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9 My heart breaks within me, because of the prophets. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the presence of the LORD and because of His holy Words.
10 For the land is full of adulterers. Because of oaths, the land mourns, the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
11 “For both the Prophet and the Priest do wickedly. And I have found their wickedness in My House,” says the LORD.
12 “Therefore, their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness. They shall be driven forth and fall in it. For I will bring a plague upon them, the year of their reckoning,” says the LORD.
13 “And I have seen foolishness in the prophets of Samaria, who prophesied in Baal and caused My people Israel to err.
14 “I have also seen filthiness in the prophets of Jerusalem. They commit adultery and walk in lies. They also strengthen the hands of the wicked, so that no one can turn away from his wickedness. They are all to Me as Sodom, and their inhabitants as Gomorrah.
15 “Therefore, thus says the LORD of Hosts concerning the prophets: ‘Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall. For wickedness has gone forth from the prophets of Jerusalem into all the land.’”
16 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you and teach you vanity. They speak the vision of their own heart, not out of the Mouth of the LORD.
17 “They continue to say to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD has said, “You shall have peace.”’ And they say to everyone who walks after the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No evil shall come upon you.’”
18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, so that he has perceived and heard His Word? Who has marked His Word and heard it?
19 Behold, the tempest of the LORD goes forth in wrath, and a violent whirlwind shall fall down upon the head of the wicked!
20 The anger of the LORD shall not return until He has executed, and until He has performed, the thoughts of His Heart. In the latter days, you shall understand it plainly.
21 “I have not sent these prophets,” says the LORD, “yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, and yet they prophesied.
22 “But if they had stood in My counsel, and had declared My Words to My people, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the wickedness of their inventions.
23 “Am I a God near at hand,” says the LORD, “and not a far off God?”
24 “Can anyone hide himself in secret places, that I shall not see him,” says the LORD? “Do not I fill Heaven and Earth,” says the LORD?
25 “I have heard what the prophets said who prophesied lies in My Name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed.’
26 “How long do the prophets delight to prophesy lies, even prophesying the deceit of their own heart?
27 “Do they intend to cause My people to forget My Name by their dreams, which everyone tells his neighbor, as their forefathers have forgotten My Name for Baal?
28 “The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has My Word, let him speak My Word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat,” says the LORD?
29 “Is not My Word like a fire,” says the LORD, “and like a hammer that breaks the stone?
30 “Therefore, behold, I will come against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who steal My Word, each one from his neighbor.
31 “Behold, I will come against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who have sweet tongues, and say, ‘He says.’
32 “Behold, I will come against those who prophesy false dreams,” says the LORD, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies, and by their flatteries. And I did not send them or command them. Therefore, they bring no profit to this people,” says the LORD.
33 “And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest shall ask you, saying, ‘What is the oracle of the LORD?’ You shall then say to them, ‘What oracle? “I will forsake you,”’” says the LORD.
34 “And as for the prophet, or the priest, or the people who shall say, ‘The oracle of the LORD,’ I will reckon with each one and his house.
35 “Thus each one shall say to his neighbor, and each one to his brother: ‘What has the LORD answered?’ and ‘What has the LORD spoken?’
36 “And you shall no longer mention the oracle of the LORD. For each man’s word shall be his oracle. For you have perverted the Words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God.
37 “Thus shall you say to the Prophet: ‘What has the LORD answered you? And what has the LORD spoken?’
38 “And if you say, ‘The oracle of the LORD,’ then thus says the LORD: Because you say this word, ‘The oracle of the LORD,’ and I have sent to you, saying, ‘You shall not say, ‘The oracle of the LORD,’
39 “Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you. And I will forsake you and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of My presence.
40 “And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall never be forgotten.”
24 The LORD showed me. And behold, two baskets of figs were set before the Temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, had carried away captive Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah with the workmen, and cunning men of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babel.
2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first. And the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten, they were so evil.
3 Then said the LORD to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs very good and the bad very bad which cannot be eaten, they are so evil.”
4 Again, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,
5 “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I know those of Judah who are carried away captive to be good, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.
