Bible Reading for November 13 - 15
World English Bible
Nov.
13
Jeremiah
1-4
Jer
1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who
were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
Jer
1:2 to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of
Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Jer
1:3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of
Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in
the fifth month.
Jer
1:4 Now the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Jer
1:5 Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came
forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I have appointed you a
prophet to the nations.
Jer
1:6 Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, I don't know how to speak;
for I am a child.
Jer
1:7 But Yahweh said to me, Don't say, I am a child; for to whoever I
shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you
shall speak.
Jer
1:8 Don't be afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver
you, says Yahweh.
Jer
1:9 Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh
said to me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth:
Jer
1:10 behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the
kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to
overthrow, to build and to plant.
Jer
1:11 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what
see you? I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
Jer
1:12 Then said Yahweh to me, You have well seen: for I watch over my
word to perform it.
Jer
1:13 The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, What see
you? I said, I see a boiling caldron; and its face is from the north.
Jer
1:14 Then Yahweh said to me, Out of the north evil shall break forth
on all the inhabitants of the land.
Jer
1:15 For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of
the north, says Yahweh; and they shall come, and they shall set
everyone his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and
against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of
Judah.
Jer
1:16 I will utter my judgments against them touching all their
wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to
other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.
Jer
1:17 You therefore gird up your waist, and arise, and speak to them
all that I command you: don't be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you
before them.
Jer
1:18 For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an
iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the
kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against
the people of the land.
Jer
1:19 They shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail
against you: for I am with you, says Yahweh, to deliver you.
Jer
2:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Jer
2:2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh,
I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your
weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was
not sown.
Jer
2:3 Israel was
holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase: all who devour
him shall be held guilty; evil shall come on them, says Yahweh.
Jer
2:4 Hear you the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the
families of the house of Israel:
Jer
2:5 thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found
in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity,
and are become vain?
Jer
2:6 Neither said they, Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the
land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of
deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of
death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man
lived?
Jer
2:7 I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its
goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my
heritage an abomination.
Jer
2:8 The priests didn't say, Where is Yahweh? and those who handle
the law didn't know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, and
the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not
profit.
Jer
2:9 Therefore I will yet contend with you, says Yahweh, and with
your children's children will I contend.
Jer
2:10 For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to
Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a
thing.
Jer
2:11 Has a nation changed its
gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory
for that which does not profit.
Jer
2:12 Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be
you very desolate, says Yahweh.
Jer
2:13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me,
the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken
cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jer
2:14 Is Israel a servant? is he a native-born slave?
why is he become a prey?
Jer
2:15 The young lions have roared on him, and yelled; and they have
made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
Jer
2:16 The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the
crown of your head.
Jer
2:17 Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have
forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
Jer
2:18 Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the
waters of the Shihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria,
to drink the waters of the River?
Jer
2:19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding
shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing
and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my
fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Jer
2:20 For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds;
and you said, I will not serve; for on every high hill and under
every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute.
Jer
2:21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how
then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to
me?
Jer
2:22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet
your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh.
Jer
2:23 How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the
Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: you
are a swift dromedary traversing her
ways;
Jer
2:24 a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind
in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all those who
seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
Jer
2:25 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from
thirst: but you said, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers,
and after them will I go.
Jer
2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of
Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests,
and their prophets;
Jer
2:27 who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have
brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not
their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise,
and save us.
Jer
2:28 But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise,
if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to
the number of your cities are your gods, Judah.
Jer
2:29 Why will you contend with me? you all have transgressed against
me, says Yahweh.
Jer
2:30 In vain have I struck your children; they received no
correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a
destroying lion.
Jer
2:31 Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to
Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken
loose; we will come no more to you?
Jer
2:32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet
my people have forgotten me days without number.
Jer
2:33 How trimmest you your way to seek love! therefore even the
wicked women have you taught your ways.
Jer
2:34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the
innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; but it is because
of all these things.
Jer
2:35 Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away
from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you
say, I have not sinned.
Jer
2:36 Why go you about so much to change your way? you shall be
ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
Jer
2:37 From there also you shall go forth, with your hands on your
head: for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall
not prosper with them.
Jer
3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and
become another man's, will he return to her again? Won't that land be
greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many
lovers; yet return again to me, says Yahweh.
Jer
3:2 Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see; where have you
not been lain with? By the ways have you sat for them, as an Arabian
in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your
prostitution and with your wickedness.
Jer
3:3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no
latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be
ashamed.
Jer
3:4 Will you not from this time cry to me, My Father, you are the
guide of my youth?
Jer
3:5 Will he retain his anger
forever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and have
done evil things, and have had your way.
Jer
3:6 Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have
you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up on
every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played
the prostitute.
Jer
3:7 I said after she had done all these things, She will return to
me; but she didn't return: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
Jer
3:8 I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had
committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of
divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also
went and played the prostitute.
Jer
3:9 It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the
land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with
stocks.
Jer
3:10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned
to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says Yahweh.
Jer
3:11 Yahweh said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself more
righteous than treacherous Judah.
Jer
3:12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return,
you backsliding Israel, says Yahweh; I will not look in anger on you;
for I am merciful, says Yahweh, I will not keep anger
forever.
Jer
3:13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed
against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the
strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,
says Yahweh.
Jer
3:14 Return, backsliding children, says Yahweh; for I am a husband
to you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I
will bring you to Zion:
Jer
3:15 and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall
feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Jer
3:16 It shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in
the land, in those days, says Yahweh, they shall say no more, The ark
of the covenant of Yahweh; neither shall it come to mind; neither
shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it
be made any more.
Jer
3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Yahweh;
and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh,
to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness
of their evil heart.
Jer
3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of
Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to
the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.
Jer
3:19 But I said, How I will put you among the children, and give you
a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations! and
I said, You shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from
following me.
Jer
3:20 Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so
have you dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel, says Yahweh.
Jer
3:21 A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and
the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted
their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
Jer
3:22 Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding.
Behold, we are come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
Jer
3:23 Truly in vain is the help that is
looked for from the hills, the tumult on
the mountains: truly in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel.
Jer
3:24 But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers
from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their
daughters.
Jer
3:25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us;
for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from
our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of
Yahweh our God.
Jer
4:1 If you will return, Israel, says Yahweh, if you will return to
me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then
you shall not be removed;
Jer
4:2 and you shall swear, As Yahweh lives, in truth, in justice, and
in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and
in him shall they glory.
Jer
4:3 For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break
up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns.
Jer
4:4 Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of
your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my
wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it,
because of the evil of your doings.
Jer
4:5 Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow
you the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves,
and let us go into the fortified cities.
Jer
4:6 Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, don't stay; for
I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Jer
4:7 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations;
he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land
desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
Jer
4:8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the
fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.
Jer
4:9 It shall happen at that day, says Yahweh, that the heart of the
king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests
shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
Jer
4:10 Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! surely you have greatly deceived
this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the
sword reaches to the life.
Jer
4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem,
A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the
daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;
Jer
4:12 a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter
judgments against them.
Jer
4:13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall
be as the whirlwind: his horses are
swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are ruined.
Jer
4:14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be
saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
Jer
4:15 For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the
hills of Ephraim:
Jer
4:16 make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against
Jerusalem, that
watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against
the cities of Judah.
Jer
4:17 As keepers of a field are they against her all around, because
she has been rebellious against me, says Yahweh.
Jer
4:18 Your way and your doings have procured these things to you;
this is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your
heart.
Jer
4:19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart
is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O
my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Jer
4:20 Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid
waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, and
my curtains in a moment.
Jer
4:21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the
trumpet?
Jer
4:22 For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish
children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil,
but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jer
4:23 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the
heavens, and they had no light.
Jer
4:24 I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the
hills moved back and forth.
Jer
4:25 I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the
sky had fled.
Jer
4:26 I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all
its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, and
before his fierce anger.
Jer
4:27 For thus says Yahweh, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet
will I not make a full end.
Jer
4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black;
because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not
repented, neither will I turn back from it.
Jer
4:29 Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers;
they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is
forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.
Jer
4:30 You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you
clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of
gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make
yourself beautiful; your
lovers despise you, they seek your life.
Jer
4:31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish
as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter
of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying,
Woe is me now! for my soul faints before the murderers.
Nov.
14
Jeremiah
5-9
Jer
5:1 Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see
now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a
man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will
pardon her.
Jer
5:2 Though they say, As Yahweh lives; surely they swear falsely.
Jer
5:3 O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them,
but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have
refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than
a rock; they have refused to return.
Jer
5:4 Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they
don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God:
Jer
5:5 I will get me to the great men, and will speak to them; for they
know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God. But these with one
accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Jer
5:6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of
the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their
cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because
their transgressions are many, and
their backsliding is increased.
Jer
5:7 How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn
by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they
committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the
prostitutes' houses.
Jer
5:8 They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after
his neighbor's wife.
Jer
5:9 Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; and shall not
my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jer
5:10 Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end:
take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.
Jer
5:11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
treacherously against me, says Yahweh.
Jer
5:12 They have denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he; neither shall
evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
Jer
5:13 and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in
them: thus shall it be done to them.
Jer
5:14 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, Because you
speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and
this people wood, and it shall devour them.
Jer
5:15 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel,
says Yahweh: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation
whose language you don't know, neither understand what they say.
Jer
5:16 Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.
Jer
5:17 They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which
your sons and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your
flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig
trees; they shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you
trust, with the sword.
Jer
5:18 But even in those days, says Yahweh, I will not make a full end
with you.
Jer
5:19 It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God
done all these things to us? then you shall say to them, Like as you
have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall
serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
Jer
5:20 Declare you this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in
Judah, saying,
Jer
5:21 Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who
have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:
Jer
5:22 Don't you fear me? says Yahweh: won't you tremble at my
presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a
perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss
themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't
pass over it.
Jer
5:23 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they
are revolted and gone.
Jer
5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our
God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season;
who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
Jer
5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins
have withheld good from you.
Jer
5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as
fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
Jer
5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit:
therefore they are become great, and grew rich.
Jer
5:28 They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of
wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless,
that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.
Jer
5:29 Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my
soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jer
5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is happen in the land:
Jer
5:31 the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by
their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do
in the end of it?
Jer
6:1 Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst of
Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on
Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a great
destruction.
Jer
6:2 The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut
off.
Jer
6:3 Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch
their tents against her all around; they shall feed everyone in his
place.
Jer
6:4 Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon.
Woe to us! for the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are
stretched out.
Jer
6:5 Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her
palaces.
Jer
6:6 For thus has Yahweh of Armies said, Cut down trees, and cast up
a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is
wholly oppression in the midst of her.
Jer
6:7 As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her
wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me
continually is sickness and wounds.
Jer
6:8 Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you;
lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.
Jer
6:9 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, They shall thoroughly glean the
remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again your hand as a grape gatherer
into the baskets.
Jer
6:10 To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold,
their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen: behold, the word
of Yahweh is become to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
Jer
6:11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with
holding in: pour it out on the children in the street, and on the
assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife
shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
Jer
6:12 Their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their
wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of
the land, says Yahweh.
Jer
6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them
everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the
priest everyone deals falsely.
Jer
6:14 They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying,
Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jer
6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,
they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore
they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them
they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.
Jer
6:16 Thus says Yahweh, Stand you in the ways and see, and ask for
the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and you shall
find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein.
Jer
6:17 I set watchmen over you, saying,
Listen to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not
listen.
