The two words {,}אם} {כי ki am, are differently explained: some render them,
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS ancient testimonies of God's favor towards his people, he hence gathered, that God would extend the same goodness and kindness to posterity. It follows, ---
Lamentations 5:22
22. But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
22. Nisi (vel, sed, vel, quod si) rejiciendo rejecisti nos excanduisti contra nos valde.
The two words {,}כי{ }אםki am, are differently explained: some render them,
if,'' or ``certainly if,'' and thus separate the verse into two parts, ``Surely if thou hast rejected us, thou art very angry;'' but this is a forced meaning, not intended, as I think, by the Prophet. And these seem to have been compelled by necessity to pervert the Prophet's words; because it appears hard simply to declare that the people had been wholly rejected by God. As, then, this harshness offended them, they contrived this comment, ``If thou hast rejected us, thou art very angry.'' But as
I have said, this exposition I do not approve of, because it is a very forced one; and the greater part of interpreters follow what I stated in the first place, for they take
{,}כי{ }אםki am, adversatively. The two particles are often connected together, and rendered, ``though'' or although, --- ``Though thou hast rejected us:'' and hence the last verse has been repeated.
For the Jews labor under this superstition, that when a book ends with a hard and severe sentence, or one containing a dreadful threatening, grating to the ears, in order to avoid the sad omen, they repeat the last verse but one. So they do at the end of Isaiah, and at the end of Malachi. As Isaiah says, ``It shall be a horror (or abomination) to all flesh;'' they therefore repeat the previous verse. So in Malachi; as he says, ``Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse --- {,}חרםcherem,'' they think that as he pronounces there an anathema, it is a sort of charm that may absorb this curse, to have the previous verse repeated after it. There is, then, no doubt but that they took this passage in the same sense, ``Though thou hast rejected us,'' etc.
If this explanation be approved, we must hold that the Prophet here exceeded due limits, as also the faithful, in their prayers, do not always so restrain themselves, but that some heat bubbles up; for we see how David, in the Psalms, too often shewed this kind of feeling; and it is hence evident, that his mind was not always sufficiently calm. We must then say, that the Prophet was impelled by a turbulent feeling when he uttered these words.
But {,}כי{ }אםki am, may also be rendered, ``Unless,'' or except' and it is singular that no one has perceived this, though it be not an unsuitable meaning, ``Except it may be thou rejecting hast rejected us, and hast become very angry with us,'' or above measure angry; for {,}עד{ }מאדod mad in Hebrew, means the same as above measure (supra modum) in Latin. Though the Prophet seems to speak doubtingly, by laying down t, his condition, there is vet no doubt but that he struggled against all unbelief, when he said, Except it may be; for he reasons from what is impossible,
thou us to thee and we shall be turned, renew our days as formerly; except it may be thou hast rejected us:'' but this was impossible. Then, as I have said, the
Prophet here strengthens himself by setting up a shield against all the assaults of
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But it cannot be that God will reject his people, and be so angry with them, as never to be reconciled. We hence see that the Prophet does not simply set down the condition, as though he said, ``O God, if thou art to be perpetually angry with us, and wilt never be reconciled, it is there all over with our salvation; but if thou wilt be reconciled to us, we shall then entertain good hope.'' No, the Prophet did not thus keep his own mind and the minds of others in suspense, but had a sure confidence as to God's favor; for it cannot be that God will ever forsake those whom he has chosen, as Paul also shews in the eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Romans.
As it has so seemed good to the brethren, I will begin tomorrow the explanation of Ezekiel.
PRAYER
Grant, Almighty God, that as thou didst formerly execute judgments so severe on thy people, --- O grant, that these chastisements may at this day teach us to fear thy name, and also keep us in watchfulness and humility, and that we may so strive to pursue the course of our calling, that we may find that thou art always our leader, that thy hand is stretched forth to us, that thy aid is ever ready for us, until, being at length gathered into thy celestial kingdom, we shall enjoy that eternal life, which thine only-begotten Son has obtained for us by his own blood. --- Amen.
600The particles, {{}אם{, כיseem to have the meaning of ``except,'' as in Genesis 32:26, ``except thou bless me.''
But the exposition is too refined. The usual meaning of the particles is, but in truth, for surely, when indeed. See 1 Samuel 21:5;
Proverbs 23:18; Exodus 22:23. They are rendered here, ``for,'' by the Sept., Syr., and Arab; ``but,'' by the Vulg., and ``although,'' by the Targ. The version of Blayney and Henderson is, ``For surely.'' The Prophet assigns a reason for his petition in the preceding verse; as though he had said, ``I ask for restoration to thy favor and to our land, because thou hast clearly manifested thy rejection of us, and thy displeasure towards us.'' For surely rejecting thou hast rejected us, Thou hast been wroth with us exceedingly, or, more literally, Thou hast foamed against us exceedingly. The first line here corresponds with the latter part of the previous verse,
us to our land, and renew the ancient days,'' --- ``Thou hast wholly rejected us.'' He speaks of things as they were then.
Then the last line in this verse bears a relation to the first part of the preceding verse, ``Restore us to thy favor,'' --- ``Thou hast been exceedingly displeased with us.'' Thus, for displeasure he asked favor, and for repudiation, a restoration. --- Ed.
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Translation: Jeremiah 20
CHAPTER 20
1 And Pashur the son of Immer the priest, (and he was a governor in the Temple of Jehovah,) heard Jeremiah prophesying these words:
2 And Pashur smote Jeremiah the Prophet, and put him in the prison which was in the higher gate of Benjamin, opposite the house of Jehovah.
3 And it happened the day after, that Pashur brought out Jeremiah from prison; and Jeremiah said to him, --- Not Pashur has Jehovah called thy name, But terror on every side:
4 For thus saith Jehovah, --- Behold, I will make thee a terror To thyself and to all thy friends; And fall shall they by the sword of thine enemies, While thine eyes are looking on; And all Judah will I deliver Into the hand of the king of Babylon; And he shall carry them into Babylon, And shall smite them with the sword:
5 And I will give up all the strength of this city, And all its labor and its every precious thing; And all the treasures of the kings of Judah Will I give up into the hands of their enemies; And they shall spoil them and take them away, And they shall lead them into Babylon.
6 And thou, Pashur, and all the inhabitants of thy house, Go shall ye into captivity;
Thou shalt come to Babylon, and there die, And there shalt thou be buried and thy friends, To whom thou hast falsely prophesied.
7 Thou hast deceived me, Jehovah, and I was deceived; Thou hast constrained me and didst prevail; I am become a scorn all the day, All make a mock of me;
8 For from the time I have spoken, I cried aloud against violence, And devastation have I proclaimed: Because the word of Jehovah became to me A reproach and derision all the day,
9 Therefore I said, I will not mention him, Nor speak any more in his name: But it became in my heart as a burning fire, Closed up in my bones; And I was wearied with forbearing, And I did not prevail.
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10 For I heard the slander of many, Terror on every side, ``Report ye, and we will report to him:'' All my friends watch for my haltings --- ``He may go astray, then we shall prevail against him, And take our revenge on him.''
11 But Jehovah is with me as a terrible giant; Therefore my persecutors shall fall and not prevail; They shall be greatly ashamed, for they shall not succeed; It will be a perpetual reproach Which shall not be forgotten.
12 But thou, Jehovah of hosts, Art he who provest the righteous, Who seest the reins and the heart; I shall see thy vengeance on them, For to thee have I opened my cause.
13 Sing ye to Jehovah, praise ye Jehovah, For he has rescued the soul of the distressed From the hand of the wicked.
14 Cursed be the day on which I was born; The day on which my mother bare me,
Let it not be blessed:
15 Cursed be the man who told my father, Saying, ``Born to thee is a male child,''
Who with joy made him joyful;
16 And let that man be as the cities, Which Jehovah destroyed and repented not;
And let him hear a cry in the morning, And a tumult at noontide.
17 Why hast thou not slain me from the womb? That my mother might be my grave, Or her womb a perpetual conception?
18 Why from the womb did I come forth, That I might see trouble and sorrow;
That my days might be consumed in reproach!
Translation: Jeremiah 21
CHAPTER 21
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, when king Zedekiah sent to him
Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
2 Inquire now for us of Jehovah, for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon makes war with us, if Jehovah will deal with us according to his wondrous works, that he may ascend from us.
3 And Jeremiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah, ---
4 Thus saith Jehovah, God of Israel, --- Behold, I prohibit all the warlike instruments
Which are in your hands, with which ye fight Against the king of Babylon and the
Chaldeans, Who besiege you without the walls; And I will gather them into the midst of this city:
5 And fight will I myself against you With an extended hand and with a strong arm, Yea, in wrath and fury and great indignation;
6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, Both man and beast; By a great pestilence shall they die.
7 And afterwards Jehovah said, --- I will deliver Zedekiah the king of Judah. His servants also and the people, Even those who shall remain in the city, From the pestilence, and the sword, and the famine, Into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, And into the hand of their enemies, And into the hand of those who seek their life; And he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; And he will not spare them, Nor forgive, nor shew mercy.
8 To this people also shalt thou say, --- Thus saith Jehovah, --- Behold, I set before you The way of life and the way of death:
9 He who abides in this city shall die By the sword, or by famine, or by pestilence;
But he who goeth out and dwells With the Chaldeans who besiege you, Shall live, and his life shall be for a prey:
10 For I have set my face against this city, For evil and not for good, saith Jehovah;
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Into the hand of the king of Babylon shall it be given, And he shall burn it with fire.
11 And as to the house of the king of Judah, Hear ye the word of Jehovah;
12 O house of David, thus saith Jehovah, --- In the morning execute ye judgment,
And free the spoiled from the hand of the oppressor, Lest go forth as fire my indignation, And burn, and there be none to extinguish it, --- Because of the wickedness of their doings.
13 Behold, I am against thee, inhabitant of the valley --- The rock in the plain, saith
Jehovah, Who say, ``Who shall descend to us? And who shall enter our habitations?''
14 I will even visit upon you The fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; And I will kindle a fire in its forest, And it shall consume all around it.
Translation: Jeremiah 22
CHAPTER 22
1 Thus saith Jehovah, Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
2 And say, --- Hear the word of Jehovah, king of Judah, Who sittest on the throne of David, Thou, and thy servants, and thy people, Who enter in through these gates:
3 Thus saith Jehovah, Do judgment and justice, And rescue the spoiled from the hand of the oppressor; The stranger, the orphan, and the widow, Defraud not; exercise no violence, Nor shed innocent blood in this place.
4 For if obeying ye obey this word, Then shall enter through the gates of this house Kings, sitting for David on his throne, Riding in chariots and on horses, --- He himself, and his servants, and his people:
5 But if ye will not obey these words, By myself have I sworn, saith Jehovah, That a waste shall this house become.
6 For thus saith Jehovah of the house of the king of Judah, Gilead to me art thou, the head of Lebanon; Surely I will make thee a desert, As cities which are not inhabited:
7 And I will prepare against thee destroyers, Every man and his instruments, And they shall cut down thy choice cedars, And cast them into the fire.
8 And pass shall many nations through this city, And say shall each to his friend,
hath Jehovah done thus to this great city?''
9 And they shall say, ``Because they have forsaken The covenant of Jehovah their
God, And bowed down before alien gods, and served them.''
10 Weep ye not for the dead, nor bewail him; Weeping, weep for him who migrates, For return shall he no more, That he may see the land of his nativity:
11 For thus saith Jehovah concerning Shallum The son of Josiah the king of Judah,
Who reigns instead of Josiah his father, --- When he shall have gone forth from this place He shall not return here any more:
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12 For in the land where they shall lead him away There shall he die, And this land shall he see no more.
13 Woe to him who builds not with justice his house, And not with judgment his chambers; Who makes his neighbor to serve him for nothing, And pays him not for his work;
14 Who says, ``I will build for myself A large house and wide chambers;'' And he perforates for himself windows, And covered it is with cedar, And painted with vermilion.
15 Shalt thou reign because thou inclosest thyself in cedar? Thy father, did he not eat and drink? When he did judgment and justice, It was then well with him:
16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy, It was then well with him; Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah:
17 For thy eye and thy heart are not Except on thy covetousness, And on shedding innocent blood, And on rapacity and oppression, to do them.
18 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah the king of Judea,
They shall not bewail him, --- ``Ah, my brother! Ah, sister!'' They shall not bewail him, --- ``Ah, Lord! Ah, his glory!''
19 With the burial of an ass shall he be buried, Drawn out and cast forth Beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
20 Ascend into Lebanon and cry, And on Bashan lift up thy voice, And cry all around, For destroyed are all thy lovers.
21 I spake to thee in thy tranquillity, Thou saidst, ``I will not hear:'' It has been thy manner from thy youth That thou didst not hear my voice.
22 Thy pastors shall the wind consume, And thy lovers, into exile shall they go:
Surely ashamed shalt thou then be, And blush for all thy wickedness.
23 Thou hast set thy seat on Lebanon, Thou hast made thy nest among the cedars:
How gracious wilt thou be When come on thee shall sorrows, The pain as of one in travail!
24 Live do I, saith Jehovah; Were Coniah the son of Jehoiakim the king of Judah A sealing ring on my right hand, I would thence pluck thee off:
25 And I will deliver thee Into the hand of those who seek thy life, And into the hand of those whose face thou dreadest, Even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar The king of Babylon, And into the hand of the Chaldeans:
26 And I will cast thee and thy mother who bare thee Into a foreign land where ye were not born, And there shall ye die;
27 And into the land they set their mind to return, Thither they shall not return.
28 Is this man Coniah a despised and broken statue? Is he a vessel in which there is no delight? Why are they east forth, he and his seed, And thrown to a land which they have not known?
29 Land! land! land! hear the word of Jehovah, ---
30 Thus saith Jehovah, Write ye this man childless, A man who shall not prosper in his days; Nay, none of his seed shall prosper, Sitting on the throne of David, And ruling any more in Judah.
Translation: Jeremiah 23
CHAPTER 23
1 Woe to the pastors who destroy and scatter The flock of my pastures! saith
Jehovah;
2 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Concerning the pastors who feed my people, --- Ye have scattered my flock and driven them away, And ye have not visited them; Behold, I will visit upon you The wickedness of your doings, saith
Jehovah:
3 But I will gather the remnant of my sheep From all the lands to which I shall drive them, And cause them to return to their own folds, And they shall become fruitful and multiply;
4 And I will raise up over them pastors Who shall feed them; And they shall no more fear nor dread, Nor shall they fail, saith Jehovah.
5 Behold, the days are coming, saith Jehovah, That I will raise up to David a righteous branch, And reign shall a king, And prudently shall he act; He will do judgment and justice in the land.
6 In his days saved shall be Judah, And Israel shall dwell in confidence: And this is the name by which they shall call him, Jehovah Our Righteousness
7 Therefore, behold, the days will come, saith Jehovah, In which it shall no more be said, ``Live does Jehovah,'' Who brought the children of Israel from the land of
Egypt;
8 But rather, ``Live does Jehovah,'' who has brought up And led the seed of the house of Israel From the land of the north, and all the lands To which I had driven them; And they shall dwell in their own land.
9 On account of the prophets, Broken is my heart within me, Disjointed are all my bones; I am become like a drunken man Who has been overcome by wine, On account of Jehovah, And on account of the words of his holiness;
10 For with adulterers the land is filled: For on account of perjury mourned has
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS the land, Dried up have the pastures of the desert; And their course has been evil,
And their strength not right.
11 For both prophet and priest have acted wickedly; Even in my house have I found Their wickedness, saith Jehovah.
12 Therefore their way shall be to them slippery; In darkness shall they stumble and fall therein; For I shall bring on them evil, The year of their visitation, saith
Jehovah.
13 In the prophets of Samaria have I seen fatuity, They prophesied by Baal, And made my people Israel to go astray:
14 But in the prophets of Jerusalem Have I seen depravity; By adultery and walking in falsehood They even strengthen the hands of the wicked, That they may not turn, each from his wickedness: They shall be all to me as Sodom, And its inhabitants as Gomorrah.
15 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts Concerning these prophets, --- I will feed them with a deadly poison, And give them waters of gall to drink; For from the prophets of Jerusalem Has gone forth impiety through all the laud.
16 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- Hear ye not the words of the prophets Who prophesy to you; They make you to be vain; A vision of their own heart do they speak, And not from the mouth of Jehovah;
17 Who say to those who despise me, Spoken has Jehovah, ``Peace shall be to you;'' And to all who walk in the wickedness of their own hearts They say, ``Come upon you shall not evil;
18 For who hath been in the counsel of Jehovah, And seen and heard his word?
Who hath listened to his word and heard it?''
19 Behold the whirlwind of Jehovah! With fury it goeth forth; Even the impending whirlwind; On the head of the ungodly shall it fall:
20 Turn back shall not the anger of Jehovah Till he has done and confirmed The thoughts of his own heart: In the extremity of days Ye shall fully understand this.
21 I sent not the prophets, yet they have run; I spoke not to them, yet they have prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in my counsel, Surely they would have made my people hear my words, And turned them from their evil way, And from the wickedness of their doings?
23 Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, And not a God afar off?
24 Can a man hide himself in coverts That I could not see him? saith Jehovah; Do not I fill the heavens and the earth? saith Jehovah.
25 I have heard what the prophets say Who prophesy falsely in my name, Saying,
have dreamed, I have dreamed.''
26 How long will it be in the heart of the prophets To prophesy falsehood, Yea, of the prophets of the deceit of their own heart!
27 Who think to make my people forget My name by their own dreams, Which they relate, each to his friend, As forgotten my name have their fathers through Baal.
28 The prophet who hath a dream, He will relate a dream; And he with whom is my word, He will speak my word of truth: What is the chaff to the wheat? saith
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Jehovah.
29 Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah, And like the hammer that breaks the stone?
30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, Who steal my words, each from his friend:
31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, Who elevate their own tongue, And say, ``It is the word:''
32 Behold, I am against those Who prophesy false dreams, saith Jehovah; And who relate them, and deceive my people By their lies and their levity, Though I sent them not, nor commanded them: And they will not profit this people, saith Jehovah.
33 But if ask thee will this people, Or a prophet, or a priest, saying, ``What is the burden of Jehovah?'' Then shalt thou say to them, ``What burden? --- I will forsake you, saith Jehovah.''
34 And the prophet, and the priest, and the people, Who shall say, ``The burden of Jehovah,'' I will even punish that man and his house.
35 Thus shall ye say, every one to his friend, And every one to his brother, ``What has Jehovah answered?'' Or ``What has Jehovah spoken?''
36 But the burden of Jehovah mention no more; For the burden of each shall be his word: For ye have corrupted the words of the living God, Of Jehovah of hosts, our
God.
37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, --- ``What has Jehovah answered thee?''
Or ``What has Jehovah spoken?''
38 But if ye will say, ``The burden of Jehovah;'' Therefore Jehovah saith thus, ---
Because ye say, ``The burden of Jehovah,'' Though I sent to you, saying, Ye shall not say, ``The burden of Jehovah.''
39 Therefore, behold, I will wholly take you away, And will cast you off, and this city Which I gave to you and to your fathers, From my presence; And I will bring upon you a perpetual reproach, And a perpetual disgrace, Which shall not be forgotten.
Translation: Jeremiah 24
CHAPTER 24
1 Jehovah shewed me a vision, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the
Temple of Jehovah, after Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim the king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the artificer, and the engraver, from Jerusalem, and led them away to Babylon:
2 One basket of figs very good, like early figs, and another basket of figs very bad, which could not be eaten, being so bad.
3 And Jehovah said to me, ``What seest thou, Jeremiah?'' And I said, ``Figs, good figs, very good; and bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, being so bad.''
4 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
5 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, As these good figs, so will I acknowledge the captivity of Judah, which I sent from this place to the land of the Chaldeans, for good:
6 And I will set my eye upon them for good, and will restore them to this land; and I will build them up and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up;
7 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Jehovah; and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
8 But as to the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, being so bad, surely thus saith
Jehovah, so will I render Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue at Jerusalem, those who remain in this land and those who dwell in the land of Egypt;
9 And I will set them for a commotion, for an evil to all kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach, and a terror, and a taunt, and a curse in all places where I shall drive them;
10 And I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until they be consumed from the face of the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.
Translation: Jeremiah 25
CHAPTER 25
1 The word which came by Jeremiah to all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah the king of Judah, (this was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon,)
2 Which Jeremiah the prophet spake to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ---
3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon the king of Judah, to this day, (this is the twenty-third year,) hath Jehovah spoken to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early, but ye have not hearkened:
4 And Jehovah sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending, (but ye hearkened not, nor inclined your ear to hear,)
5 Saying, --- Return ye, I pray, each from his evil way, And from the wickedness of your doings, And dwell in the land which Jehovah gave To you and to your fathers from age to age:
6 And walk ye not after alien gods, To serve them and to bow down before them;
And provoke me not by the work of your hands, And I will not do you evil.
7 But ye hearkened not to me, saith Jehovah; For ye provoked me by the work of your hands, To do evil to you.
8 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- Because ye have not hearkened to my words,
9 Behold, I will send for and take All the families of the north, saith Jehovah, And
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; And I will bring them to this land
And to its inhabitants, And to all these nations around; And I will destroy them, And make them an astonishment, And a hissing, and perpetual desolations;
10 And I will cause to cease among them The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, The voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, The sound of millstones, and the light of the candle.
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11 And this whole land shall be a waste and a wonder; And serve shall these nations The king of Babylon seventy years.
12 And it shall be, when fulfilled shall be seventy years, That I shall visit on the king of Babylon, And on his people, saith Jehovah, Their iniquity, --- and upon the land of Chaldea, And I will make it perpetual desolations:
13 And I will bring on that land all my words, Which I have spoken concerning it,
All that is written in this book, Which Jeremiah has prophesied of the nations:
14 For they shall rule over strong nations, And over mighty kings; And I will render to these according to their doing, And according to the work of their hands.
15 For thus said Jehovah, the God of Israel, to me, Take the cup of the wine of this wrath from my hand, and give it to drink to all the nations to whom I shall send thee,
16 That they may drink and be incensed, and become distracted on account of the sword which I shall send among them.
17 And I took the cup from the hand of Jehovah, and gave it to drink to all the nations to whom Jehovah had sent me, ---
18 To Jerusalem and to the cities of Judah, even to its kings and to its princes, to make them a waste, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a curse, as at this day,
---
19 To Pharaoh the king of Egypt, to his servants, and to his princes, and to all his people,
20 And to the promiscuous multitude, and to all the kings of the land of Uz, and to all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and to Askelon, and to Gaza, and to Ekron, and to the remnant of Ashdod, ---
21 To Edom, and to Moab, and to the children of Ammon,
22 And to all the kings of Tyre, and to all the kings of Sidon, and to all the kings of the island beyond the sea,
23 And to Dedan, and to Tema, and to Buz, and to all the extreme ones in a corner,
24 And to all the kings of Arabia, and to all the kings of the mingled race who dwell in the desert,
25 And to all the kings of Zimri, and to all the kings of Elam, and to all the kings of the Medes,
26 And to all the kings of the north, those who are near, as well as those who are afar off, every one shall be against his brother, --- and to all kingdoms of the earth, which are upon the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
27 And thou shalt say to them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,
Drink ye and be drunken, and vomit and fall, and rise not on account of the sword which I send among you.
28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup from thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say to them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Drinking ye shall drink;
29 For behold, upon the city on which my name is called, I begin to bring evil, and shall ye be treated as innocent? ye shall not be treated as innocent; for I am calling for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah.
30 Thou shalt also prophesy to them all these words, and say to them, --- Jehovah from on high shall roar, And from his holy habitation utter his voice; Roaring he shall
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31 Reach shall the sound to the extremity of the earth, For a contention has
Jehovah with the nations, A dispute has he with all flesh; The wicked will he give to the sword, saith Jehovah.
32 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation,
And a great tempest shall be raised From the extremities of the earth;
33 And the slain of Jehovah in that day shall be From one end to the other end of the earth: They shall not be lamented, nor gathered, nor buried; As dung on the face of the earth shall they be.
34 Howl, ye pastors, and cry, And roll [in the dust,] ye choice of the flock; For fulfilled are your days For the slaughter and your breakings; And ye shall fall like a precious vessel:
35 And perish shall flight from the pastors, And escape from the choice of the flock.
36 The voice of the cry of the pastors! And the howling of the choice of the flock!
For destroyed has Jehovah their pastures;
37 Perished also are the peaceful tents, Through the indignation of the wrath of
Jehovah.
38 He has left, as a lion, his tabernacle; For reduced is their land to a waste
Through the wrath of the Oppressor, And through the indignation of his wrath.
Translation: Jeremiah 26
CHAPTER 26
1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came from Jehovah, saying,
2 Thus saith Jehovah, Stand in the court of the house of Jehovah, and speak to all the cities of Judah, who come to worship in the Temple of Jehovah, all the words which I have commanded thee to speak to them; diminish not a word:
3 If peradventure they will hear, and turn, each from his evil way, then will I repent of the evil which I think of doing to them on account of the wickedness of their doings.
4 Thou shalt then say to them, Thus saith Jehovah, If ye will not hear me to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
5 To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, rising
6 Early and sending, (but ye have not hearkened,) then will I make this house like
Shiloh, and this city will I make a curse to all the nations of the earth.
7 And the priests, and the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah.
8 And it was when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests, and the prophets, and all the people apprehended him, saying, ``Dying thou shalt die;
9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, `Like Shiloh shall this house be, and this city shall be desolate without, an inhabitant?''' (And all the people were assembled against Jeremiah in the Temple of Jehovah.)
10 And the princes of Judah heard of these things, and went down from the king's house to the house of Jehovah, and sat at the entrance of the new gate of the Temple of Jehovah.
11 Then said the priests and the prophets to the princes, and to all the people, saying, ``This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city as ye
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have heard with your ears.''
12 And Jeremiah said to all the princes, and to all the people, saying, --- Jehovah hath sent me to prophesy against this house, and against this city all the words which ye have heard:
13 And now make good your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Jehovah your God, and Jehovah will repent of the evil which he hath pronounced against you.
14 And as for me, behold I am in your hand; do to me as may seem good and right in your eyes:
15 But know assuredly, that if ye slay me, ye will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Jehovah hath sent me to you, to speak all these words in your ears.
16 And the princes, and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, ``This man is not worthy of death; for in the name of Jehovah our God hath he spoken to us.''
17 Then rose up men from the elders of the land, and said to the whole assembly of the people, saying, ---
18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah the king of Judah, saying, --- ``Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- Sion as a field shall be plowed, And
Jerusalem shall become heaps, And the mount of the house like the heights of the forest.''
19 Killing, did Hezekiah the king of Judah, and all Judah, kill him? did he not fear
Jehovah? and did he not supplicate the face of Jehovah? and Jehovah repented of the evil which he had spoken against them: but we are doing a great evil against our own souls.
20 But there was also a man who prophesied in the name of Jehovah, Uriah the son of Shemaiah, from Kirjath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city, and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:
21 When the King Jehoiakim and all the chief men and the princes heard his words, then the king sought to slay him; but Uriah heard and feared, and he fled and went into Egypt.
22 And the King Jehoiakim sent men into Egypt, even Elnathan the son of Achbor, and men with him into Egypt:
23 And they brought Uriah up from Egypt, and brought him to the King Jehoiakim, who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that he was not delivered into the hand of the people to be slain.
Translation: Jeremiah 27
CHAPTER 27
1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, ---
2 Thus said Jehovah to me, Make for thee bands and yokes, and put them on thy neck;
3 Then send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the ambassadors, who shall come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah the king of Judah:
4 And thou shalt give them a message to their masters, saying, --- Thus saith
Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say to your masters, ---
5 I made the earth, man also and beast, Which are on the face of the earth, By my great power and my extended arm; And given it have I to whom it seemed good to me:
6 And now given have I all these lands Into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar The king of Babylon, my servant; And also the beast of the field Have I given to him to serve him:
7 And serve him and his son, And his son's son, shall all nations, Until the time of his land shall come, And also of himself; yea, serve him Shall many nations and great kings.
8 And it shall be as to the nation and kingdom, Who will not serve him, even
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, And who will not put their neck Under the yoke of the king of Babylon, With the sword, and famine, and pestilence, Will I visit that nation, saith Jehovah, Until I consume them by his hand.
9 And you, hearken not to your prophets, And to your diviners, and to your dreamers, And to your augurs, and to your sorcerers, Who speak to you, saying, --- ``Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon;''
10 For they prophesy falsely to you, That they might move you far from your own
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11 But the nation which shall bring its neck Under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave it in its own land, saith Jehovah; And it shall cultivate it and dwell in it.
12 To Zedekiah also, the king of Judah, I spoke according to all these words, saying, --- Bring your neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, And serve him and his people, and ye shall live.
13 Why should ye perish, thou and thy people, By the sword, and famine, and pestilence, As Jehovah has spoken of the nation, Which will not serve the king of
Babylon:
14 And hearken not to the words of the prophets, Who speak to you, saying, ---
shall not serve the king of Babylon;'' For falsely do they prophesy to you;
15 For I have not sent them, saith Jehovah, But they prophesy in my name falsely,
That I might drive you out, And that ye might perish, ye, And the prophets who prophesy to you.
16 To the priests also and to all the people spake I, saying, --- Thus saith Jehovah,
--- Hearken not to the words of your prophets, Who prophesy to you, saying, --- ``Behold, the vessels of the house of Jehovah Shall now soon be restored from Babylon;''
For falsehood do these prophesy to you:
17 Hearken ye not to them; Serve the king of Babylon and ye shall live; Why should this city become a desolation?
18 But if they be prophets, And if the word of Jehovah be with them, Let them now intercede with Jehovah of hosts, That the vessels which remain in the house of Jehovah, And in the house of the king of Judah, And in Jerusalem, may not go to
Babylon.
19 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts of the pillars, and of the sea, and of the bases, and of the residue of the vessels which are left in this city,
20 Which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon did not take away, when he led captive Jeconiah the king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of
Judah and Jerusalem;
21 yea, thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, of the vessels which remain in the house of Jehovah, and in the house of the king, and in Jerusalem;
22 To Babylon shall they be carried, and there shall they be until the day in which
I shall visit them, saith Jehovah, and bring them up and restore them to this place.
Translation: Jeremiah 28
CHAPTER 28
1 And it was in that year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the Temple of Jehovah, in the presence of the priests, and of all the people, saying,
2 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
3 Further, when two years shall pass, I will restore to this place all the vessels of the house of Jehovah which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has taken away from this place and carried to Babylon:
4 And Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim the king of Judah, and all the captives of
Judah, who have gone to Babylon, will I restore to this place, saith Jehovah; for I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
5 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people, who were standing in the house of
Jehovah;
6 Yea, Jeremiah the prophet said, Amen, may Jehovah do so, may Jehovah confirm thy words which thou hast prophesied as to the restoration of the vessels of the temple, and of all the captives from Babylon to this place.
7 Nevertheless, hear thou now this word which I declare in thy hearing, and in the hearing of all the people;
8 The prophets who have been before me and before thee from the beginning, and prophesied against many nations and great kingdoms, have prophesied of war, and of evil, and of pestilence:
9 The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word shall come to pass, that prophet shall be known that Jehovah has sent him in truth.
10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the band from the neck of Jeremiah the
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prophet and broke it;
11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, --- Thus saith Jehovah, In this manner will I break off the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
12 And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah the prophet broke off the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, saying, ---
13 Go and speak to Hananiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, Thou hast broken the bands of wood; but make for thee instead of them bands of iron:
14 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, A yoke of iron have I laid on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babylon, and they shall serve him; and I have also given to him the beasts of the field.
15 Jeremiah the prophet said also to Hananiah the prophet, Hear, I pray, Hananiah; Jehovah hath not sent thee, and thou hast made this people to trust in falsehood:
16 Therefore, thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will cast thee away from the face of the earth; die shalt thou this year, because thou hast spoken revolt against Jehovah.
17 And Hananiah the prophet died in that year, in the seventh month.
Translation: Jeremiah 29
CHAPTER 29
1 These are the words of the epistle which Jeremiah the prophet sent from
Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to the whole people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had led away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,
2 After Jeconiah the king, and the queen had gone forth, and the chief men, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the artificers also, and the engravers, from
Jerusalem, ---
3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and of Gemariah the son of Hilkiah,
(whom Zedekiah the king of Judah had sent to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, to Babylon,) saying, ---
4 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, to the whole captivity whom I have led captive from Jerusalem to Babylon, ---
5 ``Build ye houses, and inhabit them; plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
6 Take wives, and beget sons and daughters; Take also wives for your sons, And give your daughters in marriage to husbands, And let them bear sons and daughters;
And increase there and be not diminished:
7 And seek the peace of the city, To which I have removed you; And pray for it to
Jehovah, For in its peace shall be your peace.''
8 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, --- Let not your prophets who are in the midst of you, Nor your diviners, deceive you; And attend not to your dreams which ye dream:
9 For they falsely prophesy to you in my name; I have not sent them, saith Jehovah.
10 For thus saith Jehovah, --- For when completed in Babylon Shall be seventy years, I will visit you, And will rouse up for you my good word, That I may bring you back to this place:
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11 For I know my thoughts, Which I think of you, saith Jehovah, --- Thoughts of peace and not of evil, To give you the end and the expectation.
12 And ye shall call on me and go forward; And pray to me, and I will hear you:
13 And ye shall seek me, and shall find me; Because ye will seek me with the whole heart.
14 And I will be found by your saith Jehovah, And will restore your captivity, And will gather you from all nations, And from all places, where I have driven you, Saith
Jehovah, and I will bring you back To the place whence I have expelled you.
15 As ye have said, ``Raise for us will Jehovah prophets in Babylon;''
16 Therefore thus saith Jehovah to the king who sits on the throne of David, and to the whole people who dwell in this city, to your brethren who have not gone forth with you into exile, --- thus saith Jehovah of hosts, ---
17 Behold, I will send upon them the sword, The famine, and the pestilence, And will make them like worthless figs, Which, being so bad, cannot be eaten:
18 Yea, I will pursue them with the sword, The famine, and the pestilence, And will set them for a commotion To all the kingdoms of the earth, For a curse and for an astonishment, And for a hissing and for a reproach, Among all the nations to whom
I shall drive them;
19 Because they hearkened not to my words, saith Jehovah, Which I sent to them by my servants the prophets, Rising up early and sending; And ye hearkened not, saith Jehovah.
20 Hear ye also the word of Jehovah, the whole captivity, whom I have sent from
Jerusalem to Babylon;
21 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of
Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy to you in my name a lie, --- Behold, I will deliver them into the hand Of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, And he shall kill them before your eyes:
22 And taken from them shall be a curse By all the captivity of Judah in Babylon, saying, --- ``Let Jehovah make thee like Zedekiah and Ahab, Whom the king of
Babylon burnt in the fire:''
23 Because they have done villainy in Israel, And prostituted the wives of their friends, And spoke a word in my name falsely, Which I had not commanded them;
But I know, and am witness, saith Jehovah.
24 And as to Shemaiah, the Nehelamite, thou shalt thus say, ---
25 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, --- Because thou hast sent in my name letters to the whole people, who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying, ---
26 Jehovah hath made thee a priest in the room of Jehoiada the priest, that ye might be the rulers of the house of Jehovah over every one that is insane and prophesies, that thou mightest put him in prison and in manacles:
27 And thou --- wherefore hast thou not reproved Jeremiah, the Anathothite, who prophesies to you?
28 Even because he hath sent to us in Babylon, saying, --- ``Long is the time, build ye houses and inhabit them;
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29 Plant gardens and eat the fruit of them.'' (Now Zephaniah had read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet:)
30 Therefore the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying, ---
31 Send to the whole captivity, saying, --- Thus saith Jehovah of Shemaiah the
Nehelamite; Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, When I had not sent him,
And has made you to trust in falsehood;
32 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, --- Lo I will visit Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his seed; There shall not be to him a man To dwell in the midst of this people; And he shall not see the good, Which I shall do to my people, saith Jehovah; Because he has spoken rebellion against Jehovah.
Translation: Jeremiah 30
CHAPTER 30
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, ---
2 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, saying, --- Write thee all the words which
I have spoken to thee in a book;
3 For, behold, the days are coming, saith Jehovah, when I shall restore the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith Jehovah; and I will restore them to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
4 Even these are the words which Jehovah hath spoken of Israel and Judah, ---
5 Surely thus saith Jehovah, --- A voice of trembling have we heard, Of fear and not of peace.
6 Ask and see, can a male bring forth? Why have I seen all men With their hands on their loins as a woman in travail? Turned also are all faces into paleness.
7 Alas! for great that day, none like it, Even a time of distress to Jacob; Yet from it shall he be saved:
8 And it shall be in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, That I will break the yoke from thy neck, And thy bands will I burst asunder, And no more force thee to serve shall strangers;
9 But serve shall they Jehovah their God, And David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
10 And thou Jacob my servant, fear not, saith Jehovah, And be not thou, Israel, afraid; For behold I will save thee from far, And thy seed from the land of their captivity, And dwell shall Jacob, and rest, and be secure, And none shall terrify him:
11 For I shall be with thee, saith Jehovah, to save thee; For I will make an end of all the nations, Among whom I shall scatter thee; Yet of thee I will not make an end:
But I will chastise thee in moderation, And I will not wholly cut thee off.
12 For thus saith Jehovah, Grievous thy bruise, desperate thy wound!
13 No one undertakes thy cause; For a cure, medicines and healing thou hast not.
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14 All thy friends forget thee, they ask not for thee; For with the stroke of an enemy have I struck thee, With the chastisement of the cruel, On account of the multitude of thine iniquity, Because prevailed have thy sins.
15 Why criest thou because of thy bruise? Heavy is thy sorrow: For the multitude of thine iniquity. Because thy sins have prevailed, Have I done these things to thee.
16 Therefore, all who devour thee shall be devoured, And all thine enemies shall go into captivity, And they who plunder thee shall become a plunder, And all who spoil thee shall be a spoil:
17 For I will bring a healing to thee, And from thy wounds will I heal thee, saith
Jehovah; Because an outcast have they called thee, Sion, Whom no one careth for.
18 Thus saith Jehovah, --- Behold, I will restore the captivity of Jacob's tents, And his dwellings will I pity; And built shall be the city on its heaps, And the palace in its own place shall stand:
19 And go forth from them shall praise and the voice of joy; And I will increase them, and they shall not be lessened; And I will honor them, and they shall not be degraded;
20 And his children shall be as at the beginning, And his assembly before me shall be established, And I will visit all his oppressors:
21 And his valiant man shall be from himself, And his ruler from his midst shall come forth; And I will bring him nigh, and he shall come to me; For who is he who forms his heart, That he may come to me, saith Jehovah!
22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
23 Behold as a tempest shall Jehovah's wrath go forth, As an involving tempest;
On the head of the ungodly shall it settle:
24 Not return shall the fury of Jehovah's wrath, Till he performs it, and till he effects the thoughts of his heart; In the latter days ye shall understand this.
Translation: Jeremiah 31
CHAPTER 31
1 At that time, saith Jehovah, Will I be a God to all the families of Israel; And they shall be my people.
2 Thus saith Jehovah, --- Found favor in the desert Hath a people who had escaped the sword, By advancing till he gave rest to Israel.
3 Of old Jehovah appeared to me: Nay, with perpetual love have I loved thee;
Therefore have I prolonged to thee mercy.
4 I will yet build thee, And built shalt thou be, virgin of Israel; Thou shalt yet be adorned with thy tabrets, And go forth with the choir of players;
5 Thou shalt yet plant vineyards On the mountains of Samaria; Plant shall planters and eat the fruit.
6 For the day shall be, when they shall cry, The watchmen, on Mount Ephraim, ---
and let us ascend into Sion, To Jehovah our God.''
7 For thus saith Jehovah, --- Exult for Jacob with joy, And shout at the head of the nations, Publish, give thanks, and say, ``Save, Jehovah, thy people, the remnant of
Israel.''
8 Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north, And gather them from the ends of the earth; Among them shall be the blind and the lame, The pregnant, and she that travaileth; Together a great company shall they return thither.
9 With weeping shall they come, And in mercies will I lead them; I will lead them to streams of water, In a straight way, where they shall not stumble: For I will be to
Israel a father, And Ephraim, my first-born is he.
10 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye nations, And tell it in islands afar off, and say,
--- ``He who scattered Israel will gather him, And will watch him as a shepherd his flock:''
11 For redeem Jacob will Jehovah, And free him from the hand of one stronger than himself;
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12 And come shall they, and shout on the height of Sion; And flow together shall they to the bounty of Jehovah, For corn and wine and oil, And for the young of the flock and the herd; And their soul shall be as a watered garden, And they shall mourn no more.
13 Then rejoice shall the virgin in the dance, And the youth and the aged together;
And I will turn their mourning to joy, And comfort them and cheer them after their sorrow;
14 And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness, And my people with my goodness shall be satiated, saith Jehovah.
15 Thus saith Jehovah, --- A voice on high is heard, The lamentation of bitter weeping; Rachel, weeping for her children, Refused comfort for her children, because they are not,
16 Thus saith Jehovah, Hold thy voice from weeping, And thine eyes from tears;
For a reward shall be to thy work, saith Jehovah, And return shall they from the land of the enemy:
17 Yea, there will be a hope in the latter end, saith Jehovah; For return shall thy children to their own border.
18 Hearing I have heard Ephraim when exiled, --- ``Thou hast chastised me, and
I was instructed, Like a bullock not trained; Turn thou me, and I shall be turned, For thou, Jehovah, art my God.
19 Verily, after thou hadst turned me, I repented; And after I knew myself, I smote my thigh; I was ashamed and even confounded, Because I bore the reproach of my youth.''
20 Is Ephraim a son dear to me --- Is he a son delighted in Even from the time
I spoke to him? Remembering I will still remember him; Therefore sounded for him have my bowels; Pitying I pitied him, saith Jehovah.
21 Set up titles for thee, raise for thee heaps,: Fix my heart on the pathway, On the way thou hast walked; Return, virgin of Israel, return to these thy cities.
22 How long wilt thou wander, rebellious daughter! For create does Jehovah a new thing on the earth --- A woman shall surround a man.
23 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, --- They shall again say this word in the land of Judah, And in the cities, when I restore their captivity, --- ``Bless thee let Jehovah, The habitation of righteousness, the mount of holiness.''
24 And dwell in it shall Judah and all his cities, Also husbandmen, and they shall go with the flock:
25 For I will water the thirsty soul, And every hungry soul will I fill.
26 I then awoke and saw, And my sleep had been sweet to me.
27 Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, That I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah, With the seed of man and with the seed of beast:
28 And it shall be, that as I have watched over them, To root up and to break down, And to break in pieces and to destroy and to afflict; So will I watch over them,
To build and to plant, saith Jehovah.
29 In those days they shall no more say, --- Our fathers have eaten a sour grape,
And the children's teeth are blunted;
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30 But every man, in his iniquity shall he die; Every man, eating a sour grape,
Blunted shall be his teeth.
31 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, That I will make with the house of Israel,
And with the house of Judah, a new covenant:
32 Not according to the covenant I made With their fathers, in the day I took their hand, To bring them out from the land of Egypt; Because void have they made that covenant, Though I ruled over them, saith Jehovah.
33 But this is the covenant which I will make With the house of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah, --- I will put my law in their inward parts, And on their heart will
I write it; And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:
34 And teach shall no one any more his neighbor, And no one his brother, saying,
--- ``Know ye Jehovah;'' for all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them, saith Jehovah; For I will forgive their sins, And their iniquities will I remember no more.
35 Thus saith Jehovah, --- He who hath set the sun for light by day, And the courses of the moon and stars for light by night, Who moves the sea and its waves roar, ---
Jehovah of hosts is his name:
36 If removed shall be these ordinances From my presence, saith Jehovah, Then also the seed of Israel shall cease To be a nation before me continually:
37 Thus saith Jehovah, --- If measured can be the heavens above, Or searched the foundations of the earth below, Then also will I reject the whole seed of Israel
For all that they have done, saith Jehovah.
38 Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, That built shall be the city of Jehovah
From the tower of Hananeel to the corner gate;
39 And go forth shall the measuring line from before it, Even to the hill Gareb, and surround Goatha,
40 And all the valley of carcasses and ashes, And all the fields to the brook Kedron,
Even to the corner gate of the horses eastward: Being holiness to Jehovah, it shall not be cut off, Nor destroyed any more for ever.
Translation: Jeremiah 32
CHAPTER 32
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the tenth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah; this was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar:
2 And then the army of the king of Babylon besieged Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the palace of the king of Judah;
3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why hast thou prophesied, saying, --- ``Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he wilt take it:
4 And Zedekiah, king of Judah, shall not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans; for delivering I will deliver him into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
5 And to Babylon will he bring Zedekiah, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith Jehovah: when ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.''
6 And Jeremiah said, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ---
7 Behold, Hanameel, the son of Shallum thine uncle, will come to thee and say,
thee my field which is in Anathoth, for thine is the right of affinity to buy.''
8 And Hanameel, my uncle's son, came to me, as Jehovah had spoken, into the court of the prison, and said, ``Buy, I pray thee, my field which is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin, for thine is the right of inheritance, and thine the redemption; buy it for thyself.'' Then I knew that it was the word of Jehovah;
9 And I bought the field from Hanameel, my uncle's son, who was in Anathoth, and I weighed money to him, seven shekels and ten pieces of silver:
10 When I had written in a book and sealed it, and had taken witnesses and weighed the money in a balance;
11 Then I took the book of the purchase, the sealed according to the law and statute, and the open;
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12 And gave the book of the purchase to Baruch, the son of Neriah, the son of
Maaseiah, before the eyes of Hanameel, my uncle's son, and before the eyes of the witnesses who were written in the book of the purchase, and before the eyes of all the Jews who sat in the court of the prison;
13 And I commanded Baruch in their presence, saying,
14 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Take these books, the book of purchase, the sealed and the open book, and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue for many days;
15 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, They shall again buy houses and fields and vineyards in this land.
16 And I prayed to Jehovah, after I gave the book of the purchase to Baruch, the son of Neriah, saying, ---
17 ``Ah! Lord Jehovah! behold thou hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thine extended arm;
18 There is nothing difficult for thee: thou shewest mercy to thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children after them:
19 God, strong, mighty! Jehovah of hosts is his name; great in counsel, mighty in work, whose eyes are open on all the ways of the children of men, to render to every one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings;
20 Who hast wrought signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even to this day, and in Israel and among men; and hast made thyself a name as at this day;
21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel from the land of Egypt by signs and wonders, and with a strong hand and an extended arm, and with great terror;
22 And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
23 And they entered in and possessed it, but they have not hearkened to thy voice nor walked in thy law; all that thou hast commanded them to do they have not done; therefore hast thou made all this evil to befall them.
24 ``Behold, the mounts have come to the city to take it, and the city is given to the hand of the Chaldeans, who war against it by means of the sword, the famine, and the pestilence; and what thou hast spoken has happened; and behold thou seest it.
25 Yet thou, Lord Jehovah, hast said to me, Buy thee the field for money, and make witnesses to attest, when yet the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.''
26 And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying, ---
27 Behold, I Jehovah, am the God of all flesh, Will anything be hard for me?
28 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold I give this city into the hand of the
Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take it;
29 And enter in shall the Chaldeans who war against the city, and shall set this city on fire and burn it, and the houses on the roofs of which they have burned incense to Baal, and poured out libations to alien gods, in order to provoke me.
30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have been only doing evil before me from their childhood; for the children of Israel have been only provoking
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31 For to provoke my wrath and my indignation has this city been to me from the day they built it to this day, to cause me to remove it from my presence,
32 For all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to wrath, --- they, their kings, their princes, their priests and prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
33 For they turned to me the back and not the face; and when I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, they hearkened not so as to receive correction:
34 And they have set their abominations in the house on which my name is called, to pollute it;
35 And have built high places to Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass to Molech, which I commanded them not, nor did it come to my mind, to do this abomination so as to make Judah to sin.
36 And now, therefore, thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which ye say, ``Given it is into the hand of the king of Babylon, by the sword, and famine, and pestilence;''
37 Behold I will gather them from all the lands to which I shall have driven them in my wrath, and fury, and great indignation, and will restore them to this land, and make them dwell in safety;
38 And they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.
39 And I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me continually, that it may be well with them and with their children after them;
40 And I will make with them a perpetual covenant, so as not to depart from them to do them good; and my fear will I put in their hearts, that they may not depart from me;
41 And I will rejoice over them in doing them good, and will plant them in this land in truth, with all my heart, and with all my soul.
42 For thus saith Jehovah, As I have brought on this people all this great evil, so will I bring on them all the good which I have declared concerning them:
43 And bought shall be fields in this land of which ye say, ``Forsaken it is by man and beast, and given into the hand of the Chaldeans.''
44 Fields with money shall they buy, writing in a book and sealing, and attesting by witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and through the circuits of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in cities on the mountains, and in cities on the plains, and in the cities of the south; for I will restore their captivity, saith Jehovah.
Translation: Jeremiah 33
CHAPTER 33
1 And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah a second time, when he was as yet a captive in the court of the prison, saying, ---
2 Thus saith Jehovah that made it, Jehovah who formed it to establish it? Jehovah is his name, ---
3 Call to me and I will answer thee, And declare to thee great things And hidden things which thou knowest not,
4 For thus, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, --- As to the houses of this city, And as to the houses of the kings of Judah, Which have been thrown down By the warlike engines and by the sword;
5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, Even to fill them (houses) with the carcasses of men, Whom I have smitten in my wrath and indignation. And because
I hid my face from this city On account of all its wickedness, ---
6 Behold I will bring to it restoration and healing. And I will heal them and open for them An abundance of peace and truth;
7 And I will restore the captivity of Judah And the captivity of Israel, And build them as at the beginning;
8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, By which they have sinned against me, And will forgive all their iniquities, By which they have sinned against me, And by which they have acted wickedly towards me:
9 And it shall be for me a name of joy, A praise and glory, among all nations of the earth, Who shall hear of all the good which I shall do to them, And fear shall they and tremble for all the good And all the peace which I shall give them.
10 Thus saith Jehovah, --- Yet heard in this place, of which ye say --- ``Desolate it is, without man and without beast Even in the cities of Judah And in the streets of
Jerusalem, Which are reduced to solitude, without man, And without an inhabitant, and without a beast,'' ---
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11 Shall be the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, The bridegroom's voice and the voice of the bride, The voice of them who say, ``Praise Jehovah of hosts, For good is Jehovah, for his mercy is for ever,'' --- Of them who shall bring the sacrifice of praise Into the house of Jehovah; For I will restore the captivity of the land As at the first, saith Jehovah.
12 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- There shall yet be in this place, Desolate, without man and beast, And in all its cities, the habitation Of shepherds making their flock to lie down:
13 In the cities of the mountain and the cities of the plain, And in the cities of the south and in the land of Benjamin, And around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah,
Shall sheep yet pass under the hands Of a numberer, saith Jehovah.
14 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, That I will confirm my good word, Which
I have spoken to the house of Israel, And to the house of Judah:
15 In those days and at that time I will make to grow to David a branch of righteousness, And he will do judgment and righteousness in the land.
16 In those days saved shall be Judah, And Jerusalem shall dwell in safety; And this is the name by which she shall be called, Jehovah our Righteousness.
17 For thus saith Jehovah, --- Not fail to David shall a man To sit on the throne of the house of Israel;
18 And to the priests, the Levites, not fail shall a man, To offer before me burntofferings, To burn an oblation and to sacrifice continually.
19 And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying, ---
20 Thus saith Jehovah, If void ye can make My covenant as to the day, And my covenant as to the night, That the day and night should not be in their seasons;
21 Then void shall be made my covenant With David my servant, That he should have no son to reign on his throne, And with the Levites, the priests, my ministers.
22 As the hosts of the heavens cannot be numbered, Nor the sand of the sea be measured; So will I multiply the seed of David my servant, And of the Levites my ministers.
23 And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying, --- Hast thou not seen how this people speak, saying, --- ``There are two families whom Jehovah has chosen,
But he has rejected them;''
24 And my people have they despised, So as no more to regard them as a nation.
25 Thus saith Jehovah, If I have not settled My covenant with the day and the night, And the laws of the heavens and the earth, Then I will reject the seed of Jacob
And of David my servant, So as not to take of his seed to be rulers Over the seed of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: For I will restore their captivity And will shew mercy to them.
Translation: Jeremiah 34
CHAPTER 34
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, when Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and his whole army, and all the kingdoms of the earth, which were under his dominion, and all the nations, made war against Jerusalem and all the cities, saying, ---
2 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Go and say to Zedekiah, the king of Judah, yea, say to him, Thus saith Jehovah, Behold I deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire;
3 And thou shalt not be saved from his hand, for thou shalt surely be taken, and into his hands shalt thou be delivered, and thine eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak to thy mouth, and to Babylon shalt thou go.
4 Yet hear the word of Jehovah, thou Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith Jehovah of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword;
5 In peace shalt thou die, and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings, who were before thee, so shall they burn thee, and, ``Ah! Lord!'' shall they lament for thee: for the word have I spoken, saith Jehovah.
6 And Jeremiah the prophet spake to Zedekiah king of Judah all these words in
Jerusalem,
7 When the armies of the king of Babylon were fighting against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah, which remained, even Lachish and Azekah; for these remained of the cities of Judah, being fortified cities.
8 The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, after King Zedekiah made a covenant with all the people, who were in Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them, ---
9 That every one should let his servant and every one his maid, a Hebrew and a
Hebrewess, go free, so that no one among the Jews might make his brother to serve.
10 And hear did all the princes and all the people, who had come to the covenant to let each his servant and each his maid go free, so as not to make them any more
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11 But they changed afterwards, and remanded their servants and maids whom they had set free, and forced them to be servants and maids.
12 Then came the word of Jehovah to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, ---
13 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, --- I made a covenant with your fathers in the day when I brought them from the land of Egypt, from the house of servants, saying, ---
14 At the end of seven years ye shall let free every one his brother, and Hebrew, who had been sold to thee and served thee six years, yea, thou shalt let him depart free from thee; but your fathers hearkened not to me nor inclined their ear.
15 But ye have turned this day and have done what is right in mine eyes, by proclaiming liberty, every one to his neighbor, and ye have made a covenant before me in the house on which my name is called.
16 But ye have gone back and have profaned my name, and ye have remanded every one his servant and every one his maid, whom ye had set free to follow their own will, and forced them to be servants and maids.
17 Therefore, thus saith Jehovah, Ye have not hearkened to me in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and every one to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim as to you, saith Jehovah, liberty to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and
I will give you for a commotion to all the kingdoms of the earth;
18 Yea, I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not confirmed the words of the covenant which they had made before me by the calf which they cut into two parts, and passed between its parts,
19 Even the princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem, the chiefs and the priests and all the people, who passed between the parts of the calf;
20 Yea, I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their carcasses shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth;
21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, even into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which have gone up from you.
22 Behold, I will command, saith Jehovah, and will make them to return to this city; and they shall take it and burn it with fire, and make the cities of Judah a waste without an inhabitant.
Translation: Jeremiah 35
CHAPTER 35
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, saying, ---
2 Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the house of Jehovah, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
3 Then I took Jaazaniah, the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, even the whole house of the Rechabites;
4 And brought them into the house of Jehovah, into the chamber of the sons of
Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was nigh the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah, the son of Shallum, the keeper of the treasury;
5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine and cups; and I said to them, Drink wine.
6 But they said, We will not drink wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, Ye shall not drink wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever;
7 And houses ye shall not build, nor sow seed, nor plant, a vineyard, nor have any such thing; but ye shall dwell in tents all your days; that ye may live many days in the land where ye are strangers.
8 And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, as to all the things which he commanded us, that we should not drink wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters;
9 Nor build houses to dwell in, nor have a vineyard, or a field, or seed;
10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all things which Jonadab our father hath commanded us.
11 But it was that, when Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, came up into the land, we then said, Come, let us enter into Jerusalem from the face of the army of the Chaldeans, and from the face of the army of the Syrians; and we have dwelt in
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Jerusalem.
12 Then came the word of Jehovah to Jeremiah, saying, ---
13 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Go and tell the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction, so as to obey my words? saith Jehovah:
14 Confirmed are the words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, which he commanded his sons, that they should not drink wine, for they have drunk none to this day, but they have obeyed the commandment of their father: but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking, yet ye have not obeyed me;
15 And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending, saying, Return, I pray you, every one from his evil way, and make right your doings, and walk not after foreign gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye inclined not your ear nor obeyed me.
16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the command of their father, which he had commanded them, while this people have not obeyed me, ---
17 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring on Judah, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, all the evil which I have pronounced against them; for I have spoken to them, and they have not hearkened; and I have called them, but they have not answered.
18 And to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Because ye have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father, and have kept all his commandments, and have done according to all the things which he had commanded you;
19 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, There shall not fail a man from Jonadab the son of Rechab to stand before me continually.
Translation: Jeremiah 36
CHAPTER 36
1 And it was in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, ---
2 Take thee a roll of a book and write in it all the words which I have spoken to thee concerning Israel and concerning Judah, and concerning all the nations, from the day in which I have spoken to thee, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
3 It may be that the house of Judah will attend to all the evil which I purpose to do to them, so that they may return, every one from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
4 And Jeremiah called Baruch, the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Jehovah, which he had spoken to him, in a roll of a book.
5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up, I cannot go to the house of Jehovah;
6 But go thou and read in the roll what thou hast written from my mouth, the words of Jehovah, in the ears of the people, in the house of Jehovah, on a fast day; and also in the ears of all Judah, who come from their cities shalt thou read them.
7 It may be that they will prostrate themselves before Jehovah, and return every one from his evil way; for great is the indignation, and great is the wrath which
Jehovah has spoken against this people.
8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all the things which Jeremiah the prophet had commanded him, reading in the book the words of Jehovah in the house of Jehovah.
9 And it was that in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of
Judah, in the ninth month, they proclaimed a fast before Jehovah to all the people in
Jerusalem, and to all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem.
10 And Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah, in
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11 And Micah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of
Jehovah from the book;
12 And he went down to the king's house, to the scribe's chamber; and, lo, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
13 And Micah declared to them all the words which he had heard when Baruch read in the book in the ears of the people.
14 And all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, The roll in which thou didst read in the ears of the people, take in thine hand and come: and Baruch the son of Neriah, took the roll in his hand and came to them.
15 And they said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears.
16 And it was that when they heard all the words, they feared every one as to his neighbor, and said to Baruch, Declaring we shall declare to the king all these words.
17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words from his month?
18 And Baruch said to them, With his mouth he pronounced these words to me, and I wrote them on a book with ink.
19 Then the princes said to Baruch, Go and hide thyself, thou and Jeremiah, and let no one know where ye be.
20 And they went to the king into the court, but laid up the volume in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they related all the words in the ears of the king;
21 And the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll, and he took it out of the chamber of
Elishama the scribe: and Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood before the king.
22 And the king was sitting in the winter-house, in the ninth month, and there was a fire-hearth burning before him:
23 And it was that when Jehudi had read three or four pages, he cut it with a penknife, and cast it into the fire which was in the fire-hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire which was in the fire-hearth.
24 But neither the king nor any of his servants feared, nor rent their garments, when they heard all these words.
25 Nevertheless Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah, interceded with the king, that he should not burn the roll; but he hearkened not to them.
26 And the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe, and
Jeremiah the prophet: but Jehovah hid them.
27 Then came the word of Jehovah to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch had written from the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, ---
28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words which were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim, the king of Judah hath burned:
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29 And to Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, shalt thou say, Thus saith Jehovah, Thou hast burned this book, saying, Why hast thou written in it, saying, The king of Babylon shall surely come and shall destroy this place, and cause to cease from it man and beast?
30 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, He shall have none to sit on the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast forth to the heat by day, and to the frost by night;
31 And I will visit on him and on his seed, and on his servants, their iniquity; and
I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil which I have denounced on them: but they hearkened not.
32 Then Jeremiah took another roll and gave it to Baruch, the son of Neriah, the scribe, who wrote in it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which
Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, had burnt in the fire; and added to them were many words of the same kind.
Translation: Jeremiah 37
CHAPTER 37
1 And king Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, reigned instead of Coniah, the son of
Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, made king in the land of
Judah:
2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, hearkened to the words of Jehovah, which he spake by the Prophet Jeremiah.
3 And king Zedekiah sent Jehucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Pray now to Jehovah our God for us.
4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people, and they had not yet put him in the house of the prison;
5 And the army of Pharaoh had come forth from Egypt, and the Chaldeans besieging Jerusalem had heard of them and had gone from Jerusalem.
6 Then the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the Prophet, saying, ---
7 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me, Behold, the army of Pharaoh, which has come forth for your aid, shall return to the land of Egypt;
8 And the Chaldeans shall return and fight against this city, and take it and burn it with fire.
9 Thus saith Jehovah, Deceive not yourselves, saying, Going the Chaldeans shall go away from us, for they shall not go away.
10 For were you to smite the whole army of the Chaldeans, who fight against you, and there remained of them wounded men, they would rise up, each from his tent, and burn this city with fire
11 And it was that after the army of the Chaldeans had gone up from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh's army,
12 Jeremiah went forth from Jerusalem, to go to the land of Benjamin, that he
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13 When he was at the gate of Benjamin, the captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, who laid hold on
Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans:
14 And Jeremiah said, It is false, I am not falling away to the Chaldeans; but he did not hearken to him. And Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah and brought him to the princes.
15 And the princes were incensed against Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in the house of prison, in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they made that the house of prison.
16 When Jeremiah came into the dungeon and into the cells, and had been there many days,
17 Then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out; and the king asked him privately and said, Is there a word from Jehovah? and Jeremiah said, There is: and he hath said, Into the hand of the king of Babylon shall thou be delivered.
18 And Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, What sin have I done against thee and thy servants and this people, that ye have delivered me into the house of prison?
19 And where are your prophets who have prophesied to you, saying, The king of
Babylon shall not come against you nor against this land?
20 And now hear, I pray thee, O lord my king; let my humble prayer be acceptable to thee, cause me not to return into the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I should die there.
21 And King Zedekiah commanded, and they put Jeremiah in the court of the prison, and gave him a crust of bread daily, from the street of the bakers, until all the bread of the city was consumed: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
Translation: Jeremiah 38
CHAPTER 38
1 And Shephatiah, the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah, the son of Pashur, and Jucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur, the son Malchiah, heard the words which Jeremiah had spoken to all the people, saying, ---
2 Thus saith Jehovah, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, famine, or pestilence; but he who goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; and his life shall be to him a prey, and he shall live.
3 Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, this city shall surely be delivered into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and they shall take it.
4 And the princes said to the king, Let this man, we pray thee, die; for he thus weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of the people, by speaking to them according to these words: for this man seeketh not the peace of this people but their ruin.
5 And King Zedekiah said to them, Behold, he is in your hands, for the king can do nothing against you.
6 And they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah, the son of
Hammelech, which was in the court of the prison; and they let Jeremiah down with cords; and there was no water in the dungeon, but mire, and Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
7 Now Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, an eunuch, heard that they had east Jeremiah into the dungeon; and the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
8 And Ebedmelech went forth from the king's house and spake to the king, saying,
9 O lord my king, these men have acted wickedly, in all that they have done to
Jeremiah the Prophet, in throwing him into the dungeon, where if left alone he must die with hunger; for there is no more bread in the city.
10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take with thee hence thirty men, and bring up Jeremiah the Prophet from the dungeon before he
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die.
11 And Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the king's house, even to a place under the store-room, and took from thence rags torn and worn out, and let them down by cords to Jeremiah in the dungeon.
12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, said to Jeremiah, Put now these torn and wornout rags under thine arm-holes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
13 Then they drew up Jeremiah by the cords, and raised him up from the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
14 And King Zedekiah sent and took Jeremiah the Prophet with him to the third entrance, which is in the house of Jehovah; and the king said to Jeremiah, ``I ask thee a word; hide not a word from me.''
15 And Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I tell thee, slaying, wilt thou not slay me?
and if I give thee counsel thou wilt not hearken to me.
16 And Zedekiah the king swear to Jeremiah in secret, saying, Live doth Jehovah, who made us this soul, I will not slay thee, and I will not deliver thee unto the hand of those who seek thy life.
17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, If going thou wilt go forth unto the chiefs of the king of Babylon, live shall thy life, and this city shall not be burned with fire, but live shalt thou and thy house:
18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the chiefs of the king of Babylon, delivered shall be this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and burn it shall they with fire, and thou shalt not escape from their hand.
19 And King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, I fear the Jews who have gone over to the
Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hands and reproach me.
20 Then Jeremiah said, They will not deliver thee: hearken, I pray thee, to the voice of Jehovah which I announce to thee, and it shall be well with thee, and live shall thy soul:
21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word which Jehovah has shewn to me,
---
22 Behold, even all the women who remain in the house of the king of Judah, shall go forth to the chiefs of the king of Babylon; and behold, they shall say, ``Persuaded thee and prevailed over thee have thy familiar friends; fixed are thy feet in the mire, turned backward.''
23 And all thy wives and thy children shall they bring out to the Chaldeans, and thou shalt not escape from their hand, for by the hand of the king of Babylon shalt thou be taken, and this city wilt thou burn with fire.
24 Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die:
25 But if the princes hear that I have spoken with thee, and come to thee and say to thee, Tell us now what thou hast spoken to the king, hide nothing from us, and we will not kill thee, and what the king hath said to thee;
26 Then shalt thou say to them, I humbly prayed the king that he would not make me to return to the house of Jonathan to die there.
27 And all the princes came to Jeremiah and asked him; and he told them accord-
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS ing to those words which the king had commanded; and they said no more, for the conversation had not been heard.
28 And Jeremiah dwelt in the court of the prison to the day when Jerusalem was taken: and it happened according to what he had said that Jerusalem was taken.
Translation: Jeremiah 39
CHAPTER 39
1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah, the king of Judah, in the tenth month, came
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon and
2 All his army to Jerusalem, and besieged it; in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the city was broken into;
3 And all the chiefs of the king of Babylon entered and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal-sharezar, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rabmag, and the rest of the chiefs of the king of Babylon.
4 And it was that when Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and all the men of war, saw them, they fled and went forth from the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the gate between the two walls, and went forth by the way of the desert.
5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and took Zedekiah in the desert of
Jericho; and they took him and brought him to Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, to Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he dealt judicially with him.
6 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah at Riblah before his eyes; and all the nobles of Judah did the king of Babylon slay:
7 And he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains, to bring him to Babylon.
8 And the house of the king, and the houses of the people, the Chaldeans burned with fire, and the walls of Jerusalem they pulled down:
9 But the residue of the people who had remained in the city, and the deserters who had gone over to him, even the residue of the people who had been left,
Nebuzar-adan, the prince of the executioners, removed to Babylon.
10 But the poor of the people, who had nothing, Nebuzar-adan, the prince of the executioners, left in the land of Judah, and gave them in that day vineyards and fields.
11 Now Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had given a charge respecting
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Jeremiah by Nebuzar-adan, the prince of the executioners, saying,
12 Take him, and set thine eyes on him, and do him no harm; but as he shall say to thee do thou to him.
13 And Nebuzar-adan, the prince of the executioners, sent, and Nebushasban,
Rab-saris and Nergal-sharezar, Rab-mag, and all the chiefs of the king of Babylon,
14 Yea, they sent and took Jeremiah from the court of the prison, and delivered him to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to lead him home; and so he dwelt among the people.
15 But the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah when he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
16 Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold I bring my words on this city for evil and not for good; and they shall be before thy face that day:
17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith Jehovah, and thou shalt not be delivered into the hand of the men, the face of whom thou fearest;
18 For I will surely rescue thee, by the sword thou shalt not fall, and thy life shall be for a prey to thee, because thou hast trusted in me, saith Jehovah.
Translation: Jeremiah 40
CHAPTER 40
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, after Nebuzar-adan, the prince of the executioners, had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him; for he had been bound with chains among all the captivity of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon.
2 But the prince of the executioners took Jeremiah, and said to him, ---
3 Jehovah thy God hath spoken this evil as to this place: and Jehovah hath brought it and done as he had spoken, because ye have sinned against Jehovah and hearkened not to his voice; therefore hath this evil come upon you.
4 Now, as to thee, behold, I have loosed thee this day from the chains which were on thine hands; if it be good in thine eyes to come to Babylon, come, and I will set mine eyes on thee; but if it be evil in thine eyes to come to Babylon, forbear: behold, the whole land is before thee; according to what is good and right in thine eyes to go, thither go.
5 (And he had not yet returned,) return then to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath set over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people, or go to whatever place it seemeth good in thine eyes to go. And the prince of the executioners gave him meat and a reward, and dismissed him:
6 And Jeremiah went to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, to Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people who had been left in the land.
7 When all the princes of the forces who were in the field, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had set Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, over the land, and that he had committed to him men, and women, and children, and the poor of the land, who had not been removed to Babylon;
8 Then came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth; and Ephai the
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Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
9 And Gedaliah, the son of Shaphan, swear to them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans, but submit yourselves and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you:
10 And I, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who may come to us; and gather ye wine, and summer-fruits, and oil, and put into your vessels, and dwell in the cities which ye have taken.
11 When also all the Jews which were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and those in all countries, heard that the king of Babylon had dismissed a remnant of Judah, and had set over them Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of
Shaphan;
12 Then all the Jews came from all those places whither they had been driven, yea, they came to the land of Judah, unto Gedaliah, to Mizpah; and they gathered wine and summer-fruits in great abundance.
13 And Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the leaders of the forces, who had been in the field, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, and said to him:
14 ``Knowing, dost thou know that Baalis, the king of the children of Ammon, hath sent Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, to smite thy life?'' But Gedaliah, the son of
Ahikam, believed them not.
15 And Johanan, the son of Kareah, said privately to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, I will now go and will smite Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and no one shall know: why should he smite thy life, and all Judah, who are gathered unto thee, be dispersed, and the remnant of Judah perish?
16 But Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, said to Johanan, the son of Kareah, By no means do this thing; for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.
Translation: Jeremiah 41
CHAPTER 41
1 And it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed, and the chiefs of the king, even ten men, came with him to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, to Mizpah, and did eat bread there together in Mizpah.
2 Then Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, rose up, and the ten men who were with him, and smote Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword; yea, they slew him whom the king of Babylon had set over the land:
3 And the Jews who were with him, even with Gedaliah, in Mizpah, and the
Chaldeans who were found there, men of war, did Ishmael smite.
4 And it was the following day, after he had killed Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
5 That men came from Shechem, and from Shiloh, and from Samaria, fourscore, having their heads shaven, and their garments rent, and having cut themselves, with an oblation and incense, to offer them in the house of Jehovah.
6 And Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, went out from Mizpah to meet them, walking along and weeping; and it was that when he met them, he said to them, Come to
Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam.
7 And it was that when they had come to the midst of the city, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, slew them, nigh the middle of the trench, he and the men who were with him.
8 But ten men were found among them who said to Ishmael, Slay us not; for we have hidden stores in the field, wheat, and barley, and oil, and honey; and he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.
9 Now the trench into which Ishmael cast all the carcasses of the men whom he had smitten along with Gedaliah, was that which King Asa had made on account of
Baasha, the king of Israel; this did Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, fill with the slain.
10 Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people who were in Mizpah,
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS even the king's daughters, and all the people who had been left in Mizpah, whom
Nebuzar-adan, the prince of the executioners, had committed to the care of Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam; yea, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, took them and went, that he might pass over to the children of Ammon.
11 But Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the leaders of the forces who ere with him, heard of all the evil which Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, had done;
12 And they took all the men, and went forth to right with Ishmael, the son of
Nethaniah, and found him at the great waters which are in Gibeon.
13 And it was that when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the leaders of the forces who were with him, they rejoiced:
14 And all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah, turned, and returned, and went with Johanan, the son of Kareah;
15 But Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, escaped with eight men from Johanan, and went to the children of Ammon.
16 And Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the leaders of the forces who were with him, took all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had smitten Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, strong men, men of war, and women, and children, and eunuchs, whom he had recovered from Gibeon;
17 And they went and dwelt in Geruth-Chimham, which is near Bethlehem, that they might proceed to enter into Egypt,
18 On account of the Chaldeans, for they feared them, because Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, had smitten Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon had set over the land.
Translation: Jeremiah 42
CHAPTER 42
1 Then came near all the leaders of the forces and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah, the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people, from the least to the greatest,
2 And said to Jeremiah the prophet, --- Let our petition, we pray thee, be acceptable to thee; pray now for us to Jehovah thy God in behalf of this remnant, for we are left a few out of many, as thine eyes see us;
3 And let Jehovah thy God shew us the way in which we are to walk, and the thing which we are to do.
4 And Jeremiah said to them, I have heard; behold, I will pray to Jehovah your God according to your words; and it shall be that whatsoever word Jehovah shall answer you, I will declare it to you; I will hide nothing from you.
5 Then they said to Jeremiah, Let Jehovah be between us a faithful and true witness, except we do according to all the words which Jehovah thy God shall send to us:
6 Whether good or evil, the voice of Jehovah our God, for which we send thee to him, will we obey: for well will it be with us, when we obey the voice of Jehovah our
God.
7 And it was that at the end of ten days the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah;
8 And he called Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the leaders of the forces, who were with him, and all the people, from the least to the greatest;
9 And said to them, --- Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to lay humbly your prayer before him,
10 If dwelling ye will dwell in this land, then will I build you and not pull you down, and plant you and not pluck you up; for I repent of the evil which I have brought on you.
11 Fear not the face of the king of Babylon, whose face ye do fear; fear him not, saith Jehovah, for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand;
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12 And I will shew mercies to you, and he will have mercy on you, and cause you to dwell in your own land.
13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, nor obey the voice of Jehovah your
God,
14 Saying, No, but to the land of Egypt will we go, where we shall not see war, and the sound of the trumpet we shall not hear, and for bread we shall not hunger, and there will we dwell.
15 Now, therefore, hear the word of Jehovah, ye remnant of Judah, for thus saith
Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, If setting ye set your face to enter into Egypt, and ye go there to sojourn,
16 Then it shall be that the sword which ye fear, shall overtake you there, even in the land of Egypt, and the famine which ye dread shall lay hold on you there, even in the land of Egypt, and there ye shall die:
17 And all the men who have set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there, shall die by the sword, or by famine, or by pestilence; and not one of them shall remain or escape from the evil which I shall bring on them.
18 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, As my wrath and mine indignation have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so mine indignation shall be poured out on you when ye go into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall no more see this place.
19 Jehovah hath spoken against you, ye remnant of Judah: go not into Egypt; knowing, know ye that I have made a protest to you this day.
20 For ye deceived your own souls, when ye sent me to Jehovah your God, saying,
Pray for us to Jehovah our God, and according to all that Jehovah our God shall say, so declare to us and we will do so.
21 And I have declared to you this day, but ye have not hearkened to the voice of
Jehovah your God, and according to all the things for which he hath sent me to you.
22 And now knowing, know ye, that by the sword and by famine and by pestilence shall ye die in the place to which ye desire to go, that ye may sojourn there.
Translation: Jeremiah 43
CHAPTER 43
1 And it was that when Jeremiah had finished to speak to all the people all the words of Jehovah their God, for which Jehovah their God had sent him to them all, even for these words,
2 Then Azariah, the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, said, speaking to Jeremiah, Falsehood dost thou speak; Jehovah our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not to Egypt to sojourn there;
3 But Baruch, the son of Neriah, rouses thee against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, to slay us and to remove us to Babylon.
4 So Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the leaders of the forces and the whole people, did not hearken to the voice of Jehovah, to dwell in the land of Judah:
5 But Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the leaders of the forces, took the remnant of Judah, who had returned from all the nations, to which they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah,
6 Even the men, and the women, and the children, and the king's daughters, and every soul which Nebuzar-adan, the prince of the executioners, had left with
Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son Shaphan, and with Jeremiah the prophet, and with Baruch, the son of Neriah;
7 And they went into the land of Egypt; for they did not obey the voice of Jehovah; and they came as far as Tahpanhes.
8 And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, ---
9 Take in thine hand great stones, and hide them in the clay in the brick-kiln, which is by the gate of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of
Judah;
10 And thou shalt say to them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,
Behold, I will send and bring Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones, which I have hid, and he shall spread his tent
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over them;
11 And he shall come and smite the land of Egypt, those for death to death, and those for captivity to captivity, and those for the sword to the sword;
12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive, and roll up the land of Egypt as a shepherd rolls up his garment; and he shall go forth thence in peace:
13 And he shall break in pieces the statues of Beth-shemesh, which is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.
Translation: Jeremiah 44
CHAPTER 44
1 The word which came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who dwelt in the land of Egypt, who dwelt at Migdol and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, even in the land of Pathros, saying, ---
2 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, ye have seen all the evil which
I have brought on Jerusalem and on all the cities of Judah; and behold they are a waste this day, and no one dwells in them,
3 Because of the wickedness which they had done to provoke me, by going to burn incense and to serve foreign gods, whom they had not known, neither they nor their fathers:
4 And I sent to them all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying,
Do not, I pray you, the thing of this abomination, which I hate;
5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their car to turn from their wickedness and not to burn incense to foreign gods.
6 Then my indignation and my wrath were poured out and were kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste as at this day.
7 And now, thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Why do ye this great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, even from the midst of Judah, so as to leave you no remnant remaining,
8 To provoke me by the works of your hands, by burning incense to foreign gods in the land of Egypt, to which ye are gone to dwelt there, that ye may be cut off, and that ye may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
9 Have ye forgotten the evils of your fathers and the evils of the kings of Judah, and the evils of their wives, and your own evils, and the evils of your wives, which they did in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem:
10 And they have not humbled themselves to this day, nor have they feared, nor
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11 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah;
12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, who have set their face to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed in the land of Egypt; they shall fall by the sword, by famine shall they be consumed, from the least to the greatest; by the sword and by famine shall they die, and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach:
13 And I will visit them who dwell in Egypt, as I visited Jerusalem, with the sword, and famine, and pestilence.
14 And there shall be none to escape among the remnant of Judah who have come to sojourn here, even in the land of Egypt, and to return to the land of Judah on returning to which they set their minds to dwell there, for they shall not return except those who have escaped.
15 Then all the men answered Jeremiah, even they who knew that their wives burned incense to foreign gods, and all the women who stood by, a great company, and all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, saying, ---
16 As to the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken to thee;
17 But we shall do whatsoever that goeth forth from our mouth, to burn incense to the frame-work of heaven, and to pour out libations to it, as we did, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem, and we were satisfied with bread, and were happy, and saw no evil:
18 But from the time we left off to burn incense to the frame-work of heaven, and to pour out libations to it, we have been destitute of everything, and have been consumed by the sword and famine.
19 And when we burned incense to the frame-work of heaven, and poured out libations to it, did we without our men make cakes to it to worship it, and pour out libations to it?
20 Then said Jeremiah to all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people who had returned to him the answer, saying, ---
21 The incense which ye burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and all the people of the land, hath not Jehovah remembered it?
22 And hath it not come to his mind? Nay, Jehovah could no longer bear you for the wickedness of your doings, for the abominations which ye did; and reduced is your land to a waste, and is become an astonishment and a curse, as it appears at this day:
23 Because ye burned incense and sinned against Jehovah, and hearkened not to the voice of Jehovah, nor walked in his law, and statutes, and testimonies, therefore hath this evil happened to you, as it appears at this day.
24 Jeremiah said again to all the people and to all the women, --- Hear the word of Jehovah, all ye Judah who are in the land of Egypt, ---
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25 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Ye and your wives have spoken with your mouth and fulfilled with your hands, saying, Doing we shall do our vows which we have vowed, to burn incense to the frame-work of heaven and to pour out libations to it: confirming ye will confirm your vows, and doing ye will do your vows.
26 Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, all ye Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt,
Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith Jehovah, that my name shall no more be called upon by the mouth of any man of Judah, saying, ``The Lord Jehovah liveth in all the land of Egypt.''
27 Behold I will watch over them for evil and not for good, and consumed shall be all the men of Judah, who are in the land of Egypt, by the sword and by famine, until they be consumed:
28 And they who shall escape from the sword and return from the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, shall be few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who have entered into the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine or theirs.
29 And this shall be a sign to you, saith Jehovah, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that standing my words shall stand against you for evil, ---
30 Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will deliver Pharaoh-Hophra into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I delivered Zedekiah, the king of Judah, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, his enemy, and who sought his life.
Translation: Jeremiah 45
CHAPTER 45
1 The word which Jeremiah the prophet spake to Baruch, the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, saying, ---
2 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning thee, O Baruch:
3 Thou hast said, Woe now to me! for Jehovah hath added grief to my sorrow; I am wearied with my sighing, and rest have I not found.
4 Thus shalt thou say to him, Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, what I builded I pull down, and what I planted I pluck up, even this whole land;
5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek not; for behold I am bringing evil on all flesh, saith Jehovah; and I will give thee thy life as a prey in all the places whither thou wilt go.
Translation: Jeremiah 46
CHAPTER 46
1 The word of Jehovah which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning all the nations:
2 Of Egypt, concerning the army of Pharaoh-Necho, the king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates, at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah:
3 Prepare ye the buckler and shield, And move on to battle;
4 Tie the horses, and go up, ye horsemen; Stand in your helmets, Brighten the lances, put on the coats of mail.
5 Why have I seen them broken, turned backward! Even their valiants have been smitten, And by flight have they fled and looked not back; Terror is on every side, saith Jehovah;
6 Let not the swift flee away, Nor the valiant escape: In the north, on the bank of the river Euphrates, Shall they stumble and fall.
7 Who is this that like a river riseth up, Like floods swelling, its waters!
8 Egypt like a river riseth up, And like floods swelling, its waters; For he saith, I will go up and cover the land, I will destroy the city and its inhabitants.
9 Go up, ye horses; toss, ye chariots; Go forth, ye the valiant; The Ethiopians and
Lybians, who hold the shield, And the Lydians, who hold and stretch the bow.
10 But this is the day of the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, The day of vengeance, to avenge on his adversaries; And devour shall the sword and be satiated, And inebriated shall it be with their blood; For a sacrifice hath the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, In the land of the north, by the river Euphrates.
11 Go up to Gilead, and take rosin, Thou virgin, daughter of Egypt! In vain dost thou multiply medicines; There is no healing for thee.
12 Heard have the nations of thy disgrace, And by thine outcry filled is the earth;
For the valiant against the valiant has stumbled, And both have fallen together.
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13 The word which Jehovah spake to Jeremiah the prophet respecting the coming of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, to smite the land of Egypt:
14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, Publish in Noph, in Tahpanhes say,
--- Stand and prepare thyself, For devoured hath the sword those around thee.
15 How scattered are thy valiants! They stood not, for Jehovah hath driven them.
16 He hath multiplied; they stumbled, Yea, fell, each on his friend: And they said,
and let us return To our people, and to the land of our nativity, From the face of the wasting sword.
17 They cried there, Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, Is a king of trouble; He hath passed over the set time.
18 Live do I, saith the king, Jehovah of hosts is his name; For as Tabor is in the mountains, And as Carmel is by the sea, so will he come.
19 Thy furniture of transmigration prepare, Thou inhabitant of Egypt; For Noph shall be a solitude, Yea, it shall be wasted, without an inhabitant.
20 A beautiful heifer is Egypt; Distress from the north cometh, it cometh.
21 Her mercenaries also in the midst of her Are like the bullocks of the stall; For these also shall turn their backs, They shall flee together, they shall not stand; For the day of calamity is come upon them, The time of their visitation.
22 Her voice shall be like that of the serpent; For with power shall they come, And with axes shall they come against her, Like hewers of wood.
23 Cut down shall they thy forest, saith Jehovah, That it may not be investigated;
For they have multiplied more than locusts, And they are without number.
24 Ashamed is the daughter of Egypt, Delivered into the hand of the north people.
25 Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, hath said, Behold, I will visit the multitude of No, Pharaoh also, and Egypt, And her gods and her kings, Even Pharaoh and those who trust in him;
26 And I will give them into the hand Of those who seek their life, And into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, The king of Babylon, |And into the hand of his servants:
But it shall afterwards be inhabited As in days of old, saith Jehovah.
27 But fear not thou, my servant Jacob, Nor be thou, Israel, broken in mind; For behold, I will save thee from far, And thy seed from the land of their captivity: Yea, return shall Jacob, and rest, And be secure, and none will terrify him.
28 Fear thou not, my servant Jacob, Saith Jehovah, for I am with thee; For I will make an end of all the nations To which I have driven thee; But of thee will I not make an end: Yet I will chastise thee in moderation, And will not wholly cut thee off.
Translation: Jeremiah 47
CHAPTER 47
1 The word of Jehovah which came to Jeremiah the prophet, concerning the
Philistines, before Pharaoh smote Gaza:
2 Thus saith Jehovah, --- Behold, waters ascend from the north, And they shall be an overflowing flood, And shall overflow the land and all in it, The city and its inhabitants; And cry aloud shall all men, And howl shall every inhabitant of the land.
3 For the noisy sound of the hoofs of his steeds, For the commotion of his chariots,
For the rumbling of his wheels, Not look shall fathers to their children, On account of the feebleness of their hands;
4 Because of the day which is come, To destroy all the Philistines, To cut off Tyre and Sidon, All the residue of their strength; For Jehovah lays waste the Philistines,
The remnant of the island of Caphtor.
5 Come is baldness on Gaza, Destroyed is Ashkelon; The remnant of their valley!
How long wilt thou rend thyself?
6 Ah! sword of Jehovah! How long wilt not thou rest? Hide thyself in thy scabbard, rest and be still.
7 How canst thou rest? since Jehovah Hath commanded it against Ashkelon, And against the shore of the sea; There hath he appointed it.
Translation: Jeremiah 48
CHAPTER 48
1 Concerning Moab: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, --- Woe upon
Nebo! for it is laid waste, Ashamed, taken is Kiriathaim; Ashamed is Misgab and dismayed.
2 No more shall be the boasting of Moab over Heshbon; They have consulted an evil against her, --- ``Come and let us cut her off from being a nation.'' Also Madmen, thou shalt be cut off, After thee shall go the sword.
3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim! A waste and great destruction!
4 Distressed is Moab; A cry have her little ones made to be heard.
5 For in the ascent to Luhith, With weeping shall ascend weeping; For in the descent to Horonaim, The enemies a cry of distress shall hear:
6 Flee ye, save your lives; And ye shall be as the juniper in the desert,
7 Therefore, because thy confidence Was in thy works and in thy treasures, Even thou shalt be taken: And go forth shall Chemosh into captivity, His priests and his princes together.
8 And come shall a waster to every city, Nor shall a city escape; Perish also shall the valley, And destroyed shall be the plain, As Jehovah hath spoken.
9 Give wings to Moab, For flying she shall fly, And her cities shall be a waste, That there will be none to inhabit them.
10 Cursed is he who doeth the work of Jehovah deceitfully, And cursed is he who restrains his sword from blood.
11 Quiet has been Moab from his childhood, And hath settled on his dregs, And hath not been changed from vessel to vessel, And to captivity he hath not gone:
Therefore remained has his flavor in him, And his odor was not changed.
12 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, saith Jehovah, That I will send to him drivers, Who will drive him out; And his vessels will they empty, And his bottles will they scatter:
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13 And ashamed will be Moab of Chemosh, As ashamed was the house of Israel of Bethel, The object of their confidence.
14 How say ye, ``We are valiant, and men strong for war:''
15 Wasted is Moab, and from his cities they have vanished, And his young men have descended to the slaughter, Saith the King, Jehovah of hosts is his name.
16 Nigh is the destruction of Moab to come, And her calamity greatly hastens.
Be ye moved for him all who are around him, And all ye who know his name, say, ---
has the strong staff been broken, the beautiful rod!''
17 Come down from glory, and dwell in thirst, Thou inhabitant, the daughter of
Dibon!
18 For the waster of Moab comes up against thee, The destroyer of thy fortresses.
19 On the way stand and look, Thou inhabitant of Aroer. Ask the fugitive, and her who has escaped, ``Say, what hath happened?''
20 Ashamed is Moab, for he is broken. Howl ye, and cry out, And proclaim in
Arnon that Moab is laid waste.
21 Judgment also shall come on the plain country, On Holon, and on Jahazah, and on Mephaath,
22 And on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth-diblathaim,
23 And on Kiriathaim, and on Beth-gamul, and on Beth-meon,
24 And on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, And on all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near
25 Cut, off is the horn of Moab, And his strength is broken, saith Jehovah.
26 Make him drunk, for against Jehovah hath he magnified himself; And roll himself shall Moab in his own vomit; And he also shall be a derision;
27 For has not Israel been a derision to thee? Has he been found among thieves?
For since thou hast spoken of him, thou hast been excited.
28 Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, Ye inhabitants of Moab: And they shall be as a dove, Which makes a nest in the passages, Beyond the mouth of the cleft.
29 Heard have we of the pride of Moab; Very proud is his haughtiness, And his pride, and the loftiness of his heart.
30 I know, saith Jehovah, his insolence, And his lies are not stable they shall not do so
31 Therefore for Moab will I howl, And to all Moab will I cry aloud; I will mutter to the men of the city of potsherd.
32 With the weeping of Jazer Will I weep for thee, vine of Sibmah: Thy shoots have passed over the sea, Even to the sea came Jazer: On thy summer-fruits and on thy vintages Has fallen a waster.
33 And taken away shall be joy and exultation, From the fruitful field, from the land of Moab; And the wine from the presses will I make to cease: He will not tread with shouting, shouting, There will not be shouting.
34 At the cry of Heshbon, to Elealeh, to Jahaz, Will they send forth their voice,
From Zoar to Horonaim; An heifer three years old is Moab; Verily even the waters of
Nimrim shall be dried up.
35 And I will cause to cease from Moab, saith Jehovah, Him who offers on the high
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place, And who burns incense to his gods
36 Therefore my heart for Moab Shall make a sound like pipes, And my heart for the men of the city of potsherd Like pipes shall make a sound; For the treasures he had made have perished.
37 For on every head shall be baldness, And to every beard, a shaving, And on all hands, incisions, and on loins, sackcloth.
38 On all the roofs of Moab, And in all her streets, shall be mourning altogether;
For I will break Moab like a vessel In which there is no pleasure, saith Jehovah.
39 How Moab is broken! they will howl; How has he turned his back! he is ashamed: Yea, Moab is become a derision, And a terror to all around.
40 For thus saith Jehovah, --- Behold, as an eagle will he fly, And extend his wings over Moab:
41 Taken are the cities, the strongholds are seized, And the heart of the men of
Moab shall be in that day As the heart of a woman in distress.
42 And broken shall Moab be, so as not to be a people, Because against Jehovah hath he exalted himself.
43 Terror, and the pit, and the snare, shall be on thee, Inhabitant of Moab, saith
Jehovah:
44 He who flies from terror shall fall into the pit, And he who ascends from the pit shall be taken in the snare; For I will bring upon her, upon Moab, The year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.
45 Under the shadow of Heshbon shall they stand, Who from violence shall flee:
But fire shall go forth from Heshbon, And a flame from the midst of Sihon; And it shall consume the corner of Moab, And the extremities of the sons of tumult.
46 Woe to thee, Moab! Perished have the people of Chemosh! For driven have been thy sons into captivity, And thy daughters into exile.
47 But I will restore the captivity of Moab In the latter days, saith Jehovah. Thus far the judgment of Moab.
Translation: Jeremiah 49
CHAPTER 49
1 Concerning the children of Ammon: Thus saith Jehovah, --- Hath Israel no children? hath he no heir? Why doth their king inherit Gad, And his people dwell in its cities?
2 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, saith Jehovah, That I will cause to be heard the trumpet of war At Rabbah, of the children of Ammon; And she shall be a heap of desolation, And her daughters shall be burned with fire, And possess his possessors shall Israel, saith Jehovah.
3 Howl thou, Heshbon, for laid waste is Ai; Cry aloud, ye daughters of Rabbah.
Gird on sackcloth, lament, Run here and there by the fences; For their king, into captivity is he gone, And his priests and his princes with him.
4 Why gloriest thou in thy deep valleys? Flown down has thy valley, rebellious daughter! Who trusted in her hidden places, Saying, Who can come to me?
5 Behold, I will bring on thee terror, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, from all around thee; And ye shall be driven out, each one before him, And there will be none to gather the dispersed.
6 But I will afterwards restore The captivity of the children of Ammon, saith Jehovah.
7 Concerning Edom: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- Is there not wisdom any more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the intelligent? Overflowing has been their wisdom!
8 Flee, ye inhabitants of Dedan, Who have turned and made deep your dwelling;
For the ruin of Esau will I bring on him, At the time of his visitation.
9 If vintagers had come to thee, Would they not have left some grapes? If thieves in the night, would they not have destroyed What would suffice them?
10 But I will uncover Esau, I will disclose his hidden things, So that he cannot be concealed: Plundered shall be his seed, And his brethren and his neighbors; And he
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shall be no more.
11 Leave thy orphans, I will nourish them; And thy widows, let them trust in me.
12 For thus saith Jehovah, --- Behold, those to whom it was not their judgment
To drink the cup, shall surely drink, And shalt thou be exempted? Thou shalt not be exempted, For drinking thou shalt drink it.
13 For I have by myself sworn, saith Jehovah, That a waste, a reproach, a desert,
And a curse, shall Bozrah become; And all her cities shall be perpetual wastes.
14 A hearing have we heard from Jehovah, And a messenger to the nations has been sent, --- ``Be ye gathered and come against her, And rise ye up to the battle.''
15 For behold, small made I thee among the nations, Contemptible among men:
16 Deceived thee has thy terror, the pride of thine heart; Thou who dwellest in the fissures of rocks, Who occupiest the heights of mountains: Though thou raisest high, as an eagle, thy nest, Thence will I draw thee down, saith Jehovah.
17 And Edom shall become a waste; Every one passing by her shall be astonished,
And shall hiss on account of all her strokes.
18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah And of their neighboring cities, saith Jehovah, Dwell there shall no man, Nor shall a son of man abide there.
19 Behold, as a lion from the swelling of Jordan, Will he ascend to the habitation of strength: After having made him to rest, I will make him flee from her; And who is the chosen one whom I shall set over her? For who is as I am? And who will protest against me? And who is the shepherd that before me will stand?
20 Therefore, hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, Which he hath counseled against
Edom, And his thoughts which he hath thought Against the inhabitants of Teman;
Surely draw them forth shall the least of the flock, Surely destroyed over them shall be their dwellings.
21 At the sound of their fall, tremble shall the earth, The cry of their voice shall at the Red Sea be heard.
22 Behold, as an eagle will he ascend and fly, And will spread his wings over
Bozrah; And the heart of the valiant men of Edom in that day Shall be like the heart of a sorrowful woman.
23 Concerning Damascus: Ashamed is Hamath and Arpad; Because they heard a bad report, they melt away, Like a turbulent sea which cannot rest.
24 Weakened is Damascus, she turns to flight, Terror hath laid hold on her, Anguish and pangs have seized her, As a woman in travail.
25 How is not forsaken the city of praise --- The city of my joy?
26 Yet fall shall her young men in her streets, And all the men of war shall be cut off In that day, saith Jehovah of Hosts.
27 For I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, And it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.
28 Concerning Kedar, and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had smitten: Thus saith Jehovah, --- Arise ye, ascend against Kedar,
And destroy the children of the east.
29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away, And their curtains and all their vessels; Their camels also shall they take to themselves, And they shall cry to
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them, ``Terror is on every side.''
30 Flee ye, depart far away, (Though deep have they made to dwell The inhabitants of Hazor, saith Jehovah;) For consulted against you hath Nebuchadnezzar, The king of Babylon, a counsel, And he hath purposed against you a purpose.
31 Arise ye, ascend against a secure nation, That dwelleth in confidence, saith
Jehovah; It hath neither gates nor bars, it dwelleth alone.
32 And their camels shall became a prey, And the abundance of their cattle a plunder; And I will scatter them to every wind, Even the utmost corners; And from all the sides thereof Will I bring their destruction, saith Jehovah.
33 And Hazor shall be the habitation of dragons, A perpetual desolation; Dwell there shall no man, Nor shall a son of man abide in her.
34 The word which came to Jeremiah, the prophet, against Elam, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, the king of Judah, saying:
35 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, The chief part of their strength;
36 And I will bring against Elam four winds From the four quarters of the heavens;
And I will scatter them to these four winds, And there shall not be a nation To which some fugitives from Elam shall not come.
37 For I will terrify Elam before their enemies, And before those who seek their life; And I will bring on them the evil Of the indignation of my wrath, saith Jehovah;
And I will send after them the sword Until I shall have consumed them;
38 And I will erect my throne in Elam, And destroy thence the king and the princes, saith Jehovah.
39 But it shall be in the latter days That I will restore the captivity of Elam, saith
Jehovah.
Translation: Jeremiah 50
CHAPTER 50
1 The word which Jehovah spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the
Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet:
2 Tell ye among the nations, proclaim, Raise up also a banner, proclaim, conceal not; Say ye, ``Taken is Babylon, Confounded is Bel, broken is Merodach, Confounded are her images, broken are her idols.''
3 For ascend against her shall a nation from the north, Which will turn her land to a waste, So that there will be no dweller in it, man or beast; They have fled, they have departed.
4 In those days and at that time, saith Jehovah, Come shall the children of Israel
And the children of Judah together; Going and weeping they shall come, And Jehovah their God will they seek.
5 To Sion will they ask the way, hither their faces, --- ``Come ye and let us join ourselves to Jehovah, By a perpetual covenant, not to be forgotten.''
6 A lost sheep have been my people; Their pastors have made them to wander;
On the mountains they strayed, From mountain to hill they went, They forgot the place of their lying down.
7 All who found them devoured them, And their adversaries said, ``We sin not,
Because they have sinned against Jehovah, The habitation of justice, And the hope of their fathers, even Jehovah.''
8 Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, And from Chaldea go forth, And be as hegoats before the flock.
9 For, behold, I will rouse and bring against Babylon, An assembly of great nations from the land of the north, And they shall set in order against her; Thence taken will she be; Their arrows, like those of a skillful valiant man, They shall not return in vain.
10 And Chaldea shall be a prey, And all who plunder her shall be satiated, saith
Jehovah,
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11 Surely ye rejoiced and exulted When ye plundered mine heritage; Ye became fat as a heifer well fed, And neighed like strong horses.
12 Ashamed greatly shall be your mother, Blush shall she who bare you; Behold, the last of nations shall she be, A desert, a waste, a solitude!
13 Because of the indignation of Jehovah She shall not be inhabited, And shall be an entire waste; All who pass by Babylon shall be astonished, And shall hiss for all her strokes.
14 Set in order against Babylon around; All ye who bend the bow, Shoot at her, spare not the arrows, For against Jehovah hath she sinned.
15 Cry ye aloud against her around; She hath given her hand, Fallen have her foundations, Demolished have been her walls, Because it is the vengeance of Jehovah; Vengeance take ye on her; as she has done, do to her.
16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, And him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: From the face of the wasting sword Every one shall look to his own people,
Every one to his own land shall flee.
17 A scattered flock hath Israel been, Lions have driven him out; The first who devoured him was the king of Assyria, And this last hath broken his bones, Even
Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon.
18 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel --- Behold, I will visit the king of Babylon and his land, As I visited the king of Assyria:
19 And I will restore Israel to his folds, And he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan,
And on mount Ephraim and Gilead; And satisfied shall be his soul.
20 In those days and at that time, saith Jehovah, Sought will be the iniquity of
Israel, and there will be none; And the sin of Judah, and it shall not be found: For I will pardon those whom I shall reserve.
21 On the land of the exasperating ascend, And against the inhabitants of visitation, Slay and destroy after them, saith Jehovah; And do all that I have commanded thee.
22 A sound of battle in the land and a great ruin!
23 Now has the hammer of the whole earth Been cut off and broken in pieces!
How has Babylon become a waste among the nations!
24 I set a snare for thee, therefore taken wert thou, Babylon, though thou knewest not: Thou wept found, and hence taken, Because against Jehovah thou didst contend.
25 Opened hath Jehovah his treasure, And brought forth the instruments of his wrath; For this is the work of the Lord, the Jehovah of hosts, In the land of the
Chaldeans.
26 Come ye against her from the extremity, Open her repositories, tread her as heaps, Destroy her wholly, that there may be to her no remnant.
27 Slay all her bullocks, Let them descend to the slaughter Woe to them, for their day is come, The time of their visitation.
28 The voice of these who flee and escape From the land of Babylon! To announce in Sion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, The vengeance of his temple.
29 Summon against Babylon the mighty, All who bend the bow; Besiege her
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS around, that there may be no escape; Render to her according to her work, According to all she has done, do ye to her; For against Jehovah has she acted proudly,
Against the Holy One of Israel.
30 Therefore fall shall her young men in her streets, And all her men of war shall be destroyed In that day, saith Jehovah.
31 Behold, I am against thee, the proud one, Saith the Lord, the Jehovah of hosts;
For come is thy day, the time of thy visitation.
32 And stumble shall the proud and fall, And there will be no one to raise him up;
And I will kindle a fire in his cities, And it shall consume all round him.
33 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- Oppressed have been the children of Israel And the children of Judah together; And all who led them captives have prevailed against them, They have refused to let them go.
34 Their Redeemer is strong, Jehovah of hosts is his name, Their cause pleading he will plead, So as to destroy the land, And to make to tremble the inhabitants of
Babylon.
35 A sword on the Chaldeans, saith Jehovah! And on all the inhabitants of Babylon! And on all her princes and on her wise men!
36 A sword on her diviners! and they shall become foolish; A sword on her valiant men! and they shall be terrified;
37 A sword on her horses! and on her chariots! And on her multitude, in the midst of her! They shall be as women; A sword on her treasures! and they shall be plundered;
38 A drought on her waters! and they shall be dried up: For it is the land of carved images, And in idols they glory.
39 Therefore dwell there shall wild birds with wild beasts, And dwell there shall the daughters of ostriches; And it shall not be inhabited any more for ever; It shall not be an habitation to all generations.
40 As in God's overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, And of their neighboring cities, saith Jehovah, Dwell there shall no man, For shall a son of man abide there.
41 Behold, a people cometh from the north, Even a great nation and many kings
Shall be roused from the sides of the earth.
42 On the bow and the shield shall they lay hold, Cruel shall they be, and will shew no mercy; Their voice like the sea shall roar, And on horses shall they ride,
Prepared as a man for battle Against thee, daughter of Babylon.
43 Heard has the king of Babylon a report of them, And feeble became his hands;
Anxiety laid hold on him, And anguish, like a woman in travail.
44 Behold, as a lion from the swelling of Jordan Will he ascend to the strong habitation: After having made him to rest, I will make him flee from her; And who is the chosen one whom I shall set over her? For who is as I am? And who will protest against me? And who is the shepherd that before me will stand?
45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, Which he hath counseled against
Babylon; And his thoughts which he has thought Against the land of the Chaldeans:
Surely draw them forth shall the least of the flock, Surely destroyed over them shall be their dwellings.
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46 At the sound of Babylon being taken, tremble shall the earth, And a cry among the nations shall be heard.
Translation: Jeremiah 51
CHAPTER 51
1 Thus saith Jehovah, --- Behold, I will raise a destroying wind against Babylon,
And against boasters of wisdom, my adversaries;
2 And I will send against Babylon winnowers, And they shall winnow her and empty her land; For they shall be against her around in the day of evil.
3 As to him who bends the bow, And him who raises himself up in his coat of mail,
--- Spare ye not her young men, Destroy all her army
4 And fall shall they wounded, in her land, And pierced through in her streets.
5 For not widowed is Israel, nor Judah By his God, by Jehovah of hosts: But rather their land is filled with sin On account of the Holy One of Israel.
6 Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, And save ye, every one his life, Lest ye perish in her iniquity; For it is the time of Jehovah's vengeance, A reward will he render to her
7 A golden cup has Babylon been In Jehovah's hand, inebriating the whole earth;
From her wine have the nations drunk, Therefore have the nations become mad.
8 Suddenly has Babylon fallen, and is broken; Howl ye for her, take rosin for her wound, It may be that she can be healed!
9 We have tried to heal Babylon, But she was not healed; Leave her, and let us depart, Every one to his own land; For to the heavens has reached her judgment And has risen up to the clouds.
10 Brought forth has Jehovah our righteousness; Come ye and let us declare in
Sion The work of Jehovah our God.
11 Polish the arrows, prepare the shields, Rouse will Jehovah the spirit of the kings of Media; For as to Babylon his thought is to destroy her. For it is Jehovah's vengeance, the vengeance of his temple.
12 On the wails of Babylon raise the standard, Increase the watch, set the watchmen, Set in order the ambushes: For as Jehovah has thought, so will he do What he
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13 Thou that dwellest among great waters, Who aboundest in treasures, Come is thine end, the measure of thy cupidity.
14 Sworn hath Jehovah by himself, --- Surely I will fill thee with men as with locusts,
Who will shout over thee with the vintage-shouting, ---
15 (Even) he who made the earth by his power, Who hath constituted the world by his wisdom, And by his knowledge extended the heavens,
16 At whose voice there is abundance of waters in the heavens, Who raises vapors from the extremity of the earth, Who makes the lightnings and the rain, And brings out the wind from his treasures.
17 Infatuated is every man become by his knowledge, Put to shame shall be every founder by the graven image, For a lie is the molten image, And there is no breath in them:
18 Vanity are they, the work of illusions; At the time of their visitation they shall perish.
19 Not like these is the portion of Jacob; For the former of all things is He, And the rod of his inheritance is Israel; Jehovah of hosts is his name.
20 A hammer hast thou been to me, weapons of war; And by thee have I broken nations in pieces, And by thee destroyed kingdoms:
21 Yea, by thee have I broken in pieces The horses and their riders, And by thee have I broken in pieces The chariots and their riders2
22 And by thee have I broken in pieces Men and women, And by thee have I broken in pieces Old men and children, And by thee have I broken in pieces Young men and maidens,
23 And by thee have I broken in pieces The shepherds and their flocks, And by thee have I broken in pieces The husbandmen and their yokes of oxen, And by thee have I broken in pieces The captains and the rulers.
24 But I will render to Babylon And to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, All the evils which they have done in Sion, Before your eyes, saith Jehovah.
25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith Jehovah, Which destroyest all the earth; And I will extend my hand over thee, And will roll thee down from the rocks, And will make thee a burnt mountain:
26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, Nor a stone for foundations;
For perpetual wastes shalt thou be, saith Jehovah.
27 Raise a banner in the land, Sound a trumpet among the nations, Prepare the nations against her, Assemble against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Of Minni and of
Ashkenaz; Set up against her a leader, Bring forth the horse as the horrible locust;
28 Prepare against her the nations, The kings of Media, her captains and her princes, And all the land of its dominion.
29 And tremble shall the land and be in pain, For confirmed as to Babylon shall be the thoughts of Jehovah: To set the land of Babylon a waste, So as to have no inhabitant.
30 Ceased have the valiant men of Babylon to fight, They sat down in their fortresses; Fail did their valor, they became women, Burnt were her dwellings, broken
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her bars.
31 A runner to meet a runner ran, And a messenger to meet a messenger, To announce to the king of Babylon That taken was the city at its extremity;
32 And the fords were taken, And the pools were burnt with fire, And the men of war were broken in pieces.
33 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, --- The daughter of Babylon shall be like a threshing-floor, (Come will) the time of treading her; Yet a little while and come will her harvest.
34 Devoured me, broken me in pieces, Hath Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon;
He hath set me an empty vessel, He hath swallowed me like a dragon, He hath filled his belly with my delicacies, He hath cast me off.
35 My plunder and my flesh be on Babylon, Shall the inhabitant of Sion say; My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, Shall Jerusalem say.
36 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, --- Behold, I will plead thy cause, And avenge thy vengeance, For I will make dry her sea, And will dry up her fountain:
37 And Babylon shall become heaps An habitation of dragons, A wonder and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
38 They will roar as lions, They will roar as whelps of lions.
39 In their heat will I make their feasts, And make them drunk, that they may exult And sleep a perpetual sleep, And not awake, saith Jehovah.
40 I will bring them as lambs to the slaughter, As rams and he-goats.
41 How has Sheshach been taken! And captured, the praise of the whole land!
How has Babylon become a waste among nations!
42 Come up over Babylon has the sea, With the multitude of its waves is she covered.
43 Her cities shall be a waste, And a land of desert, and a land of drought, Pass through it shall no man, And dwell in it shall no son of man.
44 And I will visit Bel in Babylon; And I will draw what he hath swallowed out of his month: And flow to him together shall nations no more: Even the wall of Babylon hath fallen.
45 Go out from the midst of her, my people, And save ye, every one his life, From the indignation of Jehovah's wrath.
46 And let not faint be your heart, And fear ye not the rumor heard in the land;
Come in one year shall a rumor, And afterwards in another year, a rumor; --- And violence shall be in the land, And a ruler after a ruler.
47 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, That I will visit the images of Babylon;
And her whole land shall be ashamed, And all her slain, they shall fall in the midst of her.
48 And rejoice over Babylon shall heaven and earth, And all the things that are in them; When from the north shall come to her Destroyers, saith Jehovah.
49 As Babylon made to fall the slain of Israel, So for Babylon they shall fall, the slain of all the land.
50 Ye who have escaped from the sword, Depart, stand not still; From afar remember Jehovah, And let Jerusalem come to your minds.
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51 We are ashamed, because we have heard reproach; Shame hath covered our faces, because strangers came Into the sanctuaries of the house of Jehovah.
52 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, saith Jehovah, That I will visit her graven images, And in the whole land groan shall the wounded.
53 Though Babylon ascended into heaven, And though in the height she fortified her strength, From me would come to her wasters, saith Jehovah.
54 The voice of a cry from Babylon! And a great crashing from the land of the
Chaldeans!
55 For Jehovah will lay waste Babylon, And will destroy from her the voice of boasting: And sound shall their waves like great waters, Sent forth shall be the sound of their voice.
56 For come to her, to Babylon, is a waster, And taken are her valiant men, Broken is their bow; For the God of retributions is Jehovah, Recompensing he will recompense.
57 And I will inebriate her princes and her wise men, And her captains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, And shall not awake, saith the King, Whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
58 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, --- The wall of Babylon, though wide, Shall yet surely be demolished; And her gates, though high, Shall yet be consumed with fire:
Thus labored have the people for nothing, And the nations for the fire, and wearied themselves.
59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah, the son of Neraiah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went for Zedekiah, the king of Judah, to Babylon, in the fourth year of
60 his reign; and Seraiah was a quiet prince: and Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all
61 These words which had been written against Babylon; and Jeremiah said to
Seraiah, --- ``When thou comest to Babylon and hast seen it, then read
62 All these words, and say, --- `O Jehovah, thou hast spoken against this place, to destroy it, so that there should be no inhabitant in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall become perpetual desolations.'
63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt tie a stone
64 To it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates, and shalt say, --- `Thus sink shall Babylon, and shall not rise from the evil which I shall bring on her, though they may weary themselves.' Thus far the words of Jeremiah.
Translation: Jeremiah 52
CHAPTER 52
1 Twenty-one years old was Zedekiah when he began to reign, and eleven years reigned he in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Hamutal, the daughter of
Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all the things which Jehoiakim had done:
3 And on account of the indignation of Jehovah against Jerusalem and Judah, until he cast them away from his presence, Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4 And it was in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it, and built against it a fortress on every side.
5 And the city was besieged till the eleventh year of Zedekiah.
6 In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the famine prevailed in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land:
7 And the city was broken in upon, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the gate, between two walls, which were near the king's garden; (and the Chaldeans were near the city around:) and they went out by the way of the desert.
8 And the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they took Zedekiah in the deserts of Jericho; for all his army were scattered from him.
9 They then took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon in Riblah, to the land of Hamath; who pronounced judgment upon him.
10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; and all the princes of Judah he also slew in Riblah:
11 But he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains; And the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day in which he
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died.
12 Now, in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, (that year was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon,) Nebuzar-adan, the prince of the soldiers, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem,
13 And burnt the house of Jehovah and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house he burnt with fire:
14 And all the walls of Jerusalem around they destroyed, even the whole army of the Chaldeans, which was with the prince of the soldiers.
15 And some of the poor of the people and the rest of the people who had remained in the city, and the fugitives who had fled over to the king of Babylon, and the remainder of the multitude, Nebuzar-adan, the prince of the soldiers, led away captive.
16 But some of the poor of the land, Nebuzar-adan, the prince of the soldiers, left to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
17 And the brass pillars which were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases, and the brazen sea which was in the house of Jehovah, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried away all their brass to Babylon.
18 The pots also, and the shovels and the snuffers and the basons and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass, with which they ministered, they took away.
19 And the dishes and the pans and the basons and the pots and the candlesticks and the spoons and the bowls, some of which were all of gold and some were all of silver, the prince of the soldiers took away.
20 The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve oxen of brass, which were under the bases which Solomon had made in the house of Jehovah, there was no weight as to the brass of all these vessels.
21 As to the pillars, the height of each pillar was eighteen cubits, and a thread of twelve cubits surrounded it, and its thickness was four fingers; it was hollow.
22 And the chapiter which was over it was brass, and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, and net-work and pomegranates were on the chapiter around; all these were of brass; and like these were the second pillar and the pomegranates.
23 And there were pomegranates, ninety-six on one side; all the pomegranates on the net-work around were one hundred.
24 The prince of the soldiers took away also Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
25 And from the city he took away one eunuch, who had been set over the men of war: and seven men of those who attended the king, who were found in the city, and a scribe, the chief of the army, who gathered to the army the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.
26 And Nebuzar-adan, the prince of the soldiers, took them away and brought them to the king of Babylon in Riblah:
27 And the king of Babylon smote them and slew them in Riblah, in the land of
Hamath; and he removed Judah from his own land.
28 These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;
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29 In the eighteenth of Nebuchadnezzar, he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two souls;
30 In the three-and-twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzar-adan, the prince of the soldiers, carried away Jews, seven hundred and forty-five souls; --- all the souls were four thousand and six hundred.
31 And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that Evil-merodach, the king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin, the king of
Judah, and brought him forth from prison;
32 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the thrones of the kings, who were with him in Babylon;
33 And he changed his prison garments, and ate bread before him always, all the days of his life.
34 And his portion, a perpetual portion was given him by the king of Babylon every day, until the day he died, all the days of his life.
PRAISE TO GOD.
Translation: Lamentations 1
CHAPTER 1
1 How sits solitary the city Which abounded in people I How is she become as a widow, Who was great among the nations! She who ruled among provinces Is become tributary!
2 Weeping she has wept in the night And her tears are on her cheeks; She has no comforter All along all her lovers; All her friends have dealt falsely with her, They are become her enemies.
3 Migrated hath Judah because of oppression, And because of much servitude;
She dwelleth among the nations, She finds no rest; All who pursued her have taken her between the straits.
4 The ways of Sion mourn, For they come not to the festivals; All her gates are desolate, her priests are sighing; her virgins are afflicted, And she is in bitterness!
5 Her adversaries have become the head, Her enemies have prospered; Because
Jehovah hath afflicted her For the greatness of her iniquities: Her little ones have gone into exile Before the adversary;
6 And departed from the daughter of Sion Has all her glory; her princes have become like harts, Who cannot find pasture; And they have gone without strength
Before their pursuer.
7 Remember did Jerusalem, In the days of her affliction and want, All her desirable things, Which were from ancient days; When fall did her people into the hand of the enemy, And she had no helper: Seen her have enemies, They laughed at her
Sabbath.
8 A sin hath Jerusalem sinned, Therefore she is become a wandered; All who honored her have despised her, Because they have seen her nakedness; She even groaned, And turned backward:
9 Her shame is in her skirts; She remembered not her end; Therefore she came down wonderfully, She hath no comforter: See, Jehovah, my affliction, For magnified
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himself hath the enemy.
10 His hand did the enemy stretch out To all her desirable things; For she saw the heathens, When they entered her sanctuary, Respecting whom thou hast commanded, They shall not come to thy congregation.
11 All her people are sighing, They are seeking bread; They have given their desirable things For food, to restore life: See, Jehovah, and look, For I am vile.
12 is it nothing to all of you Who pass by the way? Look and see, if there be a sorrow Like the sorrow that is come to me; For afflicted me hath Jehovah, In the day of the indignation of his wrath.
13 From on high hath he sent fire into my bones And it hath prevailed over them:
He hath spread his net for my feet, He hath turned me backward; He hath made me desolate, Sorrowing all the day.
14 Tied is the yoke of mine iniquities by his hand, They are twined together: They have come up on my neck, He hath weakened my strength: Given me up hath the
Lord, Into the hand of my enemies, From whom I shall not be able to rise.
15 Trodden under foot all my valiant men Hath the Lord in the midst of me: He hath brought on me the fixed time To destroy my young men; The winepress hath the Lord trodden, As to the virgin, the daughter of Judah.
16 For this I weep; mine eye mine eye! Waters flow down; For removed far from me is a comforter Who might revive my soul; My children are become desolate, For prevailed has the enemy.
17 Expand did Sion her hands, She had no comforter; Given a charge had Jehovah as to Jacob, To his adversaries all around him; Become is Jerusalem An abomination among them.
18 Righteous is Jehovah, For his mouth have I provoked, Hear, I pray, all ye people,
And behold my sorrow: My virgins and my young men, They are gone into captivity.
19 I called to my friends, They deceived me; My priests and my elders, In the city they expired, While they were seeking food for themselves, To revive their soul.
20 See, Jehovah, for I am distressed, My bowels are troubled; Overwhelmed is my heart within me, For rebelling I have rebelled: Without bereaves the sword, Within it is as death,
21 They have heard that I mourn, That I have no comforter; All mine enemies have heard of my evil; They rejoice that thou hast done it, And brought the day thou hast announced: But they shall be as I am.
22 Let all their wickedness Come into thy presence; And do to them as thou hast done To me for all my sins; For my sighings are many, And my heart is weak.
Translation: Lamentations 2
CHAPTER 2
1 How hath the Lord clouded in his wrath The daughter of Sion! He hath cast down from heaven to the earth The glory of Israel; And hath not remembered his footstool In the day of his wrath!
2 Destroyed hath the Lord, and spared not, All the habitations of Jacob; He hath demolished in his indignation The fortresses of the daughter of Judah; He hath cast them to the ground, he hath profaned Her kingdom and her princes.
3 He hath broken in the indignation of his wrath Every horn of Israel; He hath withdrawn his right hand From before the enemy; And he burned like fire in Jacob,
The flame devoured all around.
4 Bent hath he his bow as an enemy, Stand did his right hand as an adversary,
And he slew all the delights of the eye In the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion He hath poured forth As fire, his wrath.
5 The Lord hath been like an enemy, He hath destroyed Israel; He hath destroyed all his palaces, He hath demolished his fortresses; He hath increased in the daughter of Judah Mourning and lamentation:
6 And he hath removed as a garden His tabernacle; He hath destroyed his testimony; Forgotten hath Jehovah in Sion The assembly and the Sabbath; He hath rejected, in the indignation of his wrath, The king and the priest:
7 Abhorred hath Jehovah his altar, He hath cast off his sanctuary; Given up hath he into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces: A noise they made in the house of Jehovah, As on the day of the assembly.
8 Resolve did Jehovah to destroy the wall Of the daughter of Sion; He extended a line, He drew not back his hand from scattering; Therefore mourned hath the rampart and the wall, They have fallen together.
9 Sunk have her gates in the ground; He hath destroyed and broken her bars; Her king and her princes, They are among the heathens; There is no law, her prophets,
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They find no vision from Jehovah:
10 They sit on the ground, they are silent, The elders of the daughter of Sion; They cast dust on their head, They gird themselves with sackcloth; Bend to the ground their head Do the virgins of Jerusalem.
11 Consume with tears did mine eyes, Troubled were my bowels; Poured forth on the ground was my liver, For the breach of the daughter of my people; When the child and the suckling Vanished away in the streets of the city.
12 To their mothers they say,- ``Where is corn and wine`` While they vanish away, as a dying man, In the streets of the city, And while they pour out their souls Into the bosom of their mothers
13 What can I testify to thee? What can I compare to thee, O daughter of
Jerusalem? What can I liken to thee, to comfort thee, O virgin, the daughter of Sion?
For great as the sea is thy breach, Who can heal thee?
14 Thy prophets have seen for thee Vanity and insipidity. And they disclosed not thine iniquity, That they might reverse thy captivity; And they saw for thee Prophecies of vanity and expulsions.
15 They clapped at thee their hands, All who passed by on the road; They hissed and moved their head At the daughter of Jerusalem, --- ``Is this the city of which they said, Perfect in beauty, the joy of all the earth?
16 Opened at thee their mouth Have all thine enemies; They hissed and gnashed the teeth, They said, ``We shall devour her, Surely the day which we expected We have found, we have seen.''
17 Jehovah hath done what he had purposed; He hath fulfilled his word, Which he had commanded from days of old; He hath overthrown and not spared; And tie hath made to rejoice over thee the enemy, He hath raised up the horn of thine adversaries.
18 Cry out did their heart to the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Sion, Make tears to flow down As a river, day and night; Give thyself no rest, Let not the pupil of thine eye cease.
19 Rise, cry aloud in the night, At the beginning of the watches; Pour out like waters Thy heart before the Lord; Raise lip to him thy hands For the life of thy little ones, Who faint through famine At the head of all the streets.
20 See, Jehovah, and look, To whom thou hast done this: Should women eat their own fruit, Infants while nursed! Should they be slain in the Lord's sanctuary, The priest and the prophet!
21 Lie on the ground in the streets Did boys and old men; My virgins and my young men, They fell by the sword: Thou hast killed in the day of thy wrath, Thou hast slaughtered and not spared.
22 Thou hast summoned, as on t festive day, My terrors all around; And in the day of the indignation of Jehovah!, There was none surviving or remaining; Whom I nursed and brought up, The enemy consumed them.
Translation: Lamentations 3
CHAPTER 3
1 I am a man who hath seen affliction Through the rod of his indignation'
2 Me hath he led and made to go Into darkness, and not into light.
3 Surely against me is he turned, He turns his hand daily.
4 To grow old hath he made my flesh and my skin, He hath broken my bones.
5 He hath builded against me, And surrounded me with gall and trouble.
6 In darkness hath he made me to lie As the dead for ever.
7 He hath shut me up, that I cannot go forth He hath made heavy my fetter.
8 Even when I cried, and cried aloud, he shut out my prayer.
9 He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stones, My paths hath he perverted.
10 A bear lying in wait hath he been to me, A lion in his den.
11 My ways hath he perverted, and lie hath torn me, He hath made me a waste.
12 He hath bent his bow, and made me As a mark for the arrow.
13 He hath made to enter into my reins The sons of his quiver.
14 I became a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.
15 He hath satiated me with bitterness, He hath filled me with gall.
16 He hath broken with pebbles my teeth, He hath covered me with dust,
17 And far removed from peace is my soul; I have forgotten good.
18 And I said, ``Perished hath my strength And my hope from Jehovah;''
19 When I remember my affliction and my trouble, The poison and the gall:
20 Remembering remember does my soul, And it is humbled within me
21 This will I recall to my mind, Therefore will I hope.
22 The mercies of Jehovah! surely they are not consumed; Surely failed not have his compassion's;
23 Renewed are they in the morning; Great is thy faithfulness.
24 My portion is Jehovah, said my soul, Therefore will I hope in him.
25 Good is Jehovah to him who waits for him, To the soul that seeks him;
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26 Good it is to hope and to be silent, As to the salvation of Jehovah;
27 Good it is for a man To bear the yoke in his youth:
28 He will sit apart, and be silent, For he will raise it on himself;
29 He will put in the dust his mouth, If so be that there is hope;
30 He will give to the smiter his cheek, He will be filled with reproaches.
31 For not cast away for ever Will the Lord;
32 For though he causes grief, he will yet show compassion, According to the multitude of his mercies;
33 :For he does not from his heart afflict, Nor cause grief to the children of men.
34 When one tears under his feet All the bound of the earth, ---
35 When he perverts man's judgment Before the face of the Most High, ---
36 When he turns a man aside in his causes --- The Lord does not regard.
37 Who is this that says, ``It was, And God has not commanded it''
38 From the mouth of the Most High Can not good and evil proceed?
39 Why should he weary himself, a living man, And a man in his sins?
40 Let us examine our ways, and search, And turn to Jehovah;
41 Let us lift up our hearts with our hands To God in the heavens.
42 We have sinned, and have been rebellious, Thou hast not spared;
43 Thou hast covered us over in wrath, and pursued us, Thou hast slain and not spared.
44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, So that prayer cannot pass through.
45 An offscouring and a refuse hast thou made us In the midst of the nations;
46 Opened at us their mouth Have all our enemies;
47 Fear and the pit have come to us, Desolation and a breach.
48 Rivers of waters mine eye brings down, For the breach of the daughter of my people.
49 Mine eye flows down and rests not; There will be no intermissions,
50 Until Jehovah looks down, And beholds from heaven.
51 Mine eye grieves my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.
52 Hunting they have hunted me as a sparrow, Who are mine enemies without cause;
53 They have made fast in a pit my life, And cast a stone over me;
54 Flowed have waters over my head; I said, I am cut off.
55 I called on thy name, Jehovah, From the deepest pit:
56 My voice hast thou heard; close not thine ear To my groaning, to my cry.
57 Thou didst draw nigh in the day I cried to thee, Thou didst say, ``Fear not.''
58 Thou hast, O Lord, pleaded the cause of my soul, Thou hast redeemed my life.
59 Thou hast seen, e Jehovah, my oppression; Defend my cause.
60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance's, All their counsels against me.
61 Thou hast heard, O Jehovah, their reproaches, All their counsels against me,-
62 The speeches of those who rose against me, And their words against me daily.
63 Look on their sitting down and their rising up; I am their song.
64 Render to them their reward, O Jehovah, According to the work of their hands.
65 Give them blindness of heart; Thy curse be on them.
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66 Pursue them in wrath, and destroy them From under the heavens of Jehovah.
Translation: Lamentations 4
CHAPTER 4
1 How obscured is the gold! How changed is the fine gold! Cast forth have been the stones of the sanctuary At the head of all the streets
2 The precious sons of Sion, Clothed in gold, How they are counted as earthen pitchers, The work of the potter's hands!
3 Even serpents draw out the breast, They suckle their young ones: The daughter of my people was cruel, Like the ostriches in the desert.
4 Cleave did the tongue of the suckling To the roof of his mouth for thirst; The little ones asked bread, No one divided to them.
5 They who fed on delicacies Perished in the streets; They who had been brought up in scarlet Embraced the dunghills:
6 And the punishment of the daughter of my people Has been greater than the punishment of Sodom, Which was overthrown as in a moment, And no strokes remained on her.
7 Purer were her Nazarites than snow, Whiter than milk; They were ruddy in their body, Above precious stones; Sapphire was their polish:
8 Darker than darkness became their form, They were not known in the streets;
Cleave did their skin to their bones, It became dry as wood.
9 Better were the slain with the sword Than the slain with famine: They pined away, having been pierced through By the knits of the field.
10 The hands of compassionate mothers Boiled their own offspring; They became food for them, At the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11 Fulfilled has Jehovah his wrath; He poured forth the indignation of his wrath;
And he kindled a fire in Sion, Which devoured her foundations.
12 They could not have believed, the kings of the earth, Nor all the inhabitants of the world, That enter would the adversary and the enemy Into the gates of Jerusalem.
13 For the sin of her prophets, The iniquities of her priests, Who shed in the midst
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of her The blood of the righteous, ---
14 They wandered blind in the streets, They were polluted with blood; Because they could not But touch their garments.
15 Depart ye, ``Unclean,'' they cried to them, Depart, depart, come not near:
Because they fled, and also wandered, They said among the Gentiles, ``They shall not return to dwell;
16 The face of Jehovah hath divided them, He will no more regard them.'' The face of the priests they respected not, And to the elders they shewed no mercy.
17 While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, As to our vain help; In our looking out we looked out To a nation that could not save us.
18 They hunted our steps, So that we could not walk in our streets; Draw near did our end, fulfilled were our days, Surely come did our end.
19 Swifter were our pursuers Than the eagles of heaven; On the mountains they followed us, They lay in wait for us in the desert.
20 The spirit of our nostrils, the anointer of Jehovah, Was taken in their snares;
Of whom we said, ``Under his shadow We shall live among the nations.''
21 Rejoice and be glad, thou daughter of Edom, Who dwellest in the land of Uz.
To thee also shall the cup pass over, Thou shalt be inebriated and made naked.
22 Completed is thy punishment, O daughter of Sion, He will no more deliver thee into exile; He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom, And will uncover thy sin.
Translation: Lamentations 5
CHAPTER 5
1 Remember, O Jehovah, what has come to us; Look, and see our reproach:
2 Our heritage is turned over to foreigners, Our houses to aliens.
3 Orphans are we become, without a father; Our mothers are as widows.
4 Our own water, for money we drink; Our own wood, for a price it comes to us.
5 On our necks have we suffered persecution; We have labored, and had no rest.
6 To the Egyptians we extended the hand, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we their iniquities have borne.
8 Servants have ruled over us; None delivered from their hands.
9 With our life have we procured our bread, Because of the drought of the desert.
10 Our skins are like an oven black, Because of the burnings of famine.
11 Women in Sion have been ravished, Virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes by their own hand were hung, The faces of elders were not honored.
13 Young men they took to grind, And boys under the wood fell.
14 Eiders ceased from the gate, Young men from their music.
15 Ceased has the joy of our heart, Turned into mourning has our dance.
16 Fallen has the crown of our head; Woe now to us, for we have sinned!
17 Therefore faint is our heart; For this darkener! are our eyes,
18 Even for mount Sion, which is desolate; Foxes pass through it.
19 Thou Jehovah for ever sittest, Thy throne is through all ages.
20 Why shouldest thou perpetually forget us, And forsake us for ever.
21 Turn us, Jehovah, to thee, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old;
22 Except thou hast wholly rejected us, And hast become very angry with us.
PRAISE BE TO GOD
Index of Scripture References
Genesis
1:12 1:29 2:19 6:3 6:17
7:8 10:7 11:9
21:31 22:21 23:8 25:2
25:3 25:3 25:6
25:15 25:15
25:27 26:13
29:35 30:6 34:7
35:18 37:36 39:20
44:5
44:10
44:16 47:9
48:15
Exodus
6:4 12:38 14:3
17:15 18:13 19:19
20:6 24:7
32:32
Leviticus
2:14 19:13
Numbers
27:12 31:49
Deuteronomy
4:8 4:29
5:33 8:9
10:12 11:12
11:24
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12:2
12:32
13:1
13:2
13:3 13:5
17:8
17:9
17:12
18:18
18:18 19:1 26:2
27:11-26
27:26
28:1-6
28:18
28:37
28:47
28:58
29:4
29:25
29:29
30:1-3
30:12-14
30:12-14
30:15
30:19
30:19
32:15
Joshua
7:15 11
Judges
9:4 19:24 20:6
Ruth
3:2
1 Samuel
2:6 15:21
15:22 19:20
23:28 25:7 25:25 28:11
2 Samuel
11:14 13:12 17:13
1 Kings
6:15 7:27-37 9:7
11:40 13:30 22:27
2 Kings
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2:3 6:1 9:11 11:1-12:21
25:7 25:11
25:22
1 Chronicles
3:15 3:15 3:17 3:18 4:9
5:14
11:7 24 24:14 29:26
2 Chronicles
12:2 12:16 16:10 16:10
16:10 16:13 16:14 36:1 36:2 36:2 36:5 36:6
36:6 36:9
Nehemiah
13:3
Esther
2:3 10:3
Job
1:2 1:22 3:4 6:19
21:15 24:12 32:1-6
Psalms
1:4 1:5 2:7 8:3
18:26 31:13
32:6 34:5
37:6 38:2 38:12 40:8
41:9
44:2
59:12
69:10
69:22
69:22
72:10
78:69
79:2
79:3
82:6
85:5
86:5
86:9
86:15 88:5
89:27
89:37
89:37
101:8 102:19
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102:19
105:5 107:2
110:4
119:10-16
125:2 126:1
132:14
132:14
132:14
132:14 135:14
139:7-12
142:5 144:8 144:15 146:5
147:2
Proverbs
9:1
Ecclesiastes
10:16
Isaiah
2:21
5:2
5:3
10:22
13:17 18:2 21:14
22:12
22:13
22:14 23 23:2 23:8 24:5
26:21
28:15
31:4 37:24
40:13
44:7
45:7
53:8
55:6
55:9
58:9
60:21 63:4
66:1
Jeremiah
1:2
1:6
1:10 1:16
2:23 3:1 3:2
3:18 4:11 4:12
4:22
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4:28 4:30
6:7 6:25 6:26
7:4 7:6
7:7 7:10
7:12
7:12
7:22
7:23
7:23 8:6
8:22
9:4 9:7
9:13
9:16 10:18
11:10
11:12 11:20 11:20 12:5
12:10
13:4 13:14
14:14
14:15
14:19
15:4 15:4
16:13 16:16
17:5
17:11
17:19 18:1
18:8 18:16
19:13 20:1
20:1-2
20:3
20:4
20:4 20:4
20:5
20:6
20:7
20:8-9
20:10 20:10
20:11
20:12
20:13
20:14-16
20:17-18
21:1-4
21:5
21:5
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
21:6-7
21:8
21:8-9
21:10
21:11-12 21:12
21:13-14
22:1-3
22:4
22:4-5 22:5
22:6 22:7
22:7
22:8-9
22:10
22:11-12
22:13 22:13
22:14 22:14
22:15 22:15
22:16
22:17 22:17 22:18
22:18-19 22:19
22:20
22:21
22:22
22:23
22:24 22:24
22:25 22:25
22:26
22:27
22:28
22:29-30
23:1-3
23:4
23:5-6
23:6
23:6
23:6
23:6
23:7-8
23:9 23:9-15
23:10 23:11
23:11
23:12
23:15
JOHN CALVIN
23:16
23:16
23:17-18
23:19
23:20
23:21
23:21
23:21
23:22
23:23-24 23:25
23:25
23:26-27
23:28
23:28
23:29 23:30
23:30-32
23:33 23:33
23:34
23:35
23:36
23:37
23:38-39
23:40
24:1-2
24:3-5
24:6
24:7
24:8
24:9
24:10
25:1
25:2
25:3-5
25:6
25:7
25:8-9 25:9
25:10
25:11
25:12
25:13 25:14
25:14 25:14
25:15
25:16 25:16 25:16
25:17
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
25:18
25:19
25:20
25:21
25:22
25:23
25:24
25:25 25:26
25:26
25:27
25:28
25:29
25:30 25:30-31 25:31
25:31
25:32
25:33
25:34
25:35
25:36
25:37
25:38
26:1-2
26:3
26:4-6
26:7-8
26:9
26:10
26:11
26:12
26:13
26:14-15
26:16 26:17
26:17-19 26:19-20
26:20-23
26:24
27:1-5
27:6-7 27:7 27:7
27:8
27:9 27:9 27:10
27:10
27:11 27:12
27:12
27:13
27:14
JOHN CALVIN
27:15
27:16
27:17
27:18
27:19-22
28:1-2 28:1-4
28:3
28:4
28:5-6
28:7-9
28:10-11
28:12-13
28:14
28:15
28:16
28:17
29:1 29:2
29:2
29:3-6 29:5
29:7
29:7
29:8
29:9
29:10
29:11
29:12
29:13
29:14 29:15
29:15-17 29:16-20
29:18-19 29:20
29:20-21
29:22 29:23
29:23 29:24
29:24-27 29:26 29:28
29:28-29
29:30-32 29:32
30:17
33:16
33:16 34:5
39:14 46:5
48:11 49:29 51:39
51:40
52:11 52:24
Ezekiel
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
14:9
18:25
18:27 20:46
21:26
21:27
21:27 23:14 27:30
37:12
48:35
Daniel
1:1 1:7 2:38
9:10
Hosea
4:2 5:11 10:4
Amos
9:12
Obadiah
1:26
Jonah
1:3
4:10 4:11
Micah
1:3
2:6
3:12 4:11
6:16
7:20
Habakkuk
1:12
Zephaniah
3:4 3:4
Zechariah
1:3
Malachi
2:7
4:6
Matthew
1:11 1:11 7:6
10:28
23:2
Luke
1:6
10:16
12:47
20:38
JOHN CALVIN
23:31
John
10:35
Acts
6:2-4
17:11
Romans
5:1
6:10
8:28
9:3
10:6
10:6-8 10:9 10:10
12:19
13:1
13:13
15:13
1 Corinthians
1:24 1:25 1:30
2:16 6:11
11:19
11:31
14:38
14:38
14:40
2 Corinthians
1:11
1:20
2:16
2:16
2:16
2:16
10:6
Galatians
1:8
Ephesians
4:11 4:12 6:23
1 Thessalonians
5:3
2 Thessalonians
1:4
1:5
2:3
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
2:10
2:11
2 Timothy
3:16
4:2
Titus
1:9
Hebrews
1:5
12:11
James
1:17
1 Peter
4:17
4:17
1 John
4:1
Genesis
6:3 9:2
9:6
12:7
15:5
15:13 18:14
22:17
26:4
28:14 39:7 42:36
43:14
47:9
Exodus
3:12
3:21 4:22 4:23
11:3 15:20
20:6
21:2 34:7 34:7
Leviticus
19:23-25 21:1 22:4
Numbers
14:18 18:21
Deuteronomy
2:23
5:33
12:4
12:5
JOHN CALVIN
12:26 12:31 14:2 15:1
15:16
15:17
17:6
17:16
18:18
18:18
18:19
24:16
28:25
28:30
28:37
28:66
28:67
30:4
30:4 30:11 31:10
32:15
32:21
Judges
1:35 6:36-40 11:34
1 Samuel
2:6 2:27 18:6 22:17
2 Samuel
2:13 7:12
7:13
19:31
19:37
1 Kings
12:29-31
21:23 21:27-29
2 Kings
9:34
10:15 23:17
24:7
1 Chronicles
5:1
2 Chronicles
15:7
16:14
36:16
Nehemiah
4:17
Psalms
14:1
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
18:26
23:4
23:6
27:3 34:5
38:12
40:7
40:14
40:15
44:2
45:8
51:15
59:11 68:25
78:67
78:68
79:2
79:9
80:8
81:10
83:14
84:6
87:1
87:1
87:5
89:3
89:26
89:36
89:37
89:37
89:37
89:37
89:38
102:26-28
104:31
106 109:12
115:1
116:1
116:4
116:16
116:16
119:73 119:122
119:125
123:1
123:2
JOHN CALVIN
126:6
130:4
130:4
132:11
137:4
143:5
143:6
144:15
144:15
147:2
Proverbs
16:14
Song of Solomon
5:4 5:6
Isaiah
1:10
1:24
2:3
5:1-7
10:7
10:22
10:22
10:23
11:1
11:1 16:1
19:1
22:12
22:13
22:13
28:19
29:8
30:2
30:21
30:21
31:1
40:2
40:3
40:3
45:7
45:19
48:10
52:3
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
53:1
54:13
55:11
57:10
61:3
63:4 63:15
Jeremiah
1:10 1:10
2:21
2:21 2:27 3:6 5:22
7:11
7:13 7:31 7:31 7:31 8:22
8:22
10:24
11:7
11:14 14:19 15:5 19:5
22:19
23:19 23:19
25:14
25:18 25:29 26 26
30:1-3 30:4 30:4
30:4-6
30:7 30:7 30:8
30:8 30:8
30:9
30:10
30:11
30:12
30:13
30:14
30:15
30:16
30:17
30:18
30:19
30:20
30:21
30:22
30:22
30:23
30:24
31:1-2
31:3
JOHN CALVIN
31:4 31:4-5
31:5 31:5
31:6
31:7
31:8
31:9 31:10
31:10
31:11
31:12
31:13
31:14
31:15-16 31:17
31:17
31:18 31:18-19
31:19 31:19
31:20
31:21
31:22
31:23
31:24
31:25
31:26
31:27
31:28
31:29
31:29-30
31:31-32
31:33
31:34
31:35
31:35-36
31:37 31:38
31:38-40
32:1-3 32:1-5
32:4
32:5
32:6-15 32:7 32:10 32:11
32:18 32:19 32:20
32:20
32:21
32:22
32:23
32:24-25
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
32:25
32:26-27
32:28-29
32:30
32:31 32:31
32:32
32:33
32:34
32:35
32:35
32:36-37
32:38
32:39
32:40
32:41
32:42
32:43-44
33:1-6 33:4
33:7
33:8
33:9
33:10-11 33:12
33:12-13 33:13
33:14
33:15
33:16
33:17-18
33:19-21
33:22
33:23-24
33:25-26
34:1-2
34:3
34:4-5
34:6-7
34:8-17
34:16
34:17
34:18-19
34:20
34:21
34:22
35:1-7
35:8-10
JOHN CALVIN
35:11
35:12-15
35:16
35:17
35:18-19
36:1-2
36:3
36:4-6
36:7
36:8
36:9-10
36:11-13
36:14
36:15-16
36:17-18
36:19
36:20-21
36:22-23
36:24
36:25
36:26
36:27-28
36:29-30
36:31
36:32
37:1-2
37:3-8
37:9-10
37:11-14
37:15
37:16
37:17
37:18
37:19
37:20
37:21
38:1-4
38:5 38:6
38:6
38:7-9
38:10
38:11
38:12
38:13
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
38:14
38:15
38:16
38:17
38:18
38:19
38:20-22
38:23
38:24
38:25-26
38:27
38:28
39:1-2
39:3-4
39:5
39:6
39:7
39:8
39:9
39:10
39:11-12
39:13-14
39:15-18
40:1-4
40:5
40:6
40:7-8
40:9-10
40:11-12
40:13-14
40:15-16
41:1-3
41:4-5
41:6-7
41:8 41:9
41:9
41:10
41:11-12
41:13-14
41:15
41:16-18
42:1-3
42:4
42:5-6
JOHN CALVIN
42:7-10
42:11-12
42:13-17
42:18
42:19-21
42:22
43:1-3
43:4
43:5-7
43:8-10
43:11
43:12
43:13
44:1-7
44:8
44:9-10
44:11-12
44:13
44:14
44:14
44:15-16
44:17
44:18
44:19
44:20-23
44:24-26
44:27
44:28
44:29-30
45:1-5
46:1-2
46:3-5
46:6
46:7-8
46:9
46:10
46:11
46:12
46:13
46:14 46:15
46:15
46:16
46:17
46:18
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
46:19
46:20
46:21
46:22
46:23
46:24
46:25
46:26
46:27 46:28
46:28
47:1
47:2
47:3
47:4
47:5
47:6-7
Lamentations
4:10
4:20
Ezekiel
8:6
18:2
18:20
18:25 20:30
21:26
21:27
21:27 23:37
29:14
29:15 30:21
34:23
36:22
36:27
37 39:15
Daniel
6:5 6:6 6:22
Hosea
2:23 5:13
6:9
11:1
Joel
2:28
Amos
6:2 6:2
6:6
JOHN CALVIN
9:11
9:11
Obadiah
1:7
Micah
3:12
6:1
7:19
Nahum
1:3
Habakkuk
1:12
3:2
Zechariah
3:1 7:9
12:6
14:10
Malachi
2:7
4:2
Matthew
1:25
2:18
6:24
8:11
10:42
11:11
15:13
17:21
26:52
28:20
Mark
6:27 16:7
Luke
10:16
10:23
10:30-35
12:47
14:26
14:27
16:22
16:22
John
1:17
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
4:22
10:29
14:6
14:27
16:8
16:21
16:33
16:33
Acts
8:26
16:7
17:28
Romans
2:16
3:3
3:4
4:18
5:1
7:6
7:12
7:15
8:7
8:28
8:28
8:28
8:29
9:27
11:5
11:5
11:7
11:27
12:2
12:3
15:4
16:25
1 Corinthians
1:30
7:5
7:31
12:12
13:5
2 Corinthians
1:19
1:20
JOHN CALVIN
1:20
2:15
2:16
3:6
3:6
3:13
3:18
13:1
Galatians
3:23-25
4:9
Ephesians
6:1
6:2
6:9
Philippians
2:13
3:15
4:7
Colossians
4:1
1 Thessalonians
4:13
5:3
1 Timothy
3:15
4:8
4:8
6:16
2 Timothy
2:8
2:9
2:9
Philemon
1:12
Hebrews
4:12
6:16
8:8-12 8:9
8:13
10:16
11:13
11:13
12:11
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
12:11
James
5:13
Revelation
13:10
Genesis
1:26
1:27
3:6
3:7 6:1 10:22
11 14:1
15:5
21:20
25:13-15
30:33 32:26 44:4 50:9
50:25
Exodus
13:13 20:5 22:23
Leviticus
13:45
26:34
26:35
26:43
Numbers
11:1 16:22
21:27
21:28
21:28
21:29
21:30 24:17
Deuteronomy
2:10
2:26
4:6-8
4:7 4:11
15:6
18:18
22:21-24
28:13
28:37 28:48
30:4
30:12-14
32:29
JOHN CALVIN
Joshua
10:19
Judges
3:15 6:2 9:20 11:24
11:25
Ruth
1:17
1 Samuel
2:10 13:6
14:44 21:5
2 Samuel
3:35
12:29
16:5
16:6
1 Kings
1:14 1:22 11:7
11:33 16:3
2 Kings
13:5
20:12 24:12 24:14 24:20
25:8 25:8 25:11
1 Chronicles
20:1
20:2 22:9
Ezra
9:6
Nehemiah
5:15 9:38 10:29
Job
1:16 1:17 1:18 16:12
39:15
Psalms
2:3
6:2
8:2 11:6 11:6
13:1
16:5
19:12
22:1
22:4
23:6 23:6
28:2
30:5 36:5
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
37:1
37:7
37:8
44:23 46:2
47:7
51:19 52:5
55:22
55:23 64:5
65:3
65:3
68:14
69:3
69:15
69:16
73:2
73:3
74:9 74:11
77:14
79:6
84:6
84:10
89:27
91:15
94:9
99:5
102:2
102:26-28
104:29
104:30
105:15
113:4-6
116:3
116:11
116:12
116:13 119 119:53 119:53
120:5
126:6
132:7
132:13
132:14
132:14
133:1
JOHN CALVIN
134:2
137:4
137:7
137:7
137:7
137:7
137:8
137:9
139:2
144:15
147:2
147:2
Proverbs
1:17
7:23 12:19
18:10 20:17
21:1 23:18
Isaiah
1:9
1:9
1:9
1:9
1:10
1:13
1:14
1:24
2:3
6:10
7:18 9:14
10:7
10:21
10:22 13:5 13:16-18
13:17
14:32 15:1 15:5 15:5
15:5 15:6 15:7 16:6
16:6
17:2 19:15 22:6
28:15
28:24-26 28:28
29:13
30:15
33:1 34:11
37:13
37:22
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
37:23
37:24 37:26
38:13
39:1
40:1
40:12
40:18
42:8 44:25
44:28
45:1
46:1
54:7
54:8 55:11 58:3
59:1
59:2 63:1
63:1
65:24
66:1
Jeremiah
2:18 4:9 5
7 8:16
10 10
10:11
10:25
17:5-8
17:6
17:22
17:27
18:2
18:2-4
19:11
21 22:14
23:14
25:29 27:3
31:31
31:32
31:34
32:18 34 34 39:9
JOHN CALVIN
39:9 40:3 45:4 47:3
48:1
48:2
48:3
48:4
48:5-6
48:7
48:8
48:9
48:10
48:11
48:12
48:13
48:14-15 48:15 48:15
48:16
48:17
48:18
48:19
48:20-24 48:24
48:25
48:26-27
48:28
48:29
48:30
48:31
48:32
48:33
48:34
48:35
48:36
48:37
48:38
48:39
48:40
48:41
48:42
48:43-44
48:45
48:46
48:47
49:1
49:2
49:3
49:4
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
49:5
49:6
49:7
49:8
49:9
49:10-11
49:12
49:12
49:13
49:14
49:15
49:16
49:17
49:18
49:19
49:19 49:19
49:20
49:21
49:22
49:23
49:24
49:24
49:25
49:26
49:27
49:28
49:29
49:30
49:31
49:32
49:33
49:34-35
49:36
49:37
49:38
49:39
50:1
50:2
50:3
50:4
50:5
50:6
50:7
50:8
JOHN CALVIN
50:9
50:10
50:11-12
50:13
50:14
50:15
50:16
50:17
50:18
50:19
50:20
50:21 50:21
50:22 50:23
50:23-24 50:24
50:25
50:26
50:27
50:28
50:29
50:30 50:30
50:31 50:31
50:32 50:33
50:33-34
50:35
50:36
50:37
50:38
50:39
50:40
50:41
50:42
50:43
50:44
50:45
50:46
51:1
51:2
51:3
51:4
51:5
51:6
51:7
51:8
51:9
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
51:10
51:11
51:12
51:13
51:14
51:15-16
51:17
51:18
51:19
51:20-23 51:24
51:24
51:25
51:26
51:27
51:28
51:29
51:30
51:31
51:32
51:33
51:33
51:34
51:35-36 51:37
51:37
51:38
51:39
51:40
51:41
51:42
51:43
51:44
51:45
51:46
51:47 51:47
51:48
51:49
51:50
51:51
51:52
51:53
51:54
51:55 51:55 51:56
51:56
51:57
JOHN CALVIN
51:58
51:59 51:59 51:60
51:60-64 51:61
52:1-34
Lamentations
1:1 1:1 1:1
1:2
1:3
1:4
1:5
1:6
1:7
1:8 1:8 1:8
1:9
1:10
1:11
1:12
1:13
1:14
1:15
1:16
1:17
1:18
1:19
1:20
1:21
1:22
2:1
2:2
2:3
2:4
2:5
2:6
2:7
2:8
2:9
2:10
2:11
2:12
2:13
2:14 2:15
2:15
2:16
2:17
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
2:18 2:18 2:19
2:19
2:20
2:21
2:22
3:1
3:2
3:3
3:4
3:5
3:6
3:7
3:8
3:9
3:10
3:11
3:12
3:13
3:14
3:15
3:16
3:17
3:18 3:19
3:19 3:19
3:20 3:20
3:21 3:21
3:22
3:23
3:24
3:25 3:25 3:25
3:26
3:27
3:28
3:29
3:30
3:31
3:32
3:33
3:34-36 3:36 3:36
3:37-38 3:39
3:39
3:40
3:41
3:42
JOHN CALVIN
3:43
3:44
3:45
3:46
3:47
3:48
3:49
3:50
3:51
3:52
3:53
3:54
3:55
3:56
3:57
3:58
3:59
3:60
3:61
3:62
3:63
3:64
3:65
3:66
4:1
4:2
4:3
4:4
4:5
4:6
4:7-8 4:9
4:9
4:10
4:11
4:12 4:12-16
4:13 4:13
4:14 4:14-16
4:15
4:16
4:17
4:18
4:19
4:20
4:21
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
4:22
5:1
5:2
5:3
5:4
5:5
5:6
5:7
5:8
5:9
5:10
5:11
5:12
5:13
5:14
5:15
5:16
5:17
5:18
5:19
5:20
5:21
5:22
Ezekiel
10:18
16:46
16:47
18:2
18:20 21:28-32
25 25:2-7
25:12-14
29:20
47:1-12
Daniel
1:1 3:1 5:1
5:25-30
6:16
6:17 8:2
9:5
9:8 9:14
Joel
2:13
2:32
Amos
JOHN CALVIN
1:13
1:13 1:13-15 1:15
Obadiah
1:1
1:8
1:8
Micah
2:10
7:8
7:8
7:10
Nahum
3:17
Habakkuk
2:3
2:5
2:18
3:2
3:3
Zephaniah
2:8-11 2:9
Haggai
2:7
Zechariah
2:8
2:8
2:8
11:5
Malachi
1:2
1:3
Matthew
5:2
7:2
7:11
15:26 18:30-34
24:6
Luke
1:17 1:29
1:74
1:75
2:26
6:38
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
12:47
23:31
Acts
2:9
2:9
Romans
1:28
4:18
5:5
8:24
8:25
8:28
8:28
8:31
8:35-39
11:5
11:29
11:33
15:4
1 Corinthians
4:13
11:31
2 Corinthians
1:23
2:7
7:11
Galatians
5:17
Colossians
1:20
3:3
3:3
3:4
1 Thessalonians
5:3
5:3
2 Thessalonians
1:6
1:7
2:10
2:11
2:12
1 Timothy
2:8
JOHN CALVIN
Hebrews
6:13
10:36
James
2:13
1 Peter
2:9
4:17
4:18
2 Peter
3:16
Jude
1:7
1:7
1 Maccabees
Index of Scripture Commentary
Jeremiah
20 20:1 20:3 20:4 20:5 20:6 20:7 20:8 20:9 20:10
20:11 20:12 20:13 20:14 20:15 20:16 20:17 20:18 21
21:1 21:2 21:3 21:4 21:5 21:6 21:7 21:8 21:9 21:10
21:11 21:12 21:13 21:14 22 22:1 22:2 22:3 22:4 22:5
22:6 22:7 22:8 22:9 22:10 22:11 22:13 22:14 22:15
22:16 22:17 22:18 22:19 22:20 22:21 22:22 22:23 22:24
22:25 22:26 22:27 22:28 22:29 22:30 23 23:1 23:2
23:3 23:4 23:5 23:6 23:7 23:8 23:9 23:10 23:11 23:12
23:13 23:14 23:15 23:16 23:17 23:18 23:19 23:20 23:21
23:22 23:23 23:24 23:25 23:26 23:27 23:28 23:29 23:30
23:31 23:32 23:33 23:34 23:35 23:36 23:37 23:38 23:39
23:40 24 24:1 24:2 24:3 24:5 24:6 24:7 24:8 24:9
24:10 25 25:1 25:2 25:3 25:4 25:5 25:6 25:7 25:9
25:10 25:11 25:12 25:13 25:14 25:15 25:16 25:17 25:18
25:19 25:20 25:21 25:22 25:23 25:24 25:25 25:26 25:27
25:28 25:29 25:30 25:31 25:32 25:33 25:34 25:35 25:36
25:37 25:38 26 26:1 26:2 26:3 26:4 26:5 26:6 26:7
26:8 26:9 26:10 26:11 26:12 26:13 26:14 26:15 26:16
26:17 26:18 26:19 26:20 26:21 26:22 26:23 26:24 27
27:1 27:3 27:4 27:5 27:6 27:7 27:8 27:9 27:10 27:11
27:12 27:13 27:14 27:15 27:16 27:17 27:18 27:19 27:20
27:21 28 28:1 28:3 28:4 28:5 28:6 28:7 28:8 28:9
28:10 28:11 28:12 28:13 28:14 28:15 28:16 28:17 29
29:1 29:2 29:3 29:5 29:6 29:7 29:8 29:9 29:10 29:11
29:12 29:13 29:14 29:15 29:16 29:17 29:18 29:19 29:20
29:21 29:22 29:23 29:24 29:25 29:26 29:28 29:29 29:31
JOHN CALVIN
29:32
Jeremiah
30 30:1 30:2 30:3 30:4 30:5 30:6 30:7 30:8 30:9
30:10 30:11 30:12 30:13 30:14 30:15 30:16 30:17 30:18
30:19 30:20 30:21 30:22 30:23 30:24 31 31:2 31:3
31:4 31:5 31:6 31:7 31:8 31:9 31:10 31:11 31:12
31:13 31:14 31:15 31:16 31:17 31:18 31:19 31:20 31:21
31:22 31:23 31:24 31:25 31:26 31:27 31:28 31:29 31:31
31:32 31:33 31:34 31:36 31:37 31:38 31:39 31:40 32
32:1 32:2 32:3 32:4 32:5 32:6 32:7 32:8 32:9 32:10
32:11 32:12 32:14 32:16 32:17 32:18 32:19 32:20 32:21
32:22 32:23 32:24 32:27 32:28 32:29 32:30 32:31 32:32
32:33 32:34 32:35 32:36 32:37 32:38 32:39 32:40 32:41
32:42 32:43 32:44 33 33:1 33:2 33:3 33:4 33:5 33:6
33:7 33:8 33:9 33:10 33:11 33:12 33:13 33:14 33:15
33:16 33:17 33:18 33:19 33:20 33:21 33:22 33:24 33:25
33:26 34 34:1 34:2 34:3 34:4 34:5 34:6 34:7 34:10
34:11 34:13 34:14 34:15 34:16 34:17 34:18 34:19 34:20
34:21 34:22 35 35:1 35:2 35:3 35:5 35:8 35:9 35:11
35:13 35:14 35:15 35:16 35:17 35:18 35:19 36 36:1
36:2 36:3 36:4 36:6 36:7 36:8 36:9 36:10 36:12 36:14
36:16 36:17 36:18 36:19 36:20 36:21 36:23 36:24 36:25
36:26 36:28 36:29 36:30 36:31 36:32 37 37:1 37:3
37:4 37:7 37:9 37:10 37:12 37:13 37:15 37:16 37:17
37:18 37:19 37:20 37:21 38 38:1 38:2 38:3 38:4 38:5
38:6 38:7 38:8 38:9 38:10 38:11 38:12 38:13 38:14
38:15 38:16 38:17 38:18 38:19 38:20 38:21 38:22 38:23
38:24 38:25 38:26 38:27 38:28 39 39:1 39:2 39:3 39:4
39:5 39:6 39:7 39:8 39:9 39:10 39:11 39:12 39:14
39:15 39:16 39:17 39:18 40 40:1 40:3 40:5 40:6 40:7
40:8 40:9 40:10 40:11 40:12 40:13 40:14 40:16 41
41:1 41:5 41:7 41:8 41:9 41:10 41:12 41:14 41:15
41:16 41:17 41:18 42 42:1 42:2 42:3 42:4 42:5 42:6
42:7 42:8 42:9 42:10 42:11 42:12 42:13 42:14 42:15
42:18 42:19 42:20 42:21 42:22 43 43:1 43:2 43:3 43:4
43:5 43:6 43:7 43:8 43:9 43:10 43:11 43:12 43:13 44
44:1 44:2 44:3 44:4 44:5 44:6 44:7 44:8 44:9 44:10
44:11 44:12 44:13 44:14 44:15 44:16 44:17 44:18 44:19
44:20 44:21 44:22 44:23 44:25 44:26 44:27 44:28 44:29
44:30 45 45:1 45:3 45:4 45:5 46 46:1 46:2 46:3
46:5 46:6 46:7 46:8 46:9 46:10 46:11 46:12 46:13
46:14 46:15 46:16 46:17 46:18 46:19 46:20 46:21 46:22
46:23 46:24 46:25 46:26 46:27 46:28 47 47:1 47:2
47:3 47:4 47:5 47:6 47:7
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
Jeremiah
48 48:1 48:2 48:3 48:4 48:5 48:6 48:7 48:8 48:9
48:10 48:11 48:12 48:13 48:14 48:16 48:17 48:18 48:19
48:20 48:25 48:26 48:27 48:28 48:29 48:30 48:31 48:32
48:33 48:34 48:35 48:36 48:37 48:38 48:39 48:40 48:41
48:42 48:43 48:44 48:45 48:46 48:47 49 49:1 49:2
49:3 49:4 49:5 49:6 49:7 49:8 49:9 49:10 49:11 49:12
49:13 49:14 49:15 49:16 49:17 49:18 49:19 49:20 49:21
49:22 49:23 49:24 49:25 49:26 49:27 49:28 49:29 49:30
49:31 49:32 49:33 49:34 49:35 49:36 49:37 49:38 49:39
50 50:1 50:2 50:3 50:4 50:5 50:6 50:7 50:8 50:9
50:10 50:11 50:12 50:13 50:14 50:15 50:16 50:17 50:18
50:19 50:20 50:21 50:22 50:23 50:24 50:25 50:26 50:27
50:28 50:29 50:30 50:31 50:32 50:33 50:34 50:35 50:36
50:37 50:38 50:39 50:40 50:41 50:42 50:43 50:44 50:45
50:46 51 51:1 51:2 51:3 51:4 51:5 51:6 51:7 51:8
51:9 51:10 51:11 51:12 51:13 51:14 51:15 51:16 51:17
51:18 51:19 51:20 51:24 51:25 51:26 51:27 51:28 51:29
51:30 51:31 51:32 51:33 51:34 51:35 51:36 51:37 51:38
51:39 51:40 51:41 51:42 51:43 51:44 51:45 51:46 51:47
51:48 51:49 51:50 51:51 51:52 51:53 51:54 51:55 51:56
51:57 51:58 51:59 51:60 51:61 51:62 51:63 51:64 52
Lamentations
1 1:1 1:2 1:3 1:4 1:5 1:6 1:7 1:8 1:9 1:10 1:11
1:12 1:13 1:14 1:15 1:16 1:17 1:18 1:19 1:20 1:21
1:22 2 2:1 2:2 2:3 2:4 2:5 2:6 2:7 2:8 2:9 2:10
2:11 2:12 2:13 2:14 2:15 2:16 2:17 2:18 2:19 2:20
2:21 2:22 3 3:1 3:2 3:3 3:4 3:5 3:6 3:7 3:8 3:9
3:10 3:11 3:12 3:13 3:14 3:15 3:16 3:17 3:18 3:19
3:20 3:21 3:22 3:23 3:24 3:25 3:26 3:27 3:28 3:29
3:30 3:31 3:32 3:33 3:34 3:37 3:38 3:39 3:40 3:41
3:42 3:43 3:44 3:45 3:46 3:47 3:48 3:49 3:50 3:51
3:52 3:53 3:54 3:55 3:56 3:57 3:58 3:59 3:60 3:61
3:62 3:63 3:64 3:65 3:66 4 4:1 4:2 4:3 4:4 4:5
4:6 4:7 4:8 4:9 4:10 4:11 4:12 4:13 4:14 4:15 4:16
4:17 4:18 4:19 4:20 4:21 4:22 5 5:1 5:2 5:3 5:4
5:5 5:6 5:7 5:8 5:9 5:10 5:11 5:12 5:13 5:14 5:15
Greek Words and Phrases
• {ἀνατολὴν} {δίκαιαν}: 1 • {ἀποῤῥίψω}: 1 • {ἰσχὺν}: 1 • {ὁ} {κληθήσεται}: 1 • {ὅτι}: 1 • {ῥιπιστὰ}: 1 • {Καὶ} {βασιλεύσει} {βασιλεὺς}: 1 • {ζασανιστήριον}: 1 • {κάκων}: 1 • {καρδιογνώστης},: 1 • {κελεύειν}: 1 • {λὢμμα}: 1 • {μέτοικον}: 1 • {μίλτος}: 1 • {μίλτω}: 1 • {μαχητὴς} {ἰσχύων}: 1 • {μετάστρεφω}: 1 • {πονήρων}: 1 • {πρὸς}: 1 • {πρὸς} {ἅ} ({ἔθνη})-{πρὸς} {αὐτούς}: 1 • {σακέαν}: 1 • {στρεζλωτήριον}: 1 • {συγκλείς}: 1 • {ἀποικία}: 1 • {ἀρχιμάγειρον}: 1 • {δυνάστας}: 1 • {εὐθανασίαν}: 1
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
• {κατὰ}: 1 • {οὕτος}: 1 • {ἀπωσμῶν}: 1 • {ἐνδεχόμενα}: 1 • {ἐνδεχόμενον}: 1 • {Θρήνους}: 1 • {κέλευμα}: 1 2 • {κέλευσμα}: 1 • {κελευμα}: 1 • {περιψήματα}: 1 2
Hebrew Words and Phrases
• :{}א1 2 • :{}אולי1 2 • :{}אחרית1 2 • :{}איש1 • :{}אך1 • :{}אל1 2 3 4 5 • :{}אלה1 2 3 4 • :{}אם1 2 • :{}אמור1 • :{}אמר1 • :{}אמרו1 • :{}אמרים1 • {}אמור{: }אמרים1 • :{}אנוש1 • :{}אף1 2 • {}הגליתי{: }אשו1 • :{}אשר1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 • {}הנחלתי{: }אשר1 • {}נתתי{: }אשר1 • {}לפניהם{: }נתתי{ }אשר1 • {}הזה{: }הדבר{ }את1 • {}הדברים{: }את1 • :{}אתבש1 • :{}אתם1 • {}המשא{: }אתם1 • {}מח-{}משא{: }את1 • :{}ב1 2 3 4 5 6 7
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
• :{}באמת1 • :{}באפר1 • :{}בינתם1 • :{}בם1 2 • :{}בצע1 • :{}בקש1 • {}רבים{: }גוים1 • :{}גור1 • :{}גזול1 • :{}גזל1 2 • :{}גלות1 • :{}גם1 • :{}גרע1 • :{}דבר1 • :{}דון1 2 • :{}דרש1 2 • :{}ה1 2 3 4 • :{}האדמה1 • :{}האמרים1 • :{}הארף1 • :{}הגבירה1 • :{}הוא1 • :{}הידד1 • :{}היה1 • :{}הכלא1 • :{}הלך1 • :{}הלכתם1 • :{}הלק1 • :{}המהפכת1 • :{}הנני1 2 • :{}הסהר1 • {}עליכם{: }הצרים1 • :{}הרע1 • :{}השנה1 • :{}ו1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 • {}בסודי{: }ואםעמדו1 • :{}הנשארים-{}ואת1 • :{}וגם1 • :{}ושבו1 • :{}זה1 • :{}זוע1 • :{}ח1 2 • :{}חאדמה1 • :{}חול1
JOHN CALVIN
• :{}חור1 2 • :{}חזון1 • :{}חלל1 • :{}חמה1 • :{}חנה1 • :{}חנס1 • :{}חרב1 2 • {}היונה{: }חרב1 • :{}חרבה1 • :{}חרה1 • :{}חרון1 2 3 • :{}חתת1 2 • :{}טובה1 • :{}י1 2 • :{}יושב1 • :{}יחול1 2 • :{}יחל1 • :{}יחת1 • :{}ינה1 • :{}יסר1 • :{}יקראו1 • :{}יש1 • :{}ישב1 • :{}ישר1 • :{}כ1 2 3 • :{}כה1 • :{}כוה1 • :{}כח1 • :{}כי1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 • {}כן{: }כי-{}על1 • :{}כיאם1 • :{}כלה1 • :{}כלי1 2 • :{}כלמות1 • :{}כם1 • :{}ל1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 • :{}לה1 • :{}לו1 • :{}לכן1 • :{}לקה1 2 3 • :{}ם1 • :{}מהפכת1 • :{}מוט1 • :{}מוסר1
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
• :{}מוסרות1 • :{}מחלימים1 • :{}מחלמים1 • :{}מיכה1 • :{}מיכיה1 • :{}מישור1 • :{}מלאת1 • :{}מסביב1 • :{}מסגר1 • :{}מסכ1 • :{}מעברים1 • :{}מעל1 • :{}מצרים1 • :{}מרגלים1 • :{}מרוחים1 • :{}משא1 2 3 • :{}משגע1 2 • :{}משחתים1 • :{}משל1 2 • :{}משנע1 • :{}מתחולל1 • :{}נאם1 • {}יהוה{: }נאם1 • :{}נאף1 • :{}נבלה1 • :{}נהה1 • :{}נהנת1 • :{}נחנת1 • :{}נחת1 2 • :{}נטש1 • :{}נמש1 • :{}נפל1 • :{}נקה1 • :{}נקרא1 • :{}נשא1 2 3 4 • :{}נשה1 2 • :{}נשיתי1 • :{}נתן1 • :{}סכ1 • :{}סרה1 • :{}סריסים1 • :{}עבד1 2 • :{}עבדו1 • :{}עבר1 2 3
JOHN CALVIN
• :{}עולם1 2 • :{}עון1 • :{}עונה1 • :{}עזה1 • :{}על1 2 3 4 • :{}ענן1 • :{}עננים1 2 3 • :{}ערב1 2 • :{}עשה1 • :{}עשות1 • :{}עשק1 2 3 4 5 • :{}פגע1 • :{}פוף1 2 • :{}פוש1 • :{}פש1 • :{}פשה1 • :{}פשח1 • :{}קדש1 2 • :{}קלה1 • :{}קלל1 • :{}קללה1 • :{}קם1 • :{}קסם1 • :{}קרא1 2 3 4 • :{}קרע1 • :{}רבים1 2 • :{}רוף1 • :{}ריף1 • :{}רעב1 • :{}רעה1 • :{}רצה1 • :{}ש1 • :{}שאון1 • :{}שארית1 • :{}שב1 • :{}שבו1 2 • :{}שחת1 • :{}שיש1 • :{}שכל1 2 • :{}שלום1 • :{}שם1 • :{}שמה1 • :{}שמם1 • :{}שמע1
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
• :{}שנינה1 • :{}שערים1 • :{}שקר1 2 • :{}שר1 • :{}שרי1 • :{}ששר1 • :{}ת1 • :{}תעשו1 • :{}תפלה1 • K: 1 • :{}כבד1 • :{}תשיאו1 • :{}א1 2 3 4 • :{}אולי1 • :{}אותם1 • :{}אזכרנו1 • :{}אך1 2 3 4 • :{}אל1 2 3 4 5 • :{}אלה1 2 3 • :{}אם1 2 • :{}אמון1 • :{}אמן1 • :{}אמת1 2 • :{}אנוש1 • :{}אנשים1 • :{}אפי1 • :{}ארחה1 • :{}ארם1 • :{}ארמון1 • :{}אשר1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 • :{}את1 2 3 • :{}ב1 2 3 4 • :{}באים1 2 • :{}בה1 • :{}בהם1 • :{}בו1 • :{}בור1 • :{}בית1 • :{}בכה1 • :{}במה1 • :{}במות1 • :{}בן1 • :{}בעלתי1 • :{}ג1
JOHN CALVIN
• :{}גאל1 • :{}גבר1 • :{}גברים1 • :{}גדלות1 • :{}גהר1 • :{}גור1 2 • :{}גלל1 • :{}גם1 2 3 • :{}גמ1 • :{}געלתי1 • :{}דאב1 2 • :{}דרש1 • :{}דשן1 2 • :{}ה1 2 3 4 • :{}האסור1 • :{}הוא1 • {}זה{: }הוא1 • :{}הוי1 • :{}החטיא1 • :{}החניות1 • :{}החקים1 • :{}היונה1 • :{}הלוך1 2 • :{}הלך1 2 • :{}הללו1 • :{}המון1 • {}אנשי{: }המלחמה1 • :{}הנה1 2 • :{}הנני1 2 • :{}הפנה1 • :{}הפנים1 • :{}הקימו1 • :{}הקמתי1 • :{}הרבה1 • :{}הרגיע1 • :{}הרם1 • :{}הרס1 • :{}השובבה1 • :{}ו1 2 3 4 5 6 • :{}וגם1 • :{}ויבאו1 • {}תחפנחס{: }ויבאו-{}עד1 • :{}זור1 • :{}חי1
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
• :{}חיל1 • :{}חלל1 • :{}חלק1 • :{}חמתי1 • :{}חקים1 • :{}חקר1 • :{}חקת1 • :{}חרבה1 • :{}חרדה1 • :{}חרם1 • :{}חתת1 • :{}טבח1 • :{}טהר1 • :{}יגון1 • :{}יין1 • :{}ילד1 • :{}יסר1 2 3 • :{}יצא1 • :{}ירש1 • :{}ישב1 • :{}ישובו1 • :{}ישיבו1 • :{}כ1 2 • :{}כאשר1 • :{}כבש1 • :{}כון1 • :{}כושל1 • :{}כי1 2 3 4 5 • :{}ככר1 • :{}כל1 • :{}כשל1 • :{}ל1 2 3 4 5 6 • {}לו{: }יהיה{ }לא1 • :{}לאך1 • :{}לדוד1 • :{}להם1 2 • :{}להרגיעו1 • :{}לך1 • :{}לכן1 • :{}למלך1 • :{}מ1 • :{}מאין1 • :{}מגלה1 2 • :{}מגן1
JOHN CALVIN
• :{}מדד1 • :{}מדוע1 • :{}מוסר1 2 • :{}מועד1 • :{}מזור1 • :{}מכאב1 2 • :{}מלך1 • :{}מנחה1 2 • :{}מעת1 • :{}מצוה1 • :{}מרבק1 • :{}משאה1 • :{}משפט1 • :{}משרתי1 • {}אותי{: }משרתי1 • :{}מתנודד1 • :{}נא1 2 • :{}נדד1 2 • :{}נוד1 2 3 • :{}נחם1 • :{}נחשת1 • :{}נפל1 • :{}נפש1 2 • {}עיפה{: }נפש1 • :{}נקה1 2 3 • :{}נתתי1 • :{}סבב1 • :{}סחב1 • :{}סלח1 • :{}סלחים1 • :{}סללות1 • :{}סללת1 • :{}סער1 • :{}סף1 • :{}ספר1 2 3 • :{}ספרים1 • :{}סרסים1 • :{}ע1 2 3 4 • :{}עבד1 • :{}עבר1 2 3 • :{}עד1 • :{}עזה1 • :{}עיפה1 • :{}על1 2 3 4 5
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
• {}משפטו{: }על1 • :{}עלה1 2 • :{}עמק1 • :{}עמרה1 • :{}עצור1 • :{}ערב1 2 3 • :{}ערך1 • {}לה{: }עשה1 • :{}פדה1 • {}נאל{: }פדה1 • :{}פלא1 2 • :{}פלטים1 • :{}פליטים1 • :{}פרסות1 • :{}ציונים1 • :{}צינים1 • :{}צנה1 • :{}צער1 2 • :{}קום1 • :{}קיף1 • :{}קנה1 • :{}קף1 • :{}קצף1 • :{}קרא1 • :{}קרע1 • :{}רב1 • :{}רבו1 • :{}רבק1 • :{}רגע1 • :{}רוה1 2 • :{}רם1 • :{}רעות1 • :{}רפאות1 • :{}רשעים1 • :{}שאון1 • :{}שאנן1 • :{}שב1 2 • :{}שבות1 • :{}שבר1 • :{}שוב1 • :{}שמה1 • :{}שממה1 • :{}שמע1 • :{}שפט1
JOHN CALVIN
• :{}שפריר1 • :{}שרת1 • :{}תדעו1 • :{}תחנונים1 • :{}תמר1 • :{}תמרורים1 • :{}תעה1 • :{}תער1 • :{}תשאו1 • :{}חמר1 • :{}מה1 • :{}א1 2 3 4 5 6 • :{}אבד1 • :{}אבירים1 • :{}אבל1 • :{}אגמים1 • :{}אגמן1 • :{}אהבים1 • :{}אולי1 • :{}אחריהם1 • :{}איבי1 • :{}איים1 2 3 • :{}איכה1 2 • :{}אימים1 2 • :{}איש1 • :{}אכה1 2 • :{}אל1 2 3 4 5 • {}לא{: }אם1 • :{}אמת1 2 • :{}אני1 • :{}אנכי1 • :{}אנק1 • :{}אסל1 • :{}אצר1 • :{}ארגיעה1 • :{}אריצם1 • :{}אריצנו1 • :{}אשם1 • :{}אשר1 2 3 4 5 • {}לב{: }אשר1 • :{}את1 2 • :{}ב1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 • :{}בד1 • :{}בדא1
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
• :{}בדים1 2 3 4 5 6 7 • :{}בום1 • :{}בחורים1 • :{}בחר1 • :{}בחריו1 • {}דאגה{: }בים1 • :{}בך1 • :{}בכה1 • :{}בנה1 • :{}בנים1 • :{}בעי1 • :{}בקק1 • :{}בת1 • :{}גאון1 • :{}גברים1 • :{}גדע1 • :{}גדר1 • :{}גדרה1 • {}שליו{: }גוי1 • :{}גורים1 • :{}גזז1 • :{}גזית1 • :{}גם1 2 3 4 5 6 • :{}ד1 • :{}דוש1 • :{}דמם1 • :{}דשאה1 • :{}דשה1 • :{}ה1 2 3 4 • :{}הגה1 2 3 4 • {}בם{: }החזיקו1 • {}אתריהם{: }החרם1 • {: }הטוב1 • :{}הידד1 2 3 • {}הידד{: }הידד1 2 • :{}הלל1 • :{}השובבה1 • :{}ו1 2 3 4 5 6 7 • {}יתעל{: }ואל1 • :{}ויספו1 • :{}ויעפו1 • :{}ונפל1 • :{}ז1 • :{}זארים1
JOHN CALVIN
• :{}זאת1 • :{}זהב1 • :{}זלעפות1 • :{}חול1 • :{}חזק1 2 • :{}חטאת1 2 • :{}חלל1 • :{}חללים1 • :{}חמור1 • :{}חמם1 • :{}חמס1 • :{}חמרמרו1 • :{}חמת1 • :{}חרב1 2 3 • :{}חרום1 • :{}חרם1 • :{}חשב1 • {}עליה{: }חשבו1 • :{}חשבון1 • :{}חת1 • :{}חתת1 2 • :{}טוב1 • :{}טחן1 • {}טמא{: }טמא1 • {}יקרא{: }טמא{ }טמא1 • :{}טפח1 • :{}טפס1 • :{}טפסר1 2 • :{}י1 2 3 4 • :{}יאל1 • :{}יבאו1 • :{}יגה1 • :{}יגעו1 • :{}יד1 • :{}ידרך1 • :{}ימי1 • :{}ימם1 • :{}יעד1 • :{}יעלה1 • :{}יענה1 2 • :{}ירד1 • :{}ישב1 • :{}ישבה1 • :{}ישבי1
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
• :{}ישם1 • :{}יתאונן1 • :{}יתרת1 2 • :{}כ1 2 3 4 5 6 • :{}כי1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 • {}אם{: }כי1 2 3 4 • :{}כלה1 • :{}כלילת1 • :{}כלל1 • {}דרכי-{}קשת{: }כל1 • :{}היום-{}כל1 • :{}כן1 2 • :{}כשל1 2 • :{}כתם1 2 • :{}ל1 2 3 4 5 • :{}לא1 2 3 • {}הידד{: }לא1 • {}בדיו{: }כן{ }לא1 • {}מחלנו{: }לאבל1 • :{}לב1 2 • :{}לו1 • :{}לחי1 • :{}לי1 • :{}לכן1 2 3 • :{}למעדנים1 • :{}לענה1 • :{}מ1 2 • :{}מאבס1 • :{}מאוס1 • :{}מאת1 • :{}לב-{}מגנת1 • :{}מדוחים1 • :{}מדמן1 • :{}מוג1 • :{}מועד1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 • :{}מועדו1 • :{}מלכם1 • :{}ממרום1 • :{}מן1 2 3 • :{}מנוחה1 • :{}מרד1 • :{}מרה1 • :{}מרוד1 • :{}מרמה1
JOHN CALVIN
• :{}משאה1 • :{}משאות1 • :{}משאת1 • :{}משיב1 • :{}משם1 • :{}מתרא1 • {: }נאנחיםץ1 • :{}נד1 • :{}נדה1 2 3 • :{}נהר1 • :{}נטל1 2 • :{}נידה1 • :{}נפל1 • :{}נפף1 2 • :{}נשא1 • :{}נשים1 • :{}נשקד1 • :{}סוף1 • {}טמא{: }סורו{ }סורו1 • :{}סורר1 • :{}סחב1 • :{}סחי1 2 • :{}סכו1 • :{}סמר1 • :{}סר1 • :{}סרח1 2 • :{}ע1 2 • :{}עבד1 • :{}עבר1 • :{}עברה1 • :{}עברתו1 • {}מאד{: }עד1 • :{}עדינו1 • :{}עוד1 • :{}עוה1 • :{}עול1 • :{}עולם1 2 3 • :{}עון1 • :{}עות1 • :{}עותתי1 • :{}עזב1 2 • :{}על1 2 3 4 5 • :{}עלה1 2 3 • :{}עלו1
JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS
• :{}עלי1 • :{}עלם1 • :{}עף1 • :{}ערב1 • :{}ערוער1 2 • :{}ערמים1 • :{}ערער1 • :{}עת1 • :{}עתף1 • :{}פ1 2 • :{}פאה1 • :{}פדים1 • :{}פחד1 • :{}פחת1 • :{}פלאות1 • :{}פלף1 • :{}פן1 • :{}פסל1 • :{}פקוד1 • :{}פקותם1 • :{}פרי1 2 • :{}פרש1 • :{}פשח1 • :{}צהל1 • :{}צוערה1 • :{}ציים1 2 • :{}ציף1 • :{}צמא1 • :{}צנשקד1 2 • :{}צעוריה1 • :{}צעלל1 • :{}צפלאים1 • :{}צר1 • :{}צרי1 • :{}צרף1 • :{}קדקד1 2 • :{}קינוה1 • :{}קינות1 • :{}הרשת-{}קיר1 • :{}קמי1 • :{}קסמים1 • {}פאה{: }קצוצי1 2 • :{}קצף1 • :{}קרא1 2
JOHN CALVIN
• :{}קרקר1 2 • :{}ר1 • :{}ראה1 • :{}ראש1 • :{}רבה1 • :{}רבים1 2 3 4 • :{}רגע1 2 3 • :{}רדה1 • :{}רוד1 • :{}רוח1 • :{}ש1 2 3 4 • :{}שאת1 • :{}שב1 • :{}שבה1 • :{}שבר1 2 3 • :{}שבת1 • :{}שדד1 2 • {}יהוה{: }שדד1 • :{}שדדי1 • :{}שה1 • :{}שובבים1 • :{}שודד1 • :{}שום1 2 • :{}שוממין1 • :{}שחור1 • :{}שכו1 • :{}שכל1 • :{}שכנת1 • :{}שכנתי1 • :{}שלו1 • :{}שליו1 • :{}שמועה1 • :{}שמי1 • :{}שמים1 • :{}שמם1 2 3 • :{}שמעו1 • :{}שר1 • :{}שרים1 • :{}שת1 • :{}ת1 • {}ואניה{: }תאניה1 • :{}תורה1 • :{}תמו1 • :{}תעתעים1
Latin Words and Phrases
Yr hwn y daeth gair yr Arglwydd atto: 1 • arva: 1 • atto: 1 • bellato fortis: 1 • facio: 1 • malitia: 1 • malum: 1 • mittam: 1 • pravitatem: 1 • suscitabo: 1 • ut: 1 • y rhai yr arogldarthasant ar eu pennau: 1 • arula: 1 • conturbata: 1 • magister militum: 1 • suscitabo: 1 • Delicta majorum immeritus lues, Romane: 1 • Educationum: 1 • Ira furor brevis est: 1 • Jam canit extremos effœtus vinitor antes: 1 • O patria! O divum domus Ilium! Et inclyta bello Moenia Dardanidum! Ferus omnia Jupiter Argos Transtulit: 1 • Postquam res Asiae, Priamique everterre gentem Immeritam visum Superis:
1 • Satis jampridem sanguine nostro Laomedonteae luimus perjuria Troiae: 1 • Venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus Dardaniae: fuimus Troes; fuit Ilium et ingens Gloria Teucrorum: ferus omnia Jupiter Argos Transtulit: incensa Danai
JOHN CALVIN dominantur in urbe: 1 • et reliquias multitudinis: 1 • et reliquum populum: 1 • exossavit: 1 • suam: 1 • verticem: 1
French Words and Phrases
De vieux haillons: 1 • Vieux haillons trainez, ou, qui avoyent traine: 1 • des vieux haillons a demi pourris: 1 • usez: 1