* BOOK24 JEREMIAH
= CHAPTER 1 
# 1 THE WORDS OF JEREMIAH THE SON OF HILKIAH, OF THE PRIESTS THAT WERE IN
 ANATHOTH IN THE LAND OF BENJAMIN:
# 2 TO WHOM THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME IN THE DAYS OF JOSIAH THE SON OF AMON
 KING OF JUDAH, IN THE THIRTEENTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN.
# 3 IT CAME ALSO IN THE DAYS OF JEHOIAKIM THE SON OF JOSIAH KING OF JUDAH,
 UNTO THE END OF THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH THE SON OF JOSIAH KING OF
 JUDAH, UNTO THE CARRYING AWAY OF JERUSALEM CAPTIVE IN THE FIFTH MONTH.
# 4 THEN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING, IT
# 5 BEFORE I FORMED THEE IN THE BELLY I KNEW THEE; AND BEFORE THOU CAMEST
 FORTH OUT OF THE WOMB I SANCTIFIED THEE, AND I ORDAINED THEE A PROPHET UNTO
 THE NATIONS.
# 6 THEN SAID I, AH, LORD GOD! BEHOLD, I CANNOT SPEAK: FOR I AM A CHILD.
# 7 BUT THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, SAY NOT, I AM A CHILD: FOR THOU SHALT GO TO
 ALL THAT I SHALL SEND THEE, AND WHATSOEVER I COMMAND THEE THOU SHALT SPEAK.
# 8 BE NOT AFRAID OF THEIR FACES: FOR I AM WITH THEE TO DELIVER THEE, SAITH
 THE LORD.
# 9 THEN THE LORD PUT FORTH HIS HAND, AND TOUCHED MY MOUTH. AND THE LORD SAID
 UNTO ME, BEHOLD, I HAVE PUT MY WORDS IN THY MOUTH.
# 10 SEE, I HAVE THIS DAY SET THEE OVER THE NATIONS AND OVER THE KINGDOMS, TO
 ROOT OUT, AND TO PULL DOWN, AND TO DESTROY, AND TO THROW DOWN, TO BUILD, AND
 TO PLANT.
# 11 MOREOVER THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING, JEREMIAH, WHAT SEEST
 THOU? AND I SAID, I SEE A ROD OF AN ALMOND TREE.
# 12 THEN SAID THE LORD UNTO ME, THOU HAST WELL SEEN: FOR I WILL HASTEN MY
 WORD TO PERFORM IT.
# 13 AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME THE SECOND TIME, SAYING, WHAT
 SEEST THOU? AND I SAID, I SEE A SEETHING POT; AND THE FACE THEREOF IS TOWARD
 THE NORTH.
# 14 THEN THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, OUT OF THE NORTH AN EVIL SHALL BREAK FORTH
 UPON ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND.
# 15 FOR, LO, I WILL CALL ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE KINGDOMS OF THE NORTH,
 SAITH THE LORD; AND THEY SHALL COME, AND THEY SHALL SET EVERY ONE HIS THRONE
 AT THE ENTERING OF THE GATES OF JERUSALEM, AND AGAINST ALL THE WALLS THEREOF
 ROUND ABOUT, AND AGAINST ALL THE CITIES OF JUDAH.
# 16 AND I WILL UTTER MY JUDGMENTS AGAINST THEM TOUCHING ALL THEIR
 WICKEDNESS, WHO HAVE FORSAKEN ME, AND HAVE BURNED INCENSE UNTO OTHER GODS,
 AND WORSHIPPED THE WORKS OF THEIR OWN HANDS.
# 17 THOU THEREFORE GIRD UP THY LOINS, AND ARISE, AND SPEAK UNTO THEM ALL
 THAT I COMMAND THEE: BE NOT DISMAYED AT THEIR FACES, LEST I CONFOUND THEE
 BEFORE THEM.
# 18 FOR, BEHOLD, I HAVE MADE THEE THIS DAY A DEFENCED CITY, AND AN IRON
 PILLAR, AND BRASEN WALLS AGAINST THE WHOLE LAND, AGAINST THE KINGS OF JUDAH,
 AGAINST THE PRINCES THEREOF, AGAINST THE PRIESTS THEREOF, AND AGAINST THE
 PEOPLE OF THE LAND.
# 19 AND THEY SHALL FIGHT AGAINST THEE; BUT THEY SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST
 THEE; FOR I AM WITH THEE, SAITH THE LORD, TO DELIVER THEE.
= CHAPTER 2 
# 1 MOREOVER THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME, SAYING,
# 2 GO AND CRY IN THE EARS OF JERUSALEM, SAYING, THUS SAITH THE LORD; I
 REMEMBER THEE, THE KINDNESS OF THY YOUTH, THE LOVE OF THINE ESPOUSALS, WHEN
 THOU WENTEST AFTER ME IN THE WILDERNESS, IN A LAND THAT WAS NOT SOWN.
# 3 ISRAEL WAS HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD, AND THE FIRSTFRUITS OF HIS INCREASE:
 ALL THAT DEVOUR HIM SHALL OFFEND; EVIL SHALL COME UPON THEM, SAITH THE LORD.
# 4 HEAR YE THE WORD OF THE LORD, O HOUSE OF JACOB, AND ALL THE FAMILIES OF
 THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL:
# 5 THUS SAITH THE LORD, WHAT INIQUITY HAVE YOUR FATHERS FOUND IN ME, THAT
 THEY ARE GONE FAR FROM ME, AND HAVE WALKED AFTER VANITY, AND ARE BECOME VAIN?
# 6 NEITHER SAID THEY, WHERE IS THE LORD THAT BROUGHT US UP OUT OF THE LAND
 OF EGYPT, THAT 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 NO MAN PASSED THROUGH, AND WHERE NO MAN DWELT?
# 7 AND I BROUGHT YOU INTO A PLENTIFUL COUNTRY, TO EAT THE FRUIT THEREOF AND
 THE GOODNESS THEREOF; BUT WHEN YE ENTERED, YE DEFILED MY LAND, AND MADE MINE
 HERITAGE AN ABOMINATION.
# 8 THE PRIESTS SAID NOT, WHERE IS THE LORD? AND THEY THAT HANDLE THE LAW
 KNEW ME NOT: THE PASTORS ALSO TRANSGRESSED AGAINST ME, AND THE PROPHETS
 PROPHESIED BY BAAL, AND WALKED AFTER THINGS THAT DO NOT PROFIT.
# 9 WHEREFORE I WILL YET PLEAD WITH YOU, SAITH THE LORD, AND WITH YOUR
 CHILDRENS CHILDREN WILL I PLEAD.
# 10 FOR PASS OVER THE ISLES OF CHITTIM, AND SEE; AND SEND UNTO KEDAR, AND
 CONSIDER DILIGENTLY, AND SEE IF THERE BE SUCH A THING.
# 11 HATH A NATION CHANGED THEIR GODS, WHICH ARE YET NO GODS? BUT MY PEOPLE
 HAVE CHANGED THEIR GLORY FOR THAT WHICH DOTH NOT PROFIT.
# 12 BE ASTONISHED, O YE HEAVENS, AT THIS, AND BE HORRIBLY AFRAID, BE YE VERY
 DESOLATE, SAITH THE LORD.
# 13 FOR MY PEOPLE HAVE COMMITTED TWO EVILS; THEY HAVE FORSAKEN ME THE
 FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS, AND HEWED THEM OUT CISTERNS, BROKEN CISTERNS, THAT
 CAN HOLD NO WATER.
# 14 IS ISRAEL A SERVANT? IS HE A HOMEBORN SLAVE? WHY IS HE SPOILED?
# 15 THE YOUNG LIONS ROARED UPON HIM, AND YELLED, AND THEY MADE HIS LAND
 WASTE: HIS CITIES ARE BURNED WITHOUT INHABITANT.
# 16 ALSO THE CHILDREN OF NOPH AND TAHAPANES HAVE BROKEN THE CROWN OF THY
 HEAD.
# 17 HAST THOU NOT PROCURED THIS UNTO THYSELF, IN THAT THOU HAST FORSAKEN THE
 LORD THY GOD, WHEN HE LED THEE BY THE WAY?
# 18 AND NOW WHAT HAST THOU TO DO IN THE WAY OF EGYPT, TO DRINK THE WATERS OF
 SIHOR? OR WHAT HAST THOU TO DO IN THE WAY OF ASSYRIA, TO DRINK THE WATERS OF
 THE RIVER?
# 19 THINE OWN WICKEDNESS SHALL CORRECT THEE, AND THY BACKSLIDINGS SHALL
 REPROVE THEE: KNOW THEREFORE AND SEE THAT IT IS AN EVIL THING AND BITTER,
 THAT THOU HAST FORSAKEN THE LORD THY GOD, AND THAT MY FEAR IS NOT IN THEE,
 SAITH THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS.
# 20 FOR OF OLD TIME I HAVE BROKEN THY YOKE, AND BURST THY BANDS; AND THOU
 SAIDST, I WILL NOT TRANSGRESS; WHEN UPON EVERY HIGH HILL AND UNDER EVERY
 GREEN TREE THOU WANDEREST, PLAYING THE HARLOT.
# 21 YET I HAD PLANTED THEE A NOBLE VINE, WHOLLY A RIGHT SEED: HOW THEN ART
 THOU TURNED INTO THE DEGENERATE PLANT OF A STRANGE VINE UNTO ME?
# 22 FOR THOUGH THOU WASH THEE WITH NITRE, AND TAKE THEE MUCH SOAP, YET THINE
 INIQUITY IS MARKED BEFORE ME, SAITH THE LORD GOD.
# 23 HOW CANST THOU SAY, I AM NOT POLLUTED, I HAVE NOT GONE AFTER BAALIM? SEE
 THY WAY IN THE VALLEY, KNOW WHAT THOU HAST DONE: THOU ART A SWIFT DROMEDARY
 TRAVERSING HER WAYS;
# 24 A WILD ASS USED TO THE WILDERNESS, THAT SNUFFETH UP THE WIND AT HER
 PLEASURE; IN HER OCCASION WHO CAN TURN HER AWAY? ALL THEY THAT SEEK HER WILL
 NOT WEARY THEMSELVES; IN HER MONTH THEY SHALL FIND HER.
# 25 WITHHOLD THY FOOT FROM BEING UNSHOD, AND THY THROAT FROM THIRST: BUT
 THOU SAIDST, THERE IS NO HOPE: NO; FOR I HAVE LOVED STRANGERS, AND AFTER THEM
 WILL I GO.
# 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.
# 27 SAYING TO A STOCK, THOU ART MY FATHER; AND TO A STONE, THOU HAST BROUGHT
 ME FORTH: FOR THEY HAVE TURNED THEIR BACK UNTO ME, AND NOT THEIR FACE: BUT IN
 THE TIME OF THEIR TROUBLE THEY WILL SAY, ARISE, AND SAVE US.
# 28 BUT WHERE ARE THY GODS THAT THOU HAST MADE THEE? LET THEM ARISE, IF THEY
 CAN SAVE THEE IN THE TIME OF THY TROUBLE: FOR ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THY
 CITIES ARE THY GODS, O JUDAH.
# 29 WHEREFORE WILL YE PLEAD WITH ME? YE ALL HAVE TRANSGRESSED AGAINST ME,
 SAITH THE LORD.
# 30 IN VAIN HAVE I SMITTEN YOUR CHILDREN; THEY RECEIVED NO CORRECTION: YOUR
 OWN SWORD HATH DEVOURED YOUR PROPHETS, LIKE A DESTROYING LION.
# 31 O GENERATION, SEE YE THE WORD OF THE LORD. HAVE I BEEN A WILDERNESS UNTO
 ISRAEL? A LAND OF DARKNESS? WHEREFORE SAY MY PEOPLE, WE ARE LORDS; WE WILL
 COME NO MORE UNTO THEE?
# 32 CAN A MAID FORGET HER ORNAMENTS, OR A BRIDE HER ATTIRE? YET MY PEOPLE
 HAVE FORGOTTEN ME DAYS WITHOUT NUMBER.
# 33 WHY TRIMMEST THOU THY WAY TO SEEK LOVE? THEREFORE HAST THOU ALSO TAUGHT
 THE WICKED ONES THY WAYS.
# 34 ALSO IN THY SKIRTS IS FOUND THE BLOOD OF THE SOULS OF THE POOR
 INNOCENTS: I HAVE NOT FOUND IT BY SECRET SEARCH, BUT UPON ALL THESE.
# 35 YET THOU SAYEST, BECAUSE I AM INNOCENT, SURELY HIS ANGER SHALL TURN FROM
 ME. BEHOLD, I WILL PLEAD WITH THEE, BECAUSE THOU SAYEST, I HAVE NOT SINNED.
# 36 WHY GADDEST THOU ABOUT SO MUCH TO CHANGE THY WAY? THOU ALSO SHALT BE
 ASHAMED OF EGYPT, AS THOU WAST ASHAMED OF ASSYRIA.
# 37 YEA, THOU SHALT GO FORTH FROM HIM, AND THINE HANDS UPON THINE HEAD: FOR
 THE LORD HATH REJECTED THY CONFIDENCES, AND THOU SHALT NOT PROSPER IN THEM.
= CHAPTER 3 
# 1 THEY SAY, IF A MAN PUT AWAY HIS WIFE, AND SHE GO FROM HIM, AND BECOME
 ANOTHER MANS, SHALL HE RETURN UNTO HER AGAIN? SHALL NOT THAT LAND BE GREATLY
 POLLUTED? BUT THOU HAST PLAYED THE HARLOT WITH MANY LOVERS; YET RETURN AGAIN
 TO ME, SAITH THE LORD.
# 2 LIFT UP THINE EYES UNTO THE HIGH PLACES, AND SEE WHERE THOU HAST NOT BEEN
 LIEN WITH. IN THE WAYS HAST THOU SAT FOR THEM, AS THE ARABIAN IN THE
 WILDERNESS; AND THOU HAST POLLUTED THE LAND WITH THY WHOREDOMS AND WITH THY
 WICKEDNESS.
# 3 THEREFORE THE SHOWERS HAVE BEEN WITHHOLDEN, AND THERE HATH BEEN NO LATTER
 RAIN; AND THOU HADST A WHORES FOREHEAD, THOU REFUSEDST TO BE ASHAMED.
# 4 WILT THOU NOT FROM THIS TIME CRY UNTO ME, MY FATHER, THOU ART THE GUIDE
 OF MY YOUTH?
# 5 WILL HE RESERVE HIS ANGER FOR EVER? WILL HE KEEP IT TO THE END? BEHOLD,
 THOU HAST SPOKEN AND DONE EVIL THINGS AS THOU COULDEST.
# 6 THE LORD SAID ALSO UNTO ME IN THE DAYS OF JOSIAH THE KING, HAST THOU SEEN
 THAT WHICH BACKSLIDING ISRAEL HATH DONE? SHE IS GONE UP UPON EVERY HIGH
 MOUNTAIN AND UNDER EVERY GREEN TREE, AND THERE HATH PLAYED THE HARLOT.
# 7 AND I SAID AFTER SHE HAD DONE ALL THESE THINGS, TURN THOU UNTO ME. BUT
 SHE RETURNED NOT. AND HER TREACHEROUS SISTER JUDAH SAW IT.
# 8 AND I SAW, WHEN FOR ALL THE CAUSES WHEREBY BACKSLIDING ISRAEL COMMITTED
 ADULTERY I HAD PUT HER AWAY, AND GIVEN HER A BILL OF DIVORCE; YET HER
 TREACHEROUS SISTER JUDAH FEARED NOT, BUT WENT AND PLAYED THE HARLOT ALSO.
# 9 AND IT CAME TO PASS THROUGH THE LIGHTNESS OF HER WHOREDOM, THAT SHE
 DEFILED THE LAND, AND COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH STONES AND WITH STOCKS.
# 10 AND YET FOR ALL THIS HER TREACHEROUS SISTER JUDAH HATH NOT TURNED UNTO
 ME WITH HER WHOLE HEART, BUT FEIGNEDLY, SAITH THE LORD.
# 11 AND THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, THE BACKSLIDING ISRAEL HATH JUSTIFIED HERSELF
 MORE THAN TREACHEROUS JUDAH.
# 12 GO AND PROCLAIM THESE WORDS TOWARD THE NORTH, AND SAY, RETURN, THOU
 BACKSLIDING ISRAEL, SAITH THE LORD; AND I WILL NOT CAUSE MINE ANGER TO FALL
 UPON YOU: FOR I AM MERCIFUL, SAITH THE LORD, AND I WILL NOT KEEP ANGER FOR
 EVER.
# 13 ONLY ACKNOWLEDGE THINE INIQUITY, THAT THOU HAST TRANSGRESSED AGAINST THE
 LORD THY GOD, AND HAST SCATTERED THY WAYS TO THE STRANGERS UNDER EVERY GREEN
 TREE, AND YE HAVE NOT OBEYED MY VOICE, SAITH THE LORD.
# 14 TURN, O BACKSLIDING CHILDREN, SAITH THE LORD; FOR I AM MARRIED UNTO YOU:
 AND I WILL TAKE YOU ONE OF A CITY, AND TWO OF A FAMILY, AND I WILL BRING YOU
 TO ZION:
# 15 AND I WILL GIVE YOU PASTORS ACCORDING TO MINE HEART, WHICH SHALL FEED
 YOU WITH KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING.
# 16 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN YE BE MULTIPLIED AND INCREASED IN THE
 LAND, IN THOSE DAYS, SAITH THE LORD, THEY SHALL SAY NO MORE, THE ARK OF THE
 COVENANT OF THE LORD: NEITHER SHALL IT COME TO MIND: NEITHER SHALL THEY
 REMEMBER IT; NEITHER SHALL THEY VISIT IT; NEITHER SHALL THAT BE DONE ANY
 MORE.
# 17 AT THAT TIME THEY SHALL CALL JERUSALEM THE THRONE OF THE LORD; AND ALL
 THE NATIONS SHALL BE GATHERED UNTO IT, TO THE NAME OF THE LORD, TO JERUSALEM:
 NEITHER SHALL THEY WALK ANY MORE AFTER THE IMAGINATION OF THEIR EVIL HEART.
# 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
 HAVE GIVEN FOR AN INHERITANCE UNTO YOUR FATHERS.
# 19 BUT I SAID, HOW SHALL I PUT THEE AMONG THE CHILDREN, AND GIVE THEE A
 PLEASANT LAND, A GOODLY HERITAGE OF THE HOSTS OF NATIONS? AND I SAID, THOU
 SHALT CALL ME, MY FATHER; AND SHALT NOT TURN AWAY FROM ME.
# 20 SURELY AS A WIFE TREACHEROUSLY DEPARTETH FROM HER HUSBAND, SO HAVE YE
 DEALT TREACHEROUSLY WITH ME, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, SAITH THE LORD.
# 21 A VOICE WAS HEARD UPON THE HIGH PLACES, WEEPING AND SUPPLICATIONS OF THE
 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: FOR THEY HAVE PERVERTED THEIR WAY, AND THEY HAVE
 FORGOTTEN THE LORD THEIR GOD.
# 22 RETURN, YE BACKSLIDING CHILDREN, AND I WILL HEAL YOUR BACKSLIDINGS.
 BEHOLD, WE COME UNTO THEE; FOR THOU ART THE LORD OUR GOD.
# 23 TRULY IN VAIN IS SALVATION HOPED FOR FROM THE HILLS, AND FROM THE
 MULTITUDE OF MOUNTAINS: TRULY IN THE LORD OUR GOD IS THE SALVATION OF ISRAEL.
# 24 FOR SHAME HATH DEVOURED THE LABOUR OF OUR FATHERS FROM OUR YOUTH; THEIR
 FLOCKS AND THEIR HERDS, THEIR SONS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS.
# 25 WE LIE DOWN IN OUR SHAME, AND OUR CONFUSION COVERETH US: FOR WE HAVE
 SINNED AGAINST THE LORD OUR GOD, WE AND OUR FATHERS, FROM OUR YOUTH EVEN UNTO
 THIS DAY, AND HAVE NOT OBEYED THE VOICE OF THE LORD OUR GOD.
= CHAPTER 4 
# 1 IF THOU WILT RETURN, O ISRAEL, SAITH THE LORD, RETURN UNTO ME: AND IF THOU
 WILT PUT AWAY THINE ABOMINATIONS OUT OF MY SIGHT, THEN SHALT THOU NOT REMOVE.
# 2 AND THOU SHALT SWEAR, THE LORD LIVETH, IN TRUTH, IN JUDGMENT, AND IN
 RIGHTEOUSNESS; AND THE NATIONS SHALL BLESS THEMSELVES IN HIM, AND IN HIM
 SHALL THEY GLORY.
# 3 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD TO THE MEN OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM, BREAK UP YOUR
 FALLOW GROUND, AND SOW NOT AMONG THORNS.
# 4 CIRCUMCISE YOURSELVES TO THE LORD, AND TAKE AWAY THE FORESKINS OF YOUR
 HEART, YE MEN OF JUDAH AND INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM: LEST MY FURY COME FORTH
 LIKE FIRE, AND BURN THAT NONE CAN QUENCH IT, BECAUSE OF THE EVIL OF YOUR
 DOINGS.
# 5 DECLARE YE IN JUDAH, AND PUBLISH IN JERUSALEM; AND SAY, BLOW YE THE
 TRUMPET IN THE LAND: CRY, GATHER TOGETHER, AND SAY, ASSEMBLE YOURSELVES, AND
 LET US GO INTO THE DEFENCED CITIES.
# 6 SET UP THE STANDARD TOWARD ZION: RETIRE, STAY NOT: FOR I WILL BRING EVIL
 FROM THE NORTH, AND A GREAT DESTRUCTION.
# 7 THE LION IS COME UP FROM HIS THICKET, AND THE DESTROYER OF THE GENTILES
 IS ON HIS WAY; HE IS GONE FORTH FROM HIS PLACE TO MAKE THY LAND DESOLATE; AND
 THY CITIES SHALL BE LAID WASTE, WITHOUT AN INHABITANT.
# 8 FOR THIS GIRD YOU WITH SACKCLOTH, LAMENT AND HOWL: FOR THE FIERCE ANGER
 OF THE LORD IS NOT TURNED BACK FROM US.
# 9 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS AT THAT DAY, SAITH THE LORD, 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.
# 10 THEN SAID I, AH, LORD GOD! SURELY THOU HAST GREATLY DECEIVED THIS PEOPLE
 AND JERUSALEM, SAYING, YE SHALL HAVE PEACE; WHEREAS THE SWORD REACHETH UNTO
 THE SOUL.
# 11 AT THAT TIME SHALL IT BE SAID TO THIS PEOPLE AND TO JERUSALEM, A DRY
 WIND OF THE HIGH PLACES IN THE WILDERNESS TOWARD THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE,
 NOT TO FAN, NOR TO CLEANSE,
# 12 EVEN A FULL WIND FROM THOSE PLACES SHALL COME UNTO ME: NOW ALSO WILL I
 GIVE SENTENCE AGAINST THEM.
# 13 BEHOLD, HE SHALL COME UP AS CLOUDS, AND HIS CHARIOTS SHALL BE AS A
 WHIRLWIND: HIS HORSES ARE SWIFTER THAN EAGLES. WOE UNTO US! FOR WE ARE
 SPOILED.
# 14 O JERUSALEM, WASH THINE HEART FROM WICKEDNESS, THAT THOU MAYEST BE
 SAVED. HOW LONG SHALL THY VAIN THOUGHTS LODGE WITHIN THEE?
# 15 FOR A VOICE DECLARETH FROM DAN, AND PUBLISHETH AFFLICTION FROM MOUNT
 EPHRAIM.
# 16 MAKE YE 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.
# 17 AS KEEPERS OF A FIELD, ARE THEY AGAINST HER ROUND ABOUT; BECAUSE SHE
 HATH BEEN REBELLIOUS AGAINST ME, SAITH THE LORD.
# 18 THY WAY AND THY DOINGS HAVE PROCURED THESE THINGS UNTO THEE; THIS IS THY
 WICKEDNESS, BECAUSE IT IS BITTER, BECAUSE IT REACHETH UNTO THINE HEART.
# 19 MY BOWELS, MY BOWELS! I AM PAINED AT MY VERY HEART; MY HEART MAKETH A
 NOISE IN ME; I CANNOT HOLD MY PEACE, BECAUSE THOU HAST HEARD, O MY SOUL, THE
 SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, THE ALARM OF WAR.
# 20 DESTRUCTION UPON DESTRUCTION IS CRIED; FOR THE WHOLE LAND IS SPOILED:
 SUDDENLY ARE MY TENTS SPOILED, AND MY CURTAINS IN A MOMENT.
# 21 HOW LONG SHALL I SEE THE STANDARD, AND HEAR THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET?
# 22 FOR MY PEOPLE IS FOOLISH, THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN ME; THEY ARE SOTTISH
 CHILDREN, AND THEY HAVE NONE UNDERSTANDING: THEY ARE WISE TO DO EVIL, BUT TO
 DO GOOD THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE.
# 23 I BEHELD THE EARTH, AND, LO, IT WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID; AND THE
 HEAVENS, AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT.
# 24 I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS, AND, LO, THEY TREMBLED, AND ALL THE HILLS MOVED
 LIGHTLY.
# 25 I BEHELD, AND, LO, THERE WAS NO MAN, AND ALL THE BIRDS OF THE HEAVENS
 WERE FLED.
# 26 I BEHELD, AND, LO, THE FRUITFUL PLACE WAS A WILDERNESS, AND ALL THE
 CITIES THEREOF WERE BROKEN DOWN AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AND BY HIS
 FIERCE ANGER.
# 27 FOR THUS HATH THE LORD SAID, THE WHOLE LAND SHALL BE DESOLATE; YET WILL
 I NOT MAKE A FULL END.
# 28 FOR THIS SHALL THE EARTH MOURN, AND THE HEAVENS ABOVE BE BLACK; BECAUSE
 I HAVE SPOKEN IT, I HAVE PURPOSED IT, AND WILL NOT REPENT, NEITHER WILL I
 TURN BACK FROM IT.
# 29 THE WHOLE CITY SHALL FLEE FOR THE NOISE OF THE HORSEMEN AND BOWMEN; THEY
 SHALL GO INTO THICKETS, AND CLIMB UP UPON THE ROCKS: EVERY CITY SHALL BE
 FORSAKEN, AND NOT A MAN DWELL THEREIN.
# 30 AND WHEN THOU ART SPOILED, WHAT WILT THOU DO? THOUGH THOU CLOTHEST
 THYSELF WITH CRIMSON, THOUGH THOU DECKEST THEE WITH ORNAMENTS OF GOLD, THOUGH
 THOU RENTEST THY FACE WITH PAINTING, IN VAIN SHALT THOU MAKE THYSELF FAIR;
 THY LOVERS WILL DESPISE THEE, THEY WILL SEEK THY LIFE.
# 31 FOR I HAVE HEARD A VOICE AS OF A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL, AND THE ANGUISH AS OF
 HER THAT BRINGETH FORTH HER FIRST CHILD, THE VOICE OF THE DAUGHTER OF ZION,
 THAT BEWAILETH HERSELF, THAT SPREADETH HER HANDS, SAYING, WOE IS ME NOW! FOR
 MY SOUL IS WEARIED BECAUSE OF MURDERERS.
= CHAPTER 5 
# 1 RUN YE TO AND FRO THROUGH THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM, AND SEE NOW, AND KNOW,
 AND SEEK IN THE BROAD PLACES THEREOF, IF YE CAN FIND A MAN, IF THERE BE ANY
 THAT EXECUTETH JUDGMENT, THAT SEEKETH THE TRUTH; AND I WILL PARDON IT.
# 2 AND THOUGH THEY SAY, THE LORD LIVETH; SURELY THEY SWEAR FALSELY.
# 3 O LORD, ARE NOT THINE EYES UPON THE TRUTH? THOU HAST STRICKEN THEM, BUT
 THEY HAVE NOT GRIEVED; THOU HAST CONSUMED THEM, BUT THEY HAVE REFUSED TO
 RECEIVE CORRECTION: THEY HAVE MADE THEIR FACES HARDER THAN A ROCK; THEY HAVE
 REFUSED TO RETURN.
# 4 THEREFORE I SAID, SURELY THESE ARE POOR; THEY ARE FOOLISH: FOR THEY KNOW
 NOT THE WAY OF THE LORD, NOR THE JUDGMENT OF THEIR GOD.
# 5 I WILL GET ME UNTO THE GREAT MEN, AND WILL SPEAK UNTO THEM; FOR THEY HAVE
 KNOWN THE WAY OF THE LORD, AND THE JUDGMENT OF THEIR GOD: BUT THESE HAVE
 ALTOGETHER BROKEN THE YOKE, AND BURST THE BONDS.
# 6 WHEREFORE A LION OUT OF THE FOREST SHALL SLAY THEM, AND A WOLF OF THE
 EVENINGS SHALL SPOIL THEM, A LEOPARD SHALL WATCH OVER THEIR CITIES: EVERY ONE
 THAT GOETH OUT THENCE SHALL BE TORN IN PIECES: BECAUSE THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS
 ARE MANY, AND THEIR BACKSLIDINGS ARE INCREASED.
# 7 HOW SHALL I PARDON THEE FOR THIS? THY CHILDREN HAVE FORSAKEN ME, AND
 SWORN BY THEM THAT ARE NO GODS: WHEN I HAD FED THEM TO THE FULL, THEY THEN
 COMMITTED ADULTERY, AND ASSEMBLED THEMSELVES BY TROOPS IN THE HARLOTS HOUSES.
# 8 THEY WERE AS FED HORSES IN THE MORNING: EVERY ONE NEIGHED AFTER HIS
 NEIGHBOURS WIFE.
# 9 SHALL I NOT VISIT FOR THESE THINGS? SAITH THE LORD: AND SHALL NOT MY SOUL
 BE AVENGED ON SUCH A NATION AS THIS?
# 10 GO YE UP UPON HER WALLS, AND DESTROY; BUT MAKE NOT A FULL END: TAKE AWAY
 HER BATTLEMENTS; FOR THEY ARE NOT THE LORDS.
# 11 FOR THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND THE HOUSE OF JUDAH HAVE DEALT VERY
 TREACHEROUSLY AGAINST ME, SAITH THE LORD.
# 12 THEY HAVE BELIED THE LORD, AND SAID, IT IS NOT HE; NEITHER SHALL EVIL
 COME UPON US; NEITHER SHALL WE SEE SWORD NOR FAMINE:
# 13 AND THE PROPHETS SHALL BECOME WIND, AND THE WORD IS NOT IN THEM: THUS
 SHALL IT BE DONE UNTO THEM.
# 14 WHEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS, BECAUSE YE SPEAK THIS WORD,
 BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE MY WORDS IN THY MOUTH FIRE, AND THIS PEOPLE WOOD, AND IT
 SHALL DEVOUR THEM.
# 15 LO, I WILL BRING A NATION UPON YOU FROM FAR, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, SAITH
 THE LORD: IT IS A MIGHTY NATION, IT IS AN ANCIENT NATION, A NATION WHOSE
 LANGUAGE THOU KNOWEST NOT, NEITHER UNDERSTANDEST WHAT THEY SAY.
# 16 THEIR QUIVER IS AS AN OPEN SEPULCHRE, THEY ARE ALL MIGHTY MEN.
# 17 AND THEY SHALL EAT UP THINE HARVEST, AND THY BREAD, WHICH THY SONS AND
 THY DAUGHTERS SHOULD EAT: THEY SHALL EAT UP THY FLOCKS AND THINE HERDS: THEY
 SHALL EAT UP THY VINES AND THY FIG TREES: THEY SHALL IMPOVERISH THY FENCED
 CITIES, WHEREIN THOU TRUSTEDST, WITH THE SWORD.
# 18 NEVERTHELESS IN THOSE DAYS, SAITH THE LORD, I WILL NOT MAKE A FULL END
 WITH YOU.
# 19 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN YE SHALL SAY, WHEREFORE DOETH THE LORD
 OUR GOD ALL THESE THINGS UNTO US? THEN SHALT THOU ANSWER THEM, LIKE AS YE
 HAVE FORSAKEN ME, AND SERVED STRANGE GODS IN YOUR LAND, SO SHALL YE SERVE
 STRANGERS IN A LAND THAT IS NOT YOURS.
# 20 DECLARE THIS IN THE HOUSE OF JACOB, AND PUBLISH IT IN JUDAH, SAYING,
# 21 HEAR NOW THIS, O FOOLISH PEOPLE, AND WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING; WHICH HAVE
 EYES, AND SEE NOT; WHICH HAVE EARS, AND HEAR NOT:
# 22 FEAR YE NOT ME? SAITH THE LORD: WILL YE NOT TREMBLE AT MY PRESENCE,
 WHICH HAVE PLACED THE SAND FOR THE BOUND OF THE SEA BY A PERPETUAL DECREE,
 THAT IT CANNOT PASS IT: AND THOUGH THE WAVES THEREOF TOSS THEMSELVES, YET CAN
 THEY NOT PREVAIL; THOUGH THEY ROAR, YET CAN THEY NOT PASS OVER IT?
# 23 BUT THIS PEOPLE HATH A REVOLTING AND A REBELLIOUS HEART; THEY ARE
 REVOLTED AND GONE.
# 24 NEITHER SAY THEY IN THEIR HEART, LET US NOW FEAR THE LORD OUR GOD, THAT
 GIVETH RAIN, BOTH THE FORMER AND THE LATTER, IN HIS SEASON: HE RESERVETH UNTO
 US THE APPOINTED WEEKS OF THE HARVEST.
# 25 YOUR INIQUITIES HAVE TURNED AWAY THESE THINGS, AND YOUR SINS HAVE
 WITHHOLDEN GOOD THINGS FROM YOU.
# 26 FOR AMONG MY PEOPLE ARE FOUND WICKED MEN: THEY LAY WAIT, AS HE THAT
 SETTETH SNARES; THEY SET A TRAP, THEY CATCH MEN.
# 27 AS A CAGE IS FULL OF BIRDS, SO ARE THEIR HOUSES FULL OF DECEIT:
 THEREFORE THEY ARE BECOME GREAT, AND WAXEN RICH.
# 28 THEY ARE WAXEN FAT, THEY SHINE: YEA, THEY OVERPASS THE DEEDS OF THE
 WICKED: THEY JUDGE NOT THE CAUSE, THE CAUSE OF THE FATHERLESS, YET THEY
 PROSPER; AND THE RIGHT OF THE NEEDY DO THEY NOT JUDGE.
# 29 SHALL I NOT VISIT FOR THESE THINGS? SAITH THE LORD: SHALL NOT MY SOUL BE
 AVENGED ON SUCH A NATION AS THIS?
# 30 A WONDERFUL AND HORRIBLE THING IS COMMITTED IN THE LAND;
# 31 THE PROPHETS PROPHESY FALSELY, AND THE PRIESTS BEAR RULE BY THEIR MEANS;
 AND MY PEOPLE LOVE TO HAVE IT SO: AND WHAT WILL YE DO IN THE END THEREOF?
= CHAPTER 6 
# 1 O YE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN, GATHER YOURSELVES TO FLEE OUT OF THE MIDST OF
 JERUSALEM, AND BLOW THE TRUMPET IN TEKOA, AND SET UP A SIGN OF FIRE IN
 BETHHACCEREM: FOR EVIL APPEARETH OUT OF THE NORTH, AND GREAT DESTRUCTION.
# 2 I HAVE LIKENED THE DAUGHTER OF ZION TO A COMELY AND DELICATE WOMAN.
# 3 THE SHEPHERDS WITH THEIR FLOCKS SHALL COME UNTO HER; THEY SHALL PITCH
 THEIR TENTS AGAINST HER ROUND ABOUT; THEY SHALL FEED EVERY ONE IN HIS PLACE.
# 4 PREPARE YE WAR AGAINST HER; ARISE, AND LET US GO UP AT NOON. WOE UNTO US!
 FOR THE DAY GOETH AWAY, FOR THE SHADOWS OF THE EVENING ARE STRETCHED OUT.
# 5 ARISE, AND LET US GO BY NIGHT, AND LET US DESTROY HER PALACES.
# 6 FOR THUS HATH THE LORD OF HOSTS SAID, HEW YE DOWN TREES, AND CAST A MOUNT
 AGAINST JERUSALEM: THIS IS THE CITY TO BE VISITED; SHE IS WHOLLY OPPRESSION
 IN THE MIDST OF HER.
# 7 AS A FOUNTAIN CASTETH OUT HER WATERS, SO SHE CASTETH OUT HER WICKEDNESS:
 VIOLENCE AND SPOIL IS HEARD IN HER; BEFORE ME CONTINUALLY IS GRIEF AND
 WOUNDS.
# 8 BE THOU INSTRUCTED, O JERUSALEM, LEST MY SOUL DEPART FROM THEE; LEST I
 MAKE THEE DESOLATE, A LAND NOT INHABITED.
# 9 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THEY SHALL THROUGHLY GLEAN THE REMNANT OF
 ISRAEL AS A VINE: TURN BACK THINE HAND AS A GRAPEGATHERER INTO THE BASKETS.
# 10 TO WHOM SHALL I SPEAK, AND GIVE WARNING, THAT THEY MAY HEAR? BEHOLD,
 THEIR EAR IS UNCIRCUMCISED, AND THEY CANNOT HEARKEN: BEHOLD, THE WORD OF THE
 LORD IS UNTO THEM A REPROACH; THEY HAVE NO DELIGHT IN IT.
# 11 THEREFORE I AM FULL OF THE FURY OF THE LORD; I AM WEARY WITH HOLDING IN:
 I WILL POUR IT OUT UPON THE CHILDREN ABROAD, AND UPON THE ASSEMBLY OF YOUNG
 MEN TOGETHER: FOR EVEN THE HUSBAND WITH THE WIFE SHALL BE TAKEN, THE AGED
 WITH HIM THAT IS FULL OF DAYS.
# 12 AND THEIR HOUSES SHALL BE TURNED UNTO OTHERS, WITH THEIR FIELDS AND
 WIVES TOGETHER: FOR I WILL STRETCH OUT MY HAND UPON THE INHABITANTS OF THE
 LAND, SAITH THE LORD.
# 13 FOR FROM THE LEAST OF THEM EVEN UNTO THE GREATEST OF THEM EVERY ONE IS
 GIVEN TO COVETOUSNESS; AND FROM THE PROPHET EVEN UNTO THE PRIEST EVERY ONE
 DEALETH FALSELY.
# 14 THEY HAVE HEALED ALSO THE HURT OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE SLIGHTLY,
 SAYING, PEACE, PEACE; WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE.
# 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
 THEM THAT FALL: AT THE TIME THAT I VISIT THEM THEY SHALL BE CAST DOWN, SAITH
 THE LORD.
# 16 THUS SAITH THE LORD, STAND YE IN THE WAYS, AND SEE, AND ASK FOR THE OLD
 PATHS, WHERE IS THE GOOD WAY, AND WALK THEREIN, AND YE SHALL FIND REST FOR
 YOUR SOULS. BUT THEY SAID, WE WILL NOT WALK THEREIN.
# 17 ALSO I SET WATCHMEN OVER YOU, SAYING, HEARKEN TO THE SOUND OF THE
 TRUMPET. BUT THEY SAID, WE WILL NOT HEARKEN.
# 18 THEREFORE HEAR, YE NATIONS, AND KNOW, O CONGREGATION, WHAT IS AMONG
 THEM.
# 19 HEAR, O EARTH: BEHOLD, I WILL BRING EVIL UPON THIS PEOPLE, EVEN THE
 FRUIT OF THEIR THOUGHTS, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT HEARKENED UNTO MY WORDS, NOR
 TO MY LAW, BUT REJECTED IT.
# 20 TO WHAT PURPOSE COMETH THERE TO ME INCENSE FROM SHEBA, AND THE SWEET
 CANE FROM A FAR COUNTRY? YOUR BURNT OFFERINGS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE, NOR YOUR
 SACRIFICES SWEET UNTO ME.
# 21 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, I WILL LAY STUMBLINGBLOCKS BEFORE
 THIS PEOPLE, AND THE FATHERS AND THE SONS TOGETHER SHALL FALL UPON THEM; THE
 NEIGHBOUR AND HIS FRIEND SHALL PERISH.
# 22 THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, A PEOPLE COMETH FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY, AND
 A GREAT NATION SHALL BE RAISED FROM THE SIDES OF THE EARTH.
# 23 THEY SHALL LAY HOLD ON BOW AND SPEAR; THEY ARE CRUEL, AND HAVE NO MERCY;
 THEIR VOICE ROARETH LIKE THE SEA; AND THEY RIDE UPON HORSES, SET IN ARRAY AS
 MEN FOR WAR AGAINST THEE, O DAUGHTER OF ZION.
# 24 WE HAVE HEARD THE FAME THEREOF: OUR HANDS WAX FEEBLE: ANGUISH HATH TAKEN
 HOLD OF US, AND PAIN, AS OF A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL.
# 25 GO NOT FORTH INTO THE FIELD, NOR WALK BY THE WAY; FOR THE SWORD OF THE
 ENEMY AND FEAR IS ON EVERY SIDE.
# 26 O DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE, GIRD THEE WITH SACKCLOTH, AND WALLOW THYSELF IN
 ASHES: MAKE THEE MOURNING, AS FOR AN ONLY SON, MOST BITTER LAMENTATION: FOR
 THE SPOILER SHALL SUDDENLY COME UPON US.
# 27 I HAVE SET THEE FOR A TOWER AND A FORTRESS AMONG MY PEOPLE, THAT THOU
 MAYEST KNOW AND TRY THEIR WAY.
# 28 THEY ARE ALL GRIEVOUS REVOLTERS, WALKING WITH SLANDERS: THEY ARE BRASS
 AND IRON; THEY ARE ALL CORRUPTERS.
# 29 THE BELLOWS ARE BURNED, THE LEAD IS CONSUMED OF THE FIRE; THE FOUNDER
 MELTETH IN VAIN: FOR THE WICKED ARE NOT PLUCKED AWAY.
# 30 REPROBATE SILVER SHALL MEN CALL THEM, BECAUSE THE LORD HATH REJECTED
 THEM.
= CHAPTER 7 
# 1 THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD, SAYING,
# 2 STAND IN THE GATE OF THE LORDS HOUSE, AND PROCLAIM THERE THIS WORD, AND
 SAY, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, ALL YE OF JUDAH, THAT ENTER IN AT THESE GATES
 TO WORSHIP THE LORD.
# 3 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, AMEND YOUR WAYS AND YOUR
 DOINGS, AND I WILL CAUSE YOU TO DWELL IN THIS PLACE.
# 4 TRUST YE NOT IN LYING WORDS, SAYING, THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD, THE TEMPLE
 OF THE LORD, THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD, ARE THESE.
# 5 FOR IF YE THROUGHLY AMEND YOUR WAYS AND YOUR DOINGS; IF YE THROUGHLY
 EXECUTE JUDGMENT BETWEEN A MAN AND HIS NEIGHBOUR;
# 6 IF YE OPPRESS NOT THE STRANGER, THE FATHERLESS, AND THE WIDOW, AND SHED
 NOT INNOCENT BLOOD IN THIS PLACE, NEITHER WALK AFTER OTHER GODS TO YOUR HURT:
# 7 THEN WILL I CAUSE YOU TO DWELL IN THIS PLACE, IN THE LAND THAT I GAVE TO
 YOUR FATHERS, FOR EVER AND EVER.
# 8 BEHOLD, YE TRUST IN LYING WORDS, THAT CANNOT PROFIT.
# 9 WILL YE STEAL, MURDER, AND COMMIT ADULTERY, AND SWEAR FALSELY, AND BURN
 INCENSE UNTO BAAL, AND WALK AFTER OTHER GODS WHOM YE KNOW NOT;
# 10 AND COME AND STAND BEFORE ME IN THIS HOUSE, WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME,
 AND SAY, WE ARE DELIVERED TO DO ALL THESE ABOMINATIONS?
# 11 IS THIS HOUSE, WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME, BECOME A DEN OF ROBBERS IN
 YOUR EYES? BEHOLD, EVEN I HAVE SEEN IT, SAITH THE LORD.
# 12 BUT GO YE NOW UNTO MY PLACE WHICH WAS IN SHILOH, WHERE I SET MY NAME AT
 THE FIRST, AND SEE WHAT I DID TO IT FOR THE WICKEDNESS OF MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.
# 13 AND NOW, BECAUSE YE HAVE DONE ALL THESE WORKS, SAITH THE LORD, AND I
 SPAKE UNTO YOU, RISING UP EARLY AND SPEAKING, BUT YE HEARD NOT; AND I CALLED
 YOU, BUT YE ANSWERED NOT;
# 14 THEREFORE WILL I DO UNTO THIS HOUSE, WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME, WHEREIN
 YE TRUST, AND UNTO THE PLACE WHICH I GAVE TO YOU AND TO YOUR FATHERS, AS I
 HAVE DONE TO SHILOH.
# 15 AND I WILL CAST YOU OUT OF MY SIGHT, AS I HAVE CAST OUT ALL YOUR
 BRETHREN, EVEN THE WHOLE SEED OF EPHRAIM.
# 16 THEREFORE PRAY NOT THOU FOR THIS PEOPLE, NEITHER LIFT UP CRY NOR PRAYER
 FOR THEM, NEITHER MAKE INTERCESSION TO ME: FOR I WILL NOT HEAR THEE.
# 17 SEEST THOU NOT WHAT THEY DO IN THE CITIES OF JUDAH AND IN THE STREETS OF
 JERUSALEM?
# 18 THE CHILDREN GATHER WOOD, AND THE FATHERS KINDLE THE FIRE, AND THE WOMEN
 KNEAD THEIR DOUGH, TO MAKE CAKES TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN, AND TO POUR OUT
 DRINK OFFERINGS UNTO OTHER GODS, THAT THEY MAY PROVOKE ME TO ANGER.
# 19 DO THEY PROVOKE ME TO ANGER? SAITH THE LORD: DO THEY NOT PROVOKE
 THEMSELVES TO THE CONFUSION OF THEIR OWN FACES?
# 20 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; BEHOLD, MINE ANGER AND MY FURY SHALL
 BE POURED OUT UPON THIS PLACE, UPON MAN, AND UPON BEAST, AND UPON THE TREES
 OF THE FIELD, AND UPON THE FRUIT OF THE GROUND; AND IT SHALL BURN, AND SHALL
 NOT BE QUENCHED.
# 21 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; PUT YOUR BURNT
 OFFERINGS UNTO YOUR SACRIFICES, AND EAT FLESH.
# 22 FOR I SPAKE NOT UNTO YOUR FATHERS, NOR COMMANDED THEM IN THE DAY THAT I
 BROUGHT THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, CONCERNING BURNT OFFERINGS OR
 SACRIFICES:
# 23 BUT THIS THING COMMANDED I THEM, SAYING, OBEY MY VOICE, AND I WILL BE
 YOUR GOD, AND YE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE: AND WALK YE IN ALL THE WAYS THAT I HAVE
 COMMANDED YOU, THAT IT MAY BE WELL UNTO YOU.
# 24 BUT THEY HEARKENED NOT, NOR INCLINED THEIR EAR, BUT WALKED IN THE
 COUNSELS AND IN THE IMAGINATION OF THEIR EVIL HEART, AND WENT BACKWARD, AND
 NOT FORWARD.
# 25 SINCE THE DAY THAT YOUR FATHERS CAME FORTH OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT UNTO
 THIS DAY I HAVE EVEN SENT UNTO YOU ALL MY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS, DAILY RISING
 UP EARLY AND SENDING THEM:
# 26 YET THEY HEARKENED NOT UNTO ME, NOR INCLINED THEIR EAR, BUT HARDENED
 THEIR NECK: THEY DID WORSE THAN THEIR FATHERS.
# 27 THEREFORE THOU SHALT SPEAK ALL THESE WORDS UNTO THEM; BUT THEY WILL NOT
 HEARKEN TO THEE: THOU SHALT ALSO CALL UNTO THEM; BUT THEY WILL NOT ANSWER
 THEE.
# 28 BUT THOU SHALT SAY UNTO THEM, THIS IS A NATION THAT OBEYETH NOT THE
 VOICE OF THE LORD THEIR GOD, NOR RECEIVETH CORRECTION: TRUTH IS PERISHED, AND
 IS CUT OFF FROM THEIR MOUTH.
# 29 CUT OFF THINE HAIR, O JERUSALEM, AND CAST IT AWAY, AND TAKE UP A
 LAMENTATION ON HIGH PLACES; FOR THE LORD HATH REJECTED AND FORSAKEN THE
 GENERATION OF HIS WRATH.
# 30 FOR THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH HAVE DONE EVIL IN MY SIGHT, SAITH THE LORD:
 THEY HAVE SET THEIR ABOMINATIONS IN THE HOUSE WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME, TO
 POLLUTE IT.
# 31 AND THEY HAVE BUILT THE HIGH PLACES OF TOPHET, WHICH IS IN THE VALLEY OF
 THE SON OF HINNOM, TO BURN THEIR SONS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS IN THE FIRE; WHICH
 I COMMANDED THEM NOT, NEITHER CAME IT INTO MY HEART.
# 32 THEREFORE, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT IT SHALL NO MORE
 BE CALLED TOPHET, NOR THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM, BUT THE VALLEY OF
 SLAUGHTER: FOR THEY SHALL BURY IN TOPHET, TILL THERE BE NO PLACE.
# 33 AND THE CARCASES OF THIS PEOPLE SHALL BE MEAT FOR THE FOWLS OF THE
 HEAVEN, AND FOR THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH; AND NONE SHALL FRAY THEM AWAY.
# 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 BE
 DESOLATE.
= CHAPTER 8 
# 1 AT THAT TIME, SAITH THE LORD, 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:
# 2 AND THEY SHALL SPREAD THEM BEFORE THE SUN, AND THE MOON, AND ALL THE HOST
 OF HEAVEN, WHOM THEY HAVE LOVED, AND WHOM THEY HAVE SERVED, AND AFTER WHOM
 THEY HAVE WALKED, AND WHOM THEY HAVE SOUGHT, AND WHOM THEY HAVE WORSHIPPED:
 THEY SHALL NOT BE GATHERED, NOR BE BURIED; THEY SHALL BE FOR DUNG UPON THE
 FACE OF THE EARTH.
# 3 AND DEATH SHALL BE CHOSEN RATHER THAN LIFE BY ALL THE RESIDUE OF THEM
 THAT REMAIN OF THIS EVIL FAMILY, WHICH REMAIN IN ALL THE PLACES WHITHER I
 HAVE DRIVEN THEM, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS.
# 4 MOREOVER THOU SHALT SAY UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD; SHALL THEY FALL,
 AND NOT ARISE? SHALL HE TURN AWAY, AND NOT RETURN?
# 5 WHY THEN IS THIS PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM SLIDDEN BACK BY A PERPETUAL
 BACKSLIDING? THEY HOLD FAST DECEIT, THEY REFUSE TO RETURN.
# 6 I HEARKENED AND HEARD, BUT THEY SPAKE NOT ARIGHT: NO MAN REPENTED HIM OF
 HIS WICKEDNESS, SAYING, WHAT HAVE I DONE? EVERY ONE TURNED TO HIS COURSE, AS
 THE HORSE RUSHETH INTO THE BATTLE.
# 7 YEA, THE STORK IN THE HEAVEN KNOWETH HER APPOINTED TIMES; AND THE TURTLE
 AND THE CRANE AND THE SWALLOW OBSERVE THE TIME OF THEIR COMING; BUT MY PEOPLE
 KNOW NOT THE JUDGMENT OF THE LORD.
# 8 HOW DO YE SAY, WE ARE WISE, AND THE LAW OF THE LORD IS WITH US? LO,
 CERTAINLY IN VAIN MADE HE IT; THE PEN OF THE SCRIBES IS IN VAIN.
# 9 THE WISE MEN ARE ASHAMED, THEY ARE DISMAYED AND TAKEN: LO, THEY HAVE
 REJECTED THE WORD OF THE LORD; AND WHAT WISDOM IS IN THEM?
# 10 THEREFORE WILL I GIVE THEIR WIVES UNTO OTHERS, AND THEIR FIELDS TO THEM
 THAT SHALL INHERIT THEM: FOR EVERY ONE FROM THE LEAST EVEN UNTO THE GREATEST
 IS GIVEN TO COVETOUSNESS, FROM THE PROPHET EVEN UNTO THE PRIEST EVERY ONE
 DEALETH FALSELY.
# 11 FOR THEY HAVE HEALED THE HURT OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE SLIGHTLY,
 SAYING, PEACE, PEACE; WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE.
# 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
 THEM THAT FALL: IN THE TIME OF THEIR VISITATION THEY SHALL BE CAST DOWN,
 SAITH THE LORD.
# 13 I WILL SURELY CONSUME THEM, SAITH THE LORD: 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.
# 14 WHY DO WE SIT STILL? ASSEMBLE YOURSELVES, AND LET US ENTER INTO THE
 DEFENCED CITIES, AND LET US BE SILENT THERE: FOR THE LORD OUR GOD HATH PUT US
 TO SILENCE, AND GIVEN US WATER OF GALL TO DRINK, BECAUSE WE HAVE SINNED
 AGAINST THE LORD.
# 15 WE LOOKED FOR PEACE, BUT NO GOOD CAME; AND FOR A TIME OF HEALTH, AND
 BEHOLD TROUBLE!
# 16 THE SNORTING OF HIS HORSES WAS HEARD FROM DAN: THE WHOLE LAND TREMBLED
 AT THE SOUND OF THE NEIGHING OF HIS STRONG ONES; FOR THEY ARE COME, AND HAVE
 DEVOURED THE LAND, AND ALL THAT IS IN IT; THE CITY, AND THOSE THAT DWELL
 THEREIN.
# 17 FOR, BEHOLD, I WILL SEND SERPENTS, COCKATRICES, AMONG YOU, WHICH WILL
 NOT BE CHARMED, AND THEY SHALL BITE YOU, SAITH THE LORD.
# 18 WHEN I WOULD COMFORT MYSELF AGAINST SORROW, MY HEART IS FAINT IN ME.
# 19 BEHOLD THE VOICE OF THE CRY OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THEM
 THAT DWELL IN A FAR COUNTRY: IS NOT THE LORD IN ZION? IS NOT HER KING IN HER?
 WHY HAVE THEY PROVOKED ME TO ANGER WITH THEIR GRAVEN IMAGES, AND WITH STRANGE
 VANITIES?
# 20 THE HARVEST IS PAST, THE SUMMER IS ENDED, AND WE ARE NOT SAVED.
# 21 FOR THE HURT OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE AM I HURT; I AM BLACK;
 ASTONISHMENT HATH TAKEN HOLD ON ME.
# 22 IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD; IS THERE NO PHYSICIAN THERE? WHY THEN IS NOT
 THE HEALTH OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE RECOVERED?
= CHAPTER 9 
# 1 OH THAT MY HEAD WERE WATERS, AND MINE EYES A FOUNTAIN OF TEARS, THAT I
 MIGHT WEEP DAY AND NIGHT FOR THE SLAIN OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE!
# 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 BE ALL ADULTERERS, AN
 ASSEMBLY OF TREACHEROUS MEN.
# 3 AND THEY BEND THEIR TONGUES LIKE THEIR BOW FOR LIES: BUT THEY ARE NOT
 VALIANT FOR THE TRUTH UPON THE EARTH; FOR THEY PROCEED FROM EVIL TO EVIL, AND
 THEY KNOW NOT ME, SAITH THE LORD.
# 4 TAKE YE HEED EVERY ONE OF HIS NEIGHBOUR, AND TRUST YE NOT IN ANY BROTHER:
 FOR EVERY BROTHER WILL UTTERLY SUPPLANT, AND EVERY NEIGHBOUR WILL WALK WITH
 SLANDERS.
# 5 AND THEY WILL DECEIVE EVERY ONE HIS NEIGHBOUR, AND WILL NOT SPEAK THE
 TRUTH: THEY HAVE TAUGHT THEIR TONGUE TO SPEAK LIES, AND WEARY THEMSELVES TO
 COMMIT INIQUITY.
# 6 THINE HABITATION IS IN THE MIDST OF DECEIT; THROUGH DECEIT THEY REFUSE TO
 KNOW ME, SAITH THE LORD.
# 7 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, BEHOLD, I WILL MELT THEM, AND TRY
 THEM; FOR HOW SHALL I DO FOR THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE?
# 8 THEIR TONGUE IS AS AN ARROW SHOT OUT; IT SPEAKETH DECEIT: ONE SPEAKETH
 PEACEABLY TO HIS NEIGHBOUR WITH HIS MOUTH, BUT IN HEART HE LAYETH HIS WAIT.
# 9 SHALL I NOT VISIT THEM FOR THESE THINGS? SAITH THE LORD: SHALL NOT MY
 SOUL BE AVENGED ON SUCH A NATION AS THIS?
# 10 FOR THE MOUNTAINS WILL I TAKE UP A WEEPING AND WAILING, AND FOR THE
 HABITATIONS OF THE WILDERNESS A LAMENTATION, BECAUSE THEY ARE BURNED UP, SO
 THAT NONE CAN PASS THROUGH THEM; NEITHER CAN MEN HEAR THE VOICE OF THE
 CATTLE; BOTH THE FOWL OF THE HEAVENS AND THE BEAST ARE FLED; THEY ARE GONE.
# 11 AND I WILL MAKE JERUSALEM HEAPS, AND A DEN OF DRAGONS; AND I WILL MAKE
 THE CITIES OF JUDAH DESOLATE, WITHOUT AN INHABITANT.
# 12 WHO IS THE WISE MAN, THAT MAY UNDERSTAND THIS? AND WHO IS HE TO WHOM THE
 MOUTH OF THE LORD HATH SPOKEN, THAT HE MAY DECLARE IT, FOR WHAT THE LAND
 PERISHETH AND IS BURNED UP LIKE A WILDERNESS, THAT NONE PASSETH THROUGH?
# 13 AND THE LORD SAITH, BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN MY LAW WHICH I SET BEFORE
 THEM, AND HAVE NOT OBEYED MY VOICE, NEITHER WALKED THEREIN;
# 14 BUT HAVE WALKED AFTER THE IMAGINATION OF THEIR OWN HEART, AND AFTER
 BAALIM, WHICH THEIR FATHERS TAUGHT THEM:
# 15 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; BEHOLD, I
 WILL FEED THEM, EVEN THIS PEOPLE, WITH WORMWOOD, AND GIVE THEM WATER OF GALL
 TO DRINK.
# 16 I WILL SCATTER THEM ALSO AMONG THE HEATHEN, WHOM NEITHER THEY NOR THEIR
 FATHERS HAVE KNOWN: AND I WILL SEND A SWORD AFTER THEM, TILL I HAVE CONSUMED
 THEM.
# 17 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, CONSIDER YE, AND CALL FOR THE MOURNING
 WOMEN, THAT THEY MAY COME; AND SEND FOR CUNNING WOMEN, THAT THEY MAY COME:
# 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.
# 19 FOR A VOICE OF WAILING IS HEARD OUT OF ZION, HOW ARE WE SPOILED! WE ARE
 GREATLY CONFOUNDED, BECAUSE WE HAVE FORSAKEN THE LAND, BECAUSE OUR DWELLINGS
 HAVE CAST US OUT.
# 20 YET HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, O YE WOMEN, AND LET YOUR EAR RECEIVE THE
 WORD OF HIS MOUTH, AND TEACH YOUR DAUGHTERS WAILING, AND EVERY ONE HER
 NEIGHBOUR LAMENTATION.
# 21 FOR DEATH IS COME UP INTO OUR WINDOWS, AND IS ENTERED INTO OUR PALACES,
 TO CUT OFF THE CHILDREN FROM WITHOUT, AND THE YOUNG MEN FROM THE STREETS.
# 22 SPEAK, THUS SAITH THE LORD, EVEN THE CARCASES OF MEN SHALL FALL AS DUNG
 UPON THE OPEN FIELD, AND AS THE HANDFUL AFTER THE HARVESTMAN, AND NONE SHALL
 GATHER THEM.
# 23 THUS SAITH THE LORD, LET NOT THE WISE MAN GLORY IN HIS WISDOM, NEITHER
 LET THE MIGHTY MAN GLORY IN HIS MIGHT, LET NOT THE RICH MAN GLORY IN HIS
 RICHES:
# 24 BUT LET HIM THAT GLORIETH GLORY IN THIS, THAT HE UNDERSTANDETH AND
 KNOWETH ME, THAT I AM THE LORD WHICH EXERCISE LOVINGKINDNESS, JUDGMENT, AND
 RIGHTEOUSNESS, IN THE EARTH: FOR IN THESE THINGS I DELIGHT, SAITH THE LORD.
# 25 BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT I WILL PUNISH ALL THEM WHICH
 ARE CIRCUMCISED WITH THE UNCIRCUMCISED;
# 26 EGYPT, AND JUDAH, AND EDOM, AND THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND MOAB, AND ALL
 THAT ARE IN THE UTMOST CORNERS, THAT DWELL IN THE WILDERNESS: FOR ALL THESE
 NATIONS ARE UNCIRCUMCISED, AND ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL ARE UNCIRCUMCISED IN
 THE HEART.
= CHAPTER 10 
# 1 HEAR YE THE WORD WHICH THE LORD SPEAKETH UNTO YOU, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL:
# 2 THUS SAITH THE LORD, LEARN NOT THE WAY OF THE HEATHEN, AND BE NOT
 DISMAYED AT THE SIGNS OF HEAVEN; FOR THE HEATHEN ARE DISMAYED AT THEM.
# 3 FOR THE CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE ARE VAIN: FOR ONE CUTTETH A TREE OUT OF THE
 FOREST, THE WORK OF THE HANDS OF THE WORKMAN, WITH THE AXE.
# 4 THEY DECK IT WITH SILVER AND WITH GOLD; THEY FASTEN IT WITH NAILS AND
 WITH HAMMERS, THAT IT MOVE NOT.
# 5 THEY ARE UPRIGHT AS THE PALM TREE, BUT SPEAK NOT: THEY MUST NEEDS BE
 BORNE, BECAUSE THEY CANNOT GO. BE NOT AFRAID OF THEM; FOR THEY CANNOT DO
 EVIL, NEITHER ALSO IS IT IN THEM TO DO GOOD.
# 6 FORASMUCH AS THERE IS NONE LIKE UNTO THEE, O LORD; THOU ART GREAT, AND
 THY NAME IS GREAT IN MIGHT.
# 7 WHO WOULD NOT FEAR THEE, O KING OF NATIONS? FOR TO THEE DOTH IT
 APPERTAIN: FORASMUCH AS AMONG ALL THE WISE MEN OF THE NATIONS, AND IN ALL
 THEIR KINGDOMS, THERE IS NONE LIKE UNTO THEE.
# 8 BUT THEY ARE ALTOGETHER BRUTISH AND FOOLISH: THE STOCK IS A DOCTRINE OF
 VANITIES.
# 9 SILVER SPREAD INTO PLATES IS BROUGHT FROM TARSHISH, AND GOLD FROM UPHAZ,
 THE WORK OF THE WORKMAN, AND OF THE HANDS OF THE FOUNDER: BLUE AND PURPLE IS
 THEIR CLOTHING: THEY ARE ALL THE WORK OF CUNNING MEN.
# 10 BUT THE LORD IS THE TRUE GOD, HE IS THE LIVING GOD, AND AN EVERLASTING
 KING: AT HIS WRATH THE EARTH SHALL TREMBLE, AND THE NATIONS SHALL NOT BE ABLE
 TO ABIDE HIS INDIGNATION.
# 11 THUS SHALL YE SAY UNTO THEM, THE GODS THAT HAVE NOT MADE THE HEAVENS AND
 THE EARTH, EVEN THEY SHALL PERISH FROM THE EARTH, AND FROM UNDER THESE
 HEAVENS.
# 12 HE HATH MADE THE EARTH BY HIS POWER, HE HATH ESTABLISHED THE WORLD BY
 HIS WISDOM, AND HATH STRETCHED OUT THE HEAVENS BY HIS DISCRETION.
# 13 WHEN HE UTTERETH HIS VOICE, THERE IS A MULTITUDE OF WATERS IN THE
 HEAVENS, AND HE CAUSETH THE VAPOURS TO ASCEND FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH; HE
 MAKETH LIGHTNINGS WITH RAIN, AND BRINGETH FORTH THE WIND OUT OF HIS
 TREASURES.
# 14 EVERY MAN IS BRUTISH IN HIS KNOWLEDGE: EVERY FOUNDER IS CONFOUNDED BY
 THE GRAVEN IMAGE: FOR HIS MOLTEN IMAGE IS FALSEHOOD, AND THERE IS NO BREATH
 IN THEM.
# 15 THEY ARE VANITY, AND THE WORK OF ERRORS: IN THE TIME OF THEIR VISITATION
 THEY SHALL PERISH.
# 16 THE PORTION OF JACOB IS NOT LIKE THEM: FOR HE IS THE FORMER OF ALL
 THINGS; AND ISRAEL IS THE ROD OF HIS INHERITANCE: THE LORD OF HOSTS IS HIS
 NAME.
# 17 GATHER UP THY WARES OUT OF THE LAND, O INHABITANT OF THE FORTRESS.
# 18 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, I WILL SLING OUT THE INHABITANTS OF THE
 LAND AT THIS ONCE, AND WILL DISTRESS THEM, THAT THEY MAY FIND IT SO.
# 19 WOE IS ME FOR MY HURT! MY WOUND IS GRIEVOUS; BUT I SAID, TRULY THIS IS A
 GRIEF, AND I MUST BEAR IT.
# 20 MY TABERNACLE IS SPOILED, AND ALL MY CORDS ARE BROKEN: MY CHILDREN ARE
 GONE FORTH OF ME, AND THEY ARE NOT: THERE IS NONE TO STRETCH FORTH MY TENT
 ANY MORE, AND TO SET UP MY CURTAINS.
# 21 FOR THE PASTORS ARE BECOME BRUTISH, AND HAVE NOT SOUGHT THE LORD:
 THEREFORE THEY SHALL NOT PROSPER, AND ALL THEIR FLOCKS SHALL BE SCATTERED.
# 22 BEHOLD, THE NOISE OF THE BRUIT IS COME, AND A GREAT COMMOTION OUT OF THE
 NORTH COUNTRY, TO MAKE THE CITIES OF JUDAH DESOLATE, AND A DEN OF DRAGONS.
# 23 O LORD, I KNOW THAT THE WAY OF MAN IS NOT IN HIMSELF: IT IS NOT IN MAN
 THAT WALKETH TO DIRECT HIS STEPS.
# 24 O LORD, CORRECT ME, BUT WITH JUDGMENT; NOT IN THINE ANGER, LEST THOU
 BRING ME TO NOTHING.
# 25 POUR OUT THY FURY UPON THE HEATHEN THAT KNOW THEE NOT, AND UPON THE
 FAMILIES THAT CALL NOT ON THY NAME: FOR THEY HAVE EATEN UP JACOB, AND
 DEVOURED HIM, AND CONSUMED HIM, AND HAVE MADE HIS HABITATION DESOLATE.
= CHAPTER 11 
# 1 THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD SAYING,
# 2 HEAR YE THE WORDS OF THIS COVENANT, AND SPEAK UNTO THE MEN OF JUDAH, AND
 TO THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM;
# 3 AND SAY THOU UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL; CURSED BE THE
 MAN THAT OBEYETH NOT THE WORDS OF THIS COVENANT,
# 4 WHICH I COMMANDED YOUR FATHERS IN THE DAY THAT I BROUGHT THEM FORTH OUT
 OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, FROM THE IRON FURNACE, SAYING, OBEY MY VOICE, AND DO
 THEM, ACCORDING TO ALL WHICH I COMMAND YOU: SO SHALL YE BE MY PEOPLE, AND I
 WILL BE YOUR GOD:
# 5 THAT I MAY PERFORM THE OATH WHICH I HAVE SWORN UNTO YOUR FATHERS, TO GIVE
 THEM A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY, AS IT IS THIS DAY. THEN ANSWERED I,
 AND SAID, SO BE IT, O LORD.
# 6 THEN THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, PROCLAIM ALL THESE WORDS IN THE CITIES OF
 JUDAH, AND IN THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM, SAYING, HEAR YE THE WORDS OF THIS
 COVENANT, AND DO THEM.
# 7 FOR I EARNESTLY PROTESTED UNTO YOUR FATHERS IN THE DAY THAT I BROUGHT
 THEM UP OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, EVEN UNTO THIS DAY, RISING EARLY AND
 PROTESTING, SAYING, OBEY MY VOICE.
# 8 YET THEY OBEYED NOT, NOR INCLINED THEIR EAR, BUT WALKED EVERY ONE IN THE
 IMAGINATION OF THEIR EVIL HEART: THEREFORE I WILL BRING UPON THEM ALL THE
 WORDS OF THIS COVENANT, WHICH I COMMANDED THEM TO DO: BUT THEY DID THEM NOT.
# 9 AND THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, A CONSPIRACY IS FOUND AMONG THE MEN OF JUDAH,
 AND AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM.
# 10 THEY ARE TURNED BACK TO THE INIQUITIES OF THEIR FOREFATHERS, WHICH
 REFUSED TO HEAR MY WORDS; AND THEY WENT 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.
# 11 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, I WILL BRING EVIL UPON THEM,
 WHICH THEY SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO ESCAPE; AND THOUGH THEY SHALL CRY UNTO ME, I
 WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO THEM.
# 12 THEN SHALL THE CITIES OF JUDAH AND INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM GO, AND CRY
 UNTO THE GODS UNTO WHOM THEY OFFER INCENSE: BUT THEY SHALL NOT SAVE THEM AT
 ALL IN THE TIME OF THEIR TROUBLE.
# 13 FOR ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THY CITIES WERE THY GODS, O JUDAH; AND
 ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM HAVE YE SET UP ALTARS TO
 THAT SHAMEFUL THING, EVEN ALTARS TO BURN INCENSE UNTO BAAL.
# 14 THEREFORE PRAY NOT THOU FOR THIS PEOPLE, NEITHER LIFT UP A CRY OR PRAYER
 FOR THEM: FOR I WILL NOT HEAR THEM IN THE TIME THAT THEY CRY UNTO ME FOR
 THEIR TROUBLE.
# 15 WHAT HATH MY BELOVED TO DO IN MINE HOUSE, SEEING SHE HATH WROUGHT
 LEWDNESS WITH MANY, AND THE HOLY FLESH IS PASSED FROM THEE? WHEN THOU DOEST
 EVIL, THEN THOU REJOICEST.
# 16 THE LORD CALLED THY NAME, A GREEN OLIVE TREE, FAIR, AND OF GOODLY FRUIT:
 WITH THE NOISE OF A GREAT TUMULT HE HATH KINDLED FIRE UPON IT, AND THE
 BRANCHES OF IT ARE BROKEN.
# 17 FOR THE LORD OF HOSTS, THAT PLANTED THEE, HATH PRONOUNCED EVIL AGAINST
 THEE, FOR THE EVIL OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND OF THE HOUSE OF JUDAH, WHICH
 THEY HAVE DONE AGAINST THEMSELVES TO PROVOKE ME TO ANGER IN OFFERING INCENSE
 UNTO BAAL.
# 18 AND THE LORD HATH GIVEN ME KNOWLEDGE OF IT, AND I KNOW IT: THEN THOU
 SHEWEDST ME THEIR DOINGS.
# 19 BUT I WAS LIKE A LAMB OR AN OX THAT IS BROUGHT TO THE SLAUGHTER; AND I
 KNEW NOT THAT THEY HAD DEVISED DEVICES AGAINST ME, SAYING, LET US DESTROY THE
 TREE WITH THE FRUIT THEREOF, AND LET US CUT HIM OFF FROM THE LAND OF THE
 LIVING, THAT HIS NAME MAY BE NO MORE REMEMBERED.
# 20 BUT, O LORD OF HOSTS, THAT JUDGEST RIGHTEOUSLY, THAT TRIEST THE REINS
 AND THE HEART, LET ME SEE THY VENGEANCE ON THEM: FOR UNTO THEE HAVE I
 REVEALED MY CAUSE.
# 21 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF THE MEN OF ANATHOTH, THAT SEEK THY
 LIFE, SAYING, PROPHESY NOT IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, THAT THOU DIE NOT BY OUR
 HAND:
# 22 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, BEHOLD, I WILL PUNISH THEM: THE
 YOUNG MEN SHALL DIE BY THE SWORD; THEIR SONS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS SHALL DIE BY
 FAMINE:
# 23 AND THERE SHALL BE NO REMNANT OF THEM: FOR I WILL BRING EVIL UPON THE
 MEN OF ANATHOTH, EVEN THE YEAR OF THEIR VISITATION.
= CHAPTER 12 
# 1 RIGHTEOUS ART THOU, O LORD, WHEN I PLEAD WITH THEE: YET LET ME TALK WITH
 THEE OF THY JUDGMENTS: WHEREFORE DOTH THE WAY OF THE WICKED PROSPER?
 WHEREFORE ARE ALL THEY HAPPY THAT DEAL VERY TREACHEROUSLY?
# 2 THOU HAST PLANTED THEM, YEA, THEY HAVE TAKEN ROOT: THEY GROW, YEA, THEY
 BRING FORTH FRUIT: THOU ART NEAR IN THEIR MOUTH, AND FAR FROM THEIR REINS.
# 3 BUT THOU, O LORD, KNOWEST ME: THOU HAST SEEN ME, AND TRIED MINE HEART
 TOWARD THEE: PULL THEM OUT LIKE SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER, AND PREPARE THEM FOR
 THE DAY OF SLAUGHTER.
# 4 HOW LONG SHALL THE LAND MOURN, AND THE HERBS OF EVERY FIELD WITHER, FOR
 THE WICKEDNESS OF THEM THAT DWELL THEREIN? THE BEASTS ARE CONSUMED, AND THE
 BIRDS; BECAUSE THEY SAID, HE SHALL NOT SEE OUR LAST END.
# 5 IF THOU HAST RUN WITH THE FOOTMEN, AND THEY HAVE WEARIED THEE, THEN HOW
 CANST THOU CONTEND WITH HORSES? AND IF IN THE LAND OF PEACE, WHEREIN THOU
 TRUSTEDST, THEY WEARIED THEE, THEN HOW WILT THOU DO IN THE SWELLING OF
 JORDAN?
# 6 FOR EVEN THY BRETHREN, AND THE HOUSE OF THY FATHER, EVEN THEY HAVE DEALT
 TREACHEROUSLY WITH THEE; YEA, THEY HAVE CALLED A MULTITUDE AFTER THEE:
 BELIEVE THEM NOT, THOUGH THEY SPEAK FAIR WORDS UNTO THEE.
# 7 I HAVE FORSAKEN MINE HOUSE, I HAVE LEFT MINE HERITAGE; I HAVE GIVEN THE
 DEARLY BELOVED OF MY SOUL INTO THE HAND OF HER ENEMIES.
# 8 MINE HERITAGE IS UNTO ME AS A LION IN THE FOREST; IT CRIETH OUT AGAINST
 ME: THEREFORE HAVE I HATED IT.
# 9 MINE HERITAGE IS UNTO ME AS A SPECKLED BIRD, THE BIRDS ROUND ABOUT ARE
 AGAINST HER; COME YE, ASSEMBLE ALL THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD, COME TO DEVOUR.
# 10 MANY PASTORS HAVE DESTROYED MY VINEYARD, THEY HAVE TRODDEN MY PORTION
 UNDER FOOT, THEY HAVE MADE MY PLEASANT PORTION A DESOLATE WILDERNESS.
# 11 THEY HAVE MADE IT DESOLATE, AND BEING DESOLATE IT MOURNETH UNTO ME; THE
 WHOLE LAND IS MADE DESOLATE, BECAUSE NO MAN LAYETH IT TO HEART.
# 12 THE SPOILERS ARE COME UPON ALL HIGH PLACES THROUGH THE WILDERNESS: FOR
 THE SWORD OF THE LORD SHALL DEVOUR FROM THE ONE END OF THE LAND EVEN TO THE
 OTHER END OF THE LAND: NO FLESH SHALL HAVE PEACE.
# 13 THEY HAVE SOWN WHEAT, BUT SHALL REAP THORNS: THEY HAVE PUT THEMSELVES TO
 PAIN, BUT SHALL NOT PROFIT: AND THEY SHALL BE ASHAMED OF YOUR REVENUES
 BECAUSE OF THE FIERCE ANGER OF THE LORD.
# 14 THUS SAITH THE LORD AGAINST ALL MINE EVIL NEIGHBOURS, THAT TOUCH THE
 INHERITANCE WHICH I HAVE CAUSED MY PEOPLE ISRAEL TO INHERIT; BEHOLD, I WILL
 PLUCK THEM OUT OF THEIR LAND, AND PLUCK OUT THE HOUSE OF JUDAH FROM AMONG
 THEM.
# 15 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, AFTER THAT I HAVE PLUCKED THEM OUT I WILL
 RETURN, AND HAVE COMPASSION ON THEM, AND WILL BRING THEM AGAIN, EVERY MAN TO
 HIS HERITAGE, AND EVERY MAN TO HIS LAND.
# 16 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, IF THEY WILL DILIGENTLY LEARN THE WAYS OF MY
 PEOPLE, TO SWEAR BY MY NAME, THE LORD LIVETH; AS THEY TAUGHT MY PEOPLE TO
 SWEAR BY BAAL; THEN SHALL THEY BE BUILT IN THE MIDST OF MY PEOPLE.
# 17 BUT IF THEY WILL NOT OBEY, I WILL UTTERLY PLUCK UP AND DESTROY THAT
 NATION, SAITH THE LORD.
= CHAPTER 13 
# 1 THUS SAITH THE LORD UNTO ME, GO AND GET THEE A LINEN GIRDLE, AND PUT IT
 UPON THY LOINS, AND PUT IT NOT IN WATER.
# 2 SO I GOT A GIRDLE ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND PUT IT ON MY
 LOINS.
# 3 AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME THE SECOND TIME, SAYING,
# 4 TAKE THE GIRDLE THAT THOU HAST GOT, WHICH IS UPON THY LOINS, AND ARISE,
 GO TO EUPHRATES, AND HIDE IT THERE IN A HOLE OF THE ROCK.
# 5 SO I WENT, AND HID IT BY EUPHRATES, AS THE LORD COMMANDED ME.
# 6 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER MANY DAYS, THAT THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, ARISE,
 GO TO EUPHRATES, AND TAKE THE GIRDLE FROM THENCE, WHICH I COMMANDED THEE TO
 HIDE THERE.
# 7 THEN I WENT TO EUPHRATES, AND DIGGED, AND TOOK THE GIRDLE FROM THE PLACE
 WHERE I HAD HID IT: AND, BEHOLD, THE GIRDLE WAS MARRED, IT WAS PROFITABLE FOR
 NOTHING.
# 8 THEN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING,
# 9 THUS SAITH THE LORD, AFTER THIS MANNER WILL I MAR THE PRIDE OF JUDAH, AND
 THE GREAT PRIDE OF JERUSALEM.
# 10 THIS EVIL PEOPLE, WHICH REFUSE TO HEAR MY WORDS, WHICH WALK IN THE
 IMAGINATION OF THEIR HEART, AND WALK AFTER OTHER GODS, TO SERVE THEM, AND TO
 WORSHIP THEM, SHALL EVEN BE AS THIS GIRDLE, WHICH IS GOOD FOR NOTHING.
# 11 FOR AS THE GIRDLE CLEAVETH TO THE LOINS OF A MAN, SO HAVE I CAUSED TO
 CLEAVE UNTO ME THE WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND THE WHOLE HOUSE OF JUDAH, SAITH
 THE LORD; THAT THEY MIGHT BE UNTO ME FOR A PEOPLE, AND FOR A NAME, AND FOR A
 PRAISE, AND FOR A GLORY: BUT THEY WOULD NOT HEAR.
# 12 THEREFORE THOU SHALT SPEAK UNTO THEM THIS WORD; THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD
 OF ISRAEL, EVERY BOTTLE SHALL BE FILLED WITH WINE: AND THEY SHALL SAY UNTO
 THEE, DO WE NOT CERTAINLY KNOW THAT EVERY BOTTLE SHALL BE FILLED WITH WINE?
# 13 THEN SHALT THOU SAY UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, I WILL FILL
 ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THIS LAND, EVEN THE KINGS THAT SIT UPON DAVIDS THRONE,
 AND THE PRIESTS, AND THE PROPHETS, AND ALL THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, WITH
 DRUNKENNESS.
# 14 AND I WILL DASH THEM ONE AGAINST ANOTHER, EVEN THE FATHERS AND THE SONS
 TOGETHER, SAITH THE LORD: I WILL NOT PITY, NOR SPARE, NOR HAVE MERCY, BUT
 DESTROY THEM.
# 15 HEAR YE, AND GIVE EAR; BE NOT PROUD: FOR THE LORD HATH SPOKEN.
# 16 GIVE GLORY TO THE LORD YOUR GOD, BEFORE HE CAUSE DARKNESS, AND BEFORE
 YOUR FEET STUMBLE UPON THE DARK MOUNTAINS, AND, WHILE YE LOOK FOR LIGHT, HE
 TURN IT INTO THE SHADOW OF DEATH, AND MAKE IT GROSS DARKNESS.
# 17 BUT IF YE WILL NOT HEAR IT, MY SOUL SHALL WEEP IN SECRET PLACES FOR YOUR
 PRIDE; AND MINE EYE SHALL WEEP SORE, AND RUN DOWN WITH TEARS, BECAUSE THE
 LORDS FLOCK IS CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE.
# 18 SAY UNTO THE KING AND TO THE QUEEN, HUMBLE YOURSELVES, SIT DOWN: FOR
 YOUR PRINCIPALITIES SHALL COME DOWN, EVEN THE CROWN OF YOUR GLORY.
# 19 THE CITIES OF THE SOUTH SHALL BE SHUT UP, AND NONE SHALL OPEN THEM:
 JUDAH SHALL BE CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE ALL OF IT, IT SHALL BE WHOLLY CARRIED
 AWAY CAPTIVE.
# 20 LIFT UP YOUR EYES, AND BEHOLD THEM THAT COME FROM THE NORTH: WHERE IS
 THE FLOCK THAT WAS GIVEN THEE, THY BEAUTIFUL FLOCK?
# 21 WHAT WILT THOU SAY WHEN HE SHALL PUNISH THEE? FOR THOU HAST TAUGHT THEM
 TO BE CAPTAINS, AND AS CHIEF OVER THEE: SHALL NOT SORROWS TAKE THEE, AS A
 WOMAN IN TRAVAIL?
# 22 AND IF THOU SAY IN THINE HEART, WHEREFORE COME THESE THINGS UPON ME? FOR
 THE GREATNESS OF THINE INIQUITY ARE THY SKIRTS DISCOVERED, AND THY HEELS MADE
 BARE.
# 23 CAN THE ETHIOPIAN CHANGE HIS SKIN, OR THE LEOPARD HIS SPOTS? THEN MAY YE
 ALSO DO GOOD, THAT ARE ACCUSTOMED TO DO EVIL.
# 24 THEREFORE WILL I SCATTER THEM AS THE STUBBLE THAT PASSETH AWAY BY THE
 WIND OF THE WILDERNESS.
# 25 THIS IS THY LOT, THE PORTION OF THY MEASURES FROM ME, SAITH THE LORD;
 BECAUSE THOU HAST FORGOTTEN ME, AND TRUSTED IN FALSEHOOD.
# 26 THEREFORE WILL I DISCOVER THY SKIRTS UPON THY FACE, THAT THY SHAME MAY
 APPEAR.
# 27 I HAVE SEEN THINE ADULTERIES, AND THY NEIGHINGS, THE LEWDNESS OF THY
 WHOREDOM, AND THINE ABOMINATIONS ON THE HILLS IN THE FIELDS. WOE UNTO THEE, O
 JERUSALEM! WILT THOU NOT BE MADE CLEAN? WHEN SHALL IT ONCE BE?
= CHAPTER 14 
# 1 THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH CONCERNING THE DEARTH.
# 2 JUDAH MOURNETH, AND THE GATES THEREOF LANGUISH; THEY ARE BLACK UNTO THE
 GROUND; AND THE CRY OF JERUSALEM IS GONE UP.
# 3 AND THEIR NOBLES HAVE SENT THEIR LITTLE ONES TO THE WATERS: THEY CAME TO
 THE PITS, AND FOUND NO WATER; THEY RETURNED WITH THEIR VESSELS EMPTY; THEY
 WERE ASHAMED AND CONFOUNDED, AND COVERED THEIR HEADS.
# 4 BECAUSE THE GROUND IS CHAPT, FOR THERE WAS NO RAIN IN THE EARTH, THE
 PLOWMEN WERE ASHAMED, THEY COVERED THEIR HEADS.
# 5 YEA, THE HIND ALSO CALVED IN THE FIELD, AND FORSOOK IT, BECAUSE THERE WAS
 NO GRASS.
# 6 AND THE WILD ASSES DID STAND IN THE HIGH PLACES, THEY SNUFFED UP THE WIND
 LIKE DRAGONS; THEIR EYES DID FAIL, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO GRASS.
# 7 O LORD, THOUGH OUR INIQUITIES TESTIFY AGAINST US, DO THOU IT FOR THY
 NAMES SAKE: FOR OUR BACKSLIDINGS ARE MANY; WE HAVE SINNED AGAINST THEE.
# 8 O THE HOPE OF ISRAEL, THE SAVIOUR THEREOF IN TIME OF TROUBLE, WHY
 SHOULDEST THOU BE AS A STRANGER IN THE LAND, AND AS A WAYFARING MAN THAT
 TURNETH ASIDE TO TARRY FOR A NIGHT?
# 9 WHY SHOULDEST THOU BE AS A MAN ASTONIED, AS A MIGHTY MAN THAT CANNOT
 SAVE? YET THOU, O LORD, ART IN THE MIDST OF US, AND WE ARE CALLED BY THY
 NAME; LEAVE US NOT.
# 10 THUS SAITH THE LORD UNTO THIS PEOPLE, THUS HAVE THEY LOVED TO WANDER,
 THEY HAVE NOT REFRAINED THEIR FEET, THEREFORE THE LORD DOTH NOT ACCEPT THEM;
 HE WILL NOW REMEMBER THEIR INIQUITY, AND VISIT THEIR SINS.
# 11 THEN SAID THE LORD UNTO ME, PRAY NOT FOR THIS PEOPLE FOR THEIR GOOD.
# 12 WHEN THEY FAST, I WILL NOT HEAR THEIR CRY; AND WHEN THEY OFFER BURNT
 OFFERING AND AN OBLATION, I WILL NOT ACCEPT THEM: BUT I WILL CONSUME THEM BY
 THE SWORD, AND BY THE FAMINE, AND BY THE PESTILENCE.
# 13 THEN SAID I, AH, LORD GOD! BEHOLD, THE PROPHETS SAY UNTO THEM, YE SHALL
 NOT SEE THE SWORD, NEITHER SHALL YE HAVE FAMINE; BUT I WILL GIVE YOU ASSURED
 PEACE IN THIS PLACE.
# 14 THEN THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, THE PROPHETS PROPHESY LIES IN MY NAME: I
 SENT THEM NOT, NEITHER HAVE I COMMANDED THEM, NEITHER SPAKE UNTO THEM: THEY
 PROPHESY UNTO YOU A FALSE VISION AND DIVINATION, AND A THING OF NOUGHT, AND
 THE DECEIT OF THEIR HEART.
# 15 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD CONCERNING THE PROPHETS THAT PROPHESY IN
 MY NAME, AND I SENT THEM NOT, YET THEY SAY, SWORD AND FAMINE SHALL NOT BE IN
 THIS LAND; BY SWORD AND FAMINE SHALL THOSE PROPHETS BE CONSUMED.
# 16 AND THE PEOPLE TO WHOM THEY PROPHESY SHALL BE CAST OUT IN THE STREETS OF
 JERUSALEM BECAUSE OF THE FAMINE AND THE SWORD; AND THEY SHALL HAVE NONE TO
 BURY THEM, THEM, THEIR WIVES, NOR THEIR SONS, NOR THEIR DAUGHTERS: FOR I WILL
 POUR THEIR WICKEDNESS UPON THEM.
# 17 THEREFORE THOU SHALT SAY THIS WORD UNTO THEM; LET MINE EYES RUN DOWN
 WITH TEARS NIGHT AND DAY, AND LET THEM NOT CEASE: FOR THE VIRGIN DAUGHTER OF
 MY PEOPLE IS BROKEN WITH A GREAT BREACH, WITH A VERY GRIEVOUS BLOW.
# 18 IF I GO FORTH INTO THE FIELD, THEN BEHOLD THE SLAIN WITH THE SWORD! AND
 IF I ENTER INTO THE CITY, THEN BEHOLD THEM THAT ARE SICK WITH FAMINE! YEA,
 BOTH THE PROPHET AND THE PRIEST GO ABOUT INTO A LAND THAT THEY KNOW NOT.
# 19 HAST THOU UTTERLY REJECTED JUDAH? HATH THY SOUL LOTHED ZION? WHY HAST
 THOU SMITTEN US, AND THERE IS NO HEALING FOR US? WE LOOKED FOR PEACE, AND
 THERE IS NO GOOD; AND FOR THE TIME OF HEALING, AND BEHOLD TROUBLE!
# 20 WE ACKNOWLEDGE, O LORD, OUR WICKEDNESS, AND THE INIQUITY OF OUR FATHERS:
 FOR WE HAVE SINNED AGAINST THEE.
# 21 DO NOT ABHOR US, FOR THY NAMES SAKE, DO NOT DISGRACE THE THRONE OF THY
 GLORY: REMEMBER, BREAK NOT THY COVENANT WITH US.
# 22 ARE THERE ANY AMONG THE VANITIES OF THE GENTILES THAT CAN CAUSE RAIN? OR
 CAN THE HEAVENS GIVE SHOWERS? ART NOT THOU HE, O LORD OUR GOD? THEREFORE WE
 WILL WAIT UPON THEE: FOR THOU HAST MADE ALL THESE THINGS.
= CHAPTER 15 
# 1 THEN SAID THE LORD UNTO ME, THOUGH MOSES AND SAMUEL STOOD BEFORE ME, YET
 MY MIND COULD NOT BE TOWARD THIS PEOPLE: CAST THEM OUT OF MY SIGHT, AND LET
 THEM GO FORTH.
# 2 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, IF THEY SAY UNTO THEE, WHITHER SHALL WE GO
 FORTH? THEN THOU SHALT TELL THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD; SUCH AS ARE FOR DEATH,
 TO DEATH; AND SUCH AS ARE FOR THE SWORD, TO THE SWORD; AND SUCH AS ARE FOR
 THE FAMINE, TO THE FAMINE; AND SUCH AS ARE FOR THE CAPTIVITY, TO THE
 CAPTIVITY.
# 3 AND I WILL APPOINT OVER THEM FOUR KINDS, SAITH THE LORD: THE SWORD TO
 SLAY, AND THE DOGS TO TEAR, AND THE FOWLS OF THE HEAVEN, AND THE BEASTS OF
 THE EARTH, TO DEVOUR AND DESTROY.
# 4 AND I WILL CAUSE THEM TO BE REMOVED INTO ALL KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH,
 BECAUSE OF MANASSEH THE SON OF HEZEKIAH KING OF JUDAH, FOR THAT WHICH HE DID
 IN JERUSALEM.
# 5 FOR WHO SHALL HAVE PITY UPON THEE, O JERUSALEM? OR WHO SHALL BEMOAN THEE?
 OR WHO SHALL GO ASIDE TO ASK HOW THOU DOEST?
# 6 THOU HAST FORSAKEN ME, SAITH THE LORD, THOU ART GONE BACKWARD: THEREFORE
 WILL I STRETCH OUT MY HAND AGAINST THEE, AND DESTROY THEE; I AM WEARY WITH
 REPENTING.
# 7 AND I WILL FAN THEM WITH A FAN IN THE GATES OF THE LAND; I WILL BEREAVE
 THEM OF CHILDREN, I WILL DESTROY MY PEOPLE SINCE THEY RETURN NOT FROM THEIR
 WAYS.
# 8 THEIR WIDOWS ARE INCREASED TO ME ABOVE THE SAND OF THE SEAS: I HAVE
 BROUGHT UPON THEM AGAINST THE MOTHER OF THE YOUNG MEN A SPOILER AT NOONDAY: I
 HAVE CAUSED HIM TO FALL UPON IT SUDDENLY, AND TERRORS UPON THE CITY.
# 9 SHE THAT HATH BORNE SEVEN LANGUISHETH: SHE HATH GIVEN UP THE GHOST; HER
 SUN IS GONE DOWN WHILE IT WAS YET DAY: SHE HATH BEEN ASHAMED AND CONFOUNDED:
 AND THE RESIDUE OF THEM WILL I DELIVER TO THE SWORD BEFORE THEIR ENEMIES,
 SAITH THE LORD.
# 10 WOE IS ME, MY MOTHER, THAT THOU HAST BORNE ME A MAN OF STRIFE AND A MAN
 OF CONTENTION TO THE WHOLE EARTH! I HAVE NEITHER LENT ON USURY, NOR MEN HAVE
 LENT TO ME ON USURY; YET EVERY ONE OF THEM DOTH CURSE ME.
# 11 THE LORD SAID, VERILY IT SHALL BE WELL WITH THY REMNANT; VERILY I WILL
 CAUSE THE ENEMY TO ENTREAT THEE WELL IN THE TIME OF EVIL AND IN THE TIME OF
 AFFLICTION.
# 12 SHALL IRON BREAK THE NORTHERN IRON AND THE STEEL?
# 13 THY SUBSTANCE AND THY TREASURES WILL I GIVE TO THE SPOIL WITHOUT PRICE,
 AND THAT FOR ALL THY SINS, EVEN IN ALL THY BORDERS.
# 14 AND I WILL MAKE THEE TO PASS WITH THINE ENEMIES INTO A LAND WHICH THOU
 KNOWEST NOT: FOR A FIRE IS KINDLED IN MINE ANGER, WHICH SHALL BURN UPON YOU.
# 15 O LORD, THOU KNOWEST: REMEMBER ME, AND VISIT ME, AND REVENGE ME OF MY
 PERSECUTORS; TAKE ME NOT AWAY IN THY LONGSUFFERING: KNOW THAT FOR THY SAKE I
 HAVE SUFFERED REBUKE.
# 16 THY WORDS WERE FOUND, AND I DID EAT THEM; AND THY WORD WAS UNTO ME THE
 JOY AND REJOICING OF MINE HEART: FOR I AM CALLED BY THY NAME, O LORD GOD OF
 HOSTS.
# 17 I SAT NOT IN THE ASSEMBLY OF THE MOCKERS, NOR REJOICED; I SAT ALONE
 BECAUSE OF THY HAND: FOR THOU HAST FILLED ME WITH INDIGNATION.
# 18 WHY IS MY PAIN PERPETUAL, AND MY WOUND INCURABLE, WHICH REFUSETH TO BE
 HEALED? WILT THOU BE ALTOGETHER UNTO ME AS A LIAR, AND AS WATERS THAT FAIL?
# 19 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD, IF THOU RETURN, THEN WILL I BRING THEE
 AGAIN, AND THOU SHALT STAND BEFORE ME: AND IF THOU TAKE FORTH THE PRECIOUS
 FROM THE VILE, THOU SHALT BE AS MY MOUTH: LET THEM RETURN UNTO THEE; BUT
 RETURN NOT THOU UNTO THEM.
# 20 AND I WILL MAKE THEE UNTO THIS PEOPLE A FENCED BRASEN WALL: AND THEY
 SHALL FIGHT AGAINST THEE, BUT THEY SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST THEE: FOR I AM
 WITH THEE TO SAVE THEE AND TO DELIVER THEE, SAITH THE LORD.
# 21 AND I WILL DELIVER THEE OUT OF THE HAND OF THE WICKED, AND I WILL REDEEM
 THEE OUT OF THE HAND OF THE TERRIBLE.
= CHAPTER 16 
# 1 THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME ALSO UNTO ME, SAYING,
# 2 THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THEE A WIFE, NEITHER SHALT THOU HAVE SONS OR
 DAUGHTERS IN THIS PLACE.
# 3 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD CONCERNING THE SONS AND CONCERNING THE DAUGHTERS
 THAT ARE BORN IN THIS PLACE, AND CONCERNING THEIR MOTHERS THAT BARE THEM, AND
 CONCERNING THEIR FATHERS THAT BEGAT THEM IN THIS LAND;
# 4 THEY SHALL DIE OF GRIEVOUS DEATHS; THEY SHALL NOT BE LAMENTED; NEITHER
 SHALL THEY BE BURIED; BUT THEY SHALL BE AS DUNG UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH:
 AND THEY SHALL BE CONSUMED BY THE SWORD, AND BY FAMINE; AND THEIR CARCASES
 SHALL BE MEAT FOR THE FOWLS OF HEAVEN, AND FOR THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH.
# 5 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD, ENTER NOT INTO THE HOUSE OF MOURNING, NEITHER GO
 TO LAMENT NOR BEMOAN THEM: FOR I HAVE TAKEN AWAY MY PEACE FROM THIS PEOPLE,
 SAITH THE LORD, EVEN LOVINGKINDNESS AND MERCIES.
# 6 BOTH THE GREAT AND THE SMALL SHALL DIE IN THIS LAND: THEY SHALL NOT BE
 BURIED, NEITHER SHALL MEN LAMENT FOR THEM, NOR CUT THEMSELVES, NOR MAKE
 THEMSELVES BALD FOR THEM:
# 7 NEITHER SHALL MEN TEAR THEMSELVES FOR THEM IN MOURNING, TO COMFORT THEM
 FOR THE DEAD; NEITHER SHALL MEN GIVE THEM THE CUP OF CONSOLATION TO DRINK FOR
 THEIR FATHER OR FOR THEIR MOTHER.
# 8 THOU SHALT NOT ALSO GO INTO THE HOUSE OF FEASTING, TO SIT WITH THEM TO
 EAT AND TO DRINK.
# 9 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; BEHOLD, I WILL CAUSE
 TO CEASE OUT OF THIS PLACE IN YOUR EYES, AND IN YOUR DAYS, THE VOICE OF
 MIRTH, AND THE VOICE OF GLADNESS, THE VOICE OF THE BRIDEGROOM, AND THE VOICE
 OF THE BRIDE.
# 10 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN THOU SHALT SHEW THIS PEOPLE ALL THESE
 WORDS, AND THEY SHALL SAY UNTO THEE, WHEREFORE HATH THE LORD PRONOUNCED ALL
 THIS GREAT EVIL AGAINST US? OR WHAT IS OUR INIQUITY? OR WHAT IS OUR SIN THAT
 WE HAVE COMMITTED AGAINST THE LORD OUR GOD?
# 11 THEN SHALT THOU SAY UNTO THEM, BECAUSE YOUR FATHERS HAVE FORSAKEN ME,
 SAITH THE LORD, AND HAVE WALKED AFTER OTHER GODS, AND HAVE SERVED THEM, AND
 HAVE WORSHIPPED THEM, AND HAVE FORSAKEN ME, AND HAVE NOT KEPT MY LAW;
# 12 AND YE HAVE DONE WORSE THAN YOUR FATHERS; FOR, BEHOLD, YE WALK EVERY ONE
 AFTER THE IMAGINATION OF HIS EVIL HEART, THAT THEY MAY NOT HEARKEN UNTO ME:
# 13 THEREFORE WILL I CAST YOU OUT OF THIS LAND INTO A LAND THAT YE KNOW NOT,
 NEITHER YE NOR YOUR FATHERS; AND THERE SHALL YE SERVE OTHER GODS DAY AND
 NIGHT; WHERE I WILL NOT SHEW YOU FAVOUR.
# 14 THEREFORE, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT IT SHALL NO MORE
 BE SAID, THE LORD LIVETH, THAT BROUGHT UP THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OUT OF THE
 LAND OF EGYPT;
# 15 BUT, THE LORD LIVETH, THAT BROUGHT UP THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM THE
 LAND OF THE NORTH, AND FROM ALL THE LANDS WHITHER HE HAD DRIVEN THEM: AND I
 WILL BRING THEM AGAIN INTO THEIR LAND THAT I GAVE UNTO THEIR FATHERS.
# 16 BEHOLD, I WILL SEND FOR MANY FISHERS, SAITH THE LORD, AND THEY SHALL
 FISH THEM; AND AFTER WILL I SEND FOR MANY HUNTERS, AND THEY SHALL HUNT THEM
 FROM EVERY MOUNTAIN, AND FROM EVERY HILL, AND OUT OF THE HOLES OF THE ROCKS.
# 17 FOR MINE EYES ARE UPON ALL THEIR WAYS: THEY ARE NOT HID FROM MY FACE,
 NEITHER IS THEIR INIQUITY HID FROM MINE EYES.
# 18 AND FIRST I WILL RECOMPENSE THEIR INIQUITY AND THEIR SIN DOUBLE; BECAUSE
 THEY HAVE DEFILED MY LAND, THEY HAVE FILLED MINE INHERITANCE WITH THE
 CARCASES OF THEIR DETESTABLE AND ABOMINABLE THINGS.
# 19 O LORD, MY STRENGTH, AND MY FORTRESS, AND MY REFUGE IN THE DAY OF
 AFFLICTION, THE GENTILES SHALL COME UNTO THEE FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, AND
 SHALL SAY, SURELY OUR FATHERS HAVE INHERITED LIES, VANITY, AND THINGS WHEREIN
 THERE IS NO PROFIT.
# 20 SHALL A MAN MAKE GODS UNTO HIMSELF, AND THEY ARE NO GODS?
# 21 THEREFORE, BEHOLD, I WILL THIS ONCE CAUSE THEM TO KNOW, I WILL CAUSE
 THEM TO KNOW MINE HAND AND MY MIGHT; AND THEY SHALL KNOW THAT MY NAME IS THE
 LORD.
= CHAPTER 17 
# 1 THE SIN OF JUDAH IS WRITTEN WITH A PEN OF IRON, AND WITH THE POINT OF A
 DIAMOND: IT IS GRAVEN UPON THE TABLE OF THEIR HEART, AND UPON THE HORNS OF
 YOUR ALTARS;
# 2 WHILST THEIR CHILDREN REMEMBER THEIR ALTARS AND THEIR GROVES BY THE GREEN
 TREES UPON THE HIGH HILLS.
# 3 O MY MOUNTAIN IN THE FIELD, I WILL GIVE THY SUBSTANCE AND ALL THY
 TREASURES TO THE SPOIL, AND THY HIGH PLACES FOR SIN, THROUGHOUT ALL THY
 BORDERS.
# 4 AND THOU, EVEN THYSELF, SHALT DISCONTINUE FROM THINE HERITAGE THAT I GAVE
 THEE; AND I WILL CAUSE THEE TO SERVE THINE ENEMIES IN THE LAND WHICH THOU
 KNOWEST NOT: FOR YE HAVE KINDLED A FIRE IN MINE ANGER, WHICH SHALL BURN FOR
 EVER.
# 5 THUS SAITH THE LORD; CURSED BE THE MAN THAT TRUSTETH IN MAN, AND MAKETH
 FLESH HIS ARM, AND WHOSE HEART DEPARTETH FROM THE LORD.
# 6 FOR HE SHALL BE LIKE THE HEATH IN THE DESERT, AND SHALL NOT SEE WHEN GOOD
 COMETH; BUT SHALL INHABIT THE PARCHED PLACES IN THE WILDERNESS, IN A SALT
 LAND AND NOT INHABITED.
# 7 BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT TRUSTETH IN THE LORD, AND WHOSE HOPE THE LORD IS.
# 8 FOR HE SHALL BE AS A TREE PLANTED BY THE WATERS, AND THAT SPREADETH OUT
 HER ROOTS BY THE RIVER, AND SHALL NOT SEE WHEN HEAT COMETH, BUT HER LEAF
 SHALL BE GREEN; AND SHALL NOT BE CAREFUL IN THE YEAR OF DROUGHT, NEITHER
 SHALL CEASE FROM YIELDING FRUIT.
# 9 THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS, AND DESPERATELY WICKED: WHO CAN
 KNOW IT?
# 10 I THE LORD SEARCH THE HEART, I TRY THE REINS, EVEN TO GIVE EVERY MAN
 ACCORDING TO HIS WAYS, AND ACCORDING TO THE FRUIT OF HIS DOINGS.
# 11 AS THE PARTRIDGE SITTETH ON EGGS, AND HATCHETH THEM NOT; SO HE THAT
 GETTETH RICHES, AND NOT BY RIGHT, SHALL LEAVE THEM IN THE MIDST OF HIS DAYS,
 AND AT HIS END SHALL BE A FOOL.
# 12 A GLORIOUS HIGH THRONE FROM THE BEGINNING IS THE PLACE OF OUR SANCTUARY.
# 13 O LORD, THE HOPE OF ISRAEL, ALL THAT FORSAKE THEE SHALL BE ASHAMED, AND
 THEY THAT DEPART FROM ME SHALL BE WRITTEN IN THE EARTH, BECAUSE THEY HAVE
 FORSAKEN THE LORD, THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS.
# 14 HEAL ME, O LORD, AND I SHALL BE HEALED; SAVE ME, AND I SHALL BE SAVED:
 FOR THOU ART MY PRAISE.
# 15 BEHOLD, THEY SAY UNTO ME, WHERE IS THE WORD OF THE LORD? LET IT COME
 NOW.
# 16 AS FOR ME, I HAVE NOT HASTENED FROM BEING A PASTOR TO FOLLOW THEE:
 NEITHER HAVE I DESIRED THE WOEFUL DAY; THOU KNOWEST: THAT WHICH CAME OUT OF
 MY LIPS WAS RIGHT BEFORE THEE.
# 17 BE NOT A TERROR UNTO ME: THOU ART MY HOPE IN THE DAY OF EVIL.
# 18 LET THEM BE CONFOUNDED THAT PERSECUTE ME, BUT LET NOT ME BE CONFOUNDED:
 LET THEM BE DISMAYED, BUT LET NOT ME BE DISMAYED: BRING UPON THEM THE DAY OF
 EVIL, AND DESTROY THEM WITH DOUBLE DESTRUCTION.
# 19 THUS SAID THE LORD UNTO ME; GO AND STAND IN THE GATE OF THE CHILDREN OF
 THE PEOPLE, WHEREBY THE KINGS OF JUDAH COME IN, AND BY THE WHICH THEY GO OUT,
 AND IN ALL THE GATES OF JERUSALEM;
# 20 AND SAY UNTO THEM, HEAR YE THE WORD OF THE LORD, YE KINGS OF JUDAH, AND
 ALL JUDAH, AND ALL THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, THAT ENTER IN BY THESE
 GATES:
# 21 THUS SAITH THE LORD; TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES, AND BEAR NO BURDEN ON THE
 SABBATH DAY, NOR BRING IT IN BY THE GATES OF JERUSALEM;
# 22 NEITHER CARRY FORTH A BURDEN OUT OF YOUR HOUSES ON THE SABBATH DAY,
 NEITHER DO YE ANY WORK, BUT HALLOW YE THE SABBATH DAY, AS I COMMANDED YOUR
 FATHERS.
# 23 BUT THEY OBEYED NOT, NEITHER INCLINED THEIR EAR, BUT MADE THEIR NECK
 STIFF, THAT THEY MIGHT NOT HEAR, NOR RECEIVE INSTRUCTION.
# 24 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, IF YE DILIGENTLY HEARKEN UNTO ME, SAITH THE
 LORD, TO BRING IN NO BURDEN THROUGH THE GATES OF THIS CITY ON THE SABBATH
 DAY, BUT HALLOW THE SABBATH DAY, TO DO NO WORK THEREIN;
# 25 THEN SHALL THERE ENTER INTO THE GATES OF THIS CITY KINGS AND PRINCES
 SITTING UPON THE THRONE OF DAVID, RIDING IN CHARIOTS AND ON HORSES, THEY, AND
 THEIR PRINCES, THE MEN OF JUDAH, AND THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM: AND THIS
 CITY SHALL REMAIN FOR EVER.
# 26 AND THEY SHALL COME FROM THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AND FROM THE PLACES ABOUT
 JERUSALEM, AND FROM THE LAND OF BENJAMIN, AND FROM THE PLAIN, AND FROM THE
 MOUNTAINS, AND FROM THE SOUTH, BRINGING BURNT OFFERINGS, AND SACRIFICES, AND
 MEAT OFFERINGS, AND INCENSE, AND BRINGING SACRIFICES OF PRAISE, UNTO THE
 HOUSE OF THE LORD.
# 27 BUT IF YE WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO ME TO HALLOW THE SABBATH DAY, AND NOT TO
 BEAR A BURDEN, EVEN ENTERING IN AT THE GATES OF JERUSALEM ON THE SABBATH DAY;
 THEN WILL I KINDLE A FIRE IN THE GATES THEREOF, AND IT SHALL DEVOUR THE
 PALACES OF JERUSALEM, AND IT SHALL NOT BE QUENCHED.
= CHAPTER 18 
# 1 THE WORD WHICH CAME TO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD, SAYING,
# 2 ARISE, AND GO DOWN TO THE POTTERS HOUSE, AND THERE I WILL CAUSE THEE TO
 HEAR MY WORDS.
# 3 THEN I WENT DOWN TO THE POTTERS HOUSE, AND, BEHOLD, HE WROUGHT A WORK ON
 THE WHEELS.
# 4 AND THE VESSEL THAT HE MADE OF CLAY WAS MARRED IN THE HAND OF THE POTTER:
 SO HE MADE IT AGAIN ANOTHER VESSEL, AS SEEMED GOOD TO THE POTTER TO MAKE IT.
# 5 THEN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME, SAYING,
# 6 O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, CANNOT I DO WITH YOU AS THIS POTTER? SAITH THE LORD.
 BEHOLD, AS THE CLAY IS IN THE POTTERS HAND, SO ARE YE IN MINE HAND, O HOUSE
 OF ISRAEL.
# 7 AT WHAT INSTANT I SHALL SPEAK CONCERNING A NATION, AND CONCERNING A
 KINGDOM, TO PLUCK UP, AND TO PULL DOWN, AND TO DESTROY IT;
# 8 IF THAT NATION, AGAINST WHOM I HAVE PRONOUNCED, TURN FROM THEIR EVIL, I
 WILL REPENT OF THE EVIL THAT I THOUGHT TO DO UNTO THEM.
# 9 AND AT WHAT INSTANT I SHALL SPEAK CONCERNING A NATION, AND CONCERNING A
 KINGDOM, TO BUILD AND TO PLANT IT;
# 10 IF IT DO EVIL IN MY SIGHT, THAT IT OBEY NOT MY VOICE, THEN I WILL REPENT
 OF THE GOOD, WHEREWITH I SAID I WOULD BENEFIT THEM.
# 11 NOW THEREFORE GO TO, SPEAK TO THE MEN OF JUDAH, AND TO THE INHABITANTS
 OF JERUSALEM, SAYING, THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, I FRAME EVIL AGAINST YOU,
 AND DEVISE A DEVICE AGAINST YOU: RETURN YE NOW EVERY ONE FROM HIS EVIL WAY,
 AND MAKE YOUR WAYS AND YOUR DOINGS GOOD.
# 12 AND THEY SAID, THERE IS NO HOPE: BUT WE WILL WALK AFTER OUR OWN DEVICES,
 AND WE WILL EVERY ONE DO THE IMAGINATION OF HIS EVIL HEART.
# 13 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD; ASK YE NOW AMONG THE HEATHEN, WHO HATH
 HEARD SUCH THINGS: THE VIRGIN OF ISRAEL HATH DONE A VERY HORRIBLE THING.
# 14 WILL A MAN LEAVE THE SNOW OF LEBANON WHICH COMETH FROM THE ROCK OF THE
 FIELD? OR SHALL THE COLD FLOWING WATERS THAT COME FROM ANOTHER PLACE BE
 FORSAKEN?
# 15 BECAUSE MY PEOPLE HATH FORGOTTEN ME, THEY HAVE BURNED INCENSE TO VANITY,
 AND THEY HAVE CAUSED THEM TO STUMBLE IN THEIR WAYS FROM THE ANCIENT PATHS, TO
 WALK IN PATHS, IN A WAY NOT CAST UP;
# 16 TO MAKE THEIR LAND DESOLATE, AND A PERPETUAL HISSING; EVERY ONE THAT
 PASSETH THEREBY SHALL BE ASTONISHED, AND WAG HIS HEAD.
# 17 I WILL SCATTER THEM AS WITH AN EAST WIND BEFORE THE ENEMY; I WILL SHEW
 THEM THE BACK, AND NOT THE FACE, IN THE DAY OF THEIR CALAMITY.
# 18 THEN SAID THEY, COME AND LET US DEVISE DEVICES AGAINST JEREMIAH; FOR THE
 LAW SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE PRIEST, NOR COUNSEL FROM THE WISE, NOR THE WORD
 FROM THE PROPHET. COME, AND LET US SMITE HIM WITH THE TONGUE, AND LET US NOT
 GIVE HEED TO ANY OF HIS WORDS.
# 19 GIVE HEED TO ME, O LORD, AND HEARKEN TO THE VOICE OF THEM THAT CONTEND
 WITH ME.
# 20 SHALL EVIL BE RECOMPENSED FOR GOOD? FOR THEY HAVE DIGGED A PIT FOR MY
 SOUL. REMEMBER THAT I STOOD BEFORE THEE TO SPEAK GOOD FOR THEM, AND TO TURN
 AWAY THY WRATH FROM THEM.
# 21 THEREFORE DELIVER UP THEIR CHILDREN TO THE FAMINE, AND POUR OUT THEIR
 BLOOD BY THE FORCE OF THE SWORD; AND LET THEIR WIVES BE BEREAVED OF THEIR
 CHILDREN, AND BE WIDOWS; AND LET THEIR MEN BE PUT TO DEATH; LET THEIR YOUNG
 MEN BE SLAIN BY THE SWORD IN BATTLE.
# 22 LET A CRY BE HEARD FROM THEIR HOUSES, WHEN THOU SHALT BRING A TROOP
 SUDDENLY UPON THEM: FOR THEY HAVE DIGGED A PIT TO TAKE ME, AND HID SNARES FOR
 MY FEET.
# 23 YET, LORD, THOU KNOWEST ALL THEIR COUNSEL AGAINST ME TO SLAY ME: FORGIVE
 NOT THEIR INIQUITY, NEITHER BLOT OUT THEIR SIN FROM THY SIGHT, BUT LET THEM
 BE OVERTHROWN BEFORE THEE; DEAL THUS WITH THEM IN THE TIME OF THINE ANGER.
= CHAPTER 19 
# 1 THUS SAITH THE LORD, GO AND GET A POTTERS EARTHEN BOTTLE, AND TAKE OF THE
 ANCIENTS OF THE PEOPLE, AND OF THE ANCIENTS OF THE PRIESTS;
# 2 AND GO FORTH UNTO THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM, WHICH IS BY THE ENTRY
 OF THE EAST GATE, AND PROCLAIM THERE THE WORDS THAT I SHALL TELL THEE,
# 3 AND SAY, HEAR YE THE WORD OF THE LORD, O KINGS OF JUDAH, AND INHABITANTS
 OF JERUSALEM; THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; BEHOLD, I WILL
 BRING EVIL UPON THIS PLACE, THE WHICH WHOSOEVER HEARETH, HIS EARS SHALL
 TINGLE.
# 4 BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN ME, AND HAVE ESTRANGED THIS PLACE, AND HAVE
 BURNED INCENSE IN IT UNTO OTHER GODS, WHOM NEITHER THEY NOR THEIR FATHERS
 HAVE KNOWN, NOR THE KINGS OF JUDAH, AND HAVE FILLED THIS PLACE WITH THE BLOOD
 OF INNOCENTS;
# 5 THEY HAVE BUILT ALSO THE HIGH PLACES OF BAAL, TO BURN THEIR SONS WITH
 FIRE FOR BURNT OFFERINGS UNTO BAAL, WHICH I COMMANDED NOT, NOR SPAKE IT,
 NEITHER CAME IT INTO MY MIND:
# 6 THEREFORE, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT THIS PLACE SHALL
 NO MORE BE CALLED TOPHET, NOR THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM, BUT THE VALLEY
 OF SLAUGHTER.
# 7 AND I WILL MAKE VOID THE COUNSEL OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM IN THIS PLACE;
 AND I WILL CAUSE THEM TO FALL BY THE SWORD BEFORE THEIR ENEMIES, AND BY THE
 HANDS OF THEM THAT SEEK THEIR LIVES: AND THEIR CARCASES WILL I GIVE TO BE
 MEAT FOR THE FOWLS OF THE HEAVEN, AND FOR THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH.
# 8 AND I WILL MAKE THIS CITY DESOLATE, AND AN HISSING; EVERY ONE THAT
 PASSETH THEREBY SHALL BE ASTONISHED AND HISS BECAUSE OF ALL THE PLAGUES
 THEREOF.
# 9 AND I WILL CAUSE THEM TO EAT THE FLESH OF THEIR SONS AND THE FLESH OF
 THEIR DAUGHTERS, AND THEY SHALL EAT EVERY ONE THE FLESH OF HIS FRIEND IN THE
 SIEGE AND STRAITNESS, WHEREWITH THEIR ENEMIES, AND THEY THAT SEEK THEIR
 LIVES, SHALL STRAITEN THEM.
# 10 THEN SHALT THOU BREAK THE BOTTLE IN THE SIGHT OF THE MEN THAT GO WITH
 THEE,
# 11 AND SHALT SAY UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; EVEN SO WILL I
 BREAK THIS PEOPLE AND THIS CITY, AS ONE BREAKETH A POTTERS VESSEL, THAT
 CANNOT BE MADE WHOLE AGAIN: AND THEY SHALL BURY THEM IN TOPHET, TILL THERE BE
 NO PLACE TO BURY.
# 12 THUS WILL I DO UNTO THIS PLACE, SAITH THE LORD, AND TO THE INHABITANTS
 THEREOF, AND EVEN MAKE THIS CITY AS TOPHET:
# 13 AND THE HOUSES OF JERUSALEM, AND THE HOUSES OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH, SHALL
 BE DEFILED AS THE PLACE OF TOPHET, BECAUSE OF ALL THE HOUSES UPON WHOSE ROOFS
 THEY HAVE BURNED INCENSE UNTO ALL THE HOST OF HEAVEN, AND HAVE POURED OUT
 DRINK OFFERINGS UNTO OTHER GODS.
# 14 THEN CAME JEREMIAH FROM TOPHET, WHITHER THE LORD HAD SENT HIM TO
 PROPHESY; AND HE STOOD IN THE COURT OF THE LORDS HOUSE; AND SAID TO ALL THE
 PEOPLE,
# 15 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; BEHOLD, I WILL BRING
 UPON THIS CITY AND UPON ALL HER TOWNS ALL THE EVIL THAT I HAVE PRONOUNCED
 AGAINST IT, BECAUSE THEY HAVE HARDENED THEIR NECKS, THAT THEY MIGHT NOT HEAR
 MY WORDS.
= CHAPTER 20 
# 1 NOW PASHUR THE SON OF IMMER THE PRIEST, WHO WAS ALSO CHIEF GOVERNOR IN THE
 HOUSE OF THE LORD, HEARD THAT JEREMIAH PROPHESIED THESE THINGS.
# 2 THEN PASHUR SMOTE JEREMIAH THE PROPHET, AND PUT HIM IN THE STOCKS THAT
 WERE IN THE HIGH GATE OF BENJAMIN, WHICH WAS BY THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.
# 3 AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE MORROW, THAT PASHUR BROUGHT FORTH JEREMIAH OUT
 OF THE STOCKS. THEN SAID JEREMIAH UNTO HIM, THE LORD HATH NOT CALLED THY NAME
 PASHUR, BUT MAGORMISSABIB.
# 4 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE THEE A TERROR TO THYSELF,
 AND TO ALL THY FRIENDS: AND THEY SHALL FALL BY THE SWORD OF THEIR ENEMIES,
 AND THINE EYES SHALL BEHOLD IT: AND I WILL GIVE ALL JUDAH INTO THE HAND OF
 THE KING OF BABYLON, AND HE SHALL CARRY THEM CAPTIVE INTO BABYLON, AND SHALL
 SLAY THEM WITH THE SWORD.
# 5 MOREOVER I WILL DELIVER ALL THE STRENGTH OF THIS CITY, AND ALL THE
 LABOURS THEREOF, AND ALL THE PRECIOUS THINGS THEREOF, AND ALL THE TREASURES
 OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH WILL I GIVE INTO THE HAND OF THEIR ENEMIES, WHICH SHALL
 SPOIL THEM, AND TAKE THEM, AND CARRY THEM TO BABYLON.
# 6 AND THOU, PASHUR, AND ALL THAT DWELL IN THINE HOUSE SHALL GO INTO
 CAPTIVITY: AND THOU SHALT COME TO BABYLON, AND THERE THOU SHALT DIE, AND
 SHALT BE BURIED THERE, THOU, AND ALL THY FRIENDS, TO WHOM THOU HAST
 PROPHESIED LIES.
# 7 O LORD, THOU HAST DECEIVED ME, AND I WAS DECEIVED; THOU ART STRONGER THAN
 I, AND HAST PREVAILED: I AM IN DERISION DAILY, EVERY ONE MOCKETH ME.
# 8 FOR SINCE I SPAKE, I CRIED OUT, I CRIED VIOLENCE AND SPOIL; BECAUSE THE
 WORD OF THE LORD WAS MADE A REPROACH UNTO ME, AND A DERISION, DAILY.
# 9 THEN I SAID, I WILL NOT MAKE MENTION OF HIM, NOR SPEAK ANY MORE IN HIS
 NAME. BUT HIS WORD WAS IN MINE HEART AS A BURNING FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES,
 AND I WAS WEARY WITH FORBEARING, AND I COULD NOT STAY.
# 10 FOR I HEARD THE DEFAMING OF MANY, FEAR ON EVERY SIDE. REPORT, SAY THEY,
 AND WE WILL REPORT IT. ALL MY FAMILIARS WATCHED FOR MY HALTING, SAYING,
 PERADVENTURE HE WILL BE ENTICED, AND WE SHALL PREVAIL AGAINST HIM, AND WE
 SHALL TAKE OUR REVENGE ON HIM.
# 11 BUT THE LORD IS WITH ME AS A MIGHTY TERRIBLE ONE: THEREFORE MY
 PERSECUTORS SHALL STUMBLE, AND THEY SHALL NOT PREVAIL: THEY SHALL BE GREATLY
 ASHAMED; FOR THEY SHALL NOT PROSPER: THEIR EVERLASTING CONFUSION SHALL NEVER
 BE FORGOTTEN.
# 12 BUT, O LORD OF HOSTS, THAT TRIEST THE RIGHTEOUS, AND SEEST THE REINS AND
 THE HEART, LET ME SEE THY VENGEANCE ON THEM: FOR UNTO THEE HAVE I OPENED MY
 CAUSE.
# 13 SING UNTO THE LORD, PRAISE YE THE LORD: FOR HE HATH DELIVERED THE SOUL
 OF THE POOR FROM THE HAND OF EVILDOERS.
# 14 CURSED BE THE DAY WHEREIN I WAS BORN: LET NOT THE DAY WHEREIN MY MOTHER
 BARE ME BE BLESSED.
# 15 CURSED BE THE MAN WHO BROUGHT TIDINGS TO MY FATHER, SAYING, A MAN CHILD
 IS BORN UNTO THEE; MAKING HIM VERY GLAD.
# 16 AND LET THAT MAN BE AS THE CITIES WHICH THE LORD OVERTHREW, AND REPENTED
 NOT: AND LET HIM HEAR THE CRY IN THE MORNING, AND THE SHOUTING AT NOONTIDE;
# 17 BECAUSE HE SLEW ME NOT FROM THE WOMB; OR THAT MY MOTHER MIGHT HAVE BEEN
 MY GRAVE, AND HER WOMB TO BE ALWAYS GREAT WITH ME.
# 18 WHEREFORE CAME I FORTH OUT OF THE WOMB TO SEE LABOUR AND SORROW, THAT MY
 DAYS SHOULD BE CONSUMED WITH SHAME?
= CHAPTER 21 
# 1 THE WORD WHICH CAME UNTO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD, WHEN KING ZEDEKIAH SENT
 UNTO HIM PASHUR THE SON OF MELCHIAH, AND ZEPHANIAH THE SON OF MAASEIAH THE
 PRIEST, SAYING,
# 2 ENQUIRE, I PRAY THEE, OF THE LORD FOR US; FOR NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF
 BABYLON MAKETH WAR AGAINST US; IF SO BE THAT THE LORD WILL DEAL WITH US
 ACCORDING TO ALL HIS WONDROUS WORKS, THAT HE MAY GO UP FROM US.
# 3 THEN SAID JEREMIAH UNTO THEM, THUS SHALL YE SAY TO ZEDEKIAH:
# 4 THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL; BEHOLD, I WILL TURN BACK THE WEAPONS
 OF WAR THAT ARE IN YOUR HANDS, WHEREWITH YE FIGHT AGAINST THE KING OF
 BABYLON, AND AGAINST THE CHALDEANS, WHICH BESIEGE YOU WITHOUT THE WALLS, AND
 I WILL ASSEMBLE THEM INTO THE MIDST OF THIS CITY.
# 5 AND I MYSELF WILL FIGHT AGAINST YOU WITH AN OUTSTRETCHED HAND AND WITH A
 STRONG ARM, EVEN IN ANGER, AND IN FURY, AND IN GREAT WRATH.
# 6 AND I WILL SMITE THE INHABITANTS OF THIS CITY, BOTH MAN AND BEAST: THEY
 SHALL DIE OF A GREAT PESTILENCE.
# 7 AND AFTERWARD, SAITH THE LORD, I WILL DELIVER ZEDEKIAH KING OF JUDAH, AND
 HIS SERVANTS, AND THE PEOPLE, AND SUCH AS ARE LEFT IN THIS CITY FROM THE
 PESTILENCE, FROM THE SWORD, AND FROM THE FAMINE, INTO THE HAND OF
 NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON, AND INTO THE HAND OF THEIR ENEMIES, AND INTO
 THE HAND OF THOSE THAT SEEK THEIR LIFE: AND HE SHALL SMITE THEM WITH THE EDGE
 OF THE SWORD; HE SHALL NOT SPARE THEM, NEITHER HAVE PITY, NOR HAVE MERCY.
# 8 AND UNTO THIS PEOPLE THOU SHALT SAY, THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, I SET
 BEFORE YOU THE WAY OF LIFE, AND THE WAY OF DEATH.
# 9 HE THAT ABIDETH IN THIS CITY SHALL DIE BY THE SWORD, AND BY THE FAMINE,
 AND BY THE PESTILENCE: BUT HE THAT GOETH OUT, AND FALLETH TO THE CHALDEANS
 THAT BESIEGE YOU, HE SHALL LIVE, AND HIS LIFE SHALL BE UNTO HIM FOR A PREY.
# 10 FOR I HAVE SET MY FACE AGAINST THIS CITY FOR EVIL, AND NOT FOR GOOD,
 SAITH THE LORD: IT SHALL BE GIVEN INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF BABYLON, AND
 HE SHALL BURN IT WITH FIRE.
# 11 AND TOUCHING THE HOUSE OF THE KING OF JUDAH, SAY, HEAR YE THE WORD OF
 THE LORD;
# 12 O HOUSE OF DAVID, THUS SAITH THE LORD; EXECUTE JUDGMENT IN THE MORNING,
 AND DELIVER HIM THAT IS SPOILED OUT OF THE HAND OF THE OPPRESSOR, LEST MY
 FURY GO OUT LIKE FIRE, AND BURN THAT NONE CAN QUENCH IT, BECAUSE OF THE EVIL
 OF YOUR DOINGS.
# 13 BEHOLD, I AM AGAINST THEE, O INHABITANT OF THE VALLEY, AND ROCK OF THE
 PLAIN, SAITH THE LORD; WHICH SAY, WHO SHALL COME DOWN AGAINST US? OR WHO
 SHALL ENTER INTO OUR HABITATIONS?
# 14 BUT I WILL PUNISH YOU ACCORDING TO THE FRUIT OF YOUR DOINGS, SAITH THE
 LORD: AND I WILL KINDLE A FIRE IN THE FOREST THEREOF, AND IT SHALL DEVOUR ALL
 THINGS ROUND ABOUT IT.
= CHAPTER 22 
# 1 THUS SAITH THE LORD; GO DOWN TO THE HOUSE OF THE KING OF JUDAH, AND SPEAK
 THERE THIS WORD,
# 2 AND SAY, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, O KING OF JUDAH, THAT SITTEST UPON
 THE THRONE OF DAVID, THOU, AND THY SERVANTS, AND THY PEOPLE THAT ENTER IN BY
 THESE GATES:
# 3 THUS SAITH THE LORD; EXECUTE YE JUDGMENT AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND DELIVER
 THE SPOILED OUT OF THE HAND OF THE OPPRESSOR: AND DO NO WRONG, DO NO VIOLENCE
 TO THE STRANGER, THE FATHERLESS, NOR THE WIDOW, NEITHER SHED INNOCENT BLOOD
 IN THIS PLACE.
# 4 FOR IF YE DO THIS THING INDEED, THEN SHALL THERE ENTER IN BY THE GATES OF
 THIS HOUSE KINGS SITTING UPON THE THRONE OF DAVID, RIDING IN CHARIOTS AND ON
 HORSES, HE, AND HIS SERVANTS, AND HIS PEOPLE.
# 5 BUT IF YE WILL NOT HEAR THESE WORDS, I SWEAR BY MYSELF, SAITH THE LORD,
 THAT THIS HOUSE SHALL BECOME A DESOLATION.
# 6 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD UNTO THE KINGS HOUSE OF JUDAH; THOU ART GILEAD
 UNTO ME, AND THE HEAD OF LEBANON: YET SURELY I WILL MAKE THEE A WILDERNESS,
 AND CITIES WHICH ARE NOT INHABITED.
# 7 AND I WILL PREPARE DESTROYERS AGAINST THEE, EVERY ONE WITH HIS WEAPONS:
 AND THEY SHALL CUT DOWN THY CHOICE CEDARS, AND CAST THEM INTO THE FIRE.
# 8 AND MANY NATIONS SHALL PASS BY THIS CITY, AND THEY SHALL SAY EVERY MAN TO
 HIS NEIGHBOUR, WHEREFORE HATH THE LORD DONE THUS UNTO THIS GREAT CITY?
# 9 THEN THEY SHALL ANSWER, BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN THE COVENANT OF THE
 LORD THEIR GOD, AND WORSHIPPED OTHER GODS, AND SERVED THEM.
# 10 WEEP YE NOT FOR THE DEAD, NEITHER BEMOAN HIM: BUT WEEP SORE FOR HIM THAT
 GOETH AWAY: FOR HE SHALL RETURN NO MORE, NOR SEE HIS NATIVE COUNTRY.
# 11 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD TOUCHING SHALLUM THE SON OF JOSIAH KING OF
 JUDAH, WHICH REIGNED INSTEAD OF JOSIAH HIS FATHER, WHICH WENT FORTH OUT OF
 THIS PLACE; HE SHALL NOT RETURN THITHER ANY MORE:
# 12 BUT HE SHALL DIE IN THE PLACE WHITHER THEY HAVE LED HIM CAPTIVE, AND
 SHALL SEE THIS LAND NO MORE.
# 13 WOE UNTO HIM THAT BUILDETH HIS HOUSE BY UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, AND HIS
 CHAMBERS BY WRONG; THAT USETH HIS NEIGHBOURS SERVICE WITHOUT WAGES, AND
 GIVETH HIM NOT FOR HIS WORK;
# 14 THAT SAITH, I WILL BUILD ME A WIDE HOUSE AND LARGE CHAMBERS, AND CUTTETH
 HIM OUT WINDOWS; AND IT IS CIELED WITH CEDAR, AND PAINTED WITH VERMILION.
# 15 SHALT THOU REIGN, BECAUSE THOU CLOSEST THYSELF IN CEDAR? DID NOT THY
 FATHER EAT AND DRINK, AND DO JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE, AND THEN IT WAS WELL WITH
 HIM?
# 16 HE JUDGED THE CAUSE OF THE POOR AND NEEDY; THEN IT WAS WELL WITH HIM:
 WAS NOT THIS TO KNOW ME? SAITH THE LORD.
# 17 BUT THINE EYES AND THINE HEART ARE NOT BUT FOR THY COVETOUSNESS, AND FOR
 TO SHED INNOCENT BLOOD, AND FOR OPPRESSION, AND FOR VIOLENCE, TO DO IT.
# 18 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD 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!
# 19 HE SHALL BE BURIED WITH THE BURIAL OF AN ASS, DRAWN AND CAST FORTH
 BEYOND THE GATES OF JERUSALEM.
# 20 GO UP TO LEBANON, AND CRY; AND LIFT UP THY VOICE IN BASHAN, AND CRY FROM
 THE PASSAGES: FOR ALL THY LOVERS ARE DESTROYED.
# 21 I SPAKE UNTO THEE IN THY PROSPERITY; BUT THOU SAIDST, I WILL NOT HEAR.
 THIS HATH BEEN THY MANNER FROM THY YOUTH, THAT THOU OBEYEDST NOT MY VOICE.
# 22 THE WIND SHALL EAT UP ALL THY PASTORS, AND THY LOVERS SHALL GO INTO
 CAPTIVITY: SURELY THEN SHALT THOU BE ASHAMED AND CONFOUNDED FOR ALL THY
 WICKEDNESS.
# 23 O INHABITANT OF LEBANON, THAT MAKEST THY NEST IN THE CEDARS, HOW
 GRACIOUS SHALT THOU BE WHEN PANGS COME UPON THEE, THE PAIN AS OF A WOMAN IN
 TRAVAIL!
# 24 AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD, THOUGH CONIAH THE SON OF JEHOIAKIM KING OF
 JUDAH WERE THE SIGNET UPON MY RIGHT HAND, YET WOULD I PLUCK THEE THENCE;
# 25 AND I WILL GIVE THEE INTO THE HAND OF THEM THAT SEEK THY LIFE, AND INTO
 THE HAND OF THEM WHOSE FACE THOU FEAREST, EVEN INTO THE HAND OF
 NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON, AND INTO THE HAND OF THE CHALDEANS.
# 26 AND I WILL CAST THEE OUT, AND THY MOTHER THAT BARE THEE, INTO ANOTHER
 COUNTRY, WHERE YE WERE NOT BORN; AND THERE SHALL YE DIE.
# 27 BUT TO THE LAND WHEREUNTO THEY DESIRE TO RETURN, THITHER SHALL THEY NOT
 RETURN.
# 28 IS THIS MAN CONIAH A DESPISED BROKEN IDOL? IS HE A VESSEL WHEREIN IS NO
 PLEASURE? WHEREFORE ARE THEY CAST OUT, HE AND HIS SEED, AND ARE CAST INTO A
 LAND WHICH THEY KNOW NOT?
# 29 O EARTH, EARTH, EARTH, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD.
# 30 THUS SAITH THE LORD, WRITE YE THIS MAN CHILDLESS, A MAN THAT SHALL NOT
 PROSPER IN HIS DAYS: FOR NO MAN OF HIS SEED SHALL PROSPER, SITTING UPON THE
 THRONE OF DAVID, AND RULING ANY MORE IN JUDAH.
= CHAPTER 23 
# 1 WOE BE UNTO THE PASTORS THAT DESTROY AND SCATTER THE SHEEP OF MY PASTURE!
 SAITH THE LORD.
# 2 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL AGAINST THE PASTORS THAT FEED
 MY PEOPLE; YE HAVE SCATTERED MY FLOCK, AND DRIVEN THEM AWAY, AND HAVE NOT
 VISITED THEM: BEHOLD, I WILL VISIT UPON YOU THE EVIL OF YOUR DOINGS, SAITH
 THE LORD.
# 3 AND I WILL GATHER THE REMNANT OF MY FLOCK OUT OF ALL COUNTRIES WHITHER I
 HAVE DRIVEN THEM, AND WILL BRING THEM AGAIN TO THEIR FOLDS; AND THEY SHALL BE
 FRUITFUL AND INCREASE.
# 4 AND I WILL SET UP SHEPHERDS OVER THEM WHICH SHALL FEED THEM: AND THEY
 SHALL FEAR NO MORE, NOR BE DISMAYED, NEITHER SHALL THEY BE LACKING, SAITH THE
 LORD.
# 5 BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT I WILL RAISE UNTO DAVID A
 RIGHTEOUS BRANCH, AND A KING SHALL REIGN AND PROSPER, AND SHALL EXECUTE
 JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE IN THE EARTH.
# 6 IN HIS DAYS JUDAH SHALL BE SAVED, AND ISRAEL SHALL DWELL SAFELY: AND THIS
 IS HIS NAME WHEREBY HE SHALL BE CALLED, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
# 7 THEREFORE, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT THEY SHALL NO MORE
 SAY, THE LORD LIVETH, WHICH BROUGHT UP THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OUT OF THE LAND
 OF EGYPT;
# 8 BUT, THE LORD LIVETH, WHICH BROUGHT UP AND WHICH LED THE SEED OF THE
 HOUSE OF ISRAEL OUT OF THE NORTH COUNTRY, AND FROM ALL COUNTRIES WHITHER I
 HAD DRIVEN THEM; AND THEY SHALL DWELL IN THEIR OWN LAND.
# 9 MINE HEART WITHIN ME IS BROKEN BECAUSE OF THE PROPHETS; ALL MY BONES
 SHAKE; I AM LIKE A DRUNKEN MAN, AND LIKE A MAN WHOM WINE HATH OVERCOME,
 BECAUSE OF THE LORD, AND BECAUSE OF THE WORDS OF HIS HOLINESS.
# 10 FOR THE LAND IS FULL OF ADULTERERS; FOR BECAUSE OF SWEARING THE LAND
 MOURNETH; THE PLEASANT PLACES OF THE WILDERNESS ARE DRIED UP, AND THEIR
 COURSE IS EVIL, AND THEIR FORCE IS NOT RIGHT.
# 11 FOR BOTH PROPHET AND PRIEST ARE PROFANE; YEA, IN MY HOUSE HAVE I FOUND
 THEIR WICKEDNESS, SAITH THE LORD.
# 12 WHEREFORE THEIR WAY SHALL BE UNTO THEM AS SLIPPERY WAYS IN THE DARKNESS:
 THEY SHALL BE DRIVEN ON, AND FALL THEREIN: FOR I WILL BRING EVIL UPON THEM,
 EVEN THE YEAR OF THEIR VISITATION, SAITH THE LORD.
# 13 AND I HAVE SEEN FOLLY IN THE PROPHETS OF SAMARIA; THEY PROPHESIED IN
 BAAL, AND CAUSED MY PEOPLE ISRAEL TO ERR.
# 14 I HAVE SEEN ALSO IN THE PROPHETS OF JERUSALEM AN HORRIBLE THING: THEY
 COMMIT ADULTERY, AND WALK IN LIES: THEY STRENGTHEN ALSO THE HANDS OF
 EVILDOERS, THAT NONE DOTH RETURN FROM HIS WICKEDNESS; THEY ARE ALL OF THEM
 UNTO ME AS SODOM, AND THE INHABITANTS THEREOF AS GOMORRAH.
# 15 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS 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 PROFANENESS GONE FORTH INTO ALL THE LAND.
# 16 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, HEARKEN NOT UNTO THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS
 THAT PROPHESY UNTO YOU: THEY MAKE YOU VAIN: THEY SPEAK A VISION OF THEIR OWN
 HEART, AND NOT OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE LORD.
# 17 THEY SAY STILL UNTO THEM THAT DESPISE ME, THE LORD HATH SAID, YE SHALL
 HAVE PEACE; AND THEY SAY UNTO EVERY ONE THAT WALKETH AFTER THE IMAGINATION OF
 HIS OWN HEART, NO EVIL SHALL COME UPON YOU.
# 18 FOR WHO HATH STOOD IN THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD, AND HATH PERCEIVED AND
 HEARD HIS WORD? WHO HATH MARKED HIS WORD, AND HEARD IT?
# 19 BEHOLD, A WHIRLWIND OF THE LORD IS GONE FORTH IN FURY, EVEN A GRIEVOUS
 WHIRLWIND: IT SHALL FALL GRIEVOUSLY UPON THE HEAD OF THE WICKED.
# 20 THE ANGER OF THE LORD SHALL NOT RETURN, UNTIL HE HAVE EXECUTED, AND TILL
 HE HAVE PERFORMED THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART: IN THE LATTER DAYS YE SHALL
 CONSIDER IT PERFECTLY.
# 21 I HAVE NOT SENT THESE PROPHETS, YET THEY RAN: I HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO THEM,
 YET THEY PROPHESIED.
# 22 BUT IF THEY HAD STOOD IN MY COUNSEL, AND HAD CAUSED MY PEOPLE TO HEAR MY
 WORDS, THEN THEY SHOULD HAVE TURNED THEM FROM THEIR EVIL WAY, AND FROM THE
 EVIL OF THEIR DOINGS.
# 23 AM I A GOD AT HAND, SAITH THE LORD, AND NOT A GOD AFAR OFF?
# 24 CAN ANY HIDE HIMSELF IN SECRET PLACES THAT I SHALL NOT SEE HIM? SAITH
 THE LORD. DO NOT I FILL HEAVEN AND EARTH? SAITH THE LORD.
# 25 I HAVE HEARD WHAT THE PROPHETS SAID, THAT PROPHESY LIES IN MY NAME,
 SAYING, I HAVE DREAMED, I HAVE DREAMED.
# 26 HOW LONG SHALL THIS BE IN THE HEART OF THE PROPHETS THAT PROPHESY LIES?
 YEA, THEY ARE PROPHETS OF THE DECEIT OF THEIR OWN HEART;
# 27 WHICH THINK TO CAUSE MY PEOPLE TO FORGET MY NAME BY THEIR DREAMS WHICH
 THEY TELL EVERY MAN TO HIS NEIGHBOUR, AS THEIR FATHERS HAVE FORGOTTEN MY NAME
 FOR BAAL.
# 28 THE PROPHET THAT HATH A DREAM, LET HIM TELL A DREAM; AND HE THAT HATH MY
 WORD, LET HIM SPEAK MY WORD FAITHFULLY. WHAT IS THE CHAFF TO THE WHEAT? SAITH
 THE LORD.
# 29 IS NOT MY WORD LIKE AS A FIRE? SAITH THE LORD; AND LIKE A HAMMER THAT
 BREAKETH THE ROCK IN PIECES?
# 30 THEREFORE, BEHOLD, I AM AGAINST THE PROPHETS, SAITH THE LORD, THAT STEAL
 MY WORDS EVERY ONE FROM HIS NEIGHBOUR.
# 31 BEHOLD, I AM AGAINST THE PROPHETS, SAITH THE LORD, THAT USE THEIR
 TONGUES, AND SAY, HE SAITH.
# 32 BEHOLD, I AM AGAINST THEM THAT PROPHESY FALSE DREAMS, SAITH THE LORD,
 AND DO TELL THEM, AND CAUSE MY PEOPLE TO ERR BY THEIR LIES, AND BY THEIR
 LIGHTNESS; YET I SENT THEM NOT, NOR COMMANDED THEM: THEREFORE THEY SHALL NOT
 PROFIT THIS PEOPLE AT ALL, SAITH THE LORD.
# 33 AND WHEN THIS PEOPLE, OR THE PROPHET, OR A PRIEST, SHALL ASK THEE,
 SAYING, WHAT IS THE BURDEN OF THE LORD? THOU SHALT THEN SAY UNTO THEM, WHAT
 BURDEN? I WILL EVEN FORSAKE YOU, SAITH THE LORD.
# 34 AND AS FOR THE PROPHET, AND THE PRIEST, AND THE PEOPLE, THAT SHALL SAY,
 THE BURDEN OF THE LORD, I WILL EVEN PUNISH THAT MAN AND HIS HOUSE.
# 35 THUS SHALL YE SAY EVERY ONE TO HIS NEIGHBOUR, AND EVERY ONE TO HIS
 BROTHER, WHAT HATH THE LORD ANSWERED? AND, WHAT HATH THE LORD SPOKEN?
# 36 AND THE BURDEN OF THE LORD SHALL YE MENTION NO MORE: FOR EVERY MANS WORD
 SHALL BE HIS BURDEN; FOR YE HAVE PERVERTED THE WORDS OF THE LIVING GOD, OF
 THE LORD OF HOSTS OUR GOD.
# 37 THUS SHALT THOU SAY TO THE PROPHET, WHAT HATH THE LORD ANSWERED THEE?
 AND, WHAT HATH THE LORD SPOKEN?
# 38 BUT SINCE YE SAY, THE BURDEN OF THE LORD; THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD;
 BECAUSE YE SAY THIS WORD, THE BURDEN OF THE LORD, AND I HAVE SENT UNTO YOU,
 SAYING, YE SHALL NOT SAY, THE BURDEN OF THE LORD;
# 39 THEREFORE, BEHOLD, I, EVEN I, WILL UTTERLY FORGET YOU, AND I WILL
 FORSAKE YOU, AND THE CITY THAT I GAVE YOU AND YOUR FATHERS, AND CAST YOU OUT
 OF MY PRESENCE:
# 40 AND I WILL BRING AN EVERLASTING REPROACH UPON YOU, AND A PERPETUAL
 SHAME, WHICH SHALL NOT BE FORGOTTEN.
= CHAPTER 24 
# 1 THE LORD SHEWED ME, AND, BEHOLD, TWO BASKETS OF FIGS WERE SET BEFORE THE
 TEMPLE OF THE LORD, AFTER THAT NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON HAD CARRIED
 AWAY CAPTIVE JECONIAH THE SON OF JEHOIAKIM KING OF JUDAH, AND THE PRINCES OF
 JUDAH, WITH THE CARPENTERS AND SMITHS, FROM JERUSALEM, AND HAD BROUGHT THEM
 TO BABYLON.
# 2 ONE BASKET HAD VERY GOOD FIGS, EVEN LIKE THE FIGS THAT ARE FIRST RIPE:
 AND THE OTHER BASKET HAD VERY NAUGHTY FIGS, WHICH COULD NOT BE EATEN, THEY
 WERE SO BAD.
# 3 THEN SAID THE LORD UNTO ME, WHAT SEEST THOU, JEREMIAH? AND I SAID, FIGS;
 THE GOOD FIGS, VERY GOOD; AND THE EVIL, VERY EVIL, THAT CANNOT BE EATEN, THEY
 ARE SO EVIL.
# 4 AGAIN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING,
# 5 THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; LIKE THESE GOOD FIGS, SO WILL I
 ACKNOWLEDGE THEM THAT ARE CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE OF JUDAH, WHOM I HAVE SENT OUT
 OF THIS PLACE INTO THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS FOR THEIR GOOD.
# 6 FOR I WILL SET MINE EYES UPON 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.
# 7 AND I WILL GIVE THEM AN HEART TO KNOW ME, THAT I AM THE LORD: AND THEY
 SHALL BE MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD: FOR THEY SHALL RETURN UNTO ME
 WITH THEIR WHOLE HEART.
# 8 AND AS THE EVIL FIGS, WHICH CANNOT BE EATEN, THEY ARE SO EVIL; SURELY
 THUS SAITH THE LORD, SO WILL I GIVE ZEDEKIAH THE KING OF JUDAH, AND HIS
 PRINCES, AND THE RESIDUE OF JERUSALEM, THAT REMAIN IN THIS LAND, AND THEM
 THAT DWELL IN THE LAND OF EGYPT:
# 9 AND I WILL DELIVER THEM TO BE REMOVED INTO ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH
 FOR THEIR HURT, TO BE A REPROACH AND A PROVERB, A TAUNT AND A CURSE, IN ALL
 PLACES WHITHER I SHALL DRIVE THEM.
# 10 AND I WILL SEND THE SWORD, THE FAMINE, AND THE PESTILENCE, AMONG THEM,
 TILL THEY BE CONSUMED FROM OFF THE LAND THAT I GAVE UNTO THEM AND TO THEIR
 FATHERS.
= CHAPTER 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, THAT WAS THE FIRST
 YEAR OF NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON;
# 2 THE WHICH JEREMIAH THE PROPHET SPAKE UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH, AND TO
 ALL THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, SAYING,
# 3 FROM THE THIRTEENTH YEAR OF JOSIAH THE SON OF AMON KING OF JUDAH, EVEN
 UNTO THIS DAY, THAT IS THE THREE AND TWENTIETH YEAR, THE WORD OF THE LORD
 HATH COME UNTO ME, AND I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO YOU, RISING EARLY AND SPEAKING; BUT
 YE HAVE NOT HEARKENED.
# 4 AND THE LORD HATH SENT UNTO YOU ALL HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS, RISING
 EARLY AND SENDING THEM; BUT YE HAVE NOT HEARKENED, NOR INCLINED YOUR EAR TO
 HEAR.
# 5 THEY SAID, TURN YE AGAIN NOW EVERY ONE FROM HIS EVIL WAY, AND FROM THE
 EVIL OF YOUR DOINGS, AND DWELL IN THE LAND THAT THE LORD HATH GIVEN UNTO YOU
 AND TO YOUR FATHERS FOR EVER AND EVER:
# 6 AND GO NOT AFTER OTHER GODS TO SERVE THEM, AND TO WORSHIP THEM, AND
 PROVOKE ME NOT TO ANGER WITH THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS; AND I WILL DO YOU NO
 HURT.
# 7 YET YE HAVE NOT HEARKENED UNTO ME, SAITH THE LORD; THAT YE MIGHT PROVOKE
 ME TO ANGER WITH THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS TO YOUR OWN HURT.
# 8 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; BECAUSE YE HAVE NOT HEARD MY
 WORDS,
# 9 BEHOLD, I WILL SEND AND TAKE ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE NORTH, SAITH THE
 LORD, AND NEBUCHADREZZAR THE KING OF BABYLON, MY SERVANT, AND WILL BRING THEM
 AGAINST THIS LAND, AND AGAINST THE INHABITANTS THEREOF, AND AGAINST ALL THESE
 NATIONS ROUND ABOUT, AND WILL UTTERLY DESTROY THEM, AND MAKE THEM AN
 ASTONISHMENT, AND AN HISSING, AND PERPETUAL DESOLATIONS.
# 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 CANDLE.
# 11 AND THIS WHOLE LAND SHALL BE A DESOLATION, AND AN ASTONISHMENT; AND
 THESE NATIONS SHALL SERVE THE KING OF BABYLON SEVENTY YEARS.
# 12 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN SEVENTY YEARS ARE ACCOMPLISHED, THAT I
 WILL PUNISH THE KING OF BABYLON, AND THAT NATION, SAITH THE LORD, FOR THEIR
 INIQUITY, AND THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS, AND WILL MAKE IT PERPETUAL
 DESOLATIONS.
# 13 AND I WILL BRING UPON THAT LAND ALL MY WORDS WHICH I HAVE PRONOUNCED
 AGAINST IT, EVEN ALL THAT IS WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK, WHICH JEREMIAH HATH
 PROPHESIED AGAINST ALL THE NATIONS.
# 14 FOR MANY NATIONS AND GREAT KINGS SHALL SERVE THEMSELVES OF THEM ALSO:
 AND I WILL RECOMPENSE THEM ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS, AND ACCORDING TO THE
 WORKS OF THEIR OWN HANDS.
# 15 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL UNTO ME; TAKE THE WINE CUP OF THIS
 FURY AT MY HAND, AND CAUSE ALL THE NATIONS, TO WHOM I SEND THEE, TO DRINK IT.
# 16 AND THEY SHALL DRINK, AND BE MOVED, AND BE MAD, BECAUSE OF THE SWORD
 THAT I WILL SEND AMONG THEM.
# 17 THEN TOOK I THE CUP AT THE LORDS HAND, AND MADE ALL THE NATIONS TO
 DRINK, UNTO WHOM THE LORD HAD SENT ME:
# 18 TO WIT, JERUSALEM, AND THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AND THE KINGS THEREOF, AND
 THE PRINCES THEREOF, TO MAKE THEM A DESOLATION, AN ASTONISHMENT, AN HISSING,
 AND A CURSE; AS IT IS THIS DAY;
# 19 PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT, AND HIS SERVANTS, AND HIS PRINCES, AND ALL HIS
 PEOPLE;
# 20 AND ALL THE MINGLED PEOPLE, AND ALL THE KINGS OF THE LAND OF UZ, AND ALL
 THE KINGS OF THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES, AND ASHKELON, AND AZZAH, AND EKRON,
 AND THE REMNANT OF ASHDOD,
# 21 EDOM, AND MOAB, AND THE CHILDREN OF AMMON,
# 22 AND ALL THE KINGS OF TYRUS, AND ALL THE KINGS OF ZIDON, AND THE KINGS OF
 THE ISLES WHICH ARE BEYOND THE SEA,
# 23 DEDAN, AND TEMA, AND BUZ, AND ALL THAT ARE IN THE UTMOST CORNERS,
# 24 AND ALL THE KINGS OF ARABIA, AND ALL THE KINGS OF THE MINGLED PEOPLE
 THAT DWELL IN THE DESERT,
# 25 AND ALL THE KINGS OF ZIMRI, AND ALL THE KINGS OF ELAM, AND ALL THE KINGS
 OF THE MEDES,
# 26 AND ALL THE KINGS OF THE NORTH, FAR AND NEAR, ONE WITH ANOTHER, AND ALL
 THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD, WHICH ARE UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH: AND THE KING
 OF SHESHACH SHALL DRINK AFTER THEM.
# 27 THEREFORE THOU SHALT SAY UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE
 GOD OF ISRAEL; DRINK YE, AND BE DRUNKEN, AND SPUE, AND FALL, AND RISE NO
 MORE, BECAUSE OF THE SWORD WHICH I WILL SEND AMONG YOU.
# 28 AND IT SHALL BE, IF THEY REFUSE TO TAKE THE CUP AT THINE HAND TO DRINK,
 THEN SHALT THOU SAY UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; YE SHALL
 CERTAINLY DRINK.
# 29 FOR, LO, I BEGIN TO BRING EVIL ON THE CITY WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME,
 AND SHOULD YE BE UTTERLY UNPUNISHED? YE SHALL NOT BE UNPUNISHED: FOR I WILL
 CALL FOR A SWORD UPON ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH, SAITH THE LORD OF
 HOSTS.
# 30 THEREFORE PROPHESY THOU AGAINST THEM ALL THESE WORDS, AND SAY UNTO THEM,
 THE LORD SHALL ROAR FROM ON HIGH, AND UTTER HIS VOICE FROM HIS HOLY
 HABITATION; HE SHALL MIGHTILY ROAR UPON HIS HABITATION; HE SHALL GIVE A
 SHOUT, AS THEY THAT TREAD THE GRAPES, AGAINST ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE
 EARTH.
# 31 A NOISE SHALL COME EVEN TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH; FOR THE LORD HATH A
 CONTROVERSY WITH THE NATIONS, HE WILL PLEAD WITH ALL FLESH; HE WILL GIVE THEM
 THAT ARE WICKED TO THE SWORD, SAITH THE LORD.
# 32 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, BEHOLD, EVIL SHALL GO FORTH FROM NATION TO
 NATION, AND A GREAT WHIRLWIND SHALL BE RAISED UP FROM THE COASTS OF THE
 EARTH.
# 33 AND THE SLAIN OF THE LORD SHALL BE AT THAT DAY FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH
 EVEN UNTO THE OTHER END OF THE EARTH: THEY SHALL NOT BE LAMENTED, NEITHER
 GATHERED, NOR BURIED; THEY SHALL BE DUNG UPON THE GROUND.
# 34 HOWL, YE SHEPHERDS, AND CRY; AND WALLOW YOURSELVES IN THE ASHES, YE
 PRINCIPAL OF THE FLOCK: FOR THE DAYS OF YOUR SLAUGHTER AND OF YOUR
 DISPERSIONS ARE ACCOMPLISHED; AND YE SHALL FALL LIKE A PLEASANT VESSEL.
# 35 AND THE SHEPHERDS SHALL HAVE NO WAY TO FLEE, NOR THE PRINCIPAL OF THE
 FLOCK TO ESCAPE.
# 36 A VOICE OF THE CRY OF THE SHEPHERDS, AND AN HOWLING OF THE PRINCIPAL OF
 THE FLOCK, SHALL BE HEARD: FOR THE LORD HATH SPOILED THEIR PASTURE.
# 37 AND THE PEACEABLE HABITATIONS ARE CUT DOWN BECAUSE OF THE FIERCE ANGER
 OF THE LORD.
# 38 HE HATH FORSAKEN HIS COVERT, AS THE LION: FOR THEIR LAND IS DESOLATE
 BECAUSE OF THE FIERCENESS OF THE OPPRESSOR, AND BECAUSE OF HIS FIERCE ANGER.
= CHAPTER 26 
# 1 IN THE BEGINNING OF THE REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM THE SON OF JOSIAH KING OF JUDAH
 CAME THIS WORD FROM THE LORD, SAYING,
# 2 THUS SAITH THE LORD; STAND IN THE COURT OF THE LORDS HOUSE, AND SPEAK
 UNTO ALL THE CITIES OF JUDAH, WHICH COME TO WORSHIP IN THE LORDS HOUSE, ALL
 THE WORDS THAT I COMMAND THEE TO SPEAK UNTO THEM; DIMINISH NOT A WORD:
# 3 IF SO BE THEY WILL HEARKEN, AND TURN EVERY MAN FROM HIS EVIL WAY, THAT I
 MAY REPENT ME OF THE EVIL, WHICH I PURPOSE TO DO UNTO THEM BECAUSE OF THE
 EVIL OF THEIR DOINGS.
# 4 AND THOU SHALT SAY UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD; IF YE WILL NOT HEARKEN
 TO ME, TO WALK IN MY LAW, WHICH I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU,
# 5 TO HEARKEN TO THE WORDS OF MY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS, WHOM I SENT UNTO
 YOU, BOTH RISING UP EARLY, AND SENDING THEM, BUT YE HAVE NOT HEARKENED;
# 6 THEN WILL I MAKE THIS HOUSE LIKE SHILOH, AND WILL MAKE THIS CITY A CURSE
 TO ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH.
# 7 SO THE PRIESTS AND THE PROPHETS AND ALL THE PEOPLE HEARD JEREMIAH
 SPEAKING THESE WORDS IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.
# 8 NOW IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JEREMIAH HAD MADE AN END OF SPEAKING ALL THAT
 THE LORD HAD COMMANDED HIM TO SPEAK UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE, THAT THE PRIESTS AND
 THE PROPHETS AND ALL THE PEOPLE TOOK HIM, SAYING, THOU SHALT SURELY DIE.
# 9 WHY HAST THOU PROPHESIED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, SAYING, THIS HOUSE
 SHALL BE LIKE SHILOH, AND THIS CITY SHALL BE DESOLATE WITHOUT AN INHABITANT?
 AND ALL THE PEOPLE WERE GATHERED AGAINST JEREMIAH IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.
# 10 WHEN THE PRINCES OF JUDAH HEARD THESE THINGS, THEN THEY CAME UP FROM THE
 KINGS HOUSE UNTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND SAT DOWN IN THE ENTRY OF THE NEW
 GATE OF THE LORDS HOUSE.
# 11 THEN SPAKE THE PRIESTS AND THE PROPHETS UNTO THE PRINCES AND TO ALL THE
 PEOPLE, SAYING, THIS MAN IS WORTHY TO DIE; FOR HE HATH PROPHESIED AGAINST
 THIS CITY, AS YE HAVE HEARD WITH YOUR EARS.
# 12 THEN SPAKE JEREMIAH UNTO ALL THE PRINCES AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE, SAYING,
 THE LORD SENT ME TO PROPHESY AGAINST THIS HOUSE AND AGAINST THIS CITY ALL THE
 WORDS THAT YE HAVE HEARD.
# 13 THEREFORE NOW AMEND YOUR WAYS AND YOUR DOINGS, AND OBEY THE VOICE OF THE
 LORD YOUR GOD; AND THE LORD WILL REPENT HIM OF THE EVIL THAT HE HATH
 PRONOUNCED AGAINST YOU.
# 14 AS FOR ME, BEHOLD, I AM IN YOUR HAND: DO WITH ME AS SEEMETH GOOD AND
 MEET UNTO YOU.
# 15 BUT KNOW YE FOR CERTAIN, THAT IF YE PUT ME TO DEATH, YE SHALL SURELY
 BRING INNOCENT BLOOD UPON YOURSELVES, AND UPON THIS CITY, AND UPON THE
 INHABITANTS THEREOF: FOR OF A TRUTH THE LORD HATH SENT ME UNTO YOU TO SPEAK
 ALL THESE WORDS IN YOUR EARS.
# 16 THEN SAID THE PRINCES AND ALL THE PEOPLE UNTO THE PRIESTS AND TO THE
 PROPHETS; THIS MAN IS NOT WORTHY TO DIE: FOR HE HATH SPOKEN TO US IN THE NAME
 OF THE LORD OUR GOD.
# 17 THEN ROSE UP CERTAIN OF THE ELDERS OF THE LAND, AND SPAKE TO ALL THE
 ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLE, SAYING,
# 18 MICAH THE MORASTHITE PROPHESIED IN THE DAYS OF HEZEKIAH KING OF JUDAH,
 AND SPAKE TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH, SAYING, THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS;
 ZION SHALL BE PLOWED LIKE A FIELD, AND JERUSALEM SHALL BECOME HEAPS, AND THE
 MOUNTAIN OF THE HOUSE AS THE HIGH PLACES OF A FOREST.
# 19 DID HEZEKIAH KING OF JUDAH AND ALL JUDAH PUT HIM AT ALL TO DEATH? DID HE
 NOT FEAR THE LORD, AND BESOUGHT THE LORD, AND THE LORD REPENTED HIM OF THE
 EVIL WHICH HE HAD PRONOUNCED AGAINST THEM? THUS MIGHT WE PROCURE GREAT EVIL
 AGAINST OUR SOULS.
# 20 AND THERE WAS ALSO A MAN THAT PROPHESIED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, URIJAH
 THE SON OF SHEMAIAH OF KIRJATHJEARIM, WHO PROPHESIED AGAINST THIS CITY AND
 AGAINST THIS LAND ACCORDING TO ALL THE WORDS OF JEREMIAH.
# 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
 URIJAH HEARD IT, HE WAS AFRAID, AND FLED, AND WENT INTO EGYPT;
# 22 AND JEHOIAKIM THE KING SENT MEN INTO EGYPT, NAMELY, ELNATHAN THE SON OF
 ACHBOR, AND CERTAIN MEN WITH HIM INTO EGYPT.
# 23 AND THEY FETCHED FORTH URIJAH OUT OF EGYPT, AND BROUGHT HIM UNTO
 JEHOIAKIM THE KING; WHO SLEW HIM WITH THE SWORD, AND CAST HIS DEAD BODY INTO
 THE GRAVES OF THE COMMON PEOPLE.
# 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.
= CHAPTER 27 
# 1 IN THE BEGINNING OF THE REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM THE SON OF JOSIAH KING OF JUDAH
 CAME THIS WORD UNTO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD, SAYING,
# 2 THUS SAITH THE LORD TO ME; MAKE THEE BONDS AND YOKES, AND PUT THEM UPON
 THY NECK,
# 3 AND SEND THEM TO THE KING OF EDOM, AND TO THE KING OF MOAB, AND TO THE
 KING OF THE AMMONITES, AND TO THE KING OF TYRUS, AND TO THE KING OF ZIDON, BY
 THE HAND OF THE MESSENGERS WHICH COME TO JERUSALEM UNTO ZEDEKIAH KING OF
 JUDAH;
# 4 AND COMMAND THEM TO SAY UNTO THEIR MASTERS, THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS,
 THE GOD OF ISRAEL; THUS SHALL YE SAY UNTO YOUR MASTERS;
# 5 I HAVE MADE THE EARTH, THE MAN AND THE BEAST THAT ARE UPON THE GROUND, BY
 MY GREAT POWER AND BY MY OUTSTRETCHED ARM, AND HAVE GIVEN IT UNTO WHOM IT
 SEEMED MEET UNTO ME.
# 6 AND NOW HAVE I GIVEN ALL THESE LANDS INTO THE HAND OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE
 KING OF BABYLON, MY SERVANT; AND THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD HAVE I GIVEN HIM
 ALSO TO SERVE HIM.
# 7 AND ALL NATIONS SHALL SERVE HIM, AND HIS SON, AND HIS SONS SON, UNTIL THE
 VERY TIME OF HIS LAND COME: AND THEN MANY NATIONS AND GREAT KINGS SHALL SERVE
 THEMSELVES OF HIM.
# 8 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT THE NATION AND KINGDOM WHICH WILL NOT
 SERVE THE SAME NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING OF BABYLON, AND THAT WILL NOT PUT
 THEIR NECK UNDER THE YOKE OF THE KING OF BABYLON, THAT NATION WILL I PUNISH,
 SAITH THE LORD, WITH THE SWORD, AND WITH THE FAMINE, AND WITH THE PESTILENCE,
 UNTIL I HAVE CONSUMED THEM BY HIS HAND.
# 9 THEREFORE HEARKEN NOT YE TO YOUR PROPHETS, NOR TO YOUR DIVINERS, NOR TO
 YOUR DREAMERS, NOR TO YOUR ENCHANTERS, NOR TO YOUR SORCERERS, WHICH SPEAK
 UNTO YOU, SAYING, YE SHALL NOT SERVE THE KING OF BABYLON:
# 10 FOR THEY PROPHESY A LIE UNTO YOU, TO REMOVE YOU FAR FROM YOUR LAND; AND
 THAT I SHOULD DRIVE YOU OUT, AND YE SHOULD PERISH.
# 11 BUT THE NATIONS THAT BRING THEIR NECK UNDER THE YOKE OF THE KING OF
 BABYLON, AND SERVE HIM, THOSE WILL I LET REMAIN STILL IN THEIR OWN LAND,
 SAITH THE LORD; AND THEY SHALL TILL IT, AND DWELL THEREIN.
# 12 I SPAKE ALSO 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.
# 13 WHY WILL YE DIE, THOU AND THY PEOPLE, 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?
# 14 THEREFORE HEARKEN NOT UNTO THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS THAT SPEAK UNTO
 YOU, SAYING, YE SHALL NOT SERVE THE KING OF BABYLON: FOR THEY PROPHESY A LIE
 UNTO YOU.
# 15 FOR I HAVE NOT SENT THEM, SAITH THE LORD, YET THEY PROPHESY A LIE IN MY
 NAME; THAT I MIGHT DRIVE YOU OUT, AND THAT YE MIGHT PERISH, YE, AND THE
 PROPHETS THAT PROPHESY UNTO YOU.
# 16 ALSO I SPAKE TO THE PRIESTS AND TO ALL THIS PEOPLE, SAYING, THUS SAITH
 THE LORD; HEARKEN NOT TO THE WORDS OF YOUR PROPHETS THAT PROPHESY UNTO YOU,
 SAYING, BEHOLD, THE VESSELS OF THE LORDS HOUSE SHALL NOW SHORTLY BE BROUGHT
 AGAIN FROM BABYLON: FOR THEY PROPHESY A LIE UNTO YOU.
# 17 HEARKEN NOT UNTO THEM; SERVE THE KING OF BABYLON, AND LIVE: WHEREFORE
 SHOULD THIS CITY BE LAID WASTE?
# 18 BUT IF THEY BE PROPHETS, AND IF THE WORD OF THE LORD BE WITH THEM, LET
 THEM NOW MAKE INTERCESSION TO THE LORD OF HOSTS, THAT THE VESSELS WHICH ARE
 LEFT IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND IN THE HOUSE OF THE KING OF JUDAH, AND AT
 JERUSALEM, GO NOT TO BABYLON.
# 19 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS CONCERNING THE PILLARS, AND CONCERNING
 THE SEA, AND CONCERNING THE BASES, AND CONCERNING THE RESIDUE OF THE VESSELS
 THAT REMAIN IN THIS CITY.
# 20 WHICH NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON TOOK NOT, 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;
# 21 YEA, THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, CONCERNING THE
 VESSELS THAT REMAIN IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND 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.
= CHAPTER 28 
# 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS THE SAME YEAR, IN THE BEGINNING OF THE REIGN OF
 ZEDEKIAH KING OF JUDAH, IN THE FOURTH YEAR, AND IN THE FIFTH MONTH, THAT
 HANANIAH THE SON OF AZUR THE PROPHET, WHICH WAS OF GIBEON, SPAKE UNTO ME IN
 THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PRIESTS AND OF ALL THE PEOPLE,
 SAYING,
# 2 THUS SPEAKETH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, SAYING, I HAVE BROKEN
 THE YOKE OF THE KING OF BABYLON.
# 3 WITHIN TWO FULL YEARS WILL I BRING AGAIN INTO THIS PLACE ALL THE VESSELS
 OF THE LORDS HOUSE, THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON TOOK AWAY FROM THIS
 PLACE, AND CARRIED THEM TO BABYLON:
# 4 AND I WILL BRING AGAIN TO THIS PLACE JECONIAH THE SON OF JEHOIAKIM KING
 OF JUDAH, WITH ALL THE CAPTIVES OF JUDAH, THAT WENT INTO BABYLON, SAITH THE
 LORD: FOR I WILL BREAK THE YOKE OF THE KING OF BABYLON.
# 5 THEN THE PROPHET JEREMIAH SAID UNTO THE PROPHET HANANIAH IN THE PRESENCE
 OF THE PRIESTS, AND IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL THE PEOPLE THAT STOOD IN THE HOUSE
 OF THE LORD, IT
# 6 EVEN THE PROPHET JEREMIAH SAID, AMEN: THE LORD DO SO: THE LORD PERFORM
 THY WORDS WHICH THOU HAST PROPHESIED, TO BRING AGAIN THE VESSELS OF THE LORDS
 HOUSE, AND ALL THAT IS CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE, FROM BABYLON INTO THIS PLACE.
# 7 NEVERTHELESS HEAR THOU NOW THIS WORD THAT I SPEAK IN THINE EARS, AND IN
 THE EARS OF ALL THE PEOPLE;
# 8 THE PROPHETS THAT HAVE BEEN BEFORE ME AND BEFORE THEE OF OLD PROPHESIED
 BOTH AGAINST MANY COUNTRIES, AND AGAINST GREAT KINGDOMS, OF WAR, AND OF EVIL,
 AND OF PESTILENCE.
# 9 THE PROPHET WHICH PROPHESIETH OF PEACE, WHEN THE WORD OF THE PROPHET
 SHALL COME TO PASS, THEN SHALL THE PROPHET BE KNOWN, THAT THE LORD HATH TRULY
 SENT HIM.
# 10 THEN HANANIAH THE PROPHET TOOK THE YOKE FROM OFF THE PROPHET JEREMIAHS
 NECK, AND BRAKE IT.
# 11 AND HANANIAH SPAKE IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL THE PEOPLE, SAYING, THUS SAITH
 THE LORD; EVEN SO WILL I BREAK THE YOKE OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON
 FROM THE NECK OF ALL NATIONS WITHIN THE SPACE OF TWO FULL YEARS. AND THE
 PROPHET JEREMIAH WENT HIS WAY.
# 12 THEN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO JEREMIAH THE PROPHET, AFTER THAT
 HANANIAH THE PROPHET HAD BROKEN THE YOKE FROM OFF THE NECK OF THE PROPHET
 JEREMIAH, SAYING,
# 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 BABYLON; AND THEY SHALL SERVE HIM: AND I HAVE GIVEN
 HIM THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD ALSO.
# 15 THEN SAID THE PROPHET JEREMIAH UNTO HANANIAH THE PROPHET, HEAR NOW,
 HANANIAH; THE LORD HATH NOT SENT THEE; BUT THOU MAKEST THIS PEOPLE TO TRUST
 IN A LIE.
# 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.
# 17 SO HANANIAH THE PROPHET DIED THE SAME YEAR IN THE SEVENTH MONTH.
= CHAPTER 29 
# 1 NOW THESE ARE THE WORDS OF THE LETTER THAT JEREMIAH THE PROPHET SENT FROM
 JERUSALEM UNTO THE RESIDUE OF THE ELDERS WHICH WERE CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVES,
 AND TO THE PRIESTS, AND TO THE PROPHETS, AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHOM
 NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE FROM JERUSALEM TO BABYLON;
# 2 (AFTER THAT JECONIAH THE KING, AND THE QUEEN, AND THE EUNUCHS, THE
 PRINCES OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM, AND THE CARPENTERS, AND THE SMITHS, WERE
 DEPARTED FROM JERUSALEM;)
# 3 BY THE HAND OF ELASAH THE SON OF SHAPHAN, AND GEMARIAH THE SON OF
 HILKIAH, (WHOM ZEDEKIAH KING OF JUDAH SENT UNTO BABYLON TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR
 KING OF BABYLON) SAYING,
# 4 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, UNTO ALL THAT ARE
 CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVES, WHOM I HAVE CAUSED TO BE CARRIED AWAY FROM JERUSALEM
 UNTO BABYLON;
# 5 BUILD YE HOUSES, AND DWELL IN THEM; AND PLANT GARDENS, AND EAT THE FRUIT
 OF THEM;
# 6 TAKE YE WIVES, AND BEGET SONS AND DAUGHTERS; AND TAKE WIVES FOR YOUR
 SONS, AND GIVE YOUR DAUGHTERS TO HUSBANDS, THAT THEY MAY BEAR SONS AND
 DAUGHTERS; THAT YE MAY BE INCREASED THERE, AND NOT DIMINISHED.
# 7 AND SEEK THE PEACE OF THE CITY WHITHER I HAVE CAUSED YOU TO BE CARRIED
 AWAY CAPTIVES, AND PRAY UNTO THE LORD FOR IT: FOR IN THE PEACE THEREOF SHALL
 YE HAVE PEACE.
# 8 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; LET NOT YOUR
 PROPHETS AND YOUR DIVINERS, THAT BE IN THE MIDST OF YOU, DECEIVE YOU, NEITHER
 HEARKEN TO YOUR DREAMS WHICH YE CAUSE TO BE DREAMED.
# 9 FOR THEY PROPHESY FALSELY UNTO YOU IN MY NAME: I HAVE NOT SENT THEM,
 SAITH THE LORD.
# 10 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD, THAT AFTER SEVENTY YEARS BE ACCOMPLISHED AT
 BABYLON I WILL VISIT YOU, AND PERFORM MY GOOD WORD TOWARD YOU, IN CAUSING YOU
 TO RETURN TO THIS PLACE.
# 11 FOR I KNOW THE THOUGHTS THAT I THINK TOWARD YOU, SAITH THE LORD,
 THOUGHTS OF PEACE, AND NOT OF EVIL, TO GIVE YOU AN EXPECTED END.
# 12 THEN SHALL YE CALL UPON ME, AND YE SHALL GO AND PRAY UNTO ME, AND I WILL
 HEARKEN UNTO YOU.
# 13 AND YE SHALL SEEK ME, AND FIND ME, WHEN YE SHALL SEARCH FOR ME WITH ALL
 YOUR HEART.
# 14 AND I WILL BE FOUND OF YOU, SAITH THE LORD: AND I WILL TURN AWAY YOUR
 CAPTIVITY, AND I WILL GATHER YOU FROM ALL THE NATIONS, AND FROM ALL THE
 PLACES WHITHER I HAVE DRIVEN YOU, SAITH THE LORD; AND I WILL BRING YOU AGAIN
 INTO THE PLACE WHENCE I CAUSED YOU TO BE CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE.
# 15 BECAUSE YE HAVE SAID, THE LORD HATH RAISED US UP PROPHETS IN BABYLON;
# 16 KNOW THAT THUS SAITH THE LORD OF THE KING THAT SITTETH UPON THE THRONE
 OF DAVID, AND OF ALL THE PEOPLE THAT DWELLETH IN THIS CITY, AND OF YOUR
 BRETHREN THAT ARE NOT GONE FORTH WITH YOU INTO CAPTIVITY;
# 17 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; BEHOLD, I WILL SEND UPON THEM THE SWORD,
 THE FAMINE, AND THE PESTILENCE, AND WILL MAKE THEM LIKE VILE FIGS, THAT
 CANNOT BE EATEN, THEY ARE SO EVIL.
# 18 AND I WILL PERSECUTE THEM WITH THE SWORD, WITH THE FAMINE, AND WITH THE
 PESTILENCE, AND WILL DELIVER THEM TO BE REMOVED TO ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE
 EARTH, TO BE A CURSE, AND AN ASTONISHMENT, AND AN HISSING, AND A REPROACH,
 AMONG ALL THE NATIONS WHITHER I HAVE DRIVEN THEM:
# 19 BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT HEARKENED TO MY WORDS, SAITH THE LORD, WHICH I
 SENT UNTO THEM BY MY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS, RISING UP EARLY AND SENDING THEM;
 BUT YE WOULD NOT HEAR, SAITH THE LORD.
# 20 HEAR YE THEREFORE THE WORD OF THE LORD, ALL YE OF THE CAPTIVITY, WHOM I
 HAVE SENT FROM JERUSALEM TO BABYLON:
# 21 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, OF AHAB THE SON OF
 KOLAIAH, AND OF ZEDEKIAH THE SON OF MAASEIAH, WHICH PROPHESY A LIE UNTO YOU
 IN MY NAME; BEHOLD, I WILL DELIVER THEM INTO THE HAND OF NEBUCHADREZZAR KING
 OF BABYLON; AND HE SHALL SLAY THEM BEFORE YOUR EYES;
# 22 AND OF THEM SHALL BE TAKEN UP A CURSE BY ALL THE CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH
 WHICH ARE IN BABYLON, SAYING, THE LORD MAKE THEE LIKE ZEDEKIAH AND LIKE AHAB,
 WHOM THE KING OF BABYLON ROASTED IN THE FIRE;
# 23 BECAUSE THEY HAVE COMMITTED VILLANY IN ISRAEL, AND HAVE COMMITTED
 ADULTERY WITH THEIR NEIGHBOURS WIVES, AND HAVE SPOKEN LYING WORDS IN MY NAME,
 WHICH I HAVE NOT COMMANDED THEM; EVEN I KNOW, AND AM A WITNESS, SAITH THE
 LORD.
# 24 THUS SHALT THOU ALSO SPEAK TO SHEMAIAH THE NEHELAMITE, SAYING,
# 25 THUS SPEAKETH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, SAYING, BECAUSE THOU
 HAST SENT LETTERS IN THY NAME UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE AT JERUSALEM, AND
 TO ZEPHANIAH THE SON OF MAASEIAH THE PRIEST, AND TO ALL THE PRIESTS, SAYING,
# 26 THE LORD HATH MADE THEE PRIEST IN THE STEAD OF JEHOIADA THE PRIEST, THAT
 YE SHOULD BE OFFICERS IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, FOR EVERY MAN THAT IS MAD,
 AND MAKETH HIMSELF A PROPHET, THAT THOU SHOULDEST PUT HIM IN PRISON, AND IN
 THE STOCKS.
# 27 NOW THEREFORE WHY HAST THOU NOT REPROVED JEREMIAH OF ANATHOTH, WHICH
 MAKETH HIMSELF A PROPHET TO YOU?
# 28 FOR THEREFORE HE SENT UNTO US IN BABYLON, SAYING, THIS CAPTIVITY IS
 LONG: BUILD YE HOUSES, AND DWELL IN THEM; AND PLANT GARDENS, AND EAT THE
 FRUIT OF THEM.
# 29 AND ZEPHANIAH THE PRIEST READ THIS LETTER IN THE EARS OF JEREMIAH THE
 PROPHET.
# 30 THEN CAME THE WORD OF THE LORD UNTO JEREMIAH, SAYING,
# 31 SEND TO ALL THEM OF THE CAPTIVITY, SAYING, THUS SAITH THE LORD
 CONCERNING SHEMAIAH THE NEHELAMITE; BECAUSE THAT SHEMAIAH HATH PROPHESIED
 UNTO YOU, AND I SENT HIM NOT, AND HE CAUSED YOU TO TRUST IN A LIE:
# 32 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, I WILL PUNISH SHEMAIAH THE
 NEHELAMITE, AND HIS SEED: HE SHALL NOT HAVE A MAN TO DWELL AMONG THIS PEOPLE;
 NEITHER SHALL HE BEHOLD THE GOOD THAT I WILL DO FOR MY PEOPLE, SAITH THE
 LORD; BECAUSE HE HATH TAUGHT REBELLION AGAINST THE LORD.
= CHAPTER 30 
# 1 THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD, SAYING,
# 2 THUS SPEAKETH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, SAYING, WRITE THEE ALL THE WORDS
 THAT I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO THEE IN A BOOK.
# 3 FOR, LO, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT I WILL BRING AGAIN THE
 CAPTIVITY OF MY PEOPLE ISRAEL AND JUDAH, SAITH THE LORD: AND I WILL CAUSE
 THEM TO RETURN TO THE LAND THAT I GAVE TO THEIR FATHERS, AND THEY SHALL
 POSSESS IT.
# 4 AND THESE ARE THE WORDS THAT THE LORD SPAKE CONCERNING ISRAEL AND
 CONCERNING JUDAH.
# 5 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD; WE HAVE HEARD A VOICE OF TREMBLING, OF FEAR, AND
 NOT OF PEACE.
# 6 ASK YE NOW, AND SEE WHETHER A MAN DOTH TRAVAIL WITH CHILD? WHEREFORE DO I
 SEE EVERY MAN WITH HIS HANDS ON HIS LOINS, AS A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL, AND ALL
 FACES ARE TURNED INTO PALENESS?
# 7 ALAS! FOR THAT DAY IS GREAT, SO THAT NONE IS LIKE IT: IT IS EVEN THE TIME
 OF JACOBS TROUBLE, BUT HE SHALL BE SAVED OUT OF IT.
# 8 FOR IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THAT I
 WILL BREAK HIS YOKE FROM OFF THY NECK, AND WILL BURST THY BONDS, AND
 STRANGERS SHALL NO MORE SERVE THEMSELVES OF HIM:
# 9 BUT THEY SHALL SERVE THE LORD THEIR GOD, AND DAVID THEIR KING, WHOM I
 WILL RAISE UP UNTO THEM.
# 10 THEREFORE FEAR THOU NOT, O MY SERVANT JACOB, SAITH THE LORD; NEITHER BE
 DISMAYED, O ISRAEL: FOR, LO, I WILL SAVE THEE FROM AFAR, AND THY SEED FROM
 THE LAND OF THEIR CAPTIVITY; AND JACOB SHALL RETURN, AND SHALL BE IN REST,
 AND BE QUIET, AND NONE SHALL MAKE HIM AFRAID.
# 11 FOR I AM WITH THEE, SAITH THE LORD, TO SAVE THEE: THOUGH I MAKE A FULL
 END OF ALL NATIONS WHITHER I HAVE SCATTERED THEE, YET I WILL NOT MAKE A FULL
 END OF THEE: BUT I WILL CORRECT THEE IN MEASURE, AND WILL NOT LEAVE THEE
 ALTOGETHER UNPUNISHED.
# 12 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD, THY BRUISE IS INCURABLE, AND THY WOUND IS
 GRIEVOUS.
# 13 THERE IS NONE TO PLEAD THY CAUSE, THAT THOU MAYEST BE BOUND UP: THOU
 HAST NO HEALING MEDICINES.
# 14 ALL THY LOVERS HAVE FORGOTTEN THEE; THEY SEEK THEE NOT; FOR I HAVE
 WOUNDED THEE WITH THE WOUND OF AN ENEMY, WITH THE CHASTISEMENT OF A CRUEL
 ONE, FOR THE MULTITUDE OF THINE INIQUITY; BECAUSE THY SINS WERE INCREASED.
# 15 WHY CRIEST THOU FOR THINE AFFLICTION? THY SORROW IS INCURABLE FOR THE
 MULTITUDE OF THINE INIQUITY: BECAUSE THY SINS WERE INCREASED, I HAVE DONE
 THESE THINGS UNTO THEE.
# 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.
# 17 FOR I WILL RESTORE HEALTH UNTO THEE, AND I WILL HEAL THEE OF THY WOUNDS,
 SAITH THE LORD; BECAUSE THEY CALLED THEE AN OUTCAST, SAYING, THIS IS ZION,
 WHOM NO MAN SEEKETH AFTER.
# 18 THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, I WILL BRING AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF JACOBS
 TENTS, AND HAVE MERCY ON HIS DWELLINGPLACES; AND THE CITY SHALL BE BUILDED
 UPON HER OWN HEAP, AND THE PALACE SHALL REMAIN AFTER THE MANNER THEREOF.
# 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.
# 20 THEIR CHILDREN ALSO SHALL BE AS AFORETIME, AND THEIR CONGREGATION SHALL
 BE ESTABLISHED BEFORE ME, AND I WILL PUNISH ALL THAT OPPRESS THEM.
# 21 AND THEIR NOBLES SHALL BE OF THEMSELVES, AND THEIR GOVERNOR SHALL
 PROCEED FROM THE MIDST OF THEM; AND I WILL CAUSE HIM TO DRAW NEAR, AND HE
 SHALL APPROACH UNTO ME: FOR WHO IS THIS THAT ENGAGED HIS HEART TO APPROACH
 UNTO ME? SAITH THE LORD.
# 22 AND YE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL BE YOUR GOD.
# 23 BEHOLD, THE WHIRLWIND OF THE LORD GOETH FORTH WITH FURY, A CONTINUING
 WHIRLWIND: IT SHALL FALL WITH PAIN UPON THE HEAD OF THE WICKED.
# 24 THE FIERCE ANGER OF THE LORD SHALL NOT RETURN, UNTIL HE HATH DONE IT,
 AND UNTIL HE HAVE PERFORMED THE INTENTS OF HIS HEART: IN THE LATTER DAYS YE
 SHALL CONSIDER IT.
= CHAPTER 31 
# 1 AT THE SAME TIME, SAITH THE LORD, WILL I BE THE GOD OF ALL THE FAMILIES OF
 ISRAEL, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.
# 2 THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE PEOPLE WHICH WERE LEFT OF THE SWORD FOUND GRACE
 IN THE WILDERNESS; EVEN ISRAEL, WHEN I WENT TO CAUSE HIM TO REST.
# 3 THE LORD HATH APPEARED OF OLD UNTO ME, SAYING, YEA, I HAVE LOVED THEE
 WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE: THEREFORE WITH LOVINGKINDNESS HAVE I DRAWN THEE.
# 4 AGAIN I WILL BUILD THEE, AND THOU SHALT BE BUILT, O VIRGIN OF ISRAEL:
 THOU SHALT AGAIN BE ADORNED WITH THY TABRETS, AND SHALT GO FORTH IN THE
 DANCES OF THEM THAT MAKE MERRY.
# 5 THOU SHALT YET PLANT VINES UPON THE MOUNTAINS OF SAMARIA: THE PLANTERS
 SHALL PLANT, AND SHALL EAT THEM AS COMMON THINGS.
# 6 FOR THERE SHALL BE A DAY, THAT THE WATCHMEN UPON THE MOUNT EPHRAIM SHALL
 CRY, ARISE YE, AND LET US GO UP TO ZION UNTO THE LORD OUR GOD.
# 7 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD; SING WITH GLADNESS FOR JACOB, AND SHOUT AMONG
 THE CHIEF OF THE NATIONS: PUBLISH YE, PRAISE YE, AND SAY, O LORD, SAVE THY
 PEOPLE, THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL.
# 8 BEHOLD, I WILL BRING THEM FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY, AND GATHER THEM FROM
 THE COASTS OF THE EARTH, AND WITH THEM THE BLIND AND THE LAME, THE WOMAN WITH
 CHILD AND HER THAT TRAVAILETH WITH CHILD TOGETHER: A GREAT COMPANY SHALL
 RETURN THITHER.
# 9 THEY SHALL COME WITH WEEPING, AND WITH SUPPLICATIONS WILL I LEAD THEM: I
 WILL CAUSE THEM TO WALK BY THE RIVERS OF WATERS IN A STRAIGHT WAY, WHEREIN
 THEY SHALL NOT STUMBLE: FOR I AM A FATHER TO ISRAEL, AND EPHRAIM IS MY
 FIRSTBORN.
# 10 HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, O YE NATIONS, AND DECLARE IT IN THE ISLES
 AFAR OFF, AND SAY, HE THAT SCATTERED ISRAEL WILL GATHER HIM, AND KEEP HIM, AS
 A SHEPHERD DOTH HIS FLOCK.
# 11 FOR THE LORD HATH REDEEMED JACOB, AND RANSOMED HIM FROM THE HAND OF HIM
 THAT WAS STRONGER THAN HE.
# 12 THEREFORE THEY SHALL COME AND SING IN THE HEIGHT OF ZION, AND SHALL FLOW
 TOGETHER TO THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD, FOR WHEAT, AND FOR WINE, AND FOR OIL,
 AND FOR 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.
# 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.
# 14 AND I WILL SATIATE THE SOUL OF THE PRIESTS WITH FATNESS, AND MY PEOPLE
 SHALL BE SATISFIED WITH MY GOODNESS, SAITH THE LORD.
# 15 THUS SAITH THE LORD; A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH, LAMENTATION, AND BITTER
 WEEPING; RAHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN REFUSED TO BE COMFORTED FOR HER
 CHILDREN, BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT.
# 16 THUS SAITH THE LORD; REFRAIN THY VOICE FROM WEEPING, AND THINE EYES FROM
 TEARS: FOR THY WORK SHALL BE REWARDED, SAITH THE LORD; AND THEY SHALL COME
 AGAIN FROM THE LAND OF THE ENEMY.
# 17 AND THERE IS HOPE IN THINE END, SAITH THE LORD, THAT THY CHILDREN SHALL
 COME AGAIN TO THEIR OWN BORDER.
# 18 I HAVE SURELY HEARD EPHRAIM BEMOANING HIMSELF THUS; THOU HAST CHASTISED
 ME, AND I WAS CHASTISED, AS A BULLOCK UNACCUSTOMED TO THE YOKE: TURN THOU ME,
 AND I SHALL BE TURNED; FOR THOU ART THE LORD MY GOD.
# 19 SURELY AFTER THAT I WAS TURNED, I REPENTED; AND AFTER THAT I WAS
 INSTRUCTED, I SMOTE UPON MY THIGH: I WAS ASHAMED, YEA, EVEN CONFOUNDED,
 BECAUSE I DID BEAR THE REPROACH OF MY YOUTH.
# 20 IS EPHRAIM MY DEAR SON? IS HE A PLEASANT CHILD? FOR SINCE I SPAKE
 AGAINST HIM, I DO EARNESTLY REMEMBER HIM STILL: THEREFORE MY BOWELS ARE
 TROUBLED FOR HIM; I WILL SURELY HAVE MERCY UPON HIM, SAITH THE LORD.
# 21 SET THEE UP WAYMARKS, MAKE THEE HIGH HEAPS: SET THINE HEART TOWARD THE
 HIGHWAY, EVEN THE WAY WHICH THOU WENTEST: TURN AGAIN, O VIRGIN OF ISRAEL,
 TURN AGAIN TO THESE THY CITIES.
# 22 HOW LONG WILT THOU GO ABOUT, O THOU BACKSLIDING DAUGHTER? FOR THE LORD
 HATH CREATED A NEW THING IN THE EARTH, A WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN.
# 23 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; AS YET THEY SHALL USE
 THIS SPEECH IN THE LAND OF JUDAH AND IN THE CITIES THEREOF, WHEN I SHALL
 BRING AGAIN THEIR CAPTIVITY; THE LORD BLESS THEE, O HABITATION OF JUSTICE,
 AND MOUNTAIN OF HOLINESS.
# 24 AND THERE SHALL DWELL IN JUDAH ITSELF, AND IN ALL THE CITIES THEREOF
 TOGETHER, HUSBANDMEN, AND THEY THAT GO FORTH WITH FLOCKS.
# 25 FOR I HAVE SATIATED THE WEARY SOUL, AND I HAVE REPLENISHED EVERY
 SORROWFUL SOUL.
# 26 UPON THIS I AWAKED, AND BEHELD; AND MY SLEEP WAS SWEET UNTO ME.
# 27 BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT I WILL SOW THE HOUSE OF
 ISRAEL AND THE HOUSE OF JUDAH WITH THE SEED OF MAN, AND WITH THE SEED OF
 BEAST.
# 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.
# 29 IN THOSE DAYS THEY SHALL SAY NO MORE, THE FATHERS HAVE EATEN A SOUR
 GRAPE, AND THE CHILDRENS TEETH ARE SET ON EDGE.
# 30 BUT EVERY ONE SHALL DIE FOR HIS OWN INIQUITY: EVERY MAN THAT EATETH THE
 SOUR GRAPE, HIS TEETH SHALL BE SET ON EDGE.
# 31 BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT
 WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH:
# 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 BRAKE, ALTHOUGH I WAS AN HUSBAND UNTO THEM, SAITH THE LORD:
# 33 BUT THIS SHALL BE THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF
 ISRAEL; AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAITH THE LORD, I WILL PUT MY LAW IN THEIR INWARD
 PARTS, AND WRITE IT IN THEIR HEARTS; AND WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE
 MY PEOPLE.
# 34 AND THEY SHALL TEACH NO MORE EVERY MAN HIS NEIGHBOUR, AND EVERY MAN HIS
 BROTHER, SAYING, KNOW THE LORD: FOR THEY SHALL ALL KNOW ME, FROM THE LEAST OF
 THEM UNTO THE GREATEST OF THEM, SAITH THE LORD: FOR I WILL FORGIVE THEIR
 INIQUITY, AND I WILL REMEMBER THEIR SIN NO MORE.
# 35 THUS SAITH THE LORD, WHICH GIVETH THE SUN FOR A LIGHT BY DAY, AND THE
 ORDINANCES OF THE MOON AND OF THE STARS FOR A LIGHT BY NIGHT, WHICH DIVIDETH
 THE SEA WHEN THE WAVES THEREOF ROAR; THE LORD OF HOSTS IS HIS NAME:
# 36 IF THOSE ORDINANCES DEPART FROM BEFORE ME, SAITH THE LORD, THEN THE SEED
 OF ISRAEL ALSO SHALL CEASE FROM BEING A NATION BEFORE ME FOR EVER.
# 37 THUS SAITH THE LORD; IF HEAVEN ABOVE CAN BE MEASURED, AND THE
 FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH SEARCHED OUT BENEATH, I WILL ALSO CAST OFF ALL THE
 SEED OF ISRAEL FOR ALL THAT THEY HAVE DONE, SAITH THE LORD.
# 38 BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT THE CITY SHALL BE BUILT TO
 THE LORD FROM THE TOWER OF HANANEEL UNTO THE GATE OF THE CORNER.
# 39 AND THE MEASURING LINE SHALL YET GO FORTH OVER AGAINST IT UPON THE HILL
 GAREB, AND SHALL COMPASS ABOUT TO GOATH.
# 40 AND THE WHOLE VALLEY OF THE DEAD BODIES, AND OF THE ASHES, AND ALL THE
 FIELDS UNTO THE BROOK OF KIDRON, UNTO THE CORNER OF THE HORSE GATE TOWARD THE
 EAST, SHALL BE HOLY UNTO THE LORD; IT SHALL NOT BE PLUCKED UP, NOR THROWN
 DOWN ANY MORE FOR EVER.
= CHAPTER 32 
# 1 THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD IN THE TENTH YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH
 KING OF JUDAH, WHICH WAS THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF NEBUCHADREZZAR.
# 2 FOR THEN THE KING OF BABYLONS ARMY BESIEGED JERUSALEM: AND JEREMIAH THE
 PROPHET WAS SHUT UP IN THE COURT OF THE PRISON, WHICH WAS IN THE KING OF
 JUDAHS HOUSE.
# 3 FOR ZEDEKIAH KING OF JUDAH HAD SHUT HIM UP, SAYING, WHEREFORE DOST THOU
 PROPHESY, AND SAY, THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, I WILL GIVE THIS CITY INTO
 THE HAND OF THE KING OF BABYLON, AND HE SHALL TAKE IT;
# 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 BEHOLD
 HIS EYES;
# 5 AND HE SHALL LEAD ZEDEKIAH TO BABYLON, AND THERE SHALL HE BE UNTIL I
 VISIT HIM, SAITH THE LORD: THOUGH YE FIGHT WITH THE CHALDEANS, YE SHALL NOT
 PROSPER.
# 6 AND JEREMIAH SAID, THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING,
# 7 BEHOLD, HANAMEEL THE SON OF SHALLUM THINE UNCLE SHALL COME UNTO THEE
 SAYING, BUY THEE MY FIELD THAT IS IN ANATHOTH: FOR THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION IS
 THINE TO BUY IT.
# 8 SO HANAMEEL MINE UNCLES SON CAME TO ME IN THE COURT OF THE PRISON
 ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND SAID UNTO ME, BUY MY FIELD, I PRAY
 THEE, THAT IS IN ANATHOTH, WHICH IS IN THE COUNTRY OF BENJAMIN: FOR THE RIGHT
 OF INHERITANCE IS THINE, AND THE REDEMPTION IS THINE; BUY IT FOR THYSELF.
 THEN I KNEW THAT THIS WAS THE WORD OF THE LORD.
# 9 AND I BOUGHT THE FIELD OF HANAMEEL MY UNCLES SON, THAT WAS IN ANATHOTH,
 AND WEIGHED HIM THE MONEY, EVEN SEVENTEEN SHEKELS OF SILVER.
# 10 AND I SUBSCRIBED THE EVIDENCE, AND SEALED IT, AND TOOK WITNESSES, AND
 WEIGHED HIM THE MONEY IN THE BALANCES.
# 11 SO I TOOK THE EVIDENCE OF THE PURCHASE, BOTH THAT WHICH WAS SEALED
 ACCORDING TO THE LAW AND CUSTOM, AND THAT WHICH WAS OPEN:
# 12 AND I GAVE THE EVIDENCE OF THE PURCHASE UNTO BARUCH THE SON OF NERIAH,
 THE SON OF MAASEIAH, IN THE SIGHT OF HANAMEEL MINE UNCLES SON, AND IN THE
 PRESENCE OF THE WITNESSES THAT SUBSCRIBED THE BOOK OF THE PURCHASE, BEFORE
 ALL THE JEWS THAT SAT IN THE COURT OF THE PRISON.
# 13 AND I CHARGED BARUCH BEFORE THEM, SAYING,
# 14 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; TAKE THESE EVIDENCES,
 THIS EVIDENCE OF THE PURCHASE, BOTH WHICH IS SEALED, AND THIS EVIDENCE WHICH
 IS OPEN; AND PUT THEM IN AN EARTHEN VESSEL, THAT THEY MAY CONTINUE MANY DAYS.
# 15 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; HOUSES AND FIELDS
 AND VINEYARDS SHALL BE POSSESSED AGAIN IN THIS LAND.
# 16 NOW WHEN I HAD DELIVERED THE EVIDENCE OF THE PURCHASE UNTO BARUCH THE
 SON OF NERIAH, I PRAYED UNTO THE LORD, SAYING,
# 17 AH LORD GOD! BEHOLD, THOU HAST MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH BY THY
 GREAT POWER AND STRETCHED OUT ARM, AND THERE IS NOTHING TOO HARD FOR THEE:
# 18 THOU SHEWEST LOVINGKINDNESS UNTO THOUSANDS, AND RECOMPENSEST THE
 INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS INTO THE BOSOM OF THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM: THE
 GREAT, THE MIGHTY GOD, THE LORD OF HOSTS, IS HIS NAME,
# 19 GREAT IN COUNSEL, AND MIGHTY IN WORK: FOR THINE EYES ARE OPEN UPON ALL
 THE WAYS OF THE SONS OF MEN: TO GIVE EVERY ONE ACCORDING TO HIS WAYS, AND
 ACCORDING TO THE FRUIT OF HIS DOINGS:
# 20 WHICH HAST SET SIGNS AND WONDERS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, EVEN UNTO THIS
 DAY, AND IN ISRAEL, AND AMONG OTHER MEN; AND HAST MADE THEE A NAME, AS AT
 THIS DAY;
# 21 AND HAST BROUGHT FORTH THY PEOPLE ISRAEL OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT WITH
 SIGNS, AND WITH WONDERS, AND WITH A STRONG HAND, AND WITH A STRETCHED OUT
 ARM, AND WITH GREAT TERROR;
# 22 AND HAST GIVEN THEM THIS LAND, WHICH THOU DIDST SWEAR TO THEIR FATHERS
 TO GIVE THEM, A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY;
# 23 AND THEY CAME IN, AND POSSESSED IT; BUT THEY OBEYED NOT THY VOICE,
 NEITHER WALKED IN THY LAW; THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING OF ALL THAT THOU
 COMMANDEDST THEM TO DO: THEREFORE THOU HAST CAUSED ALL THIS EVIL TO COME UPON
 THEM:
# 24 BEHOLD THE MOUNTS, THEY ARE COME UNTO THE CITY TO TAKE IT; AND THE CITY
 IS GIVEN INTO THE HAND OF THE CHALDEANS, THAT FIGHT AGAINST IT, BECAUSE OF
 THE SWORD, AND OF THE FAMINE, AND OF THE PESTILENCE: AND WHAT THOU HAST
 SPOKEN IS COME TO PASS; AND, BEHOLD, THOU SEEST IT.
# 25 AND THOU HAST SAID UNTO ME, O LORD GOD, BUY THEE THE FIELD FOR MONEY,
 AND TAKE WITNESSES; FOR THE CITY IS GIVEN INTO THE HAND OF THE CHALDEANS.
# 26 THEN CAME THE WORD OF THE LORD UNTO JEREMIAH, SAYING,
# 27 BEHOLD, I AM THE LORD, THE GOD OF ALL FLESH: IS THERE ANY THING TOO HARD
 FOR ME?
# 28 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, I WILL GIVE THIS CITY INTO THE
 HAND OF THE CHALDEANS, AND INTO THE HAND OF NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON,
 AND HE SHALL TAKE IT:
# 29 AND THE CHALDEANS, THAT FIGHT AGAINST THIS CITY, SHALL COME AND SET FIRE
 ON THIS CITY, AND BURN IT WITH THE HOUSES, UPON WHOSE ROOFS THEY HAVE OFFERED
 INCENSE UNTO BAAL, AND POURED OUT DRINK OFFERINGS UNTO OTHER GODS, TO PROVOKE
 ME TO ANGER.
# 30 FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH HAVE ONLY DONE EVIL
 BEFORE ME FROM THEIR YOUTH: FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAVE ONLY PROVOKED ME
 TO ANGER WITH THE WORK OF THEIR HANDS, SAITH THE LORD.
# 31 FOR THIS CITY HATH BEEN TO ME AS A PROVOCATION OF MINE ANGER AND OF MY
 FURY FROM THE DAY THAT THEY BUILT IT EVEN UNTO THIS DAY; THAT I SHOULD REMOVE
 IT FROM BEFORE MY FACE,
# 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.
# 33 AND THEY HAVE TURNED UNTO ME THE BACK, AND NOT THE FACE: THOUGH I TAUGHT
 THEM, RISING UP EARLY AND TEACHING THEM, YET THEY HAVE NOT HEARKENED TO
 RECEIVE INSTRUCTION.
# 34 BUT THEY SET THEIR ABOMINATIONS IN THE HOUSE, WHICH IS CALLED BY MY
 NAME, TO DEFILE IT.
# 35 AND 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 UNTO MOLECH; WHICH I COMMANDED THEM NOT, NEITHER CAME IT INTO MY MIND,
 THAT THEY SHOULD DO THIS ABOMINATION, TO CAUSE JUDAH TO SIN.
# 36 AND NOW THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, CONCERNING
 THIS CITY, WHEREOF YE SAY, IT SHALL BE DELIVERED INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF
 BABYLON BY THE SWORD, AND BY THE FAMINE, AND BY THE PESTILENCE;
# 37 BEHOLD, I WILL GATHER THEM OUT OF ALL COUNTRIES, WHITHER I HAVE DRIVEN
 THEM IN MINE ANGER, AND IN MY FURY, AND IN GREAT WRATH; AND I WILL BRING THEM
 AGAIN UNTO THIS PLACE, AND I WILL CAUSE THEM TO DWELL SAFELY:
# 38 AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD:
# 39 AND I WILL GIVE THEM ONE HEART, AND ONE WAY, THAT THEY MAY FEAR ME FOR
 EVER, FOR THE GOOD OF THEM, AND OF THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM:
# 40 AND I WILL MAKE AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH THEM, THAT I WILL NOT TURN
 AWAY FROM THEM, TO DO THEM GOOD; BUT I WILL PUT MY FEAR IN THEIR HEARTS, THAT
 THEY SHALL NOT DEPART FROM ME.
# 41 YEA, 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.
# 42 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD; LIKE AS I HAVE BROUGHT ALL THIS GREAT EVIL UPON
 THIS PEOPLE, SO WILL I BRING UPON THEM ALL THE GOOD THAT I HAVE PROMISED
 THEM.
# 43 AND FIELDS SHALL BE BOUGHT IN THIS LAND, WHEREOF YE SAY, IT IS DESOLATE
 WITHOUT MAN OR BEAST; IT IS GIVEN INTO THE HAND OF THE CHALDEANS.
# 44 MEN SHALL BUY FIELDS FOR MONEY, AND SUBSCRIBE EVIDENCES, AND SEAL THEM,
 AND TAKE WITNESSES IN THE LAND OF BENJAMIN, AND IN THE PLACES ABOUT
 JERUSALEM, AND IN THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AND IN THE CITIES OF THE MOUNTAINS,
 AND IN THE CITIES OF THE VALLEY, AND IN THE CITIES OF THE SOUTH: FOR I WILL
 CAUSE THEIR CAPTIVITY TO RETURN, SAITH THE LORD.
= CHAPTER 33 
# 1 MOREOVER THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO JEREMIAH THE SECOND TIME, WHILE HE
 WAS YET SHUT UP IN THE COURT OF THE PRISON, SAYING,
# 2 THUS SAITH THE LORD THE MAKER THEREOF, THE LORD THAT FORMED IT, TO
 ESTABLISH IT; THE LORD IS HIS NAME;
# 3 CALL UNTO ME, AND I WILL ANSWER THEE, AND SHEW THEE GREAT AND MIGHTY
 THINGS, WHICH THOU KNOWEST NOT.
# 4 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, CONCERNING THE HOUSES OF THIS
 CITY, AND CONCERNING THE HOUSES OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH, WHICH ARE THROWN DOWN
 BY THE MOUNTS, AND BY THE SWORD;
# 5 THEY COME TO FIGHT WITH THE CHALDEANS, BUT IT IS TO FILL THEM WITH THE
 DEAD BODIES OF MEN, WHOM I HAVE SLAIN IN MINE ANGER AND IN MY FURY, AND FOR
 ALL WHOSE WICKEDNESS I HAVE HID MY FACE FROM THIS CITY.
# 6 BEHOLD, I WILL BRING IT HEALTH AND CURE, AND I WILL CURE THEM , AND WILL
 REVEAL UNTO THEM THE ABUNDANCE OF PEACE AND TRUTH.
# 7 AND I WILL CAUSE THE CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH AND THE CAPTIVITY OF ISRAEL TO
 RETURN, AND WILL BUILD THEM, AS AT THE FIRST.
# 8 AND I WILL CLEANSE THEM FROM ALL THEIR INIQUITY, WHEREBY THEY HAVE SINNED
 AGAINST ME; AND I WILL PARDON ALL THEIR INIQUITIES, WHEREBY THEY HAVE SINNED,
 AND WHEREBY THEY HAVE TRANSGRESSED AGAINST ME.
# 9 AND IT SHALL BE TO ME A NAME OF JOY, A PRAISE AND AN HONOUR BEFORE ALL
 THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH, WHICH SHALL HEAR ALL THE GOOD THAT I DO UNTO THEM:
 AND THEY SHALL FEAR AND TREMBLE FOR ALL THE GOODNESS AND FOR ALL THE
 PROSPERITY THAT I PROCURE UNTO IT.
# 10 THUS SAITH THE LORD; AGAIN THERE SHALL BE HEARD IN THIS PLACE, WHICH YE
 SAY SHALL BE DESOLATE WITHOUT MAN AND WITHOUT BEAST, EVEN IN THE CITIES OF
 JUDAH, AND IN THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM, THAT ARE DESOLATE, WITHOUT MAN, AND
 WITHOUT INHABITANT, AND WITHOUT BEAST,
# 11 THE VOICE OF JOY, AND THE VOICE OF GLADNESS, THE VOICE OF THE
 BRIDEGROOM, AND THE VOICE OF THE BRIDE, THE VOICE OF THEM THAT SHALL SAY,
 PRAISE THE LORD OF HOSTS: FOR THE LORD IS GOOD; FOR HIS MERCY ENDURETH FOR
 EVER: AND OF THEM THAT SHALL BRING THE SACRIFICE OF PRAISE INTO THE HOUSE OF
 THE LORD. FOR I WILL CAUSE TO RETURN THE CAPTIVITY OF THE LAND, AS AT THE
 FIRST, SAITH THE LORD.
# 12 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; AGAIN IN THIS PLACE, WHICH IS DESOLATE
 WITHOUT MAN AND WITHOUT BEAST, AND IN ALL THE CITIES THEREOF, SHALL BE AN
 HABITATION OF SHEPHERDS CAUSING THEIR FLOCKS TO LIE DOWN.
# 13 IN THE CITIES OF THE MOUNTAINS, IN THE CITIES OF THE VALE, 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 PASS AGAIN UNDER THE
 HANDS OF HIM THAT TELLETH THEM, SAITH THE LORD.
# 14 BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT I WILL PERFORM THAT GOOD
 THING WHICH I HAVE PROMISED UNTO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND TO THE HOUSE OF
 JUDAH.
# 15 IN THOSE DAYS, AND AT THAT TIME, WILL I CAUSE THE BRANCH OF
 RIGHTEOUSNESS TO GROW UP UNTO DAVID; AND HE SHALL EXECUTE JUDGMENT AND
 RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE LAND.
# 16 IN THOSE DAYS SHALL JUDAH BE SAVED, AND JERUSALEM SHALL DWELL SAFELY:
 AND THIS IS THE NAME WHEREWITH SHE SHALL BE CALLED, THE LORD OUR
 RIGHTEOUSNESS.
# 17 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD; DAVID SHALL NEVER WANT A MAN TO SIT UPON THE
 THRONE OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL;
# 18 NEITHER SHALL THE PRIESTS THE LEVITES WANT A MAN BEFORE ME TO OFFER
 BURNT OFFERINGS, AND TO KINDLE MEAT OFFERINGS, AND TO DO SACRIFICE
 CONTINUALLY.
# 19 AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO JEREMIAH, SAYING,
# 20 THUS SAITH THE LORD; IF YE CAN BREAK MY COVENANT OF THE DAY, AND MY
 COVENANT OF THE NIGHT, AND THAT THERE SHOULD NOT BE DAY AND NIGHT IN THEIR
 SEASON;
# 21 THEN MAY ALSO MY COVENANT BE BROKEN WITH DAVID MY SERVANT, THAT HE
 SHOULD NOT HAVE A SON TO REIGN UPON HIS THRONE; AND WITH THE LEVITES THE
 PRIESTS, MY MINISTERS.
# 22 AS THE HOST OF HEAVEN CANNOT BE NUMBERED, NEITHER THE SAND OF THE SEA
 MEASURED: SO WILL I MULTIPLY THE SEED OF DAVID MY SERVANT, AND THE LEVITES
 THAT MINISTER UNTO ME.
# 23 MOREOVER THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JEREMIAH, SAYING,
# 24 CONSIDEREST THOU NOT WHAT THIS PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN, SAYING, THE TWO
 FAMILIES WHICH THE LORD HATH CHOSEN, HE HATH EVEN CAST THEM OFF? THUS THEY
 HAVE DESPISED MY PEOPLE, THAT THEY SHOULD BE NO MORE A NATION BEFORE THEM.
# 25 THUS SAITH THE LORD; IF MY COVENANT BE NOT WITH DAY AND NIGHT, AND IF I
 HAVE NOT APPOINTED THE ORDINANCES OF HEAVEN AND EARTH;
# 26 THEN WILL I CAST AWAY THE SEED OF JACOB AND DAVID MY SERVANT, SO THAT I
 WILL NOT TAKE ANY OF HIS SEED TO BE RULERS OVER THE SEED OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC,
 AND JACOB: FOR I WILL CAUSE THEIR CAPTIVITY TO RETURN, AND HAVE MERCY ON
 THEM.
= CHAPTER 34 
# 1 THE WORD WHICH CAME UNTO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD, WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING
 OF BABYLON, AND ALL HIS ARMY, AND ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH OF HIS
 DOMINION, AND ALL THE PEOPLE, FOUGHT AGAINST JERUSALEM, AND AGAINST ALL THE
 CITIES THEREOF, SAYING,
# 2 THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; GO AND SPEAK TO ZEDEKIAH KING OF
 JUDAH, AND TELL HIM, THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, I WILL GIVE THIS CITY INTO
 THE HAND OF THE KING OF BABYLON, AND HE SHALL BURN IT WITH FIRE:
# 3 AND THOU SHALT NOT ESCAPE OUT OF HIS HAND, BUT SHALT SURELY BE TAKEN, AND
 DELIVERED INTO HIS HAND; AND THINE EYES SHALL BEHOLD THE EYES OF THE KING OF
 BABYLON, AND HE SHALL SPEAK WITH THEE MOUTH TO MOUTH, AND THOU SHALT GO TO
 BABYLON.
# 4 YET HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, O ZEDEKIAH KING OF JUDAH; THUS SAITH THE
 LORD OF THEE, THOU SHALT NOT DIE BY THE SWORD:
# 5 BUT THOU SHALT DIE IN PEACE: AND WITH THE BURNINGS OF THY FATHERS, THE
 FORMER KINGS WHICH WERE BEFORE THEE, SO SHALL THEY BURN ODOURS FOR THEE; AND
 THEY WILL LAMENT THEE, SAYING, AH LORD! FOR I HAVE PRONOUNCED THE WORD, SAITH
 THE LORD.
# 6 THEN JEREMIAH THE PROPHET SPAKE ALL THESE WORDS UNTO ZEDEKIAH KING OF
 JUDAH IN JERUSALEM,
# 7 WHEN THE KING OF BABYLONS ARMY FOUGHT AGAINST JERUSALEM, AND AGAINST ALL
 THE CITIES OF JUDAH THAT WERE LEFT, AGAINST LACHISH, AND AGAINST AZEKAH: FOR
 THESE DEFENCED CITIES REMAINED OF THE CITIES OF JUDAH.
# 8 THIS IS THE WORD THAT CAME UNTO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD, AFTER THAT THE
 KING ZEDEKIAH HAD MADE A COVENANT WITH ALL THE PEOPLE WHICH WERE AT
 JERUSALEM, TO PROCLAIM LIBERTY UNTO THEM;
# 9 THAT EVERY MAN SHOULD LET HIS MANSERVANT, AND EVERY MAN HIS MAIDSERVANT,
 BEING AN HEBREW OR AN HEBREWESS, GO FREE; THAT NONE SHOULD SERVE HIMSELF OF
 THEM, TO WIT, OF A JEW HIS BROTHER.
# 10 NOW WHEN ALL THE PRINCES, AND ALL THE PEOPLE, WHICH HAD ENTERED INTO THE
 COVENANT, HEARD THAT EVERY ONE SHOULD LET HIS MANSERVANT, AND EVERY ONE HIS
 MAIDSERVANT, GO FREE, THAT NONE SHOULD SERVE THEMSELVES OF THEM ANY MORE,
 THEN THEY OBEYED, AND LET THEM GO.
# 11 BUT AFTERWARD THEY TURNED, AND CAUSED THE SERVANTS AND THE HANDMAIDS,
 WHOM THEY HAD LET GO FREE, TO RETURN, AND BROUGHT THEM INTO SUBJECTION FOR
 SERVANTS AND FOR HANDMAIDS.
# 12 THEREFORE THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD, SAYING,
# 13 THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; I MADE A COVENANT WITH YOUR
 FATHERS IN THE DAY THAT I BROUGHT THEM FORTH OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, OUT OF
 THE HOUSE OF BONDMEN, SAYING,
# 14 AT THE END OF SEVEN YEARS LET YE GO EVERY MAN HIS BROTHER AN HEBREW,
 WHICH HATH BEEN SOLD UNTO THEE; AND WHEN HE HATH SERVED THEE SIX YEARS, THOU
 SHALT LET HIM GO FREE FROM THEE: BUT YOUR FATHERS HEARKENED NOT UNTO ME,
 NEITHER INCLINED THEIR EAR.
# 15 AND YE WERE NOW TURNED, AND HAD DONE RIGHT IN MY SIGHT, IN PROCLAIMING
 LIBERTY EVERY MAN TO HIS NEIGHBOUR; AND YE HAD MADE A COVENANT BEFORE ME IN
 THE HOUSE WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME:
# 16 BUT YE TURNED AND POLLUTED MY NAME, AND CAUSED EVERY MAN HIS SERVANT,
 AND EVERY MAN HIS HANDMAID, WHOM HE HAD SET AT LIBERTY AT THEIR PLEASURE, TO
 RETURN, AND BROUGHT THEM INTO SUBJECTION, TO BE UNTO YOU FOR SERVANTS AND FOR
 HANDMAIDS.
# 17 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD; YE HAVE NOT HEARKENED UNTO ME, IN
 PROCLAIMING LIBERTY, EVERY ONE TO HIS BROTHER, AND EVERY MAN TO HIS
 NEIGHBOUR: BEHOLD, I PROCLAIM A LIBERTY FOR YOU, SAITH THE LORD, TO THE
 SWORD, TO THE PESTILENCE, AND TO THE FAMINE; AND I WILL MAKE YOU TO BE
 REMOVED INTO ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH.
# 18 AND I WILL GIVE THE MEN THAT HAVE TRANSGRESSED MY COVENANT, WHICH HAVE
 NOT PERFORMED THE WORDS OF THE COVENANT WHICH THEY HAD MADE BEFORE ME, WHEN
 THEY CUT THE CALF IN TWAIN, AND PASSED BETWEEN THE PARTS THEREOF,
# 19 THE PRINCES OF JUDAH, AND THE PRINCES OF JERUSALEM, THE EUNUCHS, AND THE
 PRIESTS, AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND, WHICH PASSED BETWEEN THE PARTS OF
 THE CALF;
# 20 I WILL EVEN GIVE THEM INTO THE HAND OF THEIR ENEMIES, AND INTO THE HAND
 OF THEM THAT SEEK THEIR LIFE: AND THEIR DEAD BODIES SHALL BE FOR MEAT UNTO
 THE FOWLS OF THE HEAVEN, AND TO THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH.
# 21 AND ZEDEKIAH KING OF JUDAH AND HIS PRINCES WILL I GIVE INTO THE HAND OF
 THEIR ENEMIES, AND INTO THE HAND OF THEM THAT SEEK THEIR LIFE, AND INTO THE
 HAND OF THE KING OF BABYLONS ARMY, WHICH ARE GONE UP FROM YOU.
# 22 BEHOLD, I WILL COMMAND, SAITH THE LORD, AND CAUSE THEM TO RETURN TO THIS
 CITY; AND THEY SHALL FIGHT AGAINST IT, AND TAKE IT, AND BURN IT WITH FIRE:
 AND I WILL MAKE THE CITIES OF JUDAH A DESOLATION WITHOUT AN INHABITANT.
= CHAPTER 35 
# 1 THE WORD WHICH CAME UNTO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD IN THE DAYS OF JEHOIAKIM
 THE SON OF JOSIAH KING OF JUDAH, SAYING,
# 2 GO UNTO THE HOUSE OF THE RECHABITES, AND SPEAK UNTO THEM, AND BRING THEM
 INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, INTO ONE OF THE CHAMBERS, AND GIVE THEM WINE TO
 DRINK.
# 3 THEN I TOOK JAAZANIAH THE SON OF JEREMIAH, THE SON OF HABAZINIAH, AND HIS
 BRETHREN, AND ALL HIS SONS, AND THE WHOLE HOUSE OF THE RECHABITES;
# 4 AND I BROUGHT THEM INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, INTO THE CHAMBER OF THE
 SONS OF HANAN, THE SON OF IGDALIAH, A MAN OF GOD, WHICH WAS BY THE CHAMBER OF
 THE PRINCES, WHICH WAS ABOVE THE CHAMBER OF MAASEIAH THE SON OF SHALLUM, THE
 KEEPER OF THE DOOR:
# 5 AND I SET BEFORE THE SONS OF THE HOUSE OF THE RECHABITES POTS FULL OF
 WINE, AND CUPS, AND I SAID UNTO THEM, DRINK YE WINE.