Jer
6:18 Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is
among them.
Jer
6:19 Hear, earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the
fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words;
and as for my law, they have rejected it.
Jer
6:20 To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and
the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not
acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
Jer
6:21 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks
before this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall
stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.
Jer
6:22 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, a people comes from the north
country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost
parts of the earth.
Jer
6:23 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no
mercy; their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses,
everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter
of Zion.
Jer
6:24 We have heard its report; our hands wax feeble: anguish has
taken hold of us, and
pangs as of a woman in travail.
Jer
6:25 Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the
sword of the enemy, and
terror, are on every side.
Jer
6:26 Daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow
yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter
lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.
Jer
6:27 I have made you a tester of metals and
a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.
Jer
6:28 They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they
are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
Jer
6:29 The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in
vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.
Jer
6:30 Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected
them.
Jer
7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
Jer
7:2 Stand in the gate of Yahweh's house, and proclaim there this
word, and say, Hear the word of Yahweh, all you of Judah, who enter
in at these gates to worship Yahweh.
Jer
7:3 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Amend your ways
and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
Jer
7:4 Don't you trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh,
the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these.
Jer
7:5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you
thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
Jer
7:6 if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the
widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk
after other gods to your own hurt:
Jer
7:7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I
gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.
Jer
7:8 Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.
Jer
7:9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely,
and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not
known,
Jer
7:10 and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by
my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these
abominations?
Jer
7:11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of
robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.
Jer
7:12 But go you now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused
my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the
wickedness of my people Israel.
Jer
7:13 Now, because you have done all these works, says Yahweh, and I
spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn't hear; and
I called you, but you didn't answer:
Jer
7:14 therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, in
which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your
fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
Jer
7:15 I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your
brothers, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
Jer
7:16 Therefore don't you pray for this people, neither lift up a cry
nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not
hear you.
Jer
7:17 Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the
streets of Jerusalem?
Jer
7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and
the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and
to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me
to anger.
Jer
7:19 Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh; do
they not provoke
themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?
Jer
7:20 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my
wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and
on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it
shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
Jer
7:21 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Add your burnt
offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.
Jer
7:22 For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day
that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt
offerings or sacrifices:
Jer
7:23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice,
and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk you in
all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.
Jer
7:24 But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in their
own counsels and
in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not
forward.
Jer
7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of
Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets,
daily rising up early and sending them:
Jer
7:26 yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made
their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.
Jer
7:27 You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not
listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer
you.
Jer
7:28 You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened
to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: truth is
perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
Jer
7:29 Cut off your hair, Jerusalem,
and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for
Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Jer
7:30 For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my
sight, says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house
which is called by my name, to defile it.
Jer
7:31 They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the
valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters
in the fire; which I didn't command, nor did it come into my mind.
Jer
7:32 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no
more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The
valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until there be
no place to bury.
Jer
7:33 The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of
the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten
them away.
Jer
7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from
the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for
the land shall become a waste.
Jer
8:1 At that time, says Yahweh, they shall bring out the bones of the
kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the
priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;
Jer
8:2 and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all
the army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have
served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought,
and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be
buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.
Jer
8:3 Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that
remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I
have driven them, says Yahweh of Armies.
Jer
8:4 Moreover you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Shall men fall,
and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?
Jer
8:5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual
backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Jer
8:6 I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man
repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone
turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
Jer
8:7 Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the
turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their
coming; but my people don't know Yahweh's law.
Jer
8:8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us?
But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.
Jer
8:9 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken:
behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner of
wisdom is in them?
Jer
8:10 Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields
to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to
the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the
priest every one deals falsely.
Jer
8:11 They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jer
8:12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,
they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore
shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation
they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.
Jer
8:13 I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: there shall be no
grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall
fade; and the things that
I have given them shall pass away from them.
Jer
8:14 Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into
the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God
has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because
we have sinned against Yahweh.
