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JEREMIAH.

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

that ye have heard.

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

you:

4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the 15 But know ye for certain, that if ye God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your put me to death, ye shall surely bring in- masters; nocent blood upon yourselves, and upon 5 I have made the earth, the man and this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: the beast that are upon the ground, by my for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto great power and by my out-stretched arm, you to speak all these words in your ears. and have given it unto whom it seemed 16 TThen said the princes and all the meet unto me.

people unto the priests and to the prophets; 6 And now have I given all these lands This man is not worthy to die: for he hath into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king spoken to us in the name of the LORD our of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of God. the field have given him also to serve him.

17 Then rose up certain of the elders of 7 And all nations shall serve him, and the land, and spake to all the assembly of his son, and his son's son, until the very the people, saying, time of his land come: and then many 18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in nations and great kings shall serve themthe days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and selves of him.

spake to all the people of Judah, saying, 8 And it shall come to pass, that the naThus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall tion and kingdom which will not serve the be ploughed like a field, and Jerusalem shall same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babybecome heaps, and the mountain of the lon, and that will not put their neck under house as the high places of a forest. the yoke of the king of Babylon, that na19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all tion will I punish, saith the LORD, with the Judah put him at all to death? did he not sword, and with the famine, and with the fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and pestilence, until I have consumed them by the LORD repented him of the evil which he his hand. had pronounced against them? Thus might 9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prowe procure great evil against our souls. phets, nor to your diviners, nor to your 20 And there was also a man that pro-dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to phesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saythe son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, who ing, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: prophesied against this city and against this 10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to land according to all the words of Jeremiah: remove you far from your land; and that I 21 And when Jehoiakim the king with should drive you out, and ye should perish. all his mighty men, and all the princes, 11 But the nations that bring their neck heard his words, the king sought to put him under the yoke of the king of Babylon, to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was and serve him, those will I let remain still afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt; in their own land, saith the LORD; and 22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into they shall till it, and dwell therein. Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Ach- 12 I spake also to Zedekiah king of bor, and certain men with him into Egypt. Judah according to all these words, saying,

23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Bring your necks under the yoke of the Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim king of Babylon, and serve him and his the king; who slew him with the sword, people, and live.

and cast his dead body into the graves of 13 Why will ye die, thou and thy peothe common people. ple, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

24 Nevertheless 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.

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CHAP. XXVII.

14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, sayN the beginning of the reign of Jehoia-ing, Ye shall not serve the king of Babykim the son of Josiah king of Judah lon; for they prophesy a lie unto you. came this word unto Jeremiah from the 15 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, saying, LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my

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

for they prophesy a lie unto you.

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

18 But if they be prophets, and if the tilence. word of the LORD be with them, let them 9 The prophet which prophesieth of now make intercession to the LORD of peace, when the word of the prophet shall hosts, that the vessels which are left in the come to pass, then shall the prophet be house of the LORD, and in the house of the known, that the LORD hath truly sent him. king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to 10 Then Hananiah the prophet took Babylon. the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's

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

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

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

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

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

kiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and have given him the beasts of the field also. in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son 15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in Hananiah; the LORD hath not sent thee; the presence of the priests, and of all the but thou makest this people to trust in a lie. people, saying,

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

16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD. 3 Within two full years will I bring 17 So Hananiah the prophet died the again into this place all the vessels of the same year in the seventh month. LORD's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king

CHAP. XXIX.

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of Babylon took away from this place, and Not Jeremiah the prophet sent from

carried them to Babylon.

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

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

Jeremiah's letter to the

JEREMIAH.

captives of Babylon.

and the smiths, were departed from Je- 18. And I will persecute them with the rusalem ;) sword, with the famine, and with the pes3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Sha- tilence, and will deliver them to be rephan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, moved to all the kingdoms of the earth, to (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto be a curse, and an astonishment, and an Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Ba- hissing, and a reproach, among all the nabylon) saying, tions whither I have driven them:

4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God 19 Because they have not hearkened to of Israel, unto all that are carried away my words, saith the LORD, which I sent captives, whom I have caused to be car- unto them by my servants the prophets, ried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; rising up early and sending them; but ye 5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; would not hear, saith the LORD. and plant gardens,and eat the fruit of them; 20 Hear ye therefore the word of the 6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I daughters; and take wives for your sons, have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon: and give your daughters to husbands, that 21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the they may bear sons and daughters; that God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, ye may be increased there, and not di- and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, minished. which prophesy a lie unto you in my

7 And seek the peace of the city whither name; Behold, I will deliver them into I have caused you to be carried away cap- the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Batives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in bylon; and he shall slay them before the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

your eyes;

8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, 22 And of them shall be taken up a the God of Israel; Let not your prophets curse by all the captivity of Judah which and your diviners, that be in the midst of are in Babylon, saying, the LORD make you, deceive you, neither hearken to your thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. the king of Babylon roasted in the fire; 9 For they prophesy falsely unto you 23 Because they have committed vilin my name I have not sent them, saith lany in Israel, and have committed adulthe LORD. tery with their neighbours' wives, and 10 ¶ For thus saith the LORD, That af-have spoken lying words in my name, ter seventy years be accomplished at Ba- which I have not commanded them; even bylon I will visit you, and perform my I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD. good word toward you, in causing you to 24 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shereturn to this place. maiah the Nehelamite, saying, 11 For I know the thoughts that I think 25 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of the God of Israel, saying, Because thou peace, and not of evil, to give you an ex- hast sent letters in thy name unto all the pected end. people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

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

26 The LORD hath made thee priest in 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye when ye shall search for me with all your should be officers in the house of the LORD, heart. for every man that is mad, and maketh

14 And I will be found of you, saith the himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put LORD and I will turn away your cap-him in prison, and in the stocks.

