Jeremiah 43:9 Cross References - Rotherham

⁹ Take in thy hand great stones, and hide them in the mortar, that is in the brickyard, which is at the entrance of the house of Pharaoh, in Tahpanhes,––before the eyes of the men of Judah.

¹⁴ and embittered their lives with harsh service, in clay and in bricks, and in all manner of service in the field,––all their service, wherein they rigorously made them serve.

³¹ the people also that were therein, brought he forth, and put them to the saw, and to threshing sledges of iron, and to axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln, and thus used he to do unto all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

²⁹ And it came to pass, at that time, when, Jeroboam, went forth out of Jerusalem, that there met him Ahijah the Shilonite, the prophet, in the way, he having wrapped himself about with a new mantle; and, they two, were by themselves, in the field. ³⁰ Then Ahijah laid hold of the new mantle, that was upon him,––and rent it into twelve pieces; ³¹ and said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten places,––for Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel––Behold me! about to rend the kingdom, out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give unto thee ten tribes:

¹ In the year that Tartan entered Ashdod, when Sargon king of Assyria, sent him,––and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,–– ² At that time, spake Yahweh, through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, And, thy sandal, draw thou off from thy foot,––And he did so, walking disrobed and barefoot. ³ Then said Yahweh,––As my servant Isaiah, hath walked, disrobed and barefoot, three years, as a sign and a wonder, against Egypt and against Ethiopia, ⁴ So, shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, disrobed and barefoot,––with their persons behind uncovered, the shame of Egypt.

¹ Thus, said Yahweh unto me,––Go, and buy for thyself, a linen girdle, and put upon thy loins,––but, in water, shalt thou not place it. ² So I bought a girdle, according to the word of Yahweh,––and put upon my loins. ³ Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, second time, saying: ⁴ Take the girdle which thou hast bought, which is upon thy loins,––and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there, in a hole of the cliff. ⁵ So I went, and hid it, by the Euphrates, as Yahweh had commanded me. ⁶ And it came to pass, at the end of many days,––that Yahweh said unto me,––Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from thence, the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there. ⁷ So I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle, out of the place where I had hidden it,––and lo! the girdle, was spoiled, it was good for nothing. ⁸ Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying: ⁹ Thus, saith Yahweh,––After this manner, will I spoil the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. ¹⁰ This wicked people, who are refusing to hear my words, who are walking in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods, to serve them, and to bow down to them, yea let them be like this girdle, which is good for nothing. ¹¹ For, as a girdle cleaveth unto the loins of a man, so, caused I to cleave unto me––the whole house of Israel, and the whole house of Judah, Declareth Yahweh, to become mine––For a people, and, For a name, and, For a praise, and, For an adorning,––but they hearkened not.

² Arise and go down, to the house of the potter,––and, there, will I cause thee to hear my words. ³ So I went down, to the house of the potter,––and, there he was! making a piece of work, on the wheels. ⁴ Then was marred, the vessel that he, was making, while yet it was clay in the hand of the potter,––so he turned and made of it another, vessel, as seemed right in the eyes of the potter to make it. ⁵ Then came the word of Yahweh, unto me, saying: ⁶ Like this potter, can I not deal with you, O house of Israel? Demandeth Yahweh: Lo! as clay in the hand of the potter, So, are, ye, in my hand O house of Israel. ⁷ The moment I speak, concerning a nation, or concerning a kingdom,––to pull up and to break down, and to destroy; ⁸ and that nation return, from its wickedness, against whom I have spoken, then will I repent concerning the calamity, which I had devised to bring upon it. ⁹ And, the moment I speak, concerning a nation, or concerning a kingdom,––to build, and to plant; ¹⁰ and it commit wickedness in mine eyes, in not hearkening unto my voice, then will I repent concerning the good wherewith I had said I would do it good.
¹¹ Now, therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the men of Judah, and concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus, saith Yahweh,––Lo! I, am fashioning against you, calamity, and devising against you, a device,––Return, I pray you, every man from his wicked way, And amend your ways, and your doings. ¹² And, since they will say, Hopeless! For, after our own devices, will we walk, And, every one, the stubbornness of his own wicked heart, will we do!

¹ Thus said Yahweh, Go and buy a potter’s earthen bottle,––and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests; ² Then shalt thou go forth into the valley of Ben–hinnom, which is at the opening of the gate of potsherds; and proclaim there, the words which I shall speak unto thee; ³ and shalt say,––Hear ye the word of Yahweh, O kings of Judah, And inhabitants of Jerusalem,––Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts––God of Israel, Behold me! bringing in calamity upon this place, which shall cause the ears of, every one that heareth it, to tingle: ⁴ Because they have forsaken me, And have treated this as a foreign place, And have burned incense therein to other, gods, which, neither they, nor their fathers, nor the kings of Judah, have known; And have filled this place with the blood of innocents; ⁵ And have built the high places of Baal, for burning up their sons in the fire, as ascending–sacrifices to Baal,––Which I commanded not, Nor spake, Neither came it up on my heart, ⁶ Therefore, lo! days coming, Declareth Yahweh, When this place shall be called no longer, The Topheth, or, The Valley of Ben–hinnom,––but––The Valley of Slaughter; ⁷ And I will pour out 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 hand of them who seek their life,–– ⁸ And I will give their dead bodies, for food, to the bird of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth; And I will make this city a desolation, and a hissing,––every one that passeth by it, shall be astonished and hiss, over all her wounds; ⁹ And I will suffer them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, yea, every one––the flesh of his friend, will they eat,––in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith, their enemies, and they who seek their lives, will straiten them.
¹⁰ Then shalt thou break the bottle, before the eyes of the men who are walking with thee; ¹¹ and shalt say unto them––Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts––Thus and thus, will I break this people, and this city, As one breaketh the vessel of a potter, which cannot be made whole any more,––And, in Topheth, shall they bury, for want of place to bury. ¹² Thus, will I do to this place, Declareth Yahweh, And to the inhabitants thereof,––Even making this city like Topheth: ¹³ Yea, the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall, like the place of Topheth, be places defiled,––even all the houses, upon whose roofs they burned incense, to all the host of the heavens, and poured out drink–offerings to other, gods. ¹⁴ Then entered Jeremiah out of Topheth, whither Yahweh had sent him to prophesy,––and stood in the court of the house of Yahweh, and said unto all the people: ¹⁵ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Behold me! brining in against this city, and upon all the cities thereof, The whole calamity, which I have pronounced against her,––Because they stiffened their neck, that they might not hear my words.

⁶³ And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this scroll, that thou shalt bind thereunto a stone, and cast it in the midst of the Euphrates. ⁶⁴ Then shalt thou say,––In like manner, shall Babylon sink and not rise, Because of the calamity which I, am about to bring thereupon: So shall they perish. Thus far, are, the words of Jeremiah.

¹ Thou, therefore, O son of man, Take thee a tile, and lay it before thee,––and portray thereon a city, even Jerusalem. ² Then shalt thou lay siege against it, And build up against it a siege–wall, And cast up against it, a mound,––And set against it camps, And place against it battering–rams, round about. ³ Thou, therefore, take thee a pan of iron, and set it for a wall of iron, between thee and the city,––then shalt thou direct thy face against it, and it shall come into siege, and thou shalt lay siege to it, a sign, shall it be, to the house of Israel. ⁴ Thou, therefore, lie thou on thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel, upon it,––during the number of the days which thou shalt lie thereon, shalt thou bear their punishment. ⁵ I, therefore, have appointed thee the years of their punishment, by the number of days, a hundred and ninety days,––so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. ⁶ And, when thou hast ended these, then shalt thou lie, on thy right side, a second, time, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah,––forty days, one day for each year, have I appointed thee. ⁷ Thus then, unto the siege of Jerusalem, shalt thou direct thy face, with thine arm made bare,––so shalt thou prophesy against it. ⁸ And lo! I have laid upon thee––bands,––and thou shalt not turn thee from thy one side to thine other, until thou have ended the days of thy siege.
⁹ Thou, therefore, take thee wheat and barley and peas and lentils and millet and spelt, and put them in one, vessel, and make them ready for thee as bread,––during the number of days which thou, art lying on thy side, a hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat it; ¹⁰ and, thy food, which thou shalt eat, shall be, by weight, twenty shekels a day,––from time to time, shalt thou eat it; ¹¹ and, water, by measure, shalt thou drink, the sixth part of a hin,––from time to time shalt thou drink; ¹² and, as a barley cake, shalt thou eat it,––and, the same, with dung proceeding from man, shalt thou bake, before their eyes. ¹³ Then said Yahweh, In like manner, shall the sons of Israel eat their bread, defiled,––among the nations, whither I will drive them. ¹⁴ Then said, I, Ah! My Lord, Yahweh, lo! my person, hath not been defiled: neither of what hath died of itself, nor of what hath been torn in pieces: have I eaten, from my youthful days even unto now, neither hath come into my mouth, the flesh of a foul thing. ¹⁵ So then he said unto me, See, I have granted thee, cow’s dung for man’s dung,––and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereupon. ¹⁶ And he said unto me, Son of man, Behold me! breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, So shall they eat bread by weight, and with anxious care, And, water, by measure, and in astonishment, shall they drink: ¹⁷ that they may lack bread and water and be astonished one with another, and pine away in their punishment.

