Chapter 32
[15] Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Take the cup of this unmixed wine from mine hand, and thou shalt cause all the nations to drink, to whom I send thee. [16] And they shall drink, and vomit, and be mad, because of the sword which I send among them.
[17] So I took the cup out of the Lord’s hand, and caused the nations to whom the Lord sent me to drink: [18] Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings of Juda, and his princes, to make them a desert place, a desolation, and a hissing; [19] and Pharao king of Egypt, and his servants, and his nobles, and all his people; [20] and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus, [21] and Idumea, and the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, [22] and the kings of Tyre, and the kings of Sidon, and the kings in the country beyond the sea, [23] and Daedan, and Thaeman, and Ros, and every one that is shaved round about the face, [24] and all the mingled people lodging in the wilderness, [25] and all the kings of Ælam, and all the kings of the Persians, [26] and all the kings from the north, the far and the near, each one with his brother, and all the kingdom s which are on the face of the earth.
[27] And thou shalt say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty; Drink ye, be ye drunken; and ye shall vomit, and shall fall, and shall in nowise rise, because of the sword which I send among you. [28] And it shall come to pass, when they refuse to take the cup out of thine hand, to drink it, that thou shalt say, Thus said the Lord; Ye shall surely drink. [29] For I am beginning to afflict the city whereon my name is called, and ye shall by no means be held guiltless: for I am calling a sword upon all that dwell upon the earth.
[30] And thou shalt prophesy against them these words, and shalt say, The Lord shall speak from on high, from his sanctuary he will utter his voice; he will pronounce a declaration on his place; and these shall answer like men gathering grapes: and destruction is coming on them that dwell on the earth, [31] even upon the extreme part of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with the nations, he is pleading with all flesh, and the ungodly are given to the sword, saith the Lord.
[32] Thus said the Lord; Behold, evils are proceeding from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind goes forth from the end of the earth. [33] And the slain of the Lord shall be in the day of the Lord from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth. [34] Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and lament, ye rams of the flock: for your days have been completed for slaughter, and ye shall fall as the choice rams. [35] And flight shall perish from the shepherds, and safety from the rams of the flock. [36] A voice of the crying of the shepherds, and a moaning of the sheep and the rams: for the Lord has destroyed their pastures. [37] And the peaceable abodes that remain shall be destroyed before the fierceness of my anger. [38] He has forsaken his lair, as a lion: for their land is become desolate before the great sword.
Chapter 33
[1] IN THE BEGINNING OF THE REIGN OF KING JOAKIM SON OF JOSIAS THERE CAME THIS WORD FROM THE LORD.
[2] Thus said the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and thou shalt declare to all the Jews, and to all that come to worship in the house of the Lord, all the words which I commanded thee to speak to them; abate not one word. [3] Peradventure they will hear, and turn every one from his evil way: then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices. [4] And thou shalt say, Thus said the Lord; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my statutes which I set before you, [5] to hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you early in the morning; yea, I sent them, but ye hearkened not to me; [6] then will I make this house as Selo, and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.
[7] And the priests, and the false prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord. [8] And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had ceased speaking all that the Lord had ordered him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the false prophets and all the people took him, saying, [9] Thou shalt surely die, because thou hast prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall be as Selo, and this city shall be made quite destitute of inhabitants.
And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord. [10] And the princes of Juda heard this word, and they went up out of the house of the king to the house of the Lord, and sat in the entrance of the new gate. [11] Then the priests and the false prophets said to the princes and to all the people, The judgment of death is due to this man; because he has prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
[12] Then Jeremiah spoke to the princes, and to all the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city, all the words which ye have heard. [13] And now amend your ways and your works, and hearken to the voice of the Lord; and the Lord shall cease from the evils which he has pronounced against you. [14] And behold, I am in your hands; do to me as is expedient, and as it is best for you. [15] But know for a certainty, that if ye slay me, ye bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon them that dwell in it; for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak in your ears all these words.
[16] Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the false prophets; Judgment of death is not due to this man; for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God. [17] And there rose up men of the elders of the land, and said to all the assembly of the people, [18] Michaeas the Morathite lived in the days of Ezekias king of Juda, and said to all the people of Juda, Thus saith the Lord; Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become a desolation, and the mountain of the house shall be a thicket of trees. [19] Did Ezekias and all Juda in any way slay him? Was it not that they feared the Lord, and they made supplication before the Lord, and the Lord ceased from the evils which he had pronounced against them? whereas we have wrought great evil against our own souls.
[20] And there was another man prophesying in the name of the Lord, Urias the son of Samaeas of Cariathiarim; and he prophesied concerning this land according to all the words of Jeremiah. [21] And king Joakim and all the princes heard all his words, and sought to slay him; and Urias heard it and went into Egypt. [22] And the king sent men into Egypt; [23] and they brought him thence, and brought him into the king; and he smote him with the sword, and cast him into the sepulchre of the children of his people. [24] Nevertheless the hand of Achicam son of Saphan was with Jeremiah, to prevent his being delivered into the hands of the people, or being killed.
