Jeremiah:3:6-4
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And Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king ,
Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done ?
She hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree ,
and there hath committed fornication .
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And I said ,
After she hath done all these [
things ],
she will return unto me ;
but she returned not .
And her sister Judah ,
the treacherous ,
saw [
it ].
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And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away ,
and given her a bill of divorce ,
yet the treacherous Judah ,
her sister ,
feared not ,
but went and committed fornication also .
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And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land ,
and committed adultery with stones and with stocks .
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And even for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart ,
but with falsehood ,
saith Jehovah .
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And Jehovah said unto me ,
Backsliding Israel hath shewn herself more just than treacherous Judah .
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Go and proclaim these words toward the north ,
and say ,
Return ,
thou backsliding Israel ,
saith Jehovah :
I will not make my face dark upon you ;
for I am merciful ,
saith Jehovah ;
I will not keep [
anger ]
for ever .
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Only acknowledge thine iniquity ,
that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God ,
and hast turned thy ways hither and thither to the strangers under every green tree ;
and ye have not hearkened to my voice ,
saith Jehovah .
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Return ,
backsliding children ,
saith Jehovah ;
for I am a husband unto you ,
and I will take you ,
one of a city ,
and two of a family ,
and I will bring you to Zion .
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And I will give you shepherds according to my heart ,
and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding .
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And it shall come to pass ,
when ye are multiplied in the land and become fruitful ,
in those days ,
saith Jehovah ,
they shall say no more ,
Ark of the covenant of Jehovah !
neither shall it come to mind ,
nor shall they remember it ,
nor shall they visit [
it ];
neither shall it be done any more .
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At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah ;
and all the nations shall be gathered unto it ,
to the name of Jehovah ,
to Jerusalem ;
and they shall no more walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart .
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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 which I caused your fathers to inherit .
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And as for me ,
I said ,
How shall I put thee among the children ,
and give thee the pleasant land ,
the goodly inheritance of the hosts of the nations ?
And I said ,
Thou shalt call me ,
My father ;
and shalt not turn away from following me .
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Surely [
as ]
a woman treacherously departeth from her companion ,
so have ye dealt treacherously with me ,
O house of Israel ,
saith Jehovah .
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A voice is heard upon the heights ,
the weeping supplications of the children of Israel ;
for they have perverted their way ,
they have forgotten Jehovah their God .
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Return ,
backsliding children ;
I will heal your backslidings ....
Behold ,
we come unto thee ;
for thou art Jehovah our God .
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Truly in vain [
is salvation looked for ]
from the hills , [
and ]
the multitude of mountains ;
truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel .
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But shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth ;
their flocks and their herds ,
their sons and their daughters .
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We lie down in our shame ,
and our confusion covereth us ;
for we have sinned against Jehovah our God ,
we and our fathers ,
from our youth even unto this day ,
and have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God .
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The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah ,
saying ,
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Thus speaketh Jehovah the God of Israel ,
saying ,
Write thee in a book all the words that I have spoken unto thee .
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For behold ,
the days come ,
saith Jehovah ,
when I will turn the captivity of my people Israel and Judah ,
saith Jehovah ;
and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers ,
and they shall possess it .
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And these are the words that Jehovah hath spoken concerning Israel and concerning Judah ;
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for thus saith Jehovah :
We have heard a voice of trembling ,
there is fear ,
and no peace .
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Ask ye now ,
and see ,
whether a male 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 ?
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Alas !
for that day is great ,
so that none is like it :
it is even the time of Jacob '
s trouble ;
but he shall be saved out of it .
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And it shall come to pass in that day ,
saith Jehovah of hosts ,
I will break his yoke from off thy neck ,
and will burst thy bonds ,
and strangers shall no more reduce him to servitude .
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But they shall serve Jehovah their God ,
and David their king ,
whom I will raise up unto them .
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And thou ,
my servant Jacob ,
fear not ,
saith Jehovah ;
neither be dismayed ,
O Israel :
for behold ,
I will save thee from afar ,
and thy seed from the land of their captivity ;
and Jacob shall return ,
and shall be in rest ,
and at ease ,
and none shall make [
him ]
afraid .
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For I am with thee ,
saith Jehovah ,
to save thee :
for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee ;
yet of thee will I not make a full end ,
but I will correct thee with judgment ,
and will not hold thee altogether guiltless .
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For thus saith Jehovah :
Thy bruise is incurable ,
thy wound is grievous .
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There is none to plead thy cause ,
to bind up [
thy wound ];
thou hast no healing medicines .
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All thy lovers have forgotten thee ;
they seek thee not .
For I have smitten thee with the stroke of an enemy ,
with the chastisement of a cruel one ,
for the greatness of thine iniquity :
thy sins are manifold .
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Why criest thou because of thy bruise ?
thy sorrow is incurable ;
for the greatness of thine iniquity , [
because ]
thy sins are manifold ,
I have done these things unto thee .
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Therefore all 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 for a spoil ;
and all they that prey upon thee will I give to be a prey .
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For I will apply a bandage unto thee ,
and I will heal thee of thy wounds ,
saith Jehovah ;
for they have called thee an outcast :
This is Zion that no man seeketh after .
