11  The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin .

 12  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 .

 13  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 .

 14  Then the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

 15  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 .

 16  Then said I Ah Lord GOD behold I cannot speak for I am a child .

 17  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 .

 18  Be not afraid of their faces for I am with thee to deliver thee saith the LORD .

 19  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 .

 110  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 .

 111  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 .

 112  Then said the LORD unto me Thou hast well seen for I will hasten my word to perform it .

 113  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 .

 114  Then the LORD said unto me Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land .

 115  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 .

 116  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 .

 117  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 .

 118  For behold I have made thee this day a defenced city and an iron pillar and brazen 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 .

 119  And they shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee for I am with thee saith the LORD to deliver thee .

* 21  Moreover the word of the LORD came to me saying .

 22  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 .

 23  Israel was holiness unto the LORD and the firstfruits of his increase all that devour him shall offend evil shall come upon them saith the LORD .

 24  Hear ye the word of the LORD O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel .

 25  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 .

 26  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 .

 27  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 .

 28  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 .

 29  Wherefore I will yet plead with you saith the LORD and with your children's children will I plead .

 210  For pass over the isles of Chittim and see and send unto Kedar and consider diligently and see if there be such a thing .

 211  Hath a nation changed their gods which are yet no gods but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit .

 212  Be astonished O ye heavens at this and be horribly afraid be ye very desolate saith the LORD .

 213  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 .

 214  Is Israel a servant is he a homeborn slave why is he spoiled .

 215  The young lions roared upon him and yelled and they made his land waste his cities are burned without inhabitant .

 216  Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head .

 217  Hast thou not procured this unto thyself in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God when he led thee by the way .

 218  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 .

 219  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 .

 220  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 .

 221  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 .

 222  For though thou wash thee with nitre and take thee much soap yet thine iniquity is marked before me saith the Lord GOD .

 223  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 .

 224  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 .

 225  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 .

 226  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 .

 227  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 .

 228  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 .

 229  Wherefore will ye plead with me ye all have transgressed against me saith the LORD .

 230  In vain have I smitten your children they received no correction your own sword hath devoured your prophets like a destroying lion .

 231  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 .

 232  Can a maid forget her ornaments or a bride her attire yet my people have forgotten me days without number .

 233  Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways .

 234  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 .

 235  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 .

 236  Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt as thou wast ashamed of Assyria .

 237  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 .

* 31  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 .

 32  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 .

 33  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 .

 34  Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me My father thou art the guide of my youth .

 35  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 .

 36  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 .

 37  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 .

 38  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 .

 39  And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks .

 310  And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart but feignedly saith the LORD .

 311  And the LORD said unto me The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah .

 312  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 .

 313  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 .

 314  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 .

 315  And I will give you pastors according to mine heart which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding .

 316  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 .

 317  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 .

 318  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 .

 319  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 .

 320  Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband so have ye dealt treacherously with me O house of Israel saith the LORD .

 321  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 .

 322  Return ye backsliding children and I will heal your backslidings Behold we come unto thee for thou art the LORD our God .

 323  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 .

 324  For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth their flocks and their herds their sons and their daughters .

 325  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 .

* 41  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 .

 42  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 .

 43  For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem Break up your fallow ground and sow not among thorns .

 44  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 .

 45  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 .

 46  Set up the standard toward Zion retire stay not for I will bring evil from the north and a great destruction .

 47  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 .

 48  For this gird you with sackcloth lament and howl for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us .

 49  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 .

 410  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 .

 411  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 .

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

 413  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 .

 414  O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickedness that thou mayest be saved How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee .

 415  For a voice declareth from Dan and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim .

 416  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 .

 417  As keepers of a field are they against her round about because she hath been rebellious against me saith the LORD .

 418  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 .

 419  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 .

 420  Destruction upon destruction is cried for the whole land is spoiled suddenly are my tents spoiled and my curtains in a moment .

 421  How long shall I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet .

 422  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 .

 423  I beheld the earth and lo it was without form and void and the heavens and they had no light .

 424  I beheld the mountains and lo they trembled and all the hills moved lightly .

 425  I beheld and lo there was no man and all the birds of the heavens were fled .

 426  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 .

 427  For thus hath the LORD said The whole land shall be desolate yet will I not make a full end .

 428  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 .

 429  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 .

 430  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 .

 431  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 .

* 51  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 .

 52  And though they say The LORD liveth surely they swear falsely .

 53  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 .

 54  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 .

 55  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 .

 56  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 .

 57  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 .

 58  They were as fed horses in the morning every one neighed after his neighbour's wife .

 59  Shall I not visit for these things saith the LORD and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this .

 510  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 .

 511  For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me saith the LORD .

 512  They have belied the LORD and said It is not he neither shall evil come upon us neither shall we see sword nor famine .

 513  And the prophets shall become wind and the word is not in them thus shall it be done unto them .

 514  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 .

 515  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 .

 516  Their quiver is as an open sepulchre they are all mighty men .

 517  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 .

 518  Nevertheless in those days saith the LORD I will not make a full end with you .

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

 520  Declare this in the house of Jacob and publish it in Judah saying .

 521  Hear now this O foolish people and without understanding which have eyes and see not which have ears and hear not .

 522  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 .

 523  But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart they are revolted and gone .

 524  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 .

 525  Your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have withholden good things from you .

 526  For among my people are found wicked men they lay wait as he that setteth snares they set a trap they catch men .

 527  As a cage is full of birds so are their houses full of deceit therefore they are become great and waxen rich .

 528  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 .

 529  Shall I not visit for these things saith the LORD shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this .

 530  A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land .

 531  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 .

* 61  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 .

 62  I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman .

 63  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 .

 64  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 .

 65  Arise and let us go by night and let us destroy her palaces .

 66  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 .

 67  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 .

 68  Be thou instructed O Jerusalem lest my soul depart from thee lest I make thee desolate a land not inhabited .

 69  Thus saith the LORD of hosts They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets .

 610  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 .

 611  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 .

 612  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 .

 613  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 .

 614  They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly saying Peace peace when there is no peace .

 615  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 .

 616  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 .

 617  Also I set watchmen over you saying Hearken to the sound of the trumpet But they said We will not hearken .

 618  Therefore hear ye nations and know O congregation what is among them .

 619  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 .

 620  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 .

 621  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 .

 622  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 .

 623  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 .

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

 625  Go not forth into the field nor walk by the way for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side .

 626  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 .

 627  I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people that thou mayest know and try their way .

 628  They are all grievous revolters walking with slanders they are brass and iron they are all corrupters .

 629  The bellows are burned the lead is consumed of the fire the founder melteth in vain for the wicked are not plucked away .

 630  Reprobate silver shall men call them because the LORD hath rejected them .

* 71  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying .

 72  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 .

 73  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 .

 74  Trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the LORD The temple of the LORD The temple of the LORD are these .

 75  For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour .

 76  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 .

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

 78  Behold ye trust in lying words that cannot profit .

 79  Will ye steal murder and commit adultery and swear falsely and burn incense unto Baal and walk after other gods whom ye know not .

 710  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 .

 711  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 .

 712  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 .

 713  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 .

 714  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 .

 715  And I will cast you out of my sight as I have cast out all your brethren even the whole seed of Ephraim .

 716  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 .

 717  Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem .

 718  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 .

 719  Do they provoke me to anger saith the LORD do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces .

 720  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 .

 721  Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices and eat flesh .

 722  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 .

 723  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 .

 724  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 .

 725  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 .

 726  Yet they hearkened not unto me nor inclined their ear but hardened their neck they did worse than their fathers .

 727  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 .

 728  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 .

 729  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 .

 730  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 .

 731  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 .

 732  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 .

 733  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 .

 734  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 .

* 81  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  .

82  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 .

 83  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 .

 84  Moreover thou shalt say unto them Thus saith the LORD Shall they fall and not arise shall he turn away and not return .

 85  Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding they hold fast deceit they refuse to return .

 86  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 .

 87  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 .

 88  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 .

 89  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 .

 810  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 .

 811  For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly saying Peace peace when there is no peace .

 812  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 .

 813  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 .

 814  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 .

 815  We looked for peace but no good came and for a time of health and behold trouble .

 816  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 .

 817  For behold I will send serpents cockatrices among you which will not be charmed and they shall bite you saith the LORD .

 818  When I would comfort myself against sorrow my heart is faint in me .

 819  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 .

 820  The harvest is past the summer is ended and we are not saved .

 821  For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt I am black astonishment hath taken hold on me .

 822  Is there no balm in Gilead is there no physician there why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered .

* 91  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 .

 92  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 .

 93  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 .

 94  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 .

 95  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 .

 96  Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit through deceit they refuse to know me saith the LORD .

 97  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 .

 98  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 .

 99  Shall I not visit them for these things saith the LORD shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this .

 910  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 .

 911  And I will make Jerusalem heaps and a den of dragons and I will make the cities of Judah desolate without an inhabitant .

 912  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 .

 913  And the LORD saith Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them and have not obeyed my voice neither walked therein .

 914  But have walked after the imagination of their own heart and after Baalim which their fathers taught them .

 915  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 .

 916  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 .

 917  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 .

 918  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 .

 919  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 .

 920  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 .

 921  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 .

 922  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 .

 923  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 .

 924  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 .

 925  Behold the days come saith the LORD that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised .

 926  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 .

* 101  Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you O house of Israel .

 102  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 .

 103  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 ax .

 104  They deck it with silver and with gold they fasten it with nails and with hammers that it move not .

 105  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 .

 106  Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee O LORD thou art great and thy name is great in might .

 107  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 .

 108  But they are altogether brutish and foolish the stock is a doctrine of vanities .

 109  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 .

 1010  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 .

 1011  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 .

 1012  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 .

 1013  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 .

 1014  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 .

 1015  They are vanity and the work of errors in the time of their visitation they shall perish .

 1016  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 .

 1017  Gather up thy wares out of the land O inhabitant of the fortress .

 1018  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 .

 1019  Woe is me for my hurt my wound is grievous but I said Truly this is a grief and I must bear it .

 1020  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 .

 1021  For the pastors are become brutish and have not sought the LORD therefore they shall not prosper and all their flocks shall be scattered .

 1022  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 .

 1023  O LORD I know that the way of man is not in himself it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps .

 1024  O LORD correct me but with judgment not in thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing .

 1025  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 .

* 111  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying .

 112  Hear ye the words of this covenant and speak unto the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem .

 113  And say thou unto them Thus saith the LORD God of Israel Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant .

 114  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 .

 115  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 .

 116  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 .

 117  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 .

 118  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 .

 119  And the LORD said unto me A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem .

 1110  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 .

 1111  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 .

 1112  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 .

 1113  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 .

 1114  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 .

 1115  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 .

 1116  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 .

 1117  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 .

 1118  And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it and I know it then thou showedst me their doings .

 1119  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 .

 1120  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 .

 1121  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 .

 1122  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 .

 1123  And there shall be no remnant of them for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth even the year of their visitation .

* 121  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 .

 122  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 .

 123  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 .

 124  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 .

 125  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 .

 126  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 .

 127  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 .

 128  Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest it crieth out against me therefore have I hated it .

 129  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 .

 1210  Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard they have trodden my portion under foot they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness .

 1211  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 .

 1212  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 .

 1213  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 .

 1214  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 .

 1215  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 .

 1216  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 .

 1217  But if they will not obey I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation saith the LORD .

* 131  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 .

 132  So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD and put it on my loins .

 133  And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time saying .

 134  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 .

 135  So I went and hid it by Euphrates as the LORD commanded me .

 136  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 .

 137  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 .

 138  Then the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

 139  Thus saith the LORD After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem .

 1310  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 .

 1311  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 .

 1312  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 .

 1313  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 .

 1314  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 .

 1315  Hear ye and give ear be not proud for the LORD hath spoken .

 1316  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 .

 1317  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 .

 1318  Say unto the king and to the queen Humble yourselves sit down for your principalities shall come down even the crown of your glory .

 1319  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 .

 1320  Lift up your eyes and behold them that come from the north where is the flock that was given thee thy beautiful flock .

 1321  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 .

 1322  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 .

 1323  Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil .

 1324  Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness .

 1325  This is thy lot the portion of thy measures from me saith the LORD because thou hast forgotten me and trusted in falsehood .

 1326  Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face that thy shame may appear .

 1327  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 .

* 141  The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth .

 142  Judah mourneth and the gates thereof languish they are black unto the ground and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up .

 143  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 .

 144  Because the ground is chapt for there was no rain in the earth the plowmen were ashamed they covered their heads .

 145  Yea the hind also calved in the field and forsook it because there was no grass .

 146  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 .

 147  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 .

 148  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 .

 149  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 .

 1410  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 .

 1411  Then said the LORD unto me Pray not for this people for their good .

 1412  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 .

 1413  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 .

 1414  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 .

 1415  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 .

 1416  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 .

 1417  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 .

 1418  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 .

 1419  Hast thou utterly rejected Judah hath thy soul loathed 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 .

 1420  We acknowledge O LORD our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers for we have sinned against thee .

 1421  Do not abhor us for thy name's sake do not disgrace the throne of thy glory remember break not thy covenant with us .

 1422  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 .

* 151  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 .

 152  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 .

 153  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 .

 154  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 .

 155  For who shall have pity upon thee O Jerusalem or who shall bemoan thee or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest .

 156  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 .

 157  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 .

 158  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 .

 159  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  .

1510  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 .

 1511  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 .

 1512  Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel .

 1513  Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price and that for all thy sins even in all thy borders .

 1514  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 .

 1515  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 .

 1516  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 .

 1517  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 .

 1518  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 .

 1519  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 .

 1520  And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen 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 .

 1521  And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible .

* 161  The word of the LORD came also unto me saying .

 162  Thou shalt not take thee a wife neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place .

 163  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 .

 164  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 .

 165  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 .

 166  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 .

 167  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 .

 168  Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting to sit with them to eat and to drink .

 169  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 .

 1610  And it shall come to pass when thou shalt show 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 .

 1611  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 .

 1612  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 .

 1613  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 show you favour .

 1614  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 .

 1615  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 .

 616  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 .

 1617  For mine eyes are upon all their ways they are not hid from my face neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes .

 1618  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 .

 1619  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 .

 1620  Shall a man make gods unto himself and they are no gods .

 1621  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 .

* 171  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 .

 172  Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills .

 173  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 .

 174  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 .

 175  Thus saith the LORD Cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm and whose heart departeth from the LORD .

 176  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 .

 177  Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD and whose hope the LORD is .

 178  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 .

 179  The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it .

 1710  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 .

 1711  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 .

 1712  A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary .

 1713  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 .

 1714  Heal me O LORD and I shall be healed save me and I shall be saved for thou art my praise .

 1715  Behold they say unto me Where is the word of the LORD let it come now .

 1716  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 .

 1717  Be not a terror unto me thou art my hope in the day of evil .

 1718  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 .

 1719  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 .

 1720  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 .

 1721  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 .

 1722  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 .

 1723  But they obeyed not neither inclined their ear but made their neck stiff that they might not hear nor receive instruction .

 1724  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 .

 1725  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 .

 1726  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 .

 1727  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 .

* 181  The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying .

 182  Arise and go down to the potter's house and there I will cause thee to hear my words .

 183  Then I went down to the potter's house and behold he wrought a work on the wheels .

 184  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 .

 185  Then the word of the LORD came to me saying .

 186  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 .

 187  At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy it .

 188  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 .

 189  And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to build and to plant it .

 1810  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 .

 1811  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 .

 1812  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 .

 1813  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 .

 1814  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 .

 1815  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 .

 1816  To make their land desolate and a perpetual hissing every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and wag his head .

 1817  I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy I will show them the back and not the face in the day of their calamity .

 1818  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 .

 1819  Give heed to me O LORD and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me .

 1820  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 .

 1821  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 .

 1822  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 .

 1823  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 .

* 191  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 .

 192  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 .

 193  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 .

 194  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 .

 195  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 .

 196  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 .

 197  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 .

 198  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 .

 199  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 .

 1910  Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee .

 1911  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 .

 1912  Thus will I do unto this place saith the LORD and to the inhabitants thereof and even make this city as Tophet .

 1913  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 .

 1914  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 .

 1915  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 .

* 201  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 .

 202  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 .

 203  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 .

 204  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 .

 205  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 .

 206  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 .

 207  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 .

 208  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 .

 209  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 .

 2010  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 .

 2011  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 .

 2012  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 .

 2013  Sing unto the LORD praise ye the LORD for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers .

 2014  Cursed be the day wherein I was born let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed .

 2015  Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father saying A man child is born unto thee making him very glad .

 2016  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 .

 2017  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 .

 2018  Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow that my days should be consumed with shame .

* 211  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 .

 212  Inquire 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 .

 213  Then said Jeremiah unto them Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah .

 214  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 .

 215  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 .

 216  And I will smite the inhabitants of this city both man and beast they shall die of a great pestilence .

 217  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 .

 218  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 .

 219  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 .

 2110  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 .

 2111  And touching the house of the king of Judah say Hear ye the word of the LORD .

 2112  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 .

 2113  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 .

 2114  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 .

* 221  Thus saith the LORD Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word .

 222  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 .

 223  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 .

 224  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 .

 225  But if ye will not hear these words I swear by myself saith the LORD that this house shall become a desolation .

 226  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 .

 227  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 .

 228  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 .

 229  Then they shall answer Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshipped other gods and served them .

 2210  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 .

 2211  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 .

 2212  But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive and shall see this land no more .

 2213  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 .

 2214  That saith I will build me a wide house and large chambers and cutteth him out windows and it is ceiled with cedar and painted with vermilion .

 2215  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 .

 2216  He judged the cause of the poor and needy then it was well with him was not this to know me saith the LORD .

 2217  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 .

 2218  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 .

 2219  He shall be buried with the burial of an ass drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem .

 2220  Go up to Lebanon and cry and lift up thy voice in Bashan and cry from the passages for all thy lovers are destroyed .

 2221  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 .

 2222  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 .

 2223  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 .

 2224  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 .

 2225  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 .

 2226  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 .

 2227  But to the land whereunto they desire to return thither shall they not return .

 2228  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 .

 2229  O earth earth earth hear the word of the LORD .

 2230  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 .

* 231  Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture saith the LORD .

 232  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 .

 233  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 .

 234  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 .

 235  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 .

 236  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 .

 237  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 .

 238  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 .

 239  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 .

 2310  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 .

 2311  For both prophet and priest are profane yea in my house have I found their wickedness saith the LORD .

 2312  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 .

 2313  And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria they prophesied in Baal and caused my people Israel to err .

 2314  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 .

 2315  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 .

 2316  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 .

 2317  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 .

 2318  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 .

 2319  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 .

 2320  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 .

 2321  I have not sent these prophets yet they ran I have not spoken to them yet they prophesied .

 2322  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 .

 2323  Am I a God at hand saith the LORD and not a God afar off .

 2324  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 .

 2325  I have heard what the prophets said that prophesy lies in my name saying I have dreamed I have dreamed .

 2326  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 .

 2327  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 .

 2328  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 .

 2329  Is not my word like as a fire saith the LORD and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces .

 2330  Therefore behold I am against the prophets saith the LORD that steal my words every one from his neighbour .

 2331  Behold I am against the prophets saith the LORD that use their tongues and say He saith .

 2332  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 .

 2333  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 .

 2334  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 .

 2335  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 .

 2336  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 .

 2337  Thus shalt thou say to the prophet What hath the LORD answered thee and What hath the LORD spoken .

 2338  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 .

 2339  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 .

 2340  And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you and a perpetual shame which shall not be forgotten .

* 241  The LORD showed 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 .

 242  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 .

 243  Then said the LORD unto me What seest thou Jeremiah And I said Figs the good figs very good and the evil very evil that cannot be eaten they are so evil .

 244  Again the word of the LORD came unto me saying .

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

 246  For I will set mine eyes upon them for good and I will bring them again to this land and I will build them and not pull them down and I will plant them and not pluck them up .

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

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

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

 2410  And I will send the sword the famine and the pestilence among them till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers .

* 251  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon .

 252  The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying .

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

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

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

 256  And go not after other gods to serve them and to worship them and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands and I will do you no hurt .

 257  Yet ye have not hearkened unto me saith the LORD that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt .

 258  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts Because ye have not heard my words .

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

 2510  Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride the sound of the millstones and the light of the candle .

 2511  And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years .

 2512  And it shall come to pass when seventy years are accomplished that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation saith the LORD for their iniquity and the land of the Chaldeans and will make it perpetual desolations .

 2513  And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it even all that is written in this book which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations .

 2514  For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also and I will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands .

 2515  For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand and cause all the nations to whom I send thee to drink it .

 2516  And they shall drink and be moved and be mad because of the sword that I will send among them .

 2517  Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand and made all the nations to drink unto whom the LORD had sent me .

 2518  To wit Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and the kings thereof and the princes thereof to make them a desolation an astonishment an hissing and a curse as it is this day .

 2519  Pharaoh king of Egypt and his servants and his princes and all his people .

 2520  And all the mingled people and all the kings of the land of Uz and all the kings of the land of the Philistines and Ashkelon and Azzah and Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod .

 2521  Edom and Moab and the children of Ammon .

 2522  And all the kings of Tyrus and all the kings of Zidon and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea .

 2523  Dedan and Tema and Buz and all that are in the utmost corners .

 2524  And all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert .

 2525  And all the kings of Zimri and all the kings of Elam and all the kings of the Medes .

 2526  And all the kings of the north far and near one with another and all the kingdoms of the world which are upon the face of the earth and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them .

 2527  Therefore thou shalt say unto them Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Drink ye and be drunken and spue and fall and rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you .

 2528  And it shall be if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink then shalt thou say unto them Thus saith the LORD of hosts Ye shall certainly drink .

 2529  For lo I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name and should ye be utterly unpunished Ye shall not be unpunished for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth saith the LORD of hosts .

 2530  Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words and say unto them The LORD shall roar from on high and utter his voice from his holy habitation he shall mightily roar upon his habitation he shall give a shout as they that tread the grapes against all the inhabitants of the earth .

 2531  A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations he will plead with all flesh he will give them that are wicked to the sword saith the LORD .

 2532  Thus saith the LORD of hosts Behold evil shall go forth from nation to nation and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth .

 2533  And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth they shall not be lamented neither gathered nor buried they shall be dung upon the ground .

 2534  Howl ye shepherds and cry and wallow yourselves in the ashes ye principal of the flock for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel .

 2535  And the shepherds shall have no way to flee nor the principal of the flock to escape .

 2536  A voice of the cry of the shepherds and an howling of the principal of the flock shall be heard for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture .

 2537  And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD .

 2538  He hath forsaken his covert as the lion for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor and because of his fierce anger .

* 261  In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD saying .

 262  Thus saith the LORD Stand in the court of the LORD'S house and speak unto all the cities of Judah which come to worship in the LORD'S house all the words that I command thee to speak unto them diminish not a word .

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

 264  And thou shalt say unto them Thus saith the LORD If ye will not hearken to me to walk in my law which I have set before you .

 265  To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets whom I sent unto you both rising up early and sending them but ye have not hearkened .

 266  Then will I make this house like Shiloh and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth .

 267  So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD .

 268  Now it came to pass when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him saying Thou shalt surely die .

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

 2610  When the princes of Judah heard these things then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house .

 2611  Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people saying This man is worthy to die for he hath prophesied against this city as ye have heard with your ears .

 2612  Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people saying The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard .

 2613  Therefore now amend your ways and your doings and obey the voice of the LORD your God and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you .

 2614  As for me behold I am in your hand do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you .

 2615  But know ye for certain that if ye put me to death ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and upon the inhabitants thereof for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears .

 2616  Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets This man is not worthy to die for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God .

 2617  Then rose up certain of the elders of the land and spake to all the assembly of the people saying .

 2618  Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and spake to all the people of Judah saying Thus saith the LORD of hosts Zion shall be plowed like a field and Jerusalem shall become heaps and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest .

 2619  Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death did he not fear the LORD and besought the LORD and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them Thus might we procure great evil against our souls .

 2620  And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah .

 2621  And when Jehoiakim the king with all his mighty men and all the princes heard his words the king sought to put him to death but when Urijah heard it he was afraid and fled and went into Egypt .

 2622  And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt namely Elnathan the son of Achbor and certain men with him into Egypt .

 2623  And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king who slew him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people .

 2624  Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death .

* 271  In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD saying .

 272  Thus saith the LORD to me Make thee bonds and yokes and put them upon thy neck .

 273  And send them to the king of Edom and to the king of Moab and to the king of the Ammonites and to the king of Tyrus and to the king of Zidon by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah .

 274  And command them to say unto their masters Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Thus shall ye say unto your masters .

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

 276  And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him .

 277  And all nations shall serve him and his son and his son's son until the very time of his land come and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him .

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

 279  Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets nor to your diviners nor to your dreamers nor to your enchanters nor to your sorcerers which speak unto you saying Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon .

 2710  For they prophesy a lie unto you to remove you far from your land and that I should drive you out and ye should perish .

 2711  But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him those will I let remain still in their own land saith the LORD and they shall till it and dwell therein .

 2712  I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words saying Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him and his people and live .

 2713  Why will ye die thou and thy people by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon .

 2714  Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you saying Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon for they prophesy a lie unto you .

 2715  For I have not sent them saith the LORD yet they prophesy a lie in my name that I might drive you out and that ye might perish ye and the prophets that prophesy unto you .

 2716  Also I spake to the priests and to all this people saying Thus saith the LORD Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you saying Behold the vessels of the LORD'S house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon for they prophesy a lie unto you .

 2717  Hearken not unto them serve the king of Babylon and live wherefore should this city be laid waste .

 2718  But if they be prophets and if the word of the LORD be with them let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD and in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem go not to Babylon .

 2719  For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars and concerning the sea and concerning the bases and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city .

 2720  Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem .

 2721  Yea thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem .

 2722  They shall be carried to Babylon and there shall they be until the day that I visit them saith the LORD then will I bring them up and restore them to this place .

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

 282  Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts the God of Israel saying I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon .

 283  Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD'S house that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried them to Babylon .

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

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

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

 287  Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears and in the ears of all the people .

 288  The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries and against great kingdoms of war and of evil and of pestilence .

 289  The prophet which prophesieth of peace when the word of the prophet shall come to pass then shall the prophet be known that the LORD hath truly sent him .

 2810  Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck and brake it .

 2811  And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people saying Thus saith the LORD Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years And the prophet Jeremiah went his way .

 2812  Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah saying .

 2813  Go and tell Hananiah saying Thus saith the LORD Thou hast broken the yokes of wood but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron .

 2814  For thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and they shall serve him and I have given him the beasts of the field also .

 2815  Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet Hear now Hananiah The LORD hath not sent thee but thou makest this people to trust in a lie .

 2816  Therefore thus saith the LORD Behold I will cast thee from off the face of the earth this year thou shalt die because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD .

 2817  So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month .

* 291  Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives and to the priests and to the prophets and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon .

 292  (After that Jeconiah the king and the queen and the eunuchs the princes of Judah and Jerusalem and the carpenters and the smiths were departed from Jerusalem .

 293  By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon saying .

 294  Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel unto all that are carried away captives whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon .

 295  Build ye houses and dwell in them and plant gardens and eat the fruit of them .

 296  Take ye wives and beget sons and daughters and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands that they may bear sons and daughters that ye may be increased there and not diminished .

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

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

 299  For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name I have not sent them saith the LORD .

 2910  For thus saith the LORD That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you and perform my good word toward you in causing you to return to this place .

 2911  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you saith the LORD thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected end .

 2912  Then shall ye call upon me and ye shall go and pray unto me and I will hearken unto you .

 2913  And ye shall seek me and find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart .

 2914  And I will be found of you saith the LORD and I will turn away your captivity and I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places whither I have driven you saith the LORD and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive .

 2915  Because ye have said The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon .

 2916  Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David and of all the people that dwelleth in this city and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity .

 2917  Thus saith the LORD of hosts Behold I will send upon them the sword the famine and the pestilence and will make them like vile figs that cannot be eaten they are so evil .

 2918  And I will persecute them with the sword with the famine and with the pestilence and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth to be a curse and an astonishment and an hissing and a reproach among all the nations whither I have driven them .

 2919  Because they have not hearkened to my words saith the LORD which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets rising up early and sending them but ye would not hear saith the LORD .

 2920  Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD all ye of the captivity whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon .

 2921  Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel of Ahab the son of Kolaiah and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah which prophesy a lie unto you in my name Behold I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and he shall slay them before your eyes .

 2922  And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon saying The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire .

 2923  Because they have committed villany in Israel and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives and have spoken lying words in my name which I have not commanded them even I know and am a witness saith the LORD .

 2924  Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite saying .

 2925  Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts the God of Israel saying Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest and to all the priests saying .

 2926  The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD for every man that is mad and maketh himself a prophet that thou shouldest put him in prison and in the stocks .

 2927  Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth which maketh himself a prophet to you .

 2928  For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon saying This captivity is long build ye houses and dwell in them and plant gardens and eat the fruit of them .

 2929  And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet .

 2930  Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah saying .

 2931  Send to all them of the captivity saying Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you and I sent him not and he caused you to trust in a lie .

 2932  Therefore thus saith the LORD Behold I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his seed he shall not have a man to dwell among this people neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people saith the LORD because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD .

* 301  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying .

 302  Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel saying Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book .

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

 304  And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah .

 305  For thus saith the LORD We have heard a voice of trembling of fear and not of peace .

 306  Ask ye now and see whether a man doth travail with child wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travail and all faces are turned into paleness .

 307  Alas for that day is great so that none is like it it is even the time of Jacob's trouble but he shall be saved out of it .

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

 309  But they shall serve the LORD their God and David their king whom I will raise up unto them .

 3010  Therefore fear thou not O my servant Jacob saith the LORD neither be dismayed O Israel for lo I will save thee from afar and thy seed from the land of their captivity and Jacob shall return and shall be in rest and be quiet and none shall make him afraid .

 3011  For I am with thee saith the LORD to save thee though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee yet will I not make a full end of thee but I will correct thee in measure and will not leave thee altogether unpunished .

 3012  For thus saith the LORD Thy bruise is incurable and thy wound is grievous .

 3013  There is none to plead thy cause that thou mayest be bound up thou hast no healing medicines .

 3014  All thy lovers have forgotten thee they seek thee not for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy with the chastisement of a cruel one for the multitude of thine iniquity because thy sins were increased .

 3015  Why criest thou for thine affliction thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity because thy sins were increased I have done these things unto thee .

 3016  Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured and all thine adversaries every one of them shall go into captivity and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey .

 3017  For I will restore health unto thee and I will heal thee of thy wounds saith the LORD because they called thee an Outcast saying This is Zion whom no man seeketh after .

 3018  Thus saith the LORD Behold I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents and have mercy on his dwellingplaces and the city shall be builded upon her own heap and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof .

 3019  And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry and I will multiply them and they shall not be few I will also glorify them and they shall not be small .

 3020  Their children also shall be as aforetime and their congregation shall be established before me and I will punish all that oppress them .

 3021  And their nobles shall be of themselves and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them and I will cause him to draw near and he shall approach unto me for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me saith the LORD .

 3022  And ye shall be my people and I will be your God .

 3023  Behold the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury a continuing whirlwind it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked .

 3024  The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return until he have done it and until he have performed the intents of his heart in the latter days ye shall consider it .

* 311  At the same time saith the LORD will I be the God of all the families of Israel and they shall be my people .

 312  Thus saith the LORD The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness even Israel when I went to cause him to rest .

 313  The LORD hath appeared of old unto me saying Yea I have loved thee with an everlasting love therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee .

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

 315  Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria the planters shall plant and shall eat them as common things .

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

 317  For thus saith the LORD Sing with gladness for Jacob and shout among the chief of the nations publish ye praise ye and say O LORD save thy people the remnant of Israel .

