JEREMIAH
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Jeremiah 1
1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the
priests that [were] in Anathoth in the land of
Benjamin:
2 To whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of
Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth
month.
4 Then the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I
ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
6 Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, I cannot
speak: for I [am] a child.
7 But Yahweh said unto me, Say not, I [am] a child: for thou shalt go to all
that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I [am] with thee to deliver thee, saith
Yahweh.
9 Then Yahweh put forth His hand, and touched my mouth. And Yahweh said unto
me, Behold, I have put My words in thy mouth.
10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and
over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw
down, to build, and to plant.
11 Moreover the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a
rod of an almond tree.
12 Then said Yahweh unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten My word to perform it.
13 And the word of Yahweh came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see
a seething pot; and the face thereof [is] toward the north.
14 Then Yahweh said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon
all the inhabitants of the land.
15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith
Yahweh; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the
entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round
about, and against all the cities of Judah.
16 And I will utter My judgments against them touching
all their wickedness, who have forsaken Me, and have burned incense unto other
gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I
command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced
city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against
the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against
the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee;
for I [am] with thee, saith Yahweh, to deliver thee.
1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came
to me, saying,
2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Yahweh; I remember
thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after Me in the wilderness, in a land [that was]
not sown.
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4 Hear ye the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the
house of Israel:
5 Thus saith Yahweh, What iniquity have your fathers found in Me, that they are
gone far from Me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
6 Neither said they, Where [is] Yahweh That brought us up out of the land of
Egypt, That led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of
pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land
that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the
goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled My
land, and made Mine heritage an abomination.
8 The priests said not, Where [is] Yahweh? and they
that handle the law knew Me not: the pastors also transgressed against Me, and
the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after [things that] do not profit.
9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith Yahweh, and with your children's
children will I plead.
10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and
send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if
there be such a thing.
11 Hath a nation changed [their]
gods, which [are] yet no gods? but My people have
changed His glory for [that which] doth not profit.
12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very
desolate, saith Yahweh.
13 For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me the fountain
of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold
no water.
14 [Is]
15 The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they made his land waste:
his cities are burned without inhabitant.
16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes
have broken the crown of thy head.
17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Yahweh
thy God, when He led thee by the way?
18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of
19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove
thee: know therefore and see that [it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou
hast forsaken Yahweh thy God, and that My fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord
Yahweh of hosts.
20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill
and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing
the harlot.
21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou
turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto Me?
22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take
thee much soap, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before Me,
saith the Lord Yahweh.
23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley,
know what thou hast done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, [that] snuffeth up the
wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? All they that seek
her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers,
and after them will I go.
26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed;
they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
27 Saying to a stock, Thou [art] my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought
me forth: for they have turned [their] back unto Me, and not [their] face: but
in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
28 But where [are] thy gods that thou hast made thee? let
them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for [according
to] the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
29 Wherefore will ye plead with Me? ye
all have transgressed against Me, saith Yahweh.
30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own
sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
31 O generation, see ye the word of Yahweh. Have I
been a wilderness unto
32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her
attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without
number.
33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore
hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I
have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
35 Yet thou sayest, Because
I am innocent, surely His anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with
thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of
37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands
upon thine head: for Yahweh hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not
prosper in them.
1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go
from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but
thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to Me, saith
Yahweh.
2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been
lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the
wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms
and with thy wickedness.
3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and
there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a
whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto Me, My father, Thou [art] the guide of
my youth?
5 Will He reserve [His anger] for ever? will He keep
[it] to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
6 Yahweh said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast
thou seen [that] which backsliding
7 And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn thou unto Me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah
saw [it].
8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed
adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her
treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled
the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister
11 And Yahweh said unto me, The backsliding
12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou
backsliding
13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Yahweh
thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree,
and ye have not obeyed My voice, saith Yahweh.
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith Yahweh; for I am married unto you: and I
will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to
15 And I will give you pastors according to Mine heart, which shall feed you
with knowledge and understanding.
16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land,
in those days, saith Yahweh, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of
Yahweh: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither
shall they visit [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more.
17 At that time they shall call
18 In those days the house of
19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the
children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of
nations? and I said, Thou shalt call Me, My father; and shalt not turn away
from Me.
20 Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from
her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel, saith
Yahweh.
21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping [and] supplications of the
children of
22 Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings.
Behold, we come unto Thee; for Thou [art] Yahweh our God.
