again shall you be adorned with your tambourines, and shall
go forth in the dances of those who make merry.
031:005 Again shall you plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria;
the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy [the fruit of it].
031:006 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on the hills
of Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion
to Yahweh our God.
031:007 For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout
for the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you,
and say, Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
031:008 Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth,
[and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman
with child and her who travails with child together:
a great company shall they return here.
031:009 They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them:
I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way
in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel,
and Ephraim is my firstborn.
031:010 Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the islands
afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him,
and keep him, as shepherd does his flock.
031:011 For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand
of him who was stronger than he.
031:012 They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow
to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine,
and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd:
and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall
not sorrow any more at all.
031:013 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men
and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy,
and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
031:014 I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my
people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh.
031:015 Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation,
and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children;
she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they
are no more.
031:016 Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your
eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh;
and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
031:017 There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and [your]
children shall come again to their own border.
031:018 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus],
You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf
unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn you me, and I shall be turned;
for you are Yahweh my God.
031:019 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I
was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes,
even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
031:020 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often
as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still:
therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy
on him, says Yahweh.
031:021 Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward
the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again,
virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
031:022 How long will you go here and there, you backsliding
daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth:
a woman shall encompass a man.
031:023 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they
use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities of it,
when I shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you,
habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.
031:024 Judah and all the cities of it shall dwell therein together,
the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.
031:025 For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul
have I replenished.
031:026 On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
031:027 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house
of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man,
and with the seed of animal.
031:028 It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up
and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict,
so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says Yahweh.
031:029 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten
sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
031:030 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats
the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
031:031 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
031:032 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them
out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke,
although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.
031:033 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house
of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law
in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it;
and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
031:034 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man
his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh:
for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I
remember no more.
031:035 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day,
and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light
by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roar;
Yahweh of Armies is his name:
031:036 If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh,
then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation
before me forever.
031:037 Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured,
and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath,
then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all
that they have done, says Yahweh.
031:038 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be built
to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.
031:039 The measuring line shall go out further straight onward
to the hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah.
031:040 The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes,
and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner
of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh;
it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.
032:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth
year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth
year of Nebuchadnezzar.
032:002 Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem;
and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard,
which was in the king of Judah's house.
032:003 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do
you prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will
give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon,
and he shall take it;
032:004 and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand
of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand
of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth,
and his eyes shall see his eyes;
032:005 and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until
I visit him, says Yahweh: though you fight with the Chaldeans,
you shall not prosper?
032:006 Jeremiah said, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
032:007 Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come
to you, saying, Buy you my field that is in Anathoth;
for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.
032:008 So Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard
according to the word of Yahweh, and said to me, Please buy
my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin;
for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption
is yours; buy it for yourself. Then I knew that this was
the word of Yahweh.
032:009 I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son,
and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
032:010 I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses,
and weighed him the money in the balances.
032:011 So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed,
containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;
032:012 and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah,
the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's son,
and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed
of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court
of the guard.
032:013 I charged Baruch before them, saying,
032:014 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Take these deeds,
this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed
which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they
may continue many days.
032:015 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Houses and
fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land.
032:016 Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch
the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying,
032:017 Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, you have made the heavens and
the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm;
there is nothing too hard for you,
032:018 who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity
of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them;
the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is his name;
032:019 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on
all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according
to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
032:020 who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
even to this day, both in Israel and among [other] men;
and made you a name, as in this day;
032:021 and brought forth your people Israel out of the land of Egypt
with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand,
and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;
032:022 and gave them this land, which you did swear to their fathers
to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
032:023 and they came in, and possessed it, but they didn't
obey your voice, neither walked in your law; they have
done nothing of all that you commanded them to do:
therefore you have caused all this evil to come on them.
032:024 Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it;
and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who
fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine,
and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened;
and behold, you see it.
032:025 You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, Buy you the field for money,
and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand
of the Chaldeans.
032:026 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,
032:027 Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is there anything
too hard for me?
032:028 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will give this city into
the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon, and he shall take it:
032:029 and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come
and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses,
on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured
out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
032:030 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have
done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth;
for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger
with the work of their hands, says Yahweh.
032:031 For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of
my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day;
that I should remove it from before my face,
032:032 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children
of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they,
their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,
and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
032:033 They have turned to me the back, and not the face:
and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them,
yet they have not listened to receive instruction.
032:034 But they set their abominations in the house which is called
by my name, to defile it.
032:035 They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley
of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters
to pass through [the fire] to Molech; which I didn't
command them, neither did it come into my mind, that they
should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
032:036 Now therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel,
concerning this city, about which you say, It is given into
the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine,
and by the pestilence:
032:037 Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries,
where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in
great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place,
and I will cause them to dwell safely:
032:038 and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
032:039 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they
may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their
children after them:
032:040 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I
will not turn away from following them, to do them good;
and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not
depart from me.
