vw - Jeremiah:16-20

vw@Jeremiah:16:1 @ The Word of Jehovah also came unto me, saying,

vw@Jeremiah:16:2 @ You shall not take a wife for yourself, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.

vw@Jeremiah:16:3 @ For thus says Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land:

vw@Jeremiah:16:4 @ They shall die from deaths of diseases; they shall not be mourned, nor shall they be buried. But they shall be as dung on the face of the earth. They shall be destroyed by the sword and by famine; and their carcasses shall be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.

vw@Jeremiah:16:5 @ For thus says Jehovah, Do not enter into the house of mourning; do not go to weep nor bemoan them. For I have taken away My peace from this people, says Jehovah, even lovingkindness and mercies.

vw@Jeremiah:16:6 @ Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, nor shall men mourn for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

vw@Jeremiah:16:7 @ Nor shall anyone break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Nor shall anyone give them the cup of comfort to drink for their father or for their mother.

vw@Jeremiah:16:8 @ Also you shall not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

vw@Jeremiah:16:9 @ For thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause the voice of mirth to cease out of this place before your eyes, and in your days, and the voice of gladness, and the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

vw@Jeremiah:16:10 @ And it shall be, when you proclaim to this people all these words, and they shall say to you, Why has Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? Or what is our iniquity, or what is our sin that we have sinned against Jehovah our God?

vw@Jeremiah:16:11 @ Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken Me, says Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have bowed down to them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My Law.

vw@Jeremiah:16:12 @ And you have done worse than your fathers; for behold, you walk, each one, after the stubbornness of his evil heart, and do not listen to Me.

vw@Jeremiah:16:13 @ Therefore I will cast you out of this land into a land that you do not know, neither you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods day and night; where I will not grant you favor.

vw@Jeremiah:16:14 @ Therefore behold, the days are coming, says Jehovah, that it shall no more be said, As Jehovah lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

vw@Jeremiah:16:15 @ but rather, As Jehovah lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands where He had driven them. For I will bring them back into their land that I gave to their fathers.

vw@Jeremiah:16:16 @ Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Jehovah, and they will fish for them. And afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

vw@Jeremiah:16:17 @ For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.

vw@Jeremiah:16:18 @ And first I will repay double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land, they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things.

vw@Jeremiah:16:19 @ O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

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

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

vw@Jeremiah:17:1 @ The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus; it is engraved on the tablet of the heart and on the horns of Your altar with the point of a diamond;

vw@Jeremiah:17:2 @ while their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees on the high hills.

vw@Jeremiah:17:3 @ O My mountain in the field, I will give your wealth and all your treasures for plunder, and your high places for sin, throughout all your borders.

vw@Jeremiah:17:4 @ And you, even yourself, have let go of the inheritance which I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in a land which you do not know. For you have kindled a fire in My anger, which shall burn forever.

vw@Jeremiah:17:5 @ Thus says Jehovah, Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart departs from Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:17:6 @ For he shall be destitute in the wilderness, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.

vw@Jeremiah:17:7 @ Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah, and Jehovah is his refuge.

vw@Jeremiah:17:8 @ For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters; it sends out its roots by the river, and it shall not fear when the heat comes, but its foliage shall be green; and he is not anxious in the year of drought, nor will it cease from yielding fruit.

vw@Jeremiah:17:9 @ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

vw@Jeremiah:17:10 @ I Jehovah search the heart, I examine the soul, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

vw@Jeremiah:17:11 @ The partridge sets on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and at his end he shall be a fool.

vw@Jeremiah:17:12 @ A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

vw@Jeremiah:17:13 @ O Jehovah, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You shall be ashamed. Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the Fountain of Living Waters.

vw@Jeremiah:17:14 @ Heal me, O Jehovah, and I shall be healed, save me, and I shall be saved; for You are my praise.

vw@Jeremiah:17:15 @ Behold, they say to me, Where is the Word of Jehovah? Let it come now!

vw@Jeremiah:17:16 @ As for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd who follows You; nor have I desired the woeful day; You surely know the going forth of my lips before Your face.

