them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives
become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death,
[and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.
018:022 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring
a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me,
and hid snares for my feet.
018:023 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me;
don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin
from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you;
deal you with them in the time of your anger.
019:001 Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle,
and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders
of the priests;
019:002 and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by
the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words
that I shall tell you;
019:003 and say, Hear you the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah,
and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of Armies,
the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place,
which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.
019:004 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place,
and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they
didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah;
and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
019:005 and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons
in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn't command,
nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:
019:006 therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that this place
shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son
of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.
019:007 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 hand of those who seek their life: and their dead
bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky,
and for the animals of the earth.
019:008 I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing;
everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss
because of all the plagues of it.
019:009 I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and
the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone
the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress,
with which their enemies, and those who seek their life,
shall distress them.
019:010 Then shall you break the bottle in the sight of the men
who go with you,
019:011 and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Even so will I
break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel,
that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth,
until there be no place to bury.
019:012 Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to the inhabitants
of it, even making this city as Topheth:
019:013 and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings
of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth,
even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense
to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings
to other gods.
019:014 Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him
to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh's house,
and said to all the people:
019:015 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will
bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have
pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff,
that they may not hear my words.
020:001 Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer
in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
020:002 Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him
in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin,
which was in the house of Yahweh.
020:003 It happened on the next day, that Pashhur brought forth
Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah to him,
Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.
020:004 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will make you a terror
to yourself, and to all your friends; and they shall fall
by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it;
and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon,
and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall kill
them with the sword.
020:005 Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all the gains
of it, and all the precious things of it, yes, all the treasures
of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies;
and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry
them to Babylon.
020:006 You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity;
and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die,
and there shall you be buried, you, and all your friends,
to whom you have prophesied falsely.
020:007 Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded;
you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become
a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.
020:008 For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and
destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me,
and a derision, all the day.
020:009 If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more
in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning
fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing,
and I can't [contain].
020:010 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side.
Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends,
those who watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded,
and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our
revenge on him.
020:011 But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my
persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail;
they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not
dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall
never be forgotten.
020:012 But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees
the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them;
for to you have I revealed my cause.
020:013 Sing to Yahweh, praise you Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul
of the needy from the hand of evil-doers.
020:014 Cursed be the day in which I was born: don't let the day
in which my mother bore me be blessed.
020:015 Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A boy
is born to you; making him very glad.
020:016 Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew,
and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning,
and shouting at noontime;
020:017 because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother
would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
020:018 Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow,
that my days should be consumed with shame?
021:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah
sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah
the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,
021:002 Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon makes war against us: peradventure Yahweh
will deal with us according to all his wondrous works,
that he may go up from us.
021:003 Then said Jeremiah to them, Thus shall you tell Zedekiah:
021:004 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back
the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you
fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans
who besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them
into the midst of this city.
021:005 I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand
and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath,
and in great indignation.
021:006 I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal:
they shall die of a great pestilence.
021:007 Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah,
and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this
city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine,
into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand
of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life:
and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword;
he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
021:008 To this people you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set
before you the way of life and the way of death.
021:009 He who remains in this city shall die by the sword,
and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out,
and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live,
and his life shall be to him for a prey.
021:010 For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good,
says Yahweh: it shall be given into the hand of the king
of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
021:011 Touching the house of the king of Judah, hear you the word of Yahweh:
021:012 House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning,
and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor,
lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can
quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
021:013 Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley,
[and] of the rock of the plain, says Yahweh; you that say,
Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter
into our habitations?
021:014 I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings,
says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it
shall devour all that is round about her.
022:001 Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah,
and speak there this word,
022:002 Say, Hear the word of Yahweh, king of Judah, who sits on
the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people
who enter in by these gates.
022:003 Thus says Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness,
and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor:
and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless,
nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
022:004 For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by
the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David,
riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants,
and his people.
022:005 But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,
says Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation.
022:006 For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king
of Judah: You are Gilead to me, [and] the head of Lebanon;
[yet] surely I will make you a wilderness, [and] cities
which are not inhabited.
022:007 I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons;
and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them
into the fire.
022:008 Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man
to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?
022:009 Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant
of Yahweh their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.
022:010 Don't you weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep
sore for him who goes away; for he shall return no more,
nor see his native country.
022:011 For thus says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father,
[and] who went forth out of this place: He shall not return
there any more.
022:012 But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall
he die, and he shall see this land no more.
022:013 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers
by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages,
and doesn't give him his hire;
022:014 who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers,
and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar,
and painted with vermilion.
022:015 Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar?
Didn't your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness?
then it was well with him.
022:016 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well.
Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.
022:017 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness,
and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression,
and for violence, to do it.
022:018 Therefore thus says Yahweh 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!
022:019 He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast
forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
022:020 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan,
and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.
022:021 I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear.
This has been your manner from your youth, that you didn't
obey my voice.
022:022 The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers
shall go into captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed
and confounded for all your wickedness.
022:023 Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars,
how greatly to be pitied shall you be when pangs come on you,
the pain as of a woman in travail!
022:024 As I live, says Yahweh, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim
king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I
pluck you there;
022:025 and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life,
and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into
the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand
of the Chaldeans.
022:026 I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you,
into another country, where you were not born; and there
shall you die.
022:027 But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return,
there shall they not return.
022:028 Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel
in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed,
and are cast into the land which they don't know?
022:029 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh.
022:030 Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man
who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man
of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David,
and ruling in Judah.
023:001 Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my
pasture! says Yahweh.
023:002 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the
shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock,
and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will
visit on you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh.
023:003 I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries
where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds;
and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
023:004 I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them;
and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall
any be lacking, says Yahweh.
023:005 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will raise to David
a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely,
and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
023:006 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely;
and this is his name by which he shall be called:
Yahweh our righteousness.
023:007 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that they shall
no more say, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children
of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
023:008 but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed
of the house of Israel out of the north country,
and from all the countries where I had driven them.
They shall dwell in their own land.
023:009 Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken,
all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man
whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of
his holy words.
023:010 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing
the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up.
Their course is evil, and their might is not right;
023:011 for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house
have I found their wickedness, says Yahweh.
023:012 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places
in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein;
for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their
visitation, says Yahweh.
023:013 I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied
by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
023:014 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing:
they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands
of evil-doers, so that none does return from his wickedness:
they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants
of it as Gomorrah.
023:015 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies 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
ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
023:016 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Don't listen to the words of
the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity;
they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of
the mouth of Yahweh.
023:017 They say continually to those who despise me, Yahweh has said,
You shall have peace; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness
of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on you.
023:018 For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should
perceive and hear his word? who has marked my word,
and heard it?
023:019 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yes,
a whirling storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.
023:020 The anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed,
and until he have performed the intents of his heart:
in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.
023:021 I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn't speak to them,
yet they prophesied.
023:022 But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people
to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way,
and from the evil of their doings.
023:023 Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?
023:024 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see
him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.
023:025 I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies
in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
023:026 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies,
even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
023:027 who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams
which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers
forgot my name for Baal.
023:028 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 straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.
023:029 Isn't my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer
that breaks the rock in pieces?
023:030 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh,
who steal my words everyone from his neighbor.
023:031 Behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who use
their tongues, and say, He says.
023:032 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh,
and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies,
and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them,
nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people
at all, says Yahweh.
023:033 When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you,
saying, What is the burden of Yahweh? then shall you tell them,
What burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh.
023:034 As for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say,
The burden of Yahweh, I will even punish that man and his house.
023:035 Thus shall you say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to
his brother, What has Yahweh answered? and, What has Yahweh spoken?
023:036 The burden of Yahweh shall you mention no more: for every
man's own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted
the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies our God.
023:037 Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has Yahweh answered
you? and, What has Yahweh spoken?
023:038 But if you say, The burden of Yahweh; therefore thus
says Yahweh: Because you say this word, The burden of Yahweh,
and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say,
The burden of Yahweh;
023:039 therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast
you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers,
away from my presence:
023:040 and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a
perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
024:001 Yahweh shown me, and behold, two baskets of figs set before
the temple of Yahweh, after that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim,
king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen
and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
024:002 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe;
and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten,
they were so bad.
024:003 Then said Yahweh to me, What see you, Jeremiah? I said, Figs;
the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can't
be eaten, they are so bad.
024:004 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
024:005 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Like these good figs,
so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent
out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
024:006 For I will set my eyes on 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.
024:007 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh:
and they shall be my people, and I will be their God;
for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
024:008 As the bad figs, which can't be eaten, they are so bad,
surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king
of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem,
who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt,
024:009 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among
all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach
and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I
shall drive them.
024:010 I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence,
among them, until they be consumed from off the land that I
gave to them and to their fathers.
025:001 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
(the same was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),
025:002 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah,
and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:
025:003 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon,
king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years,
the word of Yahweh has come to me, and I have spoken to you,
rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.
025:004 Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets,
rising up early and sending them, (but you have not listened,
nor inclined your ear to hear),
025:005 saying, Return you now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil
of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given
to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forevermore;
025:006 and don't go after other gods to serve them or worship them,
and don't provoke me to anger with the work of your hands;
and I will do you no harm.
025:007 Yet you have not listened to me, says Yahweh; that you may provoke
me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.
025:008 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies: Because you have not
heard my words,
025:009 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,
says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadnezzar the king
of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land,
and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations
round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them
an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
025:010 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 lamp.
025:011 This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment;
and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
025:012 It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished,
that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation,
says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans;
and I will make it desolate forever.
025:013 I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced
against it, even all that is written in this book,
which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
025:014 For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them,
even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds,