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Jeremiah 1:1-19
1 The words of Jeremiah the son of
Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: 2 To whom
the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the
thirteenth year of his reign. 3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of
Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying, 5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out
of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. 6
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. 7 But the LORD
said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send
thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. 8 Be not afraid of their faces: for
I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. 9 Then the LORD put forth his hand,
and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and
to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. 12 Then
said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it. 13
And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I
said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north. 14 Then the
LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of
the land. 15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the
LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the
gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the
cities of Judah. 16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their
wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped
the works of their own hands. 17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak
unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee
before them. 18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron
pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the
princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. 19 And
they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with
thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee. (KJV)
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Jeremiah 2:1-37
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to
me, saying, 2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember
thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me
in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. 3 Israel was holiness unto
the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend;
evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD. 4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of
Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: 5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity
have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after
vanity, and are become vain? 6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us
up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts
and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no
man passed through, and where no man dwelt? 7 And I brought you into a plentiful country,
to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my
land, and made mine heritage an abomination. 8 The priests said not, Where is the
LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me,
and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you,
saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead. 10 For pass over the isles
of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be
such a thing. 11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods?
but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. 12 Be
astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the
LORD. 13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of
living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no
water.
14 Is Israel a servant? is he
a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled? 15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled,
and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. 16 Also the
children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. 17 Hast thou not
procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee
by the way? 18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of
Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? 19
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know
therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast
forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of
hosts.
20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke,
and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high
hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. 21 Yet I had planted
thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant
of a strange vine unto me? 22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much
soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD. 23 How canst thou
say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what
thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways; 24 A wild ass used
to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who
can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they
shall find her. 25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but
thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they,
their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, 27 Saying to a stock,
Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have
turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their
trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. 28 But where are thy gods that thou hast
made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according
to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all
have transgressed against me, saith the LORD. 30 In vain have I smitten your children;
they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying
lion. 31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?
a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have
forgotten me days without number. 33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore
hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. 34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood
of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all
these. 35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me.
Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned. 36 Why gaddest
thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast
ashamed of Assyria. 37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head:
for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them. (KJV)
3
Jeremiah 3:1-25
1 They say, If a man put away his wife,
and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not
that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet
return again to me, saith the LORD. 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see
where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in
the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy
wickedness. 3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter
rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed. 4 Wilt thou not
from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth? 5 Will he
reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast
spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
6 The LORD said also unto me in the days
of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is
gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the
harlot. 7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But
she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8 And I saw, when for
all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given
her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played
the harlot also. 9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she
defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 10 And yet for all
this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but
feignedly, saith the LORD. 11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath
justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
12 Go and proclaim these words toward the
north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not
cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I
will not keep anger for ever. 13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast
transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under
every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. 14 Turn, O backsliding
children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city,
and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: 15 And I will give you pastors
according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. 16 And it
shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith
the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it
come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither
shall that be done any more. 17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne
of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to
Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. 18
In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come
together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance
unto your fathers. 19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a
pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me,
My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
20 Surely as a wife treacherously
departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel,
saith the LORD. 21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications
of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have
forgotten the LORD their God. 22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal
your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God. 23
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude
of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. 24 For shame
hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds,
their sons and their daughters. 25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth
us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even
unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God. (KJV)
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Jeremiah 4:1-31
1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the
LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then
shalt thou not remove. 2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and
in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they
glory.
3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of
Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. 4 Circumcise
yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and
inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench
it, because of the evil of your doings.
5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in
Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say,
Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities. 6 Set up the standard toward
Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. 7
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he
is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be
laid waste, without an inhabitant. 8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl:
for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. 9 And it shall come to pass
at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart
of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder. 10
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem,
saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul. 11 At that time
shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the
wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse, 12 Even a
full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence
against them. 13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a
whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled. 14 O
Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy
vain thoughts lodge within thee? 15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth
affliction from mount Ephraim. 16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against
Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against
the cities of Judah. 17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because
she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD. 18 Thy way and thy doings have
procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is
bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my
very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast
heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20 Destruction upon
destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and
my curtains in a moment. 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the
sound of the trumpet? 22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are
sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil,
but to do good they have no knowledge. 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without
form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. 24 I beheld the mountains,
and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. 25 I beheld, and, lo, there
was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. 26 I beheld, and, lo, the
fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the
presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. 27 For thus hath the LORD said, The
whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. 28 For this shall the earth
mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it,
and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it. 29 The whole city shall flee for
the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the
rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein. 30 And when thou
art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though
thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in
vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy
life. 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of
her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth
herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul
is wearied because of murderers. (KJV)
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Jeremiah 5:1-31
1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of
Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a
man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will
pardon it. 2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. 3 O LORD, are
not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved;
thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have
made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. 4 Therefore I said,
Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor
the judgment of their God. 5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto
them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but
these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. 6 Wherefore a lion out
of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a
leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in
pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are
increased. 7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by
them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed
adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. 8 They were as fed
horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. 9 Shall I not visit
for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation
as this?
