the Lord, and I will no longer speak in His name. But it was a burning fire flaming in my bones, and I am utterly weakened on all sides, and cannot bear up.
Jer 20:10 For I have heard the reproach of many gathering round, saying, Conspire, and let us conspire together against him, even all his friends. Watch his intentions, if perhaps he shall be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall be avenged on him.
Jer 20:11 But the Lord was with me as a mighty man of war; therefore they persecuted me, but could not perceive anything against me. They were greatly confounded, for they perceived not their disgrace, which shall never be forgotten.
Jer 20:12 O Lord, You who tests the righteous, and who understands the mind and heart, let me see Your vengeance upon them: for to You I have revealed my cause.
Jer 20:13 Sing to the Lord, sing praises to Him: for He has rescued the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
Jer 20:14 Cursed be the day in which I was born! Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!
Jer 20:15 Cursed be the man who brought the glad tidings to my father, saying, A male child has been born to you.
Jer 20:16 Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation at noon;
Jer 20:17 because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always enlarged with me.
Jer 20:18 Why is it that I came forth from the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?
Jer 21:1 The word that came from the Lord to Jeremiah, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashur, the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah, son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
Jer 21:2 Inquire of the Lord for us, for the king of Babylon has risen up against us. Perhaps the Lord will do according to all His wonderful works, and the king shall depart from us.
Jer 21:3 And Jeremiah said to them, Thus shall you say to Zedekiah, king of Judah:
Jer 21:4 Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war with which you fight against the Chaldeans that have besieged you from outside the wall, and I will gather them into the midst of this city.
Jer 21:5 And I will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, with wrath and great anger.
Jer 21:6 And I will strike all the inhabitants of this city, both men and cattle, with grievous pestilence, and they shall die.
Jer 21:7 And after this, thus says the Lord; I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people that are left in this city from the pestilence, and from the famine, and from the sword, into the hands of their enemies that seek their lives, and they shall cut them in pieces with the edge of the sword. I will not spare them, and I will not have compassion upon them.
Jer 21:8 And you shall say to this people, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I have set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
Jer 21:9 He that remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by famine; but he that goes forth to defect to the Chaldeans that have besieged you shall live, and his life shall be as a prize to him, and he shall live.
Jer 21:10 For I have set My face against this city for evil, and not for good: it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall consume it with fire.
Jer 21:11 O house of the king of Judah, hear the word of the Lord.
Jer 21:12 O house of David, thus says the Lord: Judge judgment in the morning, and act rightly, and rescue the spoiled one from the hand of him that wrongs him, lest My anger be kindled like fire, and it burn, and there be none to quench it.
Jer 21:13 Behold, I am against you that dwell in the valley of Sor; in the plain country, even against them that say, Who shall alarm us? Or who shall enter into our dwellings?
Jer 21:14 And I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all things round about it.
Jer 22:1 Thus says the Lord: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and you shall speak there this word,
Jer 22:2 and you shall say, Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, that sit on the throne of David; you, your house, your people, and those that go in at these gates.
Jer 22:3 Thus says the Lord: Execute judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him; and oppress not the stranger, the orphan, or widow, and sin not, and shed no innocent blood in this place.
Jer 22:4 For if you will indeed perform this word, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, and riding on chariots and horses; they, their servants, and their people.
Jer 22:5 But if you will not perform these words, by Myself have I sworn, says the Lord, that this house shall be brought to desolation.
Jer 22:6 For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to Me, and the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a desert, even cities that shall not be inhabited;
Jer 22:7 and I will bring upon you a destroying man, and his axe; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
Jer 22:8 And nations shall pass through this city, and each shall say to his neighbor, Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?
Jer 22:9 And they shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped strange gods, and served them.
Jer 22:10 Weep not for the dead, nor lament for him: weep bitterly for him that goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native land.
Jer 22:11 For thus says the Lord concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, who reigns in the place of Josiah his father, who has gone forth out of this place; He shall not return here anymore.
Jer 22:12 But in that place where I have carried him captive, there shall he die, and shall see this land no more.
Jer 22:13 Woe to him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper chambers by injustice, who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work.
Jer 22:14 You have built for yourself a well-proportioned house, with airy chambers, fitted with windows, and paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
Jer 22:15 Shall you reign because you are provoked with your father Ahaz? They shall not eat, and they shall not drink: it is better for you to execute justice and righteousness.
Jer 22:16 They understood not, they judged not the cause of the afflicted, nor the cause of the poor is not this your not knowing Me? Says the Lord.
Jer 22:17 Behold, your eyes are not good, nor your heart, but they go after your covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.
Jer 22:18 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, even concerning this man: they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah brother! Neither shall they weep for him, saying, Alas Lord.
Jer 22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey; he shall be dragged roughly along and cast outside the gate of Jerusalem.
Jer 22:20 Go up to Lebanon and cry; and utter your voice to Bashan, and cry aloud to the extremity of the sea: for all your lovers are destroyed.
Jer 22:21 I spoke to you on occasion of your trespass, but you said, I will not hearken. This has been your way from your youth, you have not hearkened to My voice.
Jer 22:22 The wind shall tend all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; for then shall you be ashamed and disgraced because of all your lovers.
Jer 22:23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, making your nest in the cedars, you shall groan heavily, when pangs as of a travailing woman have come upon you.
Jer 22:24 As I live, says the Lord, though Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet ring upon My right hand, yet would I pluck you off;
Jer 22:25 and I will deliver you into the hands of them that seek you life, before whom you are afraid, into the hands of the Chaldeans.
Jer 22:26 And I will cast you out, and your mother that bore you, into a land where you were not born; and there you shall die.
Jer 22:27 But they shall by no means return to the land which they long for in their souls.
Jer 22:28 Jeconiah is dishonored as a good for nothing vessel; for he is thrown out and cast forth into a land which he knew not.
Jer 22:29 O earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord!
Jer 22:30 Write this man down as childless; for by no means shall his seed ever grow up to sit on the throne of David, or be as a prince yet in Judah.
Jer 23:1 Woe to the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of their pasture!
Jer 23:2 Therefore thus says the Lord against them that tend My people: You have scattered My sheep, and driven them out, and you have not visited them: behold, I will take vengeance upon you according to your evil practices.
Jer 23:3 And I will gather in the remnant of My people in every land, where I have driven them out, and will set them in their pasture; and they shall increase and be multiplied.
Jer 23:4 And I will raise up shepherds to them, who shall feed them, and they shall fear no more, nor be alarmed, says the Lord.
Jer 23:5 Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up to David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and understand, and shall execute judgment and righteousness on the earth.
Jer 23:6 In his days both Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell securely. And this is his name, which the Lord shall call Him, Josedek among the prophets.
Jer 23:7 Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when they shall no more say, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
Jer 23:8 but The Lord lives, who has gathered the whole seed of Israel from the north land, and from all the countries where He had driven them out, and has restored them into their own land.
Jer 23:9 My heart is broken within me; all my bones are shaken. I have become as a broken down man, and as a man overcome with wine, because of the Lord, and because of the excellence of His glory.
Jer 23:10 For because of these things the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course has become evil, and so also their strength.
Jer 23:11 For priest and prophet are defiled, and I have seen their iniquities in My house.
Jer 23:12 Therefore let their way be slippery and dark to them, and they shall be tripped up and fall in it; for I will bring evils upon them, in the year of their visitation.
Jer 23:13 And in the prophets of Samaria I have seen lawless deeds; they prophesied by Baal, and led My people Israel astray.
Jer 23:14 Also in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen horrible things: as they committed adultery, and walked in lies, and strengthened the hands of many, that they should not return each from his evil way. They have all become to Me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.
Jer 23:15 Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will feed them with pain, and give them bitter water to drink; for from the prophets of Jerusalem has defilement gone forth into all the land.