¹ Thou, therefore, son of man, Take thee a sharp cuting instrument, a barber’s razor, shalt thou take thee, and shalt cause it to pass upon thy head, and upon thy chin,––and shalt take the balances for weighing, and shalt divide the hair. ² A third part, in the fire, shalt thou burn, in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege, are fulfilled,––and thou shalt take a third part, thou shalt smite it with the cuting instrument, round about it, and, a third part, shalt thou scatter to the wind, and, a sword, will I make bare after them; ³ and thou shalt take from thence, a few in number,––and shalt bind them in thy skirts; ⁴ and, of them, again, take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire,––therefrom, shall go forth a fire, unto all the house of Israel.
⁵ Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, This, is Jerusalem, In the midst of the nations, I placed her,––and of the countries round about her; ⁶ But she hath changed my regulations into lawlessness, more than the nations, And my statutes, more than the countries which are round bout her, For, my regulations, have they rejected, And, in my statutes, have they not walked. ⁷ Therefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Because ye have become more rebellious than the nations who are round about you, In my statutes, have not walked, And, my regulations, have not done, And, according to the regulations of the nations which are round about you, have not done: ⁸ Therefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Lo! I am against thee, even I, Therefore will I execute in thy midst, judgments, in the eyes of the nations; ⁹ Yea I will execute upon thee that which I have not executed, And like unto which I will not execute again,––Because of all thine abominations. ¹⁰ Therefore, fathers, will eat, sons, in thy midst, And, sons, will eat, fathers,––And I will execute upon thee judgments, And will scatter the whole remnant of thee, to every wind. ¹¹ Therefore, as I, live, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh,––Surely, because, my sanctuary, thou hast defiled, with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, Even I also, will cut off, and mine eye, shall not spare, Yea even I, will not pity. ¹² The third part of thee, by pestilence, shall die, and, by famine, be consumed in thy midst, And, the third part, by the sword, shall fall round about thee,––And, the third part, to every wind, will I scatter, and, a sword, will I make bare after them. ¹³ So shall mine anger, have an end, And, I will cause mine indignation, to find rest, upon them, and will console myself,––And they shall know that, I, Yahweh, have spoken in my jealousy, when mine indignation, hath come to an end, upon them. ¹⁴ And I will deliver thee up to desolation and reproach, among the nations that are round about thee,––in the eyes of every passer–by. ¹⁵ So shall it become a reproach and an insult, a warning and an astonishment, to the nations that are round about thee,––in that I have executed upon thee judgments, in anger and in indignation, and in rebukes of indignation, I, Yahweh, have spoken: ¹⁶ In that I have sent the malignant arrows of famine among them, which were for destruction, which I will send to destroy you,––and, famine, will I increase upon you, and will break for you the staff of bread. ¹⁷ So will I send upon you famine and mischievous beast, and they shall bereave thee,––and, pestilence and blood, shall pass through thee,––and, a sword, will I bring in upon thee, I, Yahweh, have spoken.

³ Thou, therefore, Son of man, Prepare thee baggage for exile, and exile thyself, by day, before their eyes,––so shalt thou exile thyself out of thy place unto another place, before their eyes, peradventure, they will consider,––though, a perverse house, they are. ⁴ Therefore shalt thou take forth thy baggage, as baggage for exile, by day before their eyes,––and, thou thyself, shalt go forth in the evening, before their eyes, like them who go forth to exile. ⁵ Before their eyes, break thou forth by thyself through the wall,––and carry forth through it. ⁶ Before their eyes, Upon the shoulder, shalt thou lift it, In thick darkness, take it forth, Thy face, shalt thou cover, so that thou see not the land; For, a sign, have I appointed thee to the house of Israel. ⁷ And I did so, just as I was commanded, My baggage, took I forth as baggage for exile, by day, and, in the evening, I brake forth by myself through the wall, by force: in the twilight, I took it forth––on to my shoulder, I lifted it, before their eyes. ⁸ Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, in the morning, saying: ⁹ Son of man, Have not the house of Israel, the perverse house, said unto thee,––What art thou, doing? ¹⁰ Say unto them, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh,––[For] the Bearer, is this burden, in Jerusalem, and [for] all the house of Israel, such as are in their midst. ¹¹ Say, I, am your sign: As I have done, so, shall it be done to them, Into exile––into captivity, shall they go. ¹² Yea, the Bearer who is in their midst, Upon his shoulder, shall lift it. In thick darkness, shall he go forth, Through the wall, shall they break, to bear forth through it,––His face, shall he cover, to the end that, his own eye, may not see the land. ¹³ Then will I spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare; And I will take him to Babylon, in the land of the Chaldeans, The which, indeed, he shall not see. And yet, there, shall he die! ¹⁴ And, all who are round about him to help him, and all his troops, will I scatter to every wind,––and, a sword, will I make bare after them. ¹⁵ So shall they know, that, I, am Yahweh,––By my dispersing them among the nations, And scattering them throughout the lands. ¹⁶ Yet will I leave remaining of them, men easily counted, from the sword, from the famine and from the pestilence,––that they may recount all their abominations among the nations whither they have come, So shall they know, that, I, am Yahweh.

¹⁰ And I will lay my word upon the prophets, yea, I myself, have magnified, vision,––and, by the hand of the prophets, will I use similitudes.

¹⁴ Siege–water, draw for thyself, strengthen thy fortresses,––go into the clay, and tread thou the mortar, make strong the brick.

¹¹ and, coming unto us, and taking Paul’s girdle, he bound his own feet and hands, and said––Thus, saith the Holy Spirit, the man whose this girdle is, shall the Jews thus bind in Jerusalem, and deliver up into the hands of Gentiles.

²¹ And one mighty messenger lifted a stone, as it were a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying––Thus, with main force, shall be cast down, Babylon the great city,––and in nowise be found any more;