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JEREMIAH CHAPTER 1
- Jeremiah 1:1 Words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, of the priests who [are] in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin,
- 1:2 unto whom the word of YHWH hath been in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign,
- 1:3 and it is in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, till the completion of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, till the removal of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
- 1:4 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
- 1:5 'Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'
- 1:6 And I say, 'Ah, Lord YHWH! lo, I have not known -- to speak, for I [am] a youth.'
- 1:7 And YHWH saith unto me, 'Do not say, I [am] a youth, for to all to whom I send thee thou goest, and all that I command thee thou speakest.
- 1:8 Be not afraid of their faces, for with thee [am] I to deliver thee, -- an affirmation of YHWH.'
- 1:9 And YHWH putteth forth His hand, and striketh against my mouth, and YHWH saith unto me, 'Lo, I have put my words in thy mouth.
- Jeremiah 1:10 See, I have charged thee this day concerning the nations, and concerning the kingdoms, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.'
- 1:11 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying, 'What art thou seeing, Jeremiah?' And I say, 'A rod of an almond tree I am seeing.'
- 1:12 And YHWH saith unto me, 'Thou hast well seen: for I am watching over My word to do it.'
- 1:13 And there is a word of YHWH unto me a second time, saying, 'What art thou seeing?' And I say, 'A blown pot I am seeing, and its face [is] from the north.'
- 1:14 And YHWH saith unto me, 'From the north is the evil loosed against all inhabitants of the land.
- 1:15 For, lo, I am calling for all families of the kingdoms of the north, -- an affirmation of YHWH -- and they have come, and put each his throne at the opening of the gates of Jerusalem, and by its walls round about, and by all cities of Judah.
- 1:16 And I have spoken My judgments with them concerning all their evil, in that they have forsaken Me, and make perfume to other gods, and bow themselves to the works of their own hands.
- 1:17 'And thou, thou dost gird up thy loins, and hast arisen, and spoken unto them all that I command thee: be not affrighted because of them, lest I affright thee before them.
- 1:18 And I, lo, I have given thee this day for a fenced city, and for an iron pillar, and for brazen walls over all the land, to the kings of Judah, to its heads, to its priests, and to the people of the land;
- 1:19 and they have fought against thee, and they prevail not against thee; for with thee [am] I, -- an affirmation of YHWH -- to deliver thee.
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JEREMIAH CHAPTER 2
- Jeremiah 2:1 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
- 2:2 'Go, and thou hast called in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said YHWH: I have remembered for thee The kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, Thy going after Me in a wilderness, in a land not sown.
- 2:3 Holy [is] Israel to YHWH, The first-fruit of His increase, All consuming him are guilty, Evil cometh in unto them, an affirmation of YHWH.
- 2:4 Hear a word of YHWH, O house of Jacob, And all ye families of the house of Israel.
- 2:5 Thus said YHWH: What -- have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain,
- 2:6 And have not said, Where [is] YHWH, Who bringeth us up out of the land of Egypt, Who leadeth us in a wilderness, In a land of deserts and pits, In a dry land, and of death-shade, In a land -- none hath passed through it, Nor dwelt hath man there?'
- 2:7 Yea, I bring you in to a land of fruitful fields, To eat its fruit and its goodness, And ye come in and defile My land, And Mine inheritance have made an abomination.
- 2:8 The priests have not said, 'Where [is] YHWH?' And those handling the law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets have prophesied by Baal, And after those who profit not have gone.
- 2:9 Therefore, yet I plead with you, An affirmation of YHWH, And with your sons' sons I plead.
- Jeremiah 2:10 For, pass to the isles of Chittim, and see, And to Kedar send, and consider well, And see if there hath been like this:
- 2:11 Hath a nation changed gods? (And they [are] no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.
- 2:12 Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, Yea, be frightened, be greatly wasted, An affirmation of YHWH.
- 2:13 For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells -- broken wells, That contain not the waters.
- 2:14 A servant [is] Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore hath he been for a prey?
- 2:15 Against him roar do young lions, They have given forth their voice, And make his land become a desolation, His cities have been burnt without inhabitant.
- 2:16 Also sons of Noph and Tahapanes Consume thee -- the crown of the head!
- 2:17 Dost thou not do this to thyself? [By] thy forsaking YHWH thy God, At the time He is leading thee in the way?
- 2:18 And now, what -- to thee in the way of Egypt, To drink the waters of Sihor? And what -- to thee in the way of Asshur, To drink the waters of the River?
- 2:19 Instruct thee doth thy wickedness, And thy backslidings reprove thee, Know and see that an evil and a bitter thing [Is] thy forsaking YHWH thy God, And My fear not being on thee, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 2:20 For from of old thou hast broken thy yoke, Drawn away thy bands, and sayest, 'I do not serve,' For, on every high height, and under every green tree, Thou art wandering -- a harlot.
- 2:21 And I planted thee a choice vine, wholly a true seed, And how hast thou been turned to Me, To the degenerate shoots of a strange vine?
- 2:22 But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
- 2:23 How sayest thou, 'I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?' See thy way in a valley, know what thou hast done, A swift dromedary winding her ways,
- 2:24 A wild ass accustomed to a wilderness, In the desire of her soul she hath swallowed up wind, Her meeting -- who doth turn her back? None seeking her do weary themselves, In her month they find her.
- 2:25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, And thy throat from thirst, And thou sayest, 'It is incurable, No, for I have loved strangers, and after them I go.'
- 2:26 As the shame of a thief when he is found, So put to shame have been the house of Israel, They, their kings, their heads, And their priests, and their prophets,
- 2:27 Saying to wood, 'My father [art] thou!' And to a stone, 'Thou hast brought me forth,' For they turned unto me the back and not the face, And in the time of their vexation, They say, 'Arise Thou, and save us.'
- 2:28 And where [are] thy gods, that thou hast made to thyself? Let them arise, if they may save thee, In the time of thy vexation, For -- the number of thy cities have been thy gods, O Judah,
- 2:29 Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of YHWH.
- Jeremiah 2:30 In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.
- 2:31 O generation, see ye the word of YHWH: A wilderness have I been to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Wherefore have My people said, 'We mourned, We come not in again unto Thee.'
- 2:32 Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me days without number.
- 2:33 What -- dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.
- 2:34 Also in thy skirts hath been found the blood of innocent needy souls, Not by digging have I found them, but upon all these.
- 2:35 And thou sayest, 'Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?' Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, 'I have not sinned.'
- 2:36 What? thou art very vile to repeat thy way, Even of Egypt thou art ashamed, As thou hast been ashamed of Asshur,
- 2:37 Also from this thou goest out, And thy hands on thy head, For YHWH hath kicked at thy confidences, And thou dost not give prosperity to them!
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JEREMIAH CHAPTER 3
- Jeremiah 3:1 Saying, 'Lo, one sendeth away his wife, And she hath gone from him, And she hath been to another man, Doth he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of YHWH.
- 3:2 Lift thine eyes to the high places, and see, Where hast thou not been lain with? On the ways thou hast sat for them, As an Arab in a wilderness, And thou defilest the land, By thy fornications, and by thy wickedness.
- 3:3 And withheld are showers, and gathered rain hath not been. The forehead of a whorish woman thou hast, Thou hast refused to be ashamed.
- 3:4 Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, 'My father, Thou [art] the leader of my youth?
- 3:5 Doth He keep to the age? watch for ever?' Lo, these things thou hast spoken, And thou dost the evil things, and prevailest.
- 3:6 And YHWH saith unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, 'Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? She is going on every high mountain, and unto the place of every green tree, and committeth fornication there.
- 3:7 And I say, after her doing all these, Unto Me thou dost turn back, and she hath not turned back, and see [it] doth her treacherous sister Judah.
- 3:8 And I see when (for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery) I have sent her away, and I give the bill of her divorce unto her, that treacherous Judah her sister hath not feared, and goeth and committeth fornication -- she also.
- 3:9 And it hath come to pass, from the vileness of her fornication, that the land is defiled, and she committeth fornication with stone and with wood.
- Jeremiah 3:10 And even in all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned back unto Me with all her heart, but with falsehood, an affirmation of YHWH.'
- 3:11 And YHWH saith unto me: 'Justified herself hath backsliding Israel, More than treacherous Judah.
- 3:12 Go, and thou hast proclaimed these words toward the north, and hast said, Turn back, O backsliding Israel, An affirmation of YHWH! I cause not Mine anger to fall upon you, For I [am] kind, an affirmation of YHWH, I watch not to the age.
- 3:13 Only, know thine iniquity, For against YHWH thy God thou hast transgressed, And thou dost scatter thy ways to strangers, Under every green tree, And to My voice thou hast not hearkened, An affirmation of YHWH.
- 3:14 Turn back, O backsliding sons, An affirmation of YHWH. For I have ruled over you, And taken you one of a city, and two of a family, And have brought you to Zion,
- 3:15 And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.
- 3:16 And it hath come to pass, when ye are multiplied, And have been fruitful in the land, In those days -- an affirmation of YHWH, They say not any more, 'The ark of the covenant of YHWH,' Nor doth it go up on the heart, Nor do they remember concerning it, Nor do they inspect, nor is it made again.
- 3:17 At that time they cry to Jerusalem, 'O throne of YHWH,' And gathered unto her hath been all the nations, For the name of YHWH, to Jerusalem, Nor do they go any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
- 3:18 In those days do the house of Judah Go unto the house of Israel, And they come together from the land of the south, unto the land That I caused your fathers to inherit.
- 3:19 And I have said, How do I put thee among the sons, And give to thee a desirable land, A beauteous inheritance of the hosts of nations, And I say, My father -- ye do call to Me, And from after Me ye do not turn back.
- Jeremiah 3:20 But -- a woman hath deceived her friend, So ye have dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel, an affirmation of YHWH.
- 3:21 A voice on high places is heard -- weeping, Supplications of the sons of Israel, For they have made perverse their way, They have forgotten YHWH their God.
- 3:22 Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease. -- Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou [art] YHWH our God.
- 3:23 Surely in vain from the heights, The multitude of mountains -- Surely in YHWH our God [is] the salvation of Israel.
- 3:24 And the shameful thing hath devoured The labour of our fathers from our youth, Their flock and their herd, Their sons and their daughters.
- 3:25 We have lain down in our shame, and cover us doth our confusion, For against YHWH our God we have sinned, We, and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, Nor have we hearkened to the voice of YHWH our God!
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JEREMIAH CHAPTER 4
- Jeremiah 4:1 If thou dost turn back, O Israel, An affirmation of YHWH, unto Me turn back, And if thou dost turn aside Thine abominations from My face, Then thou dost not bemoan.
- 4:2 And thou hast sworn -- YHWH liveth, In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness, And blessed themselves in Him have nations, And in Him they boast themselves.
- 4:3 For thus said YHWH, To the man of Judah, and to Jerusalem: Till for yourselves tillage, And do not sow unto the thorns.
- 4:4 Be circumcised to YHWH, And turn aside the foreskins of your heart, O man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury go out as fire, and hath burned, And there is none quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.
- 4:5 Declare in Judah, and in Jerusalem sound, And say ye, 'Blow a trumpet in the land,' Call ye fully, and say ye: 'Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced city.'
- 4:6 Lift up an ensign Zionward, Strengthen yourselves, stand not still, For evil I am bringing in from the north, And a great destruction.
- 4:7 Gone up hath a lion from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations hath journeyed, He hath come forth from his place To make thy land become a desolation, Thy cities are laid waste, without inhabitant.
- 4:8 For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of YHWH hath not turned back from us.
- 4:9 And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of YHWH: 'Perish doth the heart of the king, And the heart of the princes, And astonished have been the priests, And the prophets do wonder.'
- Jeremiah 4:10 And I say, 'Ah, Lord YHWH, Surely thou hast entirely forgotten this people and Jerusalem, saying, Peace is for you, And struck hath a sword unto the soul!'
- 4:11 At that time it is said of this people, And of Jerusalem: 'A dry wind of high places in the wilderness,' The way of the daughter of My people, (Not for winnowing, nor for cleansing,)
- 4:12 A full wind from these doth come for Me, Now, also, I speak judgments with them.
- 4:13 Lo, as clouds he cometh up, And as a hurricane his chariots, Lighter than eagles have been his horses, Wo to us, for we have been spoiled.
- 4:14 Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?
- 4:15 For a voice is declaring from Dan, And sounding sorrow from mount Ephraim.
- 4:16 Make ye mention to the nations, Lo, sound ye to Jerusalem: 'Besiegers are coming from the land afar off, And they give forth against cities of Judah their voice.
- 4:17 As the keepers of a field They have been against her round about, For with Me she hath been rebellious, An affirmation of YHWH.'
- 4:18 Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This [is] thy vexation, for [it is] bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart.
- 4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained [at] the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul -- a shout of battle!
- Jeremiah 4:20 Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, For spoiled hath been all the land, Suddenly spoiled have been my tents, In a moment -- my curtains.
- 4:21 Till when do I see an ensign? Do I hear the voice of a trumpet?
- 4:22 For my people [are] foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons [are] they, yea, they [are] not intelligent, Wise [are] they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.
- 4:23 I looked [to] the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.
- 4:24 I have looked [to] the mountains, And lo, they are trembling. And all the hills moved themselves lightly.
- 4:25 I have looked, and lo, man is not, And all fowls of the heavens have fled.
- 4:26 I have looked, and lo, The fruitful place [is] a wilderness, And all its cities have been broken down, Because of YHWH, Because of the fierceness of His anger.
- 4:27 For thus said YHWH: All the land is a desolation, but a completion I make not.
- 4:28 For this doth the land mourn, And black have been the heavens above, because I have spoken -- I have purposed, And I have not repented, Nor do I turn back from it.
- 4:29 From the voice of the horseman, And of him shooting with the bow, all the city is fleeing, They have come into thickets, And on cliffs they have gone up, All the city is forsaken, And there is no one dwelling in them.
- Jeremiah 4:30 And thou, O spoiled one, what dost thou? For thou puttest on scarlet, For thou adornest thyself [with] ornaments of gold. For thou rendest with pain thine eyes, In vain thou dost make thyself fair, Kicked against thee have doting ones, Thy life they do seek.
- 4:31 For a voice as of a sick woman I have heard, Distress, as of one bringing forth a first-born, The voice of the daughter of Zion, She bewaileth herself, she spreadeth out her hands, 'Wo to me now, for weary is my soul of slayers!'
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