Jer 23:16 Thus says the Lord Almighty, Hearken not to the words of the prophets, for they frame a vain vision for themselves; they speak from their own heart, and not from the mouth of the Lord.
Jer 23:17 They say to them that reject the word of the Lord, There shall be peace to you; and to all that walk after their own lusts, and to everyone that walks in the error of his heart, they have said, No evil shall come upon you.
Jer 23:18 For who has stood in the counsel of the Lord, and seen His word? Who has hearkened, and heard?
Jer 23:19 Behold, there is an earthquake from the Lord, and anger proceeds to a convulsion, it shall come violently upon the ungodly.
Jer 23:20 And the Lord's wrath shall return no more, until He has accomplished it, and until He has established it, according to the purpose of His heart. At the end of the days they shall understand it.
Jer 23:21 I sent not the prophets, yet they ran: neither did I speak to them, yet they prophesied.
Jer 23:22 But if they had stood in My counsel, and if they had hearkened to My words, then would they have turned My people from their evil practices.
Jer 23:23 I am a God close at hand, says the Lord, and not a God afar off.
Jer 23:24 Shall anyone hide himself in secret places, and I not see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth? Says the Lord.
Jer 23:25 I have heard what the prophets say, what they prophesy in My name, saying falsely, I have seen a night vision.
Jer 23:26 How long shall these things be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, when they prophesy the purposes of their own heart?
Jer 23:27 Who devise that men may forget My law by their dreams, which they have told everyone to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name in the worship of Baal.
Jer 23:28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and he in whom is My word spoken to him, let him tell My word truly. What is the chaff to the wheat? So are My words, says the Lord.
Jer 23:29 Behold, are not My words as fire? Says the Lord; and as an axe cutting the rock?
Jer 23:30 Behold, I am therefore against the prophets, says the Lord God, that steal My words everyone from his neighbor.
Jer 23:31 Behold, I am against the prophets that put forth prophecies of mere words, and slumber their sleep.
Jer 23:32 Therefore behold, I am against the prophets that prophesy false dreams, and have not told them truly, and have caused My people to err by their lies, and by their errors; yet I sent them not, and commanded them not. Therefore, they shall not profit this people at all.
Jer 23:33 And if this people, or the priest, or the prophet, should ask, What is the burden of the Lord? Then you shall say to them, You are the burden, and I will dash you down, says the Lord.
Jer 23:34 As for the prophet and the priests and the people, who shall say, The burden of the Lord, I will even take vengeance on that man, and on his house.
Jer 23:35 Thus shall you say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has the Lord answered? And, what has the Lord said?
Jer 23:36 And the burden of the Lord you shall mention no more; for his own word shall be a man's burden.
Jer 23:37 But what, you say, has the Lord our God spoken?
Jer 23:38 Therefore thus says the Lord our God: Because you have spoken this word, The burden of the Lord, and I sent to you, saying, you shall not say, The burden of the Lord;
Jer 23:39 therefore behold, I will seize and dash you down and the city which I gave to you and your fathers.
Jer 23:40 And I will bring upon you an everlasting reproach, and everlasting disgrace, which shall not be forgotten.
Jer 24:1 The Lord showed me two baskets of figs, lying in front of the temple of the Lord, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried Jeconiah son of Joakim king of Judah captive, along with the princes, the craftsmen, the prisoners, and the rich men out of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
Jer 24:2 The one basket was full of very good figs, as the early figs; and the other basket was full of very bad figs, which could not be eaten, for they were so bad.
Jer 24:3 And the Lord said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, for they are so bad.
Jer 24:4 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Jer 24:5 Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge the Jews that have been carried away captive, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good.
Jer 24:6 And I will fix My eyes upon them for good, and I will restore them into this land for good; and I will build them up, and not pull them down, and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
Jer 24:7 And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be to Me a people, and I will be to them a God: for they shall turn to Me with all their heart.
