jps - Jeremiah:29-30

jps@Jeremiah:29:1 @ Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,

jps@Jeremiah:29:2 @ after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen-mother, and the officers, and the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;

jps@Jeremiah:29:3 @ by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying:

jps@Jeremiah:29:4 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem unto Babylon:

jps@Jeremiah:29:5 @ Build ye houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

jps@Jeremiah:29:6 @ take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

jps@Jeremiah:29:7 @ And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray unto the LORD for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

jps@Jeremiah:29:8 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners, beguile you, neither hearken ye to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

jps@Jeremiah:29:9 @ For they prophesy falsely unto you in My name; I have not sent them, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:29:10 @ For thus saith the LORD: After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will remember you, and perform My good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

jps@Jeremiah:29:11 @ For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

jps@Jeremiah:29:12 @ And ye shall call upon Me, and go, and pray unto Me, and I will hearken unto you.

jps@Jeremiah:29:13 @ And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart.

jps@Jeremiah:29:14 @ And I will be found of you, saith the LORD, and I will turn your captivity, and gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you back unto the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

jps@Jeremiah:29:15 @ For ye have said: 'The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon.'

jps@Jeremiah:29:16 @ For thus saith the LORD concerning the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and concerning all the people that dwell in this city, your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;

jps@Jeremiah:29:17 @ thus saith the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

jps@Jeremiah:29:18 @ And I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will make them a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them;

jps@Jeremiah:29:19 @ because they have not hearkened to My words, saith the LORD, wherewith I sent unto them My servants the prophets, sending them betimes and often; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:29:20 @ Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

jps@Jeremiah:29:21 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie unto you in My name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;

jps@Jeremiah:29:22 @ and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah that are in Babylon, saying: 'The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire';

jps@Jeremiah:29:23 @ because they have wrought vile deeds in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken words in My name falsely, which I commanded them not; but I am He that knoweth, and am witness, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:29:24 @ And concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite thou shalt speak, saying:

jps@Jeremiah:29:25 @ Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: Because thou hast sent letters in thine own name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying:

jps@Jeremiah:29:26 @ 'The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that there should be officers in the house of the LORD for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in the stocks and in the collar.

jps@Jeremiah:29:27 @ Now therefore, why hast thou not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you,

jps@Jeremiah:29:28 @ forasmuch as he hath sent unto us in Babylon, saying: The captivity is long; build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?'

jps@Jeremiah:29:29 @ And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.

jps@Jeremiah:29:30 @ Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying:

jps@Jeremiah:29:31 @ Send to all them of the captivity, saying: Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he hath caused you to trust in a lie;

jps@Jeremiah:29:32 @ therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he behold the good that I will do unto My people, saith the LORD; because he hath spoken perversion against the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:30:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:

jps@Jeremiah:30:2 @ 'Thus speaketh the LORD, the God of Israel, saying: Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

jps@Jeremiah:30:3 @ For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will turn the captivity of My people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.'

jps@Jeremiah:30:4 @ And these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.

jps@Jeremiah:30:5 @ For thus saith the LORD: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

jps@Jeremiah:30:6 @ Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child; wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

jps@Jeremiah:30:7 @ Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it; and it is a time of trouble unto Jacob, but out of it shall he be saved.

jps@Jeremiah:30:8 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bands; and strangers shall no more make him their bondman;

jps@Jeremiah:30:9 @ But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

jps@Jeremiah:30:10 @ Therefore fear thou not, O Jacob My servant, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel; for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall again be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

jps@Jeremiah:30:11 @ For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee, but I will not make a full end of thee; for I will correct thee in measure, and will not utterly destroy thee.

jps@Jeremiah:30:12 @ For thus saith the LORD: Thy hurt is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.

jps@Jeremiah:30:13 @ None deemeth of thy wound that it may be bound up; thou hast no healing medicines.

jps@Jeremiah:30:14 @ All thy lovers have forgotten thee, they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one; for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased.

jps@Jeremiah:30:15 @ Why criest thou for thy hurt, that thy pain is incurable? For the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

jps@Jeremiah:30:16 @ Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured, and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

jps@Jeremiah:30:17 @ For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they have called thee an outcast: 'She is Zion, there is none that careth for her.'

jps@Jeremiah:30:18 @ Thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will turn the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be builded upon her own mound, and the palace shall be inhabited upon its wonted place.

jps@Jeremiah:30:19 @ And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry; and I will multiply them, and they shall not be diminished, I will also increase them, and they shall not dwindle away.

jps@Jeremiah:30:20 @ Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before Me, and I will punish all that oppress them.

jps@Jeremiah:30:21 @ And their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto Me; for who is he that hath pledged his heart to approach unto Me? saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:30:22 @ And ye shall be My people, and I will be your God.

jps@Jeremiah:30:23 @ Behold, a storm of the LORD is gone forth in fury, a sweeping storm; it shall whirl upon the head of the wicked.

jps@Jeremiah:30:24 @ The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until He have executed, and till He have performed the purposes of His heart; in the end of days ye shall consider it.

jps@Jeremiah:31:1 @ At that time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.