The Book of Jeremiah of the Christian Holy Bible

Jeremiah 1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the  priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.

Jeremiah 1:2 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of  Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year  of his reign. 

Jeremiah 1:3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the  son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh  year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the  carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. 

Jeremiah 1:4  Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 

Jeremiah 1:5  Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before  thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I  ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. 

Jeremiah 1:6 Then said I,  Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.  

Jeremiah 1:7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child:  for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever  I command thee thou shalt speak. 

Jeremiah 1:8 Be not afraid of  their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the  LORD. 

Jeremiah 1:9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and  touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I  have put my words in thy mouth. 

Jeremiah 1:10 See, I have this  day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root  out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to  build, and to plant.  

Jeremiah 1:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,  saying, 

Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of  an almond tree. 

Jeremiah 1:12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou  hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.  

Jeremiah 1:13 And the word of the LORD came unto me the  second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a  seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.  

Jeremiah 1:14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an  evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.  

Jeremiah 1:15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of  the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they  shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of  Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and  against all the cities of Judah. 

Jeremiah 1:16 And I will utter my  judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who  have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods,  and worshipped the works of their own hands.  

Jeremiah 1:17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and  speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed  at their faces, lest I confound thee before them. 

Jeremiah 1:18 For,  behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an  iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against  the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the  priests thereof, and against the people of the land. 

Jeremiah 1:19  And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail  against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to  deliver thee.  

Jeremiah 2:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me,  saying, 

Jeremiah 2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying,  Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy  youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after  me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. 

Jeremiah 2:3  Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of  his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall  come upon them, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 2:4 Hear ye the word  of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the  house of Israel:  

Jeremiah 2:5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your  fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and  have walked after vanity, and are become vain? 

Jeremiah 2:6  Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up  out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness,  through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of  drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no  man passed through, and where no man dwelt? 

Jeremiah 2:7 And I  brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof  and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled  my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. 

Jeremiah 2:8  The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that  handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed  against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and  walked after things that do not profit.  

Jeremiah 2:9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the  LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead.  

Jeremiah 2:10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send  unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such  a thing. 

Jeremiah 2:11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which  are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory  for that which doth not profit. 

Jeremiah 2:12 Be astonished, O ye  heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate,  saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two  evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters,  and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can  hold no water.  

Jeremiah 2:14 Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave?  why is he spoiled? 

Jeremiah 2:15 The young lions roared upon  him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities  are burned without inhabitant. 

Jeremiah 2:16 Also the children of  Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.  

Jeremiah 2:17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou  hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the  way? 

Jeremiah 2:18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of  Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do  in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?  

Jeremiah 2:19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy  backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that  it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the  LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the  Lord GOD of hosts.  

Jeremiah 2:20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst  thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon  every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest,  playing the harlot. 

Jeremiah 2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble  vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the  degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? 

Jeremiah 2:22 For  though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much sope,  yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord  GOD. 

Jeremiah 2:23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have  not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what  thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her  ways; 

Jeremiah 2:24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that  snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who  can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary  themselves; in her month they shall find her. 

Jeremiah 2:25  Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from  thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved  strangers, and after them will I go. 

Jeremiah 2:26 As the thief is  ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel  ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests,  and their prophets, 

Jeremiah 2:27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my  father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they  have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in  the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.    

Jeremiah 2:28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee?  let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy  trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy  gods, O Judah. 

Jeremiah 2:29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye  all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 2:30 In  vain have I smitten your children; they received no  correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets,  like a destroying lion.  

Jeremiah 2:31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have  I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness?  wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no  more unto thee? 

Jeremiah 2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments,  or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me  days without number. 

Jeremiah 2:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to  seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones  thy ways. 

Jeremiah 2:34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the  souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret  search, but upon all these. 

Jeremiah 2:35 Yet thou sayest, Because I  am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I  will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.  

Jeremiah 2:36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy  way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast  ashamed of Assyria. 

Jeremiah 2:37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from  him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath  rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.  

Jeremiah 3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go  from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto  her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou  hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to  me, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 3:2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high  places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the  ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the  wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy  whoredoms and with thy wickedness. 

Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the  showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter  rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be  ashamed. 

Jeremiah 3:4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me,  My father, thou art the guide of my youth? 

Jeremiah 3:5 Will he  reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end?  Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou  couldest.  

Jeremiah 3:6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah  the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath  done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under  every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. 

Jeremiah 3:7  And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou  unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister  Judah saw it. 

Jeremiah 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes  whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her  away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous  sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.  

Jeremiah 3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her  whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed  adultery with stones and with stocks. 

Jeremiah 3:10 And yet for all  this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me  with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 3:11  And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath  justified herself more than treacherous Judah.  

Jeremiah 3:12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north,  and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD;  and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I  am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger  for ever. 

Jeremiah 3:13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou  hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast  scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree,  and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 3:14  Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am  married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two  of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: 

Jeremiah 3:15 And I will  give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed  you with knowledge and understanding. 

Jeremiah 3:16 And it shall  come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the  land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more,  The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come  to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they  visit it; neither shall that be done any more. 

Jeremiah 3:17 At  that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD;  and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of  the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more  after the imagination of their evil heart. 

Jeremiah 3:18 In those  days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel,  and they shall come together out of the land of the north to  the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your  fathers. 

Jeremiah 3:19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the  children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of  the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My  father; and shalt not turn away from me.   

Jeremiah 3:20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her  husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house  of Israel, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 3:21 A voice was heard upon  the high places, weeping and supplications of the children  of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have  forgotten the LORD their God. 

Jeremiah 3:22 Return, ye  backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.  Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our  God. 

Jeremiah 3:23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the  hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the  LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. 

Jeremiah 3:24 For  shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our  youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their  daughters. 

Jeremiah 3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our  confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the  LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even  unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD  our God.  

Jeremiah 4:1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return  unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out  of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. 

Jeremiah 4:2 And thou  shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in  righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him,  and in him shall they glory.  

Jeremiah 4:3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and  Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not  among thorns. 

Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD,  and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah  and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like  fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil  of your doings. 

Jeremiah 4:5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in  Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry,  gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go  into the defenced cities. 

Jeremiah 4:6 Set up the standard toward  Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north,  and a great destruction. 

Jeremiah 4:7 The lion is come up from his  thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is  gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and  thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant. 

Jeremiah 4:8  For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the  fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. 

Jeremiah 4:9  And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that  the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the  princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder. 

Jeremiah 4:10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely  thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem,  saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth  unto the soul. 

Jeremiah 4:11 At that time shall it be said to this  people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in  the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan,  nor to cleanse, 

Jeremiah 4:12 Even a full wind from those places  shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against  them. 

Jeremiah 4:13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his  chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter  than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled. 

Jeremiah 4:14 O  Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou  mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge  within thee? 

Jeremiah 4:15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and  publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim. 

Jeremiah 4:16 Make ye  mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem,  that watchers come from a far country, and give out their  voice against the cities of Judah. 

Jeremiah 4:17 As keepers of a  field, are they against her round about; because she hath  been rebellious against me, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 4:18 Thy  way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee;  this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it  reacheth unto thine heart.   

Jeremiah 4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very  heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my  peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the  trump, the alarm of war. 

Jeremiah 4:20 Destruction upon  destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly  are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment. 

Jeremiah 4:21  How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of  the trumpet? 

Jeremiah 4:22 For my people is foolish, they have  not known me; they are sottish children, and they have  none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do  good they have no knowledge. 

Jeremiah 4:23 I beheld the earth,  and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens,  and they had no light. 

Jeremiah 4:24 I beheld the mountains, and,  lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. 

Jeremiah 4:25 I  beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the  heavens were fled. 

Jeremiah 4:26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful  place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were  broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his  fierce anger. 

Jeremiah 4:27 For thus hath the LORD said, The  whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.  

Jeremiah 4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens  above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed  it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.  

Jeremiah 4:29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the  horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and  climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and  not a man dwell therein. 

Jeremiah 4:30 And when thou art  spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself  with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of  gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain  shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee,  they will seek thy life. 

Jeremiah 4:31 For I have heard a voice as of  a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth  forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that  bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe  is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.  

Jeremiah 5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,  and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places  thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth  judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. 

Jeremiah 5:2  And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear  falsely. 

Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth?  thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast  consumed them, but they have refused to receive  correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock;  they have refused to return. 

Jeremiah 5:4 Therefore I said, Surely  these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way  of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. 

Jeremiah 5:5 I will  get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for  they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment  of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke,  and burst the bonds. 

Jeremiah 5:6 Wherefore a lion out of the  forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall  spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one  that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their  transgressions are many, and their backslidings are  increased.   

Jeremiah 5:7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have  forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I  had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and  assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.  

Jeremiah 5:8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one  neighed after his neighbour’s wife. 

Jeremiah 5:9 Shall I not visit  for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be  avenged on such a nation as this?  

Jeremiah 5:10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make  not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not  the LORD’S. 

Jeremiah 5:11 For the house of Israel and the house  of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the  LORD. 

Jeremiah 5:12 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is  not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see  sword nor famine: 

Jeremiah 5:13 And the prophets shall become  wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done  unto them. 

Jeremiah 5:14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of  hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my  words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall  devour them. 

Jeremiah 5:15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you  from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty  nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language  thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.  

Jeremiah 5:16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all  mighty men. 

Jeremiah 5:17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and  thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat:  they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up  thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced  cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword. 

Jeremiah 5:18  Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make  a full end with you.  

Jeremiah 5:19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say,  Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto  us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken  me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve  strangers in a land that is not yours. 

Jeremiah 5:20 Declare this in  the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, 

Jeremiah 5:21  Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding;  which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear  not: 

Jeremiah 5:22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not  tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for  the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot  pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet  can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass  over it? 

Jeremiah 5:23 But this people hath a revolting and a  rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. 

Jeremiah 5:24 Neither  say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God,  that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season:  he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.  

Jeremiah 5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these things,  and your sins have withholden good things from you.  

Jeremiah 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they    

Jeremiah Page 450   lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch  men. 

Jeremiah 5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses  full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen  rich. 

Jeremiah 5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they  overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause,  the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of  the needy do they not judge. 

Jeremiah 5:29 Shall I not visit for  these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be  avenged on such a nation as this?   

Jeremiah 5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the  land; 

Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests  bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so:  and what will ye do in the end thereof?  

Jeremiah 6:1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee  out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in  Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil  appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. 

Jeremiah 6:2 I  have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate  woman. 

Jeremiah 6:3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come  unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round  about; they shall feed every one in his place. 

Jeremiah 6:4 Prepare  ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto  us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening  are stretched out. 

Jeremiah 6:5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let  us destroy her palaces.  

Jeremiah 6:6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye  down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the  city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of  her. 

Jeremiah 6:7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she  casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in  her; before me continually is grief and wounds. 

Jeremiah 6:8 Be  thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee;  lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.  

Jeremiah 6:9 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. 

Jeremiah 6:10 To whom shall I  speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their  ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the  word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no  delight in it. 

Jeremiah 6:11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the  LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon  the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men  together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken,  the aged with him that is full of days. 

Jeremiah 6:12 And their  houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and  wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the  inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 6:13 For from  the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one  is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto  the priest every one dealeth falsely. 

Jeremiah 6:14 They have  healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly,  saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 

Jeremiah 6:15 Were  they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,  they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:  therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time  that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see,  and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk  therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said,  We will not walk therein. 

Jeremiah 6:17 Also I set watchmen  over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But  they said, We will not hearken.  

Jeremiah 6:18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O  congregation, what is among them. 

Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth:  behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of  their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my  words, nor to my law, but rejected it. 

Jeremiah 6:20 To what  purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the  sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are  not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. 

Jeremiah 6:21  Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay  stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the  sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his  friend shall perish. 

Jeremiah 6:22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a  people cometh from the north country, and a great nation  shall be raised from the sides of the earth. 

Jeremiah 6:23 They shall  lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no  mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon  horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter  of Zion. 

Jeremiah 6:24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands  wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of  a woman in travail. 

Jeremiah 6:25 Go not forth into the field, nor  walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is  on every side.   

Jeremiah 6:26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with  sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee  mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for  the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. 

Jeremiah 6:27 I have set  thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that  thou mayest know and try their way. 

Jeremiah 6:28 They are all  grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass  and iron; they are all corrupters. 

Jeremiah 6:29 The bellows are  burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth  in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. 

Jeremiah 6:30  Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD  hath rejected them.  

Jeremiah 7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD,  saying, 

Jeremiah 7:2 Stand in the gate of the LORD’S house, and  proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the  LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to  worship the LORD. 

Jeremiah 7:3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts,  the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I  will cause you to dwell in this place. 

Jeremiah 7:4 Trust ye not in  lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple  of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these. 

Jeremiah 7:5  For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye  throughly execute judgment between a man and his  neighbour; 

Jeremiah 7:6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the  fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in  this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: 

Jeremiah 7:7  Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that  I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.  

Jeremiah 7:8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.  

Jeremiah 7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and  swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after  other gods whom ye know not; 

Jeremiah 7:10 And come and stand  before me in this house, which is called by my name, and  say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? 

Jeremiah 7:11  Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of  robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the  LORD. 

Jeremiah 7:12 But go ye now unto my place which was in  Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did  to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. 

Jeremiah 7:13 And  now, because ye have done all these works, saith the  LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking,  but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;  

Jeremiah 7:14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called  by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I  gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.  

