1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying:
2 Thus says the Lord to me: Make yourself bands and yokes, and put them on your neck;
3 and you shall send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah .
4 And you shall command them to say to their lords: Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Thus you shall say to your lords:
5 I made the earth, the man and the beasts that are on the face of the earth, with my great power and with my outstretched arm, and I gave it to whomever I wanted.
6 And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant, and have even given him the beasts of the field to serve him.
7 And all nations will serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land also comes, and many nations and great kings bring it into bondage.
8 And that nation and kingdom that will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with sword and with famine and with pestilence, says the LORD, until I ended up by his hand.
9 And do not listen to your prophets, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your dreamers, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your enchanters, who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’
10 For they prophesy a lie to you, to cause you to depart from your land, so that I may drive you out and you may perish.
11 But the nation that submits its neck to the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, I will leave in his land, says the Lord, and it will cultivate it and dwell in it.
12 I also spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying: Submit your necks to the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
13 Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as Jehovah has said of the nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?
14 Do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon; because they prophesy a lie to you.
15 For I did not send them, says the LORD, and they prophesy falsely in my name, so that I may cast you down and you and the prophets who prophesy to you may perish.
16 I also spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says the Lord: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the house of the Lord will soon return from Babylon; because they prophesy a lie to you.
17 Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live; Why should this city be desolate?
18 And if they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is with them, pray now to the Lord of hosts that the vessels that are left in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.
19 For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning those pillars, the pool, the bases, and the rest of the utensils that remain in this city,
20 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not remove when he carried Jeconiah the son of Jeconiah from Jerusalem to Babylon. Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
21 Thus therefore says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that were left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:
22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be. until the day I visit them, says the Lord; and then I will bring them and restore them to this place.
1 It came to pass in the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur, a prophet who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord before the priests and all the people, saying:
2 Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
3 Within two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took from this place to take to Babylon,
4 and I will bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah. , and to all those carried away from Judah who entered Babylon, says the Lord; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
5 Then Jeremiah the prophet answered Hananiah the prophet before the priests and before all the people who were in the house of the Lord.
6 And Jeremiah the prophet said, Amen, so do the Lord. May the Lord confirm your words, with which you prophesied that the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all those transported, are to be returned from Babylon to this place.
7 With all this, hear now this word that I speak in your ears and in the ears of all the people:
8 The prophets who were before me and before you in times past prophesied war, affliction and pestilence against many lands and against great kingdoms.
9 The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the prophet’s word is fulfilled, he will be known as the prophet whom Jehovah truly sent.
10 Then the prophet Hananiah removed the yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it.
11 And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus says the LORD: In this way I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, from the necks of all the nations, within two years. And Jeremiah followed his path.
12 And after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
13 Go and speak to Hananiah, saying, Thus says the LORD: You have broken yokes of wood, but in their place you will make iron yokes.
14 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron on the necks of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him; and I have also given him the beasts of the field.
15 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, Hear now, Hananiah: the Lord did not send you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.
16 Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I am removing you from the face of the earth; you will die in this year, because you spoke rebellion against the Lord.
17 And in the same year Hananiah died, in the seventh month.
1 These are the words of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the elders who were left of those who were carried away, and to the priests and prophets and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon
2 (after the departure of the king Jeconiah, the queen, those of the palace, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen and the engineers of Jerusalem),
3 by the hand of Elasa son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He said:
4 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the captivity whom I carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:
5 Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit.
6 Marry and have sons and daughters; give wives to your sons, and give husbands to your daughters, so that they may have sons and daughters; and multiply there, and be not diminished.
7 And seek peace for the city to which I have transported you, and pray to the Lord for it; because in his peace you will have peace.
8 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your prophets who are among you, nor your diviners deceive you; nor pay attention to the dreams you dream.
9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name; I did not send them, says the Lord.
10 For thus says the LORD: When the seventy years are completed in Babylon, I will visit you, and will awaken my good word upon you, to bring you back to this place.
11 For I know the thoughts I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you the end you hope for.
12 Then you will call on me, and come and pray to me, and I will hear you;
13 and you will seek me and find me, because you will seek me with all your heart.
14 And I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring back your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord; and I will bring you back to the place from which I brought you.
15 But you have said, The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.
16 But thus says the Lord about the king who sits on the throne of David, and about all the people who live in this city, about your brothers who did not go out with you into captivity;
17 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will send against them a sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like bad figs, which are so bad that they cannot be eaten.
18I will pursue them with sword, with famine and with pestilence, and I will make them a mockery to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse and a terror, and a mockery and a disgrace to all the nations among whom I have thrown them;
19 because they did not hear my words, says the Lord, which I sent to them as my servants the prophets, early and without ceasing; and you have not listened, says the Lord.
20 Hear therefore the word of the LORD, all ye that were transported whom I sent from Jerusalem to Babylon.
21 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy falsely to you in my name: Behold, I deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your eyes.
22 And all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will curse them, saying, Make the Lord like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted with the fire.
23 Because they did evil in Israel, and committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and spoke falsely in my name a word that I did not command them; Which I know and testify, says the Lord.
24 And you shall speak to Shemaiah of Nehelam, saying,
25 Thus spake the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Thou didst send letters in thy name to all the people that are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the priest the son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests, saying:
26 The LORD has made you a priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, so that you may take charge in the house of the LORD of every mad man who prophecies, putting him in the dungeon and in the stocks.
27 Why then have you not now rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who prophesies to you?
28 For he sent us to Babylon to say, ‘Long will be the captivity; build houses, and live in them; plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
29 And Zephaniah the priest had read this letter in the ears of the prophet Jeremiah.
30 And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
31 Send and say to all the captives, Thus says the LORD of Shemaiah of Nehelam: Because Shemaiah prophesied to you, and I did not send him, and he made you trust in a lie;
32 Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants; There will be no man to dwell among this people, nor will he see the good that I will do to my people, says the Lord; for he has spoken rebellion against the Lord.
1 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying:
2 Thus spoke the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write for you in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.
3 For behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will bring back the captives of my people Israel and Judah, says the Lord, and I will bring them into the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will enjoy it.
4 These then are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah.
5 For thus says the Lord: We have heard the voice of trembling; of fear, and not of peace.
6 Inquire now, and see whether the man gives birth; because I saw that every man had his hands on his loins, like a woman in labor, and all their faces had turned pale.
7 Ah, how great is that day! so much so that there is no other like him; time of trouble for Jacob; but he will be delivered from it.
8 In that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will break his yoke from your neck, and I will break your bonds, and foreigners will no longer bring him into bondage,
9 but they will serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will lift them up.
10 Therefore, my servant Jacob, do not be afraid, says the Lord, nor be dismayed, Israel; for behold, I am the one who saved you from afar and your descendants from the land of captivity; and Jacob will return, rest and live in peace, and there will be no one to frighten him.
11 For I am with you to save you, says the Lord, and I will destroy all the nations among whom I scattered you; But I will not destroy you, but will punish you with justice; There is no way I will let you go unpunished.
12 For thus says the Lord: Your wound is incurable, and your wound is painful.
13 There is no one to judge your cause to heal you; There are no effective medications for you.
14 All your lovers forgot you; They don’t look for you; because as an enemy strikes I struck you, with the scourge of a cruel adversary, because of the magnitude of your wickedness and the multitude of your sins.
15 Why do you cry out because of your brokenness? Your pain is incurable, because because of the greatness of your iniquity and because of your many sins I have done this to you.
16 But all who consume you will be consumed; and all your adversaries will all go into captivity; Those who trampled you will be trampled under foot, and all those who prey on you I will give as a prey.
17 But I will bring healing to you, and I will heal your wounds, says the Lord; for they called you rejected, saying, This is Zion, which no one remembers.
18 Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will bring back the captives from Jacob’s tents, and I will have mercy on his tents, and the city will be built on his hill, and the temple will be established according to his form.
19 And thanksgiving will come from them, and the voice of a nation rejoicing, and I will multiply them, and they will not be diminished; I will multiply them, and they will not be diminished.
20 And they will be his children as before, and his congregation before me will be established; and I will punish all his oppressors.
21 Out of her will come the prince of her, and out of the midst of her will come the ruler of her; and I will bring him near, and he will draw near to me; because who is he who dares to approach me? says Jehovah.
22 And you will be my people, and I will be your God.
23 Behold, the storm of the Lord comes forth with fury; The storm that is preparing will rest on the heads of the wicked.
24 The fierce anger of the LORD will not subside, until he has done and fulfilled the thoughts of his heart; In the end of days you will understand this.
1 At that time, says the Lord, I will be God to all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.
2 Thus says the LORD: The people who escaped the sword found grace in the wilderness, when Israel sought rest.
3 The Lord revealed himself to me a long time ago, saying: I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore, I extended my mercy to you.
4 I will yet build you, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel; You will still be adorned with your timbrels, and you will go out in joyous dances.
5 You will still plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; Those who plant will plant, and they will enjoy them.
6 For there will be a day when the guards on Mount Ephraim will cry, Arise, and let us go up to Zion, to the Lord our God.