6 ‘For I will set My Eyes upon them for good. And I will bring them back to this land. And I will build them and not destroy them. And I will plant them and not root them out.
7 ‘And I will give them a 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 to Me with their whole heart.
8 ‘And as the bad figs which cannot be eaten, they are so evil — surely thus says the LORD — so will I give Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his princes, and the rest of Jerusalem that remains in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
9 ‘I will give them as a terrible plague to all the kingdoms of the Earth, for a reproach and for a proverb, for a common talk and for a curse, in all places where I shall cast them.
10 ‘And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, until they are destroyed in the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’”
25 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, which was in the first year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel.
2 which Jeremiah the Prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
3 “From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day (that is, the twenty-third year), the Word of the LORD has come to me. And I have spoken it to you, rising early and speaking. But you would not hear.
4 “And the LORD has sent to you all His servants, the Prophets, rising early and sending them. But you would not hear or incline your ears to obey.
5 “They said, ‘Everyone turn back now from his evil way, and from the wickedness of your inventions, and you shall dwell in the land that the LORD has given you, and to your fathers, forever and ever.
6 ‘And do not go after other gods, to serve them and to worship them. And do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands, and I will not punish you.
7 Nevertheless, you would not hear Me,’ says the LORD, ‘but have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands, to your own hurt.’
8 “Therefore, thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Because you have not heard My Words,
9 ‘behold, I will send and take all the families of the North,’ says the LORD, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babel, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations all around and will destroy them and make them an astonishment and a hissing and a continual desolation.
10 ‘Moreover, I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the noise of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
11 ‘And this whole land shall be desolate, and an astonishment. These nations shall serve the king of Babel for seventy years.
12 ‘And when the seventy years are completed, I will reckon with the king of Babel and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquities,’ says the LORD, ‘and will make it a perpetual desolation.
13 ‘And I will bring upon that land all My Words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this Book which Jeremiah has prophesied against all nations.
14 ‘For many nations and great kings shall be served by them. Thus will I recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.’
15 For thus has the LORD God of Israel spoken to me: ‘Take this cup of wine of indignation from My Hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.
16 ‘And they shall drink and be moved and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.’”
17 Then I took the cup from the LORD’s Hand, and made all people drink to whom the LORD had sent me:
18 Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them desolate, an astonishment, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day,
19 Pharaoh, King of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people,
20 and all sorts of people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
21 Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites,
22 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the Isles who are beyond the sea,
23 and Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who dwell in the uttermost corners,
24 and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of Arabia who dwell in the desert,
25 and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of [u]Elam, and all the kings of the Medes.
26 And all the kings of the North, far from and near to one another, and all the kingdoms of the world which are upon the Earth, and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
27 “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Drink and be drunken, and spew and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.”
28 ‘But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand, to drink, then tell them, “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘You shall certainly drink.
29 ‘For lo, I begin to plague the city where My Name is called upon. And should you go free? You shall not go acquitted. For I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the Earth,’ says the LORD of Hosts.”
30 ‘Therefore, prophesy all these words against them, and say to them, “The LORD shall roar from above and thrust out His Voice from His holy habitation. He shall roar upon His habitation, and cry aloud, as those who press the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the Earth.
31 “The sounds shall come to the ends of the Earth. For the LORD has a controversy with the nations and will enter into judgment with all flesh. He will give to the sword those who are wicked,” says the LORD.’
32 “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Behold, a plague shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the Earth.
33 ‘And the slain of the LORD shall be on that day from one end of the Earth to the other end of the Earth. They shall be neither mourned nor gathered nor buried but shall be as the dung upon the ground.
34 ‘Howl, you shepherds, and cry! And wallow in the ashes, you leader of the flock! For your days of slaughter and dispersion are fulfilled, and you shall fall like precious vessels.
35 ‘And the shepherds shall have no refuge, and the leader of the flock no escape.
36 ‘A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the leader of the flock, shall be heard. For the LORD has destroyed their pasture.
37 ‘And the best pastures are destroyed because of the wrath and indignation of the LORD.
38 He has forsaken His covert, as the lion. For their land is waste because of the wrath of the oppressor, and because of the wrath of His indignation.’”
26 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this Word from the LORD, saying,
2 “Thus says the LORD: ‘Stand in the court of the LORD’s House. And speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD’s House, all the words that I Command you to speak to them. Do not hold back a Word.
3 ‘Perhaps they will listen, and everyone will turn from his evil way, so that I may relent from the plague which I have determined to bring upon them because of the wickedness of their works.
4 ‘And you shall say to them, “Thus says the LORD: ‘If you will not hear Me, to walk in My Law which I have set before you,
5 ‘and to hear the words of My servants, the Prophets, whom I sent you (both rising up early and sending), and will not obey,
6 ‘Then I will make this House like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all nations of the Earth.’”’”
7 So the priests and the Prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the House of the LORD.
8 Now when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the LORD had Commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the Prophets and all the people took him, and said, “You shall die the death!
9 “Why have you prophesied in the Name of the LORD, saying, ‘This House shall be like Shiloh, and ‘This city shall be desolate without an inhabitant?’” And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the House of the LORD.
10 And when the Princes of Judah heard of these things, they came up from the king’s house into the House of the LORD and sat down in the entry of the New Gate of the LORD’s House.
11 Then spoke the priests and the Prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, “This man is worthy to die! For he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.”
12 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, “The LORD has sent me to prophesy all the things that you have heard against this House and against this city.
13 “Therefore, now, amend your ways and your works and hear the Voice of the LORD your God, so that the LORD may relent from the plague that He has pronounced against you.
14 “As for me, behold, I am in your hands. Do with me as you think good and right.
15 “But know for certain that if you put me to death, you shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and upon its inhabitants. For truly the LORD has sent me to you, to speak all these words in your ears.”
16 Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the Prophets, “This man is not worthy to die! For he has spoken to us in the Name of the LORD our God!”
17 Then some of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,
18 “Micah the Morashite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall be a heap, and the mountain of the House shall be as the high places of the forest.’
19 “Did Hezekiah, king of Judah, and all Judah, put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and pray before the LORD? And did not the LORD relent from the plague that he had pronounced against them? But we procure great evil against our souls.”
20 And there was also a man who prophesied in the Name of the LORD: Urijah, the son of Shemaiah, of Kirjath Jearim; who prophesied against this city and against this land, according to all the words of Jeremiah.
21 Now when Jehoiakim the king, with all his men of power and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to kill him. But when Urijah heard it, he was afraid and fled, and went into Egypt.
22 Then Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt — Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain with him — into Egypt.
23 And they fetched Urijah out of Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the children of the people.
24 But the hand of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, was with Jeremiah, so that they would not give him into the hand of the people, to put him to death.
27 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this Word to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 “Thus says the LORD to me: ‘Make bonds for yourselves, and yokes, and put them upon your neck,
3 ‘and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah the king of Judah,
4 ‘and command them to say to their masters, “Thus says the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: ‘Thus shall you say to your masters:
5 “I have made the Earth, the man, and the beasts that are upon the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched Arm, and have given it to whomever is pleasing to Me.
6 “But now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babel, My servant. And I have also given him the beasts of the field to serve him.
7 “And all the nations shall serve him and his son and his son’s son, until the time of his land also comes. Then, many nations and great kings shall make him serve them.
8 “And the nation and kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babel, with that same nation I will reckon,” says the LORD, “with the sword and with the famine and with the pestilence, until I have wholly given them into his hands.
9 “Therefore, do not hear your prophets or your soothsayers or your dreamers or your enchanters or your sorcerers who say this to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babel.’
10 “For they prophesy a lie to you, and cause you to go far from your land, so that I should cast you out, and you should perish.
11 “But the nation that puts their necks under the yoke of the king of Babel, and serve him, those I will let remain in their own land,” says the LORD, “and they shall occupy it, and dwell in it.”’”
12 I also spoke to Zedekiah, king of Judah, according to all these words, saying, “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babel, and serve him and his people, so that you may live.
13 “Why will you die — you and your people — by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babel?
