for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear
sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
24:029:007 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to
be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the
peace thereof shall ye have peace.
24:029:008 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not
your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive
you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
24:029:009 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not
sent them, saith the LORD.
24:029:010 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be
accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word
toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
24:029:011 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the
LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
24:029:012 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me,
and I will hearken unto you.
24:029:013 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for
me with all your heart.
24:029:014 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn
away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and
from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I
will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried
away captive.
24:029:015 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in
Babylon;
24:029:016 Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon
the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city,
and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;
24:029:017 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them
the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile
figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
24:029:018 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine,
and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the
kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an
hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven
them:
24:029:019 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD,
which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and
sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.
24:029:020 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the
captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
24:029:021 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the
son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a
lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;
24:029:022 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of
Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and
like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
24:029:023 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have
committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying
words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a
witness, saith the LORD.
24:029:024 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite,
saying,
24:029:025 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying,
Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are
at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to
all the priests, saying,
24:029:026 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the
priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every
man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put
him in prison, and in the stocks.
24:029:027 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of
Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
24:029:028 For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This
captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant
gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
24:029:029 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of
Jeremiah the prophet.
24:029:030 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
24:029:031 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the
LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath
prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a
lie:
24:029:032 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah
the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among
this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my
people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the
LORD.
24:030:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
24:030:002 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all
the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
24:030:003 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring
again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I
will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and
they shall possess it.
24:030:004 And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel
and concerning Judah.
24:030:005 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling,
of fear, and not of peace.
24:030:006 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?
wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in
travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
24:030:007 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.
24:030:008 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of
hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy
bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
24:030:009 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their
king, whom I will raise up unto them.
24:030:010 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD;
neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and
thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and
shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
24:030:011 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I
make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet I will
not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and
will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
24:030:012 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy
wound is grievous.
24:030:013 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound
up: thou hast no healing medicines.
24:030:014 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I
have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a
cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were
increased.
24:030:015 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable
for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I
have done these things unto thee.
24:030:016 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and
all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and
they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will
I give for a prey.
24:030:017 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of
thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying,
This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
24:030:018 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity
of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city
shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after
the manner thereof.
24:030:019 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of
them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be
few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
24:030:020 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their
congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that
oppress them.
24:030:021 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor
shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near,
and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to
approach unto me? saith the LORD.
24:030:022 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
24:030:023 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a
continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the
wicked.
24:030:024 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he hath
done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the
latter days ye shall consider it.
24:031:001 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all
the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
24:031:002 Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword
found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to
rest.
24:031:003 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have
loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have
I drawn thee.
24:031:004 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of
Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth
in the dances of them that make merry.
24:031:005 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the
planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
24:031:006 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount
Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our
God.
24:031:007 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and
shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O
LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
24:031:008 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather
them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame,
the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a
great company shall return thither.
24:031:009 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I
lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a
straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to
Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
24:031:010 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in
the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him,
and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
24:031:011 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the
hand of him that was stronger than he.
24:031:012 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and
shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for
wine, and for oil, and for 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.
24:031:013 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men
and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will
comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
24:031:014 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and
my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.
24:031:015 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation,
and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be
comforted for her children, because they were not.
24:031:016 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and
thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD;
and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
24:031:017 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy
children shall come again to their own border.
24:031:018 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast
chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the
yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
24:031:019 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I
was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even
confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
24:031:020 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I
spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my
bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith
the LORD.
24:031:021 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart
toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O
virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
24:031:022 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for
the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a
man.
24:031:023 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they
shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof,
when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O
habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
24:031:024 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities
thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
24:031:025 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished
every sorrowful soul.
24:031:026 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto
me.
24:031:027 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the
house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with
the seed of beast.
24:031:028 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over
them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy,
and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith
the LORD.
24:031:029 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten
a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
24:031:030 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that
eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
24:031:031 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
24:031:032 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 brake, although I was an husband unto
them, saith the LORD:
24:031:033 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in
their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
24:031:034 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and
every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know
me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD:
for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no
more.
