The Emphasised Bible
also called Rotherham Version
1902 by Joseph Rotherham
Jer 1:1 ¶ The words of Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah,––of the priests who were in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin:
Jer 1:2 unto whom came the word of Yahweh, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah,––in the thirteenth year of his reign;
Jer 1:3 it came also in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah,––as far as the carrying away of Jerusalem captive, in the fifth month.
Jer 1:4 ¶ So then the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying:
Jer 1:5 Before I formed thee at thy birth, I took knowledge of thee, And, before thy nativity, I hallowed thee,––A prophet to the nations, I appointed thee.
Jer 1:6 Then said I––Ah! My Lord, Yahweh! Lo! I know not how to speak,––For, a child, am, I!
Jer 1:7 Then said Yahweh unto me, Do not say, A child, am, I,––For, against whomsoever I send thee, shalt thou go, And, whatsoever I command thee, shalt thou speak:
Jer 1:8 Be not afraid of their faces, For, with thee, am, I, to deliver thee, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 1:9 Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth,––and Yahweh said unto me, Lo! I have put my words, in thy mouth.
Jer 1:10 See! I have set thee in charge, this day, over the nations, and over the kingdoms, To uproot and to break down, and to destroy and to tear in pieces,––To build and to plant.
Jer 1:11 ¶ Moreover the Word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, What canst thou see, Jeremiah? And I said, A twig of an almond–tree, can I see.
Jer 1:12 Then said Yahweh unto me––Thou hast rightly seen,––for, keeping watch, am I, over my word, to perform it.
Jer 1:13 And the word of Yahweh came unto me, a second time, saying, What canst thou see? And I said, A boiling caldron, can I see, with, the front thereof, on the North.
Jer 1:14 Then said Yahweh unto me,––Out of the North, shall break forth calamity, against all the inhabitants of the land.
Jer 1:15 For behold me! calling for all the families of the kingdoms of the North, Declareth Yahweh,––and they shall come, and set every one his throne at the opening of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all her walls, round about, and against all the cities of Judah!
Jer 1:16 Then will I pronounce my judgments against them, concerning all their wickedness,––in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and have bowed down to the works of their own hands.
Jer 1:17 Thou, therefore, shalt gird thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them, all that, I, command thee,––be not dismayed because of them, lest I dismay thee before their face.
Jer 1:18 I, therefore––lo! I have set thee today: as a fortified city, and, as a pillar of iron, and, as walls of bronze, over all the land,––against the kings of Judah, against her princes, against her priests, and against the people of the land.
Jer 1:19 And they will fight against thee, but shall not prevail against thee,––for, with thee, am, I, Declareth Yahweh, to deliver thee.
Jer 2:1 ¶ And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying;
Jer 2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying––Thus, saith Yahweh, I remember, in thy behalf, the lovingkindness of thy youthful days, The love of thy bridal estate,––Thy coming out after me, Through the desert, Through a land, not sown:
Jer 2:3 Holiness, was Israel unto Yahweh, The firstfruit of his increase,––All that devoured it, were held guilty, Calamity, used to come upon them,––Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 2:4 Hear ye the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, And all the families of the house of Israel.
Jer 2:5 Thus, saith Yahweh,––What did your fathers find in me, by way of perversity, that they removed far from me,––and went after vanity, and became vain?
Jer 2:6 Neither said they, Where is Yahweh, Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,––Who led us: Through the desert, Through a land of wastes and clefts, Through a land of parched places and of death–shade, Through a land, Along which no man had passed, And in which no son of earth dwelt?
Jer 2:7 Then brought, I, you into a country of garden, land, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof,––and yet, when ye entered, then defiled ye my land, and, mine inheritance, ye made an abomination.
Jer 2:8 The priests, said not, Where, is Yahweh? And, they who handled the law, did not acknowledge me, And, the shepherds, transgressed against me,––And, the prophets, prophesied by Baal, And so, after things that could not profit, did they walk.
Jer 2:9 ¶ Therefore, yet further, will I plead with you, Declareth Yahweh, Yea, with your children’s children, will I plead.
Jer 2:10 For––pass through the coastlands of the West, and see, And, unto Kedar, send ye and, consider diligently,––And see––whether there hath been the like of this!
Jer 2:11 Hath, a nation, changed, gods, although, they, were No–gods? Yet, my people, have changed my glory, for that which could not profit!
Jer 2:12 Be amazed, O ye heavens, at this,––And shudder, be dried up utterly, Urgeth Yahweh.
Jer 2:13 For, two wicked things, have my people committed,––Me, have they forsaken, a fountain of living water, To hew out for themselves, cisterns, broken cisterns, that cannot hold water.
Jer 2:14 ¶ Was Israel, a servant? Born in the house, was, he? Wherefore hath he become a prey?
Jer 2:15 Against him, have been roaring, wild lions, They have uttered their voice,––and have made his land a desolation, His cities, have been burned, so as to have no inhabitant.
Jer 2:16 Even the sons of Noph and Tahpanhes, have been crushing the crown of the head.
Jer 2:17 Is not this, what thou wast certain to do for thyself,––in that thou didst forsake Yahweh thy God, when he was leading thee by the way?
Jer 2:18 Now, therefore, what hast thou to do with the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of Shihor? Or what hast thou to do with the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River[=Euphrates]?
Jer 2:19 Let thy wickedness correct, thee, And, thine apostasies, rebuke thee, Know therefore and see, That it is a wicked thing and a bitter, that thou shouldest have forsaken Yahweh thy God,––And that the dread of me, should not have pertained to thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh of hosts.
Jer 2:20 ¶ For, in age–past time, I brake thy yoke, I tare off thy fetters, And thou saidst, I will not transgress,––Nevertheless, on every high hill, and under every green tree, wast thou lying down as an unchaste woman.
Jer 2:21 Yet, I, planted thee a precious vine, a wholly true seed,––How then didst thou change thyself towards me, into the degenerate plantings of the alien vine?
Jer 2:22 For, though thou wash thee with nitre, And take thee much soap, Yet is thine iniquity inscribed, before me, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.
Jer 2:23 How canst thou say, I have not defiled myself, After the Baalim, have I not gone? See thy way, in the valley, Own, what thou hast done,––A nimble young she–camel, crossing her own ways;
Jer 2:24 A wild ass, taught of the desert, In the desire of her soul, she snuffeth the wind, In her occasion, who can turn her back? None who seek her, will weary themselves, In her month, they shall find her!
Jer 2:25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, And thy throat from thirst! But thou saidst, Hopeless! No! for I love foreigners, and, after them, will I go.
Jer 2:26 As the shame of a thief when he is found, So, hath been put to shame, the house of Israel,––They, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their, prophets:
Jer 2:27 Saying, to a tree, My father, art, thou! And to a stone, Thou, didst give us birth, For they have turned unto me the back, and not the face,––But, in the time of their calamity, they will say, Arise, and save us!
Jer 2:28 Where then are thy gods, which thou hast made for thyself? Let them arise, if they can save thee, in the time of thy calamity,––For, according to the number of thy cities, have become thy gods, O Judah.
Jer 2:29 ¶ Wherefore, should ye plead against me, All of you, have transgressed against me, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 2:30 In vain, have I smitten your children, Correction, have they not accepted,––Your sword hath devoured, your prophets, as a lion that destroyeth.
Jer 2:31 O generation, see, ye, the word of Yahweh, A desert, became I unto Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Wherefore, have my people said, We have roved about, We will not come in, any more, unto thee?
Jer 2:32 Can, a virgin, forget, her ornaments,––A bride, her girdle? Yet, my people, have forgotten me, days without number.
Jer 2:33 How, thou dost make winsome thy way, to seek love! Therefore, even unto wicked women, hast thou taught thy ways.
Jer 2:34 Even in thy skirts, is there found, The blood of the lives of the helpless innocents,––Not, in the act of breaking in, didst thou find them, yet [the blood is] on all these.
Jer 2:35 Although thou saidst, Because I am innocent, surely hath his anger, turned back from me,––Behold me! entering into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned!
Jer 2:36 How vigorously, thou goest about, changing thy way! Even of Egypt, shalt thou be ashamed, just as thou wast ashamed of Assyria:
Jer 2:37 Even from this one, shalt thou go forth, with thy hands upon thy head,––For Yahweh hath rejected those in whom thou confidest, and thou shalt not prosper with them.
Jer 3:1 ¶ He hath said, If a man send away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return unto her, again? would not that land be, utterly defiled? And, thou, hast been unchaste with many neighbours, and yet [thinkest] to return unto me! Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 3:2 Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see––where thou hast not been unchastely embraced! beside the ways, hast thou sat to them, like the Arabian in the desert,––and hast defiled the land, with thine unchastities, and with thy wickedness.
Jer 3:3 Therefore have been withholden the showers, And, the latter rain, hath not come,––Yet, the forehead of an unchaste woman, hast thou, Thou hast refused to be ashamed.
Jer 3:4 Hast thou not, from this time, cried unto me, My father! the friend of my youth, art, thou?
Jer 3:5 Will he maintain [his anger] to times age–abiding? Will he keep it perpetually? Lo! thou hast spoken [thus] but hast done wicked things, and had thy way!
Jer 3:6 ¶ And Yahweh said unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what, apostate Israel, did? She used to go upon every high mountain, and beneath every green tree, and commit unchastity there.
Jer 3:7 And I said, after she had been doing all these things, Unto me, shall thou return? and she returned not,––and her treacherous sister Judah saw, it!
Jer 3:8 Though she saw that, for all this, apostate Israel having committed adultery, I had sent her away, and had given a scroll of divorcement unto her, yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but, she also, went and committed unchastity.
Jer 3:9 Yea though it had come to pass that, through the levity of her unchastity, she had defiled the land,––and committed adultery with Stone and with Tree,
Jer 3:10 yet, in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah, returned not unto me, with all her heart,––but, falsely, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 3:11 Then said Yahweh unto me,––Apostate Israel, hath justified herself,––more than treacherous, Judah.
Jer 3:12 ¶ Go, and proclaim these words, towards the North, and say––Return! thou apostate, Israel, Urgeth Yahweh, I will not lower my face against you,––for, full of lovingkindness, I am, Declareth Yahweh, I will not maintain [mine anger] unto times age–abiding.
Jer 3:13 Only, acknowledge thine iniquity, that, against Yahweh thy God, hast thou transgressed,––and hast gone hither and thither unto foreigners under every green tree, and, unto my voice, ye have not hearkened, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 3:14 Return, ye apostate sons, Urgeth Yahweh, for, I, am become your husband,––therefore will I take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and will bring you to Zion;
Jer 3:15 and will give you shepherds, according to mine own heart,––who will feed you, with knowledge and discretion.
Jer 3:16 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall be multiplied and become fruitful in the land, in those days, Declareth Yahweh, They shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Yahweh, Neither shall it come up on the heart, Neither shall they remember it, Neither shall they miss it, Neither shall it be made any more.
Jer 3:17 At that time, shall they call Jerusalem, The throne of Yahweh, and there shall be gathered unto her all the nations––to the Name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem; and they shall walk no more, after the stubbornness of their own wicked, heart.
Jer 3:18 In those days, shall the house of Judah go unto the house of Israel,––that they may enter together, out of the land of the North, upon the land which I gave as an inheritance unto your fathers.
Jer 3:19 Though, I myself, had said,––How can I put thee among the sons, And give thee a land to be coveted, An inheritance of beauty, of the hosts of nations? Yet I said, My father, shalt thou call me, And, away from me, shalt thou not turn.
Jer 3:20 ¶ But indeed, [as] a wife goeth treacherously from her husband, so, have ye acted treacherously with me, O house of Israel, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 3:21 A voice, on the bare heights, is heard, The weeping of the supplications of the sons of Israel,––Because they have perverted their way, Have forgotten, Yahweh their God.
Jer 3:22 Return, ye apostate sons, I will heal your apostasies! Behold us! we have come unto thee, For, thou, art Yahweh our God.