7 For thus says the LORD: Rejoice in Jacob with joy, and shout for joy to the heads of the nations; make people hear, praise, and say: O Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
8 Behold, I will bring them back from the land of the north, and I will gather them from the ends of the earth, and among them the blind and the lame, the woman who is with child and the woman who has given birth together; In great company they will return here.
9 They will go with weeping, but with mercy I will turn them back, and I will make them walk along streams of water, on a straight path in which they will not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and make it known in the coasts that are far away, and say: He who scattered Israel will gather it and keep it, as a shepherd his flock.
11 For the LORD redeemed Jacob, redeemed him from the hand of him stronger than he.
12 And they will come with shouts of joy to the heights of Zion, and will run to the good of the Lord, to the bread, to the wine, to the oil, and to the cattle of the sheep and of the herds; and their soul will be like a watered garden, and they will never have pain again.
13 Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, the young and the old together; and I will turn their weeping into joy, and I will comfort them, and make them glad for their sorrow.
14 And I will satisfy the soul of the priest with abundance, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness, says the Lord.
15 Thus says the Lord: A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and bitter weeping; Rachel mourned for her children, and she did not want to be consoled about her children, because they perished.
16 Thus says the Lord: Restrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for there is a reward for your work, says the Lord, and they will return from the land of the enemy.
17 There is also hope for your future, says the Lord, and the children will return to their own land.
18Listening, I heard Ephraim lamenting: You scourged me, and I was punished like an untamed bull; convert me, and I will be converted, for you are Jehovah my God.
19 For after I turned away I repented, and after I recognized my fault, I wounded my thigh; I was ashamed and confused, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.
20 Is not Ephraim my precious son? Is he not the child in whom I delight? Well, since I spoke about him, I have constantly remembered him. That’s why my insides were moved by him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.
21 Establish signs for yourself, set up high pillars, note the road carefully; Return to the way you went, virgin of Israel, return to these your cities.
22 How long will you wander, O stubborn daughter? For the Lord will create a new thing on the earth: the woman will surround the man.
23 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: They will still say this word in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I bring back their captives: The LORD bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O holy mountain.
24 And Judah will dwell there, and also in all the cities his husbandmen, and those who go with flocks.
25 For I will satisfy the weary soul, and I will satisfy every sorrowful soul.
26 At this I woke up and saw, and my dream was pleasant to me.
27 Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of animals.
28 And just as I have taken care of them to uproot and to tear down, and to overthrow and to lose and to afflict, so I will take care of them to build and to plant, says the Lord.
29 In those days they will no longer say: The fathers ate sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge,
30 but each one will die because of his own iniquity; The teeth of every man who eats sour grapes will be set on edge.
31 Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, in which I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
32 Not like the covenant I made with his parents on the day I took their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they broke my covenant, although I was a husband to them, says the Lord.
33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law in his mind, and I will write it in his heart; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
34 And no man shall teach his neighbor any more, nor any man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and will remember his sin no more.
35 Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day, the laws of the moon and the stars for light by night, who splits the sea, and its waves roar; The Lord of hosts is his name:
36 If these laws fail before me, says the Lord, then the descendants of Israel will also fail from being a nation before me forever.
37 Thus says the LORD: If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be searched, then I also will reject all the descendants of Israel for all that they did, says the LORD.
38 Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when the city will be built to the Lord, from the tower of Hananeel to the Corner Gate.
39 And the measuring line will go out ahead of him over the hill of Gareb, and will surround Goa.
40 And all the valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the plains to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate on the east, will be holy to the Lord; It will no longer be uprooted or destroyed forever.
1 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.
2 Then the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and the prophet Jeremiah was imprisoned in the court of the prison that was in the house of the king of Judah.
3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had put him in prison, saying, Why do you prophesy, saying, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
4 And Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans, but will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes will see his eyes,
5 and he will have Zedekiah taken to Babylon, and there he will be until I visit him; and if you fight against the Chaldeans, will it not go well with you, says the Lord?
6 Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum your uncle comes to you, saying, Buy me my field that is in Anathoth; because you have the right to buy it.
8 And Hanameel my uncle’s son came to me, according to the word of the LORD, into the prison yard, and said unto me, Buy now my field, which is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for thine is the right of the inheritance. , and the ransom belongs to you; buy it for yourself. Then I knew that it was the word of Jehovah.
9 And I bought the field of Hanamel, my uncle’s son, which was in Anathoth, and I weighed the money for him; seventeen shekels of silver.
10 And I wrote the letter and sealed it, and had it certified by witnesses, and weighed the money on balances.
11 I then took the letter of sale, sealed according to law and custom, and the open copy.
12 And I gave the bill of sale to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, before Hanamel my uncle’s son, and before the witnesses who had signed the bill of sale, before all the Jews who were in the court of sale. the jail.
13 And I commanded Baruch before them, saying,
14 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these letters, this sealed bill of sale, and this open letter, and put them in an earthen vessel, so that be preserved for many days.
15 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses, fields, and vineyards will still be bought in this land.
16 And after I gave the bill of sale to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord, saying:
17 O Lord Jehovah! behold, you made heaven and earth by your great power, and by your outstretched arm, nor is there anything that is difficult for you;
18who shows mercy to thousands, and punishes the iniquity of fathers on their children after them; Great, powerful God, Jehovah of hosts is his name;
19 great in counsel, and magnificent in deeds; For your eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give to each one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his works.
20 You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt to this day, and in Israel, and among men; and you have made a name for yourself, as seen today.
21 And you brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror;
22 and you gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers that you would give them, the land flowing with milk and honey;
23 and they went in and enjoyed it; but they did not listen to your voice, nor walk in your law; They did nothing of what you ordered them to do; Therefore, you have brought all this evil upon them.
24 Behold, they have attacked the city with battering rams to take it, and the city is going to be delivered into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, famine and pestilence; So what you said has come to pass, and behold, you are seeing it.
25 O Lord Jehovah! And you have said to me: Buy the inheritance for money, and give witnesses; even if the city is delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans?
26 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,
27 Behold, I am Jehovah, God of all flesh; Will there be anything that is difficult for me?
28 Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I am going to deliver this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it.
29 And the Chaldeans will come and attack this city, and they will set it on fire and burn it, also the houses on whose roofs they offered incense to Baal and poured libations to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have done nothing but provoke me to anger with the work of their hands, says the LORD.
31 So that this city has been to my anger and to my wrath from the day it was built until this day, so that I may remove it from my presence,
32 because of all the wickedness of the children of Israel and the children of Israel. Judah, what have they done to anger me, they, their kings, their princes, their priests and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
33 And they turned my neck, and not my face; and when he taught them early and without ceasing, they did not listen to receive correction.
34 But they put their abominations in the house where my name is called, defiling it.
35 And they built high places for Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause his sons and his daughters to pass through the fire to Molech; which I did not command them, nor did it occur to me that they should do this abomination, to make Judah sin.
36 And yet now thus says the Lord God of Israel to this city, of which you say: It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence:
37 Behold, I will gather them from all the lands to which I cast upon them in my fury, and with my great wrath and indignation; and I will bring them back to this place, and make them dwell safely;
38 and they will be my people, and I will be their God.
39 And I will give them a heart and a way, that they may fear me forever, that they may have good, and their children after them.
40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn back from doing them good, and I will put my fear in their hearts, so that they will not depart from me.
41 And I will rejoice with them, doing good to them, and I will plant them in this land in truth, with all my heart and with all my soul.
42 For thus says the LORD: As I brought upon this people all this great evil, so I will bring upon them all the good that I speak concerning them.
43And they will possess an inheritance in this land of which you say: It is deserted, without men and without animals, it is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.
44 They will buy fields for money, and they will make a deed and seal it and give witnesses, in the land of Benjamin and in the surrounding areas of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah; and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negev; for I will bring back their captives, says the Lord.
1 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still a prisoner in the prison yard, saying:
2 Thus says the Lord, who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it; Jehovah is his name:
3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and hidden things that you do not know.
4 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which were broken down with battering rams and axes
5 (because they came to fight against the Chaldeans, to fill them with the bodies of dead men).
6 Behold, I will bring them healing and medicine ; and I will heal them, and reveal to them an abundance of peace and truth.
7 And I will bring back the captives of Judah and the captives of Israel, and will restore them as at the beginning.
8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity with which they have sinned against me; and I will forgive all their sins by which they have sinned against me, and by which they have rebelled against me.
9 And it will be to me a name of joy, of praise and of glory, among all the nations of the earth, who will have heard all the good that I do to them; and they will fear and tremble for all the good and all the peace that I will give them.
10 Thus says the LORD: In this place, of which you say that it is deserted without man and without beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, which are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast ,
11 The voice of joy and gladness may still be heard, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say: Praise the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his mercy endures forever; voice of those who bring thanksgiving offerings to the house of Jehovah. For I will bring back the captives of the land as at the beginning, says the Lord.
12 Thus says the LORD of hosts: In this desert place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will still be shepherds’ booths grazing their flocks.
13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of Shephelah, in the cities of the Negev, in the land of Benjamin, and around Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah, cattle will still pass through the hands of the one who counts them, said Jehovah.