vw@Jeremiah:17:17 @ Do not be a terror to me; You are my hope in the day of evil.

vw@Jeremiah:17:18 @ Let those who persecute me be ashamed, but do not let me be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed. Bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

vw@Jeremiah:17:19 @ Thus Jehovah said unto me: Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

vw@Jeremiah:17:20 @ and say to them, Hear the Word of Jehovah, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates!

vw@Jeremiah:17:21 @ Thus says Jehovah, Take heed to yourselves, and carry no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.

vw@Jeremiah:17:22 @ Nor carry out a burden from your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work, but consecrate the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

vw@Jeremiah:17:23 @ But they did not obey, nor extend their ear, but made their neck stiff, so that they might not hear nor receive instruction.

vw@Jeremiah:17:24 @ And it shall be, if you listen and give heed to Me, says Jehovah, to bring no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but consecrate the Sabbath day, to do no work in it;

vw@Jeremiah:17:25 @ then kings and rulers sitting on the throne of David shall enter the gates of this city, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their rulers, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And this city shall remain forever.

vw@Jeremiah:17:26 @ And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the valleys, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and grain offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise to the house of Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:17:27 @ But if you will not listen to me to consecrate the Sabbath day, to not carry a burden when entering at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

vw@Jeremiah:18:1 @ The Word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

vw@Jeremiah:18:2 @ Arise and go down to the potters house, and there I will cause you to hear My Words.

vw@Jeremiah:18:3 @ Then I went down to the potters house, and, behold, he was fashioning an object on the wheel.

vw@Jeremiah:18:4 @ And the vessel that he made of clay was ruined in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

vw@Jeremiah:18:5 @ Then the Word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

vw@Jeremiah:18:6 @ O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? says Jehovah. Behold, as the clay is in the potters hands, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

vw@Jeremiah:18:7 @ The instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck it up; or to pull it down, and to destroy it;

vw@Jeremiah:18:8 @ if that nation, against whom I have spoken, will turn from their evil, I will be moved with compassion regarding the evil that I thought to do to them.

vw@Jeremiah:18:9 @ And the instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and plant it;

vw@Jeremiah:18:10 @ if it does evil in My eyes, so that it does not obey My voice, then I will regret the good by which I said I would do good to them.

vw@Jeremiah:18:11 @ Now then, go speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Jehovah: Behold, I am forming evil against you, and devising a plan against you. Return now, each one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

vw@Jeremiah:18:12 @ And they said, There is no hope; but we will walk after our own thoughts, and we will each one do according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.

vw@Jeremiah:18:13 @ Therefore thus says Jehovah, Ask now among the nations; who has heard the likes of this? The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

vw@Jeremiah:18:14 @ Does the snow of Lebanon avoid the rock of the field? Or shall the cold flowing waters be forsaken for that which comes from another place?

vw@Jeremiah:18:15 @ Because My people have forgotten Me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in byways, and not in the highway,

vw@Jeremiah:18:16 @ to make their land desolate and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by will be appalled, and will wag his head.

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

vw@Jeremiah:18:18 @ Then they said, Come and let us devise schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.

vw@Jeremiah:18:19 @ Give attention to me; O Jehovah, and hear the voice of those who contend with me.

vw@Jeremiah:18:20 @ Should evil be repaid for good? For they have dug a pit for my life. Remember that I stood before You to speak good for them, to turn away Your wrath from them.

vw@Jeremiah:18:21 @ Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the hand of the sword. Let their wives be bereaved, and become widows. Let their men be slain to death, and their young men struck by the sword in battle.

vw@Jeremiah:18:22 @ Let a cry be heard from their houses, when You suddenly bring a troop upon them. For they have dug a pit to take me, and have hidden snares for my feet.

vw@Jeremiah:18:23 @ Yet, Jehovah, You know all their counsel against me to kill me. Do not forgive their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from Your sight, but let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

vw@Jeremiah:19:1 @ Thus says Jehovah, Go and get a potters earthen jar, and assemble some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests.