Jeremiah 7:15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.   

Jeremiah 7:16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift  up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me:  for I will not hear thee.  

Jeremiah 7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah  and in the streets of Jerusalem? 

Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather  wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead  their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to  pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may  provoke me to anger. 

Jeremiah 7:19 Do they provoke me to anger?  saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the  confusion of their own faces? 

Jeremiah 7:20 Therefore thus saith  the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be  poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and  upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground;  and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.  

Jeremiah 7:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;  Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.  

Jeremiah 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded  them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,  concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 

Jeremiah 7:23 But this  thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will  be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all  the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well  unto you. 

Jeremiah 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their  ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of  their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.  

Jeremiah 7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the  land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my  servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending  them: 

Jeremiah 7:26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor  inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse  than their fathers. 

Jeremiah 7:27 Therefore thou shalt speak all  these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee:  thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.  

Jeremiah 7:28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that  obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth  correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.  

Jeremiah 7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it  away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the  LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his  wrath. 

Jeremiah 7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil in  my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations  in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.  

Jeremiah 7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet,  which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their  sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded  them not, neither came it into my heart.  

Jeremiah 7:32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD,  that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the  son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall  bury in Tophet, till there be no place. 

Jeremiah 7:33 And the  carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the  heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray  them away. 

Jeremiah 7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the  cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice  of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the  bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be  desolate.  

Jeremiah 8:1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out  the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his  princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the  prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out  of their graves: 

Jeremiah 8:2 And they shall spread them before the  sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they  have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom  they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom  they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be  buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.   

Jeremiah 8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the  residue of them that remain of this evil family, which  remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the  LORD of hosts.  

Jeremiah 8:4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the  LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away,  and not return? 

Jeremiah 8:5 Why then is this people of  Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they  hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 

Jeremiah 8:6 I hearkened and  heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of  his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned  to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. 

Jeremiah 8:7 Yea,  the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and  the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of  their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the  LORD. 

Jeremiah 8:8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of  the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it;  the pen of the scribes is in vain. 

Jeremiah 8:9 The wise men are  ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have  rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in  them? 

Jeremiah 8:10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others,  and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every  one from the least even unto the greatest is given to  covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every  one dealeth falsely. 

Jeremiah 8:11 For they have healed the hurt of  the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace;  when there is no peace. 

Jeremiah 8:12 Were they ashamed when  they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all  ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall  among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they  shall be cast down, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 8:13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD:  there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig  tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have  given them shall pass away from them. 

Jeremiah 8:14 Why do we  sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the  defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our  God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to  drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. 

Jeremiah 8:15  We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of  health, and behold trouble! 

Jeremiah 8:16 The snorting of his  horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the  sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come,  and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and  those that dwell therein. 

Jeremiah 8:17 For, behold, I will send  serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be  charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 8:18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow,  my heart is faint in me. 

Jeremiah 8:19 Behold the voice of the cry  of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in  a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king  in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their  graven images, and with strange vanities? 

Jeremiah 8:20 The  harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.  

Jeremiah 8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt;  I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. 

Jeremiah 8:22 Is  there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why  then is not the health of the daughter of my people  recovered?  

Jeremiah 9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a    

Jeremiah Page 452   fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the  slain of the daughter of my people! 

Jeremiah 9:2 Oh that I had in  the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I  might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all  adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 

Jeremiah 9:3 And they  bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are  not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed  from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.   

Jeremiah 9:4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye  not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant,  and every neighbour will walk with slanders. 

Jeremiah 9:5 And  they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not  speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies,  and weary themselves to commit iniquity. 

Jeremiah 9:6 Thine  habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they  refuse to know me, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 9:7 Therefore thus  saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try  them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?  

Jeremiah 9:8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh  deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his  mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.  

Jeremiah 9:9 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the  LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as  this? 

Jeremiah 9:10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and  wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a  lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can  pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the  cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled;  they are gone. 

Jeremiah 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps,  and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah  desolate, without an inhabitant.  

Jeremiah 9:12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this?  and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath  spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth  and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth  through? 

Jeremiah 9:13 And the LORD saith, Because they have  forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not  obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; 

Jeremiah 9:14 But have  walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after  Baalim, which their fathers taught them: 

Jeremiah 9:15 Therefore  thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I  will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and  give them water of gall to drink. 

Jeremiah 9:16 I will scatter them  also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers  have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have  consumed them.  

Jeremiah 9:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and  call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send  for cunning women, that they may come: 

Jeremiah 9:18 And let  them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes  may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with  waters. 

Jeremiah 9:19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,  How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because  we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast  us out. 

Jeremiah 9:20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye  women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and  teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour  lamentation. 

Jeremiah 9:21 For death is come up into our windows,  and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from  without, and the young men from the streets. 

Jeremiah 9:22  Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men  shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful  after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.  

Jeremiah 9:23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man  glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in   his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: 

Jeremiah 9:24  But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth  and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise  lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth:  for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.   

Jeremiah 9:25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will  punish all them which are circumcised with the  uncircumcised; 

Jeremiah 9:26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and  the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the  utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these  nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are  uncircumcised in the heart.  

Jeremiah 10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto  you, O house of Israel: 

Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn  not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs  of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 

Jeremiah 10:3 For  the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree  out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman,  with the axe. 

Jeremiah 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold;  they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.  

Jeremiah 10:5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not:  they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not  afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in  them to do good. 

Jeremiah 10:6 Forasmuch as there is none like  unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great  in might. 

Jeremiah 10:7 Who would not fear thee, O King of  nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among  all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms,  there is none like unto thee. 

Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether  brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.  

Jeremiah 10:9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish,  and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the  hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they  are all the work of cunning men. 

Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD  is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting  king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations  shall not be able to abide his indignation. 

Jeremiah 10:11 Thus  shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the  heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the  earth, and from under these heavens. 

Jeremiah 10:12 He hath made  the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his  wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his  discretion. 

Jeremiah 10:13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a  multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the  vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh  lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his  treasures. 

Jeremiah 10:14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge:  every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his  molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.  

Jeremiah 10:15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the  time of their visitation they shall perish. 

Jeremiah 10:16 The  portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of  all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The  LORD of hosts is his name.  

Jeremiah 10:17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant  of the fortress. 

Jeremiah 10:18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I  will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and  will distress them, that they may find it so.  

Jeremiah 10:19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous:  but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it. 

Jeremiah 10:20  My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my  children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is  none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my  curtains. 

Jeremiah 10:21 For the pastors are become brutish, and  have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. 

Jeremiah 10:22 Behold, the  noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the  north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a  den of dragons.   

Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in  himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.  

Jeremiah 10:24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in  thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. 

Jeremiah 10:25 Pour out  thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the  families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up  Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have  made his habitation desolate.  

Jeremiah 11:1 The word that came to 

Jeremiah from the LORD,  saying, 

Jeremiah 11:2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and  speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of  Jerusalem; 

Jeremiah 11:3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the  LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not  the words of this covenant, 

Jeremiah 11:4 Which I commanded  your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the  land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my  voice, and do them, according to all which I command you:  so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God: 

Jeremiah 11:5  That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your  fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as  it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O  LORD. 

Jeremiah 11:6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all  these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of  Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and  do them. 

Jeremiah 11:7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers  in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt,  even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying,  Obey my voice. 

Jeremiah 11:8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined  their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their  evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of  this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they  did them not. 

Jeremiah 11:9 And the LORD said unto me, A  conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among  the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 

Jeremiah 11:10 They are turned back  to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear  my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the  house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my  covenant which I made with their fathers.  

Jeremiah 11:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will  bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to  escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not  hearken unto them. 

Jeremiah 11:12 Then shall the cities of Judah  and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto  whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all  in the time of their trouble. 

Jeremiah 11:13 For according to the  number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according  to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up  altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense  unto Baal. 

Jeremiah 11:14 Therefore pray not thou for this people,  neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear  them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.  

Jeremiah 11:15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house,  seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy  flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou  rejoicest. 

Jeremiah 11:16 The LORD called thy name, A green  olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a  great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches  of it are broken. 

Jeremiah 11:17 For the LORD of hosts, that  planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil  of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they  have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in  offering incense unto Baal.  

Jeremiah 11:18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it,  and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.  

Jeremiah 11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought  to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised  devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the  fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the  living, that his name may be no more remembered. 

Jeremiah 11:20  But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest  the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them:  for unto thee have I revealed my cause. 

Jeremiah 11:21 Therefore  thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy  life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that  thou die not by our hand: 

Jeremiah 11:22 Therefore thus saith the  LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men  shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall  die by famine: 

Jeremiah 11:23 And there shall be no remnant of  them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even  the year of their visitation.  

Jeremiah 12:1 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with  thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments:  Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore  are all they happy that deal very treacherously? 

Jeremiah 12:2  Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they  grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their  mouth, and far from their reins. 

Jeremiah 12:3 But thou, O LORD,  knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward  thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare  them for the day of slaughter. 

Jeremiah 12:4 How long shall the  land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the  wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are  consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see  our last end. 

Jeremiah 12:5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and  they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with  horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou  trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the  swelling of Jordan? 

Jeremiah 12:6 For even thy brethren, and the  house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with  thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe  them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.  

Jeremiah 12:7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine  heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the  hand of her enemies. 

Jeremiah 12:8 Mine heritage is unto me as a  lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I  hated it. 

Jeremiah 12:9 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled  bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye,  assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour. 

Jeremiah 12:10  Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have  trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant  portion a desolate wilderness. 

Jeremiah 12:11 They have made it  desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the  whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to  heart. 

Jeremiah 12:12 The spoilers are come upon all high places  through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall  devour from the one end of the land even to the other  end of the land: no flesh shall have peace. 

Jeremiah 12:13 They  have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put  themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be  ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the  LORD.  

Jeremiah 12:14 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil  neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused  my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of  their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among  them. 

Jeremiah 12:15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have  plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on  them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage,    

Jeremiah Page 454   and every man to his land. 

Jeremiah 12:16 And it shall come to  pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to  swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my  people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst  of my people. 

Jeremiah 12:17 But if they will not obey, I will  utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.   

Jeremiah 13:1 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a  linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in  water. 

Jeremiah 13:2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the  LORD, and put it on my loins. 

Jeremiah 13:3 And the word of the  LORD came unto me the second time, saying, 

Jeremiah 13:4 Take  the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and  arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.  

Jeremiah 13:5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD  commanded me. 

Jeremiah 13:6 And it came to pass after many  days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates,  and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to  hide there. 

Jeremiah 13:7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged,  and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and,  behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.  

Jeremiah 13:8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,  

Jeremiah 13:9 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar  the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.  

Jeremiah 13:10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words,  which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after  other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even  be as this girdle, which is good for nothing. 

Jeremiah 13:11 For as  the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to  cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole  house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me  for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a  glory: but they would not hear.  

Jeremiah 13:12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word;  Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be  filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not  certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?  

Jeremiah 13:13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the  LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land,  even the kings that sit upon David’s throne, and the priests,  and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with  drunkenness. 

Jeremiah 13:14 And I will dash them one against  another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the  LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but  destroy them.  

Jeremiah 13:15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the  LORD hath spoken. 

Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your  God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble  upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he  turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross  darkness. 

Jeremiah 13:17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall  weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall  weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’S  flock is carried away captive. 

Jeremiah 13:18 Say unto the king and  to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your  principalities shall come down, even the crown of your  glory. 

Jeremiah 13:19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and  none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive  all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive. 

Jeremiah 13:20  Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the  north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy  beautiful flock? 

Jeremiah 13:21 What wilt thou say when he shall  punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains,  and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a  woman in travail?  

Jeremiah 13:22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come  these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are  thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare. 

Jeremiah 13:23  Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?  then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.   

Jeremiah 13:24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that  passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. 

Jeremiah 13:25 This  is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the  LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in  falsehood. 

Jeremiah 13:26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon  thy face, that thy shame may appear. 

Jeremiah 13:27 I have seen  thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy  whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the  fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made  clean? when shall it once be?  

Jeremiah 14:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah  concerning the dearth. 

Jeremiah 14:2 Judah mourneth, and the  gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and  the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 

Jeremiah 14:3 And their nobles  have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the  pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels  empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered  their heads. 

Jeremiah 14:4 Because the ground is chapt, for there  was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they  covered their heads. 

Jeremiah 14:5 Yea, the hind also calved in the  field, and forsook it, because there was no grass. 

Jeremiah 14:6  And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed  up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there  was no grass.   

Jeremiah 14:7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us,  do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are  many; we have sinned against thee. 

Jeremiah 14:8 O the hope of  Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest  thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man  that turneth aside to tarry for a night? 

Jeremiah 14:9 Why  shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that  cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and  we are called by thy name; leave us not.  

Jeremiah 14:10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have  they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet,  therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now  remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. 

Jeremiah 14:11 Then  said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their  good. 

Jeremiah 14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and  when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not  accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by  the famine, and by the pestilence.  

Jeremiah 14:13 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets  say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye  have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.  

Jeremiah 14:14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets  prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I  commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy  unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of  nought, and the deceit of their heart. 

Jeremiah 14:15 Therefore thus  saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in  my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and  famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall  those prophets be consumed. 

Jeremiah 14:16 And the people to  whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of  Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they  shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their  sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness  upon them.  

Jeremiah 14:17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them  not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken  with a great breach, with a very grievous blow. 

Jeremiah 14:18 If I  go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword!  and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick  with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about  into a land that they know not. 