Jer 24:8 And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad; thus says the Lord: So will I deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his nobles, and the remnant of Jerusalem, them that are left in this land, and those that dwell in the land of Egypt.
Jer 24:9 And I will cause them to be dispersed into all the kingdoms of the earth, and they shall be for a reproach, and a proverb, and an object of hatred, and a curse, in every place where I have driven them out.
Jer 24:10 And I will send against them famine, and pestilence, and the sword, until they are consumed from off the land which I have given them.
Jer 25:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah;
Jer 25:2 which he spoke to all the people of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
Jer 25:3 In the thirteenth year of Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah, even until this day for twenty-three years, I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking,
Jer 25:4 and I sent to you My servants the prophets, sending them early; (but you would not listen, nor incline your ear to hear) saying,
Jer 25:5 Turn, everyone of you, from his evil way, and from your evil practices, and you shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers, forever and ever.
Jer 25:6 Do not go after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them, lest you provoke Me by the works of your hands, to do you harm.
Jer 25:7 But you hearkened not to Me.
Jer 25:8 Therefore thus says the Lord: Since you did not believe My words,
Jer 25:9 behold I will send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it. And I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.
Jer 25:10 And I will destroy from among them the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the scent of ointment, and the light of a candle.
Jer 25:11 And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.
Jer 25:12 And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation.
Jer 25:13 And I will bring upon that land all My words which I have spoken against it, even all things that are written in this book.
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Jer 25:15 Thus said the Lord God of Israel: Take the cup of this unmixed wine from My hand, and you shall cause all the nations to drink, to whom I send you.
Jer 25:16 And they shall drink, and vomit, and be mad, because of the sword which I send among them.
Jer 25:17 So I took the cup out of the Lord's hand, and caused the nations to whom the Lord sent me to drink:
Jer 25:18 Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of Judah, and his princes, to make them a desert place, a desolation, and a hissing.
Jer 25:19 And Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his nobles, and all his people;
Jer 25:20 and all the mixed multitude, and all the kings of the Philistines, namely Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Azotus,
Jer 25:21 and Edom, and the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon,
Jer 25:22 and the kings of Tyre, and the kings of Sidon, and the kings in the country beyond the sea,
Jer 25:23 and Dedan, Tema, Buz, and everyone that is shaved round about the face,
Jer 25:24 and all the mixed multitude dwelling in the wilderness,
Jer 25:25 and all the kings of Aelam, and all the kings of the Persians,
Jer 25:26 and all the kings from the north, the far and the near, each one with his brother, and all the kingdoms which are on the face of the earth.
Jer 25:27 And you shall say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty: Drink, and be drunk; and you shall vomit and fall, and shall by no means rise, because of the sword which I send among you.
Jer 25:28 And it shall come to pass, when they refuse to take the cup out of your hand, to drink it, that you shall say, Thus said the Lord; You shall surely drink.
Jer 25:29 For I am beginning to afflict the city which is called by My name, and you shall by no means be held guiltless: for I am calling a sword upon all that dwell upon the earth.
Jer 25:30 And you shall prophesy against them these words, and shall say: The Lord shall speak from on high, from His sanctuary He will utter His voice. He will pronounce a declaration on His place; and these shall answer like men gathering grapes. And destruction is coming on them that dwell on the earth,
Jer 25:31 even upon the extreme part of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with the nations, He is pleading with all flesh, and the ungodly are given to the sword, says the Lord.
Jer 25:32 Thus said the Lord: Behold, evils are proceeding from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind goes forth from the end of the earth.
Jer 25:33 And the slain of the Lord shall be in the day of the Lord from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth.
Jer 25:34 Howl, O you shepherds, and cry; lament, you rams of the flock: for your days have been completed for slaughter, and you shall fall as the choice rams.
Jer 25:35 And flight shall perish from the shepherds, and safety from the rams of the flock.
Jer 25:36 A voice of the crying of the shepherds, and a moaning of the sheep and the rams: for the Lord has destroyed their pastures.
