025:015 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me: take this cup
of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations,
to whom I send you, to drink it.
025:016 They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad,
because of the sword that I will send among them.
025:017 Then took I the cup at Yahweh's hand, and made all the nations
to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:
025:018 [to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings
of it, and the princes of it, to make them a desolation,
an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
025:019 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes,
and all his people;
025:020 and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz,
and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza,
and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
025:021 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;
025:022 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon,
and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
025:023 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners [of
their hair] cut off;
025:024 and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed
people who dwell in the wilderness;
025:025 and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam,
and all the kings of the Medes;
025:026 and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another;
and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface
of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
025:027 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God
of Israel: Drink you, and be drunken, and spew, and fall,
and rise no more, because of the sword which I will
send among you.
025:028 It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand
to drink, then shall you tell them, Thus says Yahweh
of Armies: You shall surely drink.
025:029 For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is
called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished?
You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword
on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.
025:030 Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and tell them,
Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his
holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold;
he will give a shout, as those who tread [the grapes],
against all the inhabitants of the earth.
025:031 A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh
has a controversy with the nations; he will enter into
judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give
them to the sword, says Yahweh.
025:032 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, evil shall go forth
from nation to nation, and a great storm shall be raised up
from the uttermost parts of the earth.
025:033 The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end
of the earth even to the other end of the earth:
they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried;
they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.
025:034 Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes],
you principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter
and of your dispersions are fully come, and you shall fall
like a goodly vessel.
025:035 The shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal
of the flock to escape.
025:036 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the
principal of the flock! for Yahweh lays waste their pasture.
025:037 The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce
anger of Yahweh.
025:038 He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an
astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword],
and because of his fierce anger.
026:001 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, came this word from Yahweh, saying,
026:002 Thus says Yahweh: Stand in the court of Yahweh's house,
and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship
in Yahweh's house, all the words that I command you to speak
to them; don't diminish a word.
026:003 It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way;
that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them
because of the evil of their doings.
026:004 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: If you will not listen
to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
026:005 to listen to the words of my servants the prophets,
whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them,
but you have not listened;
026:006 then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this
city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
026:007 The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah
speaking these words in the house of Yahweh.
026:008 It happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all
that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people,
that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid
hold on him, saying, You shall surely die.
026:009 Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, This house
shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate,
without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah
in the house of Yahweh.
026:010 When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up
from the king's house to the house of Yahweh; and they sat
in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's [house].
026:011 Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes
and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death;
for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard
with your ears.
026:012 Then spoke Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people,
saying, Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and
against this city all the words that you have heard.
026:013 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice
of Yahweh your God; and Yahweh will repent him of the evil
that he has pronounced against you.
026:014 But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is
good and right in your eyes.
026:015 Only know for certain that, if you put me to death,
you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city,
and on the inhabitants of it; for of a truth Yahweh has sent
me to you to speak all these words in your ears.
026:016 Then said the princes and all the people to the priests
and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death;
for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.
026:017 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke
to all the assembly of the people, saying,
026:018 Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king
of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying,
Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Zion shall be plowed as a field,
and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house
as the high places of a forest.
026:019 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death?
Didn't he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh
repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them?
Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls.
026:020 There was also a man who prophesied in the name
of Yahweh, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim;
and he prophesied against this city and against this land
according to all the words of Jeremiah:
026:021 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 Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled,
and went into Egypt:
026:022 and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely], Elnathan
the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt;
026:023 and they fetched forth Uriah 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 common people.
026:024 But 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.
027:001 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
027:002 Thus says Yahweh to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them
on your neck;
027:003 and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab,
and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre,
and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers
who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah;
027:004 and give them a charge to their masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh
of Armies, the God of Israel, Thus shall you tell your masters:
027:005 I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface
of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm;
and I give it to whom it seems right to me.
027:006 Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the field
also have I given him to serve him.
027:007 All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son,
until the time of his own land come: and then many nations
and great kings shall make him their bondservant.
027:008 It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom which will not
serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will
not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,
that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword,
and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have
consumed them by his hand.
027:009 But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to
your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers,
nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall
not serve the king of Babylon:
027:010 for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land,
and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.
027:011 But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke
of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let
remain in their own land, says Yahweh; and they shall till it,
and dwell therein.
027:012 I spoke 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.
027:013 Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning
the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
027:014 Don't listen to the words of the prophets who speak
to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon;
for they prophesy a lie to you.
027:015 For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy
falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you
may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.
027:016 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying,
Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the words of your prophets
who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's
house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon;
for they prophesy a lie to you.
027:017 Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live:
why should this city become a desolation?
027:018 But if they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with them,
let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies,
that the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh,
and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem,
don't go to Babylon.
027:019 For thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the pillars,
and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning
the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,
027:020 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn't take,
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;
027:021 yes, thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel,
concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh,
and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:
027:022 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be,
until the day that I visit them, says Yahweh; then will I
bring them up, and restore them to this place.
028:001 It happened the same year, in the beginning of the reign of
Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month,
that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon,
spoke to me in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests
and of all the people, saying,
028:002 Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, I have
broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
028:003 Within two full years will I bring again into this place
all the vessels of Yahweh's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon:
028:004 and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son
of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah,
who went to Babylon, says Yahweh; for I will break the yoke
of the king of Babylon.
028:005 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 Yahweh,
028:006 even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Yahweh do so;
Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied,
to bring again the vessels of Yahweh's house, and all them
of the captivity, from Babylon to this place.
028:007 Nevertheless hear you now this word that I speak in your ears,
and in the ears of all the people:
028:008 The prophets who have been before me and before you of old
prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms,
of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
028:009 The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet
shall happen, then shall the prophet be known, that Yahweh
has truly sent him.
028:010 Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet
Jeremiah's neck, and broke it.
028:011 Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus
says Yahweh: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck
of all the nations. The prophet Jeremiah went his way.
028:012 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that Hananiah
the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the
prophet Jeremiah, saying,
028:013 Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh: You have
broken the bars of wood; but you have made in their place
bars of iron.
028:014 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: I have put
a yoke of iron on 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 animals of the field also.
028:015 Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet,
Hear now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but you make
this people to trust in a lie.
028:016 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will send you away
from off the surface of the earth: this year you shall die,
because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.
028:017 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
029:001 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah
the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders
of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets,
and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away
captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,
029:002 (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen mother, and the eunuchs,
[and] the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen,
and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem),
029:003 by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son
of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon
to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), saying,
029:004 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, to all
the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive
from Jerusalem to Babylon:
029:005 Build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens,
and eat the fruit of them.
029:006 Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives
for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands,
that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply you there,
and don't be diminished.
029:007 Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried
away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in the peace
of it shall you have peace.
029:008 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Don't let
your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners,
deceive you; neither listen you to your dreams which you
cause to be dreamed.
029:009 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not
sent them, says Yahweh.
029:010 For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished
for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word
toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
029:011 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh,
thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in
your latter end.
029:012 You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me,
and I will listen to you.
029:013 You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me
with all your heart.
029:014 I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again
your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations,
and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh;
and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused
you to be carried away captive.
029:015 Because you have said, Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon;
029:016 thus says Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the throne
of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city,
your brothers who haven't gone forth with you into captivity;
029:017 thus says Yahweh of Armies; Behold, I will send on them the sword,
the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs,
that can't be eaten, they are so bad.
029:018 I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine,
and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back
and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object
of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach,
among all the nations where I have driven them;
029:019 because they have not listened to my words, says Yahweh,
with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up
early and sending them; but you would not hear, says Yahweh.
029:020 Hear you therefore the word of Yahweh, all you of the captivity,
whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
029:021 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab
the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah,
who prophesy a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver
them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon;
and he shall kill them before your eyes;
029:022 and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah
who are in Babylon, saying, Yahweh make you like Zedekiah
and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
029:023 because they have worked folly in Israel, and have committed
adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken
words in my name falsely, which I didn't command them;
and I am he who knows, and am witness, says Yahweh.
029:024 Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,
029:025 Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying,
Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people
who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah,
the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
029:026 Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest,
that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh,
for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet,
that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
029:027 Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth,
who makes himself a prophet to you,
029:028 because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, [The captivity]
is long: build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens,
and eat the fruit of them?
029:029 Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of
Jeremiah the prophet.
029:030 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,
029:031 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says Yahweh
concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has
prophesied to you, and I didn't send him, and he has caused
you to trust in a lie;
029:032 therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah
the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell
among this people, neither shall he see the good that I
will do to my people, says Yahweh, because he has spoken
rebellion against Yahweh.
030:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
030:002 Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write you all
the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
030:003 For, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again
the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh;
and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave
to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
030:004 These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel
and concerning Judah.
030:005 For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling,
of fear, and not of peace.
030:006 Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child:
why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman
in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
030:007 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.
030:008 It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I
will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds;
and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant;
030:009 but they shall serve Yahweh their God, and David their king,
whom I will raise up to them.
030:010 Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh;
neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you
from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity;
and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease,
and none shall make him afraid.
030:011 For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make
a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you,
but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct
you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.
030:012 For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable,
and your wound grievous.
030:013 There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up:
you have no healing medicines.
030:014 All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you:
for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the
chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity,
because your sins were increased.
030:015 Why cry you for your hurt? your pain is incurable:
for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins
were increased, I have done these things to you.
030:016 Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all
your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity;
and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey
on you will I give for a prey.
030:017 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you
of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you
an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
030:018 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity
of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places;
and the city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace
shall be inhabited after its own manner.
030:019 Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who
make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few;
I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
030:020 Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation
shall be established before me; and I will punish all
who oppress them.
030:021 Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed
from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near,
and he shall approach to me: for who is he who has had boldness
to approach to me? says Yahweh.
030:022 You shall be my people, and I will be your God.
030:023 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth,
a sweeping storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.
030:024 The fierce 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.
031:001 At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families
of Israel, and they shall be my people.
031:002 Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found
favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause
him to rest.
031:003 Yahweh appeared of old to me, [saying], Yes, I have loved you
with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness
have I drawn you.