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The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah ,
saying ,
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Go unto the house of the Rechabites ,
and speak unto them ,
and bring them into the house of the LORD ,
into one of the chambers ,
and give them wine to drink .
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Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah ,
the son of Habaziniah ,
and his brethren ,
and all his sons ,
and the whole house of the Rechabites ;
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And I brought them into the house of the LORD ,
into the chamber of the sons of Hanan ,
the son of Igdaliah ,
a 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 door :
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And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine ,
and cups ,
and I said unto them ,
Drink ye wine .
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But they said ,
We will drink no wine :
for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us ,
saying ,
Ye shall drink no wine ,
neither ye ,
nor your sons for ever :
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Neither shall ye build house ,
nor sow seed ,
nor plant vineyard ,
nor have any :
but all your days ye shall dwell in tents ;
that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers .
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Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us ,
to drink no wine all our days ,
we ,
our wives ,
our sons ,
nor our daughters ;
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Nor to build houses for us to dwell in :
neither have we vineyard ,
nor field ,
nor seed :
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But we have dwelt in tents ,
and have obeyed ,
and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us .
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But it came to pass ,
when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land ,
that we said ,
Come ,
and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans ,
and for fear of the army of the Syrians :
so we dwell at Jerusalem .
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Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah ,
saying ,
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem ,
Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words ?
saith the LORD .
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The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab ,
that he commanded his sons not to drink wine ,
are performed ;
for unto this day they drink none ,
but obey their father '
s commandment :
notwithstanding I have spoken unto you ,
rising early and speaking ;
but ye hearkened not unto me .
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I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets ,
rising up early and sending them ,
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 which I have given to you and to your fathers :
but ye have not inclined your ear ,
nor hearkened unto me .
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Because 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 :
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Therefore thus saith the LORD 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 heard ;
and I have called unto them ,
but they have not answered .
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And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites ,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father ,
and kept all his precepts ,
and done according unto all that he hath commanded you :
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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever .
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And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah ,
that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD ,
saying ,
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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 spake unto thee ,
from the days of Josiah ,
even unto this day .
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It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them ;
that they may return every man from his evil way ;
that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin .
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Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah :
and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD ,
which he had spoken unto him ,
upon a roll of a book .
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And Jeremiah commanded Baruch ,
saying ,
I am shut up ;
I cannot go into the house of the LORD :
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Therefore go thou ,
and read in the roll ,
which thou hast written from my mouth ,
the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD '
S house upon the fasting day :
and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities .
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It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD ,
and will return every one from his evil way :
for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people .
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And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him ,
reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD '
S house .
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And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah ,
in the ninth month ,
that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem ,
and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem .
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Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD ,
in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe ,
in the higher court ,
at the entry of the new gate of the LORD '
S house ,
in the ears of all the people .
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When Michaiah the son of Gemariah ,
the son of Shaphan ,
had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD ,
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Then he went down into the king '
s house ,
into the scribe '
s chamber :
and ,
lo ,
all the princes sat there ,
even 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 .
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Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard ,
when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people .
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Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah ,
the son of Shelemiah ,
the son of Cushi ,
unto Baruch ,
saying ,
Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people ,
and come .
So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand ,
and came unto them .
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And they said unto him ,
Sit down now ,
and read it in our ears .
So Baruch read it in their ears .
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Now it came to pass ,
when they had heard all the words ,
they were afraid both one and other ,
and said unto Baruch ,
We will surely tell the king of all these words .
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And they asked Baruch ,
saying ,
Tell us now ,
How didst thou write all these words at his mouth ?
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Then Baruch answered them ,
He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth ,
and I wrote them with ink in the book .
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Then said the princes unto Baruch ,
Go ,
hide thee ,
thou and Jeremiah ;
and let no man know where ye be .
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And they went in to the king into the court ,
but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe ,
and told all the words in the ears of the king .
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So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll :
and he took it out of Elishama the scribe '
s chamber .
And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king ,
and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king .
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Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month :
and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him .
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And it came to pass ,
that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves ,
he cut it with the penknife ,
and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth ,
until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth .
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Yet they were not afraid ,
nor rent their garments ,
neither the king ,
nor any of his servants that heard all these words .
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Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll :
but he would not hear them .
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But 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 the LORD hid them .
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Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah ,
after that the king had burned the roll ,
and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah ,
saying ,
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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 .
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And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah ,
Thus saith the LORD ;
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 thence man and beast ?
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Therefore thus saith the LORD of 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 .
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And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity ;
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 ;
but they hearkened not .
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Then took Jeremiah another roll ,
and gave it to Baruch the scribe ,
the son of Neriah ;
who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire :
and there were added besides unto them many like words .
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And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim ,
whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah .
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But neither he ,
nor his servants ,
nor the people of the land ,
did hearken unto the words of the LORD ,
which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah .
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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 the LORD our God for us .
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Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people :
for they had not put him into prison .
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Then Pharaoh '
s army was come forth out of Egypt :
and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them ,
they departed from Jerusalem .
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Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah ,
saying ,
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Thus saith the LORD ,
the God of Israel ;
Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah ,
that sent you unto me to enquire of me ;
Behold ,
Pharaoh '
s army ,
which is come forth to help you ,
shall return to Egypt into their own land .
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And the Chaldeans shall come again ,
and fight against this city ,
and take it ,
and burn it with fire .
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Thus saith the LORD ;
Deceive not yourselves ,
saying ,
The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us :
for they shall not depart .
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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 .
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And it came to pass ,
that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh '
s army ,
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Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin ,
to separate himself thence in the midst of the people .
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And when he was in the gate of Benjamin ,
a captain of the ward was there ,
whose name was Irijah ,
the son of Shelemiah ,
the son of Hananiah ;
and he took Jeremiah the prophet ,
saying ,
Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans .
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Then said Jeremiah ,
It is false ;
I fall not away to the Chaldeans .
But he hearkened not to him :
so Irijah took Jeremiah ,
and brought him to the princes .
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Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah ,
and smote him ,
and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe :
for they had made that the prison .
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When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon ,
and into the cabins ,
and Jeremiah had remained there many days ;
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Then Zedekiah the king sent ,
and took him out :
and the king asked him secretly in his house ,
and said ,
Is there any word from the LORD ?
And Jeremiah said ,
There is :
for ,
said he ,
thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon .
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Moreover 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 prison ?
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Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you ,
saying ,
The king of Babylon shall not come against you ,
nor against this land ?
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Therefore hear now ,
I pray thee ,
O my lord the king :
let my supplication ,
I pray thee ,
be accepted before thee ;
that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe ,
lest I die there .
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Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison ,
and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers '
street ,
until all the bread in the city were spent .
Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison .
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Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan ,
and Gedaliah the son of Pashur ,
and Jucal the son of Shelemiah ,
and Pashur the son of Malchiah ,
heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people ,
saying ,
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Thus saith the LORD ,
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 ;
for he shall have his life for a prey ,
and shall live .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon '
s army ,
which shall take it .
