24:001:001 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests
that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
24:001:002 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the
son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
24:001:003 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king
of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of
Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in
the fifth month.
24:001:004 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
24:001:005 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before
thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained
thee a prophet unto the nations.
24:001:006 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am
a child.
24:001:007 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou
shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee
thou shalt speak.
24:001:008 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver
thee, saith the LORD.
24:001:009 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And
the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
24:001:010 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the
kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw
down, to build, and to plant.
24:001:011 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
24:001:012 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will
hasten my word to perform it.
24:001:013 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time,
saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face
thereof is toward the north.
24:001:014 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall
break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
24:001:015 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the
north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every
one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against
all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
24:001:016 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all
their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto
other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
24:001:017 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto
them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I
confound thee before them.
24:001:018 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and
an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the
kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests
thereof, and against the people of the land.
24:001:019 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not
prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver
thee.
24:002:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
24:002:002 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the
LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine
espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that
was not sown.
24:002:003 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of
his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon
them, saith the LORD.
24:002:004 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the
families of the house of Israel:
24:002:005 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found
in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity,
and are become vain?
24:002:006 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out
of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a
land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the
shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where
no man dwelt?
24:002:007 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit
thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my
land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
24:002:008 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that
handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me,
and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do
not profit.
24:002:009 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and
with your children's children will I plead.
24:002:010 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto
Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.
24:002:011 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but
my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
24:002:012 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly
afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
24:002:013 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken
me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken
cisterns, that can hold no water.
24:002:014 Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he
spoiled?
24:002:015 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made
his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
24:002:016 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the
crown of thy head.
24:002:017 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast
forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
24:002:018 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink
the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to
drink the waters of the river?
24:002:019 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy
backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an
evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and
that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
24:002:020 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands;
and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and
under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
24:002:021 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed:
how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine
unto me?
24:002:022 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much
soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
24:002:023 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after
Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a
swift dromedary traversing her ways;
24:002:024 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind
at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that
seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
24:002:025 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from
thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved
strangers, and after them will I go.
24:002:026 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of
Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests,
and their prophets.
24:002:027 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou
hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not
their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and
save us.
24:002:028 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them
arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according
to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
24:002:029 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed
against me, saith the LORD.
24:002:030 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no
correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a
destroying lion.
24:002:031 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a
wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We
are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
24:002:032 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet
my people have forgotten me days without number.
24:002:033 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou
also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
24:002:034 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the
poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all
these.
24:002:035 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger
shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou
sayest, I have not sinned.
24:002:036 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also
shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
24:002:037 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon
thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt
not prosper in them.
24:003:001 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him,
and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not
that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with
many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
24:003:002 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou
hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the
Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy
whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
24:003:003 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath
been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst
to be ashamed.
24:003:004 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou
art the guide of my youth?
24:003:005 Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the
end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
24:003:006 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king,
Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up
upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath
played the harlot.
24:003:007 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou
unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
24:003:008 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding
Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of
divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and
played the harlot also.
24:003:009 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom,
that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with
stocks.
24:003:010 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not
turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
24:003:011 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath
justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
24:003:012 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say,
Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause
mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I
will not keep anger for ever.
24:003:013 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed
against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers
under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the
LORD.
24:003:014 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am
married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a
family, and I will bring you to Zion:
24:003:015 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which
shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
24:003:016 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and
increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no
more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to
mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it;
neither shall that be done any more.
24:003:017 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the
LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the
LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the
imagination of their evil heart.
24:003:018 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house
of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to
the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
24:003:019 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and
give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations?
and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from
me.
24:003:020 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband,
so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the
LORD.
24:003:021 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and
supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their
way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
24:003:022 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your
backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
24:003:023 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and
from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the
salvation of Israel.
24:003:024 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our
youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
24:003:025 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for
we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our
youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our
God.
24:004:001 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto
me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then
shalt thou not remove.
24:004:002 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in
judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves
in him, and in him shall they glory.
24:004:003 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem,
Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
24:004:004 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the
foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem:
lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it,
because of the evil of your doings.
24:004:005 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow
ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble
yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
24:004:006 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I
will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
24:004:007 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of
the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy
land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an
inhabitant.