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Thus saith Jehovah :
Behold ,
I will turn the captivity of Jacob '
s tents ,
and have mercy on his habitations ;
and the city shall be built upon her own heap ;
and the palace shall be inhabited after the manner thereof .
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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 ;
and I will honour them ,
and they shall not be small .
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And their sons shall be as aforetime ;
and their assembly shall be established before me ;
and I will punish all that oppress them .
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And their prince shall be of themselves ,
and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them ;
and I will cause him to approach ,
and he shall draw near unto me .
For who is this that engageth his heart to draw near unto me ?
saith Jehovah .
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And ye shall be my people ,
and I will be your God .
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Behold ,
a tempest of Jehovah ,
fury is gone forth ,
a sweeping storm :
it shall whirl down upon the head of the wicked .
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The fierce anger of Jehovah shall not return ,
until he have executed ,
and until he have performed the purposes of his heart .
At the end of the days ye shall consider it .
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At that time ,
saith Jehovah ,
will I be the God of all the families of Israel ,
and they shall be my people .
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Thus saith Jehovah :
The people [
that were ]
left of the sword have found grace in the wilderness , [
even ]
Israel ,
when I go to give him rest .
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Jehovah hath appeared from afar unto me , [
saying ,]
Yea ,
I have loved thee with an everlasting love ;
therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee .
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I will build thee again ,
and thou shalt be built ,
O virgin of Israel !
Thou shalt again be adorned with thy tambours ,
and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry .
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Thou shalt again plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria ;
the planters shall plant ,
and shall eat the fruit .
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For there shall be a day ,
when the watchmen upon mount Ephraim shall cry ,
Arise ,
and let us go up to Zion ,
unto Jehovah our God .
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For thus saith Jehovah :
Sing aloud [
with ]
gladness for Jacob ,
and shout at the head of the nations ;
publish ye ,
praise ye ,
and say ,
Jehovah ,
save thy people ,
the remnant of Israel .
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Behold ,
I bring them from the north country ,
and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth ; [
and ]
among them the blind and the lame ,
the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together :
a great assemblage shall they return hither .
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They shall come with weeping ,
and with supplications will I lead them ;
I will cause them to walk by water-brooks ,
in a straight way ,
wherein they shall not stumble ;
for I will be a father to Israel ,
and Ephraim is my firstborn .
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Hear the word of Jehovah ,
ye nations ,
and declare [
it ]
to the isles afar off ,
and say ,
He that scattered Israel will gather him ,
and keep him ,
as a shepherd his flock .
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For Jehovah hath ransomed Jacob ,
and redeemed him from the hand of one stronger than he .
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And they shall come and sing aloud upon the height of Zion ,
and shall flow together to the goodness of Jehovah ,
for corn ,
and for new wine ,
and for oil ,
and for the young of the flock and of the herd ;
and their soul shall be as a watered garden ,
and they shall not languish any more at all .
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Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance ,
and the young men and old together ;
for I will turn their mourning into gladness ,
and will comfort them ,
and make them rejoice after their sorrow .
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And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness ,
and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness ,
saith Jehovah .
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Thus saith Jehovah :
A voice hath been heard in Ramah ,
the wail of very bitter weeping , --
Rachel weeping for her children ,
refusing to be comforted for her children ,
because they are not .
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Thus saith Jehovah :
Refrain thy voice from weeping ,
and thine eyes from tears ;
for there is a reward for thy work ,
saith Jehovah ;
and they shall come again from the land of the enemy .
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And there is hope for thy latter end ,
saith Jehovah ,
and thy children shall come again to their own border .
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I have indeed heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [
thus ]:
Thou hast chastised me ,
and I was chastised as a bullock not trained :
turn thou me ,
and I shall be turned ;
for thou art Jehovah my God .
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Surely after that I was turned ,
I repented ;
and after I knew myself ,
I smote upon [
my ]
thigh .
I was ashamed ,
yea ,
even confounded ,
for I bear the reproach of my youth .
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Is Ephraim a dear son unto me ?
is he a child of delights ?
For whilst I have been speaking against him ,
I do constantly remember him still .
Therefore my bowels are troubled for him :
I will certainly have mercy upon him ,
saith Jehovah .
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Set up waymarks ,
make for thyself signposts ;
set thy heart toward the highway ,
the way by which thou wentest :
turn again ,
O virgin of Israel ,
turn again to these thy cities .
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How long wilt thou wander about ,
thou backsliding daughter ?
For Jehovah hath created a new thing on the earth ,
a woman shall encompass a man .
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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts ,
the God of Israel :
They shall again use this speech ,
in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof ,
when I shall turn their captivity :
Jehovah bless thee ,
O habitation of righteousness ,
mountain of holiness !
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And therein shall dwell Judah ,
and all the cities thereof together ,
the husbandmen ,
and they that go about with flocks .
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For I have satiated the weary soul ,
and every languishing soul have I replenished .
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Upon this I awaked ,
and beheld ;
and my sleep was sweet unto me .
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Behold ,
days come ,
saith Jehovah ,
that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah [
with ]
the seed of man and the seed of beast .
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And it shall come to pass ,
as I have watched over them ,
to pluck up ,
and to break down ,
and to overthrow ,
and to destroy ,
and to afflict ;
so will I watch over them to build ,
and to plant ,
saith Jehovah .