Jeremiah 14:19 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! 

Jeremiah 14:20 We acknowledge, O LORD,  our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we  have sinned against thee. 

Jeremiah 14:21 Do not abhor us, for thy  name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory:  remember, break not thy covenant with us. 

Jeremiah 14:22 Are  there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause  rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O  LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou  hast made all these things.   

Jeremiah 15:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and  Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be  toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them  go forth. 

Jeremiah 15:2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto  thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them,  Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and  such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are  for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the  captivity, to the captivity. 

Jeremiah 15:3 And I will appoint over  them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the  dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of  the earth, to devour and destroy. 

Jeremiah 15:4 And I will cause  them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because  of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that  which he did in Jerusalem. 

Jeremiah 15:5 For who shall have pity  upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who  shall go aside to ask how thou doest? 

Jeremiah 15:6 Thou hast  forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward:  therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and  destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. 

Jeremiah 15:7 And I will  fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave  them of children, I will destroy my people, since they  return not from their ways. 

Jeremiah 15:8 Their widows are  increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought  upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at  noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and  terrors upon the city. 

Jeremiah 15:9 She that hath borne seven  languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone  down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and  confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the  sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.   

Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a  man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I  have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on  usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. 

Jeremiah 15:11 The  LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily  I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of  evil and in the time of affliction. 

Jeremiah 15:12 Shall iron break  the northern iron and the steel? 

Jeremiah 15:13 Thy substance and  thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that  for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. 

Jeremiah 15:14 And I will  make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which  thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger,  which shall burn upon you.  

Jeremiah 15:15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit  me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in  thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered  rebuke. 

Jeremiah 15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them;  and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine  heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.   

Jeremiah 15:17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor  rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled  me with indignation. 

Jeremiah 15:18 Why is my pain perpetual,  and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed?  wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters  that fail?  

Jeremiah 15:19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return,  then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before  me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou  shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return  not thou unto them. 

Jeremiah 15:20 And I will make thee unto this  people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against  thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with  thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 15:21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the  wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the  terrible.  

Jeremiah 16:1 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,  

Jeremiah 16:2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou  have sons or daughters in this place. 

Jeremiah 16:3 For thus saith  the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the  daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their  mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that  begat them in this land; 

Jeremiah 16:4 They shall die of grievous  deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be  buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the  earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by  famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of  heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. 

Jeremiah 16:5 For thus saith  the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go  to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my  peace from this people, saith the LORD, even  lovingkindness and mercies. 

Jeremiah 16:6 Both the great and the  small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither  shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make  themselves bald for them: 

Jeremiah 16:7 Neither shall men tear  themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the  dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation  to drink for their father or for their mother. 

Jeremiah 16:8 Thou  shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them  to eat and to drink. 

Jeremiah 16:9 For thus saith the LORD of  hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of  this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth,  and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and  the voice of the bride.  

Jeremiah 16:10 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?  

Jeremiah 16:11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your  fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked  after other gods, and have served them, and have  worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept  my law; 

Jeremiah 16:12 And ye have done worse than your fathers;  for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his  evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: 

Jeremiah 16:13  Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye  know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye  serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you  favour.  

Jeremiah 16:14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the    

Jeremiah Page 456   LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that  brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;   

Jeremiah 16:15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children  of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands  whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into  their land that I gave unto their fathers.  

Jeremiah 16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the  LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for  many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every  mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the  rocks. 

Jeremiah 16:17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they  are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from  mine eyes. 

Jeremiah 16:18 And first I will recompense their  iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my  land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of  their detestable and abominable things. 

Jeremiah 16:19 O LORD,  my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of  affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends  of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited  lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.  

Jeremiah 16:20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are  no gods? 

Jeremiah 16:21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause  them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my  might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.  

Jeremiah 17:1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron,  and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the  table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;  

Jeremiah 17:2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their  groves by the green trees upon the high hills. 

Jeremiah 17:3 O my  mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy  treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin,  throughout all thy borders. 

Jeremiah 17:4 And thou, even thyself,  shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I  will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which  thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger,  which shall burn for ever.  

Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that  trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart  departeth from the LORD. 

Jeremiah 17:6 For he shall be like the  heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but  shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt  land and not inhabited. 

Jeremiah 17:7 Blessed is the man that  trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 

Jeremiah 17:8  For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that  spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when  heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be  careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from  yielding fruit.  

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and  desperately wicked: who can know it? 

Jeremiah 17:10 I the LORD  search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man  according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his  doings. 

Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and  hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by  right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his  end shall be a fool.  

Jeremiah 17:12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is  the place of our sanctuary. 

Jeremiah 17:13 O LORD, the hope of  Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that  depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they  have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.  

Jeremiah 17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me,  and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.  

Jeremiah 17:15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of  the LORD? let it come now. 

Jeremiah 17:16 As for me, I have not  hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I  desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out  of my lips was right before thee. 

Jeremiah 17:17 Be not a terror  unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil. 

Jeremiah 17:18 Let  them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be  confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be  dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy  them with double destruction.  

Jeremiah 17:19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in  the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of  Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the  gates of Jerusalem; 

Jeremiah 17:20 And say unto them, Hear ye the  word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all  the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:  

Jeremiah 17:21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves,  and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by  the gates of Jerusalem; 

Jeremiah 17:22 Neither carry forth a burden  out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any  work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your  fathers. 

Jeremiah 17:23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their  ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor  receive instruction. 

Jeremiah 17:24 And it shall come to pass, if ye  diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no  burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but  hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein; 

Jeremiah 17:25  Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and  princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots  and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and  the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for  ever. 

Jeremiah 17:26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah,  and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of  Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and  from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and  meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of  praise, unto the house of the LORD. 

Jeremiah 17:27 But if ye will  not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to  bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on  the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof,  and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not  be quenched.  

Jeremiah 18:1 The word which came to 

Jeremiah from the  LORD, saying, 

Jeremiah 18:2 Arise, and go down to the potter’s  house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. 

Jeremiah 18:3  Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he  wrought a work on the wheels. 

Jeremiah 18:4 And the vessel that  he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he  made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter  to make it. 

Jeremiah 18:5 Then the word of the LORD came to  me, saying, 

Jeremiah 18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you  as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in  the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of  Israel. 

Jeremiah 18:7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a  nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull  down, and to destroy it; 

Jeremiah 18:8 If that nation, against  whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent  of the evil that I thought to do unto them. 

Jeremiah 18:9 And at  what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and  concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; 

Jeremiah 18:10 If  it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will  repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.  

Jeremiah 18:11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah,  and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the  LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a  device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. 

Jeremiah 18:12  And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our  own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of  his evil heart. 

Jeremiah 18:13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask  ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the  virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. 

Jeremiah 18:14  Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh  from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters  that come from another place be forsaken? 

Jeremiah 18:15 Because  my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to  vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways  from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not  cast up; 

Jeremiah 18:16 To make their land desolate, and a  perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be  astonished, and wag his head. 

Jeremiah 18:17 I will scatter them as  with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the  back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.   

Jeremiah 18:18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices  against 

Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the  priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the  prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let  us not give heed to any of his words. 

Jeremiah 18:19 Give heed to  me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend  with me. 

Jeremiah 18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for  they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood  before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy  wrath from them. 

Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their  children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the  force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their  children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death;  let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.  

Jeremiah 18:22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou  shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have  digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. 

Jeremiah 18:23  Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to  slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their  sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee;  deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.  

Jeremiah 19:1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter’s  earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and  of the ancients of the priests; 

Jeremiah 19:2 And go forth unto the  valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the  east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,  

Jeremiah 19:3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of  Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD  of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon  this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall  tingle. 

Jeremiah 19:4 Because they have forsaken me, and have  estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto  other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known,  nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the  blood of innocents; 

Jeremiah 19:5 They have built also the high  places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt  offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it,  neither came it into my mind: 

Jeremiah 19:6 Therefore, behold,  the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no  more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of  Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter. 

Jeremiah 19:7 And I will  make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place;  and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their  enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and  their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the  heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. 

Jeremiah 19:8 And I will  make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that  passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all  the plagues thereof. 

Jeremiah 19:9 And I will cause them to eat the  flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they  shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and  straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their  lives, shall straiten them. 

Jeremiah 19:10 Then shalt thou break the  bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, 

Jeremiah 19:11 And  shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so  will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a  potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they  shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.   

Jeremiah 19:12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and  to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as  Tophet: 

Jeremiah 19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the  houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of  Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they  have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have  poured out drink offerings unto other gods. 

Jeremiah 19:14 Then  came 

Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent  him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD’S  house; and said to all the people, 

Jeremiah 19:15 Thus saith the  LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon  this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have  pronounced against it, because they have hardened their  necks, that they might not hear my words.  

Jeremiah 20:1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who  was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard  that 

Jeremiah prophesied these things. 

Jeremiah 20:2 Then Pashur  smote 

Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that  were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the  house of the LORD. 

Jeremiah 20:3 And it came to pass on the  morrow, that Pashur brought forth 

Jeremiah out of the  stocks. Then said 

Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not  called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib. 

Jeremiah 20:4 For  thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to  thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the  sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and  I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon,  and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay  them with the sword. 

Jeremiah 20:5 Moreover I will deliver all the  strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the  precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of  Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall  spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.  

Jeremiah 20:6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house  shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and  there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all  thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.  

Jeremiah 20:7 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was  deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am  in derision daily, every one mocketh me. 

Jeremiah 20:8 For since I  spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the  word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a  derision, daily. 

Jeremiah 20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention  of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was  in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I  was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.  

Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every  side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my  familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he  will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we  shall take our revenge on him. 

Jeremiah 20:11 But the LORD is  with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors  shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be  greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their  everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. 

Jeremiah 20:12 But,  O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the  reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for  unto thee have I opened my cause. 

Jeremiah 20:13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul  of the poor from the hand of evildoers.   

Jeremiah 20:14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not  the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 

Jeremiah 20:15  Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father,  saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very  glad. 

Jeremiah 20:16 And let that man be as the cities which the  LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry  in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; 

Jeremiah 20:17  Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother  might have been my grave, and her womb to be always  great with me. 

Jeremiah 20:18 Wherefore came I forth out of the  womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be  consumed with shame?  

Jeremiah 21:1 The word which came unto 

Jeremiah from the  LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son  of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest,  saying, 

Jeremiah 21:2 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for  Nebuchadnezzar 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. 

Jeremiah 21:3 Then  said 

Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:  

Jeremiah 21:4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will  turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands,  wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and  against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls,  and I will assemble them into the midst of this city. 

Jeremiah 21:5  And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched  hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and  in great wrath. 

Jeremiah 21:6 And I will smite the inhabitants of  this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great  pestilence. 

Jeremiah 21:7 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will  deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the  people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence,  from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of  Nebuchadnezzar 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.  

Jeremiah 21:8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the  LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the  way of death. 

Jeremiah 21:9 He that abideth in this city shall die by  the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he  that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you,  he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.  

Jeremiah 21:10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and  not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand  of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.  

Jeremiah 21:11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, say,  Hear ye the word of the LORD; 

Jeremiah 21:12 O house of David,  thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and  deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the  oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none  can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. 

Jeremiah 21:13  Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and  rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall  come down against us? or who shall enter into our  habitations? 

Jeremiah 21:14 But I will punish you according to the  fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire  in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round  about it.  

Jeremiah 22:1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the  king of Judah, and speak there this word, 

Jeremiah 22:2 And say,  Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest  upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy  people that enter in by these gates: 

Jeremiah 22:3 Thus saith the  LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver  the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no  wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the  widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. 

Jeremiah 22:4  For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the  gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David,  riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and  his people. 

Jeremiah 22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I  swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall  become a desolation. 

Jeremiah 22:6 For thus saith the LORD unto  the king’s house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and  the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a  wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited. 

Jeremiah 22:7  And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with  his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and  cast them into the fire. 

Jeremiah 22:8 And many nations shall  pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his  neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this  great city? 

Jeremiah 22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they  have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and  worshipped other gods, and served them.   

Jeremiah 22:10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him:  but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return  no more, nor see his native country. 

Jeremiah 22:11 For thus saith  the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of  Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which  went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any  more: 

Jeremiah 22:12 But he shall die in the place whither they  have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.  

Jeremiah 22:13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by  unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth  his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not  for his work; 

Jeremiah 22:14 That saith, I will build me a wide  house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows;  and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.  

Jeremiah 22:15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in  cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and  justice, and then it was well with him? 

Jeremiah 22:16 He  judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well  with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 22:17 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy  covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for  oppression, and for violence, to do it. 

Jeremiah 22:18 Therefore  thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of  Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him,  saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament  for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! 

Jeremiah 22:19 He  shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast  forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.  

Jeremiah 22:20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice  in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are  destroyed. 

Jeremiah 22:21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but  thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner  from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. 

Jeremiah 22:22  The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go  into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and  confounded for all thy wickedness. 

Jeremiah 22:23 O inhabitant of  Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious  shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a  woman in travail! 

Jeremiah 22:24 As I live, saith the LORD,  though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the  signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;  

Jeremiah 22:25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek  thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and  into the hand of the Chaldeans. 

Jeremiah 22:26 And I will cast thee  out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country,  where ye were not born; and there shall ye die. 

Jeremiah 22:27 But  to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they  not return. 

Jeremiah 22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken  idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore  are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land  which they know not? 

Jeremiah 22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear  the word of the LORD. 

