Jeremiah 45 Cross References - Leeser

¹ The word which Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto Baruch the son of Neriyah, when he wrote these words in a book out of the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoyakim the son of Josiah the king of Judah, saying, ² Thus hath said the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning thee, O Baruch: ³ Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my pain; I am wearied in my sighing, and rest have I not found; ⁴ Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus hath the Lord said, Behold, what I have built will I pull down, and what I have planted I will pluck up; and so it is with this whole land. ⁵ And wouldst thou indeed seek great things for thyself? seek them not; for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord; but I will give thy life unto thee as a booty in all the places whither thou mayest go.

⁶ And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. ⁷ And the Lord said, I will destroy the man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man and beast, and the creeping things and the fowls of the heaven; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

¹² And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

³⁴ And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. ³⁵ And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I must go down unto my son, mourning, into the grave; thus his father wept for him.

³⁶ And Jacob their father said unto them, Me ye have bereaved of my children: Joseph is gone, and Simeon is gone, and Benjamin ye will take away; all these things are against me. ³⁷ And Reuben said unto his father, thus, Two of my sons shalt thou slay, if I bring him not to thee; deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him back to thee. ³⁸ And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left: and if mischief befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

¹¹ And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou done evil to thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favor in thy eyes, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? ¹² Was it I who have conceived all this people? or was it I who have begotten them? that thou shouldst say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou hast sworn unto their fathers? ¹³ Whence shall I obtain flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep around me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. ¹⁴ I am not able by myself alone to bear all this people, because it is too heavy for me. ¹⁵ And if thou wilt thus deal with me, then slay me, I pray thee, at once, if I have found favor in thy eyes: that I may not see my wretchedness.

⁷ And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord Eternal, wherefore hast thou caused this people to pass over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Emorites, to destroy us? and oh! that we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan! ⁸ I pray thee, O Lord, what shall I say, since Israel have turned their back before their enemies! ⁹ And when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, they will environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt thou do for thy great name?

²⁶ And he said unto him, My mind was not gone, when the man turned round from his chariot to meet thee. Is it a time to take money, and to take garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and maid-servants?

⁵ Twenty and five years old was Jehoyakim when he became king, and eleven years did he reign in Jerusalem: and he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.

¹¹ God hath surrendered me to the unjust, and cast me down into the hands of the wicked. ¹² I was at ease, but he hath crushed me; he hath also grasped me by the neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up unto himself as a mark; ¹³ His archers encompass me round about; he cleaveth my reins sunder, and doth not pity; he poureth out upon the ground my gall;

² Even now is my complaint bitter: my suffering is heavier than my groans.

^{6 (6:7)} I am weary with my sighing; I flood every night my bed; With my tears I moisten my couch.

¹³ Unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of life—

^{7 (42:8)} Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: all thy waves and thy billows have passed over me.

^{3 (69:4)} I am weary of my calling; my throat is hoarse; my eyes fail, while I hope for my God.

^{3 (77:4)} I think of God, and moan: I reflect, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah. ^{4 (77:5)} Thou holdest my eyes awake: I am troubled and I cannot speak.

^{8 (80:9)} A vine didst thou remove out of Egypt: thou drovest out nations, and plantedst it. ^{9 (80:10)} Thou didst clear out a place before it, and it struck its root deeply, and it filled the land. ^{10 (80:11)} Mountains were covered with its shadow, and with its boughs the cedars of God. ^{11 (80:12)} It sent out its tendrils as far as the sea, and unto the river its suckers. ^{12 (80:13)} Wherefore hast thou now broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way pluck the fruit from it? ^{13 (80:14)} The boar out of the forest doth gnaw at it, and what moveth on the field feedeth on it. ^{14 (80:15)} O God of hosts, return; I pray thee, look down from heaven, and behold, and think of this vine; ^{15 (80:16)} And of the sprout which thy right hand hath planted, and of the branch that thou hast made strong for thyself. ^{16 (80:17)} It is burnt with fire, it is hewn down; because of the rebuke of thy countenance do they perish.

⁵ Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

¹⁰ If thou despond on the day of distress, thy strength is small.

² And he fenced it in, and cleared it of stones, and planted it with the choicest vines, and built a tower in its midst, and also a winepress he hewed out therein: and he hoped that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth worthless fruit. ³ And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard. ⁴ What more was to be done to my vineyard, that I had not done in it? Why then did I hope that it should bring forth grapes, while it brought forth worthless fruit? ⁵ And now I will let you know also what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten off; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden down; ⁶ And I will lay it quite waste; it shall not be pruned, nor hoed around; and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; and the clouds will I command that they send down no rain upon it. ⁷ For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he hoped for justice, but behold injustice; for equity, but behold iniquity.

⁹ In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and he carried them all the days of old.

¹⁶ For by fire will the Lord judge, and by his sword against all flesh: and many shall be the slain of the Lord.

¹⁰ See, I have appointed thee this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down: to build up, and to plant.

¹⁸ When I would cheer myself up against sorrow, my heart within me is pained.

^{1 (8:23)} Oh that one would make my head water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughters of my people!

¹⁷ And the Lord of hosts, that planted thee, hath decreed evil against thee; on account of the wickedness 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 Ba’al.

¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast born me, a man of contention and a man of strife to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have men lent to me: yet every one of them curseth me. ¹¹ The Lord said, Truly I will release thee for thy good; truly I will cause the enemy to meet thee in the time of distress and in the time of affliction. ¹² Can iron break in pieces the northern iron and copper? ¹³ Thy wealth and thy treasures will I give up as spoil without price, and this for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. ¹⁴ And I will cause them to pass over with thy enemies into a land which thou knowest not; for a fire is kindled in my anger, over you shall it burn. ¹⁵ Thou well knowest it, O Lord! remember me and think of me, and avenge me on my persecutors; not according to thy long-suffering act thou for me: know, that for thy sake I have borne shame. ¹⁶ When thy words were made manifest to me, then I greedily received them; and thy word became unto me the gladness and joy of my heart; for thy name is called upon me, O Lord of hosts. ¹⁷ I sat not in the assembly of the mirthful, and was rejoiced; because of thy inspiration I sat solitary; for thou hadst filled me with indignation. ¹⁸ Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable? it refuseth to be healed; it is truly become unto me as a deceptive spring, as waters that are not reliable. ¹⁹ Therefore thus hath said the Lord, If thou return, and I bring thee back again, then shalt thou stand before me; and if thou bring forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: these shall return unto thee; but thou shalt not return unto them. ²⁰ And I will make thee unto this people as a fortified brazen wall; and they will fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the Lord. ²¹ And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the grasp of the tyrants.

⁷ At one instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it; ⁸ But should that nation, against whom I have spoken, return from their wrong-doing: then will I bethink me of the evil that I had thought to do unto them. ⁹ And at one instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; ¹⁰ But should it do what is evil in my eyes, so as not to hearken to my voice: then will I bethink me of the good, wherewith I had thought to benefit the same.

⁷ Thou didst persuade me, O Lord, and I was persuaded; thou laidst thy hand strongly on me, and didst prevail: I am laughed at all the time, every one mocketh me. ⁸ For as often as I speak must I cry out, violence and wasting must I proclaim; because the word of the Lord is become unto me a disgrace, and a derision, all the time. ⁹ And I thought, I will not make mention of him, and I will not speak any more in his name. But it became in my heart as a burning fire enclosed within my bones, and I was weary with enduring, and I could not overcome it. ¹⁰ For I heard the defaming of many, angry assemblies on every side, “Tell, and we will tell of him.” All the men who ought to seek my welfare, watch for my fall; saying, “Peradventure he may he enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we will then take our revenge on him.” ¹¹ But the Lord is with me as a mighty powerful one; therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they will not prevail: they will be greatly ashamed, for they will not prosper; it is an everlasting confusion which will never be forgotten. ¹² But, O Lord of hosts, that probest the righteous, seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I laid open my cause. ¹³ Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord; for he hath delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers. ¹⁴ Cursed be the day whereon I was born: the day on which my mother bore me shall not be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee. How very glad did he make him! ¹⁶ And may that same man become like the cities which the Lord overthrew, and bethought himself not; and may he hear a cry of anguish in the morning, and a tumultuous noise at noontide; ¹⁷ Because I was not slain as I escaped from the womb; or that my mother might have become unto me my grave, and her womb have been affected with a perpetual pregnancy. ¹⁸ Wherefore was this that I came forth out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow, that my days should pass away in shame?

⁹ He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, or by the famine, or by the pestilence; but he that goeth out, and runneth away to the Chaldeans that besiege you, shall remain alive, and his life shall be unto him as a booty.

¹ The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoyakim the son of Josiah the king of Judah, which is the first year of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon;

²⁶ And all the kings of the north, that are far and that are near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

¹ In the beginning of the reign of Jehoyakim the son of Josiah the king of Judah came this word from the Lord, saying,

^{28 (31:27)} And it shall come to pass, that just as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to overthrow, and to destroy, and to do harm: so will I watch over them, to build up, and to plant, saith the Lord.

¹² And I gave the deed of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriyah, the son of Machseyah, before the eyes of Chanamel my kinsman, and before the eyes of the witnesses that had signed the deed of the purchase, before the eyes of all the Jews that were sitting in the court of the prison.

¹⁶ And I prayed to the Lord after I had delivered the deed of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriyah, saying,

¹ And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoyakim the son of Josiah the king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

⁴ Then did Jeremiah call Baruch the son of Neriyah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll-book.

⁸ And Baruch the son of Neriyah did in accordance with all that Jeremiah the prophet had commanded him, to read in the book the words of the Lord in the house of the Lord. ⁹ And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoyakim the son of Josiah the king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the Lord for all the people in Jerusalem, and for all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.

¹⁴ Thereupon sent all the princes Jehudi the son of Nethanyahu, the son of Shelemyahu, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, The roll wherein thou hast read before the ears of the people,—this take in thy hand, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriyahu took the roll in his hand, and came unto them. ¹⁵ And they said unto him, Sit down, we pray thee, and read it before our ears. So Baruch read it before their ears. ¹⁶ Now it came to pass, when they heard all the words, they looked terrified at each other, and they said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words. ¹⁷ And they asked Baruch, saying, Do tell us, How didst thou write down all these words from his mouth? ¹⁸ Then said Baruch unto them, With his mouth did he utter clearly all these words unto me, and I wrote them in the book with ink.

²⁶ And the king commanded Yerachmeel the son of the king, and Serayahu the son of ‘Azriel, and Shelemyahu the son of ‘Abdeel, to seize on Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but the Lord hid them.

³² And Jeremiah took another roll, and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriyahu the scribe; who wrote thereon from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoyakim the king of Judah had burnt in the fire: and there were yet added unto them many words like them.

² Thus hath said the Lord, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; and he shall have his life as a booty, and shall live.

¹⁸ For I will surely let thee escape, and thou shalt not fall by the sword; but thy life shall be unto thee as a booty; because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the Lord.

³ But Baruch the son of Neriyah setteth thee on against us, in order to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, or carry us away as exiles to Babylon. ⁴ So Jochanan the son of Kareach, and all the captains of the armies, and all the people, hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, to remain in the land of Judah. ⁵ But Jochanan the son of Kareach, and all the captains of the armies, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all the nations, whither they had been driven, to sojourn in the land of Judah; ⁶ The men, and the women, and the children, and the king’s daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedalyahu the son of Achikam the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriyah;

¹³ From on high hath he sent a fire into my bones, and breaketh them one by one: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath caused me to return backward; he hath made me desolate, sick all the day.

²² Let all their wickedness come before thee, and do unto them as thou hast done unto me because of all my transgressions; for many are my sighs, and my heart is sick.”

¹ I am the man who hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. ² Me hath he driven out, and led into darkness, but not into light. ³ Surely against me doth he turn again and again his hand all the day. ⁴ He hath caused my flesh and my skin to wear out, he hath broken my bones. ⁵ He hath built around me, and encompassed me with poison and hardship. ⁶ In dark places hath he set me to dwell, like the dead of olden times. ⁷ He hath placed a fence round about me, that I cannot get out; he hath made heavy my chain. ⁸ Also when I cry aloud and make entreaty, he shutteth out my prayer. ⁹ He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, my paths hath he made crooked. ¹⁰ A bear lying in wait is he to me, a lion in secret places. ¹¹ On my ways hath he placed thorns, and torn me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. ¹² He hath bent his bow, and placed me as a mark for the arrow. ¹³ He hath caused to enter into my reins the children of his quiver. ¹⁴ I am become a laughing-stock to all my people, their jeering song all the day. ¹⁵ He hath sated me with bitter things, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. ¹⁶ He hath also broken my teeth with gravel-stones, he hath covered me with ashes. ¹⁷ And my soul hath given up all thoughts of peace: I forget happiness. ¹⁸ And I said, Lost is my strength, my expectation also from the Lord. ¹⁹ Remembering my affliction and the cause of my complaint, wormwood and poison.

³² But though he have caused grief, yet will he have mercy according to the abundance of his kindnesses.

⁸ Therefore wait but for me, saith the Lord, for the day that I rise up to the prey; for my judgment cometh to gather the nations, for me to assemble the kingdoms, to pour over them my indignation, all the fierceness of my anger; for through the fire of my jealousy shall all the earth be devoured.