Jeremiah 18 Cross References - MLV

¹ The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, ² Arise and go down to the potter's house and there I will cause you to hear my words.
³ Then I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was making a work on the wheels. ⁴ And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it another vessel again, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
⁵ Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ⁶ O house of Israel, cannot I do with you* as this potter? says Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you* in my hand, O house of Israel.
⁷ At that instant I will speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it, ⁸ if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will relent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
⁹ And at that instant I will speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, ¹⁰ if they do what is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will relent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.
¹¹ Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Jehovah says thus: Behold, I frame evil against you* and devise a device against you*. Return now everyone from his evil way and amend your* ways and your* practices. ¹² But they say, It is in vain. For we will walk after our own devices and we will do everyone according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.
¹³ Therefore Jehovah says thus: Ask you* now among the nations, Who has heard such things? The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
¹⁴ Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Or will the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?
¹⁵ For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. And they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the paths of old, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up, ¹⁶ to make their land an astonishment and a everlasting hissing, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and shake his head. ¹⁷ I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
¹⁸ Then they said, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law will not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us kill* him with the tongue and let us not give heed to any of his words.
¹⁹ Give heed to me, O Jehovah and listen to the voice of those who contend with me. ²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
²¹ Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine and give them over to the power of the sword and let their wives become childless and widows and let their men be slain of death and their young men struck of the sword in battle. ²² Let a cry be heard from their houses when you will bring a troop suddenly upon them, for they have dug a pit to take me and hid snares for my feet.
²³ Yet, Jehovah, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Do not forgive their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.

² at that time Jehovah spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from your loins and put your shoe from your foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

¹ Jehovah says thus to me, Go and buy you a linen sash and put it upon your loins and do not put it in water.

¹ Thus said Jehovah: Go and buy a potter's earthenware and take of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests, ² and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Earthen Vessels Gate and proclaim there the words that I will tell you.

²² But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words and would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their practices.

¹ You also, son of man, take a tile and lay it before you and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem. ² And lay siege against it and build forts against it and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around. ³ And take to you an iron pan and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. And set your face toward it and it will be besieged and you will lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
⁴ Moreover lie you upon your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you will lie upon it, you will bear their iniquity. ⁵ For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be a number of days to you, even three hundred and ninety days. So you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

⁷ Thus he showed me: And behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.

⁶ And trembling and amazed, he said, What do you wish me to do?
And the Lord said to him, But stand up and enter into the city and it will be spoken to you what it is essential for you to do.

¹ God spoke long-ago in many parts and in many manners, in the prophets to the fathers, has spoken to us in the end of these days in his Son,

³ But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah. And he went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare of it and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you practice as many things as I command you.

¹⁹ Hence, O King Agrippa, I did not become disobedient to the heavenly vision.

⁹ Woe to him who contends with his maker, a earthen vessel among the earthen vessels of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What are you making? or your work, He has no hands?

⁶ O house of Israel, cannot I do with you* as this potter? says Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you* in my hand, O house of Israel.

²⁰ But-rather, O man, who are you who answers back against God? The molded thing will not say to the one who molded it, why did you make me so, will it? ²¹ Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make out of the same batch one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? ²² But what if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, carried us, vessels of wrath having been framed for destruction, in much patience; ²³ and in order that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

⁸ But now, O Jehovah, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter and we are all the work of your hand.

⁴ And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it another vessel again, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

²³ And in what the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven and saying, Hew down the tree and destroy it. Nevertheless leave the stump of the roots of it in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field. And let it be wet with the dew of heaven and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him.

¹⁵ Or is it not legal for me to do what I will in the things which are mine? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?

²⁰ But-rather, O man, who are you who answers back against God? The molded thing will not say to the one who molded it, why did you make me so, will it? ²¹ Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make out of the same batch one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

³⁴ For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become his counselor?

¹⁰ See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.

¹⁴ Jehovah says thus against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from their land and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
¹⁵ And it will happen, after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. And I will bring them again, each man to his heritage and each man to his land.
¹⁶ And it will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As Jehovah lives, even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the midst of my people. ¹⁷ But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, says Jehovah.

⁹ behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Jehovah and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant and will bring them against this land and against the inhabitants of it and against all these nations all around. And I will utterly destroy them and make them an astonishment and a hissing and everlasting desolations.
¹⁰ Moreover I will take from them the voice of joy 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 lamp. ¹¹ And this whole land will be a desolation and an astonishment. And these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
¹² And it will happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, says Jehovah, for their iniquity and the land of the Chaldeans and I will make it desolate everlasting.
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 has prophesied against all the nations. ¹⁴ For many nations and great kings will make bondmen of them, even of them and I will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.

⁴ Thus you will say to him, Jehovah says thus: Behold, what I have built I will break down and what I have planted I will pluck up and this in the whole land.

⁸ Behold, the eyes of the lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom and I will destroy it from the face of the earth, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says Jehovah.

⁴ And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey. And he cried out and said, Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.

¹² Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, He brought them forth for evil, to kill them on the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from your fierce wrath and relent of this evil against your people.

³⁶ For Jehovah will judge his people and regrets for his servants, when he sees that their power has gone and there is none remaining, shut up or left at large.

¹⁸ And when Jehovah raised up judges for them, then Jehovah was with the judge and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For Jehovah regretted because of their groaning because of those who oppressed them and distressed them.

¹⁵ And the sons of Israel said to Jehovah, We have sinned. Do to us whatever seems good to you, please only deliver us this day. ¹⁶ And they put away the foreign gods from among them and served Jehovah. And his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

³³ When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, if they turn again to you and confess your name and pray and make supplication to you in this house, ³⁴ then hear you in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.

⁶ Then the rulers of Israel and the king humbled themselves and they said, Jehovah is righteous.

¹³ Return, O Jehovah. How long? And relent concerning your servants.

⁴⁵ And he remembered his covenant for them and relented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

¹⁴ Because Jehovah will judge his people and will relent concerning his servants.

¹⁶ Wash you*, make you* clean, put away the evil of your* practices from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. ¹⁷ Learn to do good. Seek justice, make the oppressed fortunate, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
¹⁸ Come now and let us reason together, says Jehovah, though your* sins be as scarlet, they will be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they will be as wool.
¹⁹ If you* are willing and obedient, you* will eat the good of the land.

³ Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Amend your* ways and your* practices and I will cause you* to dwell in this place. ⁴ Do not trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these.
⁵ For if you* thoroughly amend your* ways and your* practices, if you* thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor, ⁶ if you* do not oppress the traveler, the fatherless and the widow and shed not innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your* own hurt, ⁷ then I will cause you* to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your* fathers from of old to everlasting.

⁶ You have rejected me, says Jehovah. You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary with relenting.

³ It may be they will listen and turn every man from his evil way, that I may relent of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their practices.

¹³ Now therefore amend your* ways and your* practices and obey the voice of Jehovah your* God and Jehovah will relent of the evil that he has pronounced against you*.

¹⁹ Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear Jehovah and entreat the favor of Jehovah. And Jehovah relented of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we commit great evil against our own souls.

³ It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them, that they may return every man from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

¹⁰ If you* will still abide in this land, then I will build you* and not pull you* down and I will plant you* and not pluck you* up, for I relent of the evil that I have done to you*.

²¹ But if a wicked man turns from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is lawful and right, he will surely live. He will not die.

¹¹ Say to them, As I live, says the lord Jehovah, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, but that the wicked man turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your* evil ways, for why will you* die, O house of Israel?

¹³ When I say to the righteous man, that he will surely live, if he trusts his righteousness and commits unrighteousness, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered, but in his unrighteousness that he has committed, in it he will die.

⁸ How shall I give you up, Ephraim? How shall I cast you off, Israel? How shall I make you as Admah? How shall I set you as Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me. My compassions are kindled together.

¹³ And tear your* heart and not your* garments and turn to Jehovah your* God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and relents of the evil. ¹⁴ Who knows whether he will not turn and relent and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Jehovah your* God?

³ Jehovah relented concerning this. It will not be, says Jehovah.
⁴ Thus the lord Jehovah showed me: And behold, the lord Jehovah called to contend by fire and it devoured the great deep and would have eaten up the land.
⁵ Then I said, O lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech you. How will Jacob stand, for he is small? ⁶ Jehovah relented concerning this. This also will not be, says the lord Jehovah.

⁵ The waters encompassed me around, even to the soul. The deep was all around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head. ⁶ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth with its bars closed upon me everlasting. Yet you have brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
⁷ When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah. And my prayer came in to you, into your holy temple. ⁸ Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy. ⁹ But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of Jehovah.
¹⁰ And Jehovah spoke to the sea creature and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.

⁹ Who knows whether God will not turn and relent and turn away from his fierce anger, that we not perish?
¹⁰ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And God relented of the evil which he said he would do to them and he did not do it.

² And he prayed to Jehovah and said, I beseech you, O Jehovah, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and relent you of the evil.

³ I am saying to you, No, but, if you do not repent, you will all likewise perish. ⁴ Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed, do you think that those became debtors more than all other men who are dwelling in Jerusalem? ⁵ I am saying to you, No, but, if you do not repent, you will all likewise perish.

² a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted,

¹⁷ For Jehovah of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have worked for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.

¹⁸ Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents and have compassion on his dwelling-places. And the city will be built upon its own hill and the palace will be inhabited after its own manner.

⁴ Again I will build you and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. Again you will be adorned with your tambourine and will go forth in the dances of those who make merry.

²⁸ And it will happen that, just as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says Jehovah.

³⁸ Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that the city will be built to Jehovah from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.

⁴¹ Yes, 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.

¹¹ In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that has fallen and close up the breaches of it. And I will raise up its ruins and I will build it as in the days of old, ¹² that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that are called by my name, says Jehovah who does this.
¹³ Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes he who draws seed and the mountains will drop sweet wine and all the hills will melt.
¹⁴ And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and they will build the waste cities and inhabit them and they will plant vineyards and drink the wine of it. They will also make gardens and eat the fruit of them. ¹⁵ And I will plant them upon their land and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, says Jehovah your God.

²² because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have challenged me these ten times and have not listened to my voice,

³⁴ After the number of the days in which you* spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you* will bear your* iniquities, even forty years and you* will know my alienation.

³⁰ Therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house and the house of your father, should walk before me everlasting, but now Jehovah says, Be it far from me, for those who honor me I will honor and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.

¹³ And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Jehovah your God, which he commanded you. For now Jehovah would have established your kingdom upon Israel until everlasting,

¹¹ I regret that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments. And Samuel was angry and he cried out to Jehovah all night.

³⁵ And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death, for Samuel mourned for Saul and Jehovah regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

⁵ But as for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of wickedness.
Peace be upon Israel.

²³ But this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice and I will be your* God and you* will be my people. And walk you* in all the way that I command you*, that it may be well with you*. ²⁴ But they listened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart and went backward and not forward.
²⁵ Since the day that your* fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you* all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. ²⁶ Yet they listened not to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.
²⁷ And you will speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You will also call to them, but they will not answer you.
²⁸ And you will say to them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of Jehovah their God, nor received instruction. Truth has perished and is cut off from their mouth.

²⁴ But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits unrighteousness and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he will die.

¹⁸ When the righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits unrighteousness, he will even die in it.

²⁰ And so you will do on the seventh day of the month for each one who errs and for him who is simple. So will you* make atonement for the house.

⁶ and those who are turned back from following Jehovah and those who have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired after him.

³ And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone and they had tar for mortar. ⁴ And they said, Come, let us build a city for us and a tower and its top in the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we are scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

⁷ Come, let Us go down there and confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech.

⁵ And the king of Syria said, Go now and I will send a letter to the King of Israel. And he departed and took with him ten talants of silver and six thousand pieces of gold and ten changes of garments.

¹³ Yet Jehovah testified to Israel and to Judah, by every prophet and every seer, saying, Turn from your* evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your* fathers and which I sent to you* by my servants the prophets.

¹³ Go you*, inquire of Jehovah for me and for the people and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found, for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book to do according to all what is written concerning us.

⁵ And now I will tell you* what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it and it will be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it and it will be trodden down.

⁶ Seek Jehovah while he may be found. Call you* upon him while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to Jehovah and he will have mercy upon him and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

¹ They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and become another man's, will he return to her again? Will not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers. Yet return again to me, says Jehovah.

²² Return, you* backsliding sons, I will heal your* backslidings. Behold, we have come to you, for you are Jehovah our God.

⁶ Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety, do not stay. For I will bring evil from the north and a great destruction.

²³ I beheld the earth, and behold, it was waste and void and the heavens and they had no light.

³ Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Amend your* ways and your* practices and I will cause you* to dwell in this place.

¹⁹ But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it. And let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may no more be remembered.

¹⁸ Then they said, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law will not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us kill* him with the tongue and let us not give heed to any of his words.

⁵ saying, Return now each one from his evil way and from the evil of your* practices and dwell in the land that Jehovah has given to you* and to your* fathers, from everlasting even to everlasting.

¹⁵ I have also sent to you* all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return now every man from his evil way and amend your* practices and do not go after other gods to serve them and you* will dwell in the land which I have given to you* and to your* fathers. But you* have not inclined your* ear, nor listened to me.

⁷ It may be they will present their supplication before Jehovah and will return each one from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that Jehovah has pronounced against this people.

¹¹ Make sharp the arrows. Hold firm the shields. Jehovah has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it. For it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.

³⁹ Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? ⁴⁰ Let us search and try our ways and turn again to Jehovah. ⁴¹ Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

²² Because with lies you* have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way and be saved alive.

²³ Have I any pleasure in the death of a wicked man? says the lord Jehovah and not rather that he should return from his way and live?

³⁰ Therefore I will judge you*, O house of Israel, each one according to his ways, says the lord Jehovah. Return and turn yourselves from all your* transgressions, so iniquity will not be your* ruin.
³¹ Cast away from you* all your* transgressions, by which you* have transgressed and make you* a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you* die, O house of Israel? ³² For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the lord Jehovah, therefore turn yourselves back and live.