14 “Therefore, do not hear the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babel.’ For they prophesy a lie to you.
15 “For I have not sent them,” says the LORD, “yet they prophesy a lie in My Name, so that I might cast you out, and that you might perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”
16 Also, I spoke to the priests, and to all this people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Do not hear the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, “Behold, the vessels of the House of the LORD shall now shortly be brought back from Babel.” For they prophesy a lie to you.
17 ‘Do not hear them! Serve the king of Babel, so that you may live! Why should this city be desolate?
18 ‘But if they are Prophets, and if the Word of the LORD is with them, let them make intercession to the LORD of Hosts, so that the vessels which are left in the House of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, do not go to Babel.’
19 “For thus says the LORD of Hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that remain in this city,
20 which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel did not take when he carried away captive Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babel, with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem—
21 “thus says 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 at Jerusalem:
22 ‘They shall be brought to Babel. And there they shall remain until the day that I attend to them,’ says the LORD. ‘Then will I bring them up and restore them to this place.’”
28 And that same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah, the son of Azur the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the House of the LORD, in the presence of the priests, and of all the people, and said,
2 “Thus speaks the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babel.
3 ‘Within two years’ time, I will bring into this place all the vessels of the LORD’s House which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, took away from this place and carried into Babel.
4 ‘And I will bring back to this place Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all those who were carried away captive from Judah, and went into Babel,’ says the LORD. ‘For I will break the yoke of the king of Babel.’”
5 Then the Prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah — in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in the House of the LORD —
6 the Prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! The LORD so do! The LORD confirm your words which you have prophesied, to restore the vessels of the LORD’s House, and all that was carried captive from Babel, into this place.
7 “But hear now this Word that I will speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people.
8 “The Prophets who have been before me, and before you, in time past, prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war and of plagues and of pestilence.
9 “The Prophet who prophesies of peace, when the Word of the Prophet shall come to pass, it shall be known of that Prophet that the LORD has truly sent him.”
10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the Prophet Jeremiah’s neck and broke it.
11 And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Even so, I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, from the neck of all nations within the span of two years.’” And the Prophet Jeremiah went his way.
12 Then the Word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the Prophet, (after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from the neck of the Prophet Jeremiah) saying:
13 “Go and tell Hananiah, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: “You have broken the yokes of wood, but I have made yokes of iron from them.”
14 ‘For thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, so that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel. For they shall serve him. And I have also given him the beasts of the field.”’”
15 Then the Prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Hear now, Hananiah! The LORD has not sent you! But you make this people trust in a lie!
16 “Therefore, thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will cast you from the Earth. This year, you shall die, because you have spoken rebelliously against the LORD.’”
17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year, in the seventh month.
29 Now these are the words of the Book that Jeremiah the Prophet, sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders who 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 Babel
2 (after Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and of Jerusalem, and the workmen, and cunning men had departed from Jerusalem)
3 by the hand of Elasah, the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah, the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah, king of Judah, sent to Babel to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel) saying,
4 “Thus has the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, spoken to all who are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away captives from Jerusalem to Babel:
5 ‘Build yourselves houses to dwell in. And plant yourselves gardens and eat the fruits of them.
6 ‘Take wives for yourselves and beget sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters, so that you may be increased there and not diminished.
7 ‘And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captives. And pray to the LORD for it. For in its peace shall you have peace.’
8 “For thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Do not let your prophets and your soothsayers who are among you, deceive you or listen to your dreams which you dream.
9 ‘For they prophesy a lie to you in My Name. I have not sent them,” says the LORD.
10 ‘But thus says the LORD: that after seventy years are completed at Babel, I will attend to you, and perform My good promise toward you, and cause you to return to this place.
11 ‘For I know the thoughts that I have thought towards you,’ says the LORD, ‘the thoughts of peace and not of trouble, to give you a future and hope.
12 ‘Then you shall cry to Me. And you shall go and pray to Me. And I will hear you.
13 ‘And you shall seek Me, and find, because you shall seek Me with all your heart.