10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy;
but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S. 11
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,
saith the LORD. 12 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall
evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: 13 And the prophets shall become
wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. 14 Wherefore
thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words
in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. 15 Lo, I will bring a
nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation,
it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither
understandest what they say. 16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all
mighty men. 17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons
and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat
up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou
trustedst, with the sword. 18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make
a full end with you. 19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the
LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have
forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that
is not yours.
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and
publish it in Judah, saying, 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without
understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: 22 Fear ye not
me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the
bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves
thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass
over it? 23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and
gone. 24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth
rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed
weeks of the harvest.
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things,
and your sins have withholden good things from you. 26 For among my people are
found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they
catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit:
therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. 28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea,
they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the
fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. 29 Shall I not
visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a
nation as this? 30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; 31 The
prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to
have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? (KJV)
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Jeremiah 6:1-30
1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather
yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set
up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great
destruction. 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents
against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place. 4 Prepare ye war against
her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows
of the evening are stretched out. 5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her
palaces. 6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount
against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression
in the midst of her. 7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her
wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and
wounds. 8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee
desolate, a land not inhabited.
9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall
throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer
into the baskets. 10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold,
their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD
is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of
the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and
upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be
taken, the aged with him that is full of days. 12 And their houses shall be turned
unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand
upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. 13 For from the least of them even unto
the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even
unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. 14 They have healed also the hurt of the
daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all
ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the
time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. 16 Thus saith the
LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good
way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not
walk therein. 17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound
of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O
congregation, what is among them. 19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon
this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto
my words, nor to my law, but rejected it. 20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense
from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not
acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. 21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I
will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall
fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish. 22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold,
a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides
of the earth. 23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no
mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men
for war against thee, O daughter of Zion. 24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax
feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail. 25 Go
not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is
on every side. 26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow
thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation:
for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. 27 I have set thee for a tower and a
fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. 28 They are all
grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all
corrupters. 29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder
melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. 30 Reprobate silver shall men call
them, because the LORD hath rejected them. (KJV)
7
Jeremiah 7:1-34
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the
LORD, saying, 2 Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and
say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to
worship the LORD. 3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and
your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Trust ye not in lying words,
saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment
between a man and his neighbour; 6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless,
and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to
your hurt: 7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your
fathers, for ever and ever. 8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. 9 Will
ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and
walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10 And come and stand before me in this house,
which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? 11 Is
this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even
I have seen it, saith the LORD. 12 But go ye now unto my place which was in
Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of
my people Israel. 13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I
spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye
answered not; 14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name,
wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have
done to Shiloh. 15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your
brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
16 Therefore pray not thou for this
people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I
will not hear thee. 17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the
streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and
the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out
drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. 19 Do they provoke me
to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of
their own faces? 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury
shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the
field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. 22 For I spake
not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land
of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing commanded I them,
saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in
all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. 24 But they
hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the
imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. 25 Since the day that
your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you
all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: 26 Yet they
hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse
than their fathers. 27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will
not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. 28 But
thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD
their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem,
and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath
rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. 30 For the children of Judah have done
evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is
called by my name, to pollute it. 31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is
in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the
fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. 32 Therefore,
behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the
valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet,
till there be no place. 33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of
the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. 34 Then
will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the
voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of
the bride: for the land shall be desolate. (KJV)
8
Jeremiah 8:1-22
1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall
bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of
the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
out of their graves: 2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all
the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they
have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be
gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. 3 And death
shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil
family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of
hosts.