Jer
8:15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and
for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
Jer
8:16 The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of
the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; for they are
come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and
those who dwell therein.
Jer
8:17 For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which
will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.
Jer
8:18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is
faint within me.
Jer
8:19 Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from
a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in
her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images,
and with foreign vanities?
Jer
8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
Jer
8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn;
dismay has taken hold on me.
Jer
8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why
then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Jer
9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that
I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my
people!
Jer
9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring
men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all
adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jer
9:3 They bend their tongue, as it were
their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but
not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't
know me, says Yahweh.
Jer
9:4 Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in
any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every
neighbor will go about with slanders.
Jer
9:5 They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the
truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary
themselves to commit iniquity.
Jer
9:6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they
refuse to know me, says Yahweh.
Jer
9:7 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will melt them,
and try them; for how else
should I do, because of the daughter of my people?
Jer
9:8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks
peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays
wait for him.
Jer
9:9 Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not
my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jer
9:10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for
the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned
up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of
the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled,
they are gone.
Jer
9:11 I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I
will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
Jer
9:12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who
is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has
spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned
up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?
Jer
9:13 Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set
before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,
Jer
9:14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and
after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;
Jer
9:15 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel,
Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give
them water of gall to drink.
Jer
9:16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they
nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them,
until I have consumed them.
Jer
9:17 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Consider you, and call for the
mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women,
that they may come:
Jer
9:18 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our
eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jer
9:19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined!
we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because
they have cast down our dwellings.
Jer
9:20 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear
receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and
everyone her neighbor lamentation.
Jer
9:21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our
palaces; to cut off the children from outside, and
the young men from the streets.
Jer
9:22 Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as
dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and
none shall gather them.
Jer
9:23 Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom,
neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let the rich man
glory in his riches;
Jer
9:24 but let him who glories glory in this, that he has
understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving
kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these
things I delight, says Yahweh.
Jer
9:25 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all
those who are circumcised in their
uncircumcision:
Jer
9:26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and
Moab, and all that have the corners of
their hair cut off, who dwell in the
wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house
of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.
Nov.
15
Jeremiah
10-13
Jer
10:1 Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!
Jer
10:2 Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and
don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are
dismayed at them.
Jer
10:3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree
out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
Jer
10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with
nails and with hammers, that it not move.
Jer
10:5 They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak:
they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them;
for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good."
Jer
10:6 There is none like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name is
great in might.
Jer
10:7 Who should not fear you, King of the nations? for to you does
it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in
all their royal estate, there is none like you.
Jer
10:8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of
idols! it is but a stock.
Jer
10:9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from
Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the
hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are
all the work of skillful men.
Jer
10:10 But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an
everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations
are not able to abide his indignation.
Jer
10:11 You shall say this to them: The gods that have not made the
heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from
under the heavens.
Jer
10:12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the
world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out
the heavens:
Jer
10:13 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the
heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the
earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind
out of his treasuries.
Jer
10:14 Every man is become brutish and
is without knowledge; every goldsmith is
disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is
falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Jer
10:15 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their
visitation they shall perish.
Jer
10:16 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former
of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of
Armies is his name.
Jer
10:17 Gather up your wares out of the land, you who abide in the
siege.
Jer
10:18 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants
of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel
it.
Jer
10:19 Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I
said, Truly this is my
grief, and I must bear it.
Jer
10:20 My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children
are gone forth from me, and they are no more: there is none to spread
my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
Jer
10:21 For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of
Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are
scattered.
Jer
10:22 The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out
of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a
dwelling place of jackals.
Jer
10:23 Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is
not in man who walks to direct his steps.
Jer
10:24 Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest
you bring me to nothing.
Jer
10:25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, and on
the families that don't call on your name: for they have devoured
Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid
waste his habitation.