Jer 25:37 And the peaceful dwellings that remain shall be destroyed before the fierceness of My anger.
Jer 25:38 He has forsaken His lair, as a lion: for their land has become desolate before the great sword.
Jer 26:1 In the beginning of the reign of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah, there came this word from the Lord:
Jer 26:2 Thus said the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord's house, and you shall declare to all the Jews, and to all that come to worship in the house of the Lord, all the words which I commanded you to speak to them; do not leave out one word.
Jer 26:3 Perhaps they will listen, and turn from their evil ways; then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.
Jer 26:4 And you shall say, Thus said the Lord: If you will not hearken to Me, to walk in My statutes which I set before you,
Jer 26:5 to hearken to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I sent to you early in the morning; yes, I sent them, but you hearkened not to Me;
Jer 26:6 then will I make this house as Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.
Jer 26:7 And the priests, and the false prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.
Jer 26:8 And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had ceased speaking all that the Lord had ordered him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the false prophets and all the people took him, saying,
Jer 26:9 You shall surely die, because you have prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall be as Shiloh, and this city shall be made quite destitute of inhabitants. And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
Jer 26:10 And the princes of Judah heard this word, and they went up out of the house of the king to the house of the Lord, and sat in the entrance of the new gate.
Jer 26:11 Then the priests and the false prophets said to the princes and to all the people, The judgment of death is due to this man, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.
Jer 26:12 Then Jeremiah spoke to the princes, and to all the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city, all the words which you have heard.
Jer 26:13 And now amend your ways and your works, and hearken to the voice of the Lord, and the Lord shall relent from the doom which He has pronounced against you.
Jer 26:14 And behold, I am in your hands; do to me as is expedient, and as it is best for you.
Jer 26:15 But be certain of this, that if you kill me, you shall bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon its inhabitants; for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.
Jer 26:16 Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the false prophets; Judgment of death is not due to this man; for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.
Jer 26:17 And there rose up men of the elders of the land, and said to all the assembly of the people,
Jer 26:18 Micah the Moreshite lived in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah, Thus says the Lord; Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become a desolation, and the mountain of the house shall be a thicket of trees.
Jer 26:19 Did Hezekiah and all Judah in any way kill him? Was it not that they feared the Lord, and they made supplication before the Lord, and the Lord relented from the doom which He had pronounced against them? But we have wrought great evil against our own souls.
Jer 26:20 And there was another man prophesying in the name of the Lord, Urijah the son of Shemaiah, of Kirjath Jearim; and he prophesied concerning this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.
Jer 26:21 And King Jehoiakim and all the princes heard all his words, and sought to kill him; and Urijah heard it and went to Egypt.
Jer 26:22 And the king sent men to Egypt,
Jer 26:23 and they brought him out, and brought him into the king; and he struck him with the sword, and cast him into the sepulcher of the children of his people.
Jer 26:24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, to prevent his being delivered into the hands of the people, or being killed.
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Jer 27:2 Thus said the Lord: Make for yourself bonds and yokes, and put them about your neck,
Jer 27:3 and you shall send them to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the children of Ammon, to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hands of their messengers that come to meet them at Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
Jer 27:4 And you shall commission them to say to their masters, Thus said the Lord God of Israel: Thus shall you say to your masters:
Jer 27:5 I have made the earth by My great power, and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to whomsoever it shall seem good in My eyes.
Jer 27:6 I have given the earth to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to serve him, and the wild beasts of the field to labor for him.
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Jer 27:8 And the nation and kingdom, all that shall not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with sword and famine will I visit them, says the Lord, until they are consumed by his hand.
Jer 27:9 And do not listen to your false prophets, nor to them that divine to you, nor to them that foretell events by dreams to you, nor to your soothsayers, nor your sorcerers, that say, You shall by no means work for the king of Babylon:
Jer 27:10 for they prophesy lies to you, to remove you far from your land.
Jer 27:11 But the nation which shall put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, I will even leave it upon its land, and it shall serve him, and dwell in it.