14 Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will confirm the good word that I have spoken to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
15 In those days and at that time I will cause David to spring up a Branch of righteousness, and he will execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
16 In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely, and will be called, Jehovah, our righteousness.
17 For thus says the LORD: David will not lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.
18 Neither will the priests and Levites lack a man who offers a burnt offering before me and makes an offering, and who makes a sacrifice every day.
19 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
20 Thus says the LORD: If you are able to make void my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that there is neither day nor night in their time,
21 my covenant may also be made void. with my servant David, that he may cease to have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with the Levites and priests, my ministers.
22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David my servant, and the Levites who serve me.
23 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
24 Have you not seen what this people are saying, saying, “He has rejected two families that the LORD chose?” And they have held my people in low regard, until they no longer have them as a nation.
25 Thus says the LORD: If my covenant with day and night does not continue, if I have not established the laws of heaven and earth,
26 I will also reject the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so as not to take of their offspring who is lord over the posterity of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For I will bring back his captives, and will have mercy on them.
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth under the dominion of his hand, and all the peoples, fought against Jerusalem and against all its cities, which said:
2 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and say to him, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will give this city to the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire;
3 and you will not escape from his hand, but you will certainly be taken, and you will be delivered into his hand; and your eyes will see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he will speak to you mouth to mouth, and you will enter Babylon.
4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, Zedekiah king of Judah: Thus says the LORD concerning you: You shall not die by the sword.
5 You will die in peace, and just as they burned spices for your fathers, the first kings who were before you will burn them for you, and will mourn for you, saying, Alas, lord! For I have spoken the word, says the Lord.
6 And Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem.
7 And the army of the king of Babylon fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these were left of the fortified cities of Judah.
8 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah, after Zedekiah made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to declare freedom for them;
9 that each man should let his male and female servants go free; that no one should use the Jews, his brothers, as servants.
10 And when all the princes and all the people heard that they had agreed to the covenant to let each man his servant and each man his maidservant be free, that no one should use them as servants any longer, they obeyed, and left them.
11 But afterwards they repented, and brought back the male and female servants whom they had left free, and subjected them as male and female servants.
12 So the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
13 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers on the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying:
14 At the end of seven years, each man will leave his Hebrew brother who was sold to him; he will serve him six years, and he will send him free; but your fathers did not hear me, nor inclined their ear.
15 And you had converted today, and done what was right in my sight, each one proclaiming liberty to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant in my presence, in the house in which my name is called.
16 But you have turned and profaned my name, and you have taken back, each one of his servants and each one of his handmaidens, whom you had left free at his will; and you have subjected them to be your servants and handmaids.
17 Therefore thus says the LORD: You have not heard me to proclaim freedom, each to his brother, and each to his companion; Behold, I proclaim freedom, says the Lord, from the sword and from the pestilence and from the famine; and I will make you a reproach before all the kingdoms of the earth.
18 And I will hand over the men who transgressed my covenant, who have not carried out the words of the covenant which they made in my presence, dividing the calf into two parts and passing through them;
19 The princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem, the officials and the priests and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf,
20 I will deliver them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
21 And I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life, and into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, which is gone from you. .
22 Behold, I will command, says the Lord, and I will bring them back to this city, and they will fight against it and take it, and burn it with fire; and I will reduce the cities of Judah to desolation, until there is no inhabitant left.
1 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying:
2 Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak with them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the rooms, and give them to drink wine.
3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habasiniah, his brothers, all his sons, and all the family of the Rechabites;
4 And I brought them to the house of the LORD, to the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was over the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, keeper of the door. .
5 And I set before the sons of the family of the Rechabites cups and cups full of wine, and said unto them, Drink wine.
6 But they said, We will not drink wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, You and your sons shall never drink wine;
7 neither shall you build a house, nor sow fields, nor plant a vineyard, nor retain it; but you will dwell in tents all your days, so that you may live many days on the face of the earth where you live.
8 And we have obeyed the voice of our father Jonadab son of Rechab in all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, neither we, nor our wives, nor our sons nor our daughters;
9 and not to build houses for our dwelling, and to have no vineyard, no field, no field.
10 So we lived in tents, and we have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
11 It came to pass, however, that when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, we said, Come, and let us hide ourselves in Jerusalem, from the presence of the army of the Chaldeans, and from the presence of the army of the Syrians; and in Jerusalem we stayed.
12 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,
13 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and say to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Will you not learn to obey my words? says Jehovah.
14 The word of Jonadab son of Rechab was firm, who commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this day, in obedience to the commandment of his father; and I have spoken to you early and without ceasing, and you have not heard me.
15 And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, early and without ceasing, to say to you: Turn now every one of you from your evil way, and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and you will live in the land that I gave to you and your parents; but you did not incline your ear, nor did you hear me.
16 Surely the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab considered the commandment that their father gave them to be firm; but this people has not obeyed me.
17 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have spoken against them; for I spoke to them, and they did not hear; I called them, and they haven’t answered.
18 And Jeremiah said to the family of the Rechabites, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his commandments, and did according to all that he commanded you;
19 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: There shall not be lacking from Jonadab the son of Rechab a man to stand before me always.
1 It came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
2 Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and against Judah. , and against all nations, from the day that I began to speak to you, from the days of Josiah until this day.
3 Perhaps the house of Judah will hear of all the evil that I plan to do to them, and each one will repent of his evil way, and I will forgive their wickedness and his sin.
4 And Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah, in a scroll, all the words that the Lord had spoken to him.
5 Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I have been forbidden to enter the house of the LORD.
6 Go therefore, and read from this scroll which you wrote from my mouth, the words of the Lord in the ears of the people, in the house of the Lord, on the day of the fast; and you will also read them in the ears of all those of Judah who come from their cities.
7 Perhaps their prayer may come before the Lord, and each one may turn from his evil way; for great is the fury and wrath that Jehovah has expressed against this people.
8 And Baruch son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading the words of the Lord in the book in the house of the Lord.
9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast in the presence of the Lord to all the people of Jerusalem and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem.
10 And Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the book in the house of the Lord, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, at the entrance to the new gate of the house of the Lord, in the hearing of the people. .
11 And Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, having heard from the book all the words of the Lord,
12 went down to the king’s house, to the secretary’s chamber, and, behold, all the princes were sitting there, that is, Elishama the secretary , Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Acbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Ananias, and all the princes.
13 And Micaiah told them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read from the book in the ears of the people.
14 Then all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to say to Baruch, Take the scroll in which you read in the hearing of the people, and come. And Baruch son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and came to them.
15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it unto us. And Baruch read it to him.
16When they heard all those words, each one turned in fear to his companion, and said to Baruch: We will certainly tell the king all these words.
17 Then they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now how you wrote all these words from the mouth of Jeremiah.
18 And Baruch said to them: He dictated to me all these words from his mouth, and I wrote with ink in the book.
19 Then the princes said to Baruch, Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you are.
20 And they entered where the king was, into the court, having deposited the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the secretary; and they told all these words in the king’s ears.
21 And the king sent Jehudi to take the scroll, which he took from the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and Jehudi read from it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who were with the king.
22 And the king was in the winter house in the ninth month, and there was a brazier burning before him.
23 When Jehudi had read three or four pages, the king tore it with a scribe’s penknife, and threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until the entire scroll was consumed on the fire that was in the brazier.
24 And the king and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid nor did they tear his clothes.
25 And although Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah begged the king not to burn that scroll, he would not listen to them.
26 The king also sent Jerameel the son of Hamelech, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but the Lord hid them.
27 And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll, the words that Baruch had written from the mouth of Jeremiah, saying:
28 Take another scroll again, and write on it all the first words that were in the first scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah burned.
29 And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus says the LORD: You burned this scroll, saying, Why did you write on it, saying, The king of Babylon will surely come and destroy this land, and cause no one to remain in it? neither men nor animals?
30 Therefore, thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on the throne of David; and his body will be cast into the heat of the day and the frost of the night.
31 And I will punish his iniquity on him, and on his descendants, and on his servants; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil which I have spoken unto them, and they did not listen.
32 And Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the scribe; and he wrote in it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of Judah burned in the fire; and many other similar words were added to them.
1 King Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned in the place of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
2 But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land obeyed the words of the Lord, which he spoke through the prophet Jeremiah.
3 And king Zedekiah sent Juchal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, to say to Jeremiah the prophet, Pray now for us to the Lord our God.
4 And Jeremiah went in and out among the people; because they had not yet put him in jail.
5 And when Pharaoh’s army had left Egypt, and word of it reached the ears of the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem, they withdrew from Jerusalem.
6 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
7 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: Behold, the army of Pharaoh that came out in your help, he returned to his land in Egypt.
8 And the Chaldeans will return and attack this city, and will take it and set it on fire.
9 Thus says the LORD: Do not deceive yourselves, saying, Surely the Chaldeans will depart from us; because they will not depart.
10 For even if you strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and only wounded men remain of them, each one will rise from his tent, and they will set this city on fire.
11 And it came to pass, when the army of the Chaldeans withdrew from Jerusalem because of the army of Pharaoh,
12 Jeremiah left Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself from the people.
13 And when he went to the gate of Benjamin, there was a captain there, whose name was Irias the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, who arrested the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Thou art going over to the Chaldeans.