14 ‘And I will be found by you,’ says the LORD, ‘and I will turn away your captivity. And I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have cast you,’ says the LORD, ‘and will bring you back to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive
15 ‘because you have said, “The LORD has raised up Prophets for us in Babel.”’
16 “Therefore thus says the LORD of the king who sits upon the throne of David, and of all the people who dwell in this city, your brethren, who have not gone forth with you into captivity,
17 “thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Behold, I will send the sword upon them, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.
18 ‘And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence. And I will make them a terror to all kingdoms of the Earth, a curse and astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have cast them,
19 ‘because they have not heard My Words’ says the LORD, ‘which I sent to them by My servants, the Prophets, rising up early and sending. But you would not hear,’ says the LORD.
20 “Therefore, hear the Word of the LORD, all you of the captivity whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babel.
21 “Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, about Ahab, the son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy lies to you in My Name: ‘Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel. And he shall kill them before your eyes.
22 ‘And all those from Judah among the captivity, who are in Babel, shall take up this curse against them, and say, “The LORD make you like Zedekiah, and like Ahab, whom the king of Babel burnt in the fire,”
23 ‘Because they have committed villainy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbor’s wives, and have spoken lying words in My Name, which I have not Commanded them. I know it, and testify it,’ says the LORD.
24 ‘You shall also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,
25 “Thus speaks the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying: ‘Because you have sent letters in your name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the Priest, and to all the priests, saying,
26 “The LORD has made you Priest instead of Jehoiada the Priest, so that there should be an officer in the House of the LORD for every man who raves and makes himself a prophet, to put him in prison and in the stocks.”
27 ‘Now, therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who prophesies to you?
28 ‘Because, for this reason he sent to us in Babel, saying, “This captivity is long. Build houses to dwell in, and plant gardens, and eat the fruits of them.”’”
29 And Zephaniah the Priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the Prophet.
30 Then the Word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
31 “Send to all them of the captivity, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of Shemaiah the Nehelamite: “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I did not send him, and he caused you to trust in a lie,
32 “therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will reckon with Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his seed. He shall not have a man to dwell among this people, nor shall he behold the good that I will do for My people,” says the LORD, “because he has spoken rebelliously against the LORD.”’”
30 The Word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 “Thus speaks the LORD God of Israel, saying, ‘Write all the Words that I have spoken to you in a Book.
3 ‘For lo, the days come,’ says the LORD, ‘that I will bring back the captivity of My people, Israel and Judah,’ says the LORD. ‘For I will restore them to the land that I gave to their fathers. And they shall possess it.’”
4 Again, these are the Words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
5 “For thus says the LORD: ‘We have heard a terrible voice, of fear and not of peace.
6 ‘Demand now and behold if a man can labor with child. Why do I behold every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in labor, and all faces are turned pale?
7 ‘Alas, for this day is great. None like it. It is the time of Jacob’s trouble, yet shall he be delivered from it.
8 ‘For on that day,’ says the LORD of Hosts, ‘I will break his yoke from off your neck and break your bonds. And strangers shall no longer enslave them.
9 ‘But they shall serve the LORD their God and David, their king, whom I will raise up to them.
10 ‘Therefore, do not fear, O My servant, Jacob,’ says the LORD, ‘or be afraid, O Israel. For lo, I will deliver you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity, and Jacob shall turn back, and shall be in rest and peace. And no one shall make him afraid.
11 ‘For I am with you,’ says the LORD, ‘to save you. Though I utterly destroy all the nations where I have scattered you, still I will not utterly destroy you. But I will correct you by judgment, not utterly cut you off.’
12 “For thus says the LORD: ‘Your bruising is incurable. Your wound is grievous.
13 ‘There is no one to judge your cause or bind your wounds. There are neither medicines nor help for you.
14 ‘All your lovers have forgotten you. They do not seek you. For I have stricken you with the wound of an enemy, with a sharp chastisement for the multitude of your iniquities. Your sins have increased.
15 ‘Why do you cry for your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable. Because of the multitude of your iniquities, the increase of your sins, I have done these things to you.