# 6 BUT THEY SAID, WE WILL DRINK NO WINE: FOR JONADAB THE SON OF RECHAB OUR
 FATHER COMMANDED US, SAYING, YE SHALL DRINK NO WINE, NEITHER YE, NOR YOUR
 SONS FOR EVER:
# 7 NEITHER SHALL YE BUILD HOUSE, NOR SOW SEED, NOR PLANT VINEYARD, NOR HAVE
 ANY: BUT ALL YOUR DAYS YE SHALL DWELL IN TENTS; THAT YE MAY LIVE MANY DAYS IN
 THE LAND WHERE YE BE STRANGERS.
# 8 THUS HAVE WE OBEYED THE VOICE OF JONADAB THE SON OF RECHAB OUR FATHER IN
 ALL THAT HE HATH CHARGED US, TO DRINK NO WINE ALL OUR DAYS, WE, OUR WIVES,
 OUR SONS, NOR OUR DAUGHTERS;
# 9 NOR TO BUILD HOUSES FOR US TO DWELL IN: NEITHER HAVE WE VINEYARD, NOR
 FIELD, NOR SEED:
# 10 BUT WE HAVE DWELT IN TENTS, AND HAVE OBEYED, AND DONE ACCORDING TO ALL
 THAT JONADAB OUR FATHER COMMANDED US.
# 11 BUT IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON CAME UP INTO
 THE LAND, THAT WE SAID, COME, AND LET US GO TO JERUSALEM FOR FEAR OF THE ARMY
 OF THE CHALDEANS, AND FOR FEAR OF THE ARMY OF THE SYRIANS: SO WE DWELL AT
 JERUSALEM.
# 12 THEN CAME THE WORD OF THE LORD UNTO JEREMIAH, SAYING,
# 13 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; GO AND TELL THE MEN OF
 JUDAH AND THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, WILL YE NOT RECEIVE INSTRUCTION TO
 HEARKEN TO MY WORDS? SAITH THE LORD.
# 14 THE WORDS OF JONADAB THE SON OF RECHAB, THAT HE COMMANDED HIS SONS NOT
 TO DRINK WINE, ARE PERFORMED; FOR UNTO THIS DAY THEY DRINK NONE, BUT OBEY
 THEIR FATHERS COMMANDMENT: NOTWITHSTANDING I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO YOU, RISING
 EARLY AND SPEAKING; BUT YE HEARKENED NOT UNTO ME.
# 15 I HAVE SENT ALSO UNTO YOU ALL MY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS, RISING UP EARLY
 AND SENDING THEM, SAYING, RETURN YE NOW EVERY MAN FROM HIS EVIL WAY, AND
 AMEND YOUR DOINGS, AND GO NOT AFTER OTHER GODS TO SERVE THEM, AND YE SHALL
 DWELL IN THE LAND WHICH I HAVE GIVEN TO YOU AND TO YOUR FATHERS: BUT YE HAVE
 NOT INCLINED YOUR EAR, NOR HEARKENED UNTO ME.
# 16 BECAUSE THE SONS OF JONADAB THE SON OF RECHAB HAVE PERFORMED THE
 COMMANDMENT OF THEIR FATHER, WHICH HE COMMANDED THEM; BUT THIS PEOPLE HATH
 NOT HEARKENED UNTO ME:
# 17 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; BEHOLD, I
 WILL BRING UPON JUDAH AND UPON ALL THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM ALL THE EVIL
 THAT I HAVE PRONOUNCED AGAINST THEM: BECAUSE I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO THEM, BUT
 THEY HAVE NOT HEARD; AND I HAVE CALLED UNTO THEM, BUT THEY HAVE NOT ANSWERED.
# 18 AND JEREMIAH SAID UNTO THE HOUSE OF THE RECHABITES, THUS SAITH THE LORD
 OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; BECAUSE YE HAVE OBEYED THE COMMANDMENT OF
 JONADAB YOUR FATHER, AND KEPT ALL HIS PRECEPTS, AND DONE ACCORDING UNTO ALL
 THAT HE HATH COMMANDED YOU:
# 19 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; JONADAB THE
 SON OF RECHAB SHALL NOT WANT A MAN TO STAND BEFORE ME FOR EVER.
= CHAPTER 36 
# 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF JEHOIAKIM THE SON OF JOSIAH KING
 OF JUDAH, THAT THIS WORD CAME UNTO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD, SAYING,
# 2 TAKE THEE A ROLL OF A BOOK, AND WRITE THEREIN ALL THE WORDS THAT I HAVE
 SPOKEN UNTO THEE AGAINST ISRAEL, AND AGAINST JUDAH, AND AGAINST ALL THE
 NATIONS, FROM THE DAY I SPAKE UNTO THEE, FROM THE DAYS OF JOSIAH, EVEN UNTO
 THIS DAY.
# 3 IT MAY BE THAT THE HOUSE OF JUDAH WILL HEAR ALL THE EVIL WHICH I PURPOSE
 TO DO UNTO THEM; THAT THEY MAY RETURN EVERY MAN FROM HIS EVIL WAY; THAT I MAY
 FORGIVE THEIR INIQUITY AND THEIR SIN.
# 4 THEN JEREMIAH CALLED BARUCH THE SON OF NERIAH: AND BARUCH WROTE FROM THE
 MOUTH OF JEREMIAH ALL THE WORDS OF THE LORD, WHICH HE HAD SPOKEN UNTO HIM,
 UPON A ROLL OF A BOOK.
# 5 AND JEREMIAH COMMANDED BARUCH, SAYING, I AM SHUT UP; I CANNOT GO INTO THE
 HOUSE OF THE LORD:
# 6 THEREFORE GO THOU, AND READ IN THE ROLL, WHICH THOU HAST WRITTEN FROM MY
 MOUTH, THE WORDS OF THE LORD IN THE EARS OF THE PEOPLE IN THE LORDS HOUSE
 UPON THE FASTING DAY: AND ALSO THOU SHALT READ THEM IN THE EARS OF ALL JUDAH
 THAT COME OUT OF THEIR CITIES.
# 7 IT MAY BE THEY WILL PRESENT THEIR SUPPLICATION BEFORE THE LORD, AND WILL
 RETURN EVERY ONE FROM HIS EVIL WAY: FOR GREAT IS THE ANGER AND THE FURY THAT
 THE LORD HATH PRONOUNCED AGAINST THIS PEOPLE.
# 8 AND BARUCH THE SON OF NERIAH DID ACCORDING TO ALL THAT JEREMIAH THE
 PROPHET COMMANDED HIM, READING IN THE BOOK THE WORDS OF THE LORD IN THE LORDS
 HOUSE.
# 9 AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE FIFTH YEAR OF JEHOIAKIM THE SON OF JOSIAH KING
 OF JUDAH, IN THE NINTH MONTH, THAT THEY PROCLAIMED A FAST BEFORE THE LORD TO
 ALL THE PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM, AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT CAME FROM THE CITIES
 OF JUDAH UNTO JERUSALEM.
# 10 THEN READ BARUCH IN THE BOOK THE WORDS OF JEREMIAH IN THE HOUSE OF THE
 LORD, IN THE CHAMBER OF GEMARIAH THE SON OF SHAPHAN THE SCRIBE, IN THE HIGHER
 COURT, AT THE ENTRY OF THE NEW GATE OF THE LORDS HOUSE, IN THE EARS OF ALL
 THE PEOPLE.
# 11 WHEN MICHAIAH THE SON OF GEMARIAH, THE SON OF SHAPHAN, HAD HEARD OUT OF
 THE BOOK ALL THE WORDS OF THE LORD,
# 12 THEN HE WENT DOWN INTO THE KINGS HOUSE, INTO THE SCRIBES CHAMBER: AND,
 LO, ALL THE PRINCES SAT THERE, EVEN ELISHAMA THE SCRIBE, AND DELAIAH THE SON
 OF SHEMAIAH, AND ELNATHAN THE SON OF ACHBOR, AND GEMARIAH THE SON OF SHAPHAN,
 AND ZEDEKIAH THE SON OF HANANIAH, AND ALL THE PRINCES.
# 13 THEN MICHAIAH DECLARED UNTO THEM ALL THE WORDS THAT HE HAD HEARD, WHEN
 BARUCH READ THE BOOK IN THE EARS OF THE PEOPLE.
# 14 THEREFORE ALL THE PRINCES SENT JEHUDI THE SON OF NETHANIAH, THE SON OF
 SHELEMIAH, THE SON OF CUSHI, UNTO BARUCH, SAYING, TAKE IN THINE HAND THE ROLL
 WHEREIN THOU HAST READ IN THE EARS OF THE PEOPLE, AND COME. SO BARUCH THE SON
 OF NERIAH TOOK THE ROLL IN HIS HAND, AND CAME UNTO THEM.
# 15 AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, SIT DOWN NOW, AND READ IT IN OUR EARS. SO BARUCH
 READ IT IN THEIR EARS.
# 16 NOW IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THEY HAD HEARD ALL THE WORDS, THEY WERE AFRAID
 BOTH ONE AND OTHER, AND SAID UNTO BARUCH, WE WILL SURELY TELL THE KING OF ALL
 THESE WORDS.
# 17 AND THEY ASKED BARUCH, SAYING, TELL US NOW, HOW DIDST THOU WRITE ALL
 THESE WORDS AT HIS MOUTH?
# 18 THEN BARUCH ANSWERED THEM, HE PRONOUNCED ALL THESE WORDS UNTO ME WITH
 HIS MOUTH, AND I WROTE THEM WITH INK IN THE BOOK.
# 19 THEN SAID THE PRINCES UNTO BARUCH, GO, HIDE THEE, THOU AND JEREMIAH; AND
 LET NO MAN KNOW WHERE YE BE.
# 20 AND THEY WENT IN TO THE KING INTO THE COURT, BUT THEY LAID UP THE ROLL
 IN THE CHAMBER OF ELISHAMA THE SCRIBE, AND TOLD ALL THE WORDS IN THE EARS OF
 THE KING.
# 21 SO THE KING SENT JEHUDI TO FETCH THE ROLL: AND HE TOOK IT OUT OF
 ELISHAMA THE SCRIBES CHAMBER. AND JEHUDI READ IT IN THE EARS OF THE KING, AND
 IN THE EARS OF ALL THE PRINCES WHICH STOOD BESIDE THE KING.
# 22 NOW THE KING SAT IN THE WINTERHOUSE IN THE NINTH MONTH: AND THERE WAS A
 FIRE ON THE HEARTH BURNING BEFORE HIM.
# 23 AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT WHEN JEHUDI HAD READ THREE OR FOUR LEAVES, HE
 CUT IT WITH THE PENKNIFE, AND CAST IT INTO THE FIRE THAT WAS ON THE HEARTH,
 UNTIL ALL THE ROLL WAS CONSUMED IN THE FIRE THAT WAS ON THE HEARTH.
# 24 YET THEY WERE NOT AFRAID, NOR RENT THEIR GARMENTS, NEITHER THE KING, NOR
 ANY OF HIS SERVANTS THAT HEARD ALL THESE WORDS.
# 25 NEVERTHELESS ELNATHAN AND DELAIAH AND GEMARIAH HAD MADE INTERCESSION TO
 THE KING THAT HE WOULD NOT BURN THE ROLL: BUT HE WOULD NOT HEAR THEM.
# 26 BUT THE KING COMMANDED JERAHMEEL THE SON OF HAMMELECH, AND SERAIAH THE
 SON OF AZRIEL, AND SHELEMIAH THE SON OF ABDEEL, TO TAKE BARUCH THE SCRIBE AND
 JEREMIAH THE PROPHET: BUT THE LORD HID THEM.
# 27 THEN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JEREMIAH, AFTER THAT THE KING HAD
 BURNED THE ROLL, AND THE WORDS WHICH BARUCH WROTE AT THE MOUTH OF JEREMIAH,
 SAYING,
# 28 TAKE THEE AGAIN ANOTHER ROLL, AND WRITE IN IT ALL THE FORMER WORDS THAT
 WERE IN THE FIRST ROLL, WHICH JEHOIAKIM THE KING OF JUDAH HATH BURNED.
# 29 AND THOU SHALT SAY TO JEHOIAKIM KING OF JUDAH, THUS SAITH THE LORD; THOU
 HAST BURNED THIS ROLL, SAYING, WHY HAST THOU WRITTEN THEREIN, SAYING, THE
 KING OF BABYLON SHALL CERTAINLY COME AND DESTROY THIS LAND, AND SHALL CAUSE
 TO CEASE FROM THENCE MAN AND BEAST?
# 30 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF JEHOIAKIM KING OF JUDAH; HE SHALL HAVE
 NONE TO SIT UPON THE THRONE OF DAVID: AND HIS DEAD BODY SHALL BE CAST OUT IN
 THE DAY TO THE HEAT, AND IN THE NIGHT TO THE FROST.
# 31 AND I WILL PUNISH HIM AND HIS SEED AND HIS SERVANTS FOR THEIR INIQUITY;
 AND I WILL BRING UPON THEM, AND UPON THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, AND UPON
 THE MEN OF JUDAH, ALL THE EVIL THAT I HAVE PRONOUNCED AGAINST THEM; BUT THEY
 HEARKENED NOT.
# 32 THEN TOOK JEREMIAH ANOTHER ROLL, AND GAVE IT TO BARUCH THE SCRIBE, THE
 SON OF NERIAH; WHO WROTE THEREIN FROM THE MOUTH OF JEREMIAH ALL THE WORDS OF
 THE BOOK WHICH JEHOIAKIM KING OF JUDAH HAD BURNED IN THE FIRE: AND THERE WERE
 ADDED BESIDES UNTO THEM MANY LIKE WORDS.
= CHAPTER 37 
# 1 AND KING ZEDEKIAH THE SON OF JOSIAH REIGNED INSTEAD OF CONIAH THE SON OF
 JEHOIAKIM, WHOM NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON MADE KING IN THE LAND OF
 JUDAH.
# 2 BUT NEITHER HE, NOR HIS SERVANTS, NOR THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND, DID HEARKEN
 UNTO THE WORDS OF THE LORD, WHICH HE SPAKE BY THE PROPHET JEREMIAH.
# 3 AND ZEDEKIAH THE KING SENT JEHUCAL THE SON OF SHELEMIAH AND ZEPHANIAH THE
 SON OF MAASEIAH THE PRIEST TO THE PROPHET JEREMIAH, SAYING, PRAY NOW UNTO THE
 LORD OUR GOD FOR US.
# 4 NOW JEREMIAH CAME IN AND WENT OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE: FOR THEY HAD NOT PUT
 HIM INTO PRISON.
# 5 THEN PHARAOHS ARMY WAS COME FORTH OUT OF EGYPT: AND WHEN THE CHALDEANS
 THAT BESIEGED JERUSALEM HEARD TIDINGS OF THEM, THEY DEPARTED FROM JERUSALEM.
# 6 THEN CAME THE WORD OF THE LORD UNTO THE PROPHET JEREMIAH SAYING,
# 7 THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; THUS SHALL YE SAY TO THE KING OF
 JUDAH, THAT SENT YOU UNTO ME TO ENQUIRE OF ME; BEHOLD, PHARAOHS ARMY, WHICH
 IS COME FORTH TO HELP YOU, SHALL RETURN TO EGYPT INTO THEIR OWN LAND.
# 8 AND THE CHALDEANS SHALL COME AGAIN, AND FIGHT AGAINST THIS CITY, AND TAKE
 IT, AND BURN IT WITH FIRE.
# 9 THUS SAITH THE LORD; DECEIVE NOT YOURSELVES, SAYING, THE CHALDEANS SHALL
 SURELY DEPART FROM US: FOR THEY SHALL NOT DEPART.
# 10 FOR THOUGH YE HAD SMITTEN THE WHOLE ARMY OF THE CHALDEANS THAT FIGHT
 AGAINST YOU, AND THERE REMAINED BUT WOUNDED MEN AMONG THEM, YET SHOULD THEY
 RISE UP EVERY MAN IN HIS TENT, AND BURN THIS CITY WITH FIRE.
# 11 AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT WHEN THE ARMY OF THE CHALDEANS WAS BROKEN UP
 FROM JERUSALEM FOR FEAR OF PHARAOHS ARMY,
# 12 THEN JEREMIAH WENT FORTH OUT OF JERUSALEM TO GO INTO THE LAND OF
 BENJAMIN, TO SEPARATE HIMSELF THENCE IN THE MIDST OF THE PEOPLE.
# 13 AND WHEN HE WAS IN THE GATE OF BENJAMIN, A CAPTAIN OF THE WARD WAS
 THERE, WHOSE NAME WAS IRIJAH, THE SON OF SHELEMIAH, THE SON OF HANANIAH; AND
 HE TOOK JEREMIAH THE PROPHET, SAYING, THOU FALLEST AWAY TO THE CHALDEANS.
# 14 THEN SAID JEREMIAH, IT IS FALSE; I FALL NOT AWAY TO THE CHALDEANS. BUT
 HE HEARKENED NOT TO HIM: SO IRIJAH TOOK JEREMIAH, AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE
 PRINCES.
# 15 WHEREFORE THE PRINCES WERE WROTH WITH JEREMIAH, AND SMOTE HIM, AND PUT
 HIM IN PRISON IN THE HOUSE OF JONATHAN THE SCRIBE: FOR THEY HAD MADE THAT THE
 PRISON.
# 16 WHEN JEREMIAH WAS ENTERED INTO THE DUNGEON, AND INTO THE CABINS, AND
 JEREMIAH HAD REMAINED THERE MANY DAYS;
# 17 THEN ZEDEKIAH THE KING SENT, AND TOOK HIM OUT: AND THE KING ASKED HIM
 SECRETLY IN HIS HOUSE, AND SAID, IS THERE ANY WORD FROM THE LORD? AND
 JEREMIAH SAID, THERE IS: FOR, SAID HE, THOU SHALT BE DELIVERED INTO THE HAND
 OF THE KING OF BABYLON.
# 18 MOREOVER JEREMIAH SAID UNTO KING ZEDEKIAH, WHAT HAVE I OFFENDED AGAINST
 THEE, OR AGAINST THY SERVANTS, OR AGAINST THIS PEOPLE, THAT YE HAVE PUT ME IN
 PRISON?
# 19 WHERE ARE NOW YOUR PROPHETS WHICH PROPHESIED UNTO YOU, SAYING, THE KING
 OF BABYLON SHALL NOT COME AGAINST YOU, NOR AGAINST THIS LAND?
# 20 THEREFORE HEAR NOW, I PRAY THEE, O MY LORD THE KING: LET MY
 SUPPLICATION, I PRAY THEE, BE ACCEPTED BEFORE THEE; THAT THOU CAUSE ME NOT TO
 RETURN TO THE HOUSE OF JONATHAN THE SCRIBE, LEST I DIE THERE.
# 21 THEN ZEDEKIAH THE KING COMMANDED THAT THEY SHOULD COMMIT JEREMIAH INTO
 THE COURT OF THE PRISON, AND THAT THEY SHOULD GIVE HIM DAILY A PIECE OF BREAD
 OUT OF THE BAKERS STREET, UNTIL ALL THE BREAD IN THE CITY WERE SPENT. THUS
 JEREMIAH REMAINED IN THE COURT OF THE PRISON.
= CHAPTER 38 
# 1 THEN SHEPHATIAH THE SON OF MATTAN, AND GEDALIAH THE SON OF PASHUR, AND
 JUCAL THE SON OF SHELEMIAH, AND PASHUR THE SON OF MALCHIAH, HEARD THE WORDS
 THAT JEREMIAH HAD SPOKEN UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE, SAYING,
# 2 THUS SAITH THE LORD, HE THAT REMAINETH IN THIS CITY SHALL DIE BY THE
 SWORD, BY THE FAMINE, AND BY THE PESTILENCE: BUT HE THAT GOETH FORTH TO THE
 CHALDEANS SHALL LIVE; FOR HE SHALL HAVE HIS LIFE FOR A PREY, AND SHALL LIVE.
# 3 THUS SAITH THE LORD, THIS CITY SHALL SURELY BE GIVEN INTO THE HAND OF THE
 KING OF BABYLONS ARMY, WHICH SHALL TAKE IT.
# 4 THEREFORE THE PRINCES SAID UNTO THE KING, WE BESEECH THEE, LET THIS MAN
 BE PUT TO DEATH: FOR THUS HE WEAKENETH THE HANDS OF THE MEN OF WAR THAT
 REMAIN IN THIS CITY, AND THE HANDS OF ALL THE PEOPLE, IN SPEAKING SUCH WORDS
 UNTO THEM: FOR THIS MAN SEEKETH NOT THE WELFARE OF THIS PEOPLE, BUT THE HURT.
# 5 THEN ZEDEKIAH THE KING SAID, BEHOLD, HE IS IN YOUR HAND: FOR THE KING IS
 NOT HE THAT CAN DO ANY THING AGAINST YOU.
# 6 THEN TOOK THEY JEREMIAH, AND CAST HIM INTO THE DUNGEON OF MALCHIAH THE
 SON OF HAMMELECH, THAT WAS IN THE COURT OF THE PRISON: AND THEY LET DOWN
 JEREMIAH WITH CORDS. AND IN THE DUNGEON THERE WAS NO WATER, BUT MIRE: SO
 JEREMIAH SUNK IN THE MIRE.
# 7 NOW WHEN EBEDMELECH THE ETHIOPIAN, ONE OF THE EUNUCHS WHICH WAS IN THE
 KINGS HOUSE, HEARD THAT THEY HAD PUT JEREMIAH IN THE DUNGEON; THE KING THEN
 SITTING IN THE GATE OF BENJAMIN;
# 8 EBEDMELECH WENT FORTH OUT OF THE KINGS HOUSE, AND SPAKE TO THE KING
 SAYING,
# 9 MY LORD THE KING, THESE MEN HAVE DONE EVIL IN ALL THAT THEY HAVE DONE TO
 JEREMIAH THE PROPHET, WHOM THEY HAVE CAST INTO THE DUNGEON; AND HE IS LIKE TO
 DIE FOR HUNGER IN THE PLACE WHERE HE IS: FOR THERE IS NO MORE BREAD IN THE
 CITY.
# 10 THEN THE KING COMMANDED EBEDMELECH THE ETHIOPIAN, SAYING, TAKE FROM
 HENCE THIRTY MEN WITH THEE, AND TAKE UP JEREMIAH THE PROPHET OUT OF THE
 DUNGEON, BEFORE HE DIE.
# 11 SO EBEDMELECH TOOK THE MEN WITH HIM, AND WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF THE KING
 UNDER THE TREASURY, AND TOOK THENCE OLD CAST CLOUTS AND OLD ROTTEN RAGS, AND
 LET THEM DOWN BY CORDS INTO THE DUNGEON TO JEREMIAH.
# 12 AND EBEDMELECH THE ETHIOPIAN SAID UNTO JEREMIAH, PUT NOW THESE OLD CAST
 CLOUTS AND ROTTEN RAGS UNDER THINE ARMHOLES UNDER THE CORDS. AND JEREMIAH DID
 SO.
# 13 SO THEY DREW UP JEREMIAH WITH CORDS, AND TOOK HIM UP OUT OF THE DUNGEON:
 AND JEREMIAH REMAINED IN THE COURT OF THE PRISON.
# 14 THEN ZEDEKIAH THE KING SENT, AND TOOK JEREMIAH THE PROPHET UNTO HIM INTO
 THE THIRD ENTRY THAT IS IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD: AND THE KING SAID UNTO
 JEREMIAH, I WILL ASK THEE A THING; HIDE NOTHING FROM ME.
# 15 THEN JEREMIAH SAID UNTO ZEDEKIAH, IF I DECLARE IT UNTO THEE, WILT THOU
 NOT SURELY PUT ME TO DEATH? AND IF I GIVE THEE COUNSEL, WILT THOU NOT HEARKEN
 UNTO ME?
# 16 SO ZEDEKIAH THE KING SWARE SECRETLY UNTO JEREMIAH, SAYING, AS THE LORD
 LIVETH, THAT MADE US THIS SOUL, I WILL NOT PUT THEE TO DEATH, NEITHER WILL I
 GIVE THEE INTO THE HAND OF THESE MEN THAT SEEK THY LIFE.
# 17 THEN SAID JEREMIAH UNTO ZEDEKIAH, THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF HOSTS,
 THE GOD OF ISRAEL; IF THOU WILT ASSUREDLY GO FORTH UNTO THE KING OF BABYLONS
 PRINCES, THEN THY SOUL SHALL LIVE, AND THIS CITY SHALL NOT BE BURNED WITH
 FIRE; AND THOU SHALT LIVE, AND THINE HOUSE:
# 18 BUT IF THOU WILT NOT GO FORTH TO THE KING OF BABYLONS PRINCES, THEN
 SHALL THIS CITY BE GIVEN INTO THE HAND OF THE CHALDEANS, AND THEY SHALL BURN
 IT WITH FIRE, AND THOU SHALT NOT ESCAPE OUT OF THEIR HAND.
# 19 AND ZEDEKIAH THE KING SAID UNTO JEREMIAH, I AM AFRAID OF THE JEWS THAT
 ARE FALLEN TO THE CHALDEANS, LEST THEY DELIVER ME INTO THEIR HAND, AND THEY
 MOCK ME.
# 20 BUT JEREMIAH SAID, THEY SHALL NOT DELIVER THEE. OBEY, I BESEECH THEE,
 THE VOICE OF THE LORD, WHICH I SPEAK UNTO THEE: SO IT SHALL BE WELL UNTO
 THEE, AND THY SOUL SHALL LIVE.
# 21 BUT IF THOU REFUSE TO GO FORTH, THIS IS THE WORD THAT THE LORD HATH
 SHEWED ME:
# 22 AND, BEHOLD, ALL THE WOMEN THAT ARE LEFT IN THE KING OF JUDAHS HOUSE
 SHALL BE BROUGHT FORTH TO THE KING OF BABYLONS PRINCES, AND THOSE WOMEN SHALL
 SAY, THY FRIENDS HAVE SET THEE ON, AND HAVE PREVAILED AGAINST THEE: THY FEET
 ARE SUNK IN THE MIRE, AND THEY ARE TURNED AWAY BACK.
# 23 SO THEY SHALL BRING OUT ALL THY WIVES AND THY CHILDREN TO THE CHALDEANS:
 AND THOU SHALT NOT ESCAPE OUT OF THEIR HAND, BUT SHALT BE TAKEN BY THE HAND
 OF THE KING OF BABYLON: AND THOU SHALT CAUSE THIS CITY TO BE BURNED WITH
 FIRE.
# 24 THEN SAID ZEDEKIAH UNTO JEREMIAH, LET NO MAN KNOW OF THESE WORDS, AND
 THOU SHALT NOT DIE.
# 25 BUT IF THE PRINCES HEAR THAT I HAVE TALKED WITH THEE, AND THEY COME UNTO
 THEE, AND SAY UNTO THEE, DECLARE UNTO US NOW WHAT THOU HAST SAID UNTO THE
 KING, HIDE IT NOT FROM US, AND WE WILL NOT PUT THEE TO DEATH; ALSO WHAT THE
 KING SAID UNTO THEE:
# 26 THEN THOU SHALT SAY UNTO THEM, I PRESENTED MY SUPPLICATION BEFORE THE
 KING, THAT HE WOULD NOT CAUSE ME TO RETURN TO JONATHANS HOUSE, TO DIE THERE.
# 27 THEN CAME ALL THE PRINCES UNTO JEREMIAH, AND ASKED HIM: AND HE TOLD THEM
 ACCORDING TO ALL THESE WORDS THAT THE KING HAD COMMANDED. SO THEY LEFT OFF
 SPEAKING WITH HIM; FOR THE MATTER WAS NOT PERCEIVED.
# 28 SO JEREMIAH ABODE IN THE COURT OF THE PRISON UNTIL THE DAY THAT
 JERUSALEM WAS TAKEN: AND HE WAS THERE WHEN JERUSALEM WAS TAKEN.
= CHAPTER 39 
# 1 IN THE NINTH YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH KING OF JUDAH, IN THE TENTH MONTH, CAME
 NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON AND ALL HIS ARMY AGAINST JERUSALEM, AND THEY
 BESIEGED IT.
# 2 AND IN THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH, IN THE FOURTH MONTH, THE NINTH DAY
 OF THE MONTH, THE CITY WAS BROKEN UP.
# 3 AND ALL THE PRINCES OF THE KING OF BABYLON CAME IN, AND SAT IN THE MIDDLE
 GATE, EVEN NERGALSHAREZER, SAMGARNEBO, SARSECHIM, RABSARIS, NERGALSHAREZER,
 RABMAG, WITH ALL THE RESIDUE OF THE PRINCES OF THE KING OF BABYLON.
# 4 AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT WHEN ZEDEKIAH THE KING OF JUDAH SAW THEM, AND
 ALL THE MEN OF WAR, THEN THEY FLED, AND WENT FORTH OUT OF THE CITY BY NIGHT,
 BY THE WAY OF THE KINGS GARDEN, BY THE GATE BETWIXT THE TWO WALLS: AND HE
 WENT OUT THE WAY OF THE PLAIN.
# 5 BUT THE CHALDEANS ARMY PURSUED AFTER THEM, AND OVERTOOK ZEDEKIAH IN THE
 PLAINS OF JERICHO: AND WHEN THEY HAD TAKEN HIM, THEY BROUGHT HIM UP TO
 NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON TO RIBLAH IN THE LAND OF HAMATH, WHERE HE GAVE
 JUDGMENT UPON HIM.
# 6 THEN THE KING OF BABYLON SLEW THE SONS OF ZEDEKIAH IN RIBLAH BEFORE HIS
 EYES: ALSO THE KING OF BABYLON SLEW ALL THE NOBLES OF JUDAH.
# 7 MOREOVER HE PUT OUT ZEDEKIAHS EYES, AND BOUND HIM WITH CHAINS, TO CARRY
 HIM TO BABYLON.
# 8 AND THE CHALDEANS BURNED THE KINGS HOUSE, AND THE HOUSES OF THE PEOPLE,
 WITH FIRE, AND BRAKE DOWN THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM.
# 9 THEN NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE INTO
 BABYLON THE REMNANT OF THE PEOPLE THAT REMAINED IN THE CITY, AND THOSE THAT
 FELL AWAY, THAT FELL TO HIM, WITH THE REST OF THE PEOPLE THAT REMAINED.
# 10 BUT NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD LEFT OF THE POOR OF THE PEOPLE,
 WHICH HAD NOTHING, IN THE LAND OF JUDAH, AND GAVE THEM VINEYARDS AND FIELDS
 AT THE SAME TIME.
# 11 NOW NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON GAVE CHARGE CONCERNING JEREMIAH TO
 NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD, SAYING,
# 12 TAKE HIM, AND LOOK WELL TO HIM, AND DO HIM NO HARM; BUT DO UNTO HIM EVEN
 AS HE SHALL SAY UNTO THEE.
# 13 SO NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD SENT, AND NEBUSHASBAN, RABSARIS,
 AND NERGALSHAREZER, RABMAG, AND ALL THE KING OF BABYLONS PRINCES;
# 14 EVEN THEY SENT, AND TOOK JEREMIAH OUT OF THE COURT OF THE PRISON, AND
 COMMITTED HIM UNTO GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM THE SON OF SHAPHAN, THAT HE
 SHOULD CARRY HIM HOME: SO HE DWELT AMONG THE PEOPLE.
# 15 NOW THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO JEREMIAH, WHILE HE WAS SHUT UP IN THE
 COURT OF THE PRISON, SAYING,
# 16 GO AND SPEAK TO EBEDMELECH THE ETHIOPIAN, SAYING, THUS SAITH THE LORD OF
 HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; BEHOLD, I WILL BRING MY WORDS UPON THIS CITY FOR
 EVIL, AND NOT FOR GOOD; AND THEY SHALL BE ACCOMPLISHED IN THAT DAY BEFORE
 THEE.
# 17 BUT I WILL DELIVER THEE IN THAT DAY, SAITH THE LORD: AND THOU SHALT NOT
 BE GIVEN INTO THE HAND OF THE MEN OF WHOM THOU ART AFRAID.
# 18 FOR I WILL SURELY DELIVER THEE, AND THOU SHALT NOT FALL BY THE SWORD,
 BUT THY LIFE SHALL BE FOR A PREY UNTO THEE: BECAUSE THOU HAST PUT THY TRUST
 IN ME, SAITH THE LORD.
= CHAPTER 40 
# 1 THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD, AFTER THAT NEBUZARADAN THE
 CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD HAD LET HIM GO FROM RAMAH, WHEN HE HAD TAKEN HIM BEING
 BOUND IN CHAINS AMONG ALL THAT WERE CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE OF JERUSALEM AND
 JUDAH, WHICH WERE CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE UNTO BABYLON.
# 2 AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD TOOK JEREMIAH, AND SAID UNTO HIM, THE LORD
 THY GOD HATH PRONOUNCED THIS EVIL UPON THIS PLACE.
# 3 NOW THE LORD HATH BROUGHT IT, AND DONE ACCORDING AS HE HATH SAID: BECAUSE
 YE HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD, AND HAVE NOT OBEYED HIS VOICE, THEREFORE
 THIS THING IS COME UPON YOU.
# 4 AND NOW, BEHOLD, I LOOSE THEE THIS DAY FROM THE CHAINS WHICH WERE UPON
 THINE HAND. IF IT SEEM GOOD UNTO THEE TO COME WITH ME INTO BABYLON, COME; AND
 I WILL LOOK WELL UNTO THEE: BUT IF IT SEEM ILL UNTO THEE TO COME WITH ME INTO
 BABYLON, FORBEAR: BEHOLD, ALL THE LAND IS BEFORE THEE: WHITHER IT SEEMETH
 GOOD AND CONVENIENT FOR THEE TO GO, THITHER GO.
# 5 NOW WHILE HE WAS NOT YET GONE BACK, HE SAID, GO BACK ALSO TO GEDALIAH THE
 SON OF AHIKAM THE SON OF SHAPHAN, WHOM THE KING OF BABYLON HATH MADE GOVERNOR
 OVER THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AND DWELL WITH HIM AMONG THE PEOPLE: OR GO
 WHERESOEVER IT SEEMETH CONVENIENT UNTO THEE TO GO. SO THE CAPTAIN OF THE
 GUARD GAVE HIM VICTUALS AND A REWARD, AND LET HIM GO.
# 6 THEN WENT JEREMIAH UNTO GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM TO MIZPAH; AND DWELT
 WITH HIM AMONG THE PEOPLE THAT WERE LEFT IN THE LAND.
# 7 NOW WHEN ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES WHICH WERE IN THE FIELDS, EVEN
 THEY AND THEIR MEN, HEARD THAT THE KING OF BABYLON HAD MADE GEDALIAH THE SON
 OF AHIKAM GOVERNOR IN THE LAND, AND HAD COMMITTED UNTO HIM MEN, AND WOMEN,
 AND CHILDREN, AND OF THE POOR OF THE LAND, OF THEM THAT WERE NOT CARRIED AWAY
 CAPTIVE TO BABYLON;
# 8 THEN THEY CAME TO GEDALIAH TO MIZPAH, EVEN ISHMAEL THE SON OF NETHANIAH,
 AND JOHANAN AND JONATHAN THE SONS OF KAREAH, AND SERAIAH THE SON OF
 TANHUMETH, AND THE SONS OF EPHAI THE NETOPHATHITE, AND JEZANIAH THE SON OF A
 MAACHATHITE, THEY AND THEIR MEN.
# 9 AND GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM THE SON OF SHAPHAN SWARE UNTO THEM AND TO
 THEIR MEN, SAYING, FEAR NOT TO SERVE THE CHALDEANS: DWELL IN THE LAND, AND
 SERVE THE KING OF BABYLON, AND IT SHALL BE WELL WITH YOU.
# 10 AS FOR ME, BEHOLD, I WILL DWELL AT MIZPAH, TO SERVE THE CHALDEANS, WHICH
 WILL COME UNTO US: BUT YE, GATHER YE WINE, AND SUMMER FRUITS, AND OIL, AND
 PUT THEM IN YOUR VESSELS, AND DWELL IN YOUR CITIES THAT YE HAVE TAKEN.
# 11 LIKEWISE WHEN ALL THE JEWS THAT WERE IN MOAB, AND AMONG THE AMMONITES,
 AND IN EDOM, AND THAT WERE IN ALL THE COUNTRIES, HEARD THAT THE KING OF
 BABYLON HAD LEFT A REMNANT OF JUDAH, AND THAT HE HAD SET OVER THEM GEDALIAH
 THE SON OF AHIKAM THE SON OF SHAPHAN;
# 12 EVEN ALL THE JEWS RETURNED OUT OF ALL PLACES WHITHER THEY WERE DRIVEN,
 AND CAME TO THE LAND OF JUDAH, TO GEDALIAH, UNTO MIZPAH, AND GATHERED WINE
 AND SUMMER FRUITS VERY MUCH.
# 13 MOREOVER JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH, AND ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES
 THAT WERE IN THE FIELDS, CAME TO GEDALIAH TO MIZPAH,
# 14 AND SAID UNTO HIM, DOST THOU CERTAINLY KNOW THAT BAALIS THE KING OF THE
 AMMONITES HATH SENT ISHMAEL THE SON OF NETHANIAH TO SLAY THEE? BUT GEDALIAH
 THE SON OF AHIKAM BELIEVED THEM NOT.
# 15 THEN JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH SPAKE TO GEDALIAH IN MIZPAH SECRETLY
 SAYING, LET ME GO, I PRAY THEE, AND I WILL SLAY ISHMAEL THE SON OF NETHANIAH,
 AND NO MAN SHALL KNOW IT: WHEREFORE SHOULD HE SLAY THEE, THAT ALL THE JEWS
 WHICH ARE GATHERED UNTO THEE SHOULD BE SCATTERED, AND THE REMNANT IN JUDAH
 PERISH?
# 16 BUT GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM SAID UNTO JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH, THOU
 SHALT NOT DO THIS THING: FOR THOU SPEAKEST FALSELY OF ISHMAEL.
= CHAPTER 41 
# 1 NOW IT CAME TO PASS IN THE SEVENTH MONTH, THAT ISHMAEL THE SON OF
 NETHANIAH THE SON OF ELISHAMA, OF THE SEED ROYAL, AND THE PRINCES OF THE
 KING, EVEN TEN MEN WITH HIM, CAME UNTO GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM TO MIZPAH;
 AND THERE THEY DID EAT BREAD TOGETHER IN MIZPAH.
# 2 THEN AROSE ISHMAEL THE SON OF NETHANIAH, AND THE TEN MEN THAT WERE WITH
 HIM, AND SMOTE GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM THE SON OF SHAPHAN WITH THE SWORD,
 AND SLEW HIM, WHOM THE KING OF BABYLON HAD MADE GOVERNOR OVER THE LAND.
# 3 ISHMAEL ALSO SLEW ALL THE JEWS THAT WERE WITH HIM, EVEN WITH GEDALIAH, AT
 MIZPAH, AND THE CHALDEANS THAT WERE FOUND THERE, AND THE MEN OF WAR.
# 4 AND IT CAME TO PASS THE SECOND DAY AFTER HE HAD SLAIN GEDALIAH, AND NO
 MAN KNEW IT,
# 5 THAT THERE CAME CERTAIN FROM SHECHEM, FROM SHILOH, AND FROM SAMARIA, EVEN
 FOURSCORE MEN, HAVING THEIR BEARDS SHAVEN, AND THEIR CLOTHES RENT, AND HAVING
 CUT THEMSELVES, WITH OFFERINGS AND INCENSE IN THEIR HAND, TO BRING THEM TO
 THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.
# 6 AND ISHMAEL THE SON OF NETHANIAH WENT FORTH FROM MIZPAH TO MEET THEM,
 WEEPING ALL ALONG AS HE WENT: AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE MET THEM, HE SAID
 UNTO THEM, COME TO GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM.
# 7 AND IT WAS SO, WHEN THEY CAME INTO THE MIDST OF THE CITY, THAT ISHMAEL
 THE SON OF NETHANIAH SLEW THEM, AND CAST THEM INTO THE MIDST OF THE PIT, HE,
 AND THE MEN THAT WERE WITH HIM.
# 8 BUT TEN MEN WERE FOUND AMONG THEM THAT SAID UNTO ISHMAEL, SLAY US NOT:
 FOR WE HAVE TREASURES IN THE FIELD, OF WHEAT, AND OF BARLEY, AND OF OIL, AND
 OF HONEY. SO HE FORBARE, AND SLEW THEM NOT AMONG THEIR BRETHREN.
# 9 NOW THE PIT WHEREIN ISHMAEL HAD CAST ALL THE DEAD BODIES OF THE MEN, WHOM
 HE HAD SLAIN BECAUSE OF GEDALIAH, WAS IT WHICH ASA THE KING HAD MADE FOR FEAR
 OF BAASHA KING OF ISRAEL: AND ISHMAEL THE SON OF NETHANIAH FILLED IT WITH
 THEM THAT WERE SLAIN.
# 10 THEN ISHMAEL CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE ALL THE RESIDUE OF THE PEOPLE THAT
 WERE IN MIZPAH, EVEN THE KINGS DAUGHTERS, AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT REMAINED IN
 MIZPAH, WHOM NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD HAD COMMITTED TO GEDALIAH
 THE SON OF AHIKAM: AND ISHMAEL THE SON OF NETHANIAH CARRIED THEM AWAY
 CAPTIVE, AND DEPARTED TO GO OVER TO THE AMMONITES.
# 11 BUT WHEN JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH, AND ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES
 THAT WERE WITH HIM, HEARD OF ALL THE EVIL THAT ISHMAEL THE SON OF NETHANIAH
 HAD DONE,
# 12 THEN THEY TOOK ALL THE MEN, AND WENT TO FIGHT WITH ISHMAEL THE SON OF
 NETHANIAH, AND FOUND HIM BY THE GREAT WATERS THAT ARE IN GIBEON.
# 13 NOW IT CAME TO PASS, THAT WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE WHICH WERE WITH ISHMAEL
 SAW JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH, AND ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES THAT WERE
 WITH HIM, THEN THEY WERE GLAD.
# 14 SO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ISHMAEL HAD CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE FROM MIZPAH CAST
 ABOUT AND RETURNED, AND WENT UNTO JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH.
# 15 BUT ISHMAEL THE SON OF NETHANIAH ESCAPED FROM JOHANAN WITH EIGHT MEN,
 AND WENT TO THE AMMONITES.
# 16 THEN TOOK JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH, AND ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES
 THAT WERE WITH HIM, ALL THE REMNANT OF THE PEOPLE WHOM HE HAD RECOVERED FROM
 ISHMAEL THE SON OF NETHANIAH, FROM MIZPAH, AFTER THAT HE HAD SLAIN GEDALIAH
 THE SON OF AHIKAM, EVEN MIGHTY MEN OF WAR, AND THE WOMEN, AND THE CHILDREN,
 AND THE EUNUCHS, WHOM HE HAD BROUGHT AGAIN FROM GIBEON:
# 17 AND THEY DEPARTED, AND DWELT IN THE HABITATION OF CHIMHAM, WHICH IS BY
 BETHLEHEM, TO GO TO ENTER INTO EGYPT,
# 18 BECAUSE OF THE CHALDEANS: FOR THEY WERE AFRAID OF THEM, BECAUSE ISHMAEL
 THE SON OF NETHANIAH HAD SLAIN GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM, WHOM THE KING OF
 BABYLON MADE GOVERNOR IN THE LAND.
= CHAPTER 42 
# 1 THEN ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES, AND JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH, AND
 JEZANIAH THE SON OF HOSHAIAH, AND ALL THE PEOPLE FROM THE LEAST EVEN UNTO THE
 GREATEST, CAME NEAR,
# 2 AND SAID UNTO JEREMIAH THE PROPHET, LET, WE BESEECH THEE, OUR
 SUPPLICATION BE ACCEPTED BEFORE THEE, AND PRAY FOR US UNTO THE LORD THY GOD,
 EVEN FOR ALL THIS REMNANT; (FOR WE ARE LEFT BUT A FEW OF MANY, AS THINE EYES
 DO BEHOLD US:)
# 3 THAT THE LORD THY GOD MAY SHEW US THE WAY WHEREIN WE MAY WALK, AND THE
 THING THAT WE MAY DO.