Jer 3:23 Surely, to falsehood, pertain the hills, The noisy throng on the mountains,––Surely, in Yahweh our God, is the salvation of Israel!
Jer 3:24 But, the Shameful thing, hath devoured the labour of our fathers, from our youth: Their flocks, and, their herds, their sons, and their daughters.
Jer 3:25 We must lie down in our shame, And our reproach, be our covering, For, against Yahweh our God, have we sinned, We, and our fathers, from our youth, even until this day,––Neither have we hearkened, unto the voice of Yahweh our God.
Jer 4:1 ¶ If thou wilt return, O Israel, Declareth Yahweh, Unto me, mayst thou return,––And, if thou wilt remove thine abominations from before me, Then shalt thou not become a wanderer.
Jer 4:2 If thou wilt swear, By the life of Yahweh! in faithfulness, in justice, and in righteousness, Then shall the nations bless themselves in him, And, in him, shall they glory.
Jer 4:3 ¶ For, thus, saith Yahweh, Unto the men of Judah and unto Jerusalem, Till ye the untilled ground,––And do not sow among thorns.
Jer 4:4 Circumcise yourselves unto Yahweh, So shall ye remove the impurity of your heart, ye men of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem,––Lest mine indignation, go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, Because of the wickedness of your doings.
Jer 4:5 ¶ Declare ye in Judah, And, in Jerusalem, let it be heard, And say, Blow ye a horn in the land,––Cry, with frill voice, And say, Gather yourselves together, And let us enter the defenced, cities.
Jer 4:6 Lift up an ensign––Zion–ward, Bring into safety, do not tarry,––For, calamity, am, I, bringing in from the North, Even, a great destruction:
Jer 4:7 There hath come up a lion, out of his thicket, Yea, a destroyer of nations––hath set forward, hath come forth out of his place,––To make thy land, a desolation, Thy cities, shall fall in ruins, so as to have no, inhabitant.
Jer 4:8 On this account, gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl,––Because the glow of the anger of Yahweh, hath not turned, from us.
Jer 4:9 And it shall come to pass, in that day, Declareth Yahweh, That the courage of the king, shall fail, And the courage of the princes,––And the priests, shall be astonished, And, the prophets, shall be amazed.
Jer 4:10 Then said I,––Ah! My Lord Yahweh! Surely, thou hast suffered this people and Jerusalem, to be beguiled, saying, Peace, shall ye have,––whereas the sword shall reach, unto the soul.
Jer 4:11 At that time, shall it be said of this people and of Jerusalem,––The sharp wind of the bare heights in the desert, cometh towards the daughter of my people,––not to winnow, nor to cleanse.
Jer 4:12 A wind too strong for these, cometh in for me. Now, will, I also, pronounce sentences upon them:
Jer 4:13 Lo! like clouds, shall he come up, Even, as a storm–wind, his chariots, Swifter than eagles, his horses,––Woe to us, for we are laid waste!
Jer 4:14 Wash, from wickedness, thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved,––How long, shall lodge within thee thy wicked, devices?
Jer 4:15 For, a voice, declareth from, Dan,––And publisheth trouble, from the hill country of Ephraim.
Jer 4:16 Put ye in mind the nations, Lo! publish ye against Jerusalem, Blockaders, are coming in from a land afar off,––And have uttered, against the cities of Judah, their voice:
Jer 4:17 As the keepers of a field, have they come against her, round about,––For, against me, hath she rebelled, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 4:18 Thine own way, And thine own doings, Have done these things unto thee,––This thy wickedness, Surely it is bitter, Surely it hath reached unto thy heart.
Jer 4:19 ¶ My bowels! My bowels! I am pained in the walls of my heart, My heart beateth aloud to me, I cannot be still! For, the sound of a horn, hast thou heard, O my soul, The loud shout of war!
Jer 4:20 Breach upon breach, they cry, For, ruined, is all the land,––Suddenly, are ruined my tents, In a moment, my curtains!
Jer 4:21 How long, shall I, keep on seeing a standard,––continue to hear the sound of a horn?
Jer 4:22 Surely, perverse, is my people, Me, have they not known, Foolish sons, they are, Yea, without understanding, they are, Wise, they are, to commit wickedness, But, how to do well, they know not!
Jer 4:23 I beheld, The earth, and lo! it was waste and wild,––The heavens also, and their light was, not:
Jer 4:24 I beheld, The mountains, and lo! they were trembling,––And, all the hills, had been violently moved:
Jer 4:25 I beheld, And lo! there was no, human being,––Yea, all the birds of the heavens! had fled:
Jer 4:26 I beheld, And lo! the garden–land, was a desert,––And, all its cities, had been broken down, Because of Yahweh, Because of the glow of his anger!
Jer 4:27 For, thus, saith Yahweh, A desolation, shall all the land become–Nevertheless, a full end, will I not make.
Jer 4:28 For this cause, shall the land mourn, and the heavens above be overcast: Because I have spoken, have purposed, and have not repented, nor will I turn back therefrom.
Jer 4:29 At the noise of horseman and archer, The whole city, is in flight, They have entered dark thickets, Yea, unto the crags, have they gone up,––Every city, is forsaken, There remaineth not in them, a man!
Jer 4:30 And, when, thou, art laid waste, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothe thyself with crimson, Though thou deck thyself with ornaments of gold, Though thou enlarge with antimony thine eyes, In vain, shalt thou make thyself fair,––Paramours, have rejected thee, Thy life, will they seek!
Jer 4:31 For, a voice as of a woman in pangs, have I heard, Anguish as of her that is bearing her firstborn. The voice of the daughter of Zion! She gaspeth for breath, She spreadeth forth her palms,––Surely woe to me! For my soul fainteth before murderers.
Jer 5:1 ¶ Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, and seek out in the broad places thereof, Whether ye can find, a man, Whether there is, one Doing justice, Demanding fidelity,––That I may pardon her.
Jer 5:2 Even though they say, By the life of Yahweh, Yet in fact, falsely, do they swear.
Jer 5:3 O Yahweh! thine own eyes, are they not directed to fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, Yet have they not grieved, Thou hast consumed them––They have refused to receive correction,––They have made their faces bolder than a cliff, They have refused to return.
Jer 5:4 And, I, said,––Only, poor people, are, they,––They act foolishly, For they know not, the way of Yahweh, the justice of their God!
Jer 5:5 I will betake me unto the great men, and will speak, with them! For, they, know, the way of Yahweh, the justice of their God! Yea but, they, with one accord, have, broken the yoke, torn off the bands.
Jer 5:6 For this cause, hath the lion out of the forest smitten them, The wolf of the waste plains, preyeth, upon them, The leopard, is keeping watch over their cities, Every one that goeth out from thence, is torn in pieces,––For they have multiplied their transgressions, Numerous, are their apostasies.
Jer 5:7 How, for this, can I pardon thee? Thine own sons, have forsaken me, And have sworn by No–gods,––When I had fed them to the full, Then committed they adultery, And, the house of the unchaste woman, they used to throng:
Jer 5:8 Lusty, well–fed horses, had they become, Every man, unto his neighbour’s wife, would neigh!
Jer 5:9 For these things, shall I not punish? Demandeth Yahweh: Yea, on a nation such as this, must not my soul avenge herself?
Jer 5:10 ¶ Scale ye her walls, and destroy, But, a full end, do not make,––Remove her tendrils, For, not to Yahweh, do, they, belong!
Jer 5:11 For, very treacherously, have the house of Israel and the house of Judah, dealt with me, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 5:12 They have acted deceptively against Yahweh, And have said, Not He! Neither shall there come, upon us, calamity, Nor sword nor famine, shall we see;
Jer 5:13 But, the prophets, shall prove to be wind, And there is, no one, speaking in them,––Thus, shall it be done to themselves!
Jer 5:14 Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, God of hosts, Because ye have spoken this word,––Behold me! making my words in thy mouth to be fire, And, this people,––wood, So shall it devour them.
Jer 5:15 Behold me! bringing upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, Declareth Yahweh,––A nation invincible, it is, A nation from age–past times, hath it been, A nation whose tongue thou shalt not know, Neither shalt thou understand what it speaketh:
Jer 5:16 Its quiver, is like an open sepulchre,––They all, are heroes:
Jer 5:17 Then shall it eat thy harvest, and thy bread, which, thy sons and thy daughters, should eat,––It shall eat thy flock and thy herd, It shall eat thy vine and thy fig–tree,––It shall destroy thy defenced, cities, wherein, thou, art trusting, with the sword.
Jer 5:18 Yet, even in those days, Declareth Yahweh, Will I not make of you, a full end.
Jer 5:19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, For what cause, hath Yahweh our God done, to us all these things? Then shalt thou say unto them,––As ye forsook me, and served the gods of the foreigner, in your own land, So, shall ye serve aliens, in a land, not your own.
Jer 5:20 ¶ Tell ye this, throughout the house of Jacob,––And let it be heard throughout Judah, saying:
Jer 5:21 Hear this, I pray you, ye people––foolish and without heart,––Eyes, have they, and see not, Ears, have they, and hear not!
Jer 5:22 Even for me, will ye have no reverence? Enquireth Yahweh, And, because of me, will ye not be pained? In that, though I placed the sand as a bound to the sea, A decree age–abiding, and it should not pass beyond it,––When they would toss themselves, Then should they not prevail, When the waves thereof would roar, Then should they not pass beyond it,
Jer 5:23 Yet, this people, hath an obstinate and rebellious heart,––They have turned aside, and gone their way;
Jer 5:24 Neither have they said in their heart,––Let us, we pray you, revere Yahweh our God, Who giveth rain, even the early and the latter, in its season,––The appointed weeks of harvest, he reserveth for us.
Jer 5:25 ¶ Your iniquities, have thrust away these things, Yea, your sins, have withholden that which is good from you.
Jer 5:26 For there have been found among my people, lawless men,––One lieth in wait, as with the stooping of fowlers, They have set a trap, they capture, men:
Jer 5:27 As, a cage, is full of birds, So, are, their houses, full of unrighteous gain,––For this cause, have they become great, and waxen rich:
Jer 5:28 They have waxed fat, they shine, Yea, they have overpassed the records of wickedness. The right, have they not determined, the right of the fatherless, that they might prosper,––Yea, justice to the helpless, have they not decreed.
Jer 5:29 Upon these things, shall I not bring punishment? Demandeth Yahweh. Or, on a nation such as this, shall not my soul avenge, herself?
Jer 5:30 An astounding and horrible thing, hath been brought to pass in the land:
Jer 5:31 The prophets, have prophesied, falsely, And, the priests, tread down, by their means, And, my people, love it, so,––What then can ye do, as to her latter end?
Jer 6:1 ¶ Take your goods into safety, ye sons of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, And, in Tekoa, blow ye a horn, And, on Beth–haccherem, raise a fire–signal,––For, calamity, hath looked out from the North, Even a great destruction.
Jer 6:2 To a comely and delicate woman, have I likened the daughter of Zion:
Jer 6:3 Against her, shall come shepherds, with their flocks; They have pitched against her their tents, round about, They tend their flocks, every one near at hand.
Jer 6:4 Hallow ye against her a war, Arise! and let us go up in broad noon. Woe to us, for the day, hath turned, for the shadows of evening, stretch along.
Jer 6:5 Arise! and let us go up in the night, And let us destroy her palaces.
Jer 6:6 For, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Cut ye down timber, And cast up, against Jerusalem, a mound,––That, is the city to be punished! There is, nothing, but oppression in her midst;
Jer 6:7 Like the casting forth by a well of its waters, So, hath she cast forth her wickedness,––Violence and destruction, are heard in her, Before my face, continually, are suffering and smiting.
Jer 6:8 Receive thou correction, O Jerusalem, Lest my soul be torn from thee,––Lest I make thee A desolation, A land not habitable.
Jer 6:9 ¶ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean, as a vine, the remnant of Israel––Turn back thy hand, as a grape gatherer, over the tendrils.
