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And + the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy + mouth. + +24:001:010 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. + +24:001:011 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, + what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. + +24:001:012 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will + hasten my word to perform it. + +24:001:013 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, + What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the + face thereof is toward the north. + +24:001:014 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall + break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. + +24:001:015 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the + north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set + every one his throne at the entering of the gates of + Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and + against all the cities of Judah. + +24:001:016 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. + +24:001:017 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. + +24:001:018 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. + +24:001:019 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail + against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver + thee. + +24:002:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, + +24:002:002 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the + LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of + thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, + in a land that was not sown. + +24:002:003 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his + increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come + upon them, saith the LORD. + +24:002:004 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the + families of the house of Israel: + +24:002:005 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in + me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after + vanity, and are become vain? + +24:002:006 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of + the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through + a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and + of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed + through, and where no man dwelt? + +24:002:007 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. + +24:002:008 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle + the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, + and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things + that do not profit. + +24:002:009 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with + your children's children will I plead. + +24:002:010 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto + Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a + thing. + +24:002:011 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but + my people have changed their glory for that which doth not + profit. + +24:002:012 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, + be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. + +24:002:013 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. + +24:002:014 Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he + spoiled? + +24:002:015 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his + land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. + +24:002:016 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown + of thy head. + +24:002:017 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast + forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? + +24:002:018 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the + waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of + Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? + +24:002:019 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings + shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil + thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, + and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. + +24:002:020 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. + +24:002:021 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? + +24:002:022 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, + yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD. + +24:002:023 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; + +24:002:024 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. + +24:002:025 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. + +24:002:026 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. + +24:002:027 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. + +24:002:028 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. + +24:002:029 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed + against me, saith the LORD. + +24:002:030 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no + correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a + destroying lion. + +24:002:031 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a + wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my + people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? + +24:002:032 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my + people have forgotten me days without number. + +24:002:033 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou + also taught the wicked ones thy ways. + +24:002:034 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. + +24:002:035 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. + +24:002:036 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also + shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. + +24:002:037 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine + head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou + shalt not prosper in them. + +24:003:001 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and + become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall + not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the + harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the + LORD. + +24:003:002 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. + +24:003:003 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. + +24:003:004 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art + the guide of my youth? + +24:003:005 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. + +24:003:006 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, + Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is + gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, + and there hath played the harlot. + +24:003:007 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. + +24:003:008 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. + +24:003:009 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, + that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones + and with stocks. + +24:003:010 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not + turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the + LORD. + +24:003:011 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath + justified herself more than treacherous Judah. + +24:003:012 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, + thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause + mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the + LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever. + +24:003:013 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed + against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the + strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my + voice, saith the LORD. + +24:003:014 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married + unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a + family, and I will bring you to Zion: + +24:003:015 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which + shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. + +24:003:016 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased + in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no + more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it + come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall + they visit it; neither shall that be done any more. + +24:003:017 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; + and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of + the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after + the imagination of their evil heart. + +24:003:018 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of + Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the + north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto + your fathers. + +24:003:019 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. + +24:003:020 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so + have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith + the LORD. + +24:003:021 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and + supplications of the children of Israel: for they have + perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their + God. + +24:003:022 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your + backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD + our God. + +24:003:023 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from + the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the + salvation of Israel. + +24:003:024 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our + youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their + daughters. + +24:003:025 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for + we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, + from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the + voice of the LORD our God. + +24:004:001 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: + and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, + then shalt thou not remove. + +24:004:002 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, + and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves + in him, and in him shall they glory. + +24:004:003 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, + Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. + +24:004:004 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins + of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: + lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can + quench it, because of the evil of your doings. + +24:004:005 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow + ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, + Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities. + +24:004:006 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will + bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. + +24:004:007 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. + +24:004:008 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the + fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. + +24:004:009 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that + the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the + princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets + shall wonder. + +24:004:010 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived + this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; + whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul. + +24:004:011 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, + A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the + daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse, + +24:004:012 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now + also will I give sentence against them. + +24:004:013 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. + +24:004:014 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou + mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within + thee? + +24:004:015 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from + mount Ephraim. + +24:004:016 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against + Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out + their voice against the cities of Judah. + +24:004:017 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; + because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD. + +24:004:018 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. + +24:004:019 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. + +24:004:020 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is + spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a + moment. + +24:004:021 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the + trumpet? + +24:004:022 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. + +24:004:023 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; + and the heavens, and they had no light. + +24:004:024 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the + hills moved lightly. + +24:004:025 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the + heavens were fled. + +24:004:026 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and + all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the + LORD, and by his fierce anger. + +24:004:027 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; + yet will I not make a full end. + +24:004:028 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. + +24:004:029 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. + +24:004:030 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. + +24:004:031 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. + +24:005:001 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. + +24:005:002 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear + falsely. + +24:005:003 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken + them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but + they have refused to receive correction: they have made their + faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. + +24:005:004 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for + they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their + God. + +24:005:005 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; + for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of + their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and + burst the bonds. + +24:005:006 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. + +24:005:007 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. + +24:005:008 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed + after his neighbour's wife. + +24:005:009 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall + not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? + +24:005:010 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: + take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's. + +24:005:011 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very + treacherously against me, saith the LORD. + +24:005:012 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither + shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor + famine: + +24:005:013 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in + them: thus shall it be done unto them. + +24:005:014 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak + this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and + this people wood, and it shall devour them. + +24:005:015 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of + Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an + ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, + neither understandest what they say. + +24:005:016 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. + +24:005:017 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. + +24:005:018 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a + full end with you. + +24:005:019 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth + the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou + answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange + gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that + is not your's. + +24:005:020 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, + saying, + +24:005:021 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; + which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: + +24:005:022 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my + presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea + by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the + waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; + though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? + +24:005:023 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they + are revolted and gone. + +24:005:024 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our + God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his + season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the + harvest. + +24:005:025 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins + have withholden good things from you. + +24:005:026 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he + that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. + +24:005:027 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of + deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. + +24:005:028 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. + +24:005:029 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not + my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? + +24:005:030 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; + +24:005:031 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? + +24:006:001 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of + the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set + up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of + the north, and great destruction. + +24:006:002 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate + woman. + +24:006:003 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. + +24:006:004 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. + +24:006:005 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces. + +24:006:006 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and + cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be + visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her. + +24:006:007 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. + +24:006:008 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from + thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. + +24:006:009 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the + remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a + grapegatherer into the baskets. + +24:006:010 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? + behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: + behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they + have no delight in it. + +24:006:011 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with + holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and + upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband + with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full + of days. + +24:006:012 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their + fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon + the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. + +24:006:013 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. + +24:006:014 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people + slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. + +24:006:015 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, + they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: + therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time + that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. + +24:006:016 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask + for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, + and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will + not walk therein. + +24:006:017 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of + the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. + +24:006:018 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is + among them. + +24:006:019 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. + +24:006:020 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the + sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not + acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. + +24:006:021 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay + stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the + sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his + friend shall perish. + +24:006:022 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north + country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of + the earth. + +24:006:023 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have + no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon + horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter + of Zion. + +24:006:024 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish + hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail. + +24:006:025 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the + sword of the enemy and fear is on every side. + +24:006:026 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. + +24:006:027 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, + that thou mayest know and try their way. + +24:006:028 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they + are brass and iron; they are all corrupters. + +24:006:029 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the + founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. + +24:006:030 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath + rejected them. + +24:007:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, + +24:007:002 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this + word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, + that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD. + +24:007:003 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your + ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this + place. + +24:007:004 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, + The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these. + +24:007:005 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye + throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; + +24:007:006 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: + +24:007:007 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that + I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. + +24:007:008 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. + +24:007:009 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, + and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye + know not; + +24:007:010 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? + +24:007:011 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of + robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the + LORD. + +24:007:012 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set + my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the + wickedness of my people Israel. + +24:007:013 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, + and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye + heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not; + +24:007:014 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. + +24:007:015 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all + your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim. + +24:007:016 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. + +24:007:017 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the + streets of Jerusalem? + +24:007:018 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. + +24:007:019 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not + provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? + +24:007:020 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my + fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon + beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of + the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. + +24:007:021 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your + burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. + +24:007:022 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: + +24:007:023 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. + +24:007:024 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. + +24:007:025 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: + +24:007:026 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but + hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. + +24:007:027 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. + +24:007:028 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth + not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: + truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. + +24:007:029 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up + a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and + forsaken the generation of his wrath. + +24:007:030 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith + the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which + is called by my name, to pollute it. + +24:007:031 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. + +24:007:032 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it + shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of + Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in + Tophet, till there be no place. + +24:007:033 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. + +24:007:034 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from + the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of + gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the + bride: for the land shall be desolate. + +24:008:001 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones + of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the + bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the + bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: + +24:008:002 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. + +24:008:003 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue + of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all + the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of + hosts. + +24:008:004 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall + they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? + +24:008:005 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a + perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to + return. + +24:008:006 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. + +24:008:007 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and + the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of + their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. + +24:008:008 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with + us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes + is in vain. + +24:008:009 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, + they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in + them? + +24:008:010 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. + +24:008:011 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people + slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. + +24:008:012 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, + they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: + therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of + their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. + +24:008:013 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no + grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf + shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass + away from them. + +24:008:014 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter + into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the + LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of + gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. + +24:008:015 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of + health, and behold trouble! + +24:008:016 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. + +24:008:017 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, + which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the + LORD. + +24:008:018 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint + in me. + +24:008:019 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people + because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD + in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to + anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? + +24:008:020 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not + saved. + +24:008:021 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am + black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. + +24:008:022 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why + then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? + +24:009:001 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! + +24:009:002 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. + +24:009:003 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they + are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed + from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. + +24:009:004 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. + +24:009:005 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. + +24:009:006 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit + they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. + +24:009:007 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt + them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my + people? + +24:009:008 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. + +24:009:009 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall + not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? + +24:009:010 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. + +24:009:011 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I + will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. + +24:009:012 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he + to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare + it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a + wilderness, that none passeth through? + +24:009:013 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I + set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked + therein; + +24:009:014 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and + after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: + +24:009:015 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; + Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and + give them water of gall to drink. + +24:009:016 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. + +24:009:017 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the + mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning + women, that they may come: + +24:009:018 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. + +24:009:019 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we + spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken + the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. + +24:009:020 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear + receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters + wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. + +24:009:021 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. + +24:009:022 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall + fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the + harvestman, and none shall gather them. + +24:009:023 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, + neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the + rich man glory in his riches: + +24:009:024 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth + and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise + lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for + in these things I delight, saith the LORD. + +24:009:025 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all + them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; + +24:009:026 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. + +24:010:001 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of + Israel: + +24:010:002 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be + not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are + dismayed at them. + +24:010:003 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. + +24:010:004 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with + nails and with hammers, that it move not. + +24:010:005 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. + +24:010:006 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art + great, and thy name is great in might. + +24:010:007 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. + +24:010:008 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a + doctrine of vanities. + +24:010:009 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. + +24:010:010 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an + everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and + the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. + +24:010:011 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. + +24:010:012 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. + +24:010:013 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. + +24:010:014 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. + +24:010:015 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their + visitation they shall perish. + +24:010:016 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of + all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD + of hosts is his name. + +24:010:017 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the + fortress. + +24:010:018 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the + inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, + that they may find it so. + +24:010:019 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly + this is a grief, and I must bear it. + +24:010:020 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. + +24:010:021 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the + LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks + shall be scattered. + +24:010:022 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion + out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah + desolate, and a den of dragons. + +24:010:023 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is + not in man that walketh to direct his steps. + +24:010:024 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, + lest thou bring me to nothing. + +24:010:025 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. + +24:011:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying, + +24:011:002 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of + Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; + +24:011:003 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; + Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant, + +24:011:004 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: + +24:011:005 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your + fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as + it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD. + +24:011:006 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the + cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear + ye the words of this covenant, and do them. + +24:011:007 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. + +24:011:008 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. + +24:011:009 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men + of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. + +24:011:010 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, + which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods + to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have + broken my covenant which I made with their fathers. + +24:011:011 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon + them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they + shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them. + +24:011:012 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem + go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but + they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble. + +24:011:013 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. + +24:011:014 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. + +24:011:015 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. + +24:011:016 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of + goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled + fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. + +24:011:017 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil + against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the + house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to + provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal. + +24:011:018 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: + then thou shewedst me their doings. + +24:011:019 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. + +24:011:020 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest + the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for + unto thee have I revealed my cause. + +24:011:021 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that + seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, + that thou die not by our hand: + +24:011:022 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish + them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and + their daughters shall die by famine: + +24:011:023 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil + upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation. + +24:012:001 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me + talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the + wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very + treacherously? + +24:012:002 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. + +24:012:003 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried + mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the + slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. + +24:012:004 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. + +24:012:005 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, + then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of + peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how + wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? + +24:012:006 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. + +24:012:007 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. + +24:012:008 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth + out against me: therefore have I hated it. + +24:012:009 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. + +24:012:010 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my + portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a + desolate wilderness. + +24:012:011 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. + +24:012:012 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the + wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the + one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no + flesh shall have peace. + +24:012:013 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put + themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be + ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the + LORD. + +24:012:014 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that + touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to + inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and + pluck out the house of Judah from among them. + +24:012:015 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. + +24:012:016 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the + ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as + they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be + built in the midst of my people. + +24:012:017 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy + that nation, saith the LORD. + +24:013:001 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, + and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. + +24:013:002 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put + it on my loins. + +24:013:003 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, + +24:013:004 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, + and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the + rock. + +24:013:005 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me. + +24:013:006 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto + me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, + which I commanded thee to hide there. + +24:013:007 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from + the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was + marred, it was profitable for nothing. + +24:013:008 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +24:013:009 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of + Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. + +24:013:010 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. + +24:013:011 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I + caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the + whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto + me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a + glory: but they would not hear. + +24:013:012 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the + LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: + and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that + every bottle shall be filled with wine? + +24:013:013 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I + will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings + that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the + prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with + drunkenness. + +24:013:014 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and + the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, + nor have mercy, but destroy them. + +24:013:015 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken. + +24:013:016 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and + before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while + ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and + make it gross darkness. + +24:013:017 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret + places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run + down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away + captive. + +24:013:018 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit + down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown + of your glory. + +24:013:019 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open + them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall + be wholly carried away captive. + +24:013:020 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: + where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock? + +24:013:021 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? + +24:013:022 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. + +24:013:023 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? + then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. + +24:013:024 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away + by the wind of the wilderness. + +24:013:025 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith + the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in + falsehood. + +24:013:026 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy + shame may appear. + +24:013:027 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? + +24:014:001 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the + dearth. + +24:014:002 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black + unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. + +24:014:003 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. + +24:014:004 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the + earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. + +24:014:005 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, + because there was no grass. + +24:014:006 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. + +24:014:007 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it + for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have + sinned against thee. + +24:014:008 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? + +24:014:009 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that + cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we + are called by thy name; leave us not. + +24:014:010 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to + wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD + doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and + visit their sins. + +24:014:011 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their + good. + +24:014:012 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. + +24:014:013 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, + Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but + I will give you assured peace in this place. + +24:014:014 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my + name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither + spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and + divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their + heart. + +24:014:015 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that + prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword + and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine + shall those prophets be consumed. + +24:014:016 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the + streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and + they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor + their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their + wickedness upon them. + +24:014:017 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. + +24:014:018 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. + +24:014:019 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? + why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we + looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of + healing, and behold trouble! + +24:014:020 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of + our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. + +24:014:021 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the + throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us. + +24:014:022 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can + cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, + O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou + hast made all these things. + +24:015:001 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood + before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast + them out of my sight, and let them go forth. + +24:015:002 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither + shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the + LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the + sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the + famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity. + +24:015:003 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the + sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the + heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. + +24:015:004 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the + earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, + for that which he did in Jerusalem. + +24:015:005 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall + bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? + +24:015:006 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: + therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy + thee; I am weary with repenting. + +24:015:007 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. + +24:015:008 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. + +24:015:009 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the + ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath + been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I + deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD. + +24:015:010 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. + +24:015:011 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; + verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time + of evil and in the time of affliction. + +24:015:012 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? + +24:015:013 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil + without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy + borders. + +24:015:014 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. + +24:015:015 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge + me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: + know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. + +24:015:016 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was + unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called + by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. + +24:015:017 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. + +24:015:018 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? + +24:015:019 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I + bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou + take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my + mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto + them. + +24:015:020 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 the LORD. + +24:015:021 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I + will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible. + +24:016:001 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying, + +24:016:002 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons + or daughters in this place. + +24:016:003 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the + daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their + mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that + begat them in this land; + +24:016:004 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. + +24:016:005 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, + neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my + peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness + and mercies. + +24:016:006 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: + +24:016:007 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. + +24:016:008 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with + them to eat and to drink. + +24:016:009 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I + will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in + your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the + voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. + +24:016:010 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people + all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath + the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is + our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed + against the LORD our God? + +24:016:011 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have + forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, + and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have + forsaken me, and have not kept my law; + +24:016:012 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: + +24:016:013 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. + +24:016:014 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it + shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the + children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; + +24:016:015 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel + from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he + had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land + that I gave unto their fathers. + +24:016:016 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they + shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and + they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, + and out of the holes of the rocks. + +24:016:017 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from + my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. + +24:016:018 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. + +24:016:019 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day + of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends + of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited + lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. + +24:016:020 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? + +24:016:021 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will + cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know + that my name is The LORD. + +24:017:001 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the + point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their + heart, and upon the horns of your altars; + +24:017:002 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves + by the green trees upon the high hills. + +24:017:003 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. + +24:017:004 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. + +24:017:005 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, + and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the + LORD. + +24:017:006 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. + +24:017:007 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope + the LORD is. + +24:017:008 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. + +24:017:009 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately + wicked: who can know it? + +24:017:010 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give + every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of + his doings. + +24:017:011 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. + +24:017:012 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our + sanctuary. + +24:017:013 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be + ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the + earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of + living waters. + +24:017:014 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall + be saved: for thou art my praise. + +24:017:015 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let + it come now. + +24:017:016 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. + +24:017:017 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil. + +24:017:018 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. + +24:017:019 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the + children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, + and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of + Jerusalem; + +24:017:020 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of + Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, + that enter in by these gates: + +24:017:021 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no + burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of + Jerusalem; + +24:017:022 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. + +24:017:023 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made + their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive + instruction. + +24:017:024 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, + saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of + this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to + do no work therein; + +24:017:025 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. + +24:017:026 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the + places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and + from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, + bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, + and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house + of the LORD. + +24:017:027 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, + and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of + Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the + gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, + and it shall not be quenched. + +24:018:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, + +24:018:002 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will + cause thee to hear my words. + +24:018:003 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he + wrought a work on the wheels. + +24:018:004 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. + +24:018:005 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, + +24:018:006 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith + the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are + ye in mine hand, O house of Israel. + +24:018:007 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and + concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to + destroy it; + +24:018:008 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. + +24:018:009 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and + concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; + +24:018:010 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. + +24:018:011 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the + inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, + I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: + return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways + and your doings good. + +24:018:012 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. + +24:018:013 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, + who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a + very horrible thing. + +24:018:014 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the + rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come + from another place be forsaken? + +24:018:015 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; + +24:018:016 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every + one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his + head. + +24:018:017 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. + +24:018:018 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. + +24:018:019 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that + contend with me. + +24:018:020 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. + +24:018:021 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. + +24:018:022 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. + +24:018:023 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay + me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin + from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal + thus with them in the time of thine anger. + +24:019:001 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and + take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the + priests; + +24:019:002 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, + +24:019:003 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and + inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the + God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the + which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. + +24:019:004 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; + +24:019:005 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: + +24:019:006 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this + place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the + son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter. + +24:019:007 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in + this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before + their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: + and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the + heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. + +24:019:008 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. + +24:019:009 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. + +24:019:010 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that + go with thee, + +24:019:011 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so + will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a + potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they + shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury. + +24:019:012 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the + inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet: + +24:019:013 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. + +24:019:014 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him + to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house; + and said to all the people, + +24:019:015 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I + will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil + that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened + their necks, that they might not hear my words. + +24:020:001 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief + governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah + prophesied these things. + +24:020:002 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the + stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by + the house of the LORD. + +24:020:003 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth + Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The + LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib. + +24:020:004 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to + thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the + sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I + will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and + he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them + with the sword. + +24:020:005 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. + +24:020:006 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go + into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou + shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy + friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies. + +24:020:007 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art + stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, + every one mocketh me. + +24:020:008 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; + because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and + a derision, daily. + +24:020:009 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. + +24:020:010 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. + +24:020:011 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my + persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they + shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their + everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. + +24:020:012 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the + reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for + unto thee have I opened my cause. + +24:020:013 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered + the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers. + +24:020:014 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein + my mother bare me be blessed. + +24:020:015 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A + man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. + +24:020:016 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, + and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and + the shouting at noontide; + +24:020:017 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. + +24:020:018 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and + sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? + +24:021:001 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king + Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and + Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying, + +24:021:002 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar + king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD + will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he + may go up from us. + +24:021:003 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: + +24:021:004 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back + the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight + against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which + besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into + the midst of this city. + +24:021:005 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. + +24:021:006 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and + beast: they shall die of a great pestilence. + +24:021:007 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of + Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left + in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the + famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and + into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those + that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of + the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor + have mercy. + +24:021:008 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; + Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of + death. + +24:021:009 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. + +24:021:010 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for + good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the + king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. + +24:021:011 And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the + word of the LORD; + +24:021:012 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the + morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of + the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that + none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. + +24:021:013 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and + rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come + down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations? + +24:021:014 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, + saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest + thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it. + +24:022:001 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of + Judah, and speak there this word, + +24:022:002 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that + sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and + thy people that enter in by these gates: + +24:022:003 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, + and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and + do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, + nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. + +24:022:004 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. + +24:022:005 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith + the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation. + +24:022:006 For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou + art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will + make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited. + +24:022:007 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. + +24:022:008 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say + every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus + unto this great city? + +24:022:009 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the + covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and + served them. + +24:022:010 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. + +24:022:011 For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah + king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, + which went forth out of this place; He shall not return + thither any more: + +24:022:012 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him + captive, and shall see this land no more. + +24:022:013 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; + +24:022:014 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. + +24:022:015 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? + +24:022:016 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well + with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD. + +24:022:017 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. + +24:022:018 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of + Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, + Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, + saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! + +24:022:019 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast + forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. + +24:022:020 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, + and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed. + +24:022:021 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. + +24:022:022 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. + +24:022:023 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, + how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain + as of a woman in travail! + +24:022:024 As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim + king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I + pluck thee thence; + +24:022:025 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. + +24:022:026 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. + +24:022:027 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall + they not return. + +24:022:028 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? + +24:022:029 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. + +24:022:030 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that + shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall + prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more + in Judah. + +24:023:001 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of + my pasture! saith the LORD. + +24:023:002 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the + pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and + driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will + visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. + +24:023:003 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. + +24:023:004 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: + and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall + they be lacking, saith the LORD. + +24:023:005 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto + David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, + and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. + +24:023:006 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell + safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE + LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. + +24:023:007 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they + shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the + children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; + +24:023:008 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed + of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all + countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in + their own land. + +24:023:009 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my + bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine + hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words + of his holiness. + +24:023:010 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. + +24:023:011 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have + I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. + +24:023:012 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the + darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I + will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, + saith the LORD. + +24:023:013 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they + prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. + +24:023:014 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible + thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen + also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his + wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the + inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. + +24:023:015 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the + prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make + them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of + Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. + +24:023:016 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of + the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they + speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of + the LORD. + +24:023:017 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, + Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh + after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come + upon you. + +24:023:018 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath + perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and + heard it? + +24:023:019 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a + grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of + the wicked. + +24:023:020 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have + executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his + heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. + +24:023:021 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not + spoken to them, yet they prophesied. + +24:023:022 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. + +24:023:023 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? + +24:023:024 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see + him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the + LORD. + +24:023:025 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my + name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. + +24:023:026 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; + +24:023:027 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. + +24:023:028 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he + that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is + the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. + +24:023:029 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a + hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? + +24:023:030 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, + that steal my words every one from his neighbour. + +24:023:031 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use + their tongues, and say, He saith. + +24:023:032 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith + the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by + their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor + commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at + all, saith the LORD. + +24:023:033 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask + thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then + say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the + LORD. + +24:023:034 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that + shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man + and his house. + +24:023:035 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to + his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the + LORD spoken? + +24:023:036 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every + man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the + words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God. + +24:023:037 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD + answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken? + +24:023:038 But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith + the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, + and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden + of the LORD; + +24:023:039 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I + will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your + fathers, and cast you out of my presence: + +24:023:040 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a + perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten. + +24:024:001 The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set + before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king + of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of + Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the + carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to + Babylon. + +24:024:002 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are + first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which + could not be eaten, they were so bad. + +24:024:003 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I + said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, + that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. + +24:024:004 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +24:024:005 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, + so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of + Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the + Chaldeans for their good. + +24:024:006 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring + them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull + them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. + +24:024:007 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: + and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they + shall return unto me with their whole heart. + +24:024:008 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; + surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king + of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that + remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt: + +24:024:009 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of + the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a + taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. + +24:024:010 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, + among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I + gave unto them and to their fathers. + +24:025:001 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of + Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king + of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of + Babylon; + +24:025:002 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of + Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, + +24:025:003 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of + Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth + year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have + spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not + hearkened. + +24:025:004 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, + rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor + inclined your ear to hear. + +24:025:005 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and + from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the + LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and + ever: + +24:025:006 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship + them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your + hands; and I will do you no hurt. + +24:025:007 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye + might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your + own hurt. + +24:025:008 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not + heard my words, + +24:025:009 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, + saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my + servant, and will bring them against this land, and against + the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round + about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an + astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. + +24:025:010 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the + voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice + of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of + the candle. + +24:025:011 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an + astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of + Babylon seventy years. + +24:025:012 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are + accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that + nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of + the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. + +24:025:013 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have + pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, + which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations. + +24:025:014 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of + them also: and I will recompense them according to their + deeds, and according to the works of their own hands. + +24:025:015 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine + cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to + whom I send thee, to drink it. + +24:025:016 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the + sword that I will send among them. + +24:025:017 Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the + nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me: + +24:025:018 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings + thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, + an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day; + +24:025:019 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and + all his people; + +24:025:020 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of + Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and + Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, + +24:025:021 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon, + +24:025:022 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and + the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea, + +24:025:023 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost + corners, + +24:025:024 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled + people that dwell in the desert, + +24:025:025 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all + the kings of the Medes, + +24:025:026 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with + another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the + face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after + them. + +24:025:027 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of + hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, + and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will + send among you. + +24:025:028 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand + to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD + of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink. + +24:025:029 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by + my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be + unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the + inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts. + +24:025:030 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say + unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his + voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon + his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the + grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. + +24:025:031 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD + hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all + flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith + the LORD. + +24:025:032 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from + nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up + from the coasts of the earth. + +24:025:033 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of + the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not + be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung + upon the ground. + +24:025:034 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the + ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your + slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye + shall fall like a pleasant vessel. + +24:025:035 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal + of the flock to escape. + +24:025:036 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the + principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath + spoiled their pasture. + +24:025:037 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the + fierce anger of the LORD. + +24:025:038 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is + desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and + because of his fierce anger. + +24:026:001 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah + king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying, + +24:026:002 Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD's house, + and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship + in the LORD's house, all the words that I command thee to + speak unto them; diminish not a word: + +24:026:003 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil + way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do + unto them because of the evil of their doings. + +24:026:004 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will + not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before + you, + +24:026:005 To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I + sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye + have not hearkened; + +24:026:006 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this + city a curse to all the nations of the earth. + +24:026:007 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard + Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD. + +24:026:008 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking + all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the + people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people + took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die. + +24:026:009 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This + house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate + without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered + against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD. + +24:026:010 When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came + up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat + down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house. + +24:026:011 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and + to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he + hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your + ears. + +24:026:012 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the + people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this + house and against this city all the words that ye have heard. + +24:026:013 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the + voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of + the evil that he hath pronounced against you. + +24:026:014 As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth + good and meet unto you. + +24:026:015 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall + surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this + city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the + LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your + ears. + +24:026:016 Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and + to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath + spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God. + +24:026:017 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to + all the assembly of the people, saying, + +24:026:018 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king + of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus + saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, + and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the + house as the high places of a forest. + +24:026:019 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to + death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and + the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced + against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our + souls. + +24:026:020 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the + LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who + prophesied against this city and against this land according + to all the words of Jeremiah. + +24:026:021 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all + the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to + death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and + went into Egypt; + +24:026:022 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan + the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt. + +24:026:023 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him + unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast + his dead body into the graves of the common people. + +24:026:024 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with + Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the + people to put him to death. + +24:027:001 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah + king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, + saying, + +24:027:002 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put + them upon thy neck, + +24:027:003 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, + and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, + and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which + come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah; + +24:027:004 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the + LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your + masters; + +24:027:005 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the + ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have + given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me. + +24:027:006 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of + Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts + of the field have I given him also to serve him. + +24:027:007 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's + son, until the very time of his land come: and then many + nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him. + +24:027:008 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which + will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, + and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of + Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the + sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I + have consumed them by his hand. + +24:027:009 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your + diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to + your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not + serve the king of Babylon: + +24:027:010 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your + land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish. + +24:027:011 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the + king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still + in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and + dwell therein. + +24:027:012 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these + words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of + Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live. + +24:027:013 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the + famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against + the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? + +24:027:014 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that + speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of + Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you. + +24:027:015 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a + lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might + perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you. + +24:027:016 Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, + Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets + that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the + LORD's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: + for they prophesy a lie unto you. + +24:027:017 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: + wherefore should this city be laid waste? + +24:027:018 But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with + them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, + that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and + in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to + Babylon. + +24:027:019 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and + concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning + the residue of the vessels that remain in this city. + +24:027:020 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried + away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from + Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and + Jerusalem; + +24:027:021 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, + concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, + and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem; + +24:027:022 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be + until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I + bring them up, and restore them to this place. + +24:028:001 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the + reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in + the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, + which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, + in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying, + +24:028:002 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I + have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. + +24:028:003 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all + the vessels of the LORD's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of + Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to + Babylon: + +24:028:004 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of + Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that + went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke + of the king of Babylon. + +24:028:005 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in + the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the + people that stood in the house of the LORD, + +24:028:006 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD + perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again + the vessels of the LORD's house, and all that is carried away + captive, from Babylon into this place. + +24:028:007 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine + ears, and in the ears of all the people; + +24:028:008 The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old + prophesied both against many countries, and against great + kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. + +24:028:009 The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the + prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, + that the LORD hath truly sent him. + +24:028:010 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet + Jeremiah's neck, and brake it. + +24:028:011 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, + Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of + Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations + within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah + went his way. + +24:028:012 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, + after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off + the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, + +24:028:013 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast + broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes + of iron. + +24:028:014 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have + put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that + they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall + serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also. + +24:028:015 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear + now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest + this people to trust in a lie. + +24:028:016 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from + off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because + thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD. + +24:028:017 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh + month. + +24:029:001 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the + prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders + which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to + the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had + carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon; + +24:029:002 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, + the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and + the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;) + +24:029:003 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son + of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to + Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying, + +24:029:004 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that + are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried + away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; + +24:029:005 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat + the fruit of them; + +24:029:006 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives + for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they + may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, + and not diminished. + +24:029:007 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be + carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in + the peace thereof shall ye have peace. + +24:029:008 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not + your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, + deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to + be dreamed. + +24:029:009 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent + them, saith the LORD. + +24:029:010 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be + accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good + word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. + +24:029:011 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the + LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an + expected end. + +24:029:012 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, + and I will hearken unto you. + +24:029:013 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me + with all your heart. + +24:029:014 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn + away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the + nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, + saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place + whence I caused you to be carried away captive. + +24:029:015 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in + Babylon; + +24:029:016 Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon + the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in + this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with + you into captivity; + +24:029:017 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them + the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them + like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. + +24:029:018 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and + with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to + all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an + astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the + nations whither I have driven them: + +24:029:019 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, + which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up + early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD. + +24:029:020 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the + captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon: + +24:029:021 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the + son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which + prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver + them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he + shall slay them before your eyes; + +24:029:022 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of + Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like + Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in + the fire; + +24:029:023 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have + committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have + spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded + them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD. + +24:029:024 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying, + +24:029:025 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, + Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people + that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah + the priest, and to all the priests, saying, + +24:029:026 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the + priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, + for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that + thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks. + +24:029:027 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, + which maketh himself a prophet to you? + +24:029:028 For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This + captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and + plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them. + +24:029:029 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of + Jeremiah the prophet. + +24:029:030 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, + +24:029:031 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD + concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath + prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to + trust in a lie: + +24:029:032 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah + the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell + among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I + will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught + rebellion against the LORD. + +24:030:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, + +24:030:002 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all + the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. + +24:030:003 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring + again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the + LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave + to their fathers, and they shall possess it. + +24:030:004 And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel + and concerning Judah. + +24:030:005 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, + of fear, and not of peace. + +24:030:006 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? + wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a + woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? + +24:030:007 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is + even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of + it. + +24:030:008 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of + hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will + burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves + of him: + +24:030:009 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, + whom I will raise up unto them. + +24:030:010 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; + neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from + afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob + shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none + shall make him afraid. + +24:030:011 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I + make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, + yet I will not make a full end of thee: but I will correct + thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether + unpunished. + +24:030:012 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy + wound is grievous. + +24:030:013 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound + up: thou hast no healing medicines. + +24:030:014 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I + have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the + chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine + iniquity; because thy sins were increased. + +24:030:015 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable + for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were + increased, I have done these things unto thee. + +24:030:016 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all + thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; + and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey + upon thee will I give for a prey. + +24:030:017 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of + thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an + Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after. + +24:030:018 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity + of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and + the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace + shall remain after the manner thereof. + +24:030:019 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of + them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall + not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be + small. + +24:030:020 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their + congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish + all that oppress them. + +24:030:021 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor + shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to + draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that + engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD. + +24:030:022 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. + +24:030:023 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a + continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of + the wicked. + +24:030:024 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he hath + done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: + in the latter days ye shall consider it. + +24:031:001 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the + families of Israel, and they shall be my people. + +24:031:002 Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword + found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to + cause him to rest. + +24:031:003 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have + loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with + lovingkindness have I drawn thee. + +24:031:004 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of + Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and + shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. + +24:031:005 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the + planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. + +24:031:006 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount + Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the + LORD our God. + +24:031:007 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and + shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, + and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. + +24:031:008 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather + them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and + the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with + child together: a great company shall return thither. + +24:031:009 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I + lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters + in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a + father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. + +24:031:010 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the + isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather + him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. + +24:031:011 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the + hand of him that was stronger than he. + +24:031:012 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and + shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, + and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and + of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and + they shall not sorrow any more at all. + +24:031:013 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and + old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and + will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. + +24:031:014 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and + my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD. + +24:031:015 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, + and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to + be comforted for her children, because they were not. + +24:031:016 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine + eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the + LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. + +24:031:017 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy + children shall come again to their own border. + +24:031:018 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast + chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed + to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art + the LORD my God. + +24:031:019 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I + was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, + even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. + +24:031:020 