14 And Jeremiah said, False; I don’t go over to the Chaldeans. But he did not listen to him, but Irias arrested Jeremiah and brought him before the princes.
15 And the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and they scourged him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe, because they had made it a prison.
16 So Jeremiah entered the house of the cistern and the vaults. And Jeremiah had been there many days,
17 King Zedekiah sent and brought him out; and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there a word from the Lord? And Jeremiah said: There is. And he said further: You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
18 Jeremiah also said to King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you, and against your servants, and against this people, that you put me in prison?”
19 And where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon will not come against you, nor against this land?
20 Now therefore, hear, I pray you, O king my lord; Now let my supplication fall before you, and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest he die there.
21 Then King Zedekiah gave orders, and they guarded Jeremiah in the courtyard of the prison, making him give him one loaf of bread a day from Bakers Street, until all the bread in the city was spent. And Jeremiah remained in the prison yard.
1 Shephatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people, saying,
2 Thus says the Lord: Whoever remains in this city will die by sword, or famine, or pestilence; But whoever goes over to the Chaldeans will live, for his life will be his plunder, and he will live.
3 Thus says the LORD: This city will surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it.
4 And the princes said to the king, Let this man die now; because in this way he makes the hands of the men of war who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, faint by speaking such words to them; because this man does not seek peace for this people, but evil.
5 And king Zedekiah said, Behold, he is in your hands; for the king can do nothing against you.
6 Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah the son of Hamelech, which was in the courtyard of the prison; and they tied Jeremiah up with ropes. And in the cistern there was no water, but mire, and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
7 And when Ebed-melech, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of the royal house, heard that Jeremiah had been put in the cistern, and the king was sitting at the gate of Benjamin,
8 Ebed-melech went out from the king’s house and spoke to the king. , saying:
9 My lord the king, these men did evil in all that they did to the prophet Jeremiah, whom they cast into the cistern; because there he will die of hunger, since there is no more bread in the city.
10 Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian himself, saying, Take in your power thirty men from here, and have Jeremiah the prophet drawn out of the cistern, before he dies.
11 And Ebed-melech took the men in his possession, and entered the king’s house under the treasury, and took from there old rags and worn and tattered clothes, and threw them with ropes into the cistern to Jeremiah.
12 And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Now put those old rags and worn and tattered clothes under the armpits, under the ropes. And Jeremiah did so.
13 So they pulled Jeremiah out with ropes and lifted him up out of the cistern. and Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the prison.
14 Then King Zedekiah sent and brought Jeremiah the prophet to him at the third gate of the house of the Lord. And the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask you a question; Don’t hide anything from me.
15 And Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I tell you, will it not be true that you will kill me? and if I give you advice, you will not listen to me.
16 And king Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As the Lord who made us this soul lives, I will not kill you, nor hand you over into the hand of these men who seek your life.
17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you immediately surrender to the princes of the king of Babylon, your soul will live, and this city will not be set on fire, and you will live and your house.
18 But if you do not surrender to the princes of the king of Babylon, this city will be delivered into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they will set it on fire, and you will not escape from their hands.
19 And king Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who have gone over to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hands and mock me.
20 And Jeremiah said, They will not hand you over. Hear now the voice of the Lord as I speak to you, and it will be well with you and you will live.
21 But if you do not want to give yourself up, this is the word that the Lord has shown me:
22 Behold, all the women who are left in the house of the king of Judah will be brought out to the princes of the king of Babylon; and they themselves will say: They have deceived you, and your friends have prevailed against you; They sank your feet in the mud, they turned back.
23 Therefore they will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans, and you will not escape from their hands, but by the hand of the king of Babylon you will be taken, and this city will burn with fire.
24 And Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, Let no one know these words, and you will not die.
25 And if the princes hear that I have spoken to you, and come to you and say to you, Tell us now what you spoke to the king, do not conceal it from us, and we will not kill you; Also, what did the king tell you?
26 You will tell them: I begged the king not to make me return to Jonathan’s house so that I would not die there.
27 And immediately all the princes came to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he answered them according to all that the king had commanded him. With this they left him, because the matter had not been heard.
28 And Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken; and there he was when Jerusalem was taken.
1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it.
2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month the wall of the city was breached.
3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in and camped at the middle gate: Nergal-sharezer, Shamgar-nebo, Sarsekim the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the other princes of the king of Babylon.
4 And when Zedekiah king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, they fled and left the city by night by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate between the two walls; and the king went out by the way of the Arabah.
5 But the army of the Chaldeans followed them, and they overtook Zedekiah on the plains of Jericho; and they took him, and brought him up to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon was, and sentenced him.
6 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in his presence at Riblah, and the king of Babylon also slew all the nobles of Judah.
7 And he put out the eyes of King Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters to take him to Babylon.
8 And the Chaldeans set the king’s house and the houses of the people on fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
9 And the rest of the people that were left in the city, and those who had adhered to it, with all the rest of the people that were left, Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, transported them to Babylon.
10 But Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, left the poor of the people who had nothing in the land of Judah, and he gave them vineyards and fields.
11 And Nebuchadnezzar had commanded Nebuzaradan captain of the guard concerning Jeremiah, saying,
12 Take him and watch over him, and do him no harm, but do to him as he tells you.
13 Therefore he sent Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, and Nabusazban the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the princes of the king of Babylon;
14 So they sent and took Jeremiah from the prison yard, and handed him over to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to bring him home; and he lived among the people.
15 And the word of the Lord had come to Jeremiah, while he was a prisoner in the prison yard, saying;
16 Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and this will happen on that day in your presence.
17 But on that day I will deliver you, says the Lord, and you will not be delivered into the hands of those whom you fear.
18 For I will surely deliver you, and you will not fall by the sword, but your life will be a spoil to you, because you trusted in me, says the Lord.
1 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah after Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, had sent him from Ramah, when he had taken him, bound in chains, among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being deported to Babylon.
2 So he took the captain of the guard to Jeremiah and said to him, The Lord your God spoke this evil against this place;
3 and Jehovah brought it and did it according to what he had said; Because you have sinned against the Lord, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come upon you.
4 And now today I have loosed you from the chains that were in your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will watch over you; But if it does not seem right to you to come with me to Babylon, let it be. See, the whole earth is before you; Go where it seems best and most comfortable for you to go.
5 If you prefer to stay, return to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has set over all the cities of Judah, and live with him among the people; or go where it feels most comfortable for you to go. And the captain of the guard gave him provisions and a present, and sent him away.
6 Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, to Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.
7 When all the commanders of the army who were in the field, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to govern the land, and that he had entrusted to him the men and the women and the children, and the poor of the land who were not transported to Babylon,
8 then came to Gedaliah in Mizpah; that is, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophatite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maacathite, they and their men.
9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore to them and to their men, saying, Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans; Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.
10 And behold, I dwell in Mizpah, to be before the Chaldeans who will come to us; But you take the wine, the summer fruits, and the oil, and put them in your storehouses, and stay in your cities that you have taken.
11 Likewise all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and those who were in all the lands, when they heard that the king of Babylon had left some in Judah, and that he had set upon
12 Then all these Jews returned from all the places where they had been driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah in Mizpah ; and they gathered wine and abundant fruit.
13 And Johanan the son of Kareah and all the princes of the men of war that were in the field came to Gedaliah in Mizpah,
14 And said unto him, Do you not know that Baalis king of the children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to kill you? But Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.
15 Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah secretly in Mizpah, saying, I will now go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no man will know it. Why should he kill you, and all the Jews who have gathered to you will be scattered, and the rest of Judah will perish?
16 But Gedaliah son of Ahikam said to Johanan son of Kareah, Do not do this, for what you say about Ishmael is false.
1 It came to pass in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family, and some of the king’s princes and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam in Mizpah; and they ate bread together there in Mizpah.
2 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him arose and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, thus killing him whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the land.
3 Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with Gedaliah in Mizpah, and the Chaldean soldiers who were there.
4 Furthermore, it happened one day after he killed Gedaliah, while no one knew it yet,
5 that some men came from Shechem, Shiloh and Samaria, eighty men in number, their beards torn, their clothes torn, and scratched, and they had on their backs hands offering and incense to bring to the house of the Lord.
6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah came out to meet them from Mizpah weeping. And it came to pass, when he found them, that he said unto them, Come unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.
7 And when they came into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah slaughtered them, and cast them into a cistern, he and the men who were with him.
8 But among them were found ten men who said to Ishmael, Do not kill us; because we have in the field treasures of wheat and barley and oils and honey. And he left them, and did not kill them among his brothers.
9 And the cistern into which Ishmael threw all the bodies of the men whom he killed because of Gedaliah, was the same one that King Asa had made because of Baasha king of Israel; Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the dead.
10 Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the king’s daughters, and all the people who were left in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, had entrusted to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. So Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive, and left to go over to the children of Ammon.
11 And Johanan son of Kareah and all the princes of the men of war who were with him heard of all the evil that Ishmael son of Nethaniah had done.
12 Then they took all the men and went to fight against Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great pool that is in Gibeon.
13 And it came to pass, when all the people that were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the men of war that were with him, that they were glad.
14 And all the people whom Ishmael had brought captive from Mizpah returned and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.
15 But Ishmael son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.
16 And Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the men of war who were with him took all the rest of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, whom he carried away from Mizpah after he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; men of war, women, children, and eunuchs, whom Johanan had brought from Gibeon;
17 And they went and lived in Gerutkimam, which is near Bethlehem, to go and enter Egypt,
18 because of the Chaldeans; because they feared them, because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the land.
1 All the officers of the men of war came, and Johanan the son of Kareah, Jezaniah the son of Hosaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest,
2 and said to Jeremiah the prophet: Now accept our prayer before you, and pray for us to Jehovah your God for all this remnant (for of many we are left but a few, as your eyes see us),
3 so that Jehovah your God may teach us the way in which we should go, and what we should do.
4 And Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard. Behold, I am going to pray to the Lord your God, as you have said, and whatever the Lord answers you, I will teach you; I will not reserve a word for you.
5 And they said to Jeremiah, The Lord be a witness among us of truth and faithfulness, if we do not according to all that the Lord your God will send you to us for.
6 Whether good or bad, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we sent you, so that by obeying the voice of the Lord our God it may go well with us.
7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.
8 And he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the officers of the men of war that were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest;
9 And he said to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplications in his presence:
10 If you remain still in this land, I will build you, and will not destroy you; I will plant you, and will not uproot you; because I am sorry for the evil I have done to you.
11 Do not be afraid of the presence of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; Do not fear his presence, says the Lord, for I am with you to save you and deliver you out of his hand;
12 and I will have mercy on you, and he will have mercy on you and bring you back to your land.
13 But if you say, We will not dwell in this land, not obeying the voice of the Lord your God,
14 saying, No, but we will enter the land of Egypt, in which we will not see war, nor hear the sound of a trumpet, nor We will suffer hunger, and there we will dwell;
15 Now therefore hear the word of the Lord, O remnant of Judah: Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: If you turn your faces to enter Egypt, and go in to dwell there,
16 it will come to pass that the sword which you fear , will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine of which you are afraid will pursue you there in Egypt; and there you will die.
17 All men who turn their faces to enter Egypt to live there will die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; There will be no one left alive among them, nor one who will escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
18 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath was poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt; and you will be an object of execration and fear, and of cursing and disgrace; and you will see this place no more.
19 The Lord has spoken to you, O remnant of Judah: Do not go to Egypt; Know certainly that I warn you today.
20 Why have you caused your souls to err? For you sent me to the Lord your God, saying: Pray for us to the Lord our God, and make known to us all things that the Lord our God says, and we will do it.
21 And I have declared it to you today, and you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, nor all the things for which he sent me to you.
22 Now therefore know for certain that you will die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you wished to enter to dwell there.
1 It came to pass, when Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of the Lord their God, all these words by which the Lord their God had sent to them,
2 Azariah the son of Hosaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah said, And all the proud men said to Jeremiah, “You tell a lie; The Lord our God has not sent you to say, Do not go to Egypt to live there,
3 but Baruch son of Neriah incites you against us, to deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, to kill us, and to have us transported to Babylon.
4 So Johanan son of Kareah and all the officers of the military and all the people did not obey the voice of the LORD to remain in the land of Judah,
5 but Johanan son of Kareah and all the officers of the army took men of war, to all the remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations where they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;
6 men and women and children, and the king’s daughters, and everyone whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch son of Neriah,
7 and they entered the land of Egypt, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord; and they came to Tahpanhes.
8 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
9 Take large stones in your hand, and cover them with clay on the brickwork that is at the door of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
10 and say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant, and I will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden, and he will spread his pavilion over them.
11 And he will come and lay waste the land of Egypt; those to death, to death, and those to captivity, to captivity, and those to the sword, to the sword.
12 And he will set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt and burn them, and he will take them captive; and he will cleanse the land of Egypt, as the shepherd cleanses his cloak, and he will go out from there in peace.
13 Furthermore he will break the statues of Beth-shemesh, which is in the land of Egypt, and he will burn the temples of the gods of Egypt with fire.
1 The word came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived in Migdol, in Tahpanhes, in Memphis, and in the land of Pathros, saying:
2 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah; and behold, they are devastated today; There is no one to dwell in them,
3 because of the evil that they committed to anger me, going to offer incense, honoring other gods that they had not known, neither you nor your fathers.
4 And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, early and without ceasing, to say to you: Do not do this abominable thing that I hate.
5 But they did not hear nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to stop offering incense to other gods.
6 Therefore my wrath and my fury were poured out, and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they were left in desolation and destruction, as they are today.
7 Now therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you do such great evil against yourselves, that man and woman, boy and suckling, may be destroyed from the midst of Judah, without any remnant remaining,
8 making me angry with the works of your hands, offering incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have entered to live, so that you are destroyed, and you become a curse and a reproach to all nations. nations of the earth?
9 Have you forgotten the iniquities of your fathers, the iniquities of the kings of Judah, the iniquities of their wives, your iniquities and the iniquities of your wives, which they did in the land of Judah and in the streets? from Jerusalem?
10 To this day they have not humbled themselves, nor have they been afraid, nor have they walked in my law or in my statutes, which I set before you and before your fathers.
11 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I turn my face against you for evil, and to destroy all Judah.
12 And I will take the remnant of Judah who turned their faces to go to the land of Egypt to dwell there, and in the land of Egypt they will all be consumed; They will fall by the sword, and will be consumed by hunger; They will die by sword and by hunger from the least to the greatest, and will be the object of execration, fear, cursing and reproach.
13 For I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt as I punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence.
14And of the rest of those of Judah who entered the land of Egypt to live there, there will be no one who escapes, nor anyone left alive to return to the land of Judah, to return to which they long to live there; because only a few fugitives will return.
15 Then all who knew that their wives had offered incense to other gods, and all the women who were present, a great congregation, and all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Patros, answered Jeremiah, saying :
16 word that you have spoken to us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hear it from you;
17 But we will certainly put into practice every word that has come out of our mouth, to offer incense to the queen of heaven, pouring out drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, have done in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and we had plenty of bread, and were glad, and saw no evil.
18 But since we stopped offering incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we lack everything, and we are consumed by sword and hunger.
19 And when we offered incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out libations from her, did we make cakes for her to worship her, and poured out libations to her, without the consent of our husbands?
20 And Jeremiah spoke to all the people, to the men and to the women and to all the people who had answered him this, saying,
21 Has not the Lord remembered, and has not the incense that you offered in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes and the people of the land?
22 And the Lord could not bear it any longer, because of the evil of your works, because of the abominations that you had done; Therefore, your land was made a desolation, a terror, and a curse, until it was left without an inhabitant, as it is today.
23 Because you offered incense and sinned against the Lord, and did not obey the voice of the Lord, nor walked in his law or in his statutes or in his testimonies; Therefore, this evil has come upon you, as it has until today.
24 And Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the Lord, all ye of Judah that are in the land of Egypt.
25 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: You and your wives spoke with your mouths, and with your hands you performed it, saying: We will fulfill our vows that we made, to offer incense to the queen of heaven and to pour on her libations; you confirm your vows to the truth, and you put your vows into action.
26 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all of you in Judah who live in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the Lord, that my name will no longer be called upon in all the land of Egypt by the mouth of any man of Judah. , saying: As the Lord God lives.
27 Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword and by famine, until they completely perish.
28 And those who escape the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few men; Therefore, all the rest of Judah who have entered Egypt to live there will know whose word is to remain: mine or theirs.
29 And you will have this as a sign, says the Lord, that in this place I punish you, so that you may know that my words will surely remain for evil against you.
30Thus says the LORD: Behold, I deliver Pharaoh Hophrah king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life, just as I handed Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, his enemy. who was looking for his life.
1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah, when he wrote in the book these words from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, saying:
2 Thus says the Lord God of Israel to you , O Baruch:
3 You said: Woe is me now! because the Lord has added sadness to my pain; I am weary from groaning, and I have found no rest.
4 Thus you shall say to him: The LORD says: Behold, I will destroy those whom I built, and uproot those whom I planted, and all this land.
5 And do you seek greatness for yourself? Don’t look for them; For behold, I bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord; But I will give you your life as a plunder wherever you go.
1 The word of the Lord came to the prophet Jeremiah against the nations.
2 Concerning Egypt: against the army of Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt, which was near the river Euphrates at Carchemish, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon destroyed, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah.
3 Prepare shield and buckler, and come to war.
4 Yoke your horses and go up, you horsemen, and put on helmets; clean your spears, put on your breastplates.
5 Why did I see them afraid, retreating? His brave men were destroyed, and fled without looking back; fear on all sides, says the Lord.
6 Let not the swift flee, nor the brave escape; To the north along the bank of the Euphrates they stumbled and fell.
7 Who is this that rises like a river, and whose waters move like rivers?
8 Egypt widens like a river, and the waters move like rivers, and he said, I will come up, I will cover the earth, I will destroy the city and those who live in it.
9 Come up, horses, and stir up, chariots, and let the mighty go forth; the Ethiopians and those of Put who take up a shield, and those of Lud who take up and bend the bow.
10 But that day will be a day of retribution for Jehovah, the God of hosts, to take revenge on his enemies; and the sword will devour and be satisfied, and will be drunk with their blood; for it will be a sacrifice to the Lord God of hosts, in the land of the north by the river Euphrates.
11 Go up to Gilead and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt; In addition you will multiply the medicines; there is no cure for you.
12 The nations heard your reproach, and your cry filled the earth; for brave man stumbled against brave man, and they both fell together.
13 The word that the LORD spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to desolate the land of Egypt:
14 Declare in Egypt, and make known in Migdol; make it known also in Memphis and in Taphnes; say: Stand up and prepare, for the sword will devour your region.
15 Why has your fortress been torn down? She could not stand firm, because Jehovah pushed her.
16 He multiplied the fallen, and each one fell on his companion; and they said: Arise and let us return to our people, and to the land of our birth, let us flee before the conquering sword.
17 There they shouted: Pharaoh king of Egypt is destroyed; He let the appointed time pass.
18 As I live, says the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, as Tabor among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
19 Make yourself articles of captivity, inhabitant, daughter of Egypt; for Memphis will be a desert, and will be desolated until there is no inhabitant left.
20 Egypt is a beautiful heifer; but destruction comes, from the north it comes.
21 Her mercenary soldiers were also in her midst like fattened calves; Because they also turned back, they all fled without stopping, because the day of their destruction, the time of their punishment, came upon them.
22 Her voice will come out like a serpent; for her enemies will come, and with axes they will come to her like hewers of wood.
23 They will cut down the forests from it, says the Lord, even though they are impenetrable; because they will be more numerous than locusts, they will have no number.
24 The daughter of Egypt will be ashamed; delivered she will be in the hands of the people of the north.
25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, has said: Behold, I punish Ammon, the god of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, and her gods, and her kings; both to Pharaoh and to those who trust in him.
26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek his life, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of his servants; but afterward it will be inhabited as in days gone by, says the Lord.
27 And do not fear, my servant Jacob, nor be dismayed, Israel; for behold, I will save you from afar, and your descendants from the land of his captivity. And Jacob will return and rest and prosper, and there will be no one to make him afraid.
28 You, my servant Jacob, do not fear, says the Lord, for I am with you; for I will destroy all the nations among whom I have scattered you; But I will not completely destroy you, but will punish you justly; There is no way I will let you go unpunished.
1 The word of the LORD that came to the prophet Jeremiah concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh destroyed Gaza.
2 Thus says the LORD: Behold, the waters are rising from the north and will become a torrent; They will flood the earth and the fullness of it, the city and the inhabitants of it; and men will cry, and every inhabitant of the earth will mourn.
3 Because of the sound of their horses’ hooves, because of the noise of their chariots, because of the roar of their wheels, parents did not care for their children because of the weakness of their hands;
4 because of the day that is coming for the destruction of all the Philistines, to destroy Tire and Sidon every ally that remains to them; for the Lord will destroy the Philistines, the rest of the coast of Caphtor.
5 Gaza is shaved, Ashkelon has perished, and the rest of the valley of it; How long will you cut yourself?
6 O sword of the Lord, how long will you rest? Return to your pod, rest and calm down.
7 How will you rest? For the LORD has sent you against Ashkelon, and against the coast of the sea, there he has placed you.
1 About Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it was destroyed and put to shame: Kiriathaim was taken; she was confounded Misgab, and fainted.
2 Moab will boast no more; In Heshbon they plotted evil against her, saying, Come, and let us remove her from among the nations. You too, Madmena, will be cut off; sword will go after you.
3 The cry of Horonaim, destruction and great destruction!
4 Moab was broken; They made the cry of her little ones heard.
5 For he who weeps will go up to the ascent of Luhit with weeping; for at the descent of Horonaim the enemies heard a cry of destruction.
6 Flee, save your life, and be like a broom in the desert.
7 For because you trusted in your possessions and your treasures, you too will be taken; and Chemosh will be taken into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
8 And the destroyer will come to every city, and no city will escape; The valley also will be ruined, and the plain will be destroyed, as the Lord has said.
9 Give wings to Moab, so that she may fly away; for his cities will be deserted until there is no inhabitant left in them.
10 Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord sluggishly, and cursed is he who spares his sword from blood.
11 Moab was still from her youth, and on its foundation she has rested, and she was not emptied from vessel to vessel, nor was she ever in captivity; therefore the taste of it remained in him, and the smell of it has not changed.
12 Therefore the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send him decanters to decant him; and they will empty his vessels, and break his skin.
13 And Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, his confidence.
14 How then will you say, We are mighty men, and strong for war?
15 Moab was destroyed, and its cities were laid waste, and its chosen young men went down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
16 The destruction of Moab is near to come, and its evil is very quick.
17 Have compassion on him, all of you who are around him; and all of you who know his name, say: How the strong rod, the beautiful staff, is broken!
18 Come down from glory, sit on dry ground, dwelling daughter of Dibon; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, he has destroyed your strongholds.
19 Stand in the way and see, O dweller of Aroer; She asks the one who is fleeing, and the one who escaped; tell him: What has happened?
twentyMoab was ashamed, because it was broken; lament and cry; announce in Arnon that Moab is destroyed.
21 Judgment came upon the land of the plain; on Holon, on Jahaza, on Mephaath,
22 on Dibon, on Nebo, on Beth-diblataim,
23 on Kiriathaim, on Beth-gamul, on Beth-meon,
24 on Kerioth, on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land of Moab , those from far away and those close up.
25 The power of Moab is cut off, and its arm is broken from it, says the LORD.
26 Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the Lord; and let Moab wallow in his vomit, and let him also be a cause of derision.
27 And did Israel not go to you as a mockery, as if taken among thieves? Because when you spoke of him, you mocked him.
28 Forsake the cities and live on rocks, O inhabitants of Moab, and be like the dove that makes a nest in the mouth of the cave.
29 We have heard the pride of Moab, that he is very arrogant, arrogant, proud, haughty and haughty in heart.
30 I know, says the Lord, his anger, but it will have no effect; His boasting will not profit him.
31 Therefore I will howl over Moab; I will cry over all Moab, and I will moan over the men of Kirhares.
32 With the weeping of Jazer I will weep for you, O vine of Sibma; Your branches crossed the sea, they reached the Sea of Jazer; On your harvest and on your vintage came the destroyer.
33 And joy and gladness will be cut off from the fertile fields, from the land of Moab; and I will cause the winepresses to fail; They will not tread with song; the song will not be a song.
34 The cry of Heshbon reaches Eleale; Even Jahaza they gave the voice of him; from Zoar to Horonaim, a three-year-old heifer; for the waters of Nimrim will also be destroyed.
35 And I will destroy from Moab, says the Lord, whoever sacrifices on the high places, and whoever offers incense to their gods.
36 Therefore my heart will sound like flutes for Moab; my heart will sound like flutes for the men of Kir-hares; because the riches they had made perished.
37 For every head will be shaved, and every beard will be worn out; There will be scratches on every hand, and sackcloth on every back.
38 On all the roofs of Moab, and in the streets of it, all of it will be weeping; For I have broken Moab like a vessel that is not pleasing, says the Lord.
39 Lament! How he has been broken! How Moab turned his back, and he was put to shame! Moab was an object of ridicule and terror to all those around it.
40 For thus says the LORD: Behold, he will fly like an eagle, and spread his wings against Moab.
41 The cities will be taken, and the fortresses will be taken; And on that day the heart of the mighty men of Moab will be like the heart of a woman in trouble.
42 And Moab will be destroyed until it is no longer a people, because it exalted itself against the Lord.
43 Fear and a pit and a snare are upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD.
44 He who flees from fear will fall into the pit, and he who comes out of the pit will be caught in the snare; for I will bring upon him, upon Moab, the year of his punishment, says the LORD.
45 In the shadow of Heshbon those who fled stood helpless; but fire came out of Heshbon, and flame from the midst of Sihon, and burned up the corner of Moab, and the crowns of the rebellious sons.
46 Woe to you, Moab! the people of Chemosh perished; for your sons were taken into captivity, and your daughters into captivity.
47 But I will bring back the captives of Moab in the latter days, says the LORD. This is the judgment of Moab.
1 About the children of Ammon. Thus says the LORD: Has Israel no children? Don’t you have an heir? Why has Milcom dispossessed Gad, and his people settled in his cities?
2 Therefore the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make the cry of war heard in Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it will become a heap of ruins, and its cities will be set on fire, and Israel will take as an inheritance those who took them, says the Lord.
3 Lament, O Heshbon, for Ai is destroyed; Cry out, daughters of Rabbah, put on sackcloth, mourn, and surround the fences, because Milcom was taken into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
4 Why do you boast about the valleys? Your valley is destroyed, O stubborn daughter, who trusts in her treasures, who says: Who will come against me?
5 Behold, I bring terror upon you, says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, to all your surroundings; and you will be thrown each one straight forward, and there will be no one to pick up the fugitives.
6 And after this I will bring back the captives of the children of Ammon, says the LORD.
7 About Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Is there no more wisdom in Teman? Has the advice of the wise men run out? Was his wisdom corrupted?
8 Flee, turn back, dwell in deep places, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the destruction of Esau upon him at the time when I punish him.
9 If grape harvesters had come against you, would they not have left gleanings? If they were thieves in the night, wouldn’t they have taken what was enough for them?
10 But I will strip Esau, I will reveal his hiding places, and he will not be able to hide; His descendants, his brothers, and his neighbors will be destroyed, and he will be no more.
11 Leave your orphans, I will raise them; and your widows will trust in me.
12 For thus says the Lord: Behold, those who were not condemned to drink the cup will surely drink; and will you be completely absolved? You will not be absolved, but you will certainly drink.
13 For I have sworn by me, says the LORD, that Bozrah shall be a desolation, a reproach, a desolation, and a curse, and all its cities shall be everlasting desolations.
14 I heard the news, that a messenger had been sent from the LORD to the nations, saying, Gather yourselves together and come against her, and go up to battle.
15 Behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among men.
16 Your arrogance deceived you, and the pride of your heart. You who dwell in caves of rocks, who are as high as the mountain, although you lift up your nest like an eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the Lord.
17 And Edom will become a desolation; everyone who passes through it will be amazed, and will mock at all its calamities.
18 As it was at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and their surrounding cities, says the LORD, so no one will dwell there, nor will the son of man inhabit it.
19 Behold, like a lion he will come up out of the thickets of the Jordan against the beautiful and strong one; because very soon I will make him flee from it, and I will entrust it to whoever is chosen; For who is like me, and who will replace me? Who will be that shepherd who can resist me?
20 Hear therefore the counsel which the LORD hath decided upon Edom, and his thoughts which he hath resolved upon the inhabitants of Teman. Surely they will drag away the least of his flock, and destroy their dwellings with them.
21 At the sound of their fall the earth will shake, and the cry of his voice will be heard in the Red Sea.
22 Behold, he will ascend like an eagle and fly, and spread his wings against Bozrah; and the heart of the mighty men of Edom will be in that day like the heart of a woman in trouble.
23 About Damascus. Hamat and Arfad were confused, because they heard bad news; They melted in the waters of fainting, they cannot rest.
24 Damascus fainted, turned to flee, and trembling and anguish took hold, and pain took hold, like that of a woman in labor.
25 How they left the city so praised, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore their young men will fall in their squares, and all the men of war will die on that day, says the Lord of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire on the wall of Damascus, and it will consume the houses of Ben-hadad.
28 Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon devastated. Thus says the LORD: Arise, go up against Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.
29 Their tents and their livestock they will take; their curtains and all their utensils and their camels they will take for themselves, and they will cry out against them: Fear all around.
30 Flee, you gone far, dwell in deep places, O inhabitants of Hazor, says the Lord; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has formed a plan against you.
31 Rise up, go up against a peaceful nation that lives confidently, says the Lord, that has neither doors nor bars, that lives alone.
32 Their camels will be a spoil, and the multitude of their livestock will be a spoil; and I will scatter them to all the winds, thrown to the last corner; and I will bring ruin upon them from every side, says the Lord.
33 Hazor will be the abode of jackals, loneliness forever; No one will dwell there, nor will the son of man inhabit it.
34 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying:
35 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I break the bow of Elam, the chief part of its strength. .
36 I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four corners of the sky, and I will fan them against all these winds; and there will be no nation where fugitives from Elam will not go.
37 And I will make Elam cower before his enemies, and before those who seek his life; and I will bring evil upon them, and the fierceness of My anger, says the Lord; and I will send a sword after them until I destroy them.
38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and I will destroy its king and its prince, says the LORD.
39 But it will come to pass in the last days, that I will bring back the captives of Elam, says the LORD.
1 The word that the Lord spoke against Babylon, against the land of the Chaldeans, through the prophet Jeremiah.
2 Announce among the nations, and make known; Also raise a flag, publish, and do not conceal; say: Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is destroyed; Destroyed are his sculptures, broken are his idols.
3 For a nation from the north has come up against her, and will make her land a desolation, and there will be neither man nor beast to dwell in her; They fled, and they were gone.
4 In those days and at that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; and they will go walking and crying, and will seek the Lord their God.
5 They will ask for the way to Zion, where they will turn their faces, saying: Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord with an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
6 Lost sheep were my people; Their shepherds led them astray, they led them astray on the mountains; They wandered from mountain to hill, and forgot their sheepfolds.
7 All who found them devoured them; and his enemies said, We will not sin, because they sinned against the Lord, the habitation of righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of his fathers.
8 Flee from the midst of Babylon, and come out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be like the goats that go before the flock.
9 For I will raise up and bring up against Babylon a gathering of great people from the land of the north; from there they will prepare against it, and it will be taken; Her arrows are like those of a mighty right-handed man, who will not return empty.
10 And Chaldea will be a spoil; All who plunder it will be satisfied, says the Lord.
11 Because you rejoiced, because you rejoiced in destroying my inheritance, because you were filled like a heifer in the grass, and you neighed like horses.
12 Your mother was greatly ashamed, she who gave birth to you was disgraced; behold, it will be the last of the nations; desert, sequedal and paramo.
13 By the wrath of the Lord it will not be inhabited, but all of it will be desolated; Every man who passes through Babylon will be amazed and will mock at its calamities.
14 Arrange yourselves against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot against her, do not spare the arrows, because she has sinned against the Lord.
15 Shout against her around her; she gave up; Its foundations have fallen, its walls are broken down, because it is the vengeance of the Lord. Take revenge on her; Do to her as she did.
16 Destroy in Babylon him who sows, and him who puts in a sickle in harvest time; Before the destroying sword each one will turn his face towards his people, each one will flee towards his land.
17Israel is a lost flock; lions scattered him; The king of Assyria devoured it first, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon boned it later.
18 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the king of Assyria.
19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he will graze in Carmel and in Bashan; and in Mount Ephraim and in Gilead the soul will be satisfied with it.
20 In those days and at that time, says the LORD, the iniquity of Israel will be searched for, and will not appear; and the sins of Judah, and they will not be found; because I will forgive those whom I have left behind.
21 Come up against the land of Merataim, against it and against the inhabitants of Pecod; destroy and kill after them, says the Lord, and do according to all that I have commanded you.
22 There is a roar of war in the land, and great destruction.
23 How the hammer of the whole earth was cut off and broken! how Babylon became a desolation among the nations!
24 I laid snares for you, and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found, and even taken, because you provoked the Lord.
25 The LORD opened his treasure, and brought out the instruments of his wrath; for this is the work of the Lord, God of hosts, in the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come against her from the ends of the earth; open its storehouses, turn it into a heap of ruins, and destroy it; that she has nothing left.
27 Kill all her bulls; Let them go to the slaughterhouse. Woe to them! for her day has come, the time of her punishment.
28 The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to tell Zion of the retribution of the Lord our God, of the vengeance of his temple.
29 Gather archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against it around it; let no one escape from it; Repay him according to his work; according to all that she made, do to her; for he became arrogant against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.
30 Therefore his young women will fall in his squares, and all his men of war will be destroyed on that day, says the Lord.
31 Behold, I am against you, O proud one, says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts; for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.
32 And the proud will stumble and fall, and will have no one to lift him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and I will burn all around him.
33 Thus says the LORD of hosts: The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together; and all who took them captive held them; They didn’t want to let them go.
34 Their redeemer is the Mighty One; Jehovah of hosts is his name; verily he will plead their cause to make the land rest, and to trouble the inhabitants of Babylon.
35 A sword against the Chaldeans, says the LORD, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, against their princes and against their wise men.
36 Sword against the soothsayers, and they will become foolish; sword against his mighty men, and they will be broken.
37 Sword against her horses, against her chariots, and against all the people that are in her midst, and they will be like women; sword against her treasures, and they will be plundered.
38 Dryness upon the waters thereof, and they shall dry up; because it is a land of idols, and they become foolish with images.
39 Therefore, wild beasts and jackals will dwell there, and ostrich chicks will also dwell therein; It will never again be populated nor inhabited for generations and generations.
40 As in the destruction that God did of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, says the Lord, so no man will dwell there, nor will the son of man inhabit it.
41 Behold, a people are coming from the north, and a great nation and many kings will arise from the ends of the earth.
42 Bow and spear they will wield; They will be cruel, and will have no compassion; Their voice will roar like the sea, and they will ride on horses; They will prepare against you like men to fight, O daughter of Babylon.
43 When the king of Babylon heard the news, his hands became weak; Anguish took her, pain like that of a woman in labor.
44Behold, he will ascend like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the fortified dwelling; because very soon I will make him flee from it, and I will entrust whoever I choose; because who is like me? and who will summon me? Or who will be that shepherd who can resist me?
45 Therefore hear the resolution that the LORD has made against Babylon, and the thoughts that he has formed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they will carry away the least of his flock, and destroy their dwellings with them.
46 At the shout of the taking of Babylon the earth shook, and the cry was heard among the nations.
1 Thus says the LORD: Behold, I raise up a destroying wind against Babylon, and against its inhabitants who rise up against me.
2 And I will send fans to Babylon to fan her, and empty the land of her; for they will be against her from all sides in the day of evil.
3 I will say to the archer who bends his bow, and to him who prides himself on his breastplate: Do not spare his young men, destroy all his army.
4 And they will fall dead in the land of the Chaldeans, and speared in their streets.
5 For Israel and Judah are not widowed from their God, the Lord of hosts, although his land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
6 Flee from the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life, lest ye perish because of his wickedness; for the time is for Jehovah’s vengeance; he will give you the payment of it.
7 Babylon was a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, making the whole earth drunk; The people drank of his wine; Therefore the nations were stunned.
8 In a moment Babylon fell and was torn to pieces; groan over her; Take balm for her pain, perhaps she will heal.
9 We healed Babylon, and she is not healed; leave her, and let us each go to her land; for her judgment has reached to heaven, and is lifted up to the clouds.
10 The Lord brought to light our righteousness; Come, and let us tell in Zion the work of the Lord our God.
11 Cleanse the arrows, take up the shields; The Lord has awakened the spirit of the kings of Media; for his plan is against Babylon to destroy it; for vengeance is from the Lord, and vengeance from his temple.
12 Raise a banner on the walls of Babylon, reinforce the guard, set sentinels, set traps; for the LORD has deliberated, and will even put into effect what he has spoken against the inhabitants of Babylon.
13 You, who dwell among many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your greed.
14 The Lord of hosts swore by himself, saying, I will fill you with men like locusts, and they will raise a cry against you.
15 He is the one who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
16 At his voice there are tumults of water in the heavens, and he causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning out of the rain, and brings out the wind from his storehouse.
17 Every man has become arrogant and has no knowledge; Every craftsman of his sculpture is ashamed, because his idol is a lie, he has no spirit.
18 They are vanity, a work worthy of ridicule; in the time of punishment they will perish.
19Jacob’s portion is not like them; for he is the Maker of all, and Israel is the scepter of his inheritance; Jehovah of hosts is his name.
20 You are a hammer to me, and weapons of war; and through you I will break nations, and through you I will destroy kingdoms.
21 Through you I will break horses and their riders, and through you I will break chariots and those who ride on them.
22 Likewise through you I will break men and women, and through you I will break old and young, and through you I will break young men and virgins.
23 I will also destroy the shepherd and his flock through you; Through you I will break down the tenants and their teams; I will destroy rulers and princes through you.
24 And I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all the evil that they did in Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.
25 Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the Lord, who has destroyed the whole earth; and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will roll you off the rocks, and I will reduce you to a burnt mountain.
26 And no one will take from you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for a foundation; For you will be a perpetual desolation, says the Lord.
27 Raise a standard in the land, blow a trumpet among the nations, prepare people against it; gather against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minin and Ashkenaz; point against it captain, bring up horses like bristling locusts.
28 Prepare nations against it; the kings of Media, the captains of it, and all the princes of it, and all the territory of its dominion.
29 The earth will tremble and be grieved; for all the mind of the LORD is confirmed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, so that there may be no inhabitant in it.
30 The mighty men of Babylon stopped fighting, they shut themselves up in their fortresses; Their strength failed, they became like women; Their houses are burned, their locks broken.
31 Courier will meet courier, messenger will meet messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city is taken everywhere.
32 The fords were taken, and the ramparts burned with fire, and the men of war were dismayed.
33 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor when she is threshing; From now on the time of harvest will come.
34 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon devoured me, broke me into pieces, and left me as an empty vessel; He swallowed me like a dragon, filled his belly with my delicacies, and cast me out of him.
35 On Babylon fall the violence done to me and to my flesh, says the inhabitant of Zion; and my blood will fall on the inhabitants of Chaldea, Jerusalem will say.
36 Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will judge your cause and will execute your vengeance; and I will dry up its sea, and make its stream dry.
37 And Babylon will be a heap of ruins, an abode of jackals, a terror and a mockery, without an inhabitant.
38 All together they will roar like lions; They will growl like lion cubs.
39 In the midst of their heat I will make feasts for them, and I will make them drunk, so that they may rejoice, and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake up, says the Lord.
40 I will bring them like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.
41 How Babylon was captured, and she who was praised throughout the earth was taken! How Babylon became an object of fear among the nations!
42 The sea rose on Babylon; from the multitude of its waves it was covered.
43 Her cities were laid waste, the land dry and deserted, a land where no one will dwell, nor will the son of man pass through it.
44 And I will judge Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed; and no more nations will come to him, and the wall of Babylon will fall.
45 Come out from among her, my people, and save each one his life from the fierce anger of the Lord.
46 And do not let your heart faint, nor be afraid because of the rumor that will be heard in the land; In one year there will be rumor, and then in another year rumor, and there will be violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
47 Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will destroy the idols of Babylon, and all the land of her will be ashamed, and all her dead will fall in the midst of her.
48 The heavens and the earth and everything in them will sing for joy over Babylon; For destroyers will come against it from the north, says the Lord.
49 For the dead of Israel Babylon will fall, as the dead of the whole earth fell for Babylon.
50 You who escaped the sword, walk, do not stop; Remember the Lord for many days, and remember Jerusalem.
51 We are ashamed, because we hear the reproach; confusion covered our faces, because foreigners came against the sanctuaries of the house of the Lord.
52 Therefore the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will destroy their idols, and the wounded will groan throughout their land.
53 Even though Babylon ascends to heaven and fortifies herself on high places, destroyers will come to her from me, says the Lord.
54 Let the cry of Babylon be heard, and the great destruction of the land of the Chaldeans!
55 For the Lord will destroy Babylon, and will put away much boasting from her; and its waves will roar, and their voice will be like the sound of many waters.
56For a destroyer came against her, against Babylon, and her mighty men were taken; their bow was broken; for Jehovah, the God of retribution, will give the reward.
57 And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her captains, her nobles and her strong ones; and they will sleep an eternal sleep and will not wake up, says the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
58 Thus says the LORD of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon will be completely torn down, and its high gates will be burned with fire; The people labored in vain, and the nations tired themselves only for the fire.
59 The word that the prophet Jeremiah sent to Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraías was the main waiter.
60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that was to come upon Babylon, all the words that are written against Babylon.
61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, and see and read all these things,
62 you will say, O Lord, you have said against this place that you would destroy it, until there was no inhabitant left in it, neither man nor beast, but it must be desolated forever.
63 And when you have finished reading this book, you will tie a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates,
64 and say: Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise from the evil that I bring upon her; and they will be surrendered. So far these are the words of Jeremiah.
1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother was called Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libna.
2 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim did.
3 And because of the anger of the LORD against Jerusalem and Judah, he even drove them out of his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4 Therefore it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it, and of all Parties built bastions against it.
5 And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
6 In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, famine prevailed in the city, until there was no bread for the people.
7 And a breach was made in the wall of the city, and all the men of war fled, and they left the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls that was near the king’s garden, and they went by the road to the Arabah, while the Chaldeans were still around the city.
8 And the army of the Chaldeans followed the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army abandoned him.
9 Then they arrested the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced sentence against him.
10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slew all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
11 However, the king of Babylon only put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with fetters, and took him to Babylon; and he put him in prison until the day he died.
12 And in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, who was accustomed to stand before the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
13 And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and he destroyed every large building with fire.
14 And the whole army of the Chaldeans, which came with the captain of the guard, destroyed all the walls around Jerusalem.
15 And Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, had the poor of the people transported, and all the other people of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had gone over to the king of Babylon, and all the rest of the multitude of the people. .
16 But of the poor of the land Nebuzaradan left captain of the guard for vinedressers and husbandmen.
17 And the Chaldeans broke the bronze pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the bronze sea that was in the house of the Lord, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.
18 They also took the cauldrons, the shovels, the snuffers, the bowls, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which they ministered,
19 and the censers, bowls, cups, pots, candlesticks, bowls, and cups; The captain of the guard took gold for gold and silver for silver.
20 The two pillars, a sea, and the twelve bronze oxen that were under the sockets, which King Solomon had made in the house of the Lord; The bronze weight of all this was incalculable.
21 As for the columns, the height of each column was eighteen cubits, and a cord of twelve cubits surrounded it; and their thickness was four fingers, and they were hollow.
22 And the bronze capital that was on it was five cubits high, with a net and pomegranates around the capital, all of bronze; and the same was the case with the second column with its pomegranates.
23 There were ninety-six pomegranates in each row; all of them were hundred on the network around.
24 The captain of the guard also took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and three guards of the court.
25 And from the city he took an officer who was captain of the men of war, seven men of the king’s intimate advisors, who were in the city, and the chief secretary of the militia, who reviewed the people of the land. for war, and sixty men of the people who were found within the city.
26 So Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was transported from her land.
28 This is the people that Nebuchadnezzar took captive: In the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three men of Judah.
29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he took eight hundred and thirty-two people captive from Jerusalem.
30 In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, took captive seven hundred and forty-five of the men of Judah; All the people in total were four thousand six hundred.
31 And it came to pass, in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin. king of Judah and brought him out of prison.
32 And he spoke with him kindly, and caused his throne to be set above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
33 He also made him change his prisoner’s clothes, and he ate bread at the king’s table always all the days of his life.
34 And he was continually given a portion from the king of Babylon, every day throughout the days of his life, until the day of his death.
