| 27:1: |
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, |
| 27:2: |
Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them
upon thy neck, |
| 27:3: |
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; |
| 27:4: |
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; |
| 27:5: |
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. |
| 27:6: |
And now have I given all these lands unto the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given
him also to serve him. |
| 27:7: |
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. |
| 27:8: |
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. |
| 27:9: |
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: |
| 27:10: |
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. |
| 27:11: |
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. |
| 27:12: |
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. |
| 27:13: |
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? |
| 27:14: |
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. |
| 27:15: |
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. |
| 27:16: |
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. |
| 27:17: |
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore
should this city be laid waste? |
| 27:18: |
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. |
| 27:19: |
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, |
| 27:20: |
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; |
| 27:21: |
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; |
| 27:22: |
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. |
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| 28:1: |
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, |
| 28:2: |
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have
broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. |
| 28:3: |
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: |
| 28:4: |
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. |
| 28:5: |
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, |
| 28:6: |
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. |
| 28:7: |
Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and
in the ears of all the people; |
| 28:8: |
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. |
| 28:9: |
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. |
| 28:10: |
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet
Jeremiah's neck, and brake it. |
| 28:11: |
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. |
| 28:12: |
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, |
| 28:13: |
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. |
| 28:14: |
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. |
| 28:15: |
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. |
| 28:16: |
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. |
| 28:17: |
So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month. |
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| 29:1: |
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; |
| 29:2: |
(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;) |
| 29:3: |
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, |
| 29:4: |
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; |
| 29:5: |
Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the
fruit of them; |
| 29:6: |
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your
sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and
daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. |
| 29:7: |
And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be
carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace
thereof shall ye have peace. |
| 29:8: |
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your
prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you,
neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. |
| 29:9: |
For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them,
saith the LORD. |
| 29:10: |
For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at
Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing
you to return to this place. |
| 29:11: |
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD,
thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. |
| 29:12: |
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I
will hearken unto you. |
| 29:13: |
And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with
all your heart. |
| 29:14: |
And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your
captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the
places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you
again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive. |
| 29:15: |
Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in
Babylon; |
| 29:16: |
Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the
throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of
your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity; |
| 29:17: |
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the
sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs,
that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. |
| 29:18: |
And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with
the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms
of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a
reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them: |
| 29:19: |
Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I
sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending
them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD. |
| 29:20: |
Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom
I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon: |
| 29:21: |
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of
Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto
you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your
eyes; |
| 29:22: |
And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah
which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like
Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire; |
| 29:23: |
Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed
adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in
my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness,
saith the LORD. |
| 29:24: |
Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying, |
| 29:25: |
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because
thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at
Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all
the priests, saying, |
| 29:26: |
The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest,
that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that
is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in
prison, and in the stocks. |
| 29:27: |
Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which
maketh himself a prophet to you? |
| 29:28: |
For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is
long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the
fruit of them. |
| 29:29: |
And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the
prophet. |
| 29:30: |
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, |
| 29:31: |
Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD
concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied
unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie: |
| 29:32: |
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the
Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this
people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people,
saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD. |
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| 30:1: |
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, |
| 30:2: |
Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the
words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. |
| 30:3: |
For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the
captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause
them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall
possess it. |
| 30:4: |
And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and
concerning Judah. |
| 30:5: |
For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear,
and not of peace. |
| 30:6: |
Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore
do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail,
and all faces are turned into paleness? |
| 30:7: |
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the
time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. |
| 30:8: |
For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that
I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and
strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: |
| 30:9: |
But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I
will raise up unto them. |
| 30:10: |
Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither
be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed
from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in
rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. |
| 30:11: |
For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a
full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not
make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not
leave thee altogether unpunished. |
| 30:12: |
For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is
grievous. |
| 30:13: |
There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou
hast no healing medicines. |
| 30:14: |
All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have
wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel
one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were
increased. |
| 30:15: |
Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the
multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done
these things unto thee. |
| 30:16: |
Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine
adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that
spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for
a prey. |
| 30:17: |
For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy
wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This
is Zion, whom no man seeketh after. |
| 30:18: |
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of
Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city
shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the
manner thereof. |
| 30:19: |
And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that
make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will
also glorify them, and they shall not be small. |
| 30:20: |
Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation
shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress
them. |
| 30:21: |
And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall
proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he
shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to
approach unto me? saith the LORD. |
| 30:22: |
And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. |
| 30:23: |
Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing
whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. |
| 30:24: |
The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it,
and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days
ye shall consider it. |
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| 31:1: |
At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the
families of Israel, and they shall be my people. |
| 31:2: |
Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found
grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to
rest. |
| 31:3: |
The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I d thee
with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn
thee. |
| 31:4: |
Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel:
thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the
dances of them that make merry. |
| 31:5: |
Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the
planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. |
| 31:6: |
For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim
shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. |
| 31:7: |
For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout
among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD,
save thy people, the remnant of Israel. |
| 31:8: |
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them
from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the
woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great
company shall return thither. |
| 31:9: |
They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead
them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight
way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and
Ephraim is my firstborn. |
| 31:10: |
Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles
afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep
him, as a shepherd doth his flock. |
| 31:11: |
For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of
him that was stronger than he. |
| 31:12: |
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall
flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and
for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul
shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at
all. |
| 31:13: |
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old
together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them,
and make them rejoice from their sorrow. |
| 31:14: |
And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my
people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD. |
| 31:15: |
Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and
bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted
for her children, because they were not. |
| 31:16: |
Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes
from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they
shall come again from the land of the enemy. |
| 31:17: |
And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children
shall come again to their own border. |
| 31:18: |
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast
chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke:
turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God. |
| 31:19: |
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was
instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded,
because I did bear the reproach of my youth. |
| 31:20: |
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake
against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are
troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD. |
| 31:21: |
Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward
the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of
Israel, turn again to these thy cities. |
| 31:22: |
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the
LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a
man. |
| 31:23: |
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall
use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I
shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of
justice, and mountain of holiness. |
| 31:24: |
And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof
together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks. |
| 31:25: |
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every
sorrowful soul. |
| 31:26: |
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. |
| 31:27: |
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of
Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of
beast. |
| 31:28: |
And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to
pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to
afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the
LORD. |
| 31:29: |
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour
grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. |
| 31:30: |
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth
the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. |
| 31:31: |
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: |
| 31:32: |
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the
day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith
the LORD: |
| 31:33: |
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their
inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and
they shall be my people. |
| 31:34: |
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man
his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the
least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD; for I will
forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. |
| 31:35: |
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the
ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which
divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his
name: |
| 31:36: |
If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the
seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for
ever. |
| 31:37: |
Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the
foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all
the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD. |
| 31:38: |
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built
to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner. |
| 31:39: |
And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the
hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. |
| 31:40: |
And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all
the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate
toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up,
nor thrown down any more for ever. |
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| 32:1: |
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of
Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar. |
| 32:2: |
For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and
Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in
the king of Judah's house. |
| 32:3: |
For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost
thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this
city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it; |
| 32:4: |
And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the
Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall
behold his eyes; |
| 32:5: |
And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I
visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall
not prosper? |
| 32:6: |
And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 32:7: |
Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee,
saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of
redemption is thine to buy it. |
| 32:8: |
So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the
prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field,
I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin:
for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy
it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD. |
| 32:9: |
And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in
Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of
silver. |
| 32:10: |
And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and
weighed him the money in the balances. |
| 32:11: |
So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed
according to the law and custom, and that which was open: |
| 32:12: |
And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of
Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's
son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the
purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison. |
| 32:13: |
And I charged Baruch before them, saying, |
| 32:14: |
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these
evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this
evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may
continue many days. |
| 32:15: |
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and
fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. |
| 32:16: |
Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the
son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying, |
| 32:17: |
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy
great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for
thee: |
| 32:18: |
Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the
iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the
Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name, |
| 32:19: |
Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon
all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways,
and according to the fruit of his doings: |
| 32:20: |
Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this
day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at
this day; |
| 32:21: |
And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt
with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a
stretched out arm, and with great terror; |
| 32:22: |
And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their
fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; |
| 32:23: |
And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice,
neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou
commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come
upon them: |
| 32:24: |
Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the
city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it,
because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what
thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it. |
| 32:25: |
And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money,
and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans. |
| 32:26: |
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, |
| 32:27: |
Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too
hard for me? |
| 32:28: |
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the
hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon, and he shall take it: |
| 32:29: |
And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set
fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they
have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other
gods, to provoke me to anger. |
| 32:30: |
For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done
evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only
provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD. |
| 32:31: |
For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of
my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should
remove it from before my face, |
| 32:32: |
Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children
of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings,
their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. |
| 32:33: |
And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I
taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not
hearkened to receive instruction. |
| 32:34: |
But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my
name, to defile it. |
| 32:35: |
And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of
the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it
into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to
sin. |
| 32:36: |
And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning
this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the
king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence; |
| 32:37: |
Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have
driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will
bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell
safely: |
| 32:38: |
And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: |
| 32:39: |
And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me
for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: |
| 32:40: |
And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not
turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their
hearts, that they shall not depart from me. |
| 32:41: |
Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them
in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. |
| 32:42: |
For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil
upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have
promised them. |
| 32:43: |
And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is
desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans. |
| 32:44: |
Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal
them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about
Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the
mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the
south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD. |
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| 33:1: |
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time,
while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying, |
| 33:2: |
Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to
establish it; the LORD is his name; |
| 33:3: |
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty
things, which thou knowest not. |
| 33:4: |
For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of
this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are
thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword; |
| 33:5: |
They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is fill them with the
dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and
for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city. |
| 33:6: |
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and
will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. |
| 33:7: |
And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel
to return, and will build them, as at the first. |
| 33:8: |
And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have
sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they
have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me. |
| 33:9: |
And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before
all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do
unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for
all the prosperity that I procure unto it. |
| 33:10: |
Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which
ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the
cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate,
without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast, |
| 33:11: |
The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say,
Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth
for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the
house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land,
as at the first, saith the LORD. |
| 33:12: |
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate
without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an
habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. |
| 33:13: |
In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the
cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about
Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under
the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD. |
| 33:14: |
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good
thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of
Judah. |
| 33:15: |
In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of
righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and
righteousness in the land. |
| 33:16: |
In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely:
and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our
righteousness. |
| 33:17: |
For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the
throne of the house of Israel; |
| 33:18: |
Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer
burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice
continually. |
| 33:19: |
And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying, |
| 33:20: |
Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my
covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in
their season; |
| 33:21: |
Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he
should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the
priests, my ministers. |
| 33:22: |
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea
measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the
Levites that minister unto me. |
| 33:23: |
Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, |
| 33:24: |
Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two
families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus
they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before
them. |
| 33:25: |
Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if
I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; |
| 33:26: |
Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so
that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return,
and have mercy on them. |
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| 34:1: |
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of
his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against
all the cities thereof, saying, |
| 34:2: |
Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king
of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this
city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with
fire: |
| 34:3: |
And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken,
and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the
king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou
shalt go to Babylon. |
| 34:4: |
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith
the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword: |
| 34:5: |
But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers,
the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for
thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced
the word, saith the LORD. |
| 34:6: |
Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of
Judah in Jerusalem, |
| 34:7: |
When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and
against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and
against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of
Judah. |
| 34:8: |
This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that
the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at
Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them; |
| 34:9: |
That every man should let his manservant, and every man his
maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should
serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother. |
| 34:10: |
Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into
the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every
one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them
any more, then they obeyed, and let them go. |
| 34:11: |
But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids,
whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection
for servants and for handmaids. |
| 34:12: |
Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD,
saying, |
| 34:13: |
Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your
fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondmen, saying, |
| 34:14: |
At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew,
which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years,
thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto
me, neither inclined their ear. |
| 34:15: |
And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in
proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a
covenant before me in the house which is called by my name: |
| 34:16: |
But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant,
and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure,
to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants
and for handmaids. |
| 34:17: |
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in
proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his
neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the
sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be
removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. |
| 34:18: |
And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which
have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before
me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts
thereof, |
| 34:19: |
The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and
the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the
parts of the calf; |
| 34:20: |
I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the
hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for
meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth. |
| 34:21: |
And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand
of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and
into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from
you. |
| 34:22: |
Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to
this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with
fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an
inhabitant. |
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| 35:1: |
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, |
| 35:2: |
Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring
them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them
wine to drink. |
| 35:3: |
Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and
his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the
Rechabites; |
| 35:4: |
And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of
the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the
chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son
of Shallum, the keeper of the door: |
| 35:5: |
And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of
wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. |
| 35:6: |
But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab
our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor
your sons for ever: |
| 35:7: |
Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor
have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live
many days in the land where ye be strangers. |
| 35:8: |
Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father
in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our
wives, our sons, nor our daughters; |
| 35:9: |
Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor
field, nor seed: |
| 35:10: |
But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to
all that Jonadab our father commanded us. |
| 35:11: |
But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into
the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the
army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we
dwell at Jerusalem. |
| 35:12: |
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, |
| 35:13: |
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men
of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive
instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD. |
| 35:14: |
The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons
not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but
obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto
you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me. |
| 35:15: |
I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up
early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil
way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them,
and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your
fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me. |
| 35:16: |
Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the
commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people
hath not hearkened unto me: |
| 35:17: |
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem
all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken
unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they
have not answered. |
| 35:18: |
And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment
of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according
unto all that he hath commanded you: |
| 35:19: |
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab
the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever. |
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| 36:1: |
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,
saying, |
| 36:2: |
Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I
have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all
the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah,
even unto this day. |
| 36:3: |
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I
purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil
way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin. |
| 36:4: |
Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from
the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto
him, upon a roll of a book. |
| 36:5: |
And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into
the house of the LORD: |
| 36:6: |
Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from
my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the
LORD's house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in
the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities. |
| 36:7: |
It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and
will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the
fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people. |
| 36:8: |
And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the
prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the
LORD's house. |
| 36:9: |
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the
LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from
the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem. |
| 36:10: |
Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of
the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in
the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house,
in the ears of all the people. |
| 36:11: |
When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out
of the book all the words of the LORD, |
| 36:12: |
Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's
chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe,
and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and
Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all
the princes. |
| 36:13: |
Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard,
when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. |
| 36:14: |
Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son
of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand
the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So
Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto
them. |
| 36:15: |
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So
Baruch read it in their ears. |
| 36:16: |
Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were
afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the
king of all these words. |
| 36:17: |
And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all
these words at his mouth? |
| 36:18: |
Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with
his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. |
| 36:19: |
Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah;
and let no man know where ye be. |
| 36:20: |
And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the
roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the
ears of the king. |
| 36:21: |
So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of
Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the
king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the
king. |
| 36:22: |
Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was
a fire on the hearth burning before him. |
| 36:23: |
And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves,
he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the
hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the
hearth. |
| 36:24: |
Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king,
nor any of his servants that heard all these words. |
| 36:25: |
Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession
to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear
them. |
| 36:26: |
But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah
the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the
scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them. |
| 36:27: |
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had
burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of
Jeremiah, saying, |
| 36:28: |
Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words
that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath
burned. |
| 36:29: |
And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim the king of Judah, Thus saith the
LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein,
saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land,
and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? |
| 36:30: |
Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall
have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be
cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. |
| 36:31: |
And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their
iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced
against them; but they hearkened not. |
| 36:32: |
Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe,
the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the
words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire:
and there were added besides unto them many like words. |
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| 37:1: |
And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son
of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land
of Judah. |
| 37:2: |
But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did
hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet
Jeremiah. |
| 37:3: |
And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah
the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now
unto the LORD our God for us. |
| 37:4: |
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not
put him into prison. |
| 37:5: |
Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the
Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed
from Jerusalem. |
| 37:6: |
Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah,
saying, |
| 37:7: |
Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king
of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's
army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their
own land. |
| 37:8: |
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and
take it, and burn it with fire. |
| 37:9: |
Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans
shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart. |
| 37:10: |
For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight
against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should
they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire. |
| 37:11: |
And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken
up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, |
| 37:12: |
Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of
Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people. |
| 37:13: |
And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was
there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah;
and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the
Chaldeans. |
| 37:14: |
Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans.