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tivity, and I will gather you from all the 27 Now therefore why hast thou not nations, and from all the places whither I reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which have driven you, saith the LORD; and I maketh himself a prophet to you? will bring you again into the place whence 28 For therefore he sent unto us in BaI caused you to be carried away captive. bylon, saying, This captivity is long; 15 Because ye have said. The LORD build ye houses, and dwell in them; and hath raised us up prophets in Babylon; plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 16 Know that thus saith the LORD of the 29 And Zephaniah the priest read this king that sitteth upon the throne of David, letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet. and of all the people that dwelleth in this 30 Then came the word of the LORD city, and of your brethren that are not unto Jeremiah, saying, gone forth with you into captivity;

31 Send to all them of the captivity,

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

Jacob is comforted.

CHAP. XXX, XXXI.

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

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

2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Is- 17 For I will restore health unto thee, rael, saying, Write thee all the words that and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith I have spoken unto thee in a book. the LORD; because they called thee an

3 For lo, the days come, saith the Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no LORD, that I will bring again the cap-man seeketh after.

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tivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith 18 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I the LORD and I will cause them to return will bring again the captivity of Jacob's to the land that I gave to their fathers, and tents, and have mercy on his dwellingthey shall possess it. places; and the city shall be builded upon 4 And these are the words that the her own heap, and the palace shall remain LORD spake concerning Israel, and con- after the manner thereof. cerning Judah.

5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I 20 Their children also shall be as aforesee every man with his hands on his loins, time, and their congregation shall be esas a woman in travail, and all faces are tablished before me, and I will punish all turned into paleness? that oppress them.

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

9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

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

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

12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise 3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto is incurable, and thy wound is grievous. me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with 13 There is none to plead thy cause, an everlasting love: therefore with lovingthat thou mayest be bound up: thou hast kindness have I drawn thee.

no healing medicines.

4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt

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

The restoration of Israel.

JEREMIAH.

Christ is promised. plant, and shall eat them as common things. pented; and after that I was instructed, I 6 For there shall be a day, that the smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall even confounded, because I did bear the cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto reproach of my youth.

the LORD our God.

20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a 7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with pleasant child? for since I spake against gladness for Jacob, and shout among the him, I do earnestly remember him still: chief of the nations: publish ye, praise therefore my bowels are troubled for him; ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the I will surely have mercy upon him, saith remnant of Israel. the LORD.

8 Behold, I will bring them from the 21 Set thee up way-marks, make thee north country, and gather them from the high heaps: set thine heart toward the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind highway, even the way which thou wentest: and the lame, the woman with child and turn again, O virgin of Israel, 'turn again her that travaileth with child together: a to these thy cities. great company shall return thither.

22 T How long wilt thou go about, O 9 They shall come with weeping, and thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD with supplications will I lead them; I will hath created a new thing in the earth, A cause them to walk by the rivers of waters woman shall compass a man.

in a straight way, wherein they shall not 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and God of Israel; As yet they shall use this Ephraim is my first-born. speech in the land of Judah and in the

10 T Hear the word of the LORD, O ye cities thereof, when I shall bring again nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O and say, He that scattered Israel will ga-habitation of justice, and mountain of holither him, and keep him, as a shepherd ness.

doth his flock. 24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, 11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and in all the cities thereof together, husand ransomed him from the hand of him bandmen, and they that go forth with flocks. that was stronger than he. 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, 12 Therefore they shall come and sing and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. in the height of Zion, and shall flow to- 26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; gether to the goodness of the LORD, for and my sleep was sweet unto me. wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for 27 Behold, the days come, saith the the young of the flock and of the herd: and LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel their soul shall be as a watered garden; and and the house of Judah with the seed of they shall not sorrow any more at all. man, and with the seed of beast.

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13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build and to plant, saith the LORD.

14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be 29 In those days they shall say no more, satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD. The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and 15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice the children's teeth are set on edge. was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and 30 But every one shall die for his own bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her iniquity: every man that eateth the sour children refused to be comforted for her grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. children, because they were not.

31 Behold, the days come, saith the 16 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy LORD, that I will make a new covenant voice from weeping, and thine eyes from with the house of Israel, and with the house tears for thy work shall be rewarded, of Judah: saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I 17 And there is hope in thine end, saith took them by the hand to bring them out the LORD, that thy children shall come of the land of Egypt; which my covenant again to their own border. they brake, although I was an husband

18 I have surely heard Ephraim be- unto them, saith the LORD: moaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised 33 But this shall be the covenant that I me, and I was chastised, as a bullock un- will make with the house of Israel; After accustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and those days, saith the LORD, I will put my I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD law in their inward parts, and write it in my God. their hearts; and will be their God, and 19 Surely after that I was turned, I re-they shall be my people.

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