23 Truly in vain [is salvation hoped for] from the hills, [and from] the
multitude of mountains: truly in Yahweh our God [is] the salvation of
24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers
from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth
us: for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our
youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.
1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Yahweh, return unto Me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of My
sight, then shalt thou not remove.
2 And thou shalt swear, Yahweh liveth, in truth, in
judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in Him,
and in Him shall they glory.
3 For thus saith Yahweh to the men of
4 Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart,
ye men of
5 Declare ye in
6 Set up the standard toward
7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on
his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; [and] thy
cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of
Yahweh is not turned back from us.
9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith Yahweh, [that] the heart of the
king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be
astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
10 Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! surely Thou hast
greatly deceived this people and
11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of
the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of My people, not to fan,
or to cleanse,
12 [Even] a full wind from those [places] shall come unto Me: now also will I
give sentence against them.
13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as a
whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for
we are spoiled.
14 O
15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from
16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against
17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath
been rebellious against Me, saith Yahweh.
18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these [things] unto thee; this [is] thy
wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth
unto thine heart.
19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou
hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled:
suddenly are my tents spoiled, [and] my curtains in a moment.
21 How long shall I see the standard, [and] hear the sound of the trumpet?
22 For My people [is] foolish, they have not known Me;
they [are] sottish children, and they have none
understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no
knowledge.
23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the
heavens, and they [had] no light.
24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved
lightly.
25 I beheld, and, lo, [there was] no man, and all the birds of the heavens were
fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place [was] a wilderness, and all the cities
thereof were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, [and] by His fierce anger.
27 For thus hath Yahweh said, The whole land shall be
desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be
black: because I have spoken [it], I have purposed [it], and will not repent,
neither will I turn back from it.
29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they
shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city [shall be]
forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
30 And [when] thou [art] spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make
thyself fair; [thy] lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, [and] the anguish as of
her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of
the daughter of Zion, [that] bewaileth herself,
[that] spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe [is] me
now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
1 Run ye to and fro through the
streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places
thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be [any] that executeth
judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon
it.
2 And though they say, Yahweh liveth; surely they
swear falsely.
3 O Yahweh, [are] not Thine eyes upon the truth? Thou
hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; Thou hast consumed them, [but]
they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than
a rock; they have refused to return.
4 Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are
foolish: for they know not the way of Yahweh, [nor] the judgment of their God.
5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have
known the way of Yahweh, [and] the judgment of their God: but these have
altogether broken the yoke, [and] burst the bonds.
6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, [and] a wolf of the
evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one
that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces:
because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.
7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have
forsaken Me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had fed them to the
full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the
harlots' houses.
8 They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
9 Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith Yahweh:
and shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not
a full end: take away her battlements; for they [are] not Yahweh's.
11 For the house of
12 They have belied Yahweh, and said, [It is] not He; neither shall evil come
upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is] not in them: thus
shall it be done unto them.
14 Wherefore thus saith Yahweh, God of hosts, Because
ye speak this word, behold, I will make My words in thy mouth fire, and this
people wood, and it shall devour them.
15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of
16 Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men.
17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy
daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall
eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities,
wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
18 Nevertheless in those days, saith Yahweh, I will not make a full end with
you.
19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore
doeth Yahweh our God all these [things] unto us? then
shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken Me, and served strange gods in
your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land [that is] not yours.
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in
21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes,
and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
22 Fear ye not Me? saith Yahweh: will ye not tremble at My presence, which have
placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it
cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not
prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted
and gone.
24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, That giveth rain, both the
former and the latter, in his season: He reserveth
unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
25 Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and your sins have withholden good [things] from you.
26 For among My people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses
full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
28 They are waxen fat, they shine:
yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause
of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not
judge.
29 Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith Yahweh:
shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear
rule by their means; and My people love [to have it] so: and what will ye do in
the end thereof?
1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of
2 I have likened the daughter of
3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch [their]
tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the
shadows of the evening are stretched out.
5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
6 For thus hath Yahweh of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount
against
7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in
her; before Me continually [is] grief and wounds.
8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest My soul depart
from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
9 Thus saith Yahweh of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of
10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear [is] uncircumcised, and they cannot
hearken: behold, the word of Yahweh is unto them a reproach; they have no
delight in it.
11 Therefore I am full of the fury of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: I
will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon
the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be
taken, the aged with [him that is] full of days.
