them among their brothers.
041:009 Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies
of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah
(the same was who which Asa the king had made for fear of
Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled
it with those who were killed.
041:010 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of
the people who were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters,
and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive,
and departed to go over to the children of Ammon.
041:011 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains
of the forces who were with him, heard of all the evil
that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,
041:012 then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael
the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters
that are in Gibeon.
041:013 Now it happened that, when all the people who were with Ishmael
saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces
who were with him, then they were glad.
041:014 So all the people who Ishmael had carried away captive
from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Johanan
the son of Kareah.
041:015 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with
eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.
041:016 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains
of the forces who were with him, all the remnant of the people
whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
from Mizpah, after that he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam,
[to wit], the men of war, and the women, and the children,
and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon:
041:017 and they departed, and lived in Geruth Chimham, which is
by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
041:018 because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them,
because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor
over the land.
042:001 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah,
and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from
the least even to the greatest, came near,
042:002 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we pray you, our supplication
be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God,
even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many,
as your eyes do see us:
042:003 that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk,
and the thing that we should do.
042:004 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you;
behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words;
and it shall happen that whatever thing Yahweh shall answer you,
I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you.
042:005 Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful
witness among us, if we don't do according to all the word
with which Yahweh your God shall send you to us.
042:006 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice
of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well
with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God.
042:007 It happened after ten days, that the word of Yahweh
came to Jeremiah.
042:008 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains
of the forces who were with him, and all the people from
the least even to the greatest,
042:009 and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel,
to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him:
042:010 If you will still abide in this land, then will I build you,
and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up;
for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.
042:011 Don't be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid;
don't be afraid of him, says Yahweh: for I am with you
to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
042:012 I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you,
and cause you to return to your own land.
042:013 But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you
don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God,
042:014 saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we
shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet,
nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
042:015 now therefore hear you the word of Yahweh, O remnant
of Judah: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, If you
indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
042:016 then it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear,
shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine,
about which you are afraid, shall follow hard after you there
in Egypt; and there you shall die.
042:017 So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go
into Egypt to sojourn there: they shall die by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall
remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.
042:018 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: As my
anger and my wrath has been poured forth on the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth on you,
when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an object
of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach;
and you shall see this place no more.
042:019 Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, Don't you
go into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified to
you this day.
042:020 For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls;
for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, Pray for us to Yahweh
our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God shall say,
so declare to us, and we will do it:
042:021 and I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed
the voice of Yahweh your God in anything for which he has
sent me to you.
042:022 Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you
desire to go to sojourn there.
043:001 It happened that, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking
to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which
Yahweh their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
043:002 then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah,
and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely:
Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go
into Egypt to sojourn there;
043:003 but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver us
into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death,
and carry us away captive to Babylon.
043:004 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces,
and all the people, didn't obey the voice of Yahweh,
to dwell in the land of Judah.
043:005 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces,
took all the remnant of Judah, who were returned from
all the nations where they had been driven, to sojourn
in the land of Judah;
043:006 the men, and the women, and the children, and the king's daughters,
and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;
and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah;
043:007 and they came into the land of Egypt; for they didn't obey
the voice of Yahweh: and they came to Tahpanhes.
043:008 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
043:009 Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar
in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house
in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
043:010 and tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God
of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar
the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne
on these stones that I have hidden; and he shall spread his
royal pavilion over them.
043:011 He shall come, and shall strike the land of Egypt;
such as are for death [shall be given] to death, and such as
are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword
to the sword.
043:012 I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt;
and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive:
and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt,
as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he shall go forth
from there in peace.
043:013 He shall also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh, that is in
the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall
he burn with fire.
044:001 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived
in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes,
and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
044:002 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: You have seen
all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all
the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation,
and no man dwells therein,
044:003 because of their wickedness which they have committed
to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense,
[and] to serve other gods, that they didn't know, neither they,
nor you, nor your fathers.
044:004 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up
early and sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this abominable
thing that I hate.
044:005 But they didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from
their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.
044:006 Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured forth, and was
kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem;
and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.
044:007 Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God
of Israel: Why commit you [this] great evil against your own souls,
to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling,
out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining;
044:008 in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands,
burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt,
where you are gone to sojourn; that you may be cut off,
and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations
of the earth?
044:009 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers,
and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness
of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness
of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah,
and in the streets of Jerusalem?
044:010 They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared,
nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before
you and before your fathers.
044:011 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God
of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil,
even to cut off all Judah.
044:012 I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces
to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they
shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall;
they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine;
they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword
and by the famine; and they shall be an object of horror,
[and] an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
044:013 For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt,
as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence;
044:014 so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into
the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be left,
to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire
to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such
as shall escape.
