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, |
2 |
Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD
will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he
may go up from us. |
3 |
Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: |
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. |
5 |
And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand
and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in
great wrath. |
6 |
And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and
beast: they shall die of a great pestilence. |
7 |
And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of
Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left
in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the
famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and
into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those
that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of
the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor
have mercy. |
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. |
9 |
He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by
the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and
falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and
his life shall be unto him for a prey. |
10 |
For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for
good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the
king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. |
11 |
And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the
word of the LORD; |
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. |
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? |
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. |
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1 |
Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of
Judah, and speak there this word, |
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: |
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. |
4 |
For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by
the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of
David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants,
and his people. |
5 |
But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith
the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation. |
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. |
7 |
And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his
weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast
them into the fire. |
8 |
And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say
every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus
unto this great city? |
9 |
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the
covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and
served them. |
10 |
Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore
for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see
his native country. |
11 |
For thus saith 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: |
12 |
But he shall die in the place whither they have led him
captive, and shall see this land no more. |
13 |
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and
his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service
without wages, and giveth him not for his work; |
14 |
That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers,
and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and
painted with vermilion. |
15 |
Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did
not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and
then it was well with him? |
16 |
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well
with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD. |
17 |
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy
covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for
oppression, and for violence, to do it. |
18 |
Therefore thus saith 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! |
19 |
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast
forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. |
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. |
21 |
I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will
not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou
obeyedst not my voice. |
22 |
The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go
into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and
confounded for all thy wickedness. |
23 |
O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars,
how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain
as of a woman in travail! |
24 |
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; |
25 |
And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life,
and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into
the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand
of the Chaldeans. |
26 |
And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into
another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye
die. |
27 |
But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall
they not return. |
28 |
Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel
wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and
his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? |
29 |
O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. |
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. |
1 |
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of
my pasture! saith the LORD. |
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. |
3 |
And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries
whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their
folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. |
4 |
And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them:
and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall
they be lacking, saith the LORD. |
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. |
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. |
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; |
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. |
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. |
10 |
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing
the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are
dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not
right. |
11 |
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have
I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. |
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. |
13 |
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they
prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
21 |
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not
spoken to them, yet they prophesied. |
22 |
But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people
to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their
evil way, and from the evil of their doings. |
23 |
Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? |
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. |
25 |
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my
name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. |
26 |
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that
prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their
own heart; |
27 |
Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their
dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their
fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. |
28 |
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he
that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is
the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. |
29 |
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a
hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? |
30 |
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD,
that steal my words every one from his neighbour. |
31 |
Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use
their tongues, and say, He saith. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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? |
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. |
37 |
Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD
answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken? |
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; |
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: |
40 |
And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a
perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten. |
1 |
The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set
before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of
Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the
carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to
Babylon. |
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. |
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. |
4 |
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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: |
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. |
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. |
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 Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon; |
2 |
The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of
Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, |
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. |
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. |
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: |
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. |
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. |
8 |
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not
heard my words, |
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. |
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. |
11 |
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an
astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of
Babylon seventy years. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
16 |
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the
sword that I will send among them. |
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: |
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; |
19 |
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and
all his people; |
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, |
21 |
Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon, |
22 |
And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and
the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea, |
23 |
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost
corners, |
24 |
And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled
people that dwell in the desert, |
25 |
And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all
the kings of the Medes, |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
35 |
And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal
of the flock to escape. |
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. |
37 |
And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the
fierce anger of the LORD. |
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. |
1 |
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying, |
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: |
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. |
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, |
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; |
6 |
Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this
city a curse to all the nations of the earth. |
7 |
So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard
Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
14 |
As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth
good and meet unto you. |
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. |
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. |
17 |
Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to
all the assembly of the people, saying, |
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. |
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. |
20 |
And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the
LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who
prophesied against this city and against this land according
to all the words of Jeremiah. |
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; |
22 |
And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan
the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt. |
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. |
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. |
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, |
2 |
Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put
them upon thy neck, |
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; |
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; |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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: |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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? |
14 |
Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that
speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of
Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you. |
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. |
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. |
17 |
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live:
wherefore should this city be laid waste? |
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. |
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. |
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; |
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; |
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. |
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, |
2 |
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I
have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. |
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: |
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. |
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, |
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. |
7 |
Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine
ears, and in the ears of all the people; |
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. |
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. |
10 |
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet
Jeremiah's neck, and brake it. |
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. |
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, |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
17 |
So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh
month. |
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; |
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;) |
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, |
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; |
29:5 |
Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat
the fruit of them; |
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. |
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. |
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. |
29:9 |
For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent
them, saith the LORD. |
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. |
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. |
29:12 |
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me,
and I will hearken unto you. |
29:13 |
And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me
with all your heart. |
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. |
29:15 |
Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in
Babylon; |
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; |
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. |
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: |
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. |
29:20 |
Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the
captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon: |
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; |
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; |
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. |
29:24 |
Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying, |
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, |
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. |
29:27 |
Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth,
which maketh himself a prophet to you? |
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. |
29:29 |
And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of
Jeremiah the prophet. |
29:30 |
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, |
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: |
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. |
1 |
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, |
2 |
Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all
the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. |
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. |
4 |
And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel
and concerning Judah. |
5 |
For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling,
of fear, and not of peace. |
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? |
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. |
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: |
9 |
But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king,
whom I will raise up unto them. |
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. |
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 I will not make a full end of thee: but I will correct
thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether
unpunished. |
12 |
For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy
wound is grievous. |
13 |
There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound
up: thou hast no healing medicines. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
20 |
Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their
congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish
all that oppress them. |
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. |
22 |
And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. |
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. |
24 |
The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he hath
done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart:
in the latter days ye shall consider it. |