16 ‘Therefore, all those who devour you shall be devoured. And all your enemies, everyone, shall go into captivity. And those who plunder you shall be plundered. And all those who rob you, I will give to be robbed.
17 ‘For I will restore health to you and I will heal you of your wounds,’ says the LORD, ‘because they called you, “The Castaway,” saying, “This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.”
18 “Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will bring back the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. And the city shall be built upon her own heap. And the palace shall remain in its rightful place.
19 ‘And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving, and the voice of those who are joyous. And I will multiply them. And they shall not be few. I will also glorify them, and they shall not be diminished.
20 ‘Their children, also, shall be as before. And their congregation shall be established before Me. And I will reckon with all who trouble them.
21 ‘And their nobles shall be from among themselves. And their governor shall proceed from the midst of them. And I will cause him to draw near and approach Me. For who is this who directs his heart to come to Me,’ says the LORD?
22 ‘And you shall be My people, and I will be your God.’”
23 Behold, the tempest of the LORD goes forth with wrath! The whirlwind that hangs over shall light upon the head of the wicked.
24 The fierce wrath of the LORD shall not return until He is done, and until He has performed the intent of His Heart. In the latter days you shall understand it.
31 “At the same time,” says the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel. And they shall be My people.”
2 Thus says the LORD: “The people who escaped the sword found grace in the wilderness.” He walks before Israel to cause it to rest.
3 The LORD has appeared to me from afar, saying: “Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore, with mercy I have drawn you.
4 “I will build you again. And you shall be built, O virgin Israel. You shall still be adorned with your tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of those who are joyful.
5 “You shall still plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria. And the planters who plant them shall make them common.
6 “For the days shall come that the watchmen upon the mount of Ephraim shall cry, ‘Arise! And let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’
7 For thus says the LORD: “Rejoice with gladness for Jacob, and shout for joy among the chief of the Gentiles! Publish praise, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’
8 “Behold, I will bring them from the North country and gather them from the coasts of the world, the blind and the lame among them, the woman with child as well as she who has delivered. A great company shall return here.
9 “They shall come, weeping. And with mercy will I bring them back. I will lead them by the rivers of water, on a straight path on which they shall not stumble. For I am a Father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.
10 “Hear the Word of the LORD, O you Gentiles! And declare in the far away isles, and say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather it, and will keep it, as a Shepherd does His flock!
11 ‘For the LORD has redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he!’
12 “Therefore, they shall come and rejoice in the height of Zion, and shall run to the bountifulness of the LORD, for the wheat and for the wine, and for the oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd. And their soul shall be as a watered garden. And they shall have no more sorrow.
13 “Then the virgin shall rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old men, together. For I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrows.
14 “And I will replenish the soul of the priests with fatness. And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness,” says the LORD.
15 Thus says the LORD: “A voice was heard on high — a mourning and bitter weeping. Rachel, weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”
16 Thus says the LORD: “Restrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for your work shall be rewarded,” says the LORD, “and they shall come back from the land of the enemy.
17 “And there is hope in your future,” says the LORD, “that your children shall come back to their own borders.
18 “I have heard Ephraim lamenting, ‘You have corrected me,’ and ‘I was chastised as an untamed calf. Convert me, and I shall be converted. For You are the LORD my God.
19 ‘Surely, after I was converted, I repented. And after I was instructed, I struck my thigh. I was ashamed — yea, even humiliated — because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
20 “Is Ephraim My dear son or pleasant child? Yet, though I spoke against him, I still remembered him. Therefore, My Core is troubled for him. I will surely have compassion upon him,” says the LORD.
21 “Set up signs for yourselves. Make yourselves heaps. Set your heart toward the path and way that you have walked. Turn back, O virgin of Israel! Turn back to these, your cities!
22 “How long will you go astray, O you rebellious daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing on the Earth: A woman shall turn around a man.”
23 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “They shall still say this thing in the land of Judah, and in its cities, when I shall bring back their captivity, ‘The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice, Holy Mountain.’
24 “And Judah shall dwell in it, and all its cities, together, the farmers and those who go forth with the flock.
25 “For I have satiated the weary soul. And I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”
26 Therefore, I awoke and beheld. And my sleep was sweet to me.
27 “Behold, the days come,” says 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.
28 “And just as I have watched against them to pluck up and to root out and to throw down and to destroy and to plague, so will I watch over them to build and to plant,” says the LORD.
29 “In those days, they shall no longer say, ‘The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
30 “But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31 “Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will make a new Covenant with the House of Israel, and with the House of Judah —
32 “not according to the Covenant that I made with their Fathers, when I took them by the hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My Covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says the LORD.
33 “But this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the House of Israel: After those days, says the LORD, I will put My Law in their core, and write it on their hearts, and will be their God. And they shall be My people.
34 “And they shall no longer teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” says the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity and will no longer remember their sins.”
35 Thus says the LORD, Who gives the Sun for a light to the day, the courses of the Moon and of the stars for a light to the night, Who breaks the sea when its waves roar. His Name is The LORD of Hosts:
36 “If these ordinances depart out of My sight,” says the LORD, “then shall the seed of Israel cease from being a nation before Me, forever.”
37 Thus says the LORD: “If the heavens can be measured, or the foundations of the Earth be searched out beneath, then will I cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done,” says the LORD.
38 “Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that the city shall be built to the LORD, from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.
39 “And the line of the measure shall go straight forward over the hill Gareb and shall turn to Goath.
40 “And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook of Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD. It shall neither be plucked up nor destroyed anymore, forever.”
32 The Word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, in the tenth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.
2 For then, the king of Babel’s host besieged Jerusalem. And Jeremiah the Prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
3 For Zedekiah, king of Judah, had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy, and say, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will give this city into the hands of the king of Babel, and he shall take it.
4 “And Zedekiah, the king of Judah, shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hands of the king of Babel, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth. And his eyes shall behold his face,
5 “And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babel. And there he shall be until I visit him,” says the LORD. “Though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not prosper.”’?”
6 And Jeremiah said, “The Word of the LORD came to me, saying,
7 “Behold, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your uncle, shall come to you and say, ‘Buy my field for yourself, which is in Anathoth. For the right of redemption is yours, to buy it.’
8 “So Hanamel, my uncle’s son, came to me in the court of the prison, according to the Word of the LORD, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field which is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin. For the right of the possession is yours, and the purchase yours. Buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the Word of the LORD.
9 “And I bought the field from Hanamel, my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and measured out to him the silver: seventeen shekels.
10 “And I wrote it in the book and signed it, and took witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
11 “So I took the deed of purchase, being sealed according to the Law and custom, with the deed that was open.
12 “And I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel, my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses written in the deed of purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the prison.
13 “And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
14 ‘Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Take the writings, this deed of purchase that is sealed and the deed that is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, so that they may last a long time.”
15 ‘For the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says thus: “Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.”’
16 “Now when I had delivered the deed of purchase to Baruch, the son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD, saying,
17 ‘Ah, LORD God, behold. You have made the heaven and the earth by Your great power, and by Your outstretched Arm. And there is nothing hard for You.
18 ‘You show mercy to thousands and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. O, God! The great and mighty! Whose Name is the LORD of Hosts,
19 ‘great in counsel and mighty in work, (for Your Eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give to everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his works)
20 ‘Who has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt to this day and in Israel and among all men and has made Yourself a Name, as it is this day,
21 ‘and has brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and an outstretched Arm, and with great terror.
22 ‘And You have given them this land which You swore to their fathers to give them, a land that flows with milk and honey.
23 ‘And they came in and possessed it. But they did not obey Your Voice or walk in Your Law. All that You Commanded them to do, they have not done. Therefore, You have caused this whole plague to come upon them.
24 ‘Behold the siege mounts. They have come into the city, to take it. And the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, who fight against it by means of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence. And what You have spoken has come to pass. And behold, You see it.
25 ‘And You have said to me, O LORD God: “Buy the field for silver, and take witnesses.” For the city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’”
26 Then came the Word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying:
27 “Behold, I am the LORD, God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?”