Jeremiah 22:30 Thus saith the LORD,  Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in  his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon  the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.   

Jeremiah 23:1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter  the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 23:2 Therefore  thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that  feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven  them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit  upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 23:3  And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all  countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them  again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.  

Jeremiah 23:4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall  feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed,  neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will  raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign  and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the  earth. 

Jeremiah 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel  shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall  be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

Jeremiah 23:7  Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they  shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the  children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 

Jeremiah 23:8 But, The  LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of  the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all  countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in  their own land.  

Jeremiah 23:9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the  prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and  like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the  LORD, and because of the words of his holiness. 

Jeremiah 23:10  For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the  land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are  dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not  right. 

Jeremiah 23:11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea,  in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 23:12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery  ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall  therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of  their visitation, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 23:13 And I have seen  folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal,  and caused my people Israel to err. 

Jeremiah 23:14 I have seen also  in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit  adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of  evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they  are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants  thereof as Gomorrah. 

Jeremiah 23:15 Therefore thus saith the  LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed  them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of  gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone  forth into all the land. 

Jeremiah 23:16 Thus saith the LORD of  hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that  prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision  of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.  

Jeremiah 23:17 They say still unto them that despise me, The  LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto  every one that walketh after the imagination of his own  heart, No evil shall come upon you. 

Jeremiah 23:18 For who hath  stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and  heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?  

Jeremiah 23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in  fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously  upon the head of the wicked. 

Jeremiah 23:20 The anger of the  LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he  have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days  ye shall consider it perfectly. 

Jeremiah 23:21 I have not sent these  prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they  prophesied. 

Jeremiah 23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel,  and had caused my people to hear my words, then they  should have turned them from their evil way, and from the  evil of their doings. 

Jeremiah 23:23 Am I a God at hand, saith the  LORD, and not a God afar off? 

Jeremiah 23:24 Can any hide  himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the  LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.   

Jeremiah 23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy  lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.  

Jeremiah 23:26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets  that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of  their own heart; 

Jeremiah 23:27 Which think to cause my people to  forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man  to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name  for Baal. 

Jeremiah 23:28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell  a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word  faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 23:29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD;  and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?  

Jeremiah 23:30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets,  saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his  neighbour. 

Jeremiah 23:31 Behold, I am against the prophets,  saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.  

Jeremiah 23:32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false  dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my  people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent  them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not  profit this people at all, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 23:33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest,  shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD?  thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even  forsake you, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 23:34 And as for the  prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The  burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his  house. 

Jeremiah 23:35 Thus shall ye say every one to his  neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the  LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken?  

Jeremiah 23:36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no  more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have  perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts  our God. 

Jeremiah 23:37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What  hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD  spoken? 

Jeremiah 23:38 But since ye say, The burden of the  LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this  word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you,  saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD; 

Jeremiah 23:39  Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I  will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your  fathers, and cast you out of my presence: 

Jeremiah 23:40 And I  will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual  shame, which shall not be forgotten.  

Jeremiah 24:1 The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets  of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive  Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the    

Jeremiah Page 460   princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from  Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 

Jeremiah 24:2 One  basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are  first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs,  which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 

Jeremiah 24:3 Then  said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, 

Jeremiah? And I  said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil,  that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.   

Jeremiah 24:4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me,  saying, 

Jeremiah 24:5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel;  Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are  carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this  place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good. 

Jeremiah 24:6  For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will  bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not  pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck  them up. 

Jeremiah 24:7 And I will give them an heart to know  me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and  I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their  whole heart.  

Jeremiah 24:8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they  are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give  Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue  of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell  in the land of Egypt: 

Jeremiah 24:9 And I will deliver them to be  removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt,  to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all  places whither I shall drive them. 

Jeremiah 24:10 And I will send  the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till  they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them  and to their fathers.  

Jeremiah 25:1 The word that came to 

Jeremiah concerning all the  people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of  Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; 

Jeremiah 25:2 The which  

Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and  to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, 

Jeremiah 25:3 From the  thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah,  even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the  word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken  unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not  hearkened. 

Jeremiah 25:4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his  servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but  ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear. 

Jeremiah 25:5  They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way,  and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that  the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever  and ever: 

Jeremiah 25:6 And go not after other gods to serve them,  and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the  works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. 

Jeremiah 25:7 Yet  ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye  might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to  your own hurt.  

Jeremiah 25:8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because  ye have not heard my words, 

Jeremiah 25:9 Behold, I will send and  take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and  Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will  bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants  thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will  utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and  an hissing, and perpetual desolations. 

Jeremiah 25:10 Moreover I  will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of  gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the  bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the  candle. 

Jeremiah 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation,  and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the  king of Babylon seventy years.   

Jeremiah 25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are  accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and  that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land  of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.  

Jeremiah 25:13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which  I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this  book, which 

Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the  nations. 

Jeremiah 25:14 For many nations and great kings shall  serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them  according to their deeds, and according to the works of their  own hands.  

Jeremiah 25:15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me;  Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the  nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. 

Jeremiah 25:16 And they  shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the  sword that I will send among them. 

Jeremiah 25:17 Then took I the  cup at the LORD’S hand, and made all the nations to drink,  unto whom the LORD had sent me: 

Jeremiah 25:18 To wit,  Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof,  and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an  astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;  

Jeremiah 25:19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his  princes, and all his people; 

Jeremiah 25:20 And all the mingled  people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings  of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and  Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, 

Jeremiah 25:21 Edom, and  Moab, and the children of Ammon, 

Jeremiah 25:22 And all the  kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of  the isles which are beyond the sea, 

Jeremiah 25:23 Dedan, and  Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,  

Jeremiah 25:24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the  mingled people that dwell in the desert, 

Jeremiah 25:25 And all the  kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings  of the Medes, 

Jeremiah 25:26 And all the kings of the north, far  and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the  world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king  of Sheshach shall drink after them. 

Jeremiah 25:27 Therefore thou  shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God  of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and  rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among  you. 

Jeremiah 25:28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at  thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus  saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink. 

Jeremiah 25:29  For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by  my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not  be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the  inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts. 

Jeremiah 25:30  Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and  say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter  his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar  upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread  the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. 

Jeremiah 25:31  A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the  LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead  with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the  sword, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 25:32 Thus saith the LORD of  hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and  a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the  earth. 

Jeremiah 25:33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that  day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of  the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor  buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.  

Jeremiah 25:34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow  yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are  accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.   

Jeremiah 25:35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor  the principal of the flock to escape. 

Jeremiah 25:36 A voice of the  cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the  flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their  pasture. 

Jeremiah 25:37 And the peaceable habitations are cut  down because of the fierce anger of the LORD. 

Jeremiah 25:38 He  hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is  desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and  because of his fierce anger.  

Jeremiah 26:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son  of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD,  saying, 

Jeremiah 26:2 Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of  the LORD’S house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah,  which come to worship in the LORD’S house, all the words  that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a  word: 

Jeremiah 26:3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man  from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I  purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.  

Jeremiah 26:4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD;  If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I  have set before you, 

Jeremiah 26:5 To hearken to the words of my  servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up  early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;  

Jeremiah 26:6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will  make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. 

Jeremiah 26:7  So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard  

Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.  

Jeremiah 26:8 Now it came to pass, when 

Jeremiah had made an  end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to  speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets  and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.  

Jeremiah 26:9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD,  saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be  desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were  gathered against 

Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.  

Jeremiah 26:10 When the princes of Judah heard these things,  then they came up from the king’s house unto the house of  the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the  LORD’S house. 

Jeremiah 26:11 Then spake the priests and the  prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This  man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this  city, as ye have heard with your ears.  

Jeremiah 26:12 Then spake 

Jeremiah unto all the princes and to  all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy  against this house and against this city all the words that ye  have heard. 

Jeremiah 26:13 Therefore now amend your ways and  your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God;  and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath  pronounced against you. 

Jeremiah 26:14 As for me, behold, I am  in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto  you. 

Jeremiah 26:15 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to  death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves,  and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a  truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these  words in your ears.  

Jeremiah 26:16 Then said the princes and all the people unto the  priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die:  for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.  

Jeremiah 26:17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and  spake to all the assembly of the people, saying, 

Jeremiah 26:18  Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah  king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying,  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a  field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain  of the house as the high places of a forest. 

Jeremiah 26:19 Did  Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to  death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD,  and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had  pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil  against our souls. 

Jeremiah 26:20 And there was also a man that  prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of  Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, who prophesied against this  city and against this land according to all the words of  

Jeremiah: 

Jeremiah 26:21 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all  his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the  king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it,  he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt; 

Jeremiah 26:22 And  Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan  the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.   

Jeremiah 26:23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and  brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with  the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the  common people. 

Jeremiah 26:24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam  the son of Shaphan was with 

Jeremiah, that they should not  give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.  

Jeremiah 27:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son  of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto 

Jeremiah from  the LORD, saying, 

Jeremiah 27:2 Thus saith the LORD to me;  Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,  

Jeremiah 27:3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king  of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king  of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the  messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of  Judah; 

Jeremiah 27:4 And command them to say unto their  masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;  Thus shall ye say unto your masters; 

Jeremiah 27:5 I have made the  earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by  my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have  given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me. 

Jeremiah 27:6 And  now have I given all these lands into the hand of  Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the  beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.  

Jeremiah 27:7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his  son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then  many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.  

Jeremiah 27:8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and  kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the  king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the  yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith  the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with  the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.  

Jeremiah 27:9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to  your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters,  nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye  shall not serve the king of Babylon: 

Jeremiah 27:10 For they  prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land;  and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.  

Jeremiah 27:11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke  of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let  remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they  shall till it, and dwell therein.  

Jeremiah 27:12 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according  to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke  of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and  live. 

Jeremiah 27:13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the  sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD  hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of  Babylon? 

Jeremiah 27:14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of  the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve    

Jeremiah Page 462   the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.   

Jeremiah 27:15 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they  prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and  that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto  you. 

Jeremiah 27:16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this  people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the  words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying,  Behold, the vessels of the LORD’S house shall now shortly  be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto  you. 

Jeremiah 27:17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of  Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?  

Jeremiah 27:18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of the  LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the  LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house  of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at  Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.  

Jeremiah 27:19 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the  pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases,  and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this  city, 

Jeremiah 27:20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took  not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of  Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all  the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; 

Jeremiah 27:21 Yea, thus saith  the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the  vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the  house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem; 

Jeremiah 27:22 They  shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the  day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them  up, and restore them to this place.  

Jeremiah 28:1 And it came to pass the same year, in the  beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the  fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son  of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me  in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and  of all the people, saying, 

Jeremiah 28:2 Thus speaketh the LORD  of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke  of the king of Babylon. 

Jeremiah 28:3 Within two full years will I  bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD’S  house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away  from this place, and carried them to Babylon: 

Jeremiah 28:4 And I  will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim  king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into  Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the  king of Babylon.  

Jeremiah 28:5 Then the prophet 

Jeremiah said unto the prophet  Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence  of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD,  

Jeremiah 28:6 Even the prophet 

Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD  do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast  prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD’S  house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon  into this place. 

Jeremiah 28:7 Nevertheless hear thou now this  word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the  people; 

Jeremiah 28:8 The prophets that have been before me and  before thee of old prophesied both against many countries,  and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of  pestilence. 

Jeremiah 28:9 The prophet which prophesieth of peace,  when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then  shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent  him.  

Jeremiah 28:10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from  off the prophet 

Jeremiah’s neck, and brake it. 

Jeremiah 28:11 And  Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying,  Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all  nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet  Jeremiah went his way.   

Jeremiah 28:12 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah  the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken  the yoke from off the neck of the prophet 

Jeremiah, saying,  

Jeremiah 28:13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the  LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt  make for them yokes of iron. 

Jeremiah 28:14 For thus saith the  LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron  upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him:  and I have given him the beasts of the field also.  

Jeremiah 28:15 Then said the prophet 

Jeremiah unto Hananiah  the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent  thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie. 

Jeremiah 28:16  Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee  from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die,  because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.  

Jeremiah 28:17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the  seventh month.  

Jeremiah 29:1 Now these are the words of the letter that  

Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue  of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the  priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom  Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem  to Babylon; 

Jeremiah 29:2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the  queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem,  and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from  Jerusalem;) 

Jeremiah 29:3 By the hand of Elasah the son of  Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom  Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying, 

Jeremiah 29:4 Thus  saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are  carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried  away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; 

Jeremiah 29:5 Build ye  houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the  fruit of them; 

Jeremiah 29:6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and  daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your  daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and  daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not  diminished. 

Jeremiah 29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I  have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto  the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.  

Jeremiah 29:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of  Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in  the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your  dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. 

Jeremiah 29:9 For they  prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them,  saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years  be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform  my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this  place. 

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward  you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to  give you an expected end. 

Jeremiah 29:12 Then shall ye call upon  me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken  unto you. 

Jeremiah 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me,  when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 

Jeremiah 29:14  And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn  away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the  nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you,  saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place  whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

Jeremiah 29:15 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us  up prophets in Babylon; 

Jeremiah 29:16 Know that thus saith the  LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and  of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your  brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;  

Jeremiah 29:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send  upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and  will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are  so evil. 