12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, [with their] fields and wives
together: for I will stretch out My hand upon the
inhabitants of the land, saith Yahweh.
13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one [is]
given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
14 They have healed also the hurt [of the daughter] of My
people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.
15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,
they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall
fall among them that fall: at the time [that] I visit them they shall be cast
down, saith Yahweh.
16 Thus saith Yahweh, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths,
where [is] the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your
souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].
17 Also I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the trumpet.
But they said, We will not hearken. 18 Therefore hear,
ye nations, and know, O congregation, what [is] among them.
19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, [even] the fruit
of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto My
words, nor to My law, but rejected it.
20 To what purpose cometh there to Me incense from
21 Therefore thus saith Yahweh, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks
before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them;
the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
22 Thus saith Yahweh, Behold, a people cometh from the north
country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they [are] cruel, and have no mercy;
their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon
horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of
24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken
hold of us, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail.
25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy
[and] fear [is] on every side.
26 O daughter of My people, gird [thee] with
sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only
son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
27 I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among My
people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
28 They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with
slanders: [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters.
29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. 30
Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because Yahweh hath rejected them.
1 The word that came to Jeremiah
from Yahweh, saying,
2 Stand in the gate of Yahweh's house, and proclaim there this word, and say,
Hear the word of Yahweh, all [ye of]
3 Thus saith Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend
your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, The temple of
Yahweh, The temple of Yahweh, [are] these.
5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your
doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a
man and his neighbour;
6 [If] ye oppress not the stranger,
the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place,
neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your
fathers, for ever and ever.
8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn
incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
10 And come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and
say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
11 Is this house, which is called by My name, become a
den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith Yahweh.
12 But go ye now unto My place which [was] in Shiloh,
where I set My name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness
of My people
13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith Yahweh, and I spake
unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but
ye answered not;
14 Therefore will I do unto [this] house, which is called by My name, wherein
ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have
done to Shiloh.
15 And I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, [even] the
whole seed of Ephraim.
16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for
them, neither make intercession to Me: for I will not
hear thee.
17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of
18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women
knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out
drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me
to anger.
19 Do they provoke Me to anger? saith
Yahweh: [do they] not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord Yahweh; Behold, Mine anger and My fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and
upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground;
and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
21 Thus saith Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto
your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I
brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your
God, and ye shall be My people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have
commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
24 But they hearkened not, nor
inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of
their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto
this day I have even sent unto you all My servants the prophets, daily rising
up early and sending [them]:
26 Yet they hearkened not unto Me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck:
they did worse than their fathers.
27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not
hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
28 But thou shalt say unto them, This [is] a nation
that obeyeth not the voice of Yahweh their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off
from their mouth.
29 Cut off thine hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and take up a
lamentation on high places; for Yahweh hath rejected and forsaken the
generation of His wrath.
30 For the children of
31 And they have built the high places of Tophet,
which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to
burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded [them] not,
neither came it into My heart.
32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Yahweh, that it shall no more be
called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in
Tophet, till there be no place.
33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for
the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the
earth; and none shall fray [them] away.
34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of
1 At that time, saith Yahweh, they
shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes,
and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of
heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they
have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they
shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of
the earth.
3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that
remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have
driven them, saith Yahweh of hosts.
4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Yahweh;
Shall they fall, and not arise? shall He turn away,
and not return?
5 Why [then] is this people of
6 I hearkened and heard, [but] they spake not aright: no man repented him of
his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Every one
turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the
battle.
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed
times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their
coming; but My people know not the judgment of Yahweh.
8 How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of Yahweh
[is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made He [it]; the pen of the scribes [is]
in vain.
9 The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have
rejected the word of Yahweh; and what wisdom [is] in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, [and] their fields to them
that shall inherit [them]: for every one from the least even unto the greatest
is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My
people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.
12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,
they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they
fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast
down, saith Yahweh.
13 I will surely consume them, saith Yahweh: [there shall be] no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the
leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from
them.
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let
us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be
silent there: for Yahweh our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of
gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
15 We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and
behold trouble!
16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at
the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have
devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city,
and those that dwell therein.
17 For, behold, I will send
serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall
bite you, saith Yahweh.
18 [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of My
people because of them that dwell in a far country: [Is] not Yahweh in
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black;
astonishment hath taken hold on me.
22 [Is there] no balm in
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!
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I
might leave my people, and go from them! for they [be]
all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3 And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not
valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and
they know not Me, saith Yahweh.
4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for
every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with
slanders.
5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth:
they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit
iniquity.
6 Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to
know Me, saith Yahweh.
7 Therefore thus saith Yahweh of hosts, Behold, I will
melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of My people?
8 Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh
deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour
with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
9 Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith
Yahweh: shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the
habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so
that none can pass through [them]; neither can [men] hear the voice of the
cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
11 And I will make
12 Who [is] the wise man, that may understand this?
and [who is he] to whom the mouth of Yahweh hath spoken, that he may declare
it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up
like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13 And Yahweh saith, Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them,
and have not obeyed My voice, neither walked therein;
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15 Therefore thus saith Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed
them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their
fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed
them.
17 Thus saith Yahweh of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women,
that they may come; and send for cunning [women], that they may come:
18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run
down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of
20 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word
of His mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour
lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered into our palaces, to
cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.
22 Speak, Thus saith Yahweh, Even the carcases of men
shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the
harvestman, and none shall gather [them].
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:
24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me,
that I [am] Yahweh Which exercise lovingkindness,
judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these [things] I delight,
saith Yahweh.
25 Behold, the days come, saith Yahweh, that I will punish all [them which are]
circumcised with the uncircumcised;
26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon,
and Moab, and all [that are] in the utmost corners, that dwell in the
wilderness: for all [these] nations [are] uncircumcised, and all the house of
Israel [are] uncircumcised in the heart.
1 Hear ye the word which Yahweh speaketh unto you,
O house of
2 Thus saith Yahweh, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at
the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth
a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5 They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must
needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they
cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto Thee, O Yahweh; Thou [art] great, and
Thy name [is] great in might.
7 Who would not fear Thee, O King of nations? for to
Thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the nations,
and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto Thee.
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of
vanities.
9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish,
and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of
the hands of the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all
the work of cunning [men].
10 But Yahweh [is] the true God, He [is] the living
God, and an everlasting King: at His wrath the earth shall tremble, and the
nations shall not be able to abide His indignation.
11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not
made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and
from under these heavens.
12 He hath made the earth by His power, He hath established the world by His
wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion.
13 When He uttereth His voice, [there is] a multitude
of waters in the heavens, and He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; He maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of His treasures.
14 Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the
graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in
them.
15 They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation
they shall perish.
16 The Portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for He [is] the former of all
[things]; and
17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
18 For thus saith Yahweh, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land
at this once, and will distress them, that they may find [it so].
19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I
said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it.
20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone
forth of me, and they [are] not: [there is] none to stretch forth my tent any
more, and to set up my curtains.
21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought Yahweh: therefore
they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of
23 O Yahweh, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man
that walketh to direct his steps.
24 O Yahweh, correct me, but with judgment; not in Thine anger, lest Thou bring
me to nothing.
25 Pour out Thy fury upon the heathen that know Thee not, and upon the families
that call not on Thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and
consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith Yahweh, God of Israel; Cursed [be] the man
that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,
4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day [that] I brought them forth out of
the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey My voice, and do them,
according to all which I command you: so shall ye be My people, and I will be
your God:
5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give
them a land flowing with milk and honey, as [it is] this day. Then answered I,
and said, So be it, O Yahweh.
6 Then Yahweh said unto me, Proclaim all these words
in the cities of
7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day [that] I brought them
up out of the land of Egypt, [even] unto this day, rising early and protesting,
saying, Obey My voice.
8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the
imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words
of this covenant, which I commanded [them] to do; but they did [them] not.
9 And Yahweh said unto me, A conspiracy is found among
the men of
10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused
to hear My words; and they went after other gods to
serve them: the house of
11 Therefore thus saith Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they
shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto Me, I will not
hearken unto them.
12 Then shall the cities of
13 For [according to] the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and
[according to] the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to
[that] shameful thing, [even] altars to burn incense unto Baal.
14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for
them: for I will not hear [them] in the time that they cry unto Me for their trouble.
15 What hath My beloved to do in Mine house, [seeing]
she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
16 Yahweh called thy name, A green olive tree, fair,
[and] of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult He hath kindled fire
upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
17 For Yahweh of hosts, That planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee,
for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have
done against themselves to provoke Me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
18 And Yahweh hath given me knowledge [of it], and I know [it]: then Thou shewedst me their doings.
19 But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; and I
knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the
tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the
living, that his name may be no more remembered.