Jer 6:10 Unto whom, can I speak––and bear witness, that they may hear? Lo! uncircumcised, is their ear, that they cannot attend,––Lo! the word of Yahweh, hath become to them a reproach, they take no delight therein.
Jer 6:11 So then, with the indignation of Yahweh, am I full, I am too weary to hold it in, [I am constrained] to pour it out, upon the boy in the street, and, upon the circle of young men, together,––For, even husband with wife, will be captured, The elder with him who is full of days;
Jer 6:12 And their houses shall be turned over to others, Fields and wives together,––For I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 6:13 For, from the least of them, even unto the greatest of them, Every one, graspeth with greed,––And, from the prophet even unto the priest, Every one, dealeth, falsely;
Jer 6:14 And so they have healed the grievous wound of my people, slightly, Saying, Peace, peace, when there was no, peace,
Jer 6:15 Were they led to turn pale, because, an abominable thing, they had done! Nay! they did not, at all turn pale, Nay! they did not so much as know how, to exhibit shame, Therefore, shall they fall among them who are falling, In the time when I punish them, shall they be overthrown, Saith Yahweh.
Jer 6:16 Thus, saith Yahweh––Stand ye at the ways––and see, And ask for the paths of age–past times, Where is the good, way? And walk therein, And ye shall find rest, to your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein]!
Jer 6:17 Therefore will I raise up over you, watchmen, Give ye heed to the sound of a horn,––But they said, We will not give heed!
Jer 6:18 ¶ Therefore, hear, O ye nations,––And take knowledge, O assembly, Of that which befalleth them:
Jer 6:19 Hear thou––O earth, Lo! I, am bringing in Calamity against this people, the fruit of their own devices,––For, unto my words, have they not given heed, And, as for my law, they have rejected it.
Jer 6:20 What then is, it to me, that––Frankincense from Shebah, come in, or, Sweet cane, from a land afar off? Your own ascending–offerings, are not acceptable, Nor are, your sacrifices, pleasing to me.
Jer 6:21 Wherefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! laying before this people, stumblingblocks,––And fathers and sons together, shall stumble against them, The neighbour and his friend, shall perish.
Jer 6:22 Thus, saith Yahweh, Lo! a people coming in from the land of the North,––Yea, a great nation, shall be stirred up out of the remote parts of the earth:
Jer 6:23 Bow and javelin, shall they grasp, Cruel, is he! So they will not have compassion, Their voice, like the sea, will roar, And, on horses, will they ride,––Arrayed each one, like a man for battle, Against thee, O daughter of Zion!
Jer 6:24 We have heard the report thereof, Relaxed, are our hands,––Anguish, hath taken hold on us, Pangs, as on her that is giving birth.
Jer 6:25 Do not go out into the field, And, in the road, do not walk,––Because, a sword, hath the foe,––Terror round about!
Jer 6:26 O daughter of my people, Gird thee with sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes,––The mourning for an only son, make thou for thyself, Most bitter lamentation! For, suddenly, shall the destroyer come upon us.
Jer 6:27 An assayer, have I set thee amongst my people, of gold–ore,––That thou mayest note and try their way:
Jer 6:28 They all, are rebels of rebels, Slander–walkers, [They are] bronze and iron! As for them all, corrupters, they are!
Jer 6:29 Scorched, are the bellows, By fire, is lead, [wont to be], consumed,––In vain, hath he gone on refining, For, the wicked, have not been drawn out:
Jer 6:30 Rejected silver, are they called, For, Yahweh, hath rejected them.
Jer 7:1 ¶ The word that came unto Jeremiah, from Yahweh, saying:––
Jer 7:2 Stand thou in the gate of the house of Yahweh, and thou shalt proclaim there, this word,––and shalt say––Hear ye the word of Yahweh, all Judah, ye who are entering in at these gates, to bow down unto Yahweh:
Jer 7:3 Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Amend your ways, and your doings,––That I may cause you to dwell in this place.
Jer 7:4 Do not, on your part, trust in false, words, saying,––The temple of Yahweh, The temple of Yahweh, The temple of Yahweh, they are!
Jer 7:5 But, if ye shall, thoroughly amend, your ways, and your doings,––Shall, thoroughly execute, justice, between a man and his neighbour;
Jer 7:6 The sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, shall not oppress, And, innocent blood, shall not shed in this place,––And, after other gods, shall not walk, to your own hurt,
Jer 7:7 Then will I cause you to dwell, In this place, In the land, which I gave to your fathers,––From one age even unto another.
Jer 7:8 Lo! ye, on your part, are trusting in false, words,––To no, profit!
Jer 7:9 Are ye to steal, commit murder, and commit adultery, and swear, falsely, and burn incense unto Baal,––and walk after other gods, whom ye have not known;
Jer 7:10 And will ye then come in, and stand before me, in this house, whereon my Name hath been called, and say,––We have set ourselves free,––for the purpose of committing all these abominations?
Jer 7:11 A den of robbers, hath this house, on which my Name hath been called, become, in your own eyes? I, also,––lo! I have seen it, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 7:12 For go, I pray you, unto my place which was in Shiloh, Where I made my Name to dwell, at first,––And see what I did to it, because of the wickedness of my people Israel!
Jer 7:13 Now, therefore––Because ye have done all these deeds, Declareth Yahweh,––And though, I, spake unto you, betimes, speaking, Yet ye hearkened not, And though I cried unto you, Yet ye answered not,
Jer 7:14 Therefore will I do to the house, Whereon my Name hath been called, Wherein, ye, are trusting, Even to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers,––Just as I did unto Shiloh;
Jer 7:15 And will cast you, out from before me,––Just as I have cast out, All your brethren, All the seed of Ephraim.
Jer 7:16 ¶ Thou, therefore––Do not pray for this people, Neither lift up for them cry or prayer, Neither intercede with me,––For I am not going to hear thee.
Jer 7:17 Dost thou not, see what, they, are doing, In the cities of Judah,––and, In the streets of Jerusalem?
Jer 7:18 The children, gather wood, and, The fathers, kindle the fire, and, The women, knead dough,––To make sacrificial cakes, to the queen of the heavens, And to pour out drink–offerings, to other, gods, Provoking me to anger!
Jer 7:19 Is it, me, they are provoking? Enquireth Yahweh,––Is it not, themselves,––unto the shame of their own faces?
Jer 7:20 Wherefore, Thus, saith My Lord Yahweh––Lo! mine anger and mine indignation, are about to be poured out upon this place, On man, and on beast, and, On the tree of the field, and, On the fruit of the ground,––And it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
Jer 7:21 ¶ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel,––Your ascending–offerings, add ye unto your peace–offerings, and eat ye flesh.
Jer 7:22 For I bade not your fathers, Neither commanded I them, In the day I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,––Concerning the matter of ascending–offering and peace–offering;
Jer 7:23 But, this thing, I commanded them––saying, Hearken ye unto my voice, So will I become unto you––a God, And, ye, shall become unto me––a people,––Ye shall therefore walk in all the way that I may command you, To the end it may be well with you;
Jer 7:24 Yet they hearkened not, Neither inclined their ear, But walked, In the counsels––In the stubbornness of, their, own wicked heart; And went backward, and not forward.
Jer 7:25 Ever since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt, until this day, Have I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, Daily, betimes, sending them;
Jer 7:26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, Neither inclined their ear,––But stiffened their neck, They did more wickedly than their fathers.
Jer 7:27 Therefore shalt thou speak unto them all these words, Though they do not hearken unto thee,––And thou shalt cry aloud unto them, Though they do not answer thee; ––
Jer 7:28 But thou shalt say unto them,––This, is the nation that hearkened not unto the voice of Yahweh its God, Neither accepted they correction,––Perished, is fidelity, And is cut off, out of their mouth.
Jer 7:29 ¶ Cut thou off thy crown of hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast it away, And lift thou up on the bare heights, a dirge,––For Yahweh hath rejected and cast out the generation with which he was wroth.
Jer 7:30 For the sons of Judah, have done, that which was wicked in mine eyes, Declareth Yahweh,––They have set their abominations in the house whereon my Name hath been called, to defile it;
Jer 7:31 And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, To burn up their sons and their daughters, in the fire,––Which I commanded not, Neither came it up on my heart.
Jer 7:32 Therefore, lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh, When it shall not be called any more––The Topheth, nor, The valley of Ben–hinnom, but, The valley of Slaughter,––And they shall bury in Topheth, for want of place;
Jer 7:33 And the dead bodies of this people shall become food, For the bird of the heavens, and, For the beast of the earth,––And there shall be none, to drive them away.
Jer 7:34 So will I cause to cease, From the cities of Judah, and, From the streets of Jerusalem, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, The voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,––For, a desolation, shall the land become.
Jer 8:1 ¶ At that time, Declareth Yahweh, Shall they bring forth, 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 shall spread them out––To the sun, and, To the moon, and, To all the host of the heavens, Whom they have loved, And whom they have served, And after whom they have walked, And whom they have sought, And to whom they have bowed themselves down,––They shall not be gathered, Neither shall they be buried, As heaps of dung on the face of the ground, shall they be.
Jer 8:3 Then shall, death, be chosen, rather than life, by all the remnant of them that remain, of this wicked family,––in all the places, whither I have driven them, Declareth Yahweh of hosts.
Jer 8:4 ¶ Therefore shalt thou say unto them––Thus, saith Yahweh, Will men fall, and not arise? Will one turn away, and not come back?
Jer 8:5 Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem apostatized with an enduring apostacy,––Taken fast hold of deceit, Refused to come back?
Jer 8:6 I hearkened and heard––Not aright, did they speak,––Not a man, repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done! They have, every one, turned to their course again, Like a horse sweeping on through the battle.
Jer 8:7 Even, the stork in the heavens, knoweth her appointed times, And, the turtle and the swallow and the crane, observe the season for coming; But, my people, know not the just sentence of Yahweh.
Jer 8:8 How, can ye say, Wise, are, we, And, the law of Yahweh, is with us? But indeed, lo! falsely, hath dealt the false pen of the scribes!
Jer 8:9 Ashamed, are the wise, dismayed, and captured! Lo! the word of Yahweh, have they rejected, And, what wisdom, have, they?
Jer 8:10 Therefore, will I give––Their wives to others, Their fields, to such as shall take possession of them, For, from the least, even unto the greatest, Every one, is, wholly given to extortion: From the prophet, even unto the priest, Every one, dealeth, falsely.
Jer 8:11 And so they have healed the grievous wound of the daughter of my people, slightly,––Saying, Peace! peace! when there was no, peace!
Jer 8:12 Were they led to turn pale, because, an abominable thing, they had done? Nay! they did not, at all, turn pale, Nay! they did not so much as know how, to exhibit shame! Therefore, shall they fall among them who are falling, In the time when they are punished, shall they be overthrown, Saith Yahweh:
Jer 8:13 ¶ I will, surely remove, them, declareth Yahweh: There shall be no, grapes on the vine, Nor, figs on the fig–tree, Even, the leaf, hath faded, Though I have given them [these things], they shall pass away from them.
Jer 8:14 Why, are, we, sitting still? Gather yourselves together, and let us enter the defenced, cities, And let us be silent there,––For, Yahweh our God, hath put us to silence, And made us drink poisoned water, Because we have sinned against Yahweh.
Jer 8:15 A waiting, For prosperity, but no, welfare,––For a time of healing, but lo! terror.
Jer 8:16 From Dan, was heard the snorting of his horses, At the sound of the neighing of his chargers, the whole land trembled,––Yea they came in and did sat up, The land and the fulness thereof, The city, and them who were dwelling therein.
Jer 8:17 For behold me! sending among you, serpents––vipers which there is no, charming,––And they shall fatally bite you, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 8:18 When I would have cheered myself against sorrow, Against me, mine own heart sickened:––
Jer 8:19 Lo! the voice of the cry for help of the daughter of my people, from a land far away, Is, Yahweh, not, in Zion? Is, her King, not, within her? Why, have they provoked me, with their carved images, with their foreign vanities?