Jer
11:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
Jer
11:2 Hear you the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of
Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
Jer
11:3 and say you to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel:
Cursed be the man who doesn't hear the words of this covenant,
Jer
11:4 which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them
forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey
my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so you
shall be my people, and I will be your God;
Jer
11:5 that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to
give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then
answered I, and said, Amen, Yahweh.
Jer
11:6 Yahweh said to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of
Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear you the words of
this covenant, and do them.
Jer
11:7 For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I
brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising
early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
Jer
11:8 Yet they didn't obey, nor turn their ear, but walked everyone
in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought on them
all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but
they didn't do them.
Jer
11:9 Yahweh said to me, A conspiracy is found among the men of
Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jer
11:10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers,
who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to
serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my
covenant which I made with their fathers.
Jer
11:11 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on them,
which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but
I will not listen to them.
Jer
11:12 Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense: but
they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
Jer
11:13 For according to the number of your cities are your gods,
Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have
you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense
to Baal.
Jer
11:14 Therefore don't you pray for this people, neither lift up cry
nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they
cry to me because of their trouble.
Jer
11:15 What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked
lewdness with
many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then
you rejoice.
Jer
11:16 Yahweh called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with
goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on
it, and its branches are broken.
Jer
11:17 For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil
against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the
house of Judah, which they have worked for themselves in provoking me
to anger by offering incense to Baal.
Jer
11:18 Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you showed
me their doings.
Jer
11:19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and
I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, saying,
Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from
the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Jer
11:20 But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the
heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you
have I revealed my cause.
Jer
11:21 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, who
seek your life, saying, You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh,
that you not die by our hand;
Jer
11:22 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will punish
them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their
daughters shall die by famine;
Jer
11:23 and there shall be no remnant to them: for I will bring evil
on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
Jer
12:1 Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I
reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper?
why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
Jer
12:2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow,
yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far
from their heart.
Jer
12:3 But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward
you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for
the day of slaughter.
Jer
12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole
country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the
animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not
see our latter end.
Jer
12:5 If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you,
then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace
you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
Jer
12:6 For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they
have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after
you: don't believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.
Jer
12:7 I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have
given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Jer
12:8 My heritage is become to me as a lion in the forest: she has
uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.
Jer
12:9 Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds
of prey against her all around? go you, assemble all the animals of
the field, bring them to devour.
Jer
12:10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden
my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate
wilderness.
Jer
12:11 They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being
desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to
heart.
Jer
12:12 Destroyers are come on all the bare heights in the wilderness;
for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to
the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.
Jer
12:13 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put
themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of
your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.
Jer
12:14 Thus says Yahweh against all my evil neighbors, who touch the
inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: behold,
I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house
of Judah from among them.
Jer
12:15 It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will
return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again,
every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
Jer
12:16 It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my
people, to swear by my name, As Yahweh lives; even as they taught my
people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of
my people.
Jer
12:17 But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation,
plucking up and destroying it, says Yahweh.
Jer
13:1 Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy you a linen belt, and put
it on your waist, and don't put it in water.
Jer
13:2 So I bought a belt according to the word of Yahweh, and put it
on my waist.
Jer
13:3 The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying,
Jer
13:4 Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and
arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.
Jer
13:5 So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me.
Jer
13:6 It happened after many days, that Yahweh said to me, Arise, go
to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you
to hide there.
Jer
13:7 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from
the place where I had hid it; and behold, the belt was marred, it was
profitable for nothing.
Jer
13:8 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Jer
13:9 Thus says Yahweh, After this manner will I mar the pride of
Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jer
13:10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the
stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve
them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is
profitable for nothing.
Jer
13:11 For as the belt cleaves to the waist of a man, so have I
caused to cleave to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house
of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to me for a people, and for a
name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
Jer
13:12 Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh,
the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they
shall tell you, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be
filled with wine?
Jer
13:13 Then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will
fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on
David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
Jer
13:14 I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the
sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have
compassion, that I should not destroy them.
Jer
13:15 Hear you, and give ear; don't be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.
Jer
13:16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he cause darkness, and
before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look
for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross
darkness.
Jer
13:17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for
your pride;
and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Yahweh's
flock is taken captive.
Jer
13:18 Say you to the king and to the queen mother, Humble
yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses are come down, even the
crown of your glory.
Jer
13:19 The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open
them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried
away captive.
Jer
13:20 Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north:
where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?
Jer
13:21 What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those
whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? shall not sorrows
take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?
Jer
13:22 If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for
the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your
heels suffer violence.
Jer
13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
Jer
13:24 Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes
away, by the wind of the wilderness.
Jer
13:25 This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says
Yahweh; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Jer
13:26 Therefore will I also uncover your skirts on your face, and
your shame shall appear.
Jer
13:27 I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your
neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the
field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! you will not be made clean; how long
shall it yet be?
Nov. 13
Titus 3
Tit 3:1
Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be
obedient, to be ready for every good work,
Tit 3:2
to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle,
showing all humility toward all men.
Tit 3:3
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving
various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and
hating one another.
Tit 3:4
But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind
appeared,
Tit 3:5
not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according
to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and
renewing by the Holy Spirit,
Tit 3:6
whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;
Tit 3:7
that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according
to the hope of eternal life.
Tit 3:8
This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that
you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be
careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable
to men;
Tit 3:9
but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes
about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Tit
3:10 Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;
Tit
3:11 knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being
self-condemned.
Tit
3:12 When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to
me to Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there.
Tit
3:13 Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily,
that nothing may be lacking for them.
Tit
3:14 Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary
uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
Tit
3:15 All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in
faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
Nov. 14
Philemon
Phm 1:1
Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to
Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,
Phm 1:2
to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the
assembly in your house:
Phm 1:3
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
Phm 1:4
I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,
Phm 1:5
hearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward the
Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;
Phm 1:6
that the fellowship of your faith may become effective, in the
knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.
Phm 1:7
For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of
the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
Phm 1:8
Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that
which is appropriate,
Phm 1:9
yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the
aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
Phm
1:10 I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my
chains, Onesimus,
Phm
1:11 who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to
me.
Phm
1:12 I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own
heart,
Phm
1:13 whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might
serve me in my chains for the Good News.
Phm
1:14 But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your
goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.
Phm
1:15 For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while,
that you would have him forever,
Phm
1:16 no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother,
especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and
in the Lord.
Phm
1:17 If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would
receive me.
Phm
1:18 But if he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, put
that to my account.
Phm
1:19 I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to
mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).
Phm
1:20 Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my
heart in the Lord.
Phm
1:21 Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing
that you will do even beyond what I say.
Phm
1:22 Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your
prayers I will be restored to you.
Phm
1:23 Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,
Phm
1:24 as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
Phm
1:25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
Nov. 15
Hebrews
1
Heb 1:1
God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets
at many times and in various ways,
Heb 1:2
has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he
appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
Heb 1:3
His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his
substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he
had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right
hand of the Majesty on high;
Heb 1:4
having become so much better than the angels, as he has inherited a
more excellent name than they have.
Heb 1:5
For to which of the angels did he say at any time, "You are my
Son. Today have I become your father?" and again, "I will
be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?"
Heb 1:6
Again, when he brings in the firstborn into the world he says, "Let
all the angels of God worship him."
Heb 1:7
Of the angels he says, "Who makes his angels winds, and his
servants a flame of fire."
Heb 1:8
But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and
ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
Heb 1:9
You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God,
your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your
fellows."
Heb
1:10 And, "You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of
the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.
Heb
1:11 They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like
a garment does.
Heb
1:12 As a mantle, you will roll them up, and they will be changed;
but you are the same. Your years will not fail."
Heb
1:13 But which of the angels has he told at any time, "Sit at
my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?"
Heb
1:14 Aren't they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the
sake of those who will inherit salvation?
