jps - Jeremiah:16-20

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.

jps@Jeremiah:17:19 @ 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 which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

jps@Jeremiah:17:20 @ 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;

jps@Jeremiah:17:21 @ thus saith the LORD: Take heed for the sake of your souls, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

jps@Jeremiah:17:22 @ 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;

jps@Jeremiah:17:23 @ but they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

jps@Jeremiah:17:24 @ 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 to hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

jps@Jeremiah:17:25 @ then shall there enter in by 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 be inhabited for ever.

jps@Jeremiah:17:26 @ And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the Lowland, and from the mountains, and from the South, bringing burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, unto the house of the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:17:27 @ But if ye will not hearken unto Me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden and enter 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.

jps@Jeremiah:18:1 @ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:

jps@Jeremiah:18:2 @ 'Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear My words.'

jps@Jeremiah:18:3 @ Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was at his work on the wheels.

jps@Jeremiah:18:4 @ And whensoever the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

jps@Jeremiah:18:5 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

jps@Jeremiah:18:6 @ 'O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in My hand, O house of Israel.

jps@Jeremiah:18:7 @ At one instant I may speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;

jps@Jeremiah:18:8 @ but if that nation turn from their evil, because of which I have spoken against it, I repent of the evil that I thought to do unto it.

jps@Jeremiah:18:9 @ And at one instant I may speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

jps@Jeremiah:18:10 @ but if it do evil in My sight, that it hearken not to My voice, then I repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit it.

jps@Jeremiah:18:11 @ Now therefore do thou 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 amend your ways and your doings.

jps@Jeremiah:18:12 @ But they say: There is no hope; but we will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart.'

jps@Jeremiah:18:13 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD: Ask ye now among the nations, who hath heard such things; the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

jps@Jeremiah:18:14 @ Doth the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or are the strange cold flowing waters plucked up?

jps@Jeremiah:18:15 @ For My people hath forgotten Me, they offer unto vanity; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;

jps@Jeremiah:18:16 @ To make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

jps@Jeremiah:18:17 @ I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will look upon their back, and not their face, in the day of their calamity.

jps@Jeremiah:18:18 @ Then said they: 'Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for instruction 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.'

jps@Jeremiah:18:19 @ Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.

jps@Jeremiah:18:20 @ Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before Thee to speak good for them, to turn away Thy wrath from them.

jps@Jeremiah:18:21 @ Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and hurl them to the power of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle.

jps@Jeremiah:18:22 @ 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.

jps@Jeremiah:18:23 @ 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 made to stumble before Thee; Deal Thou with them in the time of Thine anger.

jps@Jeremiah:19:1 @ Thus said the LORD: Go, and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

jps@Jeremiah:19:2 @ and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee;

jps@Jeremiah:19:3 @ and say: Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle;

jps@Jeremiah:19:4 @ because they have forsaken Me, and have estranged this place, and have offered in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

jps@Jeremiah:19:5 @ and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal; which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither came it into My mind.

jps@Jeremiah:19:6 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter;

jps@Jeremiah:19:7 @ and I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their life; and their carcasses will I give to be food for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth;

jps@Jeremiah:19:8 @ and I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof;

jps@Jeremiah:19:9 @ and I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall straiten them.

jps@Jeremiah:19:10 @ Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

jps@Jeremiah:19:11 @ and shalt say unto them: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, for want of room to bury.

jps@Jeremiah:19:12 @ Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth;

jps@Jeremiah:19:13 @ and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have offered unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings unto other gods.

jps@Jeremiah:19:14 @ Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house, and said to all the people:

jps@Jeremiah:19:15 @ 'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they might not hear My words.'

jps@Jeremiah:20:1 @ Now Pashhur the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.

jps@Jeremiah:20:2 @ Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:20:3 @ And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him: 'The LORD hath not called thy name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

jps@Jeremiah:20:4 @ For thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

jps@Jeremiah:20:5 @ Moreover I will give all the store of this city, and all the gains thereof, and all the wealth thereof, yea, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, who shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

jps@Jeremiah:20:6 @ And thou, Pashhur, and all that dwell in thy house shall go into captivity; and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and there shalt thou be buried, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied falsely.'

jps@Jeremiah:20:7 @ O LORD, Thou hast enticed me, and I was enticed, Thou hast overcome me, and hast prevailed; I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me.

jps@Jeremiah:20:8 @ For as often as I speak, I cry out, I cry: 'Violence and spoil'; because the word of the LORD is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day.

jps@Jeremiah:20:9 @ And if I say: 'I will not make mention of Him, nor speak any more in His name', then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I weary myself to hold it in, but cannot.

jps@Jeremiah:20:10 @ For I have heard the whispering of many, terror on every side: 'Denounce, and we will denounce him'; even of all my familiar friends, them that watch for my halting: 'Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.'

jps@Jeremiah:20:11 @ But the LORD is with me as a mighty warrior; therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be greatly ashamed, because they have not prospered, even with an everlasting confusion which shall never be forgotten.

jps@Jeremiah:20:12 @ But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, that seest the reins and the heart, let me see Thy vengeance on them; for unto Thee have I revealed my cause.

jps@Jeremiah:20:13 @ Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD; for He hath delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers.

jps@Jeremiah:20:14 @ Cursed be the day wherein I was born; the day wherein my mother bore me, let it not be blessed.

jps@Jeremiah:20:15 @ Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying: 'A man-child is born unto thee'; making him very glad.

jps@Jeremiah:20:16 @ And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and an alarm at noontide;

jps@Jeremiah:20:17 @ Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

jps@Jeremiah:20:18 @ Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?

jps@Jeremiah:21:1 @ The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashhur the son of Malchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying: