1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were at Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin.
2 The word of the Lord came to him in the days of Josiah the son of Ammon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
3 He also came to him in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
4 So the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I sanctified you, I made you a prophet to the nations.
6 And I said: Ah! Ah, Lord Jehovah! The thing is, I do not know how to talk, because I’m a child.
7 And the LORD said to me, Do not say, I am a child; for you will go to everything I send you, and you will say everything I send you.
8 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.
9 And the LORD stretched out his hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
10 Behold, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to uproot and to destroy, to ruin and to tear down, to build and to plant.
11 The word of the Lord came to me, saying, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said: I see an almond tree.
12 And the Lord said to me, You have seen well; because I hasten my word to put it into action.
13 The word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What do you see? And I said: I see a pot boiling; and his face is toward the north.
14 The Lord said to me: From the north evil will be unleashed on all the inhabitants of this land.
15 For behold, I call together all the families of the northern kingdoms, says the Lord; and they will come, and each man will pitch his camp at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and by all its walls round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
16 And because of all their wickedness, I will pronounce my judgments against those who have forsaken me, and have incensed other gods, and have worshiped the work of their hands.
17 You, therefore, gird your loins, arise, and speak to them whatever I command you; Do not be afraid before them, lest I cause you to break before them.
18 For behold, I have made you this day as a fortified city, as a pillar of iron, and as a wall of bronze against all this land, against the kings of Judah, its princes, its priests, and the people of the land.
19 And they will fight against you, but they will not defeat you; for I am with you, says the Lord, to deliver you.
1 The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD: I have remembered you, the faithfulness of your youth, the love of your espousal, when you walked after me in the desert, in unsown land.
3 Israel was holy to the Lord, the first fruits of his new fruits. All those who devoured him were guilty; evil was coming upon them, says the Lord.
4 Hear the word of the Lord, house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
5 Thus says the LORD: What evil did your fathers find in me, that they turned away from me, and went after vanity and became vain?
6 And they did not say, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land that was deserted and desolate, through a dry land and the shadow of death, through a land through which there was no man passed by, nor did man dwell there?
7 And he brought you into a land of plenty, that you might eat its fruit and its goodness; But you came in and defiled my land, and made my inheritance abominable.
8 The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who had the law did not know me; and the shepherds rebelled against me, and the prophets prophesied in the name of Baal, and they walked after what is of no use.
9 Therefore I will still contend with you, says the LORD, and will plead with your children’s children.
10 For go over to the coasts of Chittim and see; and send to Kedar, and consider carefully, and see if any such thing as this has been done.
11 Has any nation changed its gods, although they are not gods? However, my people have exchanged their glory for what is of no use.
12 Be terrified, O heavens, at this, and be horrified; Be very desolate, says the Lord.
13 For my people have committed two evils: they have left me, the fountain of living water, and have dug cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
14 Is Israel a servant? Is he a slave? Why has he come to be prey?
15 The lion’s cubs roared against him, lifted up their voice, and laid waste his land; His cities are burned, without an inhabitant.
16 Even the sons of Memphis and Taphnes broke your crown.
17 Did not this cause you to have forsaken the Lord your God, when he was leading you on the way?
18 Now then, what have you got on the road to Egypt, that you should drink water from the Nile? And what have you got in the way of Assyria, that you should drink water from the Euphrates?
19Your wickedness will punish you, and your rebellions will condemn you; Therefore he knows and sees how evil and bitter it is that you have forsaken the Lord your God, and that my fear is gone from you, says the Lord, the Lord of hosts.
20 For from long ago you broke your yoke and your bonds, and said, I will not serve. With all that, on every high hill and under every leafy tree you lay like a harlot.
21 I have planted you with a choice vine, all of it true seed; How then have you become a strange vine branch to me?
22 Even though you wash with lye and heap soap on yourself, the stain of your sin will still remain before me, says the Lord GOD.
23 How can you say: I am not unclean, I never walked after Baalim? Look at your behavior in the valley, know what you have done, light dromedary that twists its path,
24 wild donkey accustomed to the desert, that in its ardor sniffs the wind. From her lust, who will stop her? All who seek her will not be weary, for in the time of her zeal they will find her.
25 Keep your feet from walking barefoot, and your throat from thirst. But you said: There is no remedy in any way, for I have loved strangers, and after them I must go.
26 As a thief is ashamed when he is discovered, so will the house of Israel be ashamed, they, their kings, their princes, their priests and their prophets,
27 who say to a log: You are my father; already a stone: You have engendered me. Because they turned my neck, and not my face; and in the time of his calamity they say, Arise and deliver us.
28 And where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise, to see if they can deliver you in the time of your affliction; for according to the number of your cities, O Judah, were your gods.
29 Why do you insist on me? All of you have transgressed against me, says the Lord.
30 In vain have I scourged your children; They have not received correction. Your sword devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.
31 O generation! Pay attention to the word of the Lord. Have I been a desert to Israel, or a land of darkness? Why have my people said: We are free; will we never come to you again?
32 Does the virgin forget her attire, or the bride her finery? But my people have forgotten me for countless days.
33 Why do you decorate your path to find love? Even to the wicked you taught your ways.
34 Even on your skirts was found the blood of the poor, of the innocent. You did not find them in any crime; However, in all these things you say:
35 I am innocent; surely his anger has departed from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you said, I have not sinned.
36 Why do you wander so much, changing your paths? You will also be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
37 You will also come out from there with your hands on your head, because the Lord has rejected those in whom you trusted, and you will not prosper because of them.
1 They say: If a man leaves his wife, and she leaves him and joins another man, will he return to her again? Is not that land be greatly polluted? You, then, have committed fornication with many friends; but return to me! says Jehovah.
2 He lifts up your eyes on high, and he sees where you have not played the harlot. By the roads you sat for them like an Arab in the desert, and with your fornications and with your wickedness you have polluted the land.
3 For this reason the waters have been stopped, and the latter rain has failed; and you have had the forehead of a harlot, and you did not want to be ashamed.
4 At least from now on, will you not call me, my Father, guide of my youth?
5 Will you keep his anger forever? Will he keep it forever? Behold, you have spoken and done as many evil things as you could.
6 The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Have you seen what rebellious Israel has done? She goes over every high mountain and under every leafy tree, and there she commits fornication.
7 And I said, After doing all this, she will return to me; but she did not turn, and her sister the rebellious Judah saw it.
8 She saw that because rebellious Israel had committed fornication, I had sent her away and given her a letter of divorce; But her rebellious sister Judah was not afraid, but she also went and committed fornication.
9 And it came to pass, that because she judged her fornication to be light, the land was defiled, and she committed adultery with the stone and with the wood.
10 With all this, her rebellious sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but feignedly, says the Lord.
11 And the LORD said to me: Rebellious Israel has proven righteous in comparison with faithless Judah.
12 Go and cry these words toward the north, and say: Return, O rebellious Israel, says the Lord; I will not cause my anger to fall on you, for I am merciful, says the Lord, I will not keep anger forever.
13 Therefore acknowledge your iniquity, because you have transgressed against the Lord your God, and have committed fornication with strangers under every green tree, and have not obeyed my voice, says the Lord.
14 Return, rebellious children, says the Lord, for I am your husband; and I will take you one from each city, and two from each family, and I will bring you into Zion;
15 And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
16 And it shall come to pass, when ye multiply and grow in the land, that in those days, saith the LORD, it shall no more be said, The ark of the covenant of the LORD; nor will it come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will another one be made.
17 At that time they will call Jerusalem, The Throne of the Lord, and all the nations will come to it in the name of the Lord in Jerusalem; nor will they walk any longer after the hardness of her wicked heart.
18 In those days they will go from the house of Judah to the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers to inherit.
19 I asked: How will I make you children, and give you the desirable land, the rich inheritance of the nations? And I said, You will call me, My Father, and you will not depart from following me.
20 But as an unfaithful wife abandons her companion, so you have transgressed against me, O house of Israel, says the Lord.
21 A voice was heard on high, the cry of the prayers of the children of Israel; Because they have turned their way astray, they have forgotten the Lord their God.
22 Turn back, rebellious children, and I will heal your transgressions. Behold, we come to you, for you are Jehovah our God.
23 Surely the hills are vanity, and the bustle on the mountains; surely in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.
24 Confusion consumed the work of our fathers from our youth; his sheep, his herds, his sons and his daughters.
25 We lie in our confusion, and our shame covers us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.
1 If you return, O Israel, says the Lord, return to me. And if you remove your abominations from before me, and do not walk to and fro,
2 and swear, As the Lord lives in truth, in judgment and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed in him, and in him they will glory.
3 For thus says the LORD to every man of Judah and Jerusalem: Plow a field for yourselves, and do not sow among thorns.
4 Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and remove the foreskin from your heart, men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath come out like fire, and be kindled, and there be no one to quench it, because of the evil of your works.
5 Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, Blow the trumpet in the land; proclaim, gather together, and say: Gather yourselves together, and let us enter the fortified cities.
6 Raise a banner in Zion, flee, do not stay; for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.
7 The lion comes up from the thicket, and the destroyer of nations is on the march, and has come out from his place to make your land a desolation; Your cities will be desolate and without inhabitants.
8 Therefore put on sackcloth, mourn and howl; for the wrath of the Lord has not departed from us.
9 In that day, says the Lord, the heart of the king and the heart of princes will fail, and the priests will be astonished, and the prophets will marvel.
10 And I said, Alas, alas, Jehovah God! Truly you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: You will have peace; for the sword has come to the soul.
11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A dry wind from the heights of the desert has come to the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse.
12 A wind stronger than this will come to me; and now I will pronounce judgments against them.
13 Behold, he will ascend like a cloud, and his chariot like a whirlwind; His horses are lighter than his eagles. Woe to us, because given over we are spoiled!
14 Wash your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you allow thoughts of iniquity in your midst?
15 For a voice brings tidings from Dan, and makes calamity heard from Mount Ephraim.
16 Say to the nations: Behold, make it heard over Jerusalem: Guards are coming from a far land, and they will raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
17 They were like field guards around her, because she rebelled against me, says the Lord.
18 Your way and your works did this to you; This is your wickedness, so bitterness will penetrate to your heart.
19 My bowels, my bowels! My heartstrings ache; my heart stirs within me; I will not be silent; For you have heard the sound of a trumpet, O my soul, a proclamation of war.
20 Devastation upon destruction is announced; because the whole earth is destroyed; suddenly my tents are destroyed, in a moment my curtains.
21 How long must I see a flag, how long must I hear the sound of a trumpet?
22 Because my people are foolish, they did not know me; They are ignorant children and are not understood; wise to do evil, but to do good they did not know how.
23 I looked at the land, and behold, it was desolate and empty; and to the heavens, and there was no light in them.
24 I looked at the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills were destroyed.
25 I looked, and there was no man, and all the birds of the air were gone.
26 I looked, and, behold, the fertile field was a wilderness, and all its cities were laid waste before the Lord, before the fierceness of his anger.
27 For thus says the LORD: The whole land will be desolate; but I will not destroy it completely.
28 For this reason the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will be darkened, because I spoke, I thought, and I did not repent, nor will I desist from it.
29 At the noise of the horsemen and the archers the whole city fled; They entered the thickets of the forests, and climbed the rocks; All the cities were abandoned, and no inhabitants were left in them.
30 And you, destroyed, what will you do? Even if you dress in scarlet, even if you adorn yourself with gold attire, even if you paint your eyes with antimony, you adorn yourself in vain; Your lovers will despise you, they will seek your life.
31 For I heard a voice like that of a woman in labor, anguish like that of a newborn; voice of the daughter of Zion who laments and stretches out her hands, saying: Woe now to me! that my soul faints because of the murderers.
1 Walk through the streets of Jerusalem, and look now, and inform yourselves; Search its squares to see if you find a man, if there is anyone who does justice, who seeks truth; and I will forgive her.
2 Even though they say, As the Lord lives, they swear falsely.
3 O Lord, do not your eyes see the truth? You struck them, and it did not hurt them; you consumed them, and they did not want to receive correction; They made their faces harder than stone, they did not want to convert.
4 But I said: Surely these are poor, they have gone mad, because they do not know the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God.
5 I will go to the great ones, and I will speak to them; for they know the way of the Lord, the judgment of his God. But they also broke the yoke, they broke the bonds.
6 Therefore, the lion of the forest will kill them, the wolf of the desert will destroy them, the leopard will stalk their cities; Whoever comes out of them will be caught up; because their rebellions have multiplied, their disloyalties have increased.
7 How can I forgive you for this? Their children left me, and swore by what is not God. I satisfied them, and they committed adultery, and in the house of harlots they gathered in companies.
8 Like well-fed horses, each neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
9 Shouldn’t this be punished? said Jehovah. On a nation like this, should not my soul take revenge?
10 Scale its walls and destroy, but not completely; remove the battlements from its walls, for they are not the Lord’s.
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have resolutely rebelled against me, says the Lord.
12 They denied the LORD, and said, He is not he, and he will not come upon us, nor will we see sword or famine;
13 but the prophets will be like the wind, because there is no word in them; so it will be done to them.
14 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: Because they said this word, behold, I will put my words in your mouth for fire, and this people for wood, and it will consume them.
15 Behold, I bring upon you people from afar, O house of Israel, says the LORD; robust people, ancient people, people whose language you will ignore, and you will not understand what I will speak.
16 His quiver is like an open tomb, all of you mighty.
17 And he will eat your harvest and your bread, he will eat your sons and your daughters; He will eat your sheep and your herds, he will eat your vineyards and your fig trees, and with the sword he will turn into nothing your fortified cities in which you trust.
18 Nevertheless, in those days, says the Lord, I will not completely destroy you.
19And when they say, “Why did the Lord our God do all these things for us?”
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and make this heard in Judah, saying:
21 Hear this now, you foolish and heartless people, who have eyes and do not see, who have ears and do not hear:
22 Do I not? will you fear me? says Jehovah. Will you not be afraid of me, who made sand a boundary for the sea, for an eternal ordinance which will not be broken? Storms will arise, but they will not prevail; Its waves will roar, but they will not pass it.
23 However, this people has a false and rebellious heart; They turned away and left.
24 And they did not say in his heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, who gives the early and the latter rain in his season, and keeps for us the appointed times of the harvest.
25 Your iniquities have hindered these things, and your sins have taken away good from you.
26 For wicked men were found among my people; They lay in wait like those who set snares, they set a trap to hunt men.
27 Like a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; That’s how they became big and rich.
28 They became fat and shiny, and surpassed the deeds of the wicked; They did not judge the cause, the cause of the orphan; Nevertheless, they became prosperous, and they did not judge the cause of the poor.
29 Will I not punish this? says Jehovah; and will not my soul take revenge on such people?
30 A fearful and ugly thing is done in the land;
31 The prophets prophesied lies, and the priests led by their hands; and my people wanted it that way. What, will you do when the end comes?
1 Flee, you children of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and lift up smoke for a sign over Beth-hacherem; because evil has been seen from the north, and great destruction.
2 I will destroy the beautiful and delicate daughter of Zion.
3 Shepherds and her flocks will come against her; Next to her they will pitch her tents around her; each one will feed in her place.
4 Announce war against her; Get up from it and let’s attack it at noon. Woe to us! that the day is already falling, that the shadows of the afternoon have spread.
5 Arise and let us storm by night, and destroy her palaces.
6 For thus says the LORD of hosts: Cut down trees, and build a fence against Jerusalem; this is the city that is to be punished; all of it is full of violence.
7 As the fountain never ceases to flow its waters, so it never ceases to flow its wickedness; injustice and theft are heard in it; continually in my presence, illness and injury.
8 Correct yourself, Jerusalem, so that my soul does not depart from you, so that I do not turn you into a desert, an uninhabited land.
9 Thus says the LORD of hosts: The rest of Israel will glean as a vine; Turn your hand like a grape harvester among the branches.
10 To whom shall I speak and warn, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot hear; behold, the word of the Lord is a shameful thing to them, they do not love it.
11 Therefore I am filled with the wrath of the Lord, I am tired of holding back; I will pour it on the children in the street, and on the gathering of the young people alike; for both the husband and the wife, both the old and the very old, will be taken prisoner.
12 And his houses will be transferred to others, his inheritances and also his wives; for I will stretch out my hand over the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord.
13 For from the least of them to the greatest, each one pursues covetousness; and from the prophet to the priest, all are deceivers.
14 And they heal the wound of my people with lightness, saying: Peace, peace; and there is no peace.
15 Have you been ashamed of having done an abomination? Certainly they have not been ashamed, nor do they even know how to be ashamed; therefore they will fall among those who fall; when he punishes them they will fall, says the Lord.