But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to
the princes. |
| 37:15: |
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and
put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made
that the prison. |
| 37:16: |
When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and
Jeremiah had remained there many days; |
| 37:17: |
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him
secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And
Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the
hand of the king of Babylon. |
| 37:18: |
Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended
against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye
have put me in prison? |
| 37:19: |
Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The
king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? |
| 37:20: |
Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my
supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me
not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. |
| 37:21: |
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah
into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece
of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city
were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. |
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| 38:1: |
Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur,
and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the
words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying, |
| 38:2: |
Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to
the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and
shall live. |
| 38:3: |
Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of
the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it. |
| 38:4: |
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this
man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war
that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking
such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this
people, but the hurt. |
| 38:5: |
Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king
is not he that can do any thing against you. |
| 38:6: |
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah
the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let
down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but
mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. |
| 38:7: |
Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in
the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon;
the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin; |
| 38:8: |
Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the
king, saying, |
| 38:9: |
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done
to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is
like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more
bread in the city. |
| 38:10: |
Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from
hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the
dungeon, before he die. |
| 38:11: |
So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the
king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten
rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. |
| 38:12: |
And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old
cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And
Jeremiah did so. |
| 38:13: |
So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the
dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. |
| 38:14: |
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him
into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said
unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me. |
| 38:15: |
Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt
thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou
not hearken unto me? |
| 38:16: |
So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the
LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death,
neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy
life. |
| 38:17: |
Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of
hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king
of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall
not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house: |
| 38:18: |
But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes,
then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they
shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their
hand. |
| 38:19: |
And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews
that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand,
and they mock me. |
| 38:20: |
But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee,
the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto
thee, and thy soul shall live. |
| 38:21: |
But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath
shewed me: |
| 38:22: |
And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's
house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and
those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed
against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away
back. |
| 38:23: |
So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the
Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be
taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city
to be burned with fire. |
| 38:24: |
Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and
thou shalt not die. |
| 38:25: |
But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come
unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said
unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death;
also what the king said unto thee: |
| 38:26: |
Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the
king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to
die there. |
| 38:27: |
Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told
them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they
left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived. |
| 38:28: |
So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that
Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken. |
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| 39:1: |
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and
they besieged it. |
| 39:2: |
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth
day of the month, the city was broken up. |
| 39:3: |
And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the
middle gate, even Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris,
Nergal-sharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king
of Babylon. |
| 39:4: |
And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them,
and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by
night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two
walls: and he went out the way of the plain. |
| 39:5: |
But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah
in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him
up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath,
where he gave judgment upon him. |
| 39:6: |
Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before
his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. |
| 39:7: |
Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains,
to carry him to Babylon. |
| 39:8: |
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the
people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. |
| 39:9: |
Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive into
Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those
that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that
remained. |
| 39:10: |
But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the
people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards
and fields at the same time. |
| 39:11: |
Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to
Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard, saying, |
| 39:12: |
Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him
even as he shall say unto thee. |
| 39:13: |
So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban,
Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon's
princes; |
| 39:14: |
Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and
committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he
should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people. |
| 39:15: |
Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in
the court of the prison, saying, |
| 39:16: |
Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this
city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that
day before thee. |
| 39:17: |
But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt
not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid. |
| 39:18: |
For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword,
but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy
trust in me, saith the LORD. |
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| 40:1: |
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzar-adan
the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him
being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of
Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon. |
| 40:2: |
And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The
LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place. |
| 40:3: |
Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath said:
because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice,
therefore this thing is come upon you. |
| 40:4: |
And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were
upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon,
come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to
come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee:
whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go. |
| 40:5: |
Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made
governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people:
or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain
of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go. |
| 40:6: |
Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and
dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land. |
| 40:7: |
Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields,
even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men,
and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were
not carried away captive to Babylon; |
| 40:8: |
Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the
son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah
the son of a Maachathite, they and their men. |
| 40:9: |
And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and
to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land,
and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. |
| 40:10: |
As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans,
which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and
oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have
taken. |
| 40:11: |
Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the
Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that
the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over
them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan; |
| 40:12: |
Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were
driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and
gathered wine and summer fruits very much. |
| 40:13: |
Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, |
| 40:14: |
And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of
the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not. |
| 40:15: |
Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly,
saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that
all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the
remnant in Judah perish? |
| 40:16: |
But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah,
Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael. |
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| 41:1: |
Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the
king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to
Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah. |
| 41:2: |
Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were
with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with
the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over
the land. |
| 41:3: |
Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with
Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men
of war. |
| 41:4: |
And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and
no man knew it, |
| 41:5: |
That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria,
even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent,
and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to
bring them to the house of the LORD. |
| 41:6: |
And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them,
weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he
said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. |
| 41:7: |
