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Prophecies of destruction.

CHAP. XXVI.

Jeremiah is arrested.

Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the to flee, nor the principal of the flock to remnant of Ashdod,

21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,

22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,

23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,

24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,

25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,

escape.

36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.

37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

CHAP. XXVI.

26 And all the kings of the north, far the beginning of the reign of Jehoia

kim the son of Josiah king of Judah and near, one with another, and all the came this word from the LORD, saying, kingdoms of the world, which are upon the 2 Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the face of the earth: and the king of She-court of the LORD's house, and speak unto shach shall drink after them. all the cities of Judah, which come to

27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, worship in the LORD's house, all the words Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of that I command thee to speak unto them; Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and diminish not a word:

spue, and fall, and rise no more, because 3 If so be they will hearken, and turn of the sword which I will send among you. every man from his evil way, that I may 28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take repent me of the evil, which I purpose to the cup at thy hand to drink, then shalt do unto them because of the evil of their thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD doings. of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink. 4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus 29 For lo, I begin to bring evil on the saith the LORD, If ye will not hearken to city which is called by my name, and me to walk in my law, which I have set should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall before you, not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.

5 To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them,

30 Therefore prophesy thou against but ye have not hearkened; them all these words, and say unto them, 6 Then will I make this house like The LORD shall roar from on high, and Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to utter his voice from his holy habitation; all the nations of the earth.

he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; 7 So the priests and the prophets and all he shall give a shout, as they that tread the the people heard Jeremiah speaking these grapes, against all the inhabitants of the words in the house of the LORD.

8 Now it came to pass, when Jere

earth. 31 A noise shall come even to the ends miah had made an end of speaking all that of the earth; for the LORD hath a con- the LORD had commanded him to speak troversy with the nations, he will plead unto all the people, that the priests and the with all flesh; he will give them that are prophets and all the people took him, saywicked to the sword, saith the LORD. ing, Thou shalt surely die.

32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Be- 9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name hold, evil shall go forth from nation to na- of the LORD, saying, This house shall be tion, and a great whirlwind shall be raised like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate up from the coasts of the earth. without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall 10 ¶ When the princes of Judah heard not be lamented, neither gathered, nor these things, then they came up from the buried; they shall be dung upon the king's house unto the house of the LORD, ground. and sat down in the entry of the new gate

34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and of the LORD's house. wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye princi- 11 Then spake the priests and the propal of the flock: for the days of your phets unto the princes and to all the people, slaughter and of your dispersions are ac- saying, This man is worthy to die; for he complished; and ye shall fall like a plea- hath prophesied against this city, as ye sant vessel. have heard with your ears.

35 And the shepherds shall have no way

12 T Then spake Jeremiah unto all the

Jeremiah is acquitted.

JEREMIAH.

Sundry prophecies. princes, and to all the people, saying, The 2 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make LORD sent me to prophesy against this thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon house and against this city all the words thy neck,

that ye have heard.

3 And send them to the king of Edom, 13 Therefore now amend your ways and and to the king of Moab, and to the king of your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, your God; and the LORD will repent him of and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the evil that he hath pronounced against you. the messengers which come to Jerusalem 14 As for me, behold, I am in your hand: unto Zedekiah king of Judah; do with me as seemeth good and meet unto

you:

4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the 15 But know ye for certain, that if ye God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your put me to death, ye shall surely bring in-masters;

nocent blood upon yourselves, and upon 5 I have made the earth, the man and this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: the beast that are upon the ground, by my for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto great power and by my out-stretched arm, you to speak all these words in your ears. and have given it unto whom it seemed 16 Then said the princes and all the meet unto me.

people unto the priests and to the prophets; 6 And now have I given all these lands This man is not worthy to die: for he hath into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king spoken to us in the name of the LORD our of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of God. the field have given him also to serve him. 17 Then rose up certain of the elders of 7 And all nations shall serve him, and the land, and spake to all the assembly of his son, and his son's son, until the very the people, saying, time of his land come: and then many 18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in nations and great kings shall serve themthe days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and selves of him.

spake to all the people of Judah, saying, 8 And it shall come to pass, that the naThus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall tion and kingdom which will not serve the be ploughed like a field, and Jerusalem shall same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babybecome heaps, and the mountain of the lon, and that will not put their neck under house as the high places of a forest. the yoke of the king of Babylon, that na19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all tion will I punish, saith the LORD, with the Judah put him at all to death? did he not sword, and with the famine, and with the fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and pestilence, until I have consumed them by the LORD repented him of the evil which he his hand. had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your 20 And there was also a man that pro- dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to phesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saythe son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, who ing, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: prophesied against this city and against this 10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to land according to all the words of Jeremiah: remove you far from your land; and that I 21 And when Jehoiakim the king with should drive you out, and ye should perish. all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;

11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon. and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and 22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into they shall till it, and dwell therein. Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Ach- 12 ¶ I spake also to Zedekiah king of bor, and certain men with him into Egypt. Judah according to all these words, saying, 23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Bring your necks under the yoke of the Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim king of Babylon, and serve him and his the king; who slew him with the sword, people, and live.

and cast his dead body into the graves of 13 Why will ye die, thou and thy peothe common people. ple, by the sword, by the famine, and by 24 Nevertheless, the hand of Ahikam the the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that against the nation that will not serve the they should not give him into the hand of king of Babylon? the people to put him to death.

CHAP. XXVII.

14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, say N the beginning of the reign of Jehoia-ing, Ye shall not serve the king of Baby

In of off they prophesy a lie unto you.

came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

15 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my

Hananiah's false prophecy. CHAP. XXVIII, XXIX. Jeremiah's yoke broken. name; that I might drive you out, and that 6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perprophesy unto you. form thy words which thou hast prophe16 Also I spake to the priests and to all sied, to bring again the vessels of the this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; LORD's house, and all that is carried away Hearken not to the words of your prophets captive, from Babylon into this place. that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, 7 Nevertheless, hear thou now this word the vessels of the LORD's house shall now that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears shortly be brought again from Babylon: of all the people;

for they prophesy a lie unto you.

8 The prophets that have been before 17 Hearken not unto them; serve the me and before thee of old, prophesied both king of Babylon, and live: wherefore against many countries, and against great should this city be laid waste? kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them 9 The prophet which prophesieth of now make intercession to the LORD of peace, when the word of the prophet shall hosts, that the vessels which are left in the come to pass, then shall the prophet be house of the LORD, and in the house of the known, that the LORD hath truly sent him. king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.

10 ¶ Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.

19 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the 11 And Hananiah spake in the presence sea, and concerning the bases, and con- of all the people, saying, Thus saith the cerning the residue of the vessels that re- LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of main in this city, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the 20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of neck of all nations within the space of two Babylon took not, when he carried away full years. And the prophet Jeremiah captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king went his way.

of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and 12 T Then the word of the LORD came all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Ha21 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, naniah the prophet had broken the yoke the God of Israel, concerning the vessels from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, that remain in the house of the LORD, and saying, in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;

22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place. CHAP. XXVIII.

AND it came to pass the same year, in

13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.

14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that

they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of the beginning of the reign of Zede- Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I kiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and have given him the beasts of the field also. in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son 15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in Hananiah; the LORD hath not sent thee; the presence of the priests, and of all the people, saying,

2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king

but thoumakest this people to trust in a lie.

16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.

17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month. CHAP. XXIX.

TOW these are the words of the letter

of Babylon took away from this place, and that Jeremiah the prophet sent from

carried them to Babylon.

4 And I will bring again to this place Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Ju- which were carried away captives, and to dah, with all the captives of Judah, that the priests, and to the prophets, and to all went into Babylon, saith the LORD; for I the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. carried away captive from Jerusalem to 5 T Then the prophet Jeremiah said Babylon;

unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence 2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the of the priests, and in the presence of all the queen, and the cunuchs, the princes of people that stood in the house of the LORD, Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters,

Jeremiah's letter to the

JEREMIAH.

captives of Babylon.

and the smiths, were departed from Je-| rusalem ;) 18 And I will persecute them with the 3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Sha- tilence, and will deliver them to be resword, with the famine, and with the pesphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, moved to all the kingdoms of the earth, to (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto be a curse, and an astonishment, and a Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Ba- hissing, and a reproach, among all the nabylon) saying, 4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God tions whither I have driven them: of Israel, unto all that are carried away my words, saith the LORD, which I sent 19 Because they have not hearkened to captives, whom I have caused to be car- unto them by my servants the prophets, ried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; rising up early and sending them; but ye 5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; would not hear, saith the LORD. and plant gardens,and eat the fruit of them; 6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I 20 Hear ye therefore the word of the daughters; and take wives for your sons, have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon: and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, 21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the ye may be increased there, and not di- and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, minished. 7 And seek the peace of the city whither name; Behold, I will deliver them into which prophesy a lie unto you in my I have caused you to be carried away cap- the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Batives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in by lon; and he shall slay them before the peace thereof shall 8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, have peace. ye your eyes; the God of Israel; Let not your prophets curse by all the captivity of Judah which 22 And of them shall be taken up a and your diviners, that be in the midst of are in Babylon, saying, the LORD make you, deceive you, neither hearken to your thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.

10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

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lany in Israel, and have committed adul23 Because they have committed vilhave spoken lying words in my name, tery with their neighbours' wives, and which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD. 24 T Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,

the God of Israel, saying, Because thou 25 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, hast sent letters in thy name unto all the phaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zeand to all the priests, saying,

13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye 26 The LORD hath made thee priest in when ye shall search for me with all your should be officers in the house of the LORD, heart. 14 And I will be found of you, saith the himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put for every man that is mad, and maketh LORD: and I will turn away your cap-him in prison, and in the stocks. tivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which 27 Now therefore why hast thou not have driven you, saith the LORD; and I maketh himself a prophet to you? will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive. 15 T Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;

bylon, saying, This captivity is long: 28 For therefore he sent unto us in Babuild ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

16 Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not unto Jeremiah, saying, gone forth with you into captivity;

letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet. 29 And Zephaniah the priest read this 30 ¶ Then came the word of the LORD

31 Send to all them of the captivity,

17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Be-saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning hold, I will send upon them the sword, the Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that fan.ine, and the pestilence, and will make Shemaiah hath prophesied to you, and I them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, sent him not, and he caused you to trust in they are so evil. a lie:

Jacob is comforted.

CHAP. XXX, XXXI.

Return of the Jews. 32 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Be- 15 Why criest thou for thine affliction! hold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehe- thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude Jamite, and his seed: he shall not have a of thine iniquity: because thy sins were inman to dwell among this people; neither creased, I have done these things unto thee. shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD. CHAP. XXX.

THER

HE word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

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

17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an 3 For lo, the days come, saith the Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no LORD, that I will bring again the cap-man seeketh after.

tivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith 18 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I the LORD and I will cause them to return will bring again the captivity of Jacob's to the land that I gave to their fathers, and tents, and have mercy on his dwellingthey shall possess it. places; and the city shall be builded upon 4¶ And these are the words that the her own heap, and the palace shall remain LORD spake concerning Israel, and con- after the manner thereof. cerning Judah. 19 And out of them shall proceed thanks5 For thus saith the LORD; We have giving and the voice of them that make heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and merry: and I will multiply them, and they not of peace. shall not be few; I will also glorify them, 6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man and they shall not be small. doth travail with child? wherefore do I 20 Their children also shall be as aforesee every man with his hands on his loins, time, and their congregation shall be esas a woman in travail, and all faces are tablished before me, and I will punish all turned into paleness? that oppress them.

7 Alas! for that day is great, so that 21 And their nobles shall be of themnone is like it: it is even the time of Ja-selves, and their governor shall proceed cob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. from the midst of them; and I will cause 8 For it shall come to pass in that day, him to draw near, and he shall approach saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break unto me: for who is this that engaged his his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD. thy bonds, and strangers shall no more 22 And ye shall be my people, and I serve themselves of him: will be your God.

9 But they shall serve the LORD their 23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD God, and David their king, whom I will goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlraise up unto them. wind: it shall fall with pain upon the

10 Therefore fear thou not, O my head of the wicked. servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be 24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall dismayed, O Israel: for lo, I will save not return, until he have done it, and until thee from afar, and thy seed from the land he have performed the intents of his heart: of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, in the latter days ye shall consider it. and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and CHAP. XXXI. none shall make him afraid.

AT the same time, saith the LORD, will

11 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, I be the God of all the families of to save thee: though I make a full end of Israel. and they shall be my people. all nations whither I have scattered thee, 2 Thus saith the LORD, The people yet will I not make a full end of thee : but which were left of the sword found grâce I will correct thee in measure, and will in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went not leave thee altogether unpunished.

12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous. 13 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

to cause him to rest.

3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt 14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt they seek thee not; for I have wounded again be adorned with thy tabrets, and thee with the wound of an enemy, with shalt go forth in the dances of them that the chastisement of a cruel one, for the make merry. multitude of thine iniquity; because thy 5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall

sins were increased.

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