16 Thus says the LORD: Stand in the ways, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, what is the good way, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your soul. But they said: We will not walk.
17 I also set watchmen over you, saying: Listen to the sound of the trumpet. And they said, We will not listen.
18Therefore hear, ye nations, and understand, O congregation, what shall come to pass.
19 Hear, earth: Behold, I bring evil upon this people, the fruit of their thoughts; because they did not listen to my words, and hated my law.
20 Why to me this incense from Sheba, and the good fragrant reed from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor do your sacrifices please me.
21 Therefore this is what the LORD says: Behold, I am putting stumbling blocks for this people, and fathers and children will fall into them together; The neighbor and his companion will perish.
22 Thus says the LORD: Behold, a people is coming from the land of the north, and a great nation will arise from the ends of the earth.
23 They will wield bow and javelin; They are cruel, and will have no mercy; Their noise roars like the sea, and they will ride on horses like men ready for war against you, O daughter of Zion.
24 We heard his fame, and our hands were out of joint; She took hold of us, anguish, pain like that of a woman in labor.
25 Do not go out into the field, nor walk along the road; because there is a sword of enemy and fear everywhere.
26 Daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes; put on mourning as for an only child, crying with bitterness; because soon the destroyer will come upon us.
27 I have made you a stronghold in my people, a tower; You will therefore know and examine their way.
28 All of them are rebellious, stubborn, they gossip; They are bronze and iron; They are all corrupters.
29 The bellows have burned, the lead has been consumed by the fire; The smelter melted in vain, for the slag has not been removed.
30 They will call them rejected silver, because the Lord rejected them.
1 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
2 Stand at the gate of the house of the LORD, and proclaim this word there, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
3 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Improve your ways and your works, and I will make you dwell in this place.
4 Trust not in lying words, saying, This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, this is the temple of the Lord.
5 But if you completely improve your ways and your works; If you truly do justice between man and his neighbor,
6 and do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place, nor follow other gods to your harm,
7 I will make you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever.
8 Behold, you trust in lying words, which do not profit.
9 By stealing, by killing, by committing adultery, by swearing falsely, and by incensing to Baal, and by walking after strange gods which you have not known,
10 will you come and stand before me in this house which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered? ; to continue doing all these abominations?
11 Is this house, which is called by my name, a den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I also see it, says the Lord.
12 Go now to my place in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at the beginning, and see what I did to it for the iniquity of my people Israel.
13 Now therefore, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and although I spoke to you early and without ceasing, you did not hear, and I called you, and you did not answer;
14 I will also do to this house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to this place which I gave to you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
15 I will drive you out of my presence, as I drove out all your brothers, the entire generation of Ephraim.
16 You therefore do not pray for this people, nor raise up a cry or prayer for them, nor entreat me; because I won’t hear you.
17 Do you not see what these are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 The children gather the wood, the parents light the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to make offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
19 Will they provoke me to anger? says Jehovah. Do not they make theirself their confussion?
20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, my fury and my wrath will be poured out upon this place, upon men, upon beasts, upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruits of the ground; They will light up, and will not go out.
21 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.
22 For I did not speak to your fathers, nor did I command them anything about burnt offerings and sacrifices on the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt.
23 But this I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people; and walk in every way that I command you, that it may go well with you.
24 And they did not hear nor inclined their ear to him; but they walked in their own counsels, in the hardness of their wicked hearts, and went backwards and not forwards,
25 from the day your fathers left the land of Egypt until this day. And I sent you all the prophets my servants, sending them early and without ceasing;
26 But they did not hear me nor inclined their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did worse than their fathers.
27 You will therefore tell them all these words, but they will not listen to you; You will call them, and they will not answer you.
28 Therefore you will say to them: This is the nation that did not listen to the voice of the Lord their God, nor accepted correction; The truth perished, and was cut off from their mouth.
29 Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and lift up weeping on high; for the Lord has hated and left the generation an object of his wrath.
30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the Lord; They put their abominations in the house on which my name was called, defiling it.
31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters with fire, which I did not command them, nor did it come into my heart.
32 Therefore, behold, the days will come, says the Lord, when it will no longer be said, Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; and they will be buried in Tophet, because there is no place.
33 And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to scare them away.
34 And I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the husband and the voice of the wife; because the land will be desolate.
1 At that time, says the Lord, they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of their princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;
2 and they will scatter them to the sun and the moon and to all the host of heaven, to whom they loved and to whom they served, to whom they walked, to whom they asked, and to whom they bowed down. They will not be collected or buried; They will be like dung on the face of the earth.
3 And all the remnant of this evil generation will choose death over life, in all the places where I drive those who are left, says the Lord of hosts.
4 You shall also say to them, Thus says the Lord: He who falls does not rise? He who goes astray, does he not return to the path?
5 Why are these people of Jerusalem rebellious with perpetual rebellion? They embraced deception, and have not wanted to return.
6 I listened and heard; They do not speak righteously, there is no man who repents of his evil, saying, What have I done? Each one turned to his own race, like a horse that charges with impetus into battle.
7 Even the stork in the sky knows the time of him, and the turtledove and the crane and the swallow keep the time of his coming; but my people do not know the judgment of the Lord.
8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Certainly the lying pen of the scribes has changed it into a lie.
9 The wise men were ashamed, dismayed, and dismayed; behold, they hated the word of the Lord; and what wisdom do they have?
10 Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who conquer them; because from the smallest to the greatest everyone follows greed; From the prophet to the priest, everyone deceives.
11 And they healed the wound of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace; and there is no peace.
12 Have you been ashamed of having done an abomination? Certainly they have not been ashamed in the least, nor did they know how to be ashamed; They will fall, therefore, among those who fall; when I punish them they will fall, says the Lord
13 I will cut them off completely, says the Lord. There will be no grapes left on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaves will fall; and what I have given them will pass from them.
14 Why are we sitting? Gather together, and let us enter the fortified cities, and perish there; for the LORD our God has destined us to perish, and has given us gall water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15 We hoped for peace, and there was no good; day of healing, and behold, trouble.
16 From Dan was heard the snorting of their horses; At the sound of the neighing of his steeds the whole earth trembled; and they came and devoured the land and its abundance, the city and its inhabitants.
17 For behold, I will send serpents upon you, asps against which there is no enchantment, and they will bite you, says the Lord.
18 Because of my strong pain, my heart fails within me.
19 Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, coming from a far country: Is not the Lord in Zion? Is not his King in her? Why did they make me angry with the tall images of him, with other people’s vanities?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is over, and we are not saved.
21 I am broken because of the brokenness of the daughter of my people; I am darkened, fear has taken me away.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Isn’t there a doctor there? Why then was there no medicine for the daughter of my people?
1 Oh that my head would be filled with water, and my eyes would be filled with tears, that I might weep day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!
2 Oh, that he would give me a shelter for travelers in the desert, so that I would leave my people and separate myself from them! For they are all adulterers, a congregation of transgressors.
3 They made their tongue shoot lies like a bow, and they were not strengthened for the truth in the land; for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and have ignored me, says the Lord.
4 Let every man beware of his companion, and trust in no brother; because every brother deceives with fallacy, and every companion goes about slandering.
5 And each one deceives his companion, and no one speaks the truth; They have accustomed their tongue to speaking lies, they are busy acting perversely.
6 His dwelling place is in the midst of deception; No matter how deceitful they were, they did not want to know me, says the Lord.
7 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will refine them and test them; Because what else should I do for the daughter of my people?
8 Their tongue is a sharp arrow; deceit speech; With his mouth he speaks peace to his friend, and within himself he lays his snares.
9 Should I not punish them for these things? says Jehovah. On such a nation shall not my soul take revenge?
10 I will raise weeping and lamentation on the mountains, and mourning on the pastures of the desert; because they were desolated until there was no one left to pass by, nor could the roar of cattle be heard; from the birds of the air to the beasts of the earth fled, and were gone.
11 I will reduce Jerusalem to a heap of ruins, the habitation of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation so that there will be no inhabitant left.
12 Who is a wise man who understands this? Now to whom has the mouth of Jehovah spoken, that he can declare it? For what reason has the land perished, been laid waste like a desert, until there is no one to pass by?
13 The Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law, which I gave before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked according to it;
14 but they went after the imagination of his heart, and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.
15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will give this people wormwood to eat, and I will give them gall water to drink.
16 And I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their fathers knew; and I will send a sword after them, until I destroy them.