Jer 27:12 I spoke also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Put your neck into the yoke, and serve the king of Babylon.
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Jer 27:14 For they prophesy unrighteous words to you,
Jer 27:15 for I sent them not, says the Lord; and they prophesy in My name unjustly, that I might destroy you, and you should perish, and your prophets, who unrighteously prophesy lies to you.
Jer 27:16 I spoke to you, and to all this people, and to the priests, saying, Thus said the Lord: Do not listen to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Lord's house shall return from Babylon for they prophesy unrighteous words to you.
Jer 27:17 I sent them not.
Jer 27:18 If they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is in them, let them meet Me, for thus has the Lord said.
Jer 27:19 And as for the remaining vessels,
Jer 27:20 which the king of Babylon did not take, when he carried Jeconiah prisoner out of Jerusalem,
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Jer 27:22 they shall go into Babylon, says the Lord.
Jer 28:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the false prophet, the son of Azur, from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the sight of the priests and all the people, saying,
Jer 28:2 Thus says the Lord: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Jer 28:3 Yet two full years, and I will return into this place the vessels of the house of the Lord,
Jer 28:4 with Jeconiah, and the captivity of Judah; For I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Jer 28:5 Then Jeremiah spoke to Hananiah in the sight of all the people, and in the sight of the priests that stood in the house of the Lord,
Jer 28:6 and Jeremiah said, May the Lord indeed do thus; may He confirm your word which you prophesy, to return the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the captivity, out of Babylon to this place.
Jer 28:7 Nevertheless hear the word of the Lord which I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people:
Jer 28:8 The prophets that were before me and before you of old, also prophesied over much country, and against great kingdoms, concerning war.
Jer 28:9 As for the prophet that has prophesied for peace, when the word has come to pass, they shall know the prophet whom the Lord has truly sent.
Jer 28:10 Then Hananiah took the yokes from the neck of Jeremiah in the sight of all the people, and broke them to pieces.
Jer 28:11 And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus said the Lord: Thus will I break the yoke of the king of Babylon from the necks of all the nations. And Jeremiah went his way.
Jer 28:12 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah had broken the yokes off his neck, saying,
Jer 28:13 Go and speak to Hananiah, saying, Thus says the Lord: You have broken the yokes of wood, but I will make yokes of iron in their place.
Jer 28:14 For thus said the Lord: I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all the nations, that they may serve the king of Babylon.
Jer 28:15 And Jeremiah said to Hananiah, The Lord has not sent you; and you have caused this people to trust in unrighteousness.
Jer 28:16 Therefore thus said the Lord: Behold, I will cast you off from the face of the earth this year you shall die!
Jer 28:17 So he died in the seventh month.
Jer 29:1 And these are the words of the book which Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the false prophets, even an epistle to Babylon for the captivity, and to all the people:
Jer 29:2 (after the departure of Jeconiah the king, with the queen, the eunuchs, every freeman and bondsman, and craftsman, out of Jerusalem)
Jer 29:3 by the hand of Elasah son of Shaphan, and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to Babylon) saying,
Jer 29:4 Thus said the Lord God of Israel concerning the captivity which I caused to be carried away from Jerusalem:
Jer 29:5 Build houses, and inhabit them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruits thereof;
Jer 29:6 and take for yourselves wives, and bear sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and be multiplied, and be not diminished.
Jer 29:7 And seek the peace of the land into which I have carried you captive, and you shall pray to the Lord for the people: for in its peace you shall have peace.
Jer 29:8 For thus says the Lord: Let not the false prophets that are among you persuade you, and let not your diviners persuade you, and hearken not to your dreams which you dream.
Jer 29:9 For they prophesy to you unrighteous words in My name; and I sent them not.
Jer 29:10 For thus said the Lord: When seventy years shall be on the verge of being accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you, and will confirm My words to you, to bring back your people to this place.
Jer 29:11 And I will devise for you a plan of peace, and not evil, to bestow upon you these good things.