24:004:008 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the
fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
24:004:009 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that
the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and
the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
24:004:010 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived
this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the
sword reacheth unto the soul.
24:004:011 At that time shall it be said to this people and to
Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the
daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
24:004:012 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now
also will I give sentence against them.
24:004:013 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall
be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for
we are spoiled.
24:004:014 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou
mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
24:004:015 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction
from mount Ephraim.
24:004:016 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against
Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their
voice against the cities of Judah.
24:004:017 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about;
because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
24:004:018 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee;
this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto
thine heart.
24:004:019 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart
maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard,
O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
24:004:020 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is
spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
24:004:021 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the
trumpet?
24:004:022 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are
sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do
evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
24:004:023 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void;
and the heavens, and they had no light.
24:004:024 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the
hills moved lightly.
24:004:025 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of
the heavens were fled.
24:004:026 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and
all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD,
and by his fierce anger.
24:004:027 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be
desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
24:004:028 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be
black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not
repent, neither will I turn back from it.
24:004:029 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and
bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every
city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
24:004:030 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou
clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments
of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou
make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy
life.
24:004:031 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the
anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the
daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands,
saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
24:005:001 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see
now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a
man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth;
and I will pardon it.
24:005:002 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear
falsely.
24:005:003 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast
stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but
they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces
harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
24:005:004 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish:
for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
24:005:005 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them;
for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God:
but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
24:005:006 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a
wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their
cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces:
because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are
increased.
24:005:007 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken
me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the
full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops
in the harlots' houses.
24:005:008 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed
after his neighbour's wife.
24:005:009 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
24:005:010 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full
end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.
24:005:011 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt
very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
24:005:012 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither
shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
24:005:013 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in
them: thus shall it be done unto them.
24:005:014 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak
this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this
people wood, and it shall devour them.
24:005:015 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of
Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation,
a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what
they say.
24:005:016 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty
men.
24:005:017 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which
thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and
thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall
impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
24:005:018 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make
a full end with you.
24:005:019 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore
doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer
them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your
land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.
24:005:020 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah,
saying,
24:005:021 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding;
which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
24:005:022 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my
presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a
perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof
toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can
they not pass over it?
24:005:023 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart;
they are revolted and gone.
24:005:024 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD
our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his
season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
24:005:025 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins
have withholden good things from you.
24:005:026 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as
he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
24:005:027 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of
deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
24:005:028 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds
of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless,
yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
24:005:029 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall
not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
24:005:030 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
24:005:031 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by
their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in
the end thereof?
24:006:001 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of
the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a
sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and
great destruction.
24:006:002 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate
woman.
24:006:003 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they
shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every
one in his place.
24:006:004 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon.
Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are
stretched out.
24:006:005 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her
palaces.
24:006:006 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and
cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is
wholly oppression in the midst of her.
24:006:007 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her
wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually
is grief and wounds.
24:006:008 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from
thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
24:006:009 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the
remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer
into the baskets.
24:006:010 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear?
behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold,
the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in
it.
24:006:011 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with
holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the
assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife
shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
24:006:012 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their
fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the
inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
24:006:013 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them
every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the
priest every one dealeth falsely.
24:006:014 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
24:006:015 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,
they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they
shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they
shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
24:006:016 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask
for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye
shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk
therein.
24:006:017 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound
of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
24:006:018 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what
is among them.
24:006:019 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people,
even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto
my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
24:006:020 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and
the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not
acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
24:006:021 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay
stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons
together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall
perish.
24:006:022 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north
country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the
earth.
24:006:023 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and
have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon
horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
24:006:024 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble:
anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
24:006:025 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the
sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
24:006:026 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and
wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most
bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
24:006:027 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people,
that thou mayest know and try their way.
24:006:028 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they
are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
24:006:029 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire;
the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
24:006:030 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath
rejected them.
24:007:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
24:007:002 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there
this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that
enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
24:007:003 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your
ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
24:007:004 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD,
The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
24:007:005 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye
throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
24:007:006 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the
widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after
other gods to your hurt:
24:007:007 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land
that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
24:007:008 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
24:007:009 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear
falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye
know not;
24:007:010 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called
by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
24:007:011 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of
robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
24:007:012 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set
my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my
people Israel.
24:007:013 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the
LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard
not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
24:007:014 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my
name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to
your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
24:007:015 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all
your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
24:007:016 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry
nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not
hear thee.
24:007:017 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in
the streets of Jerusalem?
24:007:018 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire,
and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven,
and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke
me to anger.
24:007:019 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not
provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
24:007:020 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my
fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and
upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it
shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
24:007:021 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your
burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
24:007:022 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the
day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt
offerings or sacrifices:
24:007:023 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and
I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the
ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
24:007:024 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked
in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went
backward, and not forward.
24:007:025 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land
of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the
prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
24:007:026 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but
hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
24:007:027 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but
they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they
will not answer thee.
24:007:028 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth
not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is
perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
24:007:029 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take
up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and
forsaken the generation of his wrath.
24:007:030 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith
the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called
by my name, to pollute it.
24:007:031 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in
the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters
in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
24:007:032 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it
shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom,
but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there
be no place.
24:007:033 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls
of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray
them away.
24:007:034 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and
from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for
the land shall be desolate.
24:008:001 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones
of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of
the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
24:008:002 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and
all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have
served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and
whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried;
they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
24:008:003 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the
residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all
the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
24:008:004 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD;
Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
24:008:005 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a
perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
24:008:006 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man
repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one
turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
24:008:007 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;
and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their
coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
24:008:008 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with
us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in
vain.
24:008:009 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo,
they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
24:008:010 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their
fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least
even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even
unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
24:008:011 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
24:008:012 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,
they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall
they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they
shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
24:008:013 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be
no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall
fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
24:008:014 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter
into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our
God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink,
because we have sinned against the LORD.
24:008:015 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of
health, and behold trouble!
24:008:016 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole
land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they
are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city,
and those that dwell therein.
24:008:017 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you,
which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
24:008:018 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is
faint in me.
24:008:019 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people
because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion?
is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their
graven images, and with strange vanities?
24:008:020 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not
saved.
24:008:021 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am
black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
24:008:022 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why
then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
24:009:001 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of
tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of
my people!
24:009:002 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring
men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all
adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
24:009:003 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but
they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed
from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
24:009:004 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in
any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every
neighbour will walk with slanders.
24:009:005 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not
speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary
themselves to commit iniquity.
24:009:006 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit
they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
24:009:007 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt
them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
24:009:008 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit:
one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he
layeth his wait.
24:009:009 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD:
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
24:009:010 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and
for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are
burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the
voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are
fled; they are gone.
24:009:011 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I
will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
24:009:012 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he
to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for
what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none
passeth through?
24:009:013 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which
I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked
therein;
24:009:014 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart,
and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
24:009:015 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give
them water of gall to drink.
24:009:016 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither
they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them,
till I have consumed them.
24:009:017 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the
mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that
they may come:
24:009:018 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that
our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
24:009:019 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we
spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land,
because our dwellings have cast us out.
24:009:020 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear
receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and
every one her neighbour lamentation.
24:009:021 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into
our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men
from the streets.
24:009:022 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall
fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the
harvestman, and none shall gather them.
24:009:023 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his
wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich
man glory in his riches:
24:009:024 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he
understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise
lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these
things I delight, saith the LORD.
24:009:025 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish
all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
24:009:026 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and
Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the
wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house
of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
24:010:001 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house
of Israel:
24:010:002 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and
be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at
them.
24:010:003 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a
tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the
axe.
24:010:004 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with
nails and with hammers, that it move not.
24:010:005 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must
needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they
cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
24:010:006 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art
great, and thy name is great in might.
24:010:007 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth
it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and
in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
24:010:008 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a
doctrine of vanities.
24:010:009 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold
from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder:
blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning
men.
24:010:010 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an
everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations
shall not be able to abide his indignation.
24:010:011 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the
heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from
under these heavens.
24:010:012 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the
world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his
discretion.
24:010:013 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.
24:010:014 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is
confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and
there is no breath in them.
24:010:015 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of
their visitation they shall perish.
24:010:016 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.
24:010:017 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the
fortress.
24:010:018 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the
inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they
may find it so.
24:010:019 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said,
Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
24:010:020 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my
children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to
stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
24:010:021 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the
LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be
scattered.
24:010:022 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great
commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah
desolate, and a den of dragons.
24:010:023 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is
not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
24:010:024 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger,
lest thou bring me to nothing.
24:010:025 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and
upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up
Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation
desolate.
24:011:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying,
24:011:002 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men
of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
24:011:003 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel;
Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,
24:011:004 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought
them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying,
Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so
shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
24:011:005 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your
fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this
day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
24:011:006 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the
cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the
words of this covenant, and do them.
24:011:007 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that
I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising
early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
24:011:008 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked
every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will
bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them
to do: but they did them not.
24:011:009 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the
men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
24:011:010 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers,
which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve
them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my
covenant which I made with their fathers.
24:011:011 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil
upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they
shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
24:011:012 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem
go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall
not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
24:011:013 For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O
Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye
set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto
Baal.
24:011:014 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a
cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they
cry unto me for their trouble.
24:011:015 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath
wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee?
when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
24:011:016 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of
goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire
upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
24:011:017 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced
evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house
of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to
anger in offering incense unto Baal.
24:011:018 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it:
then thou shewedst me their doings.
24:011:019 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the
slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me,
saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut
him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more
remembered.
24:011:020 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest
the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto
thee have I revealed my cause.
24:011:021 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that
seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou
die not by our hand:
24:011:022 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will
punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their
daughters shall die by famine:
24:011:023 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil
upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
24:012:001 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let
me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the
wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very
treacherously?
24:012:002 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they
grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and
far from their reins.
24:012:003 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried
mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and
prepare them for the day of slaughter.
24:012:004 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field
wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are
consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last
end.
24:012:005 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied
thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of
peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do
in the swelling of Jordan?
24:012:006 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even
they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a
multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words
unto thee.
24:012:007 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I
have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
24:012:008 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth
out against me: therefore have I hated it.
24:012:009 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round
about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field,
come to devour.
24:012:010 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden
my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate
wilderness.
24:012:011 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth
unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to
heart.
24:012:012 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the
wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of
the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
24:012:013 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put
themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of
your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
24:012:014 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that
touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit;
Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of
Judah from among them.
24:012:015 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them
out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them
again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
24:012:016 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the
ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught
my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my
people.
24:012:017 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and
destroy that nation, saith the LORD.
24:013:001 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle,
and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
24:013:002 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put
it on my loins.
24:013:003 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time,
saying,
24:013:004 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins,
and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
24:013:005 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded
me.
24:013:006 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto
me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I
commanded thee to hide there.
24:013:007 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle
from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred,
it was profitable for nothing.
24:013:008 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
24:013:009 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride
of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
24:013:010 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk
in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve
them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good
for nothing.
24:013:011 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I
caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house
of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and
for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
24:013:012 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and
they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle
shall be filled with wine?
24:013:013 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold,
I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit
upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
24:013:014 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers
and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor
have mercy, but destroy them.
24:013:015 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath
spoken.
24:013:016 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness,
and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye
look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross
darkness.
24:013:017 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret
places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with
tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive.
24:013:018 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit
down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your
glory.
24:013:019 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall
open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be
wholly carried away captive.
24:013:020 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north:
where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
24:013:021 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast
taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows
take thee, as a woman in travail?
24:013:022 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things
upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered,
and thy heels made bare.
24:013:023 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
24:013:024 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth
away by the wind of the wilderness.
24:013:025 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith
the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
24:013:026 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy
shame may appear.
24:013:027 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the
lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the
fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when
shall it once be?
24:014:001 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the
dearth.
24:014:002 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are
black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
24:014:003 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters:
they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their
vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their
heads.
24:014:004 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the
earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
24:014:005 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it,
because there was no grass.
24:014:006 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they
snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there
was no grass.
24:014:007 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it
for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned
against thee.
24:014:008 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of
trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a
wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
24:014:009 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man
that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are
called by thy name; leave us not.
24:014:010 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved
to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth
not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their
sins.
24:014:011 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for
their good.
24:014:012 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they
offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I
will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence.
24:014:013 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto
them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I
will give you assured peace in this place.
24:014:014 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my
name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake
unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a
thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
24:014:015 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that
prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and
famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those
prophets be consumed.
24:014:016 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in
the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they
shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor
their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
24:014:017 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes
run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the
virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very
grievous blow.
24:014:018 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the
sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick
with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land
that they know not.
24:014:019 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion?
why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for
peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold
trouble!
24:014:020 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of
our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
24:014:021 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the
throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
24:014:022 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can
cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD
our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these
things.
24:015:001 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood
before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out
of my sight, and let them go forth.
24:015:002 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither
shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such
as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the
sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are
for the captivity, to the captivity.
24:015:003 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the
sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and
the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
24:015:004 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the
earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that
which he did in Jerusalem.
24:015:005 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall
bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
24:015:006 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone
backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and
destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
24:015:007 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I
will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since they
return not from their ways.
24:015:008 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas:
I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler
at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors
upon the city.
24:015:009 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the
ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed
and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword
before their enemies, saith the LORD.
24:015:010 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of
strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent
on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth
curse me.
24:015:011 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant;
verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil
and in the time of affliction.
24:015:012 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
24:015:013 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil
without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
24:015:014 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land
which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which
shall burn upon you.
24:015:015 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge
me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that
for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
24:015:016 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was
unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy
name, O LORD God of hosts.
24:015:017 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I
sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with
indignation.
24:015:018 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which
refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and
as waters that fail?
24:015:019 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I
bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take
forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them
return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
24:015:020 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall:
and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against
thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the
LORD.
24:015:021 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I
will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
24:016:001 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
24:016:002 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have
sons or daughters in this place.
24:016:003 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning
the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers
that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this
land;
24:016:004 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be
lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon
the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by
famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and
for the beasts of the earth.
24:016:005 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of
mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away
my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and
mercies.
24:016:006 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they
shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut
themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
24:016:007 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to
comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of
consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
24:016:008 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit
with them to eat and to drink.
24:016:009 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,
I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days,
the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
24:016:010 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people
all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD
pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or
what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
24:016:011 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have
forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have
served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have
not kept my law;
24:016:012 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye
walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may
not hearken unto me:
24:016:013 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that
ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve
other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
24:016:014 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it
shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt;
24:016:015 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel
from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had
driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave
unto their fathers.
24:016:016 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and
they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they
shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of
the holes of the rocks.
24:016:017 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from
my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
24:016:018 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin
double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine
inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable
things.
24:016:019 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the
day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of
the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
24:016:020 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
24:016:021 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I
will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know
that my name is The LORD.
24:017:001 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the
point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and
upon the horns of your altars;
24:017:002 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves
by the green trees upon the high hills.
24:017:003 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and
all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout
all thy borders.
24:017:004 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine
heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies
in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine
anger, which shall burn for ever.
24:017:005 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man,
and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
24:017:006 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not
see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the
wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
24:017:007 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope
the LORD is.
24:017:008 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that
spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat
cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the
year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
24:017:009 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately
wicked: who can know it?
24:017:010 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give
every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his
doings.
24:017:011 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so
he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst
of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
24:017:012 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of
our sanctuary.
24:017:013 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be
ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth,
because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
24:017:014 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall
be saved: for thou art my praise.
24:017:015 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let
it come now.
24:017:016 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow
thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which
came out of my lips was right before thee.
24:017:017 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of
evil.
24:017:018 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be
confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring
upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
24:017:019 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the
children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the
which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
24:017:020 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of
Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter
in by these gates:
24:017:021 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no
burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
24:017:022 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the
sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as
I commanded your fathers.
24:017:023 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made
their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
24:017:024 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me,
saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on
the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
24:017:025 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and
princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on
horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.
24:017:026 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the
places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the
plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt
offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and
bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.
24:017:027 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath
day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of
Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates
thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not
be quenched.
24:018:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
24:018:002 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will
cause thee to hear my words.
24:018:003 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he
wrought a work on the wheels.
24:018:004 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand
of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to
the potter to make it.
24:018:005 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
24:018:006 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter?
saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye
in mine hand, O house of Israel.
24:018:007 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
24:018:008 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from
their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
24:018:009 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
24:018:010 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I
will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
24:018:011 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame
evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every
one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
24:018:012 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our
own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil
heart.
24:018:013 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen,
who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very
horrible thing.
24:018:014 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the
rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from
another place be forsaken?
24:018:015 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned
incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways
from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
24:018:016 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every
one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
24:018:017 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I
will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their
calamity.
24:018:018 Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against
Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel
from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite
him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
24:018:019 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them
that contend with me.
24:018:020 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a
pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for
them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
24:018:021 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour
out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be
bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to
death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
24:018:022 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring
a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and
hid snares for my feet.
24:018:023 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay
me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy
sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in
the time of thine anger.
24:019:001 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle,
and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the
priests;
24:019:002 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is
by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I
shall tell thee,
24:019:003 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and
inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever
heareth, his ears shall tingle.
24:019:004 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this
place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they
nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled
this place with the blood of innocents;
24:019:005 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their
sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not,
nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
24:019:006 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this
place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of
Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
24:019:007 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in
this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their
enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their
carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for
the beasts of the earth.
24:019:008 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every
one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all
the plagues thereof.
24:019:009 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the
flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his
friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they
that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
24:019:010 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men
that go with thee,
24:019:011 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even
so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's
vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in
Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
24:019:012 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the
inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
24:019:013 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of
Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the
houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of
heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
24:019:014 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent
him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house; and
said to all the people,
24:019:015 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I
have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks,
that they might not hear my words.
24:020:001 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief
governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these
things.
24:020:002 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the
stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house
of the LORD.
24:020:003 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth
Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath
not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
24:020:004 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror
to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of
their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all
Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them
captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
24:020:005 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and
all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all
the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their
enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to
Babylon.
24:020:006 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go
into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt
die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou
hast prophesied lies.
24:020:007 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art
stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one
mocketh me.
24:020:008 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil;
because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a
derision, daily.
24:020:009 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any
more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut
up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
24:020:010 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side.
Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for
my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall
prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
24:020:011 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore
my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be
greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting
confusion shall never be forgotten.
24:020:012 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest
the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto
thee have I opened my cause.
24:020:013 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath
delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
24:020:014 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day
wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
24:020:015 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying,
A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
24:020:016 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew,
and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the
shouting at noontide;
24:020:017 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother
might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
24:020:018 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and
sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
24:021:001 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king
Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the
son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
24:021:002 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal
with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
24:021:003 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
24:021:004 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back
the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against
the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you
without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this
city.
24:021:005 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched
hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great
wrath.
24:021:006 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and
beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
24:021:007 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king
of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in
this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine,
into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of
their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he
shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them,
neither have pity, nor have mercy.
24:021:008 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD;
Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
24:021:009 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by
the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth
to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be
unto him for a prey.
24:021:010 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not
for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king
of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
24:021:011 And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye
the word of the LORD;
24:021:012 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in
the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the
oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench
it, because of the evil of your doings.
24:021:013 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and
rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down
against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
24:021:014 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings,
saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it
shall devour all things round about it.
24:022:001 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of
Judah, and speak there this word,
24:022:002 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that
sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy
people that enter in by these gates:
24:022:003 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness,
and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no
wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow,
neither shed innocent blood in this place.
24:022:004 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by
the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding
in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
24:022:005 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself,
saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
24:022:006 For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou
art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make
thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
24:022:007 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with
his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them
into the fire.
24:022:008 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say
every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this
great city?
24:022:009 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the
covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served
them.
24:022:010 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore
for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his
native country.
24:022:011 For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah
king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went
forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:
24:022:012 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him
captive, and shall see this land no more.
24:022:013 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and
his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without
wages, and giveth him not for his work;
24:022:014 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers,
and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted
with vermilion.
24:022:015 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did
not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it
was well with him?
24:022:016 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well
with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
24:022:017 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy
covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and
for violence, to do it.
24:022:018 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son
of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my
brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord!
or, Ah his glory!
24:022:019 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast
forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
24:022:020 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan,
and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
24:022:021 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will
not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst
not my voice.
24:022:022 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall
go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for
all thy wickedness.
24:022:023 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars,
how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a
woman in travail!
24:022:024 As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of
Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I
pluck thee thence;
24:022:025 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy
life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the
hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the
Chaldeans.
24:022:026 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee,
into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
24:022:027 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither
shall they not return.
24:022:028 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel
wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed,
and are cast into a land which they know not?
24:022:029 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
24:022:030 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that
shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper,
sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
24:023:001 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep
of my pasture! saith the LORD.
24:023:002 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the
pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven
them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the
evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
24:023:003 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all
countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to
their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
24:023:004 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them:
and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be
lacking, saith the LORD.
24:023:005 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise
unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and
shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
24:023:006 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell
safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
24:023:007 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they
shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt;
24:023:008 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the
seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all
countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own
land.
24:023:009 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all
my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath
overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his
holiness.
24:023:010 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing
the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up,
and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
24:023:011 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house
have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
24:023:012 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in
the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will
bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the
LORD.
24:023:013 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they
prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
24:023:014 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible
thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the
hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness; they are
all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
24:023:015 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the
prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink
the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness
gone forth into all the land.
24:023:016 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of
the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a
vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
24:023:017 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath
said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh
after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
24:023:018 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath
perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
24:023:019 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even
a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the
wicked.
24:023:020 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have
executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the
latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
24:023:021 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not
spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
24:023:022 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my
people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their
evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
24:023:023 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
24:023:024 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see
him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
24:023:025 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in
my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
24:023:026 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that
prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
24:023:027 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their
dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers
have forgotten my name for Baal.
24:023:028 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he
that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff
to the wheat? saith the LORD.
24:023:029 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a
hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
24:023:030 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the
LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
24:023:031 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use
their tongues, and say, He saith.
24:023:032 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith
the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies,
and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them:
therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
24:023:033 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask
thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto
them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
24:023:034 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that
shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his
house.
24:023:035 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one
to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD
spoken?
24:023:036 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for
every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words
of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
24:023:037 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD
answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
24:023:038 But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus
saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I
have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
24:023:039 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I
will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and
cast you out of my presence:
24:023:040 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a
perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
24:024:001 The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were
set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of
Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from
Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
24:024:002 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are
first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not
be eaten, they were so bad.
24:024:003 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I
said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that
cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
24:024:004 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
24:024:005 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good
figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of
Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the
Chaldeans for their good.
24:024:006 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will
bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them
down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
24:024:007 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the
LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they
shall return unto me with their whole heart.
24:024:008 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so
evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of
Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in
this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
24:024:009 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms
of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt
and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
24:024:010 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence,
among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto
them and to their fathers.
24:025:001 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of
Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah,
that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
24:025:002 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of
Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
24:025:003 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of
Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the
word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising
early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
24:025:004 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the
prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor
inclined your ear to hear.
24:025:005 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way,
and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD
hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
24:025:006 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship
them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I
will do you no hurt.
24:025:007 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye
might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own
hurt.
24:025:008 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not
heard my words,
24:025:009 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,
saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and
will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof,
and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy
them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual
desolations.
24:025:010 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the
voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the
bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
24:025:011 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an
astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy
years.
24:025:012 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are
accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation,
saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and
will make it perpetual desolations.
24:025:013 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have
pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which
Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
24:025:014 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of
them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and
according to the works of their own hands.
24:025:015 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine
cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send
thee, to drink it.
24:025:016 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of
the sword that I will send among them.
24:025:017 Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the
nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
24:025:018 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings
thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an
astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
24:025:019 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes,
and all his people;
24:025:020 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of
Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and
Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
24:025:021 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
24:025:022 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and
the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
24:025:023 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost
corners,
24:025:024 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the
mingled people that dwell in the desert,
24:025:025 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and
all the kings of the Medes,
24:025:026 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with
another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of
the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
24:025:027 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall,
and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
24:025:028 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine
hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
24:025:029 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called
by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be
unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the
earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
24:025:030 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and
say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice
from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation;
he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the
inhabitants of the earth.
24:025:031 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the
LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh;
he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
24:025:032 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth
from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from
the coasts of the earth.
24:025:033 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end
of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be
lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the
ground.
24:025:034 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the
ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of
your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant
vessel.
24:025:035 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the
principal of the flock to escape.
24:025:036 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the
principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their
pasture.
24:025:037 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the
fierce anger of the LORD.
24:025:038 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is
desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his
fierce anger.
24:026:001 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,
24:026:002 Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD's house,
and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the
LORD's house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them;
diminish not a word:
24:026:003 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil
way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them
because of the evil of their doings.
24:026:004 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye
will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
24:026:005 To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I
sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not
hearkened;
24:026:006 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this
city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
24:026:007 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard
Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.
24:026:008 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of
speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the
people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him,
saying, Thou shalt surely die.
24:026:009 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying,
This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate
without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against
Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
24:026:010 When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came
up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in
the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house.
24:026:011 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and
to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath
prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
24:026:012 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the
people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and
against this city all the words that ye have heard.
24:026:013 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the
voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil
that he hath pronounced against you.
24:026:014 As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth
good and meet unto you.
24:026:015 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye
shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city,
and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me
unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
24:026:016 Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests
and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken
to us in the name of the LORD our God.
24:026:017 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to
all the assembly of the people, saying,
24:026:018 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king
of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall
become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a
forest.
24:026:019 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to
death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD
repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus
might we procure great evil against our souls.
24:026:020 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the
LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied
against this city and against this land according to all the words of
Jeremiah.
24:026:021 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and
all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death:
but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
24:026:022 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan
the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.
24:026:023 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him
unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead
body into the graves of the common people.
24:026:024 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with
Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to
put him to death.
24:027:001 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
24:027:002 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and
put them upon thy neck,
24:027:003 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab,
and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the
king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem
unto Zedekiah king of Judah;
24:027:004 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;
24:027:005 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon
the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have
given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
24:027:006 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the
field have I given him also to serve him.
24:027:007 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's
son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and
great kings shall serve themselves of him.
24:027:008 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which
will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that
will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that
nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the
famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his
hand.
24:027:009 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your
diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your
sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of
Babylon:
24:027:010 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from
your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
24:027:011 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the
king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their
own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
24:027:012 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all
these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of
Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
24:027:013 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the
nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
24:027:014 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that
speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for
they prophesy a lie unto you.
24:027:015 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy
a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish,
ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
24:027:016 Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying,
Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that
prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house
shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a
lie unto you.
24:027:017 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live:
wherefore should this city be laid waste?
24:027:018 But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with
them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the
vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of
the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
24:027:019 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and
concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the
residue of the vessels that remain in this city.
24:027:020 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he
carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from
Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
24:027:021 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the
house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;
24:027:022 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be
until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them
up, and restore them to this place.
24:028:001 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the
reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth
month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon,
spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests
and of all the people, saying,
24:028:002 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying,
I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
24:028:003 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all
the vessels of the LORD's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:
24:028:004 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of
Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into
Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of
Babylon.
24:028:005 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in
the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that
stood in the house of the LORD,
24:028:006 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the
LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the
vessels of the LORD's house, and all that is carried away captive, from
Babylon into this place.
24:028:007 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine
ears, and in the ears of all the people;
24:028:008 The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old
prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of
war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
24:028:009 The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the
prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the
LORD hath truly sent him.
24:028:010 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet
Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
24:028:011 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people,
saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the
space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
24:028:012 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet,
after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck
of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
24:028:013 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast
broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
24:028:014 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have
put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may
serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I
have given him the beasts of the field also.
24:028:015 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet,
Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this
people to trust in a lie.
24:028:016 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from
off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast
taught rebellion against the LORD.
24:028:017 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh
month.
24:029:001 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the
prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were
carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to
all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from
Jerusalem to Babylon;
24:029:002 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the
eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and
the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)
24:029:003 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the
son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,
24:029:004 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all
that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away
from Jerusalem unto Babylon;
24:029:005 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and
eat the fruit of them;