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Therefore the princes said unto the king ,
We beseech thee ,
let this man be put to death :
for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city ,
and the hands of all the people ,
in speaking such words unto them :
for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people ,
but the hurt .
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Then Zedekiah the king said ,
Behold ,
he is in your hand :
for the king is not he that can do any thing against you .
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Then took they Jeremiah ,
and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech ,
that was in the court of the prison :
and they let down Jeremiah with cords .
And in the dungeon there was no water ,
but mire :
so Jeremiah sunk in the mire .
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Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian ,
one of the eunuchs which was in the king '
s house ,
heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon ;
the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin ;
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Ebedmelech went forth out of the king '
s house ,
and spake to the king ,
saying ,
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My lord the king ,
these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet ,
whom they have cast into the dungeon ;
and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is :
for there is no more bread in the city .
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Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian ,
saying ,
Take from hence thirty men with thee ,
and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon ,
before he die .
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So Ebedmelech took the men with him ,
and went into the house of the king under the treasury ,
and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags ,
and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah .
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And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah ,
Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords .
And Jeremiah did so .
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So they drew up Jeremiah with cords ,
and took him up out of the dungeon :
and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison .
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Then Zedekiah the king sent ,
and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD :
and the king said unto Jeremiah ,
I will ask thee a thing ;
hide nothing from me .
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Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah ,
If I declare it unto thee ,
wilt thou not surely put me to death ?
and if I give thee counsel ,
wilt thou not hearken unto me ?
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So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah ,
saying ,
As the LORD 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 .
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Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
the God of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto 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 thine house :
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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 .
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And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah ,
I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans ,
lest they deliver me into their hand ,
and they mock me .
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But Jeremiah said ,
They shall not deliver thee .
Obey ,
I beseech thee ,
the voice of the LORD ,
which I speak unto thee :
so it shall be well unto thee ,
and thy soul shall live .
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But if thou refuse to go forth ,
this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me :
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And ,
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 those women shall say ,
Thy friends have set thee on ,
and have prevailed against thee :
thy feet are sunk in the mire ,
and they are turned away back .
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So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans :
and thou shalt not escape out of their hand ,
but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon :
and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire .
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Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah ,
Let no man know of these words ,
and thou shalt not die .
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But 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 ;
also what the king said unto thee :
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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 .
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Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah ,
and asked him :
and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded .
So they left off speaking with him ;
for the matter was not perceived .
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So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken :
and he was there when Jerusalem was taken .
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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 .
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And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah ,
in the fourth month ,
the ninth day of the month ,
the city was broken up .
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And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in ,
and sat in the middle gate ,
even Nergalsharezer ,
Samgarnebo ,
Sarsechim ,
Rabsaris ,
Nergalsharezer ,
Rabmag ,
with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon .
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And it came to pass ,
that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them ,
and all the men of war ,
then they fled ,
and went forth out of the city by night ,
by the way of the king '
s garden ,
by the gate betwixt the two walls :
and he went out the way of the plain .
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But the Chaldeans '
army pursued after them ,
and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho :
and when they had taken him ,
they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath ,
where he gave judgment upon him .
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Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes :
also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah .
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Moreover he put out Zedekiah '
s eyes ,
and bound him with chains ,
to carry him to Babylon .
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And the Chaldeans burned the king '
s house ,
and the houses of the people ,
with fire ,
and brake down the walls of Jerusalem .
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Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city ,
and those that fell away ,
that fell to him ,
with the rest of the people that remained .
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But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people ,
which had nothing ,
in the land of Judah ,
and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time .
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Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard ,
saying ,
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Take him ,
and look well to him ,
and do him no harm ;
but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee .
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So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent ,
and Nebushasban ,
Rabsaris ,
and Nergalsharezer ,
Rabmag ,
and all the king of Babylon '
s princes ;
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Even they sent ,
and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison ,
and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan ,
that he should carry him home :
so he dwelt among the people .
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Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah ,
while he was shut up in the court of the prison ,
saying ,
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Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian ,
saying ,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
Behold ,
I will bring my words upon this city for evil ,
and not for good ;
and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee .
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But I will deliver thee in that day ,
saith the LORD :
and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid .
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For I will surely deliver thee ,
and thou shalt not fall by the sword ,
but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee :
because thou hast put thy trust in me ,
saith the LORD .
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The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD ,
after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah ,
when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah ,
which were carried away captive unto Babylon .
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And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah ,
and said unto him ,
The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place .
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Now the LORD hath brought it ,
and done according as he hath said :
because ye have sinned against the LORD ,
and have not obeyed his voice ,
therefore this thing is come upon you .
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And now ,
behold ,
I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand .
If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon ,
come ;
and I will look well unto thee :
but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon ,
forbear :
behold ,
all the land is before thee :
whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go ,
thither go .
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Now while he was not yet gone back ,
he said ,
Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan ,
whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah ,
and dwell with him among the people :
or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go .
So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward ,
and let him go .
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Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah ;
and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land .
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Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields ,
even they and their men ,
heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land ,
and had committed unto him men ,
and women ,
and children ,
and of the poor of the land ,
of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon ;
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Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah ,
even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah ,
and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah ,
and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth ,
and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite ,
and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite ,
they and their men .
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And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men ,
saying ,
Fear not to serve the Chaldeans :
dwell in the land ,
and serve the king of Babylon ,
and it shall be well with you .
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As for me ,
behold ,
I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans ,
which will come unto us :
but ye ,
gather ye wine ,
and summer fruits ,
and oil ,
and put them in your vessels ,
and dwell in your cities that ye have taken .
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Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab ,
and among the Ammonites ,
and in Edom ,
and that were in all the countries ,
heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah ,
and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan ;
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Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven ,
and came to the land of Judah ,
to Gedaliah ,
unto Mizpah ,
and gathered wine and summer fruits very much .
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Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah ,
and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields ,
came to Gedaliah to Mizpah ,
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And said unto him ,
Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee ?
But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not .
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Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly ,
saying ,
Let me go ,
I pray thee ,
and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah ,
and no man shall know it :
wherefore should he slay thee ,
that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered ,
and the remnant in Judah perish ?
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But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah ,
Thou shalt not do this thing :
for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael .
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Now it came to pass in the seventh month ,
that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama ,
of the seed royal ,
and the princes of the king ,
even ten men with him ,
came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah ;
and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah .
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Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah ,
and the ten men that were with him ,
and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword ,
and slew him ,
whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land .
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Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him ,
even with Gedaliah ,
at Mizpah ,
and the Chaldeans that were found there ,
and the men of war .
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And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah ,
and no man knew it ,
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That there came certain from Shechem ,
from Shiloh ,
and from Samaria ,
even fourscore men ,
having their beards shaven ,
and their clothes rent ,
and having cut themselves ,
with offerings and incense in their hand ,
to bring them to the house of the LORD .
*
And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them ,
weeping all along as he went :
and it came to pass ,
as he met them ,
he said unto them ,
Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam .
*
And it was so ,
when they came into the midst of the city ,
that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them ,
and cast them into the midst of the pit ,
he ,
and the men that were with him .
*
But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael ,
Slay us not :
for we have treasures in the field ,
of wheat ,
and of barley ,
and of oil ,
and of honey .
So he forbare ,
and slew them not among their brethren .
*
Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men ,
whom he had slain because of Gedaliah ,
was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel :
and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain .
*
Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah ,
even the king '
s daughters ,
and all the people that remained in Mizpah ,
whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam :
and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive ,
and departed to go over to the Ammonites .
*
But when Johanan the son of Kareah ,
and all the captains of the forces that were with him ,
heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done ,
*
Then they took all the men ,
and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah ,
and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon .
*
Now it came to pass ,
that when all the people which were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah ,
and all the captains of the forces that were with him ,
then they were glad .
*
So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned ,
and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah .
*
But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men ,
and went to the Ammonites .
*
Then took Johanan the son of Kareah ,
and all the captains of the forces that were with him ,
all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah ,
from Mizpah ,
after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam ,
even mighty men of war ,
and the women ,
and the children ,
and the eunuchs ,
whom he had brought again from Gibeon :
*
And they departed ,
and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham ,
which is by Bethlehem ,
to go to enter into Egypt ,
*
Because of the Chaldeans :
for they were afraid of them ,
because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam ,
whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land .
*
Then all the captains of the forces ,
and Johanan the son of Kareah ,
and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah ,
and all the people from the least even unto the greatest ,
came near ,
*
And said unto Jeremiah the prophet ,
Let ,
we beseech thee ,
our supplication be accepted before thee ,
and pray for us unto the LORD thy God ,
even for all this remnant ; (
for we are left but a few of many ,
as thine eyes do behold us :)
*
That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk ,
and the thing that we may do .
*
Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them ,
I have heard you ;
behold ,
I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words ;
and it shall come to pass ,
that whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you ,
I will declare it unto you ;
I will keep nothing back from you .
*
Then they said to Jeremiah ,
The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us ,
if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us .
*
Whether it be good ,
or whether it be evil ,
we will obey the voice of the LORD our God ,
to whom we send thee ;
that it may be well with us ,
when we obey the voice of the LORD our God .
*
And it came to pass after ten days ,
that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah .
*
Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah ,
and all the captains of the forces which were with him ,
and all the people from the least even to the greatest ,
*
And said unto them ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
the God of Israel ,
unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him ;
*
If ye will still abide in this land ,
then will I build you ,
and not pull you down ,
and I will plant you ,
and not pluck you up :
for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you .
*
Be not afraid of the king of Babylon ,
of whom ye are afraid ;
be not afraid of him ,
saith the LORD :
for I am with you to save you ,
and to deliver you from his hand .
*
And I will shew mercies unto you ,
that he may have mercy upon you ,
and cause you to return to your own land .
*
But if ye say ,
We will not dwell in this land ,
neither obey the voice of the LORD your God ,
*
Saying ,
No ;
but we will go into the land of Egypt ,
where we shall see no war ,
nor hear the sound of the trumpet ,
nor have hunger of bread ;
and there will we dwell :
*
And now therefore hear the word of the LORD ,
ye remnant of Judah ;
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt ,
and go to sojourn there ;
*
Then it shall come to pass ,
that the sword ,
which ye feared ,
shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt ,
and the famine ,
whereof ye were afraid ,
shall follow close after you there in Egypt ;
and there ye shall die .
*
So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there ;
they shall die by the sword ,
by the famine ,
and by the pestilence :
and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them .
*
For thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem ;
so shall my fury be poured forth upon you ,
when ye shall enter into Egypt :
and ye shall be an execration ,
and an astonishment ,
and a curse ,
and a reproach ;
and ye shall see this place no more .
*
The LORD hath said concerning you ,
O ye remnant of Judah ;
Go ye not into Egypt :
know certainly that I have admonished you this day .
*
For ye dissembled in your hearts ,
when ye sent me unto the LORD your God ,
saying ,
Pray for us unto the LORD our God ;
and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say ,
so declare unto us ,
and we will do it .
*
And now I have this day declared it to you ;
but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God ,
nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you .
*
Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword ,
by the famine ,
and by the pestilence ,
in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn .
*
And it came to pass ,
that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God ,
for which the LORD their God had sent him to them ,
even all these words ,
*
Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah ,
and Johanan the son of Kareah ,
and all the proud men ,
saying unto Jeremiah ,
Thou speakest falsely :
the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say ,
Go not into Egypt to sojourn there :
*
But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us ,
for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans ,
that they might put us to death ,
and carry us away captives into Babylon .
*
So Johanan the son of Kareah ,
and all the captains of the forces ,
and all the people ,
obeyed not the voice of the LORD ,
to dwell in the land of Judah .
*
But Johanan the son of Kareah ,
and all the captains of the forces ,
took all the remnant of Judah ,
that were returned from all nations ,
whither they had been driven ,
to dwell in the land of Judah ;
*
Even men ,
and women ,
and children ,
and the king '
s daughters ,
and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan ,
and Jeremiah the prophet ,
and Baruch the son of Neriah .
*
So they came into the land of Egypt :
for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD :
thus came they even to Tahpanhes .
*
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes ,
saying ,
*
Take great stones in thine hand ,
and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln ,
which is at the entry of Pharaoh '
s house in Tahpanhes ,
in the sight of the men of Judah ;
*
And say unto them ,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
Behold ,
I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon ,
my servant ,
and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid ;
and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them .
*
And when he cometh ,
he shall smite the land of Egypt ,
and deliver such as are for death to death ;
and such as are for captivity to captivity ;
and such as are for the sword to the sword .
*
And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt ;
and he shall burn them ,
and carry them away captives :
and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt ,
as a shepherd putteth on his garment ;
and he shall go forth from thence in peace .
*
He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh ,
that is in the land of Egypt ;
and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire .
*
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt ,
which dwell at Migdol ,
and at Tahpanhes ,
and at Noph ,
and in the country of Pathros ,
saying ,
*
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem ,
and upon all the cities of Judah ;
and ,
behold ,
this day they are a desolation ,
and no man dwelleth therein ,
*
Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger ,
in that they went to burn incense ,
and to serve other gods ,
whom they knew not ,
neither they ,
ye ,
nor your fathers .
*
Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets ,
rising early and sending them ,
saying ,
Oh ,
do not this abominable thing that I hate .
*
But they hearkened not ,
nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness ,
to burn no incense unto other gods .
*
Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth ,
and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem ;
and they are wasted and desolate ,
as at this day .
*
Therefore now thus saith the LORD ,
the God of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls ,
to cut off from you man and woman ,
child and suckling ,
out of Judah ,
to leave you none to remain ;
*
In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands ,
burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt ,
whither ye be gone to dwell ,
that ye might cut yourselves off ,
and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth ?
*
Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers ,
and the wickedness of the kings of Judah ,
and the wickedness of their wives ,
and your own wickedness ,
and the wickedness of your wives ,
which they have committed in the land of Judah ,
and in the streets of Jerusalem ?
*
They are not humbled even unto this day ,
neither have they feared ,
nor walked in my law ,
nor in my statutes ,
that I set before you and before your fathers .
*
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
Behold ,
I will set my face against you for evil ,
and to cut off all Judah .
*
And I will take the remnant of Judah ,
that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there ,
and they shall all be consumed ,
and fall in the land of Egypt ;
they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine :
they shall die ,
from the least even unto the greatest ,
by the sword and by the famine :
and they shall be an execration ,
and an astonishment ,
and a curse ,
and a reproach .
*
For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt ,
as I have punished Jerusalem ,
by the sword ,
by the famine ,
and by the pestilence :
*
So that none of the remnant of Judah ,
which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there ,
shall escape or remain ,
that they should return into the land of Judah ,
to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there :
for none shall return but such as shall escape .
*
Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods ,
and all the women that stood by ,
a great multitude ,
even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt ,
in Pathros ,
answered Jeremiah ,
saying ,
*
As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD ,
we will not hearken unto thee .
*
But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth ,
to burn incense unto the queen of heaven ,
and to pour out drink offerings unto her ,
as we have done ,
we ,
and our fathers ,
our kings ,
and our princes ,
in the cities of Judah ,
and in the streets of Jerusalem :
for then had we plenty of victuals ,
and were well ,
and saw no evil .
*
But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven ,
and to pour out drink offerings unto her ,
we have wanted all things ,
and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine .
*
And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven ,
and poured out drink offerings unto her ,
did we make her cakes to worship her ,
and pour out drink offerings unto her ,
without our men ?
*
Then Jeremiah said unto all the people ,
to the men ,
and to the women ,
and to all the people which had given him that answer ,
saying ,
*
The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah ,
and in the streets of Jerusalem ,
ye ,
and your fathers ,
your kings ,
and your princes ,
and the people of the land ,
did not the LORD remember them ,
and came it not into his mind ?
*
So that the LORD could no longer bear ,
because of the evil of your doings ,
and because of the abominations which ye have committed ;
therefore is your land a desolation ,
and an astonishment ,
and a curse ,
without an inhabitant ,
as at this day .
*
Because ye have burned incense ,
and because ye have sinned against the LORD ,
and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD ,
nor walked in his law ,
nor in his statutes ,
nor in his testimonies ;
therefore this evil is happened unto you ,
as at this day .
*
Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people ,
and to all the women ,
Hear the word of the LORD ,
all Judah that are in the land of Egypt :
*
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ,
saying ;
Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths ,
and fulfilled with your hand ,
saying ,
We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed ,
to burn incense to the queen of heaven ,
and to pour out drink offerings unto her :
ye will surely accomplish your vows ,
and surely perform your vows .
*
Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD ,
all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt ;
Behold ,
I have sworn by my great name ,
saith the LORD ,
that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt ,
saying ,
The Lord GOD liveth .
*
Behold ,
I will watch over them for evil ,
and not for good :
and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine ,
until there be an end of them .
*
Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah ,
and all the remnant of Judah ,
that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there ,
shall know whose words shall stand ,
mine ,
or theirs .
*
And this shall be a sign unto you ,
saith the LORD ,
that I will punish you in this place ,
that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil :
*
Thus saith the LORD ;
Behold ,
I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies ,
and into the hand of them that seek his life ;
as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ,
his enemy ,
and that sought his life .
*
The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah ,
when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah ,
in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah ,
saying ,
*
Thus saith the LORD ,
the God of Israel ,
unto thee ,
O Baruch ;
*
Thou didst say ,
Woe is me now !
for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow ;
I fainted in my sighing ,
and I find no rest .
*
Thus shalt thou say unto him ,
The LORD saith thus ;
Behold ,
that which I have built will I break down ,
and that which I have planted I will pluck up ,
even this whole land .
*
And seekest thou great things for thyself ?
seek them not :
for ,
behold ,
I will bring evil upon all flesh ,
saith the LORD :
but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest .
*
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles ;
*
Against Egypt ,
against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt ,
which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish ,
which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah .
*
Order ye the buckler and shield ,
and draw near to battle .
*
Harness the horses ;
and get up ,
ye horsemen ,
and stand forth with your helmets ;
furbish the spears ,
and put on the brigandines .
*
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back ?
and their mighty ones are beaten down ,
and are fled apace ,
and look not back :
for fear was round about ,
saith the LORD .
*
Let not the swift flee away ,
nor the mighty man escape ;
they shall stumble ,
and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates .
*
Who is this that cometh up as a flood ,
whose waters are moved as the rivers ?
*
Egypt riseth up like a flood ,
and his waters are moved like the rivers ;
and he saith ,
I will go up ,
and will cover the earth ;
I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof .
*
Come up ,
ye horses ;
and rage ,
ye chariots ;
and let the mighty men come forth ;
the Ethiopians and the Libyans ,
that handle the shield ;
and the Lydians ,
that handle and bend the bow .
*
For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts ,
a day of vengeance ,
that he may avenge him of his adversaries :
and the sword shall devour ,
and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood :
for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates .
*
Go up into Gilead ,
and take balm ,
O virgin ,
the daughter of Egypt :
in vain shalt thou use many medicines ;
for thou shalt not be cured .
*
The nations have heard of thy shame ,
and thy cry hath filled the land :
for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty ,
and they are fallen both together .
*
The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet ,
how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt .
*
Declare ye in Egypt ,
and publish in Migdol ,
and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes :
say ye ,
Stand fast ,
and prepare thee ;
for the sword shall devour round about thee .
*
Why are thy valiant men swept away ?
they stood not ,
because the LORD did drive them .
*
He made many to fall ,
yea ,
one fell upon another :
and they said ,
Arise ,
and let us go again to our own people ,
and to the land of our nativity ,
from the oppressing sword .
*
They did cry there ,
Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise ;
he hath passed the time appointed .
*
As I live ,
saith the King ,
whose name is the LORD of hosts ,
Surely as Tabor is among the mountains ,
and as Carmel by the sea ,
so shall he come .
*
O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt ,
furnish thyself to go into captivity :
for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant .
*
Egypt is like a very fair heifer ,
but destruction cometh ;
it cometh out of the north .
*
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks ;
for they also are turned back ,
and are fled away together :
they did not stand ,
because the day of their calamity was come upon them ,
and the time of their visitation .
*
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent ;
for they shall march with an army ,
and come against her with axes ,
as hewers of wood .
*
They shall cut down her forest ,
saith the LORD ,
though it cannot be searched ;
because they are more than the grasshoppers ,
and are innumerable .
*
The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded ;
she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north .
*
The LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ,
saith ;
Behold ,
I will punish the multitude of No ,
and Pharaoh ,
and Egypt ,
with their gods ,
and their kings ;
even Pharaoh ,
and all them that trust in him :
*
And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives ,
and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ,
and into the hand of his servants :
and afterward it shall be inhabited ,
as in the days of old ,
saith the LORD .