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I + spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: + therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have + mercy upon him, saith the LORD. + +24:031:021 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart + toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn + again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. + +24:031:022 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for + the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall + compass a man. + +24:031:023 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they + shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities + thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD + bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness. + +24:031:024 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities + thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with + flocks. + +24:031:025 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished + every sorrowful soul. + +24:031:026 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto + me. + +24:031:027 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the + house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, + and with the seed of beast. + +24:031:028 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over + them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and + to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to + build, and to plant, saith the LORD. + +24:031:029 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a + sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. + +24:031:030 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that + eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. + +24:031:031 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new + covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of + Judah: + +24:031:032 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers + in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of + the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I + was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: + +24:031:033 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house + of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law + in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will + be their God, and they shall be my people. + +24:031:034 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and + every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall + all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, + saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will + remember their sin no more. + +24:031:035 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, + and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by + night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The + LORD of hosts is his name: + +24:031:036 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, + then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation + before me for ever. + +24:031:037 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the + foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also + cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, + saith the LORD. + +24:031:038 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be + built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of + the corner. + +24:031:039 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon + the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. + +24:031:040 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and + all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of + the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; + it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever. + +24:032:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year + of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of + Nebuchadrezzar. + +24:032:002 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and + Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, + which was in the king of Judah's house. + +24:032:003 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore + dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I + will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and + he shall take it; + +24:032:004 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of + the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of + the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, + and his eyes shall behold his eyes; + +24:032:005 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be + until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the + Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper. + +24:032:006 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, + +24:032:007 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come + unto thee saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for + the right of redemption is thine to buy it. + +24:032:008 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the + prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, + Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in + the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is + thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I + knew that this was the word of the LORD. + +24:032:009 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in + Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of + silver. + +24:032:010 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took + witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances. + +24:032:011 So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was + sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was + open: + +24:032:012 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of + Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine + uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that + subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that + sat in the court of the prison. + +24:032:013 And I charged Baruch before them, saying, + +24:032:014 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these + evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is + sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an + earthen vessel, that they may continue many days. + +24:032:015 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses + and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this + land. + +24:032:016 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto + Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying, + +24:032:017 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth + by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing + too hard for thee: + +24:032:018 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest + the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children + after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is + his name, + +24:032:019 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open + upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one + according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his + doings: + +24:032:020 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even + unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast + made thee a name, as at this day; + +24:032:021 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of + Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, + and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror; + +24:032:022 And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their + fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; + +24:032:023 And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy + voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of + all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast + caused all this evil to come upon them: + +24:032:024 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and + the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight + against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of + the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; + and, behold, thou seest it. + +24:032:025 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for + money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand + of the Chaldeans. + +24:032:026 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, + +24:032:027 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any + thing too hard for me? + +24:032:028 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city + into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of + Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it: + +24:032:029 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come + and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon + whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured + out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger. + +24:032:030 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only + done evil before me from their youth: for the children of + Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their + hands, saith the LORD. + +24:032:031 For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger + and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this + day; that I should remove it from before my face, + +24:032:032 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the + children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to + anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and + their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of + Jerusalem. + +24:032:033 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: + though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet + they have not hearkened to receive instruction. + +24:032:034 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called + by my name, to defile it. + +24:032:035 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the + valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their + daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I + commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they + should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. + +24:032:036 And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, + concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered + into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the + famine, and by the pestilence; + +24:032:037 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I + have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great + wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will + cause them to dwell safely: + +24:032:038 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: + +24:032:039 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may + fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children + after them: + +24:032:040 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will + not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my + fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. + +24:032:041 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will + plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with + my whole soul. + +24:032:042 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great + evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good + that I have promised them. + +24:032:043 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is + desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of + the Chaldeans. + +24:032:044 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and + seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in + the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in + the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, + and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their + captivity to return, saith the LORD. + +24:033:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second + time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, + saying, + +24:033:002 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed + it, to establish it; the LORD is his name; + +24:033:003 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and + mighty things, which thou knowest not. + +24:033:004 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the + houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of + Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword; + +24:033:005 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them + with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger + and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my + face from this city. + +24:033:006 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, + and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. + +24:033:007 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of + Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. + +24:033:008 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they + have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their + iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have + transgressed against me. + +24:033:009 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour + before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the + good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for + all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure + unto it. + +24:033:010 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, + which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, + even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, + that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and + without beast, + +24:033:011 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the + bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that + shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for + his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the + sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will + cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, + saith the LORD. + +24:033:012 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is + desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities + thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their + flocks to lie down. + +24:033:013 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and + in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and + in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, + shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that + telleth them, saith the LORD. + +24:033:014 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform + that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel + and to the house of Judah. + +24:033:015 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of + righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute + judgment and righteousness in the land. + +24:033:016 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell + safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, + The LORD our righteousness. + +24:033:017 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit + upon the throne of the house of Israel; + +24:033:018 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to + offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do + sacrifice continually. + +24:033:019 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying, + +24:033:020 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, + and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day + and night in their season; + +24:033:021 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, + that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and + with the Levites the priests, my ministers. + +24:033:022 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of + the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my + servant, and the Levites that minister unto me. + +24:033:023 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, + +24:033:024 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The + two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast + them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should + be no more a nation before them. + +24:033:025 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, + and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and + earth; + +24:033:026 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, + so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the + seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their + captivity to return, and have mercy on them. + +24:034:001 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when + Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the + kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, + fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, + saying, + +24:034:002 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to + Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; + Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of + Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire: + +24:034:003 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be + taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall + behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak + with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon. + +24:034:004 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus + saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword: + +24:034:005 But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy + fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall + they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, + Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD. + +24:034:006 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah + king of Judah in Jerusalem, + +24:034:007 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and + against all the cities of Judah that were left, against + Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities + remained of the cities of Judah. + +24:034:008 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after + that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people + which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them; + +24:034:009 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his + maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that + none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his + brother. + +24:034:010 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had + entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his + manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none + should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, + and let them go. + +24:034:011 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the + handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought + them into subjection for servants and for handmaids. + +24:034:012 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, + saying, + +24:034:013 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with + your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the + land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying, + +24:034:014 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an + Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath + served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: + but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their + ear. + +24:034:015 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in + proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had + made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my + name: + +24:034:016 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his + servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at + liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into + subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids. + +24:034:017 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, + in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every + man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, + saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the + famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the + kingdoms of the earth. + +24:034:018 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, + which have not performed the words of the covenant which they + had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and + passed between the parts thereof, + +24:034:019 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the + eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, + which passed between the parts of the calf; + +24:034:020 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into + the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies + shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the + beasts of the earth. + +24:034:021 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into + the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek + their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, + which are gone up from you. + +24:034:022 Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to + return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take + it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah + a desolation without an inhabitant. + +24:035:001 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of + Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, + +24:035:002 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and + bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the + chambers, and give them wine to drink. + +24:035:003 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of + Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole + house of the Rechabites; + +24:035:004 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the + chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of + God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above + the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the + door: + +24:035:005 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots + full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. + +24:035:006 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of + Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no + wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever: + +24:035:007 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant + vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in + tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be + strangers. + +24:035:008 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our + father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all + our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters; + +24:035:009 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we + vineyard, nor field, nor seed: + +24:035:010 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done + according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. + +24:035:011 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came + up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to + Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear + of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem. + +24:035:012 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, + +24:035:013 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell + the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not + receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD. + +24:035:014 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his + sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they + drink none, but obey their father's commandment: + notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and + speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me. + +24:035:015 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising + up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man + from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after + other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which + I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not + inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me. + +24:035:016 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed + the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but + this people hath not hearkened unto me: + +24:035:017 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; + Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants + of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: + because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and + I have called unto them, but they have not answered. + +24:035:018 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith + the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed + the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his + precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded + you: + +24:035:019 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; + Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before + me for ever. + +24:036:001 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of + Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from + the LORD, saying, + +24:036:002 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words + that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against + Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto + thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. + +24:036:003 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which + I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from + his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin. + +24:036:004 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch + wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, + which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book. + +24:036:005 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot + go into the house of the LORD: + +24:036:006 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast + written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of + the people in the LORD's house upon the fasting day: and also + thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of + their cities. + +24:036:007 It may be they will present their supplication before the + LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great + is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced + against this people. + +24:036:008 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that + Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the + words of the LORD in the LORD's house. + +24:036:009 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of + Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed + a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to + all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto + Jerusalem. + +24:036:010 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the + house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of + Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the + new gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people. + +24:036:011 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had + heard out of the book all the words of the LORD, + +24:036:012 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's + chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the + scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son + of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the + son of Hananiah, and all the princes. + +24:036:013 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had + heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. + +24:036:014 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, + the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, + Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears + of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the + roll in his hand, and came unto them. + +24:036:015 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. + So Baruch read it in their ears. + +24:036:016 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they + were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will + surely tell the king of all these words. + +24:036:017 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou + write all these words at his mouth? + +24:036:018 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto + me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. + +24:036:019 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and + Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be. + +24:036:020 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up + the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all + the words in the ears of the king. + +24:036:021 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out + of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the + ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which + stood beside the king. + +24:036:022 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and + there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. + +24:036:023 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four + leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire + that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the + fire that was on the hearth. + +24:036:024 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the + king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words. + +24:036:025 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made + intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but + he would not hear them. + +24:036:026 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and + Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to + take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD + hid them. + +24:036:027 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the + king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at + the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, + +24:036:028 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former + words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of + Judah hath burned. + +24:036:029 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the + LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou + written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly + come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from + thence man and beast? + +24:036:030 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He + shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead + body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the + night to the frost. + +24:036:031 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their + iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants + of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I + have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not. + +24:036:032 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the + scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of + Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of + Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides + unto them many like words. + +24:037:001 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah + the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made + king in the land of Judah. + +24:037:002 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, + did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the + prophet Jeremiah. + +24:037:003 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and + Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet + Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us. + +24:037:004 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they + had not put him into prison. + +24:037:005 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the + Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they + departed from Jerusalem. + +24:037:006 Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah + saying, + +24:037:007 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to + the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; + Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall + return to Egypt into their own land. + +24:037:008 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this + city, and take it, and burn it with fire. + +24:037:009 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The + Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not + depart. + +24:037:010 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that + fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among + them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn + this city with fire. + +24:037:011 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was + broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, + +24:037:012 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land + of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the + people. + +24:037:013 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward + was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the + son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, + Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans. + +24:037:014 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the + Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took + Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. + +24:037:015 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, + and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for + they had made that the prison. + +24:037:016 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the + cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; + +24:037:017 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king + asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word + from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou + shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon. + +24:037:018 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I + offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against + this people, that ye have put me in prison? + +24:037:019 Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, + The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against + this land? + +24:037:020 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my + supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou + cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, + lest I die there. + +24:037:021 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit + Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should + give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, + until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah + remained in the court of the prison. + +24:038:001 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of + Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of + Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all + the people, saying, + +24:038:002 Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die + by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he + that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall + have his life for a prey, and shall live. + +24:038:003 Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the + hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it. + +24:038:004 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let + this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of + the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all + the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man + seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt. + +24:038:005 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for + the king is not he that can do any thing against you. + +24:038:006 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of + Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the + prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the + dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the + mire. + +24:038:007 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which + was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in + the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin; + +24:038:008 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to + the king saying, + +24:038:009 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they + have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into + the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place + where he is: for there is no more bread in the city. + +24:038:010 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take + from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the + prophet out of the dungeon, before he die. + +24:038:011 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house + of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast + clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into + the dungeon to Jeremiah. + +24:038:012 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these + old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the + cords. And Jeremiah did so. + +24:038:013 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of + the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. + +24:038:014 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet + unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the + LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a + thing; hide nothing from me. + +24:038:015 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, + wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee + counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me? + +24:038:016 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As + the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee + to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men + that seek thy life. + +24:038:017 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God + of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth + unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, + and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt + live, and thine house: + +24:038:018 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's + princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the + Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt + not escape out of their hand. + +24:038:019 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the + Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me + into their hand, and they mock me. + +24:038:020 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I + beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: + so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live. + +24:038:021 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD + hath shewed me: + +24:038:022 And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of + Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's + princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee + on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the + mire, and they are turned away back. + +24:038:023 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the + Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but + shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou + shalt cause this city to be burned with fire. + +24:038:024 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these + words, and thou shalt not die. + +24:038:025 But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they + come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what + thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will + not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee: + +24:038:026 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication + before the king, that he would not cause me to return to + Jonathan's house, to die there. + +24:038:027 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he + told them according to all these words that the king had + commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter + was not perceived. + +24:038:028 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day + that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was + taken. + +24:039:001 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth + month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army + against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. + +24:039:002 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the + ninth day of the month, the city was broken up. + +24:039:003 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in + the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, + Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the + princes of the king of Babylon. + +24:039:004 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw + them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth + out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by + the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the + plain. + +24:039:005 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook + Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken + him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to + Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him. + +24:039:006 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah + before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles + of Judah. + +24:039:007 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with + chains, to carry him to Babylon. + +24:039:008 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of + the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. + +24:039:009 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive + into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the + city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the + rest of the people that remained. + +24:039:010 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of + the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave + them vineyards and fields at the same time. + +24:039:011 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning + Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying, + +24:039:012 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do + unto him even as he shall say unto thee. + +24:039:013 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, + Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of + Babylon's princes; + +24:039:014 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the + prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the + son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt + among the people. + +24:039:015 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut + up in the court of the prison, saying, + +24:039:016 Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith + the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my + words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they + shall be accomplished in that day before thee. + +24:039:017 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou + shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art + afraid. + +24:039:018 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the + sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because + thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD. + +24:040:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that + Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from + Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all + that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which + were carried away captive unto Babylon. + +24:040:002 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, + The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place. + +24:040:003 Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath + said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not + obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you. + +24:040:004 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which + were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with + me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if + it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: + behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good + and convenient for thee to go, thither go. + +24:040:005 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to + Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king + of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and + dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth + convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave + him victuals and a reward, and let him go. + +24:040:006 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; + and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the + land. + +24:040:007 Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the + fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of + Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the + land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, + and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried + away captive to Babylon; + +24:040:008 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of + Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and + Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the + Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and + their men. + +24:040:009 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto + them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the + Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, + and it shall be well with you. + +24:040:010 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the + Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, + and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and + dwell in your cities that ye have taken. + +24:040:011 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the + Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, + heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, + and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the + son of Shaphan; + +24:040:012 Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were + driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto + Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much. + +24:040:013 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of + the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to + Mizpah, + +24:040:014 And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the + king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah + to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them + not. + +24:040:015 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah + secretly saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay + Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: + wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are + gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in + Judah perish? + +24:040:016 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of + Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest + falsely of Ishmael. + +24:041:001 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son + of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the + princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah + the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread + together in Mizpah. + +24:041:002 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that + were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of + Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon + had made governor over the land. + +24:041:003 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with + Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, + and the men of war. + +24:041:004 And it came to pass the second day after he had slain + Gedaliah, and no man knew it, + +24:041:005 That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from + Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and + their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings + and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the + LORD. + +24:041:006 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to + meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, + as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of + Ahikam. + +24:041:007 And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that + Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the + midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him. + +24:041:008 But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay + us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of + barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them + not among their brethren. + +24:041:009 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of + the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which + Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and + Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were + slain. + +24:041:010 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the + people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all + the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the + captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of + Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away + captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites. + +24:041:011 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of + the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that + Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, + +24:041:012 Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the + son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are + in Gibeon. + +24:041:013 Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were with + Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of + the forces that were with him, then they were glad. + +24:041:014 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from + Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son + of Kareah. + +24:041:015 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with + eight men, and went to the Ammonites. + +24:041:016 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of + the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people + whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from + Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, + even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and + the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon: + +24:041:017 And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, + which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt, + +24:041:018 Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, + because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the + son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the + land. + +24:042:001 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of + Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people + from the least even unto the greatest, came near, + +24:042:002 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our + supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the + LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but + a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:) + +24:042:003 That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, + and the thing that we may do. + +24:042:004 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; + behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your + words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the + LORD shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep + nothing back from you. + +24:042:005 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful + witness between us, if we do not even according to all things + for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us. + +24:042:006 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the + voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may + be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God. + +24:042:007 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD + came unto Jeremiah. + +24:042:008 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains + of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the + least even to the greatest, + +24:042:009 And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, + unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him; + +24:042:010 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, + and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you + up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you. + +24:042:011 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; + be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to + save you, and to deliver you from his hand. + +24:042:012 And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon + you, and cause you to return to your own land. + +24:042:013 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey + the voice of the LORD your God, + +24:042:014 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we + shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have + hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: + +24:042:015 And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of + Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye + wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn + there; + +24:042:016 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, + shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, + whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in + Egypt; and there ye shall die. + +24:042:017 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go + into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by + the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall + remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them. + +24:042:018 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine + anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants + of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when + ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and + an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see + this place no more. + +24:042:019 The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go + ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you + this day. + +24:042:020 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the + LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and + according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare + unto us, and we will do it. + +24:042:021 And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not + obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the + which he hath sent me unto you. + +24:042:022 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, + by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye + desire to go and to sojourn. + +24:043:001 And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of + speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their + God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, even + all these words, + +24:043:002 Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of + Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou + speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, + Go not into Egypt to sojourn there: + +24:043:003 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for + to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might + put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon. + +24:043:004 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the + forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, + to dwell in the land of Judah. + +24:043:005 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the + forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from + all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the + land of Judah; + +24:043:006 Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, + and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had + left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and + Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah. + +24:043:007 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the + voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes. + +24:043:008 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, + saying, + +24:043:009 Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in + the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in + Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; + +24:043:010 And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of + Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king + of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these + stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion + over them. + +24:043:011 And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and + deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for + captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the + sword. + +24:043:012 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; + and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he + shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd + putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in + peace. + +24:043:013 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the + land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians + shall he burn with fire. + +24:044:001 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which + dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at + Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying, + +24:044:002 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen + all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all + the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a + desolation, and no man dwelleth therein, + +24:044:003 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to + provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to + serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor + your fathers. + +24:044:004 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising + early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable + thing that I hate. + +24:044:005 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from + their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. + +24:044:006 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was + kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of + Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day. + +24:044:007 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God + of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your + souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, + out of Judah, to leave you none to remain; + +24:044:008 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, + burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither + ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and + that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations + of the earth? + +24:044:009 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the + wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their + wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your + wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in + the streets of Jerusalem? + +24:044:010 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they + feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set + before you and before your fathers. + +24:044:011 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; + Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut + off all Judah. + +24:044:012 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their + faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they + shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they + shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they + shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword + and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an + astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. + +24:044:013 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I + have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by + the pestilence: + +24:044:014 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the + land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that + they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they + have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return + but such as shall escape. + +24:044:015 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned + incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a + great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of + Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, + +24:044:016 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of + the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee. + +24:044:017 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of + our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and + to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and + our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of + Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty + of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. + +24:044:018 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, + and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all + things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. + +24:044:019 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured + out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship + her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men? + +24:044:020 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the + women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, + saying, + +24:044:021 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the + streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and + your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD + remember them, and came it not into his mind? + +24:044:022 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of + your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have + committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an + astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this + day. + +24:044:023 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned + against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, + nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his + testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at + this day. + +24:044:024 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the + women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the + land of Egypt: + +24:044:025 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye + and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and + fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our + vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of + heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will + surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows. + +24:044:026 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell + in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, + saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the + mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, + The Lord GOD liveth. + +24:044:027 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and + all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be + consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end + of them. + +24:044:028 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of + the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant + of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn + there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or their's. + +24:044:029 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will + punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall + surely stand against you for evil: + +24:044:030 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of + Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them + that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the + hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that + sought his life. + +24:045:001 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son + of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the + mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of + Josiah king of Judah, saying, + +24:045:002 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch: + +24:045:003 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief + to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest. + +24:045:004 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, + that which I have built will I break down, and that which I + have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land. + +24:045:005 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, + behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but + thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places + whither thou goest. + +24:046:001 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet + against the Gentiles; + +24:046:002 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, + which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which + Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of + Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. + +24:046:003 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. + +24:046:004 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth + with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the + brigandines. + +24:046:005 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and + their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and + look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD. + +24:046:006 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they + shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river + Euphrates. + +24:046:007 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved + as the rivers? + +24:046:008 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like + the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the + earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof. + +24:046:009 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty + men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle + the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow. + +24:046:010 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of + vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the + sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk + with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice + in the north country by the river Euphrates. + +24:046:011 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of + Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt + not be cured. + +24:046:012 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled + the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, + and they are fallen both together. + +24:046:013 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how + Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land + of Egypt. + +24:046:014 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in + Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; + for the sword shall devour round about thee. + +24:046:015 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because + the LORD did drive them. + +24:046:016 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they + said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the + land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword. + +24:046:017 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he + hath passed the time appointed. + +24:046:018 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, + Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the + sea, so shall he come. + +24:046:019 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into + captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an + inhabitant. + +24:046:020 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it + cometh out of the north. + +24:046:021 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted + bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away + together: they did not stand, because the day of their + calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation. + +24:046:022 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall + march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers + of wood. + +24:046:023 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it + cannot be searched; because they are more than the + grasshoppers, and are innumerable. + +24:046:024 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be + delivered into the hand of the people of the north. + +24:046:025 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will + punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their + gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust + in him: + +24:046:026 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their + lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, + and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be + inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD. + +24:046:027 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O + Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy + seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, + and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. + +24:046:028 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am + with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations + whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of + thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee + wholly unpunished. + +24:047:001 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against + the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. + +24:047:002 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, + and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the + land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell + therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of + the land shall howl. + +24:047:003 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong + horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of + his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children + for feebleness of hands; + +24:047:004 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, + and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that + remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the + remnant of the country of Caphtor. + +24:047:005 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the + remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? + +24:047:006 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be + quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. + +24:047:007 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge + against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he + appointed it. + +24:048:001 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; + Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and + taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed. + +24:048:002 There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have + devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from + being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the + sword shall pursue thee. + +24:048:003 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great + destruction. + +24:048:004 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be + heard. + +24:048:005 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; + for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry + of destruction. + +24:048:006 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the + wilderness. + +24:048:007 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy + treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go + forth into captivity with his priests and his princes + together. + +24:048:008 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall + escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be + destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken. + +24:048:009 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the + cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell + therein. + +24:048:010 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and + cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood. + +24:048:011 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on + his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, + neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste + remained in him, and his scent is not changed. + +24:048:012 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will + send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and + shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles. + +24:048:013 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel + was ashamed of Bethel their confidence. + +24:048:014 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war? + +24:048:015 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen + young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, + whose name is the LORD of hosts. + +24:048:016 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction + hasteth fast. + +24:048:017 All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know + his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the + beautiful rod! + +24:048:018 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy + glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come + upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds. + +24:048:019 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him + that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done? + +24:048:020 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell + ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled, + +24:048:021 And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and + upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath, + +24:048:022 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim, + +24:048:023 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon, + +24:048:024 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of + the land of Moab, far or near. + +24:048:025 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the + LORD. + +24:048:026 Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the + LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall + be in derision. + +24:048:027 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among + thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for + joy. + +24:048:028 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the + rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides + of the hole's mouth. + +24:048:029 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his + loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the + haughtiness of his heart. + +24:048:030 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his + lies shall not so effect it. + +24:048:031 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all + Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres. + +24:048:032 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of + Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to + the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits + and upon thy vintage. + +24:048:033 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and + from the land of Moab, and I have caused wine to fail from the + winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting + shall be no shouting. + +24:048:034 From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto + Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto + Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also + of Nimrim shall be desolate. + +24:048:035 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him + that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense + to his gods. + +24:048:036 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine + heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because + the riches that he hath gotten are perished. + +24:048:037 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon + all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. + +24:048:038 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of + Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like + a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD. + +24:048:039 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab + turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a + dismaying to all them about him. + +24:048:040 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and + shall spread his wings over Moab. + +24:048:041 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the + mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart + of a woman in her pangs. + +24:048:042 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he + hath magnified himself against the LORD. + +24:048:043 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O + inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD. + +24:048:044 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he + that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: + for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their + visitation, saith the LORD. + +24:048:045 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of + the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a + flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of + Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. + +24:048:046 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for + thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives. + +24:048:047 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter + days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab. + +24:049:001 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no + sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, + and his people dwell in his cities? + +24:049:002 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will + cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; + and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be + burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that + were his heirs, saith the LORD. + +24:049:003 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of + Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by + the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his + priests and his princes together. + +24:049:004 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O + backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, + Who shall come unto me? + +24:049:005 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of + hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be + driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him + that wandereth. + +24:049:006 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children + of Ammon, saith the LORD. + +24:049:007 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no + more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their + wisdom vanished? + +24:049:008 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I + will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will + visit him. + +24:049:009 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some + gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till + they have enough. + +24:049:010 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, + and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, + and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not. + +24:049:011 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and + let thy widows trust in me. + +24:049:012 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not + to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he + that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go + unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it. + +24:049:013 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall + become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all + the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes. + +24:049:014 I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent + unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against + her, and rise up to the battle. + +24:049:015 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and + despised among men. + +24:049:016 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine + heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that + holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy + nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, + saith the LORD. + +24:049:017 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it + shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues + thereof. + +24:049:018 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour + cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, + neither shall a son of man dwell in it. + +24:049:019 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of + Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will + suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, + that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will + appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand + before me? + +24:049:020 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken + against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against + the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall + draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate + with them. + +24:049:021 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the + noise thereof was heard in the Red sea. + +24:049:022 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his + wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the + mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. + +24:049:023 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they + have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is + sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. + +24:049:024 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and + fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, + as a woman in travail. + +24:049:025 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! + +24:049:026 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the + men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of + hosts. + +24:049:027 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall + consume the palaces of Benhadad. + +24:049:028 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which + Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the + LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east. + +24:049:029 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall + take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and + their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every + side. + +24:049:030 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, + saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken + counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you. + +24:049:031 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth + without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor + bars, which dwell alone. + +24:049:032 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their + cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that + are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity + from all sides thereof, saith the LORD. + +24:049:033 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation + for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man + dwell in it. + +24:049:034 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against + Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, + saying, + +24:049:035 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of + Elam, the chief of their might. + +24:049:036 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four + quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those + winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of + Elam shall not come. + +24:049:037 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and + before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon + them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send + the sword after them, till I have consumed them: + +24:049:038 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence + the king and the princes, saith the LORD. + +24:049:039 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will + bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD. + +24:050:001 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the + land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. + +24:050:002 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a + standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel + is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are + confounded, her images are broken in pieces. + +24:050:003 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, + which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell + therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and + beast. + +24:050:004 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children + of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, + going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God. + +24:050:005 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, + saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a + perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten. + +24:050:006 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused + them to go astray, they have turned them away on the + mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have + forgotten their restingplace. + +24:050:007 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries + said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the + LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of + their fathers. + +24:050:008 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the + land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the + flocks. + +24:050:009 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an + assembly of great nations from the north country: and they + shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she + shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert + man; none shall return in vain. + +24:050:010 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be + satisfied, saith the LORD. + +24:050:011 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of + mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at + grass, and bellow as bulls; + +24:050:012 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall + be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a + wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. + +24:050:013 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, + but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by + Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. + +24:050:014 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye + that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath + sinned against the LORD. + +24:050:015 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her + foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is + the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she + hath done, do unto her. + +24:050:016 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the + sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing + sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall + flee every one to his own land. + +24:050:017 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: + first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this + Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. + +24:050:018 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; + Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I + have punished the king of Assyria. + +24:050:019 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall + feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied + upon mount Ephraim and Gilead. + +24:050:020 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity + of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and + the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will + pardon them whom I reserve. + +24:050:021 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and + against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy + after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I + have commanded thee. + +24:050:022 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. + +24:050:023 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! + how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! + +24:050:024 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O + Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also + caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. + +24:050:025 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the + weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord + GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. + +24:050:026 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: + cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of + her be left. + +24:050:027 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe + unto them! for their day is come, the time of their + visitation. + +24:050:028 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of + Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, + the vengeance of his temple. + +24:050:029 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend + the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: + recompense her according to her work; according to all that + she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against + the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel. + +24:050:030 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her + men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD. + +24:050:031 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord + GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit + thee. + +24:050:032 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall + raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it + shall devour all round about him. + +24:050:033 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the + children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took + them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go. + +24:050:034 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he + shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to + the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. + +24:050:035 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the + inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her + wise men. + +24:050:036 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is + upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. + +24:050:037 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and + upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and + they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and + they shall be robbed. + +24:050:038 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for + it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their + idols. + +24:050:039 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts + of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell + therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither + shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. + +24:050:040 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities + thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither + shall any son of man dwell therein. + +24:050:041 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great + nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of + the earth. + +24:050:042 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and + will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and + they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a + man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon. + +24:050:043 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his + hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of + a woman in travail. + +24:050:044 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of + Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them + suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I + may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint + me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before + me? + +24:050:045 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken + against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed + against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the + flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their + habitation desolate with them. + +24:050:046 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and + the cry is heard among the nations. + +24:051:001 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, + and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up + against me, a destroying wind; + +24:051:002 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and + shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be + against her round about. + +24:051:003 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and + against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and + spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. + +24:051:004 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and + they that are thrust through in her streets. + +24:051:005 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of + the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin + against the Holy One of Israel. + +24:051:006 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his + soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of + the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence. + +24:051:007 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made + all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; + therefore the nations are mad. + +24:051:008 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take + balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. + +24:051:009 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake + her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her + judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the + skies. + +24:051:010 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let + us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God. + +24:051:011 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath + raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device + is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance + of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. + +24:051:012 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch + strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the + LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against + the inhabitants of Babylon. + +24:051:013 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, + thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness. + +24:051:014 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will + fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift + up a shout against thee. + +24:051:015 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the + world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his + understanding. + +24:051:016 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. + +24:051:017 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is + confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is + falsehood, and there is no breath in them. + +24:051:018 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their + visitation they shall perish. + +24:051:019 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of + all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD + of hosts is his name. + +24:051:020 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will + I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy + kingdoms; + +24:051:021 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; + and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his + rider; + +24:051:022 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with + thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will + I break in pieces the young man and the maid; + +24:051:023 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his + flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and + his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces + captains and rulers. + +24:051:024 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of + Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your + sight, saith the LORD. + +24:051:025 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the + LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out + mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and + will make thee a burnt mountain. + +24:051:026 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a + stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, + saith the LORD. + +24:051:027 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the + nations, prepare the nations against her, call together + against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; + appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as + the rough caterpillers. + +24:051:028 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, + the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the + land of his dominion. + +24:051:029 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of + the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land + of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant. + +24:051:030 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have + remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became + as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are + broken. + +24:051:031 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet + another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at + one end, + +24:051:032 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have + burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. + +24:051:033 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The + daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to + thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest + shall come. + +24:051:034 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath + crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed + me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my + delicates, he hath cast me out. + +24:051:035 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall + the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants + of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. + +24:051:036 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, + and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and + make her springs dry. + +24:051:037 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, + an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. + +24:051:038 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' + whelps. + +24:051:039 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them + drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, + and not wake, saith the LORD. + +24:051:040 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams + with he goats. + +24:051:041 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole + earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among + the nations! + +24:051:042 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the + multitude of the waves thereof. + +24:051:043 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a + land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass + thereby. + +24:051:044 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out + of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations + shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of + Babylon shall fall. + +24:051:045 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every + man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD. + +24:051:046 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that + shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, + and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and + violence in the land, ruler against ruler. + +24:051:047 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon + the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be + confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. + +24:051:048 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall + sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from + the north, saith the LORD. + +24:051:049 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at + Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth. + +24:051:050 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: + remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your + mind. + +24:051:051 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath + covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries + of the LORD's house. + +24:051:052 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will + do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land + the wounded shall groan. + +24:051:053 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she + should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall + spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD. + +24:051:054 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction + from the land of the Chaldeans: + +24:051:055 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of + her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, + a noise of their voice is uttered: + +24:051:056 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and + her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: + for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite. + +24:051:057 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her + captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall + sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose + name is the LORD of hosts. + +24:051:058 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall + be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with + fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the + fire, and they shall be weary. + +24:051:059 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son + of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the + king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. + And this Seraiah was a quiet prince. + +24:051:060 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon + Babylon, even all these words that are written against + Babylon. + +24:051:061 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and + shalt see, and shalt read all these words; + +24:051:062 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this + place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither + man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever. + +24:051:063 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this + book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the + midst of Euphrates: + +24:051:064 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not + rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall + be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. + +24:052:001 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, + and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's + name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. + +24:052:002 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, + according to all that Jehoiakim had done. + +24:052:003 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem + and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that + Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. + +24:052:004 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the + tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that + Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, + against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts + against it round about. + +24:052:005 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king + Zedekiah. + +24:052:006 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the + famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for + the people of the land. + +24:052:007 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and + went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate + between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now + the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by + the way of the plain. + +24:052:008 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and + overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army + was scattered from him. + +24:052:009 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of + Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave + judgment upon him. + +24:052:010 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his + eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. + +24:052:011 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon + bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him + in prison till the day of his death. + +24:052:012 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which + was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, + came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king + of Babylon, into Jerusalem, + +24:052:013 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and + all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great + men, burned he with fire: + +24:052:014 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain + of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round + about. + +24:052:015 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive + certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the + people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, + that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the + multitude. + +24:052:016 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the + poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen. + +24:052:017 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, + and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the + LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them + to Babylon. + +24:052:018 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the + bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith + they ministered, took they away. + +24:052:019 And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the + caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; + that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver + in silver, took the captain of the guard away. + +24:052:020 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were + under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of + the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight. + +24:052:021 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was + eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; + and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow. + +24:052:022 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one + chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon + the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar + also and the pomegranates were like unto these. + +24:052:023 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all + the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about. + +24:052:024 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, + and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the + door: + +24:052:025 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge + of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the + king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal + scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and + threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in + the midst of the city. + +24:052:026 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought + them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. + +24:052:027 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in + Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away + captive out of his own land. + +24:052:028 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: + in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty: + +24:052:029 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away + captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: + +24:052:030 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan + the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews + seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were + four thousand and six hundred. + +24:052:031 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the + captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, + in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach + king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the + head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of + prison. + +24:052:032 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne + of the kings that were with him in Babylon, + +24:052:033 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat + bread before him all the days of his life. + +24:052:034 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the + king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his + death, all the days of his life. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, KING JAMES, BOOK 24 *** + +********** This file should be named 8024.txt or 8024.zip ********** + +This eBook was produced by David Widger +See above the credits to previous producers of this text. + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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