jps - Jeremiah:16:1-17:18

jps@Jeremiah:16:1 @ The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying:

jps@Jeremiah:16:2 @ Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

jps@Jeremiah:16:3 @ For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them, and concerning their fathers that begot them in this land:

jps@Jeremiah:16:4 @ They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried, they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

jps@Jeremiah:16:5 @ For thus saith the LORD: Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away My peace from this people, saith the LORD, even mercy and compassion.

jps@Jeremiah:16:6 @ 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;

jps@Jeremiah:16:7 @ neither shall men break bread 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.

jps@Jeremiah:16:8 @ And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

jps@Jeremiah:16:9 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before 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.

jps@Jeremiah:16:10 @ And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt tell 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?'

jps@Jeremiah:16:11 @ 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;

jps@Jeremiah:16:12 @ and ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not unto Me;

jps@Jeremiah:16:13 @ therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye have not known, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; forasmuch as I will show you no favour.'

jps@Jeremiah:16:14 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said: 'As the LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,'

jps@Jeremiah:16:15 @ but: 'As the LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries whither He had driven them'; and I will bring them back into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

jps@Jeremiah:16:16 @ Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

jps@Jeremiah:16:17 @ For Mine eyes are upon all their ways, they are not hid from My face; Neither is their iniquity concealed from Mine eyes.

jps@Jeremiah:16:18 @ And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have profaned My land; they have filled Mine inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable things and their abominations.

jps@Jeremiah:16:19 @ O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge, in the day of affliction, unto Thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: 'Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, vanity and things wherein there is no profit.'

jps@Jeremiah:16:20 @ Shall a man make unto himself gods, and they are no gods?

jps@Jeremiah:16:21 @ Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I cause them to know My hand and My might; and they shall know that My name is the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:17:1 @ The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond; it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars.

jps@Jeremiah:17:2 @ Like the symbols of their sons are their altars, and their Asherim are by the leafy trees, upon the high hills.

jps@Jeremiah:17:3 @ O thou that sittest upon the mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.

jps@Jeremiah:17:4 @ And thou, even of thyself, shalt discontinue from thy 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 My nostril, which shall burn for ever.

jps@Jeremiah:17:5 @ Thus saith the LORD: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:17:6 @ For he shall be like a tamarisk in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

jps@Jeremiah:17:7 @ Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose trust the LORD is.

jps@Jeremiah:17:8 @ For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but its foliage shall be luxuriant; and shall not be anxious in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

jps@Jeremiah:17:9 @ The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceeding weak--who can know it?

jps@Jeremiah:17:10 @ I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

jps@Jeremiah:17:11 @ As the partridge that broodeth over young which she hath not brought forth, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end he shall be a fool.

jps@Jeremiah:17:12 @ Thou throne of glory, on high from the beginning, thou place of our sanctuary,

jps@Jeremiah:17:13 @ Thou hope of Israel, the LORD! All that forsake Thee shall be ashamed; they that depart from Thee shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

jps@Jeremiah:17:14 @ Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved; for Thou art my praise.

jps@Jeremiah:17:15 @ Behold, they say unto me: 'Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.'

jps@Jeremiah:17:16 @ As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after Thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; Thou knowest it; that which came out of my lips was manifest before Thee.

jps@Jeremiah:17:17 @ Be not a ruin unto me; Thou art my refuge in the day of evil.

jps@Jeremiah:17:18 @ Let them be ashamed that persecute me, but let not me be ashamed; Let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; Bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.