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

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

 3110  Hear the word of the LORD O ye nations and declare it in the isles afar off and say He that scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock .

 3111  For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he .

 3112  Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD for wheat and for wine and for oil and for the young of the flock and of the herd and their soul shall be as a watered garden and they shall not sorrow any more at all .

 3113  Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance both young men and old together for I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and make them rejoice from their sorrow .

 3114  And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness saith the LORD .

 3115  Thus saith the LORD A voice was heard in Ramah lamentation and bitter weeping Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children because they were not .

 3116  Thus saith the LORD Refrain thy voice from weeping and thine eyes from tears for thy work shall be rewarded saith the LORD and they shall come again from the land of the enemy .

 3117  And there is hope in thine end saith the LORD that thy children shall come again to their own border .

 3118  I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus Thou hast chastised me and I was chastised as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke turn thou me and I shall be turned for thou art the LORD my God .

 3119  Surely after that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea even confounded because I did bear the reproach of my youth .

 3120  Is Ephraim my dear son is he a pleasant child for since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy upon him saith the LORD .

 3121  Set thee up waymarks make thee high heaps set thine heart toward the highway even the way which thou wentest turn again O virgin of Israel turn again to these thy cities .

 3122  How long wilt thou go about O thou backsliding daughter for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth A woman shall compass a man .

 3123  Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof when I shall bring again their captivity The LORD bless thee O habitation of justice and mountain of holiness .

 3124  And there shall dwell in Judah itself and in all the cities thereof together husbandmen and they that go forth with flocks .

 3125  For I have satiated the weary soul and I have replenished every sorrowful soul .

 3126  Upon this I awaked and beheld and my sleep was sweet unto me .

 3127  Behold the days come saith the LORD that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast .

 3128  And it shall come to pass that like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to throw down and to destroy and to afflict so will I watch over them to build and to plant saith the LORD .

 3129  In those days they shall say no more The fathers have eaten a sour grape and the children's teeth are set on edge .

 3130  But every one shall die for his own iniquity every man that eateth the sour grape his teeth shall be set on edge  .

3131  Behold the days come saith the LORD that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah .

 3132  Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt which my covenant they brake although I was an husband unto them saith the LORD .

 3133  But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days saith the LORD I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their God and they shall be my people .

 3134  And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the LORD for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them saith the LORD for I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sin no more .

 3135  Thus saith the LORD which giveth the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar The LORD of hosts is his name .

 3136  If those ordinances depart from before me saith the LORD then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever .

 3137  Thus saith the LORD If heaven above can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done saith the LORD .

 3138  Behold the days come saith the LORD that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner .

 3139  And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb and shall compass about to Goath .

 3140  And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east shall be holy unto the LORD it shall not be plucked up nor thrown down any more for  ever .

* 321  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar .

 322  For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison which was in the king of Judah's house .

 323  For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up saying Wherefore dost thou prophesy and say Thus saith the LORD Behold I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon and he shall take it .

 324  And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon and shall speak with him mouth to mouth and his eyes shall behold his eyes .

 325  And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon and there shall he be until I visit him saith the LORD though ye fight with the Chaldeans ye shall not prosper .

 326  And Jeremiah said The word of the LORD came unto me saying .

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

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

 329  And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son that was in Anathoth and weighed him the money even seventeen shekels of silver .

 3210  And I subscribed the evidence and sealed it and took witnesses and weighed him the money in the balances .

 3211  So I took the evidence of the purchase both that which was sealed according to the law and custom and that which was open .

 3212  And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah the son of Maaseiah in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison .

 3213  And I charged Baruch before them saying .

 3214  Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Take these evidences this evidence of the purchase both which is sealed and this evidence which is open and put them in an earthen vessel that they may continue many days .

 3215  For thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land .

 3216  Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah I prayed unto the LORD saying .

 3217  Ah Lord GOD behold thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm and there is nothing too hard for thee .

 3218  Thou showest lovingkindness unto thousands and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them the Great the Mighty God the LORD of hosts is his name .

 3219  Great in counsel and mighty in work for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men to give every one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings .

 3220  Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even unto this day and in Israel and among other men and hast made thee a name as at this day .

 3221  And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders and with a strong hand and with a stretched out arm and with great terror .

 3222  And hast given them this land which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey .

 3223  And they came in and possessed it but they obeyed not thy voice neither walked in thy law they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them .

 3224  Behold the mounts they are come unto the city to take it and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it because of the sword and of the famine and of the pestilence and what thou hast spoken is come to pass and behold thou seest it .

 3225  And thou hast said unto me O Lord GOD Buy thee the field for money and take witnesses for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans .

 3226  Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah saying .

 3227  Behold I am the LORD the God of all flesh is there any thing too hard for me .

 3228  Therefore thus saith the LORD Behold I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and he shall take it .

 3229  And the Chaldeans that fight against this city shall come and set fire on this city and burn it with the houses upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal and poured out drink offerings unto other gods to provoke me to anger .

 3230  For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands saith the LORD .

 3231  For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day that I should remove it from before my face .

 3232  Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah which they have done to provoke me to anger they their kings their princes their priests and their prophets and the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem .

 3233  And they have turned unto me the back and not the face though I taught them rising up early and teaching them yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction .

 3234  But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name to defile it .

 3235  And they built the high places of Baal which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech which I commanded them not neither came it into my mind that they should do this abomination to cause Judah to sin .

 3236  And now therefore thus saith the LORD the God of Israel concerning this city whereof ye say It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence .

 3237  Behold I will gather them out of all countries whither I have driven them in mine anger and in my fury and in great wrath and I will bring them again unto this place and I will cause them to dwell safely .

 3238  And they shall be my people and I will be their God .

 3239  And I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me for ever for the good of them and of their children after them .

 3240  And I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them to do them good but I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me .

 3241  Yea I will rejoice over them to do them good and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul .

 3242  For thus saith the LORD Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them .

 3243  And fields shall be bought in this land whereof ye say It is desolate without man or beast it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans .

 3244  Men shall buy fields for money and subscribe evidences and seal them and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin and in the places about Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah and in the cities of the mountains and in the cities of the valley and in the cities of the south for I will cause their captivity to return saith the LORD .

* 331  Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison saying .

 332  Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof the LORD that formed it to establish it the LORD is his name .

 333  Call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not .

 334  For thus saith the LORD the God of Israel concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah which are thrown down by the mounts and by the sword .

 335  They come to fight with the Chaldeans but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city .

 336  Behold I will bring it health and cure and I will cure them and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth .

 337  And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return and will build them as at the first .

 338  And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity whereby they have sinned against me and I will pardon all their iniquities whereby they have sinned and whereby they have transgressed against me .

 339  And it shall be to me a name of joy a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth which shall hear all the good that I do unto them and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it .

 3310  Thus saith the LORD Again there shall be heard in this place which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast even in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate without man and without inhabitant and without beast .

 3311  The voice of joy and the voice of gladness the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride the voice of them that shall say Praise the LORD of hosts for the LORD is good for his mercy endureth for ever and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD For I will cause to return the captivity of the land as at the first saith the LORD .

 3312  Thus saith the LORD of hosts Again in this place which is desolate without man and without beast and in all the cities thereof shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down .

 3313  In the cities of the mountains in the cities of the vale and in the cities of the south and in the land of Benjamin and in the places about Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them saith the LORD .

 3314  Behold the days come saith the LORD that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah .

 3315  In those days and at that time will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land .

 3316  In those days shall Judah be saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely and this is the name wherewith she shall be called The LORD our righteousness .

 3317  For thus saith the LORD David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel .

 3318  Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings and to kindle meat offerings and to do sacrifice continually .

 3319  And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah saying .

 3320  Thus saith the LORD If ye can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night and that there should not be day and night in their season .

 3321  Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne and with the Levites the priests my ministers .

 3322  As the host of heaven cannot be numbered neither the sand of the sea measured so will I multiply the seed of David my servant and the Levites that minister unto me .

 3323  Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah saying .

 3324  Considerest thou not what this people have spoken saying The two families which the LORD hath chosen he hath even cast them off thus they have despised my people that they should be no more a nation before them .

 3325  Thus saith the LORD If my covenant be not with day and night and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth .

 3326  Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham Isaac and Jacob for I will cause their captivity to return and have mercy on them .

* 341  The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion and all the people fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities thereof saying .

 342  Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him Thus saith the LORD Behold I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon and he shall burn it with fire .

 343  And thou shalt not escape out of his hand but shalt surely be taken and delivered into his hand and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth and thou shalt go to Babylon .

 344  Yet hear the word of the LORD O Zedekiah king of Judah Thus saith the LORD of thee Thou shalt not die by the sword .

 345  But thou shalt die in peace and with the burnings of thy fathers the former kings which were before thee so shall they burn odours for thee and they will lament thee saying Ah lord for I have pronounced the word saith the LORD .

 346  Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem .

 347  When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left against Lachish and against Azekah for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah .

 348  This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem to proclaim liberty unto them .

 349  That every man should let his manservant and every man his maidservant being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess go free that none should serve himself of them to wit of a Jew his brother .

 3410  Now when all the princes and all the people which had entered into the covenant heard that every one should let his manservant and every one his maidservant go free that none should serve themselves of them any more then they obeyed and let them go .

 3411  But afterward they turned and caused the servants and the handmaids whom they had let go free to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids .

 3412  Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying .

 3413  Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondmen saying .

 3414  At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew which hath been sold unto thee and when he hath served thee six years thou shalt let him go free from thee but your fathers hearkened not unto me neither inclined their ear .

 3415  And ye were now turned and had done right in my sight in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name .

 3416  But ye turned and polluted my name and caused every man his servant and every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure to return and brought them into subjection to be unto you for servants and for handmaids .

 3417  Therefore thus saith the LORD Ye have not hearkened unto me in proclaiming liberty every one to his brother and every man to his neighbour behold I proclaim a liberty for you saith the LORD to the sword to the pestilence and to the famine and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth .

 3418  And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof .

 3419  The princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem the eunuchs and the priests and all the people of the land which passed between the parts of the calf .

 3420  I will even give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven and to the beasts of the earth .

 3421  And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army which are gone up from you .

 3422  Behold I will command saith the LORD and cause them to return to this city and they shall fight against it and take it and burn it with fire and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant .

* 351  The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah saying .

 352  Go unto the house of the Rechabites and speak unto them and bring them into the house of the LORD into one of the chambers and give them wine to drink .

 353  Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah the son of Habaziniah and his brethren and all his sons and the whole house of the Rechabites .

 354  And I brought them into the house of the LORD into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah a man of God which was by the chamber of the princes which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum the keeper of the  door .

 355  And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine and cups and I said unto them Drink ye wine .

 356  But they said We will drink no wine for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us saying Ye shall drink no wine neither ye nor your sons for ever .