Jer 8:20 The harvest, is passed, The fruit–gathering, is ended; And, we, are not saved!
Jer 8:21 For the grievous injury of the daughter of my people, I am grievously injured,––I am enshrouded in gloom, Horror, hath seized me:––
Jer 8:22 Balsam, is there none, in Gilead? Is there no, physician, there? Why hath not appeared the healing of the daughter of my people?
Jer 9:1 ¶ Oh that my head were waters, And mine eyes, a fountain of tears,––That I might weep day and night, For the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jer 9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness, a wayfarers’ lodge, That I might leave my people, and go from them,––For, they all, are, Adulterers, An assemblage of traitors;
Jer 9:3 Who have prepared their tongue as their bow of falsehood, And, not by faithfulness, have they become mighty in the land,––For, from wickedness unto wickedness, have they gone forth, But, me, have they not known, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 9:4 Every one, of his neighbour, beware ye, And, in no brother, may ye trust,––For, every brother, supplanteth! And, every neighbour, as a tale–bearer, goeth about;
Jer 9:5 Yea, every one, of his neighbour, maketh a dupe, And, truth, they do not speak,––They have taught their tongue to speak falsehood, In acting perversely, they have wearied themselves.
Jer 9:6 Thy dwelling, is in the midst of deceit,––Through deceit, have they rejected the knowledge of, me, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 9:7 Therefore, thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Behold me! melting them, so will I try them,––For, how else should I do, because of the wickedness of the daughter of my people?
Jer 9:8 A pointed arrow, is their tongue, Deceit, hath it spoken,––With his mouth, peace unto his neighbour, doth one speak, But, within himself, he layeth his ambush.
Jer 9:9 For these things, shall I not bring punishment on them? Demandeth Yahweh,––On a nation such as this, must not my soul avenge herself!
Jer 9:10 Over the mountains, will I take up a weeping and wailing, And, over the oases of the desert, a dirge, For they have been burned, so that no man passeth through, Neither have men heard the lowing of cattle,––Both the bird of the heavens and the beast, have fled, have gone their way:
Jer 9:11 Thus will I give up Jerusalem, To heaps, A habitation for jackals,––And, the cities of Judah, will I give up to desolation, without inhabitant.
Jer 9:12 ¶ Who, is the man that is wise, That he may discern this? And, unto whom, hath the mouth of Yahweh spoken, That he may declare it? For what cause, Hath the land perished, Hath it been burned as a wilderness, that no man passeth through?
Jer 9:13 Then said Yahweh,––Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them,––And have not hearkened to hay voice, neither walked therein;
Jer 9:14 But have gone their way, After the stubbornness of their own heart,––And after the Baals which their fathers taught, them,
Jer 9:15 Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, The God of Israel, Behold me! Feeding them, even this people, with wormwood,––And I will cause them to drink, poisoned water;
Jer 9:16 And will scatter them among the nations, which neither they nor their fathers, have known,––And will send after them the sword, until I have consumed them.
Jer 9:17 Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Consider ye diligently and call for the wailing women, that they may come,––And, unto the wise women, send ye, that they may come;
Jer 9:18 Yea let them make haste, and lift up over us a wailing,––That our eyes, may run down, with tears, And, our eyelashes, stream down with water; ––
Jer 9:19 Yea, a voice of wailing, hath been heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! We have turned very pale, For we have left the land, For they have cast down our habitations.
Jer 9:20 For hear, O ye women, the word of Yahweh, And let your ear take in the word of his mouth,––And teach your daughters a wail, Yea, each woman––her neighbour, a dirge:––
Jer 9:21 That death, Hath come up through our windows, Hath entered our palaces,––Cutting off, The boy from the street, The young men from the broadways.
Jer 9:22 Speak thou, Thus, declareth Yahweh, So shall fall the dead bodies of men, Like dung heaps on the face of the field,––And like swaths after the harvestman, With none to gather.
Jer 9:23 ¶ Thus, saith Yahweh, Let not, the wise man, glory, in his wisdom, Neither let, the mighty man, glory, in his might,––Let not, the rich man, glory, in his riches;
Jer 9:24 But, in this, let the glorying one glory––In having intelligence, and in knowing, me, That, I, am Yahweh, Executing lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth,––That, in these things, I delight, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 9:25 Lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh,––When I will bring punishment upon every one circumcised, With him that is uncircumcised:
Jer 9:26 Upon Egypt and upon Judah, And upon Edom, and upon the sons of Ammon, And upon Moab, And upon all the clipped beards, The dwellers in the desert,––For, all the nations, are uncircumcised, And, all the house of Israel, are uncircumcised, in heart.
Jer 10:1 ¶ Hear ye the word which Yahweh hath spoken unto you, O house of Israel:––
Jer 10:2 Thus, saith Yahweh––Unto the way of the nations, become not ye accustomed, Nor, at the signs of the heavens, be ye dismayed,––Because the nations are dismayed at them.
Jer 10:3 For, as for the prescribed customs of the peoples, vanity, they are,––For, a tree out of the forest, one cutteth down, Work for the hands of a skilled workman, with the axe:
Jer 10:4 With silver and with gold, he decketh it,––With nails and with hammers, they fasten them, that it may not totter.
Jer 10:5 Mere palm–trunks turned, they are, and cannot speak, They must needs be, carried, for they cannot take a step, Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do harm, And, even to do good, is not in their power.
Jer 10:6 None, there is, like unto thee, O Yahweh,––Great, art, thou, And, great, is, thy Name, for might.
Jer 10:7 Who, would not revere thee, O King of nations? For, thee, doth it beseem; Forasmuch as, among all the wise men of the nations, And throughout all their royal estate, None, there is, like unto thee.
Jer 10:8 But, at once, do they become brutish and stupid,––An example of utmost vanity, is, a tree!
Jer 10:9 Silver spread into plates, from Tarshish, is brought, And gold, from Uphaz, Work for the craftsman, and for the hands of the smith,––Blue and purple, is their clothing, Work for the skilled, are they all.
Jer 10:10 But, Yahweh, is God, in truth, He, is a God that, liveth, And a King of times age–abiding,––At his anger, quaketh the earth, And nations cannot endure, his wrath.
Jer 10:11 Thus, shall ye say unto them, The gods that made not the heavens, And the earth, Shall perish out of the earth, And from under these heavens!
Jer 10:12 He that made the earth by his power, That established the world by his wisdom,––And, by his understanding, stretched out the heavens,
Jer 10:13 At the voice that he uttered, there was a tumult of waters in the heavens, And he caused vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth,––The lightnings for rain, he made, And brought forth wind out of his treasuries.
Jer 10:14 Every son of earth hath become too brutish, to discern, Every goldsmith, hath been put to shame, by a graven image,––For, a falsehood, is his molten image, Seeing there is no breath in them.
Jer 10:15 Vanity, they are, the handiwork of mockeries,––In the time of their visitation, shall they perish.
Jer 10:16 Not like these, is the portion of Jacob, For, the fashioner of all things, is, he, And, Israel, is his inherited sceptre,––Yahweh of hosts, is his name.
Jer 10:17 ¶ Fold up, from the ground, thy travelling carpet,––O inhabitress of the fortress;
Jer 10:18 For, thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this throw,––And I will distress them, that they may discover it.
Jer 10:19 Woe to me! for my grievous injury, Severe, is my wound,––But, I, said, Verily, this, is an affliction, and I must bear it:
Jer 10:20 My tent, is laid waste, And, all my tent–cords, are broken,––My children, are gone forth from me, and they, are not. There is none, To stretch out, any more, my tent, Or to set up my curtains.
Jer 10:21 For the shepherds, have become brutish, And, Yahweh, have they not sought,––For this cause, have they not prospered, And, all their flock, is scattered.
Jer 10:22 The noise of a rumour! lo it hath come! Even a great commotion, out of the land of the North,––To make the cities of Judah, A desolation, A den of jackals.
Jer 10:23 I know, O Yahweh, That, not to a son of earth, pertaineth his own path,––Not, to the man who walketh, also to direct his own steps.
Jer 10:24 Chastise me, O Yahweh, But yet in measure,––Not in thine anger, lest thou make me few.
Jer 10:25 Pour out thy wrath––Upon the nations, that know thee not, and, Upon the families, that, upon thy Name, have not called,––For they have devoured Jacob, Yea they have devoured him, and consumed him, And, his habitation, have they made desolate.
Jer 11:1 ¶ The word that came unto Jeremiah, from Yahweh, saying:
Jer 11:2 Hear ye the words of this covenant,––and speak ye unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
Jer 11:3 and say thou unto them, Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel,––Accursed, is the man who will not hear, the words of this covenant;
Jer 11:4 which I commanded your fathers––in the day when I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the smelting–pot of iron––saying, Hearken unto my voice, and do them, According to all that I may command you,––So shall ye become, my, people, And, I, will become, your, God:
Jer 11:5 That the oath may be established, which I sware to your fathers, To give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I and said, Amen, O Yahweh!
Jer 11:6 And Yahweh said unto me,––Proclaim thou all, these words, throughout the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying,––Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them,
Jer 11:7 For I, solemnly took your fathers to witness, in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt––even until this day, betimes, taking them to witness, saying,––Hearken ye unto my voice.
Jer 11:8 Howbeit they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but walked severally in the stubbornness of their wicked heart,––so then I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.
Jer 11:9 Yahweh therefore said unto me,––There is found a conspiracy, among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem:
Jer 11:10 They have turned back unto the iniquities of their first fathers, who refused to hear my words, yea, they themselves, have walked after other gods, to serve them,––the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken, my covenant, which I solemnised with their fathers.
Jer 11:11 ¶ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! bringing upon them calamity, which they shall not be able to escape,––and, though they make outcry unto me, yet will I not hearken unto them.
Jer 11:12 Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, go, and make outcry unto the gods, to whom they, have been burning incense,––but they will not at all, save, them in the time of their calamity;
Jer 11:13 for, according to the number of thy cities, have become thy gods, O Judah,––and, according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem, have ye set up altars to the Shameful thing, altars for burning incense to Baal.
Jer 11:14 Thou, therefore, do not pray for this people, Neither lift thou up for them cry or prayer,––For I am not going to hear, in the time that they cry unto me concerning their calamity.
Jer 11:15 Why, hath the beloved, in mine own house, done an abomination? Shall, vows and holy flesh, take away from thee thy wickednesses, or shalt thou, by these, escape?
Jer 11:16 A green olive–tree, fair with goodly fruit, did Yahweh call thy name,––with the noise of a great tumult, hath he kindled fire upon it, and the branches thereof, shall be broken.
Jer 11:17 But, Yahweh of hosts, who planted thee, hath pronounced against thee, calamity,––on account of the wickedness of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves, provoking me to anger by burning incense to Baal.
Jer 11:18 ¶ Now, when, Yahweh, let me know, and I did know, then, didst thou shew me their doings.
Jer 11:19 But, I, was as a gentle lamb that is to be led to the slaughter,––and I knew not that, against me, they had devised devices, [saying]––Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, Yea let us cut him off out of the land of the living, And, his name, shall be remembered no more!
Jer 11:20 But, O Yahweh of hosts, Who judgest righteously, Who triest affections and intellect,––Let me see thine avenging upon them, For, unto thee, have I revealed my cause.
Jer 11:21 Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Concerning the men of Anathoth, who are seeking thy life, saying,––Thou shalt not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, So shalt thou not die by our hand:––
Jer 11:22 Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts,––Behold me! bringing punishment upon them, The young men, shall die by, the sword, Their sons and their daughters, shall die, by famine;
Jer 11:23 And, remnant, shall they have none,––For I will bring calamity against the men of Anathoth, in the year of their visitation.
Jer 12:1 ¶ Righteous, art thou, O Yahweh, when I present my pleading unto thee,––Yet, concerning the things that are right, let me speak with thee,––Wherefore, hath, the way of the lawless, prospered? [Wherefore] have all, utter traitors, been at ease?
Jer 12:2 Thou didst plant them, yea they took root, They have gone on, yea, they have borne fruit,––Near, art thou, in their mouth, But far off from their affections.
Jer 12:3 But, thou, O Yahweh, knowest me, Wilt thou observe me, and try my heart, towards thee? Drag them away, as sheep for slaughter, And hallow them, for the day when they are to be slain.
Jer 12:4 How long, shall the land mourn, And, the herbage of the whole field, wither? For the wickedness of them that dwell therein, beast and bird, have perished, For, say they, He will not see our latter end!
Jer 12:5 If, with the footmen, thou hast run, and they have wearied thee, How then wilt thou hotly contend, with horses? Though, in a safe land, thou, art confident, Yet how wilt thou deal with the proud banks of the Jordan?
Jer 12:6 For, even thy brethren and the house of thy father, Even they! have betrayed thee, Even they, have cried after thee, with full voice,––Do not trust in them, though they speak unto thee, fair words.
Jer 12:7 ¶ I have forsaken mine own house, I have given up mine inheritance,––I have delivered the dearly beloved of my soul, into the hand of her enemies:
Jer 12:8 Mine inheritance, hath become to me, as a lion in a jungle,––She hath given forth against me her voice, For this cause, have I hated her.
Jer 12:9 Is it, a variegated bird of prey, that mine inheritance is to me? The birds of prey, are round about against her! Go ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.
Jer 12:10 Many shepherds, have laid waste my vineyard, They have trampled down my portion,––They have turned my coveted, portion into a desert of desolation:
Jer 12:11 It hath been made, a desolation, It hath mourned unto me, as desolate,––All the land, hath become, a desolation, For, no, man, layeth it to heart.
Jer 12:12 On all the bare heights in the wilderness, have come despoilers, For, the sword of Yahweh, hath devoured from one end of the land unto the other,––There is peace, for no, flesh!
Jer 12:13 They sowed, wheat, but, thorns, have they reaped, They have put themselves to pain, they shall not be profited,––Yea turn ye pale at your produce, Because of the glow of the anger of Yahweh.
Jer 12:14 ¶ Thus, saith Yahweh, Concerning all my wicked, neighbours, who have been touching the inheritance, which I gave as an inheritance unto my people Israel,––Behold me! uprooting them from off their own soil, Whereas, the house of Judah, will I uproot out of their, midst.
Jer 12:15 And it shall come to pass, after I bare uprooted them, I will again, have compassion upon them,––and will bring them back––Every man––to his own inheritance, and, Every man––to his own land.
Jer 12:16 And it shall come to pass––If they will, diligently learn, the ways of my people––To swear by my Name, [saying], By the life of Yahweh, As they taught my people to swear by Baal, Then shall they be built, in the midst of my people.
Jer 12:17 But, if they will not hearken, Then will I Uproot that nation, Uproot, that I may destroy,––Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 13:1 ¶ Thus, said Yahweh unto me,––Go, and buy for thyself, a linen girdle, and put upon thy loins,––but, in water, shalt thou not place it.
Jer 13:2 So I bought a girdle, according to the word of Yahweh,––and put upon my loins.
Jer 13:3 Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, second time, saying:
Jer 13:4 Take the girdle which thou hast bought, which is upon thy loins,––and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there, in a hole of the cliff.
Jer 13:5 So I went, and hid it, by the Euphrates, as Yahweh had commanded me.
Jer 13:6 And it came to pass, at the end of many days,––that Yahweh said unto me,––Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from thence, the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there.
Jer 13:7 So I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle, out of the place where I had hidden it,––and lo! the girdle, was spoiled, it was good for nothing.
Jer 13:8 Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying:
Jer 13:9 Thus, saith Yahweh,––After this manner, will I spoil the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jer 13:10 This wicked people, who are refusing to hear my words, who are walking in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods, to serve them, and to bow down to them, yea let them be like this girdle, which is good for nothing.
Jer 13:11 For, as a girdle cleaveth unto the loins of a man, so, caused I to cleave unto me––the whole house of Israel, and the whole house of Judah, Declareth Yahweh, to become mine––For a people, and, For a name, and, For a praise, and, For an adorning,––but they hearkened not.
Jer 13:12 ¶ Therefore shalt thou say unto them this word––Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, Every jar, is to be filled with wine; and they will say unto thee, Do we not, know well, that, every jar, is to be filled with wine?
Jer 13:13 Then shalt thou say unto them––Thus, saith Yahweh––Behold me! filling all the inhabitants of this land––Even the kings that are sitting for David, upon his throne, and, the priests and, the prophets, and, all the inhabitants of Jerusalem––with drunkenness;
Jer 13:14 and I will dash them every man against his brother, even the fathers and the sons, together, Declareth Yahweh,––I will not pity, Neither will I spare, Neither will I have compassion, that I should not destroy them.
Jer 13:15 Hear ye and give ear, be not haughty,––For, Yahweh, hath spoken.
Jer 13:16 Give ye, to Yahweh your God––glory, Before he cause darkness, and, Before your feet stumble upon the twilight mountains; Lest, when ye wait for light, He turn it into the shadow of death, And change it for thick darkness.
Jer 13:17 But, if ye will not hear it, In secret places, shall my soul weep, Because of the pride,––And mine eye, shall flow over, and run down, with tears, Because captive, hath been taken the flock of Yahweh.
Jer 13:18 Say thou to the king and, to the queen–mother, Abase yourselves––Sit down,––For descended, have, your Head–tires, your Crown of adornment.
Jer 13:19 The cities of the South, are shut, And there is none, to open,––Judah, hath been carried away captive, She hath altogether, been carried away captive, in full number.
Jer 13:20 Lift, up your eyes and see, Them who are coming in from the North,––Where is The flock that was given thee, Thy beautiful, flock?
Jer 13:21 What wilt thou say when he shall bring punishment upon thee, Since, thou thyself, hast accustomed them to be over thee as friends, in chief? Shall not, pangs, seize thee, as of a woman in childbirth?
Jer 13:22 ¶ But, if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore, have these things befallen, me? For the greatness of thine iniquity, have, Thy skirts, been turned aside, Thy heels, suffered violence!
Jer 13:23 Can, the Ethiopian, change, his skin, Or, the leopard, his spots? Even, ye, may be able to do right, Who are accustomed to do wrong.
Jer 13:24 Therefore have I scattered them, As broken straw passing away, by the wind of the desert.
Jer 13:25 This, is thy lot, Thy measured portion from me, Declareth Yahweh; For that thou didst forget me, And confide in falsehood:
Jer 13:26 Therefore, even I myself, have drawn away thy skirts, over thy face, And thy shame, hath been seen.
Jer 13:27 Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, thine unchaste, wickedness, Upon the hills in the field, I have seen thine abominations! Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, Wilt thou not become pure? After how long, yet?
Jer 14:1 ¶ So much of the word of Yahweh as came unto Jeremiah, concerning the matter of the drought:––
Jer 14:2 Judah, mourneth, And, the gates thereof, pine, They lie in gloom on the ground,––And, the outcry of Jerusalem, hath ascended;
Jer 14:3 And, their nobles, have sent their menials to the waters,––They have been to the pits, They have found no water, They have returned, their vessels, empty, They are pale and ashamed, and have covered their heads.
Jer 14:4 Because, the ground, is cracked, For there hath been no rain in the land, The plowmen are pale, They have covered their heads.
Jer 14:5 For, even the hind of the field, hath calved, and forsaken, Because there is no, young herbage;
Jer 14:6 Yea, wild asses, stand still on the bare heights, They pant for air like jackals,––Dimmed, are their eyes, Because there is, no grass.
Jer 14:7 Though, our iniquities, have testified against us, O Yahweh, effectually work thou, for the sake of thy Name,––For our apostasies have abounded, Against thee, have we sinned.
Jer 14:8 Thou Hope of Israel, His Saviour in the time of distress,––Wherefore, shouldst thou be as a sojourner in the and? Or as a wayfarer, who hath turned aside to lodge for the night?
Jer 14:9 Wherefore, shouldst thou be as a man astounded, As a mighty man, who cannot save? Yet, thou, art in our midst––O Yahweh, And, thy Name, on us, hath been called, Do not abandon us!
Jer 14:10 ¶ Thus, saith Yahweh, To this people, In this way, have they loved to wander, Their feet, have they not restrained,––Yahweh, therefore hath not accepted them, Now, will he call to mind their iniquity,––That he may punish their sins.
Jer 14:11 And Yahweh said, unto me,––Do not pray for this people, for blessing;
Jer 14:12 Though they fast, I am not going to hearken unto their loud cry, and, Though they offer ascending–sacrifice and meal–offering, I am not going to accept them,––For, with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, am, I, about to consume them.
Jer 14:13 Then said I, Ah, My Lord, Yahweh! Lo! the prophets, are saying to them––Ye shall not see the sword, And, famine, shall ye not have,––For, prosperity in truth, will I give you, in this place.
Jer 14:14 So then Yahweh said unto me, Falsehood, are the prophets prophesying in my name, I have not sent them, Neither have I commanded them, Neither have I spoken unto them,––A vision of falsehood, and, A divination of worthlessness, and, A fraud of their own hearts, They, are prophesying unto you.
Jer 14:15 Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, concerning the prophets who are prophesying in my Name, though, I, sent them not, and yet, they, have been saying, Neither sword nor famine, shall there be in this land,––By sword or by famine, shall, those, prophets, be consumed;
Jer 14:16 And, the people to whom they, have been prophesying, shall be getting cast out into the streets of Jerusalem, because of the famine and the sword, and of there being none, to give burial, unto them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters,––So will I pour out upon them their own wickedness.
Jer 14:17 ¶ Therefore shalt thou say unto them this word, Let mine eyes, run down, with tears night and day, And let them not rest,––For, with a grievous injury, hath been injured the virgin, the daughter of my people, With a wound, severe indeed!
Jer 14:18 If I have gone out into the field, Then lo! the slain of the sword! And, if I have entered the city, Then lo! the diseases of famine! For, both prophet and priest, have trafficked against the land, unnoticed.
Jer 14:19 Hast thou, utterly rejected, Judah? Zion itself, hath thy soul loathed? Why, hast thou smitten us, so that there is for us no, healing? A waiting For prosperity, but no, welfare, and, For a time of healing, but lo! terror!
Jer 14:20 We acknowledge, O Yahweh, Our own lawlessness, The iniquity of our fathers,––For we have sinned against thee.
Jer 14:21 Do not despise––for the sake of thy Name, Do not treat with contempt––the throne of thy glory,––Remember!––do not break thy covenant with us.
Jer 14:22 Are, there, among the vanities of the nations, senders of rain? Or can, the heavens themselves, give myriad drops? Art not, thou, he, O Yahweh our God? Therefore will we wait for thee, For, thou, hast made all these.
Jer 15:1 ¶ Then said Yahweh unto me, Though Moses and Samuel should stand, before me, My soul could not, be toward this people,––Send them away from before me, And let them go forth.
Jer 15:2 And it shall come to pass, when they say unto thee, Whither, shall we go? Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus, saith Yahweh––Such as are for death, to death, and, Such as are for the sword, to the sword, and, Such as are for famine, to the famine, and, Such as are for captivity, to captivity.
Jer 15:3 And I will set in charge over them––four species, Declareth Yahweh, The sword, to slay, and, The dogs, to trail along,––and, The bird of the heavens, and, The beast of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
Jer 15:4 And I will make them a terror, to all the kingdoms of the earth,––On account of Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, For what he did in Jerusalem.
Jer 15:5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? And who shall lament for thee? And who shall turn aside, to ask for thy welfare?
Jer 15:6 Thou, hast abandoned, me, Declareth Yahweh, Backward, thou wilt go, Therefore have I stretched forth my hand against thee and laid thee waste,––I am weary, of having compassion.
Jer 15:7 Therefore have I winnowed them with a winnowing shovel, in the gates of the land,––I have bereaved––I have destroyed my people, From their own ways, have they not returned.
Jer 15:8 Their widows have become multiplied to me, beyond the sand of the seas, I have brought against them––upon the mother of young men––the spoiler, in the broad noon,––I have let fall upon her, suddenly, excitement and terrors.
Jer 15:9 Languisheth! she who had given birth to seven, She hath breathed out her life, Her sun, hath gone in, while yet it was day, She hath turned pale, and hath turned red,––And, the remnant of them, to the sword, will I deliver before their enemies, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 15:10 ¶ Woe to me! my mother, That thou didst bear me, A man of litigation and a man of contention to all the land,––I have not lent on interest, Nor have they lent on interest to me, Every one, hath treated me with contempt.
Jer 15:11 Said Yahweh,––Verily, I will loose thee for good! Verily, I will intercede for thee, In the time of calamity, and, In the time of distress, with the enemy!
Jer 15:12 Shall, iron, crush, the iron from the North, and the bronze?
Jer 15:13 Thy substance, and thy treasures––for a prey, will I give, without price,––Even for all thy sins, and in all thy bounds:
Jer 15:14 Therefore will I make thee pass, with thine enemies, into a land thou knowest not,––For, a fire, hath been kindled in mine anger, Upon you, shall it burn.
Jer 15:15 ¶ Thou, knowest––O Yahweh, Remember me, and visit me, and avenge me upon my persecutors, Do not, of thy longsuffering, take me away,––Know––I have borne, for thy sake, reproach.
Jer 15:16 Thy words, were found, and I did eat them, Then became thy words unto me, the joy and gladness of my heart,––For, thy Name, hath been called, upon me, O Yahweh, God of hosts!
Jer 15:17 I sat not in the circle of mockers, Nor became I uproarious,––Because of thy hand, by myself, did I sit, For, with indignation, hadst thou filled me.
Jer 15:18 Wherefore, hath my pain become, perpetual? And my wound, incurable? Refuseth to be healed? Wilt thou, indeed be, to me [As a brook] that disappointeth, Waters that cannot be trusted?
Jer 15:19 Wherefore, Thus, saith Yahweh––If thou wouldst return, I will cause thee to return, Before me, shalt thou stand, Yea, if thou wilt bring out the precious from among the vile, As mine own mouth, shalt thou be,––Let, them, return unto, thee, But, thou, shalt not return unto, them;
Jer 15:20 So will I make thee, to this people, a wall of bronze, fortified, When they fight against thee, they shall not prevail against thee,––For, with thee, am, I, to save thee and to deliver thee, Declareth Yahweh;
Jer 15:21 Thus will I deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked,––And redeem thee out of the grasp of the tyrants.
Jer 16:1 ¶ And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying:
Jer 16:2 Thou shall not take to thee a wife,––Neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.
Jer 16:3 For, Thus, saith Yahweh, Concerning the sons, and concerning the daughters, that are being born in this place,––and concerning their mothers who do bear them, and concerning their fathers who do beget them, in this land,
Jer 16:4 Of deaths from diseases, shall they die, They shall not be lamented, Neither shall they be buried, As heaps of dung on the face of the ground, shall they serve,––Yea, by sword and by famine, shall they be consumed, And, their dead bodies, shall become, food––To the bird of the heavens, and, To the beast of the earth.
Jer 16:5 For, Thus, saith Yahweh––Do not thou enter into the house of crying, Neither do thou go to lament, nor do thou bemoan for them,––For I have withdrawn my blessing from this people, Declareth Yahweh, Both lovingkindness and compassion.
Jer 16:6 So shall great and small die in this land, They shall not be buried,––Neither shall men lament for them, Nor cut themselves, Nor make themselves bald for them;
Jer 16:7 Neither shall they break bread to them in mourning, To console one over his dead,––Nor cause them to drink the cup of consolation, Over one’s father, Or over one’s mother;
Jer 16:8 And, the house of banqueting, shall thou not enter, To sit with them, To eat and to drink.
Jer 16:9 For, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel,––Behold me! causing to cease, out of this place, Before your eyes, And in your days, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, The voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,
Jer 16:10 ¶ And it shall be, when thou shalt declare to this people, all these words,––and they shall say unto thee––For what reason, hath Yahweh pronounced against us, all this great calamity? Or what is our iniquity, or what our sin, which we have sinned against Yahweh our God?
Jer 16:11 Then shalt thou say unto them,––For that your fathers forsook, me, Declareth Yahweh, And walked after other gods, and served them, and bowed down to them,––Whereas, me, they forsook And, my law, kept they not;
Jer 16:12 And, ye, have done more wickedly than your fathers,––for, look at you! walking every man after the stubbornness of his wicked, heart, so as not to hearken unto me,
Jer 16:13 Therefore will I hurl you forth, from off this land, unto a land, which ye have not known, ye, nor your fathers,––and ye can serve there, other gods, day and night, in that I will grant you no favour.
Jer 16:14 ¶ Therefore, lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh, When it shall be said no more, By the life of Yahweh, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt; but––
Jer 16:15 By the life of Yahweh, who hath brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of the North, and out of all the lands, whither he had driven them,––So will I bring them back upon their own soil, which I gave to their fathers.
Jer 16:16 Behold me! sending for many fishers, Declareth Yahweh, And they shall catch them,––and, thereafter, will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from off every mountain, and from off every hill, and out of the clefts of the crags.
Jer 16:17 For, mine own eyes, are upon all their ways, they have not been hid from my face––neither hath their iniquity been concealed from being straight before mine eyes.
Jer 16:18 Thus will I recompense, first, twofold, their iniquity and their sin, because of their profaning my land,––with the carcase of their disgusting and detestable things, have they filled mine inheritance.
Jer 16:19 O Yahweh, my strength, and my refuge, and my place to fly to, in the day of distress,––Unto thee, shall nations come in, out of the ends of the earth, that they may say––Surely! Falsehood, did our fathers inherit, Vanity, among whom is none that can profit:
Jer 16:20 Shall, a son of earth, make for himself, gods, Seeing that, they, are no–gods?
Jer 16:21 Therefore, behold me! causing them to know, by this stroke, I will cause them to know my hand, and my might,––That they may know, that, my name, is, Yahweh!
Jer 17:1 ¶ The sin of Judah, is written, With a stylus of iron, With the point of a diamond: It is engraved, Upon the tablet of their heart, And upon the horns of your altars;
Jer 17:2 So long as their sons remember, their altars, and their Sacred Stems, By the green tree,––Upon the high hills,
Jer 17:3 O my mountain in the field, Thy substance, all thy treasures, for a prey, will I give: Thy high places for sin, within all thy bounds.
Jer 17:4 So shalt thou, even of thyself, suffer to rest the inheritance which I gave thee, Seeing that I will cause thee to serve thine enemies, in the land which thou knowest not; For, a fire, have ye kindled in mine anger, Unto times age–abiding, shall it burn.
Jer 17:5 ¶ Thus, saith Yahweh, Accursed, is the man––Who trusteth in a son of earth, And hath made flesh, his arm,––And whose heart, from Yahweh, turneth aside:
Jer 17:6 Therefore shall he become as a shrub in the waste plain, Neither shall he perceive, when good cometh,––But shall inhabit, Parched places in a wilderness, A land of salt that cannot be dwelt in.
Jer 17:7 Blessed, is the man, Who trusteth in Yahweh, To whom Yahweh is his ground of confidence;
Jer 17:8 For he shall become like a tree planted by waters, And, by a stream, shall he send out his roots, Neither shall he perceive when heat cometh, But his leaf shall continue green: Even, in a year of dearth, shall he not be anxious, Neither shall he cease from bearing fruit.
Jer 17:9 Deceitful, is the heart above all things And, dangerously wayward,––Who can know it?
Jer 17:10 I––Yahweh, Searching the heart, Testing the affections; And giving to every man, According to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.
Jer 17:11 [As] a partridge gathereth eggs she did not lay, [So] is he that maketh riches, but not with justice,––In the midst of his days, shall he leave them, And, in his latter end, prove to have been base.
Jer 17:12 ¶ A throne of glory, exalted from the beginning, hath been the place of our sanctuary.
Jer 17:13 Thou hope of Israel, Yahweh, All who forsake thee, shall turn pale,––Yea, all who depart from me, in the ground, shall be written, For they have forsaken a fountain of living water, even Yahweh.
Jer 17:14 Heal thou me, O Yahweh, that I may be healed, Save me, that I may be saved,––For, my praise, thou art!
Jer 17:15 Lo! they, are saying unto me,––Where, is the word of Yahweh? Pray thee let it come to pass!
Jer 17:16 But, as for me, I have neither forced myself away from tending the flock after thee, Nor yet, for the woeful day, have I longed––thou, knowest,––That which came out of my lips, before thy face, was uttered.
Jer 17:17 Do not thou become to me a terror,––My refuge, art thou, in the day of calamity.
Jer 17:18 Let my persecutors, turn pale, but let not, me, turn pale, Let, them, be terrified, but let not, me, be terrified,––Bring thou upon them, a day of calamity, And, with a double fracture, destroy them.
Jer 17:19 ¶ Thus, said Yahweh unto me––Go and stand in the gate of the sons of the people, through which the kings of Judah enter in, and through which they come out,––also in all the gates of Jerusalem.
Jer 17:20 Then shalt thou say unto them––Hear ye the word of Yahweh, Ye kings of Judah and all Judah, And all ye inhabitants of Jerusalem,––who enter in through these gates:
Jer 17:21 Thus, saith Yahweh, Take heed unto your souls,––And do not bear any burden on the sabbath, day, Nor bring it in through the gates of Jerusalem,––
Jer 17:22 Neither shall ye take forth any burden out of your houses, on the sabbath, day, Nor, any manner of work, shall ye do,––But ye shall hallow the sabbath day, As I commanded your fathers.
Jer 17:23 Howbeit they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear,––but stiffened their neck, that they might not hearken, neither receive correction.
Jer 17:24 And it shall come to pass,––If ye will, indeed hearken, unto me, Declareth Yahweh, To bring in no burden, through the gates of this city, on the sabbath, day,––But to hallow the sabbath day, by not doing thereon any manner of work,
Jer 17:25 Then shall enter in through the gates of this city, Kings and princes, Sitting on the throne of David, Riding in chariots and on horses, They, and their princes, The men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, And this city shall remain unto times age–abiding.
Jer 17:26 And they shall come in––Out of the cities of Judah, and, Out of the places round about Jerusalem, and, Out of the land of Benjamin, and, Out of the lowlands, and out of the hill country, and, Out of the South, Bringing in ascending–offering, and peace–offering, and meal–offering, and frankincense,––Even they who bring in a thank–offering into the house of Yahweh.
Jer 17:27 But, if ye will not hearken unto me––To hallow the sabbath day, And to bear no burden and bring in through the gates of Jerusalem, on the sabbath day, Then will I kindle a fire within her gates, And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, And shall not be quenched.
Jer 18:1 ¶ The word that came unto Jeremiah, from Yahweh, saying:
Jer 18:2 Arise and go down, to the house of the potter,––and, there, will I cause thee to hear my words.
Jer 18:3 So I went down, to the house of the potter,––and, there he was! making a piece of work, on the wheels.
Jer 18:4 Then was marred, the vessel that he, was making, while yet it was clay in the hand of the potter,––so he turned and made of it another, vessel, as seemed right in the eyes of the potter to make it.
Jer 18:5 Then came the word of Yahweh, unto me, saying:
Jer 18:6 Like this potter, can I not deal with you, O house of Israel? Demandeth Yahweh: Lo! as clay in the hand of the potter, So, are, ye, in my hand O house of Israel.
Jer 18:7 The moment I speak, concerning a nation, or concerning a kingdom,––to pull up and to break down, and to destroy;
Jer 18:8 and that nation return, from its wickedness, against whom I have spoken, then will I repent concerning the calamity, which I had devised to bring upon it.
Jer 18:9 And, the moment I speak, concerning a nation, or concerning a kingdom,––to build, and to plant;
Jer 18:10 and it commit wickedness in mine eyes, in not hearkening unto my voice, then will I repent concerning the good wherewith I had said I would do it good.
Jer 18:11 ¶ Now, therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the men of Judah, and concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus, saith Yahweh,––Lo! I, am fashioning against you, calamity, and devising against you, a device,––Return, I pray you, every man from his wicked way, And amend your ways, and your doings.
Jer 18:12 And, since they will say, Hopeless! For, after our own devices, will we walk, And, every one, the stubbornness of his own wicked heart, will we do!
Jer 18:13 Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Ask, I pray you, among the nations,––Who, hath heard, such things as these? A very horrible thing, hath, the virgin, Israel, done!
Jer 18:14 Shall the snow of Lebanon, fail from the rock of the field? Or shall waters from afar, deep, overflowing, be dried up?
Jer 18:15 Yet my people, have forgotten me, Unto vanity, have they been burning incense; And it hath caused them to stumble, In their ways, The roads of age–past times, To walk in by–paths––A way, not cast up.
Jer 18:16 To make their land a desolation, The hissings of age–abiding times,––Every one that passeth by her, shall be astonished and wag his head.
Jer 18:17 Like an east wind, will I scatter them before the enemy,––The back and not the face, will I let them see, in the day of their distress.
Jer 18:18 ¶ Then said they,––Come ye, and let us devise against Jeremiah devices, For, the law, shall not perish, from the priest, Nor, counsel, from, the wise, Nor, the word, from, the prophet: Come and let as smite him with the tongue, And let us not give ear to any of his words!
Jer 18:19 Give thou ear, O Yahweh unto me,––And hearken unto the voice of mine accusers.
Jer 18:20 Shall, evil, be recompensed, for, good? For they have digged a pit for my life,––Remember how I stood before thee, To speak, in their behalf, what was good! To turn back thine indignation from them.
Jer 18:21 Therefore, give thou up their sons, to the famine, And deliver them into the hands of the sword, And let their, wives, become, childless and widows, And let, their men, be slain by death, Their young men, be smitten by the sword in battle.
Jer 18:22 Let there be heard a cry out of their houses, When thou shalt bring in upon them a troop, suddenly,––Because they digged a pit to capture me, And, snares, did they hide for my feet.
Jer 18:23 But, thou, O Yahweh, knowest all their counsels against me, to put me to death, Put thou no propitiatory–covering over their iniquity, And, their sin, from before thee, do not thou blot out,––But let them be overthrown before thee, In the time of thine anger, deal thou effectively with them.
Jer 19:1 ¶ Thus said Yahweh, Go and buy a potter’s earthen bottle,––and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
Jer 19:2 Then shalt thou go forth into the valley of Ben–hinnom, which is at the opening of the gate of potsherds; and proclaim there, the words which I shall speak unto thee;
Jer 19:3 and shalt say,––Hear ye the word of Yahweh, O kings of Judah, And inhabitants of Jerusalem,––Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts––God of Israel, Behold me! bringing in calamity upon this place, which shall cause the ears of, every one that heareth it, to tingle:
Jer 19:4 Because they have forsaken me, And have treated this as a foreign place, And have burned incense therein to other, gods, which, neither they, nor their fathers, nor the kings of Judah, have known; And have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
Jer 19:5 And have built the high places of Baal, for burning up their sons in the fire, as ascending–sacrifices to Baal,––Which I commanded not, Nor spake, Neither came it up on my heart,
Jer 19:6 Therefore, lo! days coming, Declareth Yahweh, When this place shall be called no longer, The Topheth, or, The Valley of Ben–hinnom,––but––The Valley of Slaughter;
Jer 19:7 And I will pour out the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem, in this place, And I will cause them to fall by the sword, before their enemies, and by the hand of them who seek their life,––
Jer 19:8 And I will give their dead bodies, for food, to the bird of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth; And I will make this city a desolation, and a hissing,––every one that passeth by it, shall be astonished and hiss, over all her wounds;
Jer 19:9 And I will suffer them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, yea, every one––the flesh of his friend, will they eat,––in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith, their enemies, and they who seek their lives, will straiten them.
Jer 19:10 ¶ Then shalt thou break the bottle, before the eyes of the men who are walking with thee;
Jer 19:11 and shalt say unto them––Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts––Thus and thus, will I break this people, and this city, As one breaketh the vessel of a potter, which cannot be made whole any more,––And, in Topheth, shall they bury, for want of place to bury.
Jer 19:12 Thus, will I do to this place, Declareth Yahweh, And to the inhabitants thereof,––Even making this city like Topheth:
Jer 19:13 Yea, the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall, like the place of Topheth, be places defiled,––even all the houses, upon whose roofs they burned incense, to all the host of the heavens, and poured out drink–offerings to other, gods.
Jer 19:14 Then entered Jeremiah out of Topheth, whither Yahweh had sent him to prophesy,––and stood in the court of the house of Yahweh, and said unto all the people:
Jer 19:15 Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Behold me! brining in against this city, and upon all the cities thereof, The whole calamity, which I have pronounced against her,––Because they stiffened their neck, that they might not hear my words.
Jer 20:1 ¶ And, when Pashhur son of Immer, the priest, who also was deputy–overseer in the house of Yahweh, heard that Jeremiah had prophesied these things,
Jer 20:2 then Pashhur smote, Jeremiah the prophet,––and put him in the stocks, that were in the upper, gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Yahweh.
Jer 20:3 And it came to pass, on the morrow, when Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah, out of the stocks,––that Jeremiah said unto him––Not Pashhur, hath Yahweh called thy name, But Magor–missaviv[=" Terror–round–about"].
Jer 20:4 For, Thus, saith Yahweh––Behold me! making thee a [magor, i. e. a] terror to thyself and to all who love thee, and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, thine own eyes also, beholding. And, all Judah, will I deliver into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive to Babylon, and smite them with the sword.
Jer 20:5 And I will deliver up––All the wealth of this city, and, All her labour, and, All her precious things,––And, all the treasures of the kings of Judah, will I deliver up into the hands of their enemies, and they will make of them a prey, and take them, and carry them into Babylon.
Jer 20:6 And, thou, Pashhur, and all who are dwelling in thy house, shall go into captivity,––Yea, into Babylon, shalt thou enter And, there, shalt thou die, And, there, shalt thou be buried, Thou, and all who love thee, to whom thou hast prophesied, falsely.
Jer 20:7 ¶ Thou didst persuade me, O Yahweh, and I was persuaded, Thou didst lay firm hold on me, and didst prevail,––I am become a mockery, all the day, Every one, is laughing at me.
Jer 20:8 For, as often as I speak, I make outcry, Violence and wasting, I proclaim,––Yea the word of Yahweh hath become, to me a reproach and derision, all the day.
Jer 20:9 Therefore I say––I will not mention him, Neither will I speak any more in his name, But then it becometh in my heart, as a fire that burneth, Shut up in my bones,––And I am weary of restraint, and cannot refrain.
Jer 20:10 Because I have heard the whispering of many––"A terror round about!" Tell ye [say they], that we may tell of him, All the men I am wont to salute, do watch for my halting,––Peradventure, he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail over him, and take our vengeance upon him.
Jer 20:11 But, Yahweh, is with me, as a mighty one striking terror, For this cause, shall my persecutors stumble, and not prevail,––They have turned very pale, For they have not prospered, Confusion age–abiding, it shall not be forgotten!
Jer 20:12 But, O Yahweh of hosts––Testing the righteous, Beholding the affections and the heart,––Let me see thine avenging upon them, For, unto thee, have I laid bare my cause.
Jer 20:13 Sing ye to Yahweh! Praise ye Yahweh! For he hath delivered the soul of the needy, out of the hand of evildoers.
Jer 20:14 ¶ Accursed, be the day on which I was born,––The day when, my mother, bare me, let it not be blessed!
Jer 20:15 Accursed, be the man who carried tidings to my father, saying, There is born to thee a man–child!
Jer 20:16 Making him very glad: Yea let that, man be––as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and repented not,––And let him hear, An outcry in the morning, and, A war–shout at broad noon!
Jer 20:17 Because I was not slain from the womb,––Nor did, my mother, become, my grave, Nor was her womb great for ever!
Jer 20:18 Wherefore, was, it––That, from the womb, I came forth, to see labour and pain; and, That, in shame, should, my days, be consumed!
Jer 21:1 ¶ The word which came unto Jeremiah, from Yahweh,––when King Zedekiah sent unto him Pashhur, son of Malchiah, and Zephaniah, son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying:
Jer 21:2 Enquire for us, I pray thee, of Yahweh, in that, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, maketh war against us,––Peradventure, Yahweh will deal with us, according to all his wonders, so that he go up from us.
Jer 21:3 Then said Jeremiah unto them,––Thus, shall ye say unto Zedekiah:
Jer 21:4 Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel––Behold me! turning back the weapons of war that are in your hand, wherewith, ye, are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans, who are besieging you, outside the wall,––and I will gather them into the midst of this city.
Jer 21:5 And, I myself, will fight against you, with a hand outstretched, and with an arm of strength,––and with anger and with wrath, and with great indignation;
Jer 21:6 and I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast,––of a great pestilence, shall they die.
Jer 21:7 And, after that, Declareth Yahweh––Will I deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people,––even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine,––into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, even into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them who are seeking their life,––and he will smite them with the edge of the sword, he will not have pity on them, nor will he spare, nor will he have compassion.
Jer 21:8 ¶ And, unto this people, shalt thou say, Thus, saith Yahweh,––Behold me! setting before you, the way, of life, and the way, of death:
Jer 21:9 He that remaineth in this city, shall die––by the sword, or by the famine, or by the pestilence,––Whereas, he that goeth forth and falleth unto the Chaldeans, who are besieging you,––then shall he live, and, his life, shall become to him, a spoil;
Jer 21:10 For I have set my face against this city, for calamity and not for blessing, Declareth Yahweh,––Into the hand of the king of Babylon, shall it be given up, and he will burn it with fire.
Jer 21:11 Now, as to the house of the king of Judah,––hear ye the word of Yahweh:––
Jer 21:12 O house of David! Thus, saith Yahweh, Administer justice, betimes, And deliver the robbed out of the hand of the oppressor,––Lest mine indignation, come forth like fire, And burn, and there be none to quench it, Because of the wickedness of your doings:
Jer 21:13 Behold me! against thee, O thou dweller in the vale, on the level rock, Declareth Yahweh,––Ye who are saying, Who shall come down upon us? Who shall enter our habitations?
Jer 21:14 Yet will I bring punishment upon you, according to the fruit of your doings, Declareth Yahweh,––and will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.
Jer 22:1 ¶ Thus, said Yahweh, Go thou down to the house of king of Judah, and speak thou there, this word,
Jer 22:2 and say––Hear thou the word of Yahweh, O king of Judah, who sittest upon the throne of David,––thou, and thy servants, and thy people, who enter in at these gates,
Jer 22:3 Thus, saith Yahweh,––Execute ye justice, and righteousness, And deliver the robbed, out of the hand of the oppressor,––But, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, do not oppress, neither commit violence, And, the blood of the innocent, do not ye shed, in this place.
Jer 22:4 For, if ye, indeed do, this thing, then shall there enter into the gates of this house––kings, sitting for David upon his throne, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
Jer 22:5 But, if ye will not hear, these words, By myself, have I sworn, Declareth Yahweh––That, a ruin, shall, this house, become.
Jer 22:6 For, Thus, saith Yahweh, Concerning the house of the king of Judah,––Though thou wast, Gilead, to me, The summit of Lebanon, Yet surely I will make thee, A wilderness, Cities, not habitable;
Jer 22:7 And I will hallow against thee Destroyers, Every man with his weapons,––And they shall cut down of the choicest of thy cedars, and cast upon the fire.