*
But fear not thou ,
O my servant Jacob ,
and be not dismayed ,
O Israel :
for ,
behold ,
I will save thee from afar off ,
and thy seed from the land of their captivity ;
and Jacob shall return ,
and be in rest and at ease ,
and none shall make him afraid .
*
Fear thou not ,
O Jacob my servant ,
saith the LORD :
for I am with thee ;
for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee :
but I will not make a full end of thee ,
but correct thee in measure ;
yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished .
*
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines ,
before that Pharaoh smote Gaza .
*
Thus saith the LORD ;
Behold ,
waters rise up out of the north ,
and shall be an overflowing flood ,
and shall overflow the land ,
and all that is therein ;
the city ,
and them that dwell therein :
then the men shall cry ,
and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl .
*
At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses ,
at the rushing of his chariots ,
and at the rumbling of his wheels ,
the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands ;
*
Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines ,
and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth :
for the LORD will spoil the Philistines ,
the remnant of the country of Caphtor .
*
Baldness is come upon Gaza ;
Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley :
how long wilt thou cut thyself ?
*
O thou sword of the LORD ,
how long will it be ere thou be quiet ?
put up thyself into thy scabbard ,
rest ,
and be still .
*
How can it be quiet ,
seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon ,
and against the sea shore ?
there hath he appointed it .
*
Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
Woe unto Nebo !
for it is spoiled :
Kiriathaim is confounded and taken :
Misgab is confounded and dismayed .
*
There shall be no more praise of Moab :
in Heshbon they have devised evil against it ;
come ,
and let us cut it off from being a nation .
Also thou shalt be cut down ,
O Madmen ;
the sword shall pursue thee .
*
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim ,
spoiling and great destruction .
*
Moab is destroyed ;
her little ones have caused a cry to be heard .
*
For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up ;
for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction .
*
Flee ,
save your lives ,
and be like the heath in the wilderness .
*
For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures ,
thou shalt also be taken :
and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together .
*
And the spoiler shall come upon every city ,
and no city shall escape :
the valley also shall perish ,
and the plain shall be destroyed ,
as the LORD hath spoken .
*
Give wings unto Moab ,
that it may flee and get away :
for the cities thereof shall be desolate ,
without any to dwell therein .
*
Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully ,
and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood .
*
Moab hath been at ease from his youth ,
and he hath settled on his lees ,
and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel ,
neither hath he gone into captivity :
therefore his taste remained in him ,
and his scent is not changed .
*
Therefore ,
behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that I will send unto him wanderers ,
that shall cause him to wander ,
and shall empty his vessels ,
and break their bottles .
*
And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh ,
as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence .
*
How say ye ,
We are mighty and strong men for the war ?
*
Moab is spoiled ,
and gone up out of her cities ,
and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter ,
saith the King ,
whose name is the LORD of hosts .
*
The calamity of Moab is near to come ,
and his affliction hasteth fast .
*
All ye that are about him ,
bemoan him ;
and all ye that know his name ,
say ,
How is the strong staff broken ,
and the beautiful rod !
*
Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon ,
come down from thy glory ,
and sit in thirst ;
for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee ,
and he shall destroy thy strong holds .
*
O inhabitant of Aroer ,
stand by the way ,
and espy ;
ask him that fleeth ,
and her that escapeth ,
and say ,
What is done ?
*
Moab is confounded ;
for it is broken down :
howl and cry ;
tell ye it in Arnon ,
that Moab is spoiled ,
*
And judgment is come upon the plain country ;
upon Holon ,
and upon Jahazah ,
and upon Mephaath ,
*
And upon Dibon ,
and upon Nebo ,
and upon Bethdiblathaim ,
*
And upon Kiriathaim ,
and upon Bethgamul ,
and upon Bethmeon ,
*
And upon Kerioth ,
and upon Bozrah ,
and upon all the cities of the land of Moab ,
far or near .
*
The horn of Moab is cut off ,
and his arm is broken ,
saith the LORD .
*
Make ye him drunken :
for he magnified himself against the LORD :
Moab also shall wallow in his vomit ,
and he also shall be in derision .
*
For was not Israel a derision unto thee ?
was he found among thieves ?
for since thou spakest of him ,
thou skippedst for joy .
*
O ye that dwell in Moab ,
leave the cities ,
and dwell in the rock ,
and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole '
s mouth .
*
We have heard the pride of Moab , (
he is exceeding proud )
his loftiness ,
and his arrogancy ,
and his pride ,
and the haughtiness of his heart .
*
I know his wrath ,
saith the LORD ;
but it shall not be so ;
his lies shall not so effect it .
*
Therefore will I howl for Moab ,
and I will cry out for all Moab ;
mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres .
*
O vine of Sibmah ,
I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer :
thy plants are gone over the sea ,
they reach even to the sea of Jazer :
the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage .
*
And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field ,
and from the land of Moab ;
and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses :
none shall tread with shouting ;
their shouting shall be no shouting .
*
From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh ,
and even unto Jahaz ,
have they uttered their voice ,
from Zoar even unto Horonaim ,
as an heifer of three years old :
for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate .
*
Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab ,
saith the LORD ,
him that offereth in the high places ,
and him that burneth incense to his gods .
*
Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes ,
and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres :
because the riches that he hath gotten are perished .
*
For every head shall be bald ,
and every beard clipped :
upon all the hands shall be cuttings ,
and upon the loins sackcloth .
*
There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab ,
and in the streets thereof :
for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure ,
saith the LORD .
*
They shall howl ,
saying ,
How is it broken down !
how hath Moab turned the back with shame !
so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him .
*
For thus saith the LORD ;
Behold ,
he shall fly as an eagle ,
and shall spread his wings over Moab .
*
Kerioth is taken ,
and the strong holds are surprised ,
and the mighty men '
s hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs .
*
And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people ,
because he hath magnified himself against the LORD .
*
Fear ,
and the pit ,
and the snare ,
shall be upon thee ,
O inhabitant of Moab ,
saith the LORD .
*
He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit ;
and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare :
for I will bring upon it ,
even upon Moab ,
the year of their visitation ,
saith the LORD .
*
They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force :
but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon ,
and a flame from the midst of Sihon ,
and shall devour the corner of Moab ,
and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones .
*
Woe be unto thee ,
O Moab !
the people of Chemosh perisheth :
for thy sons are taken captives ,
and thy daughters captives .
*
Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days ,
saith the LORD .
Thus far is the judgment of Moab .
*
Concerning the Ammonites ,
thus saith the LORD ;
Hath Israel no sons ?
hath he no heir ?
why then doth their king inherit Gad ,
and his people dwell in his cities ?
*
Therefore ,
behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites ;
and it shall be a desolate heap ,
and her daughters shall be burned with fire :
then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs ,
saith the LORD .