24:031:035 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day,
and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night,
which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is
his name:
24:031:036 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD,
then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me
for ever.
24:031:037 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the
foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all
the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
24:031:038 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be
built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the
corner.
24:031:039 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it
upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
24:031:040 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes,
and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the
horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be
plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.
24:032:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth
year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar.
24:032:002 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and
Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was
in the king of Judah's house.
24:032:003 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore
dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give
this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
24:032:004 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 behold his eyes;
24:032:005 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be
until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans,
ye shall not prosper.
24:032:006 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
24:032:007 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come
unto thee saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right
of redemption is thine to buy it.
24:032:008 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the
prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my
field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of
Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is
thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the
LORD.
24:032:009 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was
in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of
silver.
24:032:010 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took
witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
24:032:011 So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was
sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:
24:032:012 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son
of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's
son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of
the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
24:032:013 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
24:032:014 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these
evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this
evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may
continue many days.
24:032:015 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses
and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
24:032:016 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto
Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,
24:032:017 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth
by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard
for thee:
24:032:018 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest
the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them:
the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name,
24:032:019 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open
upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his
ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
24:032:020 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even
unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a
name, as at this day;
24:032:021 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of
Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a
stretched out arm, and with great terror;
24:032:022 And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to
their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
24:032:023 And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy
voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that
thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to
come upon them:
24:032:024 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it;
and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against
it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and
what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.
24:032:025 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field
for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of
the Chaldeans.
24:032:026 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
24:032:027 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any
thing too hard for me?
24:032:028 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city
into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon, and he shall take it:
24:032:029 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come
and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs
they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto
other gods, to provoke me to anger.
24:032:030 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have
only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel
have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the
LORD.
24:032:031 For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger
and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that
I should remove it from before my face,
24:032:032 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.
24:032:033 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face:
though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have
not hearkened to receive instruction.
24:032:034 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called
by my name, to defile it.
24:032:035 And 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 unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither
came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause
Judah to sin.
24:032:036 And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,
concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the
hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence;
24:032:037 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I
have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and
I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell
safely:
24:032:038 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
24:032:039 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may
fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after
them:
24:032:040 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I
will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in
their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
24:032:041 Yea, 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.
24:032:042 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this
great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that
I have promised them.
24:032:043 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It
is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans.
24:032:044 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and
seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places
about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the
mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the
south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
24:033:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second
time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
24:033:002 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed
it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
24:033:003 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and
mighty things, which thou knowest not.
24:033:004 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the
houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah,
which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
24:033:005 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them
with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my
fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
24:033:006 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure
them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
24:033:007 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of
Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
24:033:008 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they
have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby
they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
24:033:009 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour
before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that
I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and
for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
24:033:010 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this
place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast,
even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are
desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
24:033:011 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall
say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy
endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise
into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of
the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
24:033:012 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is
desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof,
shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
24:033:013 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale,
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
pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.
24:033:014 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform
that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to
the house of Judah.
24:033:015 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of
righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and
righteousness in the land.
24:033:016 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell
safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our
righteousness.
24:033:017 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit
upon the throne of the house of Israel;
24:033:018 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to
offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice
continually.
24:033:019 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
24:033:020 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day,
and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night
in their season;
24:033:021 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant,
that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the
Levites the priests, my ministers.
24:033:022 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of
the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and
the Levites that minister unto me.
24:033:023 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
24:033:024 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying,
The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off?
thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation
before them.
24:033:025 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and
night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
24:033:026 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant,
so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return,
and have mercy on them.
24:034:001 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms
of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against
Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,
24:034:002 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to
Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I
will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall
burn it with fire:
24:034:003 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely
be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the
eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to
mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
24:034:004 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus
saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:
24:034:005 But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy
fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn
odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have
pronounced the word, saith the LORD.
24:034:006 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah
king of Judah in Jerusalem,
24:034:007 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and
against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and
against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of
Judah.
24:034:008 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after
that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which
were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
24:034:009 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his
maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should
serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
24:034:010 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had
entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his
manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should
serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
24:034:011 But afterward 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.
24:034:012 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the
LORD, saying,
24:034:013 Thus saith the LORD, 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 bondmen, saying,
24:034:014 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an
Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six
years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened
not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
24:034:015 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in
proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a
covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
24:034:016 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his
servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their
pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you
for servants and for handmaids.
24:034:017 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me,
in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his
neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the
sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be
removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
24:034:018 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant,
which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made
before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts
thereof,
24:034:019 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the
eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed
between the parts of the calf;
24:034:020 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and
into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall
be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the
earth.
24:034:021 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into
the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their
life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up
from you.
24:034:022 Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, 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 an inhabitant.
24:035:001 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days
of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
24:035:002 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and
bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and
give them wine to drink.
24:035:003 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of
Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of
the Rechabites;
24:035:004 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the
chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a 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 door:
24:035:005 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots
full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.
24:035:006 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of
Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither
ye, nor your sons for ever:
24:035:007 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant
vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that
ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
24:035:008 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab
our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our
days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
24:035:009 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we
vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
24:035:010 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done
according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
24:035:011 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came
up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for
fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the
Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
24:035:012 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
24:035:013 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell
the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive
instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.
24:035:014 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his
sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink
none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken
unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
24:035:015 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets,
rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from
his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to
serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and
to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto
me.
24:035:016 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed
the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this
people hath not hearkened unto me:
24:035:017 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of
Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I
have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto
them, but they have not answered.
24:035:018 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus
saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the
commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done
according unto all that he hath commanded you:
24:035:019 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for
ever.
24:036:001 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son
of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the
LORD, saying,
24:036:002 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words
that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and
against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days
of Josiah, even unto this day.
24:036:003 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil
which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his
evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
24:036:004 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch
wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had
spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
24:036:005 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot
go into the house of the LORD:
24:036:006 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast
written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people
in the LORD's house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them
in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
24:036:007 It may be they will present their supplication before the
LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the
anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.
24:036:008 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that
Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the
LORD in the LORD's house.
24:036:009 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast
before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people
that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
24:036:010 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the
house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the
scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's
house, in the ears of all the people.
24:036:011 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had
heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,
24:036:012 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's
chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe,
and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and
Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all
the princes.
24:036:013 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had
heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
24:036:014 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah,
the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in
thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people,
and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and
came unto them.
24:036:015 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our
ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
24:036:016 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they
were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely
tell the king of all these words.
24:036:017 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou
write all these words at his mouth?
24:036:018 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto
me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
24:036:019 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and
Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
24:036:020 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up
the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words
in the ears of the king.
24:036:021 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out
of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the
king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
24:036:022 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and
there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
24:036:023 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four
leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was
on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on
the hearth.
24:036:024 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither
the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
24:036:025 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made
intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would
not hear them.
24:036:026 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and
Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take
Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
24:036:027 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the
king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth
of Jeremiah, saying,
24:036:028 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former
words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah
hath burned.
24:036:029 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the
LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein,
saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land,
and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
24:036:030 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He
shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall
be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
24:036:031 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their
iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have
pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
24:036:032 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the
scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah
all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in
the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
24:037:001 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah
the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in
the land of Judah.
24:037:002 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land,
did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet
Jeremiah.
24:037:003 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and
Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah,
saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.
24:037:004 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they
had not put him into prison.
24:037:005 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the
Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed
from Jerusalem.
24:037:006 Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah
saying,
24:037:007 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to
the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold,
Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt
into their own land.
24:037:008 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this
city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
24:037:009 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The
Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
24:037:010 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans
that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them,
yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with
fire.
24:037:011 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was
broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
24:037:012 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land
of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.
24:037:013 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the
ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of
Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to
the Chaldeans.
24:037:014 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the
Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and
brought him to the princes.
24:037:015 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote
him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they
had made that the prison.
24:037:016 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the
cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
24:037:017 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king
asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the
LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered
into the hand of the king of Babylon.