# 4 THEN JEREMIAH THE PROPHET SAID UNTO THEM, I HAVE HEARD YOU; BEHOLD, I
 WILL PRAY UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD ACCORDING TO YOUR WORDS; AND IT SHALL COME
 TO PASS, THAT WHATSOEVER THING THE LORD SHALL ANSWER YOU, I WILL DECLARE IT
 UNTO YOU; I WILL KEEP NOTHING BACK FROM YOU.
# 5 THEN THEY SAID TO JEREMIAH, THE LORD BE A TRUE AND FAITHFUL WITNESS
 BETWEEN US, IF WE DO NOT EVEN ACCORDING TO ALL THINGS FOR THE WHICH THE LORD
 THY GOD SHALL SEND THEE TO US.
# 6 WHETHER IT BE GOOD, OR WHETHER IT BE EVIL, WE WILL OBEY THE VOICE OF THE
 LORD OUR GOD, TO WHOM WE SEND THEE; THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH US, WHEN WE OBEY
 THE VOICE OF THE LORD OUR GOD.
# 7 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER TEN DAYS, THAT THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO
 JEREMIAH.
# 8 THEN CALLED HE JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH, AND ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE
 FORCES WHICH WERE WITH HIM, AND ALL THE PEOPLE FROM THE LEAST EVEN TO THE
 GREATEST,
# 9 AND SAID UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, UNTO WHOM YE
 SENT ME TO PRESENT YOUR SUPPLICATION BEFORE HIM;
# 10 IF YE WILL STILL ABIDE IN THIS LAND, THEN WILL I BUILD YOU, AND NOT PULL
 YOU DOWN, AND I WILL PLANT YOU, AND NOT PLUCK YOU UP: FOR I REPENT ME OF THE
 EVIL THAT I HAVE DONE UNTO YOU.
# 11 BE NOT AFRAID OF THE KING OF BABYLON, OF WHOM YE ARE AFRAID; BE NOT
 AFRAID OF HIM, SAITH THE LORD: FOR I AM WITH YOU TO SAVE YOU, AND TO DELIVER
 YOU FROM HIS HAND.
# 12 AND I WILL SHEW MERCIES UNTO YOU, THAT HE MAY HAVE MERCY UPON YOU, AND
 CAUSE YOU TO RETURN TO YOUR OWN LAND.
# 13 BUT IF YE SAY, WE WILL NOT DWELL IN THIS LAND, NEITHER OBEY THE VOICE OF
 THE LORD YOUR GOD,
# 14 SAYING, NO; BUT WE WILL GO INTO THE LAND OF EGYPT, WHERE WE SHALL SEE NO
 WAR, NOR HEAR THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, NOR HAVE HUNGER OF BREAD; AND THERE
 WILL WE DWELL:
# 15 AND NOW THEREFORE HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, YE REMNANT OF JUDAH; THUS
 SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; IF YE WHOLLY SET YOUR FACES TO
 ENTER INTO EGYPT, AND GO TO SOJOURN THERE;
# 16 THEN IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT THE SWORD, WHICH YE FEARED, SHALL
 OVERTAKE YOU THERE IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND THE FAMINE, WHEREOF YE WERE
 AFRAID, SHALL FOLLOW CLOSE AFTER YOU THERE IN EGYPT; AND THERE YE SHALL DIE.
# 17 SO SHALL IT BE WITH ALL THE MEN THAT SET THEIR FACES TO GO INTO EGYPT TO
 SOJOURN THERE; THEY SHALL DIE BY THE SWORD, BY THE FAMINE, AND BY THE
 PESTILENCE: AND NONE OF THEM SHALL REMAIN OR ESCAPE FROM THE EVIL THAT I WILL
 BRING UPON THEM.
# 18 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; AS MINE ANGER AND
 MY FURY HATH BEEN POURED FORTH UPON THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM; SO SHALL MY
 FURY BE POURED FORTH UPON YOU, WHEN YE SHALL ENTER INTO EGYPT: AND YE SHALL
 BE AN EXECRATION, AND AN ASTONISHMENT, AND A CURSE, AND A REPROACH; AND YE
 SHALL SEE THIS PLACE NO MORE.
# 19 THE LORD HATH SAID CONCERNING YOU, O YE REMNANT OF JUDAH; GO YE NOT INTO
 EGYPT: KNOW CERTAINLY THAT I HAVE ADMONISHED YOU THIS DAY.
# 20 FOR YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS, WHEN YE SENT ME UNTO THE LORD YOUR
 GOD, SAYING, PRAY FOR US UNTO THE LORD OUR GOD; AND ACCORDING UNTO ALL THAT
 THE LORD OUR GOD SHALL SAY, SO DECLARE UNTO US, AND WE WILL DO IT.
# 21 AND NOW I HAVE THIS DAY DECLARED IT TO YOU; BUT YE HAVE NOT OBEYED THE
 VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD, NOR ANY THING FOR THE WHICH HE HATH SENT ME UNTO
 YOU.
# 22 NOW THEREFORE KNOW CERTAINLY THAT YE SHALL DIE BY THE SWORD, BY THE
 FAMINE, AND BY THE PESTILENCE, IN THE PLACE WHITHER YE DESIRE TO GO AND TO
 SOJOURN.
= CHAPTER 43 
# 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT WHEN JEREMIAH HAD MADE AN END OF SPEAKING UNTO
 ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE WORDS OF THE LORD THEIR GOD, FOR WHICH THE LORD THEIR
 GOD HAD SENT HIM TO THEM, EVEN ALL THESE WORDS,
# 2 THEN SPAKE AZARIAH THE SON OF HOSHAIAH, AND JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH,
 AND ALL THE PROUD MEN, SAYING UNTO JEREMIAH, THOU SPEAKEST FALSELY: THE LORD
 OUR GOD HATH NOT SENT THEE TO SAY, GO NOT INTO EGYPT TO SOJOURN THERE:
# 3 BUT BARUCH THE SON OF NERIAH SETTETH THEE ON AGAINST US, FOR TO DELIVER
 US INTO THE HAND OF THE CHALDEANS, THAT THEY MIGHT PUT US TO DEATH, AND CARRY
 US AWAY CAPTIVES INTO BABYLON.
# 4 SO JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH, AND ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES, AND ALL
 THE PEOPLE, OBEYED NOT THE VOICE OF THE LORD, TO DWELL IN THE LAND OF JUDAH.
# 5 BUT JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH, AND ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES, TOOK
 ALL THE REMNANT OF JUDAH, THAT WERE RETURNED FROM ALL NATIONS, WHITHER THEY
 HAD BEEN DRIVEN, TO DWELL IN THE LAND OF JUDAH;
# 6 EVEN MEN, AND WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, AND THE KINGS DAUGHTERS, AND EVERY
 PERSON THAT NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD HAD LEFT WITH GEDALIAH THE
 SON OF AHIKAM THE SON OF SHAPHAN, AND JEREMIAH THE PROPHET, AND BARUCH THE
 SON OF NERIAH.
# 7 SO THEY CAME INTO THE LAND OF EGYPT: FOR THEY OBEYED NOT THE VOICE OF THE
 LORD: THUS CAME THEY EVEN TO TAHPANHES.
# 8 THEN CAME THE WORD OF THE LORD UNTO JEREMIAH IN TAHPANHES, SAYING,
# 9 TAKE GREAT STONES IN THINE HAND, AND HIDE THEM IN THE CLAY IN THE
 BRICKKILN, WHICH IS AT THE ENTRY OF PHARAOHS HOUSE IN TAHPANHES, IN THE SIGHT
 OF THE MEN OF JUDAH;
# 10 AND SAY UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL;
 BEHOLD, I WILL SEND AND TAKE NEBUCHADREZZAR THE KING OF BABYLON, MY SERVANT,
 AND WILL SET HIS THRONE UPON THESE STONES THAT I HAVE HID; AND HE SHALL
 SPREAD HIS ROYAL PAVILION OVER THEM.
# 11 AND WHEN HE COMETH, HE SHALL SMITE THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND DELIVER SUCH
 AS ARE FOR DEATH TO DEATH; AND SUCH AS ARE FOR CAPTIVITY TO CAPTIVITY; AND
 SUCH AS ARE FOR THE SWORD TO THE SWORD.
# 12 AND I WILL KINDLE A FIRE IN THE HOUSES OF THE GODS OF EGYPT; AND HE
 SHALL BURN THEM, AND CARRY THEM AWAY CAPTIVES: AND HE SHALL ARRAY HIMSELF
 WITH THE LAND OF EGYPT, AS A SHEPHERD PUTTETH ON HIS GARMENT; AND HE SHALL GO
 FORTH FROM THENCE IN PEACE.
# 13 HE SHALL BREAK ALSO THE IMAGES OF BETHSHEMESH, THAT IS IN THE LAND OF
 EGYPT; AND THE HOUSES OF THE GODS OF THE EGYPTIANS SHALL HE BURN WITH FIRE.
= CHAPTER 44 
# 1 THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH CONCERNING ALL THE JEWS WHICH DWELL IN THE
 LAND OF EGYPT, WHICH DWELL AT MIGDOL, AND AT TAHPANHES, AND AT NOPH, AND IN
 THE COUNTRY OF PATHROS, SAYING,
# 2 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; YE HAVE SEEN ALL THE
 EVIL THAT I HAVE BROUGHT UPON JERUSALEM, AND UPON ALL THE CITIES OF JUDAH;
 AND, BEHOLD, THIS DAY THEY ARE A DESOLATION, AND NO MAN DWELLETH THEREIN,
# 3 BECAUSE OF THEIR WICKEDNESS WHICH THEY HAVE COMMITTED TO PROVOKE ME TO
 ANGER, IN THAT THEY WENT TO BURN INCENSE, AND TO SERVE OTHER GODS, WHOM THEY
 KNEW NOT, NEITHER THEY, YE, NOR YOUR FATHERS.
# 4 HOWBEIT I SENT UNTO YOU ALL MY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS, RISING EARLY AND
 SENDING THEM, SAYING, OH, DO NOT THIS ABOMINABLE THING THAT I HATE.
# 5 BUT THEY HEARKENED NOT, NOR INCLINED THEIR EAR TO TURN FROM THEIR
 WICKEDNESS, TO BURN NO INCENSE UNTO OTHER GODS.
# 6 WHEREFORE MY FURY AND MINE ANGER WAS POURED FORTH, AND WAS KINDLED IN THE
 CITIES OF JUDAH AND IN THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM; AND THEY ARE WASTED AND
 DESOLATE, AS AT THIS DAY.
# 7 THEREFORE NOW THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL;
 WHEREFORE COMMIT YE THIS GREAT EVIL AGAINST YOUR SOULS, TO CUT OFF FROM YOU
 MAN AND WOMAN, CHILD AND SUCKLING, OUT OF JUDAH, TO LEAVE YOU NONE TO REMAIN;
# 8 IN THAT YE PROVOKE ME UNTO WRATH WITH THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS, BURNING
 INCENSE UNTO OTHER GODS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, WHITHER YE BE GONE TO DWELL,
 THAT YE MIGHT CUT YOURSELVES OFF, AND THAT YE MIGHT BE A CURSE AND A REPROACH
 AMONG ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH?
# 9 HAVE YE FORGOTTEN THE WICKEDNESS OF YOUR FATHERS, AND THE WICKEDNESS OF
 THE KINGS OF JUDAH, AND THE WICKEDNESS OF THEIR WIVES, AND YOUR OWN
 WICKEDNESS, AND THE WICKEDNESS OF YOUR WIVES, WHICH THEY HAVE COMMITTED IN
 THE LAND OF JUDAH, AND IN THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM?
# 10 THEY ARE NOT HUMBLED EVEN UNTO THIS DAY, NEITHER HAVE THEY FEARED, NOR
 WALKED IN MY LAW, NOR IN MY STATUTES, THAT I SET BEFORE YOU AND BEFORE YOUR
 FATHERS.
# 11 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; BEHOLD, I
 WILL SET MY FACE AGAINST YOU FOR EVIL, AND TO CUT OFF ALL JUDAH.
# 12 AND I WILL TAKE THE REMNANT OF JUDAH, THAT HAVE SET THEIR FACES TO GO
 INTO THE LAND OF EGYPT TO SOJOURN THERE, AND THEY SHALL ALL BE CONSUMED, AND
 FALL IN THE LAND OF EGYPT; THEY SHALL EVEN BE CONSUMED BY THE SWORD AND BY
 THE FAMINE: THEY SHALL DIE, FROM THE LEAST EVEN UNTO THE GREATEST, BY THE
 SWORD AND BY THE FAMINE: AND THEY SHALL BE AN EXECRATION, AND 
 ASTONISHMENT, AND A CURSE, AND A REPROACH.
# 13 FOR I WILL PUNISH THEM THAT DWELL IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, AS I HAVE
 PUNISHED JERUSALEM, BY THE SWORD, BY THE FAMINE, AND BY THE PESTILENCE:
# 14 SO THAT NONE OF THE REMNANT OF JUDAH, WHICH ARE GONE INTO THE LAND OF
 EGYPT TO SOJOURN THERE, SHALL ESCAPE OR REMAIN, THAT THEY SHOULD RETURN INTO
 THE LAND OF JUDAH, TO THE WHICH THEY HAVE A DESIRE TO RETURN TO DWELL THERE:
 FOR NONE SHALL RETURN BUT SUCH AS SHALL ESCAPE.
# 15 THEN ALL THE MEN WHICH KNEW THAT THEIR WIVES HAD BURNED INCENSE UNTO
 OTHER GODS, AND ALL THE WOMEN THAT STOOD BY, A GREAT MULTITUDE, EVEN ALL THE
 PEOPLE THAT DWELT IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, IN PATHROS, ANSWERED JEREMIAH,
 SAYING,
# 16 AS FOR THE WORD THAT THOU HAST SPOKEN UNTO US IN THE NAME OF THE LORD,
 WE WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO THEE.
# 17 BUT WE WILL CERTAINLY DO WHATSOEVER THING GOETH FORTH OUT OF OUR OWN
 MOUTH, TO BURN INCENSE UNTO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN, AND TO POUR OUT DRINK
 OFFERINGS UNTO HER, AS WE HAVE DONE, WE, AND OUR FATHERS, OUR KINGS, AND OUR
 PRINCES, IN THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AND IN THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM: FOR THEN
 HAD WE PLENTY OF VICTUALS, AND WERE WELL, AND SAW NO EVIL.
# 18 BUT SINCE WE LEFT OFF TO BURN INCENSE TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN, AND TO
 POUR OUT DRINK OFFERINGS UNTO HER, WE HAVE WANTED ALL THINGS, AND HAVE BEEN
 CONSUMED BY THE SWORD AND BY THE FAMINE.
# 19 AND WHEN WE BURNED INCENSE TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN, AND POURED OUT DRINK
 OFFERINGS UNTO HER, DID WE MAKE HER CAKES TO WORSHIP HER, AND POUR OUT DRINK
 OFFERINGS UNTO HER, WITHOUT OUR MEN?
# 20 THEN JEREMIAH SAID UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE, TO THE MEN, AND TO THE WOMEN,
 AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHICH HAD GIVEN HIM THAT ANSWER, SAYING,
# 21 THE INCENSE THAT YE BURNED IN THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AND IN THE STREETS OF
 JERUSALEM, YE, AND YOUR FATHERS, YOUR KINGS, AND YOUR PRINCES, AND THE PEOPLE
 OF THE LAND, DID NOT THE LORD REMEMBER THEM, AND CAME IT NOT INTO HIS MIND?
# 22 SO THAT THE LORD COULD NO LONGER BEAR, BECAUSE OF THE EVIL OF YOUR
 DOINGS, AND BECAUSE OF THE ABOMINATIONS WHICH YE HAVE COMMITTED; THEREFORE IS
 YOUR LAND A DESOLATION, AND AN ASTONISHMENT, AND A CURSE, WITHOUT AN
 INHABITANT, AS AT THIS DAY.
# 23 BECAUSE YE HAVE BURNED INCENSE, AND BECAUSE YE HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE
 LORD, AND HAVE NOT OBEYED THE VOICE OF THE LORD, NOR WALKED IN HIS LAW, NOR
 IN HIS STATUTES, NOR IN HIS TESTIMONIES; THEREFORE THIS EVIL IS HAPPENED UNTO
 YOU, AS AT THIS DAY.
# 24 MOREOVER JEREMIAH SAID UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE, AND TO ALL THE WOMEN, HEAR
 THE WORD OF THE LORD, ALL JUDAH THAT ARE IN THE LAND OF EGYPT:
# 25 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, SAYING; YE AND YOUR
 WIVES HAVE BOTH SPOKEN WITH YOUR MOUTHS, AND FULFILLED WITH YOUR HAND,
 SAYING, WE WILL SURELY PERFORM OUR VOWS THAT WE HAVE VOWED, TO BURN INCENSE
 TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN, AND TO POUR OUT DRINK OFFERINGS UNTO HER: YE WILL
 SURELY ACCOMPLISH YOUR VOWS, AND SURELY PERFORM YOUR VOWS.
# 26 THEREFORE HEAR YE THE WORD OF THE LORD, ALL JUDAH THAT DWELL IN THE LAND
 OF EGYPT; BEHOLD, I HAVE SWORN BY MY GREAT NAME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT MY NAME
 SHALL NO MORE BE NAMED IN THE MOUTH OF ANY MAN OF JUDAH IN ALL THE LAND OF
 EGYPT, SAYING, THE LORD GOD LIVETH.
# 27 BEHOLD, I WILL WATCH OVER THEM FOR EVIL, AND NOT FOR GOOD: AND ALL THE
 MEN OF JUDAH THAT ARE IN THE LAND OF EGYPT SHALL BE CONSUMED BY THE SWORD AND
 BY THE FAMINE, UNTIL THERE BE AN END OF THEM.
# 28 YET A SMALL NUMBER THAT ESCAPE THE SWORD SHALL RETURN OUT OF THE LAND OF
 EGYPT INTO THE LAND OF JUDAH, AND ALL THE REMNANT OF JUDAH, THAT ARE GONE
 INTO THE LAND OF EGYPT TO SOJOURN THERE, SHALL KNOW WHOSE WORDS SHALL STAND,
 MINE, OR THEIRS.
# 29 AND THIS SHALL BE A SIGN UNTO YOU, SAITH THE LORD, THAT I WILL PUNISH
 YOU IN THIS PLACE, THAT YE MAY KNOW THAT MY WORDS SHALL SURELY STAND AGAINST
 YOU FOR EVIL:
# 30 THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, I WILL GIVE PHARAOHHOPHRA KING OF EGYPT
 INTO THE HAND OF HIS ENEMIES, AND INTO THE HAND OF THEM THAT SEEK HIS LIFE;
 AS I GAVE ZEDEKIAH KING OF JUDAH INTO THE HAND OF NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF
 BABYLON, HIS ENEMY, AND THAT SOUGHT HIS LIFE.
= CHAPTER 45 
# 1 THE WORD THAT JEREMIAH THE PROPHET SPAKE UNTO BARUCH THE SON OF NERIAH,
 WHEN HE HAD WRITTEN THESE WORDS IN A BOOK AT THE MOUTH OF JEREMIAH, IN THE
 FOURTH YEAR OF JEHOIAKIM THE SON OF JOSIAH KING OF JUDAH, SAYING,
# 2 THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, UNTO THEE, O BARUCH:
# 3 THOU DIDST SAY, WOE IS ME NOW! FOR THE LORD HATH ADDED GRIEF TO MY
 SORROW; I FAINTED IN MY SIGHING, AND I FIND NO REST.
# 4 THUS SHALT THOU SAY UNTO HIM, THE LORD SAITH THUS; BEHOLD, THAT WHICH I
 HAVE BUILT WILL I BREAK DOWN, AND THAT WHICH I HAVE PLANTED I WILL PLUCK UP,
 EVEN THIS WHOLE LAND.
# 5 AND SEEKEST THOU GREAT THINGS FOR THYSELF? SEEK THEM NOT: FOR, BEHOLD, I
 WILL BRING EVIL UPON ALL FLESH, SAITH THE LORD: BUT THY LIFE WILL I GIVE UNTO
 THEE FOR A PREY IN ALL PLACES WHITHER THOU GOEST.
= CHAPTER 46 
# 1 THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH CAME TO JEREMIAH THE PROPHET AGAINST THE
 GENTILES;
# 2 AGAINST EGYPT, AGAINST THE ARMY OF PHARAOHNECHO KING OF EGYPT, WHICH WAS
 BY THE RIVER EUPHRATES IN CARCHEMISH, WHICH NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON
 SMOTE IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF JEHOIAKIM THE SON OF JOSIAH KING OF JUDAH.
# 3 ORDER YE THE BUCKLER AND SHIELD, AND DRAW NEAR TO BATTLE.
# 4 HARNESS THE HORSES; AND GET UP, YE HORSEMEN, AND STAND FORTH WITH YOUR
 HELMETS; FURBISH THE SPEARS, AND PUT ON THE BRIGANDINES.
# 5 WHEREFORE HAVE I SEEN THEM DISMAYED AND TURNED AWAY BACK? AND THEIR
 MIGHTY ONES ARE BEATEN DOWN, AND ARE FLED APACE, AND LOOK NOT BACK: FOR FEAR
 WAS ROUND ABOUT, SAITH THE LORD.
# 6 LET NOT THE SWIFT FLEE AWAY, NOR THE MIGHTY MAN ESCAPE; THEY SHALL
 STUMBLE, AND FALL TOWARD THE NORTH BY THE RIVER EUPHRATES.
# 7 WHO IS THIS THAT COMETH UP AS A FLOOD, WHOSE WATERS ARE MOVED AS THE
 RIVERS?
# 8 EGYPT RISETH UP LIKE A FLOOD, AND HIS WATERS ARE MOVED LIKE THE RIVERS;
 AND HE SAITH, I WILL GO UP, AND WILL COVER THE EARTH; I WILL DESTROY THE CITY
 AND THE INHABITANTS THEREOF.
# 9 COME UP, YE HORSES; AND RAGE, YE CHARIOTS; AND LET THE MIGHTY MEN COME
 FORTH; THE ETHIOPIANS AND THE LIBYANS, THAT HANDLE THE SHIELD; AND THE
 LYDIANS, THAT HANDLE AND BEND THE BOW.
# 10 FOR THIS IS THE DAY OF THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS, A DAY OF VENGEANCE, THAT
 HE MAY AVENGE HIM OF HIS ADVERSARIES: AND THE SWORD SHALL DEVOUR, AND IT
 SHALL BE SATIATE AND MADE DRUNK WITH THEIR BLOOD: FOR THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS
 HATH A SACRIFICE IN THE NORTH COUNTRY BY THE RIVER EUPHRATES.
# 11 GO UP INTO GILEAD, AND TAKE BALM, O VIRGIN, THE DAUGHTER OF EGYPT: IN
 VAIN SHALT THOU USE MANY MEDICINES; FOR THOU SHALT NOT BE CURED.
# 12 THE NATIONS HAVE HEARD OF THY SHAME, AND THY CRY HATH FILLED THE LAND:
 FOR THE MIGHTY MAN HATH STUMBLED AGAINST THE MIGHTY, AND THEY ARE FALLEN BOTH
 TOGETHER.
# 13 THE WORD THAT THE LORD SPAKE TO JEREMIAH THE PROPHET, HOW NEBUCHADREZZAR
 KING OF BABYLON SHOULD COME AND SMITE THE LAND OF EGYPT.
# 14 DECLARE YE IN EGYPT, AND PUBLISH IN MIGDOL, AND PUBLISH IN NOPH AND IN
 TAHPANHES: SAY YE, STAND FAST, AND PREPARE THEE; FOR THE SWORD SHALL DEVOUR
 ROUND ABOUT THEE.
# 15 WHY ARE THY VALIANT MEN SWEPT AWAY? THEY STOOD NOT, BECAUSE THE LORD DID
 DRIVE THEM.
# 16 HE MADE MANY TO FALL, YEA, ONE FELL UPON ANOTHER: AND THEY SAID, ARISE,
 AND LET US GO AGAIN TO OUR OWN PEOPLE, AND TO THE LAND OF OUR NATIVITY, FROM
 THE OPPRESSING SWORD.
# 17 THEY DID CRY THERE, PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT IS BUT A NOISE; HE HATH PASSED
 THE TIME APPOINTED.
# 18 AS I LIVE, SAITH THE KING, WHOSE NAME IS THE LORD OF HOSTS, SURELY AS
 TABOR IS AMONG THE MOUNTAINS, AND AS CARMEL BY THE SEA, SO SHALL HE COME.
# 19 O THOU DAUGHTER DWELLING IN EGYPT, FURNISH THYSELF TO GO INTO CAPTIVITY:
 FOR NOPH SHALL BE WASTE AND DESOLATE WITHOUT AN INHABITANT.
# 20 EGYPT IS LIKE A VERY FAIR HEIFER, BUT DESTRUCTION COMETH; IT COMETH OUT
 OF THE NORTH.
# 21 ALSO HER HIRED MEN ARE IN THE MIDST OF HER LIKE FATTED BULLOCKS; FOR
 THEY ALSO ARE TURNED BACK, AND ARE FLED AWAY TOGETHER: THEY DID NOT STAND,
 BECAUSE THE DAY OF THEIR CALAMITY WAS COME UPON THEM, AND THE TIME OF THEIR
 VISITATION.
# 22 THE VOICE THEREOF SHALL GO LIKE A SERPENT; FOR THEY SHALL MARCH WITH AN
 ARMY, AND COME AGAINST HER WITH AXES, AS HEWERS OF WOOD.
# 23 THEY SHALL CUT DOWN HER FOREST, SAITH THE LORD, THOUGH IT CANNOT BE
 SEARCHED; BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE THAN THE GRASSHOPPERS, AND ARE INNUMERABLE.
# 24 THE DAUGHTER OF EGYPT SHALL BE CONFOUNDED; SHE SHALL BE DELIVERED INTO
 THE HAND OF THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH.
# 25 THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, SAITH; BEHOLD, I WILL PUNISH THE
 MULTITUDE OF NO, AND PHARAOH, AND EGYPT, WITH THEIR GODS, AND THEIR KINGS;
 EVEN PHARAOH, AND ALL THEM THAT TRUST IN HIM:
# 26 AND I WILL DELIVER THEM INTO THE HAND OF THOSE THAT SEEK THEIR LIVES,
 AND INTO THE HAND OF NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON, AND INTO THE HAND OF HIS
 SERVANTS: AND AFTERWARD IT SHALL BE INHABITED, AS IN THE DAYS OF OLD, SAITH
 THE LORD.
# 27 BUT FEAR NOT THOU, O MY SERVANT JACOB, AND BE NOT DISMAYED, O ISRAEL:
 FOR, BEHOLD, I WILL SAVE THEE FROM AFAR OFF, AND THY SEED FROM THE LAND OF
 THEIR CAPTIVITY; AND JACOB SHALL RETURN, AND BE IN REST AND AT EASE, AND NONE
 SHALL MAKE HIM AFRAID.
# 28 FEAR THOU NOT, O JACOB MY SERVANT, SAITH THE LORD: FOR I AM WITH THEE;
 FOR I WILL MAKE A FULL END OF ALL THE NATIONS WHITHER I HAVE DRIVEN THEE: BUT
 I WILL NOT MAKE A FULL END OF THEE, BUT CORRECT THEE IN MEASURE; YET WILL I
 NOT LEAVE THEE WHOLLY UNPUNISHED.
= CHAPTER 47 
# 1 THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH THE PROPHET AGAINST THE
 PHILISTINES, BEFORE THAT PHARAOH SMOTE GAZA.
# 2 THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, WATERS RISE UP OUT OF THE NORTH, AND SHALL
 BE AN OVERFLOWING FLOOD, AND SHALL OVERFLOW THE LAND, AND ALL THAT IS
 THEREIN; THE CITY, AND THEM THAT DWELL THEREIN: THEN THE MEN SHALL CRY, AND
 ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND SHALL HOWL.
# 3 AT THE NOISE OF THE STAMPING OF THE HOOFS OF HIS STRONG HORSES, AT THE
 RUSHING OF HIS CHARIOTS, AND AT THE RUMBLING OF HIS WHEELS, THE FATHERS SHALL
 NOT LOOK BACK TO THEIR CHILDREN FOR FEEBLENESS OF HANDS;
# 4 BECAUSE OF THE DAY THAT COMETH TO SPOIL ALL THE PHILISTINES, AND TO CUT
 OFF FROM TYRUS AND ZIDON EVERY HELPER THAT REMAINETH: FOR THE LORD WILL SPOIL
 THE PHILISTINES, THE REMNANT OF THE COUNTRY OF CAPHTOR.
# 5 BALDNESS IS COME UPON GAZA; ASHKELON IS CUT OFF WITH THE REMNANT OF THEIR
 VALLEY: HOW LONG WILT THOU CUT THYSELF?
# 6 O THOU SWORD OF THE LORD, HOW LONG WILL IT BE ERE THOU BE QUIET? PUT UP
 THYSELF INTO THY SCABBARD, REST, AND BE STILL.
# 7 HOW CAN IT BE QUIET, SEEING THE LORD HATH GIVEN IT A CHARGE AGAINST
 ASHKELON, AND AGAINST THE SEA SHORE? THERE HATH HE APPOINTED IT.
= CHAPTER 48 
# 1 AGAINST MOAB THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; WOE UNTO
 NEBO! FOR IT IS SPOILED: KIRIATHAIM IS CONFOUNDED AND TAKEN: MISGAB IS
 CONFOUNDED AND DISMAYED.
# 2 THERE SHALL BE NO MORE PRAISE OF MOAB: IN HESHBON THEY HAVE DEVISED EVIL
 AGAINST IT; COME, AND LET US CUT IT OFF FROM BEING A NATION. ALSO THOU SHALT
 BE CUT DOWN, O MADMEN; THE SWORD SHALL PURSUE THEE.
# 3 A VOICE OF CRYING SHALL BE FROM HORONAIM, SPOILING AND GREAT DESTRUCTION.
# 4 MOAB IS DESTROYED; HER LITTLE ONES HAVE CAUSED A CRY TO BE HEARD.
# 5 FOR IN THE GOING UP OF LUHITH CONTINUAL WEEPING SHALL GO UP; FOR IN THE
 GOING DOWN OF HORONAIM THE ENEMIES HAVE HEARD A CRY OF DESTRUCTION.
# 6 FLEE, SAVE YOUR LIVES, AND BE LIKE THE HEATH IN THE WILDERNESS.
# 7 FOR BECAUSE THOU HAST TRUSTED IN THY WORKS AND IN THY TREASURES, THOU
 SHALT ALSO BE TAKEN: AND CHEMOSH SHALL GO FORTH INTO CAPTIVITY WITH HIS
 PRIESTS AND HIS PRINCES TOGETHER.
# 8 AND THE SPOILER SHALL COME UPON EVERY CITY, AND NO CITY SHALL ESCAPE: THE
 VALLEY ALSO SHALL PERISH, AND THE PLAIN SHALL BE DESTROYED, AS THE LORD HATH
 SPOKEN.
# 9 GIVE WINGS UNTO MOAB, THAT IT MAY FLEE AND GET AWAY: FOR THE CITIES
 THEREOF SHALL BE DESOLATE, WITHOUT ANY TO DWELL THEREIN.
# 10 CURSED BE HE THAT DOETH THE WORK OF THE LORD DECEITFULLY, AND CURSED BE
 HE THAT KEEPETH BACK HIS SWORD FROM BLOOD.
# 11 MOAB HATH BEEN AT EASE FROM HIS YOUTH, AND HE HATH SETTLED ON HIS LEES,
 AND HATH NOT BEEN EMPTIED FROM VESSEL TO VESSEL, NEITHER HATH HE GONE INTO
 CAPTIVITY: THEREFORE HIS TASTE REMAINED IN HIM, AND HIS SCENT IS NOT CHANGED.
# 12 THEREFORE, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT I WILL SEND UNTO
 HIM WANDERERS, THAT SHALL CAUSE HIM TO WANDER, AND SHALL EMPTY HIS VESSELS,
 AND BREAK THEIR BOTTLES.
# 13 AND MOAB SHALL BE ASHAMED OF CHEMOSH, AS THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WAS ASHAMED
 OF BETHEL THEIR CONFIDENCE.
# 14 HOW SAY YE, WE ARE MIGHTY AND STRONG MEN FOR THE WAR?
# 15 MOAB IS SPOILED, AND GONE UP OUT OF HER CITIES, AND HIS CHOSEN YOUNG MEN
 ARE GONE DOWN TO THE SLAUGHTER, SAITH THE KING, WHOSE NAME IS THE LORD OF
 HOSTS.
# 16 THE CALAMITY OF MOAB IS NEAR TO COME, AND HIS AFFLICTION HASTETH FAST.
# 17 ALL YE THAT ARE ABOUT HIM, BEMOAN HIM; AND ALL YE THAT KNOW HIS NAME,
 SAY, HOW IS THE STRONG STAFF BROKEN, AND THE BEAUTIFUL ROD!
# 18 THOU DAUGHTER THAT DOST INHABIT DIBON, COME DOWN FROM THY GLORY, AND SIT
 IN THIRST; FOR THE SPOILER OF MOAB SHALL COME UPON THEE, AND HE SHALL DESTROY
 THY STRONG HOLDS.
# 19 O INHABITANT OF AROER, STAND BY THE WAY, AND ESPY; ASK HIM THAT FLEETH,
 AND HER THAT ESCAPETH, AND SAY, WHAT IS DONE?
# 20 MOAB IS CONFOUNDED; FOR IT IS BROKEN DOWN: HOWL AND CRY; TELL YE IT IN
 ARNON, THAT MOAB IS SPOILED,
# 21 AND JUDGMENT IS COME UPON THE PLAIN COUNTRY; UPON HOLON, AND UPON
 JAHAZAH, AND UPON MEPHAATH,
# 22 AND UPON DIBON, AND UPON NEBO, AND UPON BETHDIBLATHAIM,
# 23 AND UPON KIRIATHAIM, AND UPON BETHGAMUL, AND UPON BETHMEON,
# 24 AND UPON KERIOTH, AND UPON BOZRAH, AND UPON ALL THE CITIES OF THE LAND
 OF MOAB, FAR OR NEAR.
# 25 THE HORN OF MOAB IS CUT OFF, AND HIS ARM IS BROKEN, SAITH THE LORD.
# 26 MAKE YE HIM DRUNKEN: FOR HE MAGNIFIED HIMSELF AGAINST THE LORD: MOAB
 ALSO SHALL WALLOW IN HIS VOMIT, AND HE ALSO SHALL BE IN DERISION.
# 27 FOR WAS NOT ISRAEL A DERISION UNTO THEE? WAS HE FOUND AMONG THIEVES? FOR
 SINCE THOU SPAKEST OF HIM, THOU SKIPPEDST FOR JOY.
# 28 O YE THAT DWELL IN MOAB, LEAVE THE CITIES, AND DWELL IN THE ROCK, AND BE
 LIKE THE DOVE THAT MAKETH HER NEST IN THE SIDES OF THE HOLES MOUTH.
# 29 WE HAVE HEARD THE PRIDE OF MOAB, (HE IS EXCEEDING PROUD) HIS LOFTINESS,
 AND HIS ARROGANCY, AND HIS PRIDE, AND THE HAUGHTINESS OF HIS HEART.
# 30 I KNOW HIS WRATH, SAITH THE LORD; BUT IT SHALL NOT BE SO; HIS LIES SHALL
 NOT SO EFFECT IT.
# 31 THEREFORE WILL I HOWL FOR MOAB, AND I WILL CRY OUT FOR ALL MOAB; MINE
 HEART SHALL MOURN FOR THE MEN OF KIRHERES.
# 32 O VINE OF SIBMAH, I WILL WEEP FOR THEE WITH THE WEEPING OF JAZER: THY
 PLANTS ARE GONE OVER THE SEA, THEY REACH EVEN TO THE SEA OF JAZER: THE
 SPOILER IS FALLEN UPON THY SUMMER FRUITS AND UPON THY VINTAGE.
# 33 AND JOY AND GLADNESS IS TAKEN FROM THE PLENTIFUL FIELD, AND FROM THE
 LAND OF MOAB, AND I HAVE CAUSED WINE TO FAIL FROM THE WINEPRESSES: NONE SHALL
 TREAD WITH SHOUTING; THEIR SHOUTING SHALL BE NO SHOUTING.
# 34 FROM THE CRY OF HESHBON EVEN UNTO ELEALEH, AND EVEN UNTO JAHAZ, HAVE
 THEY UTTERED THEIR VOICE, FROM ZOAR EVEN UNTO HORONAIM, AS AN HEIFER OF THREE
 YEARS OLD: FOR THE WATERS ALSO OF NIMRIM SHALL BE DESOLATE.
# 35 MOREOVER I WILL CAUSE TO CEASE IN MOAB, SAITH THE LORD, HIM THAT
 OFFERETH IN THE HIGH PLACES, AND HIM THAT BURNETH INCENSE TO HIS GODS.
# 36 THEREFORE MINE HEART SHALL SOUND FOR MOAB LIKE PIPES, AND MINE HEART
 SHALL SOUND LIKE PIPES FOR THE MEN OF KIRHERES: BECAUSE THE RICHES THAT HE
 HATH GOTTEN ARE PERISHED.
# 37 FOR EVERY HEAD SHALL BE BALD, AND EVERY BEARD CLIPPED: UPON ALL THE
 HANDS SHALL BE CUTTINGS, AND UPON THE LOINS SACKCLOTH.
# 38 THERE SHALL BE LAMENTATION GENERALLY UPON ALL THE HOUSETOPS OF MOAB, AND
 IN THE STREETS THEREOF: FOR I HAVE BROKEN MOAB LIKE A VESSEL WHEREIN IS NO
 PLEASURE, SAITH THE LORD.
# 39 THEY SHALL HOWL, SAYING, HOW IS IT BROKEN DOWN! HOW HATH MOAB TURNED THE
 BACK WITH SHAME! SO SHALL MOAB BE A DERISION AND A DISMAYING TO ALL THEM
 ABOUT HIM.
# 40 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, HE SHALL FLY AS AN EAGLE, AND SHALL
 SPREAD HIS WINGS OVER MOAB.
# 41 KERIOTH IS TAKEN, AND THE STRONG HOLDS ARE SURPRISED, AND THE MIGHTY
 MENS HEARTS IN MOAB AT THAT DAY SHALL BE AS THE HEART OF A WOMAN IN HER
 PANGS.
# 42 AND MOAB SHALL BE DESTROYED FROM BEING A PEOPLE, BECAUSE HE HATH
 MAGNIFIED HIMSELF AGAINST THE LORD.
# 43 FEAR, AND THE PIT, AND THE SNARE, SHALL BE UPON THEE, O INHABITANT OF
 MOAB, SAITH THE LORD.
# 44 HE THAT FLEETH FROM THE FEAR SHALL FALL INTO THE PIT; AND HE THAT
 GETTETH UP OUT OF THE PIT SHALL BE TAKEN IN THE SNARE: FOR I WILL BRING UPON
 IT, EVEN UPON MOAB, THE YEAR OF THEIR VISITATION, SAITH THE LORD.
# 45 THEY THAT FLED STOOD UNDER THE SHADOW OF HESHBON BECAUSE OF THE FORCE:
 BUT A FIRE SHALL COME FORTH OUT OF HESHBON, AND A FLAME FROM THE MIDST OF
 SIHON, AND SHALL DEVOUR THE CORNER OF MOAB, AND THE CROWN OF THE HEAD OF THE
 TUMULTUOUS ONES.
# 46 WOE BE UNTO THEE, O MOAB! THE PEOPLE OF CHEMOSH PERISHETH: FOR THY SONS
 ARE TAKEN CAPTIVES, AND THY DAUGHTERS CAPTIVES.
# 47 YET WILL I BRING AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF MOAB IN THE LATTER DAYS, SAITH
 THE LORD. THUS FAR IS THE JUDGMENT OF MOAB.
= CHAPTER 49 
# 1 CONCERNING THE AMMONITES, THUS SAITH THE LORD; HATH ISRAEL NO SONS? HATH
 HE NO HEIR? WHY THEN DOTH THEIR KING INHERIT GAD, AND HIS PEOPLE DWELL IN HIS
 CITIES?
# 2 THEREFORE, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT I WILL CAUSE AN
 ALARM OF WAR TO BE HEARD IN RABBAH OF THE AMMONITES; AND IT SHALL BE A
 DESOLATE HEAP, AND HER DAUGHTERS SHALL BE BURNED WITH FIRE: THEN SHALL ISRAEL
 BE HEIR UNTO THEM THAT WERE HIS HEIRS, SAITH THE LORD.
# 3 HOWL, O HESHBON, FOR AI IS SPOILED: CRY, YE DAUGHTERS OF RABBAH, GIRD YOU
 WITH SACKCLOTH; LAMENT, AND RUN TO AND FRO BY THE HEDGES; FOR THEIR KING
 SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY, AND HIS PRIESTS AND HIS PRINCES TOGETHER.
# 4 WHEREFORE GLORIEST THOU IN THE VALLEYS, THY FLOWING VALLEY, O BACKSLIDING
 DAUGHTER? THAT TRUSTED IN HER TREASURES, SAYING, WHO SHALL COME UNTO ME?
# 5 BEHOLD, I WILL BRING A FEAR UPON THEE, SAITH THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS, FROM
 ALL THOSE THAT BE ABOUT THEE; AND YE SHALL BE DRIVEN OUT EVERY MAN RIGHT
 FORTH; AND NONE SHALL GATHER UP HIM THAT WANDERETH.
# 6 AND AFTERWARD I WILL BRING AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON,
 SAITH THE LORD.
# 7 CONCERNING EDOM, THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; IS WISDOM NO MORE IN
 TEMAN? IS COUNSEL PERISHED FROM THE PRUDENT? IS THEIR WISDOM VANISHED?
# 8 FLEE YE, TURN BACK, DWELL DEEP, O INHABITANTS OF DEDAN; FOR I WILL BRING
 THE CALAMITY OF ESAU UPON HIM, THE TIME THAT I WILL VISIT HIM.
# 9 IF GRAPEGATHERERS COME TO THEE, WOULD THEY NOT LEAVE SOME GLEANING
 GRAPES? IF THIEVES BY NIGHT, THEY WILL DESTROY TILL THEY HAVE ENOUGH.
# 10 BUT I HAVE MADE ESAU BARE, I HAVE UNCOVERED HIS SECRET PLACES, AND HE
 SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO HIDE HIMSELF: HIS SEED IS SPOILED, AND HIS BRETHREN, AND
 HIS NEIGHBOURS, AND HE IS NOT.
# 11 LEAVE THY FATHERLESS CHILDREN, I WILL PRESERVE THEM ALIVE; AND LET THY
 WIDOWS TRUST IN ME.
# 12 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, THEY WHOSE JUDGMENT WAS NOT TO DRINK OF
 THE CUP HAVE ASSUREDLY DRUNKEN; AND ART THOU HE THAT SHALL ALTOGETHER GO
 UNPUNISHED? THOU SHALT NOT GO UNPUNISHED, BUT THOU SHALT SURELY DRINK OF IT.
# 13 FOR I HAVE SWORN BY MYSELF, SAITH THE LORD, THAT BOZRAH SHALL BECOME A
 DESOLATION, A REPROACH, A WASTE, AND A CURSE; AND ALL THE CITIES THEREOF
 SHALL BE PERPETUAL WASTES.
# 14 I HAVE HEARD A RUMOUR FROM THE LORD, AND AN AMBASSADOR IS SENT UNTO THE
 HEATHEN, SAYING, GATHER YE TOGETHER, AND COME AGAINST HER, AND RISE UP TO THE
 BATTLE.
# 15 FOR, LO, I WILL MAKE THEE SMALL AMONG THE HEATHEN, AND DESPISED AMONG
 MEN.