*
Howl ,
O Heshbon ,
for Ai is spoiled :
cry ,
ye daughters of Rabbah ,
gird you with sackcloth ;
lament ,
and run to and fro by the hedges ;
for their king shall go into captivity ,
and his priests and his princes together .
*
Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys ,
thy flowing valley ,
O backsliding daughter ?
that trusted in her treasures ,
saying ,
Who shall come unto me ?
*
Behold ,
I will bring a fear upon thee ,
saith the Lord GOD of hosts ,
from all those that be about thee ;
and ye shall be driven out every man right forth ;
and none shall gather up him that wandereth .
*
And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon ,
saith the LORD .
*
Concerning Edom ,
thus saith the LORD of hosts ;
Is wisdom no more in Teman ?
is counsel perished from the prudent ?
is their wisdom vanished ?
*
Flee ye ,
turn back ,
dwell deep ,
O inhabitants of Dedan ;
for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him ,
the time that I will visit him .
*
If grapegatherers come to thee ,
would they not leave some gleaning grapes ?
if thieves by night ,
they will destroy till they have enough .
*
But I have made Esau bare ,
I have uncovered his secret places ,
and he shall not be able to hide himself :
his seed is spoiled ,
and his brethren ,
and his neighbours ,
and he is not .
*
Leave thy fatherless children ,
I will preserve them alive ;
and let thy widows trust in me .
*
For thus saith the LORD ;
Behold ,
they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken ;
and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished ?
thou shalt not go unpunished ,
but thou shalt surely drink of it .
*
For I have sworn by myself ,
saith the LORD ,
that Bozrah shall become a desolation ,
a reproach ,
a waste ,
and a curse ;
and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes .
*
I have heard a rumour from the LORD ,
and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen ,
saying ,
Gather ye together ,
and come against her ,
and rise up to the battle .
*
For ,
lo ,
I will make thee small among the heathen ,
and despised among men .
*
Thy terribleness hath deceived thee ,
and the pride of thine heart ,
O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock ,
that holdest the height of the hill :
though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle ,
I will bring thee down from thence ,
saith the LORD .
*
Also Edom shall be a desolation :
every one that goeth by it shall be astonished ,
and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof .
*
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof ,
saith the LORD ,
no man shall abide there ,
neither shall a son of man dwell in it .
*
Behold ,
he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong :
but I will suddenly make him run away from her :
and who is a chosen man ,
that I may appoint over her ?
for who is like me ?
and who will appoint me the time ?
and who is that shepherd that will stand before me ?
*
Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD ,
that he hath taken against Edom ;
and his purposes ,
that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman :
Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out :
surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them .
*
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall ,
at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea .
*
Behold ,
he shall come up and fly as the eagle ,
and spread his wings over Bozrah :
and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs .
*
Concerning Damascus .
Hamath is confounded ,
and Arpad :
for they have heard evil tidings :
they are fainthearted ;
there is sorrow on the sea ;
it cannot be quiet .
*
Damascus is waxed feeble ,
and turneth herself to flee ,
and fear hath seized on her :
anguish and sorrows have taken her ,
as a woman in travail .
*
How is the city of praise not left ,
the city of my joy !
*
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets ,
and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day ,
saith the LORD of hosts .
*
And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus ,
and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad .
*
Concerning Kedar ,
and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor ,
which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite ,
thus saith the LORD ;
Arise ye ,
go up to Kedar ,
and spoil the men of the east .
*
Their tents and their flocks shall they take away :
they shall take to themselves their curtains ,
and all their vessels ,
and their camels ;
and they shall cry unto them ,
Fear is on every side .
*
Flee ,
get you far off ,
dwell deep ,
O ye inhabitants of Hazor ,
saith the LORD ;
for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you ,
and hath conceived a purpose against you .
*
Arise ,
get you up unto the wealthy nation ,
that dwelleth without care ,
saith the LORD ,
which have neither gates nor bars ,
which dwell alone .
*
And their camels shall be a booty ,
and the multitude of their cattle a spoil :
and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners ;
and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof ,
saith the LORD .
*
And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons ,
and a desolation for ever :
there shall no man abide there ,
nor any son of man dwell in it .
*
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah ,
saying ,
*
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ;
Behold ,
I will break the bow of Elam ,
the chief of their might .
*
And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven ,
and will scatter them toward all those winds ;
and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come .
*
For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies ,
and before them that seek their life :
and I will bring evil upon them ,
even my fierce anger ,
saith the LORD ;
and I will send the sword after them ,
till I have consumed them :
*
And I will set my throne in Elam ,
and will destroy from thence the king and the princes ,
saith the LORD .
*
But it shall come to pass in the latter days ,
that I will bring again the captivity of Elam ,
saith the LORD .
*
The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet .
*
Declare ye among the nations ,
and publish ,
and set up a standard ;
publish ,
and conceal not :
say ,
Babylon is taken ,
Bel is confounded ,
Merodach is broken in pieces ;
her idols are confounded ,
her images are broken in pieces .
*
For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her ,
which shall make her land desolate ,
and none shall dwell therein :
they shall remove ,
they shall depart ,
both man and beast .
*
In those days ,
and in that time ,
saith the LORD ,
the children of Israel shall come ,
they and the children of Judah together ,
going and weeping :
they shall go ,
and seek the LORD their God .
*
They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward ,
saying ,
Come ,
and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten .
*
My people hath been lost sheep :
their shepherds have caused them to go astray ,
they have turned them away on the mountains :
they have gone from mountain to hill ,
they have forgotten their restingplace .
*
All that found them have devoured them :
and their adversaries said ,
We offend not ,
because they have sinned against the LORD ,
the habitation of justice ,
even the LORD ,
the hope of their fathers .
*
Remove out of the midst of Babylon ,
and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans ,
and be as the he goats before the flocks .
*
For ,
lo ,
I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country :
and they shall set themselves in array against her ;
from thence she shall be taken :
their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man ;
none shall return in vain .
*
And Chaldea shall be a spoil :
all that spoil her shall be satisfied ,
saith the LORD .
*
Because ye were glad ,
because ye rejoiced ,
O ye destroyers of mine heritage ,
because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass ,
and bellow as bulls ;
*
Your mother shall be sore confounded ;
she that bare you shall be ashamed :
behold ,
the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness ,
a dry land ,
and a desert .
*
Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited ,
but it shall be wholly desolate :
every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished ,
and hiss at all her plagues .
*
Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about :
all ye that bend the bow ,
shoot at her ,
spare no arrows :
for she hath sinned against the LORD .
*
Shout against her round about :
she hath given her hand :
her foundations are fallen ,
her walls are thrown down :
for it is the vengeance of the LORD :
take vengeance upon her ;
as she hath done ,
do unto her .
*
Cut off the sower from Babylon ,
and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest :
for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people ,
and they shall flee every one to his own land .
*
Israel is a scattered sheep ;
the lions have driven him away :
first the king of Assyria hath devoured him ;
and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones .
*
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
Behold ,
I will punish the king of Babylon and his land ,
as I have punished the king of Assyria .
*
And I will bring Israel again to his habitation ,
and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan ,
and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead .
*
In those days ,
and in that time ,
saith the LORD ,
the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for ,
and there shall be none ;
and the sins of Judah ,
and they shall not be found :
for I will pardon them whom I reserve .
*
Go up against the land of Merathaim ,
even against it ,
and against the inhabitants of Pekod :
waste and utterly destroy after them ,
saith the LORD ,
and do according to all that I have commanded thee .
*
A sound of battle is in the land ,
and of great destruction .
*
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken !
how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations !
*
I have laid a snare for thee ,
and thou art also taken ,
O Babylon ,
and thou wast not aware :
thou art found ,
and also caught ,
because thou hast striven against the LORD .
*
The LORD hath opened his armoury ,
and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation :
for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans .
*
Come against her from the utmost border ,
open her storehouses :
cast her up as heaps ,
and destroy her utterly :
let nothing of her be left .
*
Slay all her bullocks ;
let them go down to the slaughter :
woe unto them !
for their day is come ,
the time of their visitation .
*
The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon ,
to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God ,
the vengeance of his temple .
*
Call together the archers against Babylon :
all ye that bend the bow ,
camp against it round about ;
let none thereof escape :
recompense her according to her work ;
according to all that she hath done ,
do unto her :
for she hath been proud against the LORD ,
against the Holy One of Israel .
*
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets ,
and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day ,
saith the LORD .
*
Behold ,
I am against thee ,
O thou most proud ,
saith the Lord GOD of hosts :
for thy day is come ,
the time that I will visit thee .
*
And the most proud shall stumble and fall ,
and none shall raise him up :
and I will kindle a fire in his cities ,
and it shall devour all round about him .
*
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ;
The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together :
and all that took them captives held them fast ;
they refused to let them go .
*
Their Redeemer is strong ;
the LORD of hosts is his name :
he shall throughly plead their cause ,
that he may give rest to the land ,
and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon .
*
A sword is upon the Chaldeans ,
saith the LORD ,
and upon the inhabitants of Babylon ,
and upon her princes ,
and upon her wise men .
*
A sword is upon the liars ;
and they shall dote :
a sword is upon her mighty men ;
and they shall be dismayed .
*
A sword is upon their horses ,
and upon their chariots ,
and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her ;
and they shall become as women :
a sword is upon her treasures ;
and they shall be robbed .
*
A drought is upon her waters ;
and they shall be dried up :
for it is the land of graven images ,
and they are mad upon their idols .
*
Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there ,
and the owls shall dwell therein :
and it shall be no more inhabited for ever ;
neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation .
*
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof ,
saith the LORD ;
so shall no man abide there ,
neither shall any son of man dwell therein .
*
Behold ,
a people shall come from the north ,
and a great nation ,
and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth .
*
They shall hold the bow and the lance :
they are cruel ,
and will not shew mercy :
their voice shall roar like the sea ,
and they shall ride upon horses ,
every one put in array ,
like a man to the battle ,
against thee ,
O daughter of Babylon .
*
The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them ,
and his hands waxed feeble :
anguish took hold of him ,
and pangs as of a woman in travail .
*
Behold ,
he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong :
but I will make them suddenly run away from her :
and who is a chosen man ,
that I may appoint over her ?
for who is like me ?
and who will appoint me the time ?
and who is that shepherd that will stand before me ?
*
Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD ,
that he hath taken against Babylon ;
and his purposes ,
that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans :
Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out :
surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them .
*
At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved ,
and the cry is heard among the nations .
*
Thus saith the LORD ;
Behold ,
I will raise up against Babylon ,
and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me ,
a destroying wind ;
*
And will send unto Babylon fanners ,
that shall fan her ,
and shall empty her land :
for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about .
*
Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow ,
and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine :
and spare ye not her young men ;
destroy ye utterly all her host .
*
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans ,
and they that are thrust through in her streets .
*
For Israel hath not been forsaken ,
nor Judah of his God ,
of the LORD of hosts ;
though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel .
*
Flee out of the midst of Babylon ,
and deliver every man his soul :
be not cut off in her iniquity ;
for this is the time of the LORD '
S vengeance ;
he will render unto her a recompence .
*
Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD '
S hand ,
that made all the earth drunken :
the nations have drunken of her wine ;
therefore the nations are mad .
*
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed :
howl for her ;
take balm for her pain ,
if so be she may be healed .
*
We would have healed Babylon ,
but she is not healed :
forsake her ,
and let us go every one into his own country :
for her judgment reacheth unto heaven ,
and is lifted up even to the skies .
*
The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness :
come ,
and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God .
*
Make bright the arrows ;
gather the shields :
the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes :
for his device is against Babylon ,
to destroy it ;
because it is the vengeance of the LORD ,
the vengeance of his temple .
*
Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon ,
make the watch strong ,
set up the watchmen ,
prepare the ambushes :
for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon .
*
O thou that dwellest upon many waters ,
abundant in treasures ,
thine end is come ,
and the measure of thy covetousness .
*
The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself ,
saying ,
Surely I will fill thee with men ,
as with caterpillers ;
and they shall lift up a shout against thee .
*
He hath made the earth by his power ,
he hath established the world by his wisdom ,
and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding .
*
When he uttereth his voice ,
there is a multitude of waters in the heavens ;
and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth :
he maketh lightnings with rain ,
and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures .
*
Every man is brutish by his knowledge ;
every founder is confounded by the graven image :
for his molten image is falsehood ,
and there is no breath in them .
*
They are vanity ,
the work of errors :
in the time of their visitation they shall perish .
*
The portion of Jacob is not like them ;
for he is the former of all things :
and Israel is the rod of his inheritance :
the LORD of hosts is his name .
*
Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war :
for with thee will I break in pieces the nations ,
and with thee will I destroy kingdoms ;
*
And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider ;
and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider ;
*
With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman ;
and with thee will I break in pieces old and young ;
and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid ;
*
I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock ;
and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen ;
and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers .
*
And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight ,
saith the LORD .
*
Behold ,
I am against thee ,
O destroying mountain ,
saith the LORD ,
which destroyest all the earth :
and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee ,
and roll thee down from the rocks ,
and will make thee a burnt mountain .
*
And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner ,
nor a stone for foundations ;
but thou shalt be desolate for ever ,
saith the LORD .
*
Set ye up a standard in the land ,
blow the trumpet among the nations ,
prepare the nations against her ,
call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat ,
Minni ,
and Ashchenaz ;
appoint a captain against her ;
cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers .
*
Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes ,
the captains thereof ,
and all the rulers thereof ,
and all the land of his dominion .
*
And the land shall tremble and sorrow :
for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon ,
to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant .
*
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight ,
they have remained in their holds :
their might hath failed ;
they became as women :
they have burned her dwellingplaces ;
her bars are broken .
*
One post shall run to meet another ,
and one messenger to meet another ,
to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end ,
*
And that the passages are stopped ,
and the reeds they have burned with fire ,
and the men of war are affrighted .