24:037:018 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I
offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people,
that ye have put me in prison?
24:037:019 Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you,
saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this
land?
24:037:020 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my
supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me
not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
24:037:021 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit
Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him
daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in
the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
24:038:001 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of
Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah,
heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,
24:038:002 Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die
by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth
forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a
prey, and shall live.
24:038:003 Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the
hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.
24:038:004 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee,
let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men
of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in
speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of
this people, but the hurt.
24:038:005 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for
the king is not he that can do any thing against you.
24:038:006 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of
Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and
they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no
water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
24:038:007 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which
was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the
dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
24:038:008 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to
the king saying,
24:038:009 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they
have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon;
and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is
no more bread in the city.
24:038:010 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying,
Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet
out of the dungeon, before he die.
24:038:011 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house
of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old
rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
24:038:012 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now
these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the
cords. And Jeremiah did so.
24:038:013 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of
the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
24:038:014 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet
unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the
king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.
24:038:015 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee,
wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt
thou not hearken unto me?
24:038:016 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As
the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death,
neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
24:038:017 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the
God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto
the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city
shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:
24:038:018 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's
princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans,
and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their
hand.
24:038:019 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the
Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their
hand, and they mock me.
24:038:020 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I
beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it
shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
24:038:021 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the
LORD hath shewed me:
24:038:022 And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of
Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes,
and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have
prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are
turned away back.
24:038:023 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the
Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be
taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city
to be burned with fire.
24:038:024 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these
words, and thou shalt not die.
24:038:025 But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and
they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou
hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee
to death; also what the king said unto thee:
24:038:026 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication
before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's
house, to die there.
24:038:027 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and
he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded.
So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
24:038:028 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day
that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
24:039:001 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth
month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against
Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
24:039:002 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month,
the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
24:039:003 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat
in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim,
Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of
the king of Babylon.
24:039:004 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw
them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the
city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the
two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
24:039:005 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook
Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they
brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land
of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
24:039:006 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah
before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
24:039:007 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with
chains, to carry him to Babylon.
24:039:008 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of
the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
24:039:009 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away
captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the
city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the
people that remained.
24:039:010 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of
the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them
vineyards and fields at the same time.
24:039:011 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning
Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,
24:039:012 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do
unto him even as he shall say unto thee.
24:039:013 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and
Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of
Babylon's princes;
24:039:014 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the
prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.
24:039:015 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was
shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
24:039:016 Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon
this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in
that day before thee.
24:039:017 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou
shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.
24:039:018 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by
the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast
put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.
24:040:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he
had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away
captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto
Babylon.
24:040:002 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto
him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.
24:040:003 Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath
said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his
voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
24:040:004 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which
were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into
Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto
thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is
before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go,
thither go.
24:040:005 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon
hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among
the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So
the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.
24:040:006 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah;
and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.
24:040:007 Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the
fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto
him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them
that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
24:040:008 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the
son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah
the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
24:040:009 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto
them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in
the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
24:040:010 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the
Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer
fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities
that ye have taken.
24:040:011 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the
Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that
the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set
over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;
24:040:012 Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they
were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah,
and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
24:040:013 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
24:040:014 And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the
king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay
thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.
24:040:015 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah
secretly saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee,
that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and
the remnant in Judah perish?
24:040:016 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of
Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of
Ishmael.
24:041:001 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes
of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam
to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.
24:041:002 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that
were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan
with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor
over the land.
24:041:003 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with
Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the
men of war.
24:041:004 And it came to pass the second day after he had slain
Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
24:041:005 That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from
Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their
clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in
their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
24:041:006 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to
meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met
them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.
24:041:007 And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city,
that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the
midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.
24:041:008 But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael,
Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of
barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among
their brethren.
24:041:009 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of
the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the
king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.
24:041:010 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the
people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the
people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the
Ammonites.
24:041:011 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah had done,
24:041:012 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.
24:041:013 Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were with
Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces that were with him, then they were glad.
24:041:014 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from
Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.
24:041:015 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with
eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
24:041:016 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
the forces that 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 slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the
women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from
Gibeon:
24:041:017 And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham,
which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
24:041:018 Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them,
because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.
24:042:001 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 unto the greatest, came near,
24:042:002 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our
supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy
God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as
thine eyes do behold us:)
24:042:003 That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may
walk, and the thing that we may do.
24:042:004 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you;
behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words; and
it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you,
I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.
24:042:005 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful
witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the
which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
24:042:006 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the
voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well
with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.
24:042:007 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD
came unto Jeremiah.
24:042:008 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the
least even to the greatest,
24:042:009 And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,
unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;
24:042:010 If ye 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
repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
24:042:011 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid;
be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to save you, and
to deliver you from his hand.
24:042:012 And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon
you, and cause you to return to your own land.
24:042:013 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey
the voice of the LORD your God,
24:042:014 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:
24:042:015 And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of
Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set
your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
24:042:016 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared,
shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof
ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there
ye shall die.
24:042:017 So shall it be with all the men that 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 upon them.
24:042:018 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine
anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall
enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment,
and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
24:042:019 The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go
ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.
24:042:020 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the
LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according
unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we
will do it.
24:042:021 And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not
obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he
hath sent me unto you.
24:042:022 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to
go and to sojourn.
24:043:001 And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of
speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for
which the LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
24:043:002 Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son
of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest
falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt
to sojourn there:
24:043:003 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for
to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to
death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.
24:043:004 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell
in the land of Judah.
24:043:005 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all
nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;
24:043:006 Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters,
and every person that 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.
24:043:007 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the
voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.
24:043:008 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes,
saying,
24:043:009 Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in
the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in
the sight of the men of Judah;
24:043:010 And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon,
my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid;
and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
24:043:011 And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and
deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to
captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.
24:043:012 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt;
and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array
himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment;
and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
24:043:013 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the
land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn
with fire.
24:044:001 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which
dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and
at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
24:044:002 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen
all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities
of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man
dwelleth therein,
24:044:003 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, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.
24:044:004 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising
early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I
hate.
24:044:005 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from
their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
24:044:006 Wherefore my fury and mine 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 at this day.
24:044:007 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God
of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to
cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to
leave you none to remain;
24:044:008 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your
hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye
be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be
a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
24:044:009 Have ye 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 have
committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
24:044:010 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they
feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you
and before your fathers.
24:044:011 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all
Judah.
24:044:012 And 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, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed
by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto
the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an
execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
24:044:013 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I
have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence:
24:044:014 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the
land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should
return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return
to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
24:044:015 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned
incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great
multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in
Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
24:044:016 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of
the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
24:044:017 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of
our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out
drink offerings unto 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 victuals, and were well, and saw no
evil.
24:044:018 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven,
and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and
have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
24:044:019 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured
out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and
pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
24:044:020 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to
the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer,
saying,
24:044:021 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the
streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your
princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and
came it not into his mind?
24:044:022 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of
your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed;
therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse,
without an inhabitant, as at this day.
24:044:023 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned
against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked
in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this
evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
24:044:024 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the
women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of
Egypt:
24:044:025 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye
and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with
your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed,
to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings
unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your
vows.
24:044:026 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell
in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the
LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of
Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.
24:044:027 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good:
and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed
by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
24:044:028 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of
the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah,
that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose
words shall stand, mine, or their's.
24:044:029 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I
will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall
surely stand against you for evil:
24:044:030 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king
of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that
seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.
24:045:001 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son
of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of
Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
Judah, saying,
24:045:002 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch:
24:045:003 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief
to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
24:045:004 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold,
that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted
I will pluck up, even this whole land.
24:045:005 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not:
for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy
life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
24:046:001 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet
against the Gentiles;
24:046:002 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of
Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah king of Judah.
24:046:003 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
24:046:004 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth
with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
24:046:005 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and
their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not
back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
24:046:006 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they
shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
24:046:007 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved
as the rivers?
24:046:008 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like
the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will
destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
24:046:009 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty
men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield;
and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.