Jeremiah 29:18 And I will persecute them with the sword,  with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver  them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a  curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach,  among all the nations whither I have driven them: 

Jeremiah 29:19  Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the  LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets,  rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear,  saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 29:20 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye  of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to  Babylon: 

Jeremiah 29:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of  Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son  of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name;  Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar  king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;  

Jeremiah 29:22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the  captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The  LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the  king of Babylon roasted in the fire; 

Jeremiah 29:23 Because they  have committed villany in Israel, and have committed  adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken  lying words in my name, which I have not commanded  them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 29:24 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the  Nehelamite, saying, 

Jeremiah 29:25 Thus speaketh the LORD of  hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent  letters in thy name unto all the people that are at  Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest,  and to all the priests, saying, 

Jeremiah 29:26 The LORD hath made  thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should  be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that  is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest  put him in prison, and in the stocks. 

Jeremiah 29:27 Now therefore  why hast thou not reproved 

Jeremiah of Anathoth, which  maketh himself a prophet to you? 

Jeremiah 29:28 For therefore he  sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long:  build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and  eat the fruit of them. 

Jeremiah 29:29 And Zephaniah the priest read  this letter in the ears of 

Jeremiah the prophet.  

Jeremiah 29:30 Then came the word of the LORD unto 

Jeremiah,  saying, 

Jeremiah 29:31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying,  Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite;  Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent  him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie: 

Jeremiah 29:32  Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish  Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a  man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the  good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because  he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.  

Jeremiah 30:1 The word that came to 

Jeremiah from the LORD,  saying, 

Jeremiah 30:2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel,  saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee  in a book. 

Jeremiah 30:3 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD,  that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and  Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to  the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.  

Jeremiah 30:4 And these are the words that the LORD spake  concerning Israel and concerning Judah. 

Jeremiah 30:5 For thus  saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of  fear, and not of peace. 

Jeremiah 30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether  a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man  with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all  faces are turned into paleness? 

Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is  great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s  trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. 

Jeremiah 30:8 For it shall  come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I  will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy  bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:  

Jeremiah 30:9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David  their king, whom I will raise up unto them.  

Jeremiah 30:10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob,  saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will  save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their  captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be  quiet, and none shall make him afraid. 

Jeremiah 30:11 For I am  with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a  full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will  I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in  measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.  

Jeremiah 30:12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable,  and thy wound is grievous. 

Jeremiah 30:13 There is none to  plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no  healing medicines. 

Jeremiah 30:14 All thy lovers have forgotten  thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the  wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one,  for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were  increased. 

Jeremiah 30:15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy  sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity:  because thy sins were increased, I have done these things  unto thee. 

Jeremiah 30:16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall  be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them,  shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a  spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.  

Jeremiah 30:17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal  thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called  thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man  seeketh after.  

Jeremiah 30:18 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again  the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his  dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own  heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.  

Jeremiah 30:19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the  voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them,  and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they  shall not be small. 

Jeremiah 30:20 Their children also shall be as  aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before  me, and I will punish all that oppress them. 

Jeremiah 30:21 And  their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall  proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to  draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this  that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the  LORD. 

Jeremiah 30:22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be  your God. 

Jeremiah 30:23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD  goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall  with pain upon the head of the wicked. 

Jeremiah 30:24 The fierce  anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it,  and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the  latter days ye shall consider it.  

Jeremiah 31:1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the  God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my  people. 

Jeremiah 31:2 Thus saith the LORD, The people which  were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even    

Jeremiah Page 464   Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. 

Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD  hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved  thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness  have I drawn thee. 

Jeremiah 31:4 Again I will build thee, and thou  shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned  with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them  that make merry. 

Jeremiah 31:5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the  mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat  them as common things. 

Jeremiah 31:6 For there shall be a day,  that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry,  Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.   

Jeremiah 31:7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for  Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye,  praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant  of Israel. 

Jeremiah 31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north  country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and  with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and  her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall  return thither. 

Jeremiah 31:9 They shall come with weeping, and  with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to  walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they  shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim  is my firstborn.  

Jeremiah 31:10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and  declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered  Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth  his flock. 

Jeremiah 31:11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and  ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than  he. 

Jeremiah 31:12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the  height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of  the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the  young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as  a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.  

Jeremiah 31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both  young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning  into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice  from their sorrow. 

Jeremiah 31:14 And I will satiate the soul of the  priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with  my goodness, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 31:15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in  Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping  for her children refused to be comforted for her children,  because they were not. 

Jeremiah 31:16 Thus saith the LORD;  Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears:  for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they  shall come again from the land of the enemy. 

Jeremiah 31:17 And  there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children  shall come again to their own border.  

Jeremiah 31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself  thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a  bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I  shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God. 

Jeremiah 31:19  Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I  was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed,  yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of  my youth. 

Jeremiah 31:20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a  pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly  remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for  him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 31:21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set  thine heart toward the highway, even the way which  thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to  these thy cities.  

Jeremiah 31:22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding  daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the  earth, A woman shall compass a man. 

Jeremiah 31:23 Thus saith  the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use  this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof,  when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless  thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.   

Jeremiah 31:24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the  cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth  with flocks. 

Jeremiah 31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and  I have replenished every sorrowful soul. 

Jeremiah 31:26 Upon this  I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.  

Jeremiah 31:27 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I  will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the  seed of man, and with the seed of beast. 

Jeremiah 31:28 And it  shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them,  to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to  destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build,  and to plant, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 31:29 In those days they  shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and  the children’s teeth are set on edge. 

Jeremiah 31:30 But every one  shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour  grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.  

Jeremiah 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I  will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with  the house of Judah: 

Jeremiah 31:32 Not according to the covenant  that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them  by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which  my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto  them, saith the LORD: 

Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the  covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After  those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their  inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their  God, and they shall be my people. 

Jeremiah 31:34 And they shall  teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his  brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know  me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith  the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will  remember their sin no more.  

Jeremiah 31:35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a  light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the  stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the  waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:  

Jeremiah 31:36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the  LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being  a nation before me for ever. 

Jeremiah 31:37 Thus saith the LORD;  If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of  the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the  seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 31:38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the  city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel  unto the gate of the corner. 

Jeremiah 31:39 And the measuring line  shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and  shall compass about to Goath. 

Jeremiah 31:40 And the whole  valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields  unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate  toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not  be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.  

Jeremiah 32:1 The word that came to 

Jeremiah from the LORD  in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the  eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. 

Jeremiah 32:2 For then the  king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and 

Jeremiah  the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which  was in the king of Judah’s house. 

Jeremiah 32:3 For Zedekiah  king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou  prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will    Page 465 

Jeremiah   give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he  shall take it; 

Jeremiah 32:4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not  escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be  delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall  speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold  his eyes; 

Jeremiah 32:5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon,  and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD:  though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?   

Jeremiah 32:6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came  unto me, saying, 

Jeremiah 32:7 Behold, Hanameel the son of  Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee  my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption  is thine to buy it. 

Jeremiah 32:8 So Hanameel mine uncle’s son  came to me in the court of the prison according to the word  of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee,  that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin:  for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is  thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the  word of the LORD. 

Jeremiah 32:9 And I bought the field of  Hanameel my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and  weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.  

Jeremiah 32:10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and  took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the  balances. 

Jeremiah 32:11 So I took the evidence of the purchase,  both that which was sealed according to the law and  custom, and that which was open: 

Jeremiah 32:12 And I gave the  evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the  son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle’s  son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed  the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the  court of the prison.  

Jeremiah 32:13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,  

Jeremiah 32:14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;  Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both  which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put  them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many  days. 

Jeremiah 32:15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of  Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed  again in this land.  

Jeremiah 32:16 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the  purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the  LORD, saying, 

Jeremiah 32:17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast  made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and  stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:  

Jeremiah 32:18 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, 

Jeremiah 32:19 Great in counsel,  and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the  ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his  ways, and according to the fruit of his doings: 

Jeremiah 32:20  Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,  even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men;  and hast made thee a name, as at this day; 

Jeremiah 32:21 And hast  brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with  signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a  stretched out arm, and with great terror; 

Jeremiah 32:22 And hast  given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers  to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; 

Jeremiah 32:23  And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy  voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of  all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast  caused all this evil to come upon them: 

Jeremiah 32:24 Behold the  mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is  given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it,  because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the  pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and,  behold, thou seest it. 

Jeremiah 32:25 And thou hast said unto me,  O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take  witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the  Chaldeans.   

Jeremiah 32:26 Then came the word of the LORD unto 

Jeremiah,  saying, 

Jeremiah 32:27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all  flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? 

Jeremiah 32:28 Therefore  thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the  hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar  king of Babylon, and he shall take it: 

Jeremiah 32:29 And the  Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set  fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose  roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out  drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.  

Jeremiah 32:30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah  have only done evil before me from their youth: for the  children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the  work of their hands, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 32:31 For this city  hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my  fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I  should remove it from before my face, 

Jeremiah 32:32 Because of  all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of  Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they,  their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,  and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.  

Jeremiah 32:33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the  face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching  them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.  

Jeremiah 32:34 But they set their abominations in the house, which  is called by my name, to defile it. 

Jeremiah 32:35 And they built  the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son  of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass  through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them  not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this  abomination, to cause Judah to sin.  

Jeremiah 32:36 And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God  of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be  delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword,  and by the famine, and by the pestilence; 

Jeremiah 32:37 Behold, I  will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven  them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and  I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause  them to dwell safely: 

Jeremiah 32:38 And they shall be my people,  and I will be their God: 

Jeremiah 32:39 And I will give them one  heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the  good of them, and of their children after them: 

Jeremiah 32:40 And  I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will  not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my  fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.  

Jeremiah 32:41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and  I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart  and with my whole soul. 

Jeremiah 32:42 For thus saith the LORD;  Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so  will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised  them. 

Jeremiah 32:43 And fields shall be bought in this land,  whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is  given into the hand of the Chaldeans. 

Jeremiah 32:44 Men shall  buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal  them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in  the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in  the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley,  and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity  to return, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 33:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto  Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in thecourt of the prison, saying, 

Jeremiah 33:2 Thus saith the LORD the  maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the  LORD is his name; 

Jeremiah 33:3 Call unto me, and I will  answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which  thou knowest not. 

Jeremiah 33:4 For thus saith the LORD, the God  of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning  the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by  the mounts, and by the sword; 

Jeremiah 33:5 They come to fight  with the Chaldeans, but it is 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. 

Jeremiah 33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I  will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of  peace and truth. 

Jeremiah 33:7 And I will cause the captivity of  Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build  them, as at the first. 

Jeremiah 33:8 And I will cleanse them from all  their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I  will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned,  and whereby they have transgressed against me.   

Jeremiah 33:9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and  an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall  hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and  tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I  procure unto it. 

Jeremiah 33:10 Thus saith the LORD; Again there  shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate  without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah,  and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without  man, and without inhabitant, and without beast, 

Jeremiah 33:11  The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the  bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them  that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is  good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that  shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the  LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as  at the first, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 33:12 Thus saith the LORD  of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man  and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an  habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.  

Jeremiah 33:13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the  vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of  Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the  cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands  of him that telleth them, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 33:14 Behold,  the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that  good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel  and to the house of Judah.  

Jeremiah 33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the  Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he  shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.  

Jeremiah 33:16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem  shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she  shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.  

Jeremiah 33:17 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want  a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel; 

Jeremiah 33:18  Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me  to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to  do sacrifice continually.  

Jeremiah 33:19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah,  saying, 

Jeremiah 33:20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my  covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that  there should not be day and night in their season; 

Jeremiah 33:21  Then may also my covenant be broken with David my  servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his  throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.  

Jeremiah 33:22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither  the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of  David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.   

Jeremiah 33:23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to 

Jeremiah, saying, 

Jeremiah 33:24 Considerest thou not what this  people have spoken, saying, The two families which the  LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they  have despised my people, that they should be no more a  nation before them. 

Jeremiah 33:25 Thus saith the LORD; If my  covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not  appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 

Jeremiah 33:26 Then  will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so  that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the  seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their  captivity to return, and have mercy on them.  

Jeremiah 34:1 The word which came unto 

Jeremiah from the  LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his  army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion,  and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all  the cities thereof, saying, 

Jeremiah 34:2 Thus saith the LORD, the  God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and  tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city  into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it  with fire: 

Jeremiah 34:3 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand,  but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and  thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and  he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go  to Babylon. 

Jeremiah 34:4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O  Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou  shalt not die by the sword: 

Jeremiah 34:5 But thou shalt die in  peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings  which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee;  and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have  pronounced the word, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 34:6 Then  Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah  king of Judah in Jerusalem, 

Jeremiah 34:7 When the king of  Babylon’s army fought against Jerusalem, and against all  the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and  against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the  cities of Judah.  

Jeremiah 34:8 This is the word that came unto 

Jeremiah from  the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a  covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to  proclaim liberty unto them; 

Jeremiah 34:9 That every man should  let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being  an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve  himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother. 

Jeremiah 34:10 Now  when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered  into the covenant, heard that every one should let his  manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that  none should serve themselves of them any more, then they  obeyed, and let them go. 

Jeremiah 34:11 But afterward they  turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom  they had let go free, to return, and brought them into  subjection for servants and for handmaids.  

Jeremiah 34:12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to  Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 

Jeremiah 34:13 Thus saith the  LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your  fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of  Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying, 

Jeremiah 34:14 At the  end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an  Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath  served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee:  but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined  their ear. 

Jeremiah 34:15 And ye were now turned, and had done  right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his  neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the    house which is called by my name: 

Jeremiah 34:16 But ye turned  and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant,  and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at  their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection,  to be unto you for servants and for handmaids. 

Jeremiah 34:17  Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto  me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and  every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for  you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to  the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the  kingdoms of the earth. 

Jeremiah 34:18 And I will give the men that  have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed  the words of the covenant which they had made before me,  when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the  parts thereof, 

Jeremiah 34:19 The princes of Judah, and the princes  of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people  of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;   

Jeremiah 34:20 I will even give them into the hand of their  enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and  their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the  heaven, and to the beasts of the earth. 

Jeremiah 34:21 And  Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the  hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek  their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army,  which are gone up from you. 

Jeremiah 34:22 Behold, I will  command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this  city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it  with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation  without an inhabitant.  

Jeremiah 35:1 The word which came unto 

Jeremiah from the  LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of  Judah, saying, 

Jeremiah 35:2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites,  and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the  LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to  drink. 

Jeremiah 35:3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the  son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and  the whole house of the Rechabites; 

Jeremiah 35:4 And I brought  them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the  sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which  was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the  chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the  door: 

Jeremiah 35:5 And I set before the sons of the house of the  Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them,  Drink ye wine. 

Jeremiah 35:6 But they said, We will drink no  wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded  us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your  sons for ever: 

Jeremiah 35:7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow  seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days  ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the  land where ye be strangers. 

Jeremiah 35:8 Thus have we obeyed  the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that  he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our  wives, our sons, nor our daughters; 

Jeremiah 35:9 Nor to build  houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor  field, nor seed: 

Jeremiah 35:10 But we have dwelt in tents, and  have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our  father commanded us. 

Jeremiah 35:11 But it came to pass, when  Nebuchadnezzar 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.  

Jeremiah 35:12 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah,  saying, 

Jeremiah 35:13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of  Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of  Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my  words? saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 35:14 The words of Jonadab the  son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink  wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but  obey their father’s commandment: notwithstanding I have  spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye  hearkened not unto me. 

Jeremiah 35:15 I have sent also unto you  all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending  them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way,  and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve  them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to  you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear,  nor hearkened unto me. 

Jeremiah 35:16 Because the sons of  Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the  commandment of their father, which he commanded them;  but this people hath not hearkened unto me: 

Jeremiah 35:17  Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of  Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the  inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced  against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they  have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have  not answered.   

Jeremiah 35:18 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the  Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of  Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of  Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done  according unto all that he hath commanded you: 

Jeremiah 35:19  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;  Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand  before me for ever.  

Jeremiah 36:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of  Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word  came unto 

Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 

Jeremiah 36:2 Take  thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I  have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and  against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from  the days of Josiah, even into this day. 

Jeremiah 36:3 It may be that  the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to  do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil  way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin. 

Jeremiah 36:4  Then 

Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch  wrote from the mouth of 

Jeremiah all the words of the  LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a  book. 

Jeremiah 36:5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I  am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:  

Jeremiah 36:6 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou  hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the  ears of the people in the LORD’S house upon the fasting  day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah  that come out of their cities. 

Jeremiah 36:7 It may be they will  present their supplication before the LORD, and will return  every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the  fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.  

Jeremiah 36:8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all  that 

Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the  book the words of the LORD in the LORD’S house. 

Jeremiah 36:9  And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of  Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they  proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in  Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of  Judah unto Jerusalem. 

Jeremiah 36:10 Then read Baruch in the  book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in  the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in  the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD’S  house, in the ears of all the people.  

Jeremiah 36:11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of  Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the  LORD, 

Jeremiah 36:12 Then he went down into the king’s house,  into the scribe’s chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there,   even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of  Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah  the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and  all the princes. 

Jeremiah 36:13 Then Michaiah declared unto them  all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book  in the ears of the people. 

Jeremiah 36:14 Therefore all the princes  sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the  son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the  roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and  come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand,  and came unto them. 

Jeremiah 36:15 And they said unto him, Sit  down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in  their ears. 

Jeremiah 36:16 Now it came to pass, when they had  heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other,  and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all  these words. 

Jeremiah 36:17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell  us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?   

Jeremiah 36:18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all  these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them  with ink in the book. 

Jeremiah 36:19 Then said the princes unto  Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and 

Jeremiah; and let no man  know where ye be.  

Jeremiah 36:20 And they went in to the king into the court, but  they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe,  and told all the words in the ears of the king. 

Jeremiah 36:21 So the  king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of  Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi read it in the  ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which  stood beside the king. 

Jeremiah 36:22 Now the king sat in the  winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on  the hearth burning before him. 

Jeremiah 36:23 And it came to pass,  that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it  with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the  hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was  on the hearth. 

Jeremiah 36:24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent  their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants  that heard all these words. 

Jeremiah 36:25 Nevertheless Elnathan  and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the  king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear  them. 

Jeremiah 36:26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son  of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and  Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and  Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.  

Jeremiah 36:27 Then the word of the LORD came to 

Jeremiah,  after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which  Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, 

Jeremiah 36:28  Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former  words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king  of Judah hath burned. 

Jeremiah 36:29 And thou shalt say to  Jehoiakim the 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? 

Jeremiah 36:30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of  Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the  throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the  day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. 

Jeremiah 36:31 And I  will punish him and his seed and his servants for their  iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the  inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the  evil that I have pronounced against them; but they  hearkened not.  

Jeremiah 36:32 Then took 

Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to  Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein  from the mouth of 

Jeremiah all the words of the book which  Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there  were added besides unto them many like words.   

Jeremiah 37:1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned  instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom  Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of  Judah. 

Jeremiah 37:2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the  people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the  LORD, which he spake by the prophet 

Jeremiah. 

Jeremiah 37:3  And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah  and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet  Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.  

Jeremiah 37:4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the  people: for they had not put him into prison. 

Jeremiah 37:5 Then  Pharaoh’s army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the  Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them,  they departed from Jerusalem.  

Jeremiah 37:6 Then came the word of the LORD unto the  prophet Jeremiah, saying, 

Jeremiah 37:7 Thus saith the LORD, the  God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that  sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh’s army,  which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into  their own land. 

Jeremiah 37:8 And the Chaldeans shall come again,  and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.  

Jeremiah 37:9 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves,  saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they  shall not depart. 

Jeremiah 37:10 For though ye had smitten the  whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and  there remained but wounded men among them, yet  should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city  with fire.  

Jeremiah 37:11 And it came to pass, that when the army of the  Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of  Pharaoh’s army, 

Jeremiah 37:12 Then 

Jeremiah went forth out of  Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate  himself thence in the midst of the people. 

Jeremiah 37:13 And  when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward  was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah,  the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet,  saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans. 

Jeremiah 37:14 Then  said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans.  But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took 

Jeremiah, and  brought him to the princes. 

Jeremiah 37:15 Wherefore the princes  were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in  prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had  made that the prison.  

Jeremiah 37:16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon,  and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many  days; 

Jeremiah 37:17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him  out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said,  Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said,  There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand  of the king of Babylon. 

Jeremiah 37:18 Moreover Jeremiah said  unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or  against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put  me in prison? 

Jeremiah 37:19 Where are now your prophets  which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon  shall not come against you, nor against this land? 

Jeremiah 37:20  Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my  supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou  cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe,  lest I die there. 

Jeremiah 37:21 Then Zedekiah the king  commanded that they should commit 

Jeremiah into the  court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a  piece of bread out of the bakers street, until all the bread in  the city were spent. Thus 

Jeremiah remained in the court of  the prison. 

Jeremiah 38:1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah  the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and  Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that 

Jeremiah  had spoken unto all the people, saying, 

Jeremiah 38:2 Thus saith  the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the  sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that  goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his  life for a prey, and shall live. 

Jeremiah 38:3 Thus saith the LORD,  This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of  Babylon’s army, which shall take it. 

Jeremiah 38:4 Therefore the  princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be  put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of  war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people,  in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not  the welfare of this people, but the hurt. 

Jeremiah 38:5 Then  Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the  king is not he that can do any thing against you. 

Jeremiah 38:6  Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of  Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of  the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in  the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so 

Jeremiah  sunk in the mire.  

Jeremiah 38:7 Now when Ebed-melech 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; 

Jeremiah 38:8 Ebed-melech went forth out of the  king’s house, and spake to the king, saying, 

Jeremiah 38:9 My lord  the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done  to 

Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the  dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where  he is: for there is no more bread in the city. 

Jeremiah 38:10 Then  the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying,  Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah  the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die. 

Jeremiah 38:11 So  Ebed- melech 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. 

Jeremiah 38:12 And Ebed-melech  the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast  clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords.  And 

Jeremiah did so. 

Jeremiah 38:13 So they drew up Jeremiah  with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and  Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.  

Jeremiah 38:14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah  the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the  house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will  ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me. 

Jeremiah 38:15 Then  Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt  thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel,  wilt thou not hearken unto me? 

Jeremiah 38:16 So Zedekiah the  king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD  liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death,  neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek  thy life. 

Jeremiah 38:17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus  saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou  wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon’s princes,  then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned  with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house: 

Jeremiah 38:18 But  if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon’s princes,  then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans,  and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out  of their hand. 

Jeremiah 38:19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the  Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they  mock me. 

Jeremiah 38:20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver  thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which  I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul  shall live. 

Jeremiah 38:21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the  word that the LORD hath shewed me: 

Jeremiah 38:22 And, behold,  all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house  shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes,  and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on,  and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the  mire, and they are turned away back. 

Jeremiah 38:23 So they  shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the  Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but  shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou  shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.   

Jeremiah 38:24 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man  know of these words, and thou shalt not die. 

Jeremiah 38:25 But if  the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come  unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou  hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not  put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee: 

Jeremiah 38:26  Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication  before the king, that he would not cause me to return to  Jonathan’s house, to die there. 

Jeremiah 38:27 Then came all the  princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them  according to all these words that the king had commanded.  So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not  perceived. 

Jeremiah 38:28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the  prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was  there when Jerusalem was taken.  

Jeremiah 39:1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the  tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all  his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. 

Jeremiah 39:2  And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month,  the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up. 

Jeremiah 39:3  And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat  in the middle gate, even Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo,  Sarsechim, Rab- saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rabmag, with all  the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.  

Jeremiah 39:4 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king  of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled,  and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the  king’s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he  went out the way of the plain. 

Jeremiah 39:5 But the Chaldeans’  army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the  plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they  brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to  Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon  him. 

Jeremiah 39:6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of  Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of  Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. 

Jeremiah 39:7 Moreover he  put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to  carry him to Babylon.  

Jeremiah 39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and  the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the  walls of Jerusalem. 

Jeremiah 39:9 Then Nebuzar-adan 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. 

Jeremiah 39:10 But Nebuzar-adan 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.  

Jeremiah 39:11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave  charge concerning 

Jeremiah to Nebuzar-adan the captain of  the guard, saying, 

Jeremiah 39:12 Take him, and look well to him,  and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say  unto thee. 

Jeremiah 39:13 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the   guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rab-saris, and Nergalsharezer,  Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon’s princes;   

Jeremiah 39:14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court  of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of  Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home:  so he dwelt among the people.  

Jeremiah 39:15 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah,  while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,  

Jeremiah 39:16 Go and speak to Ebed-melech 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. 

Jeremiah 39:17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith  the LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the  men of whom thou art afraid. 

Jeremiah 39:18 For I will surely  deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life  shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust  in me, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 40:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD,  after that Nebuzar-adan 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. 

Jeremiah 40:2 And the captain of the guard took  Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath  pronounced this evil upon this place. 

Jeremiah 40:3 Now the  LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath  said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have  not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.  

Jeremiah 40:4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the  chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto  thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look  well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me  into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee:  whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go,  thither go. 

Jeremiah 40:5 Now while he was not yet gone back, he  said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son  of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor  over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the  people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee  to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a  reward, and let him go. 

Jeremiah 40:6 Then went Jeremiah unto  Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him  among the people that were left in the land.  

Jeremiah 40:7 Now when all the captains of the forces which  were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that  the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam  governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and  women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them  that were not carried away captive to Babylon; 

Jeremiah 40:8 Then  they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of  Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah,  and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai  the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite,  they and their men. 

Jeremiah 40:9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam  the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men,  saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land,  and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.  

Jeremiah 40:10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve  the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye  wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your  vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken. 

Jeremiah 40:11  Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among  the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the  countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant  of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of  Ahikam the son of Shaphan; 

Jeremiah 40:12 Even all the Jews  returned out of all places whither they were driven, and  came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and  gathered wine and summer fruits very much.   

Jeremiah 40:13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the  captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to  Gedaliah to Mizpah, 

Jeremiah 40:14 And said unto him, Dost thou  certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath  sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But  Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not. 

Jeremiah 40:15  Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in  Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will  slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know  it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which  are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant  in Judah perish? 

Jeremiah 40:16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam  said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this  thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.  

Jeremiah 41:1 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that  Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the  seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with  him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and  there they did eat bread together in Mizpah. 

Jeremiah 41:2 Then  arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that  were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the  son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the  king of Babylon had made governor over the land. 

Jeremiah 41:3  Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even  with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were  found there, and the men of war. 

Jeremiah 41:4 And it came to  pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man  knew it, 

Jeremiah 41:5 That there came certain from Shechem,  from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men,  having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and  having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their  hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD. 

Jeremiah 41:6  And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah  to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to  pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah  the son of Ahikam. 

Jeremiah 41:7 And it was so, when they came  into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah  slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and  the men that were with him. 

Jeremiah 41:8 But ten men were  found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for  we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and  of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not  among their brethren. 

Jeremiah 41:9 Now the pit wherein Ishmael  had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain  because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made  for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of  Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain. 

Jeremiah 41:10  Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the  people that were in Mizpah, even the king’s daughters,  and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan  the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the  son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried  them away captive, and departed to go over to the  Ammonites.  

Jeremiah 41:11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the  captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the  evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, 

Jeremiah 41:12  Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael  the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that  are in Gibeon. 

Jeremiah 41:13 Now it came to pass, that when  all the people which were with Ishmael saw Johanan the  son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad. 

Jeremiah 41:14 So all the people  that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast  about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of  Kareah. 

Jeremiah 41:15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped  from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.   

Jeremiah 41:16 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the  captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant  of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son  of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain  Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and  the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had  brought again from Gibeon: 

Jeremiah 41:17 And they departed,  and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by  Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt, 

Jeremiah 41:18 Because of  the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because  Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of  Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the  land.  

Jeremiah 42:1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan  the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all  the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,  

Jeremiah 42:2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech  thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for  us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; (for  we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)  

Jeremiah 42:3 That the LORD thy God may shew us the way  wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do. 

Jeremiah 42:4  Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard  you; behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God  according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that  whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you, I will declare  it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you. 

Jeremiah 42:5  Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and  faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to  all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee  to us. 

Jeremiah 42:6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil,  we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we  send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the  voice of the LORD our God.  

Jeremiah 42:7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of  the LORD came unto Jeremiah. 

Jeremiah 42:8 Then called he  Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces  which were with him, and all the people from the least  even to the greatest, 

Jeremiah 42:9 And said unto them, Thus saith  the LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to  present your supplication before him; 

Jeremiah 42:10 If ye will still  abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you  down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I  repent me of the evil that I have done unto you. 

Jeremiah 42:11 Be  not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be  not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to  save you, and to deliver you from his hand. 

Jeremiah 42:12 And I  will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon  you, and cause you to return to your own land.  

Jeremiah 42:13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land,  neither obey the voice of the LORD your God, 

Jeremiah 42:14  Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we  shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have  hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: 

Jeremiah 42:15 And now  therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah;  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye  wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn  there; 

Jeremiah 42:16 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword,  which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of  Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow  close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.  

Jeremiah 42:17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to  go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword,  by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall  remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.  

Jeremiah 42:18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of  Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth  upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be  poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and  ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse,  and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.  

Jeremiah 42:19 The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye  remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that  I have admonished you this day. 

Jeremiah 42:20 For ye dissembled  in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God,  saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according  unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto  us, and we will do it. 

Jeremiah 42:21 And now I have this day  declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the  LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent  me unto you. 

Jeremiah 42:22 Now therefore know certainly that ye  shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence,  in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.  

Jeremiah 43:1 And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had  made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of  the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had  sent him to them, even all these words, 

Jeremiah 43:2 Then spake  Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of  Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou  speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to  say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there: 

Jeremiah 43:3 But Baruch  the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us  into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to  death, and carry us away captives into Babylon. 

Jeremiah 43:4 So  Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the  forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the  LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah. 

Jeremiah 43:5 But Johanan  the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all  the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations,  whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;  

Jeremiah 43:6 Even men, and women, and children, and the  king’s daughters, and every person that Nebuzar-adan 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. 

Jeremiah 43:7 So they came into the land  of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus  came they even to Tahpanhes.  

Jeremiah 43:8 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah  in Tahpanhes, saying, 

Jeremiah 43:9 Take great stones in thine  hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which is  at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of  the men of Judah; 

Jeremiah 43:10 And say unto them, Thus saith  the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send  and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant,  and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and  he shall spread his royal pavilion over them. 

Jeremiah 43:11 And  when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and  deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are  for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to  the sword. 

Jeremiah 43:12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of  the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them  away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of  Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go  forth from thence in peace. 

Jeremiah 43:13 He shall break also the  images of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and  the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with  fire.    

Jeremiah 44:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the  Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at  Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country  of Pathros, saying, 

Jeremiah 44:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts,  the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have  brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah;  and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man  dwelleth therein, 

Jeremiah 44:3 Because of their wickedness which  they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they  went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they  knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers. 

Jeremiah 44:4  Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising  early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this  abominable thing that I hate. 

Jeremiah 44:5 But they hearkened  not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to  burn no incense unto other gods. 

Jeremiah 44:6 Wherefore my fury  and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the  cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are  wasted and desolate, as at this day. 

Jeremiah 44:7 Therefore now  thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel;  Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to  cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of  Judah, to leave you none to remain; 

Jeremiah 44:8 In that ye  provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands,  burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt,  whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves  off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all  the nations of the earth? 

Jeremiah 44:9 Have ye forgotten the  wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings  of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own  wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they  have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of  Jerusalem? 

Jeremiah 44:10 They are not humbled even unto this  day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in  my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.  

Jeremiah 44:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God  of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and  to cut off all Judah. 

Jeremiah 44:12 And I will take the remnant of  Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt  to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall  in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the  sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even  unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and  they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a  curse, and a reproach. 

Jeremiah 44:13 For I will punish them that  dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by  the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: 

Jeremiah 44:14 So  that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the  land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that  they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they  have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return  but such as shall escape.  

Jeremiah 44:15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had  burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that  stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in  the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered 

Jeremiah, saying,  

Jeremiah 44:16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in  the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.  

Jeremiah 44:17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth  forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen  of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we  have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes,  in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for  then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no  evil. 

Jeremiah 44:18 But since we left off to burn incense to the  queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her,  we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by  the sword and by the famine. 

Jeremiah 44:19 And when we burned  incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink  offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her,  and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?   

Jeremiah 44:20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the  men, and to the women, and to all the people which had  given him that answer, saying, 

Jeremiah 44:21 The incense that  ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of  Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your  princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD  remember them, and came it not into his mind? 

Jeremiah 44:22  So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil  of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye  have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an  astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this  day. 

Jeremiah 44:23 Because ye have burned incense, and because  ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the  voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his  statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is  happened unto you, as at this day. 

Jeremiah 44:24 Moreover  Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women,  Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land  of Egypt: 

Jeremiah 44:25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God  of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with  your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will  surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn  incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink  offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows,  and surely perform your vows. 

Jeremiah 44:26 Therefore hear ye  the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of  Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the  LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth  of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The  Lord GOD liveth. 

Jeremiah 44:27 Behold, I will watch over them  for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are  in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by  the famine, until there be an end of them. 

Jeremiah 44:28 Yet a  small number that escape the sword shall return out of the  land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of  Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there,  shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.  

Jeremiah 44:29 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the  LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may  know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:  

Jeremiah 44:30 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra  king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into  the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king  of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,  his enemy, and that sought his life.  

Jeremiah 45:1 The word that 

Jeremiah the prophet spake unto  Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words  in a book at the mouth of 

Jeremiah, in the fourth year of  Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, 

Jeremiah 45:2  Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O  Baruch; 

Jeremiah 45:3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the  LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my  sighing, and I find no rest.  

Jeremiah 45:4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith  thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down,  and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this  whole land. 

Jeremiah 45:5 And seekest thou great things for  thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon  all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee  for a prey in all places whither thou goest. 

Jeremiah 46:1 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah  the prophet against the Gentiles; 

Jeremiah 46:2 Against Egypt,  against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which  was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of  Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. 

Jeremiah 46:3 Order ye  the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. 

Jeremiah 46:4  Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand  forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on  the brigandines. 

Jeremiah 46:5 Wherefore have I seen them  dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones  are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back:  for fear was round about, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 46:6 Let  not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they  shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river  Euphrates. 

Jeremiah 46:7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood,  whose waters are moved as the rivers? 

Jeremiah 46:8 Egypt riseth  up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers;  and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will  destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof. 

Jeremiah 46:9 Come  up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men  come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the  shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.  

Jeremiah 46:10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a  day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his  adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be  satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD  of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river  Euphrates. 

Jeremiah 46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O  virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many  medicines; for thou shalt not be cured. 

Jeremiah 46:12 The  nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the  land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty,  and they are fallen both together.  

Jeremiah 46:13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the  prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come  and smite the land of Egypt. 

Jeremiah 46:14 Declare ye in Egypt,  and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in  Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the  sword shall devour round about thee. 

Jeremiah 46:15 Why are thy  valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the  LORD did drive them. 

Jeremiah 46:16 He made many to fall, yea,  one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go  again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity,  from the oppressing sword. 

Jeremiah 46:17 They did cry there,  Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the  time appointed. 

Jeremiah 46:18 As I live, saith the King, whose  name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among  the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.  

Jeremiah 46:19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself  to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate  without an inhabitant. 

Jeremiah 46:20 Egypt is like a very fair  heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.  

Jeremiah 46:21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like  fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled  away together: they did not stand, because the day of their  calamity was come upon them, and the time of their  visitation. 

Jeremiah 46:22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent;  for they shall march with an army, and come against her  with axes, as hewers of wood. 

Jeremiah 46:23 They shall cut down  her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched;  because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are  innumerable. 

Jeremiah 46:24 The daughter of Egypt shall be  confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the  people of the north. 

Jeremiah 46:25 The LORD of hosts, the God  of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No,  and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings;  even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him: 

Jeremiah 46:26 And  I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their  lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar 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.   

Jeremiah 46:27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not  dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar  off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob  shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make  him afraid. 

Jeremiah 46:28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant,  saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full  end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will  not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet  will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.  

Jeremiah 47:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the  prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote  Gaza. 

Jeremiah 47:2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up  out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and  shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and  them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the  inhabitants of the land shall howl. 

Jeremiah 47:3 At the noise of the  stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing  of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the  fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness  of hands; 

Jeremiah 47:4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all  the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every  helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the  Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor. 

Jeremiah 47:5  Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the  remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?  

Jeremiah 47:6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere  thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be  still. 

Jeremiah 47:7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath  given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea  shore? there hath he appointed it.  

Jeremiah 48:1 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the  God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim  is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and  dismayed. 

Jeremiah 48:2 There shall be no more praise of Moab:  in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let  us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut  down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee. 

Jeremiah 48:3 A  voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great  destruction. 

Jeremiah 48:4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have  caused a cry to be heard. 

Jeremiah 48:5 For in the going up of  Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down  of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.  

Jeremiah 48:6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the  wilderness.  

Jeremiah 48:7 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in  thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall  go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes  together. 

Jeremiah 48:8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city,  and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the  plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken. 

Jeremiah 48:9  Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for  the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell  therein. 

Jeremiah 48:10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the  LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his  sword from blood.  

Jeremiah 48:11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he  hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from  vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity:  therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not  changed. 

Jeremiah 48:12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith    

Jeremiah Page 474   the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall  cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break  their bottles. 

Jeremiah 48:13 And Moab shall be ashamed of  Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel  their confidence.   

Jeremiah 48:14 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for  the war? 

Jeremiah 48:15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her  cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the  slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of  hosts. 

Jeremiah 48:16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and  his affliction hasteth fast. 

Jeremiah 48:17 All ye that are about him,  bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the  strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod! 

Jeremiah 48:18 Thou  daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy  glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come  upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds. 

Jeremiah 48:19  O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him  that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?  

Jeremiah 48:20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl  and cry; and tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,  

Jeremiah 48:21 And judgment is come upon the plain country;  upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,  

Jeremiah 48:22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,  

Jeremiah 48:23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul,  and upon Beth-meon, 

Jeremiah 48:24 And upon Kerioth,  and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of  Moab, far or near. 

Jeremiah 48:25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and  his arm is broken, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 48:26 Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself  against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit,  and he also shall be in derision. 

Jeremiah 48:27 For was not Israel a  derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since  thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. 

Jeremiah 48:28 O ye  that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,  and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of  the hole’s mouth. 

Jeremiah 48:29 We have heard the pride of  Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his  arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.  

Jeremiah 48:30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not  be so; his lies shall not so effect it. 

Jeremiah 48:31 Therefore  will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine  heart shall mourn for the men of Kir- heres. 

Jeremiah 48:32 O  vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of  Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to  the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits  and upon thy vintage. 

Jeremiah 48:33 And joy and gladness is  taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab;  and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none  shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no  shouting. 

Jeremiah 48:34 From the cry of Heshbon even unto  Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their  voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of  three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be  desolate. 

Jeremiah 48:35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,  saith the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and  him that burneth incense to his gods. 

Jeremiah 48:36 Therefore  mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart  shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: because the  riches that he hath gotten are perished. 

Jeremiah 48:37 For every  head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the  hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.  

Jeremiah 48:38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the  housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have  broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith  the LORD. 

Jeremiah 48:39 They shall howl, saying, How is it  broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame!  so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them  about him. 

Jeremiah 48:40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he  shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.   

Jeremiah 48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised,  and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab at that day shall be as  the heart of a woman in her pangs. 

Jeremiah 48:42 And Moab shall  be destroyed from being a people, because he hath  magnified himself against the LORD. 

Jeremiah 48:43 Fear, and  the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of  Moab, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 48:44 He that fleeth from the fear  shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit  shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even  upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 48:45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon  because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of  Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall  devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the  tumultuous ones. 

Jeremiah 48:46 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the  people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken  captives, and thy daughters captives. 

Jeremiah 48:47 Yet will I  bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the  LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.  

Jeremiah 49:1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD;  Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their  king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities? 

Jeremiah 49:2  Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I  will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the  Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her  daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir  unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 49:3  Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of  Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro  by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and  his priests and his princes together. 

Jeremiah 49:4 Wherefore  gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O  backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying,  Who shall come unto me? 

Jeremiah 49:5 Behold, I will bring a fear  upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that  be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right  forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth. 

Jeremiah 49:6  And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the  children of Ammon, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 49:7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts;  Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from  the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? 

Jeremiah 49:8 Flee ye, turn  back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring  the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit  him. 

Jeremiah 49:9 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not  leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will  destroy till they have enough. 

Jeremiah 49:10 But I have made  Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall  not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his  brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not. 

Jeremiah 49:11 Leave  thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let  thy widows trust in me. 

Jeremiah 49:12 For thus saith the LORD;  Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup  have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall  altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but  thou shalt surely drink of it. 

Jeremiah 49:13 For I have sworn by  myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a  desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the  cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes. 

Jeremiah 49:14 I have  heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent  unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come  against her, and rise up to the battle. 

Jeremiah 49:15 For, lo, I will  make thee small among the heathen, and despised among  men. 

Jeremiah 49:16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the  pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the  rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou  shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring  thee down from thence, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 49:17 Also  Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall  be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.   

Jeremiah 49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and  the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall  abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it. 

Jeremiah 49:19  Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of  Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will  suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a  chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like  me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that  shepherd that will stand before me? 

Jeremiah 49:20 Therefore hear  the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom;  and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the  inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall  draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations  desolate with them. 

Jeremiah 49:21 The earth is moved at the noise  of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the  Red sea. 

Jeremiah 49:22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the  eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day  shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of  a woman in her pangs.  

Jeremiah 49:23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded,  and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are  fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.  

Jeremiah 49:24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to  flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows  have taken her, as a woman in travail. 

Jeremiah 49:25 How is the  city of praise not left, the city of my joy! 

Jeremiah 49:26 Therefore  her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of  war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.  

Jeremiah 49:27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,  and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.  

Jeremiah 49:28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms  of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall  smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and  spoil the men of the east. 

Jeremiah 49:29 Their tents and their  flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves  their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and  they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.  

Jeremiah 49:30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants  of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadnezzar king of  Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived  a purpose against you. 

Jeremiah 49:31 Arise, get you up unto the  wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD,  which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.  

Jeremiah 49:32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the  multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all  winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring  their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 49:33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a  desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor  any son of man dwell in it.  

Jeremiah 49:34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the  prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of  Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, 

Jeremiah 49:35 Thus saith the  LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the  chief of their might. 

Jeremiah 49:36 And upon Elam will I bring  the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will  scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no  nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come. 

Jeremiah 49:37  For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,  and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil  upon them even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I  will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:   

Jeremiah 49:38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy  from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 49:39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I  will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 50:1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon  and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the  prophet. 

Jeremiah 50:2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish,  and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say,  Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in  pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in  pieces. 

Jeremiah 50:3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation  against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none  shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart,  both man and beast.  

Jeremiah 50:4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD,  the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of  Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek  the LORD their God. 

Jeremiah 50:5 They shall ask the way to Zion  with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join  ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall  not be forgotten. 

Jeremiah 50:6 My people hath been lost sheep:  their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have  turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from  mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.  

Jeremiah 50:7 All that found them have devoured them: and their  adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned  against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the  LORD, the hope of their fathers. 

Jeremiah 50:8 Remove out of the  midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the  Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.  

Jeremiah 50:9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against  Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north  country: and they shall set themselves in array against her;  from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of  a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. 

Jeremiah 50:10 And  Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied,  saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 50:11 Because ye were glad, because ye  rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are  grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;  

Jeremiah 50:12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that  bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the  nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.  

Jeremiah 50:13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be  inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that  goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her  plagues. 

Jeremiah 50:14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon  round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no  arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD. 

Jeremiah 50:15  Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her  foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is  the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as  she hath done, do unto her. 

Jeremiah 50:16 Cut off the sower from  Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of  harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn  every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his  own land.  

Jeremiah 50:17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven  him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him;  and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken  his bones. 

Jeremiah 50:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts,  the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon  and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.    

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Jeremiah 50:19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and  he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be  satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead. 

Jeremiah 50:20 In those  days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel  shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of  Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them  whom I reserve.  

Jeremiah 50:21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even  against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and  utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do  according to all that I have commanded thee. 

Jeremiah 50:22 A  sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.  

Jeremiah 50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder  and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the  nations! 

Jeremiah 50:24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art  also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art  found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the  LORD. 

Jeremiah 50:25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and  hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this  is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the  Chaldeans. 

Jeremiah 50:26 Come against her from the utmost  border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and  destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left. 

Jeremiah 50:27 Slay  all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe  unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.  

Jeremiah 50:28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the  land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the  LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple. 

Jeremiah 50:29 Call  together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the  bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape:  recompense her according to her work; according to all that  she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against  the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel. 

Jeremiah 50:30  Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her  men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.  

Jeremiah 50:31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud,  saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time  that I will visit thee. 

Jeremiah 50:32 And the most proud shall  stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will  kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about  him.  

Jeremiah 50:33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of  Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together:  and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused  to let them go. 

Jeremiah 50:34 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.  

Jeremiah 50:35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the  LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her  princes, and upon her wise men. 

Jeremiah 50:36 A sword is  upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her  mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. 

Jeremiah 50:37 A sword  is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all  the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they  shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures;  and they shall be robbed. 

Jeremiah 50:38 A drought is upon her  waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of  graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. 

Jeremiah 50:39  Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts  of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell  therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither  shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. 

Jeremiah 50:40  As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour  cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide  there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. 

Jeremiah 50:41  Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great  nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of  the earth. 

Jeremiah 50:42 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. 

Jeremiah 50:43 The king of Babylon hath  heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble:  anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in  travail. 

Jeremiah 50:44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from  the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but  I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is  a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is  like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is  that shepherd that will stand before me? 

Jeremiah 50:45 Therefore  hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against  Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the  land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall  draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation  desolate with them. 

Jeremiah 50:46 At the noise of the taking of  Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the  nations.   

Jeremiah 51:1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up  against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of  them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 

Jeremiah 51:2 And  will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall  empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be  against her round about. 

Jeremiah 51:3 Against him that bendeth  let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth  himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young  men; destroy ye utterly all her host. 

Jeremiah 51:4 Thus the slain  shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are  thrust through in her streets. 

Jeremiah 51:5 For Israel hath not  been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of  hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy  One of Israel. 

Jeremiah 51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and  deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for  this is the time of the LORD’S vengeance; he will render  unto her a recompence. 

Jeremiah 51:7 Babylon hath been a  golden cup in the LORD’S hand, that made all the earth  drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore  the nations are mad. 

Jeremiah 51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and  destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so she  may be healed. 

Jeremiah 51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but  she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into  his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven,  and is lifted up even to the skies. 

Jeremiah 51:10 The LORD hath  brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in  Zion the work of the LORD our God. 

Jeremiah 51:11 Make bright  the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the  spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against  Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the  LORD, the vengeance of his temple. 

Jeremiah 51:12 Set up the  standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong,  set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD  hath both devised and done that which he spake against the  inhabitants of Babylon. 

Jeremiah 51:13 O thou that dwellest upon  many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and  the measure of thy covetousness. 

Jeremiah 51:14 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. 

Jeremiah 51:15 He hath made the earth by his power,  he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath  stretched out the heaven by his understanding. 

Jeremiah 51:16  When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters  in the heavens; and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the  ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and  bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. 

Jeremiah 51:17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is  confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is  falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 

Jeremiah 51:18 They  are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their  visitation they shall perish. 

Jeremiah 51:19 The portion of Jacob  is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and  Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is  his name. 

Jeremiah 51:20 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; 

Jeremiah 51:21 And with thee  will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee  will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; 

Jeremiah 51:22 With  thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with  thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will  I break in pieces the young man and the maid; 

Jeremiah 51:23 I  will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his  flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman  and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces  captains and rulers. 

Jeremiah 51:24 And I will render unto Babylon  and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they  have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 51:25  Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith  the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch  out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks,  and will make thee a burnt mountain. 

Jeremiah 51:26 And they  shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for  foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the  LORD. 

Jeremiah 51:27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the  trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her,  call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and  Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses  to come up as the rough caterpillers. 

Jeremiah 51:28 Prepare  against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the  captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land  of his dominion. 

Jeremiah 51:29 And the land shall tremble and  sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed  against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation  without an inhabitant. 

Jeremiah 51:30 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. 

Jeremiah 51:31  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, 

Jeremiah 51:32 And that the passages are  stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the  men of war are affrighted. 

Jeremiah 51:33 For thus saith the LORD  of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is  like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little  while, and the time of her harvest shall come. 

Jeremiah 51:34  Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he  hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath  swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with  my delicates, he hath cast me out. 

Jeremiah 51:35 The violence  done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the  inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants  of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. 

Jeremiah 51:36 Therefore thus  saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take  vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her  springs dry. 

Jeremiah 51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a  dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing,  without an inhabitant. 

Jeremiah 51:38 They shall roar together like  lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps. 

Jeremiah 51:39 In their heat I  will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that  they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake,  saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 51:40 I will bring them down like lambs  to the slaughter, like rams with he goats. 

Jeremiah 51:41 How is  Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth  surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among  the nations! 

Jeremiah 51:42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she   is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. 

Jeremiah 51:43  Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a  land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of  man pass thereby. 

Jeremiah 51:44 And I will punish Bel in  Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which  he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow  together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall  fall. 

Jeremiah 51:45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and  deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the  LORD. 

Jeremiah 51:46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for  the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall  both come one year, and after that in another year shall  come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against  ruler. 

Jeremiah 51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will  do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her  whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall  in the midst of her. 

Jeremiah 51:48 Then the heaven and the earth,  and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the  spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the  LORD. 

Jeremiah 51:49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of  Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the  earth. 

Jeremiah 51:50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away,  stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let  Jerusalem come into your mind. 

Jeremiah 51:51 We are  confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath  covered our faces: for strangers are come into the  sanctuaries of the LORD’S house. 

Jeremiah 51:52 Wherefore,  behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do  judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land  the wounded shall groan. 

Jeremiah 51:53 Though Babylon should  mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the  height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come  unto her, saith the LORD. 

Jeremiah 51:54 A sound of a cry  cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land  of the Chaldeans: 

Jeremiah 51:55 Because the LORD hath spoiled  Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her  waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is  uttered: 

Jeremiah 51:56 Because the spoiler is come upon her,  even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every  one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of  recompences shall surely requite. 

Jeremiah 51:57 And I will make  drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her  rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual  sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the  LORD of hosts. 

Jeremiah 51:58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The  broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high  gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour  in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.   

Jeremiah 51:59 The word which 

Jeremiah the prophet  commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah,  when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon  in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a  quiet prince. 

Jeremiah 51:60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the  evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words  that are written against Babylon. 

Jeremiah 51:61 And Jeremiah said  to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see,  and shalt read all these words; 

Jeremiah 51:62 Then shalt thou say,  O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off,  that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it  shall be desolate for ever. 

Jeremiah 51:63 And it shall be, when  thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt  bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:  

Jeremiah 51:64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and  shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and  they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.  

Jeremiah 52:1 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he  began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of  

Jeremiah of Libnah. 

Jeremiah 52:2 And he did that which was  evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that  Jehoiakim had done. 

Jeremiah 52:3 For through the anger of the  LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had  cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled  against the king of Babylon.   

Jeremiah 52:4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign,  in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that  Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army,  against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts  against it round about. 

Jeremiah 52:5 So the city was besieged unto  the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 

Jeremiah 52:6 And in the  fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine  was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the  people of the land. 

Jeremiah 52:7 Then the city was broken up, and  all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by  night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which  was by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans were by  the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.  

Jeremiah 52:8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the  king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all  his army was scattered from him. 

Jeremiah 52:9 Then they took the  king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah  in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.  

Jeremiah 52:10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah  before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in  Riblah. 

Jeremiah 52:11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and  the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to  Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.  

Jeremiah 52:12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the  month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar  king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard,  which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,  

Jeremiah 52:13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s  house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of  the great men, burned he with fire: 

Jeremiah 52:14 And all the  army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the  guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.  

Jeremiah 52:15 Then Nebuzar-adan 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. 

Jeremiah 52:16 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of  the guard left certain of the poor of the land for  vinedressers and for husbandmen. 

Jeremiah 52:17 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. 

Jeremiah 52:18 The caldrons also, and the  shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons,  and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took  they away. 

Jeremiah 52:19 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. 

Jeremiah 52:20 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. 

Jeremiah 52:21 And  concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was  eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it;  and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.  

Jeremiah 52:22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the  height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and  pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass.  The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like  unto these. 

Jeremiah 52:23 And there were ninety and six  pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon  the network were an hundred round about.   

Jeremiah 52:24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the  chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three  keepers of the door: 

Jeremiah 52:25 He took also out of the city an  eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven  men of them that were near the king’s person, which were  found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who  mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the  people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.  

Jeremiah 52:26 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took  them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.  

Jeremiah 52:27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them  to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was  carried away captive out of his own land. 

Jeremiah 52:28 This is  the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in  the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:  

Jeremiah 52:29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried  away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two  persons: 

Jeremiah 52:30 In the three and twentieth year of  Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar- adan 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.  

Jeremiah 52:31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth  year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the  twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month,  that Evil-merodach 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, 

Jeremiah 52:32 And spake kindly  unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings  that were with him in Babylon, 

Jeremiah 52:33 And changed his  prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before  him all the days of his life. 

Jeremiah 52:34 And for his diet, there  was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon,  every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of  his life.   

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