³ Therefore Jehovah says thus: Behold, I devise an evil against this family, from which you* will not remove your* necks, nor will you* walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.

³ Therefore you say to them, Jehovah of hosts says thus:
Return to me, says Jehovah of hosts and I will return to you*, says Jehovah of hosts.

²⁰ But I was proclaiming first to them in Damascus, and in Jerusalem, and then to all the region of Judea and to the Gentiles, to repent and to turn to God, practicing works worthy of repentance.

¹³ Come now, you who are saying, Today and the next-day, we should travel into this city and spend one year there and be a merchant and make a gain.

¹ Come now you rich, weep, howling in your miseries, in those which are coming upon you.

⁵ And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only continually evil.

²¹ And Jehovah smelled the sweet aroma. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for the sake of man, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. I will not again kill* everything living, as I have done.

¹⁹ and it happens, when he hears the words of this curse, that he graces himself in his heart, saying, I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

³³ And while he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him and he said, Behold, this evil is of Jehovah. Why should I wait for Jehovah any longer?

¹⁰ You were wearied with the length of your way, yet you did not say, It is in vain. You found a quickening of your strength, therefore you were not faint.

²⁵ Withhold your foot from being unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers and after them I will go.

¹⁷ At that time they will call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem. Neither will they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

²⁴ But they listened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart and went backward and not forward.

⁸ Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked each one in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.

¹² And you* have done evil more than your* fathers, for, behold, you* walk each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you* listen not to me.

¹⁷ They say continually to those who despise me, Jehovah has said, You* will have peace. And to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil will come upon you*.

¹⁷ But we will certainly perform every word that has gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our rulers, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food and were well and saw no evil.

¹¹ Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried up and our hope is lost. We are clean cut off.

²¹ For evil reasonings travel from inside, out of the heart of men, such as : adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, ²² greedy-acts, wickednesses, treachery, unbridled-lusts, an evil eye, blasphemy, haughtiness, foolishness.

⁵¹ He has made his dominion known with his arm. He has scattered the haughty in the perception of their heart.

⁷ And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God has come into the camp. And they said, Woe to us! For there has not been such a thing yesterday and the day before.

²² Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah came, who was over the household and Shebna the scribe and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

⁸ Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought out at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought out her sons.

¹⁰ For pass over to the isles of Kittim and see and send to Kedar and consider diligently and see if there has been such a thing. ¹¹ Has a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for what does not profit.
¹² Be astonished, O you* heavens, at this and be horribly afraid. Be you* very desolate, says Jehovah. ¹³ For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

³⁰ An astonishing and horrible thing has happen in the land.

¹⁷ And you will say this word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day and do not let them cease. For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

¹⁴ In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing. They commit adultery and walk in lies. And they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They have all of them become to me as Sodom and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah.

¹⁵ The Lord has tossed-aside all my mighty men in the midst of me. He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men. The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a winepress.

¹⁰ I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel. Prostitution is there in Ephraim; Israel is defiled.

¹ Fornication is heard literally to be among you (and such fornication which is not even named among the Gentiles), that someone has his father’s wife.

⁶⁸ Therefore Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom will we go? You have the words of everlasting life.

¹² As for my people, children are their oppressors and women rule over them. O my people, those who advance you, are making you go-astray and destroy the way of your paths.

¹⁶ For those who lead this people make them go-astray and those who are led by them are destroyed.

²⁹ Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

¹⁴ And he will say, Cast you* up, cast you* up, prepare the way. Take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.

¹⁰ Go through, go through the gates. Prepare you* the way of the people. Cast up, cast up the highway. Gather out the stones. Lift up an ensign for the peoples.

⁷ your* own iniquities and the iniquities of your* fathers together, says Jehovah, those who have burned incense upon the mountains and blasphemed me upon the hills. Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom.

¹³ For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

¹⁹ Your own wickedness will discipline you and your backslidings will reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Jehovah your God and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

³² Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

²¹ A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping and the supplications of the sons of Israel, because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten Jehovah their God.

¹⁶ Jehovah says thus, Stand in the ways and see. And ask for the old paths where is the good way. And walk in it and you* will find rest for your* souls. But they said, We will not walk.

¹⁵ They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.

²⁵ This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Jehovah, because you have forgotten me and trusted in falsehood.

¹⁹ O Jehovah, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and will say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, even vanity and things in which there is no profit.

¹³ O Jehovah, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters.

⁵ and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither did it come into my mind,

¹⁵ Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, ¹⁶ As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Jehovah, we will not listen to you.
¹⁷ But we will certainly perform every word that has gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our rulers, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food and were well and saw no evil.
¹⁸ But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. ¹⁹ And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?

²⁵ Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel, saying, You* and your* wives have both spoken with your* mouths and with your* hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her. Establish then your* vows and perform your* vows.

¹³ And I will visit upon her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels and went after her lovers and forgot me, says Jehovah.

² The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to graven images.

⁸ But you* are turned aside out of the way. You* have caused many to stumble in the law. You* have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says Jehovah of hosts.

⁶ and then should never honor his father and mother, and thus you invalidated the commandment of God because of your tradition.

²¹ It is good not to eat meats, nor to drink wine, nor anything in which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weak.

³³ And I will scatter you* among the nations and I will draw out the sword after you* and your* land will be a desolation and your* cities will be a waste. ³⁴ Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate and you* are in your* enemies' land, even then will the land rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

⁴³ The land also will be left by them and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. And they will accept of the punishment of their iniquity, because, even because they rejected my ordinances and their soul loathed my statutes.

⁵⁹ then Jehovah will make your calamities extraordinary and the calamities of your seed, even great calamities and of long continuance and severe sicknesses and of long continuance.

²³ The whole land of it is brimstone and salt, a burning. It is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath,

⁸ And though this house is so high, yet will every man who passes by it is astonished and will hiss. And they will say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?

²⁰ then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them. And this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight and I will make it a proverb and a parable among all peoples.
²¹ And this house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?

⁷ All those who see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip. They shake the head, saying,

¹⁴ You make us a proverb among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹¹ Then I said, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant and houses without man and the land become utterly waste,

²² this is the word which Jehovah has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and laughed you to scorn. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

¹¹ And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

⁸ And I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.

⁹ behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Jehovah and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant and will bring them against this land and against the inhabitants of it and against all these nations all around. And I will utterly destroy them and make them an astonishment and a hissing and everlasting desolations.

¹³ For I have sworn by myself, says Jehovah, that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste and a curse and all the cities of it will be everlasting wastes.

¹³ Because of the wrath of Jehovah she will not be inhabited, but she will be entirely desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished and hiss at all her plagues.

¹⁵ All who pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? ¹⁶ All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found, we have seen it.

¹⁴ And I will stretch out my hand upon them and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations.
And they will know that I am Jehovah.

¹⁹ And say to the people of the land, The lord Jehovah says thus concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with fearfulness and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate of all that is in it, because of the violence of all those who dwell in it.

²⁸ And I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment. And the pride of her power will cease. And the mountains of Israel will be desolate, so that none will pass through.
²⁹ Then they will know that I am Jehovah when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.

¹⁶ For the statutes of Omri are kept and all the works of the house of Ahab and you* walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation and the inhabitants of it a hissing. And you* will bear the reproach of my people.

³⁹ Now those who traveled by were blaspheming him, wagging their heads,

²⁹ ‘And those who traveled by were blaspheming him, wagging their heads’and saying, Ha! You who will tear-down the temple and build it in three days;

²⁵ Jehovah will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them and will flee seven ways before them. And you will be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.

⁶⁴ And Jehovah will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. And you will serve other gods there, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone ones.

¹⁷ Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day and I will forsake them and I will hide my face from them and they will be devoured and many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?

³⁵ Vengeance is for me and recompense at the time when their foot will slip. For the day of their calamity is at hand and the things that are to come upon them will make haste.

¹³ Yet you* have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you* no more. ¹⁴ Go and cry to the gods which you* have chosen. Let them save you* in the time of your* distress.

²¹ The east wind carries him away and he departs and it whirlwinds him out of his place.

⁷ You break the ships of Tarshish with the east wind.

²⁵ Do not let your heart decline to her ways. Do not go-astray in her paths. ²⁶ Because she has cast down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty host.

²⁷ who say to a block of wood, You are my father and to a stone, You have brought me forth. For they have turned their back to me and not their face.
But in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise and save us.

²⁴ Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.

³³ And they have turned the back to me and not the face. And though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

²¹ Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall, for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their visitation.

¹⁵ Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Jehovah coming up from the wilderness and his spring will become dry and his fountain will be dried up. He will make spoil of the treasure of all desirable vessels.

¹¹ and that you* may teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah has spoken to them by Moses.

³¹ And it was told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I beseech you, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

¹⁴ And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Jehovah had commanded to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Jehovah might bring evil upon Absalom.

²⁴ Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and killed* Micaiah on the cheek and said, Which way did the Spirit of Jehovah go from me to speak to you?

¹³ He takes the wise in their own craftiness and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

¹¹ Because they intended evil against you. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.

² Your tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

⁴ My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue is a sharp sword.

³ who have flashed their tongue like a sword and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat the fruit of it.

⁷ And the instruments of the churl are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

⁸ The priests did not say, Where is Jehovah? And those who handle the law did not know me. The rulers also transgressed against me. And the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after things that do not profit.

¹² They have denied Jehovah and said, It is not he. Neither will evil come upon us, nor will we see sword nor famine. ¹³ And the prophets will become wind and the word is not in them. Thus will it be done to them.

¹³ Then you will say to them, Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit upon David's throne and the priests and the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
¹⁴ And I will smash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Jehovah. I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.

¹⁴ Then Jehovah said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I did not send them, nor have I commanded them, nor did I speak to them. They prophesy to you* a lying vision and divination and a thing of nothing and the deceit of their own heart.
¹⁵ Therefore Jehovah says thus concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name and I did not send them, yet they say, Sword and famine will not be in this land: By sword and famine those prophets will be consumed. ¹⁶ And the people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword and they will have none to bury them–them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters. For I will pour their wickedness upon them.

¹¹ Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Jehovah says thus: Behold, I frame evil against you* and devise a device against you*. Return now everyone from his evil way and amend your* ways and your* practices.

¹¹ Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the rulers and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death, for he has prophesied against this city, as you* have heard with your* ears.

²⁵ Thus speaks Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying,
Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest and to all the priests, saying, ²⁶ Jehovah has made you priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Jehovah, for every man who is mad and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles. ²⁷ Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you*, ²⁸ inasmuch as he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, It is long. Build you* 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.

² then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the proud men, spoke, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely. Jehovah our God has not sent you to say, You* will not go into Egypt to journey there.

¹ Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. ² And they desire fields and seize them and houses and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
³ Therefore Jehovah says thus: Behold, I devise an evil against this family, from which you* will not remove your* necks, nor will you* walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.

⁷ For the priest's lips should keep knowledge and they should seek the law at his mouth. For he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts.

⁴⁵ Now someone from the professors of the law, answered and says to him, Teacher, you are also insulting us in saying these things.

⁴⁷ Therefore the Pharisees answered them, You have not also been misled, have you? ⁴⁸ Not anyone from the rulers or from the Pharisees believed in him, have they? ⁴⁹ But this crowd who does not know the law are cursed.

⁴⁰ And those who were with him from the Pharisees heard these things and said to him, We are not also blind, are we?

¹⁶ Incline your ear, O Jehovah and hear. Open your eyes, O Jehovah and see. And hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent for him to defy the living God.

⁴ Hear, O our God, for we are despised and so turn back their reproach upon their own head and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity, ⁵ and do not cover their iniquity and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you, for they have provoked you to anger before the builders.

⁹ For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands will be weakened from the work that it not be done. But now, O God, strengthen you my hands.

¹⁶ As for me, I will call upon God and Jehovah will save me. ¹⁷ Evening and morning and at noonday, I will complain and moan. And he will hear my voice.

¹ Be merciful to me, O God, because man would swallow me up. Fighting all the day long he oppresses me. ² My enemies would swallow me up all the day long, because they are many who fight proudly against me.
³ I am afraid in the day, I will put my trust in you.

¹ Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. ² Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers, from the tumult of the workers of wickedness, ³ who have flashed their tongue like a sword and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words, ⁴ that they may shoot in secret places at a blameless man. Suddenly do they shoot at him and do not fear.

⁴ They are my adversaries instead of my love, but I make prayer.

²⁸ Let them curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be put to shame, but your servant will rejoice.

¹² But, O Jehovah of hosts, who tries the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have revealed my cause.

⁸ Rejoice not against me, O my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a light to me.

¹¹ But they were filled with madness, and were speaking with one another as to what they might do to Jesus.

¹² Now it happened in these days, that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he was persisting through the night in prayer to God.

²² And the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham yet stood before Jehovah. ²³ And Abraham drew near and said, Will you consume righteous men with wicked men? ²⁴ Perhaps there are fifty righteous men within the city. Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous men that are in it? ²⁵ Far be it from you to do such a thing, to kill a righteous man with a wicked man, that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man. Far be it from you. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
²⁶ And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous men within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake. ²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken it upon me to speak to the Lord, who am I but dust and ashes.
²⁸ Perhaps there will lack five of the fifty righteous men. Will you destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there.
²⁹ And he spoke to him yet again and said, Perhaps there will be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake.
³⁰ And he said, Oh let the Lord not be furious and I will speak. Perhaps there will be thirty found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
³¹ And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord. Perhaps there will be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.
³² And he said, Oh let the Lord not be furious and I will speak yet but this once. Perhaps ten will be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.

¹⁷ And he said to David, You are more righteous than I, for you have rendered to me good, and I have rendered to you evil. ¹⁸ And you have declared this day how that you have dealt well with me, inasmuch as when Jehovah had delivered me up into your hand, you killed me not. ¹⁹ For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away well? Therefore Jehovah reward you good for what you have done to me this day.

²⁷ Yes, you* would cast lots upon the fatherless and make merchandise of your* friend.

¹⁵ He has made a pit and dug it and has fallen into the ditch which he made.

⁷ Because without cause they have hid their net for me in a pit. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

¹² They reward me evil for good, bereaving my soul.

²⁰ They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow the good thing.

⁶ They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me. They are fallen into the midst of it themselves. Selah.

²³ Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy.

⁴ They are my adversaries instead of my love, but I make prayer. ⁵ And they have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love.

⁹⁵ The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your testimonies.

¹³ He who rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.

²⁷ He who digs a pit will fall in it and he who rolls a stone, it will return upon him.

⁸ He who digs a pit will fall into it and he who breaks through a wall, a serpent will bite him.

¹⁶ Therefore pray you not for this people, nor lift up cry nor prayer for them. Neither make intercession to me, for I will not hear you.

¹⁴ Therefore do not pray you for this people, nor lift up cry nor prayer for them, for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me on behalf of their trouble.

⁷ Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's sake, O Jehovah. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against you.
⁸ O you hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should you be as a traveler in the land and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to abide for a night? ⁹ Why should you be as a man frightened, as a mighty man who cannot save? Yet you, O Jehovah, are in the midst of us and we are called by your name. Do not leave us.
¹⁰ Jehovah says thus to this people: Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore Jehovah does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and visit their sins.
¹¹ And Jehovah said to me, Pray not for this people for good.

²⁰ We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against you.

²² Let a cry be heard from their houses when you will bring a troop suddenly upon them, for they have dug a pit to take me and hid snares for my feet.

³⁰ And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
³¹ Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way upon their heads, says the lord Jehovah.

¹ And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of Jehovah and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary. ² And Jehovah said to Satan, Jehovah rebuke you, O Satan. Yes, Jehovah who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you. Is this not a brand plucked out of the fire?

³² Jesus answered them, I have showed you many good works from my Father, because of what work from those do you stone me?

²⁵ But this happened, in order that the word might be fulfilled that has been written in their law, ‘They hated me undeservedly.’

²⁴ and my wrath will grow hot and I will kill you* with the sword and your* wives will be widows and your* sons fatherless.

²⁵ Outside the sword will bereave and in the chambers terror, to both young man and virgin, the nursing-baby with the man of gray hairs.

¹⁷ Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed. He gave them all into his hand.

⁹ Let his sons be fatherless and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ Let his sons be vagabonds and beg and let them seek out of their desolate places. ¹¹ Let a creditor exact all that he has and let strangers make spoil of his labor.
¹² Let there be none to prolong kindness to him, nor let there be any to have pity on his fatherless sons. ¹³ Let his posterity be cut off. Let their name be blotted out in the following generation.
¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
¹⁵ Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth, ¹⁶ because he did not remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man and the broken in heart, to kill.
¹⁷ Yes, he loved cursing and it came to him. And he did not delight in blessing and it was far from him.
¹⁸ He also clothed himself with cursing as with his garment and it came into his inward parts like water and like oil into his bones. ¹⁹ Let it be to him as the garments with which he covers himself and for the belt with which he is girded continually.
²⁰ This is the reward of my adversaries from Jehovah and of those who speak evil against my soul.

²¹ For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces, to cut off the sons from outside, the young men from the streets.

²⁰ But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judges righteously, who tries the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them, for to you I have revealed my case.
²¹ Therefore Jehovah says thus concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, You will not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that you not die by our hand. ²² Therefore Jehovah of hosts says thus: Behold, I will punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by famine, ²³ and there will be no remnant to them. For I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

³ Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

² And it will happen, when they say to you, Where will we go forth? Then you will tell them, Jehovah says thus: 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 captivity, to captivity.
³ And I will appoint over them four kinds, says Jehovah: the sword to kill and the dogs to tear and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

⁸ Their widows have increased to me above the sand of the seas. I have brought upon them, against the mother of the young men, a destroyer at noonday. I have caused anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.

³ For Jehovah says thus concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place and concerning their mothers who bore them and concerning their fathers who fathered them in this land: ⁴ They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, nor will they be buried; they will be as manure upon the face of the ground. And they will be consumed by the sword and by famine. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.

¹ Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of Jehovah, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. ² Then Pashhur killed* Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Jehovah. ³ And it happened on the morrow, that Pashhur brought out Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, Jehovah has not called your name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
⁴ For Jehovah says thus, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. And they will fall by the sword of their enemies and your eyes will behold it. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon and he will carry them captive to Babylon and will kill them with the sword.
⁵ Moreover I will give all the riches of this city and all the gains of it and all the precious things of it, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies. And they will make them a prey and take them and carry them to Babylon.
⁶ And you, Pashhur and all who dwell in your house will go into captivity. And you will come to Babylon and there you will die and there you will be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.