20 But, O Yahweh of hosts, That judgest
righteously, That triest the reins and the heart, let
me see Thy vengeance on them: for unto Thee have I revealed my cause.
21 Therefore thus saith Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth,
that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of Yahweh, that thou die
not by our hand:
22 Therefore thus saith Yahweh of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young
men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of
Anathoth, [even] the year of their visitation.
1 Righteous [art] Thou, O Yahweh, when I plead with Thee: yet let me talk
with Thee of [Thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring
forth fruit: Thou [art] near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
3 But Thou, O Yahweh, knowest me: Thou hast seen me,
and tried mine heart toward Thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the
wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are
consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst
thou contend with horses? and [if] in the land of
peace, [wherein] thou trustedst, [they wearied thee],
then how wilt thou do in the swelling of
6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt
treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe
them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
7 I have forsaken Mine house, I have left Mine heritage; I have given the
dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her
enemies.
8 Mine heritage is unto Me as a lion in the forest; it
crieth out against Me: therefore have I hated it.
9 Mine heritage [is] unto Me [as] a speckled bird, the
birds round about [are] against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the
field, come to devour.
10 Many pastors have destroyed My vineyard, they have
trodden My portion under foot, they have made My pleasant portion a desolate
wilderness.
11 They have made it desolate, [and being] desolate it mourneth
unto Me; the whole land is made desolate, because no
man layeth [it] to heart.
12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the
sword of Yahweh shall devour from the [one] end of the land even to the [other]
end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to
pain, [but] shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues
because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.
14 Thus saith Yahweh against all mine evil neighbours, that
touch the inheritance which I have caused my people
15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return,
and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his
heritage, and every man to his land.
16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of My
people, to swear by My name, Yahweh liveth; as they
taught My people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of My
people.
17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation,
saith Yahweh.
1 Thus saith Yahweh unto me, Go and
get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
2 So I got a girdle according to the word of Yahweh, and put [it] on my loins.
3 And the word of Yahweh came unto me the second time, saying,
4 Take the girdle that thou hast
got, which [is] upon thy loins, and arise, go to
5 So I went, and hid it by
6 And it came to pass after many days, that Yahweh said unto
me, Arise, go to
7 Then I went to
8 Then the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,
9 Thus saith Yahweh, After this manner will I mar the pride of
10 This evil people, which refuse to hear My words,
which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to
serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good
for nothing.
11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man,
so have I caused to cleave unto Me the whole house of Israel and the whole
house of Judah, saith Yahweh; that they might be unto Me for a people, and for
a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus
saith Yahweh, God of
13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith Yahweh,
Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit
upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants
of
14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons
together, saith Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy
them.
15 Hear ye,
and give ear; be not proud: for Yahweh hath spoken.
16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before He cause darkness, and before your
feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, He turn it
into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.
17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for [your]
pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Yahweh's
flock is carried away captive.
18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble
yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, [even] the crown
of your glory.
19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open [them]:
20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where [is] the
flock [that] was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
21 What wilt thou say when He shall punish thee? for
thou hast taught them [to be] captains, [and] as chief over thee: shall not
sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come
these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts
discovered, [and] thy heels made bare.
23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard
his spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are
accustomed to do evil.
24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth
away by the wind of the wilderness.
25 This [is] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from Me,
saith Yahweh; because thou hast forgotten Me, and trusted in falsehood.
26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may
appear.
27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings,
the lewdness of thy whoredom, [and] thine abominations on the hills in the
fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be
made clean? when [shall it] once [be]?
1 The word of Yahweh that came to
Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
2
3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the
pits, [and] found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were
ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain
in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
5 Yea, the hind also calved in the
field, and forsook [it], because there was no grass.
6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind
like dragons; their eyes did fail, because [there was] no grass.
7 O Yahweh, though our iniquities testify against us, do Thou [it] for Thy
name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against Thee.
8 O the Hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest Thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a
wayfaring man [that] turneth aside to tarry for a
night?
9 Why shouldest Thou be as a
man astonied, as a mighty man [that] cannot save? yet Thou, O Yahweh, [art] in the midst of us, and we are
called by Thy name; leave us not.
10 Thus saith Yahweh unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they
have not refrained their feet, therefore Yahweh doth not accept them; He will
now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
11 Then said Yahweh unto me, Pray not for this people for [their] good.
12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt
offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by
the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
13 Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets
say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I
will give you assured peace in this place.
14 Then Yahweh said unto me, The prophets prophesy
lies in My name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake
unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of
nought, and the deceit of their heart.