 357  Neither shall ye build house nor sow seed nor plant vineyard nor have any but all your days ye shall dwell in tents that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers .

 358  Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us to drink no wine all our days we our wives our sons nor our daughters .

 359  Nor to build houses for us to dwell in neither have we vineyard nor field nor seed .

 3510  But we have dwelt in tents and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us .

 3511  But it came to pass when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land that we said Come and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and for fear of the army of the Syrians so we dwell at Jerusalem .

 3512  Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah saying  .

3513  Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words saith the LORD .

 3514  The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab that he commanded his sons not to drink wine are performed for unto this day they drink none but obey their father's commandment notwithstanding I have spoken unto you rising early and speaking but ye hearkened not unto me .

 3515  I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets rising up early and sending them saying Return ye now every man from his evil way and amend your doings and go not after other gods to serve them and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers but ye have not inclined your ear nor hearkened unto me .

 3516  Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them but this people hath not hearkened unto me .

 3517  Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts the God of Israel Behold I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them because I have spoken unto them but they have not heard and I have called unto them but they have not answered .

 3518  And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done according unto all that he hath commanded you .

 3519  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever .

* 361  And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD saying .

 362  Take thee a roll of a book and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel and against Judah and against all the nations from the day I spake unto thee from the days of Josiah even unto this day .

 363  It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them that they may return every man from his evil way that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin .

 364  Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD which he had spoken unto him upon a roll of a book .

 365  And Jeremiah commanded Baruch saying I am shut up I cannot go into the house of the LORD .

 366  Therefore go thou and read in the roll which thou hast written from my mouth the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities .

 367  It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD and will return every one from his evil way for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people .

 368  And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house .

 369  And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah in the ninth month that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem .

 3610  Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe in the higher court at the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house in the ears of all the people  .

3611  When Michaiah the son of Gemariah the son of Shaphan had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD .

 3612  Then he went down into the king's house into the scribe's chamber and lo all the princes sat there even Elishama the scribe and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah and Elnathan the son of Achbor and Gemariah the son of Shaphan and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah and all the princes .

 3613  Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people .

 3614  Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah the son of Shelemiah the son of Cushi unto Baruch saying Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people and come So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand and came unto them .

 3615  And they said unto him Sit down now and read it in our ears So Baruch read it in their ears .

 3616  Now it came to pass when they had heard all the words they were afraid both one and other and said unto Baruch We will surely tell the king of all these words .

 3617  And they asked Baruch saying Tell us now How didst thou write all these words at his mouth .

 3618  Then Baruch answered them He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth and I wrote them with ink in the book .

 3619  Then said the princes unto Baruch Go hide thee thou and Jeremiah and let no man know where ye be .

 3620  And they went in to the king into the court but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe and told all the words in the ears of the king .

 3621  So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king .

 3622  Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him .

 3623  And it came to pass that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves he cut it with the penknife and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth .

 3624  Yet they were not afraid nor rent their garments neither the king nor any of his servants that heard all these words .

 3625  Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll but he would not hear them .

 3626  But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech and Seraiah the son of Azriel and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet but the LORD hid them .

 3627  Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah after that the king had burned the roll and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah saying .

 3628  Take thee again another roll and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned .

 3629  And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah Thus saith the LORD Thou hast burned this roll saying Why hast thou written therein saying The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast .

 3630  Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat and in the night to the frost .

 3631  And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity and I will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and upon the men of Judah all the evil that I have pronounced against them but they hearkened not .

 3632  Then took Jeremiah another roll and gave it to Baruch the scribe the son of Neriah who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire and there were added besides unto them many like words .

* 371  And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah .

 372  But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land did hearken unto the words of the LORD which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah .

 373  And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah saying Pray now unto the LORD our God for us .

 374  Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people for they had not put him into prison .

 375  Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them they departed from Jerusalem .

 376  Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah saying .

 377  Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah that sent you unto me to inquire of me Behold Pharaoh's army which is come forth to help you shall return to Egypt into their own land .

 378  And the Chaldeans shall come again and fight against this city and take it and burn it with fire .

 379  Thus saith the LORD Deceive not yourselves saying The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us for they shall not depart .

 3710  For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you and there remained but wounded men among them yet should they rise up every man in his tent and burn this city with fire .

 3711  And it came to pass that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army .

 3712  Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin to separate himself thence in the midst of the people .

 3713  And when he was in the gate of Benjamin a captain of the ward was there whose name was Irijah the son of Shelemiah the son of Hananiah and he took Jeremiah the prophet saying Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans .

 3714  Then said Jeremiah It is false I fall not away to the Chaldeans But he hearkened not to him so Irijah took Jeremiah and brought him to the princes .

 3715  Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah and smote him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe for they had made that the prison .

 3716  When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon and into the cabins and Jeremiah had remained there many days .

 3717  Then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out and the king asked him secretly in his house and said Is there any word from the LORD And Jeremiah said There is for said he thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon .

 3718  Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah What have I offended against thee or against thy servants or against this people that ye have put me in prison .

 3719  Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you saying The king of Babylon shall not come against you nor against this land .

 3720  Therefore hear now I pray thee O my lord the king let my supplication I pray thee be accepted before thee that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe lest I die there .

 3721  Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street until all the bread in the city were spent Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison .

* 381  Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan and Gedaliah the son of Pashur and Jucal the son of Shelemiah and Pashur the son of Malchiah heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people saying .

 382  Thus saith the LORD He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live for he shall have his life for a prey and shall live .

 383  Thus saith the LORD This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army which shall take it .

 384  Therefore the princes said unto the king We beseech thee let this man be put to death for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city and the hands of all the people in speaking such words unto them for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people but the hurt .

 385  Then Zedekiah the king said Behold he is in your hand for the king is not he that can do any thing against you .

 386  Then took they Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech that was in the court of the prison and they let down Jeremiah with cords And in the dungeon there was no water but mire so Jeremiah sunk in the mire .

 387  Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin .

 388  Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house and spake to the king saying .

 389  My lord the king these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have cast into the dungeon and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is for there is no more bread in the city .

 3810  Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian saying Take from hence thirty men with thee and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon before he die .

 3811  So Ebedmelech took the men with him and went into the house of the king under the treasury and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah .

 3812  And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords And Jeremiah did so .

 3813  So they drew up Jeremiah with cords and took him up out of the dungeon and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison .

 3814  Then Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD and the king said unto Jeremiah I will ask thee a thing hide nothing from me .

 3815  Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah If I declare it unto thee wilt thou not surely put me to death and if I give thee counsel wilt thou not hearken unto me .

 3816  So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah saying As the LORD liveth that made us this soul I will not put thee to death neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life .

 3817  Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah Thus saith the LORD the God of hosts the God of Israel If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes then thy soul shall live and this city shall not be burned with fire and thou shalt live and thine house .

 3818  But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans and they shall burn it with fire and thou shalt not escape out of their hand .

 3819  And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans lest they deliver me into their hand and they mock me .

 3820  But Jeremiah said They shall not deliver thee Obey I beseech thee the voice of the LORD which I speak unto thee so it shall be well unto thee and thy soul shall live .

 3821  But if thou refuse to go forth this is the word that the LORD hath showed me .

 3822  And behold all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes and those women shall say Thy friends have set thee on and have prevailed against thee thy feet are sunk in the mire and they are turned away back .

 3823  So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans and thou shalt not escape out of their hand but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire .

 3824  Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah Let no man know of these words and thou shalt not die .

 3825  But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee and they come unto thee and say unto thee Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king hide it not from us and we will not put thee to death also what the king said unto thee .

 3826  Then thou shalt say unto them I presented my supplication before the king that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house to die there .

 3827  Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah and asked him and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded So they left off speaking with him for the matter was not perceived .

 3828  So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken and he was there when Jerusalem was taken .

* 391  In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah in the tenth month came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem and they besieged it .

 392  And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah in the fourth month the ninth day of the month the city was broken up .

 393  And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the middle gate even Nergalsharezer Samgarnebo Sarsechim Rabsaris Nergalsharezer Rabmag with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon .

 394  And it came to pass that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them and all the men of war then they fled and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the king's garden by the gate betwixt the two walls and he went out the way of the plain .

 395  But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho and when they had taken him they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath where he gave judgment upon him .

 396  Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah .

 397  Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him with chains to carry him to Babylon .

 398  And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people with fire and brake down the walls of Jerusalem .

 399  Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city and those that fell away that fell to him with the rest of the people that remained .

 3910  But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people which had nothing in the land of Judah and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time .

 3911  Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard saying .

 3912  Take him and look well to him and do him no harm but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee .

 3913  So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent and Nebushasban Rabsaris and Nergalsharezer Rabmag and all the king of Babylon's princes .

 3914  Even they sent and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan that he should carry him home so he dwelt among the people .

 3915  Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah while he was shut up in the court of the prison saying .

 3916  Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian saying Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Behold I will bring my words upon this city for evil and not for good and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee .

 3917  But I will deliver thee in that day saith the LORD and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid .

 3918  For I will surely deliver thee and thou shalt not fall by the sword but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee because thou hast put thy trust in me saith the LORD .

* 401  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah which were carried away captive unto Babylon .

 402  And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said unto him The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place .

 403  Now the LORD hath brought it and done according as he hath said because ye have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed his voice therefore this thing is come upon you .

 404  And now behold I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon come and I will look well unto thee but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon forbear behold all the land is before thee whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go thither go .

 405  Now while he was not yet gone back he said Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah and dwell with him among the people or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward and let him go .

 406  Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land .

 407  Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields even they and their men heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land and had committed unto him men and women and children and of the poor of the land of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon .

 408  Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite they and their men .

 409  And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men saying Fear not to serve the Chaldeans dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon and it shall be well with you .

 4010  As for me behold I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans which will come unto us but ye gather ye wine and summer fruits and oil and put them in your vessels and dwell in your cities that ye have taken .

 4011  Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab and among the Ammonites and in Edom and that were in all the countries heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan .

 4012  Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven and came to the land of Judah to Gedaliah unto Mizpah and gathered wine and summer fruits very much .

 4013  Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields came to Gedaliah to Mizpah .

 4014  And said unto him Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not .

 4015  Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly saying Let me go I pray thee and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and no man shall know it wherefore should he slay thee that all the Jews which are gathered  unto thee should be scattered and the remnant in Judah perish .

 4016  But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah Thou shalt not do this thing for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael .

* 411  Now it came to pass in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama of the seed royal and the princes of the king even ten men with him came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah .

 412  Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men that were with him and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword and slew him whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land .

 413  Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him even with Gedaliah at Mizpah and the Chaldeans that were found there and the men of war .