¹¹ But Jehovah is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble and they will not prevail. They will be utterly put to shame, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.
¹² But, O Jehovah of hosts, who tries the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have revealed my cause.

³ We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.

¹⁰ I have sent among you* the pestilence according to the manner of Egypt. I have slain your* young men with the sword and have carried away your* horses and I have made the stench of your* camp to come up even into your* nostrils.
Yet you* have not returned to me, says Jehovah.

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith showed to ward me many evils. May the Lord give to him according to his works;

¹² Those also who seek after my life lay snares for me. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things and meditate deceits all the day long.

⁵ All the day long they pervert my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil. ⁶ They gather themselves together. They hide themselves. They mark my steps, even as they have waited for my soul.
⁷ Shall they escape by wickedness? Cast down the peoples, in anger, O God.

⁴ that they may shoot in secret places at a blameless man. Suddenly do they shoot at him and do not fear.
⁵ They encourage themselves in an evil purpose. They speak of laying snares secretly. They say, Who will see them?

⁵ The proud have hid a snare for me and cords. They have spread a net by the wayside. They have set snares for me. Selah.

³⁰ Cry aloud with your voice, O daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O you poor Anathoth!

¹ The burden of the valley of vision. What troubles you now, that you have entirely gone up to the housetops? ² O you that are full of shouts, a tumultuous city, a joyous town. Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor are they dead in battle. ³ All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found of you were bound together; they fled afar off.
⁴ Therefore I said, Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

¹⁹ My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart. My heart is in an uproar in me. I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. ²⁰ Destruction upon destruction is cried, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed and my curtains in a moment.

³¹ For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.

²⁶ O daughter of my people, gird with sackcloth and wallow yourself in ashes. You make mourning, as for an only son, a most bitter lamentation. For the destroyer will suddenly come upon us.

²⁰ Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O you* women and let your* ear receive the word of his mouth and teach your* daughters wailing and each one her neighbor lamentation.
²¹ For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces, to cut off the sons from outside, the young men from the streets.

²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

¹⁰ For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. Perhaps he will be persuaded and we will prevail against him and we will take our revenge on him.

³⁴ Wail, you* shepherds and cry. And wallow, principal men of the flock. For the days of your* slaughter and of your* dispersions have fully come and you* will fall like a desirable vessel. ³⁵ And the shepherds will have no way to flee, nor the principal men of the flock to escape. ³⁶ A voice of the cry of the shepherds and the wailing of the principal men of the flock!
For Jehovah lays waste their pasture.

² Jehovah says thus: Behold, waters rise up out of the north and will become an overflowing stream and will overflow the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell in it. And the men will cry and all the inhabitants of the land will wail ³ at the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels. The fathers do not look back to their sons for feebleness of hands,

³ The sound of a cry from Horonaim: Desolation and great destruction! ⁴ Moab is destroyed. Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. ⁵ For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping, for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

¹⁰ And in that day, says Jehovah, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate and a wailing from the second quarter and a great crashing from the hills. ¹¹ Wail, you* inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone. All those who were laden with silver are cut off.

¹⁶ a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities and against the high battlements.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees traveled away and took counsel on how they might ensnare him in his speech.

⁴ Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor who seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and confounded who devise my hurt.

³² A wicked man watches a righteous man and seeks to kill him. ³³ Jehovah will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

⁵ Even you, O Jehovah God of hosts, the God of Israel, arise to visit all the nations. Do not be merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

²² Let their table be a trap before them, and to those at peace, let it be a snare.
²³ Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see and bow down their back continually.
²⁴ Pour out your indignation upon them and let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. ²⁵ Let their habitation be desolate. Let none dwell in their tents.
²⁶ Because they persecute he whom you have struck and they tell of the sorrow of those whom you have wounded. ²⁷ Add iniquity to their iniquity and do not let them come into your righteousness.
²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of life and not be written with the righteous.

¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
¹⁵ Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth,

⁹ and so the common man bows down and the great man degrades himself. Therefore do not forgive them.

³ And what will you* do in the day of visitation and in the desolation which will come from far? To whom will you* flee for help? And where will you* leave your* glory?

¹² Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says Jehovah.

¹⁸ And Jehovah gave me knowledge of it and I knew it. Then you showed me their practices. ¹⁹ But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it. And let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may no more be remembered.
²⁰ But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judges righteously, who tries the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them, for to you I have revealed my case.

²³ and there will be no remnant to them. For I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

¹⁵ O Jehovah, you know. Remember me and visit me and avenge me of my persecutors. Take me not away in your longsuffering. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

²² Because these are days of vengeance, that all things which have been written may be fulfilled.

⁵ But you store up wrath for yourself according to your hardness and unrepentant heart in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;