vw@Jeremiah:19:2 @ And go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom which is by the entry of Potsherd Gate. And there proclaim the words that I shall tell you.

vw@Jeremiah:19:3 @ And say, Hear the Word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which shall cause the ears of him who hears it to tingle,

vw@Jeremiah:19:4 @ because they have forsaken Me, and have given regard to this place and have burned incense in it to 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.

vw@Jeremiah:19:5 @ They have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I never commanded nor spoke, nor did it even come into My mind.

vw@Jeremiah:19:6 @ Therefore behold, the days are coming, says Jehovah, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but The Valley of Slaughter.

vw@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 hands of those who seek their lives. And I will give their corpses as food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.

vw@Jeremiah:19:8 @ And I will make this city a desolation and a hissing. Everyone who passes by shall be amazed and shall hiss because of all its plagues.

vw@Jeremiah:19:9 @ And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall each one eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall distress them.

vw@Jeremiah:19:10 @ Then you shall break the jar before the eyes of the men who go with you,

vw@Jeremiah:19:11 @ and shall say to them, Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potters vessel, that cannot be made whole again. And they shall bury them in Tophet until there is no place left to bury.

vw@Jeremiah:19:12 @ I will do this to this place, says Jehovah, and to its inhabitants, and make this city as Tophet.

vw@Jeremiah:19:13 @ And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of the heavens, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

vw@Jeremiah:19:14 @ Then Jeremiah came from Tophet, where Jehovah had sent him to prophesy. And he stood in the court of Jehovahs house, and said to all the people,

vw@Jeremiah:19:15 @ Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their necks so that they might not hear My Words.

vw@Jeremiah:20:1 @ Now Pashur, the son of Immer the priest (he was chief officer in the house of Jehovah), heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.

vw@Jeremiah:20:2 @ Then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:20:3 @ And it happened on the next day that Pashur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, Jehovah has not called your name Pashur, but Magor-Missabib.

vw@Jeremiah:20:4 @ For thus says Jehovah, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. And they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and kill them with the sword.

vw@Jeremiah:20:5 @ And I will give all the wealth of this city, and its produce, and all its precious things, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; who will plunder them and take them, and bring them to Babylon.

vw@Jeremiah:20:6 @ And you, Pashur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. And you shall go to Babylon, and you shall die there, and shall be buried there; you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.

vw@Jeremiah:20:7 @ O Jehovah, You have deceived me, and I was deceived. You are stronger than I, and You have prevailed. I am in derision all the day; everyone mocks me.

vw@Jeremiah:20:8 @ For whenever I speak, I cry out, I cry violence and devastation; for the Word of Jehovah has been a reproach and a derision to me all the day.

vw@Jeremiah:20:9 @ Then I said, I will not make mention of Him, nor speak in His name any more. But His Word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding it in, and I could not.

vw@Jeremiah:20:10 @ For I have heard the whisperings of many, terror is all around. Proclaim, they say, and we will report it. Everyone at peace with me is watching for me to stumble and fall, saying, Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail against him, and shall take our revenge on him.

vw@Jeremiah:20:11 @ But Jehovah is with me like a mighty, awesome one. Therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail. They shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not succeed. Their everlasting reproach shall never be forgotten.

vw@Jeremiah:20:12 @ But, O Jehovah of Hosts, who tries the righteous and sees the soul and the heart, let me see Your vengeance on them. For I have made my cause known to You.

vw@Jeremiah:20:13 @ Sing to Jehovah! Praise Jehovah! For He has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

vw@Jeremiah:20:14 @ Cursed be the day in which I was born; let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

vw@Jeremiah:20:15 @ Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A male child has been born to you; making him very glad.

vw@Jeremiah:20:16 @ And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew without compassion; and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noon;

vw@Jeremiah:20:17 @ because he did not kill me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always pregnant.

vw@Jeremiah:20:18 @ Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

vw@Jeremiah:21:1 @ The Word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,