 414  And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah and no man knew it .

 415  That there came certain from Shechem from Shiloh and from Samaria even fourscore men having their beards shaven and their clothes rent and having cut themselves with offerings and incense in their hand to bring them to the house of the LORD .

 416  And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them weeping all along as he went and it came to pass as he met them he said unto them Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam .

 417  And it was so when they came into the midst of the city that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them and cast them into the midst of the pit he and the men that were with him .

 418  But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael Slay us not for we have treasures in the field of wheat and of barley and of oil and of honey So he forbare and slew them not among their brethren .

 419  Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain because of Gedaliah was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain .

 4110  Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah even the king's daughters and all the people that remained in Mizpah whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive and departed to go over to the Ammonites .

 4111  But when Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces that were with him heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done .

 4112  Then they took all the men and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon .

 4113  Now it came to pass that when all the people which were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces that were with him then they were glad .

 4114  So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah .

 4115  But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to the Ammonites .

 4116  Then took Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces that were with him all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah from Mizpah after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam even mighty men of war and the women and the children and the eunuchs whom he had brought again from Gibeon .

 4117  And they departed and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham which is by Bethlehem to go to enter into Egypt .

 4118  Because of the Chaldeans for they were afraid of them because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land  .

* 421  Then all the captains of the forces and Johanan the son of Kareah and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah and all the people from the least even unto the greatest came near .

 422  And said unto Jeremiah the prophet Let we beseech thee our supplication be accepted before thee and pray for us unto the LORD thy God even for all this remnant (for we are left but a few of many as thine eyes do behold us .

 423  That the LORD thy God may show us the way wherein we may walk and the thing that we may do .

 424  Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them I have heard you behold I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words and it shall come to pass that whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you I will declare it unto you I will keep nothing back from you .

 425  Then they said to Jeremiah The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us .

 426  Whether it be good or whether it be evil we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we send thee that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God .

 427  And it came to pass after ten days that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah .

 428  Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces which were with him and all the people from the least even to the greatest .

 429  And said unto them Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him .

 4210  If ye will still abide in this land then will I build you and not pull you down and I will plant you and not pluck you up for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you .

 4211  Be not afraid of the king of Babylon of whom ye are afraid be not afraid of him saith the LORD for I am with you to save you and to deliver you from his hand .

 4212  And I will show mercies unto you that he may have mercy upon you and cause you to return to your own land .

 4213  But if ye say We will not dwell in this land neither obey the voice of the LORD your God .

 4214  Saying No but we will go into the land of Egypt where we shall see no war nor hear the sound of the trumpet nor have hunger of bread and there will we dwell .

 4215  And now therefore hear the word of the LORD ye remnant of Judah Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt and go to sojourn there .

 4216  Then it shall come to pass that the sword which ye feared shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt and the famine whereof ye were afraid shall follow close after you there in Egypt and there ye shall die .

 4217  So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there they shall die by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them .

 4218  For thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem so shall my fury be poured forth upon you when ye shall enter into Egypt and ye shall be an execration and an astonishment and a curse and a reproach and ye shall see this place no more .

 4219  The LORD hath said concerning you O ye remnant of Judah Go ye not into Egypt know certainly that I have admonished you this day .

 4220  For ye dissembled in your hearts when ye sent me unto the LORD your God saying Pray for us unto the LORD our God and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say so declare unto us and we will do it .

 4221  And now I have this day declared it to you but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you .

 4222  Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn .

* 431  And it came to pass that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God for which the LORD their God had sent him to them even all these words .

 432  Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the proud men saying unto Jeremiah Thou speakest falsely the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say Go not into Egypt to sojourn there .

 433  But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans that they might put us to death and carry us away captives into Babylon .

 434  So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces and all the people obeyed not the voice of the LORD to dwell in the land of Judah .

 435  But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces took all the remnant of Judah that were returned from all nations whither they had been driven to dwell in the land of Judah .

 436  Even men and women and children and the king's daughters and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan and Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah .

 437  So they came into the land of Egypt for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD thus came they even to Tahpanhes .

 438  Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes saying .

 439  Take great stones in thine hand and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes in the sight of the men of Judah .

 4310  And say unto them Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Behold I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon my servant and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid and he shall spread his royal pavilion  over them .

 4311  And when he cometh he shall smite the land of Egypt and deliver such as are for death to death and such as are for captivity to captivity and such as are for the sword to the sword .

 4312  And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt and he shall burn them and carry them away captives and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd putteth on his garment and he shall go forth from thence in peace .

 4313  He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh that is in the land of Egypt and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire .

* 441  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt which dwell at Migdol and at Tahpanhes and at Noph and in the country of Pathros saying .

 442  Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah and behold this day they are a desolation and no man dwelleth therein .

 443  Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger in that they went to burn incense and to serve other gods whom they knew not neither they ye nor your fathers .

 444  Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets rising early and sending them saying Oh do not this abominable thing that I hate .

 445  But they hearkened not nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness to burn no incense unto other gods .

 446  Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem and they are wasted and desolate as at this day .

 447  Therefore now thus saith the LORD the God of hosts the God of Israel Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls to cut off from you man and woman child and suckling out of Judah to leave you none to remain .

 448  In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt whither ye be gone to dwell that ye might cut yourselves off and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth .

 449  Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and the wickedness of the kings of Judah and the wickedness of their wives and your own wickedness and the wickedness of your wives which they have committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem .

 4410  They are not humbled even unto this day neither have they feared nor walked in my law nor in my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers .

 4411  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Behold I will set my face against you for evil and to cut off all Judah .

 4412  And I will take the remnant of Judah that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there and they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine they shall die from the least even unto the greatest by the sword and by the famine and they shall be an execration and an astonishment and a curse and a reproach .

 4413  For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt as I have punished Jerusalem by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence .

 4414  So that none of the remnant of Judah which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there shall escape or remain that they should return into the land of Judah to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there for none shall return but such as shall escape .

 4415  Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods and all the women that stood by a great multitude even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt in Pathros answered Jeremiah saying .

 4416  As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD we will not hearken unto thee .

 4417  But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth to burn incense unto the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her as we have done we and our fathers our kings and our princes in the cities of  Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem for then had we plenty of victuals and were well and saw no evil .

 4418  But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her we have wanted all things and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine .

 4419  And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings unto her did we make her cakes to worship her and pour out drink offerings unto her without our men .

 4420  Then Jeremiah said unto all the people to the men and to the women and to all the people which had given him that answer saying .

 4421  The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem ye and your fathers your kings and your princes and the people of the land did not the LORD remember them and came it not into his mind .

 4422  So that the LORD could no longer bear because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which ye have committed therefore is your land a desolation and an astonishment and a curse without an inhabitant as at this day .

 4423  Because ye have burned incense and because ye have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD nor walked in his law nor in his statutes nor in his testimonies therefore this evil is happened unto you as at this day .

 4424  Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people and to all the women Hear the word of the LORD all Judah that are in the land of Egypt .

 4425  Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel saying Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hand saying We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her ye will surely accomplish your vows and surely perform your vows .

 4426  Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt Behold I have sworn by my great name saith the LORD that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt saying The Lord GOD liveth .

 4427  Behold I will watch over them for evil and not for good and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine until there be an end of them .

 4428  Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah and all the remnant of Judah that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there shall know whose words shall stand mine or theirs .

 4429  And this shall be a sign unto you saith the LORD that I will punish you in this place that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil .

 4430  Thus saith the LORD Behold I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of them that seek his life as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon his enemy and that sought his life .

* 451  The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah saying .

 452  Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel unto thee O Baruch .

 453  Thou didst say Woe is me now for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow I fainted in my sighing and I find no rest .

 454  Thus shalt thou say unto him The LORD saith thus Behold that which I have built will I break down and that which I have planted I will pluck up even this whole land .

 455  And seekest thou great things for thyself seek them not for behold I will bring evil upon all flesh saith the LORD but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest .

* 461  The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles .

 462  Against Egypt against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah .

 463  Order ye the buckler and shield and draw near to battle .

 464  Harness the horses and get up ye horsemen and stand forth with your helmets furbish the spears and put on the brigandines .

 465  Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back and their mighty ones are beaten down and are fled apace and look not back for fear was round about saith the LORD .

 466  Let not the swift flee away nor the mighty man escape they shall stumble and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates .

 467  Who is this that cometh up as a flood whose waters are moved as the rivers .

 468  Egypt riseth up like a flood and his waters are moved like the rivers and he saith I will go up and will cover the earth I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof .

 469  Come up ye horses and rage ye chariots and let the mighty men come forth the Ethiopians and the Libyans that handle the shield and the Lydians that handle and bend the bow .

 4610  For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts a day of vengeance that he may avenge him of his adversaries and the sword shall devour and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates .

 4611  Go up into Gilead and take balm O virgin the daughter of Egypt in vain shalt thou use many medicines for thou shalt not be cured .

 4612  The nations have heard of thy shame and thy cry hath filled the land for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty and they are fallen both together .

 4613  The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt .

 4614  Declare ye in Egypt and publish in Migdol and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes say ye Stand fast and prepare thee for the sword shall devour round about thee .

 4615  Why are thy valiant men swept away they stood not because the LORD did drive them .

 4616  He made many to fall yea one fell upon another and they said Arise and let us go again to our own people and to the land of our nativity from the oppressing sword .

 4617  They did cry there Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise he hath passed the time appointed .

 4618  As I live saith the King whose name is the LORD of hosts Surely as Tabor is among the mountains and as Carmel by the sea so shall he come .

 4619  O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt furnish thyself to go into captivity for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant .

 4620  Egypt is like a very fair heifer but destruction cometh it cometh out of the north .

 4621  Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks for they also are turned back and are fled away together they did not stand because the day of their calamity was come upon them and the time of their visitation .

 4622  The voice thereof shall go like a serpent for they shall march with an army and come against her with axes as hewers of wood .

 4623  They shall cut down her forest saith the LORD though it cannot be searched because they are more than the grasshoppers and are innumerable .

 4624  The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north .

 4625  The LORD of hosts the God of Israel saith Behold I will punish the multitude of No and Pharaoh and Egypt with their gods and their kings even Pharaoh and all them that trust in him .

 4626  And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of his servants and afterward it shall be inhabited as in the days of old saith the LORD .

 4627  But fear not thou O my servant Jacob and be not dismayed O Israel for behold I will save thee from afar off and thy seed from the land of their captivity and Jacob shall return and be in rest and at ease and none shall make him afraid .

 4628  Fear thou not O Jacob my servant saith the LORD for I am with thee for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee but I will not make a full end of thee but correct thee in measure yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished .

* 471  The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines before that Pharaoh smote Gaza .

 472  Thus saith the LORD Behold waters rise up out of the north and shall be an overflowing flood and shall overflow the land and all that is therein the city and them that dwell therein then the men shall cry and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl .

 473  At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses at the rushing of his chariots and at the rumbling of his wheels the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands .

 474  Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth for the LORD will spoil the Philistines the remnant of the country of Caphtor .

 475  Baldness is come upon Gaza Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley how long wilt thou cut thyself .

 476  O thou sword of the LORD how long will it be ere thou be quiet put up thyself into thy scabbard rest and be still .

 477  How can it be quiet seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon and against the sea shore there hath he appointed it .

* 481  Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Woe unto Nebo for it is spoiled Kiriathaim is confounded and taken Misgab is confounded and dismayed .

 482  There shall be no more praise of Moab in Heshbon they have devised evil against it come and let us cut it off from being a nation Also thou shalt be cut down O Madmen the sword shall pursue thee .

 483  A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim spoiling and great destruction .

 484  Moab is destroyed her little ones have caused a cry to be heard .

 485  For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction .

 486  Flee save your lives and be like the heath in the wilderness .

 487  For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures thou shalt also be taken and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together .

 488  And the spoiler shall come upon every city and no city shall escape the valley also shall perish and the plain shall be destroyed as the LORD hath spoken .

 489  Give wings unto Moab that it may flee and get away for the cities thereof shall be desolate without any to dwell therein .

 4810  Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood .

 4811  Moab hath been at ease from his youth and he hath settled on his lees and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel neither hath he gone into captivity therefore his taste remained in him and his scent is not changed .

 4812  Therefore behold the days come saith the LORD that I will send unto him wanderers that shall cause him to wander and shall empty his vessels and break their bottles .

 4813  And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence .

 4814  How say ye We are mighty and strong men for the war .

 4815  Moab is spoiled and gone up out of her cities and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter saith the King whose name is the LORD of hosts .

 4816  The calamity of Moab is near to come and his affliction hasteth fast .

 4817  All ye that are about him bemoan him and all ye that know his name say How is the strong staff broken and the beautiful rod .

 4818  Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon come down from thy glory and sit in thirst for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee and he shall destroy thy strong holds .

 4819  O inhabitant of Aroer stand by the way and espy ask him that fleeth and her that escapeth and say What is done .

 4820  Moab is confounded for it is broken down howl and cry tell ye it in Arnon that Moab is spoiled .

 4821  And judgment is come upon the plain country upon Holon and upon Jahazah and upon Mephaath .

 4822  And upon Dibon and upon Nebo and upon Bethdiblathaim .

 4823  And upon Kiriathaim and upon Bethgamul and upon Bethmeon .

 4824  And upon Kerioth and upon Bozrah and upon all the cities of the land of Moab far or near .

 4825  The horn of Moab is cut off and his arm is broken saith the LORD .

 4826  Make ye him drunken for he magnified himself against the LORD Moab also shall wallow in his vomit and he also shall be in derision .

 4827  For was not Israel a derision unto thee was he found among thieves for since thou spakest of him thou skippedst for joy .

 4828  O ye that dwell in Moab leave the cities and dwell in the rock and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth .

 4829  We have heard the pride of Moab (he is exceeding proud his loftiness and his arrogancy and his pride and the haughtiness of his heart .

 4830  I know his wrath saith the LORD but it shall not be so his lies shall not so effect it .

 4831  Therefore will I howl for Moab and I will cry out for all Moab mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres .

 4832  O vine of Sibmah I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer thy plants are gone over the sea they reach even to the sea of Jazer the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage .

 4833  And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field and from the land of Moab and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses none shall tread with shouting their shouting shall be no shouting .

 4834  From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh and even unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice from Zoar even unto Horonaim as an heifer of three years old for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate .

 4835  Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab saith the LORD him that offereth in the high places and him that burneth incense to his gods .

 4836  Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres because the riches that he hath gotten are perished .

 4837  For every head shall be bald and every beard clipped upon all the hands shall be cuttings and upon the loins sackcloth .

 4838  There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab and in the streets thereof for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure saith the LORD .

 4839  They shall howl saying How is it broken down how hath Moab turned the back with shame so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him .

 4840  For thus saith the LORD Behold he shall fly as an eagle and shall spread his wings over Moab .

 4841  Kerioth is taken and the strong holds are surprised and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs .

 4842  And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people because he hath magnified himself against the LORD .

 4843  Fear and the pit and the snare shall be upon thee O inhabitant of Moab saith the LORD .

 4844  He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare for I will bring upon it even upon Moab the year of their visitation saith the LORD .

 4845  They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon and a flame from the midst of Sihon and shall devour the corner of Moab and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones .

 4846  Woe be unto thee O Moab the people of Chemosh perisheth for thy sons are taken captives and thy daughters captives .

 4847  Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days saith the LORD Thus far is the judgment of Moab .

* 491  Concerning the Ammonites thus saith the LORD Hath Israel no sons hath he no heir why then doth their king inherit Gad and his people dwell in his cities .

 492  Therefore behold the days come saith the LORD that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites and it shall be a desolate heap and her daughters shall be burned with fire then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs saith the LORD .

 493  Howl O Heshbon for Ai is spoiled cry ye daughters of Rabbah gird you with sackcloth lament and run to and fro by the hedges for their king shall go into captivity and his priests and his princes together .

 494  Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys thy flowing valley O backsliding daughter that trusted in her treasures saying Who shall come unto me .

 495  Behold I will bring a fear upon thee saith the Lord GOD of hosts from all those that be about thee and ye shall be driven out every man right forth and none shall gather up him that wandereth .

 496  And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon saith the LORD .

 497  Concerning Edom thus saith the LORD of hosts Is wisdom no more in Teman is counsel perished from the prudent is their wisdom vanished .

 498  Flee ye turn back dwell deep O inhabitants of Dedan for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him the time that I will visit him .

 499  If grapegatherers come to thee would they not leave some gleaning grapes if thieves by night they will destroy till they have enough .

 4910  But I have made Esau bare I have uncovered his secret places and he shall not be able to hide himself his seed is spoiled and his brethren and his neighbours and he is not .

 4911  Leave thy fatherless children I will preserve them alive and let thy widows trust in me .

 4912  For thus saith the LORD Behold they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished thou shalt not go unpunished but thou shalt surely drink of it .

 4913  For I have sworn by myself saith the LORD that Bozrah shall become a desolation a reproach a waste and a curse and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes .

 4914  I have heard a rumour from the LORD and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen saying Gather ye together and come against her and rise up to the battle .

 4915  For lo I will make thee small among the heathen and despised among men .

 4916  Thy terribleness hath deceived thee and the pride of thine heart O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock that holdest the height of the hill though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle I will bring thee down from thence saith the LORD .

 4917  Also Edom shall be a desolation every one that goeth by it shall be astonished and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof .

 4918  As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof saith the LORD no man shall abide there neither shall a son of man dwell in it .

 4919  Behold he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong but I will suddenly make him run away from her and who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her for who is like me and who will appoint me the time and who is that shepherd that will stand before me .

 4920  Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that he hath taken against Edom and his purposes that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them .

 4921  The earth is moved at the noise of their fall at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea .

 4922  Behold he shall come up and fly as the eagle and spread his wings over Bozrah and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs .

 4923  Concerning Damascus Hamath is confounded and Arpad for they have heard evil tidings they are fainthearted there is sorrow on the sea it cannot be quiet .

 4924  Damascus is waxed feeble and turneth herself to flee and fear hath seized on her anguish and sorrows have taken her as a woman in travail .

 4925  How is the city of praise not left the city of my joy .

 4926  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day saith the LORD of hosts .

 4927  And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad .

 4928  Concerning Kedar and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite thus saith the LORD Arise ye go up to Kedar and spoil the men of the east .

 4929  Their tents and their flocks shall they take away they shall take to themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels and they shall cry unto them Fear is on every side .

 4930  Flee get you far off dwell deep O ye inhabitants of Hazor saith the LORD for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you and hath conceived a purpose against you .

 4931  Arise get you up unto the wealthy nation that dwelleth without care saith the LORD which have neither gates nor bars which dwell alone .

 4932  And their camels shall be a booty and the multitude of their cattle a spoil and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof saith the LORD .

 4933  And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons and a desolation for ever there shall no man abide there nor any son of man dwell in it .

 4934  The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah saying .

 4935  Thus saith the LORD of hosts Behold I will break the bow of Elam the chief of their might .

 4936  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven and will scatter them toward all those winds and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come .

 4937  For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies and before them that seek their life and I will bring evil upon them even my fierce anger saith the LORD and I will send the sword after them till I have consumed them .

 4938  And I will set my throne in Elam and will destroy from thence the king and the princes saith the LORD .

 4939  But it shall come to pass in the latter days that I will bring again the captivity of Elam saith the LORD .

* 501  The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet .

 502  Declare ye among the nations and publish and set up a standard publish and conceal not say Babylon is taken Bel is confounded Merodach is broken in pieces her idols are confounded her images are broken in pieces .

 503  For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her which shall make her land desolate and none shall dwell therein they shall remove they shall depart both man and beast .

 504  In those days and in that time saith the LORD the children of Israel shall come they and the children of Judah together going and weeping they shall go and seek the LORD their God .

 505  They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward saying Come and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten .

 506  My people hath been lost sheep their shepherds have caused them to go astray they have turned them away on the mountains they have gone from mountain to hill they have forgotten their restingplace .

 507  All that found them have devoured them and their adversaries said We offend not because they have sinned against the LORD the habitation of justice even the LORD the hope of their fathers .

 508  Remove out of the midst of Babylon and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans and be as the he goats before the flocks .

 509  For lo I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country and they shall set themselves in array against her from thence she shall be taken their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man none shall return in vain .

 5010  And Chaldea shall be a spoil all that spoil her shall be satisfied saith the LORD .

 5011  Because ye were glad because ye rejoiced O ye destroyers of mine heritage because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass and bellow as bulls .

 5012  Your mother shall be sore confounded she that bare you shall be ashamed behold the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness a dry land and a desert .

 5013  Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited but it shall be wholly desolate every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished and hiss at all her plagues .

 5014  Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about all ye that bend the bow shoot at her spare no arrows for she hath sinned against the LORD .

 5015  Shout against her round about she hath given her hand her foundations are fallen her walls are thrown down for it is the vengeance of the LORD take vengeance upon her as she hath done do unto her .

 5016  Cut off the sower from Babylon and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people and they shall flee every one to his own land .

 5017  Israel is a scattered sheep the lions have driven him away first the king of Assyria hath devoured him and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones .

 5018  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Behold I will punish the king of Babylon and his land as I have punished the king of Assyria .

 5019  And I will bring Israel again to his habitation and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead .

 5020  In those days and in that time saith the LORD the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for and there shall be none and the sins of Judah and they shall not be found for I will pardon them whom I reserve .