Chapter 34
[1] Thus said the Lord; Make to thyself bonds and yokes, and put them about thy neck, [3] and thou shalt send them to the king of Idumea, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hands of their messengers that come to meet them at Jerusalem to Sedekias king of Juda. [4] And thou shalt commission them to say to their lords, Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to your lords; [5] I have made the earth by my great power, and with my high arm, and I will give it to whomsoever it shall seem good in mine eyes. [6] I gave the earth to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to serve him, and the wild beasts of the field to labour for him. [7] 8 And the nation and kingdom, all that shall not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with sword and famine will I visit them, saith the Lord, until they are consumed by his hand.
[9] And hearken ye not to your false prophets, nor to them that divine to you, nor to them that foretell events by dreams to you, nor to your auguries, nor your sorcerers, that say, Ye shall by no means work for the king of Babylon: [10] for they prophesy lies to you, to remove you far from your land. [11] But the nation which shall put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, I will even leave it upon its land, and it shall serve him, and dwell in it.
[12] I spoke also to Sedekias king of Juda according to all these words, saying, Put your neck int
o the yoke, and serve the king of Babylon. [13] 14 For they prophesy unrighteous words to you, [15] for I sent them not, saith the Lord; and they prophesy in my name unjustly, that I might destroy you, and ye should perish, and your prophets, who unrighteously prophesy lies to you.
[16] I spoke to you, and to all this people, and to the priests, saying, Thus said the Lord; Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Lord’s house shall return from Babylon: for they prophesy to you unrighteous words. [17] I sent them not. [18] If they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is in them, let them meet me, for thus has the Lord said.
[19] And as for the remaining vessels, [20] which the king of Babylon took not, when he carried Jechonias prisoner out of Jerusalem, [21] 22 they shall go into Babylon, saith the Lord.
Chapter 35
[1] And it came to pass in the fourth year of Sedekias king of Juda, in the fifth month, that Ananias the false prophet, the son of Azor, from Gabaon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the sight of the priests and all the people, saying, [2] Thus saith the Lord; I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. [3] Yet two full years, and I will return into this place the vessels of the house of the Lord, [4] and Jechonias, and the captivity of Juda: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
[5] Then Jeremiah spoke to Ananias in the sight of all the people, and in the sight of the priests that stood in the house of the Lord, [6] and Jeremiah said, May the Lord indeed do thus; may he confirm thy word which thou dost prophesy, to return the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the captivity, out of Babylon to this place. [7] Nevertheless hear ye the word of the Lord which I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people. [8] The prophets that were before me and before you of old, also prophesied over much country, and against great kingdoms, concerning war. [9] As for the prophet that has prophesied for peace, when the word has come to pass, they shall know the prophet whom the Lord has sent them in truth.
[10] Then Ananias took the yokes from the neck of Jeremiah in the sight of all the people, and broke them to pieces. [11] And Ananias spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus said the Lord; Thus will I break the yoke of the king of Babylon from the necks of all the nations. And Jeremiah went his way.
[12] And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after that Ananias had broken the yokes off his neck, saying, [13] Go and speak to Ananias, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but I will make instead of them yokes of iron. [14] For thus said the Lord, I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all the nations, that they may serve the king of Babylon. [15] And Jeremiah said to Ananias, The Lord has not sent thee; and thou hast caused this people to trust in unrighteousness. [16] Therefore thus said the Lord: Behold, I will cast thee off from the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die. [17] So he died in the seventh month.
Chapter 36
[1] And these are the words of the book which Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the false prophets, even an epistle to Babylon for the captivity, and to all the people; [2] (after the departure of Jechonias the king and the queen, and the eunuchs, and every freeman, and bondman, and artificer, out of Jerusalem;) [3] by the hand of Eleasan son of Saphan, and Gamarias son of Chelcias, (whom Sedekias king of Juda sent to the king of Babylon to Babylon) saying, [4] Thus said the Lord God of Israel concerning the captivity which I caused to be carried away from Jerusalem;
[5] Build ye houses, and inhabit them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruits thereof; [6] and take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and be multiplied, and be not diminished. [7] And seek the peace of the land into which I have carried you captive, and ye shall pray to the Lord for the people: for in its peace ye shall have peace.
[8] For thus saith the Lord; Let not the false prophets that are among you persuade you, and let not your diviners persuade you, and hearken not to your dreams which ye dream. [9] For they prophesy to you unrighteous words in my name; and I sent them not. [10] For thus said the Lord; When seventy years shall be on the point of being accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you, and will confirm my words to you, to bring back your people to this place. [11] And I will devise for you a device of peace, and not evil, to bestow upon you these good things. [12] And do ye pray to me, and I will hearken to you: and do ye earnestly seek me, and ye shall find me; [13] for ye shall seek me with your whole heart. [14] And I will appear to you: [15] whereas ye said, The Lord has appointed for us prophets in Babylon:
[16] 17 [18] 19 [20] 21 Thus saith the Lord concerning Achiab, and concerning Sedekias; Behold, I will deliver them into the hands of the king of Babylon; and he shall smite them in your sight. [22] And they shall make of them a curse in all the captivity of Juda in Babylon, saying, The Lord do to thee as he did to Sedekias, and as he did to Achiab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire; [23] because of the iniquity which they wrought in Israel, and because they committed adultery with the wives of their fellow-citizens; and spoke a word in my name, which I did not command them to speak, and I am witness, saith the Lord.
[24] And to Samaeas the Ælamite thou shalt say, [25] I sent thee not in my name: and to Sophonias the priest the son of Maasaeas say thou, [26] The Lord has made thee priest in the place of Jodae the priest, to be ruler in the house of the Lord over every prophet, and to every madman, and thou shalt put them in prison, and into the dungeon. [27] And now wherefore have ye reviled together Jeremiah of Anathoth, who prophesied to you? [28] Did he not send for this purpose? for in the course of this month he sent to you to Babylon, saying, It is far off: build ye houses, and inhabit them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them. [29] And Sophonias read the book in the ears of Jeremiah.
[30] Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, [31] Send to the captivity, saying, Thus saith the Lord concerning Samaeas the Ælamite, Since Samaeas has prophesied to you, and I sent him not, and he has made you to trust in iniquity, [32] therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will visit Samaeas, and his family: and there shall not be a man of them in the midst of you to see the good which I will do to you: they shall not see it.
Chapter 37
[1] THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS FROM THE LORD, SAYING, [2] Thus speaks the Lord God of Israel, saying,
Write all the words which I have spoken to thee in a book. [3] For, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, said the Lord: and I will bring them back to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall be lords of it.
[4] AND THESE ARE THE WORDS WHICH THE LORD SPOKE CONCERNING ISRAEL AND JUDA;
[5] Thus said the Lord: Ye shall hear a sound of fear, there is fear, and there is not peace. [6] Enquire, and see if a male has born a child? and ask concerning the fear, wherein they shall hold their loins, and look for safety: for I have seen every man, and his hands are on his loins; their faces are turned to paleness. [7] For that day is great, and there is not such another; and it is a time of straitness to Jacob; but he shall be saved out of it. [8] In that day, said the Lord, I will break the yoke off their neck, and will burst their bonds, and they shall no longer serve strangers: [9] but they shall serve the Lord their God; and I will raise up to them David their king.
[10] 11 [12] Thus saith the Lord; I have brought on thee destruction; thy stroke is painful. [13] There is none to judge thy cause: thou hast been painfully treated for healing, there is no help for thee. [14] All thy friends have forgotten thee; they shall not ask about thee at all, for I have smitten thee with he stroke of an enemy, even severe correction: thy sins have abounded above all thine iniquity. [15] Thy sins have abounded beyond the multitude of thine iniquities, therefore they have done these things to thee. Therefore all that devour thee shall be eaten, and all thine enemies shall eat all their own flesh. [16] And they that spoil thee shall become a spoil, and I will give up
to be plundered all that have plundered thee. [17] For I will bring about thy healing, I will heal thee of thy grievous wound, saith the Lord; for thou art called Dispersed: she is your prey, for no one seeks after her.
[18] Thus said the Lord; Behold, I will turn the captivity of Jacob, and will have pity upon his prisoners; and the city shall be built upon her hill, and the people shall settle after their manner. [19] And there shall go forth from them singers, even the sound of men making merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not at all be diminished. [20] And their sons shall go in as before, and their testimonies shall be established before me, and I will visit them that afflict them. [21] And their mighty ones shall be over them, and their prince shall proceed of themselves; and I will gather them, and they shall return to me: for who is this that has set his heart to return to me? saith the Lord.
[22] 23 For the wrathful anger of the lord has gone forth, even a whirlwind of anger has gone forth: it shall come upon the ungodly. [24] The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he shall execute it, and until he shall establish the purpose of his heart: in the latter days ye shall know these things.
Chapter 38
[1] At that time, saith the Lord, I will be a God to the family of Israel, and they shall be to me a people. [2] Thus saith the Lord, I found him warm in the wilderness with them that were slain with the sword: go ye and destroy not Israel. [3] The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore have I drawn thee in compassion. [4] For I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt yet take thy timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that make merry. [5] For ye have planted vineyards on the mountains of Samaria: plant ye, and praise. [6] For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, saying, Arise ye, and go up to Sion to the Lord your God.
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