1 THE words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in ^aAnathoth 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 ^ayear 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 ^acarrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
 4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
 5 Before I ^aformed thee in the belly I ^bknew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I ^csanctified thee, and I ^dordained thee a prophet unto the ^enations .
 6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot ^aspeak : for I am a ^bchild .
 7 ¶ But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall ^asend thee, and whatsoever I ^bcommand thee thou shalt ^cspeak .
 8 Be not ^aafraid 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 ^amouth . And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my ^bwords in thy ^cmouth .
 10 See, I have this day ^aset thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to ^bpull down, and to destroy, and to ^cthrow down, to ^dbuild , and to plant.
 11 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what ^aseest 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 ^aseething ^bpot ; and the face thereof is toward the north.
 14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the ^anorth 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 ^agates 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 ^aforsaken me, and have burned incense unto other ^bgods , 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 ^aprinces thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
 19 And they shall ^afight against thee; but they shall not ^bprevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

 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, ^awhen thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
 3 Israel was ^aholiness 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 ^aled 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 ^adefiled my ^bland , 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 ^apastors also transgressed against me, and the ^bprophets 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 children’s children will I plead.
 10 For pass ^aover 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 ^agods , 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 ^aevils ; they have forsaken me the fountain of ^bliving waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
 14 ¶ Is Israel a ^aservant ? 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 ^aTahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
 17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast ^aforsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
 18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of ^aEgypt , to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of ^bthe river?
 19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall ^areprove 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 ^aharlot .
 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble ^avine , wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
 22 For though thou ^awash thee with ^bnitre , 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 ^ahope : no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
 26 As the thief is ^aashamed 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 ^aa stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their ^bback unto me, and not their face: but in the ^ctime of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
 28 But where are thy ^agods 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 ^aplead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
 30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no ^acorrection : 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 ^aforgotten me days without number.
 33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ^aones thy ways.
 34 Also in thy skirts is found the ^ablood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all ^bthese .
 35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am ^ainnocent , 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 ^aashamed 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.

 1 THEY say, If a man ^aput away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly ^bpolluted ? 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 ^awhoredoms and with thy wickedness.
 3 Therefore the ^ashowers have been withholden, and there hath been no ^blatter ^crain ; and thou hadst a whore’s 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 ^a 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 ^asister Judah saw it.
 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed ^aadultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of ^bdivorce ; 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 ^acommitted adultery with ^bstones and with ^cstocks .
 10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but ^afeignedly , saith the LORD.
 11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath ^ajustified herself more than treacherous Judah.
 12 ¶ Go and ^aproclaim these words toward the ^bnorth , and say, ^cReturn , 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 ^aobeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
 14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am ^amarried unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will ^bbring you to ^cZion :
 15 And I will give you ^apastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with ^bknowledge 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 ^aark 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 ^aJerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the ^bnations shall be ^cgathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the ^dimagination of their evil heart.
 18 In those days the ^ahouse of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the ^bland of the ^cnorth 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 ^adeparteth 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 ^aheal 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 ^ashame , and our confusion covereth us: for we have ^bsinned 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.

 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 ^aLORD 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, ^aBreak up your fallow ground, and sow not among ^bthorns .
 4 ^aCircumcise 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 ^astandard toward ^bZion : retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the ^cnorth , and a great destruction.
 7 The ^alion 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 ^bland desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
 8 For this ^agird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce ^banger 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 ^awind 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 ^aclouds , and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are ^bswifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
 14 O Jerusalem, ^awash 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 ^abowels , my bowels! I am ^bpained 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 ^aDestruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my ^btents 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 ^afoolish , they have not ^bknown me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do ^cevil , but to do good they have no knowledge.
 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was ^awithout form, and ^bvoid ; 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 ^aend .
 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 ^arepent , 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 ^aforsaken , 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 ^aornaments of gold, though thou ^brentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy ^clovers 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 ^aZion , that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

 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 ^aexecuteth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
 2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they ^aswear 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 ^areturn .
 4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they ^aknow 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 ^ayoke , and burst the bonds.
 6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a ^awolf of the ^bevenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their ^ctransgressions 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 ^afull , they then committed ^badultery , and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
 8 They were as ^afed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
 9 Shall I not ^avisit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be ^bavenged on such a nation as this?
 10 ¶ Go ye up upon her walls, and ^adestroy ; but make not a full ^bend : take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD’s.
 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 ^asword 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 ^amouth 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 ^alanguage 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 ^aeat 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 ^aforsaken me, and served strange ^bgods in your land, so shall ye ^cserve ^dstrangers 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 ^afoolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and ^bsee not; which have ears, and ^chear 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 ^arebellious 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 ^athe 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 ^awicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they ^bcatch men.
 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become ^agreat , and waxen rich.
 28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they ^ajudge 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 ^ahorrible thing is committed in the land;
 31 The ^aprophets prophesy ^bfalsely , and the ^cpriests bear rule by their means; and my people ^dlove to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

 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 Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the ^anorth , 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 ^amount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be ^bvisited ; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
 7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her ^awickedness : ^bviolence 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 ^athroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer ^binto the baskets.
 10 To whom shall I speak, and give ^awarning , that they may hear? behold, their ear is ^buncircumcised , 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 ^acovetousness ; and from the prophet even unto the ^bpriest every one dealeth falsely.
 14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, ^aPeace , 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 ^avisit 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 ^apaths , where is the good way, and ^bwalk therein, and ye shall find ^crest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
 17 Also I set ^awatchmen over you, saying, ^bHearken 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 ^aevil upon this people, even the ^bfruit 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 ^aacceptable , nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
 21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay ^astumblingblocks 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 ^anorth 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 ^asackcloth , and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an ^bonly 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 ^aslanders : they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
 29 The bellows ^aare burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; ^bthe founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
 30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

 1 THE word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
 2 Stand in the gate of the LORD’s 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, ^aAmend 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 ^athroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
 6 If ye oppress not the ^astranger , the ^bfatherless , 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 ^atrust in ^blying words, that cannot profit.
 9 Will ye steal, ^amurder , and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and ^bwalk after other gods whom ye know not;
 10 And come and ^astand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
 11 Is this ^ahouse , which is called by my name, become a ^bden of ^crobbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
 12 But go ye now unto my place which was in ^aShiloh , 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 ^aanswered not;
 14 Therefore will I do unto this ^ahouse , 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 ^ahear 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 ^athe 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 ^ato the confusion of their own faces?
 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine ^aanger 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, ^aObey my ^bvoice , 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 ^aimagination of their evil heart, and went ^bbackward , and not forward.
 25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even ^asent unto you all my servants the ^bprophets , daily rising up early and sending them:
 26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but ^ahardened their neck: they did ^bworse 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 ^aobeyeth 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 ^alamentation 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 ^aabominations in the house which is called by my name, to ^bpollute it.
 31 And they have built the high places of ^aTophet , which is in the valley of the son of ^bHinnom , to ^cburn their sons and their daughters in the ^dfire ; 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 ^acarcases 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 ^amirth , and the ^bvoice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be ^cdesolate .

 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 ^aworshipped : they shall not be gathered, nor be ^bburied ; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
 3 And ^adeath shall be ^bchosen 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 ^abacksliding ? 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 ^aturtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people ^bknow not the judgment of the LORD.
 8 How do ye say, We are ^awise , 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 ^arejected 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 ^aashamed 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 ^bcast down, saith the LORD.
 13 ¶ I will surely ^aconsume 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 ^adefenced 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 ^apeace , 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 ^astrong 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 ^aanger with their graven images, and with ^bstrange vanities?
 20 The ^aharvest 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 ^ablack ; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
 22 Is there no ^abalm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

 1 OH that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of ^atears , that I might ^bweep 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 ^alies : but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they ^bknow not me, saith the LORD.
 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and ^atrust ye not in any brother: for every brother will ^butterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with ^cslanders .
 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak ^alies , and ^bweary 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 ^amelt them, and ^btry 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 ^aheart he layeth his wait.
 9 ¶ Shall I not ^avisit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be ^bavenged 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 ^adragons ; and I will make the cities of Judah ^bdesolate , 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 ^aobeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
 14 But have walked after the ^aimagination of their own heart, and after ^bBaalim , 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 ^ascatter them also among the ^bheathen , 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 ^awomen , 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 ^acarcases 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 ^ariches :
 24 But let him that glorieth ^aglory 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 ^bdelight , saith the LORD.
 25 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are ^acircumcised with the uncircumcised;
 26 Egypt, and Judah, and ^aEdom , 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.