And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of
the pit, he, and the men that were with him. |
| 41:8: |
But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us
not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of
oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their
brethren. |
| 41:9: |
Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men,
whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made
for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah
filled it with them that were slain. |
| 41:10: |
Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that
were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that
remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had
committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah
carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites. |
| 41:11: |
But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah had done, |
| 41:12: |
Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon. |
| 41:13: |
Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were with Ishmael
saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that
were with him, then they were glad. |
| 41:14: |
So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah
cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah. |
| 41:15: |
But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men,
and went to the Ammonites. |
| 41:16: |
Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had
recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he
had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the
women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from
Gibeon: |
| 41:17: |
And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is
by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt, |
| 41:18: |
Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom
the king of Babylon made governor in the land. |
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| 42:1: |
Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah,
and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even
unto the greatest, came near, |
| 42:2: |
And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our
supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy
God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as
thine eyes do behold us:) |
| 42:3: |
That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and
the thing that we may do. |
| 42:4: |
Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I
will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall
come to pass, that whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you, I will
declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you. |
| 42:5: |
Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness
between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the
LORD thy God shall send thee to us. |
| 42:6: |
Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of
the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when
we obey the voice of the LORD our God. |
| 42:7: |
And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came
unto Jeremiah. |
| 42:8: |
Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the
greatest, |
| 42:9: |
And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom
ye sent me to present your supplication before him; |
| 42:10: |
If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not
pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent
me of the evil that I have done unto you. |
| 42:11: |
Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not
afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to save you, and to
deliver you from his hand. |
| 42:12: |
And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you,
and cause you to return to your own land. |
| 42:13: |
But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice
of the LORD your God, |
| 42:14: |
Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see
no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and
there will we dwell: |
| 42:15: |
And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah;
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your
faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there; |
| 42:16: |
Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall
overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were
afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall
die. |
| 42:17: |
So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt
to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I
will bring upon them. |
| 42:18: |
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger
and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so
shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt:
and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a
reproach; and ye shall see this place no more. |
| 42:19: |
The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not
into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day. |
| 42:20: |
For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your
God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all
that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do
it. |
| 42:21: |
And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed
the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent
me unto you. |
| 42:22: |
Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and
to sojourn. |
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| 43:1: |
And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking
unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the
LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words, |
| 43:2: |
Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest
falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to
sojourn there: |
| 43:3: |
But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to
deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to
death, and carry us away captives into Babylon. |
| 43:4: |
So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and
all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of
Judah. |
| 43:5: |
But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces,
took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations,
whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah; |
| 43:6: |
Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and
every person that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had left with
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet,
and Baruch the son of Neriah. |
| 43:7: |
So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of
the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes. |
| 43:8: |
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes,
saying, |
| 43:9: |
Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the
brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in
the sight of the men of Judah; |
| 43:10: |
And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my
servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and
he shall spread his royal pavilion over them. |
| 43:11: |
And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver
such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to
captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword. |
| 43:12: |
And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he
shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself
with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he
shall go forth from thence in peace. |
| 43:13: |
He shall break also the images of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land
of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with
fire. |
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| 44:1: |
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in
the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph,
and in the country of Pathros, saying, |
| 44:2: |
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the
evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of
Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth
therein, |
| 44:3: |
Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me
to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods,
whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers. |
| 44:4: |
Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early
and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I
hate. |
| 44:5: |
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their
wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. |
| 44:6: |
Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in
the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted
and desolate, as at this day. |
| 44:7: |
Therefore now this saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of
Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut
off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave
you none to remain; |
| 44:8: |
In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands,
burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone
to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse
and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? |
| 44:9: |
Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness
of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own
wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed
in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? |
| 44:10: |
They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared,
nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and
before your fathers. |
| 44:11: |
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah. |
| 44:12: |
And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go
into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed,
and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword
and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest,
by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an
astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. |
| 44:13: |
For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have
punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence: |
| 44:14: |
So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of
Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return
into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to
dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape. |
| 44:15: |
Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto
other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all
the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered
Jeremiah, saying, |
| 44:16: |
As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the
LORD, we will not hearken unto thee. |
| 44:17: |
But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own
mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink
offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and
our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for
then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. |
| 44:18: |
But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to
pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have
been consumed by the sword and by the famine. |
| 44:19: |
And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out
drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour
out drink offerings unto her, without our men? |
| 44:20: |
Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women,
and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying, |
| 44:21: |
The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets
of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the
people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into
his mind? |
| 44:22: |
So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your
doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed;
therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse,
without an inhabitant, as at this day. |
| 44:23: |
Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against
the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his
law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is
happened unto you, as at this day. |
| 44:24: |
Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women,
Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt: |
| 44:25: |
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your
wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand,
saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn
incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her:
ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows. |
| 44:26: |
Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the
land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD,
that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in
all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth. |
| 44:27: |
Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all
the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the
sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them. |
| 44:28: |
Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land
of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are
gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words
shall stand, mine, or theirs. |
| 44:29: |
And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish
you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand
against you for evil: |
| 44:30: |
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt
into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his
life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life. |
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| 45:1: |
The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of
Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of
Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
Judah, saying, |
| 45:2: |
Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch; |
| 45:3: |
Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my
sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest. |
| 45:4: |
Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which
I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will
pluck up, even this whole land. |
| 45:5: |
And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for,
behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life
will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest. |
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| 46:1: |
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the
Gentiles; |
| 46:2: |
Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which
was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
Judah. |
| 46:3: |
Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. |
| 46:4: |
Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with
your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines. |
| 46:5: |
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their
mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for
fear was round about, saith the LORD. |
| 46:6: |
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall
stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates. |
| 46:7: |
Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the
rivers? |
| 46:8: |
Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the
rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will
destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof. |
| 46:9: |
Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men
come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and
the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow. |
| 46:10: |
For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance,
that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour,
and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD
of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river
Euphrates. |
| 46:11: |
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in
vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured. |
| 46:12: |
The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the
land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are
fallen both together. |
| 46:13: |
The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of
Egypt. |
| 46:14: |
Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and
in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall
devour round about thee. |
| 46:15: |
Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD
did drive them. |
| 46:16: |
He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said,
Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our
nativity, from the oppressing sword. |
| 46:17: |
They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath
passed the time appointed. |
| 46:18: |
As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as
Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he
come. |
| 46:19: |
O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into
captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an
inhabitant. |
| 46:20: |
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh
out of the north. |
| 46:21: |
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for
they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not
stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time
of their visitation. |
| 46:22: |
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with
an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. |
| 46:23: |
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be
searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are
innumerable. |
| 46:24: |
The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered
into the hand of the people of the north. |
| 46:25: |
The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish
the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their
kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him: |
| 46:26: |
And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives,
and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of
his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old,
saith the LORD. |
| 46:27: |
But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel:
for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land
of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease,
and none shall make him afraid. |
| 46:28: |
Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with
thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven
thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in
measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished. |
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| 47:1: |
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the
Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. |
| 47:2: |
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and
shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that
is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall
cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl. |
| 47:3: |
At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at
the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the
fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of
hands; |
| 47:4: |
Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to
cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD
will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor. |
| 47:5: |
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of
their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? |
| 47:6: |
O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put
up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. |
| 47:7: |
How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against
Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it. |
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| 48:1: |
Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe
unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab
is confounded and dismayed. |
| 48:2: |
There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised
evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also
thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee. |
| 48:3: |
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great
destruction. |
| 48:4: |
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be
heard. |
| 48:5: |
For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in
the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of
destruction. |
| 48:6: |
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. |
| 48:7: |
For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou
shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his
priests and his princes together. |
| 48:8: |
And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape:
the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the
LORD hath spoken. |
| 48:9: |
Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities
thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein. |
| 48:10: |
Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed
be he that keepeth back his sword from blood. |
| 48:11: |
Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his
lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he
gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent
is not changed. |
| 48:12: |
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send
unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his
vessels, and break their bottles. |
| 48:13: |
And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was
ashamed of Bethel their confidence. |
| 48:14: |
How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war? |
| 48:15: |
Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young
men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the
LORD of hosts. |
| 48:16: |
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth
fast. |
| 48:17: |
All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name,
say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod! |
| 48:18: |
Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and
sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall
destroy thy strong holds. |
| 48:19: |
O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that
fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done? |
| 48:20: |
Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; and tell ye
it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled, |
| 48:21: |
And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon
Jahazah, and upon Mephaath, |
| 48:22: |
And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim, |
| 48:23: |
And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon, |
| 48:24: |
And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the
land of Moab, far or near. |
| 48:25: |
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the
LORD. |
| 48:26: |
Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab
also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. |
| 48:27: |
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves?
for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. |
| 48:28: |
O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and
be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's
mouth. |
| 48:29: |
We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his
loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his
heart. |
| 48:30: |
I know his wrath, saith the LORD; bu hall not be so; his lies
shall not so effect it. |
| 48:31: |
Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine
heart shall mourn for the men of Kir-heres. |
| 48:32: |
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy
plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the
spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage. |
| 48:33: |
And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the
land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none
shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting. |
| 48:34: |
From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have
they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of
three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate. |
| 48:35: |
Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that
offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his
gods. |
| 48:36: |
Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart
shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: because the riches that
he hath gotten are perished. |
| 48:37: |
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the
hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. |
| 48:38: |
There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab,
and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein
is no pleasure, saith the LORD. |
| 48:39: |
They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned
the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all
them about him. |
| 48:40: |
For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall
spread his wings over Moab. |
| 48:41: |
Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty
men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in
her pangs. |
| 48:42: |
And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath
magnified himself against the LORD. |
| 48:43: |
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of
Moab, saith the LORD. |
| 48:44: |
He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that
getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring
upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the
LORD. |
| 48:45: |
They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the
force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the
midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the
head of the tumultuous ones. |
| 48:46: |
Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy
sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives. |
| 48:47: |
Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days,
saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab. |
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| 49:1: |
Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons?
hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people
dwell in his cities? |
| 49:2: |
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause
an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a
desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall
Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD. |
| 49:3: |
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird
you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their
king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes
together. |
| 49:4: |
Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O
backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall
come unto me? |
| 49:5: |
Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts,
from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man
right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth. |
| 49:6: |
And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of
Ammon, saith the LORD. |
| 49:7: |
Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in
Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom
vanished? |
| 49:8: |
Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will
bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him. |
| 49:9: |
If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning
grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have
enough. |
| 49:10: |
But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he
shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren,
and his neighbours, and he is not. |
| 49:11: |
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let
thy widows trust in me. |
| 49:12: |
For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink
of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether
go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink
of it. |
| 49:13: |
For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become
a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities
thereof shall be perpetual wastes. |
| 49:14: |
I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto
the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise
up to the battle. |
| 49:15: |
For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among
men. |
| 49:16: |
Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O
thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of
the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I
will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD. |
| 49:17: |
Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be
astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof. |
| 49:18: |
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities
thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of
man dwell in it. |
| 49:19: |
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan
against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run
away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for
who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that
shepherd that will stand before me? |
| 49:20: |
Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against
Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of
Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall
make their habitations desolate with them. |
| 49:21: |
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise
thereof was heard in the Red sea. |
| 49:22: |
Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings
over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be
as the heart of a woman in her pangs. |
| 49:23: |
Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have
heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it
cannot be quiet. |
| 49:24: |
Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath
seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in
travail. |
| 49:25: |
How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! |
| 49:26: |
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of
war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| 49:27: |
And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall
consume the palaces of Ben-hadad. |
| 49:28: |
Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise
ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east. |
| 49:29: |
Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to
themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and
they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side. |
| 49:30: |
Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith
the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against
you, and hath conceived a purpose against you. |
| 49:31: |
Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without
care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell
alone. |
| 49:32: |
And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle
a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost
corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith
the LORD. |
| 49:33: |
And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever:
there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it. |
| 49:34: |
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam
in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, |
| 49:35: |
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,
the chief of their might. |
| 49:36: |
And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of
heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be
no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come. |
| 49:37: |
For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before
them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them even my fierce
anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have
consumed them: |
| 49:38: |
And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the
king and the princes, saith the LORD. |
| 49:39: |
Bu hall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again
the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD. |
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| 50:1: |
The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of
the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. |
| 50:2: |
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard;
publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded,
Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are
broken in pieces. |
| 50:3: |
For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which
shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall
remove, they shall depart, both man and beast. |
| 50:4: |
In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of
Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and
weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God. |
| 50:5: |
They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying,
Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that
shall not be forgotten. |
| 50:6: |
My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to
go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone
from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace. |
| 50:7: |
All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said,
We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation
of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers. |
| 50:8: |
Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of
the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks. |
| 50:9: |
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an
assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set
themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their
arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in
vain. |
| 50:10: |
And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied,
saith the LORD. |
| 50:11: |
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine
heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as
bulls; |
| 50:12: |
Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be
ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a
dry land, and a desert. |
| 50:13: |
Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, bu
hall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be
astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. |
| 50:14: |
Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend
the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the
LORD. |
| 50:15: |
Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her
foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the
vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto
her. |
| 50:16: |
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in
the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn
every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own
land. |
| 50:17: |
Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first
the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon hath broken his bones. |
| 50:18: |
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king
of Assyria. |
| 50:19: |
And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on
Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and
Gilead. |
| 50:20: |
In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of
Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of
Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I
reserve. |
| 50:21: |
Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the
inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the
LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee. |
| 50:22: |
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. |
| 50:23: |
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is
Babylon become a desolation among the nations! |
| 50:24: |
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and
thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast
striven against the LORD. |
| 50:25: |
The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons
of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the
land of the Chaldeans. |
| 50:26: |
Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast
her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be
left. |
| 50:27: |
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto
them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. |
| 50:28: |
The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to
declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his
temple. |
| 50:29: |
Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow,
camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her
according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her:
for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of
Israel. |
| 50:30: |
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of
war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD. |
| 50:31: |
Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of
hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. |
| 50:32: |
And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him
up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round
about him. |
| 50:33: |
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children
of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held
them fast; they refused to let them go. |
| 50:34: |
Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall
throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and
disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. |
| 50:35: |
A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the
inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. |
| 50:36: |
A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her
mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. |
| 50:37: |
A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all
the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as
women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed. |
| 50:38: |
A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is
the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. |
| 50:39: |
Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the
islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall
be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from
generation to generation. |
| 50:40: |
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof,
saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man
dwell therein. |
| 50:41: |
Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and
many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. |
| 50:42: |
They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not
shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon
horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O
daughter of Babylon. |
| 50:43: |
The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands
waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in
travail. |
| 50:44: |
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto
the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from
her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is
like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that
will stand before me? |
| 50:45: |
Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against
Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the
Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he
shall make their habitation desolate with them. |
| 50:46: |
At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry
is heard among the nations. |
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| 51:1: |
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and
against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a
destroying wind; |
| 51:2: |
And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall
empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round
about. |
| 51:3: |
Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him
that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young
men; destroy ye utterly all her host. |
| 51:4: |
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that
are thrust through in her streets. |
| 51:5: |
For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD
of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of
Israel. |
| 51:6: |
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be
not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's
vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence. |
| 51:7: |
Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all
the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the
nations are mad. |
| 51:8: |
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for
her pain, if so she may be healed. |
| 51:9: |
We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and
let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto
heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. |
| 51:10: |
The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us
declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God. |
| 51:11: |
Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up
the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon,
to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of
his temple. |
| 51:12: |
Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong,
set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised
and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon. |
| 51:13: |
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine
end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness. |
| 51:14: |
The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill
thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout
against thee. |
| 51:15: |
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by
his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding. |
| 51:16: |
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. |
| 51:17: |
Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by
the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no
breath in them. |
| 51:18: |
They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation
they shall perish. |
| 51:19: |
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. |
| 51:20: |
Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break
in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; |
| 51:21: |
And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and
with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; |
| 51:22: |
With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee
will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in
pieces the young man and the maid; |
| 51:23: |
I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and
with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and
with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers. |
| 51:24: |
And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea
all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the
LORD. |
| 51:25: |
Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD,
which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon
thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt
mountain. |
| 51:26: |
And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for
foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD. |
| 51:27: |
Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations,
prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms
of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the
horses to come up as the rough caterpillers. |
| 51:28: |
Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the
captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his
dominion. |
| 51:29: |
And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD
shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a
desolation without an inhabitant. |
| 51:30: |
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained
in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have
burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken. |
| 51:31: |
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet
another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one
end, |
| 51:32: |
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned
with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. |
| 51:33: |
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of
Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little
while, and the time of her harvest shall come. |
| 51:34: |
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed
me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a
dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me
out. |
| 51:35: |
The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the
inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,
shall Jerusalem say. |
| 51:36: |
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and
take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs
dry. |
| 51:37: |
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an
astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. |
| 51:38: |
They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lion's
whelps. |
| 51:39: |
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken,
that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith
the LORD. |
| 51:40: |
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he
goats. |
| 51:41: |
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth
surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! |
| 51:42: |
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of
the waves thereof. |
| 51:43: |
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land
wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby. |
| 51:44: |
And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his
mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow
together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. |
| 51:45: |
My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man
his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD. |
| 51:46: |
And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be
heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in
another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against
ruler. |
| 51:47: |
Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the
graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all
her slain shall fall in the midst of her. |
| 51:48: |
Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing
for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith
the LORD. |
| 51:49: |
As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon
shall fall the slain of all the earth. |
| 51:50: |
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember
the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. |
| 51:51: |
We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered
our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's
house. |
| 51:52: |
Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do
judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded
shall groan. |
| 51:53: |
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should
fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto
her, saith the LORD. |
| 51:54: |
A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the
land of the Chaldeans: |
| 51:55: |
Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the
great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their
voice is uttered: |
| 51:56: |
Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her
mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God
of recompences shall surely requite. |
| 51:57: |
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains,
and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual
sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of
hosts. |
| 51:58: |
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be
utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the
people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be
weary. |
| 51:59: |
The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of
Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah
into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a
quiet prince. |
| 51:60: |
So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon
Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon. |
| 51:61: |
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt
see, and shalt read all these words; |
| 51:62: |
Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to
cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but tha
hall be desolate for ever. |
| 51:63: |
And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book,
that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of
Euphrates: |
| 51:64: |
And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from
the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far
are the words of Jeremiah. |
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| 52:1: |
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal
the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. |
| 52:2: |
And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to
all that Jehoiakim had done. |
| 52:3: |
For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and
Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah
rebelled against the king of Babylon. |
| 52:4: |
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth
month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and
built forts against it round about. |
| 52:5: |
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
Zedekiah. |
| 52:6: |
And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine
was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the
land. |
| 52:7: |
Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went
forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two
walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the
city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain. |
| 52:8: |
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook
Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from
him. |
| 52:9: |
Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon
to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him. |
| 52:10: |
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he
slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. |
| 52:11: |
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound
him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the
day of his death. |
| 52:12: |
Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the
nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan,
captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into
Jerusalem, |
| 52:13: |
And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all
the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he
with fire: |
| 52:14: |
And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the
guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. |
| 52:15: |
Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive
certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that
remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of
Babylon, and the rest of the multitude. |
| 52:16: |
But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of
the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen. |
| 52:17: |
Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the
bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the
Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon. |
| 52:18: |
The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls,
and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered,
took they away. |
| 52:19: |
And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons,
and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of
gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of
the guard away. |
| 52:20: |
The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the
bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of
all these vessels was without weight. |
| 52:21: |
And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen
cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness
thereof was four fingers: it was hollow. |
| 52:22: |
And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter
was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round
about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were
like unto these. |
| 52:23: |
And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the
pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about. |
| 52:24: |
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and
Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: |
| 52:25: |
He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the
men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person,
which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who
mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the
land, that were found in the midst of the city. |
| 52:26: |
So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them
to the king of Babylon to Riblah. |
| 52:27: |
And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah
in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own
land. |
| 52:28: |
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the
seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty: |
| 52:29: |
In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from
Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: |
| 52:30: |
In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar-adan the
captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty
and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six
hundred. |
| 52:31: |
And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity
of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and
twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the
first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah,
and brought him forth out of prison, |
| 52:32: |
And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the
kings that were with him in Babylon, |
| 52:33: |
And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread
before him all the days of his life. |
| 52:34: |
And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of
Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of
his life. |