15 Therefore thus saith Yahweh concerning the prophets that prophesy in My name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine
shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be
consumed.
16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of
17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with
tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my
people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick
with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go
about into a land that they know not.
19 Hast Thou utterly rejected
20 We acknowledge, O Yahweh, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers:
for we have sinned against Thee.
21 Do not abhor [us], for Thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of Thy
glory: remember, break not Thy covenant with us.
22 Are there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art]
not Thou He, O Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait
upon Thee: for Thou hast made all these [things].
1 Then said Yahweh unto me, Though Moses and Samuel
stood before Me, [yet] My mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them]
out of My sight, and let them go forth.
2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither
shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell 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 the famine, to the famine; and such
as [are] for the captivity, to the captivity.
3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith Yahweh: the sword to slay, and
the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to
devour and destroy.
4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because
of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of
5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or
who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask
how thou doest?
6 Thou hast forsaken Me, saith Yahweh, thou art gone
backward: therefore will I stretch out My hand against thee, and destroy thee;
I am weary with repenting.
7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave
[them] of children, I will destroy My people, [since]
they return not from their ways.
8 Their widows are increased to Me above the sand of
the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a
spoiler at noonday: I have caused [him] to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors
upon the city.
9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath
given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day: she hath been
ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword
before their enemies, saith Yahweh.
10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of
contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent
to me on usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.
11 Yahweh said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause
the enemy to entreat thee [well] in the time of evil and in the time of
affliction.
12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and
[that] for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
14 And I will make [thee] to pass with thine enemies into a land [which] thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in Mine
anger, [which] shall burn upon you.
15 O Yahweh, Thou knowest: remember me, and visit me,
and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in Thy longsuffering: know
that for Thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and Thy word was unto me the joy
and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by Thy name, O Yahweh, God of
hosts.
17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because
of Thy hand: for Thou hast filled me with indignation.
18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be healed? wilt Thou
be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?
19 Therefore thus saith Yahweh, If thou return, then will I bring thee again,
[and] thou shalt stand before Me: and if thou take
forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as My mouth: let them return
unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen
wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against
thee: for I [am] with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith Yahweh.
21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem
thee out of the hand of the terrible.
1 The word of Yahweh came also unto me, saying,
2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in
this place.
3 For thus saith Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that
are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and
concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall
they be buried; [but] they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and
they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the
beasts of the earth.
5 For thus saith Yahweh, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away My peace from
this people, saith Yahweh, [even] lovingkindness and
mercies.
6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be
buried, neither shall [men] lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves
bald for them:
7 Neither shall [men] tear [themselves] for them in mourning, to comfort them
for the dead; neither shall [men] give them the cup of consolation to drink for
their father or for their mother.
8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat
and to drink.
9 For thus saith Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to
cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and
the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath Yahweh
pronounced all this great evil against us? or what
[is] our iniquity? or what [is] our sin that we have
committed against Yahweh our God?
11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken Me, saith
Yahweh, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have
worshipped them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My law;
12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one
after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto Me:
13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not,
[neither] ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and
night; where I will not shew you favour.
14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Yahweh, that it shall no more be
said, Yahweh liveth, That brought up the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt;
15 But, Yahweh liveth, That brought up the children
of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither He had
driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their
fathers.
16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Yahweh, and they shall fish
them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from
every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
17 For Mine eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are not hid from My face, neither is their iniquity hid from Mine eyes.
18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because
they have defiled My land, they have filled Mine
inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and
abominable things.
19 O Yahweh, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of
affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto Thee from the ends of the earth, and
shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit.
20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they [are] no gods?
21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause
them to know Mine hand and My might; and they shall know that My name [is]
Yahweh.
1 The sin of
2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green
trees upon the high hills.
3 O My mountain in the field, I will give thy
substance [and] all thy treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high places for sin,
throughout all thy borders.
4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave
thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in Mine anger, [which] shall burn for ever.
5 Thus saith Yahweh; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth
in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Yahweh.
6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good
cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, [in] a salt
land and not inhabited.
7 Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in Yahweh, and
whose hope Yahweh is.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that] spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see
when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the
year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can
know it?
10 I Yahweh search the heart, [I] try the reins, even
to give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his
doings.
11 [As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth [them] not; [so] he that getteth
riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his
end shall be a fool.
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning [is] the place of our sanctuary.