17 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider, and call mourners to come; look for those skilled in their craft;
18 and make haste, and weep for us, and let our eyes melt with tears, and our eyelids run with water.
19 For a voice of lamentation was heard from Zion: How we are destroyed! We have been greatly ashamed, because we abandoned the land, because they have destroyed our dwellings.
20 Hear therefore, O women, the word of the Lord, and let your ears receive the word of his mouth: Teach lamentations to your daughters, and each one to her friend lamentation.
21 Because death has climbed through our windows, it has entered our palaces, to exterminate the children from the streets, the young people from the squares.
22 Speak: Thus says the Lord: The bodies of dead men will fall like dung on the face of the field, and like a bunch after the reaper, so that there is no one to gather them.
23 Thus says the Jehovah: Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man boast in his might, nor let the rich boast in his riches.
24 But let him who praises himself glory in this: that he understands and knows Me, that I am Jehovah, who exercises mercy, judgment, and righteousness on the earth; for these things I desire, says the Lord.
25 Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will punish everyone who is circumcised and everyone who is uncircumcised;
26 to Egypt and Judah, to Edom and to the children of Ammon and Moab, and to all those who are cornered in the last corner, those who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.
1 Hear the word that the Lord has spoken to you, O house of Israel.
2 Thus says the Lord: Do not learn the way of the nations, nor be afraid of the signs of heaven, although the nations fear them.
3 For the customs of the people are vanity; because they cut wood from the forest, the work of the hands of a craftsman with a burin.
4 They adorn it with silver and gold; They fasten it with nails and hammer so that it does not move.
5 Rights are like a palm tree, and they do not speak; They are carried away, because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, nor do they have the power to do good.
6 There is none like you, O Jehovah; You are great, and your name is great in power.
7 Who will not fear you, O King of nations? Because fear is due to you; For among all the wise men of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is none like you.
8 Everyone will become arrogant and stupid. Teaching of vanities is the log.
9 They will bring beaten silver from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman and the hands of the smelter; They will dress them in blue and purple, it is all the work of experts.
10 But the Lord is the true God; He is living God and eternal King; The earth trembles at his wrath, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
11 Thus you will say to them: Let the gods who did not make the heavens or the earth disappear from the earth and from under the heavens.
12 He who made the earth by his power, who set the world in order by his knowledge, and stretched out the heavens by his wisdom;
13 At his voice a multitude of waters are produced in the sky, and he causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning with the rain, and brings the wind out of his stores.
14 Every man becomes brutal, and lacks knowledge; He is ashamed of the idol of his every caster, because his cast work is a lie, and there is no spirit in it.
15 They are vanity, vain work; At the time of their punishment they will perish.
16 Jacob’s portion is not like this; for he is the Maker of all, and Israel is the rod of his inheritance; Jehovah of hosts is his name.
17 Gather your merchandise from the lands, you who live in a fortified place.
18 For thus says the Lord: Behold, this time I will drive out the inhabitants of the land with a sling, and I will afflict them, so that they may feel it.
19 Woe to me for my brokenness! my sore is very painful. But I said: Surely this is my illness, and I must suffer it.
20 My tent is destroyed, and all my ropes are broken; my children have abandoned me and perished; There is no longer anyone to pitch my tent, nor anyone to hang my curtains.
21 Because the shepherds became arrogant, and did not seek the Lord; therefore they did not prosper, and all their cattle were scattered.
22 Behold, a voice of rumor is coming, and a great commotion from the land of the north, to turn all the cities of Judah into desolation, into the habitation of jackals.
23 I know, O Jehovah, that man is not lord of his way, nor is it the man who walks to direct his steps.
24 Punish me, O Lord, but with judgment; not with your fury, lest you destroy me.
25 Pour out your anger on the people that do not know you, and on the nations that do not call on your name; for they ate Jacob, devoured him, consumed him, and laid waste his dwelling.
1 The word that came from the LORD to Jeremiah, saying:
2 Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to every man of Judah, and to every inhabitant of Jerusalem.
3 And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,
4 which I commanded your fathers on the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying to them: Hear my voice, and fulfill my words, according to all that I command you; and you will be my people, and I will be your God;
5 to confirm the oath that I swore to your fathers, that I would give them the land flowing with milk and honey, as on this day. And I answered and said, Amen, O Lord.
6 And the LORD said to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.
7 For I solemnly protested to your fathers on the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, warning them from early and without ceasing until this day, saying, Hear my voice.
8 But they did not hear, nor inclined their ear, but each one went after the imagination of his evil heart; Therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to keep, and they did not keep it.
9 And the LORD said to me, A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
10 They have returned to the evils of their first parents, who would not listen to my words, and went after other gods to serve them; The house of Israel and the house of Judah broke my covenant, which I had made with their fathers.
11 Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I bring evil upon them from which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, and I will not hear them.
12 And the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, who will not be able to save them in the time of their evil.
13 For your gods were according to the number of your cities, O Judah; and according to the number of your streets, O Jerusalem, you set up altars of ignominy, altars to offer incense to Baal.
14 You therefore do not pray for this people, nor raise up cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear in the day when they cry to me in their affliction.
15 What right has my beloved in my house, since she has done many abominations? Do you think that the sacrifices and sanctified meats of the victims can save you from punishment? Can you boast about that?
16 Green olive tree, beautiful in its fruit and in its appearance, the Lord called your name. At the sound of a loud noise he caused a fire to be lit on it, and its branches were broken.
17For the LORD of hosts who planted you has spoken evil against you, because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, provoking me to anger by burning incense to Baal.
18 And the Lord made it known to me, and I knew him; then you made me see his works.
19 And I was like an innocent lamb being led to be slaughtered, for I did not understand that they were plotting against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut it off from the land of the living, so that there will be no more memory of its name.
20 But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously, who searches the mind and the heart, may I see your vengeance on them; because before you I have explained my cause.
21 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth who seek your life, saying: Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, lest you die at our hands;
22 Thus therefore says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will punish them; the young men will die by the sword, their sons and their daughters will die of hunger,
23 and there will be no remnant of them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.
1 You are righteous, O Jehovah, that I should dispute with you; However, I will plead my case before you. Why is the way of the wicked prosperous, and all those who behave disloyally prosper?
2 You planted them, and they took root; They grew and bore fruit; You are close in their mouths, but far from their hearts.
3 But you, O Lord, know me; you saw me, and tested my heart towards you; catch them like sheep for the slaughter, and mark them for the day of slaughter.
4 How long will the land be deserted, and the grass of the entire field wither? Because of the wickedness of those who live there, the cattle and the birds were lost; because they said: God will not see our end.
5 If you ran with those on foot, and they tired you, how will you contend with the horses? And if you were not safe in the land of peace, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
6 For even your brothers and your father’s house, even they rose up against you, even they shouted after you. Don’t believe them when they speak well to you.
7 I have left my house, I have forsaken my inheritance, I have given what my soul loved into the hand of his enemies.
8 My inheritance was to me like a lion in the forest; against me he roared; therefore I hated her.
9 Is my inheritance to me like a bird of prey of many colors? Are not birds of prey all around against it? Come, gather together, all the wild beasts of the field, come and devour her.
10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, trodden down my field, turned my precious field into desert and desolation.
11 She was made desolate, and she wept over me desolate; The whole earth was laid waste, because there was no man to reflect.
12 On all the heights of the desert came destroyers; for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the earth to the other; there will be no peace for any flesh.
13 They sowed wheat, and reaped thorns; They had the inheritance, but they profited nothing; They will be ashamed of their fruits, because of the burning anger of the Lord.
14 Thus says the LORD against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance that I caused my people Israel to possess: Behold, I will uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.
15 And after I have uprooted them, I will return and have mercy on them, and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance and each one to his land.
16 And if they carefully learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, saying, As the Lord lives, just as they taught my people to swear by Baal, they will prosper among my people.
17 But if they do not listen, I will uproot that nation, uprooting it and destroying it, says the LORD.
1 Thus said the Lord to me: Go and buy yourself a linen belt, and bind it around your loins, and do not put it in water.
2 And I bought the girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it on my loins.
3 The word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying:
4 Take the girdle that you bought, which is on your loins, and get up and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in the cleft of a rock.
5 So I went and hid him by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
6 And it came to pass after many days that the LORD said to me, Arise and go to the Euphrates, and take from there the girdle which I commanded you to hide there.
7 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt had rotted away; He was not good for anything.
8 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
9 Thus says the LORD: Thus I will put to rot the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
10 This evil people, who do not want to hear my words, who walk in the imaginations of their hearts, and who go after other gods to serve them, and to bow down before them, will become like this belt, which is for nothing. Well.
11 For as the girdle is gathered to the loins of a man, so I gathered to me all the house of Israel and all the house of Judah, says the LORD, that they may be my people, and for fame, and for praise, and for honor; but they didn’t listen.
12 Therefore you shall tell them this word: Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Every jar will be filled with wine. And they will say to you: Don’t we know that every jar will be filled with wine?
13 Then you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings of the house of David who sit on their throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants. from Jerusalem;
14 and I will break them one against another, the parents with the children alike, says the Lord; I will not forgive, nor have pity or mercy, lest I destroy them.
15 Listen and hear; do not be conceited, for the Lord has spoken.
16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he causes darkness to come, and before your feet stumble on mountains of darkness, and you wait for light, and he turns it to you into the shadow of death and darkness.
17 But if you do not hear this, my soul will weep secretly because of your pride; and weeping bitterly my eyes will melt into tears, because the flock of the Lord has been taken captive.
18 Say to the king and queen: Humble yourselves, sit on the ground; for the crown of your glory has fallen from your heads.
19 The cities of the Negev were closed, and there was no one to open them; All of Judah was carried away, all of her was taken into captivity.
20 Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?
21 What will you say when he sets those whom you taught to be your friends as heads over you? Won’t they give you pain like a woman in labor?
22 If you say in your heart: Why has this happened to me? Because of the enormity of your wickedness, your skirts were revealed, your heels were stripped.
23 Will the Ethiopian change his skin, and the leopard his spots? Likewise, can you do good, being accustomed to doing evil?
24 Therefore I will scatter them to the wind of the desert, like chaff that passes by.
25 This is your lot, the portion that I have measured for you, says the Lord, because you have forgotten me and trusted in a lie.
26 Therefore I will also reveal your skirts before your face, and your ignominy will be revealed,
27 your adulteries, your neighing, the evil of your fornication on the hills; In the field I saw your abominations. Woe to you, Jerusalem! Won’t you finally be clean? How long will it take you to purify yourself?
1 Word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah, because of the drought.
2 Judah mourned, and its gates were depopulated; They sat sad on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem went up.
3 The nobles sent their servants to the water; They came to the lakes, and found no water; They returned with their empty vessels; They were ashamed, confused, and covered their heads.
4 Because the earth cracked because there was no rain in the country, the farmers are confused, they covered their heads.
5 Even the deer in the fields gave birth and left their young, because there was no grass.
6 And the wild donkeys stood on the heights, sucking in the wind like jackals; His eyes were blurred because there was no grass.
7 Although our iniquities testify against us, O Lord, act for your name’s sake; because our transgressions have multiplied, we have sinned against you.
8 O hope of Israel, their Guardian in the time of affliction, why have you become like a stranger in the land, and like a wanderer who retires for the night?
9 Why are you like a man amazed, and like a mighty man that he cannot deliver? Yet you are among us, O Jehovah, and your name is called upon us; do not forsake us.
10 Thus says the LORD concerning this people: They delighted in wandering, and gave their feet no rest; therefore the Lord is not pleased with them; He will now remember his wickedness, and punish his sins.
11 The Lord said to me: Do not pray for this people for good.
12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry, and when they offer burnt offerings and offerings I will not accept them, but I will consume them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence.
13 And I said: Ah! Ah, Lord Jehovah! Behold, the prophets say to them: You will not see a sword, nor will there be famine among you, but in this place I will give you true peace.
14 Then the Lord said to me: The prophets prophesy falsely in my name; I did not send them, nor command them, nor speak to them; lying vision, divination, vanity and deceit of his heart they prophesy to you.
15 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, whom I did not send, and who say, There will be neither sword nor famine in this land; with sword and with famine those prophets will be consumed.
16 And the people to whom they prophesy will be driven into the streets of Jerusalem by famine and by the sword, and there will be no one to bury them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters; and I will pour out their evil on them.
17 Therefore you will say to them this word: Let my eyes shed tears night and day, and do not stop; because the virgin daughter of my people is broken with great destruction, with a very painful plague.
18 If I go out into the field, behold, they are killed by the sword; and if I enter the city, behold, they are sick with hunger; for both the prophet and the priest wandered in the land, and did not understand.
19 Have you completely rejected Judah? Has your soul hated Zion? Why did you make us hurt without remedy? We waited for peace, and there was no good; time of healing, and here is trouble.
20 We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers; because we have sinned against you.
21 For your name’s sake do not cast us away, nor dishonor your glorious throne; Remember, do not invalidate your agreement with us.
22 Is there anyone among the idols of the nations who makes it rain? and will the skies give rain? Art not you, Jehovah, our God? Therefore we hope in you, for you did all these things.
1 The Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel stood before me, my will would not be with this people; drive them out of my presence, and let them go out.
2 And if they ask you: Where shall we go? you will say to them: Thus says the Lord: He who goes to death, to death; he who with the sword, with the sword; he who goes hungry, goes hungry; and he who goes into captivity goes into captivity.
3 And I will send upon them four kinds of punishment, says the Lord: a sword to kill, and dogs to tear in pieces, and birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
4 And I will deliver them as a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, because of what he did in Jerusalem.
5 For who will have compassion on you, O Jerusalem? Who will be sad because of you, or who will come to ask for your peace?
6 You left me, says the Lord; you turned back; Therefore I will stretch out my hand on you and destroy you; I’m tired of regretting.
7 Although I fanned them with a fan to the gates of the land, and left my people childless and destroyed them, they did not turn from their ways.
8 His widows multiplied to me more than the sand of the sea; I brought against them a destroyer at noon on the mother and on the children; I caused terrors to fall suddenly on the city.
9 She who gave birth to seven languished; Her soul was filled with pain, her sun set while it was still day; she was ashamed and filled with confusion; and what is left of her I will give to the sword before her enemies, says the LORD.
10 Woe to me, my mother, for you have begotten me a man of strife and a man of discord for the whole earth! I have never given or borrowed, and everyone curses me.
11 Let it be so, O Jehovah, if I have not pleaded with you for their good, if I have not pleaded before you for the enemy in time of affliction and in time of trouble!
12 Can anyone break iron, northern iron, and bronze?
13 I will give your riches and your treasures to plunder without price, for all your sins, and in all your territory.
14 And I will make you serve your enemies in a land you do not know; for fire is kindled in my anger, and it will burn upon you.
15 You know it, O Lord; Remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my enemies. Do not reproach me for the prolongation of your anger; You know that for love of you I suffer affront.
16 Your words were found, and I ate them; and your word was the joy and gladness of my heart; for your name is called upon me, O Lord God of hosts.
17 I did not sit in the company of scoffers, nor was I conceited because of your prophecy; I sat alone, because you filled me with indignation.
18 Why was my pain perpetual, and my hopeless wound did not admit of healing? Will you be to me like an illusory thing, like waters that are not stable?
19 Therefore thus says the LORD: If you turn, I will restore you, and you will stand before me; and if you select the precious from the vile, you will be like my mouth. Let them convert to you, and you do not convert to them.
20 And I will make you a fortified wall of bronze in this town, and they will fight against you, but they will not defeat you; for I am with you to keep you and to defend you, says the Lord.
21 And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you from the hand of the strong.
1 The word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 You shall not take a wife for yourself, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.
3 For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, about their mothers who bear them, and about the fathers who bear them in this land:
4 They will die of painful diseases; They will not be mourned or buried; They will be like dung on the face of the earth; They will be consumed by sword and by hunger, and their bodies will be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
5 For thus says the Lord: Do not enter a house of mourning, nor go to mourn, nor comfort them; For I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, my mercy and my mercy.
6 Great and small will die in this land; They will not be buried, nor mourned, nor torn or torn because of them;
7 nor will they break bread for them in mourning to comfort them for their dead; nor will they give them a cup of consolations to drink for their father or their mother.
8 Likewise do not enter a banquet house to sit with them to eat or drink.
9 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease in this place, before your eyes and in your days, every voice of joy and every voice of gladness, and every voice of a husband and every wife’s voice
10 And it will come to pass, when you announce all these things to this people, that they will say to you, Why does the Lord announce all this great evil against us? What evil is ours, or what sin is ours, that we have committed against Jehovah our God?
11 Then you will say to them: Because your fathers forsook me, says the Lord, and walked after other gods, and served them, and worshiped them, and forsook me and did not keep my law;
12 and you have done worse than your fathers; for behold, you walk every one after the imagination of his wicked heart, not listening to me.
13 Therefore I will drive you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will serve other gods day and night; because I will not show you mercy.
14 Nevertheless, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no longer be said, As the Lord lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt;
15 but, As the LORD lives, he brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them; and I will return them to his land, which I gave to his fathers.
16 Behold, I will send many fishermen, says the Lord, and they will catch them, and then I will send many hunters, and they will hunt them on every mountain and on every hill, and in the caves of the rocks.
17 For my eyes are upon all their ways, which are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity hidden from the sight of my eyes.
18 But first I will pay double for their iniquity and their sin; for they have defiled my land with the carcasses of their idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
19 O LORD, my fortress and my strength, and my refuge in the time of trouble, nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, Surely our fathers possessed lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.
20 Will man make gods for himself? But they are not gods.
21 Therefore, behold, I will teach them this time, I will make them know my hand and my power, and they will know that my name is Jehovah.
1 The sin of Judah is written with an iron chisel and a diamond point; It is carved on the tablet of his heart, and on the horns of his altars,
2 while his children remember his altars and his Asherah images, which are by the leafy trees and on the high hills,
3 on the mountains and on the field. I will give all your treasures to plunder for the sin of your high places throughout your territory.
4 And you will lose the inheritance that I gave you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land you did not know; For you have kindled a fire in my fury, which will burn forever.
5 Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and his heart turns away from the LORD.
6 He will be like a broom in the desert, and he will not see when good comes, but he will dwell in the drylands in the desert, in a desolate and uninhabited land.
7 Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose confidence is the Lord.
8 For it will be like a tree planted by the waters, which will put out its roots by the stream, and it will not see when the heat comes, but its leaves will be green; and in the year of drought it will not grow weary, nor fail to bear fruit.
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who will know him?
10 I am the Lord, who searches the mind, who tests the heart, to give to each one according to his way, according to the fruit of his works.
11 Like the partridge that covers what it did not lay, is he who unjustly accumulates wealth; In the middle of his days he will leave them, and in the last of his days he will be foolish.
12 The throne of glory, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O Jehovah, hope of Israel! all who leave you will be put to shame; and those who depart from me will be written in the dust, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters.
14 Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved; because you are my praise.
15 Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? May it be fulfilled now!
16 But I have not gone after you to provoke you to punishment, nor did I wish for a day of calamity, you know that. What came out of my mouth was in your presence.
17 Do not be a terror to me, for you are my refuge on an evil day.
18 Let those who persecute me be ashamed, and let me not be ashamed; Let them be astonished, and I will not be astonished; bring upon them an evil day, and break them with a double destruction.
19 Thus says the Lord to me: Go and stand at the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah enter and leave, and stand at all the gates of Jerusalem,
20 and say to them: Hear the word of the Lord, you kings. of Judah, and all Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem who enter through these gates.
21 Thus says the Lord: Beware of your life from carrying a load on the Sabbath day, and from bringing it in through the gates of Jerusalem.
22 Neither take any load out of your houses on the Sabbath, nor do any work, but sanctify the Sabbath, as I commanded your fathers.
23 But they did not hear, nor inclined their ear, but stiffened their necks so as not to hear or receive correction.
24 However, if you obey me, says the LORD, not bringing burdens through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but sanctifying the Sabbath day by not doing any work on it,
25 you will enter through the gates of this city , in chariots and on horses, the kings and the princes who sit on the throne of David, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city will be inhabited forever.
26 And they will come from the cities of Judah, from around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from Shephelah, from the mountains, and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, and oblations, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise to the house of Jehovah.
27 But if you will not listen to me to sanctify the Sabbath day, and not to bring burdens or bring them through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath, then I will bring down fire on its gates, and it will consume the palaces of Jerusalem, and it will not be quenched.
1 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
2 Arise and go to the potter’s house, and there I will make you hear my words.
3 And I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was working at the wheel.
4 And the clay pot that he made spoiled in his hand; and he returned and made it another vessel, as he thought best to make it.
5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
6 Can I not make you like this potter, O house of Israel? says Jehovah. Behold, as clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
7 In a moment I will speak against peoples and against kingdoms, to uproot, and to throw down, and to destroy.
8 But if those people turn from their wickedness against which I spoke, I will repent of the evil that I had planned to do to them,
9 and in an instant I will speak about the people and the kingdom, to build and to plant.
10 But if he does evil in my sight, not obeying my voice, I will repent of the good that I had determined to do him.
11 Now therefore speak immediately to every man of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I intend evil against you, and I devise plans against you; Now let every man turn from his evil way, and improve his ways and his works.
12 And they said, It is in vain; for we will go after our idols, and each one of us will do the thoughts of our evil hearts.
13 Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask now of the nations, who has heard such a thing. The virgin of Israel has done great ugliness.
14 Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the stone of the field? Will the cold waters that flow from distant lands be missing?
15 For my people have forgotten me, giving incense to what is vanity, and have stumbled in their ways, in the ancient paths, so that they may walk in paths and not in a well-trodden path,
16 to make their land a desolation, an object of perpetual mockery. ; everyone who passes by it will be amazed and shake their heads.
17 Like an east wind I will scatter them before the enemy; I will show them their backs and not their faces, on the day of their destruction.
18 And they said, Come, and let us plot against Jeremiah; for the law will not fail the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with his tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.
19 O Lord, he looks after me, and he hears the voice of those who contend with me.
20 Is evil given for good, that they have dug a hole for my soul? Remember that I stood before you to speak well for them, to turn away your anger from them.
21 Therefore, deliver their children to famine, scatter them by the sword, and let their wives be left childless and widows; and their husbands be put to death, and their young men wounded by the sword in war.
22 Let there be a cry from their houses, when you bring an army upon them suddenly; because they dug a hole to arrest me, and they have hidden snares at my feet.
23 But you, O Lord, know all his counsel against me to the point of death; Forgive not his iniquity, nor blot out his sin from before your face; and stumble before you; Do so to them in the time of your anger.
1 Thus says the LORD: Go and buy a clay pot from the potter, and take with you from the elders of the people, and from the elders of the priests;
2 and you will go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is at the entrance to the eastern gate, and you will proclaim there the words that I will speak to you.
3 You shall say therefore, Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing evil upon this place, so that everyone who hears it will have the ears ring.
4 For they forsook me, and alienated this place, and offered incense therein to other gods, which they, nor their fathers, nor the kings of Judah had not known; and they filled this place with the blood of innocents.
5 And they built high places to Baal, to burn their children with fire as burnt offerings to Baal himself; something that I did not command them, nor speak, nor did it occur to me.
6 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that this place will no longer be called Tophet, nor the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
7 And I will destroy the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and into the hands of those who seek their lives; and I will give their bodies as food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.
8 I will make this city a terror and a mockery; everyone who passes through it will be amazed, and will mock at all its destruction.
9 And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and each one will eat the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their lives will press on them.
10 Then you shall break the vessel in the sight of the men who go with you,
11 and say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts: Thus will I break this people and this city, as one who breaks a clay vessel, which cannot be restored. further; and they will be buried in Tophet, because there will be no other place to bury.
12 Thus I will do to this place, says the Lord, and to the inhabitants of it, making this city like Tophet.
13 The houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, will be like the place of Topheth, unclean, for all the houses on whose roofs they offered incense to all the host of heaven, and poured libations to other gods.
14 And Jeremiah returned from Tophet, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court of the house of the LORD and said to all the people,
15 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I spoke against it; because they have hardened their necks so as not to hear my words.
1 Pashhur the priest son of Imer, who presided as prince in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these words.
2 And Pashhur flogged Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were at the upper gate of Benjamin, which led to the house of the LORD.
3 And the next day Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him: The Lord has not called your name Pashur, but Magor-misabib.
4 For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all those who love you, and they will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it; and I will deliver all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take them captive to Babylon, and he will kill them with the sword.
5 I will also hand over all the wealth of this city, all its work and all its precious things; and I will give all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hands of their enemies, and they will plunder them, and take them and carry them to Babylon.
6 And you, Pashhur, and all the inhabitants of your house will go captive; You will enter Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, and all those who love you well, to whom you have prophesied falsely.
7 You seduced me, O Lord, and I was seduced; You were stronger than me, and you defeated me; Every day I have been mocked, everyone mocks me.
8 Because as often as I speak, I shout, I shout: Violence and destruction; for the word of the Lord has been a reproach and a mockery to me every day.
9 And I said, I will remember him no more, nor speak any more in his name; However, there was in my heart like a burning fire embedded in my bones; I tried to suffer it, and I couldn’t.
10 For I heard the murmuring of many, fear on all sides: Denounce, let us denounce him. All my friends were watching to see if he would give up. Perhaps he will be deceived, they said, and we will prevail against him, and take our revenge on him.
11 But the Lord is with me like a mighty giant; Therefore those who persecute me will stumble and will not prevail; They will be greatly ashamed, because they will not prosper; They will have perpetual confusion that will never be forgotten.
12 O Lord of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the thoughts and the heart, may I see your vengeance on them; because I have entrusted my cause to you.
13 Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord; for he has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evil ones.
14 Cursed is the day I was born; The day my mother gave birth to me may not be blessed.
15 Cursed is the man who told my father, saying, ‘A man child is born to you,’ thus making him very glad.
16 And let such a man be like the cities that the LORD laid waste, and he did not repent; let him hear cries in the morning, and voices at noon,
17 because he did not kill me in the womb, and my mother would have been my grave, and her womb would have been pregnant with her forever.
18 Why did I come out of her womb? To see work and pain, and have my days spent in disgrace?
1 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, to say to him,
2 Inquire now of the LORD concerning us, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war. against us; perhaps the Lord will do to us according to all his wonderful works, and he will depart from us.
3 And Jeremiah said to them, Thus shall you say to Zedekiah:
4 Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon; And the Chaldeans who are outside the wall and have you besieged, I will gather them into the middle of this city.
5 I will fight against you with a raised hand and with a strong arm, with fury and wrath and great wrath.
6 And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, and men and beasts will die of great pestilence.
7 Then, says the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, the people, and those who remain from the pestilence, the sword, and the famine in the city, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of his enemies. and of those who seek their lives, and he will strike them with the edge of the sword; He will not forgive them, nor will he have compassion on them, nor will he have mercy on them.
8 And to this people you shall say, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
9 Whoever remains in this city will die by the sword, by famine, or by pestilence; But whoever goes out and goes over to the Chaldeans who are besieging you, he will live, and his life will be a spoil to him.
10 For I have set my face against this city for evil and not for good, says the Lord; It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.
11 And to the house of the king of Judah you will say: Hear the word of the Lord:
12 House of David, thus says the LORD: Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor, so that my anger may not go out like fire, and burn and there will be no one to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.
13 Behold, I am against you, inhabitant of the valley, and of the stone of the plain, says the Lord; those who say: Who will come up against us, and who will enter our homes?
14 I will punish you according to the fruit of your works, says the Lord, and I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it will consume everything that is around it.
1 Thus says the LORD: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this word there,
2 and say: Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sit on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter through these doors.
3 Thus says the Lord: Execute justice and justice, and deliver the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor, and do not deceive or rob the stranger, or the orphan, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
4 For if you obey this word, the kings who sit on David’s throne in place of David will enter the gates of this house riding in chariots and on horses; them, and their servants and their people.
5 But if you will not hear these words, I have sworn by myself, says the Lord, that this house will be deserted.
6 For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are like Gilead to me, and like the top of Lebanon; However, I will make you a desert, and like uninhabited cities.
7 I will prepare destroyers against you, each with his own weapons, and they will cut down your choice cedars and throw them into the fire.
8 And many people will pass by this city, and each will say to his companion, Why did the Lord do this to this great city?
9 And it will be answered: Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshiped other gods and served them.
10 Do not mourn for the dead, nor do you grieve for him; Weep bitterly for him who is leaving, because he will never return, nor will he see the land where he was born.
11 For thus says the LORD concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned in the place of Josiah his father, and who left this place: He will not return here again,
12 but will die in the place where he was taken captive. , and will see this land no more.
13 Woe to him who builds his house without justice, and houses it without equity, serving his neighbor for nothing, and not giving him the wages of his work!
14 For he says: I will build for myself a spacious house and airy rooms; and he opens windows for it, and covers it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.
15 Will you reign, because you surround yourself with cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do judgment and righteousness, and then it was well with him?
16 He judged the cause of the afflicted and the needy, and then he was well. Isn’t this knowing me? says Jehovah.
17 But your eyes and your heart are only for your greed, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for causing wrong.
18 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: They shall not mourn for him, saying, Alas, my brother! and Oh, sister! nor will they lament it, saying: Alas, lord! Oh, the greatness of him!
19 He will be buried in a donkey’s grave, dragging him and throwing him outside the gates of Jerusalem.
20 He goes up to Lebanon and cries, and in Bashan gives your voice, and cries everywhere; because all your lovers are destroyed.
21 I have spoken to you in your prosperity, but you said, I will not listen. This was your path from your youth, that you never heard my voice.
22 The wind will shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and confounded because of all your wickedness.
23 You lived in Lebanon, you made your nest in the cedars. How you will groan when pain comes to you, pain like that of a woman in labor!
24 As I live, says the Lord, if Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a ring on my right hand, I would tear you off even from there.
25 I will deliver you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose sight you fear; yes, in the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and in the hand of the Chaldeans.
26 I will take you and your mother who gave birth to you captive to a foreign land where you were not born; and there you will die.
27 And to the land to which they with all their soul long to return, there they will not return.
28 Is this man Coniah a despised and broken vessel? Is it a piece of junk that no one appreciates? Why were he and his generation cast out, and thrown into a land they had not known?
29 Earth, earth, earth! Hear the word of the Lord.
30 Thus says the Lord: Write what will happen to this man bereft of descendants, a man to whom nothing prosperous will happen all the days of his life; for none of his descendants will be able to sit on the throne of David or reign over Judah.
1 Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my flock! says Jehovah.
2 Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel to the shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my sheep and driven them away, and have not cared for them. Behold, I punish the evil of your works, says the Lord.
3 And I myself will gather the remnant of my sheep from all the lands where I drove them, and I will bring them back to their homes; and they will grow and multiply.
4 And I will set shepherds over them to feed them; and they will no longer fear, nor be dismayed, nor will they be disgraced, says the Lord.
5 Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up a righteous Branch for David, and he will reign as King, who will be blessed, and will execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
6 In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely; and this will be his name by which they will call him: Jehovah, our righteousness.
7 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when they will no longer say, As the LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,
8 but as the LORD lives, who brought up the descendants of the house. of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands where I had driven them; and they will dwell in his land.
9 Because of the prophets my heart is broken within me, all my bones tremble; I am like a drunkard, and like a man overpowered by wine, before the Lord, and before his holy words.
10 For the earth is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land is deserted; the desert grasslands dried up; Their career was evil, and their courage is not upright.
11 For both the prophet and the priest are wicked; Even in my house I found his iniquity, says the Lord.
12 Therefore his path will be like slides in darkness; they will be pushed, and they will fall into it; for I will bring evil upon them in the year of their punishment, says the LORD.
13 I have seen foolishness in the prophets of Samaria; They prophesied in the name of Baal, and they led my people Israel astray.
14 And I have seen foolishness in the prophets of Jerusalem; They committed adulteries, and walked in lies, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that no one would turn from his wickedness; They were all to me like Sodom, and their inhabitants like Gomorrah.
15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts against those prophets: Behold, I will make them eat wormwood, and I will make them drink gall water; because hypocrisy came out of the prophets of Jerusalem throughout the whole earth.
16 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you; They feed you with vain hopes; they speak vision from their own heart, not from the mouth of Jehovah.
17 They boldly say to those who provoke me: The Lord said: You will have peace; and to anyone who walks after the obstinacy of his heart, they say: No evil will come upon you.
18 For who was in the secret of the Lord, and saw, and heard his word? Who was attentive to his word, and did he hear it?
19 Behold, the storm of the Lord will come out with fury; and the storm that is prepared will fall on the heads of the wicked.
20 The anger of the LORD will not turn away until he has done it, and until he has fulfilled the thoughts of his heart; In the last days you will fully understand it.
21 I did not send those prophets, but they ran; I did not speak to them, but they prophesied.
22 But if they had been in my secret, they would have made my people hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their works.
23 Am I God only near, says the Lord, and not God from afar?
24 Will any man hide himself, says the Lord, in secret places that I will not see him? Do I not fill, says the Lord, heaven and earth?
25 I have heard what those prophets said, prophesying lies in my name, saying, I dreamed, I dreamed.
26 How long will this remain in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceitfulness of their hearts?
27 Do you not think how they make my people forget my name with their dreams that each one tells to his companion, just as their fathers forgot my name for Baal?
28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell the dream; and he to whom my word goes, let him tell my true word. What does chaff have to do with wheat? says Jehovah.
29 Is not my word like fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks a stone?
30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who steal my words from every one of those closest to him.
31 The Lord says: Behold, I am against the prophets who sweeten their tongues and say, He has said.
32 Behold, says the Lord, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies and by their flattery, and I did not send them nor command them; and they did no good to this people, says the Lord.
33 And when this people, or the prophet, or the priest, ask you, saying, What is the prophecy of the Lord? You will say to them: This is the prophecy: I will leave you, says the Lord.
34 And to the prophet, to the priest, or to the people who say, A prophecy of the Lord, I will send punishment on that man and on his house.
35 Thus shall you say, each one to his companion, and each one to his brother: What has the Lord answered, and what has the Lord spoken?
36 And it will never again come into your memory to say: Prophecy of the Lord; because each one’s word will be a prophecy to him; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts, our God.
37 Thus you shall say to the prophet: What did the LORD answer you, and what did the LORD speak?
38 But if you say, A prophecy of the Lord; therefore thus saith the LORD, Because ye have spoken this word, Prophecy of the LORD, when I have sent to say unto you, Say not, Prophecy of the LORD,
39 Therefore, behold, I will cast you into oblivion, and will remove you and the people from my presence. city that I gave to you and your fathers;
40 And I will put upon you a perpetual reproach, and eternal confusion that oblivion will never erase.
1 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, the princes of Judah and the artisans and blacksmiths of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me two baskets of figs placed before the temple of Jehovah.
2 One basket had very good figs, like figs; and the other basket had very bad figs, which were so bad they couldn’t be eaten.
3 And the LORD said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said: Figs; good, very good figs; and bad, very bad, that they cannot be eaten because they are bad.
4 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
5 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard those who were carried away from Judah, whom I drove out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good. 6 For I will set my eyes on them for good, and will return them to this land, and will build them, and will not destroy them; I will plant them and not uproot them.
7 And I will give them a heart to know me that I am Jehovah; and they will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with all their heart.
8 And like the bad figs, which cannot be eaten because they are bad, so says the Lord, I will make Zedekiah king of Judah, his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem that is left in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt .
9 And I will make them a derision and an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth; for infamy, for example, as a saying and as a curse to all the places where I throw them.
10 And I will send upon them the sword, famine, and pestilence, until they are destroyed from the land that I gave them and their fathers.
1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon;
2 Which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:
3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Ammon, king of Judah, until this day, which is twenty-three years, he has come to me word of the Lord, and I have spoken from early and without ceasing; but you did not hear.
4 And the LORD sent to you all his servants the prophets, sending them early and without ceasing; but you did not hear, nor inclined your ear to listen
5 when they said: Turn now from your evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and you will dwell in the land which the Lord gave to you and your fathers forever;
6 And do not go after other gods, serving and worshiping them, nor provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; and I will not harm you.
7 But you have not listened to me, says the Lord, to provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your harm.
8 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not heard my words,
9 behold, I will send and take all the tribes of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this earth and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; and I will destroy them, and make them a mockery and a mockery and a perpetual desolation.
10 And I will cause the voice of joy and the voice of gladness to disappear from among them, the voice of a bridegroom and the voice of a bride, the noise of a mill and the light of a lamp.
11 This whole land will be thrown into ruin and terror; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12 And when the seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation for their iniquity, says the Lord, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will turn it into deserts forever.
13 And I will bring upon that land all my words that I have spoken against it, with everything that is written in this book, prophesied by Jeremiah against all nations.
14 For they too will be subdued by many nations and great kings; and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
15 For thus said the Lord God of Israel to me: Take from my hand the cup of the wine of this fury, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink of it.
16 And they will drink, and tremble, and be mad, because of the sword that I send among them.
17 And I took the cup from the hand of the LORD, and gave drink to all the nations, to whom the LORD sent me:
18 to Jerusalem, to the cities of Judah, and to its kings, and to its princes, to lay them in ruins, in mockery and mockery and curse, as until today;
19 to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to his servants, to his princes, and to all his people;
20 and to all the nations, to all the kings of the land of Uz, and to all the kings of the land of Philistia, to Ashkelon, to Gaza, to Ekron, and to the remnant of Ashdod;
21 to Edom, to Moab, and to the children of Ammon;
22 to all the kings of Tyre, to all the kings of Sidon, to the kings of the coasts that are on that side of the sea;
23 to Dedan, to Tema, and to Buz, and to all those who shave their temples;
24 to all the kings of Arabia, to all the kings of mixed peoples who live in the desert;
25 to all the kings of Zimri, to all the kings of Elam, to all the kings of Media;
26 to all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another, and to all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth; and the king of Babylon will drink after them.
27 Therefore you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, and be drunk, and vomit, and fall, and rise not, because of the sword that I send among you.
28 And if they do not want to take the cup from your hand to drink, you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts: You must drink.
29 For behold, I begin to do evil to the city in which my name is called; and you will be acquitted? You will not be absolved; For I bring a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord of hosts.
30 You will therefore prophesy against them all these words and say to them: The Lord will roar from on high, and will shout from his holy habitation; he will roar loudly against his dwelling; he will sing a song of winemakers against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31 The noise will come to the end of the earth, because the Lord has judgment against the nations; he is the Judge of all flesh; He will deliver the wicked to the sword, says the Lord.
32 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, evil will go from nation to nation, and a great storm will arise from the ends of the earth.
33 And the dead of the Lord will lie down on that day from one end of the earth to the other; They will not be mourned or gathered or buried; They will remain like dung on the face of the earth.
34 Howl, shepherds, and cry; wallow in the dust, stewards of the flock; For your days are fulfilled that you may be slaughtered and scattered, and you will fall like a precious vessel.
35 And there will be an end to the flight of the shepherds, and the escape of the leaders of the flock.
36 The shouting voice of the shepherds, and the howling of the leaders of the flock! for the LORD devastated his pastures.
37 And the delicate pastures will be destroyed by the fierce anger of the Lord.
38 He left his den like a young lion; For their land was devastated by the wrath of the oppressor, and by the fury of his anger.
1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the Lord, saying:
2 Thus says the Lord: Stand in the court of the house of the Lord, and speak to all the cities of Judah, They come to worship in the house of the Lord, all the words that I commanded you to speak to them; don’t hold back a word.
3 Perhaps they will hear, and each one will turn from his evil way, and I will repent of the evil that I intend to do to them because of the evil of his works.
4 Therefore you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: If you do not listen to me to walk in my law, which I set before you,
5 to pay attention to the words of my servants the prophets, which I send to you early and without ceasing, to which you have not heard,
6 I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
7 And the priests, the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.
8 And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hands on him, saying, “You will surely die.”
9 Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be laid waste until there is no inhabitant left? And all the people gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
10 And the princes of Judah heard these things, and they went up from the king’s house to the house of the Lord, and sat at the entrance of the new gate of the house of the Lord.
11 Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and to all the people, saying, This man has incurred the penalty of death; for he prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.
12 And Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city, all the words that you have heard.
13 Now improve your ways and your works, and listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and the Lord will repent of the evil that he has spoken against you.
14 As for me, behold, I am in your hands; Do with me as best and fairest you see fit.
15 But know for certain that if you kill me, you will shed innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city and on its inhabitants; for truly the Lord sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.
16 And the princes and all the people said to the priests and prophets, This man has not incurred the penalty of death, because he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.
17 Then some of the elders of the land stood up and spoke to the entire assembly of the people, saying,
18 Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the time of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts: Zion will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house like forest peaks.
19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah kill him? Did he not fear Jehovah, and pray before Jehovah, and Jehovah repent of the evil which he had spoken against them? Shall we then do such great evil against our souls?
20 There was also a man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah, of Kiriath-jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land, according to all the words of Jeremiah;
21 And King Jehoiakim and all his nobles and all his princes heard his words, and the king sought to kill him; Uriah understanding this, he was afraid, and fled to Egypt.
22 And king Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt, to Elnathan the son of Acbor, and other men with him, to Egypt;
23 who brought Uriah out of Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who killed him with the sword, and threw his body into the tombs of the people.
24 But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was in favor of Jeremiah, so that he would not be delivered into the hands of the people to be killed.