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In those days they shall say no more ,
The fathers have eaten sour grapes ,
and the children '
s teeth are set on edge :
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for every one shall die for his own iniquity ;
every man that eateth the sour grapes ,
his teeth shall be set on edge .
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Behold ,
days come ,
saith Jehovah ,
that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah :
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not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers ,
in the day of my taking them by the hand ,
to lead them out of the land of Egypt ;
which my covenant they broke ,
although I was a husband unto them ,
saith Jehovah .
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For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel ,
after those days ,
saith Jehovah :
I will put my law in their inward parts ,
and will write it in their heart ;
and I will be their God ,
and they shall be my people .
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And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour ,
and every man his brother ,
saying ,
Know Jehovah ;
for they shall all know me ,
from the least of them unto the greatest of them ,
saith Jehovah :
for I will pardon their iniquity ,
and their sin will I remember no more .
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Thus saith Jehovah ,
who giveth the sun for light by day ,
the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for light by night ,
who stirreth up the sea so that the waves thereof roar , --
Jehovah of hosts is his name :
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If those ordinances depart from before me ,
saith Jehovah ,
the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever .
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Thus saith Jehovah :
If the heavens above can be measured ,
and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath ,
I will also cast off the whole seed of Israel ,
for all that they have done ,
saith Jehovah .
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Behold ,
the days come ,
saith Jehovah ,
that the city shall be built to Jehovah ,
from the tower of Hananeel unto the corner-gate .
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And the measuring line shall yet go forth before it unto the hill Gareb ,
and shall turn toward Goath .
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And the whole valley of the dead bodies ,
and of the ashes ,
and all the fields unto the torrent Kidron ,
unto the corner of the horse-gate toward the east ,
shall be holy unto Jehovah :
it shall not be plucked up ,
nor overthrown any more for ever .
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The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah :
that year was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar .
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And the king of Babylon '
s army was then besieging Jerusalem ;
and the prophet Jeremiah was shut up in the court of the guard ,
which was in the king of Judah '
s house .
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For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up ,
saying ,
Why dost thou prophesy and say ,
Thus saith Jehovah :
Behold ,
I give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon ,
and he shall take it ;
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and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans ;
for he shall certainly be given into the hand of the king of Babylon ,
and shall speak with him mouth to mouth ,
and his eyes shall behold his eyes ;
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and he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon ,
and there shall he be until I visit him ,
saith Jehovah :
though ye fight with the Chaldeans ,
ye shall not prosper ?
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And Jeremiah said ,
The word of Jehovah came unto me ,
saying ,
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Behold ,
Hanameel ,
the son of Shallum thine uncle ,
shall come unto thee ,
saying ,
Buy for thyself my field which is in Anathoth ;
for thine is the right of redemption ,
to buy [
it ].
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And Hanameel ,
mine uncle '
s son ,
came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of Jehovah ,
and said unto me ,
Buy my field ,
I pray thee ,
that is in Anathoth ,
which is in the land of Benjamin ;
for the right of inheritance is thine ,
and the redemption is thine :
buy [
it ]
for thyself .
Then I knew that this was the word of Jehovah .
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And I bought of Hanameel ,
mine uncle '
s son ,
the field which is in Anathoth ,
and weighed him the money ,
seventeen shekels of silver .
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And I subscribed the writing ,
and sealed it ,
and took witnesses ,
and weighed the money in the balances .
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And I took the writing of the purchase ,
that which was sealed [
according to ]
the law and the statutes ,
and that which was open ;
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and I gave the writing of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Nerijah ,
the son of Maaseiah ,
in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle '
s [
son ],
and in the presence of the witnesses that had subscribed the writing of purchase ,
before all the Jews that were sitting in the court of the guard .
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And I charged Baruch in their presence ,
saying ,
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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts ,
the God of Israel :
Take these writings ,
this writing of the purchase ,
both that which is sealed and this writing which is open ;
and put them in an earthen vessel ,
that they may remain many days .
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For thus saith Jehovah of hosts ,
the God of Israel :
Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be purchased in this land .
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And after I had given the writing of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Nerijah ,
I prayed unto Jehovah saying ,
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Alas ,
Lord Jehovah !
Behold ,
thou hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and stretched-out arm ;
there is nothing too hard for thee :
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who shewest mercy unto thousands ,
and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them ,
thou ,
the great ,
the mighty �
God , --
Jehovah of hosts is his name ;
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great in counsel and mighty in work ,
whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of men ,
to give every one according to his ways ,
and according to the fruit of his doings :
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who hast displayed signs and wonders unto this day ,
in the land of Egypt and in Israel and among [
other ]
men ;
and hast made thee a name ,
as at this day .
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And thou broughtest forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt by signs ,
and by wonders ,
and by a powerful hand ,
and by a stretched-out arm ,
and by great terror ;
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and didst give them this land ,
which thou hadst sworn unto their fathers to give them ,
a land flowing with milk and honey .
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And they came in and possessed it :
but they hearkened not unto thy voice ,
neither walked in thy law ;
they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do ;
so that thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them .
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Behold the mounds ,
they are come unto the city for taking it ;
and the city is given over into the hand of the Chaldeans ,
that fight against it ,
by the sword ,
and the famine ,
and the pestilence :
and what thou hast spoken is come to pass ;
and behold ,
thou seest [
it ].
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And thou ,
Lord Jehovah ,
thou hast said unto me ,
Buy for thyself the field for money ,
and take witnesses ; --
and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans .
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And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah ,
saying ,
*
Behold ,
I am Jehovah ,
the God of all flesh :
is there anything too hard for me ?
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Therefore thus saith Jehovah :
Behold ,
I give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans ,
and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon ,
and he shall take it .
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And the Chaldeans ,
that fight against this city ,
shall come in and set fire to this city ,
and shall burn it ,
and the houses upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal ,
and poured out drink-offerings unto other gods ,
to provoke me to anger .
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For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have been doing only evil in my sight from their youth ;
for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands ,
saith Jehovah .
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For this city hath been to me [
a provocation ]
of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day ;
that I should remove it from before my face ,
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because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah ,
which they have done to provoke me to anger ,
they ,
their kings ,
their princes ,
their priests ,
and their prophets ,
and the men of Judah ,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem .
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And they have turned unto me the back ,
and not the face ;
and though I taught them ,
rising early and teaching ,
they hearkened not to receive instruction .
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And they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name ,
to defile it ;
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and they have built the high places of Baal ,
which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom ,
to cause to pass through [
the fire ]
their sons and their daughters unto Molech :
which I commanded them not ,
neither came it into my mind ,
that they should do this abomination ,
to cause Judah to sin .
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And now therefore Jehovah ,
the God of Israel ,
saith thus concerning this city ,
whereof ye say ,
It hath been given over into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword ,
and by the famine ,
and by the pestilence :
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Behold ,
I will gather them out of all the countries whither I have driven them ,
in mine anger ,
and in my fury ,
and in great wrath ;
and I will bring them again unto this place ,
and I will cause them to dwell safely .
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And they shall be my people ,
and I will be their God .
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And I will give them one heart ,
and one way ,
that they may fear me all [
their ]
days ,
for the good of them ,
and of their children after them .
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And I will make an everlasting covenant with them ,
that I will not draw back from them ,
to do them good ;
and I will put my fear in their heart ,
that they may not turn aside from me .
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And I will rejoice over them to do them good ,
and I will assuredly plant them in this land with my whole heart and with my whole soul .
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For thus saith Jehovah :
Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people ,
so will I bring upon them all the good that I have spoken concerning them .
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And fields shall be bought in this land ,
whereof ye say ,
It is desolate without man or beast ;
it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans .
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Men ]
shall buy fields for money ,
and subscribe the writings ,
and seal them ,
and take witnesses ,
in the land of Benjamin ,
and in the environs of Jerusalem ,
and in the cities of Judah ,
and in the cities of the hill-country ,
and in the cities of the lowland ,
and in the cities of the south :
for I will turn their captivity ,
saith Jehovah .
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And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the second time ,
while he was still shut up in the court of the prison ,
saying ,
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Thus saith Jehovah the doer of it ,
Jehovah that formeth it to establish it ,
Jehovah is his name :
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Call unto me ,
and I will answer thee ,
and I will shew thee great and hidden things ,
which thou knowest not .
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For thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel concerning the houses of this city ,
and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah ,
which are thrown down because of the mounds and because of the sword :
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They come to fight with the Chaldeans ,
but to fill them with the dead bodies of the men whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury ,
and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city .
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Behold ,
I will apply a healing dressing to it and cure ,
and I will heal them ,
and will reveal unto them an abundance of peace and truth .
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And I will turn the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel ,
and will build them ,
as at the beginning .
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And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity ,
whereby they have sinned against me ,
and I will pardon all their iniquities ,
whereby they have sinned against me ,
and whereby they have transgressed against me .
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And it shall be to me a name of joy ,
a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth ,
which shall hear of all the good that I do unto them ;
and they shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it .
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Thus saith Jehovah :
In this place of which ye say ,
It is waste ,
without man and without beast !
in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate ,
without man ,
and without inhabitant ,
and without beast ,
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there shall again be heard the voice of mirth and the voice of joy ,
the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride ,
the voice of them that say ,
Give ye thanks unto Jehovah of hosts ;
for Jehovah is good ,
for his loving-kindness [
endureth ]
for ever , --
of them that bring thanksgiving unto the house of Jehovah .
For I will turn the captivity of the land as in the beginning ,
saith Jehovah .
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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts :
In this place which is waste ,
without man and without beast ,
and in all the cities thereof ,
there shall again be a habitation of shepherds causing [
their ]
flocks to lie down .
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In the cities of the hill-country ,
in the cities of the lowland ,
and in the cities of the south ,
and in the land of Benjamin ,
and in the environs of Jerusalem ,
and in the cities of Judah ,
shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that counteth [
them ],
saith Jehovah .
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Behold ,
the days come ,
saith Jehovah ,
that I will perform the good word which I have spoken unto the house of Israel and unto the house of Judah .
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In those days ,
and at that time ,
will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David ;
and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land .
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In those days shall Judah be saved ,
and Jerusalem shall dwell in safety .
And this is the name wherewith she shall be called :
Jehovah our Righteousness .
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For thus saith Jehovah :
There shall never fail to David a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel ;
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neither shall there fail to the priests the Levites a man before me to offer up burnt-offerings ,
and to burn oblations ,
and to do sacrifice continually .
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And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah ,
saying ,
*
Thus saith Jehovah :
If ye can break my covenant [
in respect ]
of the day ,
and my covenant [
in respect ]
of the night ,
so that there should not be day and night in their season ,
* [
then ]
shall also my covenant be broken with David my servant ,
that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne ;
and with the Levites ,
the priests ,
my ministers .
*
As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered ,
nor the sand of the sea measured ,
so will I multiply the seed of David my servant ,
and the Levites that minister unto me .
*
And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah ,
saying ,
*
Hast thou not seen what this people have spoken ,
saying ,
The two families that Jehovah had chosen ,
he hath even cast them off ?
And they despise my people ,
that they should be no more a nation before them .
*
Thus saith Jehovah :
If my covenant of day and night [
stand ]
not ,
if I have not appointed the ordinances of the heavens and the earth ,
* [
then ]
will I also cast away the seed of Jacob ,
and of David my servant ,
so as not to take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham ,
Isaac ,
and Jacob :
for I will turn their captivity ,
and will have mercy on them .
*
The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah ,
when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ,
and all his army ,
and all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion ,
and all the peoples ,
fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities thereof ,
saying ,
*
Thus saith Jehovah ,
the God of Israel :
Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah ,
and tell him ,
Thus saith Jehovah :
Behold ,
I give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon ,
and he shall burn it with fire .
*
And thou shalt not escape out of his hand ,
but shalt certainly be taken ,
and given into his hand ;
and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon ,
and his mouth shall speak with thy mouth ,
and thou shalt go to Babylon .
*
Only ,
hear the word of Jehovah ,
O Zedekiah king of Judah .
Thus saith Jehovah as to thee :
Thou shalt not die by the sword ;
*
thou shalt die in peace ,
and with the burnings of thy fathers ,
the former kings that were before thee ,
so shall they burn for thee ;
and they will lament for thee ,
Ah ,
lord !
for I have spoken the word ,
saith Jehovah .
*
And the prophet Jeremiah spoke all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah ,
in Jerusalem .
*
And the king of Babylon '
s army fought against Jerusalem ,
and against all the cities of Judah that were left ,
against Lachish ,
and against Azekah ;
for these were amongst the cities of Judah ,
the fenced cities that were left .
*
The word that came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah ,
after that king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem ,
to proclaim liberty unto them :
*
that every man should let his bondman ,
and every man his bondmaid ,
the Hebrew and the Hebrewess ,
go free ,
that none should exact service of them , [
that is ,]
of a Jew his brother .
*
And all the princes and all the people that had entered into the covenant obeyed ,
every man letting his bondman and every man his bondmaid go free ,
that none should exact service of them any more :
they obeyed ,
and let [
them ]
go .
*
But afterwards they turned ,
and caused the bondmen and the bondmaids whom they had let go free ,
to return ,
and brought them into subjection for bondmen and for bondmaids .
*
And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah from Jehovah ,
saying ,
*
Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel :
I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt ,
out of the house of bondage ,
saying ,
*
At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother ,
a Hebrew ,
who hath sold himself unto thee ;
when he hath served thee six years ,
thou shalt let him go free from thee .
But your fathers hearkened not unto me ,
neither inclined their ear .
*
And you ,
ye had this day turned ,
and had done right in my sight ,
in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour ;
and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name :
*
but ye have turned and profaned my name ,
and caused every man his bondman ,
and every man his bondmaid ,
whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure ,
to return ,
and ye have brought them into subjection ,
to be unto you for bondmen and for bondmaids .
*
Therefore thus saith Jehovah :
Ye have not hearkened unto me ,
in proclaiming liberty ,
every man to his brother ,
and every man to his neighbour :
behold ,
I proclaim a liberty for you ,
saith Jehovah ,
to the sword ,
to the pestilence ,
and to the famine ;
and I will give you over to be driven hither and thither among all the kingdoms of the earth .
*
And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant ,
who have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me , --
the calf which they cut in twain ,
and passed between the parts thereof ,
* --
the princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem ,
the eunuchs ,
and the priests ,
and all the people of the land ,
that passed between the parts of the calf ;
*
them will I give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life ;
and their carcases shall be food for the fowl of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth .
*
And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies ,
and into the hand of them that seek their life ,
and into the hand of the king of Babylon '
s army ,
which are gone up from you .
*
Behold ,
I command ,
saith Jehovah ,
and I will cause them to return to this city ;
and they shall fight against it ,
and take it ,
and burn it with fire ;
and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation ,
without inhabitant .
*
The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah ,
the king of Judah ,
saying ,
*
Go to the house of the Rechabites ,
and speak with them ,
and bring them into the house of Jehovah ,
into one of the chambers ,
and give them wine to drink .
*
And I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah ,
the son of Habazziniah ,
and his brethren ,
and all his sons ,
and the whole house of the Rechabites ,
*
and I brought them into the house of Jehovah ,
into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah ,
the man of God ,
which was by the chamber of the princes ,
which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum ,
the keeper of the threshold .
*
And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine ,
and cups ,
and I said unto them ,
Drink wine .
*
And they said ,
We will drink no wine ;
for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us ,
saying ,
Ye shall drink no wine ,
ye nor your sons for ever ;
*
neither shall ye build house ,
nor sow seed ,
nor plant vineyard ,
nor shall ye have [
any ];
but all your days ye shall dwell in tents ,
that ye may live many days in the land where ye sojourn .
*
And we have hearkened unto the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he commanded us ,
to drink no wine all our days ,
we ,
our wives ,
our sons ,
and our daughters ,
*
and not to build houses for us to dwell in ;
neither have we vineyard ,
nor field ,
nor seed ;
*
but we have dwelt in tents ,
and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us .
*
And it came to pass when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land ,
that we said ,
Come and let us go into Jerusalem because of the army of the Chaldeans ,
and because of the army of Syria ;
and we dwell at Jerusalem .
*
And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah ,
saying ,
*
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts ,
the God of Israel :
Go and say to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem ,
Will ye not receive instruction to hearken unto my words ?
saith Jehovah .
*
The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab ,
that he commanded his sons not to drink wine ,
are performed ;
and to this day they have drunk none ,
for they have obeyed their father '
s commandment .
But I have spoken unto you ,
rising early and speaking ,
and ye have not hearkened unto me .
*
And I have sent unto you all my servants the prophets ,
rising early and sending ,
saying ,
Return ye now every man from his evil way ,
and amend your doings ,
and go not after other gods to serve them ;
and ye shall dwell in the land that I have given to you and to your fathers :
but ye have not inclined your ear nor hearkened unto me .
*
Yea ,
the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them ,
but this people hath not hearkened unto me ;
*
therefore thus saith Jehovah the God of hosts ,
the God of Israel :
Behold ,
I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them ,
because I have spoken unto them ,
but they have not hearkened ,
and I have called unto them ,
but they have not answered .
*
And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites ,
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts ,
the God of Israel :
Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father ,
and kept all his injunctions ,
and have done according unto all that he hath commanded you ;
*
therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts ,
the God of Israel ,
There shall not fail to Jonadab the son of Rechab a man to stand before me ,
for ever .
*
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah ,
the king of Judah , [
that ]
this word came to Jeremiah from Jehovah ,
saying ,
*
Take thee a roll of a book ,
and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel ,
and against Judah ,
and against all the nations ,
from the day I spoke unto thee ,
from the days of Josiah ,
even unto this day .
*
It may be the house of Judah will hear all the evil that I purpose to do unto them ,
that they may return every man from his evil way ,
and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin .
*
And Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Nerijah ;
and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Jehovah ,
which he had spoken unto him ,
upon a roll of a book .
*
And Jeremiah commanded Baruch ,
saying ,
I am shut up ,
I cannot go into the house of Jehovah ;
but go thou in ,
*
and read in the roll ,
which thou hast written from my mouth ,
the words of Jehovah in the ears of the people in the house of Jehovah upon the fast day ;
and thou shalt also read them in the ears of all Judah that come from their cities .
*
It may be they will present their supplication before Jehovah ,
and that they will return every one from his evil way ;
for great is the anger and the fury that Jehovah hath pronounced against this people .
*
And Baruch the son of Nerijah did according to all that the prophet Jeremiah commanded him ,
reading in the book the words of Jehovah in Jehovah '
s house .
*
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah ,
the king of Judah ,
in the ninth month , [
that ]
they proclaimed a fast before Jehovah ,
for all the people in Jerusalem ,
and for all the people that came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem .
*
And Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah ,
in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe ,
in the upper court ,
at the entry of the new gate of the house of Jehovah ,
in the ears of all the people .
*
And Micah the son of Gemariah the son of Shaphan heard out of the book all the words of Jehovah ;
*
and he went down to the king '
s house ,
into the scribe '
s chamber ,
and behold ,
all the princes were sitting there :
Elishama the scribe ,
and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah ,
and Elnathan the son of Achbor ,
and Gemariah the son of Shaphan ,
and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah ,
and all the princes .
*
And Micah declared unto them all the words that he had heard ,
when Baruch read in the book in the ears of the people .
*
And all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah ,
the son of Shelemiah ,
the son of Cushi ,
unto Baruch ,
saying ,
Take in thy hand the roll in which thou hast read in the ears of the people ,
and come .
And Baruch the son of Nerijah took the roll in his hand ,
and came unto them .
*
And they said unto him ,
Sit down now ,
and read it in our ears .
And Baruch read [
it ]
in their ears .
*
And it came to pass ,
when they heard all the words ,
they turned in fear one toward another ,
and said unto Baruch ,
We will certainly report to the king all these words .
*
And they asked Baruch ,
saying ,
Tell us now ,
How didst thou write all these words from his mouth ?
*
And Baruch said unto them ,
He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth ,
and I wrote [
them ]
with ink in the book .
*
And the princes said unto Baruch ,
Go ,
hide thee ,
thou and Jeremiah ;
that none may know where ye are .
*
And they went in unto the king into the court ,
but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe ;
and they told all the words in the ears of the king .
*
And the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll ,
and he fetched it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe .
And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king ,
and in the ears of all the princes that stood beside the king .
*
Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month ,
and with the fire-pan burning before him .
*
And it came to pass ,
that when Jehudi had read three or four columns ,
he cut it with the scribe '
s knife ,
and cast it into the fire that was in the pan until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the pan .
*
And they were not afraid ,
nor rent their garments , [
neither ]
the king nor any of his servants that heard all these words .
*
Moreover ,
Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll ;
but he would not hear them .
*
And the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech ,
and Seraiah the son of Azriel ,
and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel ,
to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet ;
but Jehovah hid them .
*
And after that the king had burned the roll ,
and the words that Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah ,
the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah ,
saying ,
*
Take thee again another roll ,
and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned .
*
And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah ,
Thus saith Jehovah :
Thou hast burned this roll ,
saying ,
Why hast thou written therein ,
saying ,
The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land ,
and shall cause to cease from it man and beast ?
*
Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah :
He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David ;
and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat ,
and in the night to the frost .
*
And I will visit their iniquity upon him ,
and upon his seed ,
and upon his servants ;
and I will bring upon them ,
and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem ,
and upon the men of Judah ,
all the evil that I have pronounced against them ;
and they have not hearkened .
*
And Jeremiah took another roll ,
and gave it to Baruch the scribe ,
the son of Nerijah ;
and he wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah ,
all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire ;
and there were added besides unto them many like words .
*
And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim ,
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon having made him king in the land of Judah .
*
And neither he ,
nor his servants ,
nor the people of the land ,
hearkened unto the words of Jehovah ,
which he had spoken through the prophet Jeremiah .
*
And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah ,
and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah ,
saying ,
Pray now unto Jehovah our God for us .
*
And Jeremiah came in and went out among the people ;
for they had not put him into prison .
*
And Pharaoh '
s army was come forth out of Egypt ;
and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them ,
they went up from Jerusalem .
*
And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah the prophet ,
saying ,
*
Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel :
Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah ,
that sent you unto me to inquire of me :
Behold ,
Pharaoh '
s army ,
which is come forth to help you ,
shall return to Egypt into their own land .
*
And the Chaldeans shall come again ,
and fight against this city ,
and take it ,
and burn it with fire .
*
Thus saith Jehovah :
Deceive not yourselves ,
saying ,
The Chaldeans are certainly gone away from us ;
for they are not gone .
*
For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you ,
and there remained [
but ]
wounded men among them , [
yet ]
should they rise up every man in his tent ,
and burn this city with fire .
*
And it came to pass when the army of the Chaldeans was gone up from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh '
s army ,
*
that Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin ,
to have his portion there among the people .
*
And when he was in the gate of Benjamin ,
a captain of the guard was there whose name was Irijah ,
the son of Shelemiah ,
the son of Hananiah ;
and he laid hold on the prophet Jeremiah ,
saying ,
Thou art deserting to the Chaldeans .
*
And Jeremiah said ,
It is false :
I am not deserting to the Chaldeans .
But he hearkened not to him ;
and Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah ,
and brought him to the princes .
*
And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah ,
and smote him ,
and put him in the place of confinement in the house of Jonathan the scribe :
for they had made that the prison .
*
When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon and into the vaults ,
and Jeremiah had remained there many days ,
*
king Zedekiah sent and took him out .
And the king asked of him secretly in his house ,
and said ,
Is there any word from Jehovah ?
And Jeremiah said ,
There is ;
and he said ,
Thou shalt be given into the hand of the king of Babylon .
*
And Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah ,
What have I offended against thee ,
or against thy servants ,
or against this people ,
that ye have put me in the prison ?
*
And where are your prophets that prophesied unto you ,
saying ,
The king of Babylon shall not come against you ,
nor against this land ?
*
And now hear ,
I pray thee ,
my lord ,
O king :
let my supplication ,
I pray thee ,
come before thee ;
and cause me not to return into the house of Jonathan the scribe ,
lest I die there .
*
Then Zedekiah the king commanded ,
and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard ,
and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers '
street ,
until all the bread in the city was spent .
And Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard .
*
And Shephatiah the son of Mattan ,
and Gedaliah the son of Pashur ,
and Jucal the son of Shelemiah ,
and Pashur the son of Malchijah ,
heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people ,
saying ,
*
Thus saith Jehovah :
He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword ,
by the famine ,
and by the pestilence ;
but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live ;
and he shall have his life for a prey ,
and shall live .
*
Thus saith Jehovah :
This city shall certainly be given into the hand of the king of Babylon '
s army ,
and he shall take it .
*
And the princes said unto the king ,
Let this man ,
we pray thee ,
be put to death ;
for why should he weaken the hands of the men of war that remain in this city ,
and the hands of all the people ,
in speaking to them according to these words ?
for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people ,
but the hurt .
*
And king Zedekiah said ,
Behold ,
he is in your hand ;
for the king is not he that can do a thing against you .
*
Then they took Jeremiah ,
and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the son of Hammelech ,
which was in the court of the guard ,
and they let down Jeremiah with cords .
And in the dungeon there was no water ,
but mire ;
and Jeremiah sank in the mire .
*
And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian ,
a eunuch who was in the king '
s house ,
heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon --
now the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin ,
* --
and Ebed-melech went forth out of the king '
s house ,
and spoke to the king ,
saying ,
*
My lord ,
O king ,
these men have done evil in all that they have done to the prophet Jeremiah ,
whom they have cast into the dungeon ;
and he will die by reason of the famine in the place where he is ;
for there is no more bread in the city .