 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 ^aheathen , and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
 3 For the ^acustoms 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 ^aborne , 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 ^alike 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 ^awise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none ^blike 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 ^awork of ^bcunning men.
 10 But the LORD is the true ^aGod , he is the ^bliving God, and an everlasting ^cking : at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his ^dindignation .
 11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The ^agods 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 ^atreasures .
 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven ^aimage : for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
 15 They are vanity, and the work of ^aerrors : in the time of their ^bvisitation 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 ^atabernacle 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 ^apastors 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 ^anorth country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of ^bdragons .
 23 ¶ O LORD, I know that the ^away of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
 24 O LORD, ^acorrect me, but with ^bjudgment ; 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 ^afamilies that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

 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; ^aCursed be the man that ^bobeyeth not the words of this ^ccovenant ,
 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, ^aObey my voice, and do them, according to all which ^bI command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
 5 That I may perform the ^aoath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a ^bland ^cflowing 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 ^aprotested 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 ^awill 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 ^aconspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 10 They are ^aturned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to ^bserve 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 ^aevil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall ^bcry 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 ^agods , O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even ^baltars to burn incense unto Baal.
 14 Therefore ^apray 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 ^athe holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
 16 The LORD called thy name, A ^agreen ^bolive 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 ^alamb or an ox that is brought to the ^bslaughter ; and I knew not that they had ^cdevised ^ddevices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us ^ecut 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 ^atriest the reins and the ^bheart , 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 ^alife , 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.

 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 ^awicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
 2 ^aThou 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, ^aknowest 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 ^abrethren , 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 ^aforsaken 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 ^abeasts of the field, come to devour.
 10 Many ^apastors have destroyed my ^bvineyard , 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 ^alayeth 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 ^aput 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 ^acompassion on them, and will ^bbring 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 ^aobey , I will utterly pluck up and destroy that ^bnation , saith the LORD.

 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 ^apride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
 10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the ^aimagination of their heart, and ^bwalk 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 ^ahear .
 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 David’s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with ^adrunkenness .
 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 ^adestroy them.
 15 ¶ Hear ye, and give ear; be not ^aproud : for the LORD hath spoken.
 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause ^adarkness , 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 LORD’s ^aflock 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 ^acarried 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 ^askirts ^bdiscovered , and thy heels made bare.
 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do ^agood , that are accustomed to do evil.
 24 Therefore will I ^ascatter 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 ^aabominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made ^bclean ? when shall it once be?

 1 THE word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the ^adearth .
 2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are ^ablack 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 ^arain 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 ^adragons ; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
 7 ¶ O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s 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 ^arefrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their ^biniquity , and visit their sins.
 11 Then said the LORD unto me, ^aPray not for this people for their good.
 12 When they fast, I will not ^ahear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will ^bconsume 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 ^asword , neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
 14 Then the LORD said unto me, The ^aprophets prophesy ^blies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false ^cvision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the ^ddeceit of their heart.
 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I ^asent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be ^bconsumed .
 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 ^abury 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 ^aslain 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 ^bland 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 ^apeace , and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
 20 We ^aacknowledge , O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have ^bsinned against thee.
 21 Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy ^acovenant with us.
 22 Are there any among the ^avanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give ^bshowers ? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast ^cmade all these things.

 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 ^akinds , 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 ^bdevour and destroy.
 4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of ^aManasseh 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 ^afan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will ^bbereave 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 ¶ ^aWoe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of ^bstrife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on ^cusury ; 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 ^aland 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 ^avisit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have ^bsuffered ^crebuke .
 16 Thy words were found, and I did ^aeat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy ^bname , O LORD God of hosts.
 17 I sat not in the assembly of the ^amockers , 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 ^areturn , 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 ^afenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to ^bsave 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.

 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 ^alamented ; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be ^bconsumed by the sword, and by famine; and their ^ccarcases 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 ^amourning , 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, ^anor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
 7 Neither shall men ^atear 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 ^amirth , 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, ^aWherefore 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 ^aworse than your ^bfathers ; for, behold, ye walk every one after the ^cimagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
 13 Therefore will I ^acast you out of this ^bland into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other ^cgods day and night; where I will not ^dshew you favour.
 14 ¶ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The ^aLORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
 15 But, The LORD liveth, that ^abrought up the children of Israel from the land of the ^bnorth , and from all the ^clands whither he had driven them: and I will ^dbring them again into their ^eland that I gave unto their fathers.
 16 ¶ Behold, I will send for many ^afishers , 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 ^ainiquity hid from mine eyes.
 18 And first I will ^arecompense their iniquity and their sin ^bdouble ; because they have ^cdefiled 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 ^aGentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have ^binherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
 20 Shall a man make ^agods unto himself, and they are no ^bgods ?
 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 ^aknow that my ^bname is The LORD.

 1 THE sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is ^agraven upon the table of their heart, and upon the ^bhorns of your altars;
 2 Whilst their children remember their ^aaltars and their ^bgroves by the green trees upon the high hills.
 3 O my ^amountain 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 ^aserve thine enemies in the ^bland which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.
 5 ¶ Thus saith the LORD; ^aCursed be the man that ^btrusteth in man, and maketh ^cflesh his arm, and whose heart ^ddeparteth from the LORD.
 6 For he shall be like the ^aheath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a ^bsalt land and not inhabited.
 7 Blessed is the man that ^atrusteth in the LORD, and whose ^bhope the LORD is.
 8 For he shall be as a ^atree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not ^bsee when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of ^cdrought , 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 ^asearch the ^bheart , I try the ^creins , even to give every man according to his ^dways , and according to the fruit of his doings.
 11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth ^ariches , 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 ^aforsake 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 ^aHeal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my ^bpraise .
 15 ¶ Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it ^acome 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 ^ahope in the day of evil.
 18 Let them be ^aconfounded 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 ^bdouble 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 ^asabbath 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 ^astiff , 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 ^akings 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 ^asabbath 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 ^bpalaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

 1 THE word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
 2 Arise, and go down to the ^apotter ’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
 3 Then I went down to the potter’s 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 ^apotter ? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s 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 ^apull down, and to destroy it;
 8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, ^aturn from their evil, I will ^brepent 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 ^aevil in my sight, that it ^bobey not my voice, then I will repent of the ^cgood , 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 ^ahope : but we will ^bwalk 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 ^aforgotten me, they have burned incense to ^bvanity , and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in ^cpaths , in a way not cast up;
 16 To make their land ^adesolate , and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and ^bwag his head.
 17 I will scatter them as with an ^aeast wind before the enemy: I will shew them the ^bback , and not ^cthe face, in the day of their calamity.
 18 ¶ Then said they, Come, and let us ^adevise 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.

 1 THUS saith the LORD, Go and get a ^apotter ’s earthen bottle, and take of the ^bancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
 2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of ^aHinnom , 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 ^atingle .
 4 Because they have ^aforsaken me, and have ^bestranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other ^cgods , whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the ^dblood of innocents;
 5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with ^afire 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 ^aTophet , 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 ^acarcases 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 ^adesolate , and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the ^bplagues thereof.
 9 And I will cause them to ^aeat the flesh of their sons and the ^bflesh 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 ^cstraiten 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 potter’s 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 ^aroofs 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 LORD’s 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.

 1 NOW ^aPashur the son of ^bImmer the priest, who was also ^cchief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
 2 Then Pashur ^asmote 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 ^aMagor -missabib.
 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 ^acaptive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
 5 Moreover I will deliver all the ^astrength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the ^bprecious 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 ^cBabylon .
 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 ^alies .
 7 ¶ O LORD, thou hast ^adeceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in ^bderision daily, every one mocketh me.
 8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried ^aviolence 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 ^aburning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not ^b stay .
 10 ¶ For I heard the ^adefaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my ^bfamiliars 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 ^aprevail : they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting ^bconfusion shall never be forgotten.
 12 But, O LORD of hosts, that ^atriest the righteous, and seest the ^breins 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 ¶ ^aCursed 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 ^aoverthrew , 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 ^asorrow , that my days should be consumed with shame?

 1 THE word which came unto ^aJeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him ^bPashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
 2 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for ^aNebuchadrezzar 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 ^awithout the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.
 5 And I myself will fight against you with an ^aoutstretched 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 ^aZedekiah 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 ^bBabylon , 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 ^cspare 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 ^alife , 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 ^afalleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his ^blife shall be unto him for a prey.
 10 For I have set my ^aface against this city for ^bevil , and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of ^cBabylon , 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, ^aWho 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.

 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 ^ajudgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the ^bstranger , the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent ^cblood in this place.
 4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house ^akings 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 ^aswear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a ^bdesolation .
 6 For thus saith the LORD unto the king’s 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 ^acedars , 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 ^adone thus unto this great city?
 9 Then they shall answer, Because they have ^aforsaken 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 ^aShallum 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 ¶ ^aWoe unto him that buildeth his house by ^bunrighteousness , and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without ^cwages , 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 ^afather 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 ^aburied 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 ^aobeyedst not my voice.
 22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy ^alovers 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 ^agracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
 24 As I live, saith the LORD, though ^aConiah the son of ^bJehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
 25 And I will ^agive 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 ^avessel 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 ^aword of the LORD.
 30 Thus saith the LORD, ^aWrite 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.

 1 WOE be unto the ^apastors 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 ^avisited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
 3 And I will ^agather the ^bremnant 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 ^ashepherds 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 ^aDavid a righteous ^bBranch , and a ^cKing shall ^dreign and prosper, and shall execute ^ejudgment and ^fjustice in the earth.
 6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell ^asafely : and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR ^bRIGHTEOUSNESS .
 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 ^anorth country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
 9 ¶ Mine ^aheart 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 ^aadulterers ; for because of ^bswearing 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 ^aprophet and ^bpriest are ^cprofane ; yea, in my ^dhouse 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 ^avisitation , 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 ^aadultery , and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his ^bwickedness : 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 ^aprofaneness gone forth into all the land.
 16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that ^aprophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a ^bvision 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 ^awhirlwind 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 ^asent these ^bprophets , 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 ^ahide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I ^bfill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
 25 I have heard what the prophets said, that ^aprophesy 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 ^adreams , 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 ^aburden 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 man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the ^awords 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 ^areproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

 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 ^aJehoiakim king of Judah, and the ^bprinces of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to ^cBabylon .
 2 One basket had very good figs, even like the ^afigs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very ^bnaughty 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 ^agood .
 6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will ^abring them again to this ^bland : and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will ^cplant them, and not pluck them up.
 7 And I will give them an ^aheart 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 ^aresidue 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 ^areproach and a proverb, a taunt and a ^bcurse , in all places whither I shall drive them.
 10 And I will send the sword, the ^afamine , and the pestilence, among them, till they be ^bconsumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

 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 ^ayear 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 ^aprophets , 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 ^aheard my words,
 9 Behold, I will ^asend and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and ^bNebuchadrezzar the king of ^cBabylon , my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly ^ddestroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of ^amirth , 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 ^aking of Babylon ^bseventy years.
 12 ¶ And it shall come to pass, when ^aseventy years are accomplished, that I will ^bpunish 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 ^aserve 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 ^acup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the ^bnations , 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 ^acup at the LORD’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
 18 ^a 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 ^aPharaoh king of ^bEgypt , and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
 20 And all the ^amingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the ^bPhilistines , and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
 21 ^aEdom , and ^bMoab , and the children of Ammon,
 22 And all the kings of ^aTyrus , and all the kings of ^bZidon , 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 ^anorth , 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 ^bSheshach 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 ^adrunken , 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 ^adrink , then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
 29 For, lo, I ^abegin 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 ^aroar 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 ^acontroversy with the nations, he will ^bplead 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 ^awhirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
 33 And the ^aslain 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 ^blamented , neither gathered, nor ^cburied ; they shall be dung upon the ground.
 34 ¶ Howl, ye ^ashepherds , and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your ^bdispersions 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.

 1 IN the beginning of the reign of ^aJehoiakim 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 LORD’s house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD’s house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; ^adiminish not a word:
 3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may ^arepent 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 ^ahearken to me, to ^bwalk in my ^claw , which I have set before you,
 5 To hearken to the words of my servants the ^aprophets , 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 ^aShiloh , and will make this city a ^bcurse to all the nations of the ^cearth .
 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 ^adie .
 9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be ^adesolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
 10 ¶ When the ^aprinces of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king’s house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD’s 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 ^aprophesied 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; ^aand the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
 14 As for me, behold, I am in your ^ahand : 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 ^ainnocent 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 ^aMicah 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 ^bplowed like a field, and ^cJerusalem 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, ^aand 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 Kirjath-jearim, who ^aprophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:
 21 And when ^aJehoiakim 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, ^aElnathan 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 ^aslew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
 24 Nevertheless the hand of ^aAhikam the son of ^bShaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

 1 IN the beginning of the reign of ^aJehoiakim 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 ^ayokes , and put them upon thy neck,
 3 And send them to the ^aking of ^bEdom , and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of ^cZidon , 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 ^aearth , the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have ^bgiven it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
 6 And now have I ^agiven all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the ^bbeasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.
 7 And all ^anations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall ^bserve 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 ^adiviners , nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your ^bsorcerers , which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
 10 For they prophesy a ^alie 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 ^ayoke 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 ^aBabylon , 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 ^aprophesy 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 ^avessels of the LORD’s 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 ^aBabylon , and live: wherefore should this city be laid ^bwaste ?
 18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make ^aintercession 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 ^apillars , and concerning the ^bsea , and concerning the ^cbases , 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 ^aJeconiah 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 ^abring them up, and restore them to this place.

 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 LORD’s 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,
 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 LORD’s 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 ^aprophesieth of ^bpeace , when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the ^cprophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him.
 10 ¶ Then Hananiah the prophet took the ^ayoke from off the prophet Jeremiah’s 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 ^ayoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve ^bNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the ^cbeasts of the field also.
 15 ¶ Then said the ^aprophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a ^blie .
 16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt ^adie , because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.
 17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

 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 ^aJeconiah the king, and the queen, and the ^beunuchs , the ^cprinces 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 ^agardens , 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 ^apeace 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 ^adiviners , that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your ^bdreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
 9 For they ^aprophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.
 10 ¶ For thus saith the LORD, That after ^aseventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and ^bperform my good word toward you, in causing you to ^creturn 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 ^aend .
 12 Then shall ye ^acall upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will ^bhearken unto you.
 13 And ye shall ^aseek me, and find me, when ye shall ^bsearch for me with all your ^cheart .
 14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will ^agather 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 ^aevil .
 18 And I will ^apersecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be ^bremoved 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 ^avillany in Israel, and have committed ^badultery 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 ^aAnathoth , 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 ^alie :
 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.

 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 ^aIsrael and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to ^breturn 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 ^aday is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
 8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his ^ayoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more ^bserve themselves of him:
 9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and ^aDavid 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 ^asave 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 ^aend of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I 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, ^aThy 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 ^alovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have ^bwounded thee with the ^cwound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a ^dcruel one, for the multitude of thine ^einiquity ; because thy sins were increased.
 15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? ^athy ^bsorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy ^csins 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 ^ahealth 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 Jacob’s tents, and have ^amercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and ^bthe 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 ^amultiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be ^bsmall .
 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 ^athemselves , and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to ^bdraw 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 ^apeople , and I will be your God.
 23 Behold, the ^awhirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with ^bpain upon the head of the wicked.
 24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the ^alatter days ye shall ^bconsider it.

 1 AT the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the ^afamilies 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 ^aof old unto me, saying, Yea, I have ^bloved thee with an everlasting ^clove : therefore with lovingkindness have I ^ddrawn 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 ^awatchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to ^bZion 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, ^asave thy people, the remnant of Israel.
 8 Behold, I will bring them from the ^anorth country, and gather them from the ^bcoasts 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 ^aweeping , 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 ^bfather to Israel, and ^cEphraim is my ^dfirstborn .
 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 ^agather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
 11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ^aransomed 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 ^asorrow any more at all.
 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their ^amourning 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 ^agoodness , saith the LORD.
 15 ¶ Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in ^aRamah , 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 ^arewarded , saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
 17 And there is hope ^ain thine ^bend , 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: ^aturn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
 19 Surely ^aafter 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 ^aa 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 ^ahigh 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 ^abacksliding 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 ^awatched over them, to ^bpluck up, and to ^cbreak down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I ^dwatch 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 ^agrape , and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
 30 But every one shall ^adie for his own ^biniquity : 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 ^anew ^bcovenant with the house of ^cIsrael , and with the house of Judah:
 32 Not according to the ^acovenant 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 ^acovenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my ^blaw in their inward parts, and write it in their ^chearts ; 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 ^aknow me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD; for I will forgive their ^biniquity , and I will remember their sin no more.
 35 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the ^asun for a light by ^bday , and the ^cordinances 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 ^aordinances 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 ^abuilt to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
 39 And the measuring ^aline 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 ^aholy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

 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 Babylon’s army ^abesieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s 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 ^aBabylon , 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 uncle’s 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 uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and ^aweighed 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 ^aBaruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the ^bbook 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 ^aevidences , 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 ^ahard 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 ^agive every one according to his ^bways , 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 ^aroofs 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 ^aanger 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 ^aback , 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 ^athe 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 ^a 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 ^agather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will ^bbring 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 ^aheart , and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the ^bgood of them, and of their children after them:
 40 And I will make an ^aeverlasting ^bcovenant 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 ^aseal 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 ^bvalley , and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their ^ccaptivity to return, saith the LORD.

 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 ^ashew 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 ^areturn , and will build them, as at the first.
 8 And I will ^acleanse 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 ^apraise 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 ^alie 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 ^atelleth them, saith the LORD.
 14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will ^aperform that good thing which I have ^bpromised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
 15 ¶ In those days, and at that time, will I cause the ^aBranch of righteousness to grow up unto ^bDavid ; and he shall ^cexecute judgment and righteousness in the ^dland .
 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 ^awant 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 ^anight 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.