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Jeremiah:1:1 @ The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:2 @ To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:3 @ It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:4 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:5 @ Before I formed thee in the womb I knew thee; and before thou wast born I sanctified thee, I ordained thee a prophet to the nations. (note:)ordained: Hebrews. gave(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:6 @ Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I a child.
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:7 @ But the LORD said to me, Say not, I a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatever I command thee thou shalt speak.
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:8 @ Be not afraid of their faces: for I with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:9 @ Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:10 @ See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:11 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:12 @ Then said the LORD to me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:13 @ And the word of the LORD came to me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a boiling pot; and its face toward the north. (note:)toward…: Hebrews. from the face of the north(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:14 @ Then the LORD said to me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. (note:)shall…: Hebrews. shall be opened(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:15 @ For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls on every side, and against all the cities of Judah.
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:16 @ And I will utter my judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:17 @ Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them. (note:)confound: or, break to pieces(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:18 @ For, behold, I have made thee this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
rwbs@Jeremiah:1:19 @ And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:1 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:2 @ Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thy espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land not sown. (note:)thee: or, for thy sake(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:3 @ Israel holiness to the LORD, the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:4 @ Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:5 @ Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:6 @ Neither said they, Where the LORD that brought us out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:7 @ And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination. (note:)a plentiful…: or, the land of Carmel(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:8 @ The priests said not, Where the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after do not profit.
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:9 @ Therefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead.
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:10 @ For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there is such a thing. (note:)over: or, over to(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:11 @ Hath a nation changed gods, which yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for doth not profit.
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:12 @ Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:13 @ For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:14 @ Israel a servant? he a homeborn? why is he laid waste? (note:)spoiled: Hebrews. become a spoil?(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:15 @ The young lions roared upon him, yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. (note:)yelled: Hebrews. gave out their voice(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:16 @ Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. (note:)have…: or, feed on thy crown(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:17 @ Hast thou not procured this to thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:18 @ And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:19 @ Thy own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that an evil and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:20 @ For of old time I have broken thy yoke, burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. (note:)transgress: or, serve(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:21 @ Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me?
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:22 @ For though thou shalt wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, thy iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:23 @ How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: a swift dromedary traversing her ways; (note:)thou art…: or, O swift dromedary(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:24 @ A wild donkey used to the wilderness, snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her. (note:)A wild…: or, O wild ass, etc(:note)used: Hebrews. taughther pleasure: Heb. the desire of her heartturn…: or, reverse it?
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:25 @ Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go. (note:)There…: or, Is the case desperate?(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:26 @ As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:27 @ Saying to a stock, Thou my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned back to me, and not face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. (note:)brought…: or, begotten me(:note)their back: Hebrews. the hinder part of the neck
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:28 @ But where thy gods that thou hast made for thyself? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah. (note:)trouble: Hebrews. evil(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:29 @ Why will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:30 @ In vain have I smitten your children; they have received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:31 @ O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why say my people, We are lords; we will come no more to thee? (note:)We are…: Hebrews. We have dominion(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:32 @ Can a maid forget her ornaments, a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:33 @ Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:34 @ Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. (note:)secret…: Hebrews. digging(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:35 @ Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:36 @ Why dost thou go about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
rwbs@Jeremiah:2:37 @ Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thy hands upon thy head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:1 @ They say, If a man shall put away his wife, and she shall go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return to her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD. (note:)They say: Hebrews. Saying(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:2 @ Lift up thy eyes to the high places, and see where thou hast not been lain with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy harlotry and with thy wickedness.
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:3 @ Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst an harlot’s forehead, thou didst refuse to be ashamed.
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:4 @ Wilt thou not from this time cry to me, My father, thou the guide of my youth?
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:5 @ Will he retain for ever? will he keep to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:6 @ The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen which backsliding Israel hath done? she hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:7 @ And I said after she had done all these, Turn thou to me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw.
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:8 @ And I saw, when for all the causes by which backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:9 @ And it came to pass through the lightness of her harlotry, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. (note:)lightness: or, fame(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:10 @ And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned to me with her whole heart, but deceitfully, saith the LORD. (note:)feignedly: Hebrews. in falsehood(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:11 @ And the LORD said to me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:12 @ Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; I will not cause my anger to fall upon you: for I merciful, saith the LORD, I will not keep for ever.
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:13 @ Only acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:14 @ Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married to you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:15 @ And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:16 @ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss; neither shall be done any more. (note:)come to mind: Hebrews. come upon the heart(:note)that…: or, it be magnified
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:17 @ At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. (note:)imagination: or, stubbornness(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:18 @ In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together from the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance to your fathers. (note:)with: or, to(:note)given…: or, caused your fathers to possess
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:19 @ But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a beautiful heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me. (note:)a goodly…: Hebrews. an heritage of glory, or, beauty(:note)pleasant…: Heb. land of desirefrom me: Heb. from after me
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:20 @ Surely a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. (note:)husband: Hebrews. friend(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:21 @ A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God.
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:22 @ Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to thee; for thou the LORD our God.
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:23 @ Truly in vain from the hills, the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God the salvation of Israel.
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:24 @ For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
rwbs@Jeremiah:3:25 @ We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:1 @ If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return to me: and if thou wilt put away thy abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not be removed.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:2 @ And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:3 @ For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:4 @ Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench, because of the evil of your doings.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:5 @ Declare ye in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, confirm, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:6 @ Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. (note:)retire: or, strengthen(:note)destruction: Hebrews. breaking
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:7 @ The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:8 @ For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and wail: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:9 @ And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:10 @ Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; though the sword reacheth to the soul.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:11 @ At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:12 @ a full wind from those shall come to me: now also will I give sentence against them. (note:)a full…: or, a fuller wind than those(:note)give…: Hebrews. utter judgments
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:13 @ Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are laid waste.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:14 @ O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:15 @ For a voice declareth from Dan, and proclaimeth affliction from mount Ephraim.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:16 @ Make ye mention to the nations; behold, proclaim against Jerusalem, watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:17 @ As keepers of a field, they are against her on all sides; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:18 @ Thy way and thy doings have procured these to thee; this thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth to thy heart.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:19 @ My heart, my heart! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. (note:)my very…: Hebrews. the walls of my heart(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:20 @ Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents ruined, my curtains in a moment.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:21 @ How long shall I see the standard, hear the sound of the trumpet?
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:22 @ For my people foolish, they have not known me; they silly children, and they have no understanding: they wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:23 @ I beheld the earth, and, lo, without form, and void; and the heavens, and they no light.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:24 @ I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:25 @ I beheld, and, lo, no man, and all the fowls of the heavens had fled.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:26 @ I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD, by his fierce anger.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:27 @ For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:28 @ For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken, I have purposed, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:29 @ The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city forsaken, and not a man dwell in it.
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:30 @ And thou laid waste, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou enlarge thy eyes with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life. (note:)face: Hebrews. eyes(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:4:31 @ For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, bewaileth herself, spreadeth her hands,, Woe me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:1 @ Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her broad places, if ye can find a man, if there is that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:2 @ And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:3 @ O LORD, not thy eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:4 @ Therefore I said, Surely these poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, the judgment of their God.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:5 @ I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the LORD, the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, burst the bonds.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:6 @ Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, their backslidings are increased. (note:)evenings: or, deserts(:note)are increased: Hebrews. are strong
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:7 @ How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by no gods: when I had fed them to the full, then they committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:8 @ They were fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:9 @ Shall I not punish for these? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:10 @ Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they not the LORD’S.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:11 @ For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:12 @ They have denied the LORD, and said, not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:13 @ And the prophets shall become wind, and the word not in them: thus shall it be done to them.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:14 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:15 @ Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it a mighty nation, it an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:16 @ Their quiver as an open sepulchre, they all mighty men.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:17 @ And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish with the sword thy fortified cities, in which thou didst trust.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:18 @ Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:19 @ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Why doeth the LORD our God all these to us? then shalt thou answer them, As ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land not yours.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:20 @ Declare this in the house of Jacob, and proclaim it in Judah, saying,
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:21 @ Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not: (note:)understanding: Hebrews. heart(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:22 @ Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though its waves toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:23 @ But this people have a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:24 @ Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season: he reserveth to us the appointed weeks of harvest.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:25 @ Your iniquities have turned away these, and your sins have withheld good from you.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:26 @ For among my people are found wicked: they lie in wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. (note:)they lay…: or, they pry as fowlers lie in wait(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:27 @ As a cage is full of birds, so their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and have grown rich. (note:)cage: or, coop(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:28 @ They have become fat, they shine: yea, they exceed the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:29 @ Shall I not punish for these? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:30 @ A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; (note:)A wonderful…: or, Astonishment and filthiness(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:5:31 @ The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love so: and what will ye do in its end? (note:)bear…: or, take into their hands(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:1 @ O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:2 @ I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate. (note:)comely: or, dwelling at home(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:3 @ The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch tents against her on every side; they shall feed every one in his place.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:4 @ Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day departeth, for the shadows of the evening are lengthened.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:5 @ Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:6 @ For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this the city to be visited; she wholly oppression in the midst of her. (note:)cast…: or, pour out the engine of shot(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:7 @ As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually grief and wounds.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:8 @ Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. (note:)depart: Hebrews. be loosed, or, disjointed(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:9 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thy hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:10 @ To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:11 @ Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with full of days.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:12 @ And their houses shall be turned to others, fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:13 @ For from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest every one dealeth falsely.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:14 @ They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when no peace. (note:)hurt: Hebrews. bruise, or, breach(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:15 @ Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:16 @ Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way, and walk in it, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:17 @ Also I set watchmen over you,, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:18 @ Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what among them.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:19 @ Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened to my words, nor to my law, but have rejected it.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:20 @ To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a distant country? your burnt offerings not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet to me.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:21 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:22 @ Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:23 @ They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:24 @ We have heard the report of it: our hands become feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, pain, as of a woman in travail.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:25 @ Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy fear on every side.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:26 @ O daughter of my people, gird with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:27 @ I have set thee a tower a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:28 @ They all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: brass and iron; they all corrupters.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:29 @ The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
rwbs@Jeremiah:6:30 @ Rejected silver shall call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. (note:)Reprobate…: or, Refuse silver(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:2 @ Stand in the gate of the LORD’S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:3 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:4 @ Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, these.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:5 @ For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:6 @ ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your harm:
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:7 @ Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:8 @ Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:9 @ Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:10 @ And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? (note:)which…: Hebrews. whereupon my name is called(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:11 @ Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen, saith the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:12 @ But go ye now to my place which in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:13 @ And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spoke to you, rising early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:14 @ Therefore will I do to house, which is called by my name, in which ye trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:15 @ And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, the whole seed of Ephraim.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:16 @ Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:17 @ Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:18 @ The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. (note:)queen…: or, frame, or, workmanship of heaven(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:19 @ Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: not themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:20 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, my anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:21 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:22 @ For I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: (note:)concerning: Hebrews. concerning the matter of(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:23 @ But this thing I commanded them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well to you.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:24 @ But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. (note:)imagination: or, stubbornness(:note)went: Hebrews. were
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:25 @ Since the day that your fathers came forth from the land of Egypt to this day I have even sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending:
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:26 @ Yet they hearkened not to me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:27 @ Therefore thou shalt speak all these words to them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call to them; but they will not answer thee.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:28 @ But thou shalt say to them, This a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth hath perished, and is cut off from their mouth. (note:)correction: or, instruction(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:29 @ Cut off thy hair,, and cast away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:30 @ For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:31 @ And they have built the high places of Tophet, which in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither came it into my heart. (note:)came…: Hebrews. came it upon my heart(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:32 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there shall be no place.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:33 @ And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten away.
rwbs@Jeremiah:7:34 @ Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:1 @ At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:2 @ And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for refuse upon the face of the earth.
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:3 @ And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the remnant of them that remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:4 @ Moreover thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not rise? shall he turn away, and not return?
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:5 @ Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:6 @ I hearkened and heard, they spoke not aright: no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth to the battle.
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:7 @ Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtledove and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:8 @ How do ye say, We wise, and the law of the LORD with us? Lo, certainly in vain he hath made; the pen of the scribes in vain. (note:)in vain made…: or, the false pen of the scribes worketh for falsehood(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:9 @ The wise are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom in them? (note:)The wise…: or, Have they been ashamed, etc(:note)what…: Hebrews. the wisdom of what thing
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:10 @ Therefore will I give their wives to others, their fields to them that shall inherit: for every one from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even to the priest every one dealeth falsely.
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:11 @ For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when no peace.
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:12 @ Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their punishment they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:13 @ I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and I have given to them shall pass away from them. (note:)I will…: or, In gathering I will consume(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:14 @ Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. (note:)gall: or, poison(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:15 @ We looked for peace, but no good for a time of health, and behold trouble!
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:16 @ The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they have come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell in it. (note:)all…: Hebrews. the fulness thereof(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:17 @ For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which not charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:18 @ I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart faint in me. (note:)in: Hebrews. upon(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:19 @ Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a distant country: not the LORD in Zion? not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities? (note:)them…: Hebrews. the country of them that are far off(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:20 @ The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:21 @ For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
rwbs@Jeremiah:8:22 @ no balm in Gilead; no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? (note:)recovered: Hebrews. gone up?(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:1 @ O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! (note:)Oh…: Hebrews. Who will give my head, etc(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:2 @ O that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:3 @ And they bend their tongues their bow lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:4 @ Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. (note:)neighbour: or, friend(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:5 @ And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, weary themselves to commit iniquity. (note:)deceive: or, mock(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:6 @ Thy habitation in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:7 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:8 @ Their tongue an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he lieth in wait. (note:)in heart: Hebrews. in the midst of him(:note)his wait: or, wait for him
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:9 @ Shall I not punish them for these? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:10 @ For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through; neither can hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone. (note:)habitations: or, pastures(:note)burned up: or, desolateboth…: Hebrews. from the fowl even to, etc
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:11 @ And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. (note:)desolate: Hebrews. desolation(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:12 @ Who the wise man, that may understand this? and to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:13 @ And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked in it;
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:14 @ But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: (note:)imagination: or, stubbornness(:note)
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:15 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:16 @ I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:17 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for skilful, that they may come:
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:18 @ And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:19 @ For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we laid waste! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast out.
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:20 @ Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:21 @ For death hath come up into our windows, hath entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, the young men from the streets.
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:22 @ Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the dead bodies of men shall fall as refuse upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather.
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:23 @ Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty glory in his might, let not the rich glory in his riches:
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:24 @ But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I the LORD who exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these I delight, saith the LORD.
rwbs@Jeremiah:9:25 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all circumcised with the uncircumcised; (note:)punish: Hebrews. visit upon(:note)