Jer 22:8 Then shall many nations pass by this city,––and shall say, every man to his neighbour, For what cause, hath Yahweh done, thus, unto this great city?
Jer 22:9 And they shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, their God,––And bowed down to other, gods, And served them.
Jer 22:10 ¶ Do not ye lament for him that is dead, Neither bemoan ye, him, But weep ye––weep on––for him that is going away, For he shall not return any more, Nor see the land of his birth.
Jer 22:11 For, Thus, saith Yahweh––Touching Shallum, son of Josiah, king of Judah, That reigneth instead of Josiah, his father, Who hath gone forth out of this place, He shall not return thither any more;
Jer 22:12 For, in the place whither they have taken him captive, There, shall he die,––And, this land, shall he see no more.
Jer 22:13 Alas! for him who buildeth, His house without righteousness, And his roof–chambers without justice,––Of his neighbour, taketh service for nought, And, recompense for his work, giveth him not.
Jer 22:14 Who saith––I will build me a roomy house, with spacious roof–chambers,––So he cutteth him open its windows, And it is covered in with cedar, And he painteth it with vermilion.
Jer 22:15 Shalt thou reign, because, thou, art eager to excel in cedar? Thy father, did he not eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness, And, then, it was well with him?
Jer 22:16 [Did he not] plead the cause of the oppressed and the needy, And, then, it was well? Was not, that, to know, me? Demandeth Yahweh.
Jer 22:17 Verily thou hast neither eyes, nor heart, save for thy plundering and for thy shedding of, innocent blood, and for oppression and for crushing, to do, them!
Jer 22:18 Therefore––Thus, saith Yahweh, Touching Jehoiakim son of Josiah, King of Judah, They shall not cry in lament for him, Alas, my brother! or Alas, sister! They shall not cry in lament for him, Alas, lord! or Alas! his renown!
Jer 22:19 With the burial of an ass, shall he be buried,––Dragged along and cast forth, beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Jer 22:20 ¶ Ascend the Lebanon, and make outcry, And, in Bashan, put forth thy voice,––And make outcry from Abarim, For all thy lovers, are torn in pieces.
Jer 22:21 I spake unto thee, in thy carelessness,––Thou saidst, I will not hearken! This, hath been thy way from thy youth, That thou hast not hearkened to my voice.
Jer 22:22 All thy shepherds, the wind, shall feed, And, thy lovers, into captivity, shall depart,––Surely, then, shalt thou turn pale, and be confounded, by reason of all thy wickedness.
Jer 22:23 O inhabitress of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars,––How hast thou bemoaned thyself, Now that pangs have overtaken thee, Anguish, as of her that giveth birth.
Jer 22:24 As I live, Declareth Yahweh,––Even though Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet–ring upon my right hand, yet, from thence, would I pull thee off;
Jer 22:25 and I would give thee into the hand of them who seek thy life, and into the hand of them from the face of whom, thou, dost shrink in fear,––even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans;
Jer 22:26 and I will hurl thee out, and thy mother who bare thee, upon another land, where ye were not born,––and, there, shall ye die.
Jer 22:27 But, unto the land whither they shall be lifting up their souls to return, thither, shall they not return.
Jer 22:28 An earthen vessel, to be despised, thrown about, is this man Coniah? Or an instrument, in which is no pleasure? Wherefore, are they to be cast out, he, and his seed, and to be thrown forth upon a land which they have not known?
Jer 22:29 O land, land, land! Hear thou the word of Yahweh!
Jer 22:30 Thus, saith Yahweh,––Register ye this man, childless, A man who shall not prosper in his days,––For there shall prosper of his seed, No man sitting upon the throne of David, Or ruling any more over Judah.
Jer 23:1 ¶ Alas for the shepherds, who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 23:2 Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, Concerning the shepherds who are tending my people,––Ye, have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and have not visited them,––Behold me! Visiting, upon you, the wickedness of your doings, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 23:3 I myself, therefore, will gather the remnant of my flock, out of all the lands whither I have driven them,––And will bring them back unto their own fold, And they shall be fruitful and multiply;
Jer 23:4 And I will raise up over them shepherds, who will tend them,––So shall they not be afraid any more, nor be dismayed, nor be missing, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 23:5 Lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh, when I will raise up to David, A righteous Bud, And he shall reign as, king, and prosper, And shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 23:6 In his days, Shall Judah, be saved, And, Israel, abide securely,––And, this, is his name whereby he shall be called, Yahweh, our Righteousness.
Jer 23:7 Therefore, lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh, When it shall not be said any more, As Yahweh liveth, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
Jer 23:8 but––As Yahweh liveth, who hath brought up and who hath brought in the seed of the house of Israel out of the land of the North, and out of all the lands whither I have driven them,––And they shall remain upon their own soil.
Jer 23:9 ¶ As for the prophets,––Broken, is my heart within me, Trembled, have all my bones, I have become as a drunken man, And as a strong man whom wine hath overcome,––Because of Yahweh, And because of his holy, words.
Jer 23:10 For, with adulterers, is the land filled, Yea, because of cursing, doth the land mourn, Dried up are the oases of the desert,––And, their oppression, hath become wicked, And, their might, is not right.
Jer 23:11 For, both prophet and priest, are profane,––Even in my house, have I found their wickedness, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 23:12 Therefore, shall their way become to them like slippery places in darkness, They shall be driven on, and shall fall therein,––For I will bring in upon them calamity––The year of their visitation, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 23:13 Even among the prophets of Samaria, had I seen a foolish thing,––They prophesied by Baal, And led astray my people Israel.
Jer 23:14 But, among the prophets of Jerusalem, have I seen a horrible thing,––Committing adultery, And walking in falsehood, And so strengthening the hands of doers of wickedness, not to return any man from his wickedness: They have, all of them, become, to me, as Sodom, And her inhabitants, as Gomorrah.
Jer 23:15 Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Concerning the prophets,––Behold me! Feeding them with wormwood, And I will cause them to drink poisoned water,––For, from the prophets of Jerusalem, hath there gone forth profanity unto all the land.
Jer 23:16 Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts,––Do not hearken unto the words of the prophets who are prophesying unto you, They, are filling you, with vain, hopes,––The vision of their own hearts, do they speak, Not from the mouth of Yahweh!
Jer 23:17 They keep on saying to them who despise me, Yahweh, hath spoken, [saying], Prosperity, shall ye have! And, to every one who is going on in the stubbornness of his own heart, have they said, There shall come on you, no calamity;
Jer 23:18 For who, hath stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should see, and hear his word? Who hath given ear to his word, and heard it?
Jer 23:19 Lo! the tempest of Yahweh! Indignation, hath come forth, Even a tempest whirling along: On the head of the lawless, shall it hurl itself down.
Jer 23:20 The anger of Yahweh, wilt not return, Until he hath executed, nor, Until he hath established, The purposes of his heart,––In the afterpart of the days, shall ye understand it, perfectly.
Jer 23:21 I sent not the prophets, yet, they, ran, I spake not unto them, yet, they, prophesied.
Jer 23:22 But, if they had stood in my council, Then might they have announced my words unto my people, And have turned them from their wicked, way and from the wickedness of their doings.
Jer 23:23 Am I, a God at hand, Demandeth Yahweh, And not a God afar off?
Jer 23:24 Can any hide, himself in secret places, that, I, shall not see him? Demandeth Yahweh,––The heavens and the earth, do I, not fill? Demandeth Yahweh.
Jer 23:25 I have heard what the prophets, have said, who prophesy in my name falsely, saying,––I have dreamed! I have dreamed!
Jer 23:26 How long, shall it be, in the heart of the prophets, [To be] prophets of falsehood,––And prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
Jer 23:27 Who lay a plot to cause my people, to forget, my name, by their dreams which they relate, every man to his neighbour,––Just as their fathers forgat, my name, for Baal.
Jer 23:28 The prophet with whom is a dream, Let him relate it as, a dream, And, he with whom is my word, Let him speak my word as, truth,––What is the chaff, to the wheat? Demandeth Yahweh:
Jer 23:29 Is not my word, like this, Like fire? Demandeth Yahweh,––And like a hammer, that breaketh in pieces a cliff?
Jer 23:30 Therefore! behold me! against the prophets, Declareth Yahweh,––who steal my words, every man from his neighbour:
Jer 23:31 Behold me! against the prophets, Declareth Yahweh, who presume with their tongue and declare, He declareth:
Jer 23:32 Behold me! against such as prophesy the dreams of falsehood, Declareth Yahweh, who have related them, and led astray my people, with their falsehoods and with their recklessness,––whereas, I, had not sent them, nor commanded them, so that they could be of no, profit, to this people, Declareth Yahweh.
Jer 23:33 ¶ But, when this people, or a prophet or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the oracle of Yahweh? Then shalt thou say unto them, Ye yourselves, are the oracle, Therefore will I reject you, Declareth Yahweh;
Jer 23:34 But, the prophet, or the priest, or the people, who shall say––the oracle of Yahweh, I will bring punishment upon that man, and upon his house.
Jer 23:35 Thus, shall ye say––every man unto his neighbour, and every man unto his brother,––What, hath Yahweh, answered? or, What, hath Yahweh, spoken?
Jer 23:36 but, the oracle of Yahweh, shall ye not mention, any more,––for, every man’s oracle, shall be his own word, because ye have perverted the words of a Living, God, Yahweh of hosts, our God.
Jer 23:37 Thus, shalt thou say unto the prophet,––What, hath Yahweh, answered thee? or, What, hath Yahweh, spoken?
Jer 23:38 But, since ye keep on saying, The Oracle of Yahweh, therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Because ye have said this word, The oracle of Yahweh, whereas I had sent unto you saying, Ye shall not say, The oracle of Yahweh,
Jer 23:39 therefore, behold me! I will lift you up,––and carry you away, and the city which I gave to you and to your fathers, from before my face;
Jer 23:40 and will give unto you reproach age–abiding,––and disgrace age–abiding, which shall not be forgotten.
Jer 24:1 ¶ Yahweh shewed, me, and lo! two baskets of figs, which had been set before the temple of Yahweh,––after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive, Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the carpenters and the smiths, out of Jerusalem, and had brought them into Babylon:––
Jer 24:2 the one basket, was of very good figs, like the first–ripe, figs; and, the other basket, was of very bad figs, which could not be eaten, for badness.
Jer 24:3 Then said Yahweh unto me,––What canst thou, see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs: the good figs, very, good; and, the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, for badness.
Jer 24:4 Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying:
Jer 24:5 Thus, saith Yahweh God of Israel, Like these, good, figs, so, will I regard them of Judah who are carried into captivity, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
Jer 24:6 Therefore will I set mine eye upon them, for good, and will bring them back upon this land,––and will build them up, and not pull them down, and will plant them, and not root them up;
Jer 24:7 and will give them a heart, to know, me, that, I, am Yahweh, So shall they become my, people, And, I, will become their, God; for they will return unto me with all their heart.
Jer 24:8 And, like the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, for badness, Surely, thus, saith Yahweh––so, will I deliver up Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them who are dwelling in the land of Egypt;
Jer 24:9 yea I will deliver them up, as a terror of calamity, to all the kingdoms of the earth,––as a reproach, and as a byword, as a mockery and as a contempt, in every place whither I will drive them;
Jer 24:10 and I will send among them, sword, famine and pestilence,––until they are consumed from off the soil, which I gave to them, and to their fathers.
Jer 25:1 ¶ The word, which came upon Jeremiah, concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah,––the same, was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
Jer 25:2 which [word] Jeremiah the prophet spake, concerning all the people of Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:––
Jer 25:3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, even until this day, the which is the twenty–third year, hath the word of Yahweh come, unto me; and I have spoken unto you, betimes, speaking, yet have ye not hearkened.
Jer 25:4 And Yahweh sent, unto you, all his servants the prophets, b