28 Therefore thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel. And he shall take it.
29 “And the Chaldeans shall come and fight against this city and set fire to this city and burn it with the houses upon whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal and poured drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me to anger.
30 “For the children of Israel, and the children of Judah, have surely done evil before Me from their youth. For the children of Israel have surely provoked Me to anger with the works of their hands,” says the LORD.
31 “Therefore this city has been to Me as a provocation of My anger, and of My wrath, from the day that they built it until this day, so that I should remove it out of My sight
32 “because of all the evil of the children of Israel, and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger — they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their Prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
33 “And they have turned the back to Me and not the face. Though I taught them, rising up early and instructing them, still they were not obedient to receive doctrine.
34 “But they set their abominations in the House upon which My Name was called, to defile it.
35 “And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them. Nor did it come into My mind that they should do such abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
36 “And now, therefore, thus has the LORD God of Israel spoken concerning this city, of which you say, ‘It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babel by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.’
37 “Behold, I will gather them out of all countries to which I have scattered them in My anger, and in My wrath, and in great indignation. And I will bring them back to this place. And I will cause them to dwell safely.
38 “And they shall be My people, and I will be their God.
39 “And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and of their children after them.
40 “And I will make an everlasting Covenant with them: that I will never turn away from them to do them good. But I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they shall not depart from Me.
41 “Yea, I will delight in them, to do them good. And I will assuredly plant them in this land with My whole Heart, and with all My Soul.
42 “For thus says the LORD: ‘Just as I have brought all this great plague upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
43 “And the fields shall be possessed in this land of which you say, ‘It is desolate, without man or beast, and shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’
44 “Men shall buy fields for silver, and make writings and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and all around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the plain, and in the cities of the South. For I will cause their captivity to return,’ says the LORD.”
33 Moreover, the Word of the LORD came to Jeremiah a second time (while he was still shut up in the court of prison) saying,
2 “Thus says the LORD its maker, the LORD Who formed it and established it. The LORD is His Name:
3 ‘Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know.’
4 “For thus says the LORD God of Israel concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are destroyed by the siege mounts and by the sword:
5 ‘They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill themselves with the dead bodies of men whom I have slain in My anger and in My wrath. For I have hidden My Face from this city because of all their wickedness.
6 ‘Behold, I will give it health and healing. For I will cure them and will reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
7 ‘And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return and will build them as at first.
8 ‘And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me. Yea, I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against Me, and by which they have rebelled against Me.
9 ‘And it shall be to Me a Name of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the Earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them. And they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the wealth that I show to this city.’
10 “Thus says the LORD: ‘Again there shall be heard in this place which you say shall be desolate, without man and without beast in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem (that are desolate without man and without inhabitant and without beast)
11 ‘the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who shall say, “Praise the LORD of Hosts because the LORD is good! For His mercy endures forever!” and of those who offer the sacrifice of praise in the House of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at first,’ says the LORD.
12 “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Again, in this place which is desolate, without man and without beast, and in all its cities, there shall be dwelling for shepherds, to rest their flocks.
13 ‘In the cities of the mountains, in the cities in the plain, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the sheep pass again under the hand of him who counts them,’ says the LORD.
14 ‘Behold, the days come,’ says the LORD, ‘that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the House of Israel and to the House of Judah.
15 ‘In those days and at that time I will cause the Branch of Righteousness to grow up to David. And He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
16 ‘In those days Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely. And He Who shall call her is the LORD Our Righteousness.’
17 “For thus says the LORD: ‘David shall never lack a man to sit upon the throne of the House of Israel.
18 ‘Nor shall the priests and Levites lack a man before Me to offer Burnt Offerings, and to offer Meat Offerings, and to do Sacrifice continually.’”
19 And the Word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
20 “Thus saith the LORD: ‘If you can break My Covenant of the day, and My Covenant of the night, so that there would not be day and night in their season,
21 ‘then may My Covenant be broken with David, My servant, so that he would not have a son to reign upon his throne, and with the Levites, priests, My ministers.
22 ‘As the army of Heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David, My servant, and the Levites who minister to Me.’”
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