*
And the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian ,
saying ,
Take from hence thirty men with thee ,
and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon ,
before he die .
*
And Ebed-melech took the men under his order ,
and went into the house of the king under the treasury ,
and took thence old shreds and worn-out clothes ,
and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah .
*
And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah ,
Put ,
I pray , [
these ]
old shreds and rags under thine armholes under the cords .
And Jeremiah did so .
*
And they drew up Jeremiah with cords ,
and brought him up out of the dungeon ;
and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard .
*
And king Zedekiah sent and took the prophet Jeremiah unto him ,
into the third entry that is in the house of Jehovah ;
and the king said unto Jeremiah ,
I will ask thee a thing :
hide nothing from me .
*
And Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah ,
If I declare [
it ]
unto thee ,
wilt thou not certainly put me to death ?
and if I give thee counsel ,
thou wilt not hearken unto me .
*
And king Zedekiah swore secretly unto Jeremiah ,
saying , [
As ]
Jehovah liveth ,
that made us this soul ,
I will not put thee to death ,
neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life .
*
And Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah ,
Thus saith Jehovah the God of hosts ,
the God of Israel :
If thou wilt freely go forth to the king of Babylon '
s princes ,
then thy soul shall live ,
and this city shall not be burned with fire ;
and thou shalt live ,
and thy house .
*
But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon '
s princes ,
then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans ,
and they shall burn it with fire ,
and thou shalt not escape out of their hand .
*
And king Zedekiah said unto Jeremiah ,
I am afraid of the Jews that have deserted to the Chaldeans ,
lest they give me over into their hand ,
and they mock me .
*
And Jeremiah said ,
They shall not give [
thee ]
over .
Hearken ,
I beseech thee ,
unto the voice of Jehovah ,
in that which I speak unto thee ;
so shall it be well unto thee ,
and thy soul shall live .
*
But if thou refuse to go forth ,
this is the word which Jehovah hath shewn me :
*
Behold ,
all the women that are left in the king of Judah '
s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon '
s princes ;
and they shall say ,
Thy familiar friends have set thee on ,
and have prevailed over thee ;
thy feet are sunk in the mire ,
they are turned away back .
*
And they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans ,
and thou shalt not escape out of their hand ;
for thou shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon ,
and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire .
*
And Zedekiah said unto Jeremiah ,
Let no man know of these words ,
and thou shalt not die .
*
And if the princes hear that I have talked with thee ,
and they come unto thee ,
and say unto thee ,
Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king ,
hide it not from us ,
and we will not put thee to death ;
and what hath the king said unto thee ?
*
then thou shalt say unto them ,
I presented my supplication before the king ,
that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan '
s house ,
to die there .
* --
And all the princes came to Jeremiah ,
and asked him ;
and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded .
And they withdrew quietly from him ;
for the matter was not reported .
*
And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken .
*
And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken ,
in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah ,
in the tenth month ,
came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem ,
and they besieged it .
*
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah ,
in the fourth month ,
on the ninth of the month ,
the city was broken into ;
*
and all the princes of the king of Babylon came in ,
and sat in the middle gate :
Nergal-sharezer ,
Samgar-nebu ,
Sarsechim ,
chief chamberlain ,
Nergal-sharezer ,
chief magian ,
and all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon .
*
And it came to pass when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them ,
that they fled ,
and went forth out of the city by night ,
by the way of the king '
s garden ,
by the gate between the two walls ;
and he went out the way of the plain .
*
And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them ,
and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho ;
and they took him ,
and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ,
unto Riblah in the land of Hamath ;
and he pronounced judgment upon him .
*
And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes ,
and the king of Babylon slaughtered all the nobles of Judah ;
*
and he put out the eyes of Zedekiah ,
and bound him with chains of brass ,
to carry him to Babylon .
*
And the Chaldeans burned the king '
s house and the houses of the people with fire ,
and broke down the walls of Jerusalem .
*
And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard carried away captive into Babylon the rest of the people that were left in the city ,
and the deserters that had deserted to him ,
with the rest of the people that were left .
*
But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard left [
certain ]
of the people ,
the poor who had nothing ,
in the land of Judah ,
and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time .
*
And Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had given charge concerning Jeremiah by Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard ,
saying ,
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Take him ,
and keep an eye upon him ,
and do him no harm ;
but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee .
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So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard sent ,
and Nebushazban ,
chief chamberlain ,
and Nergal-sharezer ,
chief magian ,
and all the king of Babylon '
s princes ,
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even they sent ,
and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan ,
that he should conduct him away home .
And he dwelt among the people .
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And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah ,
while he was shut up in the court of the guard ,
saying ,
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Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian ,
saying ,
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts ,
the God of Israel :
Behold ,
I will bring my words upon this city for evil ,
and not for good ,
and they shall come to pass before thy face in that day .
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And I will deliver thee in that day ,
saith Jehovah ;
and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid ;
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for I will certainly save thee ,
and thou shalt not fall by the sword ,
but thou shalt have thy life for a prey ;
for thou hast put thy confidence in me ,
saith Jehovah .
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