4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus
saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? 5 Why then
is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast
deceit, they refuse to return. 6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright:
no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his
course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. 7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her
appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their
coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. 8 How do ye say, We are wise,
and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the
pen of the scribes is in vain. 9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed
and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that
shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to
covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. 11 For they
have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there
is no peace. 12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were
not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that
fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them, saith the
LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf
shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. 14 Why
do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let
us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of
gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. 15 We looked for peace, but no
good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! 16 The snorting of his
horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his
strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the
city, and those that dwell therein. 17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices,
among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the
LORD. 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in
me. 19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell
in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have
they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? 20
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. 21 For the hurt of the
daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. 22 Is
there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the
health of the daughter of my people recovered? (KJV)
9
Jeremiah 9:1-26
1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine
eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of
my people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I
might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of
treacherous men. 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but
they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and
they know not me, saith the LORD. 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye
not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk
with slanders. 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the
truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit
iniquity. 6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse
to know me, saith the LORD. 7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt
them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? 8 Their tongue is
as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his
neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. 9 Shall I not visit them for
these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as
this? 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations
of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through
them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the
heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone. 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a
den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
12 Who is the wise man, that may
understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he
may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness,
that none passeth through? 13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which
I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; 14 But have
walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers
taught them: 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will
feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have
known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. 17 Thus saith the
LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send
for cunning women, that they may come: 18 And let them make haste, and take up a
wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with
waters. 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly
confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his
mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. 21 For
death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the
children from without, and the young men from the streets. 22 Speak, Thus saith the
LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful
after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man
glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the
rich man glory in his riches: 24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he
understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness,
judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the
LORD. 25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised
with the uncircumcised; 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and
Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all
these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised
in the heart. (KJV)
10
Jeremiah 10:1-25
1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh
unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and
be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the
customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest,
the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with
gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5 They are upright
as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not
afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. 6
Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy
name is great in might. 7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee
doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all
their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee. 8 But they are altogether brutish and
foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. 9 Silver spread into plates is
brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of
the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of
cunning men. 10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God,
and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not
be able to abide his indignation. 11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not
made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from
under these heavens. 12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world
by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. 13 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. 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge:
every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood,
and there is no breath in them. 15 They are vanity, and the work of
errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 16 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.
17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O
inhabitant of the fortress. 18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the
inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief,
and I must bear it. 20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children
are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my
tent any more, and to set up my curtains. 21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have
not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be
scattered. 22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the
north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons. 23 O
LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that
walketh to direct his steps. 24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger,
lest thou bring me to nothing. 25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not,
and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and
devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate. (KJV)
11
Jeremiah 11:1-23
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the
LORD, saying, 2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; 3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant, 4 Which I
commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of
Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I
command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God: 5 That I may perform the
oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and
honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD. 6 Then the
LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of
Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them. 7 For I earnestly
protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of
Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. 8
Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of
their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I
commanded them to do; but they did them not. 9 And the LORD said unto me, A
conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 10
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my
words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of
Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold,
I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall
cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them. 12 Then shall the cities of Judah and
inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they
shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble. 13 For according to the
number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the
streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars
to burn incense unto Baal. 14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a
cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me
for their trouble. 15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath
wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil,
then thou rejoicest. 16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of
goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the
branches of it are broken. 17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced
evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which
they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of
it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings. 19 But I was like
a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they
had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit
thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more
remembered. 20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and
the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause. 21
Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy
not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand: 22 Therefore thus saith the
LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their
sons and their daughters shall die by famine: 23 And there shall be no remnant of them:
for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
(KJV)
12
Jeremiah 12:1-17
1 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when
I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the
way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very
treacherously? 2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they
bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins. 3 But
thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them
out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. 4 How long
shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that
dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see
our last end. 5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how
canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou
trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? 6
For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously
with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they
speak fair words unto thee.
7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left
mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. 8
Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have
I hated it. 9 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round
about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to
devour. 10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under
foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. 11 They have made it
desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate,
because no man layeth it to heart. 12 The spoilers are come upon all high places
through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of
the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace. 13 They have
sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not
profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the
LORD.
14 Thus saith the LORD against all mine
evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to
inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah
from among them. 15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will
return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage,
and every man to his land. 16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the
ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear
by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people. 17 But if they will not obey,
I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD. (KJV)
13
Jeremiah 13:1-27
1 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get
thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. 2 So I got a
girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins. 3 And the word of
the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, 4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which
is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the
rock. 5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me. 6 And it came to
pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the
girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there. 7 Then I went to Euphrates, and
digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was
marred, it was profitable for nothing. 8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 9
Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride
of Jerusalem. 10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the
imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them,
shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing. 11 For as the girdle cleaveth to
the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the
whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a
name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them
this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and
they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with
wine? 13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the
inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests,
and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. 14 And I will
dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I
will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them. 15 Hear ye, and give ear; be
not proud: for the LORD hath spoken. 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause
darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for
light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. 17
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and
mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried
away captive. 18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your
principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. 19 The cities of the
south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away
captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive. 20 Lift up your eyes, and
behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given
thee, thy beautiful flock? 21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast
taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take
thee, as a woman in travail?