044:015 Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to
other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly,
even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros,
answered Jeremiah, saying,
044:016 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh,
we will not listen to you.
044:017 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth
out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky,
and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done,
we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities
of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we
plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
044:018 But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the sky,
and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things,
and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
044:019 When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out
drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her,
and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?
044:020 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women,
even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying,
044:021 The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah,
and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers,
your kings and your princes, and the people of the land,
didn't Yahweh remember them, and didn't it come into his mind?
044:022 so that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil
of your doings, and because of the abominations which you
have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation,
and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant,
as it is this day.
044:023 Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned
against Yahweh, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh,
nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies;
therefore this evil is happened to you, as it is this day.
044:024 Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the women,
Hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt:
044:025 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, You and
your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your
hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform
our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen
of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her:
establish then your vows, and perform your vows.
044:026 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who dwell in
the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name,
says Yahweh, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth
of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the
Lord Yahweh lives.
044:027 Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good;
and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall
be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there
be an end of them.
044:028 Those who escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt
into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant
of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there,
shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.
044:029 This shall be the sign to you, says Yahweh, that I will punish
you in this place, that you may know that my words shall
surely stand against you for evil:
044:030 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king
of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of
those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into
the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy,
and sought his life.
045:001 The message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son
of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth
of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, saying,
045:002 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to you, Baruch:
045:003 You did say, Woe is me now! for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain;
I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.
045:004 Thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I
have built will I break down, and that which I have planted
I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
045:005 Seek you great things for yourself? Don't seek them;
for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh;
but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places
where you go.
046:001 The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet
concerning the nations.
046:002 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king
of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish,
which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth
year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.
046:003 Prepare you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
046:004 Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth
with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.
046:005 Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward;
and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace,
and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.
046:006 Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape;
in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
046:007 Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss
themselves like the rivers?
046:008 Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves
like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover
the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants of it.
046:009 Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men
go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim,
who handle and bend the bow.
046:010 For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day
of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries:
and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink
its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies,
has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
046:011 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt:
in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you.
046:012 The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full
of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty,
they are fallen both of them together.
046:013 The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet,
how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike
the land of Egypt.
046:014 Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis
and in Tahpanhes: say you, Stand forth, and prepare you;
for the sword has devoured round about you.
046:015 Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't stand,
because Yahweh did drive them.
046:016 He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another:
and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people,
and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.
046:017 They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise;
he has let the appointed time pass by.
046:018 As I live, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies,
surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea,
so shall he come.
046:019 You daughter who dwell in Egypt, furnish yourself to go
into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation,
and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.
046:020 Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of
the north is come, it is come.
046:021 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall;
for they also are turned back, they are fled away together,
they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come
on them, the time of their visitation.
046:022 The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march
with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
046:023 They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it
can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts,
and are innumerable.
046:024 The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be
delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
046:025 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will
punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods,
and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him:
046:026 and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives,
and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into
the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited,
as in the days of old, says Yahweh.
046:027 But don't be afraid you, Jacob my servant, 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.
046:028 Don't be afraid you, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; for I
am with you: for I will make a full end of all the nations
where I have driven 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.
047:001 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning
the Philistines, before that Pharaoh struck Gaza.
047:002 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north,
and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow
the land and all that is therein, the city and those who
dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants
of the land shall wail.
047:003 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones,
at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels,
the fathers don't look back to their children for
feebleness of hands;
047:004 because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines,
to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains:
for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of
the isle of Caphtor.
047:005 Baldness is come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing,
the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?
047:006 You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you be quiet?
put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still.
047:007 How can you be quiet, seeing Yahweh has given you a charge?
Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has
he appointed it.
048:001 Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe to
Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed,
it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.
048:002 The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised
evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being
a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence:
the sword shall pursue you.
048:003 The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
048:004 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
048:005 For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up;
for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress
of the cry of destruction.
048:006 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
048:007 For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures,
you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity,
his priests and his princes together.
048:008 The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape;
the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed;
as Yahweh has spoken.
048:009 Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away:
and her cities shall become a desolation, without any
to dwell therein.
048:010 Cursed be he who does the work of Yahweh negligently;
and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.
048:011 Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled
on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste
remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
048:012 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will send
to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they
shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.
048:013 Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was
ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
048:014 How say you, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?
048:015 Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities,
and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter,
says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
048:016 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction
hurries fast.
048:017 All you who are round about him, bemoan him, and all you
who know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken,
the beautiful rod!
048:018 You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory,
and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab is come up
against you, he has destroyed your strongholds.
048:019 Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch:
ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done?
048:020 Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry;
tell you it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
048:021 Judgment is come on the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahzah,
and on Mephaath,
048:022 and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth Diblathaim,
048:023 and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth Meon,
048:024 and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land
of Moab, far or near.
048:025 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says Yahweh.