Jer:1:1: The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests
that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:1:4: Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,~
Jer: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.~
Jer:1:6: Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I
am a child.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:1:8: Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver
thee, saith the LORD.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:1:12: Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I
will hasten my word to perform it.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:1:14: Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall
break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:2:1: Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:2:4: Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all
the families of the house of Israel:~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:2:9: Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and
with your children's children will I plead.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:2:12: Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid,
be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:2:14: Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he
spoiled?~
Jer:2:15: The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made
his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.~
Jer:2:16: Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the
crown of thy head.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer:2:22: For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much
soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:2:29: Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed
against me, saith the LORD.~
Jer:2:30: In vain have I smitten your children; they received no
correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying
lion.~
Jer: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?~
Jer:2:32: Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?
yet my people have forgotten me days without number.~
Jer:2:33: Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast
thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:3:4: Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou
art the guide of my youth?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:3:11: And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath
justified herself more than treacherous Judah.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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:~
Jer:3:15: And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which
shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:3:22: Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.
Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:3:24: For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from
our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:4:3: For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem,
Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:4:6: Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I
will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:4:8: For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the
fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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,~
Jer:4:12: Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me:
now also will I give sentence against them.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:4:14: O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou
mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?~
Jer:4:15: For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction
from mount Ephraim.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:4:17: As keepers of a field, are they against her round about;
because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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 trumpet, the alarm of war.~
Jer:4:20: Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land
is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.~
Jer:4:21: How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of
the trumpet?~
Jer: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.~
Jer:4:23: I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void;
and the heavens, and they had no light.~
Jer:4:24: I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all
the hills moved lightly.~
Jer:4:25: I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds
of the heavens were fled.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:4:27: For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate;
yet will I not make a full end.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:5:2: And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear
falsely.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:5:8: They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed
after his neighbour's wife.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer:5:11: For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt
very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.~
Jer: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:~
Jer:5:13: And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not
in them: thus shall it be done unto them.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:5:16: Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty
men.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:5:18: Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not
make a full end with you.~
Jer: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 your's.~
Jer:5:20: Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah,
saying,~
Jer:5:21: Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding;
which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:~
Jer: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?~
Jer:5:23: But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart;
they are revolted and gone.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:5:25: Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your
sins have withholden good things from you.~
Jer:5:26: For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait,
as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.~
Jer:5:27: As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of
deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:5:29: Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall
not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?~
Jer:5:30: A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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 Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the
north, and great destruction.~
Jer:6:2: I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate
woman.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:6:5: Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:6:8: Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from
thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:6:14: They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:6:17: Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound
of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.~
Jer:6:18: Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what
is among them.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:6:27: I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people,
that thou mayest know and try their way.~
Jer:6:28: They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders:
they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:6:30: Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD
hath rejected them.~
Jer:7:1: The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:7:5: For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if
ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;~
Jer: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:~
Jer: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.~
Jer:7:8: Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:7:17: Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and
in the streets of Jerusalem?~
Jer:7:18: The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire,
and the women knead 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.~
Jer:7:19: Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not
provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?~
Jer: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.~
Jer:7:21: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your
burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.~
Jer: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:~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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:~
Jer:7:26: Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear,
but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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:~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer:8:5: Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual
backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer:8:11: For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:8:15: We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of
health, and behold trouble!~
Jer: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.~
Jer:8:17: For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you,
which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.~
Jer:8:18: When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is
faint in me.~
Jer: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?~
Jer:8:20: The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not
saved.~
Jer:8:21: For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I
am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.~
Jer: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?~
Jer:9:1: Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of
tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter
of my people!~
Jer:9:2: Oh that I had in the wilderness a 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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:9:6: Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit
they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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;~
Jer:9:14: But have walked after the imagination of their own heart,
and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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:~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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:~
Jer: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.~
Jer:9:25: Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish
all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;~
Jer: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.~
Jer:10:1: Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house
of Israel:~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:10:4: They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it
with nails and with hammers, that it move not.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:10:6: Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou
art great, and thy name is great in might.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:10:8: But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock
is a doctrine of vanities.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:10:13: When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters
in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends
of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth
the wind out of his treasures.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:10:15: They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of
their visitation they shall perish.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:10:17: Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the
fortress.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:10:24: O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger,
lest thou bring me to nothing.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:11:1: The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying,~
Jer:11:2: Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the
men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;~
Jer: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,~
Jer: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:~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:11:9: And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among
the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:11:18: And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know
it: then thou shewedst me their doings.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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:~
Jer: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:~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:12:8: Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth
out against me: therefore have I hated it.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:12:10: Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden
my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate
wilderness.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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, and every man to his land.~
Jer:12:16: And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn
the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they
taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the
midst of my people.~
Jer:12:17: But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and
destroy that nation, saith the LORD.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:13:2: So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and
put it on my loins.~
Jer:13:3: And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time,
saying,~
Jer: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.~
Jer:13:5: So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded
me.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:13:8: Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,~
Jer:13:9: Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride
of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:13:15: Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath
spoken.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:13:24: Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth
away by the wind of the wilderness.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:13:26: Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that
thy shame may appear.~
Jer: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?~
Jer:14:1: The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the
dearth.~
Jer:14:2: Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are
black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:14:4: Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the
earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.~
Jer:14:5: Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it,
because there was no grass.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:14:11: Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for
their good.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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!~
Jer:14:20: We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity
of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:15:12: Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:16:1: The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,~
Jer:16:2: Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have
sons or daughters in this place.~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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:~
Jer: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.~
Jer:16:8: Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit
with them to eat and to drink.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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:~
Jer: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.~
Jer:16:14: Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children
of Israel out of the land of Egypt;~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:16:20: Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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;~
Jer:17:2: Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves
by the green trees upon the high hills.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:17:7: Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose
hope the LORD is.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:17:9: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately
wicked: who can know it?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:17:12: A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place
of our sanctuary.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:17:14: Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I
shall be saved: for thou art my praise.~
Jer:17:15: Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD?
let it come now.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:17:17: Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of
evil.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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:~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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.~
Jer:17:23: But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made
their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:18:1: The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,~
Jer:18:2: Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will
cause thee to hear my words.~
Jer:18:3: Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he
wrought a work on the wheels.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:18:5: Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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.~
Jer:18:9: And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation,
and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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;~
Jer:18:16: To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing;
every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:18:19: Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them
that contend with me.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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,~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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:~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:19:10: Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men
that go with thee,~
Jer: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.~
Jer:19:12: Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to
the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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,~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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 Magormissabib.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:20:13: Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered
the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.~
Jer:20:14: Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day
wherein my mother bare me be blessed.~
Jer:20:15: Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying,
A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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.~
Jer:20:18: Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and
sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?~
Jer: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,~
Jer:21:2: 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.~
Jer:21:3: Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:21:6: And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man
and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.~
Jer: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 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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:21:11: And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear
ye the word of the LORD;~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer:22:1: Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of
Judah, and speak there this word,~
Jer: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:~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:22:5: But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself,
saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer:22:9: Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the
covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served
them.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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:~
Jer:22:12: But he shall die in the place whither they have led him
captive, and shall see this land no more.~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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!~
Jer:22:19: He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and
cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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!~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of
the Chaldeans.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:22:27: But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither
shall they not return.~
Jer: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?~
Jer:22:29: O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:23:1: Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep
of my pasture! saith the LORD.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:23:11: For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house
have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:23:13: And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they
prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:23:21: I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not
spoken to them, yet they prophesied.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:23:23: Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar
off?~
Jer: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.~
Jer:23:25: I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies
in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer:23:29: Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like
a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?~
Jer:23:30: Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the
LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.~
Jer:23:31: Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that
use their tongues, and say, He saith.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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.~
Jer: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?~
Jer: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.~
Jer:23:37: Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD
answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?~
Jer: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;~
Jer: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:~
Jer:23:40: And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and
a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.~
Jer:24:1: 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.~
Jer: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.~
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