13 O Yahweh, the Hope of Israel, all that forsake Thee shall be ashamed, [and]
they that depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have
forsaken Yahweh, the fountain of living waters.
14 Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for
Thou [art] my praise.
15 Behold, they say unto me, Where [is] the word of Yahweh? Let it come now.
16 As for me, I have not hastened from [being] a pastor to follow Thee: neither
have I desired the woeful day; Thou knowest: that
which came out of my lips was [right] before Thee.
17 Be not a terror unto me: Thou [art] my hope in the day of evil.
18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let
not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring
upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
19 Thus said Yahweh unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the
people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and
in all the gates of Jerusalem;
20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of Yahweh, ye kings of Judah, and all
Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
21 Thus saith Yahweh; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the
sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of Jerusalem;
22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither
do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff,
that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto Me, saith Yahweh,
to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but
hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting
upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their
princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city
shall remain for ever.
26 And they shall come from the cities of
27 But if ye will not hearken unto Me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to
bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear
My words.
3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the
wheels.
4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so
he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make [it].
5 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
6 O house of
7 [At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a
kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy [it];
8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will
repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
9 And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a
kingdom, to build and to plant [it];
10 If it do evil in My sight, that it obey not My voice, then I will repent of
the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of
12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk
after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil
heart.
13 Therefore thus saith Yahweh; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard
such things: the virgin of
14 Will [a man] leave the snow of
15 Because My people hath forgotten Me, they have burned incense to vanity, and
they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the ancient paths, to
walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;
16 To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them
the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the
law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the
wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the
tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
19 Give heed to me, O Yahweh, and hearken to the voice of them that contend
with me.
20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before Thee
to speak good for them, [and] to turn away Thy wrath from them.
21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their
[blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their
children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; [let] their young
men [be] slain by the sword in battle.
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when Thou shalt bring a troop suddenly
upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and
hid snares for my feet.
23 Yet, Yahweh, Thou knowest all their counsel
against me to slay [me]: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin
from Thy sight, but let them be overthrown before Thee; deal [thus] with them
in the time of Thine anger.
1 Thus saith Yahweh, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the
ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom,
which [is] by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I
shall tell thee,
3 And say, Hear ye the word of Yahweh, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of
Jerusalem; Thus saith Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring
evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth,
his ears shall tingle.
4 Because they have forsaken Me, and have estranged this place, and have burned
incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known,
nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire
[for] burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake [it], neither
came [it] into My mind:
6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Yahweh, that this place shall no more
be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
7 And I will make void the counsel of
8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing;
every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished
and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their
daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege
and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they
that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith Yahweh of hosts; Even so will I break
this people and this city, as [one] breaketh a
potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury [them] in
Tophet, till [there be] no place to bury.
12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith Yahweh, and to the inhabitants
thereof, and [even] make this city as Tophet:
13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah,
shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of
all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of
heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither Yahweh had
sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh's house; and said to
all the people,
15 Thus saith Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon
this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against
it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear My words.
1 Now Pashur the son of Immer
the priest, who [was] also chief governor in the house of Yahweh, heard that
Jeremiah prophesied these things.
2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him
in the stocks that [were] in the high gate of Benjamin, which [was] by the
house of Yahweh.
3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur
brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, Yahweh
hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
4 For thus saith Yahweh, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to
all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine
eyes shall behold [it]: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with
the sword.
5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and
all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their
enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house
shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to
7 O Yahweh, Thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: Thou art stronger than
I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh
me.
8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word
of Yahweh was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
9 Then I said, I will not make mention of Him, nor
speak any more in His name. But [His word] was in mine heart as a burning fire
shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not [stay].
10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, [say they],
and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, [saying],
Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall
take our revenge on him.
11 But Yahweh [is] with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors
shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for
they shall not prosper: [their] everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
12 But, O Yahweh of hosts, That triest
the righteous, [and] seest the reins and the heart,
let me see Thy vengeance on them: for unto Thee have I opened my cause.
13 Sing unto Yahweh, praise ye Yahweh: for He hath delivered the soul of the
poor from the hand of evildoers.
14 Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
15 Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
16 And let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and repented not:
and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my
grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me].
18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with
shame?
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent
unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah,
and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
2 Enquire, I pray thee, of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that
Yahweh will deal with us according to all His wondrous works, that He may go up
from us.
3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
4 Thus saith Yahweh, God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war
that [are] in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and
[against] the Chaldeans, which besiege you without
the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.
5 And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a
strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall
die of a great pestilence.
7 And afterward, saith Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his
servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the
pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their
enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite
them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity,
nor have mercy.
8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith
Yahweh; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
9 He that abideth in this city shall die by
the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life
shall be unto him for a prey.
10 For I have set My face against this city for evil,
and not for good, saith Yahweh: it shall be given into the hand of the king of
11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, [say], Hear ye the word of
Yahweh;
12 O house of David, thus saith Yahweh; Execute judgment in the morning, and
deliver [him that is] spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go
out like fire, and burn that none can quench [it], because of the evil of your
doings.
13 Behold, I [am] against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] rock of the
plain, saith Yahweh; which say, Who shall come down
against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith Yahweh:
and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things
round about it.
1 Thus saith Yahweh; Go down to the
house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
2 And say, Hear the word of Yahweh, O king of Judah, that sittest
upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in
by these gates:
3 Thus saith Yahweh; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the
spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to
the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in
this place.
4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of
this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on
horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by Myself,
saith Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation.
6 For thus saith Yahweh unto the king's house of
7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and
they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast [them] into the fire.
8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his
neighbour, Wherefore hath Yahweh done thus unto this
great city?
9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken
the covenant of Yahweh their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: [but] weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native
country.
11 For thus saith Yahweh touching Shallum the son of
Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went
forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:
12 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall
see this land no more.
13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by
unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth
his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
14 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and [it is] cieled
with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thyself] in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and
justice, [and] then [it was] well with him?
16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well [with him:
was] not this to know Me? saith
Yahweh.
17 But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness, and for
to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do [it].
18 Therefore thus saith Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim
the son of Josiah king of
19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond
the gates of
20 Go up to
21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; [but] thou saidst,
I will not hear. This [hath been] thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not My voice.
22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into
captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.
23 O inhabitant of
24 [As] I live, saith Yahweh, though Coniah the son
of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon My
right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the
hand [of them] whose face thou fearest, even into the
hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the
hand of the Chaldeans.
26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another
country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
27 But to the land whereunto they
desire to return, thither shall they not return.
28 [Is] this man Coniah a despised broken idol? [is he] a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure? wherefore
are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know
not?
29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh.
30 Thus saith Yahweh, Write ye this
man childless, a man [that] shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his
seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in
1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter
the sheep of My pasture! saith Yahweh.
2 Therefore thus saith Yahweh, God of Israel, against the pastors that feed My people; Ye have scattered My flock, and driven them away,
and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your
doings, saith Yahweh.
3 And I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all
countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds;
and they shall be fruitful and increase.
4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall
fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith Yahweh.
5 Behold, the days come, saith Yahweh, that I will raise unto David a righteous
Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and
justice in the earth.
6 In His days
7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Yahweh, that they shall no more say,
Yahweh liveth, Which brought up the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt;
8 But, Yahweh liveth, Which brought up and Which led
the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all
countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I
am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of
Yahweh, and because of the words of His holiness.
10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried
up, and their course is evil, and their force [is] not
right.
11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in My
house have I found their wickedness, saith Yahweh.
12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery [ways] in the darkness:
they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them,
[even] the year of their visitation, saith Yahweh.
13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of
14 I have seen also in the prophets of
15 Therefore thus saith Yahweh of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will
feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the
prophets of
16 Thus saith Yahweh of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that
prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart,
[and] not out of the mouth of Yahweh.
17 They say still unto them that despise Me, Yahweh hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil
shall come upon you.
18 For who hath stood in the counsel of Yahweh, and hath perceived and heard
His word? who hath marked His word, and heard [it]?
19 Behold, a whirlwind of Yahweh is gone forth in fury, even a grievous
whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
20 The anger of Yahweh shall not return, until He have
executed, and till He have performed the thoughts of His heart: in the latter
days ye shall consider it perfectly.
21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet
they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in My counsel, and had caused
My people to hear My words, then they should have turned them from their evil
way, and from the evil of their doings.
23 [Am] I a God at hand, saith Yahweh, and not a God afar off?
24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I
shall not see him? saith Yahweh. Do not I fill heaven
and earth? saith Yahweh.
25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in My name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26 How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies?
yea, [they are] prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
27 Which think to cause My people to forget My name by their dreams which they
tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten My name for
Baal.
28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What [is] the
chaff to the wheat? saith