# 16 THY TERRIBLENESS HATH DECEIVED THEE, AND THE PRIDE OF THINE HEART, O
 THOU THAT DWELLEST IN THE CLEFTS OF THE ROCK, THAT HOLDEST THE HEIGHT OF THE
 HILL: THOUGH THOU SHOULDEST MAKE THY NEST AS HIGH AS THE EAGLE, I WILL BRING
 THEE DOWN FROM THENCE, SAITH THE LORD.
# 17 ALSO EDOM SHALL BE A DESOLATION: EVERY ONE THAT GOETH BY IT SHALL BE
 ASTONISHED, AND SHALL HISS AT ALL THE PLAGUES THEREOF.
# 18 AS IN THE OVERTHROW OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND THE NEIGHBOUR CITIES
 THEREOF, SAITH THE LORD, NO MAN SHALL ABIDE THERE, NEITHER SHALL A SON OF MAN
 DWELL IN IT.
# 19 BEHOLD, HE SHALL COME UP LIKE A LION FROM THE SWELLING OF JORDAN AGAINST
 THE HABITATION OF THE STRONG: BUT I WILL SUDDENLY MAKE HIM RUN AWAY FROM HER:
 AND WHO IS A CHOSEN MAN, THAT I MAY APPOINT OVER HER? FOR WHO IS LIKE ME? AND
 WHO WILL APPOINT ME THE TIME? AND WHO IS THAT SHEPHERD THAT WILL STAND BEFORE
 ME?
# 20 THEREFORE HEAR THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD, THAT HE HATH TAKEN AGAINST EDOM;
 AND HIS PURPOSES, THAT HE HATH PURPOSED AGAINST THE INHABITANTS OF TEMAN:
 SURELY THE LEAST OF THE FLOCK SHALL DRAW THEM OUT: SURELY HE SHALL MAKE THEIR
 HABITATIONS DESOLATE WITH THEM.
# 21 THE EARTH IS MOVED AT THE NOISE OF THEIR FALL, AT THE CRY THE NOISE
 THEREOF WAS HEARD IN THE RED SEA.
# 22 BEHOLD, HE SHALL COME UP AND FLY AS THE EAGLE, AND SPREAD HIS WINGS OVER
 BOZRAH: AND AT THAT DAY SHALL THE HEART OF THE MIGHTY MEN OF EDOM BE AS THE
 HEART OF A WOMAN IN HER PANGS.
# 23 CONCERNING DAMASCUS. HAMATH IS CONFOUNDED, AND ARPAD: FOR THEY HAVE
 HEARD EVIL TIDINGS: THEY ARE FAINTHEARTED; THERE IS SORROW ON THE SEA; IT
 CANNOT BE QUIET.
# 24 DAMASCUS IS WAXED FEEBLE, AND TURNETH HERSELF TO FLEE, AND FEAR HATH
 SEIZED ON HER: ANGUISH AND SORROWS HAVE TAKEN HER, AS A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL.
# 25 HOW IS THE CITY OF PRAISE NOT LEFT, THE CITY OF MY JOY!
# 26 THEREFORE HER YOUNG MEN SHALL FALL IN HER STREETS, AND ALL THE MEN OF
 WAR SHALL BE CUT OFF IN THAT DAY, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS.
# 27 AND I WILL KINDLE A FIRE IN THE WALL OF DAMASCUS, AND IT SHALL CONSUME
 THE PALACES OF BENHADAD.
# 28 CONCERNING KEDAR, AND CONCERNING THE KINGDOMS OF HAZOR, WHICH
 NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON SHALL SMITE, THUS SAITH THE LORD; ARISE YE, GO
 UP TO KEDAR, AND SPOIL THE MEN OF THE EAST.
# 29 THEIR TENTS AND THEIR FLOCKS SHALL THEY TAKE AWAY: THEY SHALL TAKE TO
 THEMSELVES THEIR CURTAINS, AND ALL THEIR VESSELS, AND THEIR CAMELS; AND THEY
 SHALL CRY UNTO THEM, FEAR IS ON EVERY SIDE.
# 30 FLEE, GET YOU FAR OFF, DWELL DEEP, O YE INHABITANTS OF HAZOR, SAITH THE
 LORD; FOR NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON HATH TAKEN COUNSEL AGAINST YOU, AND
 HATH CONCEIVED A PURPOSE AGAINST YOU.
# 31 ARISE, GET YOU UP UNTO THE WEALTHY NATION, THAT DWELLETH WITHOUT CARE,
 SAITH THE LORD, WHICH HAVE NEITHER GATES NOR BARS, WHICH DWELL ALONE.
# 32 AND THEIR CAMELS SHALL BE A BOOTY, AND THE MULTITUDE OF THEIR CATTLE A
 SPOIL: AND I WILL SCATTER INTO ALL WINDS THEM THAT ARE IN THE UTMOST CORNERS;
 AND I WILL BRING THEIR CALAMITY FROM ALL SIDES THEREOF, SAITH THE LORD.
# 33 AND HAZOR SHALL BE A DWELLING FOR DRAGONS, AND A DESOLATION FOR EVER:
 THERE SHALL NO MAN ABIDE THERE, NOR ANY SON OF MAN DWELL IN IT.
# 34 THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH THE PROPHET AGAINST ELAM IN
 THE BEGINNING OF THE REIGN OF ZEDEKIAH KING OF JUDAH, SAYING,
# 35 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; BEHOLD, I WILL BREAK THE BOW OF ELAM, THE
 CHIEF OF THEIR MIGHT.
# 36 AND UPON ELAM WILL I BRING THE FOUR WINDS FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF
 HEAVEN, AND WILL SCATTER THEM TOWARD ALL THOSE WINDS; AND THERE SHALL BE NO
 NATION WHITHER THE OUTCASTS OF ELAM SHALL NOT COME.
# 37 FOR I WILL CAUSE ELAM TO BE DISMAYED BEFORE THEIR ENEMIES, AND BEFORE
 THEM THAT SEEK THEIR LIFE: AND I WILL BRING EVIL UPON THEM, EVEN MY FIERCE
 ANGER, SAITH THE LORD; AND I WILL SEND THE SWORD AFTER THEM, TILL I HAVE
 CONSUMED THEM:
# 38 AND I WILL SET MY THRONE IN ELAM, AND WILL DESTROY FROM THENCE THE KING
 AND THE PRINCES, SAITH THE LORD.
# 39 BUT IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THE LATTER DAYS, THAT I WILL BRING AGAIN
 THE CAPTIVITY OF ELAM, SAITH THE LORD.
= CHAPTER 50 
# 1 THE WORD THAT THE LORD SPAKE AGAINST BABYLON AND AGAINST THE LAND OF THE
 CHALDEANS BY JEREMIAH THE PROPHET.
# 2 DECLARE YE AMONG THE NATIONS, AND PUBLISH, AND SET UP A STANDARD;
 PUBLISH, AND CONCEAL NOT: SAY, BABYLON IS TAKEN, BEL IS CONFOUNDED, MERODACH
 IS BROKEN IN PIECES; HER IDOLS ARE CONFOUNDED, HER IMAGES ARE BROKEN IN
 PIECES.
# 3 FOR OUT OF THE NORTH THERE COMETH UP A NATION AGAINST HER, WHICH SHALL
 MAKE HER LAND DESOLATE, AND NONE SHALL DWELL THEREIN: THEY SHALL REMOVE, THEY
 SHALL DEPART, BOTH MAN AND BEAST.
# 4 IN THOSE DAYS, AND IN THAT TIME, SAITH THE LORD, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
 SHALL COME, THEY AND THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH TOGETHER, GOING AND WEEPING: THEY
 SHALL GO, AND SEEK THE LORD THEIR GOD.
# 5 THEY SHALL ASK THE WAY TO ZION WITH THEIR FACES THITHERWARD, SAYING,
 COME, AND LET US JOIN OURSELVES TO THE LORD IN A PERPETUAL COVENANT THAT
 SHALL NOT BE FORGOTTEN.
# 6 MY PEOPLE HATH BEEN LOST SHEEP: THEIR SHEPHERDS HAVE CAUSED THEM TO GO
 ASTRAY, THEY HAVE TURNED THEM AWAY ON THE MOUNTAINS: THEY HAVE GONE FROM
 MOUNTAIN TO HILL, THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN THEIR RESTINGPLACE.
# 7 ALL THAT FOUND THEM HAVE DEVOURED THEM: AND THEIR ADVERSARIES SAID, WE
 OFFEND NOT, BECAUSE THEY HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD, THE HABITATION OF
 JUSTICE, EVEN THE LORD, THE HOPE OF THEIR FATHERS.
# 8 REMOVE OUT OF THE MIDST OF BABYLON, AND GO FORTH OUT OF THE LAND OF THE
 CHALDEANS, AND BE AS THE HE GOATS BEFORE THE FLOCKS.
# 9 FOR, LO, I WILL RAISE AND CAUSE TO COME UP AGAINST BABYLON AN ASSEMBLY OF
 GREAT NATIONS FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY: AND THEY SHALL SET THEMSELVES IN ARRAY
 AGAINST HER; FROM THENCE SHE SHALL BE TAKEN: THEIR ARROWS SHALL BE AS OF A
 MIGHTY EXPERT MAN; NONE SHALL RETURN IN VAIN.
# 10 AND CHALDEA SHALL BE A SPOIL: ALL THAT SPOIL HER SHALL BE SATISFIED,
 SAITH THE LORD.
# 11 BECAUSE YE WERE GLAD, BECAUSE YE REJOICED, O YE DESTROYERS OF MINE
 HERITAGE, BECAUSE YE ARE GROWN FAT AS THE HEIFER AT GRASS, AND BELLOW AS
 BULLS;
# 12 YOUR MOTHER SHALL BE SORE CONFOUNDED; SHE THAT BARE YOU SHALL BE
 ASHAMED: BEHOLD, THE HINDERMOST OF THE NATIONS SHALL BE A WILDERNESS, A DRY
 LAND, AND A DESERT.
# 13 BECAUSE OF THE WRATH OF THE LORD IT SHALL NOT BE INHABITED, BUT IT SHALL
 BE WHOLLY DESOLATE: EVERY ONE THAT GOETH BY BABYLON SHALL BE ASTONISHED, AND
 HISS AT ALL HER PLAGUES.
# 14 PUT YOURSELVES IN ARRAY AGAINST BABYLON ROUND ABOUT: ALL YE THAT BEND
 THE BOW, SHOOT AT HER, SPARE NO ARROWS: FOR SHE HATH SINNED AGAINST THE LORD.
# 15 SHOUT AGAINST HER ROUND ABOUT: SHE HATH GIVEN HER HAND: HER FOUNDATIONS
 ARE FALLEN, HER WALLS ARE THROWN DOWN: FOR IT IS THE VENGEANCE OF THE LORD:
 TAKE VENGEANCE UPON HER; AS SHE HATH DONE, DO UNTO HER.
# 16 CUT OFF THE SOWER FROM BABYLON, AND HIM THAT HANDLETH THE SICKLE IN THE
 TIME OF HARVEST: FOR FEAR OF THE OPPRESSING SWORD THEY SHALL TURN EVERY ONE
 TO HIS PEOPLE, AND THEY SHALL FLEE EVERY ONE TO HIS OWN LAND.
# 17 ISRAEL IS A SCATTERED SHEEP; THE LIONS HAVE DRIVEN HIM AWAY: FIRST THE
 KING OF ASSYRIA HATH DEVOURED HIM; AND LAST THIS NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF
 BABYLON HATH BROKEN HIS BONES.
# 18 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; BEHOLD, I
 WILL PUNISH THE KING OF BABYLON AND HIS LAND, AS I HAVE PUNISHED THE KING OF
 ASSYRIA.
# 19 AND I WILL BRING ISRAEL AGAIN TO HIS HABITATION, AND HE SHALL FEED ON
 CARMEL AND BASHAN, AND HIS SOUL SHALL BE SATISFIED UPON MOUNT EPHRAIM AND
 GILEAD.
# 20 IN THOSE DAYS, AND IN THAT TIME, SAITH THE LORD, THE INIQUITY OF ISRAEL
 SHALL BE SOUGHT FOR, AND THERE SHALL BE NONE; AND THE SINS OF JUDAH, AND THEY
 SHALL NOT BE FOUND: FOR I WILL PARDON THEM WHOM I RESERVE.
# 21 GO UP AGAINST THE LAND OF MERATHAIM, EVEN AGAINST IT, AND AGAINST THE
 INHABITANTS OF PEKOD: WASTE AND UTTERLY DESTROY AFTER THEM, SAITH THE LORD,
 AND DO ACCORDING TO ALL THAT I HAVE COMMANDED THEE.
# 22 A SOUND OF BATTLE IS IN THE LAND, AND OF GREAT DESTRUCTION.
# 23 HOW IS THE HAMMER OF THE WHOLE EARTH CUT ASUNDER AND BROKEN! HOW IS
 BABYLON BECOME A DESOLATION AMONG THE NATIONS!
# 24 I HAVE LAID A SNARE FOR THEE, AND THOU ART ALSO TAKEN, O BABYLON, AND
 THOU WAST NOT AWARE: THOU ART FOUND, AND ALSO CAUGHT, BECAUSE THOU HAST
 STRIVEN AGAINST THE LORD.
# 25 THE LORD HATH OPENED HIS ARMOURY, AND HATH BROUGHT FORTH THE WEAPONS OF
 HIS INDIGNATION: FOR THIS IS THE WORK OF THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS IN THE LAND OF
 THE CHALDEANS.
# 26 COME AGAINST HER FROM THE UTMOST BORDER, OPEN HER STOREHOUSES: CAST HER
 UP AS HEAPS, AND DESTROY HER UTTERLY: LET NOTHING OF HER BE LEFT.
# 27 SLAY ALL HER BULLOCKS; LET THEM GO DOWN TO THE SLAUGHTER: WOE UNTO THEM!
 FOR THEIR DAY IS COME, THE TIME OF THEIR VISITATION.
# 28 THE VOICE OF THEM THAT FLEE AND ESCAPE OUT OF THE LAND OF BABYLON, TO
 DECLARE IN ZION THE VENGEANCE OF THE LORD OUR GOD, THE VENGEANCE OF HIS
 TEMPLE.
# 29 CALL TOGETHER THE ARCHERS AGAINST BABYLON: ALL YE THAT BEND THE BOW,
 CAMP AGAINST IT ROUND ABOUT; LET NONE THEREOF ESCAPE: RECOMPENSE HER
 ACCORDING TO HER WORK; ACCORDING TO ALL THAT SHE HATH DONE, DO UNTO HER: FOR
 SHE HATH BEEN PROUD AGAINST THE LORD, AGAINST THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL.
# 30 THEREFORE SHALL HER YOUNG MEN FALL IN THE STREETS, AND ALL HER MEN OF
 WAR SHALL BE CUT OFF IN THAT DAY, SAITH THE LORD.
# 31 BEHOLD, I AM AGAINST THEE, O THOU MOST PROUD, SAITH THE LORD GOD OF
 HOSTS: FOR THY DAY IS COME, THE TIME THAT I WILL VISIT THEE.
# 32 AND THE MOST PROUD SHALL STUMBLE AND FALL, AND NONE SHALL RAISE HIM UP:
 AND I WILL KINDLE A FIRE IN HIS CITIES, AND IT SHALL DEVOUR ALL ROUND ABOUT
 HIM.
# 33 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND THE CHILDREN OF
 JUDAH WERE OPPRESSED TOGETHER: AND ALL THAT TOOK THEM CAPTIVES HELD THEM
 FAST; THEY REFUSED TO LET THEM GO.
# 34 THEIR REDEEMER IS STRONG; THE LORD OF HOSTS IS HIS NAME: HE SHALL
 THROUGHLY PLEAD THEIR CAUSE, THAT HE MAY GIVE REST TO THE LAND, AND DISQUIET
 THE INHABITANTS OF BABYLON.
# 35 A SWORD IS UPON THE CHALDEANS, SAITH THE LORD, AND UPON THE INHABITANTS
 OF BABYLON, AND UPON HER PRINCES, AND UPON HER WISE MEN.
# 36 A SWORD IS UPON THE LIARS; AND THEY SHALL DOTE: A SWORD IS UPON HER
 MIGHTY MEN; AND THEY SHALL BE DISMAYED.
# 37 A SWORD IS UPON THEIR HORSES, AND UPON THEIR CHARIOTS, AND UPON ALL THE
 MINGLED PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THE MIDST OF HER; AND THEY SHALL BECOME AS WOMEN:
 A SWORD IS UPON HER TREASURES; AND THEY SHALL BE ROBBED.
# 38 A DROUGHT IS UPON HER WATERS; AND THEY SHALL BE DRIED UP: FOR IT IS THE
 LAND OF GRAVEN IMAGES, AND THEY ARE MAD UPON THEIR IDOLS.
# 39 THEREFORE THE WILD BEASTS OF THE DESERT WITH THE WILD BEASTS OF THE
 ISLANDS SHALL DWELL THERE, AND THE OWLS SHALL DWELL THEREIN: AND IT SHALL BE
 NO MORE INHABITED FOR EVER; NEITHER SHALL IT BE DWELT IN FROM GENERATION TO
 GENERATION.
# 40 AS GOD OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND THE NEIGHBOUR CITIES THEREOF,
 SAITH THE LORD; SO SHALL NO MAN ABIDE THERE, NEITHER SHALL ANY SON OF MAN
 DWELL THEREIN.
# 41 BEHOLD, A PEOPLE SHALL COME FROM THE NORTH, AND A GREAT NATION, AND MANY
 KINGS SHALL BE RAISED UP FROM THE COASTS OF THE EARTH.
# 42 THEY SHALL HOLD THE BOW AND THE LANCE: THEY ARE CRUEL, AND WILL NOT SHEW
 MERCY: THEIR VOICE SHALL ROAR LIKE THE SEA, AND THEY SHALL RIDE UPON HORSES,
 EVERY ONE PUT IN ARRAY, LIKE A MAN TO THE BATTLE, AGAINST THEE, O DAUGHTER OF
 BABYLON.
# 43 THE KING OF BABYLON HATH HEARD THE REPORT OF THEM, AND HIS HANDS WAXED
 FEEBLE: ANGUISH TOOK HOLD OF HIM, AND PANGS AS OF A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL.
# 44 BEHOLD, HE SHALL COME UP LIKE A LION FROM THE SWELLING OF JORDAN UNTO
 THE HABITATION OF THE STRONG: BUT I WILL MAKE THEM SUDDENLY RUN AWAY FROM
 HER: AND WHO IS A CHOSEN MAN, THAT I MAY APPOINT OVER HER? FOR WHO IS LIKE
 ME? AND WHO WILL APPOINT ME THE TIME? AND WHO IS THAT SHEPHERD THAT WILL
 STAND BEFORE ME?
# 45 THEREFORE HEAR YE THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD, THAT HE HATH TAKEN AGAINST
 BABYLON; AND HIS PURPOSES, THAT HE HATH PURPOSED AGAINST THE LAND OF THE
 CHALDEANS: SURELY THE LEAST OF THE FLOCK SHALL DRAW THEM OUT: SURELY HE SHALL
 MAKE THEIR HABITATION DESOLATE WITH THEM.
# 46 AT THE NOISE OF THE TAKING OF BABYLON THE EARTH IS MOVED, AND THE CRY IS
 HEARD AMONG THE NATIONS.
= CHAPTER 51 
# 1 THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, I WILL RAISE UP AGAINST BABYLON, AND AGAINST
 THEM THAT DWELL IN THE MIDST OF THEM THAT RISE UP AGAINST ME, A DESTROYING
 WIND;
# 2 AND WILL SEND UNTO BABYLON FANNERS, THAT SHALL FAN HER, AND SHALL EMPTY
 HER LAND: FOR IN THE DAY OF TROUBLE THEY SHALL BE AGAINST HER ROUND ABOUT.
# 3 AGAINST HIM THAT BENDETH LET THE ARCHER BEND HIS BOW, AND AGAINST HIM
 THAT LIFTETH HIMSELF UP IN HIS BRIGANDINE: AND SPARE YE NOT HER YOUNG MEN;
 DESTROY YE UTTERLY ALL HER HOST.
# 4 THUS THE SLAIN SHALL FALL IN THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS, AND THEY THAT ARE
 THRUST THROUGH IN HER STREETS.
# 5 FOR ISRAEL HATH NOT BEEN FORSAKEN, NOR JUDAH OF HIS GOD, OF THE LORD OF
 HOSTS; THOUGH THEIR LAND WAS FILLED WITH SIN AGAINST THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL.
# 6 FLEE OUT OF THE MIDST OF BABYLON, AND DELIVER EVERY MAN HIS SOUL: BE NOT
 CUT OFF IN HER INIQUITY; FOR THIS IS THE TIME OF THE LORDS VENGEANCE; HE WILL
 RENDER UNTO HER A RECOMPENCE.
# 7 BABYLON HATH BEEN A GOLDEN CUP IN THE LORDS HAND, THAT MADE ALL THE EARTH
 DRUNKEN: THE NATIONS HAVE DRUNKEN OF HER WINE; THEREFORE THE NATIONS ARE MAD.
# 8 BABYLON IS SUDDENLY FALLEN AND DESTROYED: HOWL FOR HER; TAKE BALM FOR HER
 PAIN, IF SO BE SHE MAY BE HEALED.
# 9 WE WOULD HAVE HEALED BABYLON, BUT SHE IS NOT HEALED: FORSAKE HER, AND LET
 US GO EVERY ONE INTO HIS OWN COUNTRY: FOR HER JUDGMENT REACHETH UNTO HEAVEN,
 AND IS LIFTED UP EVEN TO THE SKIES.
# 10 THE LORD HATH BROUGHT FORTH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS: COME, AND LET US DECLARE
 IN ZION THE WORK OF THE LORD OUR GOD.
# 11 MAKE BRIGHT THE ARROWS; GATHER THE SHIELDS: THE LORD HATH RAISED UP THE
 SPIRIT OF THE KINGS OF THE MEDES: FOR HIS DEVICE IS AGAINST BABYLON, TO
 DESTROY IT; BECAUSE IT IS THE VENGEANCE OF THE LORD, THE VENGEANCE OF HIS
 TEMPLE.
# 12 SET UP THE STANDARD UPON THE WALLS OF BABYLON, MAKE THE WATCH STRONG,
 SET UP THE WATCHMEN, PREPARE THE AMBUSHES: FOR THE LORD HATH BOTH DEVISED AND
 DONE THAT WHICH HE SPAKE AGAINST THE INHABITANTS OF BABYLON.
# 13 O THOU THAT DWELLEST UPON MANY WATERS, ABUNDANT IN TREASURES, THINE END
 IS COME, AND THE MEASURE OF THY COVETOUSNESS.
# 14 THE LORD OF HOSTS HATH SWORN BY HIMSELF, SAYING, SURELY I WILL FILL THEE
 WITH MEN, AS WITH CATERPILLERS; AND THEY SHALL LIFT UP A SHOUT AGAINST THEE.
# 15 HE HATH MADE THE EARTH BY HIS POWER, HE HATH ESTABLISHED THE WORLD BY
 HIS WISDOM, AND HATH STRETCHED OUT THE HEAVEN BY HIS UNDERSTANDING.
# 16 WHEN HE UTTERETH HIS VOICE, THERE IS A MULTITUDE OF WATERS IN THE
 HEAVENS; AND HE CAUSETH THE VAPOURS TO ASCEND FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: HE
 MAKETH LIGHTNINGS WITH RAIN, AND BRINGETH FORTH THE WIND OUT OF HIS
 TREASURES.
# 17 EVERY MAN IS BRUTISH BY HIS KNOWLEDGE; EVERY FOUNDER IS CONFOUNDED BY
 THE GRAVEN IMAGE: FOR HIS MOLTEN IMAGE IS FALSEHOOD, AND THERE IS NO BREATH
 IN THEM.
# 18 THEY ARE VANITY, THE WORK OF ERRORS: IN THE TIME OF THEIR VISITATION
 THEY SHALL PERISH.
# 19 THE PORTION OF JACOB IS NOT LIKE THEM; FOR HE IS THE FORMER OF ALL
 THINGS: AND ISRAEL IS THE ROD OF HIS INHERITANCE: THE LORD OF HOSTS IS HIS
 NAME.
# 20 THOU ART MY BATTLE AXE AND WEAPONS OF WAR: FOR WITH THEE WILL I BREAK IN
 PIECES THE NATIONS, AND WITH THEE WILL I DESTROY KINGDOMS;
# 21 AND WITH THEE WILL I BREAK IN PIECES THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER; AND WITH
 THEE WILL I BREAK IN PIECES THE CHARIOT AND HIS RIDER;
# 22 WITH THEE ALSO WILL I BREAK IN PIECES MAN AND WOMAN; AND WITH THEE WILL
 I BREAK IN PIECES OLD AND YOUNG; AND WITH THEE WILL I BREAK IN PIECES THE
 YOUNG MAN AND THE MAID;
# 23 I WILL ALSO BREAK IN PIECES WITH THEE THE SHEPHERD AND HIS FLOCK; AND
 WITH THEE WILL I BREAK IN PIECES THE HUSBANDMAN AND HIS YOKE OF OXEN; AND
 WITH THEE WILL I BREAK IN PIECES CAPTAINS AND RULERS.
# 24 AND I WILL RENDER UNTO BABYLON AND TO ALL THE INHABITANTS OF CHALDEA ALL
 THEIR EVIL THAT THEY HAVE DONE IN ZION IN YOUR SIGHT, SAITH THE LORD.
# 25 BEHOLD, I AM AGAINST THEE, O DESTROYING MOUNTAIN, SAITH THE LORD, WHICH
 DESTROYEST ALL THE EARTH: AND I WILL STRETCH OUT MINE HAND UPON THEE, AND
 ROLL THEE DOWN FROM THE ROCKS, AND WILL MAKE THEE A BURNT MOUNTAIN.
# 26 AND THEY SHALL NOT TAKE OF THEE A STONE FOR A CORNER, NOR A STONE FOR
 FOUNDATIONS; BUT THOU SHALT BE DESOLATE FOR EVER, SAITH THE LORD.
# 27 SET YE UP A STANDARD IN THE LAND, BLOW THE TRUMPET AMONG THE NATIONS,
 PREPARE THE NATIONS AGAINST HER, CALL TOGETHER AGAINST HER THE KINGDOMS OF
 ARARAT, MINNI, AND ASHCHENAZ; APPOINT A CAPTAIN AGAINST HER; CAUSE THE HORSES
 TO COME UP AS THE ROUGH CATERPILLERS.
# 28 PREPARE AGAINST HER THE NATIONS WITH THE KINGS OF THE MEDES, THE
 CAPTAINS THEREOF, AND ALL THE RULERS THEREOF, AND ALL THE LAND OF HIS
 DOMINION.
# 29 AND THE LAND SHALL TREMBLE AND SORROW: FOR EVERY PURPOSE OF THE LORD
 SHALL BE PERFORMED AGAINST BABYLON, TO MAKE THE LAND OF BABYLON A DESOLATION
 WITHOUT AN INHABITANT.
# 30 THE MIGHTY MEN OF BABYLON HAVE FORBORN TO FIGHT, THEY HAVE REMAINED IN
 THEIR HOLDS: THEIR MIGHT HATH FAILED; THEY BECAME AS WOMEN: THEY HAVE BURNED
 HER DWELLINGPLACES; HER BARS ARE BROKEN.
# 31 ONE POST SHALL RUN TO MEET ANOTHER, AND ONE MESSENGER TO MEET ANOTHER,
 TO SHEW THE KING OF BABYLON THAT HIS CITY IS TAKEN AT ONE END,
# 32 AND THAT THE PASSAGES ARE STOPPED, AND THE REEDS THEY HAVE BURNED WITH
 FIRE, AND THE MEN OF WAR ARE AFFRIGHTED.
# 33 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; THE DAUGHTER OF
 BABYLON IS LIKE A THRESHINGFLOOR, IT IS TIME TO THRESH HER: YET A LITTLE
 WHILE, AND THE TIME OF HER HARVEST SHALL COME.
# 34 NEBUCHADREZZAR THE KING OF BABYLON HATH DEVOURED ME, HE HATH CRUSHED ME,
 HE HATH MADE ME AN EMPTY VESSEL, HE HATH SWALLOWED ME UP LIKE A DRAGON, HE
 HATH FILLED HIS BELLY WITH MY DELICATES, HE HATH CAST ME OUT.
# 35 THE VIOLENCE DONE TO ME AND TO MY FLESH BE UPON BABYLON, SHALL THE
 INHABITANT OF ZION SAY; AND MY BLOOD UPON THE INHABITANTS OF CHALDEA, SHALL
 JERUSALEM SAY.
# 36 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, I WILL PLEAD THY CAUSE, AND TAKE
 VENGEANCE FOR THEE; AND I WILL DRY UP HER SEA, AND MAKE HER SPRINGS DRY.
# 37 AND BABYLON SHALL BECOME HEAPS, A DWELLINGPLACE FOR DRAGONS, AN
 ASTONISHMENT, AND AN HISSING, WITHOUT AN INHABITANT.
# 38 THEY SHALL ROAR TOGETHER LIKE LIONS: THEY SHALL YELL AS LIONS WHELPS.
# 39 IN THEIR HEAT I WILL MAKE THEIR FEASTS, AND I WILL MAKE THEM DRUNKEN,
 THAT THEY MAY REJOICE, AND SLEEP A PERPETUAL SLEEP, AND NOT WAKE, SAITH THE
 LORD.
# 40 I WILL BRING THEM DOWN LIKE LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER, LIKE RAMS WITH HE
 GOATS.
# 41 HOW IS SHESHACH TAKEN! AND HOW IS THE PRAISE OF THE WHOLE EARTH
 SURPRISED! HOW IS BABYLON BECOME AN ASTONISHMENT AMONG THE NATIONS!
# 42 THE SEA IS COME UP UPON BABYLON: SHE IS COVERED WITH THE MULTITUDE OF
 THE WAVES THEREOF.
# 43 HER CITIES ARE A DESOLATION, A DRY LAND, AND A WILDERNESS, A LAND
 WHEREIN NO MAN DWELLETH, NEITHER DOTH ANY SON OF MAN PASS THEREBY.
# 44 AND I WILL PUNISH BEL IN BABYLON, AND I WILL BRING FORTH OUT OF HIS
 MOUTH THAT WHICH HE HATH SWALLOWED UP: AND THE NATIONS SHALL NOT FLOW
 TOGETHER ANY MORE UNTO HIM: YEA, THE WALL OF BABYLON SHALL FALL.
# 45 MY PEOPLE, GO YE OUT OF THE MIDST OF HER, AND DELIVER YE EVERY MAN HIS
 SOUL FROM THE FIERCE ANGER OF THE LORD.
# 46 AND LEST YOUR HEART FAINT, AND YE FEAR FOR THE RUMOUR THAT SHALL BE
 HEARD IN THE LAND; A RUMOUR SHALL BOTH COME ONE YEAR, AND AFTER THAT IN
 ANOTHER YEAR SHALL COME A RUMOUR, AND VIOLENCE IN THE LAND, RULER AGAINST
 RULER.
# 47 THEREFORE, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, THAT I WILL DO JUDGMENT UPON THE
 GRAVEN IMAGES OF BABYLON: AND HER WHOLE LAND SHALL BE CONFOUNDED, AND ALL HER
 SLAIN SHALL FALL IN THE MIDST OF HER.
# 48 THEN THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH, AND ALL THAT IS THEREIN, SHALL SING FOR
 BABYLON: FOR THE SPOILERS SHALL COME UNTO HER FROM THE NORTH, SAITH THE LORD.
# 49 AS BABYLON HATH CAUSED THE SLAIN OF ISRAEL TO FALL, SO AT BABYLON SHALL
 FALL THE SLAIN OF ALL THE EARTH.
# 50 YE THAT HAVE ESCAPED THE SWORD, GO AWAY, STAND NOT STILL: REMEMBER THE
 LORD AFAR OFF, AND LET JERUSALEM COME INTO YOUR MIND.
# 51 WE ARE CONFOUNDED, BECAUSE WE HAVE HEARD REPROACH: SHAME HATH COVERED
 OUR FACES: FOR STRANGERS ARE COME INTO THE SANCTUARIES OF THE LORDS HOUSE.
# 52 WHEREFORE, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT I WILL DO
 JUDGMENT UPON HER GRAVEN IMAGES: AND THROUGH ALL HER LAND THE WOUNDED SHALL
 GROAN.
# 53 THOUGH BABYLON SHOULD MOUNT UP TO HEAVEN, AND THOUGH SHE SHOULD FORTIFY
 THE HEIGHT OF HER STRENGTH, YET FROM ME SHALL SPOILERS COME UNTO HER, SAITH
 THE LORD.
# 54 A SOUND OF A CRY COMETH FROM BABYLON, AND GREAT DESTRUCTION FROM THE
 LAND OF THE CHALDEANS:
# 55 BECAUSE THE LORD HATH SPOILED BABYLON, AND DESTROYED OUT OF HER THE
 GREAT VOICE; WHEN HER WAVES DO ROAR LIKE GREAT WATERS, A NOISE OF THEIR VOICE
 IS UTTERED:
# 56 BECAUSE THE SPOILER IS COME UPON HER, EVEN UPON BABYLON, AND HER MIGHTY
 MEN ARE TAKEN, EVERY ONE OF THEIR BOWS IS BROKEN: FOR THE LORD GOD OF
 RECOMPENCES SHALL SURELY REQUITE.
# 57 AND I WILL MAKE DRUNK HER PRINCES, AND HER WISE MEN, HER CAPTAINS, AND
 HER RULERS, AND HER MIGHTY MEN: AND THEY SHALL SLEEP A PERPETUAL SLEEP, AND
 NOT WAKE, SAITH THE KING, WHOSE NAME IS THE LORD OF HOSTS.
# 58 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; THE BROAD WALLS OF BABYLON SHALL BE
 UTTERLY BROKEN, AND HER HIGH GATES SHALL BE BURNED WITH FIRE; AND THE PEOPLE
 SHALL LABOUR IN VAIN, AND THE FOLK IN THE FIRE, AND THEY SHALL BE WEARY.
# 59 THE WORD WHICH JEREMIAH THE PROPHET COMMANDED SERAIAH THE SON OF NERIAH,
 THE SON OF MAASEIAH, WHEN HE WENT WITH ZEDEKIAH THE KING OF JUDAH INTO
 BABYLON IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN. AND THIS SERAIAH WAS A QUIET PRINCE.
# 60 SO JEREMIAH WROTE IN A BOOK ALL THE EVIL THAT SHOULD COME UPON BABYLON,
 EVEN ALL THESE WORDS THAT ARE WRITTEN AGAINST BABYLON.
# 61 AND JEREMIAH SAID TO SERAIAH, WHEN THOU COMEST TO BABYLON, AND SHALT
 SEE, AND SHALT READ ALL THESE WORDS;
# 62 THEN SHALT THOU SAY, O LORD, THOU HAST SPOKEN AGAINST THIS PLACE, TO CUT
 IT OFF, THAT NONE SHALL REMAIN IN IT, NEITHER MAN NOR BEAST, BUT THAT IT
 SHALL BE DESOLATE FOR EVER.
# 63 AND IT SHALL BE, WHEN THOU HAST MADE AN END OF READING THIS BOOK, THAT
 THOU SHALT BIND A STONE TO IT, AND CAST IT INTO THE MIDST OF EUPHRATES:
# 64 AND THOU SHALT SAY, THUS SHALL BABYLON SINK, AND SHALL NOT RISE FROM THE
 EVIL THAT I WILL BRING UPON HER: AND THEY SHALL BE WEARY. THUS FAR ARE THE
 WORDS OF JEREMIAH.
= CHAPTER 52 
# 1 ZEDEKIAH WAS ONE AND TWENTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE
 REIGNED ELEVEN YEARS IN JERUSALEM. AND HIS MOTHERS NAME WAS HAMUTAL THE
 DAUGHTER OF JEREMIAH OF LIBNAH.
# 2 AND HE DID THAT WHICH WAS EVIL IN THE EYES OF THE LORD, ACCORDING TO ALL
 THAT JEHOIAKIM HAD DONE.
# 3 FOR THROUGH THE ANGER OF THE LORD IT CAME TO PASS IN JERUSALEM AND JUDAH,
 TILL HE HAD CAST THEM OUT FROM HIS PRESENCE, THAT ZEDEKIAH REBELLED AGAINST
 THE KING OF BABYLON.
# 4 AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE NINTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN, IN THE TENTH MONTH,
 IN THE TENTH DAY OF THE MONTH, THAT NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON CAME, HE
 AND ALL HIS ARMY, AGAINST JERUSALEM, AND PITCHED AGAINST IT, AND BUILT FORTS
 AGAINST IT ROUND ABOUT.
# 5 SO THE CITY WAS BESIEGED UNTO THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF KING ZEDEKIAH.
# 6 AND IN THE FOURTH MONTH, IN THE NINTH DAY OF THE MONTH, THE FAMINE WAS
 SORE IN THE CITY, SO THAT THERE WAS NO BREAD FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND.
# 7 THEN THE CITY WAS BROKEN UP, AND ALL THE MEN OF WAR FLED, AND WENT FORTH
 OUT OF THE CITY BY NIGHT BY THE WAY OF THE GATE BETWEEN THE TWO WALLS, WHICH
 WAS BY THE KINGS GARDEN; (NOW THE CHALDEANS WERE BY THE CITY ROUND ABOUT:)
 AND THEY WENT BY THE WAY OF THE PLAIN.
# 8 BUT THE ARMY OF THE CHALDEANS PURSUED AFTER THE KING, AND OVERTOOK
 ZEDEKIAH IN THE PLAINS OF JERICHO; AND ALL HIS ARMY WAS SCATTERED FROM HIM.
# 9 THEN THEY TOOK THE KING, AND CARRIED HIM UP UNTO THE KING OF BABYLON TO
 RIBLAH IN THE LAND OF HAMATH; WHERE HE GAVE JUDGMENT UPON HIM.
# 10 AND THE KING OF BABYLON SLEW THE SONS OF ZEDEKIAH BEFORE HIS EYES: HE
 SLEW ALSO ALL THE PRINCES OF JUDAH IN RIBLAH.
# 11 THEN HE PUT OUT THE EYES OF ZEDEKIAH; AND THE KING OF BABYLON BOUND HIM
 IN CHAINS, AND CARRIED HIM TO BABYLON, AND PUT HIM IN PRISON TILL THE DAY OF
 HIS DEATH.
# 12 NOW IN THE FIFTH MONTH, IN THE TENTH DAY OF THE MONTH, WHICH WAS THE
 NINETEENTH YEAR OF NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON, CAME NEBUZARADAN, CAPTAIN
 OF THE GUARD, WHICH SERVED THE KING OF BABYLON, INTO JERUSALEM,
# 13 AND BURNED THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND THE KINGS HOUSE; AND ALL THE
 HOUSES OF JERUSALEM, AND ALL THE HOUSES OF THE GREAT MEN, BURNED HE WITH
 FIRE:
# 14 AND ALL THE ARMY OF THE CHALDEANS, THAT WERE WITH THE CAPTAIN OF THE
 GUARD, BRAKE DOWN ALL THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM ROUND ABOUT.
# 15 THEN NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE CERTAIN
 OF THE POOR OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE RESIDUE OF THE PEOPLE THAT REMAINED IN THE
 CITY, AND THOSE THAT FELL AWAY, THAT FELL TO THE KING OF BABYLON, AND THE
 REST OF THE MULTITUDE.
# 16 BUT NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD LEFT CERTAIN OF THE POOR OF THE
 LAND FOR VINEDRESSERS AND FOR HUSBANDMEN.
# 17 ALSO THE PILLARS OF BRASS THAT WERE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND THE
 BASES, AND THE BRASEN SEA THAT WAS IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, THE CHALDEANS
 BRAKE, AND CARRIED ALL THE BRASS OF THEM TO BABYLON.
# 18 THE CALDRONS ALSO, AND THE SHOVELS, AND THE SNUFFERS, AND THE BOWLS, AND
 THE SPOONS, AND ALL THE VESSELS OF BRASS WHEREWITH THEY MINISTERED, TOOK THEY
 AWAY.
# 19 AND THE BASONS, AND THE FIREPANS, AND THE BOWLS, AND THE CALDRONS, AND
 THE CANDLESTICKS, AND THE SPOONS, AND THE CUPS; THAT WHICH WAS OF GOLD IN
 GOLD, AND THAT WHICH WAS OF SILVER IN SILVER, TOOK THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD
 AWAY.
# 20 THE TWO PILLARS, ONE SEA, AND TWELVE BRASEN BULLS THAT WERE UNDER THE
 BASES, WHICH KING SOLOMON HAD MADE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD: THE BRASS OF ALL
 THESE VESSELS WAS WITHOUT WEIGHT.
# 21 AND CONCERNING THE PILLARS, THE HEIGHT OF ONE PILLAR WAS EIGHTEEN
 CUBITS; AND A FILLET OF TWELVE CUBITS DID COMPASS IT; AND THE THICKNESS
 THEREOF WAS FOUR FINGERS: IT WAS HOLLOW.
# 22 AND A CHAPITER OF BRASS WAS UPON IT; AND THE HEIGHT OF ONE CHAPITER WAS
 FIVE CUBITS, WITH NETWORK AND POMEGRANATES UPON THE CHAPITERS ROUND ABOUT,
 ALL OF BRASS. THE SECOND PILLAR ALSO AND THE POMEGRANATES WERE LIKE UNTO
 THESE.
# 23 AND THERE WERE NINETY AND SIX POMEGRANATES ON A SIDE; AND ALL THE
 POMEGRANATES UPON THE NETWORK WERE AN HUNDRED ROUND ABOUT.
# 24 AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD TOOK SERAIAH THE CHIEF PRIEST, AND
 ZEPHANIAH THE SECOND PRIEST, AND THE THREE KEEPERS OF THE DOOR:
# 25 HE TOOK ALSO OUT OF THE CITY AN EUNUCH, WHICH HAD THE CHARGE OF THE MEN
 OF WAR; AND SEVEN MEN OF THEM THAT WERE NEAR THE KINGS PERSON, WHICH WERE
 FOUND IN THE CITY; AND THE PRINCIPAL SCRIBE OF THE HOST, WHO MUSTERED THE
 PEOPLE OF THE LAND; AND THREESCORE MEN OF THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND, THAT WERE
 FOUND IN THE MIDST OF THE CITY.
# 26 SO NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD TOOK THEM, AND BROUGHT THEM TO
 THE KING OF BABYLON TO RIBLAH.
# 27 AND THE KING OF BABYLON SMOTE THEM, AND PUT THEM TO DEATH IN RIBLAH IN
 THE LAND OF HAMATH. THUS JUDAH WAS CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE OUT OF HIS OWN LAND.
# 28 THIS IS THE PEOPLE WHOM NEBUCHADREZZAR CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE: IN THE
 SEVENTH YEAR THREE THOUSAND JEWS AND THREE AND TWENTY:
# 29 IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF NEBUCHADREZZAR HE CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE FROM
 JERUSALEM EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY AND TWO PERSONS:
# 30 IN THE THREE AND TWENTIETH YEAR OF NEBUCHADREZZAR NEBUZARADAN THE
 CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE OF THE JEWS SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY AND
 FIVE PERSONS: ALL THE PERSONS WERE FOUR THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED.
# 31 AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE SEVEN AND THIRTIETH YEAR OF THE CAPTIVITY OF
 JEHOIACHIN KING OF JUDAH, IN THE TWELFTH MONTH, IN THE FIVE AND TWENTIETH DAY
 OF THE MONTH, THAT EVILMERODACH KING OF BABYLON IN THE FIRST YEAR OF HIS
 REIGN LIFTED UP THE HEAD OF JEHOIACHIN KING OF JUDAH, AND BROUGHT HIM FORTH
 OUT OF PRISON.
# 32 AND SPAKE KINDLY UNTO HIM, AND SET HIS THRONE ABOVE THE THRONE OF THE
 KINGS THAT WERE WITH HIM IN BABYLON,
# 33 AND CHANGED HIS PRISON GARMENTS: AND HE DID CONTINUALLY EAT BREAD BEFORE
 HIM ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE.
# 34 AND FOR HIS DIET, THERE WAS A CONTINUAL DIET GIVEN HIM OF THE KING OF
 BABYLON, EVERY DAY A PORTION UNTIL THE DAY OF HIS DEATH, ALL THE DAYS OF HIS
 LIFE.