Jer 29:12 And pray to Me, and I will hearken to you; and you shall earnestly seek Me, and you shall find Me;
Jer 29:13 for you shall seek Me with your whole heart.
Jer 29:14 And I will appear to you.
Jer 29:15 Because you have said, The Lord has appointed for us prophets in Babylon.
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Jer 29:21 Thus says the Lord concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah: Behold, I will deliver them into the hands of the king of Babylon; and he shall slay them in your sight.
Jer 29:22 And they shall make of them a curse in all the captivity of Judah in Babylon, saying, The Lord do to you as He did to Zedekiah, and as He did to Ahab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire;
Jer 29:23 because of the iniquity which they wrought in Israel, and because they committed adultery with the wives of their fellow citizens, and spoke a word in My name, which I did not command them to speak, and I am witness, says the Lord.
Jer 29:24 And to Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall say,
Jer 29:25 I sent you not in My name. And to Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, say,
Jer 29:26 The Lord has made you priest in the place of Jehoida the priest, to be ruler in the house of the Lord over every prophet, and to every madman, and you shall put them in prison, and into the dungeon.
Jer 29:27 And now, why have you together reviled Jeremiah of Anathoth, who prophesied to you?
Jer 29:28 Did he not send for this purpose? For in the course of this month he sent to you to Babylon, saying, It is far off: build houses, and inhabit them; plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Jer 29:29 And Zephaniah read the book in the ears of Jeremiah.
Jer 29:30 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer 29:31 Send to the captivity, saying, Thus says the Lord concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Since Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I sent him not, and he has made you to trust in iniquity,
Jer 29:32 therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will visit Shemaiah and his family; and there shall not be a man of them in the midst of you to see the good which I will do for My people; they shall not see it.
Jer 30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
Jer 30:2 Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Write all the words which I have spoken to you in a book.
Jer 30:3 For behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will bring back the captivity of My people Israel and Judah; and I will bring them back to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall be masters over it, says the Lord.
Jer 30:4 And these are the words which the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah:
Jer 30:5 Thus said the Lord: You shall hear a sound of fear fear, and not peace.
Jer 30:6 Ask, and see if a male has ever born a child? And ask concerning the fear, why they shall hold their loins, and look for safety; for I have seen every man, and his hands are on his loins; their faces are turned to paleness.
Jer 30:7 For that day is great, and there is none like it; and it is a time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
Jer 30:8 In that day, said the Lord, I will break the yoke off their neck, and will burst their bonds, and they shall no longer serve strangers.
Jer 30:9 But they shall serve the Lord their God; and I will raise up to them David their king.
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Jer 30:12 Thus says the Lord: I have brought on you destruction. Your stroke is painful.
Jer 30:13 There is none to judge your cause; you have been painfully treated for healing, there is no help for you.
Jer 30:14 All your friends have forgotten you; they shall not ask about you at all, for I have smitten you with the stroke of the enemy, even severe correction. Your sins have abounded above all your iniquity.
Jer 30:15 Your sins have abounded beyond the multitude of your iniquities, therefore they have done these things to you.
Jer 30:16 Therefore all that devour you shall be eaten, and all your enemies shall eat all their own flesh. And they that spoil you shall become a spoil, and I will give up to be plundered all that have plundered you.
Jer 30:17 For I will bring about your healing, I will heal you of your grievous wound, says the Lord; for you are called Dispersed: she is your prey, for no one seeks after her.
Jer 30:18 Thus said the Lord: Behold, I will turn the captivity of Jacob, and will have pity upon his prisoners; and the city shall be built upon her hill, and the people shall settle after their manner.
Jer 30:19 And there shall go forth from them singers, even the sound of men making merry, and I will multiply them, and they shall by no means be diminished.
Jer 30:20 And their sons shall go in as before, and their testimonies shall be established before Me, and I will visit those that afflict them.
Jer 30:21 And their mighty ones shall be over them, and th