24:046:010 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of
vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword
shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood:
for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the
river Euphrates.
24:046:011 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of
Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be
cured.
24:046:012 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled
the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they
are fallen both together.
24:046:013 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
24:046:014 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in
Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the
sword shall devour round about thee.
24:046:015 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because
the LORD did drive them.
24:046:016 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they
said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of
our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
24:046:017 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he
hath passed the time appointed.
24:046:018 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts,
Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so
shall he come.
24:046:019 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into
captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
24:046:020 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it
cometh out of the north.
24:046:021 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted
bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together:
they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon
them, and the time of their visitation.
24:046:022 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall
march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
24:046:023 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it
cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are
innumerable.
24:046:024 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be
delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
24:046:025 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will
punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and
their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:
24:046:026 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek
their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and
into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as
in the days of old, saith the LORD.
24:046:027 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O
Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from
the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and
at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
24:046:028 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am
with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have
driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in
measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
24:047:001 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet
against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
24:047:002 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,
and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all
that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men
shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
24:047:003 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong
horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his
wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness
of hands;
24:047:004 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,
and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the
LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
24:047:005 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the
remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
24:047:006 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be
quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
24:047:007 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge
against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.
24:048:001 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken:
Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
24:048:002 There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have
devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a
nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue
thee.
24:048:003 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great
destruction.
24:048:004 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be
heard.
24:048:005 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up;
for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of
destruction.
24:048:006 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the
wilderness.
24:048:007 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy
treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into
captivity with his priests and his princes together.
24:048:008 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall
escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed,
as the LORD hath spoken.
24:048:009 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the
cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
24:048:010 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and
cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
24:048:011 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on
his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath
he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his
scent is not changed.
24:048:012 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty
his vessels, and break their bottles.
24:048:013 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel
was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
24:048:014 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?
24:048:015 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his
chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose
name is the LORD of hosts.
24:048:016 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction
hasteth fast.
24:048:017 All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know
his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!
24:048:018 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy
glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee,
and he shall destroy thy strong holds.
24:048:019 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him
that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?
24:048:020 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell
ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
24:048:021 And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and
upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,
24:048:022 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,
24:048:023 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,
24:048:024 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of
the land of Moab, far or near.
24:048:025 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the
LORD.
24:048:026 Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the
LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in
derision.
24:048:027 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among
thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.
24:048:028 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the
rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the
hole's mouth.
24:048:029 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his
loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his
heart.
24:048:030 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his
lies shall not so effect it.
24:048:031 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all
Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.
24:048:032 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of
Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of
Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy
vintage.
24:048:033 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and
from the land of Moab, and I have caused wine to fail from the
winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no
shouting.
24:048:034 From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto
Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as
an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be
desolate.
24:048:035 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him
that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his
gods.
24:048:036 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and
mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the
riches that he hath gotten are perished.
24:048:037 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon
all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
24:048:038 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops
of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a
vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
24:048:039 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab
turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying
to all them about him.
24:048:040 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle,
and shall spread his wings over Moab.
24:048:041 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the
mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman
in her pangs.
24:048:042 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he
hath magnified himself against the LORD.
24:048:043 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O
inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
24:048:044 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he
that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will
bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the
LORD.
24:048:045 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of
the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from
the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown
of the head of the tumultuous ones.
24:048:046 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth:
for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.
24:048:047 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter
days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
24:049:001 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no
sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his
people dwell in his cities?
24:049:002 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it
shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire:
then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
24:049:003 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of
Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the
hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his
princes together.
24:049:004 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O
backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall
come unto me?
24:049:005 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of
hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out
every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.
24:049:006 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the
children of Ammon, saith the LORD.
24:049:007 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no
more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom
vanished?
24:049:008 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I
will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit
him.
24:049:009 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some
gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have
enough.
24:049:010 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret
places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled,
and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
24:049:011 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive;
and let thy widows trust in me.
24:049:012 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not
to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall
altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt
surely drink of it.
24:049:013 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall
become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the
cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
24:049:014 I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is
sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her,
and rise up to the battle.
24:049:015 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and
despised among men.
24:049:016 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine
heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the
height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the
eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
24:049:017 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
24:049:018 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour
cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall
a son of man dwell in it.
24:049:019 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of
Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make
him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over
her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is
that shepherd that will stand before me?
24:049:020 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken
against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the
inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out:
surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.
24:049:021 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the
noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
24:049:022 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his
wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of
Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
24:049:023 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for
they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on
the sea; it cannot be quiet.
24:049:024 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and
fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman
in travail.
24:049:025 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
24:049:026 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all
the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
24:049:027 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it
shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
24:049:028 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise
ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
24:049:029 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall
take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their
camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
24:049:030 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor,
saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel
against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.
24:049:031 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth
without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which
dwell alone.
24:049:032 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their
cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the
utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof,
saith the LORD.
24:049:033 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation
for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in
it.
24:049:034 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet
against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah,
saying,
24:049:035 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of
Elam, the chief of their might.
24:049:036 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four
quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and
there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
24:049:037 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,
and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them,
even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after
them, till I have consumed them:
24:049:038 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from
thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
24:049:039 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will
bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
24:050:001 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the
land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
24:050:002 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a
standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is
confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her
images are broken in pieces.
24:050:003 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her,
which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they
shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24:050:004 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children
of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and
weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
24:050:005 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward,
saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual
covenant that shall not be forgotten.
24:050:006 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused
them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they
have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
24:050:007 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries
said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the
habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
24:050:008 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the
land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
24:050:009 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an
assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set
themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their
arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
24:050:010 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be
satisfied, saith the LORD.
24:050:011 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of
mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and
bellow as bulls;
24:050:012 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall
be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness,
a dry land, and a desert.
24:050:013 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited,
but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall
be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
24:050:014 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye
that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned
against the LORD.
24:050:015 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her
foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the
vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do
unto her.
24:050:016 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the
sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they
shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his
own land.
24:050:017 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away:
first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
24:050:018 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have
punished the king of Assyria.
24:050:019 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall
feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount
Ephraim and Gilead.
24:050:020 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity
of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of
Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I
reserve.
24:050:021 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and
against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them,
saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
24:050:022 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
24:050:023 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!
how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
24:050:024 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O
Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught,
because thou hast striven against the LORD.
24:050:025 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the
weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of
hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
24:050:026 Come against her from the utmost border, open her
storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing
of her be left.
24:050:027 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe
unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
24:050:028 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of
Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the
vengeance of his temple.
24:050:029 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend
the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape:
recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath
done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the
Holy One of Israel.
24:050:030 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all
her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
24:050:031 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord
GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
24:050:032 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall
raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall
devour all round about him.
24:050:033 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the
children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them
captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
24:050:034 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he
shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land,
and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
24:050:035 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the
inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
24:050:036 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is
upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
24:050:037 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and
upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall
become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be
robbed.
24:050:038 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for
it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
24:050:039 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts
of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and
it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in
from generation to generation.
24:050:040 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities
thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any
son of man dwell therein.
24:050:041 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great
nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
24:050:042 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and
will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall
ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle,
against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
24:050:043 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his
hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in
travail.
24:050:044 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of
Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly
run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her?
for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that
shepherd that will stand before me?
24:050:045 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken
against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the
land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them
out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
24:050:046 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and
the cry is heard among the nations.
24:051:001 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon,
and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against
me, a destroying wind;
24:051:002 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and
shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against
her round about.
24:051:003 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and
against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not
her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
24:051:004 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and
they that are thrust through in her streets.
24:051:005 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of
the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the
Holy One of Israel.
24:051:006 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his
soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's
vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
24:051:007 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made
all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore
the nations are mad.
24:051:008 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take
balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
24:051:009 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake
her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment
reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
24:051:010 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let
us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
24:051:011 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath
raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is
against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD,
the vengeance of his temple.
24:051:012 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch
strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath
both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of
Babylon.
24:051:013 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures,
thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
24:051:014 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I
will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a
shout against thee.
24:051:015 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the
world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his
understanding.
24:051:016 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in
the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the
earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out
of his treasures.
24:051:017 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is
confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and
there is no breath in them.
24:051:018 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their
visitation they shall perish.
24:051:019 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former
of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of
hosts is his name.
24:051:020 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will
I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
24:051:021 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;
and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;
24:051:022 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with
thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in
pieces the young man and the maid;
24:051:023 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his
flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke
of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
24:051:024 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of
Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith
the LORD.
24:051:025 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the
LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand
upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt
mountain.
24:051:026 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a
stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the
LORD.
24:051:027 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the
nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the
kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her;
cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
24:051:028 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes,
the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of
his dominion.
24:051:029 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of
the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon
a desolation without an inhabitant.
24:051:030 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have
remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women:
they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
24:051:031 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet
another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
24:051:032 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have
burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
24:051:033 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The
daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her:
yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
24:051:034 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath
crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up
like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast
me out.
24:051:035 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,
shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of
Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
24:051:036 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy
cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make
her springs dry.
24:051:037 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons,
an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
24:051:038 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as
lions' whelps.
24:051:039 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them
drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not
wake, saith the LORD.
24:051:040 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams
with he goats.
24:051:041 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole
earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the
nations!
24:051:042 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the
multitude of the waves thereof.
24:051:043 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a
land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
24:051:044 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out
of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not
flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
24:051:045 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye
every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
24:051:046 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that
shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after
that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land,
ruler against ruler.
24:051:047 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment
upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be
confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
24:051:048 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall
sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north,
saith the LORD.
24:051:049 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at
Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
24:051:050 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still:
remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
24:051:051 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath
covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the
LORD's house.
24:051:052 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded
shall groan.
24:051:053 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she
should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers
come unto her, saith the LORD.
24:051:054 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction
from the land of the Chaldeans:
24:051:055 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of
her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise
of their voice is uttered:
24:051:056 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and
her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the
LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.
24:051:057 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her
captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a
perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of
hosts.
24:051:058 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon
shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire;
and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they
shall be weary.
24:051:059 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son
of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of
Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was
a quiet prince.
24:051:060 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come
upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
24:051:061 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon,
and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
24:051:062 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this
place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor
beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
24:051:063 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this
book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of
Euphrates:
24:051:064 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not
rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary.
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
24:052:001 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
24:052:002 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD,
according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
24:052:003 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in
Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that
Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
24:052:004 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the
tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched
against it, and built forts against it round about.
24:052:005 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
Zedekiah.
24:052:006 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the
famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people
of the land.
24:052:007 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and
went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the
two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by
the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
24:052:008 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and
overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was
scattered from him.
24:052:009 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of
Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon
him.
24:052:010 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his
eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
24:052:011 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon
bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison
till the day of his death.
24:052:012 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which
was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came
Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon,
into Jerusalem,
24:052:013 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and
all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned
he with fire:
24:052:014 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain
of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
24:052:015 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away
captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people
that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the
king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
24:052:016 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the
poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
24:052:017 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD,
and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the
Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
24:052:018 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the
bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they
ministered, took they away.
24:052:019 And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the
caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which
was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the
captain of the guard away.
24:052:020 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were
under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD:
the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
24:052:021 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was
eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the
thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
24:052:022 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one
chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the
chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the
pomegranates were like unto these.
24:052:023 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all
the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.
24:052:024 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest,
and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
24:052:025 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge
of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's
person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the
host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the
people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
24:052:026 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and
brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
24:052:027 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in
Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of
his own land.
24:052:028 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive:
in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
24:052:029 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away
captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
24:052:030 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred
forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six
hundred.
24:052:031 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five
and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the
first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah,
and brought him forth out of prison.
24:052:032 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the
throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,
24:052:033 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat
bread before him all the days of his life.
24:052:034 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the
king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the
days of his life.