 5021  Go up against the land of Merathaim even against it and against the inhabitants of Pekod waste and utterly destroy after them saith the LORD and do according to all that I have commanded thee .

 5022  A sound of battle is in the land and of great destruction .

 5023  How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations .

 5024  I have laid a snare for thee and thou art also taken O Babylon and thou wast not aware thou art found and also caught because thou hast striven against the LORD .

 5025  The LORD hath opened his armoury and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans .

 5026  Come against her from the utmost border open her storehouses cast her up as heaps and destroy her utterly let nothing of her be left .

 5027  Slay all her bullocks let them go down to the slaughter woe unto them for their day is come the time of their visitation .

 5028  The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God the vengeance of his temple .

 5029  Call together the archers against Babylon all ye that bend the bow camp against it round about let none thereof escape recompense her according to her work according to all that she hath done do unto her for she hath been proud against the LORD against the Holy One of Israel .

 5030  Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day saith the LORD .

 5031  Behold I am against thee O thou most proud saith the Lord GOD of hosts for thy day is come the time that I will visit thee .

 5032  And the most proud shall stumble and fall and none shall raise him up and I will kindle a fire in his cities and it shall devour all round about him .

 5033  Thus saith the LORD of hosts The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together and all that took them captives held them fast they refused to let them go .

 5034  Their Redeemer is strong the LORD of hosts is his name he shall thoroughly plead their cause that he may give rest to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon .

 5035  A sword is upon the Chaldeans saith the LORD and upon the inhabitants of Babylon and upon her princes and upon her wise men .

 5036  A sword is upon the liars and they shall dote a sword is upon her mighty men and they shall be dismayed .

 5037  A sword is upon their horses and upon their chariots and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her and they shall become as women a sword is upon her treasures and they shall be robbed .

 5038  A drought is upon her waters and they shall be dried up for it is the land of graven images and they are mad upon their idols .

 5039  Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there and the owls shall dwell therein and it shall be no more inhabited for ever neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation .

 5040  As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof saith the LORD so shall no man abide there neither shall any son of man dwell therein .

 5041  Behold a people shall come from the north and a great nation and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth .

 5042  They shall hold the bow and the lance they are cruel and will not show mercy their voice shall roar like the sea and they shall ride upon horses every one put in array like a man to the battle against thee O daughter of Babylon .

 5043  The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them and his hands waxed feeble anguish took hold of him and pangs as of a woman in travail .

 5044  Behold he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong but I will make them suddenly run away from her and who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her for who is like me and who will appoint me the time and who is that shepherd that will stand before me .

 5045  Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD that he hath taken against Babylon and his purposes that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them .

 5046  At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved and the cry is heard among the nations .

* 511  Thus saith the LORD Behold I will raise up against Babylon and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me a destroying wind .

 512  And will send unto Babylon fanners that shall fan her and shall empty her land for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about .

 513  Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine and spare ye not her young men destroy ye utterly all her host .

 514  Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans and they that are thrust through in her streets .

 515  For Israel hath not been forsaken nor Judah of his God of the LORD of hosts though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel .

 516  Flee out of the midst of Babylon and deliver every man his soul be not cut off in her iniquity for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance he will render unto her a recompense .

 517  Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand that made all the earth drunken the nations have drunken of her wine therefore the nations are mad .

 518  Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed howl for her take balm for her pain if so be she may be healed .

 519  We would have healed Babylon but she is not healed forsake her and let us go every one into his own country for her judgment reacheth unto heaven and is lifted up even to the skies .

 5110  The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness come and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God .

 5111  Make bright the arrows gather the shields the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes for his device is against Babylon to destroy it because it is the vengeance of the LORD the vengeance of his temple .

 5112  Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon make the watch strong set up the watchmen prepare the ambushes for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon .

 5113  O thou that dwellest upon many waters abundant in treasures thine end is come and the measure of thy covetousness .

 5114  The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself saying Surely I will fill thee with men as with caterpillars and they shall lift up a shout against thee .

 5115  He hath made the earth by his power he hath established the world by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding .

 5116  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 .

 5117  Every man is brutish by his knowledge every founder is confounded by the graven image for his molten image is falsehood and there is no breath in them .

 5118  They are vanity the work of errors in the time of their visitation they shall perish .

 5119  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 .

 5120  Thou art my battle ax and weapons of war for with thee will I break in pieces the nations and with thee will I destroy kingdoms .

 5121  And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider .

 5122  With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman and with thee will I break in pieces old and young and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid .

 5123  I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers .

 5124  And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight saith the LORD .

 5125  Behold I am against thee O destroying mountain saith the LORD which destroyest all the earth and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee and roll thee down from the rocks and will make thee a burnt mountain .

 5126  And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner nor a stone for foundations but thou shalt be desolate for ever saith the LORD .

 5127  Set ye up a standard in the land blow the trumpet among the nations prepare the nations against her call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat Minni and Ashchenaz appoint a captain against her cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillars .

 5128  Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes the captains thereof and all the rulers thereof and all the land of his dominion .

 5129  And the land shall tremble and sorrow for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant .

 5130  The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight they have remained in their holds their might hath failed they became as women they have burned her dwellingplaces her bars are broken .

 5131  One post shall run to meet another and one messenger to meet another to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end .

 5132  And that the passages are stopped and the reeds they have burned with fire and the men of war are affrighted .

 5133  For thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor it is time to thresh her yet a little while and the time of her harvest shall come .

 5134  Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me he hath crushed me he hath made me an empty vessel he hath swallowed me up like a dragon he hath filled his belly with my delicates he hath cast me out .

 5135  The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon shall the inhabitant of Zion say and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea shall Jerusalem say .

 5136  Therefore thus saith the LORD Behold I will plead thy cause and take vengeance for thee and I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry .

 5137  And Babylon shall become heaps a dwellingplace for dragons and astonishment and an hissing without an inhabitant .

 5138  They shall roar together like lions they shall yell as lions' whelps .

 5139  In their heat I will make their feasts and I will make them drunken that they may rejoice and sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake saith the LORD .

 5140  I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter like rams with he goats .

 5141  How is Sheshach taken and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations .

 5142  The sea is come up upon Babylon she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof .

 5143  Her cities are a desolation a dry land and a wilderness a land wherein no man dwelleth neither doth any son of man pass thereby .

 5144  And I will punish Bel in Babylon and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him yea the wall of Babylon shall fall .

 5145  My people go ye out of the midst of her and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD .

 5146  And lest your heart faint and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land a rumour shall both come one year and after that in another year shall come a rumour and violence in the land ruler against ruler .

 5147  Therefore behold the days come that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon and her whole land shall be confounded and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her .

 5148  Then the heaven and the earth and all that is therein shall sing for Babylon for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north saith the LORD .

 5149  As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth .

 5150  Ye that have escaped the sword go away stand not still remember the LORD afar off and let Jerusalem come into your mind .

 5151  We are confounded because we have heard reproach shame hath covered our faces for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house .

 5152  Wherefore behold the days come saith the LORD that I will do judgment upon her graven images and through all her land the wounded shall groan .

 5153  Though Babylon should mount up to heaven and though she should fortify the height of her strength yet from me shall spoilers come unto her saith the LORD .

 5154  A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans .

 5155  Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon and destroyed out of her the great voice when her waves do roar like great waters a noise of their voice is uttered .

 5156  Because the spoiler is come upon her even upon Babylon and her mighty men are taken every one of their bows is broken for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely requite .

 5157  And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men her captains and her rulers and her mighty men and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake saith the King whose name is the LORD of hosts .

 5158  Thus saith the LORD of hosts The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken and her high gates shall be burned with fire and the people shall labour in vain and the folk in the fire and they shall be weary .

 5159  The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah the son of Maaseiah when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign And this Seraiah was a quiet prince .

 5160  So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon even all these words that are written against Babylon .

 5161  And Jeremiah said to Seraiah When thou comest to Babylon and shalt see and shalt read all these words .

 5162  Then shalt thou say O LORD thou hast spoken against this place to cut it off that none shall remain in it neither man nor beast but that it shall be desolate for ever .

 5163  And it shall be when thou hast made an end of reading this book that thou shalt bind a stone to it and cast it into the midst of Euphrates .

 5164  And thou shalt say Thus shall Babylon sink and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her and they shall be weary Thus far are the words of Jeremiah .

* 521  Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah .

 522  And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD according to all that Jehoiakim had done .

 523  For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah till he had cast them out from his presence that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon .

 524  And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign in the tenth month in the tenth day of the month that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came he and all his army against Jerusalem and pitched against it and built forts against it round about .

 525  So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah .

 526  And in the fourth month in the ninth day of the month the famine was sore in the city so that there was no bread for the people of the land .

 527  Then the city was broken up and all the men of war fled and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king's garden now the Chaldeans were by the city round about and they went  by the way of the plain .

 528  But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho and all his army was scattered from him .

 529  Then they took the king and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath where he gave judgment upon him .

 5210  And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah .

 5211  Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah and the king of Babylon bound him in chains and carried him to Babylon and put him in prison till the day of his death .

 5212  Now in the fifth month in the tenth day of the month which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came Nebuzaradan captain of the guard which served the king of Babylon into Jerusalem .

 5213  And burned the house of the LORD and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem and all the houses of the great men burned he with fire .

 5214  And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the captain of the guard brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about .

 5215  Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people and the residue of the people that remained in the city and those that fell away that fell to the king of Babylon and the rest of the multitude .

 5216  But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen .

 5217  Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD and the bases and the brazen sea that was in the house of the LORD the Chaldeans brake and carried all the brass of them to Babylon .

 5218  The caldrons also and the shovels and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered took they away .

 5219  And the basins and the firepans and the bowls and the caldrons and the candlesticks and the spoons and the cups that which was of gold in gold and that which was of silver in silver took the captain of the guard away .

 5220  The two pillars one sea and twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD the brass of all these vessels was without weight .

 5221  And concerning the pillars the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it and the thickness thereof was four fingers it was hollow .

 5222  And a chapiter of brass was upon it and the height of one chapiter was five cubits with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about all of brass The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these .

 5223  And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about .

 5224  And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the door .

 5225  He took also out of the city an eunuch which had the charge of the men of war and seven men of them that were near the king's person which were found in the city and the principal scribe of the host who mustered the people of the land and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the midst of the city .

 5226  So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah .

 5227  And the king of Babylon smote them and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land .

 5228  This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty .

 5229  In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons .

 5230  In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons all the persons were four thousand and six hundred .

 5231  And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah in the twelfth month in the five and twentieth day of the month that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him forth out of prison .

 5232  And spake kindly unto him and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon .

 5233  And changed his prison garments and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life .

 5234  And for his diet there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon every day a portion until the day of his death all the days of his life .

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