22 And if thou say in thine heart,
Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts
discovered, and thy heels made bare. 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the
leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. 24
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the
wilderness. 25 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the
LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. 26 Therefore will I
discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear. 27 I have seen thine
adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations
on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall
it once be? (KJV)
14
Jeremiah 14:1-22
1 The word of the LORD that came to
Jeremiah concerning the dearth. 2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are
black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 3 And their nobles have sent
their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they
returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their
heads. 4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were
ashamed, they covered their heads. 5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it,
because there was no grass. 6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they
snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake:
for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. 8 O the hope of Israel, the
saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and
as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night? 9 Why shouldest thou be
as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in
the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people,
Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD
doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. 11 Then
said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good. 12 When they fast,
I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not
accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence. 13 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not
see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this
place. 14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them
not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a
false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart. 15
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent
them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine
shall those prophets be consumed. 16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast
out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have
none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour
their wickedness upon them.
17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto
them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the
virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow. 18
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into
the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest
go about into a land that they know not. 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy
soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we
looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold
trouble! 20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our
fathers: for we have sinned against thee. 21 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake,
do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us. 22 Are
there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the
heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon
thee: for thou hast made all these things. (KJV)
15
Jeremiah 15:1-21
1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses
and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this
people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. 2 And it shall come to
pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus
saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the
sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are
for the captivity, to the captivity. 3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith
the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the
beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. 4 And I will cause them to be removed into all
kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which
he did in Jerusalem. 5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan
thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? 6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the
LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and
destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. 7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of
the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they
return not from their ways. 8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas:
I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have
caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city. 9 She that hath
borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was
yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver
to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast
borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent
on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. 11
The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to
entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. 12 Shall iron
break the northern iron and the steel? 13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to
the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. 14 And
I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest
not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and
visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know
that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. 16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and
thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O
LORD God of hosts. 17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone
because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation. 18 Why is my pain
perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be
altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail? 19 Therefore thus
saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand
before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth:
let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them. 20 And I will make thee unto
this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not
prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith
the LORD. 21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee
out of the hand of the terrible. (KJV)
16
Jeremiah 16:1-21
1 The word of the LORD came also unto me,
saying, 2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in
this place. 3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters
that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning
their fathers that begat them in this land; 4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they
shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon
the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their
carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. 5 For
thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan
them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness
and mercies. 6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be
buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves
bald for them: 7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to
comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to
drink for their father or for their mother. 8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of
feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. 9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your
days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the
voice of the bride.
10 And it shall come to pass, when thou
shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the
LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is
our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God? 11 Then shalt thou say unto
them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other
gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not
kept my law; 12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one
after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: 13 Therefore
will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your
fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you
favour.
14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith
the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt; 15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of
Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and
I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. 16 Behold, I will
send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for
many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out
of the holes of the rocks. 17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not
hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. 18 And first I will
recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they
have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the
Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our
fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? 21 Therefore, behold,
I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and
they shall know that my name is The LORD. (KJV)
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Jeremiah 17:1-27
1 The sin of Judah is written with
a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table
of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; 2 Whilst their children remember their
altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. 3 O my mountain in the
field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy
high places for sin, throughout all thy borders. 4 And thou, even thyself, shalt
discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine
enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which
shall burn for ever.
5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the
man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the
LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh;
but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not
inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD
is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her
roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and
shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. 9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can
know it? 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man
according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. 11 As the
partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth
riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall
be a fool.
12 A glorious high throne from the
beginning is the place of our sanctuary. 13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that
forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the
earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters. 14 Heal me, O
LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now. 16 As
for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I
desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before
thee. 17 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil. 18 Let them
be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but
let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double
destruction.
19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and
stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and
by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; 20 And say unto them, Hear ye
the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: 21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves,
and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any
work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. 23 But they obeyed not,
neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor
receive instruction. 24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith
the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but
hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein; 25 Then shall there enter into the gates of
this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on
horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and
this city shall remain for ever. 26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from
the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from
the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat
offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD. 27
But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden,
even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire
in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be
quenched. (KJV)
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Jeremiah 18:1-23
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the
LORD, saying, 2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to
hear my words. 3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on
the wheels. 4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so
he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. 5 Then
the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this
potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye
in mine hand, O house of Israel. 7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a
nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of
the evil that I thought to do unto them. 9 And at what instant I shall speak
concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; 10 If it
do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith
I said I would benefit them.
11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men
of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I
frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his
evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. 12 And they said, There is no hope: but
we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil
heart. 13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such
things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. 14 Will a man leave
the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the
cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken? 15 Because my people hath
forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in
their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth
thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. 17 I will scatter them as with an east wind
before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their
calamity.
18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise
devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from
the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and
let us not give heed to any of his words. 19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the
voice of them that contend with me. 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have
digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and
to turn away thy wrath from them. 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the
famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be
bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let
their young men be slain by the sword in battle. 22 Let a cry be heard from
their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit
to take me, and hid snares for my feet. 23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel
against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from
thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time
of thine anger.
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