*
For thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor ,
it is time to thresh her :
yet a little while ,
and the time of her harvest shall come .
*
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me ,
he hath crushed me ,
he hath made me an empty vessel ,
he hath swallowed me up like a dragon ,
he hath filled his belly with my delicates ,
he hath cast me out .
*
The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon ,
shall the inhabitant of Zion say ;
and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea ,
shall Jerusalem say .
*
Therefore thus saith the LORD ;
Behold ,
I will plead thy cause ,
and take vengeance for thee ;
and I will dry up her sea ,
and make her springs dry .
*
And Babylon shall become heaps ,
a dwellingplace for dragons ,
an astonishment ,
and an hissing ,
without an inhabitant .
*
They shall roar together like lions :
they shall yell as lions '
whelps .
*
In their heat I will make their feasts ,
and I will make them drunken ,
that they may rejoice ,
and sleep a perpetual sleep ,
and not wake ,
saith the LORD .
*
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter ,
like rams with he goats .
*
How is Sheshach taken !
and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised !
how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations !
*
The sea is come up upon Babylon :
she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof .
*
Her cities are a desolation ,
a dry land ,
and a wilderness ,
a land wherein no man dwelleth ,
neither doth any son of man pass thereby .
*
And I will punish Bel in Babylon ,
and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up :
and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him :
yea ,
the wall of Babylon shall fall .
*
My people ,
go ye out of the midst of her ,
and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD .
*
And lest your heart faint ,
and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land ;
a rumour shall both come one year ,
and after that in another year shall come a rumour ,
and violence in the land ,
ruler against ruler .
*
Therefore ,
behold ,
the days come ,
that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon :
and her whole land shall be confounded ,
and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her .
*
Then the heaven and the earth ,
and all that is therein ,
shall sing for Babylon :
for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north ,
saith the LORD .
*
As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall ,
so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth .
*
Ye that have escaped the sword ,
go away ,
stand not still :
remember the LORD afar off ,
and let Jerusalem come into your mind .
*
We are confounded ,
because we have heard reproach :
shame hath covered our faces :
for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD '
S house .
*
Wherefore ,
behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that I will do judgment upon her graven images :
and through all her land the wounded shall groan .
*
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven ,
and though she should fortify the height of her strength ,
yet from me shall spoilers come unto her ,
saith the LORD .
*
A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon ,
and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans :
*
Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon ,
and destroyed out of her the great voice ;
when her waves do roar like great waters ,
a noise of their voice is uttered :
*
Because the spoiler is come upon her ,
even upon Babylon ,
and her mighty men are taken ,
every one of their bows is broken :
for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite .
*
And I will make drunk her princes ,
and her wise men ,
her captains ,
and her rulers ,
and her mighty men :
and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep ,
and not wake ,
saith the King ,
whose name is the LORD of hosts .
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ;
The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken ,
and her high gates shall be burned with fire ;
and the people shall labour in vain ,
and the folk in the fire ,
and they shall be weary .
*
The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah ,
the son of Maaseiah ,
when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign .
And this Seraiah was a quiet prince .
*
So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon ,
even all these words that are written against Babylon .
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And Jeremiah said to Seraiah ,
When thou comest to Babylon ,
and shalt see ,
and shalt read all these words ;
*
Then shalt thou say ,
O LORD ,
thou hast spoken against this place ,
to cut it off ,
that none shall remain in it ,
neither man nor beast ,
but that it shall be desolate for ever .
*
And it shall be ,
when thou hast made an end of reading this book ,
that thou shalt bind a stone to it ,
and cast it into the midst of Euphrates :
*
And thou shalt say ,
Thus shall Babylon sink ,
and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her :
and they shall be weary .
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah .
*
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem .
And his mother '
s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah .
*
And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD ,
according to all that Jehoiakim had done .
*
For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah ,
till he had cast them out from his presence ,
that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon .
*
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign ,
in the tenth month ,
in the tenth day of the month ,
that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came ,
he and all his army ,
against Jerusalem ,
and pitched against it ,
and built forts against it round about .
*
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah .
*
And in the fourth month ,
in the ninth day of the month ,
the famine was sore in the city ,
so that there was no bread for the people of the land .
*
Then the city was broken up ,
and all the men of war fled ,
and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls ,
which was by the king '
s garden ; (
now the Chaldeans were by the city round about :)
and they went by the way of the plain .
*
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king ,
and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho ;
and all his army was scattered from him .
*
Then they took the king ,
and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath ;
where he gave judgment upon him .
*
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes :
he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah .
*
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah ;
and the king of Babylon bound him in chains ,
and carried him to Babylon ,
and put him in prison till the day of his death .
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Now in the fifth month ,
in the tenth day of the month ,
which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ,
came Nebuzaradan ,
captain of the guard ,
which served the king of Babylon ,
into Jerusalem ,
*
And burned the house of the LORD ,
and the king '
s house ;
and all the houses of Jerusalem ,
and all the houses of the great men ,
burned he with fire :
*
And all the army of the Chaldeans ,
that were with the captain of the guard ,
brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about .
*
Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people ,
and the residue of the people that remained in the city ,
and those that fell away ,
that fell to the king of Babylon ,
and the rest of the multitude .
*
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen .
*
Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD ,
and the bases ,
and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD ,
the Chaldeans brake ,
and carried all the brass of them to Babylon .
*
The caldrons also ,
and the shovels ,
and the snuffers ,
and the bowls ,
and the spoons ,
and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered ,
took they away .
*
And the basons ,
and the firepans ,
and the bowls ,
and the caldrons ,
and the candlesticks ,
and the spoons ,
and the cups ;
that which was of gold in gold ,
and that which was of silver in silver ,
took the captain of the guard away .
*
The two pillars ,
one sea ,
and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases ,
which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD :
the brass of all these vessels was without weight .
*
And concerning the pillars ,
the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits ;
and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it ;
and the thickness thereof was four fingers :
it was hollow .
*
And a chapiter of brass was upon it ;
and the height of one chapiter was five cubits ,
with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about ,
all of brass .
The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these .
*
And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side ;
and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about .
*
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest ,
and Zephaniah the second priest ,
and the three keepers of the door :
*
He took also out of the city an eunuch ,
which had the charge of the men of war ;
and seven men of them that were near the king '
s person ,
which were found in the city ;
and the principal scribe of the host ,
who mustered the people of the land ;
and threescore men of the people of the land ,
that were found in the midst of the city .
*
So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them ,
and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah .
*
And the king of Babylon smote them ,
and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath .
Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land .
*
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive :
in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty :
*
In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons :
*
In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons :
all the persons were four thousand and six hundred .
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And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah ,
in the twelfth month ,
in the five and twentieth day of the month ,
that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah ,
and brought him forth out of prison ,
*
And spake kindly unto him ,
and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon ,
*
And changed his prison garments :
and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life .
*
And for his diet ,
there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon ,
every day a portion until the day of his death ,
all the days of his life .
*
In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years ,
whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet ,
that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem .