Jeremiah Chapter 43
V1: When Jeremiah had made an end of speaking. V2: Then spake Azariah and all the proud men, saying, “You speak falsely. God has not sent you to say, ‘Go not into Egypt to sojourn.’” V3: But Baruch sets you against us, to deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans. V4: So all the captains obeyed not the voice of the Lord. V5: But Johanan took all the remnant of Judah. V7: They came to the land of Egypt; they obeyed not the voice of the Lord. They came to Tahpanhes. V8: Then came the word of the Lord, saying:
V9: “Take great stones and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house, in the sight of all the men of Judah.” V10: Say unto them, “I will send Nebuchadnezzar; I will set his throne upon these stones. He shall spread his royal pavilion over them.” V11: “When he comes, he shall smite the land of Egypt; deliver such as are for death to death, such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.” V12: “I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; he shall burn them and carry them away captives. He shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment.” V13: “He shall break the images of Bethshemesh.”
Jeremiah Chapter 44
V1: The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah concerning the Jews that dwell in Egypt. V2: “You have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem. This day they are a desolation; no man dwells therein.” V3: “Because of the wickedness they have committed to provoke me to anger; they went to burn incense and serve other gods.” V4: “I sent all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Do not this abominable thing that I hate.’” V5: “But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn incense to other gods.” V6: “Wherefore my fury and my anger was poured forth and was kindled in the cities of Judah.”
V7: “Why do you commit this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you men and women, to leave you none to remain?” V8: “In that you provoke me to wrath, burning incense to other gods, that you might cut yourselves off, that you might be a curse and a reproach among all nations of the earth.” V9: “Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers or the kings of Judah?” V10: “They are not humbled unto this day, neither have they feared nor walked in my law.” V11: “Therefore, I will set my face against you for evil, to cut off Judah.”
V12: “I will take the remnant of Judah that have set their faces to go to Egypt. They shall be consumed by the sword and famine; they shall die from the least to the greatest. They shall be an execration, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach.” V13: “I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, famine, and pestilence.” V14: “So that none that are gone to Egypt shall escape or remain.” V15: Then all the men that knew their wives burned incense to other gods:
V16: Said, “As for the word which you have spoken, we will not hearken to you.” V17: “But we will certainly do whatsoever goes forth out of our own mouths, to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven, as we have done in the cities of Judah; for then had we plenty of victuals, and we were well and saw no evil.” V18: “But since we left off to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and famine.” V19: “When we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven, we made her cakes without our men.” V20: Then Jeremiah said:
V21: “The incense that you burned, did not the Lord remember them? Came it not into his mind?” V22: “So that the Lord could no longer bear because of the evil of your doings; therefore is your land a desolation, an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant as at this day.” V23: “Because you have burned incense, therefore this evil has happened unto you.”
V25: “Ye and your wives have spoken with your mouths, ‘We will surely perform our vows.’” V26: “I have sworn by my great name, that my name shall no more be named in the mouths of any men of Judah in Egypt.” V27: “I will watch over you for evil and not for good; all men of Judah shall be consumed by the sword and famine until there is an end of them.” V28: “Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return and shall know whose words shall stand, mine or theirs.” V29: “This shall be a sign: I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil.” V30: “I give Pharaoh-hophra, king of Egypt, into the hands of his enemies, as I gave Zedekiah into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.”
Jeremiah Chapter 45
V4: The Lord said, “Behold, that which I have built I will break down; that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.” V5: “Seekest thou great things? Seek them not; for I will bring evil upon all flesh, but your life will I give unto you for a prey in all places where you go.”
Jeremiah Chapter 46
V1: The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah. V2: Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho, which Nebuchadnezzar smote. V3: “Order the buckler and shield and draw near to battle!” V4: “Harness the horses; stand forth with your helmets!” V5: “Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned back? Their mighty ones are beaten down.” V6: “Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty escape; they shall stumble and fall toward the north by the Euphrates.” V7: “Who is he that comes up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?” V8: “Egypt rises up as a flood; his waters are moved like the rivers. I will go up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants.” V9: “Come up, ye horses, and rage, ye chariots; let the mighty men come forth, the Ethiopians and the Libyans.”
V10: “For this is the day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries. The sword shall devour; it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood, for the Lord has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.” V11: “Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt; in vain you use many medicines, for you shall not be cured.” V12: “The nations have heard of your shame; your cry has filled the land. For the mighty men have stumbled against the mighty; they are fallen both together.” V13: Declare ye in Egypt, publish in Migdol, Noph, and Tahpanhes. Stand fast; prepare, for the sword of the Lord shall devour.
V19: “Why are valiant men swept away? They stood not because the Lord did drive them.” V20: “He made many to fall, one upon another.” V18: “As I live,” says the King, whose name is the Lord, “as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.” V19: “O daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity, for Noph shall be waste and desolate.” V20: “Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction comes; it comes out of the north.” V22: “They shall come against her with axes like hewers of wood.” V23: “They shall cut down her forest, though it cannot be searched, because they are more than the grasshoppers and are innumerable.”
V24: “The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.” V25: “The Lord says, ‘I will punish No, Pharaoh, Egypt, their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh and those who trust in him.’” V26: “Into the hand of those who seek their lives: Nebuchadnezzar.” V27: “Fear not, O servant Jacob; be not dismayed, for I will save you from afar off, and your seed from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and be at rest and at ease; none shall make him afraid.” V28: “Fear not, Jacob my servant, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, yet I will not leave you wholly unpunished.”
Jeremiah Chapter 47
V1: The word of the Lord against the Philistines, before Pharaoh smote Gaza. V2: “Waters rise up out of the north and shall be an overflowing flood; they shall overflow the land; the men shall cry and howl.” V3: “The fathers will not look back to their children for feebleness of hands.” V4: “Because of the day that comes to spoil the Philistines, to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper. The Lord will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of Caphtor.” V5: “Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley.” V6: “O ye sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere ye be quiet? Put up yourself into your scabbard; rest and be still.” V7: “How can it be quiet, when the Lord has given it a charge against Ashkelon and against the sea shore?”
Jeremiah Chapter 48
V1: Against Moab. Woe unto Nebo, for it is spoiled! Kiriathaim is confounded and taken; Misgab is confounded and dismayed. V2: “There shall be no more praise of Moab in Heshbon. They have devised evil against it: ‘Come, let us cut it off from being a nation.’” V3: “A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.” V4: “Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.” V5: “For in the going up of Luhith, continual weeping shall go up.” V6: “Flee, save your lives; be like the heath of the wilderness.” V7: “Because you have trusted in your works and treasures, you shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go into captivity.” V8: “The spoiler shall come upon every city; no city shall escape. The valley shall perish; the plain shall be destroyed, as the Lord has spoken.” V9: “Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away; for the cities shall be desolate.” V10: “Cursed be he that does the work of the Lord deceitfully; cursed be he that keeps back his sword from blood.”
V11: “Moab has been at ease from his youth; has settled on his lees. Has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity. Therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.” V12: “The days come that I will send him wanderers that shall cause him to wander; shall empty his vessels and break his bottles.” V13: “Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.” V14: “How say ye, ‘We are mighty and strong men for the war’?”
V15: “Moab is spoiled and gone up out of her cities; his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter,” says the King whose name is the Lord of hosts. V16: “The calamity of Moab is near to come; his affliction hasteth fast.” V17: “All ye that are about him, bemoan him; all ye that know his name, say, ‘How is the strong staff broken!’” V18: “You daughter that inhabit Dibon, come down from your glory; sit in thirst, for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon you; he shall destroy your strongholds.” V19: “Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and espy; ask him that flees what is done.” V20: “Moab is confounded, for it is broken down; howl and cry, for tell ye it: ‘Moab is spoiled.’”
V21: “Judgment is come upon the plain country.” V25: “The horn of Moab is cut off; his arm is broken.” V26: “Make him drunken, for he has magnified himself against the Lord. Moab shall swallow and vomit; he also shall be in derision.” V27: “Was not Israel a derision unto you? Was he found among thieves? Since you speak of him, you skip for joy.” V28: “Ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities and dwell in the rock; be like the dove that makes her nest in the sides of the hole’s mouth.”
V29: “We have heard the pride of Moab; he is exceedingly proud; his loftiness and his arrogancy, and his pride and the haughtiness of his heart.” V30: “I know his wrath,” but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so affect it. V31: “Therefore will I howl for Moab.” V33: “Joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field.” V35: “I will cause to cease in Moab him that offers in the high places and him that burns incense to his gods.” V36: “My heart shall sound like pipes for Moab, because the riches he has gotten are perished.” V37: “For every head shall be bald, every beard clipped; upon all hands shall be cutting, upon loins sackcloth.”
V38: “There shall be lamentations upon every housetop, for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure.” V39: “They shall howl, saying, ‘How is it broken down? How has Moab turned the back with shame?’ So that Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.” V40: “He shall fly as an eagle and shall spread his wings over Moab.” V41: “The mighty men’s hearts in Moab shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.” V42: “Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the Lord.” V43: “Fear and the pit and the snare shall be upon you.” V44: “He that flees from fear shall fall into the pit; he who gets out of the pit shall be taken in the snare. I will bring upon it the year of their visitation.” V47: “Yet I will bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days.”
Jeremiah Chapter 49
V1: Concerning the Ammonites: “Has Israel no sons? Why does their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in the cities?” V2: “I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; it shall be desolate heaps; her daughters shall be burned with fire.” V3: “Howl, Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled; cry, daughters of Rabbah, for their king shall go into captivity.” V4: “Why do you glory in the valleys, O backsliding daughter that trust in her treasures, saying, ‘Who shall come unto me?’” V5: “I will bring fear upon you from all those that be about you; you shall be driven out every man; none shall gather up him that wanders.”
V6: “Afterward, I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon.” V7: Concerning Edom: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Is counsel perished from the prudent?” V8: “Flee, turn back, for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him.” V9: “If grape-gatherers come to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.” V10: “I have made Esau bare; I have uncovered his secret places; he shall not be able to hide himself; his seed is spoiled.” V11: “Leave your fatherless children; I will preserve them alive; let your widows trust in me.”
V12: “They whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken. Are you he that shall go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall drink of it.” V13: “I have sworn by myself that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, a curse. All cities shall be perpetual wastes.” V14: “I have heard a rumour from the Lord; an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, ‘Gather together, come against her; rise up to battle!’” V15: “For I will make you small among the heathen, despised among men.” V16: “Your terribleness has deceived you and the pride of your heart, O ye that dwell in the clefts of the rock, that hold the heights of the hill; though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from thence,” says the Lord.
V17: “Edom shall be a desolation; everyone that goes by it shall be astonished and shall hiss at all the plagues.” V18: “As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.” V19: “He shall come as a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong. I will suddenly make him run away. Who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her? Who is like me? Who will appoint me the time? Who is that shepherd that will stand before me?” V20: “Hear the counsel of the Lord that he has taken against Edom, and his purposes that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; surely he shall make their habitations desolate.”
V21: “The earth is moved at the noise of their fall; the noise was heard in the Red Sea.” V22: “He shall come up as the eagle and spread his wings over Bozrah. In that day, the heart of the mighty men shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.” V23: Concerning Damascus: “Hamath is confounded, for they have heard evil tidings; they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.” V24: “Damascus is waxed feeble and turns to flee; fear has seized on her as a woman in travail.” V26: “Therefore, her young men shall fall in the streets; all men of war shall be cut off.” V27: “I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus; it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.”
V28: Concerning Kedar and Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar shall smite. V33: “Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, a desolation forever; no man shall abide there.” V34: The sword of the Lord that came to Jeremiah against Elam. V35: “I will break the bow of Elam.” V36: “Upon Elam, I will bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven; will scatter them toward all those winds; there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.” V37: “I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies and before them that seek their life; I will bring evil against them, even my fierce anger; I will send the sword after them till I have consumed them.” V38: “I will set my throne in Elam and will destroy the king and princes.” V39: “It shall come to pass in the latter days, I will bring again the captivity of Elam.”
Jeremiah Chapter 50
V1: The word of the Lord against Babylon. V2: “Declare ye, ‘Babylon is fallen; Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces.’” V3: “For out of the north comes a nation against her which shall make her land desolate; none shall dwell there; they shall remove, depart, both man and beast.” V4: “In those days, the children of Israel shall come, going and weeping.” V5: “They shall ask the way to Zion, saying, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord.’” V6: “My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains.”
V7: “All that found them devoured them; their adversaries said, ‘We offend not, because they have sinned against the Lord.’” V8: “Remove out of the midst of Babylon, go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans; be as the he-goats before the flocks.” V9: “I will raise and cause to come against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north; their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert; none shall return in vain.” V10: “Chaldea shall be a spoil; all that spoil her shall be satisfied.”
V11: “Because you were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of my heritage, because ye are grown fat.” V12: “Your mother shall be confounded; she that bare you; the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, dry land, desert.” V13: “Because of the wrath of the Lord, it shall not be inhabited; it shall be wholly desolate. Everyone that goes to Babylon shall be astonished and hiss at all her plagues.” V14: “Put yourself in array against Babylon round about; all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrow, for she has sinned against the Lord.”
V15: “Shout against her! Her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down, for it is the vengeance of the Lord; take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do unto her.” V16: “Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handles the sickle; for fear of the oppressing sword, they shall flee everyone to his own land.” V17: “Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away; first the King of Assyria, last Nebuchadnezzar has broken his bones.” V18: “Therefore I will punish the king of Babylon as I have punished the king of Assyria.”
V19: “I will bring Israel to his habitation; he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan; his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.” V20: “In those days, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, for there shall be none; I will pardon them.” V21: “Go up against the land of Merathaim, against the inhabitants of Pekod; waste and utterly destroy after them.” V22: “A sound of battle is in the land and of great destruction.” V23: “How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder! How is Babylon become a desolation!” V24: “I have laid a snare for you; you are taken, O Babylon; you were not aware; you are found and caught, for you have striven against the Lord.”
V25: “The Lord has opened his armoury and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; this is the work of the Lord in the land of the Chaldeans.” V26: “Come against her from the uttermost border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps; destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.” V27: “Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe unto them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation!” V28: “The voice of them that flee and escape out of Babylon to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord.” V29: “Call together the archers against Babylon; camp against it; let none escape; recompense her according to her work; according to all she has done, do unto her, for she has been proud against the Lord.” V30: “Therefore her young men fall in the streets, and her men of war shall be cut off.”
V31: “I am against you, O you most proud,” says the Lord, “for your day is come, the time that I will visit you.” V32: “The most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; I will kindle a fire in the cities.” V33: “The children of Israel were oppressed together; all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.” V34: “Their Redeemer is strong; he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.” V35: “A sword is upon the Chaldeans.” V36: “A sword is upon the liars; they shall be dismayed.” V37: “They shall become as women; a sword is upon their treasures; they shall be robbed.”
V38: “A drought is upon her waters; they shall be dried up, for it is the land of graven images; they are mad upon their idols.” V39: “The wild beasts of the desert shall dwell there; it shall be no more inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.” V40: “As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, so shall no man abide there.” V41: “A people shall come from the north.” V42: “They are cruel and will not show mercy against you, O daughter of Babylon.” V43: “The king of Babylon heard the report; his hands waxed feeble; anguish took hold of him and pangs as of a woman in travail.” V45: “Hear the counsel of the Lord against Babylon; surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; surely he shall make their habitations desolate.” V46: “At the noise of the taking of Babylon, the earth is moved; the cry is heard among the nations.”
Jeremiah Chapter 51
V1: “I will raise up against Babylon, that rise up against me, a destroying wind.” V2: “I will send unto Babylon fanners that shall fan her and shall empty her land; in the day of trouble they shall be against her.” V5: “For Israel has not been forsaken, though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.” V6: “Flee out of Babylon, deliver every man his soul; be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of God’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.” V7: “Babylon has been as a golden cup in the Lord’s hand that made all the earth drunken; the nations have drunken of her wine.” V8: “Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed; howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.” V9: “We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed; forsake her, and let us go everyone to his own country, for her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up even to the skies.” V10: “The Lord has brought forth our righteousness.” V11: “The Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, for his device is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of the temple.”
V13: “O you that dwell upon many waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come and the measure of your covetousness.” V14: “The Lord has sworn by himself: ‘I will fill you with men as with caterpillars; they shall lift up a shout against you.’” V15: “He has made the earth by his power; he has established the world by his wisdom; he has stretched the heaven by his understanding.” V16: “When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; he causes the vapours to ascend from the end of the earth; he makes lightning with rain; brings forth the wind out of his treasures.”
V17: “Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood; there is no breath in them.” V18: “They are vanity, the work of errors; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.” V19: “The portion of Jacob is not like them; he is the former of all things; Israel is the rod of his inheritance.” V20: “You are my battle axe and weapons of war; with you I will break in pieces the nations; with you I will destroy kingdoms.” V21: “With you I will break in pieces the horse and rider; with you I will break in pieces the chariot and his rider.” V24: “I will render unto Babylon all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight.”
V25: “I am against you, O destroying mountain; I will stretch out my hand upon you and roll you down from the rocks; I will make you a burnt mountain.” V26: “They shall not make of you a stone for a corner, but you shall be desolate forever.” V28: “Prepare against her the nations with the king of the Medes.” V29: “The land shall tremble and sorrow; every purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon to make Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.” V30: “The mighty men of Babylon have foreborne to fight; they have remained in their holds; they became as women.” V32: “Nebuchadnezzar has devoured, crushed me, made me empty.” V35: “The violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon, and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea.” V36: “I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you; I will dry up her sea.” V49: “Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon fall the slain of all the earth.” V61: Jeremiah said to Seraiah. V63: “When you have made an end of reading this book, you shall bind a stone to it and cast it to the Euphrates.” V64: “You shall say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink and shall not rise from the evil that I bring upon her.’”
Jeremiah Chapter 52
V1: Zedekiah was 21 years old when he began to reign; he reigned 11 years in Jerusalem. V2: He did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. V3: Through the anger of the Lord in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against Babylon. V4: In the 9th year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar came against Jerusalem. V5: The city was besieged until the 11th year. V6: In the 4th month, 9th day, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread. V7: The city was broken up; all the men of war fled by night. V8: But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and overtook Zedekiah in Jericho.
V9: They took the king and carried him to Riblah in the land of Hamath. V10: The king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. V11: Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; bound him in chains to Babylon. V31: It came to pass in the 37th year of Jehoiakim’s captivity, the king of Babylon lifted the head of Jehoiakim and brought him forth out of prison. V32: And spake kindly to him; set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon. V33: Changed his prison garments; he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life. V34: For his diet, there was a continual diet given him every day a portion, until the day of his death.
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