032:041 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant
them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with
my whole soul.
032:042 For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have brought all this great evil
on this people, so will I bring on them all the good that I
have promised them.
032:043 Fields shall be bought in this land, about which you say,
It is desolate, without man or animal; it is given into the hand
of the Chaldeans.
032:044 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds,
and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin,
and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah,
and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities
of the lowland, and in the cities of the South:
for I will cause their captivity to return, says Yahweh.
033:001 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time,
while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
033:002 Thus says Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it;
Yahweh is his name:
033:003 Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things,
and difficult, which you don't know.
033:004 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses
of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah,
which are broken down [to make a defense] against the mounds
and against the sword;
033:005 while [men] come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them
with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger
and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hid
my face from this city:
033:006 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them;
and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
033:007 I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel
to return, and will build them, as at the first.
033:008 I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they
have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities,
by which they have sinned against me, and by which they
have transgressed against me.
033:009 [This city] shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise
and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth,
which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall
fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I
procure to it.
033:010 Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place,
about which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal,
even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant
and without animal,
033:011 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 say, Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever; [and of them] who
bring [sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh.
For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at
the first, says Yahweh.
033:012 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Yet again shall there be in
this place, which is waste, without man and without animal,
and in all the cities of it, a habitation of shepherds causing
their flocks to lie down.
033:013 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland,
and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin,
and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah,
shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who
numbers them, says Yahweh.
033:014 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will perform that
good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel
and concerning the house of Judah.
033:015 In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch
of righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute
justice and righteousness in the land.
033:016 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely;
and this is [the name] by which she shall be called:
Yahweh our righteousness.
033:017 For thus says Yahweh: David shall never want a man to sit
on the throne of the house of Israel;
033:018 neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me
to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal offerings,
and to do sacrifice continually.
033:019 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
033:020 Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day,
and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day
and night in their season;
033:021 then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant,
that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne;
and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
033:022 As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand
of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David
my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.
033:023 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
033:024 Don't you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two
families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off?
thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more
a nation before them.
033:025 Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails,
if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
033:026 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David
my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be
rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob:
for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have
mercy on them.
034:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of
the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples,
were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities
of it, saying:
034:002 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah
king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will
give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon,
and he shall burn it with fire:
034:003 and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely
be taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes shall see
the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you
mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon.
034:004 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah king of Judah:
thus says Yahweh concerning you, You shall not die by the sword;
034:005 you shall die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers,
the former kings who were before you, so shall they make
a burning for you; and they shall lament you, [saying], Ah Lord!
for I have spoken the word, says Yahweh.
034:006 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah
king of Judah in Jerusalem,
034:007 when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem,
and against all the cities of Judah that were left,
against Lachish and against Azekah; for these [alone] remained
of the cities of Judah [as] fortified cities.
034:008 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that the king
Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were
at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;
034:009 that every man should let his male servant, and every man
his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free;
that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit],
of a Jew his brother.
034:010 All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered
into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant,
and everyone his female servant, go free, that none should make
bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:
034:011 but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids,
whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into
subjection for servants and for handmaids.
034:012 Therefore the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
034:013 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: I made a covenant
with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out
of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,
034:014 At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his
brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has
served you six years, you shall let him go free from you:
but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.
034:015 You were now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes,
in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you
had made a covenant before me in the house which is called
by my name:
034:016 but you turned and profaned my name, and caused every man
his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let
go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them
into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.
034:017 Therefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to me,
to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every
man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,
says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine;
and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all
the kingdoms of the earth.
034:018 I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant,
who have not performed the words of the covenant which they
made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed
between the parts of it;
034:019 the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs,
and the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed
between the parts of the calf;
034:020 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies,
and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their
dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the sky,
and to the animals of the earth.
034:021 Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into
the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek
their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army,
who have gone away from you.
034:022 Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, and cause them to return
to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it,
and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah
a desolation, without inhabitant.
035:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days
of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
035:002 Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring
them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the chambers,
and give them wine to drink.
035:003 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah,
and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house
of the Rechabites;
035:004 and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the chamber
of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God,
which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above
the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper
of the threshold.
035:005 I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls
full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, Drink you wine.
035:006 But they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab,
our father, commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine,
neither you, nor your sons, forever:
035:007 neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard,
nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents;
that you may live many days in the land in which you sojourn.
035:008 We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab,
our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all
our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;
035:009 nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard,