Bible Reading November 18, 19, 20
(World English Bible)
Jeremiah
22-25
Jer
22:1 Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah,
and speak there this word,
Jer
22:2 Say, Hear the word of Yahweh, king of Judah, who sits on the
throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in
by these gates.
Jer
22:3 Thus says Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness, and
deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no
wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the
widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Jer
22:4 For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by
the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding
in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
Jer
22:5 But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says
Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation.
Jer
22:6 For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah:
You are Gilead to me, and
the head of Lebanon; yet
surely I will make you a wilderness, and
cities which are not inhabited.
Jer
22:7 I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his
weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them
into the fire.
Jer
22:8 Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every
man to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?
Jer
22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of
Yahweh their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.
Jer
22:10 Don't you weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore
for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his
native country.
Jer
22:11 For thus says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king
of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and
who went forth out of this place: He shall not return there any more.
Jer
22:12 But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall
he die, and he shall see this land no more.
Jer
22:13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his
chambers by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages,
and doesn't give him his hire;
Jer
22:14 who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers,
and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted
with vermilion.
Jer
22:15 Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn't
your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it
was well with him.
Jer
22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well.
Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.
Jer
22:17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your
covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression,
and for violence, to do it.
Jer
22:18 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah, king of Judah: they shall not lament for him, saying,
Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, saying
Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
Jer
22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast
forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Jer
22:20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan,
and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.
Jer
22:21 I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not
hear. This has been your manner from your youth, that you didn't obey
my voice.
Jer
22:22 The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall
go into captivity: surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for
all your wickedness.
Jer
22:23 Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how
greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as
of a woman in travail!
Jer
22:24 As I live, says Yahweh, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim
king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you
there;
Jer
22:25 and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life,
and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand
of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the
Chaldeans.
Jer
22:26 I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into
another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.
Jer
22:27 But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there
shall they not return.
Jer
22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in
which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are
cast into the land which they don't know?
Jer
22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh.
Jer
22:30 Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man who
shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed
prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.
Jer
23:1 Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my
pasture! says Yahweh.
Jer
23:2 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the
shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven
them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit on you the
evil of your doings, says Yahweh.
Jer
23:3 I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries
where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds;
and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
Jer
23:4 I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and
they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be
lacking, says Yahweh.
Jer
23:5 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will raise to David
a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and
shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer
23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell
safely; and this is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our
righteousness.
Jer
23:7 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that they shall
no more say, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel
out of the land of Egypt;
Jer
23:8 but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed of
the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the
countries where I had driven them. They shall dwell in their own
land.
Jer
23:9 Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my
bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has
overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.
Jer
23:10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing
the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their
course is evil, and their might is not right;
Jer
23:11 for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have
I found their wickedness, says Yahweh.
Jer
23:12 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the
darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring
evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
Jer
23:13 I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied
by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
Jer
23:14 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible
thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen
the hands of evildoers, so that none does return from his wickedness:
they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as
Gomorrah.
Jer
23:15 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the prophets:
Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water
of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth
into all the land.
Jer
23:16 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Don't listen to the words of the
prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a
vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.
Jer
23:17 They say continually to those who despise me, Yahweh has said,
You shall have peace; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness
of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on you.
Jer
23:18 For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should
perceive and hear his word? who has marked my word, and heard it?
Jer
23:19 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, even
his wrath, is gone forth, yes, a
whirling storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.
Jer
23:20 The anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed,
and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter
days you shall understand it perfectly.
Jer
23:21 I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn't speak to
them, yet they prophesied.
Jer
23:22 But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my
people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and
from the evil of their doings.
Jer
23:23 Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?
Jer
23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see
him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.
Jer
23:25 I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in
my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
Jer
23:26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who
prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
Jer
23:27 who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams
which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my
name for Baal.
Jer
23:28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who
has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to
the wheat? says Yahweh.
Jer
23:29 Isn't my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that
breaks the rock in pieces?
Jer
23:30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who
steal my words everyone from his neighbor.
Jer
23:31 Behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who use their
tongues, and say, He says.
Jer
23:32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says
Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies,
and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, nor commanded
them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh.
Jer
23:33 When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you,
saying, What is the burden of Yahweh? then you shall tell them, What
burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh.
Jer
23:34 As for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall
say, The burden of Yahweh, I will even punish that man and his house.
Jer
23:35 You shall say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his
brother, What has Yahweh answered? and, What has Yahweh spoken?
Jer
23:36 You shall mention the burden of Yahweh no more: for every
man's own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words
of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies our God.
Jer
23:37 You shall say to the prophet, What has Yahweh answered you?
and, What has Yahweh spoken?
Jer
23:38 But if you say, The burden of Yahweh; therefore thus says
Yahweh: Because you say this word, The burden of Yahweh, and I have
sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of Yahweh;
Jer
23:39 therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast
you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away
from my presence:
Jer
23:40 and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a
perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
Jer
24:1 Yahweh showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs set before
the temple of Yahweh, after that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had
carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah,
and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from
Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
Jer
24:2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are
first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not
be eaten, they were so bad.
Jer
24:3 Then said Yahweh to me, What see you, Jeremiah? I said, Figs;
the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can't be eaten,
they are so bad.
Jer
24:4 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Jer
24:5 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so
will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this
place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
Jer
24:6 For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them
again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down;
and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
Jer
24:7 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they
shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to
me with their whole heart.
Jer
24:8 As the bad figs, which can't be eaten, they are so bad, surely
thus says Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and
his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land,
and those who dwell in the land of Egypt,
Jer
24:9 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all
the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a
taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
Jer
24:10 I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among
them, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them
and to their fathers.
Jer
25:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of
Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of
Judah (the same was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon),
Jer
25:2 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah,
and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:
Jer
25:3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of
Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, the word of Yahweh
has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and
speaking; but you have not listened.
Jer
25:4 Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up
early and sending them (but you have not listened, nor inclined your
ear to hear)
Jer
25:5 saying, Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the
evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to
you and to your fathers, from of old and even forevermore;
Jer
25:6 and don't go after other gods to serve them or worship them,
and don't provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; and I will
do you no harm.
Jer
25:7 Yet you have not listened to me, says Yahweh; that you may
provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.
Jer
25:8 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies: Because you have not
heard my words,
Jer
25:9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,
says Yahweh, and I will send
to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring
them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all
these nations around; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them
an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jer
25:10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the
voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the
bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
Jer
25:11 This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment;
and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jer
25:12 It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I
will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for
their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it
desolate forever.
Jer
25:13 I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced
against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has
prophesied against all the nations.
Jer
25:14 For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of
them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their
deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
Jer
25:15 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me: take this cup
of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I
send you, to drink it.
Jer
25:16 They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because
of the sword that I will send among them.
Jer
25:17 Then took I the cup at Yahweh's hand, and made all the nations
to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:
Jer
25:18 to wit,
Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes,
to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse,
as it is this day;
Jer
25:19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and
all his people;
Jer
25:20 and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of the
Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and
Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
Jer
25:21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;
Jer
25:22 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the
kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
Jer
25:23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners of
their hair cut off;
Jer
25:24 and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed
people who dwell in the wilderness;
Jer
25:25 and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all
the kings of the Medes;
Jer
25:26 and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with
another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface
of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
Jer
25:27 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of
Israel: Drink you, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no
more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
Jer
25:28 It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to
drink, then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: You
shall surely drink.
Jer
25:29 For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called
by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be
unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the
earth, says Yahweh of Armies.
Jer
25:30 Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and tell
them, Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his
holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold; he will give
a shout, as those who tread the grapes,
against all the inhabitants of the earth.
Jer
25:31 A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh
has a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with
all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, says
Yahweh.
Jer
25:32 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, evil shall go forth from
nation to nation, and a great storm shall be raised up from the
uttermost parts of the earth.
Jer
25:33 The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the
earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented,
neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the surface of
the ground.
Jer
25:34 Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow in
ashes, you principal of the flock; for
the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come,
and you shall fall like a goodly vessel.
Jer
25:35 The shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of
the flock to escape.
Jer
25:36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the
principal of the flock! for Yahweh lays waste their pasture.
Jer
25:37 The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the
fierce anger of Yahweh.
Jer
25:38 He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become
an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword,
and because of his fierce anger.
Jeremiah
26-29
Jer
26:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, came this word from Yahweh, saying,
Jer
26:2 Thus says Yahweh: Stand in the court of Yahweh's house, and
speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh's
house, all the words that I command you to speak to them; don't
diminish a word.
Jer
26:3 It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil
way; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them
because of the evil of their doings.
Jer
26:4 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: If you will not listen
to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
Jer
26:5 to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send
to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not
listened;
Jer
26:6 then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this
city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Jer
26:7 The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah
speaking these words in the house of Yahweh.
Jer
26:8 It happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that
Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests
and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, You
shall surely die.
Jer
26:9 Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, This
house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without
inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the house of
Yahweh.
Jer
26:10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up
from the king's house to the house of Yahweh; and they sat in the
entry of the new gate of Yahweh's house.
Jer
26:11 Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to
all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he has
prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.
Jer
26:12 Then spoke Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people,
saying, Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against
this city all the words that you have heard.
Jer
26:13 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the
voice of Yahweh your God; and Yahweh will repent him of the evil that
he has pronounced against you.
Jer
26:14 But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is
good and right in your eyes.
Jer
26:15 Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will
bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its
inhabitants; for of a truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all
these words in your ears.
Jer
26:16 Then said the princes and all the people to the priests and to
the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to
us in the name of Yahweh our God.
Jer
26:17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to
all the assembly of the people, saying,
Jer
26:18 Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king
of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says
Yahweh of Armies: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem
shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places
of a forest.
Jer
26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death?
Didn't he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh
relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? Thus
should we commit great evil against our own souls.
Jer
26:20 There was also a man who prophesied in the name of Yahweh,
Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied
against this city and against this land according to all the words of
Jeremiah:
Jer
26:21 and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all
the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death;
but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into
Egypt:
Jer
26:22 and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely,
Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt;
Jer
26:23 and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to
Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead
body into the graves of the common people.
Jer
26:24 But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah,
that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him
to death.
Jer
27:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
Jer
27:2 Thus says Yahweh to me: Make bonds and bars, and put them on
your neck;
Jer
27:3 and 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;
Jer
27:4 and give them a command to their masters, saying, Thus says
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, You shall tell your masters:
Jer
27:5 I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the
surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm;
and I give it to whom it seems right to me.
Jer
27:6 Now have I given all these lands into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of
the field also have I given him to serve him.
Jer
27:7 All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's
son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and
great kings shall make him their bondservant.
Jer
27:8 It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom which will not
serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put
their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I
punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with the famine, and with
the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
Jer
27:9 But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to your
diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your
sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of
Babylon:
Jer
27:10 for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your
land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.
Jer
27:11 But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of
the king of Babylon, and serve him, that nation
will I let remain in their own land, says Yahweh; and they shall till
it, and dwell therein.
Jer
27:12 I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these
words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of
Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
Jer
27:13 Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the
nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jer
27:14 Don't listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you,
saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a
lie to you.
Jer
27:15 For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy
falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may
perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.
Jer
27:16 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying,
Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the words of your prophets who
prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's house shall
now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to
you.
Jer
27:17 Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why
should this city become a desolation?
Jer
27:18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with
them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the
vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of
the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don't go to Babylon.
Jer
27:19 For thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the pillars, and
concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the
residue of the vessels that are left in this city,
Jer
27:20 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn't take, when he
carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah,
from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
Jer
27:21 yes, thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, concerning
the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of
the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:
Jer
27:22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be,
until the day that I visit them, says Yahweh; then will I bring them
up, and restore them to this place.
Jer
28:1 It happened 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 Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to
me in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests and of all
the people, saying,
Jer
28:2 Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, I have
broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Jer
28:3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all
the vessels of Yahweh's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
took away from this place, and carried to Babylon:
Jer
28:4 and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of
Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to
Babylon, says Yahweh; for I will break the yoke of the king of
Babylon.
Jer
28:5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the
presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who
stood in the house of Yahweh,
Jer
28:6 even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Yahweh do so; Yahweh
perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the
vessels of Yahweh's house, and all them of the captivity, from
Babylon to this place.
Jer
28:7 Nevertheless hear you now this word that I speak in your ears,
and in the ears of all the people:
Jer
28:8 The prophets who have been before me and before you of old
prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of
war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
Jer
28:9 The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the
prophet shall happen, then shall the prophet be known, that Yahweh
has truly sent him.
Jer
28:10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet
Jeremiah's neck, and broke it.
Jer
28:11 Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus
says Yahweh: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon within two full years from off the neck of all the nations.
The prophet Jeremiah went his way.
Jer
28:12 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that Hananiah
the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet
Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
28:13 Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh: You have
broken the bars of wood; but you have made in their place bars of
iron.
Jer
28:14 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: I have put
a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have
given him the animals of the field also.
Jer
28:15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, Hear
now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but you make this people to
trust in a lie.
Jer
28:16 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will send you away from
off the surface of the earth: this year you shall die, because you
have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.
Jer
28:17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh
month.
Jer
29:1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet
sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity,
and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom
Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,
Jer
29:2 (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen mother, and the
eunuchs, and
the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the
smiths, were departed from Jerusalem),
Jer
29:3 by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son
of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), saying,
Jer
29:4 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, to all the
captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from
Jerusalem to Babylon:
Jer
29:5 Build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat
the fruit of them.
Jer
29:6 Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for
your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear
sons and daughters; and multiply you there, and don't be diminished.
Jer
29:7 Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be
carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you
shall have peace.
Jer
29:8 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Don't let
your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive
you; neither listen you to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
Jer
29:9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent
them, says Yahweh.
Jer
29:10 For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for
Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in
causing you to return to this place.
Jer
29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh,
thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter
end.
Jer
29:12 You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I
will listen to you.
Jer
29:13 You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me
with all your heart.
Jer
29:14 I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again
your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from
all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring
you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away
captive.
Jer
29:15 Because you have said, Yahweh has raised us up prophets in
Babylon;
Jer
29:16 thus says Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the throne of
David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your
brothers who haven't gone forth with you into captivity;
Jer
29:17 thus says Yahweh of Armies; Behold, I will send on them the
sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile
figs, that can't be eaten, they are so bad.
Jer
29:18 I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and
with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and
forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror,
and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the
nations where I have driven them;
Jer
29:19 because they have not listened to my words, says Yahweh, with
which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and
sending them; but you would not hear, says Yahweh.
Jer
29:20 Hear you therefore the word of Yahweh, all you of the
captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Jer
29:21 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab
the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who
prophesy a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into
the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall kill them
before your eyes;
Jer
29:22 and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of
Judah who are in Babylon, saying, Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and
like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
Jer
29:23 because they have worked folly in Israel, and have committed
adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my
name falsely, which I didn't command them; and I am he who knows, and
am witness, says Yahweh.
Jer
29:24 Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,
Jer
29:25 Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying,
Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who
are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest,
and to all the priests, saying,
Jer
29:26 Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the
priest, that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, for every
man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him
in the stocks and in shackles.
Jer
29:27 Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth,
who makes himself a prophet to you,
Jer
29:28 because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The
captivity is long: build you houses, and
dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?
Jer
29:29 Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah
the prophet.
Jer
29:30 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
29:31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says Yahweh
concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied
to you, and I didn't send him, and he has caused you to trust in a
lie;
Jer
29:32 therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the
Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this
people, neither shall he see the good that I will do to my people,
says Yahweh, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.
Jeremiah
30-33
Jer
30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
Jer
30:2 Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write you all
the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
Jer
30:3 For, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again
the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh; and I will
cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and
they shall possess it.
Jer
30:4 These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and
concerning Judah.
Jer
30:5 For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, of
fear, and not of peace.
Jer
30:6 Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do
I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail,
and all faces are turned into paleness?
Jer
30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is
even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Jer
30:8 It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that
I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds;
and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant;
Jer
30:9 but they shall serve Yahweh their God, and David their king,
whom I will raise up to them.
Jer
30:10 Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says
Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you
from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob
shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him
afraid.
Jer
30:11 For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make a
full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will
not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and
will in no way leave you unpunished.
Jer
30:12 For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound
grievous.
Jer
30:13 There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up:
you have no healing medicines.
Jer
30:14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I
have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of
a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins
were increased.
Jer
30:15 Why cry you for your hurt? your pain is incurable: for the
greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have
done these things to you.
Jer
30:16 Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all
your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and
those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will
I give for a prey.
Jer
30:17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your
wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, saying,
It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
Jer
30:18 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of
Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places; and the
city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace shall be
inhabited after its own manner.
Jer
30:19 Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those
who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few;
I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
Jer
30:20 Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation
shall be established before me; and I will punish all who oppress
them.
Jer
30:21 Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall
proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near,
and he shall approach to me: for who is he who has had boldness to
approach to me? says Yahweh.
Jer
30:22 You shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Jer
30:23 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, even
his wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping
storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.
Jer
30:24 The fierce anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has
executed, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in
the latter days you shall understand it.
Jer
31:1 At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the
families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
Jer
31:2 Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found
favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to
rest.
Jer
31:3 Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying,
Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving
kindness have I drawn you.
Jer
31:4 Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of
Israel: again you shall be adorned with your tambourines, and shall
go forth in the dances of those who make merry.
Jer
31:5 Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria;
the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy its
fruit.
Jer
31:6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on the hills of
Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our
God.
Jer
31:7 For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout
for the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, and say,
Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
Jer
31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather
them from the uttermost parts of the earth, and
with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who
travails with child together: a great company shall they return here.
Jer
31:9 They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead
them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight
way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and
Ephraim is my firstborn.
Jer
31:10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the
islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him,
and keep him, as shepherd does his flock.
Jer
31:11 For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand
of him who was stronger than he.
Jer
31:12 They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow
to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to
the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their
soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more
at all.
Jer
31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men
and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and
will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Jer
31:14 I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my
people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh.
Jer
31:15 Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and
bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be
comforted for her children, because they are no more.
Jer
31:16 Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your
eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; and
they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
Jer
31:17 There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and your
children shall come again to their own border.
Jer
31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus,
You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to
the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be
turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
Jer
31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I
was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even
confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Jer
31:20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as
I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my
heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.
Jer
31:21 Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the
highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of
Israel, turn again to these your cities.
Jer
31:22 How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter?
for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall
encompass a man.
Jer
31:23 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Yet again shall
they use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I
shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, habitation of
righteousness, mountain of holiness.
Jer
31:24 Judah and all its cities shall dwell therein together, the
farmers, and those who go about with flocks.
Jer
31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul
have I replenished.
Jer
31:26 On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
Jer
31:27 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house
of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the
seed of animal.
Jer
31:28 It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to
pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to
afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says
Yahweh.
Jer
31:29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten
sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Jer
31:30 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who
eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Jer
31:31 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jer
31:32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land
of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to
them, says Yahweh.
Jer
31:33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their
inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their
God, and they shall be my people:
Jer
31:34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every
man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I
will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
Jer
31:35 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and
the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who
stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his
name:
Jer
31:36 If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then
the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me
forever.
Jer
31:37 Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the
foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast
off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh.
Jer
31:38 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be
built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.
Jer
31:39 The measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the
hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah.
Jer
31:40 The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all
the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate
toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; it shall not be plucked up,
nor thrown down any more forever.
Jer
32:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of
Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadnezzar.
Jer
32:2 Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging
Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the
guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.
Jer
32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you
prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city
into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
Jer
32:4 and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of
the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the
king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his
eyes shall see his eyes;
Jer
32:5 and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be
until I visit him, says Yahweh: though you fight with the Chaldeans,
you shall not prosper?
Jer
32:6 Jeremiah said, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Jer
32:7 Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come to
you, saying, Buy you my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of
redemption is yours to buy it.
Jer
32:8 So Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard
according to the word of Yahweh, and said to me, Please buy my field
that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right
of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it for
yourself. Then I knew that this was the word of Yahweh.
Jer
32:9 I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's
son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
Jer
32:10 I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses,
and weighed him the money in the balances.
Jer
32:11 So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was
sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;
Jer
32:12 and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of
Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's
son, and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of
the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.
Jer
32:13 I commanded Baruch before them, saying,
Jer
32:14 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Take these
deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which
is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue
many days.
Jer
32:15 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Houses and
fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land.
Jer
32:16 Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch
the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying,
Jer
32:17 Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, you have made the heavens and the
earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is
nothing too hard for you,
Jer
32:18 who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the
iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them;
the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is his name;
Jer
32:19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on
all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his
ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
Jer
32:20 who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to
this day, both in Israel and among other
men; and made you a name, as in this day;
Jer
32:21 and brought forth your people Israel out of the land of Egypt
with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an
outstretched arm, and with great terror;
Jer
32:22 and gave them this land, which you did swear to their fathers
to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
Jer
32:23 and they came in, and possessed it, but they didn't obey your
voice, neither walked in your law; they have done nothing of all that
you commanded them to do: therefore you have caused all this evil to
come on them.
Jer
32:24 Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; and
the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against
it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence;
and what you have spoken has happened; and behold, you see it.
Jer
32:25 You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, Buy you the field for money,
and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans.
Jer
32:26 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
32:27 Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is there anything
too hard for me?
Jer
32:28 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will give this city into
the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon, and he shall take it:
Jer
32:29 and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and
set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs
they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to
other gods, to provoke me to anger.
Jer
32:30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done
only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the
children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of
their hands, says Yahweh.
Jer
32:31 For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of
my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day; that I
should remove it from before my face,
Jer
32:32 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the
children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they,
their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and
the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jer
32:33 They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though
I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not
listened to receive instruction.
Jer
32:34 But they set their abominations in the house which is called
by my name, to defile it.
Jer
32:35 They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of
the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire
to Molech; which I didn't command them, neither did it come into my
mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Jer
32:36 Now therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning
this city, about which you say, It is given into the hand of the king
of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence:
Jer
32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I
have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great
indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will
cause them to dwell safely:
Jer
32:38 and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
Jer
32:39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear
me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
Jer
32:40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will
not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my
fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
Jer
32:41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will
plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my
whole soul.
Jer
32:42 For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have brought all this great
evil on this people, so will I bring on them all the good that I have
promised them.
Jer
32:43 Fields shall be bought in this land, about which you say, It
is desolate, without man or animal; it is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans.
Jer
32:44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and
seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the
places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities
of the hill country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the
cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, says
Yahweh.
Jer
33:1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time,
while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
Jer
33:2 Thus says Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish
it; Yahweh is his name:
Jer
33:3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great
things, and difficult, which you don't know.
Jer
33:4 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses
of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which
are broken down to make a defense
against the mounds and against the sword;
Jer
33:5 while men
come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead
bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and
for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city:
Jer
33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them;
and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
Jer
33:7 I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel
to return, and will build them, as at the first.
Jer
33:8 I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have
sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, by which
they have sinned against me, and by which they have transgressed
against me.
Jer
33:9 This city
shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory,
before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good
that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and
for all the peace that I procure to it.
Jer
33:10 Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this
place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without
animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without
animal,
Jer
33:11 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say,
Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving
kindness endures forever; and of them
who bring sacrifices of
thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity
of the land to return as at the first, says Yahweh.
Jer
33:12 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Yet again shall there be in this
place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its
cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
Jer
33:13 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the
lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin,
and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall
the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says
Yahweh.
Jer
33:14 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will perform that
good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and
concerning the house of Judah.
Jer
33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of
righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute justice and
righteousness in the land.
Jer
33:16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell
safely; and this is the name
by which she shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
Jer
33:17 For thus says Yahweh: David shall never want a man to sit on
the throne of the house of Israel;
Jer
33:18 neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to
offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal offerings, and to do
sacrifice continually.
Jer
33:19 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
33:20 Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and
my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in
their season;
Jer
33:21 then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant,
that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the
Levites the priests, my ministers.
Jer
33:22 As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of
the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant,
and the Levites who minister to me.
Jer
33:23 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
33:24 Don't you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The
two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do
they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before
them.
Jer
33:25 Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I
have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
Jer
33:26 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my
servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the
seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity
to return, and will have mercy on them.
Hebrews 4
Heb 4:1
Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have
come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
Heb 4:2
For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also
did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't
mixed with faith by those who heard.
Heb 4:3
For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has
said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my
rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of
the world.
Heb 4:4
For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God
rested on the seventh day from all his works;"
Heb 4:5
and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."
Heb 4:6
Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they
to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because
of disobedience,
Heb 4:7
he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a
time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear
his voice, don't harden your hearts."
Heb 4:8
For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward
of another day.
Heb 4:9
There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
Heb 4:10
For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his
works, as God did from his.
Heb 4:11
Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone
fall after the same example of disobedience.
Heb 4:12
For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and
spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the
thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Heb 4:13
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things
are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to
do.
Heb 4:14
Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.
Heb 4:15
For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling
of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like
we are, yet without sin.
Heb 4:16
Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that
we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
Hebrews 5
Heb 5:1
For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for
men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and
sacrifices for sins.
Heb 5:2
The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going
astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.
Heb 5:3
Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as
well as for himself.
Heb 5:4
Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just
like Aaron was.
Heb 5:5
So also Christ didn't glorify himself to be made a high priest, but
it was he who said to him, "You are my Son. Today I have become
your father."
Heb 5:6
As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever,
after the order of Melchizedek."
Heb 5:7
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions
with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from
death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
Heb 5:8
though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he
suffered.
Heb 5:9
Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the
author of eternal salvation,
Heb 5:10
named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Heb 5:11
About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing
you have become dull of hearing.
Heb 5:12
For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again
need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles
of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid
food.
Heb 5:13
For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of
righteousness, for he is a baby.
Heb 5:14
But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use
have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
Hebrews 6
Heb 6:1
Therefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let
us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of
repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
Heb 6:2
of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection
of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Heb 6:3
This will we do, if God permits.
Heb 6:4
For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the
heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
Heb 6:5
and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,
Heb 6:6
and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to
repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again,
and put him to open shame.
Heb 6:7
For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and
brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also
tilled, receives blessing from God;
Heb 6:8
but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being
cursed, whose end is to be burned.
Heb 6:9
But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things
that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
Heb 6:10
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor
of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the
saints, and still do serve them.
Heb 6:11
We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the
fullness of hope even to the end,
Heb 6:12
that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith
and patience inherited the promises.
Heb 6:13
For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none
greater, he swore by himself,
Heb 6:14
saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I
will multiply you."
Heb 6:15
Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
Heb 6:16
For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs
the oath is final for confirmation.
Heb 6:17
In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the
heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with
an oath;
Heb 6:18
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to
lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to
take hold of the hope set before us.
Heb 6:19
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